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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94802	[ Back to EurekAlert! ] Contact: Lynn Yarris DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Human Microbiome Caption: Phylogenetic analysis of 16S Ribosomal DNA sequences with Human Microbiome Project microbes highlighted in blue shows the distribution of these human symbiants around the microbial tree of life. Phylum are separated by color as follows: yellow, Actinobacteria; dark green, Bacteroidetes; light green, Cyanobacteria; red, Firmicutes; cyan, Fusobacteria; dark red, Planctomycetes; gray, Proteobacteria; magenta, Spirochaetes; light pink, TM7; tan, Tenericutes. Credit: Image courtesy of Human Microbiome Project Usage Restrictions: None Related news release: Data acquisition and coordination key to human microbiome project [ Back to EurekAlert! ]
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94807	Wednesday, 19 December 2012 \| by Mike K Unusual suspects : age at diagnosis A short while ago I was musing about one of the questions which form part of the scope of my little side project. It got me thinking, and in order to have a slim chance of having something to say when the subject eventually comes up for discussion I began to wonder just how old people generally are when they are diagnosed with various types of diabetes. In the old days, of course, things were much more straightforward - even the conditions themselves were referred in terms of 'juvenile' and 'maturity' onset. But I'm forever coming across folks in forums who were diagnosed with 'type 1' (which is typically thought of as a condition that develops in childhood) well into their autumn years. There was an obvious answer to satisfy my curiosity - just ask you lot. So I decided to conduct a quick straw poll and asked around the good people of the DOC for their age at diagnosis. Now of course this was not carried out with much, if any scientific rigour - but I find the results fascinating nonetheless. First off I was absolutely humbled and amazed as ever by people's generosity of spirit in the DOC. Within hours of tweeting, "I'm just curious..." I'd been inundated by responses from people who had never heard of me before and my little tweet was bouncing all over the twitosphere with RT after RT. Facebookers and forum peeps waded in and before you could say, "well I wasn't expecting that" I had over 220 responses. Two hundred. And twenty. Many of the 'proper' research projects I see and read have sample populations in the 10s. People even continued to respond for a short while after I'd gathered the results in from the various places. While I recognise that I was asking a particularly skewed demographic, I found it interesting that after logging 70 or 80 anonymised responses into a spreadsheet the proportions of people in the different age groups remained almost entirely unchanged right up until that 221st person chipped in. So while I completely accept the limitations of the survey I do wonder whether it isn't that far off the real picture. So what did I discover? The first and perhaps most surprising thing I discovered was that members of the DOC are much more likely to be type 1. I'm not absolutely sure why this is - perhaps because the management of type 2 is often downplayed by healthcare professionals and people are (mistakenly) led to believe that type 2 is somehow 'less serious'. People with type 1 it seems are more likely to feel like they are struggling and to seek help and support online. So while in the UK population type 1's make up only 10% of diabetics, in my survey they represent 72% of responses! Oldest and youngest Of the type 1's the age at diagnosis ranged from just a few months old right up to 66. Type 2's were similarly stereotype-defying ranging from 17 up to 66 again. The average age for diagnosis with type 1 was 18, while the average age for type 2 diagnosis was 45. I didn't specifically ask the question, but at least a dozen people volunteered the information that they had first been diagnosed as type 2 and later reclassified as type 1 or LADA. The average age for the first diagnosis in this group was 35. It would seem that if you are diagnosed with diabetes in your 30s then you stand the highest chance of your Dr putting a tick in the wrong box, and if the treatment you are receiving isn't working despite your best efforts it might be worth asking for some more tests! Just the facts ma'am For those who fancy poring over the numbers/proportions for themselves here are the basic analysis tables that Excel squirted out: Type 1 Type 2 Total Number 158 63 221 Average Dx Age 18 45 Dx uncertainty/change 12 Avg Age at initial Dx if changed 35 By age group Type 1 Type 2 T1 % T2 % <= 17 90 0 57% 0% 18-34 47 7 30% 15% 35-44 14 24 9% 38% 45-64 5 29 3% 38% 65+ 2 3 1% 5% So while, as you might expect, over 50% of T1s are diagnosed by the age of 18, almost half of them aren't. Coupled with which the number of people diagnosed with type 2 in their 20s - early 30s is a pretty meagre 15%, with the several of those being later reclassified). One T1 respondent mentioned that at 18 they were told they were 'too old' to be type 1. For another this happened in their mid-20s. It would seem that getting diagnosed at an unusual age is, well... er... not that unusual. Pattidevans said... I like this post. Thank you Mike for writing it up. If this sort of information was widely available to the medical profession perhaps necessary tests would be more commonplace and correct diagnoses would be a matter of course. As you know, it took me 8 years to get a proper diagnosis after being misdiagnosed due to my age. Jenny Chapman said... Hear Hear, But when I was diagnosed in 1972 at 22, from a pee dipstick with all the classic symptoms I appeared to be the only person who was surprised it could strike in adulthood. None of the HCPs were at all phased by it. But then, it was immediate hospital admission for about 10 days and involved a whole armful of blood twice a day ..... and we did have a very good consultant. Plus no fingertip tests or HbA1cs, still had glycosulated haemoglobin then! LOL Often wonder if they did GAD or C-pep. And how they could be so 'wise' then and now aren't? Aginoth said... I was diagnosed at 31 as a Type 1 in 2001 by my GP, and was told it was unusual but I obviously was T1 because of my C-Peptide Blood Test results. I'd already self diagnosed mind as it was clear that I was T1. Was given insulin and told to go teach myself how to inject before the practice nurse could see me in a month's time. Ever since I seem to have had to defend myself to healthcare professionals who upon learning I was diagnosed at 31 that I am not a T2 diabetic, and "Are You Sure you're T1?" is frequently asked of me by professionals not savvy with my history, or seemingly unaware that you don;t have to be under 18 to be diagnosed as T1 Post a Comment
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94811	TV Article Reality Love Bites On ''Laguna Beach,'' the kids go on their annual vacation in Cabo, where Jessica's hickey nearly sets off a fistfight with Alex M. Laguna Beach \| JESS, FOX UNWORTHY She may be a redneck JESS, FOX UNWORTHY She may be a redneck ''Laguna Beach'': Girls gone wild: spring break Spring break time, kids! And this year, I'm pretty sure what happened in Cabo is not just gonna stay in Cabo. As Alex M. warned, ''The s---'s gonna hit the fan.'' Hit it did. This week's edition of Laguna Beach was smoking. First, there was the needlessly long montage of gals frolicking in the pool. (Producers, we get it. Your cast is hot. There's a reason we watch shows about Orange County as opposed to Fresno County.) There was also the return of Sam, a.k.a. ''Kristin's crush.'' Where has Sam been all this time? Does he just stay in Cabo all year, awaiting his chance to return to ''Kristin's crush'' status? We'll never know, since Sam's exit from the episode happened pretty soon after his entrance. Sorry, Sam. See you next year! Of course, Sam's return and Kristin's love life played second fiddle to the fireworks blazing between Alex M. and Jess. (And Alex H., we get it. Talan likes Kristin. Stop repeating yourself a billion times.) First, let's again establish my biases. I like Jess. I want nothing but the best for her. And yet, she perpetually disappoints me. Thus, it's been quite the struggle to maintain said devotion when lately Jess's enemy Alex M. has behaved so much more respectably. And besides, they're not really enemies, right? Alex M: Everyone's on my side. Everyone! Kristin's on my side. Taylor: That's the rule. You just don't hook up with your friend's... Alex M:...boyfriend! Very true, Alex. You don't hook up with your friend's boyfriend. Here's another rule: You don't throw yourself at your friend's boyfriend. And you definitely don't ask your friend's boyfriend to winter formal. But you did all that, didn't you? Whoops. Karma's a bitch ain't it? But really, when were Jess and Alex actually friends? They weren't. At least, I really hope not, because, if they were, clearly no one respected the rules. Furthermore, to be fair to Jess, last week's news of her hookup with Jason was merely hearsay. The only evidence was an eyewitness account by Cammy (who?), who claimed a peck on the cheek had occurred. But upon seeing the giant red welt on Jess' neck, we realized Jess was indefensible. For all those wondering where Lo went, she probably fell into the bottomless pit residing on Jess' neck. Jess looked like she got shot — shot by a hickey bazooka. So there it is. Kinda hard to refute that. Jess, you got some explaining to do. Of course, Jess didn't deny anything — that is, except for denying the truth to herself: ''I swear on my grandmother's grave,'' Jess told Emily (who's Emily? Cammy's friend?), ''I will never go back out with Jason ever. Well, maybe not ever. But I will never go back out with him ever again. Anyways, I can't wait to go home!'' I don't know what's more confusing: Jess's variable use of ''ever'' or the verbal garbage of ''go back out.'' Someone call Noam Chomsky. Adding insult to the injury on her neck, Jess called Jason, who was vacationing in Costa Rica, saying she was calling to ''see how you're doing.'' First, does she really have phone service in Cabo? Second, does Jason have service in Costa Rica? I need to get on this Laguna cell plan. And third, Jess, you're a fool. Stop calling the jerk. Think about your grandma. Now, I don't want to condone violence. But Jess was asking for a slap. And conveniently Alex M. has been jumping at the chance. Finally, we got the catfight promised from day one of this season. Alex confronted Jess about the hickey that ate Lo, even forcing her humiliated rival into proclaiming, ''I'm a slut!'' Ouch. And for this, I kinda respect Alex. I don't necessarily like her, but I appreciate that it took barely a week for her to rouse the will to face Jess. Conversely, not only did Jess lack the pluck to stop Alex from moving in on Jason, but Jess may even have encouraged it, given her current attempts to placate the girl. (''I'm not mad!'') Are the tides turning? Has Alex proven herself worthy of the sympathy previously afforded to Jess? At the end of the episode, Alex went to talk with Jason, who was too busy playing Harlem Globetrotters to pay her any attention. But still, Alex appealed demurely to him as he looked on blankly. ''You're like afraid to talk to me now....I still have feelings for you....I haven't talked to you in a long time....You can always call me sometimes.'' It's funny, but in that light, with those glasses, and with that modest resignation, Alex kinda reminded me of Jess. What do you think? Do you sympathize with Alex? Also, did anyone else notice Cedric playing with the Chapstick? Guy looked seriously dazed, as if his mind were altered by something. Should we hold an intervention? Cedric, just say no! Originally posted Sep 20, 2005
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94820	Cats and Dogs Paper Rating: Word Count: 944 Approx Pages: 4 Cats and Dogs: The Apples and Oranges of Pets Cats and Dogs are like the north and south pole of the animal world. The basic similarity between the two animals is that they are both considered beloved pets. An anonymous small child said it best, "Kittens are fuzzy, dogs are fuzzy, I love them both. In fact, while cats and dogs have quite a few similarities, they are as different as apples and oranges. A main difference between cats and dogs is the way in which they associate with their owners, or human companions. Cats often tend to fall under the category of being a loner. Their owner may come home after a long day of work, and yet the cat offers no welcome. While they do interact with their companions, they do not need to. They can often be alone for long periods of time without being lonely, or missing their companions. Dogs, on the other hand, are more high maintenance emotionally. No sooner does the companion walk in the door, than their K-9 friend come running, ready with many licks, barks, and other various forms of affection. Another way in which one find the differences in these two pets is by looking at their schedules. Dogs tend to be daytime creatures, exerting most of the energy during the daylight hours. This makes it easy when it is time to go to bed, most dogs will lie down and sleep as well. However, cats seem to be of the opposite mindset, sleeping mainly during the day. Cats also have a tendency to be asleep any time their owner is in need of attention. But during the night, the cats are on the prowl. Seeming to have boundless energy they bounce off of the walls into the early daylight hours. When the light of morning finally hits their companion's face, the cat is nowhere to be found. After much searching the cat is found, sleeping like a baby. Another way in which these animals vary is in the ease, or lack thereof, in which we can train them. Cats, more often than not, ar... Continue Reading
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94838	Five years of injustice: The plight of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran Written by • WendyS9 Such a sad situation for such innocent people. What possesses supposedly religious people in the Iranian government to act like this towards their fellow human beings and imprison people for no crime? It’s all just very hard to believe. • NothingnessIsGreaterThanBelief The Baha’i system, which in its outward form is organized, but in its Essence can never be systematized using human logic, is intended to revolutionize the whole order of the world. Baha’u’llah’s claim is greater than human imagination which is constrained by the walls surrounding the human mind. Even the heart cannot contain its Splendor (Arabic: ” Baha’ “). Love and Hate are both submissive, lowly, and humble before His Countenance of Beauty. Baha’u’llah’s claim fulfills all the religious, spiritual, philosophical, poetic, emotional, and logical promises, expectations and aspirations of human history over the past 10,000 years. All religious texts praise Him and speak of Him as the Origin of Creation, He Who Neither Begets or is Begotten, Knower of Things Unseen. He it is Who Appears (Manifests) in This Day, during this Most Great End of Times. No, More!, the Hour has already passed, if ye can perceive! • tianxiang69 Iran is an Islamic republic. This kind of persecution of religious minorities is part and parcel of such an order. Islam means submission, no peace.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94884	Sunday Worship: 8:00a Spiritual Service 9:30a Sunday School 10:30a Traditional Service & Children's Church Stacks Image 79 Stacks Image 75 Stacks Image 77 • We Appreciate Your Contribution Thank You!! Stacks Image 19 A Prayer for love… God, we pray to you today In all we do and say. Your love for us is always true, so we'll love each other like you've asked us to do. Amen.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94888	Render, Render -- Thomas Lux Boil it down: feet, skin, gristle, bones, vertebrae, heart muscle, boil it down, skim, and boil again, dreams, history, add them and boil again, boil and skim in closed cauldrons, boil your horse, his hooves, the runned-over dog you loved, the girl by the pencil sharpener who looked at you, looked away, boil that for hours, render it the heavier, the denser, throw in ache and sperm, and a bead of sweat that slid from your armpit to your waist as you sat stiff-backed before a test, turn up the fire, boil and skim, boil some more, add a fever and the virus that blinded an eye, now’s the time to add guilt and fear, throw logs on the fire, coal, gasoline, throw two goldfish in the pot (their swim bladders used for “clearing”), boil and boil, render it down and distill, that for which there is no other use at all, boil it down, down, then stir it with rosewater, that which is now one dense, fatty, scented red essence which you smear on your lips and go forth to plant as many kisses upon the world as the world can bear! [via poets.org] [ The Dream ; Franz Marc (1912) ].... Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? Or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang? Why set the pear upon those river banks Or spice the shores with odors of the plum? Alas, that they should wear our colors there, The silken weavings of our afternoons, And pick the strings of our insipid lutes! Death is the mother of beauty, mystical, Within whose burning bosom we devise Our earthly mothers waiting, sleeplessly. -- from 'Sunday Morning'; Wallace Stevens From the essay 'Against Mastery' found at The Hedgehog Review, voicing a rarely heard critique of modern medical science: How, for one, will we make sense of death if it comes to be viewed as something with no intrinsic meaning, but chiefly as a piece of bad luck, a matter of bad timing—the misfortune, for example, of contracting the disease before the march of inevitable medical progress had caught up with it? Or worse, how can we ever be reconciled to death when it becomes understood as something almost entirely accidental, and largely preventable? Do we imagine that complete control over our biological fates will necessarily make us happier? Perhaps it will. But one can as easily imagine that there might be little room for uninhibited joy or exuberance in such a world. More likely it will be a tightly wound world, saturated with bitterness and anxiety and mutual suspicion, in which life and health will be guarded with all the ferocity of Ebenezer Scrooge guarding his money. Growing mastery means growing responsibility, and the need to assign blame, since nothing happens by chance. Some of the blame will be directed at the parents, politicians, doctors, and celebrities who make plausible villains, or conspiracy theories that explain why someone else is always at fault. But much of the blame will devolve upon ourselves, since in being set free to choose so much about our lives, we will have no one else to blame when we make a complete mess of things. No, there is good reason to fear that the more our lives are prolonged and powers extended, and the more death becomes seen as an avoidable evil whose precise moment should be “chosen,” rather than an inherent feature of human life, the more common it will be to encounter people who live imprisoned by their fear of all risk, since the possible consequences of any risk will seem too vast, too horrible, and too fully avoidable, to be contemplated. That such a world would drain human life of dignity and spiritedness is not hard to imagine..... [via wood s lot] For me there is no materiality to apparent materiality. In our bodies, 3 billion cells a minute are dying and being reborn. So our bodies look solid, but they aren't. How many minutes have just gone by and how many cells have died and been reborn? We're like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but there's no thingness to them. -- Li-Young Lee [via return to the center] Andrew & Noah Band Brown Rice Family The Duhks Dixon's Violin ....magic eye art.... ...magical totem art... Felix Y Los Gatos ...main stage foxtrot... Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate Josh Davis Peter Rowan Sekou Kouyate wall art [34th Annual Blissfest Music Festival; Harbor Springs, MI] Many, many other great performers and artists! Photos are limited to what I could pull off with my portable Nikon camera during a fun filled and dusty loose weekend. Names of performers include active links to their websites. Ancient Subterranean Fires --Elizabeth Willis When I crossed the road, I burned with the heat of its traffic. Time as movement, a government of rushes. All those itching satellites, blind among the dreaming guns. A bee in its lace is the author of something. Easy work is out there, just beyond the mines. A cab into heroic legend, the first of its kind. To look back on gasoline as hoof and leaf. A moving eye, scrolling through the weeds. Just another carnivore frozen at the spring. As dirty as heaven, a skeleton key. Verses Omitted By Mistake --Elizabeth Willis Were I invited to draft that flower an unfixed wilder thing would fix upon my palm Those wolves are numbered to a government rifle If Lucy rules the castle of indolence I joy to dream a more fortunate planet Belief in Magic -- Dean Young How could I not? Have seen a man walk up to a piano and both survive. Have turned the exterminator away. Seen lipstick on a wine glass not shatter the wine. Seen rainbows in puddles. Been recognized by stray dogs. I believe reality is approximately 65% if. All rivers are full of sky. Waterfalls are in the mind. We all come from slime. Even alpacas. I believe we’re surrounded by crystals. Not just Alexander Vvedensky. Maybe dysentery, maybe a guard’s bullet did him in. I believe there are many kingdoms left. The Declaration of Independence was written with a feather. A single gem has throbbed in my chest my whole life even though even though this is my second heart.... [via poetry foundation] [ Song of the Wood Thrush ; Charles Burchfield (1950) ] --Michael McClure --Albert Goldbarth En route to the Earth—that's the pure part, that's when the light of the Sun is uncontaminated and in its richest glory. And then it arrives here, and it necessarily dwindles and thins: becomes that leaf, this lake, the dazzle off cars in traffic, my wife asleep in the sheets. Dickens points out that water in which the goldsmiths washed their hands was sold to refiners, having a secondary, yet still impressive, value. [via poetry daily] [Huma Lupa Licious IPA; Short's Brewing Co., Bellaire, MI].............. From the essay by Susan Elizabeth Howe, 'May Swenson's Spiritual Quest': As early as her college years, she told her friend, "religion... seems like redundancy for a poet", implying that the work of the poet somehow overlaps with or is similar to the wold of religion. In "The Poet as Antispecialist" in 1965, Swenson quoted Aldous Huxley: "The world is poetical intrinsically, and what it means is simply itself. Its significance is the enormous mystery of its existence and of our awareness of its existence". She then elaborated further: We or what are we? Why are we? And what are we becoming? What is the relationship between man and the universe? Those are questions that ached in the mind of the first poet. They can be said to have created the first poet, and to be the source of the art of poetry. Does the fact of our consciousness, unique and seemingly miraculous among all of nature's creatures, a priori indicate a superconsciousness shaping and manipulating the cosmos? Beginning Ended -- May Swenson Beginning ended, this is how the end begins. We wake in the other world, sky inside our eyelid. Lens swivelled inward, the sea's volcanic vents leach into the brain. Here is self's jungle ajar. Waterfall that sliced a mountain's loaf in half flattens to a lake. A trickle of gems from a pomegranate's cave is a red bedspread where, black and white, the Swancat floats. A chessboard on an iceflow, slow, swirls by. The King and Queen arrive with retinue. And now, small as pills, balls yellow and blue, chock through white wickets over squares shaved velvet green. The day is perfect. There is only one. It lasts a thousand years. Years are thinnest pages in a book, vast as a continent, heavy, sunk in sand. At sunset, the end began, brain's forest roars up into flame. Cool skull, a moon releases, tumbles onto the marble table of night, rolls over the edge. Slowly as from the center of some diamond You begin to take in the world as it moves In toward you, part of its own burden of thought, rather Idle musing, afternoons listing toward some sullen Unexpected end. Seen from inside all is Abruptness. As though to get out your eye Sharpens and sharpens these particulars; no Longer visible, they breathe in multicolored Parentheses the way love in short periods Puts everything out of focus, coming and going. Thus your only world is an inside one Ironically fashioned out of external phenomena Having no rhyme or reason, and yet neither An existence independent of foreboding and sly grief. Nothing anybody says can make a difference; inversely You are a victim of their lack of consequence Buffeted by invisible winds, or yet a flame yourself Without meaning, yet drawing satisfaction From the crevices of that wind, living In that flame’s idealized shape and duration. -- from 'Fragment'; John Ashbery Because life is short We must remember to keep asking it the same question Until the repeated question and the same silence become answer In words broken open and pressed to the mouth And the last silence reveal the lining Until at last this thing exist separately At all levels of the landscape and in the sky And in the people who timidly inhabit it The locked name for which is open, to dust and to no thoughts Even of dying, the fuzzy first thought that gets started in you and then ........there’s no stopping it. It is so much debris of living, and as such cannot be transmitted Into another, usable substance, but is irreducible From these glares and stony silences and sharp-elbowed protests. But it is your landscape, the proof that you are there, To deal with or be lost in In which the silent changes might occur. -- from 'The New Spirit' ; John Ashbery by vastness beyond ourselves. Dark is light. Stone is rising. I don’t know if humankind understands culture: the act of being human is not easy knowledge. .......................Lean into me. sings in quiet meditation....... I lean upon spins me wordless and silent to the reach of stars and to the heavens within. It’s not humankind after all nor is it culture that limits us. It is the vastness we do not enter. It is the stars we do not let own us. -- from 'Culture and the Universe'; Simon Ortiz [ Man from Warkeika ; Rico Rodriguez (1977) ] Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica and understood to be the only roots reggae album released on Blue Note Records; essential. From a 2011 interview in GuernicaThe Harmonizer ): Kwame Dawes: My quest has been about trying to understand the genius of this musical phenomenon that has somehow effectively taken the world by storm—a music created in the tiny island of Jamaica. This is powerful and I have sought to understand and to allow the principles I have seen in the music to help shape my aesthetic as a writer. Guernica: An entire worldview. Kwame Dawes: In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing—an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there. By reggae-fying those songs, they demonstrate that there is such a thing as a reggae ethos. This is extremely exciting to me. Understanding the reggae aesthetic is essential to successfully enjoy and appreciate my work.... Guernica: You’ve defined the “reggae aesthetic” as engaging the spiritual, political, sensual, historical, and lyrical all at the same time. Kwame Dawes: Yes. This has granted me a certain kind of poetic permission to write work that is all of these things and yet that is grounded in a sense of place and a time. For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae’s capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission. Culture is flux. Flux is culture. Absolute spirit. Heart is the fire caught-up within my bones. Heart is prophecy frothing to the stomp and rattle of the gospeler's Sunday. Heart is the word spoken so deep in the stomach, so jealously protective of my soul. Heart is my eye peering into our collective pasts and, finding that ancient shrine in some broken hut, drawing me. I arrive a stranger. I arrive dead. Sleep never comes easy, for the trees of the mountain sanctuary rustle their hymns, calling me back, calling me back. Flux is culture. Culture is flux. We are changing inside. -- from 'Prophets'; Kwame Dawes [ Lee "Scratch" Perry ] There would be no wailing songs without the madness of Scratch Perry; none of the wild weirdness of Kaya, none of the leap of images, enigmatic mysteries like scripture; none of the miracle of guitars twined each on each, without the man, with his fired brain and fingers of brilliant innovation tweaking the nine-track sound board, teasing out new ways to see heaven. There would be nothing of the crucifixion, no resurrection repeated each time another reggae operator is born, again, again, no revolution without the locust-eating .....prophet. -- from 'Trickster II'; Kwame Dawes An undeniable love for the river drew us away from town and down to the shore; the boat we built there was to carry us into a new existence. This regeneration gave a direction to our lives.... Thus shantyboating has become, for us, a point of view, a way of looking at the world and at life. You take neither of them too seriously, nor do you try to understand their complexities. Who can? It is an obviously illogical philosophy, in which the individual is supreme. The claims made on him by his inner beliefs are above the demands of society. He is not without compassion, but his love is expended on those of his fellow men he is in contact with. With no schemes for universal betterment, he tends his own garden. Is this selfish? No. The selfish man wants more than his share, a higher seat at the table than he is entitled to. One strong enough to stand by himself is not attracted by the prizes which the world offers. He has his own values, receives other rewards, for which there is no competition. Instead of trying to make everyone alike, the state and society should encourage individualism. Individuals will never be too numerous; in fact, they are becoming harder to find. The river shantyboater has passed away, along with the old river; yet a few renegades will always be found, out in the brush somewhere, or on a forgotten bit of river shore, content with an environment the proud would scorn. The shantyboat strain is not likely to be cultivated out of existence, any more than the earth will ever be completely subdued. .........--Harlan Hubbard Earth Your Dancing Place -- May Swenson Beneath heaven’s vault remember always walking through halls of cloud down aisles of sunlight or through high hedges of the green rain walk in the world highheeled with swirl of cape hand at the swordhilt of your pride Keep a tall throat Remain aghast at life Enter each day as upon a stage lighted and waiting for your step Crave upward as flame have keenness in the nostril Give your eyes to agony or rapture Train your hands as birds to be brooding or nimble Move your body as the horses sweeping on slender hooves over crag and prairie with fleeing manes and aloofness of their limbs Take earth for your own large room and the floor of the earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94909	Focus on the Family Working Moms Need to Delegate by Sabrina O'Malone You'll burn out, and the people right along with you. This is way too much for you — you can't do this alone. — EXODUS 18:18 Delegate? "I don't have time to delegate!" "I don't have anyone to delegate to!" "They wouldn't do it right." "I'd have to fight to get them to do it, then I'd have to inspect it once it's done. It's easier to just do it myself." I hear you. I've been there myself. But there's a secret you've probably never been privy to. It goes beyond wishing someone else would lend a hand and complaining if he or she doesn't. It's time for action. You need real solutions to make delegation actually happen. If you have already decided to eliminate extraneous activities, what's left in your life now cannot be eliminated and must be done. But here's the question all moms have to consider: Does it really have to be done by you? If the scripture verse at the beginning of this module resonates deep within you, or if it seems God is specifically talking about your life, then this is for you: You simply can't do it all by yourself, and God doesn't expect you to. It's always tough to delegate, but for a busy working mom, it can seem almost impossible. To use an analogy, being a working mom is very much like juggling. Learning to juggle takes practice, and it's especially stressful if the items you juggle are valuable and fragile. It's hard to juggle three things, harder still to juggle four. Difficulty and stress increase with each addition. Ultimately, even the best jugglers will drop a ball. This is precisely what every working mom wishes to avoid while trying to keep up with schedules, relationships, work demands and running a household. When you're juggling so many things, just trying to stop so you can reduce the number increases the risk of dropping something. This is the inherent risk in deciding whether and how to delegate. Believe me, I know you can't afford to let anything drop. However, you should be aware of the flip side to managing everything yourself. Sooner or later, your body will give out. Then you may be unable to do anything for weeks or months. The tension from maintaining a high-stress lifestyle may show up as frequent headaches, muscle tightness or a constantly churning stomach. Constant stress leads to anxiety, and in the worst-case scenario, panic attacks. Take it from me — one way or another your body and mind will not allow you to keep up more than you can bear. Fortunately, there is hope — even for the tough case of a single working mom with young children and limited finances. The key is delegation. Every working mom can successfully delegate some of her responsibilities. If you're uncomfortable or out of practice, start out small and delegate more as you see how well things are working. There are benefits to everyone (including you) when you delegate your workload appropriately. Find Creative Solutions Deanna, a former work-outside-the-home mom of four, shared an innovative solution with me. When she was a working mom, the most difficult part of the day was getting dinner ready. She suspected other working moms might have the same problem. After she became a stay-at-home-mom, she called a few of her friends and asked if they would like her to make extra portions of what she planned to cook for dinner. Deanna began putting an entire meal in disposable containers and leaving it at the doorstep of her working friends' houses in exchange for a portion of their families' grocery/takeout budgets. Since Deanna buys in bulk now, the food costs are lower, and she can pocket the extra cash. Remember, it's not extra work for Deanna because it's what she's cooking for her family anyway. Now a few working moms get to come home to an inexpensive, hot, home-cooked meal! If any of your friends are stay-at-home moms, find out if they would be willing to give this a try one or two days a week. Just imagine coming home after a hard day's work to be greeted by the smell of an already prepared dinner. Now that's a blessing! Share the Workload With Your Husband Remember, nagging will not motivatate your husband to help out more. by Sabrina O'Malone The question always arises concerning the household workload and what "he" ought to do versus what "she" does. I'll share with you three bits of advice I received from my mother on my wedding day: "First, lower your expectations, Sabrina." "Second, laugh at his jokes." "Third, remember that a marriage requires 100 percent flexibility — and 90 percent of the flexing comes from the wife." The last piece of advice sounded downright silly and old-fashioned to me. I thought to myself, Maybe in your generation, Mom, but we're going to have a 50-50 marriage. Like most newlyweds, I found out that my expectations of marriage and the reality were two different things. My husband, Dan, later explained to me why he thinks my mom was right. Few things in marriage cause more sadness and heartbreak than unmet expectations. Generally speaking, it's more pleasant to have your expectations exceeded than to experience the disappointment of being let down. Lowering our expectations gives us a chance to be pleasantly surprised when someone exceeds them. Next, when you laugh at someone's jokes, it is the most sincere form of applause. It opens the door to a great deal of joy. As the Bible says, "A cheerful heart is good medicine" (Proverbs 17:22, NIV). Lastly, it's easy to recognize when you accommodate, or flex, for your spouse. It's never as clear when someone else is flexing for you. Even if a 50-50 partnership were possible in marriage, you would always be more aware of your effort than his. Always. I suggest that you be very careful and prayerful about delegating to your husband. The temptation to go on the "must-be-nice-to-live-like-you-do" bandwagon is nearly impossible to resist. And this bandwagon is ultimately counterproductive. Believe me, I've tried it. You probably work as hard as he does. You may even do more than the majority of women you know. But expecting him to be an assistant homemaker will almost certainly lead to disappointment. Try to remember, most men today contribute more around the house than their own fathers did. And if you keep a running mental tally of your tasks versus his, it will not lead to a harmonious family life. It just won't. I've tried that too. Throw Away the Scorecard You'll be better off if you resist the temptation to compare your workloads. The Bible calls this keeping "score of the sins of others" in 1 Corinthians 13:5. You have a choice: Is it more important to prove yourself "right" or to have peace and harmony in your home? When you need affirmation, appreciation and understanding for all you do and you don't have a husband who'll give it to you, go to the Lord and your girlfriends! Look at the concordance in the back of your Bible for passages about God's love for you and read them. Then go to your prayer partners and mentors for a little hands-on encouragement. It will be a lot easier to tear up your scorecard when you are filled with God's love. Practically speaking, what's an overstressed, overburdened working mom to do? I'll tell you what I did. First, I prayed about my situation frequently. Next, I resolved to pay closer attention to Dan's strengths and look for ways he could contribute toward managing our family in a manner that would naturally suit his personality and talents. "Lord, show me how we can both use our strengths," I prayed. God was quick to show me the way. Big Dan is a playful guy, and he loves to spend time horsing around with the kids. Whenever he gave the kids their baths, they had a great time and got clean, but the watery, soapy mess they left behind was simply something else for me to clean up (or nag about). My own style of "Wet down, soap up, rinse off!" was efficient, quick and neat, but certainly not fun. So we compromised for efficiency and fun. I happen to be one of those people who is always in a hurry, and I naturally move at a fast pace. Nowadays, after dinner I usher the kids through their routine: military-style baths, pajamas and tooth-brushing. When they're finished, Daddy swoops in like a breath of fresh air. My husband now puts the kids to bed at night. The kids play, read stories, recount their day and say bedtime prayers with him. I make my exit and am free to do whatever needs to be done around the house, have some time to myself or just retire early. There are times when the whole bedtime ordeal takes them two full hours after I leave. But after studying my husband's strengths, I observed how long, drawn-out processes don't upset him like they do me. This is a great method to utilize our respective strengths to the benefit of our entire family. Another area where Dan has talents to contribute to the family is grocery shopping. I noticed that he takes a lot of pride in finding bargains at the store. On the occasions when he goes shopping alone, he proudly displays the receipts showing the percentage he saved using his shopper's card, scouting out sales or buying in bulk. So I should just let him take over the task of grocery shopping, right? Is it really so simple? Not remotely! I came up against the hurdle most of us encounter when delegating important tasks: Sometimes we have differing definitions of how to do a task. Let me explain. I used the typical mommy-style grocery shopping method called "Walking-down-the-aisles-and-spotting-what-we-need-as-I-go-along." I certainly couldn't expect Dan to do that. When I tried to write out a list for him, I found myself mentally exhausted trying to remember everything, and it took almost as much time to make the list as it would have to go grocery shopping! It seemed like the pros of delegating the grocery shopping equaled the cons. This quandary led me to create a grocery list that would take the guesswork and aggravation out of the process. I call it the Working Mom™ Fast-Fax Grocery List. It's a fast, thorough, one-page list that can be e-mailed or faxed. There's a free, easy-to-print blank form on our Web site, Simply put a checkmark next to what you need, print it out and in less than three minutes you have a foolproof list. But suppose your husband doesn't have any grocery shopping talents. Or perhaps you're a single mom. In some areas, grocery stores are now starting to deliver, and they'll do the shopping for you! All you need to do is fill out their form, select the items you need, and the store will now shop for, bag and deliver the groceries all the way to your kitchen at the time you choose. This option is frequently available at no extra charge, and some stores even give a $10 credit off your first home delivery! There's no downside to having your groceries delivered because any item you don't think is fresh enough or doesn't meet your approval can typically be returned for a full refund. A working mom simply cannot lose if there's a grocery store in your area that delivers. Try it; you'll like it. A Final Word About Husbands Every couple's needs and inclinations are different, but again, it's better to look for each partner's natural talents and preferences and make some compromises. Maybe your husband loves to grill. Ask him if he'll cook dinner on a specific night (or two) a week. Maybe he wouldn't mind folding the laundry while he watches the news. The point is to creatively and prayerfully think through the delegation question. Remember, nagging will not induce your husband to help out more, but it is guaranteed to add stress to your home life. Many couples enter into marriage with false or unrealistic expectations. Some believe that marriage will solve their problems. Some to not understand that strong and growing marriages are a result of hard work. This article has been provided because of the generosity of donors like you. Give Chores to Your Kids Assign housework to your kids; they'll learn responsibility, and it'll lighten your load. by Sabrina O'Malone Some working moms feel that because they are away from their kids so many hours during the day, they don't want their precious time together to be spent fighting about chores. Consequently, very little is expected of the children with respect to pitching in around the house. Anna, one of my mentors, set me straight about kids and chores with the following advice: "You've got to remember you're raising future adults, and childhood is when they learn responsibility. When you have 'your reasons' for not setting and enforcing realistic expectations, the kids will grow up to be poorly equipped to meet their own families' expectations in the future. It would be a disservice to their future spouses and children." Put simply, all kids (even the kids of working moms) should be required to do unpaid work around the house regularly. It's for their good, and it's for your good! At the risk of stating the obvious, once they're able to walk and talk, every child can pitch in. Even a two-year-old can be taught to put away toys. Three- and four-year-olds can be taught to fold washcloths and dish-towels. Once they have learned their colors, they can easily sort laundry into dark colors, light colors and whites. As kids get older, they have the ability to handle more work around the house. The first step in assigning household tasks is to know what they are capable of. If you are unsure what chores your kids can reasonably handle, the Working Mom™ Household Job Chart delineates typical household chores children can do at various ages. You'll find a free, easy-to-print version This leads to the recurring question: "How on earth will I get them to do it?" There are multiple answers to this dilemma. To a great extent, your success will depend upon the relationship you have with your children, their personalities and your personality. Let me make a suggestion: Remember to answer the WIIFM question. (What's In It For Me?) Back when my brother and I were young children, the WIIFM was usually that we could avoid a spanking, lecture and/or being grounded if we complied. For my brother, that was usually enough motivation to elicit his compliance. For me, those methods induced a sense of trepidation as I consciously chose to disobey despite the warning. There are no quick and easy, one-size-fits-all formulas for getting every child to do what he's told. However, a consequence coupled with an incentive substantially increases the likelihood of compliance in almost every managerial situation, including motherhood. Going back to my own situation, when I was growing up, my parents discovered they could gain remarkable compliance from their headstrong daughter when they used car privileges as an incentive. "Sabrina, I'll let you take my car out to get some ice cream if you can finish cleaning up before dark." This really motivated me. But my parents used more than just incentives. One of their often used consequences hit me where it hurt me the most: "If this room is not cleaned up by the time I get home from work, I'm unplugging your telephone, and you won't get it back until I'm ready for you to have it!" For a very social child, this served as the hammer of punishments, the one I sought to avoid with all of my being. However, those same tactics were completely ineffective when used on my brother. His personality is different from mine, and he fairly shrugged at either gaining car privileges or losing his telephone. But he couldn't do without his video games; thus, the loss of those served as the hammer of all consequences for him. He could be motivated by the promise of getting new basketball cards. Each child is different. Study your children carefully and it will become clear how to best motivate, as well as how to administer the most effective consequences. What If They Get Mad at Me for This? Some mothers describe their still-at-home children as their best friends. On the surface, this sounds idyllic, but these mothers are at a serious disadvantage in disciplinary situations. Every time discipline or correction is called for, such a mom runs the risk of losing her best friend. This creates a situation no child is mature enough to handle. For a best friend, look to your prayer partners and mentors. You will find a frequent need for them. How to Get Things Done With Teens Here are tips on connecting with teens and getting them to pitch in. by Sabrina O'Malone What about when the kids get older? What if you have teenagers or preteens right now, and can't imagine battling over chores when it's so hard just keeping the peace? Kimberly Chastain, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, is the author of Help! My Pre-Teen/Teenager Is Driving Me Nuts (an e-book available at Kimberly shares the following 15 survival tips for parenting preteens and teens: 1. Your children are on an emotional roller coaster due to hormonal changes and mood swings. You do not have to ride the roller coaster with them. Don't allow your child's mood to affect yours. Acknowledge their emotions, but avoid taking on their mood. 2. Develop a thick skin. Adolescents often say mean and hateful things. Although it's unacceptable, it does happen. When kids are preparing to break away, it can be quite messy as they try to push their parents away with words. It still hurts, but don't take it to heart. 3. Set clear limits. It's tempting to give in rather than stand firm. (Adolescents are great at arguing.) But this age group still needs boundaries and limits. No one else is going to meet that need but you. 4. Do not engage in a long discussion after you have already given your decision. All teenagers are attorneys-in-training and will argue a point to its death. They hope if they bug you long enough you will give in. Inform them it's the end of the discussion and walk away. 5. When you find yourself raising your voice, take a time-out. Someone has to be the adult . . . you! All too often, parents end up acting like teenagers themselves. Even if they push your buttons, remember, someone has to remain calm. Instead, try lowering your voice whenever your teenager raises his or hers. 6. Have your own support group. When kids are little, parents share everything with their friends. Once they become teenagers, parents don't share as much. Talk to other parents and find out what "everyone else" is doing. Decide to establish a group curfew, keeping everyone on the same page. There is strength in numbers. (Just look at the teenagers!) 7. Enlist other adults who share your values to talk to your children. As hard as it is to admit, often teenagers will talk to anyone except their parents. Sometimes it helps to have another adult to confide in whose advice you trust. 8. Take each and every opportunity to listen when they want to talk. This may not happen very often, so it's important that you drop everything to listen. It may happen late at night. If your child finally decides to open up with you, then you need to be all ears. Remember, God gave you two ears and one mouth. That means you should be listening twice as much as you speak. 9. Choose your battles. Are you on your child's case every day about something? At some point, let it go. Don't be a permanent nag. The big battles are: drugs, alcohol and sex. Since kids listen to a limited amount of what parents have to say, better that they hear the important messages, not just that their rooms are a mess. When tempted to nag, ask yourself "Will this matter 10 years from now?" 10. Use captive moments in the car to talk. It seems teenagers do their best talking when they don't have to make eye contact. And in the car they can't run away. Some of your best conversations can take place while driving to the next activity. 11. Get to know their friends and be willing to allow them to come to your home. You'll know what's going on better than if they were at someone else's house. Often, your teen's friends will tell you things about your child you didn't know. It helps to keep you informed. 12. Find the actions and behaviors your child is doing well and tell him. Look for opportunities to praise your child. Call attention to his admirable personality characteristics. Even a headstrong, stubborn child has a positive aspect. Determination, persistence, and a stick-to-it mentality will benefit him later in life. His ability to persevere is admirable. 13. Be prepared to admit when you're wrong and ask your children for forgiveness. After all, it's what you expect from them. You will gain a great deal of respect from your teenager by admitting when you are wrong. All too often, teenagers tell me their parents have never asked them for forgiveness because the parents have not once admitted they were wrong. 14. Teenagers want to spend time with their parents, but will rarely admit it or ask to do it. Make sure they are on your to-do list, especially when things have been difficult. They need reminders that they are a priority in your life. 15. Remember the famous saying, "This too shall pass." Sometimes a parent needs to just hang on until they get through a difficult time. It will get better. I know there are times when it doesn't seem possible. But this too shall pass. Remember when your children were babies and it seemed they would never get out of diapers? Consider Hiring Professional Help You might need to bring in a cleaning service or housekeeper from time to time. by Sabrina O'Malone Delegating on the Job Don't go to your supervisor unless your solution has a strong benefit for the company. by Sabrina O'Malone Finding Solutions Superwoman Doesn't Exist by Sabrina O'Malone Questions to Ask Yourself Next Steps and Related Information Additional resources for mothers with jobs outside the home Popular questions on this topic:
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94917	4 Shockingly Popular British Dishes Apr 4, 2012 5:01 pm Mushy and kidney are good words to keep in mind mushy peas Photo: Robert Couse-Baker on Flickr Are these peas mushy enough for you? As I pointed out to a friend at last night's A Taste Of London party, the notion that British food sucks is totally outdated. Rather, our friends across the pond uphold some very high standards when it comes to food— as I told him with a mouth full of fried fish on a potato chip. Haute cuisine and food trends exist there too. For example, we just interviewed the wildly ambitious Young Turks. That said, some habits die hard, and, occasionally, not at all. Here are four surprisingly popular British foods that aren't going anywhere. 1. Mushy Peas An accompanyment to everything from fish and chips to roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, the Brits don't stop cooking their peas when they're done. They just keep right on going until they're staring into a pot of...well, mushy peas. Unseasoned, lacking any textural distinction and not terribly rich in nutrients, mushy peas live on in green glory beside most other quintessentially British food. 2. Steak and Kidney Pie We don't really have an equivalent to this comfort food classic. Once you develop a taste for this dish there really is no going back. Among the most-loved of the meat pies, the old steak 'n kidney is a rich and unctuous yet incredibly flavorful way to get to know your offal. Goes nicely with mushy peas, too. 3. Deviled Kidneys Now that you like kidneys and respect the British practice of serving things on toast, it's time for England's favorite internal organ to really shine. A savory delight served for breakfast, like kedgeree, deviled kidneys are cooked in a tangy mixture of Worcestershire, mushroom ketchup, sherry and butter. What would discourage anyone from eating something cooked in a sauce like that? 4. Laverbread Welsh, like rarebit, laverbread is seaweed boiled and ground down to a paste. So...not bread. Unless it's rolled in oats and fried, then it's somewhat like bread. Also known as "Welshman's caviar." Extremely high in nutrients, eating laverbread will certainly make up for all the mushy peas you filled up on. © 2013 Food Republic. All rights reserved.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94918	Toll Free 1-877-877-5655 Se habla español 877-877-5491 How to Make a Sushi Roll in 10 Easy Steps How to Make a Sushi Roll in 10 Easy Steps Sushi rolls, known as “makizushi” in Japanese, are becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. For chefs that are not experienced with makizushi but would like to try their hand at making it, this guide to how to roll sushi will walk you through the step-by-step process of making your sushi rolls, from making the sushi rice to cutting the rolls when they are finished. Most of the sushi rolls found at a sushi bar will be either a futomaki roll, a hosomaki roll or a uramaki roll. In both futomaki and hosomaki, the sushi rice and fillings are wrapped in an outer layer of dried seaweed called “nori”. In an uramaki roll, sushi fillings and seaweed are wrapped in an outer layer of sushi rice. You will need: • Sushi mat • Rice paddle • Santoku knife, sharpened • Nori sheets • Sushi rice • Sushi filling of your choice • Leftover tezu from making sushi rice • Wasabi (optional) • Sesame seeds (optional) Making Futomaki or Hosomaki Futomaki and hosomaki are the most common forms of sushi roll. In futomaki, sushi rice and several fillings are wrapped in an outer layer of seaweed. In hosomaki, there is usually only one filling wrapped in the seaweed. It is just a thin version of a futomaki. The same process is used for making these two types of maki rolls. 1. Prepare sushi rice. Make at least one cup of cooked sushi rice. It must have the proper flavor and texture to be suitable for making sushi rolls. »How to Make Perfect Sushi Rice 2. Position sushi mat. Bamboo rolling mats are the best, as the bamboo will absorb any excess moisture that might be released when the sushi is tightened into a roll. Your sushi rolling mat should be placed so that the lines of bamboo run across horizontally. If you place them so they run vertically, you will not be able to roll it. You can lay a piece of plastic wrap on the surface of the mat if you want to protect it. 3. Lay nori across sushi mat. Take a rectangular sheet of nori – dried seaweed – and lay it across your sushi rolling mat with the rough side facing up. The nori should not be too big. Usually you will have to cut the pre-packaged nori in half to get the proper size, although some nori has perforations so you can break it with your hands. 4. Moisten your fingers. Using the tezu* – the mixture of water, vinegar and salt you made for your sushi rice, wet your fingers. This will prevent them from sticking to the rice. However, keep a towel nearby and make sure that your hands are dry whenever you touch the nori, or it will stick. 5. Transfer rice to mat. Take about a cup of rice into your hands and gently form it into a firm ball. The rice ball should fit nicely when cupped in your palm– it should be about the size of a tennis ball. Place the ball on the middle of the nori sheet. As an alternative, you can instead use a rice paddle to transfer the rice to the mat. 6. Spread rice evenly. Use your fingers to spread the rice gently and evenly over the nori. The more even it is, the rounder and more perfect the shape of your final sushi roll. Leave about ½ to 1 inch of space at the top of the nori. You will use this extra nori for sealing the sushi roll. Once it is spread out, the rice should be about ¼ inch thick. If you have too much rice, remove some. 7. Add a line of wasabi (optional). If desired, use your finger to spread a small amount of wasabi in a straight line horizontally across the bottom of the sheet of nori, on top of the rice. Use it sparingly if it all. 8. Spread filling in a line. Spread the filling of your choice horizontally in a line across the sushi rice. The line of filling should run across the bottom of the nori. This will ensure that it is also centered in the middle of the final sushi roll. If you have more than one filling, it can be spread in a new line, side-by-side with the other fillings, or on top of them. 9. Roll the mat. Take your mat, and roll upward toward the top of the mat. Push gently forward until a cylinder is formed. Use your fingertips to tuck the nori under to create the roll, but do not roll the sushi mat under as you press. Instead, lift the mat to allow it to move forward as you roll. Once the cylinder is complete, roll it back and forth inside the mat to tighten it and seal it. 10. Cut the roll. Take the sushi roll out of the mat and place it on a cutting board. Using your leftover tezu, wet your santoku knife and use it to cut the roll into six to eight even pieces. Make sure the santoku knife has been sharpened recently. If it is too dull, it will smash the roll as you try to cut into it. Making Uramaki Uramaki is a type of sushi roll where the dried seaweed is wrapped around the filling and the outside of the roll is surrounded with rice and even sesame seeds, if desired. In the United States, the most popular example is the California roll, most of which are made uramaki-style. 1. Repeat steps for futomaki. Go through steps one through six as if you were making futomaki, except you do not necessarily need the sushi mat until you roll it. You should end with a sheet of nori covered evenly with rice. If desired, sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the layer of rice. 2. Flip it over. Flip over your sheet of nori and rice so that the layer of rice is on the bottom making contact with the mat. If it is the right texture for sushi, the rice should stick to the nori as you flip it. 3. Add the fillings. Add your sushi roll fillings in a straight line on top of the nori, about one inch from the bottom of the sheet of nori. As with futomaki, the fillings should be added side by side, not on top of each other. 4. Roll it up. Use your hands, moist with tezu, to gently lift up the nori and rice and roll the sushi into a cylinder. The two edges of the roll should touch in order to seal the sushi inside. Then use the bamboo mat to roll the sushi back and forth. This will tighten the sushi roll and seal the ingredients inside. It will also create a rounder cylinder and ensure that the rice is flat and even on the outside. 5. Cut the roll. Take the roll out of the mat and put it on a cutting board. Use your leftover tezu to moisten your santoku knife. As long as the santoku knife is extra sharp and moist, you should be able to cut through your uramaki roll without crushing the cylinder and without rice sticking to the knife. Making Uramaki: Step 3 Making Uramaki: Step 8 Making Uramaki: Step 5 Making Uramaki: Step 7 Making Uramaki: Step 9 Making Uramaki: Step 9 A finished uramaki roll sprinkled with caviar Making Uramaki: Step 10 Related Articles
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/94920	This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades At The Motley Fool, we poke plenty of fun at Wall Street analysts and their endless cycle of upgrades, downgrades, and "initiating coverage at neutral." While the pinstripe-and-wingtip crowd is entitled to its opinions, down here on Main Street, we've got some pretty sharp stock-pickers, too. (And we're not always impressed with how Wall Street does its job.) Today, American depositary receipts of France Telecom (NYSE: FTE ) are soaring on a rare upgrade. Enough is enough The French telecom giant, which also runs the multinational Orange brand of mobile networks, has seen share prices fall 33% over the last year (or 24% with dividends reinvested). But the Germans, of all unlikely allies, have had enough. Deutsche Bank slapped a "sell" tag on the stock back in January due to growing competition from low-cost providers like Iliad-owned Free Mobile. But the worst is over now, says Deutsche's analysts. With an earnings report due on July 26, all signs point to the business stabilizing. Operating cash flows should firm up after spending the last few reports in free fall, and though Deutsche will keep a close eye on France Telecom's forward guidance, the firm doesn't expect any major surprises. (But then, who ever expects a surprise?) And the bottom line is simple: "We see no reason to materially change our target price which is broadly in line with current trading levels." In other words, Deutsche set its $12.20 target price in January, and the market has adjusted to fit the firm's version of reality. Grading the graders If I sound snarky, it's because Deutsche Bank doesn't exactly have a stellar record in the telecom sector. The firm currently gets six of 15 picks right in our CAPS system, combining the picks from wireless telecom services and the broader diversified telecommunications sectors. Deutsche Bank gets credit for picking some unorthodox winners and holding them for the long term, but the payoff in traditional telecom services is a mixed bag. Here's a sample of its most successful and least successful picks: Deutsche Bank's Pick CAPS Rating (out of 5) Deutsche Bank Beats/(Trails) S&P 500 by SBA Communications (Nasdaq: SBAC ) American Tower (NYSE: AMT ) AT&T (NYSE: T ) Telefonica (NYSE: TEF ) Source: Motley Fool CAPS. In Deutsche's defense, you could say the firm often bets on beaten-down and unpopular stocks across the telecom industry. Telefonica scores huge points with CAPS investors, even in the face of weak returns. The opposite is true for SBA, which get a thumbs-up rating from a dismal 63% of CAPS players but has crushed the market in the long term anyway. For some perspective, American Tower and Telefonica both carry approval ratings north of 90%. But the more likely explanation for Deutsche's rating is that its analysts understand the back end of this industry, while the actual networks remain a mystery. Flipping a coin on each of the firm's network recommendations could produce better results than the actual analyst research. And France Telecom falls firmly on the network side of that fence. So while it's kind of cool for a France Telecom investor like myself to see the stock getting some Street cred, I'm not terribly impressed by this particular firm ditching its "sell" rating. The Foolish perspective From my point of view, the drawn-out price pressure more than reflects the competitive strain from Orange's new competition. The company is busy expanding into the next generation of BRIC-style territories like the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. Patient investors who pick up shares here should see strong long-term returns as that investment pays off in coming years. And hey, those DRIP reinvestments pay off faster when share prices are low -- the yield today is an eye-popping 13%, after all. France Telecom is a dividend dynamo, though I'll admit that the stock comes with some risks. For safer income-generating investment ideas, take a look at our brand-new report: "The 3 Dow Stocks Dividend Investors Need." The report is totally free, but only for a limited time, so grab your copy today. Fool contributor Anders Bylund owns shares in France Telecom but holds no other position in any other companies mentioned. Check out Anders' holdings and bio, or follow him on Twitter and Google+. The Motley Fool owns shares of France Telecom. Motley Fool newsletter services have recommended buying shares of American Tower and France Telecom. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. We Fools may not all hold the same opinion, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. Comments from our Foolish Readers Be the first one to comment on this article. DocumentId: 1943301, ~/Articles/ArticleHandler.aspx, 7/29/2014 8:11:51 PM Report This Comment Sending report...
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95063	The pyrheliometer is a broadband instrument that measures the direct(or beam) component of solar radiation at normal incidence. This means the instrument is always aimed directly at the sun, via a tracking mechanism that continuously follows the sun. It is sensitive to wavelengths in the band from 280 to 3000 nm. solar pyrheliometer Solar irradiance enters the instrument through a sealed crystal-quartz window and the sunlight is directed onto a thermopile which converts heat to an electrical signal that can be recorded. A calibration factor is applied when converting the millivolt signal to an equivalent radiant energy flux, measured in watts per square meter. This sort of information is used to build up Insolation maps. Insolation (from Incoming Solar radiation) is a measure of solar energy received on a given surface area in a given time, and as seen in the map below, varies around the Globe. Knowing what the insolation factor is for a particular region is useful when setting up solar panels. When readings are compared over time they also contribute to our understanding of climatic changes. Solar Insolation Map
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95140	Harper Collins Logo Discover Author Nicholas Rinaldi Nicholas Rinaldi is the author of two previous novels, The Jukebox Queen of Malta and Bridge Fall Down, and three collections of poetry. His stories and poems have appeared widely in literary journals here and abroad. He teaches literature and creative writing at Fairfield University, and lives in Connecticut with his wife, Jackie. Works by Nicholas Rinaldi • between-two-rivers
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95147	From [email protected] Thu Aug 10 07:00:09 2006 Thread-Topic: Ebb Tide—Social Science History Subject: Ebb Tide—Social Science History From: Tom Verso <> Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:36:05 -0400 Subject: Ebb Tide—Social Science History Ebb Tide—Social Science History Toynbee observed: “[by the eighteenth-century, prevailing Western philosophy had] partitioned the Universe into [1] an orderly province of non-human affairs in which ‘the laws of Nature’ [prevailed and were knowable; e.g. Newton's Laws] and [2] a chaotic province of human history which was dogmatically declared to be [without knowable laws].” Historians (generally) accepted this philosophy refusing to consider even the possibility of knowable scientific lawful human behavior. However, many students of human behavior did not concur with the historian's world view. For example, Adam Smith's ‘The Wealth of Nations' in 1776 was predicated on the assumption that human economic behavior in the aggregate (societies) was governed by knowable laws and the science of economics was born. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries other social sciences (anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science) predicated on similar ontological and epistemological assumptions were born and developed. Meanwhile, Toynbee notes, “as each new social science encroached on the traditional domain of history…nineteenth and twentieth-century Western historians still cling to the eighteenth-century philosophy tenet that [social history was not lawful].” It seems to me: by refusing to accept even the possibility of social laws, generalizations or even classifications, historians (generally) have ceded the most significant social behaviors (e.g. economic, political, demographic, etc.) to the social sciences. In turn, they redefined the essence of their craft as narrative writing placing great emphasis on the unique (individuals and events) and writing style. They held, for example, that knowledge of statistical means and medians was not necessary for historians to know; but, the difference between the active and passive voice was essential. However, what Toynbee could not appreciate, writing the above in the mid twenty-century, was the seemingly insignificant ripples developing in some universities that by the 1960's would turn into an historograhic title wave. Benson, Hays, Bogue, Aydelotte, Fogel, Kousser, etc, burst onto the historiographic scene, seeking to meld history with the social sciences and giving rise to the Social Science History movement. The documents of the period clearly indicate the profound effect they had on, if nothing else, American historiography. Narrative historians, clearly on the defensive and “aroused from their dogmatic slumber” (Kant), engaged in spirited debates about the nature of the “historian's craft” (Bloch). For a time it seemed that social science historians would revolutionize historiography and take back the many areas cede to the social scientist over the previous 200 years. The movement consolidated: an association was formed (, a journal published, conferences held, and Robert Fogel won a noble prized for his work in economic history. However, their success proved to be ephemeral. Documents clearly indicate that by the 1990's the Social Science History tide had ebbed. The narrative prevailed as the principle historiographic model and scientific minded history students could once again be seen “sleeping before the chairs of virtue” (Nietzsche). For example, in 1999 the Social Science History Association dedicated an issue of its journal to answering the question: “What is Social Science History?” In it, Paula Baker wrote: “…the never especially clear relationship between the social sciences and history has grown even more muddy…The question, then, is what kinds of work fall under the heading ‘social science history.’ Answers…go to the meaning of ‘science’ and ‘social science’.” Significantly, Ms. Baker did not think the “meaning of history” had anything to do with answering the question “What is Social Science History.” To my mind, therein lies the problem. Nowhere in that journal is there any indication that scientific minded historians need to recognize what Toynbee saw, and revisit history's eighteenth-century metaphysical assumptions about the nature of social reality and what constitutes knowledge of that reality. History cannot be made scientific by simply hitching a ride on the social science train. Ultimately history is the queen of the social sciences; for, without history there can be no social science. But, without philosophy, history is just a story. Toynbee “Study of History” vol. 9 pp. 182-194; “Social Science History” 23:4 (winter 1999)
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95149	Rémy Oudompheng remyoudompheng at gmail.com Fri Oct 22 10:11:38 EDT 2010 On 2010/10/22 Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote: > As you can see, these links refer to the Hackage database, which is > supposed to be copied into the src/ directory as well. The make target > - generates a PKGBUILD for every Cabal package, Remember that except for dependency management you can use manycabal2arch for this kind of task. > - compile the package, and Due to variations in makepkg.conf, the packages generated by makepkg may end up in a different directory. I suggest you mention what you are expecting to find in makepkg.conf to make it work. In addition, you may want to build packages in a chroot, because we need to check whether external dependencies (C libraries) are correctly encoded in > - and registers the package in the Pacman database. > Now, the GNUmakefile needs to map package names from Cabal to ArchLinux. > Currently, this is accomplished using a hard-coded list. For example, > hledger needs the following variable assignment > hledger_name = hledger This name can be obtained by the following Haskell function: archname :: GenericPackageDescription -> IO String archname cabal = do sysProvides <- getDefaultSystemProvides case preprocess cabal sysProvides of Nothing -> return "" Just pkg -> arch_pkgname $ fst $ cabal2pkg pkg sysProvides > to tell make that this package deviates from the normal "haskell-NAME" > scheme. Obviously, this list ought to be generated automatically from > the information contained in the haskell-Ashlin's library, but I > haven't yet automated the task. > Furthermore, make needs dependency information about the packages. This > $(network_tarball) : $(parsec_tarball) > $(HTTP_tarball) : $(network_tarball) > $(texmath_tarball) : $(xml_tarball) $(parsec_tarball) > Maintaining that information manually is out of question, IMHO, and we > really ought to generate that information from the Cabal files. I'm not > yet sure how to do it, though. This is mainly why I chose shell scripts over Makefiles for my own system. Dependency checks should not necessarily be done according to the modification time of file, but according to the pkgrel (which should be bumped when necessary). I would personally add a "make depend" rule that runs an external (Haskell or shell) program that generates the needed info in a separate file depends.mk. It is not necessary that depends.mk uses the Cabal names, since everything will be expanded anyway. So you could use something like #This is makedepends.sh for pkg in * source $pkg/PKGBUILD echo -n "\$(${pkg}_tarball):" for dep in $depends[@] $makedepends[@] [ -d "$dep" ] && echo -n " \$(${dep}_tarball)" More information about the arch-haskell mailing list
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95197	About Jesus and Our Faith in Him A website is a great place to talk about our church, its community and it programs. But we are not ashamed to tell you the real reason this website is here: Jesus Christ — who is the One for whom this and all Christian churches and communities exist. We want everyone to know some things about Jesus that many web sites and many churches neglect to say: Jesus is God’s gift to humanity. The Holy Scriptures reassure us that Jesus came into this world for one purpose – to give his life for our sake – and to call us to come home to God, whom he vividly portrayed as our heavenly Father. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not be lost but have eternal life." —John 3:16 This congregation is an open, affirming, welcoming, reconciling church, not because of liberal tendencies and wishy-washy beliefs, but because Jesus was open, affirming, welcoming and reconciling in his life and ministry. He, too, was criticized for not being strict enough, or religious enough, or pure enough. In every case, he brushed aside that criticism because it misses the point. We proclaim and teach God’s grace, for Jesus’ sake. Yes, there are many strict, dour and condemning words found in the Bible. But we are convinced by the Gospel (which means “Good News”) that God’s most important message in those inspired and ancient pages is the message of unconditional love and grace. God’s Word for us is always an invitation, not an ultimatum. Jesus is God's Word in the flesh, the one who came to seek those who are lost, not to condemn them. For nearly 500 years Lutheran Christians have taught this based on the clear testimony of the Scriptures: that we and all human beings are justified in God’s sight, not because of our good deeds or best intentions, but because of God’s grace which we receive simply through faith in Jesus. No one earns God’s love. No one’s strict behavior or most diligent abstinence impresses God. We read and study the Bible, so we know about God’s wrath-- repeated over and over in the law and the prophets. But, for Jesus’ sake, we do not need to run from God. Jesus encourages us to draw near to God's "throne of grace." We do not need to live in shame or fear of eternal damnation. One word often paired with “wrath” is “saved.” Christians like to talk about being saved from God’s wrath! Some Christians like to rely on good deeds (like silver stars pasted on a chart in heaven) to save them from wrath. They claim their good works like achievements, and so look down on others as under-achievers! But we know that the whole world was saved from God’s wrath by one single event: when Jesus gave his life for all upon the cross. He put a “stop” to the wrath, the suffering, the threat of eternal punishment, and the folly of religious “good works” with his own blood. Our blood and tears mean nothing, because his blood and tears were everything. So the full and true Gospel of Jesus is one of grace, not of condemnation. We claim the unconditional love of God, and try to live in a manner which is appropriate as God’s beloved people. We know it is not necessary to spend our whole lifetime worrying about whether God loves us, for Jesus clearly said so. The message of grace is this: if we humbly recognize that we have wandered away from God’s love (and yes, every human being has sinned in ways which are big and small), all we need to do is to wake up to this: God still loves us; God has not abandoned us; God is seeking us, and wants us to come home. In this waking, seeking, returning and coming home, God's grace awaits us in full measure. All is forgiven, because of the Cross of Jesus Christ. God hates no one! The love of God is not cancelled or erased because of human foolishness, excesses or willful errors. The church of Jesus Christ is a community of recovering sinners – we are not “saints” in the sense of "perfect people." We are just those who know our need of grace, and have found the One whom God sent to announce love, reconciliation and peace to our world. How do you imagine Jesus? Although every artist for thousands of years have portrayed him, there are no photographs of Jesus. Every disciple, mystic, saint and believer has used his or her imagination. Yet through the testimony of many Christians—beginning with the letters and narrative stories in the New Testament itself—we have an enduring portrait of this amazing person. Jesus forgave, healed, taught, served, embraced, wept and bled for others. Even more important than how we see Jesus is how he sees us! He saw the world upside down from the way people usually see it, with the hungry well fed, and the poor and oppressed being liberated. He didn't condemn those whose excesses and errors caused them shame. He stood between an adulteress and her executioners. He pleaded with his followers to show mercy, to provide for the least important people, and to forgive everyone—even hundreds of times—and to do greater things than he was doing. In his last hour, he forgave those whose “duty” was to put him to death. So, if Jesus is so gracious, loving, non-judgmental and accepting --- whom the Scriptures tell us is the very image and presence of God Almighty in the flesh --- then why is it that Christians are often so angry and threatening ? Why are Christians “at each other’s throats” with criticism and condemnation? Why are churches so competitive? Why does the general public have a positive view of Jesus but a negative view of “church people”? Given the huge difference between Jesus and his followers, does anybody think it is Jesus’ fault that he doesn’t resemble us more closely? Sadly, no, it is we who do not resemble him! Human beings are the victims of our own excesses, and this is certainly true when spirituality is dominated by religiosity. Who is the real Jesus? At its worst, the medieval church was obsessed with human sinfulness and guilt (which, it taught, was what sent Jesus to the Cross). People were expected to live with lifelong guilt, shame and sorrow, and so avoid every possible thing that might lead to committing a sin. The high morality of the earliest Christians quickly degraded from a noble self-discipline to a whole system of laws, sanctions, penitence and penalties —and ultimately even capital punishment for sins. But now, the church in our times is getting lost in its own enthusiasm for marketing and “selling” Jesus the way products are sold. Jesus has become the most over-advertised and over-exposed individual in history! He is being re-made in our cultural image! Hundreds of “feel good” mega-churches have turned loose their marketing consultants and produce a television show worship event featuring praise, optimism, glory and self-congratulation, mixed with American patriotism. Their testimony is often all “about us and how GREAT we are for believing” rather than “about Jesus and how changed we are by his grace and forgiveness.” This modern “church” seems to have forgotten the call to discipleship, to “take up your cross and follow” the Jesus who humbled himself and accepted death to redeem the world. Like the medieval church, “successful” churches today seem to be all about puffing themselves up and building an empire of wealth, influence, and public respectability. We need to ask ourselves, as a Christian community, whether we are following Christ closely enough to notice those for whom he stopped and stooped: the poor, those without hope, “sinners” who were rejected by others, strangers, foreigners and outsiders, prisoners, widows, the sick and dying. There is no “glory,” wealth, empire or self-congratulation that comes from this. If we are truly impressed by Jesus, and moved by him, then to serve God faithfully and to follow Jesus faithfully means to serve the people whom Jesus always puts in our path. "For I tell you, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." -- Matthew 25:40 The "bottom line" for a Christian congregation is that we are seeking out the lost and the least, with humility, as we try to be disciples who follow Jesus. Thank you, and may God bless you as you seek to follow Jesus. Top \| Home \| Also see: The Gospel of John \| The Christ of Peace
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95232	3rd edition of How Much is Enough? Balancing Today's Needs with Tomorrow's Retirement Goals is available. Check here for more on how to demystify your financial planning. Frequently Asked Questions I don't have enough money to max out both my RRSP and my kids' RESPs. Which one should I do? When your kids are small, make your own RRSPs your priority. Your children have 25 years to make use of an RESP from the time it is started, so by starting late you're giving them an extension. But you can only make contributions until each child is 17, so it's a good idea to get started by the time they're five or six. Anything you can contribute is worthwhile, and don't forget that the government will match anything up to $2000 with a 20% grant. Think of using the tax refund from your RRSP for the kids' RESPs. And you might also gently nudge the doting grandparents, aunts and uncles to contribute to RESPs in lieu of gifts. An RESP is truly a gift that lasts. How can I save when just living takes all the money I've got? It's very tough when you're stretched to the limit. If your situation will probably change in a few years, you might be able to make up for not saving now. But if you think you'll be at this same level for some time, you really need to create a cushion for yourself. First, be very clear what is a want and what is a need. One of your needs is to save 10% of your earnings. If you can have that taken off your paycheque before your get it, you won't notice it so much. Allocate enough money to cover your needs, then plan what you want to do with the rest. When you plan what to do with your discretionary income, you won't be as likely to let it slip through your hands. If there's hardly anything left, get creative. How can you have the same amount of fun for less money? There's usually a way if you put your mind to it. Oh, and one more thing--no matter how tempting it might be, don't get into debt. I'll be forced to retire in ten years, but I only have a few thousand put away. If I start saving like mad now, will I have enough? How much is enough in retirement depends entirely on the individual. Use the Retirement Savings Calculator to determine your own Enough Number. You can see where you'll be if you save at different rates, retire earlier or later or adjust your projected retirement income up or down. By all means, start saving like mad now. I've seen people turn their situations around in only eight years. You might not have enough, but at least you'll have something. You might need to look at working beyond your forced retirement so you can keep contributing to your retirement savings and give your money more time to grow. While you're saving, remember to reward yourself along the way. Without a few treats, you may just give up. Should I borrow for my RRSP? If you can afford to pay your loan off in a year, borrowing for your RRSP is a terrific idea. You can use the tax refund to pay back part of the loan, then pay off the rest more quickly making payments at the original level. When you've finished, keep making the payments--only this time they go into your RRSP. When you've finished paying for the original life of the loan, borrow the same amount again at the same payment level. Now you can invest more and you'll get a bigger refund, so you will pay off that loan even earlier in the year. Keep doing this and within a few years you won't have to borrow anymore and you will have established an RRSP saving habit. If you can't afford to borrow enough to max out your RRSP, just borrow what you can comfortably pay back in a year and follow the same plan. Your RRSP room won't go away. You can pay into it later when you can afford to. We have a good relationship, except that we can't talk about money without getting into a fight. How do we come to some kind of agreement? Without realizing it, people have deep-seated attitudes toward money. The four main types, Savers, Spenders, Builders and Givers have different financial approaches. If you're a Giver who needs to spend time and money taking care of other people and you're living with a Spender who needs to shop, there will be conflicts. Neither attitude is right or wrong. It's important for you to identify your two basic money attitudes and allow room in your finances so that each of you can fulfill your need. Allocate an amount that the Giver can give and the Spender can spend each month. Learn more about the different types by clicking on Attitude on the navigation bar. Or for more detail, read Chapter 1 in the book. How can I get out of debt? It's simple in theory: start spending less than you bring home. But in practice it's hard, especially in today's credit-crazed environment. What you need to do is separate your needs from your wants, then cover your needs and ignore your wants until you're out of debt. I always ask my clients to keep track of every cent they spend for at least a month. Once they've done that, we analyze where their money is going. We set aside what to keep for their bottom-line needs, then decide which of their wants can be given up or postponed until the debt is paid. If you've never done this exercise, give it a try. You'll be surprised at how much money you might be spending on things that don't mean that much to you. The book has a whole chapter on this process, or you can go to the Retirement Savings Calculator and use the Cash Flow Statement as your guide. Just remember: record every purchase, no matter how small. Pay off your highest-interest debts first, then move on to the next-highest. If you have a number of different debts, you may be able to consolidate them at a lower rate of interest than you're paying I also recommend the psychological trick of paying everything in cash instead of credit or debit cards when you're working on becoming debt free. Encourage yourself with this thought: once you're out of debt, you get to keep all your money for yourself. Add up the interest you have paid and still have to pay and think of what you could have bought instead. Back to Top Click here to order the new edition of How Much Is Enough?
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95239	RE: [htdig] Help a newbie Subject: RE: [htdig] Help a newbie From: Geoff Hutchison ( Date: Thu Nov 11 1999 - 12:45:09 PST On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 wrote: > I have exactly the same. ht/dig is on Saloris. htserach works fine from the > shell but I receive "the document contained no data" with Netscape and a > blank document with IE. Other CGI programs, scripts are working very fine. For the particular case of Solaris, I would suggest you see It may not be the problem, but it does come up frequently. -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online the SUBJECT of the message. This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Thu Nov 11 1999 - 12:55:53 PST
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95241	The Blog Derrick Evans Headshot Strapped in the Seat of Senna Posted: Updated: Print Article In 150,000 years of evolution, man's brain has never had to cope with speed faster than a man could run. How fast do we travel on a train, example? 120mph, 130? Faster? There's very little way of telling. The technology of a modern tilting train isolates us from the sensation of speed, to make us feel comfortable, secure, above all, safe. I'd hate you to think that looking out the window of a fast-moving train pondering my relationship with my Caveman brain is how I normally spend my time. But today wasn't a normal day - far from it, today was the day I would emulate my hero and drive a former Formula One racing car. To mark the release of the moving documentary Senna, I was about to get a tiny taste of what the world's fastest drivers experience, to try to get some idea of what it's like to take control of what at the start of the day was an ominous beast. They started us off gently. I was driven round the Three Sisters Circuit in Wigan by an instructor, shown the counter-intuitive "Racing Line" - turning later into the corner than feels right, feeding the power in earlier than feels safe. Then into the driving seat of one car after another, each more powerful than the last, each a thrill in its own right - until the final challenge, a proper, bona-fide F1 car. The day went quickly as we were ushered and in some cases strapped into a series of super cars and single-seat racers. During the penultimate drive - a mere Formula 3 - a rasp of engine noise filled the circuit. All eyes swung in unison from track to garage, where the F1 had just burst into life. She was surrounded by a multitude of respectful staff, warming her up and wiping her down. The excitement in our small group of soon-to-be F1 drivers was palpable. Almost indecently quickly, it was my turn to be levered then strapped into the great machine - Luca Badoer's 1996 Forti FG03. A quick push start from a quad bike - if they'd left it to us to drive away from a standing start, we'd probably still be there - and I was off. My first impression during the recommended slow first lap was of a low, wide car, and very light steering. At that point, it was still no more than a fast car, not much different to what we'd driven already. But this lap belonged to the instructors; all subsequent ones were to be mine. Out of the slow left-hander by the pits I went for fourth gear, pressing a clutch pedal so resistant I initially wondered if I'd missed it altogether and was pressing the firewall! Then followed a slow tight left hander followed by two right-handers that merge into one and then the back straight, the fastest part of the track. My instructors' oft-repeated instructions were prominent in my mind: "don't apply the power until you're straight and feed it in gently!" I entered the back straight at a speed I normally save for supermarket car parks and slowly put my foot down. Impressive but still nothing amazing. But there's the thing - I knew this car was amazing, the only non-amazing thing was me. Onto the back straight for the third time and it was time to give the old girl a prod As the revs increased my head was forced back, the acceleration was brutal. Suddenly, the Ferrari we had driven earlier in the day seemed like my mum's Fiesta in comparison. While driving the earlier cars, my attention had been on the three boards placed to guide us through each turn - Brake, Turn, Apex, Brake, Turn, Apex. Now, hanging on to this explosion on wheels for an instant, all I could see were the tyre walls, grass and Armco barrier. The track suddenly looked very, very small. As the laps continued my confidence grew - accelerating earlier, braking later. But with speed came the effort, and old injuries I hadn't thought about for years were now making their presence known in no uncertain terms. The wrist I broke five years ago was singing with pain as every bump in the road was transmitted back violently through the steering wheel. Almost before it had begun it was over, chequered flag waved, my brief time as a Formula 1 driver behind me. Had I a better understanding of Ayrton Senna after driving a car from his era? No, if anything it was the opposite. Senna may have shared this arena but, to him, the car was an extension of his body and mind, an instrument by which his professional ambition and spiritual quest could both be realised. I had merely been given a tiger in a cage to play with and could do no more than poke it with a stick from my side of the bars. Senna is released on DVD today, Monday 10th October. Around the Web DVD: Senna, For retail & rental (Universal) Movie review: 'Senna' does racer's life story justice
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95246	iOS app Android app More George Elerick America is Not a Christian Nation Posted: 03/ 1/2012 3:38 pm America is not a Christian nation. If anything it is one ensconced in its own religious attempts at mediocrity. Mediocrity in the sense that since its bloody inception it has continued down a course of self-perpetuation, which for most is the idea of progress and evolution -- the continuation/growth of self. Which I completely disagree with [and denies any lateral thinking] and believe this is why democracy ultimately is a weak ideology, because it emanates, remains and sustains the individual [even in a national sense] and denies the individual any opportunity for a growing self-awareness of the other. American has literally forgotten the other, it has somehow consumed the Western hemisphere to the point that it has to come think it is also the other and is attempting to the do the same with the eastern hemisphere. The continuation of self as the center of reality is part of the ideology that will eventually lead to America's down fall. It is also what will in a very religious sense, sustain the current mediocrity of American capitalism. Cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek refers to this kind of 'ideology' as stupidity, in the sense that it continues down the same course and inherently has no trajectory and is founded upon a circular entry with no exit. The circular ideology that informs America can be seen in its past and present relationships to the rest of the world. Its cycle is one of domination and mirror-images. The mirror-images emerge out of the 'puppet-kings' they install and the cycle is an overdosed application of cross-cultural hegemony [i.e., assuming democracy is/should work for every context rather than working alongside leaders to find relevant alternatives]. Although I highly respect the work of renowned and outspoken philosopher Cornel West, I think his assessment of democracy invites criticism. "Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority" (Race Matter, p. 102). In his altruistic attempts to provide some sort of social equilibrium he incites it deeper into a self-referential cycle of nihilism. In the most vulgar sense, democracy [in its current state] is nothing more than an over-idealised nuanced translation of nihilism. Why? Because, much like the work of Sisyphus it continues the invisibility of a never-ending ascension toward nothingness. Is this not the same perversion of the so-called American Dream built on the assumptions of capitalistic consumption? One has to be pitted against the other for democracy to sustain itself. The poor either have to get poorer or the richer rich. The danger is to assume that the fall of democracy leads to some vulgar resurrection of Marxist communism, which was a catastrophe! We need not remind ourselves here of the hell of this kind of communism, but what we can do is employ history as a tool for what not to do. Much like Zizek, what need is to re-instate a "simple communism," which is to imply that what is mine is yours and what is your is mine [let's be honest, the West has never been good at sharing!] What this means is that to move forward we have to allow for a re-calibration, but not simply of politics, economy, or ecology to name a few, but rather of reality itself. Theorist Jean Baudrillard once claimed that images are evil, he went so far to call them demons. Why was he so vulgar? Because the image had to replace reality, the true had become false to the point of 'irrepair; but even more sinister and more to the point -- the image replaced any opportunity for pure thought. When someone purchases something they "buy into" not simply the product but all that the product entails. If someone buys a cup of coffee from McDonald's and is to later find out that McDonald's only supports the Israeli side of the war, they simply do not buy coffee but also represent all that McDonald's stands for. This is also how Zizek defines ideology, because we sustain it without knowing we're sustaining it. A way forward out of this literal hell on earth is to be found in discourse. But not simply "I listen to you, you listen to me" rhetoric, but honest discussion that leads to change; which can be discovered in the Greek notion of "ekklesia." We use the modern word for Church, which is a really bad translation, because it doesn't take into account the historical influence and origin of such a term. In the ancient world, it was a community of foreigners who got together to discuss and implement change (some might be thinking "well, we already have this in the UN"; far from it! -- the UN needs to be disbanded; it has become nothing more then part of the democratic nightmare in sustaining western politics). This group of people came from all walks of life, poor, rich, christian, atheist, right, left, gay, straight and so on. It was a place for change not social masturbation (as in: let's spend all of our time focusing on social differences i.e., gay/straight, black/white, right/left, and other binary oppositions) which doesn't lead to life. Is this not essentially the heartbeat behind the early church (i.e., 'and they were all in one accord'). For us to invent (not re-invent which is predicated on the foundations and assumptions of a 'before') a new reality (is this also not the meaning of Jesus' words that "they," all of humanity, not "be of this world") where we can begin again. 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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95257	Nov 5, 2012 Is That Your Lacrimal Apparatus, Or Are You Just Unhappy To See Me? Bossy Explains Crying Have you ever wondered how we produce tears Do they live deep inside us, dormant for years Do they wait at the surface, ready to spill Out the eye, past the lash, and from there it’s downhill? In truth it’s a system, a Rube Goldberg in making It kicks into gear when your heart begins breaking The lacrimal gland produces clear fluid Which drops in a duct, and it races right through it And through these canals to the surface of I Tears prevent our eyeballs from becoming too dry But why are there tears when we hear someone’s dying Where is the science in this art of crying? Well they say when we’re sad many things can accrue Manganese and prolactin and tissues, a few One of these is hormonal, one’s a chemical too And grief is what holds them together, like glue But your teardrops release these like nudists shed dress When you wipe them away you should feel less stress They say you should cry til there’s just nothing left But if so how come Bossy is still so bereft? Bossy is posting every day in November. Here’s what you missed so far! bossy extras bossy's blogroll bossy videos bossy's flickr Web i am bossy
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95262	What On Earth Is A ?White Muslim?? on July 06 2012 11:25 AM There are, in fact, tens of millions of Muslims around the world who are “white” -- and no one would bother to call them “white Muslims.” But let us not confine ourselves to Europe – countries like Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran are overwhelmingly Muslim, and their native populations could certainly be considered “white.” For example, the founder of the modern Turkish nation, Gamal Ataturk, had blonde hair and blue eyes; the man running Syria today, Bashar al-Assad, is very fair-skinned with light colored hair and eyes; and if you removed the turban and beard from Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, he would look undistinguishable from an Italian, a Frenchman or even an Englishman. Why are Messrs. Ataturk, Assad and Khamenei not referred to as “white Muslims” (since they satisfy both requirements)? Are they “less white” than Mr. Dart? This is, of course, a very touchy subject on a number of fronts since it deals with sensitive issues of race, ethnicity, identity and religion. While most anthropologists and ethnologists would regard many Middle Eastern peoples as “Caucasian” (or, in the popular vernacular, “white’), Western media and the general public do not accept that notion. Instead, they seek to “exoticize” and “stigmatize” Middle Easterners (particularly Muslims) as something “foreign” and representing the “other.” Thus, we live in a bizarre Twilight Zone world where Greeks, Armenians and Israelis are generally considered “white” (because they are Christian or Jewish), while Turks, Persians and most Arabs are considered “non-white” (because they are mostly Muslim or non-Christian). This, despite the fact that there are virtually no substantial physical differences between any of these aforementioned peoples. It is a cultural prejudice based on ignorance and misconceptions. So, if an Englishman who converts to Islam is called a “white Muslim,” the same consideration should be given to tens of millions of other Islamic peoples who live in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and even as far east as Pakistan and Afghanistan. Interestingly, the media no longer seems to refer to African-origin people who convert to Islam – like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Muhammad Ali – as “Black Muslims” anymore, although that label was in wide usage decades ago. In fact, the infamous “Shoe Bomber,” Richard Reid, who was actually an Englishman of mixed race descent, was almost never called a “black Muslim” or “black convert” as I can recall. (Of course, black people are already so stigmatized that such appellations are unnecessary). Share this article
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95269	ASPECTS a monthly devotional journal by David S. Lampel -------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #123 February 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SIMPLE WAYS OF A COMPLEX GOD ---------------------- And the Lord said to Moses, "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name." Exodus 33:17 According to Scripture, the Lord God is omniscient-which means that His knowledge is infinite. Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see? Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge? The Lord knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile. Psalm 94:9-11 When we combine God's omniscience with His time infinity--His eternity that bestrides at once past, present, and future--we understand that our God is, in a nice round, understandable human word, boundless. There is nothing unknown by God, and what He knows goes as far beyond the knowledge of man as the edge of His created universe is beyond the core of our sun. God knows more than just what is knowable in a human sense. He knows things that are incomprehensible to the human mind--things that in their contemplation would cause the human brain to explode. His knowledge--if it could be indexed, categorized and contained, it would overspill the universe--is never in only one place at once, but is like an arching rainbow bestride all time. What God knows now in this computerized age, He knew on the first day of Adam's life. He didn't learn about bits, bytes and hard drives when man did, but could have taught the class when Methuselah was in diapers. And because God's knowledge encompasses knowledge even of Himself, He doesn't just know about events, but actually dwells in that moment. He doesn't just know what will happen in the future; He is already there! While God was commissioning Moses on Mount Horeb, He was-at that same moment-commissioning a new Methodist pastor in the year 2095. You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men." For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. Psalm 90:3-4 Contemplation of only these two aspects of His nature is enough to send our heads spinning when we try to wrap our small, self-centered minds around the immense complexity of God. The sheer width and breadth of His creation alone is beyond our comprehension--yet He carries around in His hand the complete inventory of every planet in every solar system that ever sprang from His creativity. And He already dwells in the fading glow of the star just being born. Yet this same God examined the heart of a teenage girl in Nazareth, and found her purity worthy for giving birth to the Messiah. This same God held intimate conversations with Abraham, and the apostle Paul. This God loved Hannah, and answered her prayer for a child. He forgave Moses and John Mark their youthful transgressions. And for every individual He sent a personal Savior, and a private Counselor. On the human level, God is simplicity itself. He is private: His council can be reduced to a single, melodious tune understood by the most homely intellect. He is adaptable: without changing Himself, He sculpts His side of the personal relationship to be, like a fingerprint, something unique and intimate. The God who holds stars in his hand, holds there as well the name of every person who is His through the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. God is basic Fact and Actuality, the source of all other facthood. At all costs therefore He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. If He exists at all, He is the most concrete thing there is, the most individual, 'organized and minutely articulated.' He is unspeakable not by being indefinite but by being too definite for the unavoidable vagueness of language. Grammatically the things we say of Him are 'metaphorical': but in a deeper sense it is our physical and psychic energies that are mere 'metaphors' of the real Life which is God. C.S. Lewis UNCLUTTERED BY CONDITIONS agape ag-ah'-pay; from Greek (agapao); love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast :- (feast of) charity ([-ably]), dear, love; as used of God, expresses the deep and constant love and interest of a perfect Being towards entirely unworthy objects, producing and fostering a reverential love in them towards the Giver, and a practical love towards those who are partakers of the same. The most prominent obstacle to an understanding of God's intimate love for man is His grandeur. From the caricatures of modern culture to even the proof of His recorded word, God's own majesty stands as a barrier impenetrable to many individuals. How, they say, can the creator of the universe, and the one who devised all the intricacies of the human body lower Himself to have feelings for small me? For those looking for an excuse, here is the one most convenient. Yet to those who are interested in discovering the whole truth of the Divine comes the startling fact that not only did God create love, but He was the first to practice it. We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19 Before the first millisecond of God's miraculous creative act, before the finger of God initiated the birthing of the universe and thus created the dust that would one day be used to make man, the Godhead determined that because he would rebel, man would require salvation. Salvation would require a Savior external to man, since he would not be able to save himself. So eternity's first known act of love took place when God decided that man's salvation would come from Himself. Mankind would be offered redemption from its sin through the sacrifice by death of God's own Son. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 God's feelings for His human creation were full-bodied, robust. Man was not an afterthought, nor was the relationship God would have with Him an accident of birth. From the very beginning God would desire only the best for each individual that would inhabit His creation. He would wish for each person to attain his or her full potential: a close, abiding bond with the One who loved them before they even knew He existed. It is so simple that only some people are able to accept the truth of it. Many who reject the love of God do so by blaming His grandeur. He's too high, they complain, beyond my reach. "But I love you," He answers back. No, You're too demanding, they insist. "I'm not demanding anything. I just love you." No, it's too hard. And so they die, surrounded by an untouched love well within their reach. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:16 God is love. Simple. Pure. He does not just practice love, or use love to get what He wants. God is love. Every staggeringly wonderful thing that happens out of love is what God is. He invented it. He embodies it. Every flavor of human love is grossly imperfect in comparison to God's love. The highest, most exquisite example of unselfish love that one person has for another is little more than a pale ghost of the love God has for His people. And His love is that specific: His love is for those who call upon His name; those who do not, He only wants to love. The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord is on his heavenly throne. He observes the sons of men; his eyes examine them. The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates. Psalm 11:4-5 Those who are loved by God are loved unconditionally. It is not a transaction, a quid pro quo: If you rise some morning with a mean belly and a bad taste in your mouth, grumbling against God--He still loves you. It is not a bargain, a deal, where He will only love those people who make it worth His while. Ministry is not a price one pays to purchase His affection. There is no price man can offer that would satisfy the cost. The price set for God's love is beyond measure. There is not enough gold on earth to purchase it. God's love is so priceless that it can only be purchased by His own blood. His is the only life that is worth that much. And He did it. As high as it was, He paid the price. And because the price has been paid, the value set on God's love is now even higher. Now it can only be had for free. And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Saviour's blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! how can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? He left His Father's throne above, So free, so infinite His grace; Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race; 'Tis mercy all, immense and free; For O my God, it found out me. Amazing love! how can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me! Charles Wesley THE KEY TO HIS STOREROOM Marvelous grace of our loving Lord, Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt! Yonder on Calvary's mount outpoured, There where the blood of the lamb was spilt. Sin and despair, like the sea waves cold, Threaten the soul with infinite loss; Grace that is greater, yes, grace untold, Points to the refuge, the mighty cross. Dark is the stain that we cannot hide, What can avail to wash it away? Look! there is flowing a crimson tide; Whiter than snow you may be today. Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, Freely bestowed on all who believe; You that are longing to see His face, Will you this moment His grace receive? Grace, grace, God's grace, Grace that will pardon and cleanse within, Grace, grace, God's grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin. Julia H. Johnston God's grace is identical twin to His love. The two are inseparable, sometimes indistinguishable, and always the two together are the closest approximation in human terms of the root of God's personality. God is love, and that love is boundless, but it is His grace that affords humanity the opportunity to experience the full measure of His affection. Grace is the key that opens the storeroom of God's love. By God's grace all men are united to Him, as well as to each other, under the sacrifice of love poured out at the cross. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Ephesians 2:13-18 Like His love, God's grace is available to all, but is only acquired by request. Contrary to the fears of the Left, no one is ever forced into a relationship with God's grace. The individual is free to pass it by, heap scorn upon it, even denigrate it in the press. God never forced Himself on anyone. Even after the ultimate sacrifice He paid for it, Jesus Christ never sanctioned any indoctrination centers for brainwashing people into accepting His grace. God's grace is free--free in both directions: It does not cost anything to obtain, and anyone is free to reject the gift. Who God is--even to what He looks like--is so supernaturally complex as to bring instant death to any mortal that finds himself in His presence. Then Moses said, "Now show me your glory." And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live." Exodus 33:18-20 The majesty of God can embody terrible, nightmarish fury-especially in the wrath He exercises against those who reject Him. See, the Lord is coming with fire, and his chariots are like a whirlwind; he will bring down his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For with fire and with his sword the Lord will execute judgment upon all men, and many will be those slain by the Lord. Isaiah 66:15-16 Yet in His dealings with those who call upon His name, the Lord God is gentle and direct, compassionate, patient, every thought and action infused with grace. His grace is what first extends His offer of life and redemption to the one that is lost; once that redemption is received, His grace is then woven throughout every moment of every day in the life of the one redeemed. ONE WAY BACK What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul! What wondrous love is this, O my soul! What wondrous love is this That caused the Lord of bliss To bear the dreadful curse For my soul, for my soul, To bear the dreadful curse For my soul. When I was sinking down, Sinking down, sinking down, When I was sinking down, Sinking down, When I was sinking down Beneath God's righteous frown, Christ laid aside His crown For my soul, for my soul, Christ laid aside His crown For my soul. And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, I'll sing on, And when from death I'm free, I'll sing on, And when from death I'm free, I'll sing and joyful be, And thro' eternity I'll sing on, I'll sing on, And thro' eternity I'll sing on, American Folk Hymn Far back in the mists of infinite eternity, far back before the beautiful angel Lucifer fell to become Satan, back even before the Godhead had invented what humans would call Time, God knew that man would need saving. God would make man perfect, as much a stranger to death as Himself. But, being omniscient, God also knew that there would come a moment when man would give in to the tortured reasoning of the fallen angel, and man would then, for the first time, be faced with the prospect of death. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned-- Romans 5:12 One might suppose that the first man and woman could have understood the error of their ways, come to terms with that seminal act of rebellion, repented, and gone on to live out the remainder of their days in a return to the unsullied bliss they had previously enjoyed with their Maker. But in fact, the entrance of sin opened the floodgates of depravity. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Romans 1:25,29-31 This is what man is: there is rebellion in his heart. He is born with it, and on this side of Paradise, it does not ever leave him. Out of His love, by the administration of His grace, God answers man's rebellion with Christ. Because man cannot save himself, God determined--back before there was even a need for the decision--that man's salvation would be supplied by the sacrifice of Himself. God also determined that because life was in the blood of a living thing, that blood would be the requirement for atonement. Sin would be forgiven and expunged by the spilling of life-giving blood. Before the Son of God came down in flesh, the sacrifice of blood was a repeated thing. Over and over, year after year, through thousands upon thousands of substitutionary deaths man used the blood of beasts to atone for his sins. But then, in a simple and direct solution for man's rebellion, God the Father sent God the Son down to make of Himself one final sacrifice of blood. Once, for all. For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. Hebrews 9:24-28 Over the brief span of time since God made Adam from the dust, man has conjured many gods of his own making. He has rebelled against the true God by manufacturing gods of his own. God's answer to this rebellion was to enact the love for man that already filled His heart, to express it through His grace, and to offer man a way back into His arms. But only one way, for the God who created and animated everything that exists--the God who flung into the black of space every molecule of dust that would become a planet or star or streaking comet--this God would not be mocked. He would offer man a simple, direct way back to Him. Jesus, the Christ. Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. 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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95305	Flirting with Disaster (1996) Poster Leave It to Beaver (1957) (TV Series) Tina sarcastically refers to Mary as "Mrs. Cleaver". Roots (1977) (TV Mini-Series) Mrs. Coplin can't understand "this 'Roots' thing" with her son trying to find his biological parents Referenced in Beverly Hills, 90210: Flirting with Disaster (1996) (TV Episode) title reference Family Matters: Flirting with Disaster (1997) (TV Episode) title reference In Bad Taste (2000) (TV Special) referenced in documentary Yes, Dear: Flirtin' with Disaster (2003) (TV Episode) title reference Wanderlust (2006) (TV Movie) Flirting with Disaster is displayed under David O. Russell's name. Carla Gugino mentions this movie during interview See also Contribute to This Page
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95312	Why Apple Hired Visionaries--and Microsoft Didn't1:42 Predictable Success CEO Les McKeown explains why Steve Jobs hired visionaries and how that impacted Apple's bottom line. Why Small Businesses Forget to Look at Data Sageworks founder Brian Hamilton talks about why small business owners often neglect the wealth of data at their fingertips. Mark Cuban: It's Never Been Easier to Enter the Tech Industry Stop Perfecting and Start Experimenting Mixedmade co-founder Morgan Newman believes you should test your product's potential early. Here's how. Bootstrapping Basics: How to Barter for Services MixedMade co-founder Morgan Newman believes that as long as your product and story are exciting, people will help you out. How to Assess Employee Performance, Constructively Arrowsight founder Adam Aronson describes how to tactfully deliver feedback to your employees. Don't Be a Hero. How to Make Decisions as a Team Predictable Success CEO Les McKeown explains how to shift to a team-based approach. 3 Questions to Measure Your Design Effectiveness How effective is the design strategy at your business? Philadelphia University Strategic Design MBA Director Natalie Nixon lists three questions you can ask yourself. 3 Ways Cities Can Help Startups Succeed Eventbrite co-founder Julia Hartz lists the most important ways a city can nurture its startups and create environments ripe for innovation. How to Build a Business That Will Outlast You Predictable Success CEO Les McKeown explains how institutionalizing your vision within your company will ensure your values stand the test of time. 3 Finance Fundamentals You Need to Know Arrowsight founder Adam Aronson recalls how his previous background in finance helped him make key decisions that saved his company. What to Do When You're No Longer the Only Shareholder The Sellability Score founder John Warrillow outlines the options you have when you're no longer the only decision-maker. Plus, one contract clause to keep your eye on. Bootstrapping? Bert Jacobs Says Focus Efforts in 1 Area Life is Good co-founder Bert Jacobs explains how he partnered with suppliers rather than go straight to venture capitalists. To Start a Business, You Need Some Blind Naivete and Overwhelming Self-Confidence Serial entrepreneur Sarah Prevette describes the courage it takes to start a business--and possibly see it fail. Bert Jacobs: Staying Simple Is a Superpower Life is Good CEO Bert Jacobs explains that the best business concepts are so simple, even a three-year-old can understand them. You Don't Always Have to Take an Advisor's Advice Zady co-founder Soraya Darabi explains how you need to rely on your own instincts in order to achieve success. Julia Hartz: How I Hire 'Make-It-Happen' Employees Eventbrite co-founder Julia Hartz identifies the key attribute she seeks when hiring disparate employees. How to be Operationally Resilient Happiness at Work author Srikumar Rao believes entrepreneurs often mistakenly believe work is life, instead of understanding it as a tool for living the best life. Why You Need to Make Your Company Sellable Even If You Don't Plan to Sell Sellability Score founder John Warrillow explains why being prepared to sell is the best insurance policy for unexpected circumstances. Les McKeown: Why Heroic Leadership is Not Scalable Heroic leadership may have led a few companies to success, but what happens when your leader leaves? Predictable Success CEO Les McKeown explains how teams can be prepared. 3 Extraordinary Qualities of All Great Leaders Happiness at Work author Srikumar Rao describes three characteristics every great leader has.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95313	Outgrowing Your Employees Dealing with long-time employees your company has outgrown. What do you do with a longtime loyal employee your company has outgrown? It's a painful question that nearly every successful company owner has to grapple with at some point. Here's how two company owners resolved the problem: Let the employee go. Dennis Flynn, Heritage Asset Management, a real estate company in Dallas; 68 employees: "Longtime employees have given a lot of heart and a lot of time to the company. They've sacrificed, deferring compensation in the early years. What happens is that the company grows. You tend to hire more professional people -- not necessarily better people, but people who have their own opinions and want to be heard as much as the old guard is. "We spent a year trying different solutions with one employee. But we work as a team, and the effect of this longtime employee's ego was that we lost ground as a team because he put his nose in everybody's business. The new people didn't see all the contributions this person had made in the early years. They just saw him as a terrorist. "The predicament stopped our company for six months. My other employees beat on me to make the hard decision, to do what was best for the company. What I realize now is that this employee loved the company the way it used to be -- not the way it was going to be." Try to find the employee a new spot. Mitch Covington, Terra First, a provider of hazardous-waste services in Vernon, Ala.; 60 employees: "My company was on shaky financial ground. I had to make some changes with people to be more efficient. One was a longtime employee who happens to be a minority stockholder. I just told him exactly what I felt: I didn't think he was qualified for the job he had, and I didn't think he felt qualified. So I found a position for him in a new venture we were starting, where he fit better. I gave him a lot of responsibility, but at the same time I told him, 'Don't expect to move up next week. You're going to be here for a while.' "I had another case, a truck driver -- the second employee we had hired. He had some health problems, so he couldn't drive and had been moved into an office position. But I could get somebody else to do that job for much less. So I cut his pay and made a new position for him. He didn't like that, so he left." -- Ellyn E. Spragins * * * Last updated: Feb 1, 1993 Register on Inc.com today to get full access to: All articles \| Magazine archives \| Livestream events \| Comments Or sign up using:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95333	Navigation Bar Chamunda Devi Temple Chamunda is a little station on the Pathankot-Jogindernagar narrow gauge railway track. There's the Chamunda Devi Temple here, right on the banks of the Baner River. It is also a pretty picnic spot with a good view of the mountains, the Baner Khad (khad means hillside) and the Pathiar and Lahl forests. The temple is dedicated to goddess Kali (a form of Shakti or power, also goddess of war) in her wrathful avatar (form) of Chamunda. The Legend Associated To The Temple As with so many temples in India, this one too has a legend to it. It has to do with the two demons, Chanda and Munda, trying to harass the goddess Ambika. The duo, followers of the notorious demon king, Shumbh Nishumbh, once set out for the Himalayas with their chaturangini army. Upon reaching here, they saw the devi (goddess) sitting high up on a peak, smiling to herself. Chanda and Munda then flew their arrows at her. Furious at this, Ambika knitted her brows and lo! From their folds emerged this terrifying form of Kali, decked up in a cheetah skin sari (long piece of cloth cleverly draped by Indian women) and a garland of skulls. Kali fought all the demons singlehandedly and killed Chanda and Munda. Pleased, Ambika declared that Kali would now be worshipped here as Chamunda - a compound of Chanda and Munda. That is how the temple is supposed to have come up. The Chamunda Devi Temple is said to be more than 700 years old. It is a pretty big complex with even a kund (tank) where devotees take a dip. The idol in the main temple is considered so sacred that even the eyes of devotees are not allowed to touch upon it; it is kept completely concealed beneath a red cloth. At the back of the temple is a cave-like scoop where a stone lingam (phallic symbol of Shiva) under a boulder represents Nandi Keshwar (Shiva). There are several brightly painted figures of gods and goddesses around the place Nine Unknown Men
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95377	Reader Post: Presbyterian Hate In the Time of Cholera Presbyterian_Church_(U.S.A.)The Presbyterian Church (USA) has decided to join the BDS Movement (boycott/divestment/sanctions), and boycott Israeli products. Who cares? The BDS movement is an example of mindless political grandstanding, with virtually no negative repercussions for the state and people of Israel. Of all the things Israelis may stay up contemplating, BDS is not one of them. I do feel sorry about the upcoming demise of the Presbyterians, though; they had seemed to be a decent enough sort, you know, if you just kind of gloss over the Jew-hating streak. Let me explain what will happen here. It is virtually impossible to live without Israeli technology. Even the Amish, a determined and non-technologically oriented bunch, couldn’t manage it, and don’t claim to want to, as they believe in modern medical technology. So here’s some things the Presbyterians are going to have to learn to live without. Computers and phones, for starters. All Intel Pentium and Celeron chips, the Ivy bridge processor, and Microsoft operating systems–gone. Apple–no bites for you. Should you somehow cobble together a computer out of paper clips and gum, you will no longer be able to use a firewall, so enjoy your five minutes of surfing before viruses crash your system. But in the few minutes before the crash? Facebook and its add-ons? No. Aol? No again. Google? Still nope. Yahoo? Out of luck. Hotmail? Notmail for you. And you can’t save your stuff, because USBs–uh-huh. Email in general? Sorry, the algorithm that allows you to send emails was also invented by an Israeli. The technology for mobile phones is also completely Jewed-up by Israeli inventors. SMS and 4G–guess who? Voice mail, even on your land-line–yup, shalom again. Want to print this out so you can savor the good old days when you had Web access–not so fast, you may be using Israeli ink-saving printer devices. It’s OK though, I hear quill pens are trending. Feeling restless? Feel free to pollute the planet with vintage gas guzzlers, but kiss your electric cars goodbye, along with any regular cars with onboard computing. (Hint–that’s pretty much all of them.) Most public transportation is out as well. Flying? That’s probably not going to work out for you. Maybe this will comfort you when you can no longer use your GPS either. Well, at least you can stay home and relax, even if you can no longer communicate with others. How about a little TV? Oh, video on demand is gone now too. Relax with a good e-book? Nice thought, but no. Movies? Heh-heh. Remember who runs Hollywood? Maybe something tasty to ease the pain? No more cherry tomatoes, they were developed in Israel. Coke and a smile? Time to frown. Coke is heavily invested in Israel, as is Little Debbie, so step away from the snack cakes. How about a spoonful of honey? Not after Israel’s work against bee colony collapse. A lot of fruit from South America is marketed by Israeli brands, so that’s out, as are food products from many countries in Africa, as well as from China, India, Indonesia, the UK, and numerous other places that use Israeli irrigation and agricultural technology. That’s OK, you can till the earth with your own bare hands with all the free time you have now that you’ve given up on phones, the internet, TV, and movies. But what are you going to eat until your harvest comes in? Hmm. Sticky one. Don’t try to tide yourself over with matzoh, just a thought. And don’t even think of trading any stray diamonds you have lying around for a pot of gruel or something. You know where I’m going with this one. You could use a fuzzy sweater for comfort? But then there’s the garment trade. Oh wait, surprise, who do we find there? Have fun with the hand-sewing. Time to invest in a loom. While you’re at it, it’s really time to get your prayer on, because if you get sick, it’s all over. You’re basically living in the nineteenth century now, you self-sufficient BDSers. And what was the life expectancy back then? Not good, Presbyterians, not good. Meanwhile, who are you praying to? The God of the Old Testament? You might want to avoid mentioning that you’re boycotting His chosen people. How about Jesus the Jew? Oops. By the way, if someone decides to smite you by having the ground swallow you up whole, remember you won’t have your earthquake warning alert anymore either. Moving forward, I don’t recall the Buddha being big on anti-Semitism, not sure how that’s going to play out for you. Thor? At least you have the Halls of Asgard to aspire to. Oh wait, the Presbyterians have also been instrumental in the temperance movement. Try telling Thor you’re not fond of Jews or booze. It’s Hammer-time. Unless you want to add red meat to your boycott, the Hindus are out as well. What currently is on your boycott list, however, are a whopping amount of drugs and devices for problems such as: Alzheimer’s, arteriosclerosis, asthma, bone marrow transplants, brain tumors, cancer, catheters, collagen, dental scanners, diabetes, dyslexia, glaucoma, head trauma, heart disease, heart pulse generators, heart stents, HIV, kidney transplants, malaria prevention, multiple sclerosis, myeloma, non-steroid allergy creams, Parkinson’s, Pillcams, pneumococcus, sleep apnea, spinal implants, stem cell research, stroke, soy based medicines, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, surgical lasers, West NiIe, the newer non-bacteria-resistant antibiotics, many vaccines, and the only radiation risk-free X-ray machines. Enjoy the hair everywhere too, because if you get the slightest shaving nick you’re clearly going to die, and the epilator’s out. Meanwhile, how’s life back in your cozy home? Bit dim there? A tad chilly? Well, your smart thermostat’s no longer working. And you know what happened to the blackout prevention systems for your electricity. The fate of your solar power backup should be clear too. All gone, but you’ll barely notice at this point, as your mind swims in the noxious fog of all the untreated sewage around you. Glad to hear you’re enjoying your out-house and staggering barefoot to the nearest untreated water source. Half-naked, shivering and squinting by candlelight as you knit with dirty wool, your body shakes with a wracking cough, your insides snarl with cholera, and the malnutrition eats away at your bones, while you dream of all the music you can’t even sadly hum to yourself as it was made with Israeli technology or by people who support the state of Israel. There may be sympathy for the Devil, although there’s none in your future. But stand by those principles. Good for you! Since you also had to kiss your credit cards and the fraud prevention on your bank accounts good-bye, it’s just as well that you’ve abandoned Israeli technology, as you’re now dead broke and can’t afford it. Just remember somewhere there’s clean and well-dressed Israelis with plates full of fresh food and good glasses of wine, chatting with nice people from all over the world and checking the market and the latest entertainment on their phones, while their expert doctors invent the next-life-saving devices just for them. Coming soon, Israeli flying fold-up cars, you’re really going to hate missing out on those. The Israelis have already turned jellyfish into diapers. Jellyfish swaddled babies? Who does that? Come on, you know you want it. Not for you though. You’re wiping your babies with straw. As for the grateful people who might be at those Israelis’ tables: Israel has sent humanitarian aid or rescue teams to countries including Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, the Congo, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Japan, Kenya, Malawi, the Maldives, Mexico, Mississippi (the U.S.), Mozambique, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Since you can no longer visit these places, call them, or read about them in anything but your local library’s…whoops, you can’t check out books either. Pesky computers. Ink again too. Maybe if you’re lucky a friend of yours will crush some berries, pluck a goose, hand-copy this out for you on a scrap of bark, and strap it to a pigeon. Watch out for bird flu, cause, you know… Oh, and what about the results of your heroic sacrifice in the name of anti-Semitism? What did the BDS movement actually accomplish? Well, perhaps a few Israeli date farmers lost half a percentage point on their sales, at which point they were bailed out by an Israeli tech company or venture capital fund looking for a tax write-off. The alarming die-off of all the Presbyterians scared the rest of the lying BDS hypocrites right back into the arms of Israeli technology, which the rest of the world had never dreamed of abandoning, and the Israelis still got paid. But as for you, the true believer, the biased and BDS-practicing, last of the Presbyterians, well, enjoy the darkness. The Israelis will always have tikkun olam, and be a light unto the nations. Facebook Comments About Zionist Blonde
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95470	calendar>>January 21. 2013 Juch 102 Guidelines for Development of Juche Literature Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il made public a celebrated work "On Juche Literature" on January 20, Juche 81 (1992). The work expounds all theories arising in the creation of literature conducive to shaping out the destiny of human beings aspiring after independence. It deals with matters related to the building of Juche-based literature such as developing traditional literature and art, inheriting the revolutionary literature and art and portraying President Kim Il Sung in literature. It also gives a clear-cut exposition of such issues as the seed of a work, the principle of portrayal and kinds of literature. His work has displayed its great vitality in developing Juche literature over the last 20 odd years. After the publication of the work, a full-length novel "An Everlasting Life" was released as part of the series of novel "Immortal History" and "Upheaval" as part of the series of novel "Immortal Guidance", through a drive for creating literary pieces portraying the leader of the revolution. Besides, various novels were produced one after another, including those based on stories about unconverted long-term prisoners. Among the literary pieces created in the period are an epic "Comrade Kim Il Sung Is Our Eternal Leader", an immortal revolutionary hymn "Song of General Kim Jong Il" and a song "Glory to Our Great Party", which aroused the DPRK people to making great achievements in the era of Songun. Meanwhile, popular literary pieces were created by people of different social strata through a campaign of putting literature on a mass basis, among them being songs "Girls Riding on Galloping Steeds" and "Tondollari of Reunification". In particular, a large number of poems, songs and novels in praise of leader Kim Jong Il were created during the mourning over his demise.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95563	Data mining Our research on data mining focuses on the development of statistical and machine learning methods that are able to reveal the temporal structure in the data. We are particularly interested in applications which involve massive sequential datasets collected at high frequency. Members of the Centre have focused their research in credit scoring, for classification of credit applications in changing dynamic environments and churn predictive modelling (Pavlidis et al., 2012, Crone and Finlay, 2012). Moreover, issues arising in data pre-processing and model evaluation have been extensively investigated. A full list of publications can be found here.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95576	The Tweeter, Basics Dr.-Ing. Peter Strassacker The dome tweeter: a moving coil driver A moving coil driver is the most common driver type for hi-fi and PA applications and consists of a magnet and a voice coil. Prinzipbild Hochton-Lautsprecher - The magnetic field builds up in the air gap (green). Pole plate and pole piece (grey) are extending the magnet (black). - The voice coil moves inside the air gap (red). When current flows through the voice coil (vertical red dots), the magnetic field (green, directed horizontally) generates a force that moves in a right angle to the current and the magnetic field, i.e. up or down. This force causes the excursion (blue arrows) of the diaphragm (black). Piezo tweeter Piezo drivers are very popular in low cost applications, especially in automotive and PA systems. The piezoelectric effect: when a piezoelectric crystal is deformed, electric current develops and vice versa: electric current causes deformation of the piezoelectric crystal. Since a relatively high current over a short distance is needed, the piezoelectric crystal has to be quite thin and often has two layers. Piezoelectric transducers are also used for ultrasonic immersion and special drives (micro drives). Prinzipbild Hochton-Lautsprecher The mostly thin piezoelectric crystal is equipped with electrodes (electrically conductive areas). The crystal's small excursion is then transferred to the diaphragm (the blue curved line in the picture). Piezoelectric crystals have a relatively high impedance and, therefore, effect an amplifier like a capacitor causing many amplifiers to oscillate in case no other loudspeakers are connected. At low frequencies the impedance is high, drawing no power while at high frequencies (1 to 10 kHz) the crystal has a low impedance, producing sound; as a result, the piezoelectric transducer doesn't need a crossover. Ribbon tweeter ribbon tweeter The ribbon tweeter - like a moving coil driver - also uses a magnetic field (green arrows) and a conductor (grey), though not in form of a coil but a ribbon. The ribbon is both, a conductor and a diaphragm. Since the ribbon has a very low resistance, connection to an amplifier or crossover is done via a transformer (on the right side of the picture) attached to the ribbon.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95578	16 U.S. Code § 3603 - Receipt of Organization communications by Secretary of State (a) Concurrence with Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior on regulatory measures; action on other matters The Secretary of State may— (1) receive, on behalf of the United States, reports, requests, recommendations, proposals, and other communications of the Organization and its subsidiary organs; (2) with the concurrence of the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior, approve, object to, or withdraw objections to regulatory measures proposed in accordance with the Convention; and (b) Submission to President on failure of concurrence on regulatory matters If the concurrence required under subsection (a)(2) of this section has not been obtained by the Secretary of State— (1) regarding the approval of, or the objection to, a proposed regulatory measure within forty-five days after the measure was received on behalf of the United States; or (2) regarding the withdrawal of an objection of the United States to a proposed regulatory measure within forty-five days after such withdrawal is proposed by the Secretary of State; the Secretary of State shall submit the matter in disagreement, together with a statement of the opposing positions, to the President for timely disposition. (Pub. L. 97–389, title III, § 304,Dec. 29, 1982, 96 Stat. 1952.) 16 USCDescription of ChangeSession YearPublic LawStatutes at Large 15 CFR - Commerce and Foreign Trade
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95590	Hot Pepper Mash Pepper mash is salt cured ‘aged’ hot peppers. Hot peppers can be cured by this method because of the resulting low pH (high acidity) and the preservative properties of capsaicin, the chemical which gives hot peppers their heat. The biological and chemical process which takes place during curing are not fully understood. Most hot sauce recipes call for fresh and dried ingredients. Hot Sauce
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95595	• Disciple - Scars Remain • Disciple - After The World • Disciple - The Wait Is Over • Disciple - Lay My Burdens • Disciple - The Wait is Over (Live) Click anywhere to exit gallery Southern Christian rockers finesse their sound over time, while also retaining their secular stance. Their self-released debut, What Was I Thinking came out in 1995, followed by an EP, My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy, on Warner Resound in 1997. Their sophomore full-length effort, This Might Sting a Little Bit, followed two years later on Rugged Records. By God followed in 2001 on the same label. 2003's Back Again found the band on a new label, the independent Slain Records. The group signed with Sony the following year and released Rise Up in June of 2005. Scars Remain arrived on the Integrity label in 2006. ~ Steve Huey. Play Disciple playlist Play Disciple videos Gallery 1990s, 2000s, 2010s Pop/Rock, Religious, Christian Rock, Contemporary Christian, Gospel, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal Twitter Spotify iTunes Facebook
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95642	tagFetishPanty Show Panty Show He lived a couple of apartments down from me. I used to try to run into him in the hallways and one night, I ran into him in the laundry room. I was washing my work outfits, which basically meant loads of lingerie. I had dumped my bag out on the folding table and was sorting them out by color when he came in with a load of his own clothes. 'Jackpot,' I thought, as I started to slowly paw through my underthings, holding up first a green lace thong, then a red mesh one. 'Oh, hi, how are you?' I gushed when I saw him looking at my panties. 'You live in 189, right?' He nodded, and mumbled a hello, then began to sort his own clothing into the machines. I kept an eye on him out of the corner of my eye, and was pleased to notice he was still staring at my panties. 'So, M_,' I said, catching him in a full blown stare. 'Which ones do YOU think look better?' I finished, holding up the red and green pairs of panties. He sort of stammered a minute, looking down. When he looked up, I saw the grin on his face. 'I don't rightly know,' he drawled, 'why don't you try them on and let me judge then?' I stood there a second, rather surprised by this turn of events. However, never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I smiled and lifted my skirt. The pair I currently had on were jewel blue silk panties, and I let him stare at them for a moment before I slowly slid them off my hips, down my thighs, and finally to the floor. I looked at him, still holding my skirt up, flashing him a nice clear look at my shaven muff. His grin got bigger, and (I noticed with satisfaction) so did his dick. I turned around and grabbed the red pair of panties. This time I pointed my ass at him as I lifted my skirt, slooowly bent over, and stepped daintily into the fragile mesh panties. I pulled them up my calves, over my knees and made a show of situating the thong back properly. Then I turned around and posed, showing off the peekaboo-pussy effect of the stretchy material. 'Panties number one!' I announced. 'Very nice, very nice,' he said, and pretended to golf clap. I slid the red panties down over my hips, but this time I sat down on the bench next to the table to remove them completely, being sure to flash a little pink his way as I stepped out of them. Then I slid the green pair up my legs and sat back with my skirt around my waist and the panties around my thighs. I thrust my hips in the air and slid them quickly up my backside, knowing he was getting a hell of a show. Then I stood and turned slowly around so he could see the gorgeous green lace against my pale skin. 'Okay, cowboy,' I purred at him. 'Which ones?' He pretended to think, and that's when I noticed he had his cock in his hand and was gently jacking it while watching my show. I watched, feeling myself wetting the new panties. 'I like the green lace ones,' he said, sounding a little hoarse... then his cock started to leak precum. Keeping my skirt high over my hips, I walked over to him and kissed him. I felt his mouth open under mine, and his tongue enter me, and I sucked him further into my mouth. I pressed myself against him, kissing him deeply and hungrily, and felt his hand rhythmically massaging himself between us, against my belly. I stood up on my tiptoes as high as I could and felt his hand moving now against my lace-clad pussy. I gently moved myself against his hand and his penis, feeling his heat through the panties, kissing him deeply still, his other hand buried in my hair as he kissed me back equally as hard. I lifted my leg and rested my thigh on his hip, humping him while he jacked off, and finally I felt him moan into my mouth and the wetness of his cum leaking through the panties he'd chosen for me, wetting me. I slid off him, and slid the panties we'd both wet off my body. I kissed him again, this time gently, as I wiped him clean with them, and then dropped them into his basket. Then I gathered my things up and walked out of the laundry room, knowing he knew I wasn't wearing anything under my skirt and hoping to hear from him again... very soon. Report Story byMinXxX© 0 comments/ 114989 views/ 4 favorites Share the love Tags For This Story Report a Bug 1 Pages:1 Please Rate This Submission: Please Rate This Submission: • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 Please wait Favorite Author Favorite Story heartchcchw, TheHighCountry and 2 other people favorited this story! Forgot your password? Please wait Change picture Your current user avatar, all sizes: You have a new user avatar waiting for moderation. Select new user avatar:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95644	tagMatureTumultuous Times At St.Thomas Ch. 01 Tumultuous Times At St.Thomas Ch. 01 byDeadly Joker© Chapter 1 - Go See the Principal mmm...yeah, that's nice, pump that tight pussy good. smack 'n' pull those tits. watch that sweet ass move..mmm. mmm...what about her? what about both of them? bitches. hot bitches. pile one ass up on the other, and have four tight hot nasty holes to FUCK. fuck 'em like- "Huh? Wah?" With his teacher's voice, 18-year-old Manny was shocked out of his imaginary revelry. Here in fifth-period English, his mind had drifted off whatever Ms. LaLonde had been speaking about, to his grand goal for this last year of high school. His project was, quite simply, to get laid. It wasn't that he wasn't reasonably fit and good looking. But his shyness and quiet manner, combined with a self-reliance and independence, meant that he was a sharp contrast from most of his peers, who would say and do outrageous things in hopes of fitting in and getting a sliver of attention. He didn't play the social game, and wouldn't know the rules if he tried. And for the few girls that did try to approach him, his shyness and awkwardness would stop him from showing even the most preliminary signs of interest. Meanwhile, he'd go home alone and think about what he could do with that girl, whacking off three times a night. This year, he promised himself, that was going to change. He was going to learn the pleasures of sex. Time was already passing, this being the Friday of the first week of school, and so he began to look around the class at the different girls, considering possibilities. Kelly with the nice tits and ass, but glasses and odd hair that might put her in my league? No, no, don't think like that, wouldn't sluts be easier? Maybe offer a little help with the homework? The Filipino Selena there, whose catholic school uniform kilt seems to get shorter year after year to reveal more of those luscious legs in hose... Soon after this was where his teacher caught him off guard, and he tried to shake off his flustered feeling, but already some of the other kids were giggling at him. "Yes, Miss?" Ms. LaLonde fixed him with a dramatic scowl, "Hmmm, daydreaming about spaceships and astro-men again, I bet." That was a crack at his vociferous defence of science fiction as literature in one of the first classes of the year. That, he thought, is why I usually don't say anything. "That was the Principal, Mrs. Cole," His teacher continued. "She wants to see you after class, in her office. Something about some computer hocus-pocus you worked on?" "Oooo," one of the guys in class, a big-mouth in Manny's judgement, ragged him, loud enough that half the class heard, "Manny's got a hot date with a computer for Friday night!" "Now, now class, we still have a few minutes," Ms. LaLonde picked up a piece of chalk, "Back to the life and times of Shakespeare..." Manny felt frustrated as he walked took a seat outside the Principal's office. The secretary had told him to wait, as Mrs. Cole was currently seeing someone else, and might be for a while. This definitely meant he wasn't going to be meeting up with anyone one their way home, and would likely be left out of any discussions of what they were going to do over the weekend. Damn. A long time passed when the door finally creaked open, and let out three people, one woman and two men, that Manny didn't recognize. He assumed they were visiting officials from the school board. He was about to get up when Mrs. Cole poked her head out the door. "You're Manuel, right?" Manny nodded, "People call me Manny." "Alright," Mrs. Cole grinned. Why don't you go in and have a seat, I'm just going to tell the rest of the office staff they can head home when they want to, it's getting late. And a Friday." Geez, you're telling me, Manny thought. And the day still had a hint of sunny summer. Still, he couldn't help taking a peek at Mrs. Cole's swaying behind, rubbing side-to-side under a navy skirt, as she walked down the hallway to the receptionist's desk. Most guys talked behind her back about Principal Cole being an old fat hag, and Manny, mostly to fit in, chuckled and nodded along. But in his private thoughts he couldn't understand why they said it. A brunette with shoulder-length black hair that fell in casual curls, Manny guessed she stood about five-foot-five, or certainly shorter than most of her senior students. But she made up for it with piercing eyes that were always noticeably accented with mascara, and strong lipstick decorated the lips which spit out directions that didn't expect to be questioned. And she always wore an excess of jewellery; gold bracelets and necklaces with stones, rings and even extra piercings in her earlobes. She kept her large round breasts and a big round ass in tight confinement while at work, under her business-like skirts and jackets. She'd be a total knockout in a car-wash type setting, Manny thought. Nothing but a wet white T-shirt holding down those melons, and some tight hotpants to spread an lift those sweet asscheeks. Nice and round, yeah... Manny shook those sorts of thoughts from his head, and made his way into her office, throwing down his knapsack beside one of the cushioned leather chairs that sat in front of the desk, and then slouching in it himself. He heard steps coming back up the hallway. "Thanks for coming to see me, Manny." He heard Mrs. Cole close the door and...was that the lock? "Sorry about the wait" Mrs. Cole stepped out in front of him, and leaned back slightly against her desk. Manny could see his private opinion of her wasn't wrong. Sure there were a few lines on her face, and he guessed she was somewhere over forty, but her body, and her powerful attitude captured the attention of Manny's teenage hormones. "What I wanted to talk to you about, Manny, was the work you did here, under Mr. Spencer in the computer department. In the week before school?" "Uh, yeah." Manny was a bit nervous in this environment, and brushed a stray lock of black hair from his eyes. Heck, even when kids got in real trouble, they usually just saw one of the Vice Principals. "Mr. Spencer couldn't really handle all the work himself, so he asked me to help out. I know it's not exactly school code, but with all the budget cutbacks...I'm not going to get written up on this, am I?" Principal Cole chuckled musically, and leaned back a bit on the edge of her desk, giving Manny a few more inches of stocking-covered leg to look at. "Oh dear, no Manny, no, I'm not angry at all." Manny believed her. In fact, he'd never seen her act this nice to anyone before. Accommodating, almost...ingratiating? "Also," she continued, "Mr. Spencer says that you worked down on these computers here, specifically in my office, all by yourself? And you took the backup tapes home?" She fixed him with a hard gaze Manny couldn't quite figure, except that it went through him to electrify his spine. "No! Well, what I mean is," Manny sputtered out in nervous energy, "what I mean is, the tapes had been used to the max that the rules allow. For data integrity reasons. "But, y'know, they're still kinda good, if you're not doing mission-critical stuff. So instead of throwing them out, Mr. Spencer just let me have them." "Ah." It was almost a sigh from the Principal. She stepped to the door, very deliberately, putting high-heeled feet one in front of the other. Manny turned his head to watch her bend over and adjust the vertical blinds on the window to the hallway so the view was blacked out. "And I don't suppose even if we went to your house and took them, if they were still there, that they'd be the only copy you'd have by now, would they?" Manny felt a logic blockage in his brain, and it wasn't just the effect of watching his 'Queen Bitch' principal bend over and display her butt in his direction, and keep it there for more time than he knew was necessary. Manny felt something rise in his throat, and an odd taste on his tongue, as he watched her walk over to the windows facing out, lower the blinds and tilt them shut. And always spreading her legs, bending over arching her back. Manny began to feel tingles in his stomach and elsewhere, trying to keep his nervous gulps quiet, trapped in a situation he didn't dare imagine would continue on this track. "But, Mrs. Cole, the tapes were erased." "Don't play games! We both know a simple 'unerase' program will take care of that." "Um...uh...oh, Principal Cole..." Manny didn't know what to do in this situation. Shades drawn, the room was bathed in shadow, though rays of light from the bright day outside worked their way in through cracks. "You can call me Jasmine, if you want to." She stood right in front of him now, her legs powerfully planted on either side of his outstretched legs. "Oh, you're a cool customer, Manuel. Manny, I guess I should say, if that's what you like. "Just keeping it cool and quiet until we came to you. But we don't have to be enemies do we? We can be friends. We can work it out. "I know what boys like." Mrs. Cole had a small silk scarf around her neck, which she removed and threw away with a flourish. Dropping her shoulders back, her jacket slipped off and dropped to the floor as well, revealing her white silk blouse underneath. Squatting down, she rubbed her hands over the crotch of Manny's grey uniform pants. "Oooh, I'm gonna make you so happy, baby." Manny gripped the armrests of his chair and clenched his teeth. In a haze of lust, he barely noticed how one moment his half-hard cock was straining in his briefs, and the next his school principal had undone his belt and pulled down his pants enough to spring it free and put her lips around it. It was a sight as vivid as a car crash, as otherworldly as the northern lights, that would burn into his memory the way a parent remembers the first time they see their newborn child. In the darkened office of his Principal, in the heart of St. Thomas Catholic High School, his pants were undone and pulled down enough to let his swollen cock free, and his normally ice-cold principal was pumping her mouth up and down on his cock like the educational future of the institution depended on it. It affected Manny so greatly, that he uttered his first words since it all started. "Oh, fuck yeah! Suck it! Suck it good!" Mrs. Cole lifted her head up off his cock, "You like it, huh baby, you like my mouth?" Opening her mouth she stuck out her tongue, smacking the head of the fat cock against its wetness. "Oh yeah, you've got a nice thick one. Here, let me at your balls." She drew back a bit, and together they struggled, taking off his shoes and pants as quickly as possible. Leaning back again, Manny let his legs be pushed to the sides by Mrs. Cole's hands, and then gasped as she tongued his balls, taking one then the other in her mouth, while still pumping the shaft of his cock with one hand. Not wanting to cum too quick, Manny tried to divert his attention to the panelled ceiling, and away from the inflamed woman giving him his first blowjob. Trying to pull his thoughts elsewhere, he thought - what is going on? There's obviously something I'm missing. The backup tapes. Something about the- "Mmm...your hairy balls sure are nice, but I wanna shove that cock down my throat." Mrs. Cole's lips once again enveloped his cock, her hands disappeared between her legs, and she pumped up and down solely with her head. Manny's purple cockhead kept bumping against the back of her throat, making choking sounds, and saliva coated his cock and her lips, running down his balls in rivulets. "Oh fuck," Manny felt it begin deep in his balls. He put a hand on Mrs. Cole's head, and grabbed a fistful of her wild black hair. Trying to push her throat down a little deeper each time, he wasn't prepared when she began to hum from deep within, "Huuuummmmmmm..." "Oh, FUCK!!!" Manny's orgasm burst over the edge, and he curled forward, placing both hands on Mrs. Cole's head, hips thrusting up and shoving his cock down her throat. He could hear some choking and gurgling, but in the darkness of his clenched eyes there were stars exploding, and all his body cared about was thrust after hard thrust into the tight hole at his mercy, to get all his jizzum out. Manny came harder and longer than he ever had before, and after the buzz in his head subsided somewhat, and he opened his eyes a sliver, he realized he was still forcing Mrs. Cole's head down on his crotch, far enough that her nose was touching his abdomen. "Oh shit," he muttered, let go, and fell back into the recliner. Mrs. Cole, free of her dominator, coughed and gurgled as she pulled her head off the still half-hard penis of one of her students. Several globs of semen mixed with saliva dripped past her trembling lips and onto Manny's slowly shrinking penis. Exhausted, she placed her forehead on Manny's stomach, trying to catch her breath. Manny looked down at Mrs. Cole resting her head on his stomach, and felt terrible. It was worse than that feeling when he jacked off at home, and then realized he was all alone afterward. Here he'd taken advantage of a woman, older than him by decades, and not only did he accept sex in payment for something unknown, but he'd almost killed her with the force of his lust. The way her face looked, when he was holding her down on his cock, so vividly red and in distress, it was unspeakable. He was getting out of here. Now. As he was about to say something, Mrs. Cole raised her head. Her wild look was shocking. Hair clung to the sweat on her face. A mixture of saliva and semen decorated her chin and the area around her mouth. He thought he could almost smell it from here. And tears from her eyes had streaked mascara down her cheeks. It was wild, feral. It was the most sexually hardcore sight Manny had ever seen. And he'd caused it. "Lemmie just clean you up, lover." Mrs. Cole's voice was a rumble, her throat sore from cock. She submissively lowered her head and began peacefully lapping up all the splattered juices on Manny's crotch. Manny's thoughts were a jumble: This is so hot. This is wrong. This is a dream. I'm going to pay for this. Why not milk it for all you can? The longer I stay the worse it's going to be when someone figures out how nasty I was. For that moment, Manny's good conscience, the part that had kept him in good standing in school and with his parents, kept him out of trouble, but also kept him a virgin, won out. As Mrs. Cole was licking his balls clean, he made a move to get out. But his thoughts were still all jumbled, and for some reason he thought it would be best to somehow draw back and then step over his cocksucking principal, so as to avoid her influence as much as possible. His first move was to raise his left leg, and place the foot on the seat cushion. "Oooh, kinky boy!" The move had exposed Manny's asshole, peaking between his ass cheeks, to the view of Mrs. Cole, and she dove at it tongue first. Manny's heart jumped to the back of his throat again. All thoughts of leaving were forgotten. He'd never felt anything like this. "Nasty nasty, making me clean up your sweaty ass too, huh?" She spread his cheeks with her hands and attacked the pucker with the tip of her tongue. She leaned back on the balls of her feet. "Here, come on, let's do it right." She used her hands to show Manny where to draw back his knees, and he ended up pulling them back tight against his ears as he lay back in the recliner, his now mostly-soft dick pointing back at him, and his ass hanging out over the edge of the leather seat, spread open. "Oooh, baby," she teased, tracing over his puckered asshole with a finger. "This is a very trusting position, you know? We can be like that too. Trusting. I'll take care of you, and you don't tell nothing to nobody, huh? "Yeah," she winked and brought her sex-destroyed face to his ass, "I'll take care of you." The pleasure Manny felt when she ate his ass was ten times greater when she finally worked her tongue into the sphincter and thrust it in and out, or wormed it around. Mrs. Cole even pushed a finger in and out, penetrating deeper than her tongue could. It was bringing the blood back to Manny's dick. Finally, Manny brought his legs down slowly, his conscience gaining the upper hand. He was about to say he was going home. Mrs. Cole stood up on her feet, somewhat unsteadily, and watched Manny put his feet down on the ground, and saw his half-hard cock twitch with every heartbeat, getting a little more tumescent each time. Manny told himself was about to say he was going home. "So, loverboy, I guess this is it for tonight?" Her eyes sparkled, "Or are you looking for another round?" Manny wanted to say he was going home, but he could only look at his cock. The way it pulsed and slowly hardened. And Mrs. Cole wasn't going anywhere, just standing in front of him, white blouse still on, but her skirt had been pulled up to her waist, so he could see her black stockings, garters, and panties. As he continued not saying anything, his dick pulsed and grew. He really wanted to get up and leave, somewhere deep inside. Honestly, he thought, there's still a part of me that will do the right thing. But then Mrs. Cole began unbuttoning her blouse, each button revealing deep inviting cleavage. Manny stood up in front of her and helped her with the last few buttons. She cast the shirt off, revealing her breasts, confined by a black lacy bra. "Do you like these, baby?" She ran her hands to the front, "I hope they're not too big for you." Unclasping the bra in front, the breasts broke free, spilled out and bounced downward. They certainly sagged a bit, being that large and aged, but they still drove Manny mad. "Fuck!" He attacked one with both hands, grabbing and mauling the softness, sucking and biting the nipple, going wild licking around her massive areola. Momentarily satisfied, he moved on to the other and attacked it the same way. Mrs. Cole's libido was revved up by the young man's sexual hunger, though she was a bit alarmed by his ravenousness. "Does baby want a titty-fuck? C'mon, I'll rub my tits all over your dick..." She crouched down and leaned back against her desk, and pulled Manny's hard and throbbing dick to her chest. "Yeah," she wrapped her tits around his shaft and let him pump away, lapping with her tongue at his cockhead when it emerged from the titflesh. "You like that, baby? My husband loves it." Husband, Manny thought. Shit. Of course. She's got a husband. She's got kids. She's got a life. And here I am, using her like some whore in a porno. But he didn't stop. Pulling his cock out Manny started spanking it against one tit, still wet with his saliva. Grabbing the tip of his cock, he pressed the slit against her nipple, trying to make the two mate. "Oh, yeah. Fuck yeah...fuck..." "Um," Mrs. Cole looked a bit confused, "how about you fuck my pussy. Okay boy? C'mon..." She pulled away and stood up, dropping her skirt and then slipping off her panties. "Here you go, Manny dear," She slipped the panties into his shirt pocket, "A little souvenir for you." Manny realized he'd forgotten he was still wearing a shirt, and his school tie as well. He took them off as quickly as he could. He turned back to see Mrs. Cole on the edge of her desk, the opened bra hanging over her shoulders, garters and stockings and high-heel shoes barely touching the ground. Her legs were spread, and Manny got his eyes on her pussy, a tuft of dark hair over the lips, but the lips themselves shaved bare. Manny grabbed his cock and walked over, sparing preliminaries he put the head to her slit and pressed in, and in a few strokes was able to use most of his length, thrusting in and out. Report Story byDeadly Joker© 2 comments/ 117598 views/ 4 favorites Share the love Report a Bug 2 Pages:12 Forgot your password? Please wait Change picture Your current user avatar, all sizes: You have a new user avatar waiting for moderation. Select new user avatar:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95663	Friday, May 21, 2010 Social Security for Social Media I saw an interesting post from Seth Goden today (Sort of private) about a URL-shortening tool that adds a simple form of protection to the target link. The service calls itself a "magic url shortener," the magic being that you assign a password and a clue to the shortened URL. People who click the shortened URL must provide the correct password based on the clue in order to complete the redirection. When I read the post, it occurred to me that it was inevitable that someone would apply a social form of security to social media. What is clever about this approach is that you can scale the level of security to the size of the audience you want to reach. For example, if you want only your family to see the redirected page, the clue would relate to something only your family would be likely to know (e.g. "What was grandpa Brashear's first name?"). You could also make the clue something only a person with specific interests would be likely to know, such as "what is a beer mixture called before it is fermented." Another thing I like about this form of "social security" is that the technique is virtually bot-proof. You could set up a page that is linked ONLY through a "social security" tool such as, and web-crawling bots would have no way to directly reach that page. On the flip side, no page that is behind a URL will get spidered through the URL, which may be an unintended consequence. A co-worker of mine once introduced me to a Hebrew word that has stuck with me since, and it applies in this situation: shibboleth. For my purposes, Wiktionary has the most appropriate definition, "A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc." The cool thing about a shibboleth is that it lets you identify a specific group of people. It's like a secret pass code. It isn't exactly "secure" in most cases, since a dedicated person can probably just do a little research to find the answer to the clue. But those who are already "in the know" feel that satisfying sense of belonging that comes with having insider knowledge. However, I think this approach could backfire if used as a marketing technique. Just as insiders get a little thrill out of knowing the answer, those who don't know the answer may feel alienated. You have to be very careful about how you use a shibboleth with prospects because it can come across as elitist and exclusionary just as easily as it could be seen as a clever gimmick. Used properly, I think social security tools like have the potential to be another "fun" aspect of social interaction on the Web. No comments: Post a Comment
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95693	Ruff Ryder Nigga, Volume 2 We show niggas the meaning of ryde or die So all that bullshit you talking, go head nigga You don't gotta slap me five or give me a hug And it hurts when you gotta kill a nigga you love But I'm gone deal wit my enemies sooner Cause I got'em looking for my solo album like Kennedy Jr. Fuck crush ice, go head and get your shine on I'm bout to cop rocks that y'all niggas can climb on Don't worry bout why I ain't got mine on Things ain't all good right now Y'all can stop acting like that nigga J gone squeeze Cause all I got is misdeameanors and some ACD's Y'all gon make me lay something down I promise And Puff wear scarmas and listen to Carl Thomas Puff running and hide and we coping more guns An we coming outside cause somebody gotta die Go head you know we getting plenty of Dough Go head you know we lighting plenty of dro Go head you know we coming from Y-O Go head truly though Go head really though Go Head you know we hitting plenty of hos Go head you know we ripping plenty of shows Go head you know we coming from Y-O Go head truly though Go head really though Now I warned y'all niggas that Sheek was the one Now I'm warning y'all niggas that I got my gun Read to kill, don't worry bout no doctor bill It ain't gone be one of those just yo casket clothes Lox, nah you rather fuck wit the cops Cause I pop and turn y'all like the optimum box No paper feud, it's straight hate wit dude So I'm hungry and let the morgue zip up your crew You wanna hope on our dicks and go whilly yo bikes And wear Ruff Ryder tees, motherfucker please You a poke-a-nose nigga, want you stick to the skis And I don't hear a nigga raps no more Only time I cop y'all shit if Lox on it I shoot you in yo mouth ain't no calling the cops I want my shit back like cash flo and Elian's pop I'm always that, I'm always this But the floor stay nasty like hallway piss If you here the P spitting it's a deep ass song When I die mama bury me wit street clothes on Cause drama be the threapy, the beef goes on Should've been speaking out of it makes it a lot But I was fucking wit the savages, kicking the drop Catch me smoking my weed or fucking your whore Push my whip to the limit kind of hoping it flip Throw my clip to the tip kind of hoping you flip I feel sorry for the crackheads, but happy for myself So I got mixed feelings about this hussling shit I keep saying I'm gone quit after a couple of bricks But I can't stop building and I don't pop children But I got no problem kidnapping a bitch Correct \| Mail \| Print \| Vote Go Head Lyrics
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95694	Two connected tongues Flesh beginnings But still you couldn't taste Cyanide in the open skies below us Below us A two way street And oh, we've eaten all the dough It's our chance to polist Spanky's boots Finally see we cannot ?? we loath it But in consolation gives us cash ?? Come with high regard from heavy metal country They write you super-love and seal it with the kick And now the creator's skull is cracked Out come the underground with artificial love They're singing loud, so very proud To show the mess they made At Zoo Arcade When something central took away their guns Sometimes I'm programmed better than the other ones Sometimes I'm programmed to shoot the shot around the world Sometimes I'm programmed Correct \| Mail \| Print \| Vote Heavy Metal Country Lyrics
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95695	New! Read & write lyrics explanations • Highlight lyrics and explain them to earn Karma points. Verse I: To some it's just an emblem a formality. It's a symbol that's been used so frequently. Many blaspheme and despise. Though it's ancient, it abides. A shrine to death that stands for life to me. There was a cross made for the Son of God at Calvary. Two pieces of rough timber on a hill. Through His hands and through His feet, He took the nails for you and me. Angels watched as He died for the lost. Though He could have walked away He chose the cross. Verse II: You see why this old emblem is so dear to me. It stood for suffering, yet it brought us peace. It bridged the gap for me. Offered cleansing for our sins. An icon that reminds us that we're free. God forbid that I should ever let my memory fade. But forever keep the cross in view for that's where I was saved. Lyrics taken from Correct \| Report Please input the reason why these lyrics are bad: • U UnregisteredAug 18, 2012 at 9:56 pm Without the shedding of blood there would be no remission of sin. I am thankful for the cross and for the blood that flowed from calvary for the sins of the whole world. One drop that he shed was for my sins, one stripe on his back was for my healing, one thorn on his head was for all the hurt, every step jesus took for me, it was love. Thank you lord for the precious life that you gave for me. His handmaiden • U UnregisteredApr 14, 2012 at 5:25 pm The cross reminds me that jesus christ paid and died for my sin.. He saved me from hell to heaven.. Reminds me that christ once died for you and me because of his great love. • U UnregisteredJan 2, 2012 at 1:11 am The cross is the #1 symbol of victory in my life. Jesus died on a cross and paid the price for my sins. Now i have victory in my life over sin and the things that would otherwise cause me to be defeated. I am a walking testimony of the healing power of the cross, the delivering power of the cross, and the restoring power of the cross. I cling to it - no matter what the world may say. I know people would call me crazy and foolish. But i would trade evrything in this world for jesus. You need to meet him - the real jesus. Ask him to come into your heart today! Write about your feelings and thoughts Min 50 words Not bad Write an explanation Your explanation Add image by pasting the URLBoldItalicLink 10 words Explanation guidelines:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95696	New! Read & write lyrics explanations • Highlight lyrics and explain them to earn Karma points. [Dizzee Rascal] Get me We got a lot to talk bout Raskit, Godsgift Oi yo What you do will come back to you What you do will come back to you What you do will come back to you What you do will come back to you What you do will come back to you What you do will come back Hold your mout' (hold your mout') Raskit don't give a shit (i mean) Aint concerned, aint worried, don't mind But you should watch your lip (i mean) If you keep chattin in a hurry you'll find The bottom of a 6 foot pit (i mean) Don't care what creed, colour or kind Bullets'll make you sit (i mean) Make you relax, lay-down, unwind Raskit don't give a damn (i mean) Aint that bothered not much, don't care Catch me if you can (i mean) Its possible you will get hit with a chair Talk like your the man (i mean) If you want beef you'll get a fair share Dizzee got a masterplan (i mean) I'm a problem for Antony Blair Raskit don't have a bar (i mean) Don't have it from him, her or dem I'll make a rudeboy say rarr (i mean) With or without the use of a skeng Remove you from your car (i mean) Got a temper, it's big like ben And i don't care who you are (i mean) Move to your boys, i'll move to your men Raskit don't waste time (i mean) Don't hesitate, don't pet, don't ramp .22, .38, .9 (i mean) These digits'll leave you stiff like cramp You wanna test? that's fine (i mean) You couldnt take Dizzee Rascal for a tramp If you cross my line (i mean) I'll leave you colourful, dazed and damp I don't want beef today Its not arms today Lets keep it calm today Lets be friends I don't wanna write today Lets not fight today I feel alright today Lets be friends [God's gift] You've got a problem blud? Lets solve it blud Gats and bora's blud Hold your mout' [x2] [Dizzee Rascal] Yo, it don't make no sense to me Why fella's don't wanna act sensibly You better re-check your identity You better re-check how you speak You don't make no sense to me If i switch i wont act sensibly I'll make you care intensively You'll be in a coma for a week And i really can't come to grips With how these fellas act just like chicks But now i retaliate with clips And now i retaliate with force You should come to grips With how you really should watch your lips You better know we're some lunatics And that we retaliate, of course [God's gift] You don't wanna feel the heat from muh (click click) I roll deep wi' muh (click click) I'm always on the street wi' muh (click click) I eat wi' muh (click click) I sleep wi' muh (click click) And i can put you 6 foot deep wi' muh (click click) Chat shit you get beat wi' muh (click click) Roll straight sound be the street wi' muh (click click) Try if im never on my feet wi' muh (click click) I'm only on my feet when i bus' heat (gunshots) And you just ran outta luck wi' muh (click click) Say your gonna get fucked up wi' muh (click click) Gunshots leave bodies bruk wi 'muh (click click) And i can make the whole place duck wi' muh (click click) If you don't wanna get stuck wi' muh (click click) Don't wanna get out the truck wi' muh (click click) Cause you'll get jacked and gun-but wi' muh (click click) And i'll leave your whole jaw bruk wi' muh (click click click click) Lyrics taken from Correct \| Report Please input the reason why these lyrics are bad: Write about your feelings and thoughts Min 50 words Not bad Write an explanation Your explanation Add image by pasting the URLBoldItalicLink 10 words Explanation guidelines:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95703	pow! http://www.maclife.com/taxonomy/term/5776/all en Free App Fridays: Comics http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/free_app_fridays_comics <!--paging_filter--><p>In honor of Comic Con, we've put together a list of some of the finest comic viewing apps this side of Gotham City. Sift through these timeless apps and desktop software to fully immerse your inner comic book geek, and then shy away when your friends stare are you with disdain for professing you have human super powers because you were bitten by a mosquito. Then again, they're probably just doing so because a human-mosquito combo doesn't sound very frightening, now does it? <br /><br /></p><h3>Mac</h3><p><strong><a href="http://dancingtortoise.com/simplecomic/" target="_blank">Simple Comic</a></strong><br /><br /><img src="/files/u53/simplecomic.jpg" width="380" height="330" /><br /><br />Simple Comic is an intuitive comic reader for the Mac desktop. Its very simple interface lets you enjoy the comic and nothing more. The software includes one or two page display, custom page ordering (left to right or right to left, for manga readers), page capture for extracting individual pages and the ability to view multiple comics at one time.<br /><br /></p><h3>iPad</h3><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics/id303491945?mt=8" target="_blank"><strong>Comixology</strong><br /></a><br /><img src="/files/u53/comixology.jpg" width="358" height="480" /><br /><br />The comics aren't free, but the app is. Get instant access to both Marvel and DC comics at your finger tips. Your favorite comic book characters are available anytime, anywhere. Most of the titles are affordable, and it's a great way to utilize the iPad's wonderful screen real estate. <br /><br /></p><h3>iPhone</h3><p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pow/id317960854?mt=8" target="_blank"><strong>Pow!</strong><br /></a><br /><img src="/files/u53/pow.jpg" width="473" height="313" /><br /><br />Unfortunately, as humans beings living in the real world, we don't have cartoony font pop up when we throw a punch our best friends way. However, this iPhone app totally remedies the situation. Simply grab your iPhone and when you swing, you'll see the words "POW!" or "WHAM!" show up on screen. There are 17 different superhero punching words to pop up, and plenty of attack noises to keep things fresh. Try it out on your friends! <br /><br /><strong>Note</strong>: Mac\|Life does no condone comically punching your friends. Or anybody, for that matter. We suggest trying this out on a stuffed animal. Unless you believe stuffed animals have feelings, too.<br /><br /><br /><em>Follow this article's author, <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ohthatflo" target="_blank">Florence Ion, on Twitter</a>. </em><br /><br /></p><p> </p> http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/free_app_fridays_comics#comments comic viewer Comics comixology Features pow! sdcc10 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:36:31 +0000 Florence Ion 7677 at http://www.maclife.com
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95709	How To Get Face Wax Off Tile Floor Have you ever had one of those moments when you wondered how to get face wax off the tile floor you dripped or spilled on? Face wax is thick, sticky and it dries really fast. You have to be quick to wipe that messy tile up in time. Otherwise, it may seem like it will never come off. Lucky you though, it could be a lot worse. Tile really isn't that bad of a cleaning surface. Just follow these simple steps and your floor will be good as new: 1. Cleaning up your tile from face wax takes only two products that you probably have right in your own kitchen. If you own ice cubes and a sharp blade of some sort, like that on a knife or a razor blade, your tile will be wax free in no time. Your first thought to removing a difficult product like face wax is a lot of muscle and scrubbing of some sort. Well, that isn't the case here. Just a few moments of patience and a steady hand is all it is going to take. 2. Start with an ice cube. Take the ice cube and hold it firmly on the spilled wax until it hardens. This should only take a few minutes at most. Ice and wax go well together in situations like this one. Once the wax has been frozen, it should be easy to remove from the tile floor. 3. The next step in removing the wax is the one that requires a steady hand. Carefully, put your blade towards the underneath of the wax at it's edge. Applying pressure and keeping the blade at a slight angle as to not scratch the tile, the wax on the tile floor should easily chip off. Some spots may require another application of ice, but eventually the face wax on your tile floor will be gone. What Others Are Reading Right Now. • Speakeasy • 10 Mind-Blowing Necktie Knots • 10 Things Women Expect Men to Know How To Do
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95710	Who Created Google "Who created Google?" is a common question. It is, after all, only natural to wonder who founded the largest internet company in the world. Looking for more information on who created Google and the brief story that accompanies Google's history? The creators of Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, where they met and became friends. Page and Brin both had impressive backgrounds in computers and mathematics, which sparked their interest in a search engine. How Google was created. In January 1996, the two future co-founders of Google theorized that there is a better way to rank search results on the internet. Instead of counting how many times the term appeared on a page, Page and Brin developed a technology that looked at the number and importance of pages that linked to the original site. This developed into further versions that elaborated on search engine rankings, which would come to be known as Google. Google was registered under the current domain name in September 1997 (after running under Google.Stanford.edu). Current status. Page and Brin are currently valued at $19.8 billion and have been universally recognized for this accomplishment. For instance, in November 2009, they were named the fifth most powerful people in the world, according to "Forbes" magazine. They regulargly appear on "richest person of the world" lists and have accumulated other awards, from academic and cultural institutions. Both remain in high positions at Google. What Others Are Reading Right Now. • Speakeasy • 10 Mind-Blowing Necktie Knots • 10 Things Women Expect Men to Know How To Do
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95771	Folliculitis is caused by an infection of the hair follicles by bacteria, viruses or fungi. The most common cause of folliculitis is Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Follicles are densest on your scalp, but they occur everywhere on your body except your palms, soles and mucous membranes, such as your lips. If follicles become damaged, they become susceptible to invasion. The most common causes of follicle damage include: • Friction from shaving or tight clothing • Excessive perspiration • Inflammatory skin conditions, including dermatitis and acne • Injuries to your skin, such as abrasions or surgical wounds Oct. 06, 2011 You Are ... The Campaign for Mayo Clinic
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95778	Skip to Content Advances in the Treatment of Testicular Cancer MD Anderson Presents Patient Power - October 14, 2008 Approximately 7,000 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer each year in the United States, making testicular cancer fairly uncommon. About 90% of cases are successfully treated, and even Stage III testicular tumors have a five-year survival rate approaching 75%. Listen to This Episode Lance Pagliaro, M.D. Associate Professor, Genitourinary Medical Oncology Contact Us Appointments available Questions? Need help? Call askMDAnderson © 2014 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95790	Saturday, February 28, 2009 I Hereby Declare Myself to be a Luddite Blog, fine. Website, kind of. But I've been struggling with Twitter, not so much the technology, but because I don't understand the language used by some of the young'uns. (Yeah, you two, I mean you!) And now my best friend from high school quit blogging, Flickr, and Twitter, and wants me to have a Facebook account!!! I've resisted this as long as I could, even though many of our photo blog friends have tried to coax us. I created an account. But I'm going to use it just to follow the lives of my friends, that's all. (Don't I have a hard enough time keeping up with weaving blogs already??) I'm not putting anything there. And I said so. I mean, what is Facebook for anyway? I'm not sure. I'm starting to be in that emotional age group where I want to sit down and spend time learning and improving on the things I know, rather than to learn new things. And if there are things I need to learn on the way, like PowerPoint a year ago, I will, but otherwise, put me in your "too old" basket, Dears. EDIT: Obviously I am swimming against the tide. But my question, outside emergencies, is, "what's the hurry, mate?" 1. Hee hee, Lynne. It was fun while it lasted, but you know, in "Finding Nimo", Nimo's dad approaches Sydney and meets up with a group of baby turtles, and he's very cute, but Dad says, "You're so cute, but I don't know what you're saying!" It was like that to moi! Ha ha. 2. you know what? I totally get what you're saying. I worked in the web area during the early days of the web thru to the very first few years of what I guess you'd call web 1.9. Database driven web apps, but they weren't as nice as what we have now. So I was all techy and geeky and stuff all along. Yet, I too have to actively resist the urge to remain a web 2.0 and a social networking luddite. Facebook has freaked me out for ages! Now that I have gotten the hang of twitter, I like it better. I am going to keep forcing myself to stay abreast of all this stuff because I do not want to be that old lady nearly in tears because she's confused by ATM, if you know what I mean? Also, I want to stave off dementia for as long as I can, and learning new things is supposed to be good, right? xxx 3. If dementia isn't a strong enough kick on my butt, I don't now what is. Sometimes Mom was right to stay non-line, but we can't really go back. Wanting to keep updated on friends' lives vs time spent on learning new tech (rather than weaving) vs privacy concerns boggle this feeble mind-ette. I love to hear from you. Thank you!!
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95795	eleMMent Palazzo Credit: Courtesy eleMMent The eleMMent Palazzo is, in a word, opulent. After you get past the circular windshield and front end's biomorphic design, it's got two bars, including a sky lounge that raises out of the roof with the touch of a button. It also provides a baffling amount of space thanks to a slide-out compartment that increases the size of the interior by 80 percent. The diesel engine cranks out 510 horsepower and you'll need every pony to haul all 20 tons of rolling, palatial estate. The Interior: The Palazzo has two bars, a sky lounge, and slide out compartments throughout.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95796	Marc Forster, the Man Behind the New 007 Credit: Courtesy Karen Ballard It's fair to say that Marc Forster wasn't overcome with enthusiasm when he was asked to direct the 22nd Bond movie. "I thought, Maybe you have the wrong director," he laughs. "I actually wasn't interested at first." Best known for small, character-driven dramas like Finding Neverland and The Kite Runner, the Swiss director was worried a big-budget flop could ruin his career. Then he met Daniel Craig. "I felt he was such an interesting actor that with him it could be really inspiring," Forster says. "Plus, I'd just read a quote from Orson Welles; someone asked him his biggest regret in life and he said, 'That I never made a commercial movie.' " How does the film build on Casino Royale? At the end of the last film, Bond was in a very vulnerable position, betrayed by the person he loved – which is a great setup for this sequel which starts 20 minutes after the last one ended. Obviously he has that revenge motive driving him forward, but I wanted to take him deeper into his character and emotion – what it does to an assassin to lose someone, what that death means to him on a psychological level. I don't want to psychoanalyze Bond; the mystery of Bond speaks to why he is so successful, but emotionally you want so much to connect with him. How did you make Bond your own? I always loved the early Bonds – Dr. No, Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service – so I really wanted to create a film that is slightly retro with a '60s-'70s style, a bit of Hitchcock thriller and Parallax View influence, but with a modern twist so it's still very 21st century. To mix the two. I used location juxtapositions, like between the famous Siena horse race and a car chase, and there's a very Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse game with a DC-3 in the desert that speaks to North by Northwest. In terms of framing, there is a stylistic nod to conspiracy films of the 1970s. Why do men still identify with James Bond? Daniel Craig brought that identification back, made him human again. It had become harder to identify with Bond because he was not on the ground anymore – like in the last Pierce Brosnan movie, when the cars became invisible. But with Daniel, he's one of the boys. He's not perfect; he has these dark sides and demons inside him that he's struggling with. At the same time, you want to be him, because he gets to live that life of adventure and has all these beautiful women around him. Has Bond evolved over the past 40 years? During the Cold War, there were clear lines between "good guys" and "bad guys." Then, you served God and country; today, who do you serve? Times have changed so much it's unclear who the villains and heroes are. It's interesting to have an agent who is part of a secret agency, but what does that agency stand for – protecting the people of a country or its own selfish interests? How much can you trust it? It's more true since 9/11 than ever. Bond is a good guy, following what he believes is the right thing to do, even if he goes against the authorities. We live in times where we easily give in to authority, not like the '60s – that spirit doesn't exist anymore. I think this movie is the most political Bond ever made. How so? We're dealing with natural resources. With the price of oil rising at the same time as a water crisis, all the natural resources that we took for granted have become such a huge issue. There's a scene in the film where a foreign minister basically says to M, "If we didn't do business with villains, who would we do business with?" I believe we have to be conscious about where the world is at this moment. It's a ticking time bomb we're sitting on, and if we don't wake up, we're going to destroy ourselves.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95798	noun \ˈr-ə-tər, ˈär-\ : a person who makes speeches and is very good at making them Full Definition of ORATOR : one who delivers an oration : one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker Examples of ORATOR 1. <though a brilliant wordsmith, Thomas Jefferson was by his own admission an unskilled orator> First Known Use of ORATOR 15th century Next Word in the Dictionary: oratorial Previous Word in the Dictionary: oratio obliqua All Words Near: orator Seen & Heard What made you want to look up orator? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95802	Join 3,433 readers in helping fund MetaFilter (Hide) Wittgenstein's Nachlass January 7, 2002 3:09 PM Subscribe Wittgenstein's Nachlass (literary remains) are now available in an electronic format, courtesy of the University of Bergen Wittgenstein Archive. The 20th century's greatest philosopher never could find a way to publish the 20,000 manuscript pages, that constituted his most important work, in sequential book form; the Philosophical Investigations were pieced together after his death by his trustees. He probably would have appreciated the potential of electronic publishing. There's an excellent Wittgenstein portal, too. posted by liam (17 comments total) 6 users marked this as a favorite excellent set of lnks liam - many thanks here's an article about the house Wittgenstein desigmed for his sister - now subject of an exhibition at the RA in London. posted by thatwhichfalls at 3:33 PM on January 7, 2002 In the fashion of the platonic kiss, here's a list of philosophical kisses, including the Wittgensteinian and the, erm, Kafkaesque. posted by liam at 3:38 PM on January 7, 2002 Sweet! The Blue and Brown Books is one of my favorite bathroom readers! posted by canoeguide at 3:46 PM on January 7, 2002 Wow, liam. I had no idea Wittgenstein was so well served on the Internet. No flattery, but this has to be the post I've been waiting for all my life. I entirely rewrote my Ph.D thesis because I was exposed to P.I. I had a radio programme on Portuguese national radio, called "W", which consisted entirely of units(sentences, paragraphs)from Zettel and Culture and Value. They're by far his most accessible works for anyone lucky enough not to have read him. I'd also strongly urge people to get hold of Norman Malcolm's Memory of Wittgenstein(with a biographical sketch by G.H. von Wright); the Personal Recollections of Wittgenstein edited by his old pupil Rush Rhees(or was it E.M.Anscombe?). Ray Monk's biography - The Duty of Genius - is also superb. We're talking exciting books here, not the usual mumbo-jumbo. As a philosopher he's probably the only 20th century life-changer. You never look at words or the world in the same way. Before I dig down and explore, yes, I do thing he'd have appreciated electronic publishing. He hated nonsense, but loved tearing it apart. And he was always changing his mind. He would have been the supreme blogger. This sounds trite, but it's true. I'll now retire so as not to bore the pants off anyone else, which would be cruel, considering Wittgenstein is the least boring of all philosophers... Thank you a thousand times, liam! That was truly magnificent. posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:49 PM on January 7, 2002 [1 favorite] Everyone knows that Wittgenstein was a beary swine. posted by JohnBigBoots at 4:15 PM on January 7, 2002 Hear, hear, as well, liam. I hope your copy's not a loaner anymore, canoeguide. posted by y2karl at 4:34 PM on January 7, 2002 Observed here far more in the breach, one must note. posted by y2karl at 4:35 PM on January 7, 2002 Damn! I just finished taking a Wittgenstein Seminar and now this comes out? This would have made my life many times easier this past semester. Oh well, good links anyways, well done liam. posted by rorycberger at 5:10 PM on January 7, 2002 Thanks for the awesome link. Wittgenstein is right behind Bertrand Russell as my favorite 20th century philosopher. The Tractatus completely blew my mind the fist, second, and third time I read it. I'll be spending quite some time at this site. posted by tiger yang at 5:14 PM on January 7, 2002 He would have been the supreme blogger. ehem. Some of the entries in the dude's journal said nothing more or less than that he had masturbated that day. Actually, now that I think about it -- he would have been the supreme blogger. posted by mattpfeff at 5:31 PM on January 7, 2002 > Everyone knows that Wittgenstein was a beary swine. posted by pracowity at 11:24 PM on January 7, 2002 lol > +/- fotfl, mattpleff. posted by y2karl at 12:22 AM on January 8, 2002 So Wittgenstein wrote in his journal about masturbating. What interests me is that his understanding of communication, and how we percieve the world, couldn't be explained in a linear form. I think the fact that his philosophy can be better expressed with hyperlinks is a sympton of both that he was way ahead of his time, and that we're doing something good. In other words, yeah, he would have been the supreme blogger. I hope, and believe, some big ideas can be better expressed in a modern medium. posted by liam at 12:55 AM on January 8, 2002 He didn't need the beer to go mental. Honestly, you guys are hopeless. I thought it was bad luck to mention Wittgenstein without mentioning the poker incident. It's like calling The Scottish Play something else. posted by vbfg at 4:23 AM on January 8, 2002 OK, a more serious question. Does this make him a better philosopher, or a worse one? And, before I go on, is it because of his actual philosophy that people here (on MeFi) are interested him, or is it more because of his status as a seminal (heh heh) thinker? I've studied analytic philosophy a bit (though I'm not particularly well read). I like Wittgenstein's writing style (I also studied mathematics), but at the same time I would never have adopted it for publishing my own thoughts. E.g., the Tractatus is a work of art, but it's impossible to really know what Witt. is saying in it, because he doesn't explain anything. (He is faithful only to his own aesthetic, and not to his reader's understanding.) If you think you understand it, it's only because the words and phrases he uses lend themselves to a certain interpretation that fits into your own perspective -- but there's no way to decide if that interpretation, as opposed to another person's interpretation (from his/her own perspective), is the "right" one. And with Witt.'s later notes, it's really a mystery, isn't it? Maybe they don't even all fit together into any single, whole system of thought that Witt. himself would find acceptable. Who's to know? And if this is the case (I'm certainly open to arguments otherwise), is that really something to admire, and not lament? posted by mattpfeff at 7:27 AM on January 8, 2002 howzat? whereof one can't say diddley, thereof one mustn't say squat? posted by mattpfeff at 9:00 PM on January 8, 2002 It's nice to see all the philosophy wonks come out of the woodwork. In fact, I'd like to see it more often. To facilitate that, I just started a philosophy weblog called A Secret Buddha. "Just started" meaning five minutes ago. (I love Blogger.) The Nachlass is going to be my first link, and when I get home today I'll be doing a proper layout. posted by tweebiscuit at 8:33 AM on January 9, 2002 « Older Announcing CivicNet,... \| ESPN hosting show on the world... Newer » This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95804	Join 3,433 readers in helping fund MetaFilter (Hide) 11 posts tagged with CondoleezaRice. (View popular tags) Displaying 1 through 11 of 11. Subscribe: Related tags: + (6) Users that often use this tag: owillis (2) Bush's War posted by auralcoral on Mar 26, 2008 - 100 comments How to Guest-Edit a Major British Newspaper posted by bardic on May 17, 2006 - 33 comments 9/11 Report Cites Many Warnings About Hijackings posted by Postroad on Feb 10, 2005 - 57 comments posted by XQUZYPHYR on Apr 1, 2004 - 37 comments Bush/Condi '04? Bush/Condi '04? A grass-roots conservative movement is trying to effectuate the Democrats' worst nightmare: Condoleeza Rice as Bush's running mate in '04. Conspiracy theorists, set your Dick-Cheney-convenient-heart-attack-countdowns now. posted by PrinceValium on Feb 4, 2004 - 98 comments Breaking the silence posted by donfactor on Sep 23, 2003 - 101 comments The proverbial US Foreign Policy Goals - Condoleeza Rice. Only $29.95 from C-SPAN, well worth it. Will clear up many misconceptions. Unfortunately, thanks to macho chest thumping and grunting by prominent talking heads on camera, the Rice message isn't getting across. (Free transcripts instead of $29.95 tapes might help.) Intelligent criticism of the sea change in foreign policy, from elder statesman George Kennan. What good does it do us to have information available on the web if we can't afford to buy it? posted by sheauga on Oct 3, 2002 - 4 comments National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice -- concert pianist, figure skater, Stanford University Provost, speaker of 4 languages -- should be the poster child for Black achievement in the 21st Century. So why is she largely ignored, if not outright scorned, by the Black community? Could it be because she's a Republican? Who's stirring up this pot? Some conservative like O'Reilly, Limbaugh, North? Nope, just a liberal Black female newspaper columnist. posted by pardonyou? on Dec 17, 2001 - 46 comments Condoleezza Rice talks to Al-Jazeera. posted by owillis on Oct 16, 2001 - 41 comments The Age of Embarrassment posted by owillis on Jan 4, 2001 - 14 comments Page: 1
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95812	April 5-11, 2006 Cult Leader 'Slither' Slugfest: Fans of the overlooked 1986 film 'Night of the Creeps' say new movie is like salt on their wounds By Steve Palopoli I bring this up not because I think Slither—which is a tongue-in-cheek pastiche of at least a dozen '80s horror films—could really be considered a rip-off of any one of them. I bring this up because, c'mon, who knew Night of the Creeps had a legion of fans? It hasn't even been released on DVD! I also bring it up because people made so much noise about this supposed slugjacking that it got back to Slither's director, James Gunn, who defended his film by saying he never saw Night of the Creeps until after his movie was made. He said his main inspiration was David Cronenberg's first film, 1975's Shivers. Still, Creeps lovers were not buying it. It's tough for any cult-movie fan when an underdog film that you feel never got its due appears to be looted by a bigger-budget Hollywood movie. But it's only fair to give the three films some attempt at an impartial comparison. Shivers: Also known as They Came From Within, the vibe of this movie about outbreak in a high-rise apartment building can only be described as "'70s swank." Though it starts strong with a brainy and fascinating premise (this is surely the only horror movie to have a subplot about organ-transplant-research underwriting), its static camerawork and amateurish acting make it one of a great director's least enduring efforts. No aliens or real zombies; the slugs are man-made parasites that make people horny and violent. There's a scene that pays tribute to George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and a cool ending that will keep you from ever fantasizing about orgies again. Night of the Creeps: The funny thing is that writer-director Fred Dekker's odd, almost cute little movie is itself a bit of an homage to Shivers; the main kid's love interest is named "Cynthia Cronenberg," in case anyone missed the connection. Other than that, it's pretty much Revenge of the Nerds with zombies—a weird idea that probably explains why it was a flop even for a low-budget horror film when it first came out, but also helps explain why it seems to have found a following years later. The slugs come from outer space, and there's no sexually transmitted disease angle. This also has a Night of the Living Dead tribute, set in a tool shed. Slither: Remarkably, the best of the three films. Definitely not a remake of Night of the Creeps (though this is for some reason stated in its IMDB listing as if it were a fact). But it does have some parallels: It starts in outer space, then moves to an alien meteorite scene, has a similarly jokey tone and, of course, there are the slugs in the brain. If you really want to see where Slither came from, though, see Shivers, Basket Case (1982), Return of the Alien's Deadly Spawn (1983), Xtro (1983) and Society (1989). Actually, if you like '80s creepozoid movies you should see all of those anyway. Slither doesn't even become a zombie movie until the second half. Gunn (who also wrote the Dawn of the Dead remake) puts an original spin on the goop-monster concept, delivers a lot of hilarious lines and even tops Cronenberg's orgy ending. The main thing all three of these movies in question share is the passing of the slug creatures from mouth to mouth. It's a powerful image that originated with Cronenberg, and has been swiped for several mainstream flicks. In fact, Dan O'Bannon admits he saw Shivers before writing Alien, and Cronenberg himself thinks his own film was a huge influence on Ridley Scott's classic. If you've gotta complain about alien-parasite rip-offs, that would probably be the best place to start. Send a letter to the editor about this story. Movie Finder Silicon Valley \| Santa Cruz County \| Sonoma / Marin / Napa New and upcoming film releases. Browse all movie reviews.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95827	Boogie Slights Most people associate the disco era with hedonism, homosexuality, a sense of community, tacky fashions, and awful music. But in his new The Last Days of Disco, writer-director Whit Stillman imagines the era as merely a singles bar for romantics in search of soulmates, mostly heterosexual and hardly debauchees. The clothes and the music seem pretty cool, too. Floating through the film are two beautiful if strikingly different women, surrounded by a host of look-alike, act-alike, sound-alike men. With this movie, his third, Stillman comes of age as the WASP Eric Rohmer, with a world view at once so blinkered and benign that clubs full of transvestites and cokeheads come across as preppy and chaste. Characters from Stillman's other films, the similarly themed Metropolitan (1990) and Barcelona (1994), return as well, revealing Stillman as a creator of his own fictional universe, the Joyce or Faulkner of young urban professionals. His disco era is cleaned up and rendered safe for Republicans. He takes on something of the character of George Will crossed with George Bush: a sharp wit swaddled in a blanket of fuzzy niceness from a better era not so long ago. All this would be fine if Stillman were a skillful storyteller; as it is, however, the film is plagued with confusion about characters' motives, transformations, and even identity. It's a sharp disappointment after the varied pleasures of his earlier work. If nothing else, this film proves that witty dialogue -- even lots of witty dialogue -- can take you only so far. Abundant hilarious riffs on everything from Scrooge McDuck comics to Julius Caesar lose their effectiveness when you can't tell who's speaking. Other filmmakers who specialized in barbed chatter -- Joseph Mankiewicz and Preston Sturges, to cite just two -- fashioned distinct characters, ones who looked and acted very different from each other. But Stillman's interest lies in creating not individuals but a collective identity: the young and the mostly privileged of the Eighties. Harvard grad Stillman has the type down cold. That wins him points as an anthropologist, but his failure to differentiate the roles played by prepster actors MacKenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, and Robert Sean Leonard merely confounds. One's a lawyer, another works in advertising, but they're all indistinguishable. The exception is Stillman regular Chris Eigeman, who claims to be gay after feeling attracted to someone on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. The filmmaker doesn't do anything with this thread, however, despite the connection of homosexuals to the disco era. Instead, the film concentrates on the women played by Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, sweet (Sevigny) and snippy (Beckinsale) New York City roommates who socialize at a Studio 54-like disco. As an idealistic book editor, Sevigny displays the same calm in the midst of boho chaos that made her the most interesting character in her previous films, Kids and Trees Lounge. She has plenty here to make her look thoughtful; as was the case in her prior efforts, she's paired off with an unworthy man. (A particularly nasty plot device of Kids echoes in Disco; in sexual matters, Stillman emphasizes the horrors of humiliation rather than the pleasures of the flesh.) Beckinsale (Cold Comfort Farm, Shooting Fish) is developing a screen persona at once arrogant and funny. A woman who can kill with her looks but prefers to use her tongue, she'd be the perfect choice for a new Dorothy Parker biopic. But Stillman never explores her character's evident neuroses. About 40 minutes into the film, her behavior toward Sevigny becomes so outrageously rude it's hard to see how they could possibly remain on speaking terms. This is only one of many unexplained ellipses in the plot, which with its multitude of characters acting at cross-purposes erodes from an amusing look back at a lost world into a blurry Polaroid. Several announce major changes in their lives, but when we see them next, nothing has happened, or radical changes have occurred off camera. We hear about a sharp U-turn in Sevigny's character only near the end of the film. Given that much of the action takes place in a disco's glittery, cavernous space, cinematographer John Thomas does a marvelous job of keeping the film's appearance bright. The Last Days of Disco's even look matches Stillman's even keel as a filmmaker, boding well for his career only if he can find material suited to his comfortable, prep-school wit. This wrenching, life-transforming period deserves a more discerning eye. The Last Days of Disco. Directed and written by Whit Stillman. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, MacKenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, and Robert Sean Leonard. My Voice Nation Help Sort: Newest \| Oldest Now Showing Box Office Report
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95866	New MobyGoal! We're aiming for 1,500 well documented Arcade games. 3D Engine: OGRE Group Description Games using OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine), an open source (LGPL) scene-oriented 3D engine written in C++. Technically, it's only a world-class graphics solution, but with the additional libraries developers can include physics, sound, networking, AI, collision and other elements. Related links Goto Page: 1 \| 2 Selected Covers Venetica Windows Front Cover Front cover for Venetica Torchlight Windows Front Cover Front cover for Torchlight Nimbus Windows Front Cover Newer cover version Front cover for Nimbus Bottle Buster Windows Front Cover Front cover for Bottle Buster Jakers! Let's Explore Windows Front Cover Front cover for Jakers! Let's Explore Selected Screenshots Main Menu Screenshot from Venetica Introduction screen Screenshot from The Germinator Screenshot from Torchlight The introduction sequence where the pink ship is captured Screenshot from Nimbus Title screen Screenshot from Jakers! Let's Explore
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95867	New MobyGoal! We're aiming for 1,500 well documented Arcade games. MobyRank MobyScore PlayStation 2 Advertising Blurbs • Over 14 different types of enemy to encounter and annihilate Contributed by DreinIX (9422) on Apr 03, 2008. Blast through 10 levels of side-scrolling action in this budget title overflowing with gooey aliens and heavy weapons. • Classic 2D shoot-em' up action with detailed 3D graphics • Automatic map feature aids in exploring the labyrinth of corridors • Arsenal includes machine gun, shotgun, flamethrower, plasma rifle and nail gun • Collect items to power-up weapons and increase attributes, including health and speed. Play as Cane, the quintessential tough guy sent into a derelict space station to confront an alien menace. You'll need quick reflexes to exterminate this horrible host, but fortunately copious amounts of ammo are at your disposal. Aim in any direction with the C Stick while moving with the Control Stick. Aim high and low at 14 different types of enemies that slither, fly and otherwise skulk through the dark corridors. Balancing out the mindless shooting is a fair amount of exploration. The automatic map feature is a godsend when traversing collapsed passages and elevators. Key items are pointed out along with color-coded locks and their corresponding keys. The graphics are wonderfully cliché, from slimy-green aliens to our hero's cigar which so clearly expresses his machismo. Bright explosions have plenty of impact, but the level geometry lacks variety. Witty, well-acted radio-communications make learning the controls fun. Bottom Line The low price-point guarantees that you get more than your money's worth of alien-blasting fun. Although repetitive at times, this 2-D side-scrolling shooter really packs a punch. Contributed by Evil Ryu (53668) on Mar 20, 2007.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95868	Jump to content Idea for an app for skilled developer - - - - - • Please log in to reply No replies to this topic • Members • Pip • 3 posts • Devices:ZTE Blade As most of you know, there is no way to turn off Play Store update notifications for certain apps. There are occasions where one does not want to install these updates. Many possible reasons: some problems with newer versions and your phone, apps whose updates want more permissions than the previous version, apps where the developer implements features that seems to be a step backwards for your personal needs or some "bloatware" that was installed on your phone and you don't want to update it. You can not turn these notifications off and can't use "update all" because of it. Here is google code issue about that: http://code.google.c...detail?id=30496 One of the guys there actually found a solution but it's somewhat time consuming, you have to have Titanium Backup and it isn't as easy as we'd love for it to be. Maybe some skilled developer could create an app that would automate the process? Here it is: 1. backup the app with Titanium Backup 2. uninstall the app via PlayStore 3. extract the .apk from your backup (the long cryptic name that ends with "...apk.gz" 4. install the extracted .apk 5. (optional) restore app data - note: ONLY restore app data, not the app itself, else the market links will also be restored. Edited by jukooz, 08 August 2012 - 04:11 PM. • 0 0 user(s) are reading this topic 0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95879	Monday, February 4, 2013 Naming is a Powerful Thing I was kayaking off Danzante Island, on the Baja Peninsula with a group of women friends. The island, located in the Loreto National Marine Park, is only a few miles paddle from the coast. I was enjoying the crystal blue waters, watching birds dip and dive above our heads, exploring the craggy desert landscape around the island when our group leader and naturalist, Patty, eased up beside me. She pointed to and named things as we paddled. She named cactus, flowering plants, marine fossils, birds. She talked about the volcanic layers of ash and breccia, how faults, uplifts and intrusions had formed. Suddenly the vast beauty of the landscape exploded in my mind, merely by her giving name to what I was observing. The landscape imported a clearer impression on my senses, due simply to her distinctive designations. Later I thought about how her naming elevated the beauty of the experience. Emerson, in his work, "The Poet" proclaims..." the beauty of things becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed." Maybe it all comes down to how we place our attention. The writer Proust said that the secret of life is to be found in the arts of attention, what he called exaggerated attention He wrote very long rambling pieces that described minute impressions and sensations, things other writers before him hadn't done. He offered instruction in the art of paying close attention to what's right in front of you, moment to moment, as a antidote for the dread we may feel that life is passing us by, too quickly, and without notice. Does the beauty of a scene or experience become advanced, or elevated through the naming? Definitely, yes. Yet another experience taught me the inverse is also true. I was driving home after a watercolor class on a sun-soaked summer day. Observing the landscape outside my car window, I saw rich and vivid colors as if for the first time. The cottonwood leaves appeared neon green. The hillside exploded with many shades of green I had never noticed before. It felt like an out-of-body experience and soon waned, and I could not conjure it back up again, although I dearly wanted to. But it was gone, rushing away in a few minutes and any effort to bring it back was futile. Maybe the observance of beauty requires no explanation; maybe at times, a beauty observed supersedes and goes beyond that which is captured in mere language. spider web How many times have we said, I am at a loss for words. Words cannot adequately describe it. Maybe sometimes an experience is beyond words and can't be elevated with them, so instead of descriptive language, you stand quietly, in awe of the beauty and are not compelled to name it. When this happens, one's consciousness and sense of physicality seems to expand without effort. Like music; I do not know how to precisely analyze a score of music, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that the melody reaches my mind and comes alive through my senses without the requirement of naming or notation. Both reflections offered a brief transformational experience and that is the power of art and beauty. The beholder is shot out of the ordinary, out of "psychological time" and into another zone not experienced on an everyday basis. The lesson here, as I see it? Be watchful and conscious of what unfurls, avoid over-thinking, be open to an altering of consciousness that launches us out of conceptualizing and into pure ineffable awe...and, at the same time... ...look at the world twice. I once read of an Indian elder who advised of the necessity to look at the world twice if you are to really see it at all. Focus your vision on the droplets of water on a flower petal; notice the texture in an old piece of wood. Size up an image by making a photographer's box with your hands (I remember doing this as a kid) and only see what's inside the box. Or lay a string on the ground in a six foot wide circumference, and only view what's inside the string. In most of our waking life, do we not really see with clear eyes? What is striking in both of these experiences, (both naming and not), is I was unable to duplicate these highly pleasurable states. If I'd taken out a field guide and studied the names of flora and fauna of the island, this forethought may have ruined the serendipitous experience with Patty. Perhaps the sensual experience of paying close attention to color in my watercolor class, temporarily boosted my brain's processing of color outside of class. Both experiences cannot be planned or conjured through the will. Is this due to the fact that in both cases, I was merely an observer... and whenever something is observed, it is separated from the one who is watching? Maybe so. But in both instances, I didn't feel separate at fact, I felt more alive and connected to the natural world than ever before (maybe I didn't know I knew I was observing). Oh still with me? This much I know to be true. Beauty is augmented and elevated by words...AND...where words and denotation ends, the real mystery of life begins. Hmmm. Always and forever, a paradox indeed! 1. A picture is worth a thousand words... unless it is real life, at the moment, real time, then it's worth a million words... but not until later. Well said my dear, Mike 1. Another thought: Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never harm you. Wrong. Word can destroy you (if you let them). 2. Words can be so cruel and like spears. You are right -- if you let them. 2. The very thought of what can't really be captured in words is something I think about a great deal. Beautiful melding of images and words here. Btw, I just shared on Facebook and sent you a friend request. 1. Oh good, Deborah. I enjoy your writing and appreciate the connection. 2. Beautifully observed and written. Love this. I shared it. Glad to have met you. 3. Deborah, Fancy meeting you here. How serendipitous! I wrote about that today on my blog -- how I am having a hard time putting into words what I am going through with the grief I am experiencing about my mother's recent death. But I came back to Art and how it can transform language, emotion. You both might enjoy reading it: So glad to meet you Monica. Are you in the group Writers/Friends? 4. Yes, thanks to Deborah. So happy to have met a group of writers with whom to share our stories. 3. Thank you for visiting my blog re: yoga, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your words here, you convey all the joy captured in what I like to call HD through photography, many times when I'm just going about my chores I have to stop to capture the sparkles of life, completely overtaken by the moment. Your images have wowed me too, I'm going to add you to my blog roll! 4. What kindness...thank you; sometimes when I look out the window & see various shades of winter grey, I have to remind myself: go deeper...go deeper. Yoga helps me do that. 5. Monica, I'm so glad Deborah Batterman shared this with us on FB. It's hard to choose which are more lovely--your words or your images. Fortunately we don't have to; instead we get to revel in your swirl of creative magic. 6. Thank you. I enjoyed reading your thoughtful piece about Alex Haley this morning. Roots would be a great book club selection. You have inspired me to give it a go after seeing the film many, many years ago (time flew right out the window, without my permission!) Enjoy your blog! 7. This sentence, in particular, spoke to me because I experience it all the time: "Maybe sometimes an experience is beyond words and can't be elevated with them, so instead of descriptive language, you stand quietly, in awe of the beauty and are not compelled to name it. When this happens, one's consciousness and sense of physicality seems to expand without effort." And we become One with the Universe. What a feeling! Welcome to our FB group, Monica. Deborah is our much-revered "den mother." ;) 8. I'm happy to become a 60 year old cubby! Meeting good writers and kindred spirits puts the wind under my wings. So very grateful to meet you all... 9. Hello Monica, thank you so much for your message on my blog, it’s much appreciated. It’s an honour to have you as a follower. I’ve requested email feeds, hope it works. I also have a Polish ancestor on my father’s side, my mother has Dutch relatives. I am greatly looking forward to getting to know you. 10. Hello. One of my cousins on my father's side is writing a genealogy; with all the options to self-publish, I am hopeful we will see a finished product to pass down to our kids. Enjoy your posts! 11. Monica, I wanted to thank you for your nice comment on my latest V&V post, came to your blog to see what's new and found these beautiful photos which touch my heart and a thoughtful reflection which strikes a chord with me. I believe there are many paradoxes giving us a deep insight into life's mysteries when accepted. Thank you for commenting on my V&V post and thus bringing me here! :) 12. Petra...Vision and Verb is a rare jewel; the posts always resonate with me and make me think deeper, which I wholly appreciate. Thank you for your thoughtful writing.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95890	Don't let your wisdom teeth get in the way of your good times Dr. Jennifer Robb, D.M.D., can help you achieve and maintain a healthy mouth. Champion golfer Rory McIlroy recently withdrew from the PGA's Honda Classic tournament due in part to wisdom tooth pain. It's not the first time someone will have wisdom tooth pain at an inconvenient time, and it won't be the last. So what can you do to make sure wisdom teeth don't interrupt your good times? Well, first let's look at what wisdom teeth are. They are a molar tooth. We call them third molars because they are the third one of the molar type teeth. (Your first molars come in around age six, and your second molars around age 12.) The average age for wisdom teeth to come through your gums is age 18 or over. (That's an average--I've seen them coming in as young as age 14, and as I'm sure you know, for some people, the wisdom teeth never come through the gums to take their place in the mouth.) If you are one of the lucky few, you will have enough room for your wisdom teeth to fully erupt into your mouth, or you may be one of the few who has room for your wisdom teeth to come in most of the way. Even if they do, these teeth are often far back in your mouth and hard to brush and floss properly. Taking care of them is important because cavities or loss of the bone support around teeth are two common reasons for toothaches. Most people don't have room for wisdom teeth to come in completely and that leads to other problems that can cause pain: o As your teeth come into your mouth, a flap of gum tissue often lays over the chewing surface. If food becomes trapped under this flap of tissue, your gum swells a bit. As you chew, this swollen piece of gum tissue may get trapped between your upper and lower teeth, further traumatizing it. (Imagine biting your cheek each time you chew!) Because there is little time for the area to fully heal before you bite it again, it often becomes quite painful. o As your tooth comes through your gums, it creates an opening in the gum. This allows bacteria from your mouth to slide between your wisdom tooth and your gums and can create an abscess, or localized infection, around your tooth. This infection generates pain. o If your wisdom tooth is slanted toward the tooth in front of it or lying on its side, it may push against your second molar. The pressure from the wisdom tooth creates a hole in the other tooth. This hole often traps plaque and bacteria from the mouth and becomes a cavity. And as you read earlier, a large cavity is often the source of a toothache. In most cases, antibiotics won't cure these infections. They will help mask the symptoms, but it does take several days for the effects of the antibiotics to make themselves felt to the extent that the area becomes less painful. And if you've ever had a toothache, you know most pain medications don't help much. Your dentist or orthodontist should take dental x-rays to see where your wisdom teeth are located and how much room you have in your jaw. If they recommend that you have them taken out, follow through as soon as you can. Putting it off until they bother you makes a painful episode more likely - and after a certain age, recovering from wisdom tooth removal is a bit harder. If you're concerned about your wisdom teeth and do not have a dentist, I invite you to join my practice. Please call 440-960-1940 or use the contact form on my website at You can also ask questions or find out more by joining my facebook page at or follow me on twitter (jendent). Remember, I'm saving a seat for you.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95899	2009 Honda CBR600RR-ABS Versus US Testing Honda's CBR600RR-ABS in the Real World By Kent Kunitsugu/Sport Rider, Photography by Kevin Wing Honda offers Combined Anti-Lock Brakes (C-ABS) on the 2009 CBR600RR, which we covered in our April issue. But how does it compare to the non-ABS version? Can a skilled rider out-brake the computer? The editors at our sister magazine Sport Rider wondered the same thing, so tested the two CBRs side by side. Here's what they found... We reported our initial riding impressions and the technical details of Honda's Combined Anti-Lock Brakes previously, but haven't had the opportunity to test the technology against a standard braking system until recently. Our comparison ran the gamut of city traffic, highway droning, canyon carving and even some closed-circuit scratching. Puttering along in city traffic, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the C-ABS brakes feel identical to a conventional brake system. Everything from lightly brushing the brakes while negotiating a tight space to moderate use while pulling up to stop revealed no weird mushiness or numbness. In fact, the response and feel is so seamless that there is no way anyone would be able to tell they were riding the C-ABS bike. During spirited canyon riding, there is less front-end dive when braking on the C-ABS model, and this is because of the C-ABS' actuation of both front and rear brakes, with the rear brake acting to settle the chassis down on its suspension. Even over rough pavement, braking action was as smooth as any standard brake system, with none of the "freewheeling" cycling tendencies common to more primitive ABS setups. On the racetrack, the ABS actuation could be perceived as a slight numbness through the lever once past a certain braking threshold; even though you're asking for more braking power at the lever, the rate of deceleration remains the same (note that this is only at expert-level braking on a racetrack; most riders will probably never notice it). We conducted simulated panic stops on dry pavement, and again, the ABS engagement is so smooth that the only indication it was activated was a numbness at the lever. It took us a couple of tries before we were able to better the C-ABS' rate of deceleration (and note again that this was with an expert rider at the controls). Meanwhile, the more level chassis attitude and stable feel of the C-ABS bike will surely help the majority of riders stop more quickly and safely in a real emergency. And in the wet? Forget it: Even a pro-level rider wouldn't be able to reach the first-time stopping distance or deceleration rate of the C-ABS bike. The only real drawbacks to the C-ABS are the additional $1000 on the sticker price and 24 pounds of extra weight. To tell you the truth, we barely noticed the added bulk. Honda wisely positioned the C-ABS components as close to the engine as possible for mass centralization, helping to reduce their influence on handling. But the big question is, would we buy the C-ABS version over the standard model? We figure that would depend on where you intend to ride most of the time, and your riding skill level (and you'd better be honest with yourself). If you do a lot of track days and are an intermediate to expert-level rider, you'd probably prefer the standard CBR. But for everyone else, there's no doubt in our minds that the extra $1000 would be money well spent. By Kent Kunitsugu/Sport Rider Please enter your username Please enter your password *Please enter your comments Not Registered?Signup Here (1024 character limit) • Motorcyclist Online
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95914	Photography by Thomas Giddings, Styling by Mr Dan May Words by Mr Peter Henderson This week, Mr David Bradley, a 26-year-old print designer from South London, who is overhauling a run-down bar in his spare time, kindly modelled five ways we think you should be wearing your jeans this spring. And rest assured, the ultra-tapered carrot fit, currently in favour among some quarters, is nowhere to be seen... the facts It is hard to think of denim without thinking of jeans, which were originally developed for manual labourers, but have since become one of the world's most recognisable and versatile items of clothing. Denim first came from France, not the States, during the 18th century; for the etymologically inclined, the name comes from 'de Nîmes', after the Provençal town where the rough cotton twill was originally produced. From miners in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, through to teenagers a century later in the 1950s (think James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause), and Times Square billboards advertising designer pairs by the likes of Calvin Klein and Levi's, denim has maintained its status as a staple of the male wardrobe thanks to its comfort, durability and iconic associations.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95954	Moms balancing successful businesses and families - KMSP-TV Moms balancing successful businesses and families Posted: Updated: More mothers these days are balancing responsibilities at work and at home. Working moms are now the breadwinners in a record 40 percent of U.S. families. That is up from 11 percent in 1960. And new surveys are showing as more moms go back to work, they want flexibility to keep that work/home balance. So they are starting their own businesses and becoming their own bosses. In fact, women are one of the fastest growing segments of entrepreneurs. In honor of Mother's Day this weekend, we are profiling three women who are busier than ever at home, but who have also spent countless hours building a successful business. Powered by WorldNow 11358 Viking Drive Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Phone: (952) 944-9999 Fax: (952) 942-0455 Didn't find what you were looking for? Privacy Policy \| Terms of Service \| Ad Choices
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95964	July 29, 2014 PHP Large result sets and summary tables. One of the process web site had was creating of summary tables which was done by executing some huge group by query, doing some stuff with results and then populating tables. This all worked well for small tables… but not for larger ones. First problem was PHP script generating the table took 10GB of RAM and was swapping development server which had just 4GB of Ram (and plenty of swap space) like crazy. Why ? Because by default mysql_query uses mysql_store_result C library call and buffers all result set in the process memory. Not good if there are over 50 millions of rows. Note this limit is not controlled by memory_limit PHP config variable because that only controls memory which passes via PHP memory management which does not apply to MySQL result set. OK there is “easy” fix for this problem, you can use mysql_unbuffered_query instead and mysqli and PDO have their own way to reach similar behavior. This call users underlying mysql_use_result API call which does not store all result set in memory but instead streams it from the server, fetching in blocks. There are some limits as you can’t use mysql_num_rows() and mysql_data_seek() if you use this method but this is told in PHP manual and so easy to catch. There are however more differences which may cause things breakage 1. Table Locks – Table locks are not cleared until you fetch whole result set if you’re reading from tables directly (if you do not have “using temporary” in EXPLAIN) this was not issue for given case as GROUP BY in question required temporary table plus it was test system anyway. The workaround for this one is to use SQL_BUFFER_RESULT hint if you need to release table locks early. It comes at cost of creating temporary table though which can be quite high. 2. Sharing connection no more works If you use buffered query you can use same connection to run other queries, ie INSERTs and UPDATEs while you traverse with data. Not with unbuffered query because connection is still busy. 3. Need more error checking If you use buffered query the only real call you can get errors is when you run mysql_query , mysql_fetch_row simply reads data from memory and so most applications do not care to check if there are any errors while fetching. With mysql_unbuffered_query data comes in portions so you can well get an error while fetching rows. If you do not check for error it can look as you’ve done with result set while you only processed a portion of it, which can cause rather hard to catch errors. 4. Connection can timeout If you do not fetch data for long enough MySQL Server may think client is dead and close connection. This well may happen if you need long processing for each row or have long periodic data flushes, ie with multiple value INSERTs etc. This can be fixed by increasing net_write_timeout variable on the server so it gives you more time But is this the only way ? Of course not. First you should consider if you need to do processing in PHP at all. Many summary tables can be built by INSERT … SELECT, or some others purely SQL commands and it can be much more efficient. Another alternative is of course to use MySQL Stored Procedures which can be fit to do this simple job. The downside of using these techniques if of course you’ve got to have summary tables and original tables on the same server which can limit your scalability. Using FEDERATED Tables can work for some cases in others script can be more efficient especially when multiple servers are involved and you want to do some parallel processing. It is also good question if you need to query all result at once. It is rather efficient bur can cause problems with table locks and other issues plus if script aborts it may be hard to restart. So it may be better structuring your queries to process data by certain objects (ie City by one City at the time) or do INSERT … SELECT to the temporary table with auto_increment column and fetch data from this table using auto increment column ranges instead. I would especially recommend this last way for very long processes, ie if you need to check data against web services and so on – in this case the overhead of creating yet another temporary table is not so large. About Peter Zaitsev 1. Harrison Fisk says: Good blog as always Peter. Just commenting cause I think you have slight error when you said that mysql_query uses the mysql_use_result C API. It actually uses the mysql_store_result, and hence takes a lot of memory. 2. rockerBOO says: It is also good to note that INSERT INTO SELECT x FROM will not work from my experience on 2 servers with different hosts. 3. Scott says: Yes, Harrison is right. That one jumped out at me as well. mysql_store_result() buffers the entire set so that you can use mysql_num_rows() and mysql_data_seek(). The rest of the gotchas mentioned do apply to mysql_use_result(). 4. peter says: Harrison, Scott, Yes that was a typo. I meant to later write about mysql_use_result gotchas so I mentioned it in the wrong place. Now fixed. 5. peter says: Yes sure INSERT SELECT does not work for 2 servers, this is why you can try using FEDERATED or use scripts all together. 6. v says: Great tip. If I could combine that with my other half of the battle, perhaps I could solve the PHP timeout issue when dealing with exporting/importing giant datasets to the browser. There is PHP processing involved. Speak Your Mind
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/95987	Human Exceptionalism Life and dignity with Wesley J. Smith. “The Most Interesting Minds in the World” are Optimistic In writing the last post, I discovered Edge, an online community for "the third culture" that claims modestly, "Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world." Edge asserts that "third culture" intellectuals "are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are." Big of them. And who are these "leading thinkers? Ah, I should have known: Mostly, the usual suspects, er, I mean the "free thinkers," or "brights," or whatever other name they give themselves at a given time, which I guess is now third culture. So, I decided to read some of the essays about why some of the most interesting minds in the world are scientifically optimistic--which is the current Edge question being pondered by all that gray matter. As with most group efforts of this kind, the entries vary in quality. Some are quite good--primarily those essayists who actually stuck with science. Thus, Oliver Morton of Nature expresses why his "current optimism is for solar energy." He explains: "The simple facts of the matter are that the sun provides more energy to the earth in an hour than humanity makes use of in a year...I am optimistic that direct solar conversion-photovoltaic cells and their future analogues will come to take its place among and then surpass these more established technologies a lot more quickly than most people outside the area currently imagine." Sounds like a good reason for optimism to me. Unfortunately, others, such as philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, use the question as an excuse to express prejudice against that old materialist bugaboo, religion (which isn't an expression of science but a knock on the competitor by the quasi religion of scientism). Thus, Dennett sees, "The religious fervor of today is a last, desperate attempt by our generation to block the eyes and ears of the coming generations, and it isn't working. For every well-publicized victory--the inundation of the Bush administration with evangelicals, the growing number of home schoolers in the USA, the rise of radical Islam, the much exaggerated “rebound” of religion in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to take the most obvious cases--there are many less dramatic defeats, as young people quietly walk away from the faith of their parents and grandparents." Right: A radical Islamic jihadist equals a home schooler, equals George Bush. Good to see logical and rational thinking for a change! And some are just plain dumb, as in the transhumanist entry of MIT professor Marvin Minsky's push for immortality through uploading our minds into computers: "Once we embody our minds in machines, we'll find ways to expand their capacities. You'll be able to edit your former mind, or merge it with parts of other minds--or develop completely new ways to think." Meanwhile, George F. Smoot, a cosmologist, sounds about as optimistic for the future as Woody Allen: The earth is going to melt some day! Eeek! "A careful assessment and years of experience that show that the long-term future is most bleak...This is the fate that awaits us, if we manage to work our way past the energy crisis that looms as the Sun runs out of fuel and in its death throws expands as red giant star likely to engulf us after boiling away the seas before it collapses back to a slowly cooling cinder eventually to leave the solar system in cold darkness." Wait a minute! I thought transhumanism would bring us immortality! Intellectual efforts such as this can be interesting and are worthy endeavors. And it isn't the authors' fault that Edge is so laughingly full of itself. But really. If this is the best that the most interesting minds in the world have to offer, maybe we had better give some boring minds a chance to contribute. Sign up for free NRO e-mails today: Subscribe to National Review
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96019	As early as 1865, the Jersey Central spanned Newark bay with a drawbridge connecting Elizabethport with the Bayonne Peninsula. Here we see the early 20th Century bascule drawbridge. This was replaced by a four-track "lift bridge," section of which could be raised vertically to let freighters pass through. And yes, a train did go through the open bridge once, in 1957, drowning about 60 commuters.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96045	Autumn Bones by Jacqueline Carey October 7, 2013 - Amy Phelps New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Carey returns to her Agent of Hel series in "Autumn Bones." Daisy is trying to keep any eye on the supernatural citizens of Pemkowet and maintain a relationship with her normal seeming boyfriend Sinclair Palmer. Though she had a crush on police officer Cody, it would never work out between them because he's made it known that he will only ever be with another werewolf. And while Daisy isn't exactly all human, she's not a shapeshifter, she's part incubus. Things seem to be doing well with Sinclair, that is, until his sister comes into town. Daisy is excited to meet his family, but that quickly cools when his sister makes it known that the entire family wants her to stay away from him - and that they want him to return home to Jamaica and reclaim his rightful role in a family of sorcerers. So he wasn't so normal human after all! With a family of crazed sorcerers now after her and Sinclair, is this going to cause havoc on the town and their relationship? This is a cool mix of police work and supernatural with a hint of romance on the side. Paranormal fans will enjoy this one! "Autumn Bones" is published by Roc. It is $26.95 and 424 pages long. I am looking for: News, Blogs & Events Web
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96065	NEWTON, Ask A Scientist! Name: Matthew F. Status: other Age: 20s Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: Sunday, September 15, 2002 A question in your archives was inquiring about the proper use of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP). Your response was that the general notion that the act of measurement can influence the result is not proper use of the HUP. As a side question, is there a term or type of error that is defined as the error potentially induced by the act of measurement? For example, the name for the error in the "soup temperature" measurement caused by the heat transferred into the thermometer/measuring device. You raise a question that remains a point of contention among physicists. It all started with Young's classic "double slit" experiment which you can do a search to find the details. The results are not seriously in question, but the "explanation" can initiate a lively discussion about their "explanation" or "interpretation". Briefly, suppose you have a source of light (does not have to be visible light, it can even be electrons or other "particles" but the experimental setup gets more complicated), and two slits separated by a distance great enough so that the time it takes the light from one slit to the other is longer than the time it takes the light to travel from the source to the plane of the slits. Now you decrease the intensity of the light source so that light (photons) are emitted "one at a time". Just how this is done need not concern us here, but everyone agrees that it is possible to do so. On the other side of the slits is a detector of some type (again, just how this is done experimentally need not concern us here. (Every one agrees that this is possible using photographic film, Geiger counter, etc., or some other type of detector.). First one slit is covered. What is observed is that the photons that pass through the other open slit strike the detector at a single spot behind the slit (Actually its a narrow Gaussion distribution, but that too is not relevant.). Second the opened and closed slits are exchanged, i.e. the one covered in the first experiment is opened and the other slit is closed. The same result is observed -- the photons pass through the open slit and strike the detector at a single spot defined by extending a line from the source to the slit back to the plane of the detector. Conclusion: "Clearly" light is behaving like a stream of particles -- photon bullets that start at the source, travel through the respective slits and strike the detector in the "line of sight" from the source to the slit. Case Closed: Light is a particle (photons), and electrons are also particles because you get the same result with electrons. Well not quite: Open both slits. What is observed is an interference pattern on the detector screen!!! That is, a pattern of light and dark lines where the light (or electrons) constructively and destructively interfere. If light were behaving like particles (bullets) what you would expect is just two lines on the detector at points in line with the source and slits. Conclusion: "Clearly" light is behaving light waves. Case Closed!! Or is it? Remember the distance between the slits is far enough that light from the source gets to the slits before a photon could travel from one slit to the other!! The paradox is this: "How does a photon traveling from the source to slit A know whether or not slit B is opened or closed, since the photon from the source arrives at the slit before the photon could "send a signal from A to B to "tell" a photon traveling from the source to slit B. This paradox has led to a lot of contentious argument for many years. I do not think it is resolved to everyone's satisfaction even today. Some argue that it is the act of observation that causes the result. That before the observation the photons do not know. This interpretation led A. Einstein to ask: You mean if I do not see the moon on a particular day, that it does not exist? Results like this is what lead Richard Feynman to say that anyone who says they understand quantum mechanics, does not understand the problem!!! Vince Calder The HUP is based on the "statistical" nature of quantum physics. It is not the process of placing a ruler to an electron that causes the momentum to be uncertain. It is the knowing. One cannot know the position AND momentum of a particle perfectly at the same time. At the center of quantum physics is a wave function. If quantum physics is correct, every object in the universe has a wave function. Within this is a mathematical definition of that one individual object. This function stores the "state" of the object, determining in what ways it may respond to interactions. This wave function usually allows a variety of responses. When a measurement is taken, one of the responses is randomly picked. The state of the object is now 100% what was ever chosen. All others are eliminated by the measurement. This changes the wave function. Some quantities are linked through this wave function. Position and momentum are such a pair. Energy and time as well. To find the probability distribution of momentum, take the first derivative of the wave function with respect to position. To find the position probability distribution, take the first derivative with respect to momentum. These linked quantities are the means to working each other out of the wave function. This results in a link between uncertainties. The more narrow you trim the position wave function, the more the momentum wave function spreads out. The more narrow the momentum wave function, the more the position function spreads out. A narrow wave function corresponds to a very small uncertainty: the next measured value can only fall within a narrow range. A wide wave function corresponds to the next measurement having very little restriction. Measuring position precisely makes the next possible momentum measurement have a wide range of possibilities, and vice versa. In order not to limit each other's reliability, these "incompatible" measurements must both be allowed some uncertainty. If you make a position and momentum measurement with uncertainties that don't break the HUP, then the measurements can be made without messing up each other. It is due to statistical properties of quantum mechanics. We do not know for a fact it is true, but so far what quantum physics tells us does match what we observe at the level of individual particles. Dr. Ken Mellendorf Physics Instructor Illinois Central College Click here to return to the Physics Archives Educational Programs Building 360 9700 S. 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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96071	Working Group V-MOD: Geomagnetic Field Modelling IUGG > IAGA > Division V > Working Group V-MOD > IGRF Health Warning The International Geomagnetic Reference Field: A "Health" Warning Revised, January 2010 Key words: IGRF, uses and limitations, health warning, geomagnetic reference field, geomagnetic field model, secular variation The International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) was introduced by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) in 1968 in response to the demand for a standard spherical harmonic representation of the Earth's main field. The model is updated at 5-yearly intervals, the latest being the 11th generation, produced and released by IAGA Working Group V-MOD (formerly V-8) December 2009. The IGRF has achieved worldwide acceptability as a standard and has proved valuable for many applications, BUT INAPPROPRIATE USE COULD SERIOUSLY DAMAGE THE CREDIBILITY OF YOUR RESULTS ! This page attempts to indicate the limitations of the IGRF. The Earth's magnetic field crudely resembles that of a central dipole. On the Earth's surface the field varies from being horizontal and of magnitude about 30 000 nT near the equator to vertical and about 60 000 nT near the poles; the root mean square (rms) magnitude of the vector over the surface is about 45 000 nT. The internal geomagnetic field also varies in time, on a time-scale of months and longer, in an as yet unpredictable manner. This so-called secular variation (SV) has a complicated spatial pattern, with a global rms magnitude of about 80 nT/year. Consequently, any numerical model of the geomagnetic field has to have coefficients which vary with time. The International Geomagnetic Reference Field is an attempt by IAGA to provide an easily-usable model acceptable to a variety of users. It is meant to give a reasonable approximation, near and above the Earth's surface, to that part of the Earth's magnetic field which has its origin inside the surface. At any one epoch, the IGRF specifies the numerical coefficients of a truncated spherical harmonic series: for dates until 2000 the truncation is at n=10, with 120 coefficients, but from 2000 the truncation is at n=13, with 195 coefficients. Such a model is specified every 5 years, for epochs 1900.0, 1905.0 etc. For dates between the model epochs, coefficient values are given by linear interpolation. For the 5 years after the most recent epoch there is a linear secular variation model for forward extrapolation; this SV model is truncated at n=8, so has 80 coefficients - in effect the next 40 or 115 coefficients are defined to be zero. When using models, to avoid ambiguity you should state explicitly which IGRF Generation you are using; the error estimates in the following discussion refers to the set of models of the 11th Generation. For simplicity in this discussiom, the model for the current epoch, and those for some earlier epochs, is designated by "IGRF" followed by the epoch, e.g. IGRF2010. At some later time these IGRF yyyy models are replaced by definitive DGRF yyyy models; note that while the D stands for Definitive, this is in the sense that Working Group V-8/V-MOD thought (rightly or wrongly) that it would not be able to do significantly better in the future, NOT that the values are exact! When working retrospectively, interpolate between the appropriate DGRF yyyy models if they exist; for current work, and if there is not a DGRF model, then use the appropriate IGRF model. In any case ALWAYS specify exactly what model has been used, so that later, when a DGRF has been produced, the necessary corrections can be made to your data and results. The IGRF is inevitably an imperfect model. Firstly, the numerical coefficients provided will not be correct: the model field produced will differ from the actual field we are trying to model - "errors of commission". Secondly, because of the truncation, the IGRF models represent only the lower spatial frequencies (longer wavelengths) of the field: higher spatial frequency components of the field are not accounted for in our model - "errors of omission". Thirdly, there are also other contributions to the observed field that the IGRF is NOT trying to model. These three aspects are now discussed in more detail. ERRORS OF COMMISSION (due to errors in the numerical coefficients) Geomagnetic main field Errors in the coefficients lead to errors in the resulting model field, which are most easily summarized as a root mean square vector error in the field when averaged over the Earth's surface. Because of the time variation of the field, really good models can only be produced for times when there is global coverage by satellites measuring the vector field. This occurred in 1979-1980 (MAGSAT), and from 1999 (Ørsted, CHAMP). For other times our knowledge is significantly poorer because of the poorly-known time variation of the geomagnetic field. Estimating the uncertainty of numerical models is notoriously difficult. Mainly by comparing some IGRF and DGRF models with ones produced later, I suggest the values shown in Table 1 as reasonable order-of-magnitude working approximations. (The different figures arise because of the different data and methods of analysis used at different times for different epochs.) Table 1 • For the IGRF models for 1900-1940, the modelers estimated an accuracy of about 50 nT rms. Experience indicates, however, that such estimates are usually too small, and I suggest using 100 nT rms. • For the DGRFs for epochs 1945-1960 I suggest rms errors decreasing linearly from about 300 nT in 1945 to about 100 nT in 1960. • For the DGRFs from1965 to 1995 (other than 1980) I think that a reasonable approximation is that the rms error is about 50 nT. • For the 1980 DGRF, different estimates of the accuracy of the coefficients on which it was based lead to uncertainties in the global rms vector in the range 1-10 nT. Because the DGRF coefficients were rounded to 1 nT (see below), a reasonable working approximation would be an overall uncertainty of about 10 nT rms. • For the DGRFs from 2000 onwards satellite data were again available, and analysis techniques steadily improved. For the 2000 DGRF I suggest an overall uncertainty of about 10 nT rms, and 5 nT rms for the 2005 DGRF. • The production of the IGRF for the current epoch inevitably involves forward extrapolation of the observational data, and if there has not been a recent satellite survey the data themselves may well be inadequate. So the IGRF yyyy for the current epoch will inevitably be less accurate than the retrospective models; I suggest using 10 nT rms while we have satellite data. • The accompanying predictive secular variation is an estimate of the average rate of change to be expected over the next 5 years. Unfortunately the real SV is liable to unpredictable change. Past experience has shown that over the 5-year extrapolation period the predictive SV is typically wrong by about 20 nT/year. Note that this implies significantly increasing the uncertainty of the main-field model for dates after the epoch of the last IGRF model. • Secular variation The geomagnetic field does not vary linearly with time but until 2000, except for a few years round 1980, the use of linear interpolation over 5 years does not significantly increase the above rms errors for the main field. From 2000, linear interpolation might lead to increased errors at certain times. Note that a stepwise linear secular variation is inherent in the IGRF model. This model of the secular variation is intended ONLY for use in interpolating main field models; it will be a VERY POOR model of the actual instantaneous time rate of change of the geomagnetic main field. Miscellaneous notes 1. When the IGRF was started in 1968 the errors were large, and it was sufficiently accurate to specify the coefficients to the nearest nT. This approximation added about 9 nT rms error to the resultant field magnitude, but it has had no significant effect, except for times very near 1980.0. For epochs from 2000 the rounding was to 0.1 nT, and will have no effect on the uncertainties on the uncertainties of IGRF (prospective) models . For epochs from 2005, the rounding is to 0.01 nT for the DGRF models. This change was needed because for harmonic degrees higher than about 6 the accuracy of the coefficients was better than the error associated with rounding to 0.1 nT. (The variation with degree is because we are using semi-normalized associated Legendre polynomials.) But note that for all the coefficients, rounding to 0.01 nT greatly overestimates their accuracy. 2. All independent sources of error add as their mean square, even though they are quoted here as root mean square. 3. At any one place, a 10 nT vector error could be 10 nT in any one of the three (X, Y, or Z) orthogonal components, or be shared among them. A 10 nT global rms vector error corresponds to global rms values of about 5, 5, and 7 nT for X, Y, and Z respectively. But remember that at some places on the surface there will be errors several times larger than the rms value. And errors will often be particularly large in regions where there is not much data, such as the south Pacific! 4. Similarly, a given vector error might appear as an error in either total intensity F, inclination I, or declination D, or be shared between them. A 10 nT vector rms local error gives rms values of about 5-7 nT in F (going from geomagnetic equator to pole), 0.8-0.3 arcminute in I (equator to pole), and 0.6-1.2 arcminute in D (from the equator to about 60 degree geomagnetic latitude; much more nearer the poles). 5. For global rms values other than 10 nT, all the above values change proportionately. The field observed near the surface (typically 45 000 nT) comes predominantly from electric currents in the Earth's fluid core; because of the large distance of the Earth's surface from this source, the observed core field is predominantly of long wavelength. But a significant contribution also comes from the magnetized rocks of the Earth's crust; this contribution is predominantly of much shorter wavelength, and amounts typically to 200-300 nT rms. For a given wavelength there is no way of separating the core field from the crustal field. Although the crustal field is mostly of much shorter length scale than the core field, there is almost certainly a finite (essentially constant) contribution from the crust present in the IGRF models (i.e. in harmonics at and below degree n=10). This contribution is not separably measurable, but not unreasonable models suggest its magnitude is about 5-10 nT global vector rms. Conversely, because the shortest (equatorial) wavelength which can be represented in an IGRF model truncated to n=10 is about 4000 km, any shorter-wavelength field, including that from the core, is ignored by the model. Again, this core-field contribution is not separable from the crustal field, but not unreasonable extrapolations suggest that about 35 nT rms of short-wavelength core field is being ignored. From 2000 the truncation level was increased to n=13, probably reducing this to about 10 nT rms. If you measure the magnetic field at a point on the Earth's surface, do not expect to get the value predicted by the IGRF! Quite apart from the errors discussed above, there might be fixed contributions from buildings, parked cars, etc., and the magnetization of crustal rocks will certainly add its own local, small-scale, field, typically of magnitude 200 nT, but often much larger. There are also a large variety of time-varying fields, both man-made (traffic, DC electric trains and trams, etc.) and natural (from electric currents in the ionosphere and magnetosphere), and the associated induced fields from currents induced in the conducting earth. The ionospheric and magnetospheric fields occur at time scales mostly ranging from seconds to hours; in "quiet" conditions they may be as small as 20 nT (though enhanced near the geomagnetic equator and over the polar caps), but up to 1000 nT and more during a magnetic storm. On a longer time scale (days to years), the large-scale magnetic field of the external ring current (approximately represented by the Dst index) will give perhaps 1000 nT during and after a magnetic storm. F.J. Lowes Author, IAGA Working Group VMOD For page content questions please contact: Chris Finlay Webpage Maintained by: Manoj Nair Hosted by: WDC for Solid Earth and Geophysics Revised: 1 January 2010
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96076	Down's syndrome - Complications Complications of Down's syndrome Some children with Down's syndrome have very few health problems as a result of their condition. Others will experience several of the more common health conditions and will need extra medical care and attention. Possible health complications of Down's syndrome include: • heart disorders • bowel abnormalities • digestive problems • hearing and vision impairments • thyroid dysfunctions • increased risk of infections • blood disorders • increased risk of dementia These are outlined in more detail below. While some of these conditions are serious, most are not. Your child may be checked by a paediatrician more often than other children to pick up developing problems as early as possible. If you have any concerns about your child's health, discuss them with your GP, health visitor or paediatrician. Heart disorders Around 50% of children with Down's syndrome have a congenital heart defect. A congenital defect means that you are born with it. Around 60% of children with Down's syndrome who are born with a heart defect require treatment in hospital. Septal defects account for 9 out of 10 cases of congenital heart disease in people with Down's syndrome. A septal defect is a hole inside one of the walls that separate the four chambers of the heart, often referred to as a "hole in the heart". It can cause a build-up of blood in one or more of the heart's chambers, which causes the heart to work harder to pump blood through the four chambers. Less common but serious types of congenital heart disease in people with Down's syndrome include: • tetralogy of Fallot, which accounts for 6% of cases • patent ductus arteriosus, which accounts for around 4% of cases Tetralogy of Fallot is a combination of four different heart defects that causes a lowering of oxygen levels in the blood. This can lead to symptoms of breathlessness. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a duct or passage in the heart that usually closes shortly after birth. However, in cases of PDA the duct fails to completely close, which means oxygen-rich blood that is meant to be pumped away from the lungs leaks back through the duct and into the lungs. This can place strain on the heart and lungs because they have to work harder to compensate for the problems caused by the duct. If your baby is diagnosed with Down's syndrome, their heart will be carefully assessed to detect and treat any problems as soon as possible. Intestinal problems Many people with Down's syndrome have some sort of intestinal problem. Constipationdiarrhoea and indigestion are all common, as are more serious problems such as small bowel obstruction, which stops food passing from the stomach into the large bowel. An estimated 5-15% of people with Down's syndrome develop coeliac disease (an intolerance to gluten). Conditions such as imperforate anus (where a baby is born without an anal opening) or Hirschsprung's disease (where the large bowel is unable to push faeces towards the anus) are rare, but slightly more common in children with Down's syndrome. Hearing problems Around 50% of people with Down's syndrome have problems with their ears and hearing. Glue ear commonly affects people with the condition. It is caused by a build-up of fluid in the middle ear. In some cases, the fluid thickens and causes sounds to be muffled and distorted. If your child has a hearing problem, they may find it difficult to learn and interact with other children. If your child has glue ear as a result of Down's syndrome, they will usually be referred to an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist for treatment. Vision problems Around 50% of people with Down's syndrome also have problems with their eyesight. Common eye problems include: • squint • lazy eye – where one eye does not develop fully and loses some focusing ability • short-sightedness – where distant objects appear blurred • long-sightedness – where nearby objects appear blurred • eye infections (conjunctivitisuveitis or blepharitis) • cataracts – where the lens (the transparent layer at the front of the eye) clouds over • nystagmus – where the eyes move uncontrollably, usually from side to side • keratoconus – where the cornea becomes thin and bulges out Thyroid problems Around 10% of people with Down's syndrome have problems with their thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is located in the neck and is responsible for controlling your metabolism (the rate at which your body uses up energy). It does this by releasing thyroid hormones into the body. Most people with Down's syndrome who have a problem with their thyroid have hypothyroidism, which means their thyroid gland is underactive. Symptoms of an underactive thyroid gland can include: • lethargy (lack of energy) • weight gain • slow physical and mental reactions In rarer cases, people with Down's syndrome can also develop hyperthyroidism, which means their thyroid gland is overactive and produces too much thyroid hormone. Symptoms of hyperthyroidism can include: • hyperactivity • difficulty breathing • difficulty sleeping Increased risk of infection People with Down's syndrome are more likely to develop infections, particularly the lung infection pneumonia. This is because their immune system (the body's natural defence against infection) has not developed properly. Children with Down's syndrome also have an increased risk of developing acute leukaemia. Around 1 in 100 children with Down's syndrome go on to develop acute leukaemia. Dementia is a frequently voiced concern about people with Down's syndrome. There is a tendency for people with Down's syndrome to develop dementia at a younger age than in the general population. However, recent research indicates that the overall percentage of adults with Down's syndrome who develop dementia is similar to that of the population who do not have Down's syndrome. It is not inevitable that people with Down's syndrome will develop the condition. Page last reviewed: 24/01/2013 Next review due: 24/01/2015 How helpful is this page? Average rating Based on 34 ratings All ratings Add your rating
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96084	Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:56:19 -0800 (PST) From: Art Fex Subject: the fourwheeler incident/chapter three Me and My 'Brothers': Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Art I. fex The four of us dried off, drying one another's backs and such until we we dry enough for clothes. I led the way into my bedroom where Randy and Shel had stacked their clothes, more like tossed them in the door as we came in, and I began digging around for me and Ben some clothes. We got dressed, me wearing a pair of black wind pants and a fitted green shirt, and let Ben choose his clothes. He scrounged around until he found a jock I had, which I only used as underwear, since I don't really do sports. "Think your mom would mind if I just wore this?", Ben asked with a serious face. "Probably not, but your little sisters might freak.", I teased. "Ohhh shiiiit. that's right, they'll be here too. damnit!", Ben groaned. "Well, look on the bright side, you don't have to sleep at the same house as them tonight.", I said trying to lift his spirits. "Hey Dave, um, what are you gonna do about your ear?", Randy said, rubbing his thumb over the hole in the bottom edge of my right earlobe. "Not much I guess...hmm, wait just a sec.", I said walking out of the room as Randy and Shel put on their jeans and Ben found some more windpants for himself. I returned with an ear-ring of my mothers and a stupid grin on my face. It was a diamond stud that my dad had bought for a christmas/anniversary gift last year. As I looked in the mirror, I slid it into my earlobe and fastened it, for if I didn't, it would fall out of the hole which as big enough for a toothpick. I turned and the guys instantly laughed their asses off, only it wasn't just my buddies laughing, I heard another set of laughing. I turned to see my dad standing in the door laughing with the others. "You look cute son! Where'd ya get that done?", my dad said laughingly. I grinned a shit eatin grin and said, "At the fishing hole!", as if I was proud of it. "That's what I heard, I talked to Mr. Sasser's son on the phone a while ago, Michael?", dad said as he took a seat on the bed next to my shirtless friends. Dad turned to Shel who was laying on his back and ruffled his hair, I think Shel began to love my father even more at that moment. I stared at the hopeless Shel and said, "Right, um, what did Michael say?" "Oh, that he was sorry for snagging your ear with a lure, and that he would like it if ya'll camped out with him tonight.", my father said nonchalantly, enjoying Shel's new found weak spot. We all liked the idea of camping out with Michael, but that would kind of mess up our plans for the 'other things' that we had planned for the evening. I could see from the looks on the other's faces, even the sedated Shel, that they all felt the same way. "Well, what time is he wantin' to meet up with us?", I said hopeful that something could be worked out. "He said just show up at the creek sometime after 9 tonight, and bring whatever you might need.", dad said. "Oh, and it is only like, six or somethin right now, so that is plenty of time.", I said absentmindedly. "Plenty of time for what?", my dad said, digging his fingers even deeper into Shel's head causing his back to arch up off the bed as he giggled like a little kid. "Um", I thought, why'd I say that out loud? "Just a few things we were gonna do before bed tonight, nothin' much." My father grinned as he looked at each of us and said in a lower voice, "Ya know, he is a guy, he probably isn't that different than you four." "What do you mean?", Ben said curiously, a strange look on all our faces as we waited for his reply. "Well," my dad looked over at the door as if checking it out, "I kinda know what ya'll like doin' for fun. It isn't really that strange considerin' that most guys do it, maybe not always together, but they do it nonetheless." We all just looked at each other and then at my dad and it seemed I was the only one gonna as the question. "How'd you know we's doin' it together and stuff?" My dad smiled as he spoke, "Well, ya'll spend a lot of time together, and a guy is going to jack off, and ya'll hardly spend enough time apart to allow for that, so that in itself is enough to hint at it, at least for me, but also, I have seen ya'll swimming and such. Sometimes, the things that happen on the edge of the pond are noticeable, to me anyway, bein in the pasture and such, them willow branches can't hide but so much." As my father spoke, I'm sure my face matched the redness of the other three. However, I knew that this didn't mean that my father knew about the interesting turn of events earlier today, so I just tried to see if he let on about that any. "Have you ever done anything like that before?", Ben asked quietly. "Are you kidding? I'll just give you one guess as to who it was with.", my dad said kinda friendly, but in a smart assed kinda way. "Dad?", Ben said, his eyes growing a bit wider. My dad chuckled at Ben's astonishment, "Yes, your daddy and I, as well as Mr. Sasser all did, and still do that. Of course, we don't do it nearly as much as we used to, but that happens as ya get older I guess and have less time on your hands. But hell yes, we did it almost as much as ya'll do now!", My dad said looking from one of us to the other. "It is odd that ya'll do it as much as we did, like a second generation, but not that weird I guess when you think about it. Ya'll grew up in a similar way that we all did, where you're real close to your buddies, and ya just didn't branch out trying to fix a social life that ain't broke. We all got married, and love your mothers dearly, and that cuts down on how much we do together too. Ya know?" I had wondered about the kind of relationship my dad had with Ben's dad, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Sasser since this afternoon at lunch, now that was answered. They did fool around, and still did?! How had we not noticed? "Do our dads do it too?", Randy said, referring to his and Shel's dads. "Well, they did jack with us a little, but that is as far as it went. They didn't seem like they would be into taking things quite as far as the three of us did. When we was youngin's, the three of us were real close, and Mr. Umberlin and Mr. Peterson were close, so the three of us just had something goin amongst us that wasn't quite the same. We were all friends though, and in our swimming and hunting and such, jacking off happened, but that was it as far as the whole group was concerned." I had lost most of my reservations about talking about this stuff with my dad by now, so I went ahead and asked him, "Do you think that Michael would be into it too?" My father smirked and chuckled a little bit before saying, "Well, there was this time that he caught me and Mr. Sasser just the two of us in their equiptment building...he was alright with that, didn't go nuts like we'da expected. Infact he seemed real interested in what we was doin', so he sat there and talked to us a little bit about it, and I think that he understands how it is amongst us men now and is at ease about it." "What did ya'll explain to 'em?", Ben asked after my father paused for a few seconds in thought. "Well, that love can happen between anyone, and that sex is just a biproduct of love, and that it makes relationships stronger, and that even the ancients knew that. Them ancient Greeks that ya'll read about in ya'll's studies and all knew the power of love between men. Them soldiers loved eachother and took care of one another. We may not be ancient Greek Spartan soldiers or nothin, but we're men who care for one another in a special way seperate from our wives. I think our wives might have caught onto it by now, but they know that it is no threat to our relationships with them. They know that love isn't just about who you're married to. It's about love, and that is how it was all those centuries ago, and it is kinda like that with us now. I'd trust my family and wife's welfare to any of my buddies if something were to happen to me, and they'd do the same. We're close." It all seemed to make more sense then, my feelings for my buddies and our physical expression of our trust and companionship with one another. Although, I knew deep down that I had no real strong hankerin's for a girl, but that could wait til later. Most guys don't have to have sex with a guy to know that they are straight, and I don't have to have sex with a girl to know that I'm....well, something othern 'staight'. "Yea, I see what you're sayin, dad. Why do people have to try and put a post-it lable on everything anyhow?", I said confidently. "Exactly.", my father answered as though I'd just gotten some really deep concept. "Alright! Everyone's gettin here, ya'll come to dinner!", my mom hollered up the staircase. "Welp, better go get it, don't want cold food do we?", my father said, slapping Shel on the leg and lifting himself from the bed. The others threw their shirts on and we descended the staircase with my father, his arm around my shoulder and gripping Randy's neck with the other. Once we reached the bottom of the staicase, my father pulled me over to the side as the others entered the dining room and whispered, "Son, tonight is kinda about you boys, but I don't want you or anyone else to feel any pressure about it, if it turns out to be something that you don't want, or that you aren't ready for yet, then don't feel like you have to do anything to make us all happy, Randy, Shel, and Ben's dads are spose to be tellin them the same thing right now. OK?", my dad rubbed his fingers through my hair and rested his hands on my shoulders. "Alright. I'm sure that whatever it is, it is probably a good idea, ya'll've never steared us wrong before.", I said with a smile. "Good...", my dad said with a smile, and without even thinking about what I was doin, I planted a quick dry kiss on the corner of my dad's mouth, his 5 o'clock shadow roughness scratching my face in a pleasurable way, arousing feelings of ruggedness and his masculinity. I hugged him, only thinking about what I'd done after I did it. My dad held me back and whispered, "I love you son, so much." I felt that my love for him was oozing out of my heart at that moment, and running through my arms and face as I whispered back in his ear, "I love you too." I loved my dad right then a lot, not in a sexual way, but in a powerful way nonetheless. We then entered the dining room and sat down just as the other fathers and boys were sitting down as well. I sat next to Randy, and Shel and Ben sat on the oppostite side from us. Our fathers all sat at the end of the table to my left across form eachother, Ben's dad, Mr. Harrison sat next to my dad, who was sitting next to me. The women were all finishing up bringin the food in, which by the way looked like enough to last us for several days. There were rolls, fried chicken, sea food bisque, a platter full of the fish we had caught earlier, ham, sausage, and a platter of fudge which I had made the day before for no particular reason, (yea yea, I cook which comes in handy nowadays for the four of us!), and a lot of other food that lined the table from end to end. Ben cringed as his sisters waltzed into the room in their own world, absorbed in some conversation they were having, then giggling when they looked at Ben. If looks could kill, Ben's look just might have turned the three girls to dust. Frankly, I thought they were cute, and they were nice the times that I did talk to them, but I admit, I wouldn't want to live with them like Ben did, I definitely wasn't attracted to them. After all was set and in place, the women finally took their seats. Their butts probably hadn't been in a chair since lunch due to the cooking and such that went on, but like I said, they cook big, like, big big, all the time, it's what they love. The menfolk and boyfolk were all talking about general stuff as I listened and put my two cents in occasionally, then I would turn to see the glances of the little girls on the other side of Randy, and they would giggle. The girls then whispered something to our mothers and pointed at me, then my mother looked up along with the others and spit her tea back into the glass. The other mothers did the same and began cackling like hens. My mother covering her mouth as she laughed so hard that no sound came out. I just sat there wondering what they were laughing about. Randy turned to me and said laughingly, "I think they like your jewelry man." I had forgotten about the diamond stud earring in my ear, but the men had already looked up to see what the woman were laughing at, their eyes landing on me. Our fathers began chuckling to themselves as I tried to get it out, but was having difficulty considereing I was inexperienced at manuvering ear rings in and out and the like. My dad's grinning face rested on his hand as he shook is head in humor. "That's cute, boy!", Ben's dad said leaning over to see me behind my dad, a huge smile on his freshly shaven face, revealing his well shaped jawbones and attractive smile that I had never noticed with his beard the way it was before. "When did you get that?", Randy's dad said grinnin. "Christmas last year about my anniversary.", my mother said taking the ear ring from my hand as she then began explaining to the women what had happened to my ear at the pond. One of Ben's little sisters had just finished whispering something in Randy's ear as he then turned to me and said laughingly, "She just told me to tell you that they are going to marry you, me, and Shel." I laughed back and said, "Poor things, if only they knew." I then inconspicuously groped Randy's crotch and squeezed his bulge. He tensed and involuntarily spread his legs a bit before I withdrew my hand. I had kept my hand underneath the golden table cloth that my mother brought out when we had company. At least I thought was inconspicuous...I looked to my left and my dad was looking down at my hand sidewards without turning his head with a small grin on his face. I froze after removing my hand, and my dad just patted my knee casually. My dad leaned in and said, "I done told ya, I've been there and done all that, I love ya just the same." I smiled big then, Randy was ovlivious to my dad's prying eyes. "Alright, ya'll ready to say the blessing?", my mother said above the other voices in the room. With that, my father said the blessing, thanking God for all the things he had given us, including our friends. I felt two feet rub my feet when he said that, to which I grinned and rubbed back, not opening my eyes to see who it was, but guessing it was Shel and Ben. The word 'Amen' always seems to be like a gun firing at a horse race, our hands being the horses and the plates the finishing line. We passed dishes and platters and plates until we all had a plateful and began enjoying the feast our mothers had made. Compliments and conversation filled the air as we ate, until it was time for desert. As desert was served, the conversation was redirected to business, namely this master plan for the four of us boys sitting there. After swallowing a piece of peanut-butter cake, my dad initiated the discussion. "Well, the main thing we came here to talk about tonight was a plan to sort of, uh, give the boys here a head start in life, and also try to take care of some loose ends around here." We four just looked on, waiting to hear what was in store for us as we slowly chewed up our cake, eyes glued on my dad. "When my momma and daddy moved to town they left that small place out there, kinda to itself. And if we don't do something about it, it's gonna start looking bad. They don't want it fall into disrepair, and neither do we, besides, it was my homestead where I was born and raised, so it has some sentimental value, to me especially. What I propose is that the boys here take up living in the old homespot, and kinda keep the place goin', rather than it being a deserted weed farm. It would make it look better, give them a touch of freedom and independence, and it will give them something to be proud of and call their own." My mouth fell open I'm sure, and the four of us boys exhanged glances, grins beginning to spread on our faces as it sank in. Personally, I can't be sure, but I think Ben's might have been what you call a 'watermellon grin'. He was ready for this to take effect TONIGHT! Looking at us, my mother spoke with hope in her voice, "So, what do you boys think about that? I mean, if you ever need anything, we'd still be right over here a short fourwheeler ride over, or a phonecall away." The other mothers agreed as our dads nodded and Shel's dad said, "I think it'll do the boys good to get out, semi-own-their-own and take hold of something that is theirs. People take care of things when it's theirs with more pride and conviction." "That's right, Randy's dad, Mr. Umberlin said, his brownish blonde hair short like Randy's contrasting with his tanned skin and white smile, "And I think they can handle it with ease the way they have taken care of things on our places." We were all excited about this change in lifestyle for us. Ben would be outa his house, the girls would have a new room, the grand's place would be preserved, AND not to mention the concept of the four bro's being united in their own house and literally living together as a family unit. We were ecstatic! Mr. Harrison was talking about some of the plans they had for their house after getting Ben's empty room, and the other women were speaking of sewing rooms and other things that they could do with the vacant rooms in their houses, and the four of us boys were discussing things with my dad about the house we were to move into later that week. "The house has three bed rooms, one with ya'll could make an office, and the other two ya'll could use for bed rooms. Unless ya'll wanted to make it something else and then use one room for beds. Ya'll can just work that out when ya'll start moving in furniture and such. The place has a working kitchen, I went over to check everything out, the appliances are not that old, my parents put them in right before leaving, thinking that ya'll might take over the place not long from then, so they aren't in bad shape, ya know? And the plumbing and all is good, so really, it was just a matter of cutting the power and water back on to the place, which I did a few days ago. It is ready for ya'll's furniture, which I presume will come from ya'lls rooms and all of our combined attics!" My dad went on about other things, and we couldn't hide our excitement about the new plans. I then looked at the clock and saw that it was approaching nine o'clock, and we were supposed to meet up with Michael by the creek soon. I looked over at Randy and the others, and they were on the same page as me. We stood up and thanked and hugged our mothers and fathers for everything. As we walked out and hugged the sisters, even Ben hugged them, probably cause he could tolerate them now that he didn't have to live with'em anymore! We went to my room and prepared for the camp, gettin our sleeping bags and such together, and then I looked over at my bed. "Should I take lube?", I asked the others. They thought for a moment and said, "Sure, why not. Never know, right?" After changing back into our 'summer uniforms' of shorts and shoes, we headed down the stairs and past the dining room again and as we were walking past my dad called out over his shoulder, "You boys be careful." "Yea, no calls from the police about a domestic disturbance!", Mr. Peterson called out laughingly. "Will do, night ya'll.", we called out as we shut the door behind us. We went out and boarded two four wheelers, me with Shelby this time, and Ben with Randy, then held onto our stuff as we made our way across the young darkness of the evening. The sun is hardly set at nine in the summer time around here, the heat from the day still strong in the air, clashing with the refreshing breeze doing it's best to give us some relief from the sultry day time temperatures as we rode over the hills towards the creek where our companion should be waiting for us. Upon reaching the creek, same place as we had swam earlier, we parked the four wheelers at the top of the hill and began making our way down the steep slope towards the bottom. My footing gave way on some dead leaves, and with a quick, "Whoa shit..." I made my way down the hill, flipping head over hills a few times in the darkness till I couldn't tell which way was up or down, and only guessing which end of me would hit the sandy bottom first. ( we didn't have a flashlight by the way, so give me that much credit )it was my back, and just as I was about to start laughing my ass off at MY clumbsiness, Randy landed on top of me, his warm hot chest on my face, the cool soft sand beneath my head like a contoured pillow just for me. I then snickered against his bare chest, inhaling his viril scent. I inhaled him deeply before he had a chance to raise up and dust himself off and extend a hand to help me up. I took his rough worn hand as he tugged me up from the darkness below and into the pale moonlight that shown through the overhead tree branches that seemed to add a ceiling to the creek area. "I almost had enough time to warn you about that, the same thing happened to me on the way down myself.", came the good natured voice that could only've been Michael's from the darkness. "I was waiting to light the fire til ya'll got here, just enjoying the atmoshphere, peaceful." "Aw, hi there, Michael, been here long?", Randy said gleering into the darkness trying to see. "Nah, bout ten minutes or so.", Michael said stretching, his pale skin showing in the moonlight, Michael then pulled out a zippo and lit it, sending a yellow glow over the walls of the ditch which is about twenty feet in diameter, and the walls are about ten feet high. I looked up to see Shel and Ben making their way down the hill slowly on their backs practically til they reached the sandy bottom where we were. I looked down and saw the leaves that Michael must've been lying on when we showed up, then saw the small pile of wood and paper stacked neatly in a cone shape at the edge of the water that met the sand bar. Michael went over to the pile with his lighter and lit the papers, a green flame flickering from the plastic lined feed bag. We then spread out our sleeping bags, unzipping them all the way and throwing them out more like quilts than anything, there was no way we could stand to be wrapped in those bags, we would've drowned in our sweat! "Thanks for calling us up, we've been talking about camping out and just hadn't done it yet.", Ben said to Michael as he disappeared into the shadows. "Yea that was nice of ya," we chimed in. "Oh, no problem. Besides, I probably shouldn't drink all this by myself, especially in the dark this far from our houses.", Michael said as he held up a litre jug of cheap black cap vodka. "I told Dave's dad, Mr. Pearson that I had it and he said he would tell the others, but he did say not to let it slip around our mothers.", Michael said taking a swig from the jug, his eyes squinting as he exhaled slowly passing it to me. "Yea, our dads don't mind too much as long as we don't do it all the time and get totally shit-faced, but our mom's don't much like the idea of us drinking, but no huge deal or anything.", Shel said leaning back and folding his hands under his head. His muscles were highlighted by the shadows cast by the flickering fire at his feet. I looked around as I took several large gulps of the vodka, feeling the burn run from my throat down my chest and landing hard in my stomach, then filling me with a warm, relaxing glow. "Shit man, you'll feel that in a second er two.", Randy said laughing along with the others waiting their turns to hit the glass jug of a bottle. Michael then came and sat down next to me while Ben and Shel moved in closer to us til we were sitting in an ever so familiar circle, only this time there was another shirtless barefoot guy in it. I looked over at the other guys, noticing how their skin glowed a golden color in the light of the flames, Ben's hair a bronze mat on his head as it tilted back while he gulped three mouthfuls of the liquor that tasted like how I would imagine fingernail polish remover tasting. I then looked at Michael, whom I hadn't had much of a chance to study yet. I didn't catch myself staring as my inhibitions were slowly melting away. Before I knew it, Michael had the bottle passed to him from Shel at tilted it up, the fire on the other side of Michael casting glimmering ripples throught the glass bottle and the clear liquid inside, making white spiderlegs of light dance across Michael's muscular chest and abs, accented by the thin shadows that were being cast by the texture of his abs. Randy and the others were laughing and jabbering about something, but I wasn't listening, I was busy staring at Michael as he chugged from the bottle, then pulled it from his lips, and passing it to me as he wiped his mouth on the back of his hand. "Your turn Dave.", Michael said with a smile, his teeth glowing in the firelight. I took the bottle and took one more large gulp, and then asked if the others wanted anymore. "Not at tha moment. Dunt wanna get too drunk yet. Jus got here.", Shel said reclining a little bit on his hands. I then capped the jug and layed it to the side. I leaned back, watching Michael poke the fire with a stick before he returned to the mats and plopped down next to me, his upper thigh resting against my exposed hip. He wrinkled his lips up a little as he reached down towards his leg, "Thinka stick is scratching me...", then his hand came up with the tube of lube that must've fallen out of my pocket. "Hmmmm, what's this for, Dave?", Michael said mischeviously, a grin spreading across his face. "Umm, jacking off.", I said, surprising myself a little by my confession. The others, including Michael laughed at that, then Michael turned to me and said, "Well, I HOPE you brought enough for the group.", talking as if I had brought only one piece of gum or something. "Be my guest, I brought it for anyone that wants it.", I said sitting up again and grinning at my knowing buddies. "Well, are ya'll ready to do it?", Ben asked hopefully, looking from one face to the other. "It's a go with me," I said, soon followed by Shel and Randy's approvals as well. Now we all looked at Michael, the moment of truth. Was he gonna do it with us? Cause if he wasn't, it would be a long night. if he was, hopefully it'd be longer! "Welp, sounds lika plan to me.", Michael said as he passed the lube to me and I along with the others began undoing my shorts and pulling them down and off, tossing them over by the slightly emptied jug. Michaels eyes were wider as he looked from one cock the other, seemingly impressed with what he saw. "Nice equiptment ya'll got there, guys." "Thanks, whater you packin?", Ben said, a little over anxiously. I could tell that Ben was ready to get this show on the road. We exchanged knowing glances and grins as Michael stood up and dropped his shorts to his ankles, his hard throbbing cock smacking his stomach then bobbing out in front of him straight forward. He also had shaved it perfectly clean, not a hair to be seen on his throbbing young manhood. I had shaved mine recently as well, but it was starting to grow back. I had centimeter long pubes that annoyed the shit out of me. I just keep mine shaved now most of the time. "Niiiice.", Shel said while stroking his glistening cock, passing the lube over to Ben who really didn't even need it. He had pre pooling up in his foreskin that would run down the belly of his cock as he pulled the skin up and down over the head of the cock I had sucked a short time ago. "How big is it?", Randy said, leaning back with his big uncut cock in his hand, rubbing the lube into it as his balls dangled below with his hand movements. "Bout six na half I think.", Michael said as he rubbed his really thick, uncut cock. "Welp, Shel, looks like we're outnumbered...two cut cocks and three uncut.", I said laughingly. "Does that mean we get blow jobs from the minority?", Randy said looking from Shel to me then to the others. My first inclination was to look at how Michael reacted to this question, was he taking it as a joke or was he excited, hopeful or what. He just looked seriously from person to person, I think looking to see if Randy was joking or not. Then he looked at me, and I just grinned. Michael grinned back and then looked at Shel who was just looking at the rest of us, especially Randy, really hard look. "Welp, if ya'll like the cock, then I have the cock!", Michael said teasingly shaking his cock towards my direction. I just looked around, and the others were smiling with this look that said "GO FOR IT". I didn't disappoint them. I looked up at Michael and said, "Seriously?" "Um, if ya'll were serious that is...", Michael said a little quieter this time with a sheepish grin. "I was!", Randy piped in. With that I took Michael's uncut cock in my hand and began rubbing back and forth, my fist gently gliding his skin over the surface of his hardness like a membrane. Michael was quiet at first, but then began moving his hips, fucking my hand which could barely reach around his throbbing cock. A drop of pre came out the tip of his redning cockhead, and I leaned in and licked if off with the tip of my tonge, taking the sweet liquid and it stretching a string from his cock head down to my lips. This caused Michael to laugh and he reached down and broke the precum thread connecting his cock to my face. I then placed my hands on his narrow hips and opened my mouth wide as I took every inch of his thick cock in my mouth and down my throat. I had practiced on Ben earlier, but he has a longer dick, so this was a relief on my throat, but not my jaw...Michael's was thicker. Michael instantly indicated that he was very vocal, which I realized I liked. "Mmmm, awww....yeaaa, suck my cock, Dave, yea take all of it....mmm your mouth's so warm...", Michael cooed as he rubbed a hand through my hair and pumped my face gently, not trying to choke me. The others were all a dripping mess right now, and Ben said, "Hey Shel...wanna try two at the same time?", Ben said as he wagged his big cock back and forth with a grin on his face. "Sounds fun to me.", Shel said, seeming excited to try something different as Randy and Ben both stood in front of him and next to Michael as he was still rubbing my shoulders and playing with my ears as he picked up the pace. Randy and Ben both had their cock heads on Shel's lips as he licked them simultaneously, taking both in his mouth at once, but not going down on them, just sucking the heads and playing with the foreskins while he grasped two balls in each hand. "Awww shit Shel, yea that's so likin' it?", Ben said as he played with Shel's hair with one hand and gripped Randy's ass with the other. All I could hear from my angle was a very enthusiastic, "MMMmmhmmmm.", coming from Shel's stuffed face. I looked up into Michael's eyes, past his flexing abs and bulging pecks, and up his beautiful face to the mesmerizing orbs in his sockets. They pierced me deeply as he seemed to establish a link within my mind or something. He began moving slower, grunting quietly when I would run my tongue across his large vein and wriggle it around the head and inside his skin, and compliment me heartily when I would take it down my throat up to his shaved, silky balls. Finally, Michael pulled me off his cock and came down on me, pushing me on my back as he licked down my stomach and then slid my aching boner into his eager mouth. I could tell this was not his first time to do this, my question was who he did it with. That didn't matter at the time, jeeeez he was working my cock over time, taking the whole narrow seven inch rod down his throat, only gagging a little. My hips bucked up with a mind of their own as I gripped his hair, my semi hairy balls pressing against Michael's chin, as I moaned my pleasure to my new friend. "Ohhh man, mmmm teach me to do this, MMMgg yea,", I heaved breath taken at his tongue and mouth's manipulations. He then came off my cock and I looked over at Shel who was getting the double treatment, Ben and Randy taking turns on his balls and cock. Shel was going nuts, he was laying on his back while Randy went down on his leaking cock while playing and running his fingers through Shel's hair. "Dave?", Michael said quietly, obviously trying to catch his breath. "Yea, Michael." "Have ya'll ever done anal stuff?" "No, but was hoping too." "I'll show ya'll how if ya'll want.", Michael said smiling, "I promise ya'll'll like it." "Sounds like you could be a handy dude to have around!", I smiled back affectionately, liking our new friend more by the second. About that time, we were jolted back by Shel's grunt, "Stop or I'll shoot!" We laughed our asses off at the unintended pun, Randy and Ben reaching for the sky as they laughed. Shel was not getting what he had said at first but then rolling his eyes as he tried to move without cumming. I looked at Michael and said, "Welp, time for show-and-tell, Teach, show us whatcha know." The others looked on curiously, wondering what our friend had in store next. Michael then said, "Alright then, who's fucking who first, cause frankly, I want ALL YA'LL'S ASSES, but I think I'll let ya'll get the hang of it first with eachother, that way I can see what's goin down, or in, however you wanna put it.", as he reached down and picked up the lube from its resting spot. Shel was standing right next to Ben, and Randy was standing near where I was sitting, so we decided that Randy could fuck me first, and Shel and Ben could duke it out. Shel won after another of their typical wrestling matches on the sleeping bags. I knew that Shel was the better one, but at least Ben tries! Michael thought it was funny as hell, watching the two writhing, naked, laughing boys playfully competing for 'WHO-FUCKS-WHO-FIRST'. Ben gave in, knowing that he wanted Shel to fuck him anyway, and it was on. "Alright, first, are the 'torpedo tubes' clear?", Michael said with a smirk on his face. We knew what he meant, and knew that was not a problem, so we said yes. "OK then, the only thing you really need to know is to not go faster than the other person is comfortable with, or it'll hurt like hell, got it?", Michael said as we sat there like a group of pupils listening to the great Aristotle or something. We got it, so then Michael handed the lube to Shel and said, "Maybe ya'll should try it doggy style first, then try it missionary and see which works best for Ben here, some people say it's easier different ways for each different guy." With that, Ben got on all fours, his cock hanging low and hard, his balls dangling between his hairy thighs due to the heat of the fire. Shel then squirted some lube on Ben's hole, and was about to put his cock head against it when Michael came in. "You might wanna stretch it out a lil at first, you have a pretty big cock." Shel then lubed up his middle finger and slowly inserted it inside of Ben, who instantly murmered how good it felt. When Shel hit his pleasure spot, Ben's head tilted back suddenly and he moaned louder, "Yea Shel, right there! Oh God...keep hitting that.", Ben said eagerly, his eyes closed tightly while he bit his lower lip, as he often did when he was about to cum or something. Shel picked up the pace as Ben relaxed and then stuck another finger in, causing Ben to spread his legs wider and take in a deep breath, trying to relax again. "Alright, Ben?", Shel asked while the rest of us looked on taking in the site scene before us. "Yea, I think I'm ready for your cock, Shel, just take it slow and I think it'll go in alright.", Ben said in a soft voice. "Here we go then," Shel said as he squirted plenty of lube on his already dripping cock, just beggin to be inside of something tight and hot, namely Ben's tight little ass. With that, Shel passed the lube to Randy who then commenced to do the same to me as Shel had done to Ben, rubbing his hands over my pale globes, then findin my opening and sliding in two fingers at once. I grunted as I hung my head, pushing against his invasion, feeling mixed pleasure and pain as Randy rubbed his other hand up and down my back while working his fingers in and out of me. Michael looked on while gently massaging his oozing cock, he seemed to approve of our work so far as he smiled. By this time, Shel had his cock all the way planted inside of a moaning Ben, slowly pulling out an inch or two before going in deeper. Ben was pushing back against Shel's cock, Shel's pelvis clapping against Ben's cheeks each time, getting a low groan from Shel. Ben clenched the sleeping back with his fist as he laid his head on the bags while Shel was working his ass over with his big cock. Randy couldn't take it anymore and began rubbing his swollen cockhead against my ready ass. "Let's try it with me on my back.", I said breathlessly, my heart beating out of my chest with excitement. With that, Randy rolled me gently on my back and I raised my legs up onto his shoulders. Michael stepped over and gave Randy a hand aiming his cock at my hole, finally, I felt Randy's fuck stick break through the ring of my ass. I gasped, but didn't feel any severe pain from it. I lowered my legs down around his waist then and put my hands in his hair as he gazed into my eyes. His were aglaze with lust and adoration at the new sensations he was feeling. I smiled as he grinned, pushing in deeper. It began to hurt some, but not enough to bother us. I pulled him closer to me, his chin resting on my shoulder and me licking his neck. He pushed in deeper with a grunt, and I tensed up, taking in air as Randy's mouth locked on the bend of my neck, he teeth clamped on my neck as he thrust in deeper. I loved the feel of his mouth on my skin, and I nibbled his ear down his neck to his shoulder, licking and biting gently as he pushed all the way in, causing me to bite harder. He gave out a gutteral grunt as his balls pressed against my ass and I lifted up to give him even more entry. I was dazed with love and lust for this guy, my 'brother'. I wanted him so bad it hurt, and I could hear Ben whimpering in the background, "MMMMmmm Sh...Shel!, OH yea fuck me harder! Oh yea man, give it to me!" followed by Shel's moans and a dull, wet slapping sound. "Oh, yea Ben, take my cock, oh yea this is so good, so tight...mmmmmgggg you're gonna love it man, tellin ya, uhhhh." Michael was over watching them now, licking Ben's back and touching his cock to Ben's lips as Ben eagerly licked at it, sucking the head into his mouth for few seconds before Michael would pull out and smear his pre ooze on Ben's lips and chin. I was getting it laid to me with Randy's big uncut cock, and loving every second of it. Randy was licking my ear and face, giving out low sounding moans that were more like growls. He looked up into my eyes and kissed me, his tongue pushing deep into my mouth, and down my throat. Our tongues intwined and pushed against eachother as he picked up the pace with his humping. The sweat was beading up on Randy's back and sliding between our hot bare stomachs as we moved together. We broke for air, and Randy gazed down at me with a huge smile on his face and whispered, "I love you so much, Dave. This much" "I know, I love this, and I love you more than I can say." Randy looked down lovingly as he thrust in as deep as he could and held it there, pulling me tight and into a sitting postition, me sittin in his lap facing him. I began kissing every part of him I could reach as he sucked and kissed me all over. "Oh yea, Randy, fuck me, mmmm give me all your cum, make me yours.", I crooned, nibbling his ears as I whispered these words just for us. He laid me back down and held my ankles tight in his big rough hands as they touched my head and he began slamming into my boy pussy, taking me just like I asked. "OH YES, mmmmgggyyyea, you want my cum, bro?", Randy, grunted teasingly. "Want me to pump your guts full of ME, give you my seed and blood? Make us like real brothers?", Randy whispered in strained tones, grinning as he kissed me between words, pounding his cock in and out. "Please, I want all of you, I want us to be part of eachother.", I cooed in his ear, digging my nails into his back. About this time, Shel let out a huge groan that echoed in the tree tops as he unloaded into Ben's quivering body, on the verge of cumming himself. "OH yea, bro, take it all! HMMMPHHHH! Awwww yeaaa....mmmmmm." Ben was almost having a sensory overload or somthing, cause he looked like he could explode at any moment as Shel continued pumping his load into him. That must have pushed Randy over the edge, cause he starting thrusting harder and faster, and I bucked up to meet him. He clenched his teeth on my neck as I did the same and dug in deeper to his back with my fingers. Then Randy's toes curled under and his grip on my ankles tightened as he threw his head back and practically howled as he pumped his essence into me, coating my insides til I could actually feel the hot stuff heating me up inside. He pushed deeply with each powerful thrust, his face all screwed up as he grunted breathedly. There was a strong scent in the air that was driving me insane, something like male pheremones, sweat, sex, campfire, and the woods, but whatever it was, it was great. Finally, he collapsed on top of me, his cock still buried deep inside me and twitching. After we felt that Randy had pumped every drop he could into me, he instantly wrapped his arms around me and pulled me up, kissing me on the lips, his tongue sliding across my lips til I opened them, allowing his tongue to slowly move around mine, doing a slow dance. He then pulled me on top of him and wrapped his legs around me, our kiss ended and we gazed into eachother's eyes. I went down and began licking and kissing his chest ever so gently, sucking his nipples and gently biting them, him running his hands over my head and back as I appeared to nurse from his muscles, licking his bicepts and near his pits, getting low moans of approval form Randy. Randy then pulled me up, his hands on my rib cage and whispered, "I love you, and I want you to make me yours too." "Your wish is my command, bro.", I said grinning as I kissed him again. I fumbled around until I felt a hand give me the lube. I looked up to see Michael smiling down at us as he walked over towards Ben and Shel's clump. We smiled back and I began squirting the lube on my aching pole, and saw that Randy was hard again too. I ran my fingers over his pucker, causing his body to shudder. I then ran my fingers up inside of Randy, prodding around gently until I found his bulb, which I rubbed and poked gently and rhytmically, driving Randy up the wall. "Ohh! Oh, Dave...that's so good, try putting your dick in me, I think it's ready...mmmmm.", Randy said in a breathy voice full of anticipation. Finally, I rubbed my cock, then lifted Randy's legs up and put his knees to his chest, exposing his vulnerable ass to my dripping cock. I then put a hand on his ass, rubbing it gently as I rubbed my cock head on his hole, causing him to squirm. "Please, I can't wait, Dave, pushin, please.", Randy was pleading. I then hesitated no longer, and pushed my cock into him, my cockhead popping through the ring of his ass, getting a small sigh from Randy, then sloooowly pushed in constantly, feeling as though my cock was being swallowed up by Randy's tight, hot insides. Randy's insides nearly burned my pulsing member as I pushed in deeper and deeper, until my balls rested against his tense ass, stretched from his legs being held up. Randy's head tilted back as he sighed a long groan. I leant forward and licked and teethed up his outstretched throat up to his chin. I could feel the chill bumps rising all over his body as I trembled with eagerness and excitment, unlike ever before. I then nibbled his ear, and he gently mouthed and ran his teeth over mine as well as I began to work my hips up and down, smacking gently into his rear and feeling his prostate with my cock as I worked it in and out, getting Randy really worked up. After a few minutes of this, things were getting deeper, and our passion levels rose, we began feeling the same animalistic urges as before as our hearts beat almost out of our chests. I began fucking him faster and harder, we began moaning louder, and Randy pulled me out of him for an agonizing moment as he decided to try it from behind. I quickly slid back into the warmth of his bowels and gripped his hips tightly and began driving into his ass, pulling him up and running my hands over his chest and abs, gripping his cock as I slowed down and rested, feeling his heat against my chest and stomach, the sweat from his back causing us to slide against one another. He tilted his head back on my shoulder and I smelt his hair, the scent was unbearably exciting to me. I sank my teeth into his shoulder as I began working into him again, him moaning and grabbing my hair with his hand and pushing me into his neck hard, loving my tongue and teeth on his skin, just as I loved his. I reached around and pinched one of his nips with my left hand, and gripped his bobbing manhood that had just taken me a while ago and began jacking it, cause I was close. I then guided him back into missionary style again, but he rolled me over and was on top of me, sittin on my cock, and ravidly kissing and licking me, grinding his cock into my stomach as he moved on me, my cock sliding in and out of him as his ass rhythmically squeezed my cock, milking my essence from me. He seemed to hold me in place, his hand resting on the side of my face as that exposed my neck to him, his other hand on my shoulder. He just ran the tip of his stiffened tongue up and down my neck, feeling my pulse pumping blood to my cock. He then sucked really hard as he teethed on my neck, driving my cock even deeper inside of him. He licked across to my face and his tongue found mine and entered my mouth again. I was dazed with arousal and love and lust, and I broke to roll him on his back again, and our eyes locked. I could see the playful, loving, tender, yet, wild, untamed, primal friend of mine, and I think he could see that same thing in me as I told him I was close. I went down and continued my tongue and mouth's handiwork on him as he pulled me tight and grunted, "Cum in me, Dave, give it all to me, fill me up." I couldn't hold back anymore, I felt Randy's cum spray up between us, smearing all over my stomach, and that combined with Randy's strained, "I'm CUMMING AGAIN!!! UNGGGGGG!! AWWWW!!!!!!!", I couldn't hold back anymore. I jolted with the most powerful spasms I had had yet. I don't know how many globs of cum I shot, but it was a personal record for me. I shot loads of cum into Randy's guts, thus sealing it in our minds...he was mine, and viceversa. We were as good as blood brothers as far as we were concerned. We laid there for a while, trying to cath our breaths, then Michael walked up grinnin all over and said, "Wow...sounds like ya'll liked that!" I was laying next to Randy, still coming down from our euphoric bliss as I looked up with a grin and winked at Michael. He winked back before walking over to the bottle of vodka and taking another slug of it. I tilted my head back and got an upside view of Ben and Shel who were not slowing down much. Ben was already massaging Shel's hot spot, showing him the same pleasure Shel had shown him. Ben was anxious to take Shel's ass for a test drive, and began squirting on the lube with one hand and finger fucking our buddy with the other. Finally, Ben placed the head of his cock against Shel's slick entrance, and proceeded to press forward. Shel was resistant at first, but then it gave in and he received Ben deep inside, causing him to shivver with the feelings as Ben leaned forward and kissed Shel's back, then continually whispered things in Shel's ear that he seemed to like. Shel kept pushing back against Ben's large maleness and moaned his approval repeatedly as Ben kept up his rhythmic pumping. By this time, Michael was squatted down next to me and Randy, who had gotten up and was kneeling next to me and Michael, who had his hand on my shoulder squeezing it as I laid on my stomach now watching Shel and Ben's coupling, their bodies aglow with the fire light. "Wanna swig?", Michael said casually as he held up the nearly half empty bottle, "I don't need anymore tonight that's for sure." I held up my hand saying, "Sure, why not.", and took four large gulps of the not-so-good-tasting stuff, and then passed it to Randy who did the same. Michael's hand rand down my back and came to rest on my butt. "Looked like Randy worked you over pretty good there.", Michael said quietly with a grin, "and you gave it right back too!" Randy grinned and answered laughingly, "Yea, it was great. Can't wait for us to try it with them two over there." "Yea, same here." I said wearilly, knowing our fun would probably not take place tonight. Then we heard noises from Ben and Shel again, only louder. We looked up to see Shel's back arched as Ben's teeth were attached to his shoulder as he pulled Shel's head back gently by his hair. Shel was moaning almost constantly, his weak spot being used to pleasure him, and this time Ben was the one who was on top. We thought that was humorous since Shel always beat Ben at their wrestling antics. They were really savoring their moment, and the three of us all had our hardons back as we watched the scene unveil before us. I then looked up and saw a thread of pre dripping off of Michael's hard cock, making it's way slowly towards the ground. I could see the eagerness in his eyes as he watched Shel and Ben, and I turned back to Randy who gave me a knowing glance and grin to match. I then reached over and took Michael's cock in my hand, causing him to jerk and involuntarily sigh as he looked down at me, his cock pulsing in my hand. "Want me to take care of this for ya?", I said pulling his foreskin back and forth over his cock head. Michael's eyes began to sharpen as the corner of his mouth turned up slowly and he simply said, "I'd like that." I then pulled him down on his back between me and Randy, and I began to lick and suck his nips, licking all over his chest, and down to his abs as Randy went to lickin his neck and shoulders, gently nibbling his ears and licking them, Michael shivvering all over at our ministrations. After a couple of minutes, Michael was breathing heavily and couldn't seem to hold still, and puddle had formed on his thigh where his heavy thick cock rested. "Guys....ohhh man...please, do my dick, mmmmplease I gotta get off.", Michael half cooed, half whined with a sense of urgency. Me and Randy chuckled at the remark, he was showing signs of extreme sexual excitement for sure, he was breakin out in a sweat, and we could smell a scent that was definitely his, and to me it said sex. My mind was cloudy I was so ready to get off myself, but was waiting on Randy. We both went to work on Michael's cock, licking and sucking it and his balls, Michael didn't take long to reach climax. He howled as he shot me and Randy with several big shot of cum that ran off our faces and onto his hairless pubic area and stomach. The rest oozed out as I squeezed and milked his cock. Michael just gazed at us with true admiration for the feelings we'd given and for doing all this with him. We cleaned him up good, and then just laid there, but didn't lay long before Ben began to fill Shel's guts with his hot seed. Ben was on his ass and Shel was facing him in his lap as they had seen me and Randy do earlier, and Shel was riding Ben hard, impaling himself on Ben's cock. They were kissing passionately as Ben leaned back on his back, Shel astride him now, Ben lettin out a huge groan as his balls visibly moved up closer to him and he began to fire shots into Shel. Shel moaned as he jacked himself to an orgasm that started about the time Ben was almost done with his. Afterward, Shel collapsed on Ben and they just laid there for a while, they had not slowed down since Shel fucked Ben, so they were spent, but both had their signiture shit eatin grins plastered on their flushed faces as they laid in their embrace, glued together with Shel's cum on Ben's stomach and chest. Michael seemed intrigued by their intimacy, but wasn't saying much about it. I could tell that he knew something was up beyond just 'jackin buddies'. Randy just quietly said, "Welp, guess Shel ended up on top afterall.", to which I couldn't help but smile. Michael just continued to look at them, seeming to have a look of longing in his countenance. That's when I remembered that he had no girlfriend, and knew that he was probably lonely and stuff. I really found myself liking Michael a lot, I could tell he was deeper than he appeared on the surface. I decided to try and see what was goin on in his mind a little. "So, where do you stand with girls and stuff, Michael?" He pondered a moment then shook his head slightly, "On the other side of the Mississippi river, never met one that I was truly into really." Michael grinned then, and looked from Shel and Ben's clump to me and Randy saying, "But I know guys that I'm attracted to. Guess that makes me, uh, gay, don't it?" "Mmm, a little, but we don't hold it against ya.", Randy said good naturedly, puttin his arm around Michael's shoulder and pulling im over a little bit. After seeing that Randy might not be gay, but didn't mind gay people, I decided to just go ahead and letem know about me too. Besides, we were glowing with vodka at the time, so it wasn't that hard anyway! "I'm gay too, I think. I'm not a flaming queer or nothin, but I'm homo I guess you could say." Randy turned and looked at me, "Welp, you're still one of the bro's, and I'm not sure. I might be, but I might try things out further with girls before making a decision. But, whether I am or ain't won't change how we care about eachother though, right?" "Right.", I said putting my arm over Michael's shoulders to rest my hand on Randy's. About that time, Shel and Ben came over to where we were sitting and plopped down next to us. "That...was soooooo goood.", Ben moaned as he rolled onto his back. "For real, that was better than I imagined, both ways.", Shel said shaking Michael's leg. I reached down with my bare foot and ran my toes through Shel's hair as he lay at my feet. He jokingly let his tongue hang out as he spasticly shook his right leg like a dog. Michael thought it was funny as hell, and joined in, to which Shel appeared to go into shock. "I'll never get it...", I said. "That's alright, as long as you don't stop!", Shel said as his shoulders moved around with his fit of pleasure. Michael was tickled by the sight before him, but then he got a little more serious as he spoke. Michael looked at us and said, "I'm glad that we were all able to do this, this is alot to me, I mean, I'm homosexual, and have dated and done things to hide it for a long time now, and meeting people that don't mind doing things with other guys and such, means a great deal. Really." "Well, I'm not sure that I'm completely homo, but I know I like guys, mostly you guys, and ya'll are probably the only guys that I would be really interested in doin this stuff with, just cause I like ya'll so much, ya know? But who knows, time'll tell, right?", Shel said kindly. "I don't care if you're, gay or whatever, so long as you don't act like it too much, it shouldn't be a huge problem with other people in the area, hopefully anyway." "Thanks.", Michael said smiling genuinely. "I'm either bi or gay or somethin, but I don't like the 'gay' lable so much myself. This all feels so natural, that I don't think there should be any more of a lable for this as there is for hets. Straight guys don't introduce themselves, "Hi I'm so n so and I'm straight." And I don't think we should have to feel that way either.", Ben said matter of factly. I could see his father in him at that moment, and it made me smile, thinking that I may be seing in him what my father saw in Mr. Harrison or something. We all ended up just laying down where we were and dozing off. When I awoke, it was still probably around 3 in the morning, but I had to piss like crazy. I eased myself out of Randy and Michael's grip, and gently slid my leg out from under Shel's head and stepped off by the fourwheelers to relieve myself. Soon, I heard more pissing, and I turned over to see Michael standing a few feet away, his semi piss hardon standing out in front of him as he pissed. We pissed forever it seemed, but then we sat on the four wheeler and just talked about nothing. He said some things about the girls he'd dated and stuff, but nothing extraordinary. I wanted to ask about the time he walked in on my dad and his dad, but thought that it was a bit late for that, and would wait til later. As we got up to head back to the sleeping bags, he took my arm and asked me, "Dave, I know we just got to know eachother tonight, but uh, can I kiss you?", Michael said, as though we were on our first date and he didn't want to looke whorish. I just smiled as I pulled his naked warm body against mine and our lips met forcefully, and his experienced tongue began to show me how it's done. He had more experience with kissing and the like, so I just let him lead. We kissed for over a minute or two, and finally broke for air. I could see his teeth glowing in the moonlight and the dim glow of his skin in the dwindling fire, and knew he was 'brother' material.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96139	Dealers: Bankruptcy Shouldn't Be An Option For GM The National Auto Dealers Association meets with a White House task force Thursday in hopes of staving off a General Motors bankruptcy. But there are increasing signs that the company may end up in court anyway. Car dealers can only dream of such profits these days. A group of auto dealers will be at the White House today, trying to convince the president's Auto Task Force to keep GM out of bankruptcy. It may be an uphill battle, as NPR's Frank Langfitt reports. FRANK LANGFITT: Among the big losers in a GM bankruptcy would be some of the company's more than 6,000 dealerships. John McEleney chairs the National Dealers Association. He expects 900 GM dealers will go under this year. And that's without a bankruptcy. McEleney says a court filing would send hundreds more over the edge. Mr. JOHN MCELENEY (National Dealers Association): We have many dealers that are hanging by a thread. I think it would drive a large of number of dealers out of business more quickly. LANGFITT: But persuading the White House won't be easy. The Auto Task Force appears to be leaning towards bankruptcy as a quick way to cleanse GM of crippling debt and health care costs. Even the company has called the court filing, quote "probable." But McEleney worries GM will become mired in a long court battle and collapse. Mr. MCELENEY: Once they file bankruptcy, it will be a self fulfilling prophecy. I think Chapter 11 will go to Chapter 7, because even as low as demand is today, it will drop even another 20 or 30 percent. LANGFITT: Chapter 11 is reorganization under the bankruptcy code. Chapter 7 is liquidation. The government doesn't want to sell off GM for parts, and it's backing warranties of new GM cars to bolster confidence in the company. Frank Langfitt, NPR News, Washington. Support comes from:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96141	• Mt. Williamson and cemetery monument National Historic Site California Manzanar is located in the Owens Valley at 4,000' elevation, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. We get little precipitation but we do have four distinct seasons. Summer temperatures can soar over 100 degrees. Winter highs are usually in the 40's. Nighttime temperatures year round are 30 to 40 degrees less than daytime highs. High winds are common in any season. Did You Know? United States Bill of Rights. Manzanar interned over 10,000 people behind barbed wire with no due process of law. Some internees found it ironic that the nearest town, six miles to the north, is named Independence.
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96176	Edition: U.S. / Global Paying Off Debts, With Relish By Walter Goodman; Published: September 13, 1992 CITIZEN KOCH An Autobiography. By Edward I. Koch with Daniel Paisner. Illustrated. 281 pp. New York: A Thomas Dunne Book/ St. Martin's Press. $22.95. ABOUT halfway through his latest autobiography, as he reaches his successful 1977 mayoral campaign, Edward I. Koch gives a few pages to the subject of his unwedded state and the rumors of homosexuality that it stirred up in political seasons. He writes: "Whether I am straight, or gay, or bisexual is nobody's business but mine." In a political campaign, that principle deserves an amen. But the rules are different in a book that purports to be the story of a life. The first three chapters of "Citizen Koch," before young Ed becomes involved with the Reform Democratic movement in Greenwich Village in the early 1960's, are a familiar variation on growing up Jewish in America: immigrant parents, Depression years, encounters with anti-Semitism, the Catskills, service in World War II, New York's City College. The one striking omission is sex, all the more striking since the author's voice is filtered through Daniel Paisner, whose previous client was Geraldo Rivera. There is not a word here about any childhood crush or memorable date or dreams of romance or first visit to a whorehouse. The closest Mr. Koch comes to, pardon the word, a relationship is with Ronay Arlt, "a startlingly beautiful woman" who worked for him in Washington and New York and with whom he frequently had dinner. That's it. No, "there was never any truly romantic relationship" with Bess Myerson, who spent a lot of time with the candidate during his first campaign for Mayor, as camouflage. Sex in "Citizen Koch" is like the negative space in a painting to which one's eye keeps returning. The reader is left with a question: Why is this autobiography different from all other autobiographies? An answer of sorts is provided by the way the book picks up zest when it arrives at Mr. Koch's long and lively public career, first as a Congressman and then, of course, as Mayor. Now everything hangs out: his relentless yet somehow engagingly naive self-congratulation; his frank if not large-minded assessments of politicians he feels double-crossed him; the opinions -- "a liberal with sanity," he likes to call himself -- that reflect the shake-up in big-city liberal ranks since the 1960's. In case any reader or voter has trouble evaluating the author, he provides clues: he is firm in his beliefs even when they are unpopular. His approach is always straightforward and intellectually honest. He is a compulsive truth teller, even when that is not in his own best interests. He has always voted his conscience and spoken out loudly. He was never overcome by the power and prestige of his positions. In sum, voters found him "a candid, undaunted, intelligent straight shooter." At one point he actually writes, "I hope that doesn't sound immodest." When it comes to grudges, Mr. Koch displays an unforgiving memory. Among those who come in for it: former Mayor John V. Lindsay -- "to know him is not to love him"; former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, "a fair-weather political friend"; Donald Trump, "a supreme, egotistical lightweight"; Jimmy Breslin, "one of the most intellectually dishonest reporters in the country"; New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, "Ms. Hostility." He is particularly tough on Gov. Mario Cuomo, who, he charges, countenanced a "Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo" campaign against him in the 1977 mayoral race. Lots of debts are paid here, with relish. But the reader who wants inside stuff on City Hall wheeling and dealing will be as disappointed as the one who wants more on the Koch libido. For all his vaunted candor, the man comes across as a touchy, self-protective, oddly provincial figure. Still, some of the anecdotes are funny, and, thanks no doubt to Mr. Paisner, the Koch voice is here. Most substantially, his book catches important changes in the attitudes of New York liberals between the 60's and the 90's. Mr. Koch calls the dispute over the Lindsay administration's plan in the early 70's to put low-income housing in Queens his Rubicon. It set groups of Italians and Jews against black and Hispanic New Yorkers. Mr. Koch, then in Congress, opposed what he saw as the destruction of middle-class communities. He writes that violent crime was and remains common in low-income projects, "but if you come out against such projects being put in your neighborhood, you will be called racist." Insofar as "Citizen Koch" has a political theme, that is it. Mr. Koch maintains, not without cause, that plain talk about race is rare among politicians, and he seems bent on filling the void all by himself. In one of several references to the administration of David M. Dinkins, which replaced his own in 1990, he speaks slightingly of the new Mayor's "gorgeous mosaic of blacks and Hispanics and others." He avers that Mr. Dinkins, who he predicts will be defeated next time out, "sacrificed competence for color, on several occasions." The former Mayor pounds away: "With Dinkins as Mayor, there is a kind of 'our time has come' mentality within some of the city's black communities, reducing some people's inhibitions." However one reacts to the provoking references to race, they show Mr. Koch, who is now spouting off in newspapers, on radio and television, and on the lecture circuit, at his most inimitable. He was more candid than other politicians on delicate subjects, even as he seemed to be out to make political capital by inciting New Yorkers of varied hues and views. Only please don't call him immodest.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96190	Innsbruck 2012 The Winter Youth Olympic Games, is an International multi-sport event for youths. The first edition of the Games was announced on 12 December, 2008 after mail voting by 105 International Olympic Committee (IOC) members. The city of Innsbruck was selected to host the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games from 13 to 22 January 2012. This makes Innsbruck the first city to host three Winter Olympic Games event, the city previously hosted the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics. 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games Innsbruck 2012 Opening Ceremony 13 Jan 2012 Closing Ceremony 22 Jan 2012 Host City Innsbruck Country Austria Nations Participating 70 Athletes 1059 Events 63 Asian Winners in Olympiad Summer Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games Summer Youth Olympic Games Winter Youth Olympic Games Sport Federations Asian Federations International Federations
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96194	Yakkity Yak Ramblin Jack talks back Folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliot didn't earn his mobile moniker, as one might assume, from traveling the globe as a troubadour. Rather, the "Ramblin'" handle refers to Elliot's propensity for verbal diarrhea: the man could talk circles around a group-therapy session for meth-heads without taking a breath. Quick with a story but longer'n Dong Silver to tell it, he's the type of guy who will trap you in a corner at a party and unleash a barrage of tales until your eyes glaze over and you start to hyperventilate. But while the Loquacious Gene is something to fear and loathe in most human beings, it works for Elliot simply because he has led such an interesting life. He's an original hipsta whose adventures have spanned the Beat Generation, the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and hippie culture. But he's probably best-known for being a running partner of folk-singing thunder god Woody Guthrie. Just try to stop Elliot from talking about it. "He had a lighthearted personality," Elliot says of his hero. "He liked to joke a lot, had kind of a simple country humor and a marvelous sense of words, being the great poet that he was. There was sort of an operatic sadness that he portrayed in his songs, although he described it in a lighthearted approach—like newspaper reportage, reciting the facts unemotionally, leaving it up to the listener to feel the emotions. And his influence on me was very profound. I went around trying to sing and play the guitar just like him, and I did a pretty good imitation, so they tell me. Woody himself said, 'Jack sounds more like me than I do.'" Elliot went on to become a significant performer in his own right and, from the mid-'50s, released albums and toured the world to great acclaim in folkie circles, himself becoming an influence on the likes of Pete Seeger and the young Bob Dylan. In 1961, he visited the dying Guthrie for the last time and met Dylan for the first in Guthrie's hospital room. "He was impossible to describe," Elliot says of Dylan. "He was a close friend for a short time in 1962 and 1963, and then we drifted apart. [After he became famous] I saw less and less of him. We'd sometimes have a drink together, but he was drifting off into his own world and wasn't very sociable anymore. He's totally reclusive. I can't get to him; I don't even know his phone number." Elliot didn't record for many years before launching a comeback in the mid-'90s on Hightone Records. His most celebrated song of recent vintage has been "Bleeker Street Blues," written in '97 when Dylan was hospitalized with heart trouble and his condition looked potentially life-threatening. The song was a moving, sentimental outpouring of emotion and concern for his old friend, but Elliot now says he regrets having written it. "I'm almost sorry I did," he sighs. "There's been no response. I never got any call or letter from him saying, 'Thanks, I liked what you said in that there song.' Nothing. I just feel a little bit silly having even bothered to go out of my way to write that song because he didn't even seem to care. Who knows? Could be he's just shy. He drank a lot of wine and other things, and it may have affected his mind, too." All quotations above have been heavily truncated due to space limitations and yakkity-itis, but Elliot will spin more expansive yarns Thursday night at the Sun Theatre. Oh, yeah—he sings and strums guitar a little bit, too. Elliot is the opening act for The Everly Brothers, a name I was quite surprised to see. I hadn't heard a word about the fractious fraternals in years and assumed they'd broken up for good following decades of rocky relations 'n' rivalry that make the Davies and Gallagher siblings look like Beaver 'n' Wally Cleaver by comparison. But their bluegrass/rockabilly, tight-and-lovely harmonies had an almost limitless influence on early rock & roll—the existence of the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel, to name just a couple, is unthinkable without their innovations. If they have anything left in the gas tank in their senior citizenhood, them Ev boys'll tickle yer cochlea real purty come Thursday night. The Everly Brothers and Ramblin' Jack Elliot play the Sun Theatre, 2200 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, (714) 712-2700. Thurs., March 15, 8 p.m. $35-$45. My Voice Nation Help Sort: Newest \| Oldest Anaheim Concert Tickets Concert Calendar • July • Tue • Wed • Thu • Fri • Sat • Sun • Mon
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96207	Bo Diddley Biography Otha Ellas Bates (later known as Ellas McDaniel), 30 December 1928, McComb, Mississippi, USA. After beginning his career as a boxer, where he received the sobriquet ‘Bo Diddley’, the singer worked the blues clubs of Chicago with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. In late 1954, he teamed up with Billy Boy Arnold and recorded demos of ‘I’m A Man’ and ‘Bo Diddley’. Re-recorded at Chess Studios with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums) and Jerome Green (maracas), the a-side, ‘Bo Diddley’, became an R&B hit in 1955. Before long, Diddley’s distorted, amplified, custom-made guitar, with its rectangular shape and pumping rhythm style became a familiar, much-imitated trademark, as did his self-referential songs with such titles as ‘Bo Diddley’s A Gunslinger’, ‘Diddley Daddy’ and ‘Bo’s A Lumberjack’. His jive-talking routine with ‘Say Man’ (a US Top 20 hit in 1959) continued on ‘Pretty Thing’ and ‘Hey Good Lookin’’, which reached the lower regions of the UK charts in 1963. By then, Diddley was regarded as something of an R&B legend and found a new lease of life courtesy of the UK beat boom. He regularly toured with ‘Jerome’ and the ‘Dutchess’ (Norma-Jean Richardson, b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 30 April 2005). The Pretty Things named themselves after one of his songs, while his work was covered by such artists as the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Manfred Mann, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, Downliners Sect and the Zephyrs. Diddley subsequently jammed on albums by Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters and appeared infrequently at rock festivals. His classic version of ‘Who Do You Love’ became a staple cover for a new generation of US acts ranging from Quicksilver Messenger Service to the Doors, Tom Rush and Bob Seger, while the UK’s Juicy Lucy took the song into the UK Top 20. Like many of his generation, Diddley attempted to update his image and in the mid-70s released The Black Gladiator in the uncomfortable guise of an ageing funkster. Where It All Begins, produced by Johnny Otis (whose hit ‘Willie And The Hand Jive’ owed much to Diddley’s style), was probably the most interesting of his post-60s albums. In 1979, Diddley toured with the Clash and in 1983 took a cameo role in the movie Trading Places. A familiar face on the revival circuit, his continued appeal to younger performers was emphasized by actor Craig McLachlan’s hit recording of ‘Mona’ in 1990. It was announced in 1995, after many years of relative recording inactivity, that Diddley had signed for Mike Vernon’s Code Blue record label; the result was A Man Amongst Men. Even with the assistance of Richie Sambora, Jimmie Vaughan, Ron Wood, Keith Richards, Billy Boy Arnold, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson and the Shirelles, the anticipation was greater than the result. Diddley is rightly regarded as a seminal figure in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. His ‘chunk-a-chunka-cha’ rhythm retains an enormous influence on modern pop and rock, both consciously and unconsciously.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96232	Part of the Khronos Group The Industry's Foundation for High Performance Graphics from games to virtual reality, mobile phones to supercomputers Results 1 to 2 of 2 Thread: Open GL Mac problem? 1. #1 Newbie Newbie Join Date Sep 2013 Open GL Mac problem? Hi, I have an old mac from 07'. I use programs like photoshop, premier, and I just started using After effects. After effects requires Open GL 2.0 or higher, which my graphics card, Intel GMA 950 64 MB, apparently doesnt have. This graphics card runs of Open GL 1.4. How can I get Open GL 2.0? I am not very techy. I need 2.0 for upcoming projects. Any suggestions? 2. #2 Advanced Member Frequent Contributor arekkusu's Avatar Join Date Nov 2003 The GMA 950 supports many features of GL2.0. But it doesn't support all of them (namely, it can't support occlusion queries) so it can't claim to completely support GL1.5 or 2.0. And this is a hardware limitation, you can't do anything to upgrade that Mac to make it support GL2.0. Posting Permissions • You may not post new threads • You may not post replies • You may not post attachments • You may not edit your posts
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/96244	An Introduction to JTAPI Release 1.2 An Introduction to JTAPI (Java Telephony API) Release 1.2 Rev. 0.7 (unchanged for now) For additional information contact, ECTF Secretariat ( (unchanged for now) Copyright notice ©1996,1997 Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum This document is copyrighted and all rights are reserved by the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum (ECTF). " ECTF technical implementation agreements are considered public domain and may be copied, downloaded, stored on a server or otherwise re-distributed." revision history description of changes May 20, 1997 0.1 Spencer Dawkins • Initial Draft June 4, 1997 0.2 Spencer Dawkins • Clarify discussion of JTAPI Media and its role in ECTF • Include comments by John Dykstra, Manoshi Vasudevan, Jeff Peck, Jayarami Reddy, and Tim Schweitzer • Editorial changes and corrections June 12, 1997 0.3 Spencer Dawkins • Include comments by John Dykstra correcting "Dynamic Call Model" diagram, showing relationships between Calls, Connections, and TerminalConnections more clearly • Editorial changes and corrections from Bill Gogesch, Lew Kurtz, and Michelle Michael June 30, 1997 0.4 Spencer Dawkins • Include comments by Chris Lewis correcting "Dynamic Call Model" diagram, showing zero-to-many relationship between Connections and TerminalConnections • Connect JTAPI Media to JTAPI 1.2 in "JTAPI Media Roadmap" diagram, reflecting current task group work plan • Add material on beginning and ending a call (currently Section 3.8), at request of Chris Lewis • Add diagram on "thin-client" implementations in FAQ section. • Editorial changes and corrections from Chris Lewis and Michelle Michael July 15, 1997 0.5 Spencer Dawkins • Change title of document to reflect new relationship between "C.100" and "JTAPI" • Include comment by Jeff Peck correcting characterization of S.400 in Section 2.5 • Substantially rewrite the sections on JTAPI Media and its relationship with S.100, and redraw Figure 1, to reflect numerous comments by Neil Oliver and Michael Bayer • Define conformance and compatibility • Introduce C.001 (Call Control Model) compatibility as a goal in "The Tao of JTAPI" and related sections, at Neil Oliver?s suggestion • Delete e-mail from Bill Gogesch on JTAPI/ECTF call model compatibility • Editorial changes from Michelle Michael and Peter Kozdon Sept 26, 1997 0.6 Spencer Dawkins • Correct discussion of removeCallObserver() side effects. • Add comments on Connection and TerminalConnection state transitions from Michelle Michael. • Added a section on "Out-of-Provider-domain Connections" to describe how some Addresses are created dynamically, and do not have references to TerminalConnections and Terminals, after discussions with Michelle Michael and Mike Harris. • Added figures for "in-Provider-domain" and "out-of-Provider-domain" Call trees. • Update "java.telephony" to reflect "javax" names from JavaSoft. • Split Section 2 at Michelle Michael?s suggestion. Nov 15, 1997 0.7 Spencer Dawkins • Change title of document to reflect new role in JTAPI documentation suite. • Remove detailed discussion of relationship between JTAPI and C.100. This discussion will appear in a separate ECTF document. • Clarify discussion of "out-of-provider-domain" Addresses and Terminals, based on comments received during Submission B straw ballot. (Unchanged for now) Post comments to the ECTF Portable API Mailing List: Thanks to all reviewers for their comments and feedback. 1. The Java Telephony API * 1.1 Overview of Contents * 2. Rationale for a Java-based Telephony API * 2.1 Why Java * 2.2 Why JTAPI * 3. Overview of Overviews * 3.1 Call Model * 3.1.1 Structural Call Model * 3.1.2 Dynamic Call Model * 3.1.3 State in Call Model Objects * 3.2 Sample JTAPI Application Flow * 3.3 Obtaining a Provider * 3.4 Investigating Call Model Objects * 3.5 Determining Capabilities * 3.6 Registering Observers * 3.7 Making JTAPI Requests * 3.8 Beginning and Ending Calls * 3.8.1 "Terminal-less Addresses" and "Out-of-Provider-Domain" Connections * 3.8.2 Using JTAPI to end a Connection * 3.8.3 When "the far end" ends a Connection * 3.8.4 The end of Call Observation * 3.8.5 Ending Connections and ending Calls * 4. "The Tao of JTAPI" * 5. Frequently Asked Questions * 5.1 What is the scope of JTAPI? * 5.2 What is the relationship of JTAPI to other telephony APIs? * 5.3 Where can I get the class files for JTAPI? * 5.4 What Java packages are included in JTAPI? * 5.5 What do implementers need to implement? * 5.6 Is JTAPI "blocking" or "non-blocking"? * 5.7 Why are there so many kinds of observers? * 5.8 How can I make JTAPI do "X"? * 6. Work program * 6.1 Areas of focus * 6.2 Rules for Participation * 1.The Java Telephony API This document provides an introduction to JavaSoft?s JTAPI (Java Telephony API). JTAPI is the product of JavaSoft and several "partner" companies. The specific release described in this document is JTAPI 1.2. The reference specification for JTAPI is here. 1.1 Overview of Contents 1. Provides the rationale for a Java-based Telephony API, 2. Provides an "Overview of Overviews", to aid you in "getting your hands around" JTAPI, 3. Explains JTAPI's Guiding Principles - the "Tao of JTAPI", 4. Answers "Frequently-Asked Questions" about JTAPI, and 5. Explains how to contribute to the specification effort. 2 Rationale for a Java-based Telephony API The rationale for a Java-based Telephony API comes in two stages. 2.1 Why Java The driving force behind the use of Java for this specification is the desire to maximize application portability across vendor implementations. "Application Portability" is literal - the application itself, in compiled form, may be loaded onto any conforming implementation and executed. The Java programming language is used for this specification because of its support for "write once, run anywhere" application development. 2.2 Why JTAPI The range of "targets" for JTAPI ranges from the largest call centers, to desktop systems, to network computers, to "network telephones". This range is the reason for the "core plus extensions" organization of JTAPI, discussed below. JTAPI blurs borders. It blurs the distinction between first-party and third-party call control, and it blurs the distinction between call control and media control. JTAPI isn't "just another telephony API" - although JTAPI can be implemented without existing telephony APIs, it was also designed to allow implementers to build on top of these existing telephony APIs. 3 Overview of Overviews This section of the document describes JTAPI at the 50,000-foot level. More detail is available in the Overviews of the various JTAPI packages, which in turn point to the actual specifications - the final arbiter of correctness. The reader may find it useful to refer to the JTAPI specifications for detailed definitions of JTAPI constants (shown in all caps, for example, ACTIVE) and methods (shown with parenthesized parameter lists, for example, addObserver()). Note: several references are made to "a well-behaved JTAPI application" in this section, in the context of what "well-behaved JTAPI applications" do and don?t do. These comments indicate desirable attributes of JTAPI applications wishing to be as robust, and as portable, as possible. For instance, JTAPI does not require applications to register as object observers; applications have the option of investigating call model objects on their own. "Well-behaved JTAPI applications" don?t do this, because an unregistered JTAPI application has no way to monitor call model objects for state changes except for polling. 3.1 Call Model • Provider - the "window" through which JTAPI applications see the telephony system. • Call - the dynamic "collection of logical and physical entities" that bring two or more endpoints together. • Address - a logical end-point - a "phone number". • Connection - the dynamic relationship between a Call and an Address. • Terminal - a physical end-point - a "phone set". • TerminalConnection - the dynamic relationship between a Connection and a Terminal. 3.1.1 Structural Call Model When a JTAPI implementation initializes, before it knows about any calls, it looks like Figure 1. The JtapiPeerFactory and JtapiPeer (used only to help applications locate the proper Provider), the Provider itself, and all configured Addresses and Terminals are known to the implementation. The point to notice here is that the relationship between logical and physical endpoints is modeled as a many-to-many relationship between Addresses and Terminals. This allows Terminals to have multiple Addresses, and allows Addresses to appear on multiple Terminals. Figure 1: Structural Call Model This "Structural Call Model" is sufficient to allow JTAPI applications to start executing. 3.1.2 Dynamic Call Model Again, the point to notice here is that JTAPI applications have access to both logical and physical endpoints in the call. The relationship between the Call and a logical endpoint (Address) is called a Connection; the relationship between the Connection and a physical endpoint (Terminal) is called a TerminalConnection. The relationship between Calls and Connections is zero-to-many. IDLE Calls have no Connections; ACTIVE Calls have at least one Connection. Each Connection is tied to a single Address. The relationship between Connections and TerminalConnections is zero-to-many. This allows JTAPI implementations to support multiple active Terminals for the same Address, if the underlying telephony environment allows this. Placement of JTAPI methods in this call model is based on whether the application is working with an entire Call, a single Address in the Call, or a single Terminal in the Call. For instance, JTAPI applications • Use Call.connect() to create the connections associated with an outgoing two-party Call, • Use Connection.disconnect() to disconnect a single connection, and • Use TerminalConnection.answer() to answer a call at a specific Terminal. Figure 2: Dynamic Call Model 3.1.3 State in Call Model Objects core statescore {provider, call, connection, terminalconnection} states Not all call model objects have internal state. These call model objects do: 1. Provider 2. Call 3. Connection 4. TerminalConnection For instance, the Core Connection state CONNECTED corresponds to the Call Control Connection states INITIATED, DIALING, NETWORK_REACHED, NETWORK_ALERTING, and ESTABLISHED. Core Observers see Core events, while extension package observers see extension package events. 3.2 Sample JTAPI Application Flow • Obtain a reference to a Provider. • Investigate the call model objects available to the application. • Determine the "Capabilities" of relevant call model objects. • Register "Observers" - event handlers that will be notified of state changes in "interesting" call model objects. • Make JTAPI requests. • Begin and end Calls. 3.3 Obtaining a Provider • First, the application invokes JtapiPeerFactory.getJtapiPeer(). This method is used to select among JtapiPeer implementations available to the application; if a null JtaptiPeer is specified, the default JtapiPeer is returned. • The application then invokes JtapiPeer.getProvider(). This method is used to initialize the application?s view of the telephony domain. This method can pass parameters to the Provider; for instance, two pre-defined parameters are "login" and "passwd". 3.4 Investigating Call Model Objects The precise strategy the application uses to investigate call model objects is very application-dependent. Common strategies include: • If the application is interested in a specific Terminal, the application uses Provider.getTerminal("some terminal identifier") to obtain a reference to that Terminal. • If the application is interested in an Address, no matter what Terminal(s) it appears on, the application uses Provider.getAddress("phone number") to obtain a reference to that Address. • If the application is interested in all Addresses or Terminals available from the Provider, it invokes Provider.getAddresses() or Provider.getTerminals(), and uses the array of references to Addresses or Terminals. 3.5 Determining Capabilities Capabilities takes two forms: • static capabilities indicate whether an implementation, or a specific call model object, supports a method (e.g. the Terminal is capable of rejecting an incoming call). • dynamic capabilities indicate whether a certain action is allowable on a specific call model object, given the current state of the call model. (e.g. the Reject() method can only be invoked when there is an incoming telephone call.) Many static capabilities can be determined at initialization time, but dynamic capabilities can come and go. For this reason, a well-behaved JTAPI application will query relevant capabilities at initialization time, in order to "gray out" unsupported/unavailable features in user interface displays, but will check again when preparing to invoke the relevant method. This will minimize the number of exceptions the application will encounter. A JTAPI application can still be "well-behaved" without checking capabilities, as long as it catches MethodNotSupportedException and InvalidStateException. This approach is simple, but does not allow the application to present an accurate user interface (the user may attempt actions which aren?t allowed by the implementation). Capabilities are aligned one-to-one with methods; if a method isn?t implemented in all environments, a capability exists to allow the application to check whether it is available at execution time. Every JTAPI call-model object has an associated capability object: • ProviderCapabilities • CallCapabilities • AddressCapabilities • ConnectionCapabilities • TerminalCapabilities • TerminalConnectionCapabilities • Because Call Model Objects in JTAPI extension packages support additional methods, these packages have associated extended capability objects corresponding to these methods as well. 3.6 Registering Observers This is done using a mechanism called "entity-observer-events", loosely based on the "monitor" facility described in C.001, and commonly used in existing telephony APIs: 1. Entities - in this case, call model objects - exist; 1. Applications interested in state changes of these entities register as observers; 1. When specific entities change state, events are sent from the implementation to all registered observers of those specific entities. • Provider • Call • Address • Terminal Figure 3: Entities, Observers, and Events Events correspond one-to-one with call model state transitions. In the general case, an application wishing to learn about state changes in JTAPI object X invokes the method X.addObserver(), providing an "event handling routine" as a parameter. Upon returning from X.addObserver(), the application will start to see the event handler called whenever the observed call model object changes state. These events will continue to arrive until the application invokes X.removeObserver(). When a JTAPI implementation has finished adding a new observer, it will send events to the observer which bring the application?s view of the call model?s state in line with the implementation?s view. This process is called "snapshotting". Snapshotting happens automatically when applications register observers. It is not necessary for the implementation to synthesize every event that has happened in the history of the call - if a party has been one-step-conferenced in, and then disconnected, the snapshot need not include these events. Only the events required to bring the Observer "up to speed" are required. Call Observers extend the single-object observer model. Call Observers get events for all the call model objects in the call. A variant exists for Addresses and Terminals. The application invokes Address.addCallObserver(), providing an "event handler routine" as in the previous examples. Each time a Call arrives at the Address, the implementation will add the event handler as a Call Observer for that call. The application?s event handler will receive events for the call until one of these things happens: • The application invokes Call.removeObserver(), to end observation on this Call. • The Call ends. • The call is transferred away from this Address. • The implementation is no longer able to observe the underlying object, and sends a CallObservationEndedEv. Terminal.addCallObserver() and Terminal.removeCallObserver() are exactly analogous to the Address.addCallObserver() and Address.removeCallObserver() methods. 3.7 Making JTAPI Requests Because telephony events can happen at any time, and because JTAPI methods can block for an arbitrarily long period of time, well-behaved JTAPI applications will use at least two threads (one for invoking methods on the implementation, and another for receiving events). More threads may be desirable, depending on the application and its environment. Well-behaved JTAPI applications will also not invoke (potentially blocking) JTAPI methods in the execution thread it uses to receive events, because these methods may generate additional events while the Observer is blocked. Fortunately, Java makes multithreading relatively painless. 3.8 Beginning and Ending Calls Outgoing Calls are created by the implementation at the request of JTAPI applications, by invoking Provider.createCall(). Incoming calls are created by the implementation when it receives an indication of an incoming Call through normal telephony signaling. Calls are created in IDLE state, with no Connections. When a JTAPI application invokes the "Call.connect()" method, to place an outgoing call, or when the implementation creates a Call to represent an incoming call, two Connections are created and associated with the Call. When a Call gets its first Connection, it becomes an ACTIVE Call, and it remains an ACTIVE Call until it has no Connections in the CONNECTED state. Typically, Connections are associated with one or more TerminalConnections. This is how a path to a logical endpoint - an Address - is mapped to a physical endpoint - a Terminal. In some cases (discussed in Section 3.8.1), no Terminal/TerminalConnection is created for the Connection. When a JTAPI application originates an outgoing Call, the "near-end" Connection advances to the CONNECTED state, and the corresponding TerminalConnection advances to ACTIVE, reflecting the real-world phenomenon of "dial tone". When a JTAPI application issues TerminalConnection.answer(), to answer an incoming Call, or when the implementation receives an indication via normal telephony signaling that an outgoing call has been answered, the "answered" Connection is advanced to the CONNECTED state, and the corresponding TerminalConnection is advanced to the ACTIVE state. This is what an average person would consider to be a useful phone call - an end-to-end path between two sets of logical/physical endpoints. A fully-established JTAPI call looks like Figure 4. Figure 4: Fully-established JTAPI Call within Provider?s domain Implementations may also create Terminals dynamically. This is appropriate when the implementation allows an application to manipulate Terminals and TerminalConnections on Connections to "out-of-Provider-scope" Addresses. In two cases, JTAPI Connections may not create Terminals dynamically, and may not create TerminalConnections corresponding to a Connection. • Some Addresses (typically used for call routing mechanisms, like Automatic Call Distribution) do not have a corresponding Terminal (physical endpoint). • JTAPI implementations (like any other telephony implementations) do not have knowledge of all the Addresses in the world. Some Addresses are "within the Provider?s domain" - say, on a local PBX - and others are not. Methods like Provider.getAddresses() and Provider.getTerminals() return only Addresses and Terminals "within the Provider's domain". A fully-established JTAPI Call which includes a Connection to a Terminal "outside the Provider?s domain" may look like Figure 5. Figure 5: JTAPI Call to Address outside Provider Domain 3.8.2 Using JTAPI to end a Connection When a JTAPI application decides to end a Connection - an Address?s association with a Call - it invokes "Connection.disconnect()" on one of the Connections associated with the Call. From JTAPI?s perspective, either Connection will do; there is no concept of "originating" or "terminating" Connections in JTAPI. In many environments, implementations may limit the application?s ability to disconnect every Connection in the Call, based on the user?s permissions; "well-behaved" JTAPI applications invoke "canDisconnect()" to make sure they are disconnecting "the right" connection. Connection.disconnect() advances the Connection?s state to DISCONNECTED, and advances the state of all TerminalConnections associated with this Connection to DROPPED. When Connection.disconnect() returns control to the application, this action is complete, so the application can ignore events associated with this invocation of this method. 3.8.3 When "the far end" ends a Connection When "the far end" user (JTAPI or otherwise) ends her association with the Call, the JTAPI implementation is notified that "the connection has gone away", via normal telephony signaling, and the JTAPI implementation advances the appropriate Connection to DISCONNECTED state. Registered CallObservers are notified that this has happened by the implementation, using ConnDisconnectedEv ("Connection Disconnected Event") and TermConnDroppedEv ("Terminal Connection Dropped Event"). 3.8.4 The end of Call Observation • If the application?s CallObserver was "automatically" associated with the Call because the application invoked Address.addCallObserver() or Terminal.addCallObserver(), the implementation will now automatically simulate Call.removeObserver(). When the application gets a CallObservationEndedEv ("Call Observation Ended Event"), it should delete its references to the Call. • If the application "extends" the observation period by using Call.addObserver, registering its interest in Calls as they move from Address/Terminal to Address/Terminal, the implementation leaves the CallObserver in place, and it continues to receive events associated with this Call. 3.8.5 Ending Connections and ending Calls When an ACTIVE Call has only one CONNECTED Connection, the implementation may choose to set the remaining CONNECTED Connection to DISCONNECTED. In the case where a far-end party hangs up, this would be appropriate. However, having only one CONNECTED Connection does not automatically end the Call. If the implementation knows it is executing a "call transfer", and the implementation receives an indication that the "transferred from" Connection is DISCONNECTED, the implementation should not end the Call, because it is expecting to receive an indication that another Connection is being added to the Call as well. Because implementations are better placed to know when calls should be ended, implementations, and not applications, are responsible for detecting situations where the Call has only one CONNECTED Connection, and isn?t expected to add Connections. In these situations, the implementation should DISCONNECT the remaining Connection, remove all Connections from the Call, and advance the Call state to INVALID. So JTAPI applications should not attempt to detect the end of Calls and tear down Connections. They should, however, dereference the Call and its associated Connections and TerminalConnections when the implementation advances the Call state to INVALID. In a Core JTAPI two-party call, disconnecting a Connection is equivalent to ending the call, because Core JTAPI does not include transfer and conferencing capabilities - there?s no way to add Connections to a Call with only one CONNECTED Connection. The Call Control package includes a CallControlCall.drop() method, to provide a short-cut when the application wants to end a Call which may have three or more ACTIVE Connections - this method is equivalent to disconnecting all Connections. 4 "The Tao of JTAPI" • JTAPI should maximize telephony application portability. This is achieved through the choice of Java as a language binding as well as through the abstraction of first-party versus third-party call control. • JTAPI should be scaleable from PDAs, cellular phones, and set-top boxes, to desktop applications, to large call centers. • JTAPI should be simple. The call model targets transitions of real-world objects, not services which can be built on those transitions. • JTAPI should be compatible with the C.001 Call Model - although both are evolving. • JTAPI should be extensible. JTAPI 1.1 covers a small subset of (say) CSTA services, but JTAPI should be defined in a way that allows extensions to be defined that cover these services. • JTAPI should be implementable on existing telephony APIs, such as TAPI, TSAPI, SunXTL, CallPath, and S.100. 5 Frequently Asked Questions 1. What is the scope of JTAPI? From Jim Wright?s presentation at 1997?s JavaOne conference: JTAPI " Enables portable Java TM applications to setup, control and tear down calls (and control their associated data streams) to and from public and private networks, on a broad spectrum of host telephony platforms ". It's important to note that JTAPI isn?t just a call control API - it also controls associated media streams. Providing a single API that covers both these areas is one of JTAPI?s design goals. • What is the relationship of JTAPI to other telephony APIs? As shown in Figure 6, JTAPI is independent of existing telephony APIs, but can be implemented using these APIs as primitives. Most of the JTAPI implementations we are aware of are based on these APIs, but as shown in Figure 6, JTAPI can be implemented entirely in Java if a switching platform supports this. Figure 6: JTAPI and other Telephony APIs We should mention that diagrams like this may give the impression that the JTAPI implementation has to run on the same platform as an existing telephony API, but this isn?t true. Figure 7 shows a very typical implementation architecture, called "thin-client", which uses Java?s Remote Method Invocation (RMI) technology to access a telephony server across a network. Other networking technologies could be used as well (JOE, etc.), as long as the client and the server understand the same technology. JTAPI is neutral on this issue. Figure 7: "Thin-Client" Implementation • Where can I get the class files for JTAPI? The JTAPI API provides a unified view of diverse underlying telephony environments. For instance, the JTAPI call model can express either first-party or third-party call control, although underlying implementations will typically support one or the other. This diversity, hidden from applications, falls squarely on JTAPI implementers. We believe it?s infeasible to write a JTAPI implementation that is portable across the underlying telephony APIs. So, unlike many Java APIs, you don?t download Java class files and run your application. JTAPI requires an implementation, specific to your telephony environment, in order to function. To meet this requirement, vendors provide JTAPI implementations that run in specific telephony environments. • What Java packages are included in JTAPI? JTAPI uses a "core plus extensions" structure. The packages included in JTAPI 1.1.1 are: • package javax.telephony - This package is "Core JTAPI". It includes all call model objects used in JTAPI, and specifies the methods any application can assume on any JTAPI-conforming implementation. Any JTAPI implementation must support Core JTAPI. • package javax.telephony.callcenter - This package extends Core JTAPI to provide the following key Call Center features: Routing, Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) , Predictive Calling, and Application Data. • package javax.telephony.callcontrol - This package extends Core JTAPI to provide more information about the call model, and to support advanced services like conferencing. • package - This package permits implementations to describe physical Terminals in terms of standardized components. Applications may query each Terminal, using this package, for the components that make up the Terminal, and applications may control certain attributes of these components, such as speaker volume. • package javax.telephony.privatedata - This package enables applications to communicate data directly with the underlying hardware switch. This data may be used to instruct the switch to perform a switch-specific action. Additional applications may use this package to "piggy-back" implementation-specific data onto Java Telephony API objects. Note: Use of this package effectively ties an application to a specific underlying implementation. These packages are available from here. JTAPI 1.2 adds (with associated "events" and ""capabilities"): • package - This package provides applications access to the media on the telephone line. A wide variety of media-centric telephony applications exist today, including workstation answering machines, IVR systems, PPP daemons, and fax applications. This package provides support for these types of media telephony applications. • What do implementers need to implement? At the very least, implementers must support the javax.telephony, javax.telephony.capabilities, and packages. These packages constitute "Core JTAPI". Additional packages may be supported as necessary. • Is JTAPI "blocking" or "non-blocking"? The correct answer is "yes". JTAPI has design goals of minimizing application complexity and portability. Most JTAPI methods do not immediately return control to the application. Instead, most methods guarantee "post-conditions" when they return control to the application. These post-conditions are documented in comments on each method in the detailed specification. For instance, javax.telephony.connection.disconnect() guarantees that, when control is returned to the application, the connection has been DISCONNECTED, and the associated terminal connection has been DROPPED (among other post-conditions). This approach requires application execution threads to block until these post-conditions are met. The application doesn?t have to check to make sure these state transitions are really happening. So JTAPI is, strictly speaking, blocking. Application developers are responsible for knowing when their applications are likely to suspend execution. In particular, observer event delivery threads should not make potentially blocking JTAPI method calls, because this could lead to circular waiting deadlocks (the observer is waiting on the response to the method call, which the implementation can?t deliver because the observer is blocked). The exception to this rule is that JTAPI methods tend to wait on machines, but not on humans. Javax.telephony.connection.disconnect() waits until the connection is actually disconnected, because this happens fairly rapidly. does not wait until the call is actually connected, because this would block the application while the called party wakes up, gets out of bed, walks down the hall, and answers the phone. And this is why a blocking API also uses an "entity-observer-event" model! • Why are there so many kinds of observers? • This question can be answered at two levels: • Applications may be interested in a logical connection endpoint - an Address - or a physical connection endpoint - a Terminal. Think of being interested in a phone number, which could appear on many phone sets, versus being interested in a single phone set. That?s why there are both Address and Terminal observers. • Some environments may restrict the application?s ability to monitor calls as they move from address/terminal to address/terminal. In many cases, different "monitors" are used by the underlying implementation, depending on whether the application is interested in the call while it?s at a specific address/terminal, or interested in the call through the life of the call. That?s why call observers must be "extended" to remain in place when the call leaves an address/terminal. • How can I make JTAPI do "X"? JTAPI doesn?t cover every possible situation in every possible telephony environment, and it never will. JTAPI wasn't designed top-down, to anticipate all requirements of computer telephony. The contents of JTAPI to date have been determined pragmatically. When people working on the specification encountered a situation or application that isn't covered, they contribute proposals extending JTAPI, and, if there is sufficient interest, the specification is extended to include these proposals as modified by the "JTAPI team". If JTAPI would be perfect for your application except that it doesn?t "do X", these are the suggested guidelines: • Make sure JTAPI really doesn?t "do X". JTAPI is pretty flexible. For example, several proposals for extensions to cover conferencing situations have been withdrawn because JTAPI applications can hold() any TerminalConnection or disconnect() any Connection in the conference - not just "the near end". • Raise this deficiency as an issue, especially if it?s not obvious how to map "X" onto JTAPI. For instance, a proposed CallControlCall.swap() method was accepted for JTAPI 1.2 because • some underlying telephony systems require you to hold an active call before you can unhold an inactive call (because they won?t let you have two active calls at once), • while others prevent you from doing so (because they won?t let you have two held calls at once) - so there was no way to alternate between calls portably. • Define "X" in the most general terms possible. It?s more likely we?ll extend JTAPI to make a "high-speed data call" than to make a "19.2 Kb/s data call", because applications will be more portable if they request "the highest speed connection your implementation supports". • Identify the market segments affected by the deficiency. This helps determine the amount of enthusiasm for removing the deficiency. • If "X" exists only in a limited market segment, consider extending JTAPI using your own "reversed domain name package" ("COM.grommet.DialAndNuke" for the interface to dial into your microwave oven). Most of the interesting JTAPI objects are specified as interfaces, and there?s no problem if implementations create JTAPI objects that implement additional interfaces. If "X" turns out to be interesting and widely deployed, the methods you specified can be "added back" to the JTAPI specification fairly easily. 6 Work program This section of the document describes the "rules of engagement" for JTAPI. 6.1 Areas of focus • Core Call Control • Advanced Call Control • Call Centers • Capabilities • Terminal Components • Media Control 6.2 Rules for Participation Participants in the JTAPI specification team come from two primary sources: • JavaSoft invites Java licensees with specific expertise in computer telephony to participate. This is how JTAPI started. • Members of the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum are also eligible to participate. Left Curve Java SDKs and Tools Right Curve Left Curve Java Resources Right Curve JavaOne Banner Java 8 banner (182)
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