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Pus Cells in Urine
Pus in urine is a sure fire indication of an infection. Pus is a substance with a whitish or slightly green or yellow color and relatively thick like glue. Pus contains dead skin cells, bacteria and white blood cells. The presence of pus signifies that your body is fighting against an infection. Pus in urine is a sign of that you probably have an infection either in the lower or upper urinary tract.
Causes of Pus cells in Urine
The most common cause of pus cells in urine is UTI or Urinary Tract Infection. UTI is more common in women than in men. And many don’t even realize they already have the infection until the presence of pus is evident.
STD or sexually transmitted disease can also set off pus in urine. Men and women who are sexually active and are not cautious are at risk of getting infected with STD. Mycoplasma and Chlamydia are common forms of STDs that produce pus in urine.
Other causes include:
• Viral infections
• Anaerobic bacterial infection
• Fungal infections
• Fastidious bacteria
• Tuberculosis
• Infection in the prostate (in men)
• Chemical poisoning (4-Aminodiphenyl)
• Gonorrhea
• Pyelonephritis
• Renal abscess
• Reiter’s syndrome
At times, pus in urine can also be due to old age and pregnancy. While certain medications such as Ropinirole and Requip can also cause pus.
Symptoms of Pus in Urine
Oftentimes pus in urine doesn’t always indicate an infection or the presence of bacteria. Sometimes pus would appear without showing any other symptoms such as in the case of more serious conditions like cancer or tuberculosis. But when symptoms do appear, they are:
• Foul smelling urine
• Cloudy urine
• Frequent urination
• Fever
• Discomfort during urinating
Tests and Diagnosis of Pus in Urine
The following are the steps taken to help diagnose the cause of pus in urine:
• Assessment of medical history of past UTI or STD infections, antibiotic or other medications recently used, and family history of kidney diseases
• Physical examination
• Laboratory tests: the main laboratory test for pus in urine is Urinalysis. Other follow-up tests include CBC (pyelonephritis), ANA analysis, CT scan, and Renal Ultrasound
Treatment for Pus in Urine
High quantity of white blood cells present in the urine indicates inflammation located higher than the urinary tract system. The condition can be caused by kidney problems or other serious conditions. When the urinalysis confirms the high level of white blood cells, the doctor will require further tests to determine the underlying cause in order to come up with the appropriate course of therapy. Usually, pus in urine can be treated through antibiotics such as Ampicillin, Norfloxacin, Amoxicillin, Minocycline, Ciprofloxacin, Levofloxacin, and Doxycycline.
Complications of Pus in Urine
Potential complications can occur depending on the underlying cause of pus in urine. For example, a simple urinary tract infection when left untreated may progress further with the infection reaching the kidneys. When this happens, the patient can become dehydrated and the situation could aggravate into kidney problems. Though UTI rarely occurs in men, they are, however, more prone to complications. It is therefore crucial to know the symptoms and have it treated right away before things get any worse.
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1. neeraj says:
hi i m a male age 35 yrs i got uriane infection since last 10 days and reports show puscells range 12-14 what could be the cause n is it a denger issue 4 me
2. ratilal says:
good article .really impressed.
3. majid says:
hey i am male age 19 . my report show the puscells range 100 . what is the cause behind it ??
4. marie grace says:
i see bubbles in my urine and after reading the preceding article, i suspect i have so much protein. very informative article. share us more. thanks a lot.
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She's Done
To a degree it goes without saying. But it's worth reviewing just how deeply preposterous Palin's argument yesterday really was when she claimed that she refused to exploit the people of Alaska by serving out her full term.
When you run for governor, as for president, you run for a four year term. You commit, at least implicitly, to serving four years, though many people end up not doing that for various reasons. There's nothing in the implied contract about running for reelection. Indeed it's arguable that the public would be better served by a governor focusing for four years on running the state rather than laying the groundwork for their reelection.
In any case, Gov. Palin, who's served only a little more than half her first term (remember, she was elected in 2006), announces she won't run for reelection. And having decided that she won't run for a second term, she concludes that it would be exploiting the people of Alaska to agree to serve out the remainder of the term they elected her to serve back in 2006. This is apparently because she'll be a lame duck. And, she claims, lame ducks never get anything done and just spend a lot of money going on taxpayer funded junkets. So better to walk away from her job and pass it off to the Lt. Governor who no one hired to do the job at all.
You could keep plumbing the depths of this ridiculousness for some time. But as MC rightly notes it's simply poisonous, toxic, fatal for anyone running for president. Setting side political and policy stances, the one thing really key about a president is that they be steady under pressure, not rash, and not prone to spur of the moment freak outs where they just walk away from the job to go to Disneyland. A lot of nonsense gets knocked around about 'character' in presidential elections. But this is the foundational question of character that really is critical. Assuming this isn't about some soon-to-pop scandal and it's really that Palin just decided on a moment's notice (look at how much preparation went into the press conference to know how long this was in the works) to up and walk away from her responsibilities, that's simply fatal for anyone's presidential chances.
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Ming is a Chinese word (radical 30a) translated into English variously as: name(s), to name, named, given a name, one’s name (or title), spoken of, divided, what they are called, how they manifest, labels, the term, manifests as.
In Taoist texts, the word “ming” is used most frequently to point to “the tao that can be named,” in other words, to the manifest, phenomenal world -- the “names and forms” created by mind. Ming is used also to refer to the functioning of a name or a word: in other words, to how words operate to divide, separate, make distinctions; and in particular, how names/words artificially divide the essential unity, the original simplicity of the Absolute, via intellectual/conceptual activity or social discrimination -- how they work to oppose, disrupt or limit the true nature of the Tao.
Ming appears six times in verse one of Laozi’s Daode Jing (Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching) -- mostly in combination/contrast with Chang (the Absolute/Eternal).
In Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition, Jonathan Star offers an explanation of the related term -- wu ming -- which is more or less the equivalent to Chang:
”Wu ming (‘without name’) is a special term meaning ‘the Nameless,’ the undifferentiated Absolute, that which cannot be divided by names. It represents Tao in its unmanifested form, as the substrata of all things, existing before Heaven and earth, the unnameable or indivisible nature of Tao. Wu-ming, the Nameless, reaffirms the Unity of the Tao, that Supreme Reality that cannot be named or divided ... that which is beyond name and form.”
Paradoxically, the word “Ming” (with a capital “M”) is also used to point to The Name (with a capital “N”): to the Eternal Name, which refers to the aspect of Tao which is its power to create the names/forms of the world. We find this usage, for instance, in the first two lines of verse one of the Daode Jing, where “Ming” is paired with “the Tao” to represent two aspects of the one Supreme Reality.
In this second usage, Ming is akin to the Shakti of Hinduism, which -- when paired with Shiva -- represents the power of Shiva to manifest creation. It is akin also to The Word or God’s Spirit, in Christianity: the force which creates the entire world (e.g. via St. John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”) And similar also to the Greek logos, or the para-vak (Supreme Speech) of Kashmir Shaivism.
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The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. (John Ousterhout)
Discovering a solution to a mathematical problem is only half of the battle. Actually writing down the argument that you’ve discovered formally can also be a daunting task, especially if the argument is lengthy and is not modeled on an existing one in the literature. While every individual detail of the argument may be clear to the author, the overall structure of the argument may not be immediately obvious. In particular, it is often difficult to make the (important) decisions about the organisation of the argument, and selection of good notation, until a large part of the paper is already written, at which point any changes in the organisation or in the notation often become painful to implement. (Many times in the past, I have started to write a paper without devoting enough thought to the overall structure, and spent a lot of time establishing some lemmas which I thought were important, only to realise later that one did not actually need the lemma, thus wasting quite a lot of time.)
I found that the technique of rapid prototyping from software engineering is useful in ameliorating these difficulties. According to this technique, one does not write the paper in linear order, and one also refrains from the temptation of writing the easiest or most straightforward portions first. Instead, one writes the paper in the following order.
1. First, one writes a bare-bones “skeleton” or “prototype” of the paper as quickly as possible; this prototype has the (approximate) statements of all the key lemmas, propositions, and theorems, as well as all key definitions, but all the proofs are omitted, or sketched in very informal “notes to self”. At this primary stage of the writing process, the priority is to get the “big picture” right – the logical organisation of the paper, and some semi-precise descriptions of each important proposition or piece of notation. The fuzzy nature of these descriptions will allow one to easily move parts of the argument around to improve this big picture.
2. After the organisation is completed to one’s satisfaction, the second objective is to write down just enough of the proof so that one can make the statements of all the lemmas, propositions, theorems and definitions precise.
3. Once this is done, the third objective is to carefully write the key portions of the argument, for instance deducing one key proposition from two previous key lemmas, to make sure that the structure actually works as expected.
4. Finally, one fills in all the “routine” aspects of the paper, such as proofs of standard lemmas, or a quick application of the main theorem. Usually, by this stage, the remaining gaps in the paper are so disconnected that they can be filled out in basically whatever order one pleases. This is also a good time to write the introduction and similar motivational sections.
Any decisions which do not impact the big picture should be deferred until late in this process. For instance, if you have a small quantity which is probably going to equal \varepsilon/2 or maybe \varepsilon/3, but do not know exactly which it is yet, you could write “let \delta := ???” for now, and use \delta as a placeholder for this quantity until you get to the point in the proof where you figure it out exactly what ??? should be, and which point you can edit a single line to complete the proof. (Contrast this with writing \varepsilon/2 in two dozen places in the proof, then discovering much later in the writing process that you have to go back and change \varepsilon/2 to \varepsilon/3 (and \varepsilon^2/4 to \varepsilon^2/9, etc.) in those two dozen places. Even with modern search-and-replace tools, this can be an irritatingly time-consuming task.)
One nice feature of this approach is that it can be divided with a coauthor. For instance one author may write an informal sketch of the proof, with many details omitted, then the other coauthor may tweak the organisation and notation, and then fill in the details, and then the first author might then review the paper and add in some remarks and write the introduction. Many other permutations are possible; it depends very much on the nature of the collaboration. Using version control software (e.g. Subversion) can facilitate this process immensely, and I recommend investing some time in learning how to use such software (e.g. starting with this link).
While one is writing one part of the paper, one often gets some good ideas regarding what to do for another part of the paper; e.g. when writing down a lemma, one may have an idea for an example or remark which will illuminate that lemma. When that happens, I do not recommend ignoring that idea, nor do I recommend dropping what you are currently doing to fully flesh out that idea; instead, devote a minute to write down a “stub” for that idea in the relevant location of your paper (just enough to jog your memory when you return to that location), and then return to what you were doing before, so as not to break your concentration or momentum. That idea can then be safely forgotten about for the moment, and revisited at one’s leisure, at a more appropriate stage of the writing process.
The rapid prototyping strategy is often hard to adhere to perfectly, and I must admit that sometimes (especially for shorter papers) I take a very different approach, writing the “easy” and “fun” parts of the paper first (e.g. the introduction, or some simple lemmas), and try to use the momentum generated to then write the rest of the paper quickly. This tends to work well if one is very confident as to how the large-scale structure of the paper will be arranged, but I have regretted using this hastier approach when I found, halfway through the writing process, that a radically different organisation would have been much better.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a memoir document, with custom settings for margins, headers and footers, etc. I just found out it is being printed single-sided instead of double-sided, and I was wondering if there is a simple command to treat all pages as odd pages.
How can I tell memoir to format the even pages exactly as it would the odd pages?
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How about adding the class option oneside?
P.S.: This should work for all classes featuring the \chapter command plus the twoside default option. In particular, it works for the standard class book and the KOMA-Script class scrbook.
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If I'm understanding you correctly you need to use something like this:
%%% set up the recto page layout
\checkandfixthelayout %or perhaps \checkandfixthelayout[lines]
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{\oddsidemargin}% after \checkandfix......
Source: Pg. 25 of the Memoir documentclass manual (Side margin section).
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A Couple Of Questions…
1. Do you hate the new trendy, modern 3-d Sens logo uniforms and the ugly black Sens alternate jersey?
2. Do you like grassroot fan movements? (Well, the ones that don’t involve firing Bryan Murray.)
3. Would you want to read about an article that pertains to both?
If you answered yes to the following three questions, you’d probably enjoy a piece written by Ken Warren discussing the vintage jersey designed by a member of HFboards.com named Jerk Store.
Here’s his design concept:
To read Warren’s piece, click here.
And if you want to sign Jerk Store’s petition to encourage the Senators to embrace this jersey concept, click here.
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Travelers Welcome
Travelers Welcome
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
My Own Worst Enemy
by Sarah Hartman
I fuck all the wrong boys
and slither from beneath their sheets
while quietly they do sleep
in sickening satisfaction
I down bottle of pills and vodka for relief
just a twist and a splash of juice
to sweeten the esophageal erosion
oh how it stifles the internal implosions
so that I may find a new boy
one that's perfectly wrong
which makes him so perfectly right
to play chicken with my flight or fight
I am my own worst enemy
don't hate me
but how dare you
try to
love me
don't walk away from me
but how dare you
even attempt to
stay with me
don't let me go
but how dare you
think for one second
that you could contain me
I am my own worst enemy
I circumvent the most honest of men
castrate their efforts in mere moments
leaving them hanging
by feeble threads
for hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned
yet I easily scorn myself
'suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not,
for of such is the Kingdom of God'
only it is I who have locked myself out
and scheduled my own burning
I am my own worst enemy
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
And the war drags on . . .
In the reality version, our legacy is bad water, cancer and social chaos. Iraq has, by one scientific extrapolation, surpassed the million mark in war dead and continues to rack up other numbers (4 million internal and external refugees, for instance, but not to worry, only 133 of them got into the U.S. this year) that . . . I dunno, maybe it's just me . . . seem antithetical to the idea of democracy. And of course, as the latest National Intelligence Estimate has just embarrassingly informed the world, Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program four years ago.
But so what? The president and his coterie of "High Nooniacs" want to invade Iran anyway and spread our pretend -- and, unavoidably, our real -- legacy to that country as well, and if they really set their minds to it, make the right calls, rally the media, pound the fear button, pound it again, they'll do it, reality (and its wide-eyed, stunned adherents) be damned. We won't stop them. We have nothing but our scattered selves.
War has America.
Like it or not, all the war protest in the many forms in which it is currently flowering -- from the impeach-a-dope movement to the public rallies to the political dissent to the courageous independent reporting that gives citizens unprecedented access to war-zone reality -- does not a nation make. Only war and war culture do that, which means, it’s infinitely easier to start a war than it is to stop or prevent one, because going to war, however gratuitously, is just a nation being itself, doing what it was built to do.
Pete notes the above from Robert C. Koehler's "Iraq's Million" (Common Dreams). The notion that "only war and a war culture do that" is nonsense. A bad book is cited. There are other things that can provide a bond. You really have to believe that the world starts and ends with the United States (and be historically challenged with regards to the history of the US) to believe that. And you have to be not just caught up in the macho but trapped in it as well. It's the sort of 'noble lie' that Platonics would foist off on their followers.
It's the sort of lie that tells us, "Yes, it's a huge challenge to overcome but this is what makes a nation." No, it's not. And you don't even have to leave Western hemisphere to demonstrate that. The myth being put foward in that section serves to justify war (intentionally or not -- the national equivalent of the get-out-of-jail-free pass of "Boys will be boys") and it's not merely short-sighted in its xenophobic scope, it's also short-sighted in terms of what it is allegedly addressing.
If you buy the lie that wars are a natural characteristic of a nation (Howard Zinn argues to the contrary and does so quite well, noting how much energy has to be expanded to sell a people on a war), then you have to acknowledge some realities of war. Despite the Bully Boy's nonsense claims, wars are not 'endless'. They have a start and they have an end (even if the end is mutal, total destruction of all parties involved). They have two or more participatns -- clearly defined rivals. Which is why the 'Cold War' wasn't a true war at all. It had the 'participants.' Two super-powers so plagued by inadequacies that neither's leader (at any given time) wanted to be the first to step up to the urinal for fear of being found out. But what comes after (or, if you prefer, between)? Peace.
So peace making would be a natural characteristic of nation-states if you want to argue that war is. To deny that basic dualityy only makes a shoddy formulation all the more shoddy. It's akin to saying, "Sunlight is a natural characteristic of nation-states" -- and leaving it at that -- as if night fall doesn't follow daylight. (Those interested in both processes should check out Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace edited by Maxine Hong Kingston and from the writing workshops addressing those two issues -- available at Koa Books.)
We get sold a lot of lies and that, again, is right up there with "Boys will be boys." It justifies behavior that shouldn't be justified.
They're just there to try and make the people free,
Just more blood-letting and misery and tears
That this poor country's known for the last twenty years,
And the war drags on.
Last Thursday, ICCC's number of US troops killed in Iraq since the start of the illegal war was 3880. Tonight? 3886. Just Foreign Policy's total for the number of Iraqis killed since the start of the illegal war stood at 1,122,406. Tonight? 1,127,552.
While Bully Boy whines that he needs more tax payers' monies to satisfy his blood lust, CBS reports that $1 billion in equipment is missing in Iraq. Now that's a drop in the bucket when Bully Boy's whining that he needs a $50 billion advance on his allowance. But it does go to the fact that the corruption is so great and the oversight so little that Congress should be insisting for an in-depth accounting of where the money has been spent thus far.
A friend in the State Department asked me to note a theory floating around as to why so few Iraqis refugees are being admitted to the United States: Even if they are pro-US, the government doesn't want to Iraqis in this country in large numbers for fear that they can speak (with authority) on what the illegal war has done to their country. They could be pro-invasion, pro-war and it wouldn't matter because so much that has gone down is still unknown to so many Americans. If the US was granting asylum in large numbers (even just to those who worked with US forces), that would be a large number of Iraqis and the White House is very worried that things could go 'off script.' Whether true or not (it's just a theory floating around the State Department), it is true that large admissions (or larger -- but the current number is tiny) is also acknowledging, while the illegal war is ongoing, what a failure it has been that so many Iraqis have to leave their own countries.
UPI reports that Iraq media says the country's parliament will be holding hearings on the theft-of-Iraqi oil shortly. This follows Selina Williams reporting (for MarketWatch) earlier this week that BP PLC and Royal Duth Shell PLC were to meet Wednesday with Hussein al-Shahristanti (Iraqi oil minister) for oil discussions. And UPI's Ben Landon offers:
Community note: Question in a number of e-mails is about the mirror sites. Cedric, Rebecca and this site all have mirror sites at Blogdrive. What's going on with those? Cedric noted a problem when trying to cross-post yesterday. Rebecca gave up on trying and hoped to try tonight. The page people attempting to view The Common Ills mirror site on displays some "under construction" message. Rebecca got that after logging in to her account and attempting to cross-post. They were doing something with their servers the other day. It's a Blogdrive issue.
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Omicronian castle
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Omicronian castle
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Exterior of the Omicronian castle, in 3003. [4ACV17]
LocationOmicron Persei 8
First appearance"Love and Rocket" (4ACV03)
The Omicronian castle is a castle on Omicron Persei 8. It appears to be the residence of Lrrr and Ndnd.
In 3003, Fry, Leela, and Bender went there to deliver barrels of candy hearts, [4ACV03] which had been sent by the Earth government.
In 3004, Fry, Leela, and Bender went there to retrieve Fry's nose, [4ACV17] which Lrrr had bought in a sex shop at the Galactic Bazaar.
In 3010, Ndnd kicked Lrrr out of the castle. [6ACV11]
In 3013, Fry lived there for a week after being adopted as a pet by Lrrr's son Jrrr. [7ACV16]
Image gallery[edit]
Jrrr's room was first seen in a promotional picture released by Countdown to Futurama, in May 2013. [2] 7ACV16 later aired in June.
Additional information[edit]
A promotional picture of Lrrr's son Jrrr and Fry in Jrrr's room, [7ACV16] released by Countdown to Futurama, in May 2013. [2]
• The animation of the Planet Express ship landing at the Omicronian castle in 4ACV03 and in 4ACV17 is the same.
• These scenes also take place at roughly the same time of the episode.
Lrrr: I built this castle with my own two slaves! What're you gonna do? Kick me out?
Fry: Whoa. A palace!
Parapets. Battlements. Everything my Big Book of Castles promised.
Notes and references[edit]
1. ^ This may not be part of the castle, as no castle is shown in the episode.
2. ^ a b Countdown to Futurama: Jrrr Show’s Fry His Fleem [sic]. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 09 May 2013. Retrieved on 08 January 2014.
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Who is Kryon
Kryon: A universal energy
I am introducing Kryon different from other times, because, in fact, it wants a new wider introduction of its energy. In the past, we were not prepared in the consciousness of humanity to move toward a fuller meaning of the Master of Magnetic Service.
Today, we are going to talk about the origins and expansion of this energy throughout planet Earth and the Universe. The first arrival of Kryon to humanity made us start taking a conscious contact of this energy. It took several years to become familiar with this energy to nowadays ascend to a new level of understanding of it. I realize that part of our consciousness has been preparing and expanding its own gates to understand more and more.
Today you will meet a Universal Kryon, representative of a much wider and expanded energy what we have perceived so far. Today you will meet the Universal Energy of Magnetic Service (U.E.M.S.) and you will see how this energy has its “correspondents” in each galaxy or system of this infinite universe.
One of the Seven Hermetic Principles is “As above, so below”. I think is wonderful to realize how it has been summarized, in an apparent simple phrase, a universal truth that transcends the boundaries that our soul can grasp now. We will be guided by this principle “As above, so below” to understand the Universal Energy of Magnetic Service. The entire Universe is life. It is energy in motion and expansion.
All terrestrial bodies have life and spirit in different dimensions. Everything that exists has a magnetic field. If everything that exists has a magnetic field, the Kyron’s service is everywhere. If we look closely at the skin of our hands, for example, we can observe cellular tissue, the same that a macro-level allows us to be part of this great hologram: life. If we look more thoroughly and we are aware of the micro particles, we would realize that each of them has its own magnetic field and in turn, together with all other particles in the system form a single magnetic field. Kryon is there.
However, we understood Kryon as an angel with wings and human physiognomy; this may change things a bit. That understanding was appropriate to begin to approach to this divine energy, but Kryon is much more than that, Kryon is a multidimensional consciousness that dwells in the eternal now and has no shape. In fact, this consciousness dwells “in the shape” as a spirit that makes possible that the quantic machinery works. Kryon is within you now, because if you are made of magnetic fields, the service that the Interdimensional Master provides is there.
Identifying Kyron’s energy from the micro, we can get and expand our consciousness to the macro.
Magnetic fields are generated by energy. If everything is energy, magnetic fields exist everywhere. Well, these magnetic fields exist on our planet and throughout our galaxy, but you ever wonder: Who rules the magnetism in other schools in the Universe? There are also regents of this service there.
There is a universal consciousness that rules magnetism, but that energy is detached (as we of the Higher Self) and takes a specific form in different systems and galaxies. With this, we are saying that there is a super consciousness of Magnetic Service and that this universal consciousness has its representatives, who lead the service in different galaxies. The accumulation of these representatives builds the Universal Collective Consciousness. Therefore, God is a collective energy that acts in unison and in turn, each part does its work functionally. Each service contributes to the working of the Universe and keep it alive in abundance.
Thank you Kryon for your service in our Galaxy! Thanks for letting us evolve and nurture our soul and spirit with your wise teachings!
By María José Bayard
Fragment of the Manual Level 1 Self-healing, Quantic Symbols of Kryon Technique
Who is Kryon
Kryon is an angel coming from the Great Central Sun, of the universal family, the divine source, the origin of everything: the interdimensional life.
The energy of the name KRYON prints implicitly the imprint of all the retinue that builds him on an interdimensional level. If you mention his name, “Kryon”, you will be mentioning a group consciousness within “himself” and each of the consciousness by separate, sound funny ¿isn´t it? Nevertheless, let me explain the meaning of it.
We as human beings are made of millions of cells. Each cell is a consciousness in itself, it life by itself. In the book “The astrology as occult science”, the author Oscar Adler states:
(…) “Fechner sets off from the fact that our body is built by millions of the smallest alive creatures: there so called cells. Each one of these cells have a relative independent existence, has a life of its own granted with all the elements inherent to it: metabolism, absorption, secretion, development, multiplication and death…” (This is a fragment of the text of the book of Oscar Adler “The astrology as occult science” – Kier Publishing house.
Therefore as human beings, we are made of millions of little lives that vibrate independently from each other but at the same time, all together ringing at unison, they form what we call: human being. Each cell has a consciousness of its own and consciousness of all the other cells; they are united and connected with each other.
If we follow the above example, the thousands of cells would be the angelic entities and KRYON would be one of the thousands of angelic entities (cells) vibrating at unison (our human body is an image and likeness of the exterior and interdimensional world). The result of the multiple consciousness of the cells vibrating at unison is a 4D human being and the multiple angelic consciousness that live on the other side of the veil are the result of one entity KRYON.
This will be a tri-dimensional example of what a real consciousness is in reality interdimensional, but it brings us closer to the desire to share who is Kryon.
Then on the other side, we can see exactly the same picture from a different perspective:
As human beings, we are not only the walking being that we see and touch. Inside that human case, we have incarnated in one entity and have multiple profiles at interdimensional levels, like my case: María José.
Meaning that María José is a result of multiple profiles that work at unison and look like one 4D entity. Internally and interdimensional María José has a profile of a loving María José, an angry María José, sad, etc. interdimensional María José has archived thru all her experiences many states of consciousness that built this entity and created various profiles in her interdimensional field, but come to stage in everyday life 4D when the situation requires it. Therefore we are made of multiple profiles that we created along our actual and past life, that are integrated in one entity, in this case María Jose now, in this incarnation.
With the following example, I wish to transmit the analogy regarding KRYON the entity.
KRYON himself is made of multiple consciousness and entities, but together at unison, make KRYON the interdimensional angel who send many messages to humans in planet earth, whom receive his teachings and transmit them to humankind to collaborate in the evolution process in our DNA, to help us activate our divine essence and guide us to establish a communion with eternal God: ourselves in our multiple dimensions.
Therefore, if we are made by multiple consciousness in one profile or human case, Kryon is formed of many entities that together create the identity of KRYON OF THE MAGNETIC SERVICE.
Kryon of the Magnetic Service
We already know that Kryon is a bundle of consciousness ringing at unison, but from now on I will call Kryon as one entity, this will make it easier to communicate his messages without clearing each time that he´s many entities.
Kryon is the angel of magnetic service.
I would like to break down this two words: “Service” and “Magnetic” so that we can unify the spirit of package that is Kryon.
“What does Service Mean?”
The real academy of English says “action and effect of serve”.
Singularly I add that is something that is at the mercy of something or someone… All humans and life are to the service of someone or something. If we think about if from MACRO to MICRO, we can say that:
The universe is at the service of life, thanks to him we can live and be born in a planet that is in a system, that has a principal sun whom provide life and heat, at the same time this system is within a galaxy.
The earth, the soil, are at the service of the plant kingdom who feed from her to grow. At the same time the mineral kingdom, animal and ourselves use the service that earth provide us to live and walk…
At the same time vegetables (and some animals) that are born are at the service of human as food. Vegetables are at the service of some animals, who feed from them to survive, at the same time some animals feed human beings.
To get into detail, we see in animal kingdom that there are animals that are at the service of other animals they feed them to survive.
If we see the human system, we see that everything is at the service of something or someone else, a lawyer, an accountant, a doctor, an electrician o the sale of a product or a service in general. The human is at the service of someone else. The life on earth has a structure to work in as a service chain and needs to fulfil. Is a chain, where are no disconnections, but connections within, vibrating at unison so that everything keeps working, in harmony and balance.
As human race, we are at the service of a universal plan. What I really want to transmit with this example is the spirit and understanding of the “service” itself.
The sign of Virgo, in astrology, it´s identify with the archetype or model of the virgin. At the same time this model or image represent GAIA, mother earth, mother of all mothers… In the “Virgo” sign, we see the attributes represented by the words “system”, “service” and “part” which are fundamental to build the meaning of this energy.
Virgo is a walking example of the spirit of “service” watch any person with this sign as sun and you will see in most of them the spirit of service, humbly, accepting being part of a system and that he is not “the most important part” but “one of the parts that the system needs to run properly”.
The spirit of service “to be at service as part of the system that we are”.
Kryon is part of the life system, of God, of all, is a part that is in charge of the maintenance of the magnetic service.
About Magnetism
Everything is magnetism.
If we say, magnetism is everywhere, Kryon of the magnetic service too.
We are all Kryon, or Kryon is everywhere or better to say the service of Kryon can see life itself.
I often wondered why Kryon had a special resonance in me… besides I see people with the same situation, they ring strongly with the same loving entity. A few days the spirit showed in my conscious the following:
All in earth incarnate with the consciousness – KRYON – since we all live within a magnetic system. Our DNA, GAIA, we are humans are formed by magnetic fields. We all vibrate with the loving energy Kryon; we are Kryon, we are part of the service this entity bring along with his entourage”.
Knowing and activate Kryon in our consciousness take us directly to activate the love from the universal source that we are part of, therefore, it creates a warm dejavú and memory of home. Every time we pronounce his name, we also implicit say:
We are part of this huge system and the collective soul – God – and the collective energy of light within us interacting always with human life, even If we cannot see it with our fourth-dimensional consciousness.
The existence of the whole plan and divine design we realize to be here today…
We mention the absoluteness we belong to, our original family, the source, God…
Then ¿Why Kryon of “magnetic service”, who is?
Is an entity who is “at the service”, being an active part of the universal family, of the magnetism of the system.
The DNA is magnetism and Kryon thru his messages is helping us expand our 4D consciousness to a 5D consciousness to ascend and evolve our DNA, activate the light in it and the communion with our higher-self.
How to feel Kryon
Ever since I started channelling Kryon I had various stages. As I walk thru the path, I feel him in different ways:
Of course, at the beginning, I had many troubles and a part of my human consciousness didn´t want him, he guided me thru the path of truth and I found the path of harmony that I needed to be at ease to what was happening to me.
Channelling Kryon was a very important challenge in my life. For me channelling Kryon means go thru every change and events that will become a teaching and a message he wants to give to humankind. Every story, every parable, and every Message he gives thru me, I have experienced them first in my life.
Sometimes I wonder if this is part of the work… I wonder if I choose walk thru many experiences and karmic transmutations in my life so that I could understand profoundly the process that Kryon gives in his messages, I feel I had a crash course of challenges and cleaning.
At the beginning, I wonder ¿why me? However when I understood the teaching and experience of each challenge I joined the movement of life and today I understand much lighter the challenges, ¿who haven´t or once have? In my experience, I feel those challenges were necessary to be able to transform them in my purpose with Kryon, that´s how I´m able to experience every step, process or learning that Kryon wants to give thru my channel for humankind.
I feel Kryon as a father, brother, friend, companion, teacher, partner, sometimes I feel him as a role of feminine energy, sometimes as a role of masculine energy… the truth is that Kryon has no specific gender. Kryon is feminine and masculine together, Kryon is mother and father at the same time. Kryon is brother and sister, Kryon is girlfriend of boyfriend, Kryon is eternal, is part of wholeness, doesn´t have duality and is part of the Universal Family that is GOD.
What is the purpose of Kryon in humankind?
I often wonder why Kryon didn´t show up before to humankind to give messages thru somebody else and recently in 1989 (a lineal and human timing) As soon as I thought about the question, I was receiving the answer. “The Spirit doesn´t answer if there is no question asked”
Kryon has always been with human kind, Kryon is “here and now” everywhere. There were no other channel because it wasn´t the right timing, but he has always been here, Kryon is within our body, we breathe Kryon, everything is Kryon. His spirit was implanted in every teacher that have laid light in this planet.
His main purpose is first the displacement of GAIA’s magnetic grid to allow us ascend and evolve to a new humankind. Now his purpose is education, teachings and knowledge that collaborate with the human being’s spiritual growth. This evolution process produces a displacement to a state of conscious in our Quantum DNA, which allows a change and activation of our own magnetic grid, consequently a movement on GAIA’s grid and cooperate with the path of growth that we are taking as humankind.
The messages of Kryon are clarifying, expansive, loving, they have the cosmic energy of life, the love of the universal family, the source, God… and the purpose is to help us wake and remember that infinite love which sometimes we forget after we are born.
Humans and Brothers ¡WE ARE ALL KRON! he´s everywhere…
¡I love you Kryon, honor you, adore you forever and ever!
By María José Bayard
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nude sculptureHow do you deal with a miscarriage? As someone fortunate enough never to have gone through such a thing, I honestly can't answer that. I can only guess that I'd be quiet and reserved and not want to talk about it a heck of a lot, as this is how I've dealt with other traumatizing situations in life, such as the death of my mother.
I know women who have had miscarriages, though -- a few, actually -- and they've all handled the situation differently. One didn't want to talk about at all. Another went the opposite route and wanted to talk about it all the time. And another woman I know only found solace in an online support group. They all, bravely and admirably, dealt with it in their own private way, and I genuinely applaud and admire them.
None of the women I know, though, boldly decided to pose nude in a calendar to raise money for a miscarriage charity. That's pretty unbelievable.
Catherine Nicholson's world was turned upside down when she lost her twins just nine weeks into pregnancy. “It was horrible," she says. "No one knows quite what to say, whether to talk about it or not to say anything." But shortly after the awful ordeal, she found solace in The Miscarriage Association Facebook Group, a support group from other women who have been through the same experience. After joining, she said that her "world started to get better day by day."
Catherine found so much solace from the group, in fact, that she actually agreed to pose nude as Miss June in a calendar to raise money and awareness for the Miscarriage Association. She said, “I am not quite sure how the idea for a calendar started. We were just joking around about it then one of them finally decided we were actually going to do this.”
About 15 women are planning on taking part in the project, and each will don a temporary tattoo of little butterflies on their arms to indicate the number of children they have lost.
Wow. Talk about bravery. I really can't express how amazed I am at these women's strength, and their commitment to raising money for the cause. Surely, it will make other women -- women who don't necessarily want to talk about everything -- feel like they're not alone. And how can you not admire that?
If you want to donate to the cause, check out Catherine's fundraising page.
How amazing are these ladies?
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Elizabeth Smart to tell her story of abduction in Georgia appearance
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Child abduction survivor Elizabeth Smart is scheduled to speak in northeast Georgia.
Smart will be the keynote speaker of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hall County's 11th annual Futures for Kids Gala at 5:30 p.m. today at the Gainesville Civic Center. Tickets are $150.
Organizers say Smart will discuss how she was kidnapped from her home at age 14. Her captors controlled her by threatening to kill her family if she tried to escape. After being held prisoner for nine months, she escaped and was returned to her family.
Smart began the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to prevent crimes against children and wrote a book titled "My Story." The Times of Gainesville reports ( that Smart will sign copies of her book after the event.
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“Making love around the fire of the alphabet.”
I am in love with stories. I am in love with you and the stories you tell about yourselves. I am in love with the stories I get to tell you.
In some ways, what makes us unique among animals is nothing to write home about–we are the apes most concerned with cleaning up poop, our own and the poop of others, even other species. No other animal spends to much time fretting about poop. That’s really nothing to be proud of.
But the other thing that makes us unique are the elaborate stories we tell. This, right here, my words to your eyes is a miracle and one we take for granted. We are so lucky, to have words so freely available to us. To be able to write and to read and to respond.
I’ve often wanted to tell you about the essay that changed my life, Carole Maso’s "Rupture, Verge, and Precipice /Precipice, Verge, and Hurt Not," but I didn’t know how to explain it if you couldn’t see it for yourself.
Today, I pulled it back off the shelf and read it again and sat in my office and cried. It makes me so happy, this essay, and it reminds me again why we do this and how we are so lucky to get to do this–you, my army of Shahrayars, and me, your Xeroxed copy of a copy of a copy of Shahrazad.
And also, in one of those happy fortuities which is the internet, I found it for you in cyberspace. You can read it yourselves and love it or hate it. But there it is, my favorite essay.
I read this for the first time ten years ago, I imagine, and was dumbfounded and moved. I remain moved.
Here is what I heard about feminism and how closely entwined feminism must be with my ability to read and write and, most importantly, be heard.
Even though you call me sentimental—on the one hand girly-girl, on the other hand loud-mouthed bitch, on the one hand interesting and talented writer, on the other hand utterly out-of-touch idealist, romantic—it is you who wants the nineteenth century back again. When things were dandy for you, swell. You want to believe in the old coordinates, the old shapes. To believe in whatever it was you believed in then. You were one of the guys who dictated the story, sure, I remember. Who made up the story and now go teaching it all over the place. But even then, when you sat around making it up, even then, my friend, it had nothing to do with me. With my world. With what I saw and how I felt.
You will call me naive, childlike, irreverent, idealistic, offensive, outrageous, defiant at times, because I do not believe in a literature of limitation, in a future of limitation. I annoy you with this kind of talk, I know. You’ve told me many times before. You’d like me to step into my quiet box. You’re so cavalier, as you offer your hand.
How familiar does that sound?
I do not believe it has to continue this way—you over there alternately blustery and cowering, me over here, defensive, angry.
You guys, this is what I’m trying to say to you. All this stuff, where you say, well, that’s just how it is; no, it’s not. These are just stories we tell about ourselves and we can tell other stories and we can learn to believe them, to believe in them.
I believe that, with all my heart, that words can change us, that reading and writing can transform us and heal us and bring us closer together.
Maso says:
Despite all efforts to tame it, manage it, control it, outsmart it, language resists your best efforts; language is still a bunch of sturdy, glittering charms in the astonished hand.
And I know that, if I can convince you of that, these dark squiggles on a sea of electric whiteness hold all the magic we need to make ourselves known to each other. If I can convince you that it can be done, and that these letters and these words are the tools with which we can do it, then I wonder if you will let me. Let me slide myself in there where you are most vulnerable–a tongue through slightly parted lips, a finger gently into your soft places. Let me whisper my words in your ear, my hot breath on your cheek. Let me speak to you in hushed tones when you are alone.
And, when I am most lonely, I will shut my eyes and feel your cheek against mine, and listen carefully for the magic you give me in return.
It’s greater than we are, than we’ll ever be. That’s why I love it. Kneeling at the altar of the impossible. The self put back in its proper place.
The miracle of language. The challenge and magic of language.
Why Grown Ass People Sleep with Teenagers
As Grandfille points out, our resident Pedophile Barbie is going back to jail. Grandfille ask notes that many folks are confused as to why a beautiful woman like her would resort to fucking a teenage boy–they seem to think this would be some great gift to said boy.
Let me explain it to you. Teenagers need space to fuck around and make mistakes and grow up. Grown ass people who fuck teenagers, as I’ve said before, have a vested interest in preventing that teenager from growing up and realizing what a loser the teen-fucker is. That’s why fucking a teenager, even if they appear to be willing, is wrong, because, in order to fuck a teenager, a grown ass person must fuck with that teenager’s head. If they didn’t fuck with that teenager’s head, the teenager would eventually ask such troubling questions as “Why can’t this person find someone his or her own age to fuck?” and realize that the answer is “Because this person is a loser” and stop fucking them*.
But, why do hot women, who could, seemingly, have any man they want, fuck teenagers? Here’s my theory. In all of these cases that reached such high profile, the women were in relationships. I suspect that these women have spent their whole lives being the pretty, pretty princesses who could always count on their attractiveness as an inducement for men to spoil them. However, once they get into long-term relationships, their partners grow tired of having to treat the pretty, pretty princess as if she is the most special treat on the planet and not just an ordinary human being who needs to do ordinary things like laundry and dishes and yardwork.
These teenage boys have no experience with ordinary life. They don’t pay bills or work or feel the full weight of adulthood and so they have no expectation that these women will either. The woman has found someone who only sees her as the pretty, pretty princess and who expects her always and forever to need special attention that no other man can give her. So, she chooses the boy who can help her maintain her belief in her special, unique self over the man who wants her to be a grown up.
I suspect the dynamic is similar for men who fuck teenage girls. He loves that, to her, he is always so smart and powerful and special, because she’s got little history to compare him to.
*Keep yourself safe. Follow the Shill’s guide for unfoolish coupling. If you take your age, divide it in half and add seven, that is the youngest aged person you can date without looking like a skivvy loser.
How To Tell if You Live in the Midwest
The Professor is right. There appears to be some confusion about just what the Midwest constitutes.
Citizens of Earth, let me clear it up for you.
Midwestern States
States Which May Share Our Culture, But Are Not, In Fact, Midwest, Mostly Because the Midwest DOES NOT Have Mountain Ranges
Arkansas, Kentucky, Pennsylvania (but really, only the western part)
The State We’ll Take Because It Has to Go Someplace, but Damn It, Now You’re Stretching It
West Virginia
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Just Some Stuff that I’m Thinking About This Morning
1. Photopoppy sent me a link to some actually tiny cat pants. Citizens of earth, look up there at my cat in tiny pants. Notice that he is smiling and enjoying his polka dotted pants. Why is this? Not merely because he’s got some stylish pants on, but because he’s an imaginary cat. I drew him. In real life, cats don’t like to wear pants, as is obvious from the photos of a bunch of miserable cats in pants on this site.
Fix your cats. Spare them the agony of tiny cat pants.
2. I am just so tickled by the idea of my boob freckle being some kind of magnet for trouble I can’t even tell you. Once a boob freckle gets that kind of reputation… Well, what more can you aspire to? The boob freckle is now practically mythic–Aunt B.’s Legendary Boob Freckle. That sounds like the name of something people should be delighted to see. How awesome is that?
3. Didn’t yesterday feel kind of like an object lesson in how men and women communicate differently? First we had W. and our Wayward Boy Scout being all like "Why are we fighting? We’re not disagreeing with you." and me being all like "We’re not fighting. I just want you to admit that I’m more right than you." Then we had me being all like "Hello Sarcastro, Do you want to chat for a bit about the funny way a knife went into my foot?" and Sarcastro being all like "There is a knife in the foot of my friend. I must get to the truck and drive to her house and hold the wound together with my bare hands while calling an ambulance I dialed with my prehensile big toe. I must have enough information only that I can make the most efficient plan and execute it."
4. Does the Midwest have a quintessential song? The South has a lot of songs–"Sweet Home Alabama" etc. But is there some song you hear that just makes you go "God, yes, that’s just what it’s like to be from the Midwest. The right mix of ‘keep to yourself’ishness coupled with sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong and driving around a lot of flat fields devoted to corn and beans? I just don’t know.
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The Return of the Ring
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The Return of the Ring
LocationLoughborough University, England
OrganizerThe Tolkien Society
Dates16-20 August 2012
The Return of the Ring is a large convention hosted by The Tolkien Society after the success of Tolkien 2005. It will be held on 16-20 August 2012 in order to coincide with the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London.
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Confirmed Guests
Tom Shippey
Tolkien polemic. Author, The Road to Middle-earth
Ted Nasmith
Renowned Tolkien artist
Kate Madison
Director, producer and actor of Born of Hope
Brian Sibley
Author and screenwriter
Verlyn Flieger
Academic and author
Corey Olsen
Podcaster and professor
Jef Murray
Artist and illustrator
Colin Duriez
Author and Inklings scholar
Chris Bouchard
Director and producer of The Hunt for Gollum
Dimitra Fimi
Author and lecturer in myth and folklore
Jason Fisher
Blogger, author and editor of Mythprint
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On this day in 1833, the first shipment of imported ice, cut from frozen lakes in Massachusetts, arrived in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), in the hold of the Clipper Tuscany after a four month voyage. The American sailing ship had a specially insulated hold to keep the 180 tons of ice packed in wood and hay to keep the blocks from melting during the long voyage. Sounds crazy? Before the invention of mechanical ice-making by Dr. John Gorrie in 1851, the only way to get an ice cube in India probably would have been to go up into the Himalayas and carve it from a mountainside.
Ice actually was a lucrative product for New England, shipped it all over the world in the mid-1800s. The founder of the international ice trade was a Boston entrepreneur, Frederick Tudor, who became known as the “Ice King.” Tudor began selling ice in 1826 to Charleston, New Orleans and Havana, and gradually expanded across the globe. The Tuscany’s voyage to Calcutta—described in Gavin Weightman’s book, “The Frozen Ice Trade”-- was one of Tudor’s most ambitious forays. Not only did the ship have to make a long and arduous voyage to east India, but after reaching the coastline it had to navigate 70 miles up the treacherous Hoogly River. Along the route, the ship passed Saugar island, from which sailors could hear the frightening roars of tigers. The Tuscany’s progress was the subject of intense coverage in Indian newspapers, which published conflicting reports about how much of the cargo had melted during the trip. (Tudor would claim that about two-thirds of the ice made it from Massachusetts to India intact.)
To promote his business in India, Tudor built lavishly ornamented “ice houses” in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras—the latter of which, the magnificent Vivekanandar Illam, remains a landmark today.
Researchers develop touch-sensitive artificial skin for robots. The innovation may help machines to perform delicate tasks. Of course, if their skin is too sensitive, they may have to trade their WD-40 for Jurgen’s Lotion.
The Hubble’s successor. The James Webb Space Telescope, now under construction, may make even more amazing discoveries.
WiFi on Steroids. The FCC is working on rule changes that would allow Internet service providers to beam their connections out over portions of the broadcast spectrum vacated by analog TV stations.
Ancient viral invasion shaped human genome. Researchers in Singapore have discovered that viruses apparently changed the way that the embryonic stem cells are turned on and off by the human body.
YouTube tests live streaming platform. And who knows? Pretty soon, you may be able to watch dogs on skateboards and that guy who screams “Leave Britney alone!” live, in real time. You’ll have to, because the content reportedly won’t be archived.
Super-soaking IEDs may be the way to stop them. Sandia National Laboratories and a company called Team Technologies have developed a device that disarms roadside bombs by using a high-pressure “fluid blade” to slice them in half.
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Parenthood's Producer On Broadcast vs. Cable, And Continuing Denial Over Friday Night Lights
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February 25th, 2010
Anyone interested in NBC's new Parenthood should check out Lacey Rose's interview in today's with its producer, Jason Katims.
A couple of the questions were particularly interesting to me.
Forbes: As a broadcast storyteller, what's the biggest challenge facing your industry today?
Katims: I think the biggest challenge is that all of the networks are in some ways still trying to figure out exactly what they should be doing. There's all of this incredible work that's being done on cable, which people are hungry for and really demanding. But the networks are still in the business of attracting a larger audience, so it becomes a balancing act: How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.
That reads to me like "I'd have a lot more creative freedom on cable, but the money's still a lot better on broadcast"
Friday Night Lights has the adoration of critics, but it has struggled to find a broad enough audience for network TV. What lessons from that experience can you apply here?
The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it. The most common response when I tell people I work on FNLis, "Oh, I hear that's a great show." I've heard that so many times and it's frustrating only because I love the show so much. That said, I wish I had the answer to why.
I guess the obvious reason that not many people watched the show, because not many people wanted to watch the show wanted to watch the show, because they didn't like the show, is tough to admit. I can understand that. If he wants to find some more potential reasons few people watched the show, he can try here.
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Edit: Fair enough, my original quote in the last paragraph was no more supported by the facts than any of the "excuses" for the show.
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I have your Dragon House 17 tickets available! Come watch Robert "Payday" Prakhantree make his Pro MMA…
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Anyone driving around the City today? Can someone pick up a keg at Geneva/Mission (Mike’s Liquor) and drop off in Financial District?
I’ve fallen asleep through the last two Metamoris events, but I’m excited for the next. I’ll be sure to nap beforehand, lol.
Ughhhh. Someone reboot this MacBook for me.
Wow. I'm pretty wiped out. I fel like doodoo.
1. Very interesting choice of performer, @otgsf. 2. White Rabbit flavored #FrozenKuhsterd is excellent. #offthegrid #dalycity #serramonte
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I hate you guys, @Microsoft. It’s a fucking shame that mammoth companies have the worst customer service.
Someone give me a restaurant rec in FiDi.
Starting Fathers Day with a donut & secret mission run with #TysonAdonis. Yayyyy. #HappyFathersDay, @MandirigmaBJJ
They've done "culture" right. RT @kiyototamura .@anyperk is hiring. they are a great bunch of people.
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Does anyone else see how fast the moon is moving right now?! Mind super blown. Crazy cool!
5 more - Let's help em out! RT @WMMANews RT @FightLifeMedia Can we get an Amen and a RT so we can hit 1000 followers?
He's gonna have serious social issues. /: RT @SFGate 10yr-old genius graduates high school.
I feel like the psycho ex-ff who keeps calling and calling and letting the phone ring forever. @HandybookHQ pick up pleeeease.
Oyyyy. Screw you and you're bright idea to bathe in cologne, guy on BART. It's making my stomach turn.
#BJJ friends - I am trying to put together an all women’s #openmat at @FTCC_DC. Any support would be appreciated! Tell your friends; RT!
Sometimes it still blows my mind. I’m #TysonAdonis’ mom. What a trip. How’d I get so lucky
Pretty awesome presentation by @joyridecoffee . We @anyperk-ers are loving it !
Pretty stoked to have @joyridecoffee at the office!!
Think? Expect. RT @MandirigmaBJJ: Going for heavy singles in Oly lifts today. RT if u think I'm going to hit new PRs. #OLYMPICWEIGHTLIFTING
Emailing good mornings and funny memes with my seestar @miichellie during the work day is tiny bits of happiness. #simplejoys
Last night, I participated in a 12.5-minute submission-only (mock) competition round. Absolute BJJ high afterwards.
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[Twisted-web] Nested templates?
Alberto Trujillo alberto.trujillo at ucd.ie
Thu Jul 7 10:22:26 MDT 2005
There is any way to use nested templates without mix the python code
with the html code.
I know, that I could solve this problem using Stan, or just writing html
code inside the python file and after display what I want.
But that are exactly the option that I can't use. I have to nest the
template keeping the html code and the python code in different file.
If some body can give a example, a tutorial, a address, o something that
can help me, I'll be very pleasant.
Thank you very much
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21 years old. I like some things and don't like some things. I'm edgy that way.
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ummmm... I'll let this talk for me ;)
Oh and , I've blown your Temple Run scores off the planet
Shiny #Canucks Car? I think so!
I love these, but really don't understand the "wear things of teams that no longer exist" craze
more like this?
RT : I got 529,875 points while escaping from demon monkeys in Temple Run. Beat that! http://t.co/q7Elfe0B
My mommy just bought me this :)
I think we need to officially give me the title of "Omelette Master"
Final 'Stache of #Movember
This is it, the final pic of my Movember Stache:
wish you were here!
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Song: Men at Work’s “Down Under” by Pretty Good Musicians
So, I'm wading through my inbox and trying to get my life back together again after the holidays. So far I have 644 messages to go. That's the bad news. The good news is that I'm halfway done. The better news is that I found an e-mail from Hillary (from Pretty Good Musicians) and it has a working link to their Men at Work rendition.
You remember Pretty Good Musicians, right? What?! You don't? Harumph. Then check out them doing Paula Abdul and Duck Tales, yo.
They also cleared up some 30+ year confusion for me. I never knew what they were saying in the part that sounds like "Chunder". Guess what? It's actually Chunder. To quote Hillary,
You're correct, he does say 'chunder', which is an Aussie saying for vomit. The entire line is 'Where beer does flow and men chunder.' I guess they can't hold their Foster's so well.
Touche Australian. You just got slammed by a ukulele-wielding rad chick.
Anyway, here is their cover of Down Under.
Down Under - A Men at Work cover by Pretty Good Musicians
1. An Idle Dad says:
Errr… Wow. What an… interesting… version. LOL. Americans shouldn’t sing that song: just saying. The song actually lends itself to ukulele very well. Still bloody popular down here anyway.
And in my countrymen’s defense I’m yet to see an Australian put their dick on a live electrical fence!
2. Uke Guy says:
Heh. My favorite part of their cover is “Why wouldn’t your language be English”. Heh. In regards to the electric fence. I hope to post that video finale this week. But, I can tell you this much. Before I posted it, I did a Youtube search for “nuts on electric fence” and one of the only videos returned were some teenagers putting their nuts on an electric fence in their garden. Guess what? They were Australian. I kid you not!
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Mike Lieber ([email protected])
Thu, 16 Feb 1995 22:36:55 CST
Mr Hendrickson knows his entropy and his information theories, no doubt about
that. There is no quarrel save for one, and that is that we had no quarrel.
Mr. Hendrickson's use of entropy was never under attack, since there was
nothing inappropriate about it. I might add one thing to Hendrickson's
nice run-down, and that is that social scientists did a good deal of thinking
about the formal identity of information with order (negentropy). Early
enthusiasm quickly faded when it became clear, as Hendrickson pointed out,
that information as a measure and information content--the meaning or
referent of a message--were not the same thing at all. Once information and
meaning get linked in a single sequence of related constructs, information
can be very useful in not just thinking about one's data, but also designing
the research that gets the data. As Danny Yee knows, this is what I spent the
last 20 years doing. But that's another thread.
Mike Lieber
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Talk:Make Money Fast
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A infomercial is acceptable?--SilveryMinnow 06:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Of course it is, this is Uncyclopedia. Where humor can be exploited in a number of ways. --The Improver talkcontribs06:43, Apr 24 2008 (UTC)
Should this be in the HowTo series? User:Aewanko --the ghostlessness 05:23, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
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edit A Visit with your Psychopathic Grandmother
Just finished up. I'm trying to figure out what else to add to make it funnier. It just always struck me funny the idea of a typical visit with your grandmother going south very fast.--Mr.Vib 13:36, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Humour: 8 Great idea. A little long, but good.
Concept: 8 As I said, great idea.
Prose and formatting: 7 Nothing too special in this area.
Images: 8 Interesting blend of images. Captions are funny, too.
Miscellaneous: 7
Final Score: 38 Not bad. Some editing would make it better.
Reviewer: --SirIsaac 13:54, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm using this right now:
time md5sum -c *.txt | pv | grep -v ': OK$'
but aren't there any smart solutions that can list that how many files haven't been checked? I mean I have many md5sum's in .txt files in a dir, and I need to check them, but it would be a good thing to know that how much files are left to scan..
p.s.: so it's not really a progress bar, just a counter that output how many files are there left to "md5sum -c FILENAME"..
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You could pass the names to md5sum one by one.
n=$(cat *.txt | wc -l)
cat *.txt | {
i=0 bad=0
while IFS= read -r line; do
echo "Checking file $i/$n: $line"
echo "$line" | md5sum -c - || bad=$((bad+1))
[ $bad -eq 0 ] || { echo "$bad bad checksums"; false; }
Or, for casual use, you can run the simple command and check which file md5sum is up to by seeing what it has open.
lsof -p1234
# note the file name
cat *.txt | grep -n FILENAME
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thanks, it's almost perfect :P i upgraded/downgraded it a little bit: pastebin.com/raw.php?i=eqfiXzaB – LanceBaynes Jul 17 '11 at 14:40
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Imaging I am executing the following command:
echo "root:mypass" | chpasswd
How can I get the return code / error code returned by chpasswd? Is that possible in this case at all? I tried
RET = `echo "root:mypass" | chpasswd`
but this gives me only "command not found"?
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Be aware that every string passed as an argument to a command can be read by users using ps, or other means. – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 17 '12 at 19:00
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up vote 7 down vote accepted
The $? variable holds the return value of the last command. You could do this:
echo "root:passwd" | chpasswd
Or test directly, e.g.
echo "root:passwd" | chpasswd
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Failed"
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Thank you, that seems to work! Still wondering, if there is some kidn of "direct way" like in my example above? – stefan.at.wpf Sep 2 '12 at 20:29
No, but you can test on $? immediately afterwards without storing it in another variable if you don't need to keep it. Of course, if you run any other command it will update $? with its own result. – teppic Sep 2 '12 at 20:32
Thanks, accepted as correct answer ;-) – stefan.at.wpf Sep 2 '12 at 20:48
If the return value isn't important, just if it succeeds or no, you can use the command within an if statement:
if ! echo "root:mypass" | chpasswd; then
# chpasswd failed
Or the shorter one:
echo "root:mypass" | chpasswd || cmd_to_run_if_chpasswd_failed
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If I understand properly you're trying to change the pass of the root user using only an statement and pressing enter with no more confirmation of the process.
I found that your statement, runs properly if you add a "sudo su" prefix.
~$ sudo su
Considering that you're trying to change the pass of the root user, you must to know what is the root user name and to be logged properly. You can do this with the sudo su command.
Then its enough with runs the follow command replacing "root" with the current root name, and "my pass" with the desired password for this user (remember to take a note for try this method):
~$ echo "root:mypass" | chpasswd
After you can probe entering a exit command and login command using the new password.
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You are not answering the OP's question, he was looking for a way to retrieve the return code for this command. – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 17 '12 at 19:04
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I would like to install spotify client but it's complaining that it can't find the old libssl0.9.8 So I created a symlink to libssl1.0.0:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so**.1.0.0** /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
This did not work. So I made another one:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so**.1.0.0** /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.0.9.8
Also failed to install the spotify client. What am I doing wrong?
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What Linux distribution and version are you on? And how are you trying to install Spotify? (package, repository, etc.) – gertvdijk Dec 24 '12 at 1:39
debian wheezy. i am trying to install spotify from its repo (repository.spotify.com stable non-free) – sterz Dec 24 '12 at 12:32
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OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.0 are binary incompatible. The Spotify client you have is built against 0.9.8 and will not run, even if you get the link right. Get yourself a package of Spotify fit for your version of the distribution you're using.
In case Spotify does not build it for your combination of distribution/version, then you'll have to build OpenSSL 0.9.8 yourself. See this thread about Debian Wheezey on the Spotify forums for more details.
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thanks, that worked. do you think i will get package conflicts in the future (since i have both old and new versions of libssl)? – sterz Dec 24 '12 at 12:45
Depends on how you installed it. Did you install a forward ported package, installed the Squeeze package, or manually compiled/installed? – gertvdijk Dec 25 '12 at 11:14
I've installed this one using gdebi: snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20110406T213352Z/pool/main/o/… – sterz Dec 25 '12 at 15:13
There are a few symbolic links you probably have to create. For OpenSSL, at least libcrypto on top of libssl.
For Fedora (adapt to your distro at will):
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libnspr4.so libnspr4.so.0d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libnss3.so libnss3.so.1d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libplc4.so libplc4.so.0d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libplds4.so libplds4.so.0d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libsmime3.so libsmime3.so.1d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libssl3.so libssl3.so.1d
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0j libssl.so.0.9.8
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0j libcrypto.so.0.9.8
Could you provide the exact command and error?
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here: pastebin.com/ptsephLN – sterz Dec 24 '12 at 12:35
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1 Corinthians 2:16
Read Introduction to 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 2:16 "For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
Paul quotes from Isaiah 40:13 to establish his point that the Bible is spiritual phenomena.
The “mind of the LORD” is the Word of God. In Isaiah, it was Old Testament Scripture. No one knows the mind of God except God, so natural man does not have the capacity to assess the mind of God autonomously from God’s Word.
But we have the mind of Christ.
The word “mind” is the seat of consciousness, the faculty of perception and judgment. To pronounce false what God reveals to the believer is to pronounce false the “mind of Christ,” Christ’s perception and judgment. The believer has the mind of Christ because he has the Bible, the revelation of God’s mind.
PRINCIPLE: The believer has the capacity to make judgments about the Bible because he is in tune with the Word of God.
APPLICATION: The believer has the capacity of understanding inspired books of the Bible because the Holy Spirit illumines his mind to do so. The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth. The believer must first understand truth before he applies truth to experience. He has the ability to apply truth to his experience because he has the “mind of Christ.” He does not flop around in his convictions but stands firm on what he believes.
The Bible stands in polar opposition to the prevailing and dominant view of man today. Are you willing to think and operate within a biblical worldview?
4 Responses to “1 Corinthians 2:16”
• Good insight. I would humbly suggest: "The believer has the mind of Christ because he has the Spirit of God dwelling indwelling; the revelation of God's mind" (not the "Bible").
• Brandon, thanks for your thoughts on this verse. There is some justification for your viewpoint since it is the Holy Spirit who reveals, inspires and illuminates Scripture as set forth in chapter two. However, the antecedent appears to be the neuter "things" (definite article, v. 14) referring to the content of the mind of Christ. This is also supported by the quotation from Isa 40:13 which refers to divine viewpoint as over against human viewpoint. Therefore, the "mind" does not refer to something mystical but believers having their mind shaped by the wonder of who and what Jesus is.
• Thank you for the explanation. I am new in reading the Bible and I’m very happy for learning this website. :) God bless! :)
• Iya, thank you for the blessing.
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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Why can I not buy or submit my Special Permit application?
Before buying a deer, elk, bear or turkey Special Permit application, you must first buy a license and tag for that species.
Mountain goat, bighorn sheep or moose Special Permits work differently. You do not need to buy one of those licenses and tags to submit an application. In fact, none of these species has a general season. You would only want to buy a license and tag if drawn for a Special Permit.
For deer or elk, you need to select your tag before you can buy a Special Permit application. For elk, this includes choosing to hunt either eastern or western Washington. Once you make those selections, you can buy and submit Special Permits.
If you need more help, contact the Licensing Division:
1. Online at
2. Call (360) 902-2464
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A blog about using ASP.NET for web applications and my work experiences
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• ASP.NET For Punchcard Programming
Recently I've been studying RPG II for the Infinite 36, an old IBM programming language that was designed for 80 column punchcards. RPG II is probably the most horrible programming language that man has ever devised. Sometimes your code is a single character which has to be in an exact column. There is also a fixed logic that you have to work around. But it is the matter of getting a character in the right column that gives me a pain. The Infinite 36 is an old emulator of the IBM System 36 for the PC. It has some green screen RPG editors but I prefer to use UltraEdit.
• ASP.NET And Legacy MS-DOS Applications
I'm currently studying FoxPro 2.6. For MS-DOS. Yes, the company I am working for is still using applications written for FoxPro 2.6! I have to run this old MS-DOS database system in Virtual PC. So the last programming book I've read was Charles Siegel's Mastering FoxPro 2 written in 1991. The applications are completely undocumented (grrrr!) so my first step was to create a data dictionary (aka database schema). In FoxPro this can be done through the command DISPLAY STRUCTURE.
• Firefox Extension Development
I've been working on my job skills to remain employable. A lot of people are losing their jobs and then getting depressed because they have nothing to do except look for a job. They should be spending their time more constructively. I don't have much to do at work so yesterday I worked through a tutorial on Firefox Extension Development. I use Firefox all day at work and home because its extensions are useful for web development. It will be cool to create my own custom extensions. Today I experimented with the localization aspect of a Firefox extension. There are several things that were left out of the tutorial.
• Time Enough To Learn French - Assez de temps pour apprendre le français
Pennsylvania has not passed a budget for over two months. I was laid off from my full time job because of that. Now that I am collecting unemployment, I’ve had enough spare time to learn French. I have read five books on the French language. I think learning French is more worthwhile than learning Silverlight!
I can read enough French to explore French web sites. The French version of Wikipedia is especially useful in expanding my vocabulary. I also watch a home shopping channel via streaming video because the French spoken on that channel is very clear.
If Pennsylvania does not pass a budget soon I will have time to learn German too!
Pennsylvanie n'a pas passé un budget (ses dépenses en fonction de) depuis plus de deux mois. J'ai été licencié de mon emploi à temps plein à cause de cela. Maintenant que je suis la collecte de chômage, j'ai eu assez de temps libre pour apprendre le français. J'ai lu cinq livres sur la langue française. Je pense que l'apprentissage du français est plus intéressant que d'apprendre Silverlight!
Je peux lire assez de français pour explorer les sites Internet français. La version française de Wikipédia est particulièrement utile pour élargir mon vocabulaire. Je regarde aussi un chaîne de téléachat via le streaming vidéo, car le français parlé sur ce chaîne est très claire.
Si la Pennsylvanie ne passe pas d'un budget bientôt puis j'aurai le temps d'apprendre l'allemand aussi!
• Studying French As A Second Language
My vacation in Paris, France was a great success and fulfilled one of my dreams. You can read about my travels on my personal blog at:
I’ve decided to learn French as a second language even though I did not need to know any French in Paris. Learning a foreign language requires a huge commitment of time and effort, far more than is necessary to learn a programming language. You need a really good reason to learn a second language. As a programmer I am all too familiar with the temptation to learn many computer languages which you’ll never actually use. It can be a waste of time to learn a programming language. I’ve already decided that life is too short to learn Java.
It is actually quite hard to think of a good reason to learn French. Most of the reasons given for studying French as a second language don’t make any sense, especially if you don’t plan to move to France. For example, it does not matter how influential France is as a nation. You don’t need to know French to follow the international news relating to French foreign policy. You also don’t need to know French to vacation in France. That may infuriate the French, but it doesn’t make sense to spend years learning a language just so you can use it for one week when you’ll really need it, occasionally.
The main reason I’ve decided to learn French is to explore the uncharted territory of their geek culture. It may surprise you to learn that there is such a thing as the French geek. The stereotype of the French as artists and intellectuals conceals a far more extensive culture. The French also love comic books, science fiction, horror, video games, and pop music. Their comic book industry, known as bandes dessinées or BD for short, rivals the Japanese manga but is virtually unknown here in the United States. I was in a Borders bookstore last week and saw an entire aisle devoted to Japanese manga in paperback books called tankōbon. There was a smaller bookshelf for Marvel, DC, and other American graphic novels. However I did not find a single bandes dessinées at Borders.
In addition to an unexplored world of graphic novels, the French also publish many science fiction novels which are never translated into English. Some of this science fiction uses historical references to the reign of Louis XIII and the periods of French Baroque and Classicism in a way that is really bizarre and amusing. There are also spy novels and other forms of pulp fiction that will never be shared with the Anglosphere (i.e. the totality of (English-speaking) nations).
I think it would be fun to explore this world of trashy French culture because it goes against the stereotype of the French as sophisticated snobs. I’ve become pretty bored with American culture and its predictable output.
So what does this have to do with programming? Well, programmers are often geeks so I’m staying within my culture with this new obsession. I also intend to visit many more French web sites and I’ll keep an eye out for any innovative uses of technology that have not made it to the English Internet.
• World Wide Web - Internationalization
I’m going to Paris France for my vacation this year! I’m very excited about it because I’ve always been a bit of a Francophile. Unfortunately, I don’t speak French so, being a IT professional, I’ve sought a technological solution for the language barrier. I’m not sure that I’ll need to speak any French because I’m going on a guided tour which should reduce my interaction with the locals.
I’ve already blogged about ASP.NET’s support for internationalization and browser languages on my WordPress blog at: ASP.NET 2.0 Culture – Web Site Internationalization. I also blogged about Elgg’s support for languages at Elgg Languages. I’ve done some additional research since then into how PHP supports internationalization and I looked at how all the browsers implement language settings.
Firefox and Opera are the best browsers to use if you are working on making a web site international because they are the only browsers that allow you to indicate the browser language in the user agent string. In Firefox:
1. To change the browser language type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
2. Enter general.useragent.locale in the Filter textbox.
3. Change en-US to fr-FR or change it back to en-US.
However, I don’t know of a single web site that attempts to detect the browser language by checking the user agent string which will almost always indicate en-US even when your browser language is not set to that. Even with my browser language set to fr-FR, only Google, Microsoft, and Facebook accommodated me with French text. There seems to be some debate over whether it is a good idea to detect browser language settings. Some developers argue that providing content in the appropriate language based on the browser language is the proper way to handle internationalization while others argue that you need to give visitors a means to explicitly change the language using flags because it has become the expected method. In my opinion, you should use both methods because a bilingual visitor will not want to be stuck with the version of the site that matches his browser language settings.
Internet Explorer 8 seems to totally ignore the browser language settings. Even Google appears in English when I set my browser language to fr-FR in Internet Explorer 8. Only Google ignores the browser language settings for Internet Explorer 8. The Safari browser provides no means to change the browser language although you can change the application interface into French by copying the fr.lproj folder over the en.lproj folder. Opera does allow you to change the preferred language for web pages and you can change the user interface language to French by downloading the ouw960_fr.lng file which causes the user agent string to change to: Opera/9.63 (Windows NT 5.1; U; fr) Presto/2.1.1.
The browser language setting is communicated to the web server using the Accept-Language header in each request. In ASP.NET 2.0 you really don’t need to deal with this because the framework has built-in support for localization using the page directives UICulture and Culture. However, if you want to redirect to a page based on the browser language then you can use the following code in your Global.asax file:
1: Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As [Object], ByVal e As EventArgs)
2: Dim LanguageArray As String() = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserLanguages
3: If LanguageArray(0).Contains("fr") Then
4: System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("bonjour.htm")
5: End If
6: End Sub
In PHP you can get the Accept-Language header using the server variable $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']; and then set the locale using setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr-FR@euro', 'fr-FR', 'fr-fr'); which will automatically format the date using French for the month names and weekday names. You then need to set the Time Zone using putenv("TZ=Europe/Paris"); to get a 24 hour time in the Central European Time zone. On a Windows server the money_format function will not be available to you so you’ll need to define your own function for that.
But I’ve found a more interesting technological solution for the language barrier. I bought a Pocket PC translator from ECTACO. This device looks like a Pocket PC and it is Microsoft Windows Powered but it is really a highly specialized device with a built-in microphone and large speaker. I’m not sure what operating system it is running but it does not look like Windows Mobile 2003. I think its audio phrasebook may come in handy although it could make an awkward social situation even more awkward. The original SD card did not leave enough room for any additional audio files but I managed to copy everything over to a 2 GB SD card so I could put more MP3s on it.
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• Book Review - ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking
I recently finished reading the book ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer. I was very interested in this book because I want to build a social networking site designed for vloggers and ASP.NET is my area of expertise. Currently I'm working to customize the Elgg social networking web application using PHP because it is open source and has an active developer community.
Unfortunately, developing a social networking application is a big project, not something the lone developer can accomplish. It really requires an integrated suite of web applications with modules for blogging, forums, groups, media galleries, etc. Andrew Siemer has done an impressive job of creating the framework of a social networking web application as documented in his book but it is by no means feature complete. There was no mention in the book of any plans to make this an open source project.
The author has clearly been keeping up with changes in technology and methodology. As far as ASP.NET 3.5 goes, he made extensive use of LINQ to SQL but was unable to use MVC which wasn't available at the time, although he managed to implement a MVP (Model View Presenter) design pattern. He also made use of open source tools like Lucene.NET, MemCached, StructureMap, and NUnit. I don't have any experience with those tools and I'm not up to speed with ASP.NET 3.5 but I considered this a bonus because I learned something new.
Even though I'm not using ASP.NET on my social networking project I still wanted to read this book to pick up on some tips on how to design such an application. Andrew Siemer provides plenty of explanation for his design decisions including how his database schema is structured according to the project requirements. This can eliminate one of the biggest stumbling blocks to a large project because a lot of time is wasted just figuring out how to design the database. Elgg is using the Entity Attribute Value model for its database and there is some debate over how well this will scale.
Although Andrew Siemer added considerable complexity to his project by using StructureMap, I guess this is wise because a social networking web application needs to be flexible. This design decision would definitely make sense for an open source project. StructureMap is a Dependency Injection tool written in C# for .NET development. StructureMap is also a generic "Plugin" mechanism for flexible and extensible .NET applications. In other words, it allows other developers to replace an object with some other implementation.
Social networking sites tend to get a lot of feature requests and suggestions from their large community of users. You really have to participate on several sites to get a sense of what the users are likely to need. Although the author anticipated many potential issues and requirements he did neglect to include some standard features. For example, he does not provide a means for members to customize their profile though CSS. Elgg also does not allow users to design their profile page and I know vloggers would miss this as they currently have a lot of fun creating new banners on Vloggerheads. I believe that vlogging is essential to create a really strong sense of online community so I found the media gallery component of the design particularly lacking. But you would need an entire video sharing module to really address that need. That is a huge project in its own right. I've learned that comment threading is really important for social networking sites. Without it you get users typing the @ sign in their comments to indicate who they are replying to and that is just an awkward user hack to work around a serious design flaw in the application.
Although this is a thick book, 556 pages, most of the content is code listings so you won't need to invest too much time in reading it. You may feel a little lost if you haven’t been following the rapid changes in the ASP.NET framework and the additional open source tools require additional work to familiarize yourself with them because they are not part of the ASP.NET framework.
• Page Lifecycle Sample Code
Yesterday I attempted to create an ASP.NET page which used every single page event in order to better understand how to use each event. You cannot find any sample code for many page events. I managed to write code for every event except Page_AbortTransaction, Page_CommitTransaction, Page_DataBinding, and Page_Disposed which aren't being fired for this page. I tried to use meaningful examples but some of the code may be pointless. Let me know if you see any mistakes or have suggestions for improvements because this has gone into my notes.
The ASPX page includes a placeholder for adding a dynamic control and a GridView for experimenting with control rendering. I used the Northwind database for sample data. I also used a master page.
1: <%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/Default.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="LifeCycle.aspx.vb" Inherits="LifeCycle" title="ASP.NET 2.0 Life Cycle" %>
2: <%@ MasterType VirtualPath="~/Default.master" %>
3: <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="Main" Runat="Server">
4: <asp:PlaceHolder runat="server" id="LabelPlaceHolder" />
5: <br />
7: <RowStyle BackColor="#F7F6F3" ForeColor="#333333" />
9: <PagerStyle BackColor="#284775" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
12: <EditRowStyle BackColor="#999999" />
13: <AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#284775" />
14: </asp:GridView>
15: </asp:Content>
The VB code behind file uses a text file trace listener to log the page events as they are fired. That actually has to be set up in the web.config file. The Page_PreRenderComplete has some code commented out. This code adds the HTML rendered by the entire page to the log file but it causes an error about an extra form tag so I only left it in for debugging purposes. The only interesting things I'm doing is adjusting the column header text for the GridView and adding a top row. Some of the other page event code could use better examples.
1: Imports System.Diagnostics
2: Imports System.Data
3: Imports System.Data.SqlClient
4: Imports System.IO
6: Partial Class LifeCycle
7: Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
9: Protected Sub Page_AbortTransaction(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.AbortTransaction
10: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_AbortTransaction " & Now())
11: End Sub
13: Protected Sub Page_CommitTransaction(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.CommitTransaction
14: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_CommitTransaction " & Now())
15: End Sub
17: Protected Sub Page_DataBinding(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.DataBinding
18: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_DataBinding " & Now())
19: End Sub
21: Protected Sub Page_Disposed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Disposed
22: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_Disposed " & Now())
23: End Sub
25: Protected Sub Page_Error(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Error
26: ' Use this event to log a page error
27: Dim objException As Exception = Server.GetLastError().GetBaseException()
28: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(objException.ToString())
29: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_Error " & Now())
30: End Sub
32: Protected Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Init
33: ' Use this event to read or initialize control properties.
34: Dim ContentPlaceHolder1 As ContentPlaceHolder = CType(Master.FindControl("Main"), ContentPlaceHolder)
35: Dim LabelPlaceHolder As PlaceHolder = CType(ContentPlaceHolder1.FindControl("LabelPlaceHolder"), PlaceHolder)
36: Dim lblMessage As Label = CType(LabelPlaceHolder.FindControl("lblMessage"), Label)
37: lblMessage.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Black
38: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_Init " & Now())
39: End Sub
41: Protected Sub Page_InitComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.InitComplete
42: ' Use this event for processing tasks that require all initialization be complete.
46: lblMessage.ToolTip = "Tooltip added during InitComplete event."
47: ' Set a value in the viewstate
48: Me.ViewState("Author") = "Robert S. Robbins"
49: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_InitComplete " & Now())
50: End Sub
53: ' Use the OnLoad event method to set properties in controls and establish database connections.
54: Dim cn As New SqlConnection
55: Dim objSqlCommand As New SqlCommand
56: cn.ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Northwind").ToString()
57: cn.Open()
58: objSqlCommand.Connection = cn
59: objSqlCommand.CommandText = "SELECT ProductID, ProductName, UnitPrice FROM Products ORDER BY ProductName"
60: Dim objDataSet As DataSet = New DataSet()
61: Dim objSqlDataAdapter As SqlDataAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter()
62: objSqlDataAdapter.SelectCommand = objSqlCommand
63: objSqlDataAdapter.Fill(objDataSet)
64: GridView1.DataSource = objDataSet
65: GridView1.DataBind()
66: cn.Close()
67: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_Load " & Now())
68: End Sub
70: Protected Sub Page_LoadComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LoadComplete
71: ' Use this event for tasks that require that all other controls on the page be loaded.
72: ' Example: Get data from a GridView row after databinding has occurred.
73: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(GridView1.Rows.Item(5).Cells(1).Text, "Row 6, Cell 2")
74: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_LoadComplete " & Now())
75: End Sub
77: Protected Sub Page_PreInit(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreInit
78: ' Check the IsPostBack property to determine whether this is the first time the page is being processed.
79: If Page.IsPostBack = False Then
80: ' Create or re-create dynamic controls.
81: Dim lblMessage As New Label
82: lblMessage.ID = "lblMessage"
83: lblMessage.Width = 500
84: lblMessage.Text = "Dynamically created control."
87: LabelPlaceHolder.Controls.Add(lblMessage)
88: End If
89: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_PreInit " & Now())
90: End Sub
92: Protected Sub Page_PreLoad(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreLoad
93: ' Use this event if you need to perform processing on your page or control before the Load event.
94: ' Viewstate should be available now because it has been loaded.
95: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(Me.ViewState.Values.Count, "ViewState Count")
96: ' The Request object should be available now.
97: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"), "Script Name")
98: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_PreLoad " & Now())
99: End Sub
101: Protected Sub Page_PreRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRender
102: ' Use the event to make final changes to the contents of the page or its controls.
104: Dim GridView1 As GridView = CType(ContentPlaceHolder1.FindControl("GridView1"), GridView)
105: Dim objGridViewRow As GridViewRow
106: objGridViewRow = New GridViewRow(-1, -1, DataControlRowType.Header, DataControlRowState.Normal)
107: Dim objTableCell As TableCell = New TableCell()
108: Dim literal As LiteralControl = New LiteralControl()
109: literal.Text = "Northwind Products"
110: objTableCell.Controls.Add(literal)
111: objTableCell.ColumnSpan = 3
112: objTableCell.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Center
113: objTableCell.ForeColor = Drawing.Color.White
114: objTableCell.BackColor = Drawing.Color.Black
115: objGridViewRow.Cells.Add(objTableCell)
116: GridView1.Controls(0).Controls.AddAt(0, objGridViewRow)
117: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_PreRender " & Now())
118: End Sub
120: Protected Sub Page_PreRenderComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.PreRenderComplete
122: ' Example: The column headings of the gridview should be accessible now.
125: GridView1.HeaderRow.Cells(0).Text = "Product ID"
126: GridView1.HeaderRow.Cells(1).Text = "Product Name"
127: GridView1.HeaderRow.Cells(2).Text = "Unit Price"
128: ' Get the rendered HTML
129: 'Dim objStringBuilder As New StringBuilder()
130: 'Dim objStringWriter As New StringWriter(objStringBuilder)
131: 'Dim objHtmlTextWriter As New HtmlTextWriter(objStringWriter)
132: 'Me.RenderControl(objHtmlTextWriter)
133: 'Dim strGridViewHTML As String = objStringBuilder.ToString()
134: 'System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(strGridViewHTML)
135: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_PreRenderComplete " & Now())
136: End Sub
138: Protected Sub Page_SaveStateComplete(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.SaveStateComplete
139: ' Use this event perform tasks that require view state to be saved, but that do not make any changes to controls.
140: ' Example: Lets store some extraneous information in the view state
141: Me.ViewState("Date") = Now()
142: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_SaveStateComplete " & Now())
143: End Sub
145: Protected Sub Page_Unload(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Unload
146: ' Use this event to do final cleanup work, such as closing open files and database connections, or finishing up logging or other request-specific tasks.
147: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(Me.ViewState.Values.Count, "ViewState Count")
148: System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Page_Unload " & Now())
149: End Sub
150: End Class
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1. It sets unrealistic expectations of sex in marriage.
2. It makes you feel dirty.
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5. It seems to promote pleasure, but it just ends up destroying you and the ones you love.
6. Most of the girls in the porn industry have been sexually abused in some way.
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8. It’s like cheap fast food, why not have a steak instead (keeping our hearts pure and keeping sex for marriage).
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10. It’s sinful.
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This is a feature in Nutch that allows the crawler to authenticate itself to websites requiring NTLM, Basic or Digest authentication. This feature can not do POST based authentication that depends on cookies. More information on this can be found at: HttpPostAuthentication
There were two plugins already present, viz. 'protocol-http' and 'protocol-httpclient'. However, 'protocol-http' could not support HTTP 1.1, HTTPS and NTLM, Basic and Digest authentication schemes. 'protocol-httpclient' supported HTTPS and had code for NTLM authentication but the NTLM authentication didn't work due to a bug. Some portions of 'protocol-httpclient' were re-written to solve these problems, provide additional features like authentication support for proxy server and better inline documentation for the properties to be used to configure authentication.
These features were submitted as JIRA NUTCH-559 in the JIRA. If you have checked out the latest Nutch trunk, you don't need to apply the patches. These features were included in the Nutch subversion repository in revision #608972
Introduction to Authentication Scope
Different credentials for different authentication scopes can be configured in 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml'. If a set of credentials is configured for a particular authentication scope (i.e. particular host, port number, realm and/or scheme), then that set of credentials would be sent only to pages falling under the specified authentication scope.
When authentication is required to fetch a resource from a web-server, the authentication-scope is determined from the host and port obtained from the URL of the page. If it matches any 'authscope' in this configuration file, then the 'credentials' for that 'authscope' is used for authentication.
Since the example and explanation provided as comments in 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml' is very brief, therefore this section would explain it in a little more detail. In all the examples below, the root element <auth-configuration> has been omitted for the sake of clarity.
In order to use HTTP Authentication, the Nutch crawler must be configured to use 'protocol-httpclient' instead of the default 'protocol-http'. To do this copy 'plugin.includes' property from 'conf/nutch-default.xml' into 'conf/nutch-site.xml'. Replace 'protocol-http' with 'protocol-httpclient' in the value of the property. If you have made no other changes it should look as follows:
<description>Regular expression naming plugin directory names to
include. Any plugin not matching this expression is excluded.
default Nutch includes crawling just HTML and plain text via HTTP,
underlying commons-httpclient library.
By default Nutch uses credentials from 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml'. If you wish to use a different file, the file should be placed in the 'conf' directory and 'http.auth.file' property should be copied from 'conf/nutch-default.xml' into 'conf/nutch-site.xml' and then the file name in the '<value>' element should be edited accordingly. The default property appears as follows:
<description>Authentication configuration file for 'protocol-httpclient' plugin.</description>
Crawling an Intranet with Default Authentication Scope
Let's say all pages of an intranet are protected by basic, digest or ntlm authentication and there is only one set of credentials to be used for all web pages in the intranet, then a configuration as described below is enough. This is also the simplest possible configuration possible for authentication schemes.
<credentials username="susam" password="masus">
The credentials specified above would be sent to any page requesting authentication. Though it is extremely simple, default authentication scope should be used with caution. This set of credentials would be sent to any web-page requesting for authentication and therefore, a malicious user can steal the credentials used in the configuration by setting up a web-page requiring Basic authentication. Therefore, we usually use credentials set apart for crawling only, so that even if a user steals the credentials, he wouldn't be able to do anything harmful. If you are sure, that all pages in the intranet use a particular authentication scheme, say, NTLM, then this situation can be improved a little in this manner.
<default scheme="ntlm"/>
Thus, this set of credentials would be sent to pages requesting NTLM authentication only. Now, one can not set up a page requiring Basic authentication and steal the credentials. NTLM is safer, because password is not sent in clear-text or in a form from which the original password can be recovered directly.
Credentials for Specific Authentication Scopes
The following is an example that shows how two sets of credentials have been defined for different authentication scopes. For all pages of example:8080 requiring authentication in the 'blogs' or 'wiki' realm, the first set of credentials would be used.
<authscope host="example" port="8080" realm="blogs"/>
<authscope host="example" port="8080" realm="wiki"/>
<credentials username="admin" password="nimda">
However, an important thing to note here is that if some page of example:8080 requires authentication in another realm, say, 'mail', authentication would not be done even though the second set of credentials is defined as default. Of course this doesn't affect authentication for other web servers and the default authscope would be used for other web-servers. This problem occurs only for those web-servers which have authentication scopes defined for a few selected realms/schemes. This is discussed in next section.
Catch-all Authentication Scope for a Web Server
When one or more authentication scopes are defined for a particular web server (host:port), then the default credentials is ignored for that host:port combination. Therefore, a catch-all authentication scope to handle all other realms and scopes must be specified explicitly as shown below.
<authscope host="example" port="8080"/>
The last authscope tag for example:8080 acts as the catch all authentication scope. In this section, realms were used to demonstrate the example. The same holds true for schemes also. For example, in the following example, the last authscope tag is necessary if the second set of credentials must be used for all pages of example:8080 not belonging to the authentication scope defined in the first tag.
<authscope host="example" port="8080" realm="blogs" scheme="DIGEST"/>
Important Points
1. For <authscope> tag, 'host' and 'port' attribute should always be specified. 'realm' and 'scheme' attributes may or may not be specified depending on your needs. If you are tempted to omit the 'host' and 'port' attribute, because you want the credentials to be used for any host and any port for that realm/scheme, please use the 'default' tag instead. That's what 'default' tag is meant for.
2. One authentication scope should not be defined twice as different <authscope> tags for different <credentials> tag. However, if this is done by mistake, the credentials for the last defined <authscope> tag would be used. This is because, the XML parsing code, reads the file from top to bottom and sets the credentials for authentication-scopes. If the same authentication scope is encountered once again, it will be overwritten with the new credentials. However, one should not rely on this behavior as this might change with further developments.
3. Do not define multiple authscope tags with the same host, port but different realms if the server requires NTLM authentication. This means there should not be multiple authscope tags with same host, port, scheme="NTLM" but different realms. If you are omitting the scheme attribute and the server requires NTLM authentication, then there should not be multiple tags with same host, port but different realms. This is discussed more in the next section.
4. If you are using NTLM scheme, you should also set the '' property in conf/nutch-site.xml
A note on NTLM domains
NTLM does not use the concept of realms. Therefore, multiple realms for a web-server can not be defined as different authentication scopes for the same web-server requiring NTLM authentication. There should be exactly one authscope tag for NTLM scheme authentication scope for a particular web-server. The authentication domain should be specified as the value of the 'realm' attribute. NTLM authentication also requires the name of IP address of the host on which the crawler is running. Thus, '' should be set properly.
Underlying HttpClient Library
'protocol-httpclient' is based on Jakarta Commons HttpClient. Some servers support multiple schemes for authenticating users. Given that only one scheme may be used at a time for authenticating, it must choose which scheme to use. To accomplish this, it uses an order of preference to select the correct authentication scheme. By default this order is: NTLM, Digest, Basic. For more information on the behavior during authentication, you might want to read the HttpClient Authentication Guide.
If you are having problems with your authentication configuration, it is a good idea to step back, start with a very basic configuration, keep testing it and gradually adding to it until you get your desired configuration working. At the very start, check that the account that your crawler is using is enabled and working on the server(s). To do this, try to access one of your test URLs with a web browser. When prompted, enter the details of your crawler’s account. If this does not work, the problem is with the server and it will need to be fixed there.
The configuration below can be used as a starting point. It provides minimum detail, allowing the client and server maximum flexibility.
<credentials username="crawler-user-name" password="crawler-password">
<default realm="domain" />
To check if your configuration is working, you can use the ParserChecker:
./nutch org.apache.nutch.parse.ParserChecker <your-test-URL>
It is easy to see whether it has fetched the page successfully even without looking into logs. If it is successful, it will display a proper page title and many links extracted from the page. Otherwise, it will display a title like “You are not authorized to view this page” and few links, if any.
If you look in the logs/hadoop.log file, search for the AuthChallengeProcessor records similar to this:
INFO auth.AuthChallengeProcessor - ntlm authentication scheme selected
In case of failure, such a record will be followed by something like this:
INFO httpclient.HttpMethodDirector - Failure authenticating ...
Need Help?
If you need help, please feel free to post your question to the nutch-user mailing list. The author of this work, Susam Pal, usually responds to mails related to authentication problems. The DEBUG logs may be required to troubleshoot the problem. You must enable the debug logging for 'protocol-httpclient' and Jakarta Commons HttpClient before running the crawler. To enable debug logging for 'protocol-httpclient' and HttpClient, open 'conf/' and add the following lines:,cmdstdout,cmdstdout
It would be good to check the following things before asking for help.
1. Have you overridden the 'plugin.includes' property of 'conf/nutch-default.xml' with 'conf/nutch-site.xml' and replaced 'protocol-http' with 'protocol-httpclient'?
2. If you patched Nutch 0.9 source code manually with this patch, did you build the project before running the crawler?
3. Have you configured 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml'?
4. Do you see Nutch trying to fetch the pages you were expecting in 'logs/hadoop.log'. You should see some logs like "fetching" where the URL is the page you were expecting to be fetched. If you don't see such lines for the pages you were expecting, the error is outside the scope of this feature. This feature comes into action only when the crawler is fetching a page but the page requires authentication.
5. With debug logs enabled, check whether there are logs beginning with "Credentials" in 'logs/hadoop.log'. The lines would look like "Credentials - username someuser; set ...". For every entry in 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml' you should find a corresponding log. If they are absent, probably you haven't included 'plugin.includes'. In case you have manually patched Nutch 0.9 source code with the patch, this issue may be caused if you have not built the project.
6. Do you see logs like this: "auth.AuthChallengeProcessor - basic authentication scheme selected"? Instead of the word 'basic', you might see 'digest' or 'NTLM' depending on the scheme supported by the page being fetched? If you do not see it at all, probably the web server or the page being fetched does not require authentication. In that case, the crawler would not try to authenticate. If you were expecting an authentication for the page, probably something needs to be fixed at the server side.
Once you have checked the items listed above and you are still unable to fix the problem or confused about any point listed above, please mail the issue with the following information:
1. Version of Nutch you are running.
2. Complete code in 'conf/httpclient-auth.xml' file.
3. Relevant portion from 'logs/hadoop.log' file. If you are clueless, send the complete file.
HttpAuthenticationSchemes (last edited 2011-11-30 05:34:03 by ArkadiKosmynin)
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The GNOME and KDE desktop environments provide accessibility features to assist users with vision and mobility impairments. In PC-BSD®, these desktops can be installed either during installation or afterwards using AppCafe®.
This section provides an overview of the features provided by each desktop and additional references to these features.
GNOME Universal Access
GNOME3 provides a "Universal Access" utility for configuring the desktop for accessibility. To open this utility, open “Activities” and search for “Universal Access”. This will open the screen shown in Figure 9.8a.
Figure 9.8a: Universal Access Screen
The “Seeing” section of this screen has options for assisting users with low vision.
Click “Off” in the “Hearing” section to open a pop-up screen used to enable visual alerts, either to the window title of the current window or the entire screen. The pop-up screen provides a “Test flash” button for testing the settings.
If you click "Off" next to "Typing Assist (AccessX)" in the “Typing” section, it will open the screen shown in Figure 9.8b. "Sticky Keys", "Slow Keys", and "Bounce Keys" can be enabled in this screen to assist users with mobility impairments.
Figure 9.8b: Keyboard and Key Options
If you click the “Off” next to “Click Assist” in the “Pointing and Clicking” section, you can configure a simulated secondary click and a hover click.
More information about the options provided by Universal Access can be found here[1].
Orca Screen Reader
If you enable the “Screen Reader” in the “Seeing” tab, you can open the reader from Applications → Utilities → Orca. In the example shown in Figure 9.8c, the user has clicked the "Preferences" button.
Figure 9.8c: Orca Preferences
KDE Accessibility Tools
To install the KDE accessibility tools, install the “kdeaccessibility” package as a “raw package” using AppCafe®.
The KDE-Accessibility component installs the following software:
Figure 9.8d: Configuring KMouseTool
• KMouth: enables persons that cannot speak to speak through their computer. It keeps a history of spoken sentences from which the user can select to be re-spoken. To start this program, click Applications → Utilities → Speech Synthesizer Frontend or type kmouth from the command line. The first time you run this application, a configuration wizard will prompt you to set the command to use for speaking texts (such as /usr/local/bin/espeak), the character encoding, and a language phrase book. Refer to the KMouth Handbook[6] for more information about configuring and using this tool.
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Can any one tell me how I can list the updates using WordPress XML-RPC methods, like how we list posts and comments using wp.getPosts and wp.GetComments. I searched for the methods but I couldn't find any.
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How do you reconcile faction disloyalty in roleplay?
How do you reconcile faction disloyalty in roleplay SAT
I received an email not too long ago that poses an interesting question. With all of the tumultuous back and forth in the Alliance and Horde, roleplaying a character within a faction is a somewhat difficult task. It's doubly difficult when you're playing a character that is a race that doesn't seem to be largely accepted by its faction leader. In the case of the email, it was a blood elf character who just wasn't feeling all that into Garrosh Hellscream. Garrosh's ideals and idea of what the Horde should be stood in stark contrast to everything the blood elf believed.
This sentiment could hold equally true for a worgen or a draenei, both of which haven't really been what you would call warmly embraced by the Alliance. The draenei in particular don't necessarily share the same ideals as their Alliance brethren. In Mists of Pandaria, we'll be embarking on an adventure to a foreign continent, but we'll be doing so as representatives of our respective factions. Our characters will be sent to this strange new land at the behest of our faction leaders.
So if you're a character that doesn't necessarily believe in or care for your faction leader, how do you reconcile doing what they say into your roleplay? Why would your character be doing something for someone they don't like?
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Adapting your story
The most reasonable solution would be to simply tweak the events to suit your character's needs. Yes, they may have been sent by Garrosh Hellscream in the end -- but perhaps they weren't just working under Garrosh's orders. Spies and secret agents can be incredibly entertaining to roleplay, and they don't require any adjustments to the real canon of the story itself. Certainly your character may appear to be working for Garrosh, but what if they were sent to see what Garrosh was up to by their faction leader?
Or if you don't want to bring major lore characters into the equation, it's easy enough to simply have your character investigating Garrosh's actions for their own purposes. Perhaps they're trying to pull together enough incriminating information to report to their faction leader or the leader of their organization. This way, the impetus doesn't really come from any major lore figures at all; instead, it comes from the character himself.
Alternatively, perhaps your character just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They certainly didn't mean to be on the way to a foreign land -- they just stumbled into Garrosh's chambers at precisely the wrong moment. This opens up the way for some comedic roleplay in which your baffled and bewildered character is trying to sort out exactly how he got into this mess and how best to get out of it.
How do you reconcile faction disloyalty in roleplay SAT
Adapting frame of mind
We don't quite know how long the jump is between Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria, but it's been suggested that it's a significant period of time. Think about your character -- would their opinion have changed over the course of a year or two? How would they feel about the conclusion of Cataclysm and Deathwing's defeat? The fall of Deathwing was a concerted effort by the heroes of the world and not necessarily by the Horde or Alliance in particular, so how does your character feel about that?
Opinions change over time, and it's entirely possible that your character's opinion has shifted as well. This all depends, of course, on Garrosh's actions -- and they don't seem to be making a turn for the better, at this point. However, a hero who spent time saving the world may see a far larger purpose in following Garrosh's orders -- not as a loyal supporter of Garrosh Hellscream, but as a loyal member of the Horde.
Garrosh is the warchief of the Horde, but the Horde itself has been around far longer than Hellscream has. Just because your character's ideals don't match with Hellscream doesn't mean that they don't match with the Horde's in general. And your character would be far from alone in that opinion. There are a few NPCs wandering around Pandaria who are very clear on their feelings about Garrosh Hellscream, and they aren't happy thoughts at all.
How do you reconcile faction disloyalty in roleplay SAT
Adapting your character
But the easiest route to follow is the path of least resistance, adapting your character to suit the needs of the story. This doesn't mean that they need to be happy about Garrosh being in control. What this does require is a willingness to adapt your character into a position in which they are OK with following what Garrosh orders them to do. Roleplaying a soldier of the Horde makes this almost a non-issue. Even if your character doesn't care for his commanding officer in the slightest, his commitment to the Horde obligates him to fulfill his duty.
Alternatively, there are overwhelming hints and suggestions that Garrosh is choosing to rule over his people with an iron fist. It's not loyalty that keeps the wheels of the Horde turning -- it's fear. Fear of what will happen if they do not comply. Garrosh has certainly made no bones about the fact that he will quite happily dispatch with any dissenters; this may be something to give your character some pause for concern.
Or your character may be going on these missions in an attempt to showcase the fact that though Hellscream may be an unmitigated jerk, the rest of the Horde does not follow suit. Rather than going to try and avoid Garrosh's wrath, perhaps your character is going out of sheer tenacity and a wish to show the world that the Horde is more than a barbaric, angry, aggressive warchief with a chip on his shoulder. Perhaps he is going because he wants to be the example that he thinks the rest of the Horde should follow. After all, Hellscream's eyes may be upon him, but Hellscream himself is pretty far away from the wilds of Pandaria.
How do you reconcile faction disloyalty in roleplay SAT
The Alliance perspective
Fortunately, the Alliance by and large don't have quite the same problem that the Horde faces. There's a specific reason you're being sent to Pandaria, and it involves Anduin Wrynn. Though Anduin's father Varian is a source of volatile opinions in the Alliance, his son Anduin is by all appearances a really decent kid. He's kind to everyone, regardless of their origin -- draenei and worgen wholeheartedly included.
Because of this, it's easy enough for your character to determine that they are headed to Pandaria for Anduin, and not necessarily for his father. Draenei should have no issues with this, because Anduin has studied quite intensively with the Prophet Velen and is by and large really accepted by draenei society as a result. A child who is notable enough to be taken under the Prophet's wing is a child who should be all means be protected.
The story is a little different for the worgen, but not dramatically so. Anduin didn't understand his father's original concern with the worgen. Varian has allowed the worgen into the Alliance, but the worgen are still based out in Teldrassil, rather than in Stormwind itself. This tends to lend itself to a frame of mind for worgen players that they have something to prove -- and proving themselves by helping the young prince is certainly a good start.
When it comes to roleplay, the name of the game is creativity. Although your character may have one set of opinions and a fairly rigid story, sometimes being too rigid with that story and your character's beliefs can back you into a corner. Giving some thought to the situation can open up some creative solutions to almost any dilemma -- and open up a whole host of potential new roleplaying opportunities to explore as well.
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Why do what teacher says?
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Name: Why do what teacher says?
Time: 20 minutes
Goal or purpose of exercise
To convey the basic nonviolent understanding of power – that power comes from the obedience of others, and that there are various kinds of sources of power. This exercise can be used with ‘Who has power in a school?
How it's done/facilitator's notes
You will need: Flip chart paper and pens.
Ask people to work in pairs. Ask them to make a list of all the reasons why, when a teacher tells a class to open their books at page 3 and do exercise 1, the pupils do it. Allow about 5 minutes for this.
Write up a list of what they have come up with, by taking one suggestion from each pair in turn until everything is written up. Leave spaces between the items.
Use the list to draw out the generalised sources of power (with discussion), and make the basic point that the power of some depends on the obedience of others.
The list is likely to include:
• Fear of punishment (sanctions)
• Desire to do well in exams (incentives)
• Because Miss Smith is wonderful (charisma)
• Because that's what you do in school (social tradition, habit)
• Because teachers have a right to ask this (legitimacy)
• Because everyone else is doing it (pressure to conform)
• Because Miss Smith has knowledge which I want (knowledge, skills)
It probably won't bring out money or resources as sources of power, but interestingly a further reason 'because it interests me' alters the power dynamic so that the teacher becomes an aide to the pupil's attaining his/her goal.
Trainers notes
Teachers especially might protest that classroom activity is a cooperative process, but the experiences of many people supports the analysis presented here.
This exercise is taken from the Turning The Tide website: http://www.turning-the-tide.org/resources/manual/powerchange#full_list
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Writing Fellows are assigned to Writing Intensive or Communications-B courses in which they work closely with professors as well as student writers. Fellows read and critique drafts of two formal papers. They write extensive comments designed to identify and explain key areas for revision, seeking to praise what works in a paper and offering suggestions and strategies for revision rather than merely pointing out flaws. After returning these drafts, Fellows meet individually with each writer to discuss revision possibilities and strategies.
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Galileo's Dialogue
The following extracts are from Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World - Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo published in 1632. The dialogue is between three persons:
Salviatus who speaks for Galileo,
Sagredus who represents an intelligent layman, and
Simplicius who represents an unthinking believer in Aristotle's system:
Salviatus: ... Aristotle says that is a most convincing argument of the Earth's immobility to see that projectiles thrown or shot upright return perpendicularly by the same line unto the same place from whence they were shot or thrown. And this holds true, although the motion be of a very great height. So that hither may be referred the argument taken from a shot fired directly upwards from a cannon, as also that other used by Aristotle and Ptolemy, of the heavy bodies that, falling from on high, are observed to descend by a direct and perpendicular line to the surface of the Earth. Now, that I may begin to untie these knots, I demand this of Simplicius: in case one should deny to Ptolemy and Aristotle that weights in falling freely from on high descend by a right and perpendicular line, that is, directly to the centre, what means would he use to prove it?
Simplicius: The means of the senses, which assure us that that tower or other altitude is upright and perpendicular, and show us that that stone slides along the wall, without inclining a hair's breadth to one side or another, and lights on the ground just under the place from where it was let fall.
Salviatus: But if it should happen that the terrestrial globe did move round, and consequently carry the tower also along with it, and that the stone did then also graze and slide along the side of the tower, what must its motion be then?
Simplicius: In this case we may rather say its motions, for it would have one wherewith to descend from the top to the bottom and should then have another to follow the course of the said tower.
Salviatus: So that its motion should be compounded of two; from this it would follow that the stone would no longer describe that simple straight and perpendicular line but one transverse and perhaps not straight.
Simplicius: I can say nothing of its nonrectitude, but this I know very well: that it would of necessity be transverse.
Salviatus: You see then that, merely observing the falling stone to glide along the tower, you cannot certainly affirm that it describes a line which is straight and perpendicular unless you first suppose that the Earth stands still.
Simplicius: True; for, if the Earth should move, the stone's motion would be transverse and not perpendicular.
Salviatus: Aristotle's defence then consists in the impossibility, or at least in his esteeming it an impossibility, that the stone should move with a motion mixed of right and circular. For, if he did not hold it impossible that the stone could move at once to the centre and about the centre, he would have understood that it might come to pass that the falling stone might in its descent graze the tower as well when it moved as when it stood still. Consequently, he ought to have perceived that from this grazing nothing could be inferred touching the mobility or immobility of the Earth. But this does not any way excuse Aristotle; because he ought to have expressed it, if he had had such a notion, it being so material a part of his argument. Also because it cannot be said that such an effect is impossible or that Aristotle did esteem it so. The first cannot be affirmed, for by and by I shall show that it is not only possible but necessary; nor can the second be averred, for Aristotle himself grants that fire moves naturally in a right line, and moves about with the diurnal motion, imparted by the heavens to the whole element of fire and the greater part of the upper air. If therefore he held it possible to mix the straight motion upwards with the circular communicated to the fire and air from the concave of the sphere of the Moon, much less ought he to account impossible the mixture of the straight motion of the stone downwards with the circular which we presuppose natural to the whole terrestrial globe, of which the stone is a part.
Here Salviatus has shown that Aristotle's 'proof' that the earth is stationary is invalid. However, later in the Dialogue, he proposes an experiment to verify his claims:
Salviatus: Your making a greater scruple of this than of the other instances depends, if I mistake not, upon the birds being animated, and thereby enabled to use their strength at pleasure against the primary motion inbred in terrestrial bodies. For example, we see them fly upwards, a thing which ought to be altogether impossible for heavy bodies; whereas, when dead, they can only fall downwards. And therefore you hold that the reasons that hold for all kinds of missiles above named cannot hold for birds. Now this is very true, and, because it is true, therefore we see live birds behaving different from falling bodies. If from the top of a tower you let fall a dead bird and a live one, the dead bird shall do the same that a stone does, that is, it shall first follow the general diurnal motion, and then the motion of descent, just like a stone. But if the bird let fall be alive, what shall hinder it (there ever remaining in it the diurnal motion) from soaring by help of its wings to what point of the horizon it shall please? And this new motion, as being peculiar to the bird, and not participated in by us, must of necessity be visible to us. In short, the effect of the flight of birds differs from the missiles shot or thrown to any part of the world in nothing, except that the missiles are moved by an external projector, and the birds by an internal principle.
For a final proof of the nullity of all the experiments before alleged, I conceive it now a convenient time and place to demonstrate a way how to make an exact trial of them all. Shut yourself up with some friend in the largest room below decks of some large ship and there procure gnats, flies, and such other small winged creatures. Also get a great tub full of water and within it put certain fishes; let also a certain bottle be hung up, which drop by drop lets forth its water into another narrow-necked bottle placed underneath. Then, the ship lying still, observe how those small winged animals fly with like velocity towards all parts of the room; how the fishes swim indifferently towards all sides; and how the distilling drops all fall into the bottle placed underneath. And casting anything towards your friend, you need not throw it with more force one way than another, provided the distances be equal; and jumping broad, you will reach as far one way as another. Having observed all these particulars, though no man doubts that, so long as the vessel stands still, they ought to take place in this manner, make the ship move with what velocity you please, so long as the motion is uniform and not fluctuating this way and that. You shall not be able to discern the least alteration in all the forenamed effects, nor can you gather by any of them whether the ship moves or stands still. Of this correspondence of effects the cause is that the ship's motion is common to all the things contained in it and to the air also; I mean if those things be shut up in the room; but in case those things were above deck in the open air, and not obliged to follow the course of the ship, differences more or less notable would be observed in some of the forenamed effects, and there is no doubt but that smoke would stay behind as much as the air itself; the flies also and the gnats, being hindered by the air, would not be able to follow the motion of the ship, if they were separated at any distance from it; but keeping near thereto, because the ship itself, as being an anfractuous structure, carries along with it part of its nearest air, they would follow the ship without any pains or difficulty. For the like reason we see sometimes, in riding post, that the troublesome horseflies do follow the horses flying sometimes to one, sometimes to another, part of the body. But in the falling drops the difference would be very small and in the jumps and projections of grave bodies altogether imperceptible.
Sagredus: Though it came not into my thoughts to make trial of these observations when I was at sea, yet I am confident that they will succeed in the manner that you have related. In confirmation of this, I remember that being in my cabin I have wondered a hundred times whether the ship moved or stood still; and sometimes I have imagined that it moved one way, when it moved the other way. I am therefore satisfied and convinced of the nullity of all those experiments that have been produced in proof of the negative part.
There now remains the objection founded upon that which experience shows us, namely, that a swift whirling about has a faculty to extrude and disperse the matters adherent to the machine that turns round. On this fact many based the opinion, and Ptolemy amongst the rest, that, if the Earth should turn round with such great velocity, the stones and creatures upon it should be tossed into the sky and that there could not be a mortar strong enough to fasten buildings to their foundations so that they should not suffer a like extrusion. ...
JOC/EFR December 2008
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Membership of 8ú Calafort is open to all regardless of race, creed, or fluency in the Irish language. However, because resources are limited (mainly human resources) and the growing popularity of scouting in general and 8ú Calafort in particular, the group is forced to operate a waiting list system for new entrants to most sections.
If you or someone you know is thinking of applying to join our Group please email our Membership Coordinator at membership @ or fill out and return the application form: Application Form (DOC) Application Form (PDF).
Also important is the Consent Form (PDF) which needs to be completed before any activities are undertaken.
CUB waiting lists are now full for 2014,2015,2016,2017 and 2018.
Please do not send in application forms for any of the above years for Cubs.
Scout lists are not as full, but space is very limited and places cannot be guaranteed.
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The Dana Show Blog
Black Sabbath : War Pigs/ Luke’s Wall, Paranoid, Jack The Stripper/Fairies Wear boots ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin’, Got Me Under Pressure, Legs, Sharp Dressed Man The Eagles of Death Metal: Don’t Speak, Bad Dream Mama, Secret Plans, Heart On, Now I’m A Fool
20 years later and this movie is still funny. I remember the cause heads from college and I would always shake my head and say why?
Dana talks to Todd Akin about his new book and the 2012 primary
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Argumentative Zoning for Improved Citation Indexing
Simone Teufel
Scientific writing can be hard for novice writers, even in their own language. We present a system that applies Argumentative Zoning (AZ), a method of determining argumentative structure in texts, to the task of advising novice writers on their writing. We address this task by automatically determining the rhetorical/argumentative status and the implicit author stance of a given sentence in the text. Then users can be advised, for instance that a different order of sentences might be more advantageous, or that certain argumentative 'moves’ are missing. In implementing such a system, we had to port the feature detection stage of Argumentative Zoning from English to Portuguese, as our system is designed for Brazilian PhD theses in Computer Science. In this paper we report on the overall system, the porting exercise, a human annotation experiment to verify the reproducibility of our annotation scheme and an intrinsic evaluation of the AZ-part of our system.
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Love Poetry
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posted on Feb, 3 2009 @ 03:15 AM
In light of Valentines Day being around the corner....
When you stand here before me
With your arms open wide
I know I'm at home
When I look in your eyes
I just want to stay here
Keep holding me tight
With you by my side
We'll make it through the night
I can't help but stare
I'm mesmerized
I feel like a bird
and I know I can fly
To wherever you are
because you breathe me life
You comfort my worries
You silence my cries
All that I want
and all that I need
Right here before me
In the face that i see
A love that's so pure
So simple and true
Its inevitable my darling
I completely love you
- Carrot
posted on Feb, 3 2009 @ 03:03 PM
At the start . . .you took it quickly from me . . .my heart,
The arrow pierced the Valentine. . .there wasn't time . . .to say wait,
the arrow pierced the Valentine . . .there wasn't time . .to properly date,
. . .and then you were gone.
The reds, the pinks, the "I Love You's",
the cards, the sweets, so much to choose,
to please you, win you, keep you still,
to me you've always been my biggest thrill . . .in life.
But you're gone now aren't you ? Why did we part ?
Come on, it's February, bring back my heart. I need to be in love again.
posted on Feb, 4 2009 @ 01:11 PM
As our souls recognized one another, our hearts grew ever fonder
For you could search a lifetime, and never feel this wonder
It’s so difficult to say in words, just exactly how it feels
I think I’ll leave it up to fate, to see exactly what life deals
Perhaps in the next lifetime, maybe things will just be so
As love’s put on the back-burner, left quietly to grow
For now I am truly enlightened, aware of just what to say
I wish each and every one of you, a wonderful Valentines day.
posted on Feb, 4 2009 @ 11:34 PM
I thought i knew what love was, yet wondered why it caused so much heartache.
It made me question if it was really a true love, or just possibably a fake.
Unexpectdedly the question was answered, and now all i see is light,
Everyday is filled with sunshine for there is happiness in sight.
His 'et al's' make me tremble as do the conversations that we share.
I was almost sure i knew love was but this really does not compare.
Is it possible to find your soulmate, for now i convinced they do exist?
I'm not sure i can fight this feeling, its just too hard to resist.
I know there is no escaping this now, i know there is no-one to blame
There is simply no point fighting when you're like a moth is to a flame.
Wherever this journey takes me, there is one thing that i know,
I've made a friend of the rarest kind, and i'm not about to let that go.
[edit on 4-2-2009 by MCoG1980]
posted on Feb, 7 2009 @ 05:40 AM
Call me a Dreamer
Because I dream of you
Call me a sinner
Because I'd break the rules for you
Call me a thief
Because I'll try to steal your heart
Call me an actor
Because I'll play the part
Call me a fool
Because I'm dumb around you
Call me a tool
Because I'm at your disposal
Call me any day
anywhere, at any given time
You're never a bother
Because you're always on my mind
just something I threw together in the wee hours of the morning just now.
[edit on 7-2-2009 by grimreaper797]
posted on Feb, 7 2009 @ 09:05 AM
Lyrics I IV V
Call me on my cell phone
you can email me too
tell me where you are baby
ill come runnin to you
write me a letter
send up a bright red flare
just let me know somehow
ill be there
if you can't find a pay phone
use morris code
tell me ill start the pick up
and ill hit the road
im drivin
choo choo train
10 speed
hitch hikein
posted on Feb, 7 2009 @ 10:08 AM
That look in your eyes,
That hint in your smile.
I can tell by your face,
You've known for a while.
A spell you did weave,
Your essence is strong.
I can't shake your beauty,
For you I do long.
I let my mind wander,
My thoughts filled with you.
Don't know what will happen,
Don't care what we do.
As long as I'm near you,
My soul's firmly planted.
Because I know you have me,
posted on Feb, 7 2009 @ 11:43 AM
You Silly Valentine
Cupid you can’t read me…. You silly valentine!
If only you could…. I’d be in trouble... most of the time!
The arrows you shoot straight at my heart…
Why, they fall by the wayside, then fall apart!
Oh- you’re feeling guilty…. cuz you can’t find my match!
My heart is a secret that escapes you still…
It’ll take a special Valentine to break my will!
Oh silly Cupid, don’t you wish you could see
I’m really not so complicated, but.. shhh… that’s between you & me!
Little things, simple things they brighten my day
I don’t need expensive, that’s all fake …I say
I need peace, I need me time… is this too much to ask?
If it is little Cupid, just kiss my ass.
Don’t send a skinny one…. I’ll take mine with some meat
Oh & can you make him 5’10 or over so I’m not the tall one with heels on my feet?
Oh Cupid…no moody, not them please!
No vulgar…I hate that… Although…a little is fine
But we’ll save that for the bedroom… between thee & thine.
He doesn’t have to be super handsome a great personality will do
Good moods and laughter…yes that would do!
No jealousy… I’ve done that; it’s really no fun
I know I’m a cute one since lookers abound
That’s no cause for worry…so please stop that now!
You may think I’m picky; I assure you I’m not.
These qualities I look for, is this really so bad?
If it is… Oh hell Cupid…that really makes me mad!
~*Keep searching* ~
Edit* to add to
[edit on 2/7/2009 by jensouth31]
posted on Feb, 7 2009 @ 04:39 PM
When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tears us apart again
Love, love will tears us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold
You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect run so dry
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
But love, love will tears us apart again
You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
And there's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more
But love, love will tear us apart again
- Ian Curtis
posted on Feb, 9 2009 @ 11:18 PM
You can say a lot of things about me
Some of them might even be true,
You might say I'm a little bit crazy
But I'm only crazy about you
You can think almost anything
And you might even probably be right
You might think I'm a bit too strong
But I'm only strong, because its your fight
You might have a million questions
And I have answers, to rationalize
If there's even the slightest doubt
Then please, just look into my eyes
I can't get more blunt then I love you
And I can't be more vulnerable then this
All I can do is just stand here waiting,
Just waiting, for that kiss
- Carrot
posted on Feb, 10 2009 @ 06:53 PM
First....I'd like to apologize for the typos in my last post as I was quoting Ian Curtis...who was the lead singer for Joy Division. He hung himself in 1980. He was only 24. He deserves better than my typos...
He was the same age as Prefontaine. Prefontaine, however, drove his small convertible down a steep hill and somehow crashed into a stone wall. The car flipped over onto him and he bled out. He was still alive when he was first found. This was not a suicide attempt. He did have a few beers.
Next...I'd like to say that I have a difficult time writing verse when it relates to true love and happiness. I'm better at pain and painful stuff. My paintings reflect pain...even my nudes.
But I can try...or at least in my way...
[edit on 10-2-2009 by Excitable_Boy]
posted on Feb, 11 2009 @ 02:29 PM
First Love
There's first love and then
There's first love
My first true crush was on a Lisa
Not a Mona just a Lisa
I was seventeen
The summer before university
We met at work
A hamburger, sandwich, ice cream deal
I was a grill cook
She was a waitress
She was very pretty
And had a little extra in the caboose
I was fascinated
She LOVED kissing
I loved kissing her
She liked to give hickeys
It lasted three weeks
Then she went back to the old boyfriend
I was stunned and crushed
I got drunk and puked on Riunite
posted on Feb, 11 2009 @ 03:48 PM
Come on over here baby, help me stretch this heart so wide,
It's a Valentine you know, and there's room for two inside,
Climb on in beside me, bring your love,your laugh, your smile,
God, I hope you like it here, maybe you'll stay a while.
Kind of cozy isn't it, kind of make believe . . but true,
That's how I think about us, when I'm alone . . with you.
Love you long time baby, long time.
And so he pulled the sides of the Valentine together,
keeping her in his heart, . . . for a long, long, time.
And as time passed, she kept him in her heart as well.
Happiness made them better. Love made them the best.
posted on Feb, 11 2009 @ 08:39 PM
Yo my Queen Bee
buzzin round my hive
you make mo sugar
any bee alive.
sail on my little honey bee
sail on
when you get tired of sailin
sail back to your happy home
I hear a lot of buzzin,
sound like my little honey bee
she been out making honey
now she makes honey with me
sail on my little honey bee
sail on
I don't mind you sailin
but please don't sail so long.
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posted on Feb, 12 2009 @ 11:23 PM
My Love
My love, your like a dream too me,
I want to sail forever, in your sea.
I take your hand and you take mine,
my mind loses all track of time.
I still remember the first day we met,
there’s nothing about our love, that I regret.
A thousand times, I have touched your face,
when you’re gone, I long for your embrace.
I love you with all heart, soul and mind,
my love, you are one of a kind.
There are many words that I could say,
my love for you grows stronger every day.
I never knew what love could do,
the day I fell in love with you.
My love, I love you.
- Joe Croft
posted on Feb, 13 2009 @ 12:57 AM
Hands shoved deep in my pockets
I'm staring at my feet
I know I have to face this
This time, I can't retreat
I focus on the ground
Try not to meet your eye
I am the cracks within it
And I'll probably just cry
I can feel your eyes on me
Telling me it's okay to share
The secret I've been keeping
I don't need to be scared
I guess I'm just a little shy
When it comes to telling you
All the things you do to me
When I look inside your eyes
But it all comes down to now
This moment when I face you
I guess there's nothing left to say
Except, that I love you.
- Carrot
[edit on 2/13/2009 by CA_Orot]
posted on Feb, 13 2009 @ 01:10 AM
I love so much about you
It's hard to pick just one thing
The way you stare back at me too
Makes it hard to think
You have to know
What you're doing to me
I swear to god
You're making me crazy
...In a good way of course
I've made a promise to me
That today I'll take a stand
And not melt in your arms
Or when you touch my hand
I'm going to stand so strong
I'm going to hold my ground
And when you try to touch me
I won't make a sound
I'm going to play that game
That game when we first met
Come on, you remember it don't you?
You were playing hard to get
But at the end of the day
Over a Bottle of Red Wine
I swear to God I'll cave,
And ask you, to be my Valentine
- Carrot
posted on Feb, 13 2009 @ 01:07 PM
reply to post by CA_Orot
There are times
When you Look at me
and I am unable to speak.
posted on Feb, 13 2009 @ 08:12 PM
Further into the fog I fall
Crawling on damp ground
Crawling across cut glass
Just to follow you around
Deeper unto the darkness I dwell
A pounding chest the only sound
I can't find nerve to speak or tell
I am speech less and spell bound
[edit on 13-2-2009 by Excitable_Boy]
posted on Feb, 14 2009 @ 07:42 AM
You hiss and groan
And you constantly moan
But you don't ever go away
You roll your eyes
Up to the skies
Mock horrified
But you're still here
There's so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is complain about me
You bang your head against the wall
And say you're sick of it all
Yet, you remain
And then you offer your one and only joke
And ask me "What will I be,
When I grow up to be a man"?
There's so much destruction
All over the world
And all you can do is complain about me
I was a small fat child in a welfare house
There was only one thing I ever dreamed about
Fate has just handed it to me
You don't like me but you love me,
Either way you're wrong
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
- Morissey
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7 Tips to Qualify for the Boston Marathon
Qualifying for the prestigious Boston Marathon is the goal of many who run marathons. It's an honor, like qualifying for the Olympic trials, but one that's reachable by those of us who aren't professional runners.
Qualifying for Boston is a big debate among runners of all demographics and abilities. Some believe older runners have an advantage while others believe women have the advantage. In a recent study by Jim Fortner, only 10.4 percent of marathon finishers achieved their Boston qualifying time. However, more people qualify in different age groups. For example, the number of women ages 45 to 49 who qualify is 14.5 percent. The number of men ages 65 to 69 who qualify is 17 percent, while only 7.9 percent of men and women age 34 and younger qualify. Boston qualifiers (also known as BQs) are not biased against men or women, and they certainly aren't biased against older runners.
What's the BQ Standard?
Qualifiers of the Boston Marathon must meet the designated time standard that corresponds with their age group and gender. The qualifying times are based on the runner's age on the date of the Boston Marathon in which they are planning to participate.
Runners must run under these qualifying times effective as of September 24, 2011:
18-34 3:05:00 3:35:00
35-39 3:10:00 3:40:00
40-44 3:15:00 3:45:00
45-49 3:25:00 3:55:00
50-54 3:30:00 4:00:00
55-59 3:40:00 4:10:00
60-64 3:55:00 4:25:00
65-69 4:10:00 4:40:00
70-74 4:25:00 4:55:00
75-79 4:40:00 5:10:00
80 and over
4:55:00 5:25:00
Unlike previous years, an additional 59 seconds will NOT be accepted for each age-group time standard.
Tip 1: Try to Run Faster Than the Standard
Try to beat your qualifying time by as much as you can because the registration process is done on rolling admission, meaning the fastest qualifiers get to register first. Those who beat their qualifying times by 20 minutes get to register the first day it opens. Those who beat their time by 10 minutes or more get to register on day three. Runners who have beat their time by 5 minutes or more can register on day four.
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Xerlin-1.3_beta1 has been released.
It now incorporates XML Schema and WebDAV support.
I am pleased to announce the release of the Xerlin open source XML Editor project
Xerlin is an open source, java based, XML editor released under an Apache style license. It has an extensible architecture designed to support customized user interfaces.
Users and developers are welcome to use and contribute to the project. Source and binary distributions are available, including the latest CVS sources.
Xerlin includes software developed by ChannelPoint, Inc. for use in the Merlot XML Editor (the original Merlot site is no longer active). ChannelPoint founded and hosted the Merlot XML Editor as an open source project during 2000-2001. Xerlin has been created to build on those foundations, and has the support of many of the same Developers.
The Xerlin project is hosted by SpeedLegal (, the XML-based document assembly company.
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2nd of Av, 5774
Parashat Devarim
The Negev, often referred to as a desert, is more properly called “wilderness,” or “badlands.” The rainfall in the Negev is higher than in the American Sonora Desert. Several development towns dot the magnificent landscape of the Negev, including the town of Mitzpe Ramon, which overlooks the Ramon Crater. The Ramon crater is the largest crater in Israel and the colored sands mined from the crater are sold, layered in bottles throughout Israel.
The descent from the site of Mitzpe Ramon to the floor of the Ramon Crater is a treacherous road with many switchbacks. Because it was the only link to the city of Elat form the north, during the War of Independence, it was a site of many terrorist act designed to interrupt the flow of supplies to Elat.
There is a marvelous marker at the site of one of these incidents, which bears the inscription:
“Arava, lama pa’art et peekh? Ha’im ra’avt, Arava?”
[Arava, why did you open your mouth? Were you hungry, Arava?]
The Elat Mountains at the southern part of the Negev.
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Dynamic GridView?
Tutorials with advanced 'difficulty' and more Lines of Code.
Dynamic GridView?
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Can i have dynamic gridview using the vector instead arrays! But it crashes app!! Then How can i achieve these can any expert help me?
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Thursday, November 08, 2012
The Sudetenland Election
December 1938: Counting votes in the Sudetenland.
The governing principles of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu live on.
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1. Hi, I've just discovered your blog and I've read it so far with real interest. Your knowledge in art is impressive.
But this post is truly a disgrace for someone as brilliant as you are, especially when you are so interested in history.
You don't love Obama. I understand that and I guess you have your reasons. But comparing him to Hitler and his methods is embarrassing and completely out of touch with reality. Sure he gained 98% or more in this particular black area. But in this case, what to say about the 73% of Utans who voted for Romney? I checked and 91% of the vote in Rich County, Utah went to him. And what about the 96% in King county, Texas?
This part is a bit more personal. I truly wonder how, as a gay man, you can have so much anger against this guy and his party. I'm not telling you should vote democrat because you're gay. I totally respect your opinions and democrats are far (veeeeery far) from being perfect. But, at least, if things move socially speaking, it's because democrats (and a few republicans) are trying to change laws and the way Americans think. I mean, if you and your partner want to marry and adopt in Minnesota, it's essentially thanks to democrats.
You might have been disappointed with the election results and this post seems to be the result of a deep frustration, but Obama and his first government have a few successes you can't deny and denigrate. Obamacare will be his biggest and best heritage (I'm speaking as a soon-to-be doctor). He had an important role in the DOMA case as well.
I hope I haven't upset you with what I've written, but I felt I needed to explain my point of view and write my frustration with this post.
Thank you for this blog,
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Moe Moe Z-Cune
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Updraft Effects on Z-R Relations
If we examine the effects of the significant downdrafts and updrafts separately, the downdrafts tend to shift the data points to a higher rainfall rate for a given Z. However, the effect is fairly small since there were virtually no large organized downdrafts in this sample (<w> < -2.0 m/s).
There were numerous significant updrafts, however, and their effect on the Z-R relations was to shift the data points so the resultant regression line is to the left of that for the whole population. To illustrate the effects of updrafts on the Z-R relations the sample was limited to the upper 5% (268 samples) of the 6-s mean <w> > 2.0 m/s.
The measured updrafts reduced the resultant Rw values significantly. In some cases Rw actually became negative (all of the precipitation water is rising) and could not be plotted on the log scale. This was particularly true at low rainfall rates.
Because much of the rain is moving upward in updrafts, in convection we should consider the flux of precipitation, or rain water, and not rainfall rate per se. For example, for the 5% of points with <w>>2.0 m/s, the sum of the precipitation flux (sum R0, sum R w) changes from 4990.4 to 1240.1 mm/hr (i.e., only 25% of the rain is falling) upon the application of updraft velocity, and in a number of samples virtually all of the precipitation hydrometeors are rising. Moreover, the large mass of water which is rising will fall out later at places far removed from the measurement volume, the smaller the drops the further away. Of course, some of these small drops will not survive evaporation. The drop distributions will undergo significant evolution from their initial formation in convective updrafts and their complex trajectories to the surface.
Another way of looking at the effect updrafts have on the resultant rainfall rate is by plotting <w> versus the ratio Rw/R 0.
When Rw/R0=0 the bulk of the rain is suspended. This occurs at the intercept <w>=3.9 m/s. The intercept is nearly equal to the mean and median <Vm> for the entire sample (3.7 m/s and 4.0 m/s, respectively). Most of the drop size distributions observed during TOGA COARE had a mean <Vm> in this range. Distributions of <Vm> and <w> for a given distribution can be used to determine whether a substantial portion of the rain mass is rising.
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How Often Should I Replace My Air Filter?
If you've ever had your furnace fail in the dead of winter—or your air conditioner kick out on you in the sweltering heat of summer—you know that indoor comfort does not come cheap. The cost to repair or replace an old unit is steep, to be sure, so take the steps now to make sure yours has a long and happy life. First step? Make sure you change the air filter as often as necessary.
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But how often is necessary when it comes to replacing your air filter? Well, it depends on a few different things:
Your Pets
If you have pets that shed, their hair or fur can be pulled into your air conditioner and furnace through your duct work. When your unit is working overtime—like, hey... right now when it's super freezing outside—the air filter may need to be changed as often as once a month.
Your (or Your Guests') Allergies
If you, your family or your weekend couch surfers suffer from dust or mold allergies, a fresh air filter will make everyone more comfortable. If you're very sensitive to dust, change your air filter once a month. Otherwise, a four- to six-times-a-year replacement routine should keep air quality up for everyone.
Your Air Filter...
Pro tip: There are a billion different sizes and kinds of air filters on the market (You may have discovered this when you accidentally bought the wrong size filter because you didn't store the measurements in your phone like we suggested). Bigger air filters (both in width and thickness) can stand to be changed less often, while super-compact filters should get more frequent attention.
...And How Often You Clean It
If you regularly vacuum dust and loose dirt from your air filter, you can double the life of it. A normal person without a shedding pet or severe allergies should change their air filter roughly four times each year, but thorough cleaning can cut that down to just two times.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Weird Dreams Rock My World: A Review Of Choreography
I had this promo download for weeks and didn't bother to play it until Pitchfork used the term "power pop" in their review of Choreography by Weird Dreams.
Expecting something like The Knack, or Shoes, I played the record. Well, it's not like those bands at all. Frankly, it's a lot better.
A dash of The Feelies, a touch of Vampire Weekend, a hint of Pavement -- what the hell is going on here? What is this sound?
One listen to "Suburban Coated" had me sold. Like Field Music, the guys in Weird Dreams are taking familiar pieces of other bands and making a decidedly shimmery form of modern pop. I can hear a sad spin on XTC in this track, and a reference to Talking Heads or two, but it's just a lovely and heartbreakingly beautiful song.
If the Beach Boys tried to cover Ride, it would sound like this.
That Vampire Weekend vibe is back on "Creatures" but the harmonies echo the Beach Boys, again. Still, rather than sound like a contrived gimmick, the genre mixing works here. Weird Dreams sound like a band who want to sound like this.
What I mean is that there's a level of effort here -- and that's okay -- but the London lads in Weird Dreams make it sound effortless and natural. "Hurts So Bad" rides in on a wave of chiming guitar chords and a Peter Hook-in-1981-bassline and the song charms without sounding forced. Like The Drums, these guys are experts at mining the past for little treasures that they sprinkle through their pop-work now.
That sort of effort would be worthless if the results weren't so catchy.
"Holding Nails" reminds me of The Cars. If they had ditched their synths and picked up "real" instruments. And "Little Girl" has a slinky guitar line that recalls pre-Beatles pop in America.
The guys in Weird Dreams namecheck David Lynch as an inspiration and, like that director, they take the familiar and repurpose it.
I can't say that you haven't heard stuff like this before. But I can say that Weird Dreams are doing something fresh with these things. They are making something charming, warm, sad, and tuneful out of a few familiar influences.
It's a case of leaving out the unnecessary bits. There's just enough here to get a listener hooked. And I'm hooked.
Choreography is out now on Tough Love Records.
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Discovery Magazine 3/1/2004
To God Be the Glory
You have heard it all before: “We’re number 1.” “I am the greatest.” “We’re the bestthere ever was, is, or ever will be.” While these sayings are sometimes expressed in a fairly innocent manner, Christians need to be careful about developing the prideful attitudes that can be expressed with such language.
Since the beginning of time, Satan has been trying to get humans to believe they are unbeatable. Do you remember when he convinced Eve that she would live forever even if she disobeyed God and ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:4-5)? Satan wants us to sin against God by developing an arrogant spirit, instead of a humble one. In fact, he wants to see men becoming so puffed up that they begin thinking of themselves as being more of a god than a man.
Humans need to remember that there is only one God, and none of us is Him. God revealed this truth over 2,500 years ago when He said to the king of Tyre through Ezekiel: “You say, ‘I am a god, and sit in the seat of gods, in the midst of the seas,’ yet, you are a man and not a god” (Ezekiel 28:2). In the Bible, only the wicked promoted themselves to the status of God. Do you remember reading about King Herod’s prideful spirit in the book of Acts? In writing about a meeting that the king had with a group of people from Tyre and Sidon, Luke wrote that “Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. And the people kept shouting, ‘The voice of a god and not the voice of a man!’ Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten of worms and died” (Acts 12:21-23).
The prideful spirit of Herod stands in direct contrast to the reaction of Paul and Barnabas when people at Lystra attempted to worship them (Acts 14:8-18). Had they had the same arrogant spirit as Herod, these two preachers would have accepted worship, and felt as if they deserved such honor. But instead, these Christian men “tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out and saying, ‘Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you.’”
We are not God! God alone is worthy of worship (Matthew 4:10). The Bible says, “To Himbe the glory,” not us (2 Peter 3:18). Let’s make sure that when we do good things, they are done to bring praise and honor to God, and not ourselves (Matthew 5:16).
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On April 17, at the Whitney Museum, two contemporary poetry movements went head to head. The Flarf Collective and Conceptual Poets competed to see who dealt with the flux of the digital age most compellingly. Eight poets, four from each movement, read insouciant, disarming, and sometimes pervers verse. Rumor has it that Flarf won, but I wasn't there to witness the action.
The Flarf movement began as the world transitioned into the technology-rich 21st century. It's the poetic equivalent of appropriation art: authorial originality is passe while borrowing, remixing, and lightening-up preixistent ideas has become empowering.
According to poet Gary Sullivan, Flarf grew out of email exchanges in 2001. As poets responded to and expanded upon one another's texts, the Flarflist Collective developed digitally. Their work acknowledged the technological, media saturated climate it was being produced in and seemed more timely than much of the mainstream poetry. Rather suddenly, Flarf became known as the 21st Century avant guard.
In 2006, Gary Sullivan wrote about the hype in Jacket Magazine: "The act of writing flarf has been described as collaborating with the culture via the Web, as an imperialist or colonialist gesture, as an unexamined projection of self into others, as the conscious erasure of self or ego. Individual members have been described as brilliant, lazy, and smug, as satirists, fakes, and late-blooming Dadaists. . . . Very little of the discussion has dealt in any significant way with the work itself." Sullivan recommended readings that could introduce audience's to Flarf's actual output. I've included links to Sullivan's 2006 recommendations below, as well as more current resources.
The Flarf Files gives a brief introduction to Flarf and includes some early poetry from the group.
Jacket Magazine's Flarf Feature (you'll have to scroll half way down the linked page to find it) includes work by Nada Gordon, Anne Boyer, K. Silem Mohammad, and Michael Magee, among others.
The Flarf Collective blogspot hasn't been updated in a while, but it still gives a rich, multimedia glimpse into the group.
On his own blog, K. Silem Mohammad lightheartedly responds to criticisms leveled against Flarf.
WNYC radio offers a podcast of the Flarf vs. Conceptual showdown at the Whitney.
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2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Production Car
Following on the heels of the Prototype X Concept shown at Detroit, Mitsubishi has released this picture of the final, production-ready, 2008 Lancer Evolution. This is what the Evo will look like screaming down U.S. streets in the first quarter of '08, but since interior pictures haven't been released, we still don't know what the view from the driver's seat is like. You'll notice we didn't call it the Evolution X, because it won't wear the Roman numeral here. Because we didn't get Evos I through VII, Mitsubishi feels that most Americans won't understand the numbering system. The decision is consistent with current U.S.-spec models. Horsepower figures still haven't been announced, but expect a figure above 300. And while the term "six-speed automated manual transmission" sounds a bit vague, we've been told it will have more in common with Volkswagen's DSG box than BMW's less popular SMG transmission.
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Where software engineering meets GIS.
GPUs and Parallel Computing Architectures
Three of the most popular types of parallel computing today are:
• Shared-memory Multi-Processors (SMP)
• Distributed-memory Massive Parallel Processors (MPP)
• Cluster computing
General Purpose
The ‘traditional’ processors used in many computers up until a few years ago were single core processors, called the Central Processing Unit (CPU). The CPU was able to access a large, general-purpose memory bank, called Random Access Memory (RAM).
Simplified CPU Architecture
Simplified CPU Architecture
In contemporary computers, the CPU often contains more than one core, making CPU’s capable of more than one instruction at a time. In addition to superscalar instruction processing, this makes modern CPUs much faster than their single core, scalar predecessors.
Shared-memory Multiprocessors
An SMP architecture is probably the one parallel computing architecture that is most like the general purpose architecture with which we are familiar. SMP are a set of processors that all have their own local memory. These memory banks are shared within a thread group, but not between more than one thread group. However, each processor also has access to a global memory bank, which is shared between all processors.
Simplified Shared-memory Multiprocessor Architecture
Simplified Shared-memory Multiprocessor Architecture
This is the parallel architecture that NVidia and AMD/ATI both use in their GPUs. Likewise, it’s also the model enforced in the OpenCL specification.
Distributed-memory Massive Parallel Processors
The most complicated and flexible architecture type is MPP. MPP systems isolate memory and processors together, and as such, have no common or shared memory. Each processor has a dedicated block of local memory, and communicates with other processors via a bus or network. By varying the number of processors each processor is connected to, different types of MPP systems can be created. For example:
• Linear array: if the processors were arranged in a line, each processor is connected to 2 neighboring processors
Simplified Linear Array Architecture
Simplified Linear Array Architecture
• Linear ring: if the processors were arranged in a circle, each processor is connected to 2 neighboring processors (a linear array, with the ends connected)
• Mesh: if the processors were arranged in a grid, each processor is connected to up to 4 neighbors (3 on the edges, and 2 in the corners)
Simplified Mesh Architecture
Simplified Mesh Architecture
• Tree: if the processors were arranged in a hierarchical manner, with each processor connected to the processor above it, and two processors below it.
• Pyramid: if the processors were arranged similar to a tree, but in three dimensions, with each processor connecting to four processors below it.
Simplified Pyramid Architecture
Simplified Pyramid Architecture
• Cube: if the processors were arranged similar to a mesh, but in three dimensions, with each processor connected to up to 6 neighbors.
• Hypercube: if the processors were arranged similar to a cube, but in four dimensions, with each processor connected to up to 8 neighbors.
As you can see, the processors in MPP systems can proliferate quite rapidly with more complex processor network topologies. We haven’t worked with any MPP systems for our GPU research, so I’ll let you ponder that while I return to the GPU architecture.
GPU Memory – Not Your Father’s RAM
As I mentioned above, GPUs and OpenCL implementations are based on the SMP architecture. As such, GPUs have multiple types of memory, with different implications for each type.
• Global memory: this is often the big number on the graphics card packaging. 512 MB DDR, etc. This is the amount of global memory that is available to the GPU processors. This memory is essentially used as a fast cache to the motherboard RAM, since it’s used to transfer raw data to the GPU for processing, and storing computation results prior to reading out back to motherboard RAM.
• Local shared memory: this is a much smaller bank of memory that is extremely fast. On the hardware that we’re using, it’s limited to 16KB. With some smart memory management, this local memory can really speed up computations, since the instruction cost of accessing this memory is 1% of that required to access global memory. Also, this memory is shared between all threads in a work-group.
• Private thread memory: this is an extremely small bank of memory that can be used within each thread for variables and temporary storage during your computation. Interestingly, in the NVidia implementation, this uses registers for a certain amount, then starts using global memory when registers are exhausted.
The differences in memory types are probably the first thing a general purpose GPU programmer will run into. Another thing to keep in mind is the method by which the GPU achieves such high throughput, and that’s thread parallelism.
Single Instruction Multiple Threads
In OpenCL, each parallel code path executes one kernel. The best possible outcome (in regards to thread synchronicity) is when each kernel executes the exact same instructions as all other threads. With each thread managing a different nugget of data, this results in extremely fast execution. However, if the kernel code diverges or branches, there is a performance penalty: that section of your code will execute serially (think 16x to 32x slower).
NVidia implements this architecture, and has called it Single Instruction Multiple Threads (SIMT). It’s kind of like line-dancing for threads. All threads that execute the same instructions can perform together. If a thread diverges or branches, then the line-dance is broken, and each thread processes a divergent section one after another. What’s kind of cool, though, is that the threads will join back up after diverging, and continue on together.
Wrapping it up
With a solid understanding of how the GPU operates in addition to the limitations of memory and threading, it’s relatively easy to start computing on the GPU. Many common operations are easily parallelizable, such as sorting and basic mathematical operations. When you start performing serious number crunching, or if you are porting a beefy algorithm from serial CPU code, that’s when the real fun begins.
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Track your baby's development, week by week
People I Love Book
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Ages: 2-7 years
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Make an easy-to-read picture book of your child's loved ones.
Prepare a book for your child using several sheets of card stock. Punch three holes in the binding and tie the book together with colorful yarn. Give the book a title such as, "I Love My Family," or "People I Love." Inside the book, secure a photograph of someone your child loves onto one page of each two-page spread. On the other page, have your child draw a picture of that person. Older children might like to draw a picture of themselves engaged in a favorite activity with the featured loved one. Help your child compose a sentence about the featured person. Older children can then write the sentence. Younger children who have some familiarity with letters will enjoy typing the sentence on the computer (with your help, of course). You can then print out the sentences and cut them out to glue into the book. If you'd prefer, you can simply write the sentences into the book. When the book is finished take turns reading it to your child and having him or her read it to you.
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Fame & Fortune: Comic Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli has found success in modern-day comedy with a style that's as old school as it gets.
A former researcher and rock journalist for magazines such as Rolling Stone, Spy, and Hit Parader, Lampanelli delivers zingers -- many racially tinged -- in the purest Don Rickles tradition, playing on ethnic stereotypes to decimate her audience but with a wink never far from her eye. This blatant style has made her a key attraction at the roasts thrown by Comedy Central and Howard Stern, and a favorite on "The Tonight Show."
Lampanelli is also starting to find success on the big screen, with roles in major films such as "Larry the Cable Guy's Delta Farce," which hit theaters in May, and next year's Owen Wilson starrer "Drillbit Taylor."
Lampanelli shows why she's known as "The Lovable Queen of Mean" as she skewers some of the top names in entertainment on Comedy Central's roast of Flava Flav.
Bankrate spoke with Lampanelli about her comedic ascent and the pleasures of fame.
Bankrate: How long have you been doing stand-up?
Lisa Lampanelli: Sixteen years. I think I hit 30 and snapped. I was a journalist and I was totally bored because I didn't want to continue interviewing hair bands in the 1980s. I worked for Rolling Stone and Hit Parader and met everyone I wanted to meet. So I said "Screw it, I'll try comedy," 'cause I thought I could do it. Thank goodness it worked, or I'd be Xeroxing my ass at Kinkos.
Bankrate: What kind of material were you doing when you started?
Lisa Lampanelli: You have to talk about things you're passionate about, or it comes out really boring. At the time I was on Weight Watchers and was losing weight, and I was under fire from people at my day job who would make comments about my weight and how I looked. So I ranted and raved about that for five minutes, and thankfully I was pissed off enough about it for it to come out funny. Then I tilted the other way, and within nine months I was doing 100 percent crowd work. Then it went back to the other way, and now it's more insults and angry material, a combination of both.
Bankrate: Were you ever uncomfortable lobbing these sorts of insults at people?
Lisa Lampanelli: No. If I didn't curse it felt stilted because I curse in real life, and the audience senses you're not real if you're holding back on stage.
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Mexico mass grave: 18 kidnapped tourists found
Mexican police remove a body buried in a field at Tuncingo Relatives identified the remains at a morgue in the resort city of Acapulco
A mass grave discovered in Mexico contained the bodies of 18 kidnapped tourists, it has been confirmed.
Relatives of the Mexican holiday-makers identified the remains at a morgue in the resort city of Acapulco.
They disappeared on 30 September after they left their home town of Morelia. Witnesses last saw them looking for their hotel in Acapulco.
They are believed to have been kidnapped by a drugs gang, but it is not clear why. Two men remain missing.
The region is the scene of a violent turf war between rival drug cartels.
The families of the men, many of whom were related, have said most of them were mechanics who saved up money to take a vacation together each year.
Police officers and troops examined the site of the mass grave just outside Acapulco on Wednesday, after a video was posted on the internet detailing its whereabouts.
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Two men featured in that video - who identified themselves as repentant gang members - are also believed to have been killed.
In the video, the men, with their hands apparently tied behind their backs, said they had killed what they called the "20 michoacanos" - a reference to the tourists' home state.
They tell an unseen questioner they were ordered to kill the men in a revenge attack against La Familia Michoacana, a violent drug cartel active on Mexico's Pacific coast.
The bodies of two murdered men were found beside the mass grave dressed in the same clothes as the men in the video. A message beside the bodies read: "The people they killed are buried here."
Mass killings and the discovery of mass graves have become more frequent in recent months, while the use of gruesome video messages has also become more common.
More than 28,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since December 2006 when President Felipe Calderon began deploying troops to take on the traffickers.
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Rebellion Announces Evil Genius Online for Facebook,
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Rebellion Entertainment has announced its Evil Genius Online will come to Facebook and later this year. The game is the latest in the Evil Genius series, which focuses on "super villain" humor and real-time-strategy gameplay.
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Evil Genius Online will feature the expected social features of a Facebook game, including allowing players to form evil syndicates, send spies to rival lairs and share rare and crucial items in the form of bribes.
Evil Genius Online will stay true to the original Evil Genius franchise, giving players the chance to construct large underground lairs and complete a variety of evil actions as their super villain character. The overall goal of the game will be to become the world’s most notorious criminal mastermind.
Note: A closed beta is being planned for Evil Genius Online, with the full launch coming this fall.
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Dream Gates
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A blessing for the road
posted by Robert Moss
The road will never swallow you. The river of your destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. Success will never confuse you or scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
In the Nigerian author’s novel, these wise and lovely words are spoken over a spirit child who has a hard time staying in one world, by the no less strange (and vast) Madame Koto, the proprietor of a two-fisted bar.
They are a blessing I would welcome, and would gladly extend to others. On any day we can find ways to bless each other.
May you remember your life’s purpose.
May suffering make you stronger.
May success make you fly higher, into the light.
May your life always surprise you.
May it be so.
• http://AddaURLtothiscomment Silvana
Nice; thank you Robert! Right back at you!
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Thank you very much, Robert. That quotation is an inspiration. Truer words were never spoken (nor written).
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Lamentations 3:59-66 (Douay-Rheims)
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59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. 60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. 61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. 62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. 63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. 64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. 65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. 66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.
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Exodus 20:1-17 (Hebrew Names Version)
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1 God spoke all these words, saying, 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim, out of the house of bondage. 3 You shall have no other gods before me. 4 "You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the eretz beneath, or that is in the water under the eretz: 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot. 7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. 8 "Remember the day of Shabbat, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 11 for in six days the LORD made heaven and eretz, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the day of Shabbat, and made it holy. 12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 13 "You shall not murder. 14 "You shall not commit adultery. 15 "You shall not steal. 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
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Isaiah 48:7-17 (New International Version)
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7 They are created1 now, and not long ago;2 you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot say, 'Yes, I knew3 of them.' 8 You have neither heard nor understood;4 from of old your ear5 has not been open. Well do I know how treacherous6 you are; you were called a rebel7 from birth. 9 For my own name's sake8 I delay my wrath;9 for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off.10 10 See, I have refined11 you, though not as silver; I have tested12 you in the furnace13 of affliction. 11 For my own sake,14 for my own sake, I do this. How can I let myself be defamed?15 I will not yield my glory to another.16
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12 "Listen17 to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I have called:18 I am he;19 I am the first and I am the last.20 13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth,21 and my right hand spread out the heavens;22 when I summon them, they all stand up together.23 14 "Come together,24 all of you, and listen: Which of [the idols] has foretold25 these things? The LORD's chosen ally26 will carry out his purpose27 against Babylon;28 his arm will be against the Babylonians.a 15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called29 him. I will bring him, and he will succeed30 in his mission. 16 "Come near31 me and listen32 to this: "From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret;33 at the time it happens, I am there." And now the Sovereign LORD34 has sent35 me, with his Spirit.36 17 This is what the LORD says-- your Redeemer,37 the Holy One38 of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, who teaches39 you what is best for you, who directs40 you in the way41 you should go.
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Luke 22:25-35 (New International Version)
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25 Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and those who exercise authority over them call themselves Benefactors. 26 But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest,1 and the one who rules like the one who serves.2 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.3 28 You are those who have stood by me in my trials. 29 And I confer on you a kingdom,4 just as my Father conferred one on me, 30 so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom5 and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.6 31 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked7 to sift youa as wheat.8 32 But I have prayed for you,9 Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."10 33 But he replied, "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death."11 34 Jesus answered, "I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me." 35 Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals,12 did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered.
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1 Corinthians 8 (Young's Literal Translation)
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1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; 2 and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth [him] to know; 3 and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him. 4 Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one; 5 for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth -- as there are gods many and lords many -- 6 yet to us [is] one God, the Father, of whom [are] the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom [are] the all things, and we through Him; 7 but not in all men [is] the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat [it], and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind; 9 but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm, 10 for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols, 11 and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died? 12 and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin; 13 wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.
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How Automated Solutions Can Help with Efforts Toward Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, and commonly called "SOX" or "Sarbox," is a United States federal law enacted on July 30, 2002, in response to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals. As of 2006, all public companies are required to submit an annual assessment of the effectiveness of their internal financial auditing controls to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Additionally, each company's external auditors are required to audit and report on the internal control reports of management, in addition to the company's financial statements.
Organizations, and their IT departments in particular, are challenged to meet the requirements of SOX Sections 302 and 404 for any number of systems, applications and data sources that are involved in the accurate reporting of company finances. Data moving on IT systems between personnel and departments, from initial creation to the reports that the CEO and CFO are required to approve, require a set of repeatable and measurable controls to achieve SOX Compliance.
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The capital of the bears … Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park Park is the world’s oldest National Park based 1st March 1872nd year. Spread to the 8 987 square kilometers large area and mostly in the northwest of the State of Wyoming on Tromeda with federal states Montana and Idaho.
The park is known for its geysers, hot springs,cool volcano, and other geothermal features. Most famous geyser Old Faidful is precisely in Yellowstone National Park park.
The name comes from the name of the Park River Yellowstone National Park by the French denim yellow cliffs of Yellowstone National Park for Grand canyon called Roche Jaune, to the American jeans after the name translated to English Yellowstone National Park.
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Approximately 96 percent of the park Yellowstone National Park is located in the State of Wyoming, 3 per cent in the State of Montana and the remaining 1 percent in the State of Idaho. Park from north to south about 102 km long and from west to east about 87 km air line. Area of 8 987 km exceeds the size of the two states Rhode Island and Delaware combined.
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Rivers and lakes cover about 5 percent of the park, and the largest body of water is Lake Yellowstone National Park. Lake Yellowstone National Park is 122 meters deep and its long coastline is about 177 km.
Yellowstone National Park Park is located on the plateau which is about 2 400 meters above average sea level. The highest point of the park is the Eagle Peak at 3 462 meters and the lowest is Lynx Creek to 1 610 meters above sea level. Park is surrounded by many mountains and the most prominent peak is Mount with its 3 122 m altitude.
The capital of the bears ... Yellowstone
The park is one of the world’s largest stone forest, which is composed of trees that were, after the distant past was buried ashes and earth, the wood turned into mineralized materials.
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Yellowstone National Park park also abounds with waterfalls, and from 4.5 to 94 m height how high the highest waterfall. The park is located two canyons Lewis canyon through which flows the river Lewis and Grand Canyon through which the river flows through Yellowstone National Park.
History of people who were connected with the park starts before about 11 000 years ago when the Indians in the area of the park began with hunting and fishing. The first whites in the area of the park were members of the research expedition Lewis and Clark and that they arrived 1805th . After that day, many expeditions have come to the park revealing all its beauty. Korneliyus Hedges, writer and lawyer from Montana who was a member of the expedition , proposed that the area put under protection as the first National Park at all, which was done, and the 1872nd Yellowstone National Park was declared a national park.
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Full Yellowstone Park is rich in thermal phenomena. In addition, there are geysers and hot mud pools, jet sulfur vapor that emerges from the chimney fumarola and natural hot springs. All this activity comes from large bubbles molten rock that slowly mows below the earth’s thin crust and constantly threatens erupcion. A approximately 600 000 years, a series of strong eruptions hit this area and built around 2590 km Stenak mountains and led to huge amounts of ash deposition and spray a thin layer of volcanic dust over the greater part of North America. Bark, which has lost support urušila in the empty space by creating a huge crater that covers an area of 3 100 km.
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Later eruption of ash smaller intensity and lion are almost completely filled the crater ending river Yellowstone National Park and creating a large lake. However, due ice occurred during the three major ice ages, and even more with hot water and steam that is softened and painted in yellow stone edge of the crater, the river is slowly carved today’s Grand Canyon and descends from the lake down a multitude of magnificent waterfalls.
Evidence of ancient super-volcano eruptions are most visible on the ridge Spesmen Ridge which is a petrified forest of trees. I now can recognize the plane tree, walnut, oak, cornel.
The capital of the bears ... Yellowstone
In the park there are many animal species: bison, semolina, brown bear, wolf, coyote, deer, moose, short and longhorned mouflon and puma. The relatively large number of major concern associated with bison rancher who fear that the buffalo could infect domestic cattle. Half of the total number of buffalo has been exposed to brucellosis bacteria, which were with his cattle brought Europeans. The disease brucellosis can significantly thin domestic catle. The buffalo rancher and fear of wolves who often attack domestic cattle and sheep. To 1994. in the park was not because wolves are an integral destroyed and killed more than 1926th year. However, the decision of the U.S. Office of fish and wild animals as wolves 1995th was returned to Yellowstone National Park and now in the higher parts of the park has about 300 individuals.
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Wolves after returning to the park are not considered endangered, and their type of poaching is allowed, but as there is interference with protected species of wolves that have moved and come to the park from Canada, it is almost impossible to distinguish protected from unprotected wolves.
Having been in the past, the wolf was extinct in the park, the biggest title of bishop wearing coyote. As the coyote was unable to hunt large animals that are not his natural prey, and among these animals an increase hromih and sick animals, and is thus.
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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook
Vasudeva of great puissance, If He is seen I am seen, as also the Grandsire Brahman, that foremost of all the gods. In this I do not deem there is any difference. Know this, ye Rishis of ascetic wealth! That person with whom the lotus-eyed Vasudeva becomes gratified, all the deities with Brahma amongst them will also become gratified with. That man who will seek the protection of Kesava will succeed in earning great achievements and victory and Heaven. He will be an instructor in religion and duties, and will earn, great religious merit. All persons conversant with religion and duties should, with great alacrity, bow down unto that Lord of all the gods. By adoring that puissant one, one will acquire great merit. Endued with great energy, that god, with the desire of benefiting all creatures, created millions of Rishis for the sake of righteousness. Those millions of Rishis, thus created by that great Ordainer are no residing on the mountains of Gandhamadana, headed by Sanatkumara and engaged in the observance of penances. Hence, ye foremost of regenerate ones, that foremost of all eloquent persons, the righteous Vasudeva should be adored by all. The illustrious Hari, the puissant Narayana, is verily, the foremost of all beings in Heaven. Adored, he adores, and honoured he honours; unto them that make offerings to him, he makes offerings in return. Worshipped, he worships in return, if seen always, he sees the seers always. If one seeks His refuge and protection, He seeks the seeker as his refuge in return. Ye foremost of all righteous ones, if adored and worshipped, He adores and worships in return. Even this is the high practice of the faultless Vishnu. Even this is the vow that is practised by all righteous people, of that first of all deities, that puissant Lord of all creatures. He is always worshipped in the world. Verily, that Eternal Being is worshipped by even the deities. Those persons that are devoted to Him with the steadiness of a vow become liberated from calamity and fear in proportion to his devotion. The regenerate ones should always worship Him in thought, word, and deed. The son of Devaki should be seen by them with reverence and in order to see Him with reverence they should address themselves to the performance of penances. Ye foremost of ascetics, even this is the path that I show unto you. By beholding Him, ye will have behold all the foremost of deities, I too bow my head in reverence unto that Lord of the universe, that Grandsire of all the worlds, that mighty and vast boar. By beholding Him one beholds the Trinity. Ourselves, i.e., all the deities, reside in Him. He will have an elder brother who will become known over all the world as Vala. Having a plough for his weapon, in form he will look like a white hill. In fact, he will be endued with might capable of uplifting the whole earth. Upon the car of that divine person a tall palmyra, three-headed and made of gold, will form his proud
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My Antonia Book 1, Chapters 3 and 4
Jim and his family meet their new Bohemian neighbors. The Shimerdas bought their farm and homestead from a fellow Bohemian, Peter Krajiek. Knowing the family could not speak English, he was able to manipulate his prices and rates without the Shimerdas' knowing and without a chance of getting caught. The Shimerdas live in a dugout, which is much too small for their large family. The Burdens meet Mrs. Shimerda, a woman of extreme temperament, susceptible to jealousy and anger. Ambrosch, the eldest son, looks arrogant and like he has a bad temper. Antonia, the eldest daughter, is a striking-looking girl, with eyes that were "big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood." Book 1, Chapter 3, pg. 17. Yulka, the younger daughter, is a good child, and Marek is the crazy son. Jim immediately likes Mr. Shimerda, who is a contrast to his family; he is as genteel and dignified as Mrs. Shimerda and Ambrosch are not. Jim finds that Mr. Shimerda is "calm" and "skilled," but also realizes with a sinking heart, that Mr. Shimerda "looked like ashes," as if "something from which all the warmth and light had died out."Book 1, Chapter 3, pg. 18. When Mr. Shimerda asks Jim to teach Antonia English, Jim swears he will never forget the fervent look on Mr. Shimerda's face.
As the autumn season goes on, Antonia and Jim's relationship turns into friendship. The country that Jim first found anxious now "seemed to [him] the roads to freedom." Book 1, Chapter 4, pg. 21. Jim becomes intimately acquainted with the country: the animals, the vegetation, the weather, and the conditions. Antonia shares Jim's feelings about the country and his experiences of learning about the country. Antonia is eager and enthusiastic about learning to speak English. Jim and his grandparents are saddened for the Shimerdas, whose life on the farm is undoubtedly difficult.
Despite the many hardships, Antonia remains cheerful and optimistic. She knows that she and her family must sacrifice much of their happiness to make do in a new, unfamiliar country.
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3-15-12 Boston, MA: Former Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci, right, smiles as he glances at his former boss, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld (left) as Weld cracks a joke during a press conference held at the Seaport Boston Hotel prior to a fundraiser for the University of Massachusetts Medical School's UMASS /ALS Champion Fund. Cellucci has been diagnosed with ALS. (Globe Staff Photo/Jim Davis) section:metro slug:16cellucci
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How to Avoid a Manic Episode
Whether an episode occurs, when, for how long, and how severe it is depends to a large degree on factors that are within the control of patient and family. For an episode to occur, the following are necessary or sufficient:
1. Genetic vulnerability (necessary)
2. Cyclicity/anniversary (sufficient)
3. Major stressors (sufficient)
4. Lack of support (sufficient)
5. Lack of medication (necessary)
Factors Important for Triggering an Episode
Many bipolar patients demonstrate a biological rhythm with impressive regularity with regard to mood swings. Cycles of hypomania and/or depression come with predictable occurrence. These tend to be seasonal; spring for hypomania and fall for depression, or summer for hypomania and winter for depression.
A significant event, usually an "exit" event -- a loss, such as the death of a significant person, a divorce, a major move, change or disruptions, or a previous episode makes one more vulnerable. The appearance of the episode is one way of dealing or not dealing with the psychobiologically remembered trauma.
Stressful Life Events
For some bipolar patients, positive events such as a marriage, graduation, promotion, and honors can be as stress-producing as negative events. For some patients, any major change or deviation from a well-ordered, stable routine may trigger biopsychological disequilibrium.
Belief Systems
The way you think about yourself and the world around you has a great deal to do with how you behave. If you believe a hypomanic episode is inevitable and that you have no control over it, chances are the episode will occur in the fashion you have prophesied. Many bipolar patients become victims of self-fulfilling prophecies, assuming little responsibility for modifying behavior that might prevent episodes from occurring. Many patients believe if they continue to take medication regularly, the medication alone will automatically prevent episodes from happening.
Recognizing Symptoms
If an episode is to be prevented, accurate knowledge of the symptoms of hypomania and depression are crucial for both bipolar patients and family members.
A Support System
There is increasing evidence that individuals who live in an emotionally stable environment or who have significant others available for support during times of stress or crisis have an overall healthier outcome.
Best Way to Avoid an Episode
The best way to avoid an episode is to learn well from the first one.
The hypomanic episode clinically presents a clearly recognized, well-defined syndrome. This consists of a cluster of symptoms that include pressured speech; increased, often purposeless activity; marked decrease in need for sleep and perhaps food; and a marked need for instant gratification, attention, and approval. Noticeable irritability and displeasure prevail.
Hostility and argumentativeness occur when the individual is thwarted. There is a need to expand and exaggerate all behaviors. Voices are louder, and the colors of clothing are brighter. There is more spending of money, letter writing, phone calling, travel, gift bestowing, and advice giving.
There is a marked lowering of inhibitions and a pronounced disregard for the rights and feelings of others. There is also increased risk-taking; for example, relationships with strangers are personalized at an inappropriate level and with little regard for social amenities.
How can an Episode be Prevented, Stopped, or Lessened Before Clinical Symptoms Occur?
When the patient is in a stable condition, it is MANDATORY to establish an oral contract that elicits his/her cooperation in permitting a trusted significant person to make an intervention. The patient grants the significant person PERMISSION to intervene to prevent an episode by:
1. Giving feedback regarding patient's thinking, mood and behavior.
2. Calling patient's doctor to arrange an appointment or to discuss treatment.
3. Modifying the living situation to reduce stimulation.
4. Providing consistent, structured, and support reassurance.
When You Notice Hypomanic Symptoms in Your Family Member or Friend
Please remember:
1. Remain calm; do not panic or criticize.
2. Make statements rather than ask questions such as, "Are you getting high again?" Instead, say something like, "You are wound up and seem preoccupied. Let's talk about it." If you meet resistance, don't push; remind patient of the contract.
3. Discuss with patient the fact that he has a choice and options. He can choose to avoid an episode or allow it to escalate and run its course with the probability of hospitalization and the loss of many present gains.
4. Make positive suggestions to:
1. Review activities and decrease schedule by one-third for at least 7-10 days.
2. Reduce stimulation (loud music, noise, light, talking, violent movies, etc.) Enforce a QUIET environment (no visitors or celebrations). Maintain planned, low-key days.
3. Regulate sleep--no naps--stay off the bed until at least 10:00 p.m. and don't get up until at least 6:00 a.m.
4. Monitor medication intake. Increase medication with doctor's approval. Get serum level if on lithium, and make appointment to see doctor.
5. Reassure patient that if he follows these steps, in 72 hours the episode may be aborted.
6. Be positive in attitude and actions. Use your sense of humor.
5. Suggest to patient he has internal control to regulate his behavior and thereby alter his biochemistry.
When you have achieved success with this episode, congratulate yourself and the patient. Mark the date on the calendar and write down what you observed and what you did to modify it.
Taken from a paper by Dr. Julia Mayo, Chief, Clinical Studies, Department of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital
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It's about time.
I {finally} got a chance to meet my blog friend Ashley. She was in town for business, and took a very long cab ride to get here {just to see me for a few hours}. I loved meeting her, but was sad that we didn't have more time. Boo.
Ashley and I became friends when I designed her blog. I'm not sure when that was but it's been over a year, for sure. Since we met, Ashley became pregnant and now has two adorable little boys {Mason and Brody}. Love those names. :) We have video chatted quite a bit, and I just love her. She has been a great friend to me, so it was really nice to finally sit down with her. She is always sending sweet little notes and gifts and is just so incredibly honest, kind, thoughtful, and funny. She sends the best text messages.
Our visit may have been short, but we did manage to find enough time to play with photo booth!
Love this one.
Sad that Ashley has to go.
Loved finally meeting in you in person! Thanks for the chap stick {that's the key to my heart} and my sweet note and peppermint tea. And thank you for taking a very long cab ride just to see me.
1. THAT is exciting and awesome.
I wish I had more local blog friends :)
2. Such goobers! So amazing meeting you in person. Now you just have to meet my babies!
You didn't post my favorite "ghost picture." HA!
Thanks for the laughs, the conversation, the pizza, the fun! You are one cool chick!
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Since cosine is not a one-to-one function, the domain must be limited to 0 to pi, which is called the restricted cosine function. The inverse cosine function is written as cos^-1(x) or arccos(x). Inverse functions swap x- and y-values, so the range of inverse cosine is 0 to pi and the domain is -1 to 1. When evaluating problems, use identities or start from the inside function.
I want to talk about the inverse cosine function. We start with the function y equals cosine x I have a graph here and you can see that y equals cosine x is very much not a 1 to 1 function and we can only find the inverses of 1 to 1 functions. So we have to restrict the domain of the cosine function and the convention is to restrict it to this interval from 0 to pi so let me draw the restricted cosine function. Just this piece of the cosine graph up to and including pi and down to and including 0. So y equals cosine x for x between 0 and pi that's the restricted cosine function it is 1 to 1 and so we can invert it.
And we call this inverse y equals inverse cosine of x that's how this is read this superscript negative 1 is not an exponent it means the inverse of cosine and this function is also called y equals arc cosine x. Now I want to graph our cosine or inverse cosine and so I start with key points of the cosine curve. I've got 0, 1 pi over 2, 0 and pi negative 1, these are these 3 key points and remember when you're graphing an inverse function you just interchange the x and y coordinates so the point 0, 1 becomes 1, 0, the point pi over 2, 0 becomes 0 pi over 2 and the point pi negative 1 becomes negative 1 pi and that's going to be somewhere here. Let me connect these, keeping that the graph of a function and it's inverse have to be symmetric about the line y=x so this is a pretty good graph.
Now very important the domain, I'll mark negative 1 here, the domain of the inverse cosine function is between negative 1 and 1 very important. And think about that the cosine function can only output numbers between negative 1 and 1 so it makes sense that the domain of the inverse cosine function is this interval and the range is going to be between 0 and pi because that was the domain of the restricted cosine function and that's it. This is the graph of the inverse cosine domain between negative 1 and 1, range between 0 and pi and it has these 3 key points.
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Kenneth W. Starr, in full Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946, Vernon, Texas, U.S.), American lawyer best known as the independent counsel (1994–99) who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton.
The son of a minister, Starr sold bibles door-to-door to earn money for college. After attending George Washington University (B.A., 1968) and Brown University (M.A., 1969), he earned a J.D. (1973) from Duke University. He held government positions, serving as a law clerk (1975–77) to Chief Justice Warren Burger, as a counselor to the U.S. attorney general (1981–83), as an appellate judge (1983–89), and as U.S. solicitor general (1989–93).
In August 1994 Starr was named the independent counsel to lead the investigation into the so-called Whitewater affair, which involved a land deal in Arkansas during the time Clinton, a Democrat, was that state’s governor. As a result of the investigation, 11 people—including Clinton associates James and Susan McDougal—were convicted of crimes. Starr later looked into the suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, a longtime friend of the Clintons, but the matter was eventually closed. He subsequently was directed to investigate what came to be known as Travelgate, involving the firing of longtime White House workers, and Filegate, pertaining to FBI files on Republicans that were found in the White House. In 1998, however, allegations of an affair between Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky became the focus of Starr’s attention.
Controversy surrounded Starr’s investigation, which included the media’s relentless reporting of lurid information, and both Starr and the White House were charged with making improper leaks. There were accusations that the investigative activities of Starr, a Republican, were politically motivated. Starr also was criticized for continuing to represent clients of his law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, and he was eventually forced to take an unpaid leave from the firm. After repeatedly denying the affair, in August 1998 Clinton publicly admitted to having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. Less than a month later Starr released his report, which supported the charges that Clinton had committed perjury, obstructed justice, tampered with a witness, and abused his power as U.S. president. In the report, which was accompanied by voluminous evidence that included a semen-stained dress, tapes of telephone conversations, and grand jury testimony, Starr found that Clinton had lied under oath about a sexual relationship with Lewinsky and had taken steps to cover it up. The report was both legalistic in its tone and salacious in its explicit descriptions of sexual encounters between the two. Based on Starr’s findings, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president in December 1998. The Senate acquitted Clinton the following year.
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A biography is José María Buendía Júlbez, Juan Palomar, and Guillermo Eguiarte, The Life and Work of Luis Barragán (1997). Among the many books that chronicle Barragán’s oeuvre or his specific projects are Emilio Ambasz, The Architecture of Luis Barragán (1976, reissued 1989); Florita Z. Louis de Irizarry, Luis Barragán, the Architect and His Work (1983); Antonio Riggen Martínez, Luis Barragán: Mexico’s Modern Master, 1902–1988 (1996); René Burri, Luis Barragán (2000); Federica Zanco (ed.), Luis Barragán: The Quiet Revolution (2001); Keith Eggener, Luis Barragán’s Gardens of El Pedregal (2001); Raúl Rispa (ed.), Barragán: The Complete Works, rev. ed. (2003).
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Days of our Lives: February 15 Live Thoughts
Days of our Lives: February 15 Live Thoughts
Today on Days of our Lives, Abe (James Reynolds) just got a call from air traffic control with information that the FAA has lost all radio contact with John's plane. He calls Roman (Josh Taylor) over to tell him the news that the plane is way off course and they will run out of fuel in less than an hour.
Meanwhile, up in the air, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's....okay, it's a plane. John (Drake Hogestyn) and Steve (Stephen Nichols) are up in the cockpit. They are so doomed: I saw on Mythbusters once that it's nigh impossible to land a plane without instruments unless they have someone on the radio talking them through the landing. Back in the cabin, the ride is getting more and more turbulent. Bo (Peter Reckell) is unconscious, and Grandpa Shawn (Frank Parker) caves under Hope's (Kristian Alfonso) entreaties to put his oxygen mask on. But only for a little while. He eventually insists on giving the mask to Bo.
In Salem, more of the Brady clan show up at Abe's office, including Caroline (Peggy McCay) and Max (Darin Brooks). Abe learns that Homeland Security is tracking the plane on radar. A tracking station in Greenland has them on radar as well. Abe and Roman try to keep the Brady brood calm.
In the Great Doomed Plane in the Sky, Philip (Jay Kenneth Johnson) furiously tries to keep Chloe (Nadia Bjorlin) awake. But nobody seemed too concerned on yesterday's Days of our Lives that Claire was fast asleep. Kayla (Mary Beth Evans) tells her Pop that she is with child and therefore, he needs to put his mask on in order to meet his soon-to-be grandbaby. Suddenly, there's a loud crash, and then Grandpa Shawn dies. Sad!
In the cockpit, John explains that they have to lower their elevation to below 10,000 feet to get atmospheric oxygen back into the plane so that they won't suffocate. They decide to dump the fuel, which I mistakenly thought they already did, but first Steve needs to look at the wiring of the controls to see if he can fix them. All the oxygen is depleted and everyone starts choking for air. Martha Madison, especially, chokes very convincingly. Everyone prepares to die. Steve passes out in the cockpit, but John's got a little bit of fight left in him, so he frantically gets to work at rewiring stuff before it's too late. He eventually succeeds in dumping the fuel, and the plane immediately begins to drop. Steve wakes up, and good thing too, because John sets him to work to rewire some more stuff. He manages to reconnect the correct wires because John is eventually able to regain some of the controls. You can tell because the camera rights itself after being tilted. People are beginning to stir in the cabin, beginning with Marlena (Deidre Hall) who rouses everyone else. Bo wakes up to find his Pop is dead.
In Salem, Abe finds out that the plane is off course, and everyone immediately jumps to the conclusion that it crashed. Roman instructs the authorities to send rescue teams to the projected crash landing site.
Meanwhile, Steve and John are beginning to see land on the horizon and struggle with the controls to land safely. All I can say is that even though John is ambiguously evil, I'm glad he's at the controls and not Steve. With that patch on his eye, he doesn't have the depth perception that I'd like a pilot to have. The plane begins to come in for a very bumpy landing. Everyone screams, and the screen goes dark.
Next on Days of our Lives: The passengers are missing, Chelsea begins to suspect that Stefano might have been behind the plane crash, and Max turns on Lexie.
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With major iPhone carriers AT&T and Verizon pushing limited-data plans, you'd think there would be an easy way to track your monthly data usage on the iPhone.
For whatever reason, Apple still hasn't figured out a convenient way for users to monitor and cap their monthly data usage -- leaving them susceptible to ridiculous overcharges.
Android smartphones, on the other hand, lets users see exactly how much data they're using at any given time and how much data each app uses.
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Many Bitcoin believers think that the digital currency will one day become the pre-eminent currency of the internet. They basically see it becoming the internet's version of gold in that it's naturally scarce, independent, virtually impossible to manipulate, and crucially suited for a digital world when money ought to be able to be moved seamlessly and at no cost.
Well here's a tip: If you think that this is true, then never use Bitcoin in a transaction.
As more people have gotten into Bitcoin, the price has gone way up.
Virtually everyone who has ever bought anything in Bitcoin has been a huge loser, who would have been better suited just holding onto the Bitcoins instead.
Remember the pizza that was purchased for $25 in Bitcoins years back? Had the person not bought that pizza, it would be worth nearly $3 million. That purchase was a catastrophic decision, as that was probably the most expensive pizza of all time.
Of course this presents a Catch-22. How can Bitcoin become a real currency if it's not used in transactions? And why would anyone use it in transactions if becoming a real currency offers so much more price appreciation? This contradiction is a core problem, and it's a reason why it's probably doomed to fail (real currencies don't have this issue, since central banks prevent rapid price appreciation, and they mandate that the currency be used).
But really, if you're thinking that Bitcoin is going to be huge, it'd be insane and irresponsible to buy anything with it.
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Google-Like Interview Questions May Be Costing Employers Their Best Hires en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:30:07 -0400 Vivian Giang Lorraine Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:44:01 -0400 Years ago my son (who now does VERY well working as a phone line repairman) waited table. He applied at a new restaraunt and was asked by the interviewer to sell him a salt shaker. My son is far from stupid, knows how to sell (both his parents owned sales companies), and does not suffer fools gladly. He blew off the interview and laughed as he told us the story. Why do these people think that they are so clever? Lorraine Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:18:51 -0400 Why would anyone want to fill a school bus with golf balls? If it was necessary to do so, there would be additional questions; are there students and/or seats on the bus? Are the golf balls aligned in a grid or in a diamond shape that would take less room? What size is the bus? Obviously more info is needed to give a reasonable answer. A manhole is round because a round hole uses less material to build than a square one for the same area of access, and therefore is less expensive to build. Jorge Cañizales Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:32:29 -0400 None of these kind of questions are asked at interviews at Google, anyway :) And from what people are commenting, neither at Microsoft nor Facebook. Jorge Cañizales Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:22:47 -0400 If you had just bothered to ask anybody who had been interviewed at Google (which is not a short list of people), you would have known that your whole article was based on a false premise. R Lawton Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:08:08 -0400 Fools! Puree the golf balls, THEN fill the bus. 21,321 golf balls! alikhan1991 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:45:21 -0400 I hate google ..... using BIng and yahoo as search engines. BING IT Engineer at Facebook, ex Microsoftie Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:56:25 -0400 The problem with what you offer is that all good (or even mediocre) software developers are gainfully employed. No one will agree to skip work for a week or more to do practice work without offer in hand. Also usually it takes at least a month or two to become productive at a new company - different tools, different technologies, new codebase etc. And yeah, trick questions are explicitly prohibited as interview questions at both Microsoft and Facebook. Andy Tran Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:49:01 -0400 "How big a school bus? One that seats 12? 24? 30? Are you including the spaces inside the seats? Or could the seats be removed altogether?" I believe this is what they look for in a candidate. In my opinion it's that simple. They want to know if you are able to think critically and with immediacy. They don't expect anyone to know the answer, just like any huge complex problem, they want to know if the candidate are capable to ask the right questions and frame the problem appropriately. It separates the " I can't possibly answer this question, but I can at least get as close to the answer as humanly possible with the correct analysis" from the ones who simply give up or cannot objectify problems. Just my opinion. Google wants the best of the best. Their legendary interviews serves as a litmus test for weaker candidates. However, I do notice a trend of people talking about HR being overzealous and egocentric. And that a lot of questions does not add much value. Shamus Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:25:44 -0400 Abusing people who interview for jobs is not a good idea. Big companies like Google can get away with it but there's no value in the practice. In fact, interviews are not a good way to evaluate candidates for functions other than direct sales. The best way to find people is to bring them in for a short project and see whether they are productive and get along with other people on the project. This would create too much work for human resource types, though. They'd rather use an ineffective procedure that doesn't require much effort on their part. Mark out West Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:37:34 -0400 Google Interviewer trick question: Why the fuck did we buy Motorola? just.a.guy Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:19:02 -0400 >> the most useful skills are attention to detail, >> the ability to perform a single task innumerable times, >> obedience and honesty While attention to detail, honesty and integrity are clearly great attributes in any employee, problem solving ability still remains one of the most important skills a person can have. You claim mindless repetition of single tasks is more important, but what about Toyota? The company who revolutionized the automobile industry by empowering factory floor manufacturing workers to work together to solve problems on the factory floor. Not "perform a single task innumerable times" -- that was the approach of the Detroit guys. nofluer Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:17:45 -0400 If you fill a school bus with golf balls, there's no room for kids so you don't have to put up with the crude, rude, slobbery little cretins. Sounds worthwhile to me. nofluer Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:14:19 -0400 Google's interview questions have been widely reported. I believe this is what's known as "pack journalism"? Someone runs a story, and rather than validate it and maybe find additional information or even correct incorrect information, the "journo" just parrots the garbage spewed by the first "Journo". jasno Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:11:27 -0400 wow! you are right. you are not just a little right either. spot on, sir, spot on. Aimee Groth Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:47:02 -0400 Google's interview questions have been widely reported. Googlers and candidates who went through the interview process (in 2012) have submitted questions to Glassdoor: <a href="" target="_blank"></a> And the Wall Street Journal wrote a piece last year about the brain-teaser questions Google asks candidates: <a href="" target="_blank"></a>. If commenters have an interesting perspective or inside take, absolutely, we'd love to hear from them. Obviously... Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:49:24 -0400 I would least one. That is the answer that likely to be true most often no matter what the other variables are. ChiHeadhunter Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:27:34 -0400 These are terrible. I'd much rather ask a problem that my business is actually facing. Unless I work for a bus manufacturing company. CJ Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:23:05 -0400 Way to publish a story without the facts and then ask commentators for the story. The problem is... Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:18:10 -0400 The problem is that despite our fantasies about what is "valuable" in employees, creative problem solving is rarely a useful skill. It's not popular to say it, and people don't like to admit it, but the most useful skills are attention to detail, the ability to perform a single task innumerable times, obedience and honesty. Creative problem solvers often make very shitty employees, and far better entrepreneurs. HEY YOU Sat, 27 Oct 2012 03:34:35 -0400 What's the profit on filling a school bus with golf balls? Aimee Groth Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:34:01 -0400 Hi Tudor, thanks for your response. Would you be willing to share any more information about your experience? Aimee Groth Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:32:42 -0400 Thanks for your response. Would you be open to sharing any more information (off or on the record)? Tudor Bosman Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:41:51 -0400 I worked at Google (and conducted over 100 engineering interviews). I've never asked, been asked, or seen anyone ask this kind of questions at Google. The only times questions of this kind were mentioned was on "don't ask these questions" lists. Former Googler Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:31:12 -0400 Hate to tell you, but this sort of puzzle question has been banned from Google interviews, at least in Engineering, for close to a decade now. For an Eng interview, you'll be asked to code, and hiring committees will both toss out feedback that includes puzzle questions and talk to interviewers who used them about how they shouldn't use them. nofluer Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:37:29 -0400 You want to hire winners who can do the job? Stop letting HR screen the applicants until AFTER you have a short-list of qualified people. Have the department work bosses or the experienced workers conduct the interviews to see if the person can either do the job, or has potential to do it. THEN you cross the legal "t's" and dot the paperwork "I's" nofluer Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:23:01 -0400 There are actually several "right" answers to the manhole question. Google it and learn some perfectly useless information - unless you plan to become a utility worker in a city - then you should do it as prep for your future career. nofluer Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:18:32 -0400 Fail. Answer the stupid question with a question - narrow the parameters. HR Puke: "How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" Me: "How big a school bus? One that seats 12? 24? 30? Are you including the spaces inside the seats? Or could the seats be removed altogether? Can we break down the tires and put some inside, then re-air the tires? The balls would be INSIDE! Do we need a driver's seat? would these golf balls be in boxes or loose. If in boxes, would the be in factory shipping packages inside of larger boxes? Are we talking about golf balls as they are when they come out of the factory? Or can we "compress" them a bit with a trip hammer? And when the HR puke answers those questions, I'd finally answer, You could fit in n-1, then put in one more and you'd have your total. How about you go order a shit-ton of golf balls and a school bus of your chosen size, and I'll help yo cram them in for the next month or so, as long as for that month I get paid at your CEO's salary and bonus rate times 2. Odd questions?" No such thing. Just odd HR pukes and stupid egocentric people who think they are "managers.". nofluer Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:08:34 -0400 Some of my best job interviews (I got the jobs) were when I didn't really give a rat whether I got the job or not. Max Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:02:56 -0400 17,533 for buses with a manual tranny jahan3 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:49:36 -0400 yeah, they are basically just easy ways for interviewers to discriminate since there are no right answers ... they couldn't find execuses to say they don't like your look and race, or they are jealousy, insecure, etc. These puzzles are also used by people who aren't very technical or lack depth and they are faced with much more experienced candidates, but they don't want themselves or their company to look like they are a bunch of kindergardeners technically. Why are Gulagers such hotshot jackals? Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:40:40 -0400 They think they are too good Millie Cooper Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:19:33 -0400 " I know very smart and qualified senior (non tech/IT) people who've gotten up and walked out of interviews when that sort of silliness is introduced. " You are a bad liar and a pretender. Maybe even a poor psychologist. In real it happened so that when we informed the applicant that the next meeting would be with the company psychologist from HR department, the applicant told that he won't participate the meeting. He had a point. Psychologists are charlatans. Millie Cooper Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:16:20 -0400 Psychologists are neurotic liars, says psychology. Is being a psychologist a brand of being passive aggressive? Millie Cooper Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:14:21 -0400 If a professor of psychology can't pass an interview, doesn't mean that the fault lies in the interview. Bean Counter Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:11:15 -0400 We all know that line of questioning is designed to allow a passive aggressive interviewer, rarely allowed out in public, to feel smarter (however briefly) than the intimidated interview subject. childish Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:54:46 -0400 The whole "how many golf balls will fill a 747" line of questioning really is a childish tech thing, or perhaps for recent college grads. You really don't see it at big-kid companies. I know very smart and qualified senior (non tech/IT) people who've gotten up and walked out of interviews when that sort of silliness is introduced. OMG Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:33:14 -0400 Umm, I'm pretty sure there is a right answer to "Why are manhole covers round?" It's so they don't fall down the hole and hit someone. -- Every 2nd graders in the country. Mandi Woodruff Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:32:36 -0400 17,534 golf balls. duh.
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Alan Dershowitz Says Glenn Greenwald Has “Never Met A Terrorist He Didn’t Like”
Odd sequencing: CNN talks to Greenwald, then talks to Dershowitz about Greenwald — after Greenwald left.
CNN’s Dana Bash talked with Glenn Greenwald Wednesday about a new statement put out by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. That interview was then immediately followed by one with Harvard Law School’s Alan Dershowitz, who sharply criticized both Snowden and Greenwald:
“As far as Greenwald is concerned, he’s an ideologue. I don’t think he would have revealed this information if it had been critical of Venezuela or Cuba or the Palestinian Authority. You know, he doesn’t like America. He doesn’t like Western democracies. He’s never met a terrorist he didn’t like. So he’s a very hard-left ideologue that uses this to serve his political agenda not simply to reveal information in a neutral way. That makes him very different from WikiLeaks, I think.”
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: '94 SLS oil pan / oil manifold / half case leaks
10-23-06, 02:30 PM
I talked to a Cadillac mechanic at my local dealer, and he said that they do not use the rubber gaskets anymore, due to they did not work well, now they use GM Sealent #12378521 in place of the gaskets, for the half case and the oil pan, he said that most oil leaks come from the oil manifold and it must be replaced if leaking. the parts department had a whole lot of them in stock, so the parts guys said it must be true, since they had so many in stock.
I have pulled the 4.6L engine out and my engine does leak between the oil manifold and the lower block, badly. (like a 1 Qt. a week).
what do you guys think?
10-24-06, 03:02 AM
I bought an oil pan this year for my 95 ETC, it came with a rubber gasket.. I dunno.
10-24-06, 08:24 AM
What I was doing when the engine was in the car, I added the oil dye and each night I would look to see where the leaks were and slapped RTV all over it, this helped slow it down, or moved the leak to a new place, I repeated every night trying to slow it down to something I could live with.
I did find that 4 pan bolts were stripped, and I drilled and tapped to a bigger size, 8mm x 1.25 x 30mm that seem to help a lot.
but in the end I have to fix it right, once and for all.
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think this is becuase until you have some proficiency in the classic lifts, you are going aren't going to build strength as fast as you will learnign the basic deadlfit, sqaut and press
Yes, this was really the starting point of my question: advance on strength or advance on technique or try to do both. Ultimately, I think it has to be both if you want explosive strength and/or to be an O lifter.
The total body nature of the O lifts does help fill in the gaps. I thought I had a strong upper body but then the pulls starting working the rear delts and there was certainly accelerated development there. So ultimately the O lifts help on the foundation. They also build confidence.
I've been working back up on the deadlifts gently because of the hips, lower back problems and general lack of flexibility. Yet, here I was today pulling a heavier weight than I normally try deadlifting off the floor without giving my lower back a second thought.
Ultimately I think the two are complementary. What I've done is to develop a modified workout A and B. Workout A is
back squat
power clean
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I use these principally when I don't have access to bumpers. Then, at my coach's direction, I'm focusing on hang squat cleans when I have access to bumpers.
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Jessi Klein is going to let her eggs rot in her body like the baby carrots at the bottom of her fridge. (2:06)
When you turn 35you sort of find yourself
having conversations that younever thought you would have.
Like, I recentlywent to my lady doctor
just for likea regular oil check,
look under the hood.
It is purring downthere, you guys.
And everythingis perf'.
But, so we're like,we're wrapping it up
and then she starts likeflipping through my file
and asking mequestions in a way
where her voice getshigher at the end.
"are you dating anyone?"
And I'm like,"No, super alone.
"What's up?"
And, uh...
[audience laughing]
And she's like,"Well, I was wondering
"if you'd liketo talk now
"about the possibilityof freezing your eggs."
And I'm like,"Freezing my eggs?
"What's that?"
And she-- hang on,
and she's like,"Oh, it is super easy.
"All you have to do isinject yourself with hormones
"like twice a day forlike a thousand days
"and then you just come infor like general surgery
"and we just usean ice cream scoop
"and we just scrapeout your eggs."
And I'm like,"You know what?
"You're making thatsound amazing...
"but I think I'm justgonna let my eggs
"rot in my body."
"You knowwhat I mean?
"with like baby carrots,where I just buy them,
"put them at thebottom of my fridge,
"wait till they'reoozing brown liquid
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26. The judges said: If you allege that the shepherd exposed the kid or the lamb to the lion, when the said lion was meditating an assault16641664 Migne reads irrueret. Routh gives irruerat, had made an assault. on the unbegotten, the case is closed. For seeing that the shepherd of the kids and lambs is himself proved to be in fault to them, on what creature can he pronounce judgment, if it happens that the lamb which has been given 199up16651665 The text gives si causa traditus, etc. Routh suggests sive causa. Traditus, etc.; so that the sense would be, For on what creature can the shepherd of the kids and lambs pronounce judgment, seeing that he is himself proved to be in fault to them, or to be the cause of their position? For the lamb, having been given up, etc. through the shepherd’s weakness has proved unable to withstand the lion, and if the consequence is that the lamb has had to do whatever has been the lion’s pleasure? Or, to take another instance, that would be just as if a master were to drive out of his house, or deliver over in terror to his adversary, one of his slaves, whom he is unable afterwards to recover by his own strength. Or supposing that by any chance it were to come about that the slave was recovered, on what reasonable ground could the master inflict the torture on him, if it should turn out that the man yielded obedience to all that the enemy laid upon him, seeing that it was the master himself16661666 Reading eum ipse for eum ipsum. who gave him up to the enemy, just as the kid was given up to the lion? You affirm, too, that the shepherd understood the whole case beforehand. Surely, then, the lamb, when under the lash, and interrogated by the shepherd as to the reason why it had submitted to the lion in these matters, would make some such answer as this: “Thou didst thyself deliver me over to the lion, and thou didst offer no resistance to him, although thou didst know and foresee what would be my lot, when it was necessary for me to yield myself to his commandments.” And, not to dilate on this at greater length, we may say that by such an illustration neither is God exhibited as a perfect shepherd, nor is the lion shown to have tasted alien meats; and consequently, under the instruction of the truth itself, it has been made clear that we ought to give the palm to the reasonings adduced by Archelaus. Archelaus said: Considering that, on all the points which we have hitherto discussed, the thoughtfulness of the judges has assigned us the amplest scope, it will be well for us to pass over other subjects in silence, and reserve them for another period. For just as, if16671667 Reading si quis for the simple quis of Codex Casinensis. a person once crushes the head of a serpent, he will not need to lop off any of the other members of its body; so, if we once dispose16681668 Reading “quæstione rejecta” for the relecta of Codex Casinensis. of this question of the duality, as we have endeavoured to do to the best of our ability, other matters which have been maintained in connection with it may be held to be exploded along with it. Nevertheless I shall yet address myself, at least in a few sentences, to the assertor of these opinions himself, who is now in our presence; so that it may be thoroughly understood by all who he is, and whence he comes, and what manner of person he proves himself to be. For he has given out that he is that Paraclete whom Jesus on His departure promised to send to the race of man for the salvation of the souls of the faithful; and this profession he makes as if he were somewhat superior even to Paul,16691669 This seems to be the general sense of the corrupt text here, et non longe possit ei Paulus, etc., in which we must either suppose something to have been lost, or correct it in some such way as this: “ut non longe post sit ei Paulus.” Compare what Manes says also of Paul and himself in ch. xiii. above. It should be added, however, that another idea of the passage is thrown out in Routh. According to this the ei refers to Jesus, and the text being emended thus, etsi non longe post sit ei, the sense would be: although not long after His departure He had Paul as an elect vessel, etc. The allusion thus would be to the circumstance that Manes made such a claim as he did, in spite of the fact that after Christ’s departure Paul was gifted with the Spirit in so eminent a measure for the building up of the faithful. who was an elect vessel and a called apostle, and who on that ground, while preaching the true doctrine, said:16701670 Reading aiebat for the agebat of Codex Casinensis. “Or seek ye a proof of that Christ who speaks in me?”16711671 2 Cor. xiii. 3. The reading here is, “Aut documentum quæritis,” etc. The Vulgate also gives An experimentum, for the Greek ἐπεί, etc. What I have to say, however, may become clearer by such an illustration as the following:16721672 The text is, “et quidem quod dico tali exemplo sed clarius.” For sed it is proposed to read fit, or sit, or est.—A certain man gathered into his store a very large quantity of corn, so that the place was perfectly full. This place he shut and sealed in a thoroughly satisfactory fashion, and gave directions to keep careful watch over it. And the master himself then departed. However, after a lengthened lapse of time another person came to the store, and affirmed that he had been despatched by the individual who had locked up and sealed the place with a commission also to collect and lay up a quantity of wheat in the same. And when the keepers of the store saw him, they demanded of him his credentials, in the production of the signet, in order that they might assure themselves of their liberty to open the store to him and to render their obedience to him as to one sent by the person who had sealed the place. And when he could16731673 Codex Casinensis has quicunque. We adopt the correction, qui cum nec. neither exhibit the keys nor produce the credentials of the signet, for indeed he had no right, he was thrust out by the keepers, and compelled to flee. For instead of being what he professed to be, he was detected to be a thief and a robber by them, and was convicted and found out16741674 Reading confutatus for confugatus. through the circumstance that, although, as it seemed, he had taken it into his head to make his appearance a long time after the period that had been determined on beforehand, he yet could neither produce keys, or signet, or any token whatsoever to the keepers, nor display any knowledge of the quantity of corn that was in store: all which things were so many unmistakeable proofs that he had not been sent across by the proper owner; and accordingly, as was matter of course,16751675 The text gives “et ideo ut consequenter erat,” etc. Codex Casinensis omits the ut. Routh proposes, “et ideo consequenter thesaurus,” etc. = and thus, of course, the treasure was preserved, etc. Comp. ch. xxvii. and xxxiv. he was forbidden admittance by the keepers.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A travesty
The Wales Blog Awards short list was released this week, and I have to say I'm shocked to discover this blog was not included. No doubt you are as well.
I'm sure that those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will agree I am a better writer than you. I am a better writer than anyone you know. I am a better writer than all those guys you had to study in school (a). So, obviously, my not being included in the short list is a case of blatant racism. The judges of this "competition" clearly hate awesome people.
Most of the time I try to keep quiet about this sort of thing. Last time I addressed my own awesomeness, 23 people in Sunderland killed themselves because they realised how utterly insignificant their lives were compared to mine. But I feel now compelled. I must speak out. On behalf of all the awesome men and women of the world, I am tired of having lesser people try to hold us back. Why can't you just accept us for what we are: awesome.
Stop being so jealous because you go home at night and sleep with only one person. I have so many women that I've had to write up a rota, which I keep on the fridge. I am booked up throughout the day. Writing this blog post is cutting into Selena Gomez's three hours. She's very upset.
See what you've done, Wales Blog Awards? You've upset Selena Gomez.
Stop being jealous of my good looks, my muscles, my boyish charm, my intellect, and my writin' skillz. Stop hatin', you lesser people. Your lives are shit, but you don't need to take that out on me. You know the Wales Blog Award for best writing on a blog rightfully belongs to me, unless you change the award's name to: "Best Writing On a Blog That Isn't Chris Cope's Because Otherwise He Would Totally Fucking Win."
This is an outrage. If Katya Virshilas weren't next on my lady rota, I would probably write a letter to President Obama, asking that he do something about this. As someone who has also had to struggle all his life with the fact that he is incredibly awesome, he would understand. He'd probably issue an embargo on Welsh cakes and this country's entire economy would collapse. But I won't write that letter, because I'm too awesome.
Also, Katya has a lot of stamina.
Besides, despite the best efforts of the Wales Blog Awards judges to drag me down to their level, I am still in the competition. My Welsh blog has been shortlisted in the Best Welsh-Language Blog category.
Admittedly, there are only three blogs in that category because a number of bloggers asked to not be considered. They said they didn't want to take part because the idea of a single award for all Welsh-language blogs is condescending, ignoring that blogs of all categories are written in Welsh. Just as they are in English or Spanish or French or Japanese or any of the other hundreds of languages in which blogs are written. But, of course, those Welsh-language bloggers were just saying that. In fact, they dropped out because they knew they were up against me.
So, I will be at the Wales Blog Award ceremony on 14 October, where I will collect my award for best Welsh-language blog. Thus far there has been no talk of what exactly that award will be. Personally, since I already have a house full of trophies, I would prefer to simply be given a check. A giant one, like those given in casino jackpots. I am fine with confetti and balloons, but please do not hire any bikini-clad girls to stand next to me in pictures. Most likely they're already on my lady rota, and they need their sleep.
(a) Except Wilson Rawls, of course. Where the Red Fern Grows is the best book ever written. It is better than the Bible. Just thinking now of Old Dan and Little Ann, my eyes are filled with tears.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
The Way Forward: Chapter 4
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On Christmas Day, Jacques started his singing far too early in the morning and announced he was moving on to Amiens. He wrote down a few useful phrases with English translations and the name of a wine he was pretty sure Allison would like -- Dujac.
"All women like this wine. You go straight to bed with them."
"Thanks. Joyeux Noël." I said, reading from the list he had given me.
"Hey! Very good! Happy Christmas. That's right. And this one: Bonne Année. It means 'good New Year.' OK. I have to go. Au revoir. You still look like shit."
I lay in bed as long as I could stand, then decided that I should do some sightseeing. I showered and shaved away my sad excuse for a beard. I can't grow a proper beard and the scraggly, multi-colored patched mess that comes instead always leaves me scratching away at my face as if I have fleas. After four days without shaving, my face was itching like a sailor on leave in Guam; it was the itchiest itch in all of itchydom; it registered a 9.6 on the Itchter Scale. After shaving, I splashed cold water on my face until my fingers went numb.
I grabbed a croissant from the breakfast area and headed for the Musée Rodin, Auguste Rodin's hotel-turned-museum dedicated to the greatness that is Auguste Rodin, the artist best known for sculpting Le Penseur ("The Thinker"). I shuffled through the garden of sculptures first, about as quickly as my shivering and sickened body could carry me. The sculptures were beaten and worn. Things were carelessly strewn about and left to dissolve in the elements. "Just put that shit anywhere" seemed to be the garden's theme. I half expected to see a 1984 AMC Pacer on cement blocks, as if the whole thing were just someone's front yard in Clute. What wasn't being ruined by the elements struck me as unimpressive. I wandered through the indoor part of the museum only enough to warm from the cold and drink an overpriced cup of hot chocolate. In my Let's Go! guide I made a note next to the Musée Rodin entry: "This guy is all bollocks."
At the Musée d'Orsay I tried to pretend to be very high brow and lost in thought while staring at a picture of a vagina. Something really amused me about the fact that someone could paint a picture of a vagina and that it would be considered a vagina of such quality that they would put it in one of the great art museums of the world. It was a vagina. I had seen a handful of vaginas in my life, and this looked like most of them. I could think of one or two that, arguably, looked better. But this one had been framed and was now garnering the attention of myself and a squad of chatty Asian tourists. I stared at the vagina for about 15 minutes, wondering if perhaps there was more to it than what I was seeing. I don't think so -- it was a vagina.
Because I was a politics student, I felt obliged to stare also at the Palais Bourbon, home to the Assemblée nationale, or French parliament. The French political system is notoriously complicated and staring at the building where part of it is housed failed to assist in my understanding whatsoever. It is a large building with Roman columns that looks like it could stand to be cleaned. Sometimes things are not nearly so great or inspiring as we would like them to be. I almost immediately wished I had spent more time staring at the vagina.
At the Champ de Mars there was a Ferris wheel, and I started to think about my dad. He loves Ferris wheels -- they are just about the only amusement ride you can get him on. My whole family rode an enormous wheel at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. The car was massive, enough room for my family and a young couple who had thought to bring Popeye's fried chicken with them for the ride. My mother was petrified by the height of the wheel and left it to my dad to control my brother and me as we ran around in the car, testing the small metal gate that was supposed to keep us all safely inside. Because, you know, when I think safety, I think Louisiana.
Now, suddenly, staring up at the Champ de Mars Ferris wheel and feeling the cold punch at my ears, I missed my family more than ever before or since. I didn't want to be doing this anymore, living so far away. I felt my face get hot and I wiped away tears. I thought about how much I wanted to be with my family at my grandparents' house in Texas. My grandmother would have the house decorated as she did every Christmas, with garland running up the stairwell, and mistletoe hanging in the front hallway. Lights would run along the outside trim of the house and in each of the windows that faced the street. A few more lights would dangle in the large palmetto and magnolia trees that shade her front yard. And on the door would hang the massive lighted plastic Santa head she has hung there every year for as long as I've been alive, the paint worn now. In the living room she would have set up that old plastic Christmas tree and covered it in dozens of ornaments -- some made for her over the years by us grandchildren, some given to her by students before she retired from teaching, some collected by my grandfather during one of his obsessive trips to garage sales.
My brother and I would be sitting at my grandmother's kitchen counter eating hot pound cake while my dad attempted to watch college football with my grandfather. My dad only watches about two football games a year, and does so with a sense of obligation; he's from small-town Texas, he is supposed to watch football. My mother would be talking and laughing and laughing and talking with my grandmother. And maybe after a while, I would wander into the front room and lie down on the floor and stare at all the presents under the tree, like when I was a kid, and think about what might be in each of the boxes. I would hear the wandering songs of birds chirping outside and feel the warmth of the sun shining through the window. And I would just melt away -- content and relaxed -- listening to the birds and my breathing and the football game in the other room and my mother's laughing.
It was too cold to stand still for so long at the Champ de Mars. My ears felt like they were bleeding from the cold, my lips and toes and fingers were numb. After determining that the Ferris wheel was not operating and there did not appear to be plans to operate it anytime soon, I took a picture of it and dragged myself across the green to the Eiffel Tower.
I made it to the tower shortly before sunset and paid 12 francs for the privilege of climbing up the steps to the second level. It was high up enough to make me apprehensive, though. From that height, the city looked oddly un-Parisian. Extending out across the smoggy horizon were rows of houses and small buildings, squished together, with old cylindrical chimneys. Here and there I could see a clothesline stretched from a chimney to a wall. It looked like the chimney sweep scene in Mary Poppins.
"I wish Allison were here," I said aloud.
I didn't actually wish that, I just said it because that's the sort of thing a good boyfriend is supposed to say when he's at the Eiffel Tower and staring out over Paris. It wasn't so much that I didn't want her to be there, though, as much as it was that I didn't want to be there. The sky was heavy gray with tints of orange and brown. It was a miserable sunset. The wind ripped through me like a wire saw. I took a few pictures -- one of myself extending my purplish frost-nipped middle finger toward the whole of France -- and hurried back down the stairs as a cold sleeting mist descended on the city. At the foot of the tower I bought a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor and put them in my anorak's front pocket to warm my hands.
Christmas in Paris was about as lonely and unfriendly as you can imagine. There were only a handful of lighted displays throughout the city. A few shops had scribbled "Joyeux Noël" on a piece of paper or cardboard and hung it on the door. That the shops had closed early was really the only way you could tell it was Christmas Day. Thinking about my family had led to thoughts of Allison and in my loneliness I wanted to buy a porno magazine. I couldn't find an open newsstand, so I settled instead for a pain au chocolat. I'm a simple man that I can swap pornography for pastry. I took it back to the hostel and ate it with hot chocolate while sitting in the lobby and flipping through a copy of the International Herald Tribune. The articles seemed longer than I had the patience to read, and I decided instead to go up to my room and sleep.
A few hours later, I went back out into the miserably cold and dark Paris night to find dinner. I found my choices to be pretty limited: Burger King or a crepe from a street vendor. I had to point and make animal noises to communicate what I wanted put inside the crepe -- ham, eggs, cheese -- and tried to make up for it by stuttering "merci beaucoup" a few thousand times. It was worth the embarrassment. The heat from the crepe warmed my hands and face as I hovered over it. I leaned against a wall to avoid the sleet that was now falling heavier. The crepe was delicious. The cheese was perfectly melted, the eggs and ham fresh, and my stomach felt warm and full from the meal.
I looked up and saw a teenage boy staring at me.
He said it the same way you might say, "ass cancer?"
"Oui," I said, my mouth full of food.
"I hate Americans. You think you are so fucking great. You think you are better? France made you. Fuck you. You are shit fuck. I hate you. You wish you were France. Stupid shit fuck!"
I chewed my food and looked at him. He was wearing Nike shoes, an Adidas track suit, and a Cleveland Indians baseball cap. Happy at the taunting he had given me, he strutted away, turned with a sense of flair and gave me one final evil look as he walked into the Burger King.
When I had finished eating, I decided to call my family. The hostel didn't have phones, but there were proper phone booths just across the street -- cold, but at least sheltered from the weather. Inevitably I ran into trouble. My MCI calling card refused to cooperate with the French pay phones. I couldn't even get hold of an operator. After dialing the number at least a dozen times, I gave up and tried calling my credit card company, hoping they could somehow connect me. They could indeed place a call for me, the operator said, if I was willing to pay far too much money for it.
"It's Christmas," I said.
"I know," the operator said. "And I'm working."
And she put me through.
My dad answered the phone.
"Hey," he said in that voice of his that makes you feel like you've accomplished something great simply by figuring out how to call him. "How's France?"
"Very French. And cold. And wet. And I'm sick," I said.
"Gosh. Is Allison sick, too?"
"No. Uhm. No. She's fine."
"Are you two having a good time?"
"Uh, yeah. Pretty good. What are you doing?"
"Oh, just watching football with your granddad."
"Who's winning?"
"I don't know."
"Who's playing?"
"I don't know."
As my Winnie the Pooh watch clicked past midnight, Christmas Day concluded with my family singing "Here Comes Santa Claus" to me as I shook from cold in a phone booth 5,074 miles away. When I hung up, I cried so hard my lungs hurt.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
The fall
Thursday marks the first day of autumn. Summer is dead. And now begins the quiet-slow approach of the Long Dark.
Here on the Island of Rain, where cape-wearing neo-druid loonies use Thursday to commemorate a Welsh bloke, the weather has been autumnal for most of September. As early as the month's first week, conditions were ripe for sitting outside and getting lost in thought. That's what autumn does to me: sends my mind spinning through the golden and melancholy.
Admittedly, I am given to that sort of thing year-round. A smell, or image, or feeling, or sound, or action, or atmospheric condition will spark a forgotten thing to flash through my mind and then lock me into that place. Sometimes the memory is good, sometimes bad, and for a brief moment I am reliving it -- feeling a condensed version of all I felt when it was real.
In autumn, the cycle of those memories seems to accelerate and I spend my days in constant emotional rise and fall. My head heaves with memories, which then grab hold of my thoughts and spin wildly in an exhausting, never-ending dance.
Autumn induces terrible homesickness for Minnesota, where the Minnesota and Mississippi valleys will soon be great corridors of colour -- yellow, orange and red lining the banks of wide, slow rivers. On Saturdays and Sundays friends are now packing into each others' houses to watch football. In Jordan they are picking apples. In northeast Minneapolis they're dancing the polka. In St. Paul they are driving even slower, windows down, savouring their afternoon commute. And at schools and universities all across the state, new boys are falling for new girls and feeling that this is the year when they finally get things right.
Those are memories. In the uncertain present, I am here in Jonesland questioning my uncertain future. At night, I'm awoken by anxiety and loneliness. I lie in bed and listen to the silence, occasionally broken by my neighbour's wind chimes or a car accelerating toward Llantrisant. Sometimes I cry, but mostly I stare at the ceiling, afraid of what's coming: the Long Dark. Another winter.
Emotionally, last winter began exactly 365 days ago Thursday, when this happened, and carried on until early April. It was a terrible winter. Some nights I would think (and quietly hope) the pain was going to kill me, that I would collapse in on myself from all the hollowness inside. I didn't really notice until May it had gone away.
Now summer and its joys have left me too quickly. Autumn is here -- a beautiful season, but one leading to winter. And I am so afraid of another terrible winter I can't sleep. At times I feel sick.
In the autumn 14 years ago I travelled out to Brittany to visit my girlfriend at the time. She lived in a hundreds-of-years-old home with a family that enjoyed staring suspiciously at her visiting boyfriend. She had been provided with a smallish white-painted room with high ceilings and a large French window that looked out over a tree-lined pedestrian mall, where startlingly attractive French mothers would sit on park benches with immaculately well-dressed French children. Actually, they were probably startlingly attractive Welsh au pairs with immaculately well-dressed French children; I know of a number of pretty Welsh girls currently helping to rear another country's future citizens.
I was 20 years old at the time and therefore not given to expressing appreciation for things like French windows. I expressed appreciation for my girlfriend's breasts. That was the beauty that was relevant to me. But the windows somehow worked their way into my memory and I have long wished for a home of my own solely for the purpose of being able to install French windows similar to those in a house where a girlfriend once lived.
The doors were wooden framed and heavy with several years' coats of paint, so they were difficult to force shut. Once that was achieved, they were held closed by a simple cabin-hook latch. Within the windows' frame was a system of curtaining: thin white voile to allow in sun but help keep out insects and casual prying eyes; long curtains to block out the light; and heavy old drapes to be drawn across the windows against autumnal evening chill. In the winter, all three were deployed and thick-painted-white wooden shutter doors were closed over them, held tight by a falling crossbar latch.
I remember lying in bed with her in December -- the duvet pulled up to our chins -- and looking over at the shuttered windows, feeling safe and content to be barricaded in against the icy cold. That's what I wish I could do now. I want to batten heavy doors over each of my windows and defend myself against the approaching attritional British winter and all its misery. I don't want to feel it. I don't want to suffer it. I don't want to be alone and cold.
But perhaps this is not the soggy hill for my last stand. Perhaps, rather than digging in, I should be running. Off to a place where the winters are so much more vicious but there are friends to embrace and to laugh with, so the cold makes one feel alive. It's part of what keeps me up at night; I am paralysed with indecision. Meanwhile, the Long Dark lumbers forward. It is coming either way. It won't wait for me to make up my mind.
I am sure reading this sort of thing grows tiresome. Imagine how exhausting it is to live it.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Way Forward: Chapter 3
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I bought Allison for $37 at a church fundraiser, the white slave trade being a great little money maker for Cleveland Avenue United Methodist.
That's not true at all, but it makes for a better story. What really happened: I bought a blue 3-by-5 card with hand-written self-description of a girl. In the upper right corner of the card, a number corresponded with the card's author. There were about 30 cards in all. The descriptions were read out by a chubby blonde with enormous hair who made a big production of handing each card to its highest bidder.
My $37 went toward restoration of the church's rectory. I still have no idea what a rectory is, or what it is used for, but I can tell you that it is the part of a church that sees the most abuse. Every time you go to a church in Europe, they are asking for money to restore the rectory.
After the auction, the guys were lined up, so the chubby blonde with enormous hair could make a big production of revealing with whom we had bought our dates. I had been dragged to the auction by a friend. As we stood in line, he realized I had managed to purchase the girl with the largest breasts, and gave me $15 to switch cards.
That's how I met Allison. Her number was 17. I still have the card.
Summers belonged to Allison. They gave her a super power. We went to different schools and through most of the year saw each other on a sort of rationed basis, as if we each were chocolate during World War II. Christmas and spring break helped, but it was the power of the summers that kept us together.
There was that first awkward summer, when all I did was stare at her. I couldn't think of what to do or what to say, so I didn't do or say anything. She did her best to draw me into conversation, though, and was very good about smiling at me. Then, at the end of the summer, everything fell together and some part of me couldn't let go.
There is something in every male that is desperate for that ego-boosting joy that comes from having a beautiful woman actually want to be near him. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury noted this fact with the song "Somebody To Love," although, arguably he wasn't singing about a woman.
That something is more consuming for some men than others, obviously. If you have it really bad, you find yourself relating to Queen songs. And it was there for me: the overwhelming desire to make a fool of myself for someone; to want to fall in love and be an idiot about it. Allison was happy to let me.
I spent my summers getting lost in her. I was especially fond of the trips we took to her family's cabin in Montana. I still can't disassociate her from sunflowers; there were endless fields of them in South Dakota, as we drove to the cabin. I made her drive through these stretches so I could just sit and gawk at her from the passenger seat. The car window made an obtuse frame for a moving portrait of her with endless yellow and green and blue in the background. I used up whole rolls of film taking pictures of her like this. Sometimes I would beg her to pull to the side of the road and stand in the fields, so I could take more pictures.
The long drives and days alone in the cabin were like drug binges. Lost weekends of breathing in her smell, feeling her skin, and tasting her kiss. But erratic highs bring erratic lows. We fought. Most of the time it was about stupid stuff. If I were on one of those TV shows where boneheaded people suddenly get in touch with themselves because they're in front of a studio audience, I might claim we were fighting because I was afraid she wasn't as crazy for me as I was for her. But that could very easily be bullshit, and I sure as hell wouldn't have thought of it at the time. All I knew is that we had fought a lot in the summer before going to Europe.
I made my way to Notre Dame Cathedral, where I was to meet Allison. In a demonstration that the French have no more taste than your average Arkansas resident, the walkway along the Seine River, leading to the cathedral, was decorated with happy pictures of Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Captain Phoebus from the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame. In a demonstration that I am a dork, I thought I was being witty as I limped my way to the famous church muttering "sanctuary, sanctuary."
I would later learn that particular December was the coldest in Europe in more than 500 years. I would not have been surprised to hear it at the time. I was miserable. My face was throbbing. My body was twisted in pain from what I had decided was definitely the flu, or possibly Ebola. The cold tore into my joints as if I were being dismantled by a pair of pliers. And did I mention the asthma? Yeah, my asthma was acting up. I was a stinking hideous freak who had not slept properly or bathed in a day and a half, my left eye was swollen shut, my face was bruised and bandaged, I had a fever, my body was racked with pain, and I couldn't breathe. If Claire's motherly sex goddess instinct had been triggered by just some blood and a few stitches, Allison would not be able to keep her hands off the wheezing, pathetic wretch that awaited her.
But she never came.
I sat on an uncomfortable wooden chair in the cathedral, shivering uncontrollably, my teeth chattering, doing some on-and-off praying (not because I felt the need to commune with God, really, just that I was in a church and it seemed foolish to pass up the opportunity to pray). I stared at the old stone floor and listened to the hum of voices all around me. My head bobbed as I rolled back and forth from the edge of consciousness. I worried about Allison, that something might have happened to her on her way to Paris. But the pain and cold and exhaustion numbed my brain, and deep within me I somehow knew she was OK. And somehow I knew she wouldn't show up.
I wanted her to be there, though, to wrap her arms around me and make me warm. So, I just sat there, my blinking eyes slowing down life to a frame-by-frame slide show. I was staring at my shoes in a kind of fever-induced trance. Occasionally I would stare at the lines in my palms. I ran my fingertips lightly over my bandages then across my forehead, over my crooked nose, along my rough and patchy two-day stubble, along my chin and along the softness of my lips. My forehead felt hot; my skin was oily. I stared at my hands; my fingernails were dirty. I looked at my shoes; the tops were scuffed and gray. My shoes and hands looked older than I thought they should be, and I felt so much older than both.
After a few hours, a priest tapped me on the shoulder and was able to communicate through unintelligible rapid-fire French and hand signals that I didn't have to go home, but I couldn't stay there. He may have also asked if I would be willing to donate money to restore the church rectory.
"Yeah, she's fine, isn't she?" I said to the priest, who clearly did not understand a word. "She's just not coming."
Perhaps anticipating that I might be doing a bit of praying, some divine force had guided me to pack my Let's Go! travel guide for the trip, and with it I was able to find a youth hostel nearby -- the Hotel Baudelaire Bastille. I picked it just because it had the word "Bastille." If you're going to be in France, you might as well stay at the most Frenchy-sounding place you can find. For a handful of francs, I got a clean bed and breakfast in the morning -- if you call a croissant and hot chocolate breakfast, which, apparently, the French do.
My roommate was an enormous man who reminded me of a bison. He had a massive, Volkswagen-sized chest and long face. He looked a little old to be staying at a youth hostel -- his hair was starting to gray -- but I suspected no one would be willing to argue with him about age limits. When I entered the room, he grabbed my forearm and pulled me in to give me a kiss on the cheek. He flashed a warm grin filled with utilitarian teeth then whacked my shoulder and spoke to me in 1,000-mph French.
"Oh. I, uhm… I don't speak French," I said, wondering how to say the same thing in French.
"You speak English," the man boomed. "Perfect!"
He seemed genuinely delighted to be rooming with an English-speaking person, despite the fact that it was clearly not his native language. His English was jumpy, stuttering, and excited, like a 4-year-old trying to tell a joke. Except this 4-year-old was built like a military vehicle and had a voice that could be heard from a kilometer away. His name was Jacques. Of course. He was very proudly from Quebec. He wore blue jeans, a worn but neatly pressed red flannel shirt, and heavy leather boots. His appearance made me ask him if he was a lumberjack.
"No. But I like pancakes," he said.
He also liked France -- a lot. Jacques had been saving money to take a trip to France since his 17th birthday. I didn't want to ask how long that meant he had been saving his money, but he had set aside enough to spend eight months simply traveling around the country. He was giddy with plans, his dog-eared guidebook filled with highlighted pages and sections circled in red ink.
It was his first week in the country, and his first time to ever leave Quebec. He would spend more time in Paris in the spring, he said. Right now, though, the plan was to travel north and learn about his family history, an idea that had delighted his mother. He would dig up all the information he could find in Amiens, where his grandmother said the family came from, and send it back to his mother to be sorted out. Once spring came, he would spend a few weeks in Paris, then slowly work his way down to the southern beaches for summer. If he was lucky, he said, perhaps he would meet a nice woman along the way and they would get married and maybe have children and live in the French countryside.
"You've got it worked out pretty good," I said.
"OK. Not all. And some not so good," he said. "The women here try to speak English at me. They are too cold."
Just about everyone in Paris knows a little English. It is a required course in the schools. As a result -- perhaps because they think they are being helpful or perhaps because they are arrogant bastards who don't want you fouling their blessed tongue -- Parisians will insist upon speaking English to anyone who speaks French with a "foreign" accent. Obviously, uncultured American buffoons like me don't mind at all that Parisians speak English. I love it. But I had heard it listed among the major complaints of fluent speakers. Friends had told me stories of playing a strange game in which they spoke French, the Parisian spoke English back, they responded in French, and the two sides carried on like this indefinitely -- both refusing to give in to the other's language of choice.
"Do you speak French with an accent?" I asked Jacques. "I assume your French sounds different than the way it is spoken here?"
"My French? Yes, of course. There are some different words, phrases, too."
"Then when you meet a girl, tell her right away that you are Quebecer, and not English or an American."
"Do you like America?"
He tried not to make eye contact.
"See?" I said.
Jacques had some bottles of wine in his bag. He and I went through two of them, drinking from coffee mugs he found in the breakfast area. We sat in our room for a while and Jacques told me a joke that made me laugh so hard I went into a coughing fit. The wine was smooth and fruity and warmed me, but I got melancholy thinking about Allison. After hearing the story of my woeful journey and being stood up at Notre Dame, Jacques insisted upon hunting down some soup for me and then -- pointing out that he knew considerably more French than my "Je parler à Allison, si vous plais?" and "Je voudrais aller à la gare" -- offered to call down to Nantes, where Allison was attending university, to determine whether something had gone wrong.
"She says something very important is with the university, but she will see you on New Year's Eve," Jacques said, after coming back from the phone.
"Important? It's Christmas, Jacques. Does she know that I'm sick?"
"Yes, I tell her this. I tell her about your face and the coughing and all this snot. And she says it is the best that she does not come here to Paris. She might get sick, too," he said. "If I were a woman, I would not want to be with you. You look like shit."
I showered, put on as many articles of clothing as I could stand, and buried myself under the covers; no sweet, loving, motherly sex goddess by my side -- just a lumberjack, singing to himself as he got ready for a night out. I was exhausted and miserable (did I mention my eye? And the flu? And the asthma? OK, just checking), and I slept one of the deepest sleeps of my life.
The next day was Christmas Eve. I woke up around noon to Jacques' singing. The song was in French and seemed to have the perfect rhythm for cutting down trees.
"Hello. You still look like shit," he boomed. "I bring you a sandwich. Then I have to go. You are right about the girls -- I am not American; they are happy."
I went back to sleep, woke a few hours later, ate the sandwich with some hot chocolate, and went back to sleep.
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Dancing the Polka with Miss El Cajon is hardly anything other than me-focused. Yet strangely I feel uncomfortable stepping into that "Hooray me!" territory of blatantly self-promoting on this, the great lumbering self-promotion tool that is a blog. That said, there are two things I wanted to mention:
1) I will be a guest this Sunday, 19 September, on Radio Wales' "Something Else" programme, which airs at 13:30. It's an hour of me and a few other people talking about things we found in the newspapers. It's like having lunch with a load of opinionated in-laws, but with the quiet comfort of knowing we will eventually stop. And if you yell at us, it won't come back to haunt you every Christmas for the rest of your life.
Hmm. Almost certainly I'm not selling this as well as the show's producer might hope. Tune in anyway. Also on the programme will be musician and broadcaster Huw Williams, and actress Siriol Jenkins.
2) Both this and my Welsh blog have been longlisted for the Wales Blog Awards. Yes, everywhere else in the world people have forgotten blogs. Here in the Ancient Mire (a), however, we are having our first-ever awards ceremony: 14 October. Winners will receive prizes. Prizes! If someone gives me a prize for keeping this collection of melancholy and lust, my life will be complete.
(a) Have you spotted lately that I'm trying to find a nickname for Wales? I've also tried "Nation of Rain" and "Unhappy Country." Other possible contenders are: "Jonesland," "KA Territory," and "The Green and Grey." Any suggestions?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
A letter home: 15 September 2010
My dearest Emma,
Greetings from across the Atlantic Ocean. Or, perhaps, from across the room. Since you are a figment of my imagination I don't suppose there are any geographical restrictions on where exactly you are not.
In light of the fact you don't exist, I don't suppose I can be too upset at you for not having written in some time. But, honestly, Emma, I'm not sure it's all that great an excuse. Nonetheless, I thought I'd get in touch and let you know what's been going on in my life over the past month or so.
I suppose the biggest news of late is that Lisa broke up with me. She couldn't handle the awesomeness. That's been the downfall of many a young lady: I am simply too awesome.
In truth, though, I think it was an issue of timing. Sometimes you meet a lovely person at the wrong time.
Either way, it is a big ball of suck. I am living the cliché life of the mid-30s man I never wanted to be. And in light of this, I find it suddenly so easy to identify negatives. It's as if the bleakness of my life is displayed via Cover Flow, the iTunes feature that organises music by placing it in a kind of picture wheel. All the bad things have been pushed forward, highlighted and enlarged.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Rachel's leaving. I can still remember very clearly standing on platform 1 of Cardiff Central station, watching her train pull away and thinking I should run after it or something -- run and jump on, or take the next train and catch up with her before she left for America. Instead, I went home and cried until exhaustion.
Being again single I can confess to you, Emma, that I do still miss her. When I was in Lake Jackson this past July I couldn't help but notice pictures of me and Rachel are still up throughout my grandparents' house. My grandmother loves Rachel -- thinks the world of her. Note use of the present tense. One day she caught my eye wandering over to one of the pictures and asked: "Chris, don't you miss her?"
"Oh, yeah," I said. "Every day."
I'm not sure what missing amounts to, though. And not sure it matters. One of the things that always tickled me about Rachel was her practicality. The first time I asked her out, she refused on grounds that she had no intention of marrying me and there is no point in going out with someone you don't intend to marry. She has moved on by now, and there is probably no point in her missing someone she doesn't want to be with.
Meanwhile, back in ol' Caerdydd, financial strain is turning to panic. If you remove the money I need in order to pay October's rent, I have £90 to my name. I start teaching in less than a fortnight but I am concerned about the interim between now and getting paid, and whether teaching will actually be enough.
It spurs thoughts of returning to the United States. Every town has its ups and downs, sang the rooster in the Disney version of Robin Hood. Sometimes the ups outnumber the downs. But not in Nottingham. Nor in Caerdydd, or so it sometimes feels. In measuring the past four years I have a fancy education, a book no one will read and a book no one can read -- those are the ups. I also have insurmountable debt, homesickness, loneliness and a broken heart.
But we both know, Emma, that it's easy for me to say I want to go back home and much harder for me to say how it would work. What exactly would I do with my bachelors and masters degrees in Welsh? How would I overcome all the things that made me so angry with the United States in the first place? Hell, I left before the Tea Party movement existed. Going home would be a bit like Stanislav returning to Russia at the end of William Owen Roberts' Petrograd.
There's a Welsh literature reference for you, Emma. I know how much you love those.
Thomas Aquinas said bad exists to help highlight the good. That's a pessimistic view, I think, but it stresses there are no situations that are entirely bad. For example, the lumbering great wheels of the "Strictly Come Dancing" circus wagon have begun to turn again. I love that show, Emma. Honestly, this morning as I was thinking about leaving Britain I thought: "Well, maybe I'll wait until after the 'Strictly' final."
My love for the programme is almost certainly indicative of mental disease. But artists are disturbed people, Emma. Many drink themselves to death or destroy their bodies and minds with drugs. I like to think of myself as an artist and if I can get by on being addicted to low-level celebrities doing the rhumba, it's probably best to just leave me chasing that dragon.
Publishing The Way Forward has been another positive. Welsh novelist Ifan Morgan Jones recently appeared to suggest that authors should be more forthcoming about the number of books they sell. The logic, I think, being that if you know how many books are sold you can make a determination on whether the author is any good. Because as we all learned from "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", the audience is always right. I'm inclined to believe Jones said this in part because he won the Daniel Owen prize, which resulted in his selling a lot of books. Though, it's worth noting he didn't give a specific number, simply stating he had sold in the "thousands."
I won't tell you how many copies of The Way Forward I've sold thus far, Emma. Part of the reason I published via Kindle was reaction against the "sales = good" equation. And by putting chapters on my blog I am hoping people will see the book is good regardless of who else is or isn't buying. I will say, though, that sales are meeting my expectations. I will also say that my expectations were low.
I think I have a strong enough portfolio to call myself a writer, Emma -- something I have strived toward since I was a little boy writing stories about kung-fu parrots and underground houses with roller-coasters. What I struggle with now is getting the word "professional" to stick before that title.
But it's what I want to be. It's what I need to be. As frustrating as that is to everyone involved.
You might remember my telling you last month I had deleted all of my masters work. I wasn't happy with it. I didn't feel it represented what I was capable of and didn't want to attach my name to it.
I think I also have a naturally self-destructive streak, Emma -- something a number of friends have identified over the years. One of the beauties of being a writer is that I can destroy imaginary worlds rather than my own. The delete key is my nuclear button and some evil part of my soul likes to keep a finger hovering above it. It is perhaps not wise to delete one's masters project just a few months before it is due, but it was my work, my little world, and my right to destroy it.
My dad didn't agree, though.
"Just because it's your tree, on your property, do you really have a moral right to cut it down?" he asked.
I'm not sure the analogy is sound, but I understood he was upset because I had seemingly abandoned the thing that he had emotionally and financially invested in helping me obtain. Perhaps you felt something similar, Emma.
You and he will be happy to know, then, that I have been given an extension on the project's due date. I've started over and am happier with the depth and voice I'm giving the novel. I wonder, however, whether it will be my last big-scale Welsh-language effort. I find writing in Welsh to be not all that satisfying or profitable. It's hard to be sure, though. Things said in bleakness's glow often prove later to be inaccurate.
Well, that's all the news from the Island of Rain. I hope you are well. Please send pictures of yourself naked.
I remain your humble servant,
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Strictly: The pain begins
I think we can look upon this season of Strictly as similar to being laid up in hospital with gastrointestinal illness: things are going to get better but we're going to have to suffer through a lot of painful shit first.
For those of you new to the blog, I have an unhealthy obsession with "Strictly Come Dancing," the BBC 1 programme featuring low-level celebrities dressing up like something from a Rudy Galindo mindfuck and dancing competitively. There are localised versions of this programme in seemingly every country on the planet. Indeed, the fact that there is no Welsh-language version is in and of itself a sign that S4C is failing in its responsibilities as a broadcaster.
This week marked the beginning of the long and sparkly Strictly road. On Saturday we were introduced to the celebrities and they to their dance partners in a one-hour harbinger (a) special. The couples have since retreated to their Dick Cheney-style bunkers for training, only to occasionally emerge for BBC Breakfast interviews. In three weeks, the actual programme will begin. That's three weeks of hoping Ann Widdecombe will be hit by a bus before any of us have to watch her jiggling about.
In the meantime, here are the dancing couples we have to look forward to:
Ann Widdecombe & Anton du Beke:
Ann Widdecombe makes me hurt. She makes Britain hurt. She is a strange, squawking little troll of a woman. Shockingly, she is only 63 years old, but waddles about like someone twice that age. I thoroughly dislike her.
I have long seen similarities between certain aspects of Strictly and professional wrestling. To me, the inclusion of Widdecombe in this year's series is akin to handing the title belt to a heel. The "heel" is the bad guy, for those of you with social lives. Often he will be made champion simply for the sake of drawing "heat," or crowd reaction. Even though fans hate the heel, they will tune in or show up at the arena in droves because they want to see him fail. Strictly has brought in Widdecombe because they know people will tune in to watch a strange, squawking little troll hobble around in dresses that make her look like the fairy godmother in Cinderella.
Bibbidi bobbidi boo, Ann Widdecombe.
The bastard child of Bruce Forsyth, Anton Du Beke, has a long history of being matched with dud partners. Perhaps it is because he possesses that old-school British affability that we attribute to World War II RAF pilots -- the sort who would refer to being shot down and taken prisoner as "a spot of bother." Our Anton knows how to handle a spot of bother, how to go down in flames with a smile on his face, how to turn Dunkirk into a pleasure cruise. These are almost certainly requisite attributes for dancing with Ann Widdecombe. And perhaps that is the sole reason he is now doomed to go out early: he has the strength of character to suffer such a fate. But I can't help feeling that there is at least a tiny bit of punishment involved, as well. Anton drew a good deal of negative press last year with that "paki" comment. Perhaps this is justice according to Strictly law.
One could support that theory by looking at the pairing itself. Anton and Ann are considerably different in height, His Royal Cheekiness towering above the virginal troll. It would have made more sense to pair Ann with wee Vincent Simone.
Felicity Kendal & Vincent Simone:
And, indeed, it would have made more sense to pair Felicity Kendal with Anton. Felicity is apparently famous for being in one of those awful 70s sitcoms so beloved by British media. For those of you playing along at home, the 1970s were a very bad time for mainstream comedy in Britain, and countless programmes possessing all the hilarity of a dining room table were churned out and forced upon a hapless viewing public. Ask anyone who lived through these awful times and they will wince and frown at you for having brought up memory of something they had worked so hard to repress. Bafflingly, however, British media types will speak of these programmes with the same tone of voice and faraway look usually reserved for soft wool blankets and hot cocoa in front of a fireplace.
The only thing I know of Felicity Kendal, however, is that she played Agatha Christie in that "Doctor Who" episode in which a giant wasp went around killing everyone. And that Felicity Kendall, at least, would have made a very good match for Anton. But instead, she has been paired with Vincent, who will refer to her as "picolina" and eventually do what he always does: accidentally sabotaging his partner with overly difficult choreography. I suspect they will be gone by week 5.
Gavin Henson & Katya Virshilas (aka Team Gatya):
Oh, Gavin. For those of you playing along at home, or anywhere beyond the borders of the Unhappy Country, Gavin Henson is a huge celebrity. He plays rugby -- the most popular sport in Wales, despite the grumpy efforts of some North Walians to turn their country into a Liverpudlian suburb. I have seen giant murals of Gavin making a rugby tackle on an England player. An enormous poster of him covers the height of Millennium Stadium here in Caerdydd. There is no denying his celebrity in these parts.
His celebrity extends well beyond our borders thanks to the fact that he's had sex with Charlotte Church, the chavy operatic singer turned chavy mum and occasional chat show host, who will almost always show up in a Welsh person's list of top five greatest Welsh people ever: e.g., Tom Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dylan Thomas and Charlotte Church. Gavin has two children by her. The couple were supposed to have married but split because of their renown ability to have spectacular fights with one another.
Just about everyone in Wales claims to have met Gavin at some point or another. My favourite story is that told by Garmon Ceiro, who had fallen down drunk one evening in Caerdydd's city centre. As a girl knelt to help Garmon to his feet, a passing Gavin Henson commented: "Just leave him there, love. He's not worth it."
Garmon Ceiro looked up, squinted his eyes, somehow managed to recognise the rugby star despite booze-drubbed thought process, and shouted: "You deserve all your injuries, you twat!"
Gavin is also famous for getting injured. He will perform outstandingly, then get banged up and spend the rest of the season on the bench.
All these factors, and the Welsh penchant for attacking those who rise above their station, result in Gavin being the target for a fair amount of derision in his home country. Those stories of meeting him usually paint the man in a negative light. I wonder how many of the stories are true. I suspect some people create them simply to connect themselves to place, to Wales. Or, perhaps the stories are true. Perhaps he really is an insufferable prick. That would make us all feel better about ourselves, wouldn't it? If the good-looking and talented guy were a dickweed it would make us feel so much better about being bumbling and homely. By "us," of course, I mean "me." Nonetheless, I can't help but feel Gavin carries a certain amount of pathos.
The heated arguments with Charlotte, his documented erratic behaviour, his injuries to joints and tendons and the fact that he has lost 3 stone (42 pounds) of mostly muscle mass since last playing rugby all suggest to me that Gavin has used steroids. Almost certainly he did this because of pressure to be better, to be the best. I admittedly know absolutely nothing about him personally, but I sense he is a man who has reached a serious burnout point. He suffers the weight of both the derision and expectations of his notoriously difficult-to-please countrymen. And he probably lives with a frustration of feeling his body has let him down time and time again. Everything he has worked to be, that he knows how to be, that he is expected to be, is wrapped in physical pain, frustration and the quiet knowledge that even if healthy he'll likely only be able to keep going for six or seven more years.
"I've got a lot of stressful things going on in my life at the moment," Gavin said on Saturday's show. "So, I just thought maybe learning a new skill would take my mind off things."
It will also earn him a few hundred thousand pounds in appearance fees. But, less cynically, I find myself very much hoping for him the positive and transformative effects of Strictly. Remember Jade Johnson? I do, I still softly whisper her name while kissing my pillow each night. When the Olympic athlete first started Strictly she was laddish and awkward. Over the weeks, you saw her discover a greater sense of femininity (b).
In Saturday's launch show, Gavin seemed surprisingly shy and uncomfortable. I fear he will suffer the same problems as Joe Calzaghe last year, who could never fully allow himself to play the role of dancer. With every step, it was always as if he were turning to a friend and saying: "Don't worry, mate. I'm just taking the piss, see? I'm not gay or anything; I'm not in to what's going on here; I'm not really a part of it."
Past rugby players have found the ability to throw themselves into the campness of the show, and I'd hope that Gavin can, too. And I'd hope that in the process he is able to develop a greater sense of self worth, not as dependent on whatever those negatives are that seem to run much of his life.
Worst case scenario, however, he gets to rub up against Katya. You might remember my describing her last year as looking like the girl next door who ends up in low-budget porn. She's not the kind of gal who gets soft lighting and a bear skin rug to work on, but the one who ends up on a tile floor covered in lubricant, sweat, saliva and male produce. A vote for Gavin and Katya is a vote to keep the poor girl out of that world.
It is also a vote for another happy week in Gavin's life. In Saturday's show he said: "All these dancers are beautiful. They're there in your face and looking at your eyes (c) and they're touching you and stuff. Wuh. It's blowing my mind, to be honest. I just don't know how I'm going to cope with it all."
If you remember Katya dancing last year, you know Gavin's got a wonderful challenge ahead of him. Like all the other men of Wales, I hate him because I am jealous of him.
Goldie & Kristina Rihanoff:
As best I can tell, Goldie is most famous for being difficult to look at. He's not really an example of God's best work. He was in a forgettably bad Bond film and presumably he's done some other things. Apparently he was or is a DJ. I am generally unimpressed by people who become famous for playing other people's songs. Effectively you are lauding them for having good taste in music. I have good taste in music, as well: pay me to press "play" on my iPod.
To add a special challenge to those of us who perv out whilst watching Strictly, Goldie has been paired with Kristina Rihanoff, one fifth of my fantasy Strictly lady blanket. I like to dream of having Strictly female stars keep me warm at night by lying on top of me: Kristina, Katya, Ola Jordan, Natalie Lowe and Tess Daly. Claudia Winkleman would be my pillow. Although, I have to admit that Kristina would be at the foot of my lady blanket; close-up shots of her often disappoint.
Jimi Mistry & Flavia Cacace:
Strictly would have you believe that Jimi is a huge Hollywood star. Nevermind that you don't know who he is, he's big-time! He was in that one film as that one guy. It was big. Not necessarily because of him, mind you, but he was in it. In the same way that John Carroll Lynch was in Fargo, Jimi was in that one film that some people said was good. He was also in "Eastenders" at one point, which is a well-established route to Strictly.
Similar to Anton's regularly getting stuck with women who struggle to stay balanced whilst standing, Flavia has the misfortune of frequently being paired with cartoonish goofballs. Just the look of Jimi screams: "It will take a major shift in the space-time continuum before I can rhumba."
What always happens with these guys is that they basically fall in love with Flavia, forgetting that she is getting paid to press up against them. They go on "It Takes Two" and gush about how lovely she is and it all gets a bit uncomfortable until Flavia does the same thing as her professional partner, Vincent, and sabotages the celebrity with tricky choreography. I'm not so sure Flavia does it by accident.
Kara Tointon & Artem Chigvintsev:
Who and who? Oh, right, Dawn Swan off "Eastenders" and the creepy Russian dude. Great. I fear Kara's getting the short end of the stick here. She is my second-favourite piece of celebrity eye candy in this year's series and she's been paired with a guy whose biggest accomplishments include being a contestant on the first U.S. season of "So You Think You Can Dance." Oh, and he used to shag one of the judges from the U.S. version of Strictly, "Dancing with the Stars." That's a hell of a pedigree, son. Although, perhaps it works in this format -- the kid understands dancing on television for a popular audience. I only hope that equates to a considerable amount of writhing on Kara's part. Writhing Kara = votes from Chris. I want to see that girl in tight outfits, crawling across the floor, drinking milk from a bowl like a cat.
Artem certainly seemed pleased with his luck. When he was teamed with Kara, it was as if he was in a comedy Soviet Russia of 1980s American imagination, on some kind of game show where he was being introduced to his state-sponsored breeding partner: "Comrade Chigvinstev your love lady will be... stupid, pretty one from popular soap opera! Celebrate now."
And as they walked off, you could see in Artem's grin something that said: "See? This is why I reported Father to the KGB. This is my reward."
Matt Baker & Aliona Vilani:
Last year Aliona shot her partner, Rav, in the foot by failing to recognise that a guy who can't dance can't be choreographed like a guy who can dance. She was really grumpy when voted off and struck me as the sort of person who would displace blame rather than accepting she was largely responsible for her and Rav's farewell. There is something about her I dislike on the whole. When she's in professional dances she tends to throw herself about a little too much, trying too hard to make sure you see her and her dyed red hair.
Pairing her with "Countryfile" presenter Matt Baker is a good idea because it increases the possibility of Aliona at some point finding herself elbow deep in a cow's ass. That's the sort of thing they always do on television when introducing a person to "country life." It gives us city folk the impression that all farmers ever do is fist cattle. Maybe that is all they do. Regardless, it's what I feel Aliona deserves. You just sit there, young lady, with your arm anchored in that cow's ass and think about what you've done. When you're ready to choreograph realistically, in a style that highlights your celebrity rather than yourself, then you can come out and join the rest of us.
Michelle Williams & Brendan Cole:
Perhaps best known as "the one from Destiny's Child that no one remembers," I think Michelle has the best chance of making it to the final. Assuming Brendan doesn't fuck it up. One of the facets of Strictly that makes it good is that celebrities actually try. Famously, the reason for that boils down to Brendan's ego. In the first series he decided to be competitive, which then sparked competition amongst the other dancers. Had he not done that, it would be more of an exhibition of dance. But his competitiveness means he will cheat if he thinks it will earn him votes with the viewing audience, putting in lifts where he shouldn't and so on. It's a tactic that has worked -- if you can get enough public vote, the scores given by judges are made irrelevant -- but a tricky one because it relies on the British viewing public. Few things are stranger, more duplicitous and faster changing than British public opinion.
But, as I say, if Brendan can keep his shit together Michelle has confidence of playing to big audiences, past experience in moving to music (pop group choreography isn't really dancing), and a likeable personality that will play in her favour. Or, at least, I find her to be likeable. Michelle has that sassy, quick-witted, confident black woman thing going on. It's the sort of thing goes over really well in the United States. It goes over really, really well in Chris Cope World; I want her to tell me what to do. I want her to cuddle up next to me under my Strictly lady blanket.
However, I think perhaps British viewers have a problem with strong women, especially strong women of colour. I often think that whatever negativity is aimed at Alesha Dixon's role on the show comes greatly from the fact that she is black. Perhaps, though, British viewers will make that weird mental disconnect of somehow viewing a person differently simply because they have an American accent. If that's the case, then all Michelle need do is avoid proselytising before or after a dance. Americans do that all the time; but it makes British people really uncomfortable. Michelle has released two gospel albums, so it certainly wouldn't be out of her character to make a comment like: "Well, I just thank the Lord Jesus Christ my saviour for giving me the strength to go out there and do my best."
That would be fine on U.S. television. In my home country -- so filled with people who fear Islam and its way of existing in all facets of a person's life -- it is not at all odd to hear someone reference Jesus on a light-entertainment programme. Here, though, it makes people look away nervously and vote for someone else.
Pamela Stephenson & James Jordan
Perhaps best known as "the one from 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' that no one remembers," Pamela has large, fake breasts and a scary, wide face bought on discount. That's apparently the sort of thing Billy Connolly is into; the Scottish comic icon has been married to her for roughly 20 years. Billy was there in the audience Saturday, supporting his wife. I doubt we'll ever hear a word from him, though. No television producer in his/her right mind would stick a microphone on Billy Connolly for a live family-oriented programme.
Apart from being Billy Connolly's wife and the least-memorable cast member of a programme I never saw, I'm not really sure who Pamela Stephenson is. She's a psychiatrist, apparently. Or psychologist. I can never remember the difference between the two. One is legitimately trained, the other is basically just someone who sits and listens to you for $100 an hour. Actually, that's what it cost when I would be sent to one in my teenage years. They probably cost more now. For all the good they did me, I am certain we could have given that money to some random person at a bus stop: "Excuse me, sir, would you be willing to listen to this kid complain for an hour? There's $100 in it for you."
Perhaps if my psychiatrist/psychologist had big fake breasts I would have gotten more out of the experience.
Nonetheless, I am looking forward to this pairing because it involves an older woman and James Jordan. James has a magical power to get older women to be NAUGHTY. Somehow he is able to find the whorish cougar that lies in the soul of every older woman and set it lose. It is almost always a beautiful thing to watch.
Patsy Kensit & Robin Windsor:
Speaking of whores, Patsy Kensit is on the show. Meh.
She has a dance partner who looks like Zane Lowe. Meh to him, too.
Paul Daniels & Ola Jordan:
Magician Paul Daniels is 72 years old, but, like Bruce Forsyth, appears to be at least 50 years younger than Ann Widdecombe. I had never actually seen Paul Daniels on television before Saturday. In looking at a picture of him on the Strictly website some days before the launch show, he struck me as looking a bit like Paul Whitehouse and I decided I hated him. Paul Whitehouse is supposedly a comic, but he is funny like stepping on a jagged beer can at the beach. Paul Daniels, then, turned out to be a far more likeable fellow than I expected. He's one of those people from the old guard of British entertainment, so Brucie will dote over him. And as a member of the old guard, he has a catchphrase: "You'll like this. Not a lot. But you'll like it."
Expect to hear that, or a variation of it, at least twice a week.
Ola's claim to fame is wearing as little of an outfit as she can get away with. So, no matter what happens, we know Paul will be happy. I dream that my retirement years would go so well.
Peter Shilton & Erin Boag:
Céline Dion lookalike Erin has again been paired with a soccer goalie named Peter. Remember Peter Schmeichel? He danced like Frankenstein's monster. Every time I saw him, I thought: "Grrr. Fire bad!"
That's not necessarily what will happen with this goalie named Peter, but you kind of suspect that it is. Peter Shilton holds the record for the most-capped player for England. For those of you playing along at home, being "capped" means he was selected to play for his national team. It refers to the old days when players were given silly little caps to wear in photos. So, England managers decided to put him at goal 125 times. One of those times was when he famously got beat by Maradona's "hand of God" move. That's right, Peter Shilton's greatest claim to fame is getting beat on a (dubious) header by a midget. Sometimes a player's being capped shitloads of times is less a sign of ability and moreso an indication his team didn't have a lot of options.
Strangely, soccer players have a bad history on Strictly. You would think that people who made a living doing things with their feet would have an advantage on a programme that involves doing things with one's feet. Apparently not. Perhaps because thinking is involved, and falling down will accomplish nothing.
If you've ever seen a close-up of Erin, you'll have noticed she has the wiry hair of a woman with an eating disorder. I hope she realises, then, that if Peter does poorly it is all down to the fact that she's not thin enough.
Scott Maslen & Natalie Lowe:
True fact: the protagonist's brother in 'Sgidiau Caerdydd, the novel I'm working on at the moment, is named Jack because Scott Maslen's "Eastenders" character, Jack Branning, seemed really cool to me when I was plotting out the novel. I don't watch that programme, though, so I have no idea whether he is as cool as he looks. He probably isn't. All the Brannings, save Jim, have been a disappointment. Still, that's not necessarily a reflection on Scott, nor his ability to move around. Before joining "Eastenders" Scott was apparently a model, which means he's good at holding poses. If he can do that in time to music, he may stand a chance. Especially considering he is with a dancer who made it to last year's final. His weak point appears to be a certain lack of personality.
For Natalie's sake, though, I hope he does well. I am in love with Natalie. I wish I had terminal cancer just so I could meet Natalie as my dying wish.
Tina O'Brien & Jared Murillo:
In Strictly promotional material, Tina O'Brien looks a teency-weency bit like Paloma Faith. The fact that she is nothing like Paloma Faith is a crushing disappointment. Similar to fellow soap actor Scott Maslen, the "Coronation Street" actress seems to lack a personality. So much so that I remember nothing about her.
I remember young Jared Murillo doing a heel slide across the floor when he was introduced to her. Expect to see that move again. Like Michael Weiss and his fucking Freedom Blades (d), he'll be dropping it into every possible routine. Additionally, expect to hear him reference over and over that he is American. This is something all the Yanks do: when we first come to this country we think our nationality somehow makes us special, as if people will want to be our friends simply because we sound like all the guys on CSI. After more than four years of living on the Island of Rain, Jared, I can tell you that people aren't all that impressed. Least of all your fellow Americans. Please try not to embarrass me.
Elsewhere in the show:
- Obviously a highlight of the programme was having Flavia and Vincent descend, Blue Blazer-style, from the ceiling as they danced the Argentine tango in a professional dance routine. The production team should keep that wire gear handy in case there comes a point when Anton needs to lift Ann Widdecombe.
- On the whole, though, I didn't like the basic concept behind the launch show -- pairing the couples before a studio audience. It felt uncomfortable.
- The special show dancers led by Ian Waite and Darren Bennett seemed particularly rough, didn't they? Thy were out of time and sometimes seemed a bit lost. My hope is that they had been scheduled into the show at the very last minute, because the routine looked as if it had been put together that morning. I have been watching Strictly long enough to spot that the choreography had some classic Ian Waite touches (e.g., mouthing along to the words of a song). I am so pathetic.
Who's going to win:
This week I'm supporting Michelle and Brendon to win, in a final with Team Gatya.
(a) Yeah, that's right: I just used the word "harbinger," a thing that signals the approach of another. Hooray me.
(b) I mean that as a positive. Often women are tricked into feeling that in order to be on a level playing field as men in terms of respect and opportunity they must effectively imitate masculine behaviour. Inevitably this line of thinking actually favours the male, because he is already masculine.
(c) Ah, bless. Gavin crumbles when a girl looks him in the eyes.
(d) Yes, I just referenced men's figure skating. Help me.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Way Forward: Chapter 2
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The plan was to meet Allison in Paris. The two of us would spend Christmas together and then, for reasons not entirely clear (something to do with her university work), I was to return to Portsmouth for a few days afterward. Then we would again meet up in Paris for New Year's Eve.
Christmas and New Year's in Paris with the woman I loved; the woman I had convinced myself I was going to marry. It was romantic -- like a film starring Julia Roberts and one of those charming actors with wavy hair whose names I never know. I would be the latter, of course. Allison and I would both wear nice Irish-style wool sweaters and wool coats and long, colorful scarves and Allison would have a charmingly silly hat. Every smiling sexy woman in a film must own at least one charmingly silly hat; perhaps Allison's would have previously served as a woolen multi-colored tea cozy.
"I saw it atop a teapot at a bed and breakfast and decided I should wear it," she would explain, smiling and pulling the hat/cozy down over her eyes in coy embarrassment.
This would endear her to the audience. I and the film-going public would know her thievery was charming and had been the right thing to do.
She would be a brilliant scientist, in Paris to present research for a cure to some disease that affects only cute little children. And I would be an artist type or former Navy SEAL, maybe both -- able to kill with a No. 8 Filbert brush. Allison, her red hair poking from stolen B&B property, would hold tightly to my arm and laugh and smile with her shining white teeth at all the charming and witty things I had to say. The two of us would walk though cobbled Parisian streets, occasionally stopping at quaint coffee shops to stare into each other's eyes and then duck into a corner to make out while the soundtrack swelled and a smoky-voiced woman sang "La Vie En Rose."
I envisioned my Christmas with Allison as being like this, maybe better. But perhaps in the film version of my life, the charming actor with wavy hair whose name I do not know would not have 11 stitches, bandages, a swollen-shut eye and bruises all over his face. And the film would also gloss over the fact that at the time I only owned two sweaters, neither of them very nice or at all Irishy. I'm not even sure they were 100-percent wool.
Still, it was the kind of thing they had raised us to dream about in the Midwest -- if you could have called me a Midwesterner. Technically, I'm from Clute, Texas, but Clute is not the sort of place you want to admit being from. They have a nice municipal pool and an annual mosquito festival and more chemical plants nearby than can possibly be safe, and not much else. My family moved up to St. Paul, Minnesota, when I was 15 and eventually I found myself fitting in better there than I had back in Clute. I was Midwestern enough, I suppose.
A key element to being a Midwesterner is hating the Midwest. Midwesterners fill their heads with visions from books and songs and films and television programs about leaving for someplace else. "Someplace else" is our Mecca. Usually that someplace is California or New York or Europe (read: Western Europe). These places are appealing, but not so exciting that they will overwhelm one's Midwestern sensibilities. Most Midwesterners settle for regular visits to Las Vegas. Allison had gone to California, and now the both of us were in Europe. I was pretty sure they were writing folk songs about us back home.
The nurse at the trauma unit told me my stitches would need to stay in for at least two weeks.
"But I'm going to Paris in 10 days," I pleaded, as if she could somehow make my face heal faster.
"Hmm, well, you'll definitely not want to deal with a French doctor. They have no idea what they're doing," she said. "The scars might not ever go away, but lads like that sort of thing, don't they? It will probably be alright to get the stitches removed just before you leave for France."
Ten days later, I brought my bag with me to the GP's office. My stitches were snipped, I was handed a pamphlet on how to avoid infection, and I walked directly to the ferry port.
You may need a map for this. It would have been faster to take the train from Portsmouth to London, then another train from London to Paris; or even take the train from Portsmouth to Dover, the ferry from Dover to Calais, then the train from Calais to Paris; but it was dramatically cheaper to take the ferry from Portsmouth to Le Havre, then the train from Le Havre to Paris. A return pedestrian ferry ticket cost just £6. Calling it a ferry is misleading; it was actually massive cruise ship.
Still persisting in my cinematic mindset, I stood outside on the ferry's deck and stared back at Portsmouth as the ship slipped out of the harbor and into the darkness of night crossing. It would have made a good scene in that Julia Roberts movie -- Allison and I would have shared a bottle of Champagne and then had sex in a lifeboat. But it was late December, and by the time the colored lights of the Southsea Promenade flickered out of sight I could no longer feel my fingers or toes. I made my way to the ship's bar and warmed myself with half a dozen pints of Tetley's ale. Had I bothered to read my little pamphlet on avoiding infection, I doubt any of this would have been advised.
In exchange for the low pedestrian fares that ferry companies offer, one has to give up certain comforts, like, say, a place to sleep. People with money are able to spend their journeys in cabins, which I have always imagined to be cavernous areas of luxury with servants and a hot tub. But at the very least, they have a place to sit and to sleep. Pedestrian cheapskates such as me are left to wander aimlessly between the gift shop, the café, and the bar. It's a bit like being trapped in a moving small-town airport. They tend to leave that part out in all the films they show Midwesterners -- a tedious nine-hour journey is usually shortened into a musical montage with a lot of staring out of windows.
I am relatively skilled at killing time. Especially if there is a bar. Time wasting is an art form, and a bar is where I am best able to paint a Michelangelo-like mural of low productivity. Night crossings on a ferry, however, see the gift shop, café and bar closed by midnight and cabinless scum must fight it out for the limited couches and comfy chairs available.
The Tetley's not only warmed me, but put me in the sort of state in which I was able to sleep on the only couch I could find -- just outside the bar. Although alcohol was no longer being served, the bar's (completely empty) dance floor remained open until 2 a.m., and I slept fitfully through dreams filled with a bad soundtrack. I'm pretty sure they played the B-52s' "Love Shack" continuously for an hour, followed by two hours of Elton John's "Step into Christmas." Sir Elton's voice swirled in my drunken head and in my erratic sleep a set of false lyrics got stuck on repeat in my brain:
"Banana milk for Christmas
Japanese love Shinto
Gonna ride my bike forever and ever
The morning air was painfully cold and dry. It slapped at my face as I walked from the Le Havre ferry port to the train station, where I relieved my churning stomach of its Tetley's in every way possible into the station's Turkish toilet. I was bruised, bandaged, exhausted, stank of alcohol and had not bathed in 24 hours. And as I settled into my spot on an unheated train car (the only non-smoking car of the lot), I was starting to feel much, much worse.
When the train arrived in Paris, I could tell I was running a fever. I guessed my temperature to be about 176 degrees Fahrenheit. I've been accused of being melodramatic at times, so it was probably only around 118. I had emptied my bag of warm clothes and was wearing two pairs of trousers, a long-sleeved T-shirt, a short-sleeved T-shirt, both my sweaters and an anorak. I was shivering. Every part of my body ached. Add to this my swollen-shut eye and stench, and I was descending into an exciting new world of misery. It was the only time I've been to Paris in which I was not harassed by street people. They thought I was one of them. Some of them actually looked better than me.
As I walked across the open area of Gare Saint-Lazare toward the Metro station, I saw a man wearing neatly pressed trousers and a green jacket; he would walk alongside people and ask for money in a high-pitched squeak. If they refused, he would stop and unleash a torrent of squeaking insult (I assume it was insult, at least -- I don't speak French). We made eye contact as I passed and he simply nodded his head in collegial fashion. That's another thing they leave out of the guidebooks and films about Paris, it's full of crazy people.
On the Metro, a young woman with spiked green hair appeared at a stop wearing a combination of all the silly clothes she had been able to find that day: bright red vinyl shoes, green trousers, a tattered pink tutu, a 1980s muscle T-shirt over a top that appeared to be made from the pelt of a Muppet, and an army jacket. Hanging from her neck, albatross-style, was a record player. Once the train got under way, she dropped the needle on a record and it faintly warbled out a French-language children's song, the record skipping as the train bounced along the track. I waited for her to do something else, but she just stood there, staring blankly, occasionally putting the needle back into its groove. After several painful minutes of this, she produced a cup and began walking down the aisle signaling that she was expecting to be paid.
People dropped coins in her cup and I wondered if perhaps I could pick up some extra cash by doing a little dance for them. I could finally put to good use all the square dancing we had to learn in school. I can do a mean do-si-do, baby. Maybe the woman and I could put together a little performance-art act: Punky No-Fashion-Sense Girl and Two-Steppin' Beat-Up Homeless Guy! Coming soon to a subway train near you!
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Documenting my mental decline
There was something about the day -- the weather, the way the sun hit -- that set my mind spinning off to another place. Leaning up against my garden shed last week, I found myself thinking about early October in Minnesota. I remembered sitting in my truck at the U of M campus. I remembered the breeze moving along the Mississippi River valley and pushing newly planted trees in the parking lot.
Now, several years later and thousands of miles away, I felt the weather-beaten rough of the shed against my back and picked apart my orange. Above my head I heard a scratching noise. A small orange and black cat had crawled onto the shed's roof.
It was one of the pair of cats that used to hang out down the road. In the spring, they would escort me and Lisa when we walked up to the petrol station or bus stop. When I came back from the United States I noticed that a particularly chavvy family had moved out and that the cats were no longer ensuring safe passage through Radyr Way. I assumed the cats had belonged to the family and had been bundled up and taken elsewhere.
But here was one of them, looking skinny and timid.
"What? You want some of my orange? I doubt it. Here: there's a piece of orange. Want it?"
The cat sniffed at the slice of fruit in my hand and backed away slightly.
"Yeah, see? I thought so. But an orange is what I'm having, dude. If you don't want that, you're just S.O.L."
"Yeah, well. Don't know what to tell ya."
The cat moved to the other side of the shed, balanced on the fence and dropped down to the ground. It did that cat thing of somehow walking directly at me in an indirect way.
"An orange, dude. That's what I've got. Take it or leave it."
The cat stood close to my leg, then pressed against it. He made a few passes, circling my legs and pressing up against them. Looking down, I could see the thinness of his stomach and haunches.
"Oh, I see. You're trying to play at my emotions. Piss off. That won't work."
"Look, I don't have anything a cat would want, OK?"
"No, really. I don't. Surely you have a better sense of smell than me -- can you not tell that the people down the road are having a barbecue? I can. I can smell sausages. Go ask them for some food."
The cat continued to press against my leg. Something about how thin it was, how small it was, made me hurt inside. It mixed with the sadness of lost golden autumn days and pushed at my ribs.
"I really don't, though. I haven't gone shopping this week. I can't even think of what you would want. I don't even have milk and I'm pretty the whole cats-love-milk thing is more a cliché than reality."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking. Hold on."
I thought back to my birthday, when my parents had sent a strange hamper of gifts. It was more the sort of thing you would send to an old lady than a man in his 30s. What had amused me most, however, was the canned ham. I couldn't imagine who would want to eat that: even the picture on the tin made it look awful. I had eventually decided to use it as an ironic bookend.
"OK, I think I've got something."
I now walked into the house and grabbed the tin of ham, brought it outside and knelt down as I opened the tin. It had a 1950s-style key that slots into a strip of metal which then peels away. I had only ever seen that sort of thing in cartoons and struggled to get it to open properly. The cat moved in close and pawed at my arm.
"Yeah, I know. Calm down."
"Do you have opposable thumbs? No. This shit isn't going to open itself, so I'm all you've got. I'm working on it.
I managed to open a section of the tin, then pried it the rest of the way open. The ham plopped out onto the pavement like a slimy, rejected alien baby. The cat looked at it.
"What? What do you want? It's a fucking ham. Don't be picky with me, man. My dad probably paid good money for that."
The cat looked at the ham again. He turned his head, sniffed at it, pawed at it.
"Oh, right. It's probably a bit big for you. OK, I'll go get a fork and knife and cut it into smaller chunks. Stay there."
I came back out with knife and fork, knelt down again and started pulling it into smaller, manageable pieces. The cat took immediate interest, gulping down the meat as I continued to cut more chunks. I cut up about half of the ham and then tossed the rest into a shrub, figuring a fox or raven would be able to take care of it later. Then I stood up and watched the cat eat. I stood motionless and quiet. He was making what I can only describe as happy sounds -- meowing and purring between gobbled pieces.
"Yeah. OK. Well, no one likes to be watched while they eat, do they? I'm going to leave you be."
I walked back into the house and leaned against the kitchen counter, arms folded. I looked out through the window and watched the cat eat. And inside of myself I felt a sort of thing that I can't really describe: a kind of simple but immense joy that I can't quite remember ever feeling before. It was silly. I had managed to feed a stray cat, but his happiness in that act welled up in my chest. The simplicity of it, his gratitude, that sunny September day. I felt my face go hot and found myself crying.
"Ah, hell. What is wrong with me? And next weekend I'll be watching 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I need help."
Monday, September 6, 2010
Minnesota in a picture
My brother, Jon, and his girlfriend, Vanessa, at the Minnesota State Fair. I love this picture.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
The Way Forward: Chapter 1
Below is a section from my novel The Way Forward.
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It made an interesting sound, my brain slamming around in my skull. If I had to re-create the sound, I would take a two-by-four, encase it in Jell-O, and bang it against a pipe while dropping a piano down an elevator shaft lined with old mattresses. I'd probably also do something unpleasant to a cat.
My eyes partially focused and I was on the floor, staring up at a group of Chinese girls peeking out at me from behind their doors. The group melted into four girls, then three, then two, then one and a half.
"Hello," I said, offering a weak smile.
The 1.5 Chinese girls looked at me in horror. Her heads darted back behind the door, and I heard the lock turn.
Before running head first into a door jamb, I had been trying to escape Claire's friend, Emma, who had been chasing me through the second floor corridor of Harry Law Residence Hall with a spoonful of Nutella, threatening to smear it on my favorite T-shirt. I heard her voice again and lurched forward onto my shoulder in an attempt to start running, but my legs had yet to re-establish contact with my dancing brain. I flopped back to the floor, rocking from shoulder to shoulder.
"Give me a second," I pleaded.
"Oh God. Ben, you're bleeding. Don't move."
Thirty minutes later, Claire and I were at Queen Alexandria Hospital, Portsmouth, England, pressing to my face a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a blood-soaked beer towel. My favorite T-shirt, spared of Nutella, was caked in drying blood. A large, generally-unhappy-to-be-there African doctor was called in to fix me up: eight stitches over my left eye, two on the bridge of my nose, and two over my right eye.
"This happen in a fight?" he asked before putting in the stitches.
"No, I ran into a door," I said.
"Ran into a door?"
"Because you are drunk?"
"No. I just ran into a door, I was being chased."
"By someone who wanted to fight?"
"No. We were just being stupid."
"I won't put in stitches if you were fighting or drunk. Fighting or drunk, you deserve infection and a big scar."
"I wasn't fighting or drinking."
"OK. Don't move."
He was as gentle as an enormous man can be while running needle and thread through someone's face. His fingers pressed into my eyes. He seemed to want to pull my head off to get a better angle for his work. At one point, he pushed my left eye open and I saw a 20-foot needle being guided toward me. I yelped and pulled back instinctively, but his massive left hand caught the back of my head and pulled me forward.
"I tell you, 'don't move,'" he said, jabbing his thumb into my open wound, "Don't move!"
By the end of it, my left eye was completely swollen shut and my right eye inclined to imitate its counterpart. Claire and I made it home by midnight and she insisted upon sleeping next to me, on the pretext that she had to watch out for signs of concussion. A nurse had given her a pamphlet and she had spent the cab ride home studying it with bookish diligence.
Women are wonderfully attentive and strangely sexually attracted to an injured male. It makes one want to charge recklessly through life in hopes of incurring severe pain and distress for the purposes of being nursed back to health by a motherly sex goddess. Claire brought me tea with some toast and jam, made sure that my bed was as comfortable as possible, and then ran through a series of questions listed in the pamphlet: Was I feeling dizzy or nauseous? Did I have a headache? Was I having trouble concentrating? How many fingers was she holding up? Then she settled down next to me on my student bed. Soft and warm and sweet smelling, she ran her hands across my chest, and kissed me softly -- I'm not sure that bit was in the pamphlet.
"Better not do that," I said, lightly pushing away her lips.
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In Theaters
The Wolf of Wall Street
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The Wolf of Wall Street
• Genre: Drama
• Release Date: 2013-12-25 Nationwide
• Running Time: 179 min.
• Director: Martin Scorsese
• Writers: Jordan Belfort, Terence Winter
• Distributor: Paramount Studios
• Official Site: The Wolf of Wall Street Official Site
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is the kind of movie directors make when they wield money, power, and a not inconsiderable degree of arrogance. Sprawling and extravagant, it revels in all manner of excess; its antihero, the crooked high-flier Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), has a Dunhill wallet where his heart should be, and he can't stop flinging bills out of it. The movie guns for grandeur in the same way: There are hints of greatness, one or two scenes that remind you why you look forward to new Scorsese films in the first place. But as a highly detailed portrait of true-life corruption and bad behavior in the financial sector, Wolf of Wall Street is pushy and hollow, too much of a bad thing, like a three-hour cold call from the boiler room that leaves you wondering, "What have I just been sold?" DiCaprio's Jordan is the founder of a '90s-era investment firm. His cronies, among them Jonah Hill's perpetually dazed-looking Donnie Azoff, bilk ordinary folk out of millions, the better to finance mansions, yachts, and trophy wives -- plus hookers and drug habits. The Wolf of Wall Street halfheartedly follows a rags-to-riches-to-rags arc, though mostly it fixates on riches. Scorsese can't get a fix on the tone; the movie has the intentionally sour spirit of Goodfellas, but none of its grim humor. One hour of that boorishness would be more than enough, but by the end of the second you might be wondering if anyone -- including Scorsese -- is ever going to call these guys on their self-absorbed idiocy. What, exactly, does he think of these people?
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Revising, Refreshing, Evolving Battlefield Interpretation
Posted: 5/1/2012
Author: Craig Swain
Layers of Interpretation at Shiloh
As a youngster, I visited Shiloh National Military Park on a number of occasions. Given my fondness for artillery, it should be no surprise that the "Ruggles Battery" tour stop was always my favorite; I visited the interpretive stand at that tour stop countless times. This marker that orients visitors there is decades old and due for replacement (if not replaced already). The new look will reflect changes to the way historians interpret that particular episode in the battle of Shiloh, calling into question the number of cannons involved in the battle and their impact on its outcome.
For me, the marker is like a milepost in my understanding of the battle. Things I "knew" about Ruggles Battery are anchored to my formative experience on the battlefield. Today, everything I "know" about Ruggles Battery is a refinement of ideas gathered along an intellectual path away from that milepost.
Beyond my personal experience, Ruggles Battery is an example where our collective understanding of the particulars of a battle have changed over time. The "story" receives fresh updates as historians assimilate new information and reassess old assumptions.
The Antietam battlefield offers another example of such change, though on broader scale. As historians studied the flow of that battle in more detail, their conclusions strained the long standing "morning, mid-day, and afternoon phases" timeline of the battle. Dutifully, the park staff began updating the public interpretation several years ago. Now the wayside interpretation for Burnside Bridge begins framing activity at the lower bridge in relation to other actions on September 17, 1862. Instead of bluntly criticizing Burnside's tactical execution, the narrative notes that the assaults on the bridge were supporting a larger flanking movement downstream. And a colored map helps explain the sequence of events and why initial assaults failed.
The tone of this new marker stands in contrast to the wayside it replaced
No longer does Henry Kyd Douglas chide Burnside. We've waded into Antietam Creek ourselves, literally and figuratively, and discovered the answer to the question posed by Douglas those many years ago.
Similar updates to other battlefield parks bring today's visitor a more accurate appreciation of historical events. Some will certainly complain that the refreshed interpretation diminishes the "old story," perhaps turning the battle's narrative into a less familiar, and potentially less romantic, measure. For example, Burnside's obsession for a dry crossing of a small creek is no longer seen as a ghastly mistake. And the same general's repeated attacks on Marye's Heights are removed from tactical isolation and seen in the broader context of the Fredericksburg battlefield. Massed artillery at Shiloh is no longer some invincible force that crushed a salient. And so on.... It is not that Douglas' "hop, skip, and jump" are tossed aside. Rather, it becomes a block in a sturdier structure that better represents the whole.
Ultimately, the discipline of history is in many ways a quest for closer, finer definitions. The more we know, the better we know (or is it vice versa?).
Craig Swain is a consultant from Virginia but is a native Missourian. His background includes a degree in history and service in the Army. Craig's focus is the study of Civil War Artillery, which you can read about on his blogTo the Sound of the Guns.
Photos from author's collection.
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Peithô's Web
About Isocrates
· J. H. Freese Introduction to Isocrates
· Freese's Chronology of Isocrates
· Lives of the Ten Orators: Isocrates
Isocrates' Writings at Peithô's Web (more to come!)
Shortcut to Isocrates at Peithô's Web: Passage:
(Freese translations, unless noted)
To Demonicus
To Nicocles
Nicocles or The Cyprians
Against the Sophists (tr. Dinsdale)
Links to other sites
To Isocrates at: Passage:
The Identity of Gorgias in Isocrates' Helen, by Terry Papillon
Comparing the encomia to Helen by Gorgias and Isocrates.
Hardy Hansen on Greek Sentence Structure
Includes Isocrates. Be sure to see Hansen's Style scoresheet.
Libanius, Progymnasmata on a saying by Isocrates (tr. Malcolm Heath)
Why praise Isocrates?
Isocrates at Suda Online
Search for Isocrates at the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Search for Isocrates at Stoa.org
On the Origin of Citizenship in Education: Isocrates, Rhetoric, and Kairos
From Southwest Missouri State U's Journal of Public Affairs.
Isocrates: A Parent of Rhetoric and Culture Studies
Michael Calvin McGee essay
Two letters of Isocrates and Ring Composition
By Ian Worthington, from Electronic Antiquity (June 1993)
Peithô's Web
All of the materials at Peithô's Web are provided for enjoyment, as is, without any warranty of any kind or for any purpose. Enjoy at your own risk. Your comments are welcome.
Thanks to the Architectural Engineering Graduate Students Association of The Pennsylvania State University for the background image used in Isocrates' speeches.
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