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Burt Wolf: Taste of Freedom
Easter (#110)
Take a walk down Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday and learn about intricate Ukrainian egg decorating.
Independence Day (#111)
Take a trip to Boston where the American Revolution began and enjoy a great firework show. [25 minutes]
- Sat, June 29, 5:00 AM on IPTV Learns
Past Episodes
These episodes of Burt Wolf: Taste of Freedom aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
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Third Country Nationals (TCNs)
Universal Application Form
Jobs/Vacancies in U.S. Embassy
There are currently no vacancies.
Third Country National (TCN)
A TCN is an individual who is neither a citizen of the United States nor of the country (Iraq) to which assigned for duty. If employed, is eligible for return travel to the TCN’s home country or country from which recruited at U.S. Government expense. Is on a limited appointment for a specific period of time. Encumbers a direct-hire, personal service agreement (PSA) or personal service contract (PSC) FSN position covered under the local compensation plan. Is recruited from outside the host country and relocated from the point of recruitment to the host country. The U.S. Government is obligated to return employee to home country or country from which recruited.
Please read the following information very carefully:
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- Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 99K)
Application Steps
Please read the following steps below before you download the application:
STEP 1. FILL out the Application. Then SAVE It to your Computer
STEP 2. PRINT Out The Completed Application
STEP 3. SIGN And SCAN The Printed Application
STEP 4. EMAIL The Application With Relevant Documents
Attach ONLY UP TO 4 relevant documents (diplomas, certificates, licenses, references).
Send applications to [email protected]. Unsigned applications will be rejected. You will receive an e-mail confirmation of your electronic submission. If you have any questions, please e-mail Human Resources at [email protected].
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The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s (HOT) response to Haiti remains one of the most remarkable examples of what’s possible when volunteers, open source software and open data intersect. When the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12th, 2010, the Google Map of downtown Port-au-Prince was simply too incomplete to be used for humanitarian response. Within days, however, several hundred volunteers from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) commu-nity used satellite imagery to trace roads, shelters and other important features to create the most detailed map of Haiti ever made.
OpenStreetMap – Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
The video animation above shows just how spectacular this initiative was. More than 1.4 million edits were made to the map during the first month following the earthquake. These individual edits are highlighted as bright flashes of light in the video. This detailed map went a long way to supporting the humanitarian community’s response in Haiti. In addition, the map enabled my colleagues and I at The Fletcher School to geo-locate reports from crowdsourced text messages from Mission 4636 on the Ushahidi Haiti Map.
HOT’s response was truly remarkable. They created wiki’s to facilitate mass collaboration such as this page on “What needs to be mapped?” They also used this “OSM Matrix” to depict which areas required more mapping:
The purpose of OSM’s new micro-tasking platform is to streamline mass and rapid collaboration on future satellite image tracing projects. I recently reached out to HOT’s Kate Chapman and Nicolas Chavent to get an overview of their new platform. After logging in using my OSM username and password, I can click through a list of various on-going projects. The one below relates to a very neat HOT project in Indonesia. As you can tell, the region that needs to be mapped on the right-hand side of the screen is divided into a grid.
After I click on “Take a task randomly”, the screen below appears, pointing me to one specific cell in the grid above. I then have the option of opening and editing this cell within JOSM, the standard interface for editing OpenStreetMap. I would then trace all roads and buildings in my square and submit the edit. (I was excited to also see a link to WalkingPapers which allows you to print out and annotate that cell using pen & paper and then digitize the result for import back into OSM).
There’s no doubt that this new Tasking Server will go a long way to coordinate and streamline future live tracing efforts such as for Somalia. For now, the team is mapping Somalia’s road network using their wiki approach. In the future, I hope that the platform will also enable basic feature tagging and back-end triangulation for quality assurance purposes—much like Tomnod. In the meantime, however, it’s important to note that OSM is far more than just a global open source map. OSM’s open data advocacy is imperative for disaster preparedness and response: open data saves lives.
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Abstract 151±28 mJ/m2. The proposed method and our measurements provide insights in fabrication and reliability of microelectromechanical/nanoelectromechanical systems.
Keywords
adhesion, elemental semiconductors, graphene, multilayers, nanoparticles, scanning electron microscopy, silicon
Subject Categories
Integrated circuits - Wafer-scale integration, Graphene, Nanoparticles
Disciplines
Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing | Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Publication Date
1-29-2010
Rights Information
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Permanent URL
Recommended Citation
Zong, Zong; Chen, Chia-Ling; Dokmeci, Mehmet R.; and Wan, Kai-tak, "Direct measurement of graphene adhesion on silicon surface by intercalation of nanoparticles" (2010). Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing Publications. Paper 19.
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Notes
Originally published in Journal of Applied Physics v.107 no.2 (2010), p.026104. doi:10.1063/1.3294960
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Enhanced Physical Education in Illinois traditional P.E. class contributes very little to ensuring students are meeting the 60 minutes per day of exercise recommended in the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
Enhanced Physical Education Strategic Plan
(August, 2012). This Enhanced Physical Education (P.E.) Strategic Plan provides a high-level roadmap for implementing the vision that all Illinois K-12 students will participate in daily, high-quality physical education.
Enhance Physical Education Task Force (EPETS) (December 2012-August 2013)
Per Public Act 97-1102 the purpose of this Task Force.
On or before August 31, 2013, the Task Force shall make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on Goals 19-24 of the Illinois Learning Standards for Physical Development and Health. The Task Force shall focus on updating the standards based on research in neuroscience that impacts the relationship between physical activity and learning.
For further information on members and meetings, see Quick Links.
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Naval arquitecture for marine engineers/ W. Muckle
Publisher: London : Newnes-Butterworths , cop.1975
ISBN: 0408001690 ISBN13: 9780408001694
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tener vida
(Source: fuckyeahmercury)
New double album out Oct 9th. Preorder at.
TEACH YOUR CHILDREN (Graham Nash) – performed by Sadie Jemmett
Played and sung by Sadie Jemmett and John McBurnie
Original version appears on CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG – Déjà Vu (Atlantic 1970)
Sadie: “I love CSN&Y in general and this song in particular. It was recorded around the time of the London riots in 2011, which
made it all seem very poignant.”
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Route 61 Music & Hemifrån proudly present
MUSIC IS LOVE
A SINGER-SONGWRITERS’ TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG
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A 2-disc / 36-page booklet deluxe set. 27 artists, 27 songs.
A tribute to the outstanding body of work produced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
A benefit for the Equestrian Therapy Co-op* in Brandeis, California.
*Equestrian Therapy is horseback riding for children and adults who can personally benefit from a natural encounter with horses. By combining horsemanship with concepts of physical and occupational therapy, Equestrian Therapy Co-Op programme promotes balance, coordination, focus and self-confidence in children and adults with special needs.
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PRODUCERS’ NOTE
Like all of the musicians on this album, we grew up deeply affected by the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Perhaps it was even deeper for us as Europeans, because America was only a place we dreamed of, a far-off romantic world that we tried to understand, and music, movies and books were the among the ways we discovered it. This album is our little effort to thank the four men who opened up that world to us, and made it sing in harmony for more than forty years.
Heartfelt thanks go also to all of the artists and bands — most of them good friends of ours — who are part of our larger musical world. Not only did you create your own great music, gifting us with beautiful original songs, but helped us make this tribute album possible.
Music is love. That has always been the case. Once upon a time, through the songs of CSNY, we discovered that love was worldwide.
Peter Holmstedt / Ermanno Labianca / Francesco Lucarelli
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A PRESENTATION BY DAVE ZIMMER, author of “Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography” and editor of “4 Way Street: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Reader”
The music of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young has moved so many people, reaching across borders around the world, their music resonating with loyal legions of fans and inspiring musicians everywhere. In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, writing, singing, playing and performing at the peak of their talents, they released a series of albums together and as individual artists that established key signposts of their musical styles, distinct but connected, forged with otherworldly harmony blends, vintage rosewood acoustic guitars, as well as big white and old black electric guitars, that endure to this day. What draws us so powerfully to these artists? For me, it’s a combination of Crosby’s mind-bending chords and vocals, Stills and Young’s multi-colored guitar explorations, and Nash’s timeless messages and high harmony, cresting stunning songwriting that addresses both personal and social issues. While the artists had all previously made their marks in formidable rock and roll bands — Crosby in The Byrds, Stills and Young in Buffalo Springfield and Nash in The Hollies — the unique character of their music kept growing. More than 40 years ago, these musicians were looking inward, speaking out and writing songs that helped define a generation. Well, that generation grew up, as did the artists, but this connection and bond continued; then new generations discovered them, and much of the musicrip. There is even a family tie.
That CSNY feels like a family, with all of the love, rivalry and resiliency this entails, extends to the fans and musicians around them, creating a circle of fellowship and fraternity that is often unspoken but very real. There is a sense that “we’re all in this together” and can share in the communal experience. The specter of love looms large with each of these artists, who have turned matters of the heart inside out with so many of their songs, capturing feelings of tenderness, hope and tattered emotions, often writing about the ladies they cherished and longed for. Still, a good number of their songs can be interpreted with musicians of either gender, as this collection shows so well, with both male and female vocalists bringing out the essence of feelings expressed. There is an emotional center to the melding of words and music that allows for so many extraordinary contemporary interpretations.
It feels appropriate, right and true, then, that the umbrella song that graces this compilation is “Music Is Love,” David Crosby’s mantra that evolved into a magical track in collaboration with Graham Nash and Neil Young in the summer of 1970. So go back to where it all began and enjoy these new takes on the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
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THE ARTISTS
Nick Barker
Cindy Lee Berryhill
Bocephus King
Bonoff Covan Szcześniak & Waldman
Clarence Bucaro
Neal Casal
The Coal Porters
Judy Collins
Marcus Eaton
Andy Hill & Renée Safier
Jenai Huff
Sadie Jemmett
Ron LaSalle
Louis Ledford
Mary Lee’s Corvette
Michael McDermott & Heather Horton
Ian McNabb
Sonny Mone
Elliott Murphy
Willie Nile
Liam Ó Maonlaí
Carrie Rodriguez
Eileen Rose & The Legendary Rich Gilbert
Jennifer Stills
Sugarcane Jane
Venice
Steve Wynn
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Album conceived and produced by Peter Holmstedt / Ermanno Labianca /Francesco Lucarelli
(P) & © 2012 – Route 61 Music (Italy) / Hemifrån (Sweden)
Mastered by Alex McCollough at YesMaster, Nashville
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Dealing with Worries and Stress
English Translation
Book by Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid.
It is the nature of this life that people will suffer from worries
and stress, because this world is the place of disease, hardship and suffering. Hence
among the things that distinguish Paradise from this world is the fact that there is no
worry or stress].
It is also the nature of this life that people have to put up with
suffering and hardship for various reasons, as is indicated in the Qur’aan
(interpretation of the meaning): “Verily, We have created man in toil.”
[al-Balad 90:4]. So people feel regret for what has happened in the past, anxious about
what may happen in the future, and worried about what is going on in the present.
The things that cross our minds.
People’s worries and concerns will also differ, according to
the differences in their motivations, circumstances and individual responsibilities.
One type of worry or concern is that which may be described as worthwhile
worries that are a good sign, such as a scholar’s anxiety to resolve
difficult issues concerning which the Muslims need an answer – especially when the
matter is very serious and there appears to be no solution. Another example is the concern
of the Muslim leader about the problems of the people under his care. This is what made
the two ‘Umars (i.e. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab and ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd
al-‘Azeez) and other leaders worried and anxious. ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab used to
think about how to prepare the army whilst he was praying, and he was excused for that; he
also used to worry about the animals stumbling in the land of ‘Iraaq. ‘Umar ibn
‘Abd al-‘Azeez used to express his suffering thus: “I am dealing with
something with which no one could help me except Allaah. The elderly have reached the ends
of their lives with it (in this situation), the youth have grown up with it; the
foreigners have learnt Arabic and the Bedouin have migrated to the cities in these
circumstances. [It is so well-entrenched] that they think this is religion, and they can
see the truth nowhere else but in this.” When the khilaafah passed to him and
the people gave their bay’ah (oath of allegiance) to him, he came home,
feeling anxious and stressed. His freed slave said to him: “Why do I see you so
anxious and stressed? This is not how you should be on such an occasion as this.” He
said, “Woe to you! How could I not be anxious when there is no one in the East nor
the West of this ummah who is not demanding his rights of me or asking me to help
settle some matter with another person, whether he writes down his request or not, whether
he asks me directly or not?”
The more any decision had to do with the fate of the Muslims, the
greater the anxiety and stress involved. Hence when ‘Abd al-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf was
entrusted with the task of selecting the next khaleefah for the Muslims, after the
death of ‘Umar, he did not sleep during that period, because he was so busy
consulting the Muslims, even the old women.
Other types of commendable concern include: the concern of the dai’yah
who is striving to spread Islam and convey the message, guiding others to the path of
Guidance; the concern of the worshipper to ensure that his worship is correct both in
intention and practice; and the concern of the Muslim for the suffering of his brothers in
faith throughout the world…
Kinds of anxieties that may result from committing sin include:
the distress suffered after shedding blood wrongfully; or the anxiety of a woman who is
pregnant as a result of fornication or adultery.
Kinds of distress that result from wrongful treatment at the hands of
others include that suffered because of mistreatment by one's own relatives, as
the poet said: “The wrong suffered at the hands of those who are closely-related is
more painful to bear than a blow from a powerful sword.”
Distress suffered because of the calamities that happen in this world
include: chronic or serious diseases, disobedience of children towards their parents,
hostility on the part of one’s wife or mistreatment on the part of one’s
husband.
Some kinds of anxiety result from fears about what may lie ahead in the
future, for example a father may be worried about what will happen to his children
after he dies, especially if they are weak and he has nothing to leave behind for them.
These are a few examples of different kinds of stress
and worry. We will discuss the matter in further detail below:
[ Table of Contents ]
2. Kinds of Stress and Worry:
The distress suffered by the dai’yah when he calls his
people to Islam. The Prophets had more than their fair share of this kind of
stress. ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) told her nephew (the son of
her sister) ‘Urwah that she asked the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him): “Did you ever suffer any day worse than the day of Uhud?” He said: “I
suffered what I suffered at the hands of your people, and the worst that I suffered from
them was on the day of ‘Aqabah, when I had made an appeal to Ibn ‘Abd Yaalayl
ibn ‘Abd Kalaal and he did not respond in the way I had hoped for. I left him, hardly
knowing where I was going, and I did not realize where I was until I had reached Qarn
al-Tha’aalib. I raised my head, and saw a cloud which was shading me. I looked in it,
and saw Jibraa’eel, who called to me and said: ‘Allaah has heard what your
people have said to you, and their response to you. He has sent to you the Angel of the
Mountains, to do whatever you tell him to do to them.’ Then the Angel of the
Mountains called to me, greeted me, and said, ‘O Muhammad, if you wish, I will crush
them between two mountains.’” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) said, “Rather, I hope that Allaah will bring forth from their descendents
people who will worship Allaah alone and not associate anything with Him.”
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) suffered
similar distress when his people disbelieved his account of his Night Journey (Israa’).
Muslim (may Allaah have mercy on him) narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I found myself in the Hijr
(an area in the Haram in Makkah, near the Ka’bah), and Quryash were asking me
about my Night Journey, questions about Bayt al-Maqdis that I was not sure of. I felt more
distressed and anxious than I had ever felt, then Allaah raised it for me so that I could
see what they were asking me about and answer all their questions…”
Concern about acts of worship. The Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was very concerned about telling people about salaat
(prayer). Abu ‘Umayr ibn Anas reported from his (paternal) uncles among the Ansaar
that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was worried about how to
gather the people together for prayers. Someone suggested that he set up a flag, so that
people would see it and tell one another, but he did not like this idea. Another
suggestion was a ram’s horn (the shofar of the Jews), but he did not like this
idea, and said, “This belongs to the Jews.” Someone else suggested a bell, but
he said, “This belongs to the Christians.” ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Zayd ibn
‘Abd Rabbihi went away, worrying about the concern of the Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and he was shown the adhaan (call to prayer)
in a dream. The next morning he came to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) and told him about it: “O Messenger of Allaah, whilst I was half
asleep and half awake, someone came to me and showed me the adhaan…”
The anxiety faced by the truthful person when he is disbelieved.
This happened to the great Sahaabi Zayd ibn al-Arqam (may Allaah be pleased with
him), when he heard the chief of the munaafiqeen (hypocrites) saying to his
colleagues: “When we return to Madeenah, the one who has pride and power will expel
the one who is humiliated” (meaning that the “one who has pride and power”
was himself, and the “one who is humilated” was the Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and the people with him). Zayd said: “I told my
(paternal) uncle, and he went and informed the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him). The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) sent for (the chief of the munaafiqeen, ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ubayy), who swore
that he had said no such thing. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) believed him and not me. My uncle came to me and scolded me: “All you
wanted was for the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and
the Muslims to hate you and disbelieve you!” I felt extreme anxiety and stress, such
as no one has ever suffered. When I was on a journey with the Messenger of Allaah (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him), I hung my head with worry. Then the Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came up to me, tweaked my ear, and
smiled at me. I felt happy in a way that I would not exchange immortal life in this world
for that feeling. Then Abu Bakr caught up with me and asked me what the Messenger of
Allaah had said to me. I said, ‘He did not say anything, but he tweaked my ear and
smiled at me.’ He told me, ‘ Be of good cheer!’ Then ‘Umar caught up
with me and I told him what I had told Abu Bakr. The next morning, the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) recited Soorat al-Munaafiqoon to
us.’”
According to a report narrated by Muslim, which tells the same story,
Zayd said: “I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and
told him about it. He sent for ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ubayy and asked him about it, but he
insisted and swore that he had done no such thing, saying, ‘Zayd is telling lies to
the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).’ I felt very
hurt because of what they said, until Allaah revealed words confirming that I had spoken
the truth (interpretation of the meaning): ‘When the hypocrites come to
you…’ [al-Munaafiqoon 63:1]”
The anxiety suffered by an innocent person when false accusations are
made. An example of this is what happened to ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be
pleased with her) when the munaafiqoon accused her of sin during the campaign of
Muraysi’. She was ill, and when she heard the news of the rumours from one of the
women of her household, she became even sicker, and felt very distressed. She said:
“I said, ‘Subhaan-Allaah! Are people talking about that?’ I wept all night,
until morning, and never slept; my tears never stopped falling. Then I wept all day, and
never slept; my tears never stopped falling. My parents came to me the next morning, after
I had cried for two nights and a day, without ceasing and without sleeping. They thought
that this weeping would kill me. Whilst they were sitting with me, and I was crying, a
woman of the Ansaar asked permission to see me. I gave her permission, and she sat down,
weeping with me. Whilst we were sitting thus, the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) came in, greeted us, and sat down. He had not come to
visit me since the rumours had started, and for a month there had been no Revelation
concerning my situation. Whilst he was sitting there, the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) recited the Shahaadah, then he said: ‘O
‘Aa’ishah, I have heard such-and-such about you. If you are innocent, Allaah
will prove your innocence, and if you did commit a sin, then ask for Allaah’s
forgiveness and repent to Him, for when the slave admits his sin and repents to Allaah,
Allaah will accept his repentance. When the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) had finished what he had to say, my tears stopped completely, and I
said to my father: ‘Respond to what the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) has said.’ He said, ‘By Allaah, I do not know what I should
say to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).’ I said
to my mother: ‘Respond to what the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) has said.’ She said, ‘By Allaah, I do not know what I should
say to the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).’ I said:
‘I am only a young girl and I do not know much of the Qur’aan. By Allaah, I have
nothing to say to you except the words of the father of Yoosuf: “… So (for
me) patience is most fitting. And it is Allaah (Alone) Whose help can be sought against
that which you assert.” [Yoosuf 12:18].’ Then I turned away and lay down on
my bed. Then Allaah revealed (interpretation of the meaning): ‘Verily! Those who
brought forth the slander (against ‘Aa’ishah) are a group among you. Consider it
not a bad thing for you…’” [al-Noor 24:11 – see complete passage,
aayat 11 to 20].
Before ‘Aa’ishah’s time, Maryam bint ‘Imraan had
suffered a great deal of stress and anxiety because she became pregnant without being
married. Her distress reached such an extent that: “…She said: ‘Would
that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!’”
[Maryam 19:23 – interpretation of the meaning]. She spoke thus because she knew that
people would accuse her and not believe her when she came to them with a child in her
arms, because she had been one of the devoted female worshippers who lived in seclusion
close to the mosque, and she came from a very religious household and was descended from
Prophets. Because of all this, she bore such a great burden of anxiety that she wished
that she had died before this happened to her, or that she “had been forgotten and
out of sight,” in other words, that she had never been created at all.
Another example is the story of the women who was accused unjustly.
‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) told her story: “A black woman
who belonged to some of the Arabs became Muslim. She had a cubicle in the mosque. She used
to come to us and talk with us, and when she had finished conversing with us, she told us:
‘The day of the wishaah (an ornamented girdle worn by women) was one of the
wonders of our Lord. Indeed, it is He Who saved me from the land of kufr
(disbelief).’” When she repeated this several times, ‘Aa’ishah asked
her, “What was the day of the girdle?” She said: “A young girl who belonged
to some of my people went out wearing a girdle made of leather. She dropped it, and a kite
(a kind of hawk) came and swooped it up, thinking that it was a piece of meat. They
accused me of taking it, and they began to punish me, to the extent that they even
searched my private parts. Whilst they were surrounding me and I was in that state of
distress, the kite flew back over our heads and dropped the belt. They picked it up, and I
said to them: ‘This is what you accused me of, and I was innocent!’”
A man’s worry about what may happen to his wife and children after
his death. ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) reported that the
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to say: “One of
the things that concerns me is what will happen to you [his wives] after my death, for
none will be able to take care of you properly except those who are truly patient.”
Anxiety because of a loan. An example of this is what happened
to al-Zubayr (may Allaah be pleased with him), whose story was told by his son
‘Abd-Allaah ibn al-Zubayr: “When al-Zubayr stood up to fight at the Battle of
the Camel, he called me, so I went and stood by his side. He said: ‘O my son, no-one
will be killed today except one who is a wrongdoer or one to whom wrong is done. I can see
that I will die today as one to whom wrong is done. My greatest concern is my debts –
do you think that any of our wealth will be left after paying off our debts? O my son,
sell our property and pay off our debts.’” ‘Abd-Allaah said: “He
started to advise me what to do about his debt, and told me: ‘O my son, if you are
unable to pay off anything, seek the help of my mawlaa.’ By Allaah, I did not
know what he meant until I asked, ‘O my father, who is your mawlaa?’ He
said: ‘Allaah.’ By Allaah, every time I felt distress because of difficulty in
paying off his debt, I prayed, ‘O Mawlaa of al-Zubayr, pay off his debt,’
and Allaah paid it off…’” ‘Abd-Allaah ibn al-Zubayr said: “I
calculated how much he owed, and found it to be two million and two hundred thousand…
(some of al-Zubayr’s friends did not think it possible to pay off such a great debt,
but Allaah greatly blessed some land belonging to al-Zubayr, and surprisingly enough, when
it was divided up and sold off, there was enough to pay off the debt and have something
left over)…Al-Zubayr had four wives: one-third of his wealth was put aside for them,
and each wife got one million and two hundred thousand. The total sum of his wealth was
fifty million and two hundred thousand.”
Anxiety caused by dreams. This happened to the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him), as he said: “Whilst I was sleeping, the
treasures of the earth were brought to me, and two armlets of gold were placed on my arms.
That distressed me, but Allaah revealed to me that I should blow them away, so I did so,
and they disappeared. I interpreted them as being the two liars whom I am facing, the one
in Sana’aa’ and the one in al-Yamaamah.”
Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him and his father) also
felt distress because of a dream which he saw. He told us about it: “Some men among
the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
used to see dreams at the time of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him). They used to tell him about them, and he would say ‘Ma sha’
Allaah.’ I was a young boy, and I used to live in the mosque before I got
married. I said to myself, ‘If you were any good, you would have seen something like
these people have seen.’ When I lay down that night, I said, ‘O Allaah, if You
see any good in me, then let me see a dream.’ Then two angels came to me, each of
whom was holding an iron bridle in his hand. They dragged me to Hell, and I was praying,
‘O Allaah, I seek refuge with you from Hell.’ Then I dreamt that I was met by
another angel, who was also holding an iron bridle in his hand. He said, ‘Do not
worry, you are a good man, if only you prayed more.’ They took me to the edge of
Hell, and it was shaped like a well with horns; between every two horns was an angel
holding an iron bridle. I saw in it men suspended upside down from chains, and I
recognized some men of Quraysh. Then they led me off towards the right. I told Hafsah
about it, and Hafsah told the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him). (According to a report narrated by Muslim: “When I woke up, I felt worried and
scared about what I had seen, so I asked Hafsah about it, and she said, ‘It is good,
what you have seen.’ I said to her, ‘Ask the Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) about it,’ so she asked him.”) The Messenger of
Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘ ‘Abd-Allaah is a
righteous man, if only he prayed at night.’” Naafi’ said: “After that,
he always prayed a great deal.”
Islam prescribes a number of ways to deal with the distress that
results from seeing nightmares and frightening dreams.
Having described a number of kinds of distress and anxiety experienced
in this world, we will now discuss ways of dealing with them.
Undoubtedly the first thing we should mention when discussing worries
and anxiety is: ‘aqeedah (belief) and eeman (faith), and the effects
they have on dealing with stress. One can see many of the kuffaar and Muslims who
are weak in faith suffering breakdowns and committing suicide in an effort to rid
themselves of depression, frustration and despair when they get into trouble or when
disaster strikes. Hospitals are full of patients who are suicidal or have suffered nervous
breakdowns, or other kinds of psychological trauma. These problems affect many of those
who are strong, let alone those who are weak. How often they lead to complete incapacity
and loss of sanity!
The person who has been guided to Islam, if his ‘aqeedah is
sound and his eemaan is strong, will find the cure in that which has come from
Allaah, the All-Knowing and All-Aware, Who created all things and Who knows best what
befits His creation. “Should not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind
and Courteous (to His slaves) All-Aware (of everything).” [al-Mulk 67:14 –
interpretation of the meaning].
3. Islam's Treatment for Anxiety and
Worry
Let us now discuss some of the different kinds of remedies and
treatments taught by Islam:
1. Equipping oneself with eemaan (faith), accompanied by righteous deeds.
Allaah says (interpretation of the]
The reason for this is clear: the believers in Allaah whose faith is
correct and motivates them to do righteous deeds that reform their hearts and characters,
and change their status in this world and the next, have the basic principles according to
which they deal with every kind of joy and grief that they may face. They receive
blessings and joys with acceptance and thanksgiving, and put them to use in beneficial
ways. When they do this, they feel happy and hope that it will last and will bring them
reward for their gratitude, as well as other things that will supercede the original
goodness and blessings.
When faced with distress, harm, worries and anxieties, they try to
resist them and reduce them as much as they can, and they react with befitting patience to
the things in which they have no choice. They gain a lot of benefits as a result, such as:
resilience and toughness as is appropriate; useful experience, strong willpower, patience,
the hope of reward, and many other benefits which reduce the distress felt. Thus their
anxiety is replaced with joy and the hope of blessings and reward from Allaah, as the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) stated in the saheeh hadeeth:
.”
This is the way in which we may view calamities in a positive light.
Another example is:
2. Thinking of how the Muslim may earn expiation for his sins, purify
his heart and raise his status, when he is stricken with distress and worry in this life.
The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
said: “Nothing of fatigue, illness, distress, worry, grief or harm befalls the
Muslim, not even a prick from a thorn, but Allaah will accept it as expiation for some of is not wasted, but serves a purpose in increasing his hasanaat
(good deeds) and expiating for him expiate for
his sins, he will rejoice and be of good cheer, especially if that happens to him straight
after he has committed a sin, as happened to some of the Sahaabah, may Allaah be pleased
with them. ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Mughaffal (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that a
man met a woman who had been a prostitute during the time of Jaahiliyyah. He
started to joke with her, then he touched her. She told him, “Watch it! Allaah has
destroyed shirk (once ‘Affaan said: has destroyed Jaahiliyyah) and has
brought us Islam.” The man went away, and walked into a wall, cutting his face. The
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came along, so the man told him what
had happened, and he said: “You are a slave for whom Allah his punishment in
this world, and if He does not wish good for him, He withholds the punishment until he is
dealt with for his sin on the Day of Resurrection.”
3. Understanding the reality of this world
The believer knows that this world is only temporary, that its luxuries
are few, and that whatever pleasures exist here are always imperfect. If it causes a
little laughter, it gives many reasons to weep; if it gives a little, it withholds far
more. The believer is only detained here, as the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) said: “This world is the prison of the believer and the
paradise of the kaafir.”
This world is also fatigue, pain, misery and suffering, so the believer
feels relief when he departs from it. Abu Qutaadah ibn Rib’i al-Ansaari used to say
that a funeral passed the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
and he said: “He is now relieved, and people feel relieved of him.” The people
asked, “O Messenger of Allaah, how can he be relieved and people feel relieved of
him?” He said, “The believing slave (who dies) is relieved of the fatigue and
pain of this world and has gone to the mercy of Allaah; when the rebellious slave dies,
people, land, trees and animals are relieved of him.”
For the believer, death brings a respite from the distress, worries and
pain of this life, as is stated in the hadeeth: “When the believer is about to die,
the angels of mercy bring white silk and say, ‘Come out content, with the pleasure of
Allaah upon you, to the mercy of Allaah and sweet fragrance and a Lord who is not
angry.’ So (the soul) comes out like the best fragrance of musk and the angels hand
it to one another until they bring it to the gate of heaven. They say, foul is
this stench,’ until they bring it to the souls of the kuffaar.”
This understanding of the reality of this world makes it easier for the
believer to bear afflictions, pains, distress and anxiety, because he knows that they are
an inevitable part of the nature of this life.
4. Following the examples of the Prophets and the righteous
The Prophets and the righteous suffered more distress in this world
than other people. Each person is tested according to the strength of his faith. If Allaah
loves a person, He tests him. Sa’d (may Allaah be pleased with him) asked the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “O Messenger of Allaah, which of the
people suffers the most distress?” He said: “The Prophets, then those who come
after them (in terms of status), then those who come after them. A man will be tested
according to the strength of his faith. If his faith is strong, then the distress with
which he is tried will be greater; if his faith is weak, he will be tested in accordance
with the level of his faith. Distress will keep on befalling the slave until he walks on
the face of the earth free from sin.”
5. Making the Hereafter one’s main concern
The concerns of this world overwhelm and confuse people, but if the
slave makes the Hereafter his main concern, Allaah will help him to focus and be
determined, as was narrated by Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him): “The Messenger
of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Whoever has the
Hereafter as his main concern, Allaah will fill his heart with a feeling of richness and
independence; he will be focused and feel content, and this world will come to him in
spite of it. Whoever has this world as his main concern, Allaah will cause him to feel
constant fear of poverty; he will be distracted and unfocused, and he will have nothing of
this world except what was already predestined for him.’”].”
6. A surprisingly effective remedy: remembering death
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him).”
7. Praying to Allaah, may He be exalted
Du’aa’ (prayer or supplication) is very beneficial, and
includes both protection and treatment. As far as protection in concerned, the Muslim is
obliged to turn to Allaah and pray to Him for refuge from distress and to keep him away
from it, as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) used to do. His
servant Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) tells us: “I used to serve the
Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he stayed in
Madeenah (i.e. was not travelling). I often used to hear him saying: ‘Allaahaah, I
seek refuge with You from distress, grief, incapacity, laziness, miserliness, cowardice,
the burden of debt and from being overpowered by men).’”: ).”
When distress and pain befall a person, the door of du’aa’
is always open to him; it is never closed. When one calls upon the Most Generous, He will
respond and give. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): ]
One of the greatest du’aa’s which take away distress
and anxiety and bring joy is the famous du’aa’ which the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) encouraged everyone who hears it to learn it by
heart: important hadeeth indicates the following: the slave should admit
that he belongs to Allaah and that he cannot do without Him and has no other master than
Allaah; that he should be a slave to Allaah, announce his submission to Him, obey His
commandments and heed His prohibitions; that Allaah is directing and controlling him as He
wills; that he should demonstrate his submission to Allaah and his acceptance of His
decree; that he should pray to Allaah, using all His Names, then ask for what he needs.
A number of other
al-kareem (There is no god but Allaah, the All-Powerful, the Forbearing; there is no
god but Allaah, Lord of the mighty Throne; there is no god but Allaah, Lord of heaven,
Lord of earth, and Lord of the noble Throne).”
Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) reported that when the Messenger
of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) was distressed by something, he
would say: “Yaa Hayyu yaa Qayyoom bi rahmatika astagheeth (O Ever-Living, O
Eternal, by Your mercy I seek help).”
Asmaa’ bint)’”
If a person thinks about the meaning of these du’aa’s
and prays with concentration and a sincere intention, doing all those things that can help
to bring about a response, Allaah will fulfil his hopes and do the things asked for; He
will turn his distress into joy.
If the du’aa’ comes from a heart which is filled with
faith, it will dispel worry and bring comfort. The scholars have mentioned many stories of
people who prayed to Allaah in times of calamity and distress, and Allaah responded to
their prayer and saved them from an enemy, or from drowning, or from starvation or
disaster. One example is the story of what happened to the great Sahaabi al-‘Alaa
al-Hadrami, who was one of the most prominent scholars and devoted worshippers, one of the
close friends (awliyaa’) of Allaah whose du’aa’s are
answered. During the campaign against the apostates of Bahrain, he pitched camp, but
before the people could settle down, the camels bolted, carrying away all the provisions
of the army, including their tents and water, leaving them with nothing but the clothes
they were wearing. It was night-time, and they could not restrain even one camel. The
people were filled with indescribable distress and alarm, and some of them began making
wills to one another (because they felt that death was inevitable). Al-‘Alaa’
called the people together and said: “O people, are you not Muslims? Are you not
striving for the sake of Allaah? Are you not the ansaar (supporters) of
Allaah?” They said, “Of course.” He said, “Then be of good cheer, for
Allaah will not forsake anyone who is in your situation.” When the time for Fajr
prayer came, he called the people to pray and led them in prayer, then he knelt up, and
the people did likewise. He started to pray (make du’aa’), raising his hands,
and the people did likewise. They prayed until the sun rose, and the people began to look
at the mirages caused by the sun, shimmering one after another, all the while fervently
praying. When he reached the third [??], Allaah created a great stream of fresh water
beside them. [‘Alaa’] walked towards it, and the people followed him, then they
drank and washed themselves. Before the sun had reached its zenith, the camels started to
come back from all directions, bringing the supplies loaded on them, so the people did not
lose anything at all, and they were able to give water to the camels. This is one of the
signs of Allaah witnessed by the people during that campaign. (Al-Bidaayah your worries
will be taken care of and your sin will be forgiven.’”
9. Relying upon Allaah and entrusting matters to Him
“When a person knows that Allaah is Able to do all things, that He
alone makes choices for His slaves and runs their affairs, that the way He runs His
slave’s affairs is better than the way the slave would do it for himself, that He
knows better about the slave’s interests than the slave does, that He is more able to
achieve them, that He is more sincere and more merciful towards His slave than the slave
is to himself; and also knows that he cannot progress or regress any further than the
limits that Allaah has decreed for him, for nobody can change the will and decree of
Allaah – when a person knows all this, he will submit himself to his Lord and hand
over his affairs to Him, throwing himself before his Lord like a weak slave throwing
himself before a mighty and powerful king. Allaah deals with His slave as He wishes, and
the slave has nothing to do with it. Only after he has submitted thus will the slave feel
relief from his distress, worries and regrets. He gives the burden of his needs and
interests to One Who is not concerned about how heavy or great the burden is. Allaah will
take care of it, instead of him, and will show him His kindness and mercy, without the
slave getting tired or worried, because all his concern is now focused on Allaah alone.
His worry about his needs and interests in this world has been lifted from him and his
heart is now free of this concern. How good his life is now, how blessed his heart and how
great his happiness and joy!
But as for the person who insists on running his own affairs and making
his own choices, whose concern is only for his own share and not for his duties towards
his Lord, Allaah will leave him alone with the choices he has made, so he will be
surrounded by concerns, worries, distress, grief, fear, exhaustion and depression. His
thoughts will be confused, none of his deeds will be pure and none of his hopes will be
fulfilled. He will gain no respite, and will enjoy no pleasure. He will never feel joy or
contentment. He will be labouring like a working-animal, with no hope of gaining anything
that could help him in the Hereafter.”
“When a person relies upon Allaah and puts his trust in Him, he is
not controlled by bad illusions. He trusts in Allaah and hopes for bounty from Him, which
protects him from distress and worry, as well as many psychological and physical diseases.
Thus his heart gains indescribable strength, relaxation and joy. The one who is truly free
from problems is the one whom Allaah has freed and helped to strive against his own-self (jihaad
al-nafs) by seeking beneficial means of strengthening his heart and dispelling
anxiety. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “… And whosoever puts
his trust in Allaah, then He will suffice him…” [al-Talaaq 65:3] –
i.e., He will take care of everything that is of concern to him, whether it has to do with
his religion or his worldly affairs.
The person who relies on Allaah is strong in heart and is not adversely
affected by illusions or things that happen, because he knows that this is a sign of
weakness and fear that is unfounded. He also knows that Allaah has guaranteed to take
complete care of the one who puts his trust in Him, so he trusts Allaah and has confidence
in His promise. Thus his worries and anxiety disappear, hardship is replaced with ease,
sadness turns to joy and fear turns to a feeling of security. We ask Allaah to keep us
safe and to bless us with strength of heart and steadfastness through complete reliance on
Him, for He has guaranteed all goodness and protection from all evil and harm to those who
put their trust in Him.”
10. Other ways of dispelling distress and anxiety include paying
attention to what is beneficial, focusing on what matters today and no longer worrying
about what may happen tomorrow or regretting what happened yesterday
Hence the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) sought
refuge with Allaah from worry and regret: regret for things that have happened in the past
which one cannot go back and change, and worries about what may happen in the future. The
slave should think only about the present, focusing his energy on doing his best today,
because this is what results in perfect work, and helps him to forget his worries and
regrets. When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) prayed a du’aa’,
or taught it to his ummah, he encouraged them not only to seek the help of Allaah and hope
for His blessings, but also to work hard and strive to achieve the protection they prayed
for, for du’aa’ goes hand-in-hand with effort. Thus the slave will strive
for whatever benefits him in his religion or his worldly affairs, and will ask his Lord to
grant him the result for which he is aiming. He asks Allaah for help, just as Abu Hurayrah
reported: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
‘The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allaah than the weak believer, and
both are good. Pay attention to that which could benefit you, seek the help of Allaah and
do not feel incapacitated. If anything befalls you, do not say, “If only I had done
such-and-such, such a thing would have happened.” Say instead, “It is the decree
of Allaah, and what He wills, He does,” for saying “if only…” opens
the way for Shaytaan.’”
Thus the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
established a link between, on the one hand, his command to strive for beneficial things
in every situation, seeking the help of Allaah, and not giving in to feelings of
inadequacy which the harmful kind of laziness, and, on the other, giving in to regret for
things in the past which are over and done with, and thinking about the will and decree of
Allaah. He described things as being of two types: things which the slave can strive to
achieve either in totality or as much as he can, or can protect himself from them, or
lessen their impact, by making an effort and seeking the help of Allaah; and others about
which he cannot do anything, so he should accept them and be content. Undoubtedly, paying
attention to this principle will bring about happiness and dispel worry and distress.
The hadeeth quoted above indicates that one should strive to
eliminate the causes of distress and bring about causes of happiness, by forgetting
about bad things in the past that cannot be changed, and by realizing that to spend too
much time thinking about such an impossible task is a foolish and crazy waste of time. So
one should try not to think about it, and try not to feel anxious about the future or
imagine fear and poverty that may or may not lie ahead. We should realize that the future,
whether good or bad, is something unknown; it is in the hands of the Almighty, All-Wise,
not in the hands of His slaves, and all they have to do is to strive for the good things
and protect themselves from bad things. The slave should know that if he distracts his
mind from worries about the future and puts his trust in his Lord, then Allaah will take
care of it and his worry and anxiety will disappear.
11. One of the most effective ways of finding comfort and contentment
is to remember Allaah frequently!”
12. Seeking refuge in prayer
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “And seek help in
patience and al-salaat (the prayer)…” [al-Baqarah 2:45].
Hudhayfah said: “Whenever the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) was grieved by something, he used to pray.” When Ibn ‘Abbaas
(may Allaah be pleased with him) heard about the death of his brother, he stopped at the
side of the road – as he was on a journey – and prayed, following the command of
Allaah.
13. Another thing that may dispel worry is jihaad for the sake of
Allaah.
The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“You must strive in jihaad for the sake of Allaah, may He be blessed and exalted, for
it is one of the gates to Paradise, and Allaah dispels worry and distress through
it.”
14. Speaking about the blessings of Allaah, both those which are
obvious and those which are hidden
Acknowledging them and speaking about them dispels worry and distress.
The slave is encouraged to have the attitude of thankfulness, which is the highest level
he can reach, even if he is in a state of poverty, sickness or other kinds of misery. If
he were to compare the innumerable blessings that Allaah has bestowed upon him with the
bad thing that has befallen him, he will see that the distress is as nothing in comparison
to the blessings. When Allaah tests His slave by means of these disasters and miseries,
and the slave does his duty of being patient and accepting, then the difficulties become
easy for him to bear, and he has the hope of earning reward from Allaah for submitting to
Him, and being patient and content. This makes bitter things sweet; the sweetness of the
reward helps him to forget the bitterness of patience.
One of the most beneficial things in this regard is to follow the
advice of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) given in the saheeh
hadeeth reported by Abu Hurayrah: “The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) said: ‘Look at those who are below you, not at those who are
above you, so that you will not think little of the blessings that Allaah has bestowed
upon you.”
If a person keeps this important concept (of looking only at those
below him) in mind, he will definitely feel that he is better-off than many others when it
comes to good health, physical strength, and provision (rizq) such as food,
clothing, shelter, etc., no matter what his situation. So his anxiety and distress will
disappear, and he will feel increased happiness and joy in the blessings of Allaah which
have raised him above others.
The more he thinks about the blessings of Allaah, both obvious and hidden, spiritual and worldly, he will see that his Lord has
given him many good things, and has lifted from him many bad things. No doubt
this too will dispel worries and anxieties, and bring joy and happiness.
15. Keeping oneself busy with useful work or the pursuit of
beneficial knowledge
This will distract a person’s mind from the matter that has
been causing anxiety. Maybe then he will forget the causes of his distress, and
begin to feel happier and more energetic. This is something which both believers
and non-believers may try to do, but the believer is distinguished by the fact
of his eemaan (faith), his sincerity and his hope for reward when he
occupies himself with learning or teaching something useful or doing something
beneficial. If he is keeping himself busy with worship, then this is worship,
and if he is keeping himself busy with some worldly work or custom, then he
tries to accompany it with the right intention, and seeks the help of Allaah to
do this thing as an act of obedience or worship to Him. Thus his action will be
effective in dispelling his anxiety, stress and grief. How many people are
suffering from anxiety and constant feelings of depression, which result in
various kinds of disease and illness. The right treatment for them was: to
forget the thing that caused the depression and worry, and to keep themselves
busy with some important work. It was important that the work with which they
kept themselves busy was something that they liked to do and looked forward to;
this was more effective in bringing about the desired good results. And Allaah
knows best.
16. Looking for the positive aspects of the events in which
he tends to see only things that he dislikes
Abu Hurayrah said: “The Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said::
‘Why do you not ask Allaah to help us (grant us victory)? Why do you not pray to
Allaah for us?’ He said, ‘A:
5. Du'aa' (supplication):
We ask Allaah, may He be exalted, to keep us safe from distress, to grant us
relief from depression and to alleviate our worries, for He is the All-Hearing
Who answers prayers, He is the Ever-Living, Eternal.
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Brewer to seek second term as Stonington selectman
No candidates for SSD seats
by
Faith DeAmbrose
As the Stonington town meeting draws near, voters will not have to work too hard deciding on candidates to fill municipal positions. There will be only one candidate on the ballot: Donna Brewer.
Incumbent Donna Brewer, who will seek a three-year term as selectman, said she is running because “I enjoy doing it.”
Brewer said some of the biggest accomplishments from her first term are a result of work done by the current board of selectmen and many previous boards of selectmen: construction of the Moose Island Causeway and the in-town sidewalk project.
“Eventually, we want to do all of [the sidewalks] but it is expensive,” said Brewer, adding that “it would be great if people would just use them.”
Brewer said she is committed to keeping the municipal budget under control, and knows the board will need to address the problem of parking. Also of concern are possible budget cuts that could affect town finances. “Hopefully we can keep things under control and make things affordable for everyone,” she said.
Also on the ballot, although with no one in the running, are two three-year “in district” seats on the Stonington Sanitary District and one three-year “at large” seat. The seats can be filled with write-in candidates.
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The Islanders claimed hulking D-Man Joe Finley off waivers from the Buffalo Sabres today. Finley stands 6'8 and 250 lbs. The move creates a nice Third pair option of Matt Carkner and Finley or Finley and Jon Landry, since Lubomir Visnovsky was suspending for failing to report to the Islanders by 10 am this morning.
Finley's career numbers can be found here.
Below is video of Finley scrapping with new teammate Matt Martin.
In related news the Isles have waived Ty Wishart, Sean Backman, Matt Watkins and Nate McIver with the purpose of sending them back to Bridgeport. I expect none to be claimed.
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Security App For the New German Personal ID Hacked 93)."
heh (Score:1)
I think it was that Shakespeare dude who said, "The best laid schemes of mice and men. Go oft awry"
Or, as the philosopher Simpson said, "D'oh!"
Not quite (Score:2, Informative)
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft agley,"
And for one, Shakespeare wasn't Scottish...
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I don't think the men have got much do to with it.
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I don't think the men have got much do to with it.
Yes. It's obviously a mouse driver problem anyway.
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I doubt it - he knew better than to split the verb and the subject into two separate sentences.
What is the appropriate system, then? (Score:2, Interesting)
If you have need for such an identification card and trackable number within the government database to allow you access to government services such as healthcare, what is the best identification system in that case?
Re:What is the appropriate system, then? (Score:5, Informative)
You probably didn't/couldn't read the article (it's in German after all, not everyone can read that). I did, hereby summary/translation of what's going on. Hoping I understand all correctly, so other posters please correct me when I'm wrong!
It's got nothing to do with the ID card itself, or identification to the government with it.
Basically the vulnerability is in the update function of the AusweisApp software. It starts with hijacking the DNS query for the update server, and redirect the app to a (malicious) server, which pretends to be the real deal. Then when the fake update server presents the software with a valid SSL certificate, AusweissApp accepts this without checking whether the certificate has been issued in the correct name (I hope I translate this well - anyway the SSL certificate is not checked properly, the core of the vulnerability), and will happily download a
.zip file which is supposed to be the update for itself. Updates are distributed as .zip files.
So this is vulnerability part 1: you can have it download the wrong file.
But now it's part 2: the software will unpack the zip file before asking authorisation, and using relative path names for files in the zip archive malicious software can be placed on the user's hard disk. This of course is also an issue, it should unpack the zip in one location and disregard path names if any.
So there you have it: a glaring vulnerability that allows for remote installation of software.
The article notes they contacted the issuer of the software, who at first answered "we will look into this issue and if there really is a vulnerability issue an update", later they pulled the current version of the app from their download site without giving further explanation on why it's not available anymore.
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Would this be a satisfactory system if this hole were plugged?
The problem is whether there is any satisfactory system given the likelihood of whiny Slashbots complaining about either loss of privacy, insecure maintenance of critical information, and threat to identity security. If the default posture is "it will be hacked" to any proposal for a necessary identification system such as this, how could such a system be designed so that these objections are unwarranted?
As we Americans move towards a national he
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The ID cards for the health system are a completely different thing in Germany. Since it's run on the basis of insurance companies* (Krankenkassen) you get a normal chip-and-PIN card from your insurance company that you then give to the doctor or hospital staff when it comes time do sort out the paperwork.
These ID cards on the other hand are only for German citizens and are issued by the federal government and have a much more general usage. Foreigners like me who live here can't get a German ID card and ev
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Foreigners like me who live here can't get a German ID card and everybody will still have to have a health insurance card.
I'd replace can't with are not required to. I'm happy that I don't have a German ID card; I don't like carrying around government issued cards with chips.!"
I don't have a health insurance card either, since I an insured through a priv
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This is wrong. [wikipedia.org]
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Correct, you are required to own one, but there is no law that requires you to keep it on you at all times. Although most Germans do not know this either.
Law or not, the question is: if an officer asks you for it and you don't have it, what, if any, are the consequences? The legality of the matter is often less important than how you are treated by law enforcement. In the U.S., there are laws about what a cop can and cannot demand from you in specific circumstances: but even when they don't have the right, they may still expect you to obey and give you a hard time if you don't. Depends upon where you are, in many cases: I know there are some towns that I sim
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Funnily enough this law applies to foreigners in Germany as well, meaning you have to carry around your passport or some other identification, eg. drivers licence.
Private insurance is a lo
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Funnily enough this law applies to foreigners in Germany as well, meaning you have to carry around your passport or some other identification, eg. drivers licence.
In 20+ years of living in Germany, only once have the police requested an ID from me. I was walking near an area with bars and nightclubs, where there is often trouble. My drivers license and my accent were enough to convince them that I was not the person they were looking for. The police in Germany are always quite polite . . . and like any
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In 20+ years of living in Germany, only once have the police requested an ID from me.
Same with me - in over 2 years I've never been asked for ID, doesn't change the fact that the law applies to foreigners like us as well.
It's not ideological, rather empirical. My girlfriend (state insured) had an allergy problem, and had to first go to her General Praticioner (Hausartz) to get a referral to an allergy specialist, who did a set of allergy tests. Since they all came up negative, the doctor needed to do anothe
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Plus with private insurance you have no choice what you can send or not - you have to send exactly what the insurance company requires of you.
Be careful there! An insurance company may request information, implying that it is required, that they are not, by law, entitled to. This happened to me. I showed the written request for information to my doctor, and he was angry at the insurance company, and said, "They have no right to that information, and they know it. Just ignore the letter!" So if your i
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Be careful there! An insurance company may request information, implying that it is required, that they are not, by law, entitled to. This happened to me.
Ok but at a minimum they're going to be able to demand the same information as is on the Krankenkasse cards aren't they? I mean demand as in say if you dont give us the info we don't pay you.
If I had a doctor visit that I don't want the insurance company to know about, I just don't submit it, and sit on the costs myself.
You could do the exact same thing a
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The law actually only has an Ausweispflicht (requirement to own an ID) but not a Mitführpflicht (requirement to carry ID at all times). Of course how that plays out in practice is another matter...
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From other posts it seems that most people are quite positive about the card as such, that it even allows for anonymous transactions (how that matches an ID card I don't know - maybe that's explained elsewhere in this discussion; going to read myself again later on). And European countries in general are way more protective of their citizen's privacy than the US is.
This security hole is a problem of the supporting software, how to get such software 100% secure I don't know. But not doing something as simpl
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It is abundantly clear to anyone willing to look that it can't. Centralization doesn't scale. Creating a single point of failure for an entire nation is stupid.
It won't be. It will be ignored.
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Your summary seems correct. But he defeated another security measure through the zip file.
Normally, only updates with a specific signature are installed. But as the updates are
.msi-files packed in a zip, and the zip is unpacked without verification, one can use the zip with relative paths to install other software in the AusweisApp's context.
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I'd think the best identification system would simply be based entirely on biometrics and querying a central server which matches the biometric data to an identity. So whatever security that is required is to ensure that the service is connected to the legitimate central server.
Having a portable ID card does make things a lot more convenient though, not requiring a central server, but security gets a rather more complicated.
1. You need a way to determine if the bearer of the ID card is the legitimate owner
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You say unforgeable is impossible but suggest it is still worth trying. The harder something is to forge, the more faith will be placed in it making it more valuable to forge it, ergo more resources will be placed on trying to forge it.
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No reason why an ID card can not be mighty hard to forge - I'm thinking encrypt data on the card with some digital signature, the secret key stored in a central database, and one unique key per card. Easy to create, easy to revoke. Optionally add part of the information in unencrypted format too for those situations where security is less strict.
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I'd think the best identification system would simply be based entirely on biometrics
...
OK, now what if someone is able to clone your biometrics to impersonate you (see German magazine that got a fingerprint of some German Gov official and distributed it on some suitable sticky film with their mag so anyone could leave that official's fingerprints all over the place).
So now what if someone can hack the central server to change your biometric info to their biometric info? They are now, to all intents and purposes, you.
If someone discovers your password or pin you can change it, if someone c
Well now. (Score:3, Funny)
(article in German)
Most of us will have an excuse not to read TFA this time.
(As if lack of an excuse ever made much difference.)
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We no longer live in the days of Babelfish being the only game in town. Google Translate does a passable (but far from perfect) job: [google.com]
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(article in German)
Most of us will have an excuse not to read TFA this time.
(As if lack of an excuse ever made much difference.)
Really. Although, I've been mod-bombed a few times for failing to read the article, so it does bother some people no end if you don't read it.
I can guess the word most Germans said... (Score:2, Funny)
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Actually, most Germans probably don't give a damn.
BTW, is it scheisse or scheiße?
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Depends on if you are Swiss
:-)
In Germany it's Scheiße, in Switzerland it's Scheisse.
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Can someone explain, bitte? (Score:2)
How does it matter? Does it let you get the secret key from a card, or somehow pretend to have a different ID?
I though the point of using a smartcard is that PCs cannot be trusted.
Is this about a MiTM attack without physical access to the PC?
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The new ID sounds good - really! (Score:5, Interesting)
First, to TFA: there is no problem with the ID itself, just with the security of the special PC software than can work with them. As most
/.ers know, there is quite a hacker community in Germany, and these problems are really not too bad. In order to compromise the software you first have to do a DNS hack, then fake a certificate, then... In a nutshel, yes, there are problems, but they aren't too bad and will be relatively easy to fix.
The ID itself is really cool. Among other things, it supports secured anonymous transactions. How many governments are there that willingly support anonymity for their citizens?
Re:The new ID sounds good - really! (Score:4, Informative)
Any valid SSL certificate will do; it's not checked. That's the main problem.
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So you are saying there are lots of hackers in Germany, but there is little to worry about, since people who don't know how to hack won't be able to hack it, and only the large number of people who do
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Wow! It's a damn good thing Germany isn't connected the Internet then!
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How can an ID card specifically facilitate anonymous transactions? Isn't that an exact contradiction?
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Blind signatures [wikipedia.org] allow anonymous transactions: [wikipedia.org]
You don't know the best things about the ID, yet (Score:4, Informative)
You have to know that our (German) current ID card is being photocopied for many kinds of quick transactions/deals. Someone can give you something without paying in advance and you give him a copy of your ID card, so he can find you, when you forgot to pay or give something back. You can optionally give the ID card directly as security.
Now... the new ID... it is explicitly forbidden to photocopy it and even leave it unattended somewhere.
Why? Because there are some critical numbers printed on the new German ID cards that no one should know. Isn't it great? Imagine that someone printed your social security number on your new "great and modern ID card"!
And here comes the first loop hole: banks always have needed and still will need your ID card photocopied to open an account. Guess what happens? They will get a special permit to do this (it has been already decided to keep the current account registration system working).
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I like this rule that forbids to give the card out of your hands. Hopefully it will put some common sense in some heads and I can stop shaking my head over all those idiots who willingly give their credit cards out of their hands and let people do stuff they can't see with it, but then wonder about their crazy bills.
And banks don't "need" an ID card or copies of an ID card to open an account. Any method which can prove that you are the guy who opened the account would do it.
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Do you ever eat at nice restaurants?
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Yes. But that doesn't mean that I'd ever let anyone except closest friends take my credit card out of my sight.
I'm from Germany, and the usage of credit cards is not so widespread here as in the USA. If it's not a business related dinner, or some kind of bigger event, most people here usually pay cash in restaurants. And as I know how much the CC companies charge those poor shop owners, I tend to use a credit card only when paying in cash or with the bank card (don't know if there's something similar in the
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True, credit cards aren't used that often outside online/mail-order transactions and what's referred to as "EC cards" is a different kind of animal ( [wikipedia.org] ).
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Do you ever eat at nice restaurants?
That was ten years ago, when the waiter had to take your card backstage to get the imprimt.
Nowadays, they do have those small portable readers which they bring right to your table. The card no longer leaves your sight...
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Banks generally do need to go above and beyond 'have a photo ID' to protect your money - they store the copy of your official ID to compare against the ID you (or "you") show next time, and to compare signatures, and to have a photo of the bad guy and solid evidence that it wasn't you if a forgery was presented the first time.
If you don't do this, then some shmuck with a forged ID can do stuff in your name. Oh - and that's the choice that most USA banks have made, so you suffer from id
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If the banks were suffering from their lax fraud controls, they would probably do something about it.
As it stands, the bank (the victim of the fraud that the bank failed to prevent) just pushes the problem off on some individual. So the laws are terrible there (it should be straightforward for someone to repudiate an account and hear nothing more from the institution that mistakenly opened said account).
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The scan of your ID card also serves second purpose. In case your wallet is stolen you simply provide your name, address, date of birth and together with a visual confirmation they'll let you withdraw money at the counter until your replacement bank card is mailed to you.
passport (Score:1)
Just give them your passport. They will happily accept it. That's what I and most foreigners living in Germany use to authenticate, because we don't have an ID card.
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Suspect they will still require an ID card if you happen to be German citizen... the passport bypass will work fine for non-nationals...
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You mean like on my driver's license here in the US up until a few years ago? That's why my new driver's licenses always had an unfortunate encounter with a belt sander soon after issue.
Sweden has chips on the national id cards... (Score:2)
Quick Summary (Score:1, Redundant)
For those who can't read German here's a basic summary of the article:
There is a vulnerability not in the ID cards but in the desktop software that makes use of them for authentication on the Net. This software's update mechanism is apparently vulnerable to a DNS spoofing attack that would allow a skilled attacker to download and unpack a ZIP file on the user's machine (but not directly execute any code). The article was updated to say that the government agency responsible for this software has stopped dow
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And since the ID card and desktop software know nothing about the operating system they run on there is no way to be sure they will behave as expected.
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The really safe solution would have been to have a reader with PIN entry required, and have that reader directly communicate with the server (using a secure, encrypted protocol, of course), so for identification purposes, the computer acts only as a router for the secure communication. Of course that still doesn't protect against compromised readers, but I guess those are much more easy to protect than computers (after all, they are single-purpose appliances).
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Yeah I think this point was brought up in the dw-world article (in English) linked to this story. It's like Internet Banking, if you use it from a computer which isn't secure or which you can't reasonably trust (eg. a computer in an internet cafe) you can't expect your session to be secure. Same with this system.
I think the idea is to create a system where verified emails and documents can be securely sent, eg. if I want to cancel the contract with my phone company I use my ID+PIN reader gadget to send them
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I think the attacker is a different person here. If you want your data to be secure you will use a secure system. If you want to defraud the Government then you may create a deliberately insecure system.
another potential hole (Score:1)
another potential hole here is the social aspect of the deployment: it is only for Germans. And you have a large percent of foreigners living there, who use the same services as Germans. And I don't people from far away countries. I mean even other europeans who happen to live in Germany in accordance to all European rules.
These people use credit cards, do bank transactions, on-line shopping, etc. For these people, of which I belong to, our only means of authenticating is the passport. So in the end every s
Bundestrojaner (Score:2)
Now they can upload their spying tool to everybody without a warrant. All they need to do is accidentally mixup the new release of the passportapp with the trojan.
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But for that, they would not need to add that security hole. They could just install it from the regular update server of the app. Or redirect DNS, but use the original certificate.
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But for that, they would not need to add that security hole. They could just install it from the regular update server of the app.
Plausible deniability!
Why this tool is crap anyway (Score:2)
Which basically means, when ever somebody does something bad with your id, the damage is yours.
They even read, that you should only keep it on the card reader for the few seconds of usage.
As if those few seconds are not enough for an attack. One thing that already works easily with an exploited
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The current terms of service (which you accept when you get this thing) are that the program is safe by definition. The user has to keep the pc free of viruses. Zerodays are the users fault as well, what so ever.
Lemme guess... and the app is only available for windows.
So basically they tell you "you have to expose your computer to attacks, but you (not we) are responsible when it does get attacked and your id stolen".
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Very bad PR, but nothing extraordinary (Score:3, Interesting)
This is very bad PR for the new ID, but neither the ID card nor the software has been hacked yet. This is just another way to install some malware on a computer.
I have no doubt though that worse things will happen. The mistakes made here are so glaringly obvious that it's hard to believe that there aren't other holes to be found.
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"Cyber War" Is Just the Latest Grab for Defense Money 161
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Is this a US thing? (Score:4, Interesting)
Cause I've not heard the phrase "cyber war" being bandied about like the wars on terror/drugs/etc have been.
Everything in the USA is a "war". (Score:5, Insightful)
Americans are a very curious species. There are two things you should know about them:
1) Most Americans have never experienced real war of any sort. This includes those in the military, even those who have served in various conflicts, and even those who have killed during said conflicts. (Much of this killing has been done at great distances using missiles or munitions released by planes or drones, and was thus quite impersonal.)
2) Most Americans have a so-called "boner for war". This is especially true of those who self-identify as "Republicans", but many who identify as "Democrats" are equally afflicted.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of these people, and they have thus acquired much power within the American political system. To them, anything and everything they don't like needs to be crushed in a "war".
It doesn't matter whether their target is alcohol or drugs or Islam or homosexuality or affordable health care or free speech on the Internet. To them, "war" is the only solution possible, and they'll refer to "war" incessantly when discussing such topics.
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Sounds like you want to start a war on wars.
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Now they want a war on drugs. A war on DRUGS! They ought to start a war on war! --Mojo Nixon, Burn Down The Mall
Re:Everything in the USA is a "war". (Score:4, Insightful)
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Mod parent funny! "Liberal pinko!" Of course, Gingrich probably would call someone like him a liberal. He and Perry and Paul would probably be against the interstate highway, too.
Wonderful sarcasm.
We have a war on poverty too (Score:2)
Only we can't figure out a good excuse to shoot, bomb or jail poor people.
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What do you think the "War on Drugs" is for?
Re:Is this a US thing? (Score:4, Interesting)
They're doing it in the UK too : Web War II: What a future cyberwar will look like [bbc.co.uk] ; and on the BBC. I wonder if it's just a few select plants in their newsroom, whether they are just being fed this stuff unwittingly, or whether their legendary neutrality is being eroded at an institutional level.
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Yes, it's mostly a US thing (Score:2)
It's really about getting new funding for the US Military establishment and their friends in private-sector contracting businesses. It lets companies who don't make heavy iron or high-tech weaponry sell consulting and overpriced computer system designs, and lets military departments who don't have overpriced cool airplanes (or can't get their next generation of cool airplanes) get more money to hire people and buy shiny equipment from politically well-connected vendors.
That doesn't mean there aren't civil
Hobgoblins! (Score:3, Funny)
has anyone considered this latest Hobgoblin threat to the United States' civil security? We need to begin deploying elven rangers at our borders. It's the only way to be sure. I propose an Elven Archer High Command, taking pieces from DoHS, DOD, NSA, FBI, and other agencies which are clearly not as focused on the Hobgoblin threat as they need to be. We cannot allow American lives to be thrown away by caving into the Hobgoblin agenda.
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Re:Hobgoblins! (Score:5, Funny)
No.
No no.
No no no.
We must begin deploying DWARF (Designated Warfare Advance Recon Forces) to defend against the hobgoblin menace. The best part is that all we need to send seven of them out with just a pickaxe and an axe and they are quite adept at constructing fortresses to defend against the hobgoblin menace. With a little bit of oversight we can make sure to avoid the lava cataclysm events that DWARF is prone to causing.
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A pickaxe and an axe? Just a piece of bismuthinite, a piece of cassiterite, a couple of pieces of tetrahedrite, a random rock. They can rip apart their wagon and build an axe from the wood in it.
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Well, people used to bad-mouth the Bear Patrol back when it started too. But I submit to you that we haven't had a single person killed in a U.S. city by a bear since it began. You can't argue with success.
Seriously? (Score:4, Interesting)
While I do agree that it is in the military's best interests to keep things rolling financially, make no mistake in the fact that cyber criminals and foreign nations are actively penetrating and stealing sensitive information from the United States as well as other countries.
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Of course that's true. But the cost of making defense networks secure is trivial compared to the cost of developing a new weapon system or surveiling the world.
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Foreign nations are actively penetrating and stealing sensitive information from the United States
That fact that the sensitive info is on a public network, or networks connected to the internet, is reason enough to believe there is incompetence involved. Incompetence is the largest factor in a compromised network.
If you don't want your fruit picked, don't leave it so close to the ground.
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It doesn't work that way. Outside of the DoD, just about everything is connected to the Internet these days; workers expect to have access to the Internet for research while they work, or so that they can take breaks during the day and read their personal email.
The fact that you can't make an inbound connection to those computers (because of firewalls,
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Yes, they are. And leaving aside the fact that most of the world does care about this type of crime (but does not particularly care about the US, which still falsely thinks of it as the pinnacle of human existence), this is just a very conventional IT security problem. There are far too many organizations out there that will fall even to a moderately competent individual doing a targeted attack. Calling crime "war" either just exceedingly stupid, or exactly what the original story said. That said, one thing
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In the USA we always hear the main aggressor is China.
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For this aspect of things, that would be an accurate statement. They're responsible for a lot of state sponsored attacks on our digital infrastructure.
It is (Score:3) continu
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Thank you for saving some time. I'm bookmarking this thread.
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In the USA we always hear the main aggressor is China.
It clearly is not. The Chinese can be happy if they match higher-competence individual hackers. But there are a lot of economic and political reasons to paint the Chinese as a threat. Because, in fact, they are to the US. Not so much to Europe, though.
All of the above (Score:3)
Can you imagine a world where it's possible for there to actually be ideals that are opposed to principles of freedom and democracy, and where the US isn't to blame for everything bad that happens? I know this would be a stretch from your comfortable worldview which probably holds that the only reason the US and/or West has any "enemies" is because we make them ourselves. I'm sure if the US didn't exist after WWII, Western European nations would all be in a happy place and the world would be a peaceful utop
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Well, I do agree there are actual threats out there, sure. Yes, China potentially is a threat, as is Iran and N. Korea. Of those 3, I'd say China is potentially the largest threat just based on economic power and supply controls.
However, it is also very accurate to state that most of (the USA's) our "enemies" are primarily a result of foreign interventions. I use "enemies" loosely here, because we're not engaged in a traditional "war" with anyone (as defined by clear objectives competing against other Na
Yawn. (Score:5, Insightful)
You are preaching to the choir, sir.
Is the Information Superhighway in danger? (Score:1)
Maybe you're not worried about the safety of the Information Superhighway, but I sure am. When I go surfing in cyberspace, I want to know that I'm protected. The World Wide Web can be a dangerous place, but if you take some precautions it'll be safe sailing all the way.
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You just to create some synergy by leveraging the Best Practices of both Open Source and Proprietary Technologies.
And wear a condom.
How about we taxpayers... (Score:3, Insightful)
...tell the government where to spend our taxes. Me regarding the taxes I pay, your regarding the taxes you pay. Extrapolate that out to realize what all else gets fixed. If you don't trust the people, then you probably support rigged elections. Does a politician who does not follow through with their campaign promises that people voted for them for, represent the people? No Taxation without representation. I'd rather realize results as being representative rather than some a person claiming to represent me.
The value of defense is more often to protect yourself from those you suspect of retaliation of the wrongs you've done against them. go figure what the cyper war crap is really about.
Re:How about we taxpayers... (Score:5, Insightful)
...tell the government where to spend our taxes. Me regarding the taxes I pay, your regarding the taxes you pay.
Only problem is what to do about things that nobody wants to think about paying for despite the fact that they have to be funded. Often these are things that don't require a lot of money (can you think of anyone who wants to fund the retirement plans of federal auditors?) but without them all sorts of things just fall apart over time.
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Are you high? What smart ass remark? He made a valid point. One you don't want to hear, so you are getting all pissy because if goes against your gut \feeling of how things should be.
" its not all or nothing as he clearly insinuates"
he did no such thing. You are creating a strawman, the second to last vestige of an argument without merit.
"Try asking people randomly off the street if they would like to tell government where to spend their money if you want a real answer."
and most would say yes, and they woul
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The only reason we don't have direct democracy is because it's never been tried because it's never been possible in the history of the world until now. The thundering herd would wise up after a few misteps at first. I'd way rather try direct democracy over the illusionist representative democracy we have now.
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As a reminder, a lot of things were said about Free Open Source Software, that this or that would happen, that it needed this other or that other and of course "it'll never work" and plenty more. But against all these speculations... it works. And it provides a working model of how participatory democracy can work within this Republic of the United States. Also there is local, state and federal government where taxes are levied and collected, so things can be sorted out on the local levels in getting this
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Yes, open software can work. This is not open software, it's a form of government. Have you ever even been in a large open source project? All of them have a person who makes the decisions, regardless of popular support. Now, with software you can spin off you own fork. I can't decide to go build roads because I don't like how it's being done.
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google "crowd source iceland"
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False, it's been tried many times. Lasts about 2 years then someone has to make rules regardless of popular support.
You are mistaking not seeing one right now with never been tried. You don't see one, because anything too large and it fails. Too large being more then 100.
Hell, get a group of 20 people together who want the same goal, and it gets hard to manage the how.
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[Citation Needed]
Have you seen the Internet lately? (Score:3)
Have you seen the crap people vote for as cool? Do you really want the latest hot YouTube video, cheezburger meme or Twitter trend be the example for our nation's policy? Over and over, "man on the street" interviews show a huge number of people have no real idea what's going on, yet they'll be able to vote to directly to influence policy concerning it.
If we really want to kill ourselves, we can make voting mandatory, so the huge number of people who are uninformed or just plain old don't give a damn push
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Your second paragraph is the most compelling for me, though. I grew up in northern Michigan, and the last thing the planet needs is for those ignorant, inbred rednecks to actually get off the couch and vote. (Yes, I'm including some relatives, though fortunately not many.)
Re:How about we taxpayers... (Score:5, Insightful)
That means that you should be calling your Congress person. Are you? The elected representative is the guy/gal who determines how the money is spent.
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We can instruct government at the time of filing tax returns and the tax return processors can then allocate it.
We can remove congresses budgeting problem of, by us doing it instead.
This really is a very simple solution but some just don't know how to realistically extrapolate it all out to realize all the benefits and corrections. These are the one who might also think the way to do math is to memorize the times table and all other answers rather than understand the mathematical tool set from which extrap
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Playing "can't see the forest for the trees" ?
Every goal starts out with a general idea that gets broken down into doable easy to do parts.
The complexity we have today didn't just appear and complexity reduction is certainly a worthwhile goal.
Complexity increase also increases error and abuses and can and has been done with intention of profiting off errors and ability to hide cheating in the complexity..
As I said else where, this core change can and should start out with local government, then state and ev
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No Taxation without Representation.... look it up.
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haha. Another person who flips out some phrase they actually no nothing about.
Taxation with representation was a cute phrase whipped out by a group of men becasue ENgland was going to sell a large portion of the US to france. Thos emen had a vested interest in the land.
A) Colonist were barely taxed. Most didn't pay any taxes at all.
B) It was used to whip the ignorant masses into a frenzy.
Finally, that vast majority of people don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Listening to them is stupid.
Instea
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Citation needed.
;-)
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Boston Tea Party
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Say what? We elect politicians because we WANT them to represent us. THAT is their DUTY.
Yes, we want them to do a better job than their predecessor. And, we want them to vote their conscience - provided that it is truly best for the people they are supposed to represent.
Problem is, for far too many, it becomes about money and power. They abuse the system and people they represent. They spend more time trying to get reflected and not enough time solving our real problems. They become corrupt.
Others try
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The Declaration of Independence has instructions for the people, written by the experienced and wise founders of this country (Republic of the United States of America). They foresaw the probability of corrupt government and recognized the Peoples right and duty to put off such government and replace it with whet a system that adheres to the intents of the founders in protecting the interest of the people.
This thread.is really rather exposing of the corruption that has become of slashdot posters. I wonder h
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Politician don't represent the people and they shouldn't
So tell me again why many of them have the job title of "Representative"? They're job is to give the people what they want - that's not "pandering" or "appeasement", that's democratic representation serving their constituents. They may have to balance several demands at once, and argue over how to make their demands a reality, but they are definitely supposed to be focused on doing what the voters want them to do.
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You pointed to a source of our problems (Score:2)
You are correct, representatives are supposed to represent their constituents.
However, to counter the fickle population, we had another house with officials selected by the states. This was supposed to be the body that, not depending on popular support, could take a more level-headed view of things. It was a great balance that the 17th Amendment killed by allowing direct election of senators.
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How about I when I tell the government that I'd like 100% of my taxes to be spent on a tax credit for me? Of course, I still expect everybody else around me to pay for roads and other government services I use every day, but that's not my problem, right?
The basic problem of government is that everybody wants services, but nobody wants to pay for them. You can see that in California's state government, where Prop 13 prevents the government from raising taxes for any reason, but other ballot issues require th
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People, if given the chance, seem to vote for insolvent government.
It is better to have poor government and rich citizens than vice versa.
Poor government is a self-solving problem. No money? They have whole blocks of cities that are full of bureaucrats. Get rid of them. If the entire government of California disappears overnight nobody will even notice. People don't need the government to live; it's an add-on layer that provides fewer and fewer services every year for more and more money. Now they are
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There's obviously a need to strike a balance to achieve high levels of growth. Too high or too low causes problems. These are based off of the size of government by %GDP:
Governments too poor to be effective: Afghanistan (9%), Turkmenistan (9%), Bangladesh (12%), Cambodia (13%)
Private sectors too poor to be dynamic: Iraq (87%), Cuba (81%), Slovakia (66%), Timor (65%)
G8 and permanent members of the UN Security Council: France (61%), Italy (55%), UK (50%), Germany (48%), Canada (48%), Japan (30%), China (22%),
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As far as your example of losing your family home, you benefit from local and state services, so you should contribute in some way to the upkeep of your government.
It is lost on me how the square footage of my house, or the number of electrical lights, determine how much I should pay in property taxes. There is only one street, and only one driveway, and only one resident. I'd understand if property taxes were related to number of people who live there. But they are not.
Well, making the people who are
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If you do not work you do not eat.
If people with more expensive property are expected to sell their homes then perhaps people with less expensive property should sell some of their organs?
So am I correct in boiling your argument down to the idea that my right to keep my property is more important than somebody else's right to remain alive? That seems more than a bit callous. If the government is Shylock (who is actually a pretty sympathetic character, upset because Antonio's pal stole his daughter and all his cash), you seem to be Ebenezer Scrooge ("Are there no workhouses?").
Losing one's home sucks. A lot. But it's a very different level of suffering from starving or living on the streets.
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Because people are selfish and have no clue how to plan for decades? because most people can't even manage their own money? Because nothing would get done.
I don't support rigged elections because they usually deal with issues on a larger scale.
A voter may not like the economy, but they should be telling expert what we should specifically do.
And how so you determine what amount? is the person paying the higher percentage get a higher say? is it real dollars?
"Does a politician who does not follow through with
Arguably even worse than that... (Score:5, Interesting)
This is not a merely theoretical problem [forbes.com].
VUPEN [vupen.com] is the crass, attention-whoring, bad-boy of the industry; but practically the entire who's-who of staid, tight-lipped, defense contractors has a division peddling bugs somewhere in the business.
Even if we were 100% warm and fuzzy about the use these exploits are being put to by these firms customers(Only the good guys, pinkie swear!), this situation is insane from the perspective of actual 'security'. Whose economies, financial systems, and infrastructure depend most heavily on complex IT systems? Ummm, mostly wealthy developed countries. Whose citizens are most vulnerable to electronic compromise of financial information and such? Countries with high rates of internet penetration and lots of computers. Who has the capability to deploy electronic attacks against unpatched vulnerabilities? Virtually everyone.
In addition to the usual grab for rights and money, this 'cybersecurity' industry begets insecurity, because of the demand for 'offensive capabilities', despite the fact that we are the ones with the most to lose in an insecure environment. At least classic corporate welfare military R&D is merely expensive, and once you hand over the money, Raytheon or whoever goes off to build some impractical toy that is largely useless; but at least largely harmless....
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And they are overlooking a number of problems. One is that you can turn any type of malware around and use it against the attacker, unless the attacker is more secure than the attacked. Guess what, the whole world gets the same security patches. Until that changes, any offensive capability is highly problematic. Then there is the issue of how specific such a weapon is. The more specific, the easier any defense. The less specific, the larger the risk of unacceptable collateral damage.
Those that want an offen
Move along citizen (Score:4, Insightful)
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Arrr, yes! Eastasia and their terror-muslin-children-eating terrorists. Let's bomb them all!
We cannot allow (Score:3)
We cannot allow a cyber-war gap.
Corporatocracy (Score:3)
The truth is there *is* a cyber war issue, just as there is a terror issue and yes, even a drug issue that needs to be addressed (meth).
What get's confused is the border between appropriate action and sponsored action. What's appropriate today is spend billions on contractors hoping the problem will go away, and less smart allocation.
Bloat's always been a part of government, but today we're seeing an extremely stark privatization of public money, and externalization of corporate cost in public debt...
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The truth is there *is* a cyber war issue,
You have data to support that hypothesis?
just as there is a terror issue
In the US? I've seen no indication of such for over ten years.
and yes, even a drug issue that needs to be addressed (meth).
Yes, they should just legalize the shit so I can get cold medicine without looking like a criminal. If an adult wants to thoroughly fuck his life up with meth, why should I or my government stop him? I know quite a few hopeless alcoholics, and you know how that prohibition
People do not want to hear that (Score:5, Interesting)
I recently gave a talk on Cyberwar, with the main conclusion that there is nothing new here or nothing more scary than the targeted attacks we have increasingly seen in the last few years. Defense against "Cyberwar" is the same as against any other targeted IT attack. Even Stuxnet is not impressive at all and the authors made several unnecessary mistakes that jeopardized its mission. (And in addition, it is in no way certain that the damage to the Iranian centrifuges was even caused by Stuxnet. The Iranis had started using their own parts in the centrifuges and "the devil USA did it" may just be politically more opportune than "we do not have the skills to make our own centrifuges" or "we are incompetent to operate centrifuges reliably".)
But guess what? Some people in the audience were offended! Seems to me some people are so in love with their own misconceptions, that they rather be afraid than admit that they were wrong (and that they are not experts on the subject in the first place...). As long as this stupidity continues, the immoral manipulators using these memes will continue to be successful.
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As someone who has watched, monitored, and designed specialized security systems for SCADA, and Financial institutions, you are wrong.
There are global coordinated attacks against many SCADA system, financial system. Other government agencies as well, but those are often much less professional.
"Cyberwar" is defense against large scale coordinated attacks. So, yes the technical merits are 'the same' but in practicability, it is not. We now over large groups buying systems, then using them to test attacks agai
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I am pretty sure I am right. I _know_ I am not ignorant.
But as you chose to insult me, I am too lazy to find my sources again. The hints that Stuxnet is not great are very, very obvious. The only thing that allowed the attack is gross incompetence on the Irani side. Just one hint: I guess they never heard of independent monitoring systems for mission critical hardware. There is quite a bit more. Requires some searching though, and some engineering knowledge.
As for coordinated attacks, you _can_ use cyberatt
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Maybe it's not the "R" that makes them intransigent, but the "diehard" as you say.
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I's an "R" all right, and that R is Religion. Believing that there is an infallible entity that controls the universe in all minutiae, and has laid down simple black and white laws to be followed, has a tendency to cause people to believe that, since they are on the side of unquestionable truth and goodness, any thought that passes through their mind obviously must have been placed there by the divine creator, and therefore who opposes it has certainly either made a mistake, or been led astray by the forces
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You should ditch the "Republican"/"Democrat" line of thought. Flip sides of the coin, really. As for a "diehard 'R'" holding onto their mainstream-sensationalized beliefs, I think you'll find the other party's participants are quite more guilty of that than the 'R''s...
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Historically(last 40 years) you would be wrong.
OTOH, I actually read up on the facts in these issue and not just crap out whatever my gut tells me. You should try it. I will warn you, slaughter sacred cows requires a certain level of opening yourself up.
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Not all experts on IT-security (the "cyber" is still the mark of incompetence) have the will to resist the call of big money.
You mean the History Channel lied? (Score:3)
The whole WWII think was made up? Damn! I knew Granddad told some whoppers, but I swallowed that one hook, line, and sinker.
Pearl Harbor, Bataan (my great-uncle must have faked his death), Nazi's, and Holocaust were all imaginary. Go figure.
Next you're going to tell me the Great Depression was fake too.
You are mistaken (Score:2)
This [slashdot.org] is the latest grab for defence money. Cyberwarfare is getting old enough that some people will start to believe in it for the sole reason that they heard it so many times.
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I think you are exactly right. And "what I tell you three times is the truth" may exactly have been the strategy all along. Too bad it works nonetheless.
so just pay for it (Score:2)
The big difference that makes this silly is how cheap it is to fix these problems. We've got technical solutions for all security issues, but nobody uses them. Fire the programmers who get caught writing buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This is like firing building contractors who use substandard nails. After the roof blows off it's too late. Don't let your inspectors get away with being bribed. Don't tolerate substandard work. All these problems have been solved, we just have to fire the idiots who don't u
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Before doing that, we should make it a requirement to get a professional Engineering certificate and sign off on projects.
That means people will have to sign off on projects, so if management pushes something, and the engineer doesn't sign off and t ships? it's the managers ass.
The engineering culture needs to be embraced, and the classic geek cowboy culture needs to be let go.
With out this, you will be next to impossible to even find the specific coder responsible for a bug, and it will be impossible
Big problems with that (Score:2)
1 it is likely that any certification legislation will be bought and paid for by Microsoft (or simlar companies) and will also legislate that that MS Visual Studio 2014* Enterprise will be required to be used and forbid the use of FLOSS tools.
2 this will make it impossible to use FLOSS tools on any business computer (can't have "uncertified" software running on a Business System)
3 it will not solve the problem since the Managers will force the Designated Engineer to "sign off" on whatever is needed when The
Cheaper than welfare (Score:2)
If it gives all the WoW kiddies a job, I'm all for it.
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The largest demographics of WoW players is women ion their 40s.
The more you know.
Also, welfare isn't as expensive as you think.
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You got a source for that demographic data? That doesn't match with sources I've seen (like the often referenced Daedalus Project).
Welfare is INCREDIBLY expensive when you consider the impact it has on society and the creation of a class of of people raised on a culture of entitlement. Government assistance should be either a short-term bridge or part of a long-term solution for the disabled. You are not entitled to a standard of living paid for by other people, and there should be NO type of work you wi
From one end of the spectrum of hype to the other (Score:2)
Dumb summary (Score:2)
First of all this doesn't belong in a summary since it's purely opinion.
But second, it's a silly opinion. People don't wake up in the morning and think, "I'm going to menace the population with hobgoblins!" What people do think is things like, "we need to write a good ad for this anti-virus s
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Keep telling yourself that. What Mencken stated is an _observation_ and right on the mark. And while governments do not "wake up in the morning" to think about this, they have think-tanks, committees, meetings, experts, etc. concerned with this, as it is an on-going effort. It happens to also be one of the strategies used by quite a few of the proponents of religion. Hellfire, damnation, eternal pain, etc. same thing, just with a more long-term agenda.
An no. The threats are not more real than other things a
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Summary (Score:2)
Imaginary? Seriously? I guess there are two extreme wings for every opinion. You could probably argue reasonably well that the threats are "overblown" or "exaggerated". You'd have a hard time arguing that it's not important to secure our computer infrastructure. And you'd have an even worse time arguing that co
except that (Score:4, Insightful)
1) million of attempts are made every month on US Government, and industrial systems.
2)And we have had system compromised by foreign attempts frequently.
3) It';s the military's role to protect against those threats
None of that is speculation, none of the is fear mongering. Those are are facts.
So, not it isn't the same as anarchist, of the red scare.
And the war on drugs is a completely separate issue, stop bringing it up.
Now, we can discuss where the line is, and discuss people using those facts to do things we don't want them to do, but don't pretend like they are made up threats.
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Crime is a fact. These attacks are crime, just in a new area, but not even more intensive than other forms of crime.
Repeating nonsense does not make it more true.
Eisenhower (Score:2)
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This is news? (Score:3)
Bernard Shaw wrote "Of government, ‘that foolish gaggle shop’, he says:"
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Google "Sakka and Aang"
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Got a wine- or science-related question? Email me at ithacork *at* gmail.com and I’ll do my best to answer it!
A little while ago I got an email from a reader. She writes:
I came across your blog online…I’ll be visiting the Finger Lakes soon and I was wondering if you know of any wineries that produce/sell de-alcoholized wine? I gave up drinking last year (sound decision, I promise) but still love the taste of wine. Am trying to find new and interesting de-alcoholized wines when I travel.
Here’s my response:
Thanks for reading the blog. I don’t know of any producers of de-alcoholized wines in the Finger Lakes, but I will ask around.
Do you drink a lot of de-alcoholized wine? I have had several alcohol-removed wines (in the name of science) and none of them really taste like wine to me. Alcohol actually does much for the body and especially the acid balance of wine. Alcohol-removed wine to me tastes extremely acidic.
Winemakers sensitive to those who choose not to drink alcohol can use glycerol or other agents to provide body and some even use capsaicin (from hot peppers) to replicate the “burn” of alcohol. Ariel Vineyards from California claims that its n/a wines have won gold medals against alcoholic wines. So maybe not all n/a wines are bad news.
For the Finger Lakes, though, might I suggest a compromise of spitting? I spit whenever I visit wineries, since I am usually the one driving my friends around. Spitting would give you the tasting experience and the opportunity to talk with the tasting room staff without taking in that much alcohol. Also people who spit really look like professionals, because most pros spit!
Failing that, i do know many wineries carry juice made from wine grapes.
Looking back on this advice, I’m not sure that recommending spitting was such a good idea. No matter this person’s reasons for avoiding alcohol (medical, psychological, financial, religious, or anything else), I’m not sure that the answer is bringing her into closer contact with alcoholic wine. Indeed, for those of you who do spit, alcohol CAN get into your system without you swallowing a drop. It can traverse mucous membranes contributing to some absorption into the bloodstream. Various estimates exist but some numbers that I saw estimate that 3% of the alcohol in a drink is absorbed through the mouth (questionable Ref: Wine Business Monthly). So after a full day of wine tasting, spitting only, you could still end up having the equivalent of a drink or two. Of course, that doesn’t count those wines that are so rich and delicious that you’re just compelled to gulp them down.
What do you guys think? Have you ever had a decent alcohol-removed
“wine”? Any advice for this reader?
Science!
Wine is a complex mixture of water (about 85-89%), alcohol (12-14%), organic acids like tartaric, malic, and lactic acid, sugar (sometimes), and volatile aroma compounds. If your goal is to remove alcohol from wine, you might think you could just boil it. Alcohol is more volatile than water, ergo boiling the wine will reduce the alcohol. The problem with that is that all of the aroma compounds in the wine are also volatile, so you would destroy the wine (not to mention the effect of heating the wine).
Alcohol can be removed from wines in many ways, but nowadays the most popular way is reverse osmosis. It’s a controversial topic in winemaking (see this article by PinotBlogger for some of the opposing viewpoints on alcohol removal), and I’m not really going to comment on the controversy, just the methodology.
Reverse osmosis involves high pressure, used to push the wine through a very stringent membrane filter. Only compounds whose molecular weight is smaller than 90 can pass through a tight RO filter. This includes water, ethanol, and the {volatile acidity} compounds ethyl acetate and acetic acid. Once these pass through the membrane, the alcohol and VA is removed by distillation and the water is returned to the wine. No water is added during the process. For a picture, see below.
This very simplistic diagram attempts to approximate the process of reverse osmosis on wine.
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Cyber Awareness: Personal Security
Posted by: David Scott.
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?, adaptive, CCIE, data, how, legacy, map-class, mqc, QoS, shaping, to, traffic, voice
How to traffic shape Frame-Relay? – part 2
Posted by: Sulaiman Syed
In How to traffic shape frame-relay? part 1 , i have mentioned four types of QoS mechanism that can be applied to frame-relay interface. Lets have a look at the other two...
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Network Adapters–Disable/Enable
Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module
PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a
Name ...
Last time we saw the Get-NetAdapter cmdlet from the NetAdapter module
PS> Get-NetAdapter | ft Name, InterfaceDescription, Status -a
Name ...>......
I’ve been grading the scripts in the warm up events for the Scripting Games and noticed a lot of people doing this:
Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk | where {$_.DriveType -eq 3}
Ok now it works but there are a couple of things wrong with this approach.
Firstly,......
I realised there is an easier way to get the data
function get-SID { param ( ...
A question on the forum asked about finding the accounts and SIDs on the local machine.
function get-SID { param
WMI enables you find the number of processors in your system:
PS> Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem | fl Number*
NumberOfLogicalProcessors : 2
NumberOfProcessors : 1
This works fine for Windows...
A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting. I would approach it like this
$servers = Get-Content...
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Special event: Alum, Amnon Dekel – The State of Mobile
The State of Mobile 2010
Mobile Phones represent the fastest growing business in the history of Humanity- Since the creation of the first mobile phone in 1973, it has grown to become a more than $1 TRILLION business. In 2009 over 1 Billion phones were sold and the marker contained almost 4 Billion phones overall! This talk will present a short history of this fascinating field, while focusing on the technologies that have enabled it to reach its unique success. The talk will end with some ideas as to where future innovation will take us. I will present some of my applied research work in the Amazon-on-Earth project.
About Amnon Dekel – ITP Alumni 1996
I thrive at the intersection point of four disciplines: research in novel human computer interaction, information technology, digital media and university level lecturing. The twenty five years since I programmed my first computer (a ZX-80) have been spent by me in studying!), and as of 2005, working on my PhD in Computer Science (focusing on merging the physical world with the world of digital information networks). In 2008 I co-founded an iPhone focused startup (Vevent Inc) and am teaching an Android based course in Human Centric Mobile Computing.
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Last Friday our good friend Jordan White over at NYTE HYPE invited ITS Music Playground to do a takeover of their 2nd room at Static Fridays @ Detroit Bar. Needless to say IT WENT AMAZING. All of the homies came out and made the 2nd room feel like the main stage. ITS Artists SEAN P, STATIC_CAST, NATIVITY, 3rd ROCK, and SMÜRKO kept the dance floor PACKED in the back room. The room had never looked better thanks to our DANA TROY [lovcat]. DANA TROY hooked the back room up with a Black Light Forrest complete with glowing butterflies and flowers everywhere. Thanks to everyone that came out… STATIC FRIDAYS invited ITS back to take over the MAIN ROOM in January! SWAG!
Support the ITS Artists from the night by LIKING/FOLLOWING their sites below!!!
Third Rock
NATIVITY [DANK RADIO]
STATIC_CAST
SEAN P
SMÜRKO
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This evening I’m basking in the warm glow of a tummy filled with mashed potato! Here’s my lovely dinner (though obviously all that’s left now is the plate!) – Marinated Minty Lamb Steak with Mashed Potato and Green Veg. Yum!
Here’s how I make my Mashed Potato (no amounts because I do it all by taste/eye):
Take your potatoes (I usually use whatever general, all purpose potatoes they have in the shop – tonight it was Maris Piper), wash them and then cut/peel off any rooty or rough bits (but leave the rest of the peel still on for the tasty goodness). Chop them into smallish pieces and boil for 20 minutes. Drain, return to the pan and add a generous knob of butter.
Add a generous dusting of freshly grated nutmeg.
And a generous dollop of soured cream.
Season to taste with salt and pepper (though I tend to leave out the salt here so I can dish it up to baby DD tomorrow).
Mash away happily until it’s a consistency you like. I like to mash mine as smooth as they’ll go with a fairly open hand masher and the peely bits add texture and taste. If it’s really dry and stiff, you could add a bit of milk.
I like my mashed potatoes without lumps of potato (but not super-smooth either), and lovely and fluffy. My perfect mash hangs happily from a spoon like this:
Once it’s all mashed up, taste it and add more of anything above if you think it needs it and then add your yummy dinner. Tonight I marinated some lamb steaks before grilling them on the stove.
They were marinated in a mixture of mint sauce, my mum’s home-made plum jelly and balsamic vinegar. While making the kid’s supper earlier, I gently simmered these together for a couple of minutes to melt everything together and start to caramelise it a bit. I then covered the steaks with it and left them for a couple of hours. I threw them onto the very hot grill pan and grilled them for a couple of minutes on each side.
Add buttered green veg; tonight it’s spinach (I wilted mine rather than cook it properly by just plunging it into the boiling water from the mange tout and then draining it straight away) and lightly boiled mange tout. Make a super quick cheaty (but yummy) gravy by pouring a little bit of the vegetable cooking water into the grill pan, use a random utensil to scrape the yummy caramelised meaty marinade bits off the bottom of the pan and dissolve into the bubbling water. Add to your plate and…
Ta da!
(Though the eagle eyed people out there may notice that the pic was taken pre-gravy) …
A super easy, delicious and balanced dinner that takes all of 30 mins to prepare…
This kind of meal I can do!
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This one really made me want to bang my head off of a wall. There are so many things to critique, where to begin…
I guess I’ll start with the fact that the Indians only scored one run, despite the fact that they had a base runner in every inning. They were 0-12 with runners in scoring position and left 12 men stranded on base, which is pretty pathetic if you ask me. Particularly when they’re facing Freddy Garcia; his stuff didn’t seem necessarily spectacular and he had a 7.50 ERA against the Indians dating back to 2005 (prior to today, obviously). The only Indians without a hit today were Michael Brantley, Carlos Santana and Jack Hannahan; so they obviously had no problem getting hits off Garcia. Unfortunately, the hits stayed in the park and the Indians were never able to string any together to make a big inning.
As usual with recent blowout games (which anymore, 3-0 qualifies as a blowout), Manny Acta went to Frank Herrmann and Chad Durbin after Josh Tomlin (Tony Sipp got some work as well). Herrmann had a decent outing, but Durbin was terrible yet again. Not that it mattered; the Indians weren’t going to score enough runs anyway. It’s still starting to get embarrassing to watch Durbin surrender his standard 3+ runs late in a blowout. You knew what you were getting when you signed him prior to the season, as his career ERA is 5.11. Still, his 7.39 mark this season is pretty painful. There were several teams competing for his services this spring; you have to think they’re counting their lucky stars right now that he went to the Indians.
If Josh Tomlin had better defense behind him in the fifth inning, this game may not have gotten out of hand so quickly. Shin-Soo Choo, who is already struggling at the plate, misplayed Brett Gardner’s fly ball. Austin Kearns badly misjudged Alex Rodriguez’s fly ball; it was reminiscent of the time he misjudged the fly ball during the game I attended in Anaheim in early May.
The one bright spot of the day: Orlando Cabrera reached the 2,000 hit mark in the second inning (even though the ball he hit looked more like an error by Derek Jeter, than an actual single). I’ll take what I can get at this point – congrats to O Cab.
I’m not sure where the Indians go from here. Fortunately, the Tigers lost today as well so they maintain their tie for first place. They’ve looked so bad at the plate though, I’m starting to feel they’ll never be good again (I know that’s not true, but this is extremely discouraging). Acta spoke after today’s game about how they need to “tinker” with the lineup to get more success; I’m not sure a complete detonation of the lineup will help much at this point. There need to be some changes with the actual lineup’s participants before there will be any benefits. Otherwise, it’s going to be a very, very long, depressing series with Detroit.
Durbin should be released (or traded if possible), he has not done anything all year. Even when the tribe was winning he was struggling. Not really sure what the Indians saw in him. Same goes for Kearns. He had a decent beginning to the year last year but has struggled since. The addition of Hafner will help also but won’t be much of a difference if the rest of the lineup doesn’t start producing when it counts. I think the tribe should go back to the opening day lineup, not sure it will help but it seemed to have the most success so far
I whole heartily agree trade or release Durbin. I also agree on Kearns, why is Carlos still at the three
hole? As far as durbin and kearns we have triple AAA guys that can do that good. Its wasted money let it go!
I’m sorry i meant the four hole on carlos santana.
have we had a hit with less than 2 outs in 3 weeks?
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IUCN has the privilege of working with thousands of scientists from all over the world, passionate about nature and working tirelessly to protect it.
Here we profile some of the experts who are working to conserve the immense variety of life on our planet, covering ecosytems from forests to the oceans, mountain ranges to deserts.
Find out more about their work and about the projects they are involved in:
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A closer look at Baby Boomers.
Today, updated stats from Pew’s Internet and American Life Project stated an increase in social media use amongst all age groups— specifically in those age 50+.
Social networking use among internet users ages 50+ nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010. (more…)
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Since Spring practice began, Coach Sark has been evaluating players to find the best fit within the new schemes, and has also been making alterations to improve depth in key areas. With Luther Leonard now at receiver and working with the kickoff return team, and with Senio Kelemete now on the offensive line rather than the d-line, some of the position changes seem to be working out for the best. On Monday it was learned that Alvin Logan, who played signifcantly at wide receiver last year, has moved to safety…..a transition that will likely work out well to increase the depth in the secondary. The Tacoma News Tribune’s Blog gives a few more details of why they made the switch now. The Go Huskies Blog also does a thorough job of providing notes from practice….and they also put together a catchy Spring Football Teaser.
Along with the position changes that are evolving at practice, many are excited to see how the new offense will progress. As Bob Condotta reports in his latest practice notes installment, Coach Sarkisian is feeling good about his quarterback’s improvement throughout Spring Camp.
“It’s hard to put a gauge on exactly where you think a guy would be,” Coach Sark said of Locker. “I know this, from the midpoint of spring – practice 7, practice 8 – until now, practice 12, I know he has thrown quite a bit. He’s comfort level with the terminology, his comfort level with his progression, his comfort level when things are there to pull the ball down and run and finding that fine line there, his accuracy has gotten better. I just think his overall game has improved.”
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In the chaos of the last month I completely forgot to mention this: The awesome folks at Squidface and the Meddler have posted some interviews and, once again, come up with a super sharp design for the post. All the artists and musicians who are participating in the Blot project where interviewed, or interviewed each other. It is definitely worth a read.
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THE EDITOR, Sir:
I rarely respond to articles in the press, but found Din Duggan's on coconut water and entrepreneurship especially fascinating.
Having grown up in Jamaica,
A fascinating story of the entrepreneurial venture. I am an enthusiastic proponent of entrepreneurship in Jamaica. I was disappointed that you were able to cite the
That centre is transforming entrepreneurial dreams into real-life businesses and changing lives and outlooks for many.
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This post is difficult for me to write and inspired by my friends Lauren and Yael, who are two of the strongest women I know.
Learning
I learned an important lesson last night. I learned my emotional limits. I truly realized for the first time, too, that my primary responsibility now is to my son and keeping us both safe for his sake. This includes eating healthy, sleeping well, and setting emotional boundaries like I’m about to do.
I’ve always rooted for the underdog, cried with the depressed, hugged the anxious. In other words, I feel I am an empathic person. Sometimes I wonder if I absorb other people’s energy because it affects me so profoundly.
Worrying
Last night, I lay awake from 1:30 until 5 in the morning worrying about a friend in trouble. Then I slept for an hour and a half before starting my morning, still deep in worry. Of course after a night like that, I had to call out of work; I was physically sick to my stomach from lack of sleep and abundance of worry. Then I cried a lot, and I turned to my friend Lauren, who has helped countless people, for advice. I struggled with what to do to help versus how far to extend myself, possibly endangering my emotional, mental, and physical health.
Struggling
And then I got mad.
I got mad at myself for having taken so much on. I realized I do that all the time, and how drained it makes me feel. Sometimes it is uplifting to know that I had a positive influence on another person’s life. Sometimes I am able to help someone through their troubles, their depression or anxiety. But right now, it’s just too much.
I got mad at my troubled friend, irrationally mad. I did not ask for the burden of the words he texted me that scared the hell out of me. I was angry with him for not seeking the proper kind of help, for not doing what needs to be done. But then I realized that when we are in the dark, it is difficult for us to see what needs to be done. My anger weakened.
Stepping Back
Times like this, when it gets to be too much for me, I need to realize that it’s OK–in fact, it is in my own best interest and that of my family’s–for me to put up what my dear friend Yael refers to as my “forcefield” and decide what I choose to let inside that forcefield.
So that’s what’s happening, starting this very minute. I’m going to find a way to help others gently–and by that, I mean that I will be gentle to myself. There’s got to be a way to help others while not carrying the load myself, right? I want to shine a light, but not if it leaves me in the dark.
Sweetie, hugs for the hard. I learned the concept of Forcefield from Havi Brooks of TheFluentSelf.com. and I traveled to Oregon twice to study with her. It’s something that you grow like a muscle. Baby steps, and some of those steps will inevitably be steps backwards, back to safety, because you are absolutely right to protect yourself. So much love to you…
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Thank you so much for posting the link, Yael. I will check it out the minute I have a chance.
Well written. Perfect words. Very important. I think it’s critical to remember that if we don’t put ourselves first we can’t be of much use to others anyway, so it’s a weirdly curved circle, ya know?
Sending you loads of virtual hugs. I’m glad you put this to *paper* for yourself. For the record.
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((hugs)) my beautiful friend.
Yuz recently posted..To the postpartum depression moms suffering in silence as posted in Postpartum Progress
It’s a hard lesson to learn. I want to be there for everyone else. But, I’ve had to learn my limits, too. When something is too much and will take away from my family too much- I have to say no or walk away.
Shell recently posted..Crafts for the Uncrafty: Easy Button Craft
It is so hard for me to say no, but I’m learning. Thank you, Shell, for commenting!
I have friends that lean on me hard too, and when you know youre the only source of counseling someone gets, it can be overwhelming. Im sorry you had a difficult last 24 hours, and Im hoping you did some good self care today.
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I did. I took a long nap–something I NEVER do. Ever. And last night, I took a long bubble bath. Ahhh… Feeling much better now.
I am sending you huge hugs. I too struggle with taking on other’s pain. I am working on listening with love & empathy. I put on my old manager hat to see if the person just needs to be heard & validated. I gently suggest resources.
Jenny recently posted..Guest Post for Charity: Reflections on Motherhood
Suggesting resources is a great way to handle things. Thanks for that tip.
Yay yay yay! Good for you! It’s so important. It becomes easy to take on everyone else’s burdens and try to fix everyone’s problems and yet you CAN’T. You just CAN’T do it. I know because I’ve tried. I’ve tried to be everywhere for everyone at once and you just can’t. Once you accept that it makes life so much easier. You get back to doing what you can and taking care of yourself too. So proud of you for taking care of yourself!
Katherine @ Postpartum Progress recently posted..On Responding to Stigma and Ignorance
Thanks, Katherine. It is a struggle, but I’m learning. :)
It is so hard to step back when you know a friend is in trouble. I had to stop, once, because it was really seriously bringing me down and effecting my life. It is not easy. I’m glad you are going to be putting yourself first :)
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A stunning report written by the late Eugene Mallove details the efforts of professors, researchers, and even the former President of MIT to squash cold fusion at all costs. If you have any doubt that Pons and Fleischmann had enemies desperately trying to discredit them, this article will erase it!....
A funeral party or "Wake for Cold Fusion" was held by the Plasma Fusion Center, before their replication test of Pons and Fleischmann's setup was even complete. They held another such party afterwards..
“Words to Eat”
MIT Professor Ronald George Ballinger may hold the all time record for making a foolish statement against cold fusion. He wrote in 1991: “It would not matter to me if a thousand other investigations were to subsequently perform experiments that see excess heat. These results may all be correct, but it would be an insult to these investigators to connect them with Pons and Fleischmann.”
Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the article is how Ronald R. Parker and Ronald G. Ballinger had a phone call with Nick Tate of the Boston Herald
In summary, Mallove's article paints a damning picture of MIT scientists and professors hell-bent on discrediting cold fusion. Out of desperation to protect hot fusion research, they went so far as to tell blatant lies, alter data, hurl personal insults, conduct celebrations of the "death" of cold fusion, and organize journalists to write hit pieces to try and dismiss Pons and Fleischmann's work in the public eye. Then the leadership of MIT turned away and ignored the misconduct and potentially criminal behavior, even when they were specifically alerted to it. Years later, these same individuals (working in other positions with the DOE and DOD) continued to promote the idea that cold fusion was "garbage."
If you want to know the TRUTH about why it has taken twenty plus years for a commercial cold fusion technology to be developed, you should read this article. It is a tragedy beyond measure that an institution like MIT would allow such inappropriate behavior. Everyone involved has blood on their hands from all the people on this planet that have died due to the suppression of this technology. Literally, due to their suppression of cold fusion, children have needlessly starved, millions have suffered dehydration due to a lack of clean water, the environment has been trashed, and the global economy has been almost destroyed.
If the suppression of cold fusion by MIT had never happened, we might not even have an energy crisis today! Congress.
I would really like to say that this shocks me but I've been aware of it for quite some time and sadly it is but one of hundreds of cases of scientific 'terrorism'.
And I call it terrorism because the treatment many alternative theorists have received over the years has left many of them downright terrified to even open their mouths any more, and that was and is the whole point of it.
The modern scientific establishment is a scientific dictatorship plain and simple.
Look no further than people like Albert Einstein and Hans Alfven for evidence as they are both recognized and respected for their 'mainstream' theories but both have been viciously attacked and dismissed as "insane" or "quacky" when they challenged their own theories later on or expanded on them.
When you aren't even allowed to challenge your own theories without terms like 'fringe' or 'pseudo-science' being tossed at you there is something wrong with the system.
The #1 problem with "science" today is that mathematics has become more than just a tool but has become the 'master' of science.
You have to cry when you have scientific 'celebrities' who are frequently quoted for their statement that in the pursuit of science - the understanding of physical reality - the best way to achieve results is to ignore physical reality completely and start with a mathematical construct.
Scientists are no longer even seeking to understand what physical reality is and have instead sought to create theories based on their own perceptions of physical reality, facilitated by a century + of mathematicians calling themselves scientists creating mathematical constructs with reality being an ad-hoc afterthought.
And the physical reality of things like cold fusion or astrophysical plasma electrodynamic processes can be ignored because they are either difficult to model mathematically or challenge established beliefs too much.
Or they challenge large establishments receiving billions in government and private sector funding every year.
No matter what the conclusion is the same - under the current scientific dictatorship real science is not encouraged unless it is profitable.
In cases like cold fusion it would have to be more profitable than the multi-billion dollar 'hot' fusion industry.
Though even other types of 'hot' fusion such as The Focus Fusion Society's aneutronic(no radiation) fusion using a Dense Plasma Focus(DPF) device which shows far more promise than the standard nuetronic fusion in every way but receives a tiny fraction of the funding is ignored and dismissed unprofessionally by the billion dollar neutronic fusion industry and the scientific establishment.
It's no surprise that I am equally as scientific as I am political when both sectors of the "mainstream" society today are just about as equally corrupted, by many of the same forces.
Thanks for posting this, I was well aware of the actions against cold fusion but had never heard they went so far as to have 'wake' parties over it. Not that it surprises me though.
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I have terrible seasonal allergies. They are so bad, I have to receive weekly shots. Unfortunately, my kids started showing signs that they have seasonal allergies last year. My daughter gets really hoarse and almost loses her voice and my son is constantly sniffling. I was just starting to research the different children's allergy medication options when I was given the opportunity to try children's Claritin.
I have seen the commercials, so I knew that Claritin is the #1 Pediatrician-recommended non-drowsy allergy brand on the market. I was also attracted to the claims that it provides allergy relief for up to 24 hours (the less pills my kids have to take, the better). I was also pleased that it came in a grape flavor.
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My daughter has been sniffling and sneezing quite a bit lately so I was looking forward to trying this product. We have used antihistamines with the kids in the past and, while it works, it makes them so tired. I gave Bella one of the chewable Claritin tablets and within the hour she was no longer sniffling! She had no reaction to the taste of the tablet (no reaction is much better than a disgusted reaction) so I must assume that the taste was tolerable. Not only did it work great, but she was bright and alert all day! My son's allergies have not been acting up lately, but I will be sure to try this product on him if/when his start up again.
Coupon Giveaway: I was given some $3 off coupons which can be used to purchase Children's Claritin (4 oz or 10 count or larger). I would love to share these with my readers. So, the first 5 readers who leave a comments telling me why they need Children's Claritin will be mailed a $3 off coupon! Please make sure to provide your email so I can get your address (US only please).
As a BzzAgent, I received a sample of Claritin as well as the coupons as part of the Children's Claritin BzzCampaign.
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Kanye West is in talks with American Idol producers to become a judge on the TV talent show.
It has been reported that Kim Kardashian’s new beau is the latest name to be thrown into the mix as a possible replacement for either Steve Tyler or Jennifer Lopez, following Mariah Carey’s appointment as the newest Idol judge.
However, West is said to be ambivalent about accepting the position and if he did, he would demand a salary exceeding Mariah’s $18m pay package, or at the very least would expect that to be matched. (Give me patience).
If Kanye does join the panel, he will be taking his seat alongside Mariah and possibly fellow rapper Nicki Minaj, who is believed to be close to negotiating a deal with the show’s producers.
Randy Jackson, the only original judge on the panel, will be moving to a mentor role this season and it has been widely speculated that Idol will have four judges this season, with Alanis Morrisette, Nick Jonas, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Enrique Iglesias all in the running for a judging role.
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THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson Walker
I am always amazed and very happy when a new novelist comes along and hits it out of the park. A writer shows up with a book that makes critics almost flustered with their praise. This kind of reaction is memorable, and I am gratified to know that I (sometimes) agree with them.
THE AGE OF MIRACLES by Karen Thompson Walker is a book that is beautifully written and not your typical coming of age story. Julia, age 11, is living with her parents in southern California. She is a quiet girl, more of an observer than a participant, and shy around her peers. But this is not just about Julia growing up in suburbia, it is also about the end of the world. You read that correctly, the world is supposedly coming to an end.
The earth’s rotation has slowed down, days are stretching, and gravity has been altered. Things you take for granted, like birds flying, are no longer what you expect. The lives of the world’s population is changing, but we are focused on Julia and her community, her family and school.
Julia basically has no friends and no one to confide in. She sees there is trouble with her parents, she sees her neighbors become not the people she has known all her life and she starts to see herself with possibilities. She is a preteen with a crush on a boy and all of this seems pretty normal.She is definitely a girl more mature than her years and I think that comes from being a watcher. By standing on the outside and looking in, her voice is older than her peers. But there is “the slowing” and the sun is shining for many days in a row. In all of this drama, Julia is a character that is authentic and true.
If you are reading this and thinking that the end of the world is not your cup of tea, think again. Walker is a storyteller with an original story to tell. She does a brilliant job of creating characters that you know and circumstances that are unreal and yet very real. The strength of this book is that the author has given us people we care about in a plot that is compelling and addicting.
What I am currently reading: DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay. I am almost finished and I confess I am totally sucked into this story.
Sounds like a winner. Was it aimed at the teen audience or general readers?
Thanks for the reviews! I will look for these.
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Development of Multi-Modal Finger Vein and Fingerprint Device
From Fujitsu’s Palm Secure and Sony’s biometric finger scanner to Toppan’s Biometric and Dynamic Authentication contact IC, here comes yet another new approach in the ever competitive credit and personal authentication market where by Sagem Sécurité and Hitachi will unveil the first ever multi-modal finger vein and fingerprint device at Biometrics 2009 in London, Finger VP. The newly developed device is combining Hitachi’s Finger Vein Imaging (VeinID) technology capable of detecting the pattern of blood vessels under the skin plus Sagem’s fingerprint identification technology by the name of Morpho. This is the first device so far with the capability of simultaneously capturing and processing two sets of biometric data. The new device can be used either for one-to-one or one-to-many verification.
The newly developed device Finger VP has been designed to be used either standalone device or it can be integrated into a various type of end-user devices such as access control terminals, ATM, mobile device for identity checks as well as secure payment.
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Tree House Defense
In the simple and kid friendly Tree House Defense, created by Robert Zubek and Bill Robinson for Three Rings' Whirled, protect your tree house from bullies, skateboarders, skunks, and other assorted neighborhood menaces.
Place various objects like trash cans, sandboxes, and trees on the board to protect your flag. Each defense station comes with a kid, armed with weapons like paper airplanes, water balloons, and boomerangs. Each station has a point system for range, damage and delay, with different costs.
We're sorry, but this game is no longer available on the Whirled site.
Arrange these items in maze like patterns to get enough hits on your opponents before they reach your side. Each time you defeat enemies you get money to buy more objects. You continue placing objects on the board as the bullies get tougher. Your goal is to last as long as possible, and keep everyone away from your flag. You have four environments to pick from: forest, beach, winter, and Halloween, and each environment has a couple of unique assets to play with besides the standard ones on every board.
Analysis: If you find that some of the elaborate tower defense games are bit too eye glazing and forbidding to get into, then this cute and simple game is a great place to start. So, it's probably not for the seasoned tower defense veteran.
I liked the simple relatable idea of keeping the bullies at bay. The animations were cute, very Saturday morning cartoon-style. I especially liked the extras in each environment, like the Yeti and the huffing Jack-o-lantern. The gameplay feels a little slow at times, although I like that you can speed things up a bit by forcing out the next enemy on the board. I would have liked a fast forward feature. The other thing that bothered me a bit was that they used a flag as the home base instead of the tree house itself. On the plus side, there is a two player mode, and also some mention about making custom levels yourself in the future. Fight off the bullies in Tree House Defense!
FYI: the art was done by Bill Robinson, the programming by Robert Zubek, and the design was a collaboration between the two.
Thanks, MDB. I've updated the review.
Is it just me or is it taking a long time to load? Running Firefox 3.
This is a broken game without the ability to erase things. Can you really not do that? Or am I just an idiot?
But so far, it's a cool idea, executed decently. But that cool idea only lasts about 10 minutes until you realize you've already played the WHOLE game. Other games throw new stuff at you, but those 6 (or so) weapons and the 5 (or so) enemies really don't offer much.
The disability to delete objects renders the game obsolete, in my opinion.
I was kind of annoyed when I placed something wrong and had to restart. Not only that, but there isn't really a restart button (as far as I can tell), so you have to either reload the game or hasten your death in order to try again. Also, I know that upgrades can get excessively complex, but some simple ones might be nice. Something simple and linear, like the upgrades in Desktop Tower Defense, might be nice since the enemies get harder to kill in later levels. All in all a cute little game, but could use just a little bit more to be a winner. A medium/low graphics mode so it doesn't start to fritz out when I have forty snowmen?
Hi everyone,
Thanks for trying our game! It's still very much in beta, not a final version, so there are still a few balancing issues and technical bugs to fix. Thanks for the feedback! :)
If loading is taking a long time, try the latest version of Flash on IE7 (Windows) or Safari (Mac).
The game does take a long time to load. I tried using Internet Explorer to see if it worked any faster and couldnt get the game to load at all.
Yeah, I played this back when Corpse Craft was put up here and I tried out Whirled.
The biggest, most glaring issue, ever, concerning this game, is lag! MASSIVE lag! It makes the game really unenjoyable. Graphics are nice, of course, but are all those star particles necessary?
I can't seem to load this in Firefox. I turned off the NoScript for it but it's still saying I need to download Flash 9 even though I already have it.
This was working for me quite smoothly last week with Firefox 3, but today it's puttering out. Sorry guys, hopefully it will be working better later.
I was really addicted to this game with OOO rolled it out. The lack of a Destroy/Sell option drove me to tossing it out the window. I'll have to go back and play it again now that I've seen it here; see how much has changed since I was on Whirled about 3 months ago.
The lag, however, is almost becoming a trademark in all of their invention, releases, and updates. Being an avid Puzzle Pirates player, I'm still rather awed at 3 Rings for somehow taking away my ability to *only* play casual games.
This whole Whirled site just doesnt load for me - just sits on a black screen with a 'connecting to game server' box on it :(
Can it really be true that the box is identical to the trashcan except the box is more expensive *and* reloads more slowly? So that it is strictly irrational to ever use the box (unless you're trying to lose; only, there are easier ways to lose)? Or is it a way of writing in a hard mode? "Game to easy? try using the box!"
So I had nearly a perfect field, full of only trees and a few rocks, and with every single square used for maximum space. Not a single thing besides the bird made it very far, but it's impossible to stop the birds.
That's really REALLY annoying, and another reason why this game is simply not very good yet.
Has the game been removed from the website? When I click on either the link or the picture of the game on the right, a big black screen where the game is played states in the middle "That item could not be located." i'm using safari...
[Edit: Thanks for pointing this out. The game is no longer available on the Whirled site. I will update the review accordingly. -Jay]
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Eternal Red
There is a door. They come through that door: vile, twisted abominations, their demented forms the stuff that monsters have nightmares about. Hordes of the disfigured beasts pour through in endless waves. And that's all perfectly fine, for as hideous as these things are, they can't hurt me. They are more than welcome to share this cold, desolate place with me, free to roam beneath the ever-present pale moon. That's not the problem.
No, it's the second door, and these nightmares' unceasing attempts to get through it that I have a problem with. That just won't do.
Eternal Red is, by its own admission, a cross between a platform arena style shooter and a real-time strategic defense game. No story, no dialogue, just you and the seemingly non-stop litany of enemies appearing from one door that try to make it to the second.
To prevent this, as the game's cross-genre would imply, you must utilize a combination of personal weapons and floor traps to cut your foes down before too many of them make it to the second door. With each slain creature and each successfully survived wave you earn more money, allowing you to build traps, buy weapons, or upgrade existing equipment. You'll be doing quite a bit of all of it, too, as it doesn't take long for your traps and weapons to grow into obsolescence.
Every ten waves you will come up against a boss. These bosses are larger and slower than the typical enemy, but they come with a ton of hit points and reduce your door's counter by a significant amount if they manage to make it through.
Analysis: Eternal Red sucks you in. To give you an idea on just how engrossing of an experience this game can be, when I first sat down to play it, my intent was to do so only for five minutes to get a feel for what the game was trying to do and how well it did it. An hour later I had to force myself away from the game so I could make it to work on time, wait for my coworker to leave, and start playing all over again.
While I'm not the world's biggest fan of either strategic defense games or platform shooters, Eternal Red just seems to work so well that it quickly becomes a difficult game to put down. Instantly it grabs you with its simple yet dark and foreboding artistry: everything save the moon in the backdrop is done in black shapes outlined with red, and these wonderfully morose visuals are backed up with a macabre kind of techno soundtrack that manages to combine the oppressive mood of the setting with the intensity of the action.
And that action is quite awesome. The game starts off suitably slow, giving you time to acclimate yourself to the decently ergonomic interface and smooth controls. Soon enough, things can ramp up to a frenzied pace as you dash back and forth to make sure your floor traps are adequate to take out the ground troops while dispatching flying enemies with bullets leaping from the muzzle of your gun.
As with many hybridized games, perhaps the greatest risk Eternal Red runs is falling short in the eyes of fans of the parent genres from which it was inspired. Strategic defense fans will likely be disappointed with the rather poor selection of available traps and upgrades, while fans of platform shooters may think that there aren't enough guns available, or the fact that the main character doesn't take damage may feel a little too much like cheating. The game is also woefully lacking in a reward system, even though the sheer variety of bad guys will keep you interested for some time. And while the lack of story allows you to focus on the gameplay, I don't think a sequel can be made without having at least a cursory explanation as to what's going on.
Eternal Red may lack the depth of either of its parent genres, it manages to find a pretty solid balance between the two, making it a brilliant little diversion to pass the time with.
Here is a word of warning: sentry guns are your friend. I didn't realize at first that they were even upgradeable, and unfortunately, as soon as I discovered that, out came the flying creatures. The ones who are impervious to acid and spikes. Aargh!
While I agree that Sentry guns are great, I have seen at least spikes do some damage to flying creatures because of how they bob up and down as they fly along. :D
I didn't realize that there even was sentry guns until well after the first flying one.
I'm at level 37 now, I have the shotgun, 2 spikes, 1 acid, 2 machine gun sentries, 1 acid sentry, and 1 grenade sentry.
This game is fun.
Once your top floor is completely fitted with 10/10/10-upgraded machinegun sentries, it becomes very simple. This is more like Tower Defense for people, who don't want to think much - but just witness mindless slaughter.
That being said, I sorta like it.
stage 60. still no end.
have 5+ 10/10/10 weapons and trying to get to the end with speed hack.
The game "ends" at level 70. You can continue to play, but there's no more bosses and it lags up a lot around level 90 when there's a million enemies and bullets flying around.
Shotgun is easily the best weapon if you can click fast enough.
I got to level 70, with four machine guns and one grenade launcher all maxed out. My first floor time was a slow tile, maxed out. Not even the level 70 boss could get past that. Most creatures were wiped out as soon as they appeared!
Then I got the option to start on a new map or continue fighting
I was bored of the game by then, so I'm going to see how long it takes to lose.
Wow, love the idea of combining shooter with TD. The only thing I feel is missing is, when you upgrade, a visible change in the weapons/grounds. But that's getting kind of nitpicky.
Good game, currently on lvl34 with top level of machine gun and nade turrets. decided acid is useless. spikes on floor.
any idea what the cashgun does?
Meh. Towering Forever tried to combine them too, and honestly they just seem more tedious to me than either a defense or a platformer game. Possibly it's because I associate the platformer bit with exploring large maps, running and jumping around rather than shooting at basically the same place and the same enemies over and over.
Nicely made for what it is, though.
This game froze after level 25. . . Twice.
I was playing on hardcore on the first stage both times.
Not exactly a walkthrough, but helpful.
Ok, the first map, which is the three floored with sentries and panels (not sure that it makes a difference what map it is), has about 74 levels till you beat the game.
The cash gun is like the machine gun turret, but it gives you money when it hits a monster, depending on the amount of upgrades to damage. 10 upgrades = 10 dollars per hit.
And a slow panel as the first panel with an acid sentry above and a machine gun behind it will decimate the monsters.
The final thing is: the sooner you kill an enemy (measured by distance, not time, hence the slow panel in the front), the more cash you get.
Alright, I thought this was a blast. Hah, get it, Blast?
Anyways, I played until... now. I am tired of shooting things myself, and I am just letting the creatures trickle their way through everything and taking away my "lives". I am sitting on level 105, $350,000+ in current cash, and just over 3000 kills. Does anyone know if this game ever like, ENDS ends? And does anything hurt the flyers besides guns?
This game is too easy and there isn't a lot of variety, but I like it anyway.
This combines two genres that lose accessibility and friendliness with each layer of complexity, so it's kind of nice to see a game combining the two use a degree of simplicity in each one.
The simplicity might be taking it too far, but games are supposed to be FUN, and the infuriatingly difficult TD games, while challenging and offering depth of gameplay, sometimes seem to be more challenging than fun.
Eternal Red presents us with most of the advantages we wish we had in those games. You don't have to deal with a lot of tedious tower-matching, you don't have to prepare for a bazillion different special abilities in each wave of creeps, money starts coming in quick so you don't have to micromanage funds just to scrape enough together to hold off the next wave, and you can actually point and click on the creeps instead of just wringing your hands while the creeps who get past your defenses get away.
This of course makes it too easy, but maybe it's better that way.
I've just told you all the things it's NOT, but you know what it IS? It's pure mass-murdering FUN. An epic "Slaughterfest '08" wrapped up in a truly awesome artistic style, a pleasing visual aesthetic and gunning down creeps by the buckets.
Don't get me wrong, I love complex, intricate, puzzle-like defense games, and intelligent tactical platform shooters. But I like games like this to unwind in between them.
there is a bug in the game that freezes gameplay. The flying enemies can somehow get stuck on the other side of the wall. you cant kill them and the enemy waves will no longer advance while its alive so your game is frozen. I've restarted but it happens every time.
I'm well annoyed. I was on level 90 something and then I accidentally clicked on one of those ads at the bottom of the game window, and it made me lose it all!
p.s. The game is wicked - simplicity+tons of money= FUN
Map with no Sentry
So, how do you beat this? It's all about the gun baby! You're going to have to be one shooting little weird guy. I started out with the shotgun right out of the gate, and one spike trap and didn't even put a slow pad down until around level 5.
Keep the gun upgraded and let the floor traps follow behind. Way behind at first. If you can't kill the flying guys with your gun by the time they appear you are done for.
Even with this, do not expect to make level 70 with all your "lives" in tact. The best I've done is down 20 lives and that's on casual.
Seems tough, but it's the best challenge this game offers imo.
with the shotty maxed out and a full row of sentries you are unbeatable
It's wicked fun even if i only started, it's like killing!!!! I have a shotgun, one machine gun, and spikes and i still goin' on.... oh yeah, + handgun, lol
I haven't been able to get the game to work in weeks. First it wouldn't load. Now it loads but when I click "Play" nothing happens. All the other buttons work (like settings, instructions, etc.). Is anyone else having this problem?
I found this game very addictive, I only wanted to play for about 10 minutes then 2 hrs pass and I'm sitting there scream DIE!
I found that having your top row all slowdow maxed. My sentrys on top row were 1 machine gun 1 grenade and 3 cash guns all maxed.
Can anyone help me? I can't seem to be able to upgrade after the first one, all that appears is the gun cursor and all it does is shoot when I try to upgrade a panel or gun. I'm afraid I'm not going to make it through the game with only a level 1 machine gun sentry and a level 1 shotty. next creature untill the first creature dies or walks out of range via dropping to second creature untill the first creature dies or walks out of range via dropping :)
by using these two tips above, i have successfully completed (lv1, casual) all 70 levels with all lives intact
im at lvl 130 i have 6 machine gun sentries,
3 grenade sentries, 4 acid sentries, 3 cash sentries (what s better about them?), machine gun, shotgun, handgun, and a pattern of slow, acid, then spike floors all maxed out with over 1.5 mil cash. >:P
Slow Traps with 10 duration keep the enemy moving at what ever slow speed you have for the next entire floor panel to follow. Acid works the same way, 10 duration means the enemy will suffer poison damage for the entire next floor panel. So putting 2 slow or 2 acid in a row is a bad idea. Spikes continue to confuse me, which does more damage; spikes or acid?
Next is the guns:
Money gun pays you $1 per point of damage in it per bullet that hits the enemy. So 10 points in Money Gun damage means every bullet to hit an enemy will pay you $10. This money however only goes toward your spending cash and not your score. The ONLY time the Cash Gun helps your score is if it shoots a BIG (or BOSS) type creature.
The acid gun continues to confuse me, does the acid gun do initial damage, or does it simply act just like a acid floor panel by starting a ticking damage over time?
Grenades are extremely effective in doing area of effect damage to ground units, however, i have not been able to figure out if they hurt fliers.
Pretty easy up to a point. If you don't buy anything else, you can fully upgrade a shotgun by level 30-35. I played twice and both times not a single creature got past even the first floor that way. Although the first time I played the reason I didn't buy anything else was because I had no idea you could, but it worked
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Update 8 Jan:
Reports state that both the Blue Jays and Angels have taken the lead in the sweepstakes with offers approximating $23,000,000. If true, it would leave all other offers rumoured in the dust and would make Aroldis decide between the 2, assuming no other team comes up with a better offer before one is agreed to.
Update 7 Jan:
It was brought to my attention that the Jays may actually be leading the race for Chapman due to 3 very important reasons.
1 – Canada has friendly relations with Cuba, whereas the United States do not. If Aroldis values his family and wants to bring them to North America, Canada is the easier country to do it with, obviously.
2 – Alex Anthopoulos returns from his honeymoon tomorrow, the exact day Aroldis hinted a deal could be completed and announced – pending physical of course, unless it was already done during the private scouting session.
3 – The Jays were the ONLY team to ask for and receive a private session which proves 2 things: Aroldis and his agent are willing to sign with Toronto, and the Jays proved their serious interest and presumably let Aroldis know he was their #1 priority.
The Aroldis Chapman sweepstakes have made me realize one major point about the Blue Jays: They lack International presence on their roster despite spending lots of money in the Dominican and in Venezuela. I realized this when it was mentioned that the presence of Kendry Morales on the Angels was a lure for Aroldis to sign there instead of going elsewhere. It also reminded me that Hedo Turkogulu signed with the Raptors specifically because the Turkish community was so strong in numbers within Toronto, while passing up more money from other teams.
The current 40-man roster for the Jays holds only 5 International players:
- Reidier Gonzalez – Cuba
- Jose Bautista – Dominican Republic
- Luis Perez – Dominican Republic
- Edwin Encarnacion – Dominican Republic
- Alex Gonzalez - Venzuela
The remainder are all from the United States or Canada. That makes the International presence on the Jays 12.5% on the 40-man roster. For a quick comparison, the Red Sox currently have 12 International players for a 30% total. Does this make them the better team just because they have International presence? No, it’s obviously not that simple. But, if a Japanese player like Yu Darvish was looking to sign with an MLB club, would he be more likely to accept a deal to the Red Sox who have 3 prominent Japanese players, or the Jays who have none? This is exactly the reason why Alex should be willing to overpay slightly in order to get someone like Chapman on board, it sets the table for future signings and attracts other International players to follow suit.
I’ll take the lack of International presence one step further. Only 2 of the top 10 Jays prospects listed by Baseball America were International players – SP Henderson Alvarez (Venezuela) and C Carlos Perez (Venezuela). Both of these players are a direct result of the Blue Jays spending the money needed within Venezuela to scout players appropriately. Shouldn’t they be doing the same thing elsewhere? What about Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and most obviously – the Dominican Republic?
Alex obviously had this on his mind when he expanded the scouting capacity of the Blue Jays and I definitely hope it bears fruit, because the Jays can definitely use a lot more International talent on their roster. However, as it stands today, the best opportunity for the Jays to begin the process of adding International presence on the roster starts with signing Aroldis Chapman. Once that’s done, the Jays need to make sure that they spend the money on scouting Aroldis type players early in order to sign them before they display their full potential.
Here’s to hoping the Jays can pull this one off!
Topics: Aroldis Chapman, Edwin Encarnacion, Jose Bautista, Luis Perez, Reidier Gonzalez
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I got this shirt for Jazzie last year. When I saw it, I just thought it was so appropriate for her. However, last year she would not wear it. She thought it was "too embarrassing", because it was too big. This year on the other hand, it fits her nicely and when Jazzie saw it in her closet earlier today, she wanted to wear it.
I talked a little bit to Jazzie about why I thought this shirt was so perfect for her. When I first found out that Jazzie was deaf, I didn't think she would ever talk. Then, after she received her cochlear implants, I wasn't sure how well she was going to talk.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Jazzie would end up speaking so clearly that people don't even realize she is deaf upon meeting her.
I hope that Jazzie understands how proud I am of her. This shirt may just be a cute/funny shirt to her, but when I see her wearing it I am filled with pride and amazement at how much she has accomplished.
I love it! So perfect!
Posted by: Briana's Mom | Friday, July 02, 2010 at 07:54 PM
what a great shirt, and what an amazing story behind it!
Posted by: Rhonda | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 08:34 PM
That is a perfect shirt for her! Great find I am happy to hear that she will wear it now.
Posted by: Cora | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 02:12 PM
I just got goosebumps reading this. Jazzie is amazing in all that she has accomplished in such a short time. Her future is very bright :)
Go Jazzie!
Posted by: Christina | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 02:01 PM
Awesome! :)
Posted by: Megan | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Perfect!
Jazzie, you are an inspiration to so many of us! Hope you're having a great summer!!
Posted by: Catherine | Thursday, July 01, 2010 at 12:11 AM
What a wonderful "inside joke" that is!! Amazing Jazzie:)
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July/August 2003
Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II)
Double Moon the late Lester Bowie's brother, trombonist Joseph Bowie. Bourelly, an exceptional guitar player who has an impressive recording history of more than 20 years, doesn't waste any of the talent he has amassed on Trance-Atlantic.
A sequel to 2001's Boom-Bop, this new CD is funk and jazz-rock stretched to their natural limits. If it isn't Bourelly's boastful playing that consumes you, then the vocals provided by Abdourahmane Diop will. Diop, the son of a griot (storyteller) from Senegal has plenty to say on songs that embrace and seek tradition and culture like "Cool Papa N'Diaye" and "Fatima." But complex funk-rock with world rhythms is what you get mostly here, and on songs like "The Spirit Wheel," the strong rhythms powered by Bourelly's caustic guitar playing takes over completely. Jean-Paul and his brother Carl are all about conjuring their music at times, too, and Bourelly is capable of invoking the Midwestern electric blues of Chuck Berry and the progressive rhythm and blues of Jimi Hendrix. "Blowin' Omni," a tune that recalls some of Miles Davis' fast-paced fusion on albums like The Man With the Horn, is superb.
Strangely, Trance-Atlantic isn't a guitar recording; the album's fine horn players take it over. Bourelly's hard edges never cease, but there is no need for an apology even though this music can wear on you some. But on "Harmofunkalodica" Bourelly proves again and again that he deserves the space to stretch out behind any and all capable beats. His playing is clean and crisp; his band only makes him sound mightier.
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Australia was a new country and maintained a ‘White Australia Policy’. This policy, amongst others, effectively allowed for the preference of British migrants over all others through the first decades of the 20th century.
After the attack and threat of invasion by the Japanese, and a new awareness of Australia’s vulnerability, the Australian government began the ‘Populate or Perish’ policy. Under this assisted migration scheme, citizens from all Commonwealth countries were recruited to immigrate to Australia. This was known colloquially as the ‘Ten Pound Pom’ scheme.
Later, the scheme was extended to immigrants from northern European countries with the belief that they would more easily assimilate with the Australian community. After World War Two, Australia also welcomed refugees from war-torn Europe who were known as ‘Displaced Persons’.
The second wave of post-war immigration arrived in the 1950s and 1960s. These included migrants from Italy, Greece, Malta, Croatia and Turkey.
Unfortunately many of the British settlers saw the newcomers as foreigners. The term ‘wogs’ amongst others, was used frequently.
The native peoples or aboriginals who had been treated harshly and imprisoned in the early years of settlement, had more hardship placed upon them. ‘Half-caste’ Aboriginal children - those of mixed breeding -were forcibly removed from their parents and institutionalised. The problems associated with these actions are still prevalent in today’s society. These persons are known as the ‘Stolen Generation’.
Child migration schemes for underprivileged British children in Canada, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Australia promised a better life, and parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children. These children as well as orphans and indigenous children were badly treated and abused, and are known as the ‘Forgotten Australians.’
In my first two novels, I have used this history as a backdrop for my stories. Growing up in ‘white’ Australia as children/young people of immigrant parents, my characters struggle to find their place and acceptance in a highly prejudiced society. In an era of so-called progress, being torn between two cultures was both unsettling and problematic.
‘Heart’s Promise’ begins in the mid 1970’s and ‘Where The Heart Is’ continues to the early 1980’s. They are two individual stories of emotional struggle, loss, acceptance and love.
Set in my hometown, I have added a little local history to help the reader get the feel of small town life.
Once a quiet rural area, the town is on the verge of change. The arrival of a large American mining company is the beginning of the region’s transformation. But that’s another story…
Thanks for a really interesting post on Australian history. Concise and eye-opening!
Thank you :)
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No news (is good news) from Archie. We get him back tomorrow. Here is a picture of him on the doorstep on Monday morning, about to experience British education. "Smart casual", they said. That's his anxious mother, behind.
Yesterday evening when I switched on the kitchen light, the bulb fell from the socket. It didn’t shatter, and for half an hour or so I felt happy about that. Then I began to wonder whether I will be able to get the metal bit out of the holder in order to replace it. I’ll postpone getting the steps out and going up to have a look, until I’ve had my porridge. Life is frot with problems.
Knitting
Yesterday I was looking at a knitting magazine in my bath, as is my wont, and had a Thot. What if I abandoned Effortless and Vitamin D alike, and used that madelinetosh yarn to knit Roberta Rosenfeld’s very simple and very clever sweater, No. 12 in the Winter 11-12 VK?
(If you go to Ravelry and search on “Roberta Rosenfeld” you won’t find it, but “drape-front sweater” will get it. It took me a while to work that out. You probably have the magazine anyway.)
I am worried about the gauge for the Effortless. It is written for madelinetosh DK, remember, but she wants me to use 5.5mm needles and get a gauge of 19 stitches to 4”. I’m knitting the v-neck vest on 4mm and getting 20-22 stitches to 4” as the ballband says. I don’t like knitting with big needles – will I be happy with 5.5? And I like the fabric I’m getting – do I want it looser?
Vitamin D is written for sport-weight yarn. Not an insuperable difficulty, of course.
But VK No. 12, written for alpaca, wants 5 stitches to the inch. I think I could achieve that. Try a swatch on 4.5 mm maybe. I think madelinetosh has a native droopiness which would go well in an alpaca pattern. The pattern sounds straightforward, and also sounds as if it could be tweaked if necessary to accommodate the gauge I was actually getting. The Ravelers who have knit it are very happy with it, and look nice wearing it. That is not always the case.
The v-neck vest got on well yesterday. Lying about, waiting to be picked up and worked on, it now looks like a sweater, and a rather nice one. I remember when Thomas-the-Elder’s Brownstone (madelinetosh scarlet, late last year) began to look like that.
Knit Now
Shandy, I am ashamed not to have thanked you. Three people sent me copies. I was very touched, and am very grateful. It is an interesting idea for a magazine (small knits only). I don’t think I want to go on with it but I am glad to have seen it, and will have another very thorough look before committing myself on the snood front.
For the metal bit still stuck in the light socket? Use a potato! It won't conduct electricity well and you won't be injured by any glass that might be left. You just stuff the potato into the opening until it "catches" on the metal of the lightbulb. You then just turn the potato until the lightbulb remnants come out. I know it sounds pretty silly, but it's a tried and true method.
I concur with Anonymous' suggestion to use a potato to remove the metal bit from the socket. It seems to be the classic method!
I concur with Anonymous' suggestion to use a potato to remove the metal bit from the socket. It seems to be the classic method!
Jean, you may well get your 19 st to 4" with a 4.5mm
needle, if you're getting 20 st to 4" with a 4mm.
Potato OR needle-nose pliers, BUT, turn the power off first (of course)
(I've heard carrot instead of potato...)
Good gracious - Archie looks so tall! I must have seriously misjudged his age, or his mom is quite petite...
The whole idea of boarding school is foreign to us in California - I am looking forward to his report after a week.
Beverly near Yosemite CA
I just finished a dozen extra-large eggs, and every one was double yoked.
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Greetings from Music City! And thank you for visiting the blog. So many new things have happened to me in the past couple of months, that I figured it was appropriate to venture into two more new things these past couple of days — Twitter and the blogosphere.
I want to begin by saying that while I hope this blog will become a regular in your Websites I Have to Visit Often rotation, I will admit to you that I have no idea exactly what this blog will become. Blogging is something I’ve thought about doing for a long time…not because I think I have tremendous insight that I simply must share with the “world,” but rather I really enjoy writing and do not do it as often as I’d like. So, I think this blog will satisfy my craving to write. What will it do for you? I have no idea, and I’m excited about that. It would be very easy to say this blog will be where you can go to read strictly about the Nashville Sounds, the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate for whom I began working last month. Or it could be a blog specifically about baseball broadcasting. Or about the Pacific Coast League and the cities and stadiums the Sounds travel to this season. Or about working in Minor League Baseball. Or about news and notes from around the major leagues. My hope, though, is that on some level you want the blog to be about all of those things and more, not just one. If that’s the case, then we’re on the same page. While I haven’t written a blog before today, I’ve certainly read those of others, and my inspiration was to create a blog that, while you’re waiting for the latest post to load, has you thinking, “I wonder what’s on here today.” If it were one dimensional, my guess is you’d have little interest in returning.
Overall, the blog will be centered around three of my greatest passions: baseball, radio and baseball on the radio (hence the blog title and the background image). I hope you enjoy it, and I hope from time to time you’ll leave a comment, ask a question, suggest a blog topic, etc.
Thanks for listening! (On the Air…and Off)
Jeff
Twitter: @JeffHemPBP
Welcome aboard, Jeff. We’re happy to have you as part of the team this season and can’t wait for our great fans to get to know you.
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Here’s a couple of design concepts I whipped up early this morning for the Threadless Sesame Street Design Challenge. What do you think?
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Gamification in Education
Kendra is a sophomore taking an introductory course in forestry. Professor Sievert divides the class into teams of six students each and hands out a list of 100 plants found in the nearby national forest. Each team is responsible for finding photos and information about these plants, familiarizing themselves with them, and ensuring that they can identify them on location. The teams have two weeks to collect all the information they can and to quiz one another on plant recognition.
Then, two weeks from Friday, Sievert explains, teams will compete in a contest in a specified area of the nearby national forest to see which team can provide the most and best identifications in a two-hour window. Teams will win “identification points,” and the team with the most points will win tokens allowing each every member to turn in any one paper up to 48 hours late during the term.
Kendra and her team gather with their cell phones in hand half an hour early on the day of the contest. This gives them a few minutes to look over the rule sheets as Sievert distributes them. Rules are fairly straightforward. “Correct identification” consists of a photo of the plant with a team member standing beside it, sent by cell phone to a designated dropbox. These photos must arrive with a message giving the name of the plant and appropriate metadata. A standard plant on the list is worth 10 points; one marked “rare” is worth 25. There are also 5-point bonuses for a plant photographed in bloom, one correctly identified as suitable for human food, or one identified as toxic. Any misidentifications will subtract the number of points from the team total they would have added had they been correct.
Kendra’s team decides to separate into three groups of two each. When the starting whistle blows, Kendra and Jacob set out as partners to find, photograph, and identify. The cell phones are busy snapping pictures, receiving images from other team members for confirmation, and submitting photos to the dropbox. There are also several calls to coordinate team progress. At the end of two hours, the teams meet back at the gathering place. The unofficial tabulation suggests Kendra’s team has won by 5 points. She’s glad to learn that her team will be competing in similar contests throughout the term.
1. What is it?
Gamification is the application of game elements in non-gaming situations, often to motivate or influence behavior. In business contexts, gamification is used to create an engaging dynamic—such as the points system created by Weight Watchers— and to build brand loyalty. It also has wide currency in organizations where it may be used to encourage member or employee interest in projects or organizational efforts. In academe, gamification typically employs elements such as points, badges, or progress bars to engage or motivate students in the learning process. Whereas building a full-scale game requires the design and construction of a holistic, systematic environment to house the project, successful gamification can involve no more than the employment of a few feedback or reward elements. That said, the practice is most effective as a pedagogical tool where it forms part of a well-planned strategy to encourage research, inspire creativity, teach basic principles, or hone problem-solving skill.
2. How does it work?
Many instructors implement gamification because they
believe the rewards or the spirit of competition will spur students’ concentration and interest and lead to more effective learning. On the surface, these rewards may include items such as physical tokens, badges, or points toward a long-term goal. Students may strive to “win” recognition among their peers or the larger community or engage for personal satisfaction or a simple sense of accomplishment. But beneath these game-like prizes lies another level of reward that may include relevant feedback, learning reinforcement, and a lively and collaborative class environment. While technology is not essential to gamification, it can make management simpler. Many faculty use technology to track accomplishments, total points, and aggregate results. In addition, gamification elements can happen both inside and outside the classroom.
3. Who’s doing it?
The use of gamification is wide ranging in higher education, whether adapted from publicly available applications, designed by individual instructors, or created by departmental staff. Students at Pepperdine University’s business school, for example, are currently piloting a free web-based gamification tool called Veri. The product invites participants to test themselves on course topics using questions the instructor has entered. Game-like overtones include immediate humorous feedback and a running scoreboard for students to track their success. As they progress through various levels, a leader board sparks competition by showing who has the highest scores. In an economics course at Penn State, an instructor-designed example that ties content to play asks “So You Want to Be a Millionaire?” The syllabus notifies students that grades are for sale and explains that the primary way to acquire capital is by answering multiple-choice questions correctly, in this case on the course exams.
Not every use of gamification in academe is tied to coursework. Metadata Games at Dartmouth College arose from a critical need in the college archives. Vast photo repositories were being left unused by researchers because they lacked metadata necessary for effective searches. In response, a Dartmouth design team built a game-style interface that invited students to tag archived images either as a solo activity or in two-player game-like scenarios. The pilot phase alone netted over 6,000 image tags from players, suggesting that this kind of implementation may have intriguing potential for archivists and curators.
4. Why is it significant?
Adding game components to a course can result in several real benefits. Simulations can help students sharpen an ability or work out a novel solution, while a game-style patina may present coursework more as a challenge than a chore. But perhaps the most commonly cited benefit of gamification is that it fosters student engagement, often cited by the National Survey of Student Engagement as a key to increasing student retention. Where it functions well, gamification facilitates the formation of learning communities, giving new opportunities online or during course discussions to socialize or work as teams. In this sense, gamification has the potential to help build connections among members of the academic community, drawing in shy students, supporting collaboration, and engendering interest in course content that students might not have otherwise explored.
5. What are the downsides?
Some stakeholders feel any introduction of game elements trivializes learning content. At the same time, students may see game elements as condescending or feel disappointed and frustrated when their application is not successful or does not yield the kind of satisfaction from winning that they expect. The competitive element that intrigues some students may discourage others, particularly those who have trouble with course content. They may feel the competition introduces another level of complexity or that it will reveal their difficulties in understanding the content to the rest of the class.
Gamification can be deceptively difficult to employ effectively, and examples of failed efforts are not hard to find. For example, awarding points to students whose blog entries garner the most responses might encourage some bloggers to enlist their friends to comment, without regard to quality, their drive being the extrinsic rewards rather than the quality of the work they submit. In addition, careful thought must be given to the administrative details of gamification lest instructors be overwhelmed by the workload of tracking student progress through points, tokens, badges, and other game elements.
6. Where is it going?
The use of technology in gamificaiton has given rise to several grants from sources such as Next Generation Learning Challenges and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Such support for gamification is likely to encourage more complex, technology- based, interactive scenarios that extend beyond individual classrooms. In fact, gamification is already moving toward institutional uses, in implementations such as “Just Press Play,” debuting at the Rochester Institute of Technology this fall. This university-wide instance of gamification is structured to involve students in all aspects of the student community experience. They earn badges for activities such as going to the gym for the first time or getting A’s during a term, but the awards are part of an integrated approach to engage them throughout the four-year program. Similar projects employed at a departmental or institutional level might serve many cross-disciplinary purposes to help students construct portfolios, build organizations, or derive artistic or business solutions that could bridge the space between the educational experience and career achievement.
7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?
While the term “gamification” is of fairly recent coinage, the use of game elements to teach is certainly not new. Instructors have long understood that interactive experiences engage student imaginations and increase motivation. Gamification offers instructors numerous creative opportunities to enliven their instruction with contests, leader boards, or badges that give students opportunities for recognition and a positive attitude toward their work. These elements of play take advantage of the human desire to compete and socialize, as well as to measure progress toward clear goals, allowing individuals to compete against themselves. Where they are employed thoughtfully and effectively, game elements can engage and motivate students, encourage exploration, foster independent effort, and generate unexpected solutions to the problems posed by course content.
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What is Jelly?
Jelly is a casual monthly coworking event, where any independent worker who wants.
- Jelly is not networking - the aim is not to meet new clients, pitch your business or try to sell.
- So if you ever feel isolated in your home office/work office and want to meet some other like-minded people in a different work environment, then come on in and give it a try!
- There is free wifi, ample power points, and a good mobile phone coverage. (We ask people to leave the room if they are making phone calls so as not to disrupt everyone else.)
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Jelly in Gwinnett
Welcome to Jelly in Gwinnett
A chance to get out of the (home) office and work alongside other like-minded business people for one day every month in Gwinnett county.
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Read Together starts tomorrow. The linky will be up at midnight Eastern (HERE it is), but I thought I'd go ahead and put up my own post as a reminder and to give you some ideas.
But at the core, I'm a selfish Mommy, which means that I don't read to them as much as I would like to. Amanda is such a self-motivated reader, and so I don't need to read aloud to her to keep her interested, but because we both love books, sharing books together is a natural venue that we should use to connect.
This we do -- but not enough. Since I told all of you in the guidelines to make a goal that will challenge yourselves, I am going to stretch myself as well.
- We were reading Uglies aloud last month, but we came to a halt with that. So, since she's already read it, I am going to commit to finishing it on my own.
- She just started The Moon by Night, by Madeleine L'Engle, which I have started as well, so I think we'll be able to finish that one this month. We both read Meet the Austins last month (click the link to read our review). It's been nice to discover that series together.
- Pieces of Georgia is a Nutmeg selection (our state's book award). She enjoys reading them, and when I saw that this one was free verse, I thought it would be an absolute perfect read-aloud. I checked it out from the library today, and was reading the first few pages to myself, and I got excited about the poetical feel of the language.
- Along those same lines, when I read Amy's post about The Invention of Hugo Cabret (which I've been wanting to read for ages) it struck me that it would be a perfect read-aloud as well. I have visions of snuggling up with her, both of us looking at the pictures. The concept of a picture book for older kids is intriguing, and again, fits perfectly with the idea of connecting over books.
- I had originally put Wings on the list, but I think that the two I listed above will be better as read-alouds, so perhaps this will go on our simultaneous reading list, but I'd be surprised if I got through this in April.
- Amanda is really enjoying Wendy Mass' books, so she's invited me to read 11 Birthdays, which I'd like to do as well.
Now how will I do this? Well for one thing I have to commit to the books that we are reading together, yet separately. Since I'm halfway through both of them, I know that I can do that, but it does involve putting aside some of my own picks.
The second way is to find new times to read aloud with Amanda. As I mentioned, I've been reading to her in the mornings as she eats breakfast and fixes her lunch. I want to keep that up, and perhaps read to her a few evenings a week (she usually reads to herself before bed).
Another way to squeeze in more time with Amanda is to find books that she, Kyle and I can all read together. We are currently reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle -- but honestly we've stalled there too. See why I need this challenge??
I'm also going to try to read The Incredible Journey to them. It is short-ish (160 pages), which is always good for a read-aloud, but I don't know if it has enough action to keep Kyle interested. Does anyone else remember this book from elementary school? I have selected it as my "dog story" pick for April's Children's Classics at 5 Minutes for Books.
I am focusing my Read Together goals on Amanda and on finding things that the three of us can read together. I will try to bump up my reading with Kyle as well, but I feel much better about those practices right now. We always read a fair amount before naptime and before bedtime.
However, since it looks like naptime is really falling by the wayside (he still needs one or two a week), I want to commit to read with him on no-nap days as well. Perhaps I'll read with him even longer on a no-nap day.
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Link up your goals for April this week. Read the introduction post if you need more info.
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Great goals, Jennifer. And I'm impressed with how many books you hope/plan to read with Amanda (either out loud or together-but-separate). I've been curious about the Hugo Cabret book, so I'll look forward to your thoughts, and Amanda's too.
I had never really thought about the importance of connecting this way as your kids get older and reading the same books as they are. I definitely want to keep that going as my son grows up.
Thank you!!
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... thankyou for your support this year and wishing you all the best in 2011
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Holly
At the weekend I collected holly sprigs for decoration and the little displays made me happy. I adore holly - not just its shiny, deep green, spiky leaves and red, red berries (which are beautiful), but it impresses more deeply. Of course it is inextricably linked with Christmas festivities and celebrations.
Holly Scraperboard
For the Pagans holly represented the spirit of vegetation and the waning forces of nature, and the male counterpart to the female ivy - it has become part of customs and superstitions the world over, not only for winter solstace celebrations.
It is a remarkable tree, the close-grained white wood is used for making tool handles and the holly's male and female flowers are found on separate trees, and the berries exclusively on the female tree.
In Roman times sweets were hung from twigs of holly and given as gifts - although to cut down a holly was very unlucky, and also to cut a branch which instead should be pulled off.
Holly carved in Yorkstone
The red berries have long been believed to ward off evil spirits and demons and holly trees and hedges were planted round houses for protection. The holly is also thought to protect from lightening strikes. Pythagoras mentions the power of holly in that the flowers could solidify water and describes the strange controlling properties of holly to draw people to it, bound to touch it and then are made weak. Pliny writes that an animal hit with a holly stick will be subdued and compelled to obey the wielder of the stick - horses are particularly affected.
In the North of England it was believed that if nine leaves of smooth-leaved holly were placed under the pillow, it would result in prophetic dreams! This I am going to try - I'll let you know the results.
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There is a long list of natural phenomena and human inventions that lurked on the fringes of science before they became officially credible. At the end of the 18th century, the French Academy of Sciences said with impeccable Gallic logic that, as there were no rocks in the sky, no rocks could fall from the sky. In 1803, more than two thousand meteorites fell on a village in Normandy – after that, and an investigation by the scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot, the Academy was less sniffy. The eminent scientist Lord Kelvin said that Roentgen’s X-rays were a hoax. Edison’s electric lamp was declared an impossibility, and because it was an impossibility his fellow researchers wouldn’t go to see it even when Edison used it to light up the streets around his laboratory. From 1904, the Wright brothers made flights over fields bordered by a main highway and a railway line in Ohio: but though hundreds of people saw them in the air, the local press failed to publish reports because they didn’t believe the witnesses, and didn’t send their own witnesses because it couldn’t be true. Two years after their first flight, Scientific American dismissed the feats of the flying brothers; if there had been anything in it, the journal said, wouldn’t the local press have picked it up?
But maybe it’s easier now to evade taboos and get a hearing for nonsense. The internet has so vastly increased the potency of urban legends, so quickened the circulation of rumours, that we may soon be the most deluded generation ever born. It seems strange that some scientists are so angry with the sacred books of old-time religions, when so many challenges to rationality are generated by half-understood, miscommunicated information, much of it masquerading as science, available online and in the press. The internet is the great source of light and of darkness; it trashes the status of knowledge, undermines its ownership, and scants the principle of editing and review. The laconic conventions that govern online communication favour the proliferation of irony, of a two-way split of meaning in every line, so that the knowing prevail effortlessly over the naive. Fleeting and flitting, self-generating, double-faced, the internet is the natural home for anomalous phenomena, which have a primitive quality, yet track social paradigms; like science fiction, they dance like sprites around the scientific consensus, sometimes seeming to follow, sometimes to lead, sometimes to head off by themselves into an ancient inner landscape.
Until the idea of space flight became credible, there were no aliens; instead there were green men who hid in the woods. In the same way, psychotic delusions keep up with scientific change: the people once pursued by phantasms of the dead are now pestered by living celebrities who watch them from inside their TV sets, and those who used to confess themselves possessed now say there is a bomb inside them. The dictionary attests to the power and antiquity of the need to believe we are sharing the planet with beings not animal and not human, with ‘little greys’ from spacecraft, with goblins and domestic deities: beings who suspend the laws of nature wherever they pop up, and suspend moral laws too, for household sprites and pucks often have a fierce, childlike sense of justice, and retaliate without fear if they are slighted; aliens who want sex never ask nicely..
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Paranormalists from Toronto
At the LRB, Hilary Mantel has an engaging piece on the Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained:
I like the description of the Internet as "the great source of light and of darkness."
The piece is also enjoyable for the sheer fun you can tell that Mantel had in writing it: she's reveling in words without letting them take over, almost like they're one of the paranormal forces she's writing about. What fun!
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Berlin Wall in Our Backyard
We, as a young and uninformed nation, used to have the excuse that we did not know about our politicians' overarching self-interest that far outweighed reason, integrity, and the well-being of our nation and, indeed, the world. Information did not break and spread so efficiently. Now it does. We have watched it all play out before us. We have shrugged, sighed, and shaken our heads. We have had no effect.
We watch as our lawmakers blatantly mock their duties to us to pander to extremists and the uninformed in preparation for an election almost upon us. They transparently use taxpayer money to fund partisan campaign stops, masquerading as open hearings, and we roll our eyes. They have taken the easiest route of no debate, of over-simplistic treatment of a complicated and important issue to ensure that they, both as individuals and as political parties, hold or gain seats at the polls.
This would be shameful enough were the effects of such behavior merely political. They are not. Our ignorantly drawn border long ago split at least one nation -- the Tohono O'odham -- that existed before ours. Our enforcement of inappropriate and insufficient immigration laws has disrupted the natural migrant cycles and increased the undocumented population of this country that it purported to eliminate. And instead of recognizing this, thinking, and changing tactics, we will continue to exacerbate the situation. We will dig the hole deeper at the expense of taxpayer dollars and human lives.
This new fencing -- if it can be built through the harsh desert landscape of ravines and rivers and jagged mountain peaks that stretch along the border -- will leave 1,300 miles of our southern border uncovered. That's 1,300 miles of borderlands in which people will attempt to cross and continue to perish in the wilderness -- and 1,300 miles of borderlands through which our undocumented population should continue to grow. And that's if this particular show of commitment to "security" lasts beyond election day: Congress has approved only $1.2 billion of the $6 billion it's estimated the fence will cost, according to The Post.
The argument that this wall will help secure us from terrorism also fails. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who until this past week stood for more comprehensive immigration reform, claims this wall will help fight terrorism: "'Fortifying our borders is an integral component of national security,' Frist said. 'We can't afford to wait.'" (WP)
But not even in the Tucson sector of the border, which has seen the highest migrant flows, has Border Patrol encountered even a hint of terrorist activity, according to Sam Lucio, a Supervising Agent for that sector. We have, however, heard of terrorist action on airplanes and even an alleged terror cell in Detroit. Perhaps we should ground all planes and wall up the Motor City. It worked so well for Berlin.
With the passage of this bill -- and the possible re-elections of the pandering politicians who seek to enact it -- hostilities, xenophobia, and ambient fear will continue to grow among us, as will our undocumented population and the death tolls of migrants. Everyone stands for disappointment except the politicians looking to keep their jobs -- and the already booming human-smuggling business that will surely boom even harder with this new measure. These men and women on Capitol Hill are our public servants, yet we are serving them. With this bill, the American people lose.
Technorati tags: Immigration, Politics, Border, House, GOP,Security, Illegal.
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Several months ago there was a sale at a school and up for grabs were bookshelves, desks, instruments and a million other things. We went, of course, and found three desks for the girls. Problem was they would not all fit in the back of the truck. I came home and hooked up the trailer (a very proud and physically tiring task!) and returned to the sale. The man who helped me load commented that he had never seen a woman tie down cargo quite as well as I had. Proud moment number two! After a successful drive home, I approached the driveway and faced a great obstacle: backing the trailer into the driveway.
I have watched my husband do this over the last 13 years and I remember the ‘steer in the opposite direction’ concept from driver’s ed. classes, but this was the first time I had actually attempted backing up a trailer on my own.
After several failed attempts and even more positive encouragement from my daughters, I did manage to back it in. While learning how to do this, I was completely blocking traffic on our street and had more than one offer from a man to just to it for me. Stubbornness runs fiercely through my blood, and I politely said, “No. I have to learn how to do this.” Luckily, the men just waited patiently in their trucks and laughed at my many comical moves.
My pride was a bit bruised by their laughter, I’ll admit, but when I did finally succeed, those lovely men actually cheered for me. That was worth all the work!
A few days later, my middle daughter was working on a new math concept, her most difficult subject. Working together, she could solve the problems well. But as soon as she was on her own, she forgot what to do next. And so I would model the process again, this time asking her to figure the steps along the way. On her own once more, she would trip and fail. We were both frustrated and I didn’t know what else to do.
“I think you just need to try these on your own. Do one problem then show me. We can figure out the mistakes together, but you need to give this a go.”
She did not like the idea. “What if I get it wrong?”
Ah-ha! That was the problem. Children are afraid to make mistakes and adults are quick to jump and respond too harshly.
Children need a safe place to learn, explore, make mistakes and succeed. There is a line from the movie, Megamind when Titan, the bad guy, tells Megamind that he always fails. Megamind responds with, “I might fail, but I’ve learned from my mistakes.” And he proceeds in successfully defeating the bad guy. (I apologize if that’s a spoiler for anyone!)
I reminded her of that line in the movie. “We learn the most when we try and fail. Sometimes learning what doesn’t work is more important than learning what does. Thomas Edison, in inventing the light bulb, said he found a thousand ways that it didn’t work. He needed to find only one way that did.” (another movie line! Thank you National Treasure!)
“Like when you backed up the trailer?” she remembered. “Those men wanted to help you, but you said no.”
“And now I know how.”
My parents always told me that parenting was a more difficult than growing up because you re-live all the emotions that your children feel. How true! I’ve also discovered that children are learning how to be adults. If, as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends we can embrace a child’s mistakes and use them to enhance their understanding of this world and how they fit in, we are creating a future of people who can pass along the tradition of knowing the value of the ‘try and try again’ principle. The moms and dads of the world also need opportunities to completely fall on their faces and get back up. What would happen if we forgave a friend who made a grievous mistake that hurt us? Or what would happen if we gave a co-worker, who should know better, the opportunity to re-do a botched project?
In a nut shell, children are being schooled on the idea of adulthood. Adults are taking the test.
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November 2011
Sitting in Shafer
Waiting til 4… Eating subway and watching the goonies This is perfection
Trying to open a door the cool way. →
the-absolute-funniest-posts: Expectation: Reality: This is a cool blog to follow
Anonymous asked: What's your favorite tv show?
That awkward moment when
You see an old couple flirting at the bar and the guys hand is on the ladys butt.. Just strange to see
I hope things work out in the end
Cause I want to leave ct on a good note
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Might go to willi brew tonight
I just want to have a beer and then go to sleep
send me any number, anonymous_19<<
TMI Tuesdays?
calculation-nation: heathrand: Let’s make my night interesting! ON YOUR FEET, YOU MOTHERFUCKING PUSSIES.
When I accidentally hit my pet.
lolsofunny: First, I’m like: And then, I run after him like:
Anonymously tell me why you think I'm single. →
noose-ends: I have a few guesses of what’ll come into my ask.
Anonymous asked: How would you describe yourself?
ive never met you but you seem perfect. i wish i could meet you
tmi tuesday
no one gives these to me
meeting my parents at willington pizza
i wish i could still eat pizza :(
Think I met someone who likes star wars as much as...
So come over Let’s build a fort Cuddle And watch star wars And be hopelessly happy
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On such a hostage calm kick
Not going to class
Just rehearsal at 4 I just feel so crappy
skipped my piano class
and havent done my homework for my other one… today is a lazy day
How can we know what oceans the waters call home? And late at night do they swim there alone? Come rescue the cold.
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meliiums replied to your post: When people say no one likes them it pisses me off bethy why do you say things like that? you know lots of people care about you like me and kristina and brian. you don’t seem to realize how beautiful you are and how fun you are to be around and it makes me sad everytime you say no one cares for you. i know people care but i know no guy in their right mind would...
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It looked for a time that House Majority Leader Dick Armey had saved us from the Ashcroft-Bush Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) program that would have sent millions of truckers, utility workers, meter readers and other service personnel to report "suspicious" behavior or other signs of terrorist-connected activity.
Armey removed from the Homeland Security Department bill this plan, characterized by constitutional lawyer John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, as "essentially turning the average citizen into an extension of the thought police."
This army of untrained informants, without any definition of "suspicious" or "terrorist" activity, would, as conservative Georgia Republican Congressman Bob Barr said, be involved in what "smacks of the very type of fascist or Communist government we fought so hard to eradicate in other countries in decades past."
The House passed its bill without Operation TIPS, but the Senate is still debating the measure. John Ashcroft, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, was met with Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's concern that, "We don't want to see a '1984' Orwellian-type situation here where neighbors are reporting on neighbors."
Ashcroft satisfied Hatch by saying that these vast reports by informants would not be logged into a Justice Department database. Ashcroft conceded, however, that the information would be sent to other law-enforcement agencies that could put the allegations into their databases. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the attorney general: "We could be vigilant, but we don't want to be vigilantes."
Leahy then sent a letter to Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., head of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, which is handling the Homeland Security Department bill, asking him to include in the Senate version Armey's prohibition on enacting the ubiquitous Operation TIPS. With its echoes of the neighborhood watch committees in Cuba, China and other anti-Democratic countries, I find it reckless that an attorney general of the United States could even advocate it.
Lieberman, not notably passionate about civil liberties -- like Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to whom the Leahy letter was also addressed -- ignored his colleague's attempt to prevent this country from forgetting why we are fighting terrorism here and abroad. On July 28, New York Times reporter Alison Mitchell accurately summarized the lessons of history that the Bush administration, Congress and the rest of us must heed:
"A central challenge a free society faces in countering terrorism is in maintaining its own character, protecting its citizens while preserving what makes the society worth protecting in the first place."
Prior to Ashcroft's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, David Carle, Leahy's press secretary, sent out a "News Backgrounder," which has been ignored by much of the press. Providing "a disturbing historical precedent for Operation TIPS," the report notes that in World War I, the "Department of Justice established the American Protective League (APL), which enrolled 250,000 citizens in at least 600 cities and towns" to enlist informants with wide access in their communities to report suspicious conduct and interrogate fellow citizens. "The APL spied on workers and unions in thousands of industrial plants with defense contracts, and organized raids on German-language newspapers."
Members of the APL, with the power to make arrests, "used such methods as tar and feathers, beatings, and forcing those who were suspected of disloyalty to kiss the flag." Said the New York Bar Association after the war, "No other cause contributed so much to the oppression of innocent men as the systematic and indiscriminate agitation against what was claimed to be an all-pervasive system of German espionage."
In September, when Congress returns, a conference committee of the House and Senate will decide the final language in the Homeland Security Department bill, including whether Operation TIPS will become law. Those of us who believe American citizens should not be spying on one another can let our representatives in the Senate know that we are committed to protecting our liberties both from terrorists and from Ashcroft's Justice Department.
Separate messages should be sent to Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, the nation's leaders in the Senate.
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Yes, Justin Bieber is technically 18 years old, but it's hard to let go of him as that baby-faced angel-sprite that used to croon "I thought that you'd always be mi-ine, miiii-ine" to his tween ex-girlfriend at the local Toronto bowling alley, while Ludacris and Drake looked on in approval (you know, normal kid stuff).
Bieber, however, has moved forward and would very much like us to accept that he is now a man with real man feelings and real man needs. First there was his paternity lawsuit, then there was the time he tried a beer once and now this. During a recent interview with Q Magazine, the "Boyfriend" singer made it very clear that he is a (shudder) sexual being to the point where he even has preferred sexy lady parts:
"I think I'm a butt guy. I just like butts. I'm attracted to them. Do I have any favourites? Nicki Minaj has got a nice one."
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Now that the MapContent, MapViewport and Layer classes are in place we can make use of them in GTRender (and implementations).
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The new method __$swapInit was added (I think) to support reloading, enabling someone to drive re-initialization of some state (like constants, callsite arrays). Unfortunately it doesn't quite do that - with regards to the callsite array all it does is call $getCallSiteArray. This doesn't clear it, this just ensures it is initialized - and if initialized in the past it will not be reinitialized. This means the reloader has to additionally null the callsite array before calling __$swapInit - which is a shame since it is all invoked by reflection.
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the method now nulls out the field, which should do what you need
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Park Board
When:6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Wren Pierson Community Center 6:30 p.m., at the Wren Pierson Community Center.
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A New Bed = Clean Slate
Marriage and a new bed! Lots of excitement in my world lately!
I got married, on May 19th, I thought that once that was over things would start calming down a bit… I was totally wrong!
We received a NEW bedroom suit for our wedding gift, and we also got a new bed a SLEEP NUMBER BED!! YAY!
We had to completely de-clutter our room, I mean seriously cleaning. I moved in with my husband (so.. strange still to say) about 3 years ago. I still had boxes to unpack. Things not needed or old or just trash. I believe we cleared out over 15 bags of stuff.
It was not like an episode of Hoarders. But there was just stuff. Clothing, art supplies, pictures, books, more clothes…
We got the first round done in last Monday afternoon. Which was awesome! YAY US!
I went last Sunday (6/3) to IKEA with my sister, we pulled all the furniture that we wanted to order. Paid for it then took it over to home delivery.(I will say if you are thinking its better to have them deliver your stuff, just pull it then have them deliver, it is a next day delivery instead of 2 weeks, and a few bucks cheaper.)
Monday rolled around and the items delivered, the IKEA guys took it upstairs into the bedroom. Which was a plus because one of the boxes was over 150 pounds.. and that would have not been fun to try to take upstairs. It weighted more than I do.
So now with our cleared out room, we moved the mattress and box-springs off the bed-frame and set them aside. You can see why we needed a new bed, this set was my husbands since he was like 13 years old. It was not comfortable at all to sleep on, we actually were sleeping on the living room couches for the last few months. BOO.. so it was the best gift we could have ever asked for. Thank you Omi and Luis!
Yes this is what our cats have done to the poor old bed. I show you because I should, am I embarrassed? YES but its life
Seriously swept the carpet and started putting things together. The first thing was the new dresser for Jermie. MALM makes amazing stuff, very modern and sturdy. We were able to put it together in about 2 hours. (Ms Jolie approved… my kitty)
Then Jermie had to go to work.. and me already in the mood to get the bedroom complete, I started putting the new bed-frame together, which was also MALM and a platform bed. I had little Ms R helping me singing Jem and dancing. She was also a terrific helper with the tools.
Ms R is in love with these new fans, they are AWESOME!! Lasko Pro Performance Blower Fan (series 4900), after doing a LOT of research on fans, we bought 2 of these for the upstairs to try to keep from having to run the window air conditioner. Our room is a converted attic, which never had A/C installed. So far, after a week, they are seriously kicking butt!
Then Thursday we had a special delivery, our new bed! The Sleep Number Crew brought everything in and set it up within minutes. We did a quick run through of the bed and how it works.
And as you can tell the kitties love the bed. Our room is not close to being done. Now I totally want to paint it and still de-clutter some more, along with a few other pieces of furniture. Then it will be perfect! I am so happy that we have gotten this far! I can’t wait to make our room enjoyable, a place to go to get away from the daily hustle and bustle of life.
Hope you all had an amazing week, as amazing as mine!
XOXO – Jesy
*disclaimer – I did not receive any compensation from Lasko, IKEA or Sleep Number for this post. These opinions are mine with no influence from either company.*
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Urban and Street Lit (Adult)
From Wiki
Article in Setting, African American and Adult Fiction
Urban Fiction Authors:
- Nicole Bailey-Williams
- Traci Bee
- Danita Carter
- Chunichi
- Wahida Clark
- Donald Goines
- Geneva Holliday
- Shannon Holmes
- La Jill Hunt
- Solomon Jones
- Dwayne S. Joseph
- Joylynn Jossel
- Joy Deja King
- Karen E. Quinones Miller
- Y. Blak Moore
- Noire
- Vickie M. Stringer
- Styles P
- TI aka TIP
- Nikki Turner
- Nikki Turner Presents (various authors)
- Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker
- Teri Woods
More recent additions to the collection are possibly cataloged under the following subject headings:
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To top it off, the staff was amazing. My mom told me that as she walked around all evening, every waiter and bartender would say to her, "Congratulations on the beautiful wedding of your lovely daughter." How sweet is that?
Tomorrow, I'll share photos of the ceremony, I can't wait! xoxo
(Photos of the DTA by Max Wanger)
Beautiful. It is hard to believe it is in Manhattan!!
What a fantastic setting for your wonderful and lovely ceremony - I will be waiting to see the pics. Loved your honeymoon pics too. Thanks for sharing Joanna - you are such a beautiful bride! xxoo Laurie
The waiters did seem very sweet. Congratulations on your wedding. I love the ribbon on your bouquet.
Wow, what a great and interesting location! I am so excited to see more of the photos, Max Wanger is inspiring.
joanna, i am so jealous beyond words. i can't wait till tomorrow to see photos of the ceremony. you and alex look so beautiful in the first photo.
I loved the DTA!! It was the perfect NY venue - so elegant and beautiful! And Colleen (the manager) was AMAZING!
I love love love that first photo!
simply gorgeous!
:) I simply ADORE the first photo :) It's so romantic! Did I mention how much I love your blog? :)
I can't wait either! What a gem of a venue. I adore every detail. Congrats Joanna. It looks like a fairy tale!
My inner anglophile is squealing with joy at these pictures. The venue is very English country manor meets Old New York.
*BEAUTIFUL*... Can't wait to see the ceremony pictures!
sush a lovely setting! i'm loving all your pictures! congratulations for the wedding ^^ you must b so excited!
YAYYY!!
I'm so happy for you!
And what a treasure for you to have these gorgeous photographs for ever and ever.
-L.A. Eve
such a beautiful venue! thanks for sharing :)
I would like to add that the food was amazing!
What a cool place! Love that top picture of you two!
what a splendidly romantic place, i love the taxidermy.
and, oh wow! the top photograph is amazing. it's so perfectly captured. amazing! more!
Lovely, Joanna.
cariad (Alex should know what that means...)
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Susan
umbrella shot is just too wonderful
what a beautiful venue joanna! can't believe it's in downtown manhattan!
The first photograph is just breathtaking!
So lovely.
This place is amazing!!! I can't wait to see more pics!
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the venue is amazing! i cant wait to see the rest of the photos!
What a gorgeous location. I love the laid-back yet elegant feel of your wedding photos... can't wait to see more!!
Btw, LOVE the dress!
The first photograph is stunning. It really reflects the genious that is max wanger.
what a fabulous place to get married. love that first photo with the blue (or is it violet?...) umbrella! thanks for sharing all these great photos. can't wait to see the rest tomorrow!
oh, how beautiful! i can't wait to see the rest of your pictures, you look so beautiful and happy!!
Enjoying all these sneak peeks to your special day Darling... Love the venue very much, it's so both of you!
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What a beautiful building... so romantic!
xo Laura
How sweet are those waiters! It looks like such a lovely place to have a wedding.
Absolutely stunning! I love th first pic, especially. So romantic!
How cute is the blue umbrella?! Totally reminds me of the red balloon engagement pics.
These photos are absolutely gorgeous!!! Your dress/hair/makeup/smile!, your hubba hubba hubby, and the venue are each stunning!!!!
I LOVE the top one!! what an eye for detail; the umbrella matches your pretty bouquet. what a gentleman he is!
that first picture is fantastic! love it! frame it! you too are adorable i only hope my wedding (not that i have a bf or anything) will be this beautiful!
LOVE, love, love! Can't wait to see more. You make a beautiful couple.
Oooo...can't wait to see more picks!
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That ceiling is delicious!!! The pics are really lovely. Thanks so much for sharing.
joanna - your pictures are so lovely. i cannot wait to see the rest, i was dying with anticipation today. max + you/alex, you just can't beat it.
the venue looks fabulous too-- just another reason why i'd love to move to ny, so many hidden gems!
xo, kim
oh, so lovely!! That top image is so sweet!! Can't wait to see more. :)
Hi Joanna,
It's so much fun to see these photos. Thanks so much for sharing! What a lovely place for a wedding.
loooooove this venue. very sophisticated. makes me want to get all dressed up and sip brandy, and i don't even drink brandy.
I just fell over sideways out of gleeful dismay. How impossibly delightful that you got to do that THERE. ohmy.
i am loving these photos and so excited to see more. thanks so much for sharing these with us!
Oh, the umbrella and chromatic flowers! And the taxidermy is delightful.
If Mary Poppins and Audrey Hepburn had a love child, it would be that classy umbrella photo at the top.
Great pictures!
that first photo is soo beautiful and sweet... congratulations!
Oh Joanna! Im feeling so nostalgic...its so magical. Im sure I would have tears in my eyes if I were there.
oh excellent, two posts after another! I love, of course, the first photo with the matching brolley to the bouqet. It looks like Alex is playfully chasing you, cute!
what an amazing venue!! You look gorgeous!! and Alex very handsome...cant wait to see more!
What a fantastic place! And yes, the bathrooms are fabulous, too. ;)
I love, love the first picture with the umbrella! So typical, right?!
Congrats to you both on your wedding day! It looks like it was beautiful day!
It's been great following your exciting journey towards the day (especially since my sister has recently become engaged and we've just started planning!)
Anyway I just wanted to say congrats on a great blog and the wedding!!! Look forward to seeing the next post!
:)
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love the umbrella picture. very "singing in the rain"
please frame the first picture. it is magic.
What a truly unique wedding.
the 1st photo is worth a 1000+words...truly warms the ♥!
That first picture is art! That blue umbrella is the perfect touch...and your body language is so happy :)
Its perfect
Not trying to be un-nice, but I don't get the "modern" concept of all the drama--like not seeing the dress, first kiss and all that--when a couple has been living together. Really, I just don't understand it--I guess I am incredibly un-hip. What really floors me is when a bride goes all out in a bouffant pure white dress and a huge church wedding when she has been living with the groom for quite some time. That is really trying to have it all! On the other hand, ANOTHER thing I don't understand is how we girls can get away with wearing a casual-looking unstructured garment, while the men are nattily turned out in tailored suits and all that! It's a bit jarring--doesn't quite go. Oh, I really like that photo with the umbrella, though! The colors are really pretty and it's artsy!
How gorgeous. I love that you have such fond memories of the service that you received there, too: this will be one of the details you (& your guests) remember about the day, I’m sure.
so enjoy (said with a smile in my heart) that first photograph... lovely and sweet.
My husband and I got married at the DTA in 2003 because we wanted to support downtown NYC after September 11 - it is as spectacular as your pictures and we will always remember it so fondly. We got married in the winter, and we had a saxaphonist play jazz so that people could find the place with all the subways snarled from the construction. It is a really special place.
i absolutely love the picture with you two and the umbrella! seriously, classic and beautiful.
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For a chance to win, please visit LemLem and leave a comment below. A winner will be chosen at random tomorrow. Good luck! xo Update: Sammie L. is our lucky winner. Thanks for playing.
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This bag is beautiful! Probably my favorite of their products!
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Joanna
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love the tote!
what a great company! love the bag and the site!
please let me win :)
Gorgeous!
beautiful!
Lovely site.
beautiful!
I've been coveting these scarves for a long time. I'll have to drop stronger hints before my next birthday. xoxo
Those scarves ate so gorgeous!
I love how colorful everything is!
Love this!
ah! have been lusting after lemlem for months! Love their scarves. this bag is gorgeous!
thanks for a great giveaway!
I love LemLem!!
such beautiful fresh colours for a southern hemispehere christmas!
Wow!! Thanks for bringing to my attention this wonderful site! I loved all the clothes!! Definitely adding many items to my wishlist!
everything is beautiful!
Such a beautiful bag!
What a lovely bag, thanks for the giveaway and introducing me to their site :)
Nice.
So pretty & I love the mission of the company!
What a lovely tote! Truthfully I would love to have many of these LemLem items!
love the colors!!! so beautiful. The last time I won something at random was in 6th grade playing bingo.
I love lemlem! Great products
I love her stuff
What a gorgeous bag!
such beautiful pieces. thank you!
Oh my! What a Santa treat early. Love lem lem!!!!
I love the navy and orange combo. This would be a perfect teacher bag!
Great giveaway, their scarves and bags are amazing! :)
We have some personal connections to Ethiopia so it's great to learn of another avenue for supporting local endevours there. This bag is beautiful!
oooh, love.
beautiful
i love lem lem!!!!!
love lemlem! pick me!
So handy...love the overdose of pockets!! Perfect for styling on the go!
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What a great company! I love going this route versus big chain corporations. Keeping this in my pocket.
OMG so so beautiful.
how wonderful, and how beautiful!
I have never heard of LemLem but will certainly be a supporter in the future. I'm a bit of an international development/foreign news nerd and a fan of trade over aid so I love the idea behind this company.
I would love to use this bag to haul all my stuff to the office each day (book, giant water bottle and snacks). Plus, it would be such a fun pop of color in my cube while I work.
So lovely!
Their bold colored stripes and simple siloettes make the clothes look gorgeous and effortless. I am loving their ponchos, but wouldn't mind that bag at all. Please count me in!
Great to see social entrepreneurship expanding into fashion/retail!
great bag for a great cause!
Awesome story and an equally awesome piece...would love to have it!
Beautiful, would love to win.
Beautiful bag!
LOVE.
What beautiful things. I <3 those dresses! To die for!
I love LemLem!!! That bag is soooo pretty, pretty.
gorgeous bag...
what a great company and beautiful woven clothing.
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This is a gorgeous bag!! wow!
Gorgeous. Stunner. Here's to hopin!
Their pieces are beautiful!
Fantastic with a conscience!
The colors they use are amazing! I have coveted their scarves for months!
This would be an amazing Christmas gift to myself :) LOVE.
I love the bright colors!
totally agree with the social entrepreneurship awesomeness! and beautiful.
I love those colors together!!
thanks for this opportunity to support a great company. happy holidays!
Visited the site earlier today before I knew about the giveaway. Funny coincidence.
Oh man, does this bring back memories... Lovely!
I am so in love with this bag. I would love to have one!
LoveLove!
Thanks for sharing this is a gorgeous bag. And lemlem has such amazing scarves too - what a great discovery!
I love the idea behind this!
Oh wow, her clothes and accessories are amazing. I especially love the oxford shoes! If I had any "extra" money at all, I would snatch them up, along with a scarf and one of her tunics! And this bag is beautiful!
i absolutely love everything!!
love love love this beautiful bag - wish wish wish to be the lucky girl to have it - happy holidays
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George was born on May 23, 1867 in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, which lies three miles from Tring to the east and four miles from Aylesbury to the west. George was christened at Aylesbury with three of his siblings on February 9, 1868.
George worked as a piecer at the cotton mill in Glossop in 1881 when he was thirteen years old. While still in Glossop, he married Betty Sandiford in 1887. Betty was twenty, George was only nineteen when he married.
George and Betty had moved seven and a half miles north west to the town of Dukinsfield by 1891, where George was working as a labourer in an iron works. It appears that Betty had no children with George and by 1901 they had separated. Betty moved back to her birthplace in Glossop and was found living with her mother; she gave her status as married in both the 1901 and 1911 census returns.
George continued moving west, this time over forty-five miles southwest to Chester, where he was a fried fish dealer in 1896 at 15 Brook Street; nearby, his brother, Amos, was a greengrocer at 47 Brook Street.
By 1900 he had moved again, south seventy miles to Kidderminster, where he had a fried fish business on Blackwell Street.
A year later, George had moved again, to Northfield, Worcestershire and had changed his situation significantly when he appeared in the 1901 census as a thirty-three-year-old general labourer living with a twenty-year-old landlady who was a laundress. Young Sarah Ann Jones had a two-month-old son, named Ernest W Jones. At that time George Crockett was listed as married and Sarah Jones was listed as single, yet they lived as man and wife for over forty years.
Three more children were born before 1905 came to an end, Sarah and all her children used the surname Crockett including Ernest William.
When George accompanied Amos on the voyage to Philadelphia, he gave the address for his next of kin as his wife, Sarah, at Moor Street, Brierly Hill. That was on February 23, 1911. By the time the census was taken on April 2, 1911 another family was living at that residence and I have not been able to find George's family in the 1911 census.
One of the stories that my father told me about George Crockett was that when he and Amos arrived in New York it was the fourth of July and there were American flags everywhere and George remarked that there wasn't a Union Jack to be seen. This has turned out to be family lore because they landed in Philadelphia in March.
On the ship's manifest of the SS Merion, George gave the name of the person he was going to visit as his brother-in-law, Charles Jones. George is described as being 5' 5½” tall with fair complexion, auburn hair, and gray eyes, a true Crockett.
George only stayed in Philadelphia long enough to visit Sarah's brother for a few weeks and then he returned to England on the Lusitania, leaving New York on March 17 and arriving in Liverpool on March 28, 1911. Amos did not return to England with him and I presume he made his way to Alberta overland.
George and Sarah Crockett left England the next year, departing from Bristol on April 3 and arriving at Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 12, 1912. Thomas Amos Crockett, son of Amos, accompanied them on the voyage. The manifest listed the following aboard the SS Royal Edward:
Crockett, George, 44, Poultry farmer
Crockett, Mrs. G, 32, wife
Crockett, Thomas, 20, Farm labourer
Crockett, Ernest, 11
Crockett, George, 10
Crockett, Ada, 8
Crockett, Mary, 7
On the ship's manifest, both George and Tom Crockett claimed to have worked on a farm in England, but I wonder if that was to get assistance with the passage from the Salvation Army. The family was in “steerage” class with SA noted in the right margin of the manifest. Their destination was given as Edmonton.According to a map in the Busby history book, George's homestead was located on a ¼ section described as South-east quarter, Section 23Township 57 Range 1 West of the 5th Meridian in the Busby Park School District.
From another reference to George and family in the same book about the Busenius family:
My Dad spent his first year of school at Busby Park and recalled George and Sarah's children were: Ernie, Joss, Ada, and Alice. Joss must have been the younger George. George and Sarah moved into Edmonton after leaving the homestead and my Dad recalled that Uncle George worked as an elevator operator and Aunt Sarah worked as a maid at the Queen Alexandra Hospital. In the city directory for 1943, George was listed as retired and Sarah was still working at the hospital.
Amos Crockett's granddaughter, Evelyn, recalls a story about Uncle George John Bull: "There was a dentist's office in the building where John Bull ran the elevator and he offered to make Uncle George a set of false teeth because he had none. A couple of weeks after setting him up with a fine set of dentures, the dentist noticed that George was not wearing his new teeth. When asked the whereabouts of the teeth, John Bull said they were in his pants pocket. To this the dentist replied: I hope they bite you in the ass!"
George passed away in Edmonton in 1944 at age seventy-six and was buried in Edmonton Cemetery on May 13, 1944.
In the city directory for 1947 Sarah was still working at the hospital as a maid and living at #32, 11045-97 Street (Lambton Block). In 1953 she was living at the same address but no occupation was given.
According to my Dad, Aunt Sarah had some sort of mental breakdown and died in a mental facility in Oliver, just north of Edmonton. I wish my Dad was here to ask, because I think I can recall that Sarah also worked at the Oliver hospital.
Sarah died in 1964, twenty years after her husband, she was eighty-four years old. Her body rests beside her husband, George in the Edmonton Cemetery.
When I asked Amos Crockett's granddaughter, Vera Becklake, about her memories of George and Sarah, she had the following to say:
Uncle 'John Bull' was a bit of a rascal. I was surprised to hear that he had been married in England. I know there was some scandal about him and a girl who worked in Grandpa's (Amos) fish and chip shop. Perhaps they were never divorced as I was told that he and Auntie Sarah were never married. I don't recall the circumstances of her death. She worked for years at the Royal Alex Hospital in Edmonton and was badly injured in an elevator accident there but as far as I remember, she recovered enough to go back to work. She was a very sweet and gentle person.
George Crockett and Sarah Ann Jones had the following children:
Ernest William Crockett (1901-1994)
George Crockett (1902-1990)
Ada Millicent Crockett (1904-)
Mary Alice Crockett (1905-)
My name is Betsy Weninger Imholt and I am the great granddaughter of George Crocket (1902-1990). My father is the son of Pearl Georgian Crockett. I just read this posting aloud to my father, Donnie Weninger. I find this information so exciting to read and I so much appreciate your fine writing and great story telling ability. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Betsy, I would love to be in touch with you and your Dad. My email address is on my profile. I have been trying to contact George's descendants for years and heard from Chris and Ron Crockett in Salem and now you, this is indeed exciting!
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Generation Y Woefully Unprepared For Job Market, Survey Finds
Everyone knows it's terrible out there for young Americans, aka Generation Y or the millennials, who are just entering the workforce.
While the national unemployment rate has slid below 8 percent the past two months, the official tally for Americans between the ages of 18 to 29 was 12 percent in October. And when you factor in the 1.7 million young adults who are not being counted (as they've taken themselves out of the labor force, presumably after giving up), the actual unemployment rate for the age bracket rate rises to 16.6 percent, according to General Opportunity, a nonprofit youth employment organization.
So what's the cause of the pronounced and prolonged crisis among the members of America's newest generation to enter the workforce? The economy itself? Perhaps that's not the only factor, according to the Student Career Development study conducted by Millennial Branding, a Generation Y research firm, along with StudentAdvisor.com.
The survey reveals a generation composed of students who are "not aggressively preparing for their post-college careers," according to the study. After compiling responses to a questionnaire about employment from over 200 students from across the country, an across-the-board trend of low engagement in career planning was revealed. Only 29 percent of the students have received career and job help from their universities, while only 22 percent belong to a professional development or industry-related group.
More: 10 Millennial Generation Trends For 2012The survey delved into the extent of Gen Y's lack of preparation. Among the findings:
- Less than half have had an internship in college (40 percent), although 85 percent understand that having an internship is vital to launching a career.
- Despite all of Gen Y's social media savvy, only 1 in 3 have a presence on LinkedIn -- the site that recruiters and human resources officers rely on to post jobs and find candidates. In contrast, 95 percent have a Facebook profile.
"College students are missing out on a very valuable resource by not leveraging LinkedIn," says Dean Tsouvalas, editor-in-chief at StudentAdvisor.com. "Internship opportunities, and the ability to network alumni or gain incredible insight into a company, are all there, waiting for students to take advantage."
Any discussion about the troubled job prospects for millennials must of course also make mention of their debt problems. The average student, according to Forbes, already carries $12,700 in credit-card and other kinds of debt. And nationwide, tuition debt just recently passed the $1 trillion mark.
What are the effects of all these struggles? A cultural shift, say observers and commentators. Millennials have been widely noted for their optimism, but according to a recent Rutgers study, just 14 percent of recent college graduates think they'll be able to do better than their parents financially.
"I'm hoping that the millennial generation doesn't set its sights on homeownership as a benchmark of economic stability," sociologist Katherine Newman told Newsweek this summer, "because it's going to be out of reach for so many of them."
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Biostatistician needed for a 6 month contract - start asap - £350/400 a day - UK
My client are a well known, globally recognised, prestigious pharmaceutical company based in various locations across the UK. Currently, they are seeking a senior biostatistician to join them for a 6 month project to start in the new year.
The successful applicant will prepare analysis plans and write detailed specifications for analysis data sets, conducts quality control checks on tables, figures and listings; communicates effectively with clients regarding statistical analysis issues.
You will be required to interpret analyses and write statistical sections of study reports. You will have knowledge of commonly-used statistical concepts, practices, and procedures within clinical research.
You will rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job. the role will require you to work under immediate supervision, typically reporting to a supervisor or manager.
Skills required for this contract: Masters degree in statistics, biostatistics, or related field; Statistical experience gained from Pharmaceutical Industry or related Industry; SAS experience. Experience working with observational data beneficial.
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My favorite links of the week from the best Social Media and Tech blogs and websites:
- iPhone 5 or 4S? These People Don’t Know [VIDEO]It’s all about the coolness of the apple experience and not about functionality
- How to Increase Your Digital Klout~via Brian Solis – Mashable
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About the bibliography
My bibliography database represents years of work by many people. The core of the database was compiled by Milford Wolpoff, with contributions from many students and coauthors. I have added substantially to the database during the last fifteen years, and since I have been blogging all new entries are linked by Digital Object Identifier numbers to their place of publication.
If you find the database useful, please take time to thank the people who worked hard to compile it. I know they will appreciate hearing it.
This database began as a flat text file of bibliographic entries, which I have over the years scripted into a computer-readable format. Many errors have slipped in, including typos from the initial data entry, script fragments from my BibTeX database, and some entries that began in a non-standard format and were scrambled by scripts. Please do not write me expecting that I will fix these errors. It would take me weeks of work to do this. Works will be fixed as I cite them or enter updated information for them.
There are also errors of omission. Most entries are here because they got cited, in Milford's books, in the many research articles by him or his students, or in my work. I mention this mainly because I know that some of you will look up your own names, and find many important papers missing from the database. If you're disappointed in the representation of your articles here, by all means contact me and I will work with you. This database is mirrored on CiteULike and Mendeley and I can import your bibliographic data from these sites, EndNote, BibTeX or other standard formats.
A fuller introduction to the bibliography is in my initial announcement.
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Dear Johnnie: Why do so many Longmont neighborhoods have old man-high light posts all along the sidewalk? Was there some construction period when they were popular? Are there any neighborhoods where they are still actively used?
Who pays for the electricity and maintenance? — Curious John
Dear Curious John:Those lights are called pedestal lights. The city has so many — about 9,000 of them — because in the 1960s, the city transitioned from powering porch
A street lamp on the east side of Lonmgont near the 400 block of Alpine Street on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011. (Joshua Buck/Times-Call)
lights to installing these lights along streets. Their installation continued into the early 1990s.
“They contain the customer service connection point and the electric meter,” Deborah Cameron wrote to Johnnie. Cameron is the customer services and marketing manager for Longmont Power & Communications. “Pedestal installations provided a front-lot underground alternative, and effectively replaced the overhead back-lot service entrances that were installed throughout older portions of Longmont.”
The pedestal lights are owned, maintained and operated by the city, Cameron said.
Hello, Johnnie St. Vrain: I have lived here for more than 50 years. At one time I used to go to Safeway at 17th and Hover and create my own salad from a salad bar they once had. No more.
I want to know where a person can find a good salad bar in Longmont to create their own salad? I know of no such place. Can you help? — Salad Bar Hunt
Hello, Salad Bar Hunt: In answering your question, I risk leaving out a restaurant or store that offers a salad bar. So, if someone out there operates a salad bar that isn’t mentioned in this column, please forgive me.
I don’t know how long ago Safeway had a salad bar, but it was before the time of the person I spoke with over at the Safeway. Regardless, he confirmed that Safeway does not have what would be a considered a “salad bar.” Potato salad. Yes. Olives. Yes. But not leafy greens and croutons, with kidney beans, red onions, baby corncobs and fake-bacon bits.
At least, I think that’s the kind of salad bar you’re talking about.
I asked Johnnie’s Facebook fans what they thought, and several replied: Mad Greens, over on Clover Basin Drive. Another bemoaned the loss of Souper Salad.
S.B., I don’t know what exactly you’re looking for, but you can find salad bars in restaurants that serve other foods, such as pizza places and all-you-can-eat buffets. And, if you’re up for other types of salad, grocery stores still have a wide variety.
Or you could buy a head of green leafy lettuce and all the fixings yourself, then invite a friend over.
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So, as of March 30th, every page on Facebook will be rolled over to the new Timeline format currently being used on personal profiles. It’s no use complaining; Facebook has mandated the switchover. While all pages will switch over on the 30th, you can actually get started now on designing it and using the Timeline feature for your page. But for authors, here are some critical tips to make the most of the new format.
1. Choose a great cover photograph. The measurement for the new page cover photo is 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels tall. But be advised: your cover photo must NOT have any of the following:.”
Any of that stuff is expressly forbidden by Facebook.
That said, your cover photo can really make a great impression. It should be sharp, illustrate who you are as an author (and more if you happen to have a good platform) and include a nice eye-catching graphic. Here’s the cover photo I had my graphic design guru do up for my page:
Since my platform is “writer, producer, ninja” it was important to me that I convey each of those items through a visual cue. So, you have a screenshot of The Fixer website, me doing some ninjutsu, and then book covers for my various recent works. My logo is front and center and my name is prominently displayed. I think it works very well and comments have been great. Having the cover photo with Timeline gives you far more real estate to make an impression than the old page layout, so be sure to use it to get people excited about your writing! The overall design also ties in with my website design – brand continuity is very important!
Finally, your cover image is also clickable, so be sure to put up a description there that helps sell yourself and your work. My cover photo description reads: “Find out more about my books here (for Kindle users) and (for Nook users) and be sure to visit me at & on Twitter @jonfmerz” It’s one more opportunity to engage new and old fans alike so don’t forget to use it!
2. There’s no longer a tab you can set as your default landing page, so anyone coming to your page will see the Timeline feature. Make sure if you’ve got posts or comments in your timeline that you don’t like that you delete them and clean things up.
3. FBML is going away in June. For a while now, FBML (Facebook Mark-Up Language) was a simple application you could add to your page and create a sort-of custom website on it, using HTML etc. Well, Facebook has decided that FBML is obsolete and they’re switching everything over to iFrames now. What that means is if you have any custom tabs (say, “Subscribe to My Newsletter” or something like that) they will stop working in June. So the best thing to do now is to replicate those same tabs using iFrames. How do you do that? Pretty easily, actually: grab the Static HTML iFrames Tab Application and add it to your page. Now you can take whatever HTML coding you had on your FBML tab and move it over to the iFrames tab. After previewing the new iFrames tab and making sure it works like it should, you can delete the old FBML tab.
One thing, FBML used the same CSS style sheets that Facebook uses and inherited all those font qualities, etc. The new iFrames tab does not, so your stuff is going to look different until you set the font size and face to the same as your other pages. You can set the CSS style directly on the iFrame app tab when you insert the rest of the old FBML code. iFrames actually gives you a LOT more creative control over what you want the tab to do, so take some time to learn how to maximize it. I’m not going to run through how to do that here, but it’s something you’ll want to explore to get the most functionality out of your new page design. (I’m still in the process of redesigning my page anyway, so it would be premature of me to offer up advice when I’m still figuring it all out!)
4. Hello Data! One of the coolest new features when you implement the Timeline design on your page is the incredible amount of information Facebook gives to page administrators about who is viewing your page, liking it, post popularity, etc. This is fantastic because it lets you see immediately how much your posts and engagement with readers is registering. Say you write a post about your recent book coming out for sale: with the new data feedback, you can see how popular it actually was. It takes a certain degree of guesswork out of trying to quantify your reader engagement. The results are right in front of you. It might be slightly disconcerting to learn that your throwaway joke about Snooki and the Mayan calendar had more viral impact than talking up your latest thriller, but it’s also good to know how your demographic responds to you.
Here’s a screenshot of my admin panel that displays on top of my cover photo (you have the option to hide this – see the upper right button there?) Check out the small square that says “insights.” If you click on “see all” you’ll be whisked away to a page with incredible detail. But here’s the cool thing about even that small screenshot: I’ve been sick lately two times. Guess where those two dips in my engagement data fell? Exactly when I was feeling like crap and didn’t post very much or otherwise engage. As a result, my reach dipped, people weren’t talking about me, and the page just sort of died in terms of excitement.
Why is this data so important? Because as much as you might like to lock yourself away and live out that “writer hermit” fantasy, the truth is you’re in business. You sell ebooks, or books, or both. And as such, you need to know what your audience is doing, how they’re responding, and how to engage them – that is, if you have any hope of making a long-term career out of this stuff. So Facebook has graciously given you oodles of information to help you improve your business. Seriously. Some of you will no doubt roll your eyes and employ that old excuse, “I don’t have TIME to look at all of this stuff, I’m a writer.” Great. Well, if that’s your excuse, then so be it. Some other writer will quickly grasp how this data can give them a leg up on you and then proceed to decimate you in sales. This kind of intelligence is gold, people. Use it or lose it.
I’ll have another post next week discussing more ways to make your page better. But for now, get out there and start creating some kick-ass designs!
And by the way, if you find this post useful, come swing by my Fan Page and say hello!
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If you missed the first part of the Fashion, A-Z exhibit at Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) that ended May 8th, have no fear! The second exhibit is up and running until November 10th where more than 60 garments and accessories from FIT’s permanent collection will be on display for the public to view.
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Worn by Anja Rubik in Balmain’s Fall 2012 campaign, this jacket stole our hearts in March and we’ve been lusting after it ever since. Silk fringes of gold, white, and navy scattered with embellishment of Swarovski crystals and mirrors create this show stopping striped blazer. Our only opposition is the $31,095 price tag! However, we just can not let this look go, so we have found a way to get it for less.
The look revolves around the jacket, and we love this sequin and silk piece by Parker . Channel the stripes and embellishment with rows of sparkling, two-toned sequins and keep the structure with an exaggerated shoulder. Grab a simple, comfy, white tee shirt like this one by T by Alexander Wang . It's sheer, cool, and layers perfectly with a statement jacket. Next, add a pair tailored skinny pants. Nez trousers by Hakaan boast a perfect fit, with a flattering front pleat and comfortable low rise..!
Now that Fashion Week is quickly closing in on us it's time to start finding some answers to that all too important question, "What should I wear?" Granted Fashion Week is a perfect excuse to find some new gear, but unless you are an heiress with money to burn or happen to be bff's with a major fashion publicist who will let you borrow the latest and greatest Balmain ensemble, you will have to plan your outfits according to your budget. And with so many parties to attend, it can be hard not to go overboard and not dip into the rent money. Now, I find that whenever this time of year rolls around and I need a few pieces to update my wardrobe without incurring any over draft fees is to hit the all too lovable madhouse that is Forever 21. It is a one stop shop for fun Fashion Week friendly pieces that will not leave you dead broke and eating tuna and crackers for the rest of the month. Here are a few of my picks that will give your closet just a little boost without breaking the bank.
Guy or girl, studded shoes are just in. You can go from something as simple as a pair of studded flats our outrageous with a pair of super duper high heels. Gotta make the guys drool some how right?.
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An unfinished verse
An unwritten play
A story that lasted a year and a day
Ambitions for greatness
A heart full of less
And the aching and longing inside of my chest.
Never sharing
Always acting
Being the self that I see
Never asking
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Is there more to my Me?
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Table of Contents - 1998 - Volume 25, Issue 03 (Special Issue: Civil Society in Britain)
a1 Dept of Economic and Social History, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY
ABSTRACT
The concept of civil society provides a useful means of evaluating the social and political relationships of British towns. Civil society refers to the non-prescriptive relationships that lie between the state and kin. Such relationships are associated with the existence of the free market, the rule of law and a strong voluntary associational culture. Both theoretical analysis and historical evidence link civil society with the nature of urban places, their complexity, their function as a central place and their operation as a focus for flows of information. Between 1780 and 1820 the agencies of civil society in Britain provided an arena for making choices, for reasoned informed debate and for the collective provision and consumption of services in an open and pluralist manner.
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a2 Stanford University
International conflict has been accounted for in many different ways—in terms of aggressive “instincts,” territoriality, population growth, the search for basic resources or seaports, the protection of trade routes, psychopathological deviations, plunder and profit, a drive for imperialist control, and so forth. Some theorists have considered grievances, competition, anxieties, tension, threat, and provocation to be of special importance. Others have laid heavy emphasis upon national power or capability, military preparedness, strategic considerations, and the competition for dominance.1 No doubt most if not all of these variables are relevant, but this recognition does not help much in the development of a theory of war, its dynamics, and contributing causal networks. In the long run all factors need to be pulled together in some systematic way. A serious difficulty emerges from the fact that the various “causes” that contribute to war tend to be highly interactive, that is, they affect each other in various ways and often in many different directions. The problem is to find out, if possible, which variables are contributing most to international violence and in what proportion. The purpose of this paper is to take an early step in this direction by reporting on some empirical research currently under way and by presenting some tentative findings which suggest partial explanations and some implications and difficulties for national policies.
Nazli Choucri, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author and co-author of numerous articles on the analysis and forecasting of international conflict behavior.
Robert C. North, Professor of Political Science and Director of Studies in International Conflict and Integration in the Institute of Political Studies, Stanford University, is the author of Moscow and Chinese Communists and other books and articles concerned with international relations, international conflict, crises, and the antecedents of war.
* We would like to thank the editors for their extensive comments and suggestions. We are also indebted to James Foster, Daniel Lerner, Edward Morse, Ithiel de Sola Pool, Thomas Robinson, and Oran Young for their incisive criticisms, and to Hayward Alker and Richard Lagerstrom for their assistance on theoretical and methodological problems.
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As we prepared for this journey we had read about many different country’s orphanages (baby houses as they call them here in Kazakhstan) and what we read described a very clean but rather plain place with little stimulation. Our experience with Astana’s baby house is very different from what we expected. They are very clean, but they are more like a big home with pictures on the walls, many colorful toys throughout, friendly people that truly care for the children, and a schedule full of activities such as music and organized playing. The only similarity to what we read is the ratio of care givers to children (typically about 1 care giver to about 12 toddlers), which does limit how much they can interact with each child independently. Typically these children are 1 month delayed for every three months in an orphanage, which is about what we have seen with our new son, especially communication. To our surprise he is much closer to his age with fine motor, gross motor, and self- help skills. Here are several pictures of the Astana Baby House…
As you can see our son’s temporary home is not what most people think of when they hear the term orphanages. Although his new home with us will be much better in many ways, I am sure he will still miss his familiar surroundings at first. We are close to sharing more about our new little man, but for now we will tease you a little by just give you a sneak peak…
Thank you for all your comments yesterday, we really appreciate you following along with us on this journey!
Blessings,
Jay & Jen
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Ok...enough teasing already!!!! We want to see the little guy!
His toes are adorable and he looks just like Hayden from the backside when he was a baby.
The baby house looks very nice and homey like you said. It is nice to see that it is so clean and he seems to be well taken care of.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of your new son...we will keep you all in our prayers as well as Shelby, Hayden and Zoe.
Toni
Ok you two, enough!!! I want to see him!!!
Sounds like everything is going well. We will pray things continue to go smoothly.
"The joy of the LORD is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10
Love ya!
How very cool - I am so excited for both of you. My prayers are with you and all FOUR of your children! :-)
Much love from Michigan, Kristy
PHIL 1:6
How sweet he looks. Even his toes. I like the little hat. The house is suprising. It does look very stimulating. I was suprised to see the ball area where the kids could jump and play in. It's rather modern. I am continuing to pray for all of you.
He looks like such a doll -- from behind! Can't wait to see his darling face and meet him later. Many blessings! Jess :-)
Hi, it's Mackenzie,
Sorry I didn't get to say good-bye. He looks cute from behind, just like my Mom said, he looks like Hayden did at that age.
See ya soon, Mackenzie
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing the teaser pics. He looks great! I will pray for continued blessings as your journey moves along.
--Hugh
Looks like a stimulating learning environment for little kids! Of course, your home will be a much better place for this little guy. Looks like a cutie from behind - can't wait to see his little face and all his cute features!
Oh how it brings back memories. Your apartment is very much like ours was in Moscow. The double door, the bedroom,bath kitchen all the same. Amazing! We are so happy for you and we know what your are feeling. What a wonderful journey. The baby house looks very good and similar to our orphanage. Do you have to spend a month there? That is very different from what we did but regions require different things. Good luck and sorry i did not answer I had no idea who invited us to the blog. You didn't tell me you were close to going so I did not know. I am a big chicken on the computer so inless I know I don't answer. Anyways, we are praying for your safe journey and keep us posted. Love, M.J.
Hi Jay & Jen,
I hope you are feeling alot of joy right now. He looks like he will be handful as every boy should be and team him up with Zoe and you will have nuclear fusion. The teaser pictures are great and the enviroment looks much better than I would have perceived. What an amazing experience for the both of you and the kids. Can't wait to see him.
The Straw Clan is in my prayers.
Timmy
What great pictures. Thanks for sharing them with us. Ingrid asked why you are not showing the litte guy's face?? Bruce said, "Because you guys are just
goofy". We are praying that HIS wisdom, protection and PEACE be upon you both. The Blalocks
Hey, Everyone here is waiting, well not so patiently, but we'll survive until you get everything settled. It looks like the lord has guided you to the right place at the right time to get the final piece to your family. Please know your in our prayers always. Can't wait to meet my nephew. LOL
Sue
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Looking forward to lighting up Sabathia tonight! Lets make it 2/3 instead of 2 2/3!
Oh, and...
Fuck the Yankees!
Iam personally glad we don't see the Sox again until August....as a Yankees fan, I don't know why we can't beat them, but I hope that by the time Aug rolls around, A.J. learns how to pitch under pressure, and Wang is long gone. Nevertheless....we'll see what happens tonight....
man i have a good feeling about tonight!!!!
but seriously. imagine the sox with teixera.
OUCH!
That's certainly something the Yankees have going for them, B.R. - a long vacation from the Red Sox. There are a lot of games between now and then. They'll walk in cocky say oh we're a new team now, we're a well-oiled machine and we're clicking on all cylinders. But then Josh Beckett or Jon Lester will be standing out on the mound. Strike one. One-two-three first inning. 30 pitches from A.J. Burnett in the bottom of the 1st, and the Yankees will be thinking, "Here we go again."
What would the Yankee fans rather see after 60 games? Assuming the Red Sox beat them again tonight.
Being 0-8 against Boston, 2 GB in the East?
Or being 2-3 against Boston, 6.5 GB in the East?
Your second choice was reality after 60 games in 2008.
Say we're able to sweep the Yankees (not likely given the pitching matchup tonight). If I were a Yankee fan like B.R., I would try not to read too much into it. The Yanks have had a lot of good things going on in a lot of different categories (I just read Heyman saying the whole starting infield lineup has only 8 errors). Two games out of first place, with the kind of hitting and defense they've been doing? Jeter and Damon doing well when they could have fallen off so badly? Not a bad situation.
It's fun as a Sox fan to be beating the Yankees regularly this season, but there's no psychological factor going on on the field that's making it so. We just have happened to be able to win 'em all.
The NY tabloids have been fun, though.
Zen, you are so sensible. If the Yankees had been beating us rather than the other way around, I'd hate it, but I wouldn't read much into it, either.
However, I sure as hell wouldn't hang around a Yankees blog subjecting myself to schadenfreude!
"Your second choice was reality after 60 games in 2008."
:>)
Damn that was fun!
Thanks, Laura.
Come to think of it, Ish made the point a lot better than I did.
(I just read Heyman saying the whole starting infield lineup has only 8 errors)
You can't make an error on a ball you can't get to.
(Note: No idea how NY is doing according to better fielding metrics.)
(not likely given the pitching matchup tonight).
That's bullshit, man! It's fuckin' CC. His ability to spit the bit against us is Garzian.
Zen, you are so sensible. If the Yankees had been beating us rather than the other way around, I'd hate it, but I wouldn't read much into it, either.
That five game sweep in 2006 was soul crushing. The standings in June don't mean as much as the standings in August, but....
I'm trying not to gloat, here, man!
If it was September I'd probably be rubbing the front of my jeans while reading the Schadenfreude posts.
Fuck the Yankees!
Pedroia, 2B
Drew, RF
Youkilis, 1B
Bay, LF
Lowell, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Varitek, C
Baldelli, CF
Green, SS
Jeter, SS
Damon, LF
Teixeira, 1B
Rodriguez, 3B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Matsui, DH
Cabrera, CF
Cervelli, C
That five game sweep in 2006 was soul crushing. The standings in June don't mean as much as the standings in August, but....
When you begin at 2 games out and end up at 6.5, that's what's crushing. It sucked that it was the Yankees that did it, but that was just the icing on the cake.
Also, that was five games in four days. This year, Yanks started slow (what's new), lost two to us. Started doing better, lost three to us. Now kicking ass, lost two more to us.
Now let's make it one more, CC or no!
So if Penny has a good outing tonight... will he be on the trade block tomorrow? Both Smoltz and Bucholz are knockin at the door.
At least when the Red Sox are winning it makes the dreary weather tolerable. I don't think we've seen the sun in Beantown all week.
FUCK - looks like YES
Evening all...
L is getting sox radio on her laptop.
evening, lord.
john flaherty looks like a fucking idiot.
Smoltz's start postponed, will he make one tomorrow? Don't know, but this is possibly the last game that Penny starts for the Sox this year, let us hope it is a good start that amps his trade value to the stratosphere.
MFY's need to go down.
1) dinner
check
2) It is Rum and Cokes tonight as this teetotaler goes for three in a row!!!
Frag the Yankees
Morning Lord - sit back and enjoy!!!
Hey look it's Lord and Mouse again...
Again,on for one innings or so tonight.
At least all the other MFY series this season are at weekends.
Hi everyone. Wmtc4 minus 1 and counting. Trees are trimmed, house is cleaned. Red Sox are kicking Yankee butt.
And an upcoming L-day.
So much for the no hitter...
About fragging time a MFY got hit this year.
hbp - yay
I know it is stating the bleeding obvious, but the first four in this line-up are truly hateful specimens.
Carry on.
Umps conferring.
Oooooooooh warnings. Shakin' in me boots!
'Bout time the Sox hit a Yankee after all the plunking they've done against us this year!
weren't the hbp numbers just the opposite back in 2004? all the sox were getting hit?
A dot on the cards. Pity JTC doesn't bat...
Maybe Penny is trying to endear himself to his teammates before he goes on the auction block?
"And an upcoming L-day."
Thank you!
Don: "Bluff to third, bluff to first. Doesn't throw to either venue."
Drink!
I'd complain Penny isn't wasting a pitch, but it isn't his fault Cano's swinging at pitches at his eyebrows.
Since 2004 to Tonight - Red Sox batters hit 54 Times, MFY's - 61
thanks penny
25 pitches.
11 pitches....and then you waste my time.
Sit Crusoe.
Whew 25 pitch first inning and 17 minutes to get 3 out... typical Sox Yankees game. I'll need to shave before this game ends.
FY - crap, I truped myself there on that, I thought for sure it would at least scrape the wall.
Damn... Castiglione pulled a Trupiano on us--There's a drive high and deep to left!!!... Damon has the room and hauls it in for the out.
ON FIRE!
dj werd
Drewble!
Fire!
yoooooooook
I forgot about "drewble". Fusionmouse knows more JOSisms than me.
Somebody give CC a donut
any news on cc's ultrasound?
Puppies were spotted
night all.
Time to refill the glasss
Meh, disappointing inning.
Night Lord... sleep well across the pond; the game will probably still be on when you wake up. 1/2 hour per inning at this rate!
CC's ultrasound?
They found a dong.
K or popup please.
probably shouldn't rag on cc -- i hear penny is due right around jos1
Bleh.
Okay, that was neither a K nor a pop-up.
Double play? Triple play? K? Pop-up? Lineout? Any of these would be great right about now.
Ok, Penny is not making me very happy rihgt now
Sit.
Sin Milk dud, oh, yeah, start arguing you toad.
That K was huge.
Now just get a DP to escape this.
Copper-K; still, I'll go out on a limb and say we're gonna see "Moose" tonight.
Not enamoured of the call! (DRINK!)
the dud abides -- K!
DP!!
HAHA
Eck, on Penny's size: The ball looks so small in his hand.
BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Don: Swisher falls asleep at the switch!
DP BABY!!!
Oh yeah, Swishaliciuos you are now my favorite yankee!!!
mog -- swisher is such an idiot.
penny yelling "second base second base"
Swisher demonstrating awesome baseball skills all over this series... I may have to send him flowers!
NICE
Another good Swisher move.
PAPI!!!!!
PAPI!
Papi!!!
Yeah Baby!!!
Curtain call time!
Methinks we are starting to see the REAL Papi!
LARGE FATHER DONG!!!!!!!!!!
fuck you fatty
PAPI induces labor on CC and steals the baby!
PAPI!!!!!
TAKE THAT CC YOU'VE BEEN LARGE FATHERED!!!!
Puppies, ish, they are puppies.
Once again we take an early lead. Love it.
Ish, great call :)
Did you see Francona grinning in the dugout? Nice.
That dong looked like the 2004 ALDS winner off of... Washburn was it?
But we love puppies!
Was the Ortiz homer first pitch? I'm on GameChannel...
yes, first pitch
but we love puppies
That is why they must be stolen from a MFY.
Heidi looks dressed for winter. WHEN WILL SUMMER COME?
Any of you with Time Warner Cable would know that satellite hates puppies.
cc distracted by the dunkin' ad behind the plate?
Ah, now I get it.
Papi has arrived at the Mendoza line... please continue upward!!
CC and Penny together use a lot of uniform material.
Not for sure when summer will come but will be hoping that we get good weather for lake fun the next two weeks.
True, Penny is also a large man.
You going up to---is it called the cottages or something? I remember you went there one summer. Somewhere north of Toronto?
We have a houseguest here, but she's been awake since 3 a.m. and has gone up to bed. I'm glad b/c she's not a big fan and was distracting me.
Oops, wrong person. What lake, S1C?
Cottages north of Toronto is a Cdn thing. You probably heard Tim talking about it. I think s1c stays in Mass. No?
Don't let her read the game thread, Laura!
Yeah, I somehow read the comment as coming from Redsock, not S1C. Read too fast.
Lake Bungee - in Woodstock Valley CT.
Late start this year in opening it up (both families having major job changes), so this weekend its put out the docks, clean out the cobwebs and assorted other things.
Then next week we start the fathers day bbq's, the end of school bbq's and then the graduation celebration blow outs.
"Don't let her read the game thread, Laura!"
I know, I thought of that! Hm, any chance she'll find this?? :)
"Yeah, I somehow read the comment as coming from Redsock, not S1C. Read too fast."
I wish we were off to a cottage, why not. But I think that will never be part of our future. I'll always want to use the money for travel.
I don't look forward to Penny taking swings. Hopefully he will be traded before that.
s1c, I am still hoping you change your mind on JoS. Not just me, we're all hoping.
Sit
I don't look forward to Penny taking swings. Hopefully he will be traded before that.
We'll catch up with him in Philadelphia.
Do you think pitchers wake themselves up making pitches in their sleep?
K! Love watching Damon K.
S1C, sounds good. Is it a place you get to each weekend? We leave for the Cape tomorrow and will be living in our cottage until mid-August while our new place is under construction. I can't wait! Two cats, a dog, two adults, two computers, a printer, scanner, and other stuff---all in 500 square feet.
"I don't look forward to Penny taking swings. Hopefully he will be traded before that."
Would he be so much worse than any of other pitchers?
I second Laura's comment about JOS1, S1C!
L-girl its a matter of 2 furlough days taking a bite out of the pay check plus having to come up with additional money to get the Mom mobile back on the road, plus going from a short commute to a large commute, in other words the financial picture went from safe to fragging kidding me in a matter of days.
Evening, all. Watching the game here on a tiny streaming window- but still, watching!
SIT! Even better than a Damon K is an ARod K.
Best three-inning 65-pitch performance.
Sit!
Where in the world are you, Ofer?
(Sort of like Carmen Sandiego)
Would he be so much worse than any of other pitchers?
Shades of Colon.
That sounds tough, S1C. I am sorry to hear that. This economy is awful. Every day we hear about someone else who has either lost a job or suffered some way financially.
s1c, I do understand. I don't mean to pressure you.
I just wonder if in the long run you would notice the difference in $$, but you and B'fly would have so much fun that it would be worth it.
But hey, I'm the Queen of Rationalization. There's nothing I can't rationalize when I want to.
San Francisco, now. Here for a couple more days, then NY for a week, then back to Israel.
"Would he be so much worse than any of other pitchers?"
There's no possible way he'd be worse than Colon last year.
"Where in the world are you, Ofer?
(Sort of like Carmen Sandiego)"
I thought of that. Or Find Waldo.
I live by that financial advice, Laura. Not the best savings plan, but a lot more fun.
Allan just said: there's no telling when JOS2 will be. It's true.
Amy - the lake house is part of BH's family and gets used by everybody (10 MFY fans, 10 Sox fans) and this year do to major job changes in 3 of the 5 families is basically where everyone will be escaping from the rat races (good thing we all like each other).
Plus this year the Virginia family is coming after the 4th and not leaving until mid august so, now is the time to really enjoy only the 7 of us who do most of the work around there.
Yeah, Waldo came to mind also, though I don't see Ofer dressing like Waldo.
This is my first time actually hearing Eck.
How many FYs would it take to fill a CC?
Wow, 10 Sox fans and 10 Yankee fans.
I hope you are all as civilized as Harvey and I are while watching games. That is, no talking, no cheering, just watching. :)
4.8
"San Francisco, now. Here for a couple more days, then NY for a week,"
My two favourite places in the US. Enjoy.
If you need or want tips on fun cheap NYC things to do, email me.
Why isn't Allan in thread?
Good places to be, Ofer, all of them.
Yeah, Waldo came to mind also, though I don't see Ofer dressing like Waldo.
Hey, at least the red and white would be supporting my team...
First time hearing Eck---lucky you. Just don't go back to Israel speaking English like he does.
I suppose he was before, but my attention span's short tonight.
i'm here!
I hope you are all as civilized as Harvey and I are while watching games. That is, no talking, no cheering, just watching. :)
Not a chance, we are always ragging on each other (but we never get angry). The funny thing is it is split down the line generationally with each generation having the same number!!!
damn - foul did not crack kay's skull open
Amy, same here, I try to live for today, although I know it's not always wise.
I wish someone would just tell me right now if I'm going to live long enough to use what little savings we have. 'Cause if not, I want to spend it all on travel.
Well, as long as no one gets nasty. You all must be more mature than Harvey and I are. Only the vow of silence seems to work.
My favorite expression regarding money is: You can't take it with you.
Isn't it a little early to talk about CC's 300th win?
"The funny thing is it is split down the line generationally with each generation having the same number!!!"
Too funny.
So it's a definite no??? Jos1 I mean.
Where does your heart yearn to be, l-girl? Travel-wise....
At least you have savings. We spend it before we can save it. And then we borrow. But we always call it "responsible borrowing." When we sold our house recently and had so little equity in it, we rationalized that we had used that equity to send two kids to college and to pay for a wedding, etc.
My favorite expression regarding money is: You can't take it with you.
Mine: money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.
Patrick, you're right, but it's probably a little harder to take that view if you have kids and a mortgage.
Eck: uh oh.
Never mind, not Eck.
Amy, you're telling me you have no savings, no pension? That's hard to believe. You owned a home that you sold, so you had equity from that. We will never own a home, and we have no pension except our own savings.
Jim Nantz in the booth with Don and Eck. Hello, Friend.
Maybe they can show the action on the field. That would be nice.
Mine: money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.
I have related-demos, but thought they might be too old farty.
Yeah, its a definite no, (BH and I) have been spending days going over everything but with the college fund losing a good portion of money, the 500 here and 500 there for this n that for Marist along with all the crap that came down in the last two weeks it is literally hold everything until September for extra money.
Why do you think I have been emptying the liquor cabinet?
Sit
JohnGF, I am a travel nut. The list of places I want to go is very long. I've traveled as much as I can, but as I get older and I feel time moving so quickly, it feels urgent.
I don't have enough time and money to do the travel I want... but I'm working on that. Changing my life to get more of both.
Why do you think I have been emptying the liquor cabinet?
~$18/5gal.
We have a 401K or whatever, but no pension. We only have that because our employer contributes partially to it and the rest comes directly from our paychecks. It's a good thing.
So yeah, I guess those are savings, but since I never have to take the money and put it away, I can't be tempted to spend it. If it were in my hands, it would somehow not get put it into savings.
As for the house, see above. We had only a small amount of equity when we sold it.
OK s1c, I will let it go. Good luck with everything.
I keep wondering if there are other threaders who we neglected to invite.
I have related-demos, but thought they might be too old farty.
Well, my perception is that Pink Floyd are still doing quite well with 20+ people. There's plenty of 90's music I'd consider more "old farty" than them. But then again, about half my music is from the 70s, so maybe I'm not objective...
Ah, S1C, that answers my question from last night (not sure you saw it). I was concerned about why two games in a row you said you were emptying the liquor cabinet.
Hang in there. I do believe things will eventually get better. Have you called Marist about the change in your job circumstances? Colleges can be pretty good about those things, though these days even they are pinched.
Hey Mikey!
DO doesn't want to interrupt Nantz to say the inning ended.
The borrowing issue is one of the reasons I took so long to go to school. My parents told us when we were in high school that um, yeah. We don't have any money saved for you to go to college.
I never really entertained the thought of taking out massive student loans but it's taken until now to realize how I just have to grin and bear it. I still want to continue to live a life that is low on borrowing.
"We have a 401K"
That's all I meant. That's all we have, the Cdn equivalent of IRA. We do the automatic savings thing too.
We don't have a lot, but we don't make a lot, either.
Thanks for the good wishes, but it will work out, just pisses me off that after all this time I get treated like crap and have to make major changes to how I approach my job on such short notice.
now you need $ to restock the cabinet ...
All the travel I want to do optimally needs me to be younger than I am: hiking and riding horses take it out of me more and more. Still keeping in the game, but not sure how long I can.
Ish, student loans are not a bad deal when it comes to borrowing. And you have lots of time to pay them off very slowly.
Damn... how did we let a MFY pitcher last more than 2 2/3 innings!
Red Sock - trust me, I won't have to buy liquor if I get drunk every night for a month. #1 gift recieved for years in this family has been liquor, I empty one cabinet and just go to the basement and bring up another case or bottle.
Ish, almost everyone takes out loans for school. It's pretty much impossible to do otherwise.
You're investing in your future. I have a young lawyer friend who says "I took out a mortgage on my brain".
She does nonprofit public interest law, so she says it's the only mortgage she'll ever have.
John, is that you and your dog in your avatar?
Amy, it's just wrapping my head around it. But I'm diving into it... That's also a big reason I'm going two years at community college and then transfering elsewhere.
I love this time of year. Outside, the gloam is still crepuscular.
"just pisses me off that after all this time I get treated like crap and have to make major changes to how I approach my job on such short notice."
Yup. I hear ya. Careful, you'll turn into a socialist.
JUST KIDDING S1C
One of my five (5!) dogs, Amy, yes. When he was a puppy. And I was younger too.
YES stat
tiz vs nyy .308
tiz vs others .184
I don't know what Benjamin just said.
It's quite dark here with the overcast. Barely seeing some daylight through the leaves.
BAHAHAHAHAH DROPPED IT~!!!!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA
Ish--gotta love the Maine Community College System! Take it from me up at EMCC.
More and more people are doing that, Ish. Community colleges are a great deal, and you can finish up almost anywhere.
Our undergraduate school has a fair number of students who start at community colleges for that reason---they save money and still get a degree from a four year school.
Plus you can skip those damn standardized tests!
"All the travel I want to do optimally needs me to be younger"
We have one wish-list trip like that, dog-sledding. Now we even have a friend in the Yukon we can visit and learn with. I fear if we don't go soon we never will.
THANKS JOHNNY!!!! YOU SURE SUCK!!!!
This is great!
DAMON!! HHAHAH!
Yup. I hear ya. Careful, you'll turn into a socialist.
LOL - of course what really pisses me off, if my boss was six weeks older, I probably wouldn't have to make any changes plus would be getting a raise, but no he's six weeks shy of taking the early retirement.
Five dogs?! Yay!
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Joe Saunders / Clay Buchholz
With:
Peter Abraham, Globe:Peter Abraham, Globe:Scutaro, SS Pedroia, 2B Martinez, C Youkilis, 1B Drew, RF Lowell, DH Beltre, 3B Hall, LF McDonald, CF
Starting tonight, the Red Sox will play 20 of their next 23 games (in 24 days) against teams that figure to be playoff contenders this season. ...There is probably some middle ground between those two choices, but there's little arguing with the fact that this is a very important month.
May 3- 6 Angels May 7- 9 Yankees May 10-12 Blue Jays May 14-16 at Tigers May 17-18 at Yankees May 19-20 Twins May 21-23 at Philadelphia May 24-26 at Tampa BayCome May 27, the season will be 30 percent over and the Sox will know whether they are contenders or frauds.
Is it too early to give up on the 2010 Red Sox? NO!, say 54.1% voters in this Globe poll.
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199 comments:
it is such a different team without Ellsbury, maybe it is easy to read into that , but he just seems to create a buzz , that hasn't been there since he has been out...
Annual Town Meeting for me tonight. The auditorium is a cell dead spot... no MLB on my phone for me.
Enjoy tonight's slamming win!
I'm discouraged. But I'll be watching tonight.
Apparently Dave Roberts has Hodgkin's lymphoma, but the prognosis is good.
Aybar, SS
Abreu, DH
Hunter, CF
Morales, 1B
Matsui, LF
Rivera, RF
Izturis, 3B
Kendrick, 2B
Napoli, C!
We said this every other day in 2007.
Hi! Been lurking here for about a year but I've always had problems logging in to comment.
Anyway, I just got tickets to Wednesday's game. It'll be my first Red Sox game to attend. Decided to splurge a little bit in celebration of end-of-exams.
Any tips for the first-timer? I picked Wednesday because the weather looks to be good, and I think the match-up will be Lackey vs his old team. Should be interesting.
My only tip is savour every moment. Your first time at Fenway is very special. Enjoy!
And welcome to the thread.
Why am I just not excited about watching this game? OK, our "ace" is pitching, so I should feel better. But alas....
Meanwhile, we are going to the game on Saturday against the NYY. Our annual game with my brother and his Yankee fanatic friend Adine. I may need xanax for that game.
FY!
Hi, Matt....there is almost nothing you need to do to enjoy Fenway. It's just the best place on earth to watch baseball. Even my Yankee fan friends say it's true. Enjoy the game!
FY flinched a bit at that flying bat.
FY X 2!
this new thing on espn where they have little lights for balls, strikes and outs really sucks. can't tell how many are lit.
...
OH FUCKING FY PCIK!!!!!
Fenway has always been my favourite park. Even... you know when. The first time I was there I just could not get over how beautiful it was. I had seen it on TV so many times but it was like I had never seen it before.
DEFENSE!!!
now for some offense.
So I just was using the Google translate tool and translated this page into French (and back to English). It's pretty funny to read our comments translated into French. Unfortunately, my French is sort of junior high level vocabulary, but still amusing. Our comments seem so much more erudite in French!
Everything sounds better in French.
Please be ok Double-H
Matt,
Enjoy your trip to Fenway. It is amazing. I was awestruck when we first walked in. I felt a lot like Rudy's dad..."This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen." Beyond that, the atmosphere is unbelievable. There is a sea of fans and it is impressive.
Take the tour.
did joe just say "clog the bases"?
beltrE
Turnout will be light here tonight, I think, between the sucking Sox and the charging Bruins.
E-drian
Phew. RSVP.
OK, now I cannot turn off the damn translater. Every time I switch a web page or refresh, I get a toolbar at the top asking if I want to translate. Arrggh. That's what I get for playing around with things.
weiters dong
BAL: 01
MFY: 0
Oh yes, speaking of French, RSVP.
Amy, did you try right-clicking on the toolbar?
SWEATY!!!
SWEAT POWERED
YOUK!! We score first!!
I think I fixed it. Don't ask how, but it went away. For now. Maybe it was when I cursed at it in French.
I love French cursing.
Dr Singles!
Nothing like our old guys coming through for us.
FORE
MONTY HALL
LET'S MAKE A DONG!!!!!!!
Hall-lelujah!
My eyes are burning! We have two home runs and are ahead by three runs! And we are playing the ANGELS!
Whoa, we got a three-run lead here now.
Loooong inning for Saunders.
Youk is NOT happy about that.
yeah, yook very chatty on the way to first!
Doctor Doubles does it once more!
the doctor is in -- and on second base.
Whoo-hoo! Dr Doubles this time!
Do my eyes deceive me? 5-0??
Not quite dead yet.
Were you referring to Lowell or the team, Benjamin?
Both work, really.
YEAH! Nice.
CS!
Always easier when you cut Martinez out of the play.
Not Dead Yet?
More like.
Drew thinks he'll go for a walk.
I knew someone would post that. :)
Ozzie never ceases to amuse:
Swisher hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the sixth -- leaving his arm up longer than the State of Liberty -- Chicago rallied to win. And as far as Swisher's celebration, Guillen said that's just the kind of person Swisher is.
"That's the way he is. Good for him, enjoy it," Guillen said. "I wish he could do that for me, because he wasn't a very good player for me. He was very bad for me."
9C where are you quoting from?
L-girl said...
9C where are you quoting from?
the post I believe
Why did I miss something?
I don't know if you missed anything, just wanted to know the source. No link or quotes or anything, but it didn't sound like you.
L-girl said...
I don't know if you missed anything, just wanted to know the source. No link or quotes or anything, but it didn't sound like you.
sorry if I confused you , but I stick to what I am good at....:)
I stick to what I am good at....:)
Always a good decision
Thanks for the replies.
Glad to see some offense tonight. Hopefully Buch can recover that bad inning.
angels playing with (on) fire ....
!!!
ON FIRE
Bottled water companies telling us how their bottles are recyclable and you can make shirts out of them = very fucked up.
Evening folks...good to see some runs on the board.
Get him out!
Out of the inning...
Alright! Still rolling.
mdc up
Wow! Caught stealing.
Wow, another runner thrown out at second!
Not ANOTHER CS??
Nice work, HH. Let's see if the bullpen can avoid imploding for a change.
victor got his shit figured out! even with the one hop throw, fy was waiting with the tag.
Back after a 3-2 Bruins win.
We've had several good bullpen appearances lately.
...although it seems like whenever our bullpen does well, Amy is not around. Convenient. ;)
yoooooooooook
mr. rbi!
I am here, just checking in and out. I would love to see our bullpen do well!
Go Drew GO!
lowell into 3rd??
wearing a jet pack???
nice.
Wow Sciocia really left this pitcher out to dry.
drew runs thru stop sign (thinking, fuck that coach, he's a blind fool...)
I just threaded on the wrong blog! :)
BELTRE BELTS ONE! Whoo-hoo!
Now we don't even need the bullpen to be good, just decent.
YES ---
14-4!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH TIMES 3!!!
Save a few runs for tomorrow, boys.
MOAR PLZ
Nice to see some offense! Maybe being swept by Baltimore will be the turning point for the season, when everyone on the team said: It's ON.
I thought sweeping Toronto was a turning point. But this will do!
Wow. What a score. &, to think, when I wore my Papelbon jersey to the university library today, a couple students wearing Yankee caps laughed at me.
The Angels are getting KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT, we're up by 10!
EN FUEGO. He is El Hombre tonight!
ob's harsh words have clearly lit a fire under drew.
good ol' shemp!!!!!!!!
Dr Doubles strikes again!
Save some runs for tomorrow night!
Wouldn't that triple by Lowell have been an ITPHR for a lot of other people on the team?
i think it was a double and he took third on the throw home to try and get drew
Obie thinks the RS should slack off! Too many hits and runs!
GODDAMN IT:
MAKE TITO APOLOGIZE!!!!!!!!!!
I know! "You almost want to tell them to call off the dogs and save some for tomorrow night"
As if you can do that!
I never call off my dogs!
;)
Time to empty the bench.
Holy crap! Just got back from a nearly 4-hr town meeting to find it 17-4!?!!
Off to check out box scores, comments, and foooood.
Keep scheduling those meetings, nick--seemed to do the trick.
HOLY SHIT! I had to leave for a bit---17 runs! OMG! We don't need any bullpen tonight.
Do you think this lead is safe?
just saw bot wandering around - tito may be worried ...
Nick, I hope your town hall was as good as this game. Democracy to spare.
Even I think this lead is safe. Even if Papelbon and RamRam are pitching. Even if Timlin came back to pitch.
Is the lead more, or less, safe if Bot comes in?
TIMLIN!!! What about Eric Gagne?
No, Timlin would blow it.
Gagne would definitely blow it. I still have nightmares about him. At least I have some positive memories of Timlin.
Maybe Van Every for an inning on the mound?
Timlin blew more games than Gagne ever saw as a Sock.
Good old Toast. How I don't miss him.
What the hell did these guys ingest since they left Baltimore??
Heidi's first game back in some time..........I'm just sayin'
Good point, Amy. We better make sure they all pee in a cup before they leave the park tonight.
I bet Gagne had a worse overall record with the Sox than Timlin did.
9C--you devil, you!
I love annual town meeting, though this one was frustrating at times. It easily could have been an hour shorter.
One of the big items was a petition to close one of our two public libraries and there was lots of organizing around opposing that. A guy got up (big proponent of keeping the library open) and made a motion to pass over the question. If passed it would be tabled dead. People who came to oppose the closing were audibly upset at that and refused to pass over the question, so we had to hear half an hour of people going on about it while clearly a massive majority would clap after each one. Move the question!
(/rant)
Yeah, where was Heidi? I heard her say she was glad to be back earlier, but missed why she had been away.
nick--Robert's Rules of Order take time to wind themselves out but patience winds out sooner sometimes
Heidi's back? That's totally it. Testosteroooooone!
Amy said...
Yeah, where was Heidi? I heard her say she was glad to be back earlier, but missed why she had been away
Something about a concussion he got in spring raining.
I'm sure Gagne's record was worse, but it's a much smaller sample size. Timlin sucked more often, was my point.
Amy: she got a concussion during spring break and has been on medical leave.
Yes, I think this win is because of Heidi. Mm-hm.
Thats where they practice only in the rain....
What was the final vote on the library, Nick?
Town meetings can be great, but also demonstrate often why democracy doesn't really work too well. But it is one of the things I love about living in a small New England town.
So are they gonna close the library?
NESN has also feel in love with HH's wife, showed her a few times in Toronto and also tonight alot....
9C LOL
How the hell did she get a concussion? Was she trying to catch a ball?
just hold 'em to 12, scott.
something about tek's headboard ...
Amy said...
How the hell did she get a concussion? Was she trying to catch a ball?
Is this one open to anything? ..:)
This could be a turning point. When I went away earlier it looked like the A's were getting ready to make a come back. 17 runs! Turning point. Looks like up from here.
LOL, 9C! You must be feeling very happy tonight---making us all laugh.
I am now feeling better about going to Fenway with Yankee fans on Saturday.
Are she and Tek still an item?
That was mean, Allan. I laughed loudly!
Michael Holloway said...
This could be a turning point.
Maybe.
Also not a reality, just closer to what it should be, especially at Fenway..
We are a cheery group tonight. What a nice change!
I think Heidi is several Sox away from Tek by now.
I just want to say I called it in my first post upthread.
2 CS from V-Mart. nice!
Amy said...
LOL, 9C! You must be feeling very happy tonight-
The magic of good sox baseball...
I think Heidi is several Sox away from Tek by now.
But Tek could still be one of the three stooges.
Come on, Schoenweiss. Don't make me eat my words about the lead being bullpen proof.
Heidi indulges in serial socksing?
we must be up by a lot -- no one mentioning bases loaded in the 9th
But Tek could still be one of the three stooges.
Then she's really got something going on. Good for her.
I did, Allan. You can always count on me to worry. Though I am not really worried.
Heidi indulges in serial socksing?
So they say. I only get my gossip in gamethreads, so I really don't know.
ZOMG they scored a run we are doomed etc etc
L-girl said...
But Tek could still be one of the three stooges.
Then she's really got something going on. Good for her.
Only in a 17-4 game to you hear L's true feelings on group sex...I like it...:}
Loaded bases have to insert a slight feeling of dis-ease whatever the fucking score....
Uh oh, we only have an eleven run lead now, and we still need one more out.
The library will stay open. The guy who started the petition to close it had some interesting points. He's lived here his whole life (61yo). We're a town of 7500 w/ 2 full public libraries. We also have a (small) college in town with a library open to townies. We just spent 3-4 million renovating the one in town. This one in the village of Housatonic (which periodically wants to secede from Great Barrington) will need 1-2 million for renovations/ADA issues in the next few years. We voted down replacing a 22yo fire truck, so we clearly have some budget concerns.
When we were up by 10 runs in the 7th, Obie said something about extra innings. I said, if we go into extra innings tonight, you can bet I won't be watching the game tomorrow night.
OK, we are down to single digit lead. WTF?
WTF? runs. that was foul.
That's a decent case for closing a library. But I'm still glad it will stay open. Not that I'm biased or anything.
Was that ball actually foul?
It sounds like all the towns around here (and probably almost anywhere these days). Not enough money, and difficult choices about where to cut: schools, library, public safety, infrastructure? It's terrible.
Only in a 17-4 game to you hear L's true feelings on group sex...I like it...:}
Holy shit, I just saw this! OMG I am cracking up.
That is all I will say!
the ump has $ on the run diff?
our public library here in Waterbury, lends out more DVD's than books....hence my spelling issues.
Nick--That's a lot of libraries for a town of 7500. Are they just geographically distant or specializing somehow?
Belfast Maine had three weekly newspapers for years.
I thought the ball was foul, but apparently no one on the Sox did. Or they didn't care to protest the call.
bring in van every for the last fucking out, pls.
CHRIST.
The vote was 90-odd % in favor of keeping it open, but he made a compelling argument, though it came far too late in the discourse. His letter to the editor on the subject last week was not very good.
Last out please!
Could we get this TF over with already??
TF, Laura?
sox radio said the batter was shaking his head, like damn, a foul, then was surprised when he ended up be able to go on to second.
TF as in WTF
Thank goodness!
DIRTY
FILTHY!
There really is DIRTY Water in Boston.
And it's about fucking time!
exhale...
schoeneweis just needed the extra work, i guess
muddy muddy muddy
The water is Muddy!!!.
Dirty!
Good night all! Hasta tomorrow.
Aha, I thought it was a noun.
More power to Housatonic if it's willing to put money up to maintain its character.
Good night, everyone. Let's hope we have really turned a corner.
g'night
Nothing good comes easily...
G'night all!
last library thing: Good for Housatonic for sure, but it requires money from all of GB, but in general the town is good with it.
5 HR more than the MFY. Beltre w/ 6 errors. World turned upside down.
Wow. This was fun. Got to watch it on the big screen at the bar while my buddies played almost right under it.
Fun!
Nice game, fun night with the Bruins and Celtics also winning!
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“Orin” is a bell used by Buddhists over the years. Kyujo-orin, founded in 1908, is a producer of “Orin”, and expanded the usage of “Orin”, and is offering “Orin” as part of daily life. This “Orin” is called “Tenorin”. The silver one has a higher tone, and the black one a lower tone.
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Damn, why must I always be fucking bored? This is some bullshit. Someone hit me up!! MCL Ninja's and Ninjette's.
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"I looked into her eyes, and I remember what I said 'If you ever broke my precious heart, I garentee your ass is dead'." For a female rapper she's fucking wicked.
"This is for the Skarekrows!!! Whoop Whoop!! This is for my weirdos!! What? What?"
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What's good Fam? So fucking bored once again. Some one hit me the fuck up.I could always use more Fam to talk to. MCL Ninjas and Ninjettes. .
What's up fam? I need more fam down here. I feel hella lonely. If you live within the Austin Texas area hit this Ninjette up! Even if you don't hit me up! Always down to meet new fam. :3
"But they said I'd be alright, if I took my lil' blue thingies, can't wake up, end up closing my eyes, can't shake it cause the demon wants to keep me inside." <3
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What good fam? Someone should hit me up, cause like usual I'm bored as a mafucker. Add me and hit up my inbox. Don't be shy! Mcl. (:
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Gahhh, so fucking bored. Come on fam, help a Ninjette out and inbox me. I need some wicked homies to entertain this bored ass 'Lette. Mcl. (:
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After 11 years and 4 days online, the IJDb has shut down. It has been an absolute pleasure to run such a popular website for so long. I'd like to take this opportunity to try to thank the great many people that have helped, encouraged, hosted and inspire. In no particular order, Scott Seltzer, Tarim, Mini, Dave Barnes, Jay Linn, The Void, Luke Burrage, Jon Relf, Jon Kennett, The Void, Nils Cox, Stefan Paridaen, JiBe, Marco Paoletti, Guy Berman, Dani, Masaki Nishikawa, Rafael Porelorti, Matteo Vegetti, and finally a special thank you to Little Paul who has been a great help during the shutdown process.
Thank you to Rich Kohut for putting together this fantastic video:
I am really pleased that the news of the IJDb shutdown has resulted in the launch of a whole raft of promising looking websites. In no particular order:
As you can see, these sites pick up much of what the IJDb has left behind. The one notable exception is the great many articles that the site hosted (and were translated into about 7 different languages). Hopefully someone will find a use for these!
If you want to use any of the IJDb content, feel free. It will shortly be made available to everyone (with personal details removed), under a suitable licence.
Thank you all for being a part in this site.
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Camera Critters~ (for Feb 4, 2012) A Variery of critters...
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At my house this week I had a few encounters with some critters...
There's always something 'WILD' going on in the country! :)
One day this week my son brought this little critter up to show me. He had rescued it from one of his cats. Luckily, the little guy was unharmed,
and we set it free in my courtyard ;
far away from his kitties.
I can't identify this lizard, can you?
Last night I had these 2 visitors to my back porch. They had come to dine on the food my cats had left on their plate!
I don't mind them coming to eat the leftovers...however, my poodle, Emmy, went wild barking at them through the glass door. I wish I could get better pictures but there's no way!
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This is what Emmy does to her stuffed animal toys... Maybe she's thinking she could do that to those big old wild Raccoons.
Better think twice about that, Emma Rose!
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Last, but certainly not least, (in size, that is) I went with my husband to the pasture yesterday to put out feed for the cattle.
As big as these critters are, they are not at all intimidating,
.... but I don't get close enough to 'pet' them!
:)
What critters have you seen recently?
Junie
Labels: camera critters, Charles, Cows, dog, dogs, june, lizard, lizards, MEME, Our place
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What a cute critters you have around and in your home :)
Lovely shots.
Regards and best wishes
What a cute little Emma! No critters around here lately, thank goodness. Your raccoons look right at home. LOL
I'm skeered of them. :)
GOlly I don't have any idea what kind of lizard that is. I am not into reptiles at all. "shiver-shiver"
Your cattle are huge. I think I would feel intimidated even if there were a nice strong fence between us. LOL
You look so cute standing out there with the herd behind you. And brave too!
I probably shouldn't have smiled when I saw what Emma had done...but I did. :))
I don't know what kind of lizard that is...don't see those little critters around here much. Emmy us a hoot...watch out raccoons. Have a good week Junie... ~Joy
Our Buddy does the Same thing to his stuffed animals...sigh...I'm just not going to buy him anymore.
Love the feeding shots Junie!
hughugs
Haying cattle in shorts in February would be considered 'showing off' in these parts. We need to wear pants long enough to keep the snow off of our knees. :)
Me thinks you'll need a different dog before you open the door on the racoons. Something a little bigger and meaner.
I'm not sure I knew you raised that many cattle! Charles must stay pretty busy.
We've only seen raccoons once here in my world. We are surrounded by wooded areas but they seem to stay away.
Hope you're having a great week Junie!
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I’m prematurely aged. Or, at least I am if you look at the ads on the TV I watch. “Franklin Mint”:? Check. “Hoveround”:? Check. Good times, good times. But never did I think that I would see an ad like this one:
(I tried to embed the video here, but you’ll have to “go to here to see it”: because, apparently, Flash is too complex for me.)
Hasbro: where little girls’ dreams go to die. Unless those dreams are of doing laundry for everyone. Want a Rose Petal Cottage for to get your little Elizabeth Cady back in line? Hasbro has a “fun Flash experience for you”:, complete with an ad just for girls! (That other ad is for moms.)
Honestly? I guess the Rose Petal Cottage is great for girls who “plan to get their Mrs. degree”:. Somebody needs to send one of these houses to the Suicide Girls or something.
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[JUR of coordination between the government and law implementation, ineffectiveness of the judiciary's authority, lack of accountability, and the inability to expose and check corruption. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, with insufficient health and education systems and a per capita income of $564. The Khaleej Times has more.
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Calling a woman anything related to “men” or any iteration of masculinity does not have the connotations of calling a man being related to femininity. Most women will not be offended will being called a dick like men can be when called a pussy. It’s just not the same thing because femininity within women is not held to be as sacred as masculinity within men.
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It does with all of the women I know, and even if it didn’t, the ‘similar set of slurs’ point still stands. I think women are going to be less sensitive because they’ve had feminism to free them a lot more than men have. To me it’s more to do with the imbalance in gender equality than any imbalance in gender inequality. If this does show (as you say) that the male gender construct is stronger, it’s even more ridiculous for the OP to twist it to suggest that only women have problems.
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The OP was not suggesting that “only women have problems,” but that the slurs often hurled at men basically relate them to being women, or having female qualities, which offends men because we’re socialized to see femininity as being weaker. Feminism has tried to show that it’s okay for men to be feminine and women to be masculine, but the way that people hold onto masculinity is a product of patriarchy and not feminism.
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She said that this was proof of sexism (against women) and that no equivalent (sexism) against men existed. The way men hold on to masculinity is a product of patriarchy, yes.
The way women hold on to femininity is also a product of patriarchy, but you yourself said that we see this less. That’s nothing to do with an imbalance in the patriarchy, because women were originally restricted just as much as men. The fact that women are freer today, and that more women want to be masculine, is a product of feminism - and a good one. You can say feminism tried to do the same for men, but the reality is that the vast vast majority of feminists have been campaigning solely for women. I’m not saying that that is a bad thing. All I’m saying is that men have been temporarily left behind due to this imbalance, and that is what is accountable for the discrepancy.
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So… a lot of you have been messaging me about a less intense workout for those just beginning to go to the gym… Here it is :)
Do 3 reps of the following:
- 3 minutes on the elliptical
- 5 pushups
- 12 situps (regular, right, and left)
- 10 jump squats
- 10 curl to presses, with 5 pound weights
- 40 second plank
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Thighs, Core, and Shoulders
Serious Standing for Legs, Butt, Obliques
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