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Star Gazing
Beretta, But With Beer
There are days when you just don't feel like going home, at least not yet.
That's when you break out your list of trusty neighborhood hangouts—places that not only save your stool but also remember the way you take your old-fashioned.
Welcome Starbelly, a new eatery open all day, every day until midnight that'll be like your home away from home, where you can crack open a few beers (from a list of more than 20) and satisfy your comfort-food fix at the same time, opening tomorrow on 16th Street.
We know you're intimately familiar with Beretta (and the Agricole Mule), so you'll be glad to know that this breezy tavern will be to beer what Beretta is to cocktails. So whether you want to discuss the ins and outs of blondes (as in Drake's Blonde from San Leandro) or just get an expert recommendation, you'll want to have a chat with Rich, the cicerone (the beer equivalent of a master sommelier). Just look for the guy behind the long bar made of reclaimed bowling alley lane wood (and spare him from any of your bowling humor).
And since the chef (formerly of Boccalone) cures his own bacon, you'll want to add this newcomer to your brunch rotation as early as this Saturday. Start with a side of Dynamo Donuts then go straight for the likes of the BLT featuring Starbelly bacon, or the bacon, egg and tomato-topped pizza. Or both.
Either way, it'll all pair nicely with a few blondes.
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You want a change. You have a dream, or parts of it. The life you are living is beginning to feel too small for you. You feel in your core a desire to step into more.
Showing up, as your authentic self, and walking into that arena – whatever it is you are trying to do, become, or create - is a vulnerable process. It makes the strongest among us second-guess ourselves.
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Why India's Men's Rights Movement Is Thriving
The Indian movement might be taking cues from the American men's rights movement, but Indian MRAs are already "lightyears ahead."
Apr 13 2018, 5:44pm
The crowd at the eighth National Men's Conference in Hyderabad, India. Photos by the author
This article originally appeared on VICE US.
On August 14, 2016, a room of 170 men and a handful of women in the south Indian city of Hyderabad sat in rapt silence to the image of a bearded Texan man addressing them via Skype. The speaker was Paul Elam, the founder of A Voice for Men, perhaps the most popular website in the men's rights movement.
Elam—a sworn "anti-gynocentrist" and champion of the American men's rights movement—demurred that he was the student that afternoon.
"You guys are lightyears ahead of us," he boomed. "The Indian movement is setting an example for the whole world."
The Indian men's rights movement is thriving. What began in the early 2000s as a series of local support groups for aggrieved husbands fighting the supposed misuse of a law that protected Indian women from dowry-related crimes has grown into a network of men's rights groups with the basic anatomy of a political movement.
Unlike the American MRM, men's rights activists in India are viewed as fairly legitimate lc. In recent years, they've been featured on network news debates, lobbied judges, demonstrated at marathons, and delivered TED talks. Central to the movement, though, are the group meetings held every week in major Indian cities where MRAs council one another on how to stand up for their rights.
"You've really done a revolutionary thing," Elam congratulated his audience seated several time zones away on banquet chairs at the eighth National Men's Conference, an annual Indian MRA event, earlier this month. "You've come together for the benefit of men."
As the movement in India has grown, it has also styled itself closer to the American MRM, moving its focus away from countering specific "anti-men" laws into being a wide platform through which men band together.
One primary grievance was the "dowry law"—formally, Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code—which was created in 1983 to protect women from harassment, abuse, and violence in cases where a bride's family did not provide a sufficient dowry. Under the law, police could automatically arrest husbands and family members accused of committing dowry-related crimes. MRAs saw this as giving women too much power and lobbied to change the law. In 2014, the Indian Supreme Court took their side and removed the automatic arrest provision, purportedly to protect men against "disgruntled wives."
Since then, MRAs in India have embraced a growing number of issues that they claim plague men in the country today: gender-biased laws, a feminist media, and an internationally funded feminist agenda bent on dismantling the Indian family.
"Feminists are doing certain things that are breaking our society and our world," Partha Sadhukhan, a software engineer from Bangalore in his mid 30s, told me on one of the conference's tea breaks.
Sadhukhan joined the MRM five years ago when a sticky divorce left him in search of brotherhood. It was then, he said, like many others at the conference, that he found the men's rights movement and woke up to the "condition of men in India."
Sadhukhan, who runs a popular MRA blog, calls himself a "human rights activist," and he stays away from dowry-law debates. Instead, he devotes himself to other pet causes, including one cherished by MRAs the world over—debunking rape statistics.
"These things," Sadhukhan said in reference to the fatal 2012 Delhi gang rape of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student, "they don't happen. It was a very one-off case."
Men gather in a group at the eighth National Men's Conference in Hyderabad, India.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, India's only source for numbers on sexual crimes, 100 instances of rape are reported every day. Just over one-fourth of them lead to a conviction. Skirting some of the reasons why rape cases in India are withdrawn—coercion by family members, victim blaming, and severely backlogged courts—MRAs use this discrepancy to cry foul.
"The media is defaming our country by highlighting rape," said Barkha Trehan, a woman who joined the movement five years ago when a close male friend of hers was accused of rape.
"Seventy-six percent of rape charges are false. Do we ever talk about the acquittals? Do we ever highlight that the charges are fake?" she asked me. Trehan, a petite woman from Delhi with two kids, told me with delight outside the conference hall that she had raised these questions more than once "on the platform of Mann ki Baat," a radio show hosted by Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.
But according to Nandita Bhatia, a gender and violence specialist at the International Center for Research on Women, looking at rape in India only through the lens of numbers is troublesome because of the large number of cases that never make it to police stations.
"There is an overwhelming sense of shame and blame that follows rape victims in India and that cuts across all classes," she told me. "When you base your whole argument on cases that are recorded, you are [disregarding] a huge part of the problem."
Still, "false rapes" have become a raison d'etre for the Indian MRM while the conversation around sexual crimes in India continues.
"At first [the men's rights movement] here only focused on the laws," said Uma Challa, an American-educated biologist who entered the movement 11 years ago. "What I realized interacting with men's groups everywhere is that the problems facing men are much deeper."
Challa joined men's rights activism "pretty much like everyone else," after she was implicated in a dowry-harassment case with her brother. While she was an early adopter of the MRM in India, Challa had spent years defending men's rights in the United States, where she told me she created a helpline for Indian husbands living overseas and "visited every office of every senator and house of representative" to rally against the signing of the International Violence Against Women Act.
Challa, an occasional contributor to A Voice for Men, holds little sympathy for feminists, calling her time in the MRM as a woman "a learning experience."
"Feminists are driving stupidity into people's minds, infantilizing women and demonizing men as a group," she beamed. "We talk so much now about Black Lives Matter. What I realized is, men's lives matter."
But for many others, the rise of India's MRM—among both men and women—is troubling.
"It is unfortunate," said Bhatia, "that the men's rights movement doesn't acknowledge the sense of hierarchy and power that men here have in every sphere."
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Rubrics: Connect-Reflect...
Now that you know all about rubrics. Let's apply this new knowledge through some self check exercises.
Activity 1: Below is a list of questions based on the Performance Guidelines (pp.237-240). Select the criteria that best reflects where that question would be answered in your rubric.
1. How well are they understood?
2. How well do they understand others?
3. How accurate is their language?
4. How extensive and applicable is their vocabulary?
5. How do they maintain communication?
6. How is their cultural understanding reflected in their communication?
The questions in Activity 1 can assist you in determining which criteria in a rubric will work for you in a given performance assessment. Grant Wiggins provides a rule for determining the quality of a rubric with the following question:
"Can you imagine someone meeting all your proposed criteria but not being able to perform well at the task? (If so), then you have the wrong criteria."
Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. 1998. Understanding by Design.Alexandria, Va.: Asso-ciation for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
When designing your own rubrics consider the Wiggins rule along with the following recommendations for designing rubrics backwards:
1. Start with the ends (performance goals
2. Identify the language elements you are emphasizing
3. Describe each element in terms of the performance you want to see
4. Revise in terms of what will help students set targets to improve
Taken from WAFLT Summer Language Leaderhsiop Institute 2006, Paul Sandrock.
To further assist you in understanding some of the necessary components to a good rubric, do Activity 2 found at the Virtual Assessment Center.
These student opinions may assist you in creating a more comprehensible rubric as well as giving you a more clear understanding of how effective they can be for students. "What Students Say About Rubrics."
Rubrics: Connect-Reflect: Word Document
1. Keeping in mind all that you have learned in this module, think of a student performance you would like to assess. Create/revise a rubric to evaluate student abilities. Be sure to include this rubric in your personal portfolio. You may want to use an online rubric creator such as RubiStar to assist you.
2. Evaluate your rubric based on these characteristics that define a rubric. Explain where you are strong and weak as appropriate. What changes would you make?
The rubric...
• is a guide for students and teachers.
• is a checklist of non-negotiables.
• highlights qualities of a product worthy of evaluation.
• doesn't allow for incomplete or unacceptable work.
3. Evaluate your rubric's purpose based on the characteristics described below? Explain where you are strong and weak as appropriate. What changes would you make?
• For the students: The rubric provides criteria to help achieve excellence in their performance.
• For the teacher: The rubric describes expectations for student achievement and provides clear criteria for evaluation of the performance task.
4. How well does your definition and purpose of a rubric from the "Rubrics: Remember" section match the above characteristics?
5. Now take a look at Aunt Olive's rubric on rubrics which is found in the Virtual Assessment Center. Evaluate your rubric according to those criteria. What is your score? How might you improve your score?
For additional practice evaluating assessment tasks and rubrics, visit the Virtual Assessment Center and complete Activity 5.
Next: Curriculum Planning
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A bear eats frozen fruit at the city zoo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Animals you see at zoos are often given frozen snacks to help them cool off from the intense summer heat. (Silvia Izquierdo/Associated Press)
Washington summers are beastly. Between the heat and humidity, it’s hard to keep from wilting like a flower. Of course, given how inventive humans are, we can beat the heat with air conditioning, an afternoon at the pool or a double scoop of rocky road ice cream.
But what about the rest of the animal kingdom? What tricks do animals have up their sleeves (or should that be fur) to keep cool?
Shedding: One characteristic of being a mammal is having hair on your body. Some mammals, such as dolphins, have only whiskers (and those fall out shortly after birth). Most have a dense coat of fur. During winter, fur thickens to protect animals from the cold. The opposite occurs in warm weather. By shedding, less heat is “trapped” in the animal’s body, allowing it to cool off.
Hiding: On a scorching summer day, you might hide from the sun under an umbrella. Animals do the same thing, only they use natural umbrellas in the form of foliage. They also hide under rocks, fallen trees and any other structure that blocks the sun’s rays. Some animals stay hidden all day and come out at night to feed.
Sweating: When you sweat, water rises to the surface of your skin. As the water evaporates, it cools the skin slightly. Most animals don’t sweat. Horses are an exception to this rule. So are dogs, except they sweat only through their paws, which isn’t enough to keep cool.
A Siberian tiger takes a swim at a zoo in Wuhan, in China. (Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
Panting: When you exhale, heat leaves the body with your breath. Dogs, cats and lots of other animals cool off by panting. Birds do it as well, so if you see an open-mouthed bird on a hot day, there’s a good chance it’s panting. However, unlike dogs, birds don’t have a big, sloppy tongue hanging out of their mouths.
Pooping: Bird poop is gooey because it contains lots of water. Storks and vultures take advantage of this by pooping on their legs during the summer. When the water in the poop evaporates, it provides a cooling effect.
Swimming: Jumping into a swimming pool not only cools you off, but it’s also lots of fun. Animals do the next best thing: They seek out ponds, rivers, streams or any body of water they can find. Some, such as pigs, prefer mud because it keeps them cool longer and protects their skin from insects.
Radiating heat: Elephants and hares have very large ears compared with their body sizes. During the summer, more blood circulates through the blood vessels in their ears, releasing heat into the environment.
Sleeping: Bears hibernate to avoid the challenging conditions of winter. Some animals use a variation of this technique to avoid the hot, dry conditions of summer. The name for this state is “estivation.” The water-holding frog avoids the harsh summer months by burrowing into sandy ground and protecting itself inside a “cocoon” made of mucus.
Eating cold treats: Many zoo animals get cold treats during the summer. Examples include frozen fruit for bears, frozen fish for sea otters and blood ice pops for lions.
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China's largest SNS & IM operator Tencent to open for third-party applications
Tencent, who among other services operates QQ, the most popular instant messenger in China, or Qzone China's (or maybe even the world's) largest SNS, yesterday accounced that it will soon open up for third-party applications (original Chinese news report by Sohu here). This announcement came after several other Chinese Internet companies recently opened their respective platforms. Tencents CEO Pony Ma stressed two points for applications to be allowed: innovative products and high security standards.
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Word of the day
The word for today is…
peccadillo (noun) – A small sin or fault.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : “slight sin,” 1590s (earlier in corrupt form peccadilian, 1520s), from Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado “a sin,” from Latin peccatum “a sin, fault, error,” noun use of neuter past participle of peccare “to miss, mistake, make a mistake, do amiss; transgress, offend, be licentious, sin,” perhaps literally “to stumble,” from PIE *ped-ko-, suffixed form of root *ped- “foot”
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When will Season 7 of Scandal be on Netflix?
ABC continues to release some of its biggest shows on Netflix and Scandal season 7 will be coming to Netflix but will be the final season to arrive on the streaming service. Here’s the release schedule for season 7 of Scandal will be on Netflix:
In case you haven’t heard, Scandal is to be the final season of the show. The political drama that’s been on our screens since April has been superseded by the newer ABC political drama, Designated Survivor (sadly not on Netflix). 2018 is set to be a big year for ABC shows and many of which are on the way to Netflix throughout the year.
The reason as to why the show has been canceled or wrapping up isn’t exactly clear. The showrunners are quick to point out that they wanted the show to go out on a high.
ABC Release Schedule
Season 7 of the show is running on a slightly different schedule to the past few seasons. This is mainly because Scandal has struggled to keep a consistent episode count. Season 7 will consist of 18 new episodes and began airing on ABC in October 2017. It’s scheduled to wrap up around a month earlier than previous entries but we don’t foresee this affecting the Netflix release date.
Netflix Release Date in the US
Updated (04/25/2018): Scandal will arrive on Netflix US on May 19th, one month earlier than expected.
Every year for the past several years, Netflix has always gotten most of the ABC lineup in June and that includes Scandal. Season 6 came to Netflix in June 2017 which means that season 7 will almost definitely arrive in June 2018.
One last thing we must mention is that since Disney now owns the majority of Hulu, it could decide to do what Fox did in 2017 and remove its content from the service. There have only been rumors so far but this could become reality meaning that Scandal would leave Netflix.
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Milling lumber
If you flat saw a log and end up with 200 board feet, what would you end up with if it was quarter sawn.
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Theme of "Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare
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The main themes of the book "Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare are anti-Semitism and prejudice. As you read, you clearly see that there is a discrimination against Jews in there society. Antonio is the merchant of Venice and is a Christian, and Shylock is a money-lender and is a Jew. Through out this book, you see how Shylock was discriminated and had a biased opinion of him.
Shylock hated Antonio because he was a Christian, you would think that he is prejudice too but thereÃÂs more to that. ÃÂHe hadth disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nations, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies- and whatÃÂs the reason? I am a JewÃÂ. Jews were looked down on, through out this book no one ever called Shylock by his name, and everyone referred to him as a ÃÂJewÃÂ.
When AntonioÃÂs best friend Bassanio needs money and Antonio does not have cash, he agrees to a loan with Shylock and signs the bond saying if Antonio doesnÃÂt pay back on time, he is to give Shylock a pound of his flesh. When Antonio gets bankrupt, itÃÂs time for Antonio to pay. ÃÂI am sure the duke/Will never grant this forfeiture to holdÃÂ said Solanio. This shows that just because a Jew made the bond, it doesnÃÂt have much value and there should be some way to get out of it.
When they turn the tables around on Shylock by getting technical with the bond, Antonio is free but Shylock isnÃÂt. ÃÂThat thou shalt see the difference of our spirit, I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.ÃÂ The Duke says he is different from him and is giving him his life before he asks for...
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☆ STARCROSSED PIMP (yume) wrote,
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this is the year of crap!
i don't know why, but i really think it is. maybe i just suck. or maybe ill blame it on some lesbians. yea .. it must be some lesbian conspiracy.. ¬_¬ damn you lesbians.
brb .. i gotta pee ! :'D
hm .. yes, so i looked in the mirror while i pee'd (it was wonderful) and i am all red. which isn't to weird i guess since im indian and red like all the time, well actually im usually yellow-ish (like mr. wong :']) so i guess red is weird, anyway i was red. the end.
man i've been watching these army movies with charlie sheen in them for the last 4 hours cause im too lazy to change the channel ..
yea, so back to the crap year. why is it crap .. i started reading dream catcher by stephen king and there's a lil thing in there, SSDD - same shit different day. :'D that's how i feel.
so .. the mothman is coming to get me. i read that book and all the 'signs' that the people in point pleasant had before he appeared are happening here (or have happened already) except for the lights in the sky, which i cant really confirm nor deny since i don't go outside often and look at the sky even less.
i haven't been able to go to sleep without some kind of light on. like the tv or my book light, or even sunlight which means staying up till 6am.
i told my mom and brother to watch out for weird people cause it might be the mothman or an MIB but they really didn't believe me.
But! get this. a week or so ago they tore down the CryHouse cause they're going to build a new one and ever since then everyone on our block has been having these weird occurrences, like ours. one guy even saw a ghost of an old indian (who told him he was 'doing a good job'). this is what gets my mom and brother to believe that something isn't right. the drunken most likely drug induced ramblings of our crackhead neighbors .. meanwhile i get followed home from work twice, and find a trail of blood outside my window and im just overreacting to a 'scary book' :')
what else ..
:o oh! i got asked to be a mod at oekakicentral. it's neat, the first few days were kinda like bleh, i got really anxious/nervous about deleting pictures and everyone either kept congratulating me or asking me why i agreed to mod at all.
im still on probation (till the 15th i think, i wrote it down but i don't know where that note is ..) but i think i might work out, i've gotten more secure in my decisions about pictures and even gotten the 'hateful' replies :D
shonda is trying to be boss at work still, but everyone can tell that its wearing on her. there was this mandatory meeting last week that i don't think anyone was informed about, and at the meeting when she got up to do her 'talk' she kept sayin things like 'if you need something and im gone ask romi' 'if you need files ask romi' 'romi this' 'romi that' and i just sat there like 'what?'
im the next in line seniority wise, and i am there a lot more then romi. just cause i didn't 'clean' out the filing cabinets right when shonda said she's going to try to just pass me over? it's so stupid.
when shonda asked me to do the filing, i was like 'all right' i didn't complain or try to butt in on her 'position' like she always did with david. but i wasn't like jumping for joy that i was all of a sudden getting new job responsibilities without a raise or promotion either.
:l at the same time if i was offered shonda's job i don't know if i would take it. i always kinda thought that i'd move up in the ranks at work and prolly be a supervisor one day, but i don't know if i want that day to be now, i don't even know if i'm going to stay there after acen anymore ..
i wish someone would just come up to me and offer me a great job so i could just get out of there.
right now i am over come with bone chilling fear for some reason. i think something is in the house, sneaking around in the dark, watching me. maybe i should go to bed.
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Revealing Traditionalism
Πρωτεύουσες καρτέλες
The preface to the second edition of Puti Absoliuta [The Ways of the Absolute] published in Absoliutnaia Rodina [Absolute Homeland] (Moscow: Arktogeia, 1999/2000).
The ambition to emphasize this aspect of Traditionalism with maximal clarity determined the structure of The Ways of the Absolute.
In the preface to the first edition of The Ways of the Absolute, we wrote the following on this matter: “‘Total Traditionalism’ arose in 20th century Europe as a special ideology standing for a complete and uncompromising return to the values of traditional, sacred civilization whose absolute negation is the modern materialist and secularized civilization – the “modern world” as such. Unlike those people who naturally belong to Tradition, the Traditionalists of the West found themselves surrounded by anti-tradition, and in order to affirm their position, they had to first and foremost reveal the elements and principles of Tradition, and declare them openly – something which would be superfluous in sacred societies and impossible in totalitarian, atheistic societies (such as communist ones, for example).”
Russian readers’ first acquaintance with the ideas of Traditionalism has, in our opinion, been quite adequate. We have succeeded in anticipating the opportunity to usurp this topic from irresponsible profane and neo-spiritualist circles.
Since the first edition of The Ways of the Absolute, the first Russian translations of the classics of Traditionalism have appeared and this trend will clearly continue. Readers can gradually, sufficiently familiarize themselves with the wholeness of the Traditionalist worldview, and then arises the new task of adequate applying such to our own tradition, to explaining what aspects of it are applicable to our reality to a full extent, and which aspects are subject to certain adjustment.
Ten years ago, the preface said: “The ideas of Guénon, whose works have hitherto been completely unknown to Russian readers, compose the foundations of this book. We have deemed it possible to avoid direct quotations of his works and chosen to freely present how we have grasped his ideas and how we have subsequently applied them in the sphere of traditional metaphysical doctrines and symbols. The present work contains a presentation of Guénon’s basic principles and concepts, whereas a detailed account of the divergences between such and our views on certain points of metaphysics would make sense only after the publication of Guénon’s main works in Russian. No matter what, it is Guénon who was and remains our spiritual guide and teacher.”
Today it can be said that this indeed happened, and in parallel to Russians’ fuller acquaintance with Guénon’s work, those aspects which were lost in the overall context of presenting the foundations of Traditionalism in The Ways of the Absolute have come to stand out. In our opinion, the gap that separates orthodox “Guenonism”, or literal adherence to Guénon’s thought in all major and minor issues, from the slightly different version of understanding metaphysical questions to which we ourselves adhere, is evermore clear. Before Guenon’s worldview became known to us in its general contours, it was premature to insist on the quality and essence of this gap, and by and large meaningless insofar as such would resemble a comparison between two unknown values. With the development of one of these values, the more prominent became the second, closely related to the first.
In The Ways of the Absolute, we based ourselves on a particular metaphysical tradition whose main lines were developed in a very closed and discrete intellectual milieu associated with such thinkers at Geydar Dzhemal, Yuri Mamleev, and Evgeniy Golovin. Having inherited from them a taste for paradoxical pivot in metaphysical intuition, we tried to combine this with orthodox Traditionalism, subjecting the latter to corrections arising out of the spirit of the above-mentioned school. The result was this book.
Intensive development of certain ideas has led the author to a whole series of new metaphysical conclusions which have been expressed in our other works, first and foremost in The Metaphysics of the Gospel.
We have decided to introduce some minor edits (mostly in the citations) in the text of this second edition of The Ways of the Absolute, since some suspicions have gradually been reborn as convictions, and certain arguments in orthodox Guénonist terms are so inadequate that we have resolved to withdraw them from the text or, in the very least, substantially correct them. Nevertheless, it is extremely important to consider the chronology of the writing and first edition of this book, as such was the first step in what was a kind of “revelation of Traditionalism.”
Translator: Jafe Arnold
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I'm a person who doesn't like to dwell on negatives. "No" is one of my least favorite words. If you've ever read George Orwell's "1984" or seen either movie adaptation, the native language doesn't use "negative" words. Nothing is "bad." It's "ungood." Mashable reports, there's a petition to replace the word no with "yesn't." The petition, at change.org, has received more than 26,000 signatures so far. What do you think? Is this a good idea, or just another case of "political correctness" run amok?
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Inventory Recording Software
Technologies Used: Palm OS, Linux, Windows, PHP, MySQL, Java, SuperWaba SDK
ImageThis software was developed as part of a contract for National Drilling Company (NDC), Abu Dhabi for performing the physical inventory of approximately 120,000 items on various rig locations, warehouses and workshops.
The software was broken up into 2 modules, one for recording the inventory on-site and another for reporting. The recording software was Palm OS based running on a PDA which allowed searching through a database for identifying items and adding/editing inventory records. The reporting module was web-based running on our internet servers accessed by NDC staff from their premises. Its notable features are:
• Central Database Server and Reporting Software running on Linux
• Palm OS PDA based recording software
• Automatic processing of recorded data and generation of reports
• Multiple fast search facilities through a 120,000 records long database on PDA
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The Creators
Agent 1.22 Comicbook Image
Angelo Panetta, David Martin, Tom Dheere: Co-Creators
In 2006 co-creator Angelo Panetta, a sound engineer and composer, found David Martin, a UK-based computer animator, in an effort to add some of his scores to existing animation to develop his demo reel. Since they couldn’t find a good fit, they decided to create some new material. They put their heads together and came up with a female action hero to animate and put some music to, but they needed a story. That’s when Angelo contacted Tom Dheere, a writer, to come up with a short story to give their hero something to do. Thus, Agent 1.22 was born! The story, originally named “Project: T.E.R.R.A”, was conceived as a 20-episode web series. When they determined they couldn’t produce or monetize a web series, the project was in limbo for a while. Dheere suggested it could make a good comic book, and shortly thereafter the project was back on track. Renamed “Agent 1.22”, the comic is currently being produced in conjunction with writer Stephan Nilson, and 3D artist Doug Shuler.
Douglas Shuler: Artist
Douglas Shuler, Fantasy and Science-Fiction Illustrator, has been painting professionally for over 20 years and has worked for numerous game and media companies, including TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Lucasfilm, Paramount Pictures and the Sci-Fi Channel. His work for Magic; The Gathering earned him worldwide exposure that has since catapulted him into several new arenas, including digital art, video game development and portraiture. A jack-of-all-trades when it comes to creating an image, Douglas is equally comfortable using pencils, acrylics, airbrush, oil paints and even computers... all in the interest of making a stronger image.
Stephan Nilson: Writer
Stephan Nilson was born and died in Okinawa, but the military doctors thwarted his attempt at emancipation. Now he resides in South Florida with his dog and cat but hopes to someday upgrade to a giraffe. Stephan is the creator and writer of the sellout graphic novels The Pound (IDW Publishing), and adapted the Danny Husk: The Hollow Planet OGN with Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall, Hannibal). Stephan started his writing career in 2001 publishing his creator owned book Government Bodies (Across the Pond Studios). From there he’s been steadily growing his name in comics and television. He’s worked on books for Image and DC Comics as well as television for BBC, WB and NBCUniversal, as well as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
When higher status makes it worse
ESR adds his contribution to the theory of Game:
A man courting a woman is implicitly making a status claim: I am good enough for you – in Red Pill terminology, my SMV (sexual market value) meets or exceeds yours. Because other women use male attention to measure SMV and status, such a claim can be threatening to its target because, from a low-status male, it threatens to lower her status, especially if she accepts it.
A woman can deal with this by not merely rejecting a man she evaluates as not being worthy, but publicly insulting him for trying. “How dare you think you’re good enough for me?” is different from a simple “Not interested” because it’s a status defense.
Thus, hot chicks are systematically cruel to beta nerds. It’s a way of socially protecting the proposition that their SMV is high enough to capture a real alpha, and their status among peers.
But – and here’s my insight – it’s even worse than that.
Consider two cases. Bob is slightly lower status than Alice. Ted is much lower status than Alice. Both of them court Alice. She doesn’t think either has SMV to match hers, so her response is to reject both. But: Which one is the bigger status threat?
No, it’s not Ted. The status difference between him and Alice is quite visible to her peers; he can be easily dismissed as just nuts for pitching out of his league. Bob, on the other hand, may look plausible – and the closer to good enough he looks, the more likely it is that the status claim he makes by courting Alice will adjust her status downwards among her peers.
So it’s Bob who will get the cruel, status-defensive rejection, not Ted.
On the plus side, if a woman who is close to your league is being particularly nasty, that means you have a real shot if you up your Game. So, while it might not be fun to experience initially, it's very useful information.
Anonymous said...
It's an interesting point.
It dovetails well with the observation that, in the popularity hierarchy, the nastiest fighting is usually in the middle, particularly just below the top: the naturally most popular can afford to be nice, and the omegas don't bother to fight.
Ron said...
It just occurred to me that if a man approaches a woman who is out of his league, and he also realizes the above statement by ESR, then he is not just sending a message to the woman that his SMV equals or exceeds hers, but he is also sending a message to HIMSELF that his SMV equals or exceeds hers.
If he sends himself enough such messages, while putting in the work to make that a reality, then he will reorient himself to actually be at a higher or equal SMV value for the women he approaches.
And that would explain the "fake it till you make it" concept.
ss said...
^artful response. I agree wholeheartedly.
Anonymous said...
Exacerbated by the tendency of women to overestimate their SMV by a) not realizing the difference between a man willing to have a one night stand and a man willing to take her on as a commitment*, and b) not realizing how hard the years are on her. So Bob could still get a nuclear rejection even if he was really slightly above her SMV, because she might have been deluded by the pump-n-dump she got from Badboy Rockbanddrummer five years ago when she was 10 pounds lighter and 54.7% more fertile.
* As Charlie Sheen said, he doesn't pay hookers to have sex, he pays them to leave afterward.
Timmy3 said...
Since women are always hitting above their league, its important for a man to get prior knowledge of her dating history. If both are at the same level, it doesn't matter if she perceives him as slightly below. Not good enough. Therefore let her get hit by a lower status guy. Rub it in. Helpfully encourage her to date him. Some time later, the slightly higher status guy appear more attractive. Timing is the bigger concern.
SciVo said...
Yes, I am not the first to observe that the worst nuclear rejections come from the middle and upper-middle of SMV -- the "midvees" -- because the women at the top are used to it and also not threatened. It's the plain girl, the one who hardly ever gets approached, who will make an international issue out of a late-night "coffee" invitation in a hotel elevator.
JP said...
It's the same as how lower-middleclass folks are more fussy about their image than the well-off folks.
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Anonymous said...
That insight goes a long way toward invalidating the Whiskeyite assertion that White women hate their peer White men, to whom they are bitchy, in favor of "exciting" Blacks, to whom they are nice.
Cail Corishev said...
One takeaway from this, then, is that if you're just out chatting up women, say for practice or breaking down approach anxiety, you might as well aim high and go for the hotties. Maybe you'll still get rejected, but they'll be nicer about it, and the view will be better in the meantime.
When I think back to the times a beautiful girl turned me down gently (which was usually the case), they're almost pleasant memories. Bittersweet might be the word. Disappointed, but happy with myself for at least trying. If you catch the eyes of other guys while you're doing it, you'll see respect or even a bit of awe. Doesn't hurt for other women to see it either.
Trust said...
Another variable is how women overrate themselves. May provide insight as to why women who cheat on their husbands are so cruel to their husbands: they mistake a higher status man's willingness to use them as a cum dumpster with their status increasing, and therefore falsely feeling even more superior to their husband.
B.J. said...
There's a simplified answer. For women, rejecting men simply feels good. There's a movie quote, I can't remember what it's from:
"Men get their self esteem when a woman says 'Yes,' women get their self-esteem by telling men 'No.'"
Christopher B said...
Alternatively, this does fit with that assertion. A liason with a man of another race is so far off the field that it has little bearing on her SMV in the same way an out of league approach does, while men if her own race need to be judged more critically and more forcefully rejected.
Rex Little said...
An interesting theory, and certainly plausible. Is it supported by evidence? If so, how much and what sort? Detailed, rigorous observation? Experiment?
Anonymous said...
In what universe does being a mudshark carry less SMV penalty than having slept with Steve in Accounting?
Sokrates said...
It is very important not to become a slave to status. Status is tricky – everybody wants it but it’s value very often is questionable. Prefer freedom over status.
Hammerli280 said...
Jack Amok is right, I think. Women tend to have an exaggerated idea of their SMV, an even more exaggerated idea of their MMV.
I've been mulling over ways for Miss Ann Average to raise both - and there are several fast methods that require neither starvation nor sweat. MMV boosts in particular.
Retrenched said...
That would also explain why very attractive women are rarely, if ever, cruel in their rejections. They know they're hot, and does everyone else, so they've got nothing to prove by "nuclear rejecting" guys.
SQT said...
When I met my husband it was perceived that I had higher status than he did because we were both working at a restaurant and I was a cocktail waitress and he was a busboy. What the other girls never bothered to find out was that he never tried to climb the piddly ladder in the restaurant business because he didn't want to waste his time. He kept his head down and worked his way through college quickly.
We were both set to graduate at the same time when we started dating. It caused quite the uproar at our job but instead of lowering my perceived status it raised his. All of the girls that previously blew him off started blatantly hitting on him. A number of girls told him that they would date him if he asked-- he declined.
It felt really good when we ran into one of those girls several years later after we were married and had our first child and she was still single and in a crappy job.
Cristo said...
Men with Down Syndrome rarely receive a nuclear rejection. Because that's just mean.
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Eight years after Inception left moviegoers mind-boggled, we finally have an explanation for its ambiguous final scene.
As fans will recall, the critically acclaimed sci-fi ended with Dom Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio) staring at a spinning top to test whether he'd made it successfully back to reality, or was stuck, perhaps indefinitely, in the subconscious state he'd been using to extract valuable government information from other people. If it kept spinning, it meant he was in a dream, but if it toppled over, he was in reality. Ultimately, Cobb decided to ignore the result and join his family for a happy reunion outside, but just before the screen cut to black, it looked as though the top had begun to lose its balance, leaving Cobb's fate seemingly uncertain.
In the past, director Christopher Nolan has been purposefully vague about the ending, telling Princeton University graduates in 2015 that “all levels of reality are valid" and leaving the film's conclusion up to interpretation. But now star Michael Caine, who played Professor Stephen Miles and Cobb’s father-in-law, has at last revealed the answer.
"When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it, and I said to [Nolan], ‘I don’t understand where the dream is," he said at a recent screening of the movie, per Time. "I said, ‘When is it the dream and when is it reality?’ He said, ‘Well, when you’re in the scene it’s reality.’ So, get that — if I’m in it, it’s reality. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream."
As Caine's character was present at Cobb's house, that means they were, in fact, in reality. So there you have it folks! Mystery (finally) solved.
The 10 Biggest TV Plot Twists
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PBS' `Jericho' rousts up shades of Bogart
April 29, 2006|Robert Lloyd | Times Staff Writer
At the Anglophilic intersection of public broadcasting and detective fiction lies "Mystery!," one of television's most reliable brands, a cornerstone of PBS fund drives for a quarter-century and the American home to a panoply of British sleuths professional, amateur and de facto -- Miss Marple, Horace Rumpole, Adam Dalgliesh, Endeavour Morse, Peter Wimsey, Jane Tennison and on and (relatively speaking) on. And in all their cases it is not the crime that matters so much as the character of the crime-busters, and their milieu, and each program's style -- not in the narrow sense of production values or a fancy look, but in the building of a look and atmosphere appropriate to the material.
Its latest imported crime-solver, whose adventures begin Sunday night and play out across the following three weeks, is the eponymous Mike Jericho of "Jericho" (exclamation mark understood), played by Robert Lindsay, who is good company. In his iconic trench coat and loosely knotted tie, he is oddly enough the picture not of the British police inspector but of the classic American private eye, and particularly of Humphrey Bogart, whose masculine-feminine toughness Lindsay recalls in his person and performance.
Indeed, the show's very title seems an homage to American detective shows of the 1970s ("Columbo," "McCloud," "Kojak," "Mannix," etc.), notwithstanding its late 1950s setting -- but that was a time when English pop culture was particularly American, animated by rock 'n' roll and jazz and bottle-blond Cinemascope sex kittens. With its John Barry-esque stabbing jazz theme and frequent forays into the lurid color palette of a pulp magazine cover, it is a kind of cross between "L.A. Confidential" and "Absolute Beginners."
There is plenty of dark fun had with the time's changing mores and the country's colorful class system. You get contemporary issues of race and sex (homosexuality, fear and repression of) and even the Cold War makes an appearance.
Like many such heroes, Jericho is both in this world and apart from it, above the more usual prejudices of his time. He's a loner -- though a kind of socially needy loner -- heedless of authority, hungry for justice. He hangs around in jazz clubs, smoking and drinking. He's an insomniac, haunted by his cases and by his past, and so he prods his loyal sidekick Det. Sgt. Clive Harvey (David Troughton) and new boy D.C. John Caldicott (Ciaran McMenamin) into late-night meals or invites himself home to Harvey's.
He's a lonely soul ("the only girl he ever loved married somebody else when he was away in the war," it is explained) but making a move toward the nice French prostitute downstairs (Aurelie Bargeme). And there is some business regarding the death of his policeman father, business made clearer across the two two-part episodes that PBS has imported. (Two more have aired in Britain.)
It's a mix of many things you've seen before, if you watch these sorts of things at all, and some things you haven't. There are instances when things seem to happen for no reason but to move the plot in a certain direction; it's sometimes hard to follow and occasionally strains credulity. But overall it's an enjoyable time, with enough false leads, red herrings and likely suspects to keep one thinking and theorizing.
`Mystery! Jericho'
Where: KCET
When: 9 p.m. Sunday
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18 January 2006
I was trying to set my coffee cup in front of my webcam here and in the process I realized that I could see myself throught the handle of the cup. In a rare streak of artsy-fartsyness, I thought it was representative of a couple of things, 1) the addiction of coffee (don't worry sweets, I don't yet require it to become human in the morning, it just helps me keep my energy up when I miss breakfast), 2) me being trapped up in the IZ, 3) the possibility that this is just a cool picture and representative of nothing aside from being cool.
I hate it when people try to interpret things into "art". This is why:
Person 1 & 2 are looking at a 1 foot x 1 foot picture with a green background and a red dot in the middle, here is their conversation;
Person #1 - "I think the artist was trying to express his frusteration with his inability to achieve critical mass of his reds and greens."
Person #2 - "Perhaps the artist was trying to portray the daily struggles of the red-butted baboon in the oppressed jungles of South America."
Then Person 3 walks up behind them;
Person #3 - "I think he ran out of paint."
I identify with #3. Posted by Picasa
Anonymous Justin said...
dude...i totally agree with number three. totally man. it's like...dude...there's no more paint.
and like, wow man, it's art, even though you ran out of paint. dude.
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Attraction Information
Lunch in a Thai Restaurant
Thai food has a range of tastes to suit all pallets so please don't make the mistake of thinking that all Thai food is spicy. Some dishes are very spicy but there are many which are not spicy at all. Rather, they are a wonderful combination of sweet and sour.
Thai dishes are normally shared by all.
Thai Cuisine is well-known for being hot and spicy and for its balance of the five fundamental flavors in the overall meal - hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.
Thai food has four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern (or Isan), Central, and Southern, each cuisine featuring locally grown food.
Southern curries, for example, tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while northeastern dishes often include lime juice. The cuisine of Isan is heavily influenced by Laos.
Many popular dishes eaten in Thailand were originally Chinese dishes which were introduced to Thailand mainly by Teochew people who make up the majority of the Thai Chinese. Such dishes include Jok, Kway teow Rad Na, Khao Kha Moo and Khao Mun Gai.
Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh rather than dried herbs and spices as well as fish sauce.
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Introducing Jydoop: Fast and Sane Map-Reduce
Analyzing large data sets is hard, but it’s often way harder than it needs to be. Today, Taras Glek and I are unveiling a new data-analysis tool called jydoop. Jydoop is designed to allow engineers without any experience in HBase/Hadoop to write data analyses on their local machine and then deploy the analysis to our production Hadoop cluster. We want to enable every Mozilla engineer to use telemetry and crash-stats data as effectively as possible.
Jydoop started with three simple goals:
Enable fast prototyping/testing
Setting up hadoop/hbase is unreasonably difficult and time-consuming, and engineers should not need a hadoop/hbase setup in order to write an analysis. Because Jydoop analyses are written in Python, they can be developed and tested on a local machine without Hadoop or even Java.
Don’t hide map/reduce
In a query language like pig, it is hard to know exactly how your query will perform; which tasks will run on the map nodes, which will run on the reducers, and which must be run on the final reduced data. Jydoop doesn’t hide those details: each analysis has simple map/combine/reduce functions so that engineers know how a clustered query is going to behave.
Be fast
Performance of clustered queries should be as good or better than our existing solutions using pig or other existing tools.
Telemetry data takes the form of a single blob of JSON which is stored in an hbase table. A telemetry ping may be larger than 100kb, and we typically receive about 2 million telemetry pings per day. In order to allow engineers to test an analysis, we save off a small sample of reports (5000 or so) in a single file. Then analysis scripts can be written and tested against the sample.
The simplest job is one which simply acts as a filter. The following script is used to select all telemetry records which have an “androidANR” key and save them to a file:
import telemetryutils
# Ask telemetryutils to set up our query by date range using the correct hbase tables
setupjob = telemetryutils.setupjob
def map(key, value, context):
if value.find("androidANR") == -1:
context.write(key, value)
To test this script against sample data, run python scripts/ sampledata.txt.
To run this script against a single day of telemetry data, run make ARGS='scripts/ anrresults-20130308.txt 20130308 20130308' hadoop.
More complex analyses are also possible. The following script will calculate the bucketed distribution of the size of the telemetry ping:
import telemetryutils
import jydoop
import json
setupjob = telemetryutils.setupjob
kBucketSize = float(0x400)
def map(key, value, context):
j = json.loads(value)
channel = j['info'].get('appUpdateChannel', None)
# if .info.appUpdateChannel is not present, we don't care about this record
if channel is None:
return # Don't care about this record
bucket = int(round(len(value) / kBucketSize))
context.write((channel, bucket), 1)
combine = jydoop.sumreducer
reduce = jydoop.sumreducer
I was then able to produce this chart with the result data and a little JS:
History and Alternatives
The native language for Hadoop map/reduce jobs is Java. Writing an analysis directly in Java requires careful construction of a class hierarchy and is extremely tedious. Even more annoying, it’s basically impossible to test an analysis without having access to a hadoop/hbase environment. Even if you use something like the cloudera test VMs, setting up hbase and mapreduce jobs on test data is onerous.
It is a venerable Hadoop tradition to build wrapper tools around mapreduce which run distributed queries. There are tools such as Hadoop Streaming which allow map/reduce to forward to arbitrary programs via pipes. There are at least five different tools which already combine Hadoop with python. Unfortunately, none of these tools met the performance and prototyping requirements for Mozilla’s needs.
At Mozilla, we currently mostly use pig, a query language and execution tool which transforms a series of query and filter statements into one or more map/reduce jobs. In theory, pig has an execution mode which can prototype a query on local data. In practice, this is also very difficult to use, and so most people prototype their pig scripts directly on the production cluster. It works after a while, but it’s not especially friendly.
They key difference between Jydoop and the existing Python alternatives is that we use Jython to run the python code directly within the map and reduce jobs, rather than shelling out and communicating via pipes. This allows for much tighter integration with hadoop and also allows us to control the execution environment.
For maximum performance, we use a custom key/value class which serializes and compares python objects. For performance and sanity, this class operates on a limited subset of Python types: analysis scripts are limited to using only None, integers, floats, strings, and tuples of these basic types as their key and values.
During the process of developing Jydoop, we also discovered that JSON parsing performance was a significant factor in the overall job speed. The performance of the `json` module which is built into jython 2.7 is horrible. We got better but not great performance using jyson as a drop-in JSON replacement. Eventually we wrote a complete json replacement which wraps the standard Jackson streaming API. With these improvements in place, tt appears that jydoop performance beats pig performance on equivalent tasks.
Jydoop is now available on github.
We hope that jydoop will make it possible for many more people to work with telemetry, crash, and healthreport data. If you have any issues or questions about using jydoop with Mozilla data, please feel free to ask questions in If you are using jydoop for other projects, feel free to file github issues, submit github PRs, or email me directly and let me know what you’re up to!
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Like many asymmetrically dividing cells, budding yeast segregates mitotic spindle poles nonrandomly between mother and daughter cells. the age-insensitive, cyclin-B-dependent mechanism of symmetry breaking. Introduction Asymmetric cell division is a major mechanism for the generation of cellular diversity in eukaryotes (reviewed in Kaltschmidt and Brand, 2002). During such divisions, the mitotic spindle aligns with the polarity axis of the cell such that polarized factors segregate to only one of the two daughters (reviewed in Siller and Doe, 2009; Barral and Liakopoulos, 2009). The alignment of division and polarity axes with each other requires the two poles of the mitotic spindle to become morphologically and functionally distinct from each other and to respond differently to polarity cues. This differentiation drives their migration to distinct cell ends and, hence, the alignment of the spindle with the cell’s polarity axis. Remarkably, the age of the spindle pole frequently specifies its fate. Indeed, centrioles of higher eukaryotes undergo conservative duplication, leading to formation of an old and a new centriole (reviewed in Azimzadeh and Bornens, 2007; Strnad and G?nczy, 2008). Subsequently, centriole segregation between daughter cells often correlates with their age. For example, stem cells of the male germline and the mammalian neocortex inherit the oldest centriole, whereas its daughter centriole segregates to the differentiating cell (Yamashita et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2009). Therefore, centrioles appear to specify pole destiny. How this specification is achieved remains, 85604-00-8 however, unclear. Simpler eukaryotes also segregate spindle poles nonrandomly. The budding yeast equivalent of the centrosome, the spindle pole body (SPB), duplicates in a partially conservative manner as well (Adams and Kilmartin, 2000; Yoder et al., 2003), such that one SPB is inherited NGFR from the previous mitosis and is composed of mostly 85604-00-8 old protein, whereas the other SPB is assembled de novo. In unperturbed cells, SPBs segregate nonrandomly, such that the bud inherits the old SPB in virtually all divisions (Pereira et al., 2001). Much is known about the mechanisms of spindle positioning in yeast, but how and why SPBs become specified remains elusive. In meiosis, the SPB component Nud1, a protein related to mammalian centriolin (Gromley et al., 2003), has been involved in defining SPB identity during the process of spore wall formation (Gordon et al., 2006). How spindle pole identity and inheritance is defined in mitosis is currently unknown. Budding yeast offers a robust framework for the investigation of the mechanism and function of pole inheritance. Prior to spindle assembly, bud emergence determines both the polarity axis and the future cleavage plane of the cell. Therefore, the mitotic spindle must align with the polarity and division axes in order to properly segregate chromosomes between mother and bud. Upon separation of the spindle poles and regardless of its initial position, the old pole migrates toward the bud neck (Pereira et al., 2001). Orientation of the spindle relative to the polarity axis is mediated by the protein Kar9, which interacts indirectly with 85604-00-8 both actin and microtubules by binding to the microtubule-binding protein Bim1 (Miller et al., 2000; Lee et al., 2000; Korinek et al., 2000), the yeast homolog of EB1, and to type V myosin, Myo2 (Yin et al., 2000). Through these interactions, Kar9 promotes the movement of microtubule plus ends along actin cables toward the bud (Beach et al., 2000; Liakopoulos et al., 2003; Hwang et al., 2003). Kar9’s function in the alignment of the spindle with the mother-bud axis relies on the fact that it is recruited to the astral microtubules emanating from only one SPB. Because all actin cables emanate from the bud cortex during metaphase, Kar9 recruitment to only one aster leads to Myo2-dependent pulling and specific orientation of the associated SPB toward the bud (reviewed in Pruyne et al., 2004). Therefore, it is the asymmetry of Kar9 distribution that promotes the alignment of the spindle with the mother-bud axis and orients the old SPB toward the bud (Liakopoulos et al., 2003; Pereira et al., 2001). Although recent studies have shed light on the regulation of Kar9 asymmetry (Liakopoulos et al., 2003; Moore et al., 2006; Moore and Miller, 2007; Leisner et al., 2008; Meednu et al., 2008; Kammerer et al., 2010; Cepeda Garca et al., 2010), it remains unclear how SPB identity is specified and how Kar9 asymmetry is directed toward the old SPB. Cells lacking Kar9 align their spindles with the mother-bud axis in 85604-00-8 early anaphase in a dynein-dependent manner (Adames and Cooper, 2000; Carminati and Stearns, 1997; Grava et al., 2006). Because both the Kar9- and dynein-dependent pathways mediate spindle alignment with the polarity axis, each can compensate for.
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Road-Runner bird pictures
Road-Runner bird picturesROAD-RUNNER
385. Geococcyx californianus. 23 inches
In the southwestern portions of the United States, from Texas and Kansas west to the Pacific, these curious birds are commonly found. They are locally known as "Ground Cuckoos," "Snake-killers," "Chaparral Cocks."
They are very fond of lizards and small snakes, which form a large part of their fare. They are very fleet runners, but fly only indifferently well. Their four to ten white eggs are laid on frail nests of twigs, in bushes.
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From 1730 through the Qing dynasty, the mom coins were no more carved individually but derived from "ancestor coins" (zǔ qián 祖錢). Inevitably this resulted in greater uniformity amongst cast Chinese coinage from that interval onwards.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Requiem for Equus Pallidus
Selig sind, die da Leid tragen
Die mit Tränen säen, werden mit Freuden ernten
Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras
Aber des Herrn Wort bleibet in Ewigkeit
Die Erlöseten des Herrn werden wiederkommen
Freude, ewige Freude
I will remedy that one day.
Rest well.
You ran your race well.
God bless you and your kin.
Giraffe said...
Well said.
Difster said...
Then you'd better show up for the Ilkmoot this summer because there's going to be quite a few of us. It will be dedicated to EP.
Nate said...
if it is at all possible... I will be there.
Josh said...
Nate said...
I should've pointed out.. Greg never took any compensation for BallisticPro. We threw money at him for it and he consistently refused.
I wish I had mentioned that in the post...
daddynichol said...
Great post, Nate. I look forward to meeting you someday as well. God Bless you and your family.
Jamie-R said...
Hold up.
One last facepalm.
There we go.
Bane, Dread, Wheeler and Gregg (in a nicer 'off his meds' way) were the three guys that disturbed me enough to wonder what the hell they were like in person. My excuse was that I was drunk and an embarrassment to myself, they all seemed far much further along the path of just veering off it from drinking. In the end this was the redneck part of the internet and they were par for the course in the pre-social media days of it. It would have been interesting seeing them on fb.
Jamie-R said...
It says three guys in my post because I didn't have Wheeler in there originally, which was crazy.
The best of all this is that Bane can't defend himself right now, but would be pissed at me for putting him in that company. Shoulda chucked Pat Buchanan in there too, that would complete his anger.
Res Ipsa said...
Equus Palus was a lot of fun. He was one of the most knowledgeable people about Catholic doctrine that I ever met.
He'll be missed.
Nate said...
and rifles. The man was a rifle guru as well.
Susan said...
Nice post Nate, very nice. You are right, he was very old school and darn proud of it.
There are lots of the old commenters that I miss from the early days. They made life entertaining and I always learned something from all of you guys.
I still think my favorite stuff was when Bane would heckle Morgan of the Lake by mooing at her. That is all he would do, just moo and it would send her into hissy fits of hilarity. Then SpaceBunny would move in for the kill. Ahh, good times.
WaterBoy said...
"and rifles. The man was a rifle guru as well."
And primitive bowhunting.
Anyone who hunts feral hogs with a simple bow has some balls.
Bill said...
Man. That's a bummer about Greg. I mean, everybody's gotta go, but it still sucks. Greg and I disagreed about most of his Catholic stuff, but he was one of the Good Guys, no doubt.
Res Ipsa said...
Greg and I disagreed about most of his Catholic stuff,
Me too. What made him a cut above was that he knew why he believed what he believed.
Almost every catholic I've ever met didn't have a clue what they believed or what their church taught beyond what they remembered from confirmation class. EP was different in that he understood what the RCC was saying, why they were saying it and who it was that developed that particular doctrine.
I disagreed with him too, but he did his homework and understood more about his faith than some "bible believing" protestants that I've known. I give him credit for that because his faith was based on knowledge and not because he happened to be brought up in that church.
It's rare in RL that I met people like that, even in church. He had a good handle on the who, what, when, where and why of Catholicism. If you wanted an argument he'd give it to you. If you wanted to understand why he believed something he'd explain that too.
Bill said...
Absolutely, Res.
Greg was the best informed Catholic I ever met. And I think, deep down, he also understood the problems many Christians had with Catholicism. But I think he had such a strong cultural affinity for Catholicism because he understood how much good the Catholics have done over the centuries (something that most Christians really, really don't get) that he was simply willing to defend them warts and all.
cheddarman said...
I did not really know him, other than by association with Nate and Vox's blogs. However, I knew that he was a salt of the earth kind of man. I look forward to hanging out with him in the Kingdom.
Res Ipsa said...
Another point that he made once was that the RCC had done more to fight abortion than any other church. They've done more to promote natural families and that their approach to the topic was more consistent than any in the protestant world.
He was right.
He convinced me that traditional catholic teaching on the topic was more in line with the biblical standard than anything being promoted in the protestant world. It hurt at the time to admit it, but he was right.
He was also right about Catholics doing more good work i.e. hospitals, orphans homes etc.
Breeder said...
Nate, there was a podcast where Vidaad was unavailable and it featured Outlaw as the main guest for most of the hour. You ought to post a link to that one. I particularly enjoyed it.
Nate said...
Greg was wise enough to realize that a Church made of flawed men would be flawed so he didn't bother pretending it wasn't. He didn't hold it to impossible standards and he didn't hold other churches to impossible standards either.
I bet money Greg would've shared Communion with us.
Res Ipsa said...
I bet money Greg would've shared Communion with us.
I bet he would have said it in Latin.
He is a good man, and missed.
Lulabelle said...
You made me cry before the first cup of coffee.
This is a beautiful tribute.
AlteredFate said...
Sorry to say Nate but while I've read Vox's blog for a little over ten years this is the first time I've visited yours, and while I'm mostly content to be in the shadows and watch the proceedings without commenting, I occasionally do, and on a few of those occasions I was fortunate to have my comments be noticed and addressed by Outlaw. Indeed he was of the Dread Ilk OG, and among the best and most prolific commenters. Rest in peace brother. We'll see you on the other side.
Sean said...
Excellent tribute, Nate.
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
My Top Ten Movie Lines
10.Come come on the kick drum, Gary, come come". - The Break Up
9. "Your Aura is Purple!" - Almost Famous
8. "But sometimes, it goes the other way too..." - True Romance
7. "I wasn't going to tell him about the bats... He'd find out for himself soon enough." - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
6. "Don't rat on your friends, and aways keep your mouth shut" - Goodfellas
5. "Who put this thing together? Me! Not you! ME!" (with a cuban accent) - Scarface
4."Allow myself to introduce... myself" - Austin Powers
3. '"Is that a school for Ants?" - Zoolander
2. "And it's green too" - Dazed and Confused
and my number one favorite movie line of all time, which makes no sense out of context is... drumroll please
1. "Baby Wanted Twelve" - The Break Up
Happy Saturday!
I don't have much to say, but I know the blog is desperate for an update. I didn't do too much yesterday except go to Houston's for lunch in Aventura with Samstyl and Loehmans. Typical J.A.P's that lunch friday afternoon fare. Then I watched The Break Up ..
For about the five millionth time.."Baby Wanted 12" and "Come come on the kick drum, Gary" are my two favorite lines from that movie and definitely rank on my top ten movie lines of all time... Wait, that gives me an idea for a blog, or two. YAY. BBS if I can actually think of ten.
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sweets for every tooth.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Birthdays at the office equal free lunch for everyone! Today our lunch came from Sugarfish in the form of giant platters of sushi. It only took 15 of us about 20 minutes to devour the 8 platters that came our way. Hello food coma.
I'm happy to say this meal fully fits into my attempt at October Unprocessed (the dessert, however, definitely did not). Edamame aka steamed soy beans? Check. Seaweed? Check. Rice? Whole grain check. Raw fish? Check. Cucumber? Check.
I had to avoid a couple of the offerings, namely the spicy tuna roll (tends to include mayonnaise, which, while it can be made of unprocessed ingredients, most likely in it's commercial form is not), and the soy sauce (you'd be hard pressed to find a preservative-free soy sauce). If you're sushi-ing at a restaurant, it's pretty easy to modify orders to make sure sauces and mayo don't hurt your chances of eating all-natural, unprocessed foods, so just sit at the bar, ask the chef what he's using, and enjoy the show!
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• The solution to Newton's GEXACT VALUE & FORMULA
• Proof of the non-exitence of Dark MatterDOES NOT EXIST
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Q&A forum: Vessel Motions
(displacements, velocities and accelerations)
Trying to use Vessacc and RAO we found that applying the DVN rules was giving lower results than the harmonic for small waves.
We bought another version through one of my young engineers (Vasilis Papadopoulos) and then we found that there was a problem in the previous editions of Vessacc and RAO which I got.
We check also the waves but we found no problem between the 2 editions.
I am sending you, for your consideration, the slides with the comparison, together with the excel file of the data. The results are for a specific angle μ (angle of wave direction in respect to vessel direction), and a specific angle θ (angle through the wave). For different angles you get bigger or smaller x,y,z components for acceleration.
Your customer has indeed recognised an error in the earlier version (1.0) of Vessac
It is a coding error that was corrected in the later version (1.2)
... this was the only correction made to the calculator
The latest version is correct and the earlier version is not correct.
The issue raised by your customer only applied to the Classical Harmonic calculation option of version 1.0, it did not apply to the DnV Rules for Ships calculation option.
Any customer running version 1.0 of this calculator may contact CalQlata direct for a free copy of version 1.2 in which the above error has been corrected.
Having read the technical help, I would like to ask you the following:
Input zᴿᴬ is defined as heave RA in m. In the technical help doc you say that you must enter the amplified response itself, and the amplified response operator (RAO).
Output zᴳ is defined as heave in m @ CoG
I would expect output zᴳ to have the same value with input zᴿᴬ, which is not the case when I run the analysis.
Is it possible to give me some insight?
zᴿᴬ is the RA (in metres) at the vessel's centre of gravity
zᴳ is the actual movement of the vessel at the CofG taking acceleration and velocity and phase angles into account
The maximum heave at the vessel's centre of gravity will not necessarily occur at the peak of the wave and accelerations and velocities will cause the vessel to move independently of the water in which it sits.
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Chicago Antiques Guide
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Sorry - Charlie the Tuna Watch
Posted Tuesday, February 28 by Brian
Also, I have a Charlie the Tuna watch, just wondering if it has any value ....
thank you!
Charlie Tuna watch.jpg
Well, Charlie the Tuna, the Rodney Dangerfield of Tunas, who never got any respect from Starkist, apparently doesn't rate very highly with collector's either. This advertising watch has Starkist's memorable "Sorry, Charlie" sign on a hook, that let Charlie know he wasn't good enough for Starkist. This watch is from the early 1970's, although there are later versions as well. On Ebay, even the ones in the best condition are only bringing $25-$30. Average used condtion, but still working, more like $15. Sorry Charlie.
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Dacre Stoker is the great-grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, author of the classic novel, "Dracula." Dacre has devoted himself to the academic research and preservation of his famous great-grand-uncle's literary legacy. He joins the podcast to discuss how Bram Stoker's real life experiences growing up may have...
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Basil Rathbone
Fecha de Nacimiento: 01/01/1970
Edad: 126 Signo: Geminis
Ocupación: Actor
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, MC was a South African-born English actor. He rose to prominence in the UK as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films. He frequently portrayed suave villains or morally ambiguous characters, such as Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield and Sir Guy of Gisbourne in The Adventures of Robin Hood. His most famous role, however, was heroic — that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. He received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play.
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Dallas Wasp Control http://dallaswaspcontrol.com Just another WordPress site Thu, 26 Dec 2013 19:10:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.28 ELIMINATE PAPER WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/eliminate-paper-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/eliminate-paper-wasps/#comments Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:42:28 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=19 eliminate-paper-wasp
Usually, paper wasps are passive-aggressive (unlike yellow jackets and hornets) and eliminating their nest is required, if it’s close to your property and it imposes a risk.
Don’t position yourself beneath a paper wasp nest because it’ll escalate probability of being stung.
Pause one day to assure the colony is eliminated before dislodging (grind and pull down) the nest
A paper wasp nest should be extracted to avoid bothersome ants, (carpet) beetles and various insects, mainly to avert foreign wasps from establishing a fresh nest at the site.
Nearly all wasps and hornet insecticide sprays have pyrethroid that eliminates them instantly.
Insecticide sprays have a lingering aftermath against wasps to provide utmost nest extermination
If nests are settled in holes then counteract it by wafting insecticide dust inside the hole.
Instructions for wasp management
• Locate the nest
• Determine the breed of wasp before removing the wasps
• Predawn or twilight are ideal for wasp removal because the colony will be quiescent
• Don’t illuminate light straight at a nest. Wasps can’t decipher red so use red cellophane in a flashlight to avert wasps from being drawn to light
• Wear befitting attire like gloves, long sleeved shirt, pants, shoes and socks to shield skin from a wasp sting. Swathing the cuffs and neck of a shirt, and ankles of pants is recommendable for extra security
• June is ideal for wasp management because a colony is smaller
• Pragmatically adhere to instructions of the pesticide product before applying it
• Don’t permit transit (people and pets) near the treated sites until it desiccates
• Don’t strike a wasp when it’s atop your skin to avert a wasp sting
• Don’t enclose a nest until the wasp colony is exterminated
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DO AWAY WITH WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/do-away-with-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/do-away-with-wasps/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:05:45 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=81 Removing wasps is pressing when a colony has aggrandized and they become imposing. Understanding what breed of wasps is important before removal.
Social wasps frequent and nest close to human transit and near property. Their intrusive disposition is perilous specially when children are nearby.
Hornets, paper wasps, and yellow jackets all construct hives besides nesting.
Yellow jackets incline to nest underground consequently an intricate search is needed. Yellow jackets are reclusive, and belligerent about interlopers near their nest.
Hornets ordinarily choose to nest on trees, under eaves of framework, whereas paper wasps are unparticular about nesting sites. Paper wasps will inhabit abandoned structure, eaves, and projections. Eliminating hornets and yellow jackets is critical when they swarm.
Wasps are bearable yet particular circumstances require extermination with insecticide or pesticide for wasps.
Exterminating wasps is favorable in early Spring before a wasp queen begins spawning a colony. In latter Summer, wasps concentrate on reconnoitering pollen subsequently their nest considerably downsizes.
Basic wasp elimination
A wasp insecticide spray is the most conventional approach to eliminating wasps. Always spray from at least 10 feet afar to avoid a bee sting and wasps assailing. Assure the elements are eco-friendly and harmless to children and pets.
Secondly, try controlled and pesticide-free wasp traps (plastic or glass). Bait for these traps are basic either sugar water or soda. Assure a glass trap is afar to further distance wasps.
Prevention is the most elementary method for counteracting wasps from property. A waspinator is an eco-friendly wasp repellant. It’s a nest simulator appearing real to hornets and wasps when suspended. Wasps are territorial typically they don’t nest nearby other nests. When dangled in a calculated are wasps will disregard it.
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EXTERMINATE BLACK WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/exterminate-black-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/exterminate-black-wasps/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:24:32 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=76 Exterminate-black-wasps
Black wasps offset bothersome insects like beetles, cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers. Black wasps mature up to two inches and have ultramarine or perse colored wings. A wasp sting is fiercely painful and causes swelling.
Clothe as much as your skin possible with jeans, a large-brimmed hat (veil, if possible), long sleeved-shirt, slacks or sweat pants, and thick socks. Wear at least 2 layers of clothing and tape ankles and cuffs for added protection.
Use a hornet or wasp insecticide to exterminate one or more wasps. But inject it from at least 20 feet afar.
Remove a black wasp nest to prevent a colony from tunneling. Night-time is better for insecticide treatment because the colony will be in-nest and dormant. Also practicable is administering 1/4 cup of insecticide dust to the entryway at predawn before wasps start their day. Immediately flee after applying chemical treatment.
Exterminate black wasps inside property. A non-insecticide aerosol instantly debilitates wasps, and it won’t contaminate inside your property. There are non-toxic mint aerosols at garden and home stores that are practicable, also recommendable is a disinfectant spray to immerse wasps.
To manually eliminate wasps use a weighty object, because only using an insect swatter is futile.
Gather dead wasps with a glove or sweep them onto a swatter with a shoe for outdoor disposal. Wasps are difficult to eliminate so thoroughly break them down.
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DEALING WITH SOCIAL WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/dealing-with-social-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/dealing-with-social-wasps/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:19:41 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=71 The common physique of social wasps is a curbed, lean adapter between the thorax and the stomach, that is stalk framed with a lengthy stinger. The stomach and thorax is featured with yellow, brown or red on a black core. Hornets are regularly mistaken for yellow jackets.
Yellow jackets are glaringly yellow with a black figure. Bald face hornets are black and white. Paper wasps have the common colors of wasps: yellow, brown or red markings on black.
Paper wasps regularly nest below eaves of property or beneath porch roofs.
Exterminating hornets and various wasps is better done at night-time without rattling the nest. A store-bought, hornet or wasp insecticide befits a small nest.
• Be sparing when applying insecticide on bushes or trees. The day after treating wasps on a house immediately cleanse the site of insecticide oil elements
• Handling hornets or wasps requires shielding gear like a bee hat, coveralls, goggles, gloves, and a long-sleeved shirt (wear at least 2 layers)
• Reconnoiter all sheltered areas of wasp activity to find a nest. Only discarding a nest doesn’t vitiate the problem, because remaining wasps will rebuild a new one
• A suggested procedure is exterminating a wasp nest at night-time, when more worker wasps and the queen are in-house. Employing insecticide into a hornet nest is better at night, because the colony will be dormant and in-nest. This approach leverages the potency of the pesticide application by destroying the majority of a wasp colony. Use a flashlight swathed with red cellophane (or a red bulb), and never beam light directly at a nest
• Treating a wasp nest during the day is better, after it has been sprayed and most of the colony has been eradicated. Next, remove the nest and spray the nest area (particularly its connector). Remaining worker wasps returning to the nest will contaminate themselves and gradually perish. Lastly, remove the nest specially one inside interior structure (attic, void, wall). To avoid another wasp breakout and inhibit other insects or vermin
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SPOTTING PAPER WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/spotting-paper-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/spotting-paper-wasps/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:56:48 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=65 Spotting-paper-wasps
Typically, paper wasps mature up to an inch and are the most slenderized wasp. They are variegated, generally paper wasps have black bodies and are yellow banded or mottled, and resemble yellow jackets. Further variegations of wasps are black, brown, and red.
A nest is what quickly individuates a paper wasp, because it’s assembled with a commixture of gnawed wood plus saliva that appears like paper. Regularly, paper wasps arrange nests in undisclosed sites, edges, compose nests beneath eaves, a slope, or mantle. Paper wasps will inhabit voids in the sides of property also metal conduits, outdoor grills and identical accessories. An out-of-season wasp nest will not be recycled but wasps will form a new one next to it. Paper wasps are more defensive about their nest yet they won’t assail unless it is accosted within inches.
Do’s and Don’ts about wasp control. Don’t impetuously counteract a wasp nest so the best advice is to leave it be. There’s a symbiotic relationship with wasps because they downsize insects (blow and house flies) that destroy harvest and trees. The following circumstances are better offset by not doing nothing:
• When a paper wasp nest is discovered in Autumn, leave it be. Wasp colonies are seasonal eventually it will perish in extremities of Fall and Winter. A freshly spawned queen wasp migrates a nest in late June to endure the Winter
• Bypass a nest that’s situated next to high transit sites. Wasps won’t attack unless challenged
• Someone with allergies shouldn’t attempt do-it-yourself wasp removal
Suggestions for curbing wasps. Locate the nest. Determine the breed of wasp. Wasp extermination or removal is best rendered at night. Avoid beaming light straight at a nest. Swathing red cellophane (or use a red bulb) over a flashlight helps to not exacerbate wasps, because they can’t discern the color. Improvised beekeeping gear: boots, gloves, long sleeve shirt, pants, and shoes. Tape ankles and cuffs. Wasp control is best done in June (colony is smaller). Adhere to maker instructions when using insecticide or pesticide. Don’t transit insecticide or pesticide treated sites until chemicals have evaporated. Don’t strike a wasp atop skin it’ll provoke a sting. Don’t enclose a nest unless the entire wasp colony is deceased.
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WASPS FROM TEXAS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/wasps-from-texas/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/wasps-from-texas/#comments Thu, 05 Dec 2013 15:50:29 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=61 Wasps-from-texas
The 4 wasps of Texas are cicada killers, Mexican wasps, paper wasps, and yellow jackets. Inspect these breeds by color, site, and nest.
Contemplate the site of the wasps. Usually, paper wasps are below eaves, tiny plants and other covered areas. Mexican wasps are encountered in bushes or narrow hedges. Regularly, yellow jackets nest underground though they also organize aerial nests. Cicada killers inhabit flower beds, gardens, and lawns.
Determine the enormity of a wasp. Paper wasps are nearly an inch long. Yellow jackets are 1/2 inch and cicada killers are bigger about 1.5 inches. Mexican wasps are tiny up to 1/2 an inch.
Probe the color of wasp. Paper wasps are black winged that bend when they rest, and are also spotted with yellow or rufous colors. Yellow jackets have yellow and black exteriors. Cicada killers are russet with yellow plus black characteristics on their stomach. Mexican wasps are mostly black with a yellow stub on their stomach.
Monitor the flight pattern of wasps. Yellow jackets are characterized by their aggressiveness so they incessantly sting. Generally, cicada killers are secluded and don’t usually congregate. Males reverberate but don’t attack whereas females do. Typically, paper wasps beleaguer a victim if their nest is accosted. Mexican honey wasps prosper in swarms, they hurriedly fly, and will impulsive assail.
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CLEAR OUT A WASP NEST http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/clear-out-a-wasp-nest/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/clear-out-a-wasp-nest/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 15:44:29 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=54 clear-out-wasp-nest
Summer time is when wasps begin to colonize. A wasp colony arises in Spring and burgeons in Summer then perishes either Autumn or Winter. Anticipate a breed of wasps when verdant areas emanate. Monitor your garden for migrating wasps starting in April.
Inspect holes in a roof and walls for a queen wasp that usually initiates a colony’s dwelling. The remainder of sterile females of a wasp colony assembles the nest. Which is why a queen should be withdrawn from a colony if possible.
Curtail likely supplies of food because wasps inhabit closer to food provisions. Wasps leave detritus of proteins similar to biodegradable debris despite they consume more carbohydrates in latter Summer. Nevertheless, clean-up to prevent not just wasps but other insects also vermin to your property.
Prepare an improvised wasp trap, like using a plastic bottle for a basic but reliable water trap. Cut the upper part of a bottle and invert it over the leftover piece. It will function like a conveyor to lightly swathe a protein or carbohydrate bait. A wasp killing solvent can be made with dish soap and water to insert inside the bottle. Finally, there are also wasp traps available in garden and hardware stores.
A pesticide aerosol is practicable for controlling a swarm of wasps and injecting inside an underground nest. Insecticide dusts befit an underground wasp problem. For wasps inside a wall try an air duster with Sevin powder that can quickly reduce a breakout.
During Summer, wasp-proof property by enclosing breaks and crevices. Windows and various entries can be reinforced with a screen. There are parts of broad screen mesh that can be conveniently added with nails or screws. To inhibit wasps from scouring inside property structure, stash sweet food supplies (refrigeration).
Traps organized in high-traffic wasp areas are handy. Suspend an artificial wasp trap replete with water to bog the wasps. Attract them with a bright colored trap to complement the sweetened bait. For your information, wasp are drawn to floral arrangements.
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CONTROL WASPS WITH APPLE JUICE http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/control-wasps-with-apple-juice/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/control-wasps-with-apple-juice/#comments Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:13:24 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=49 control-wasps-with-apple-juice
Wasps can be destructive to a house structure.
control-wasps-with-apple-juice2Making a trap with apple juice and soda bottle is helpful wasp control. The following are tips how to produce a makeshift wasp trap:
Purchase an apple juice sweetened with sugar. Sweetened apple juice can be used as organic wasp bait. Wasps have a keen perception of smell to encounter distant aromas from plants they pollinate. Sweetened apple juice is definitely a befitting wasp control substance.
Load a bare dispensing bottle with a small quantity of juice. Avoid undetected wasps flying near you, so safely position yourself when you begin spraying. For an overhanging, big wasp hive on an eave of property, waft apple juice opposite where the trap is going to be settled. Permit leeway so wasps smell the juice then comeback to fix the trap.
Assemble a wasp trap with a 2-liter soda bottle, tape, and a serrated knife. Remove the top of the bottle over the product label. Invert the loose portion and tape (or staple) into the bottle at the label. This is an improvised funnel (with bottle’s top). Fill juice inside the bottle and swathe some of it at the opening. The wasps will inquire, particularly if you position several traps in your garden.
Suspend the trap from the ground to avoid luring ants. Dangling a wasp trap avoids spillage, also you want to diminish wasp traffic in a high-transit area. Instead, ensure the trap is tightly dangled on a tree or a similar altitudinous area.
Regularly clean a wasp trap so wasp control is more productive. Double-check the trap in 2 days and remove dead wasps, cleanse the device and refill apple juice.
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TRANSFORM A GLASS JAR INTO A WASP TRAP http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/transform-a-glass-jar-into-a-wasp-trap/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/transform-a-glass-jar-into-a-wasp-trap/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:08:31 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=44 transform-a-glass-jar-into-a-wasp-trap
Use a medium sized glass jar (or any other material) and trash the lid. Insert bait and swathe the top of the jar with aluminum foil. Bind the foil with an elastic band and perforate holes in the center of it. The size of the holes should allow easy access for the wasps. The objective is for wasps to eat bait and entrap themselves ultimately dying.
Select bait to lure wasps. Regularly, wasps seek enriched foods with protein and sugar like juices, marmalade, soda, and most meats (including pet food). A composite of both is handy.
Dangle solid bait (meat, fruit) within a bottle and attach string (or tie) to the opening. Assure the bait is deep in the bottle to ensnare the wasps.
Try liquid bait solutions like:
• alcohol and orange juice, crushed grapes, soda, sugar and lemon extract, sugar water, syrup and water, or wine
Another alternative is combining one teaspoon of sugar with the same proportion of liquid detergent and water. The liquid detergent is a quick lethal substance. Yellow colored bottles allures wasps.
Suspend many traps for a large wasp problem in various sites with high traffic. Yet situate them at least 20 feet apart from areas with frequent human activity.
Wasps spawn and create nests between March-April. So they’ll be exploring for enriched protein nutriment. Typical meat baits for wasps are meat or tuna. Eliminating the queen usually compels a bee colony to migrate or hive-split.
When cleaning a trap ensure wasp are deceased so they don’t return to the nest. When wasps are exacerbated they virulently beleaguer their victim. Don’t smash wasps because they discharge a pheromone indicating danger nearby to the colony.
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HOW TO CONTAIN WASPS http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/how-to-contain-wasps/ http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/how-to-contain-wasps/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:19:50 +0000 http://dallaswaspcontrol.com/?p=39 how-to-contain-wasps
Prior to ridding wasps from property consider leaving them for Winter to eliminate a wasp hive. If a wasp nest is in your property and far from human activity leaving it alone is best. They do sting but only if accosted. There is a symbiosis between humans and wasps.
Definitely remove wasps near an entrance of property (deck, porch). Also inspect eaves, shutters and human transit areas between March-April when a queen wasp nests. If there’s a nest before worker wasps have matured, then dislodge it with a shovel or broom to inhibit the queen from nesting.
A bigger nest (matures in latter Spring) is more active so be careful when contacting it. Don’t dislodge an established wasp nest at daytime, when the wasps are operative and constantly entering and exiting a nest. Evening time is better because they’re more dormant. Cooler temperatures enervates a wasp’s ability to readily fly, particularly temperatures below 50 degrees.
Wasp pesticide is a last alternative, if the nest is small then a store-bought wasp aerosol is recommended. Buy a pesticide specialized to treat wasps and hornets. Meticulously adhere to the product instructions. Regularly, a wasp spray is sold with an aerosol dispenser, which facilitates application from a safer area.
Glaze the nest with the pesticide and swathe all cells of the wasp nest. If a nest is suspended never position yourself beneath it during application. To avert wasps falling on you and being stained with pesticide.
Examine the nest the day after application for wasp activity. Prior to withdrawing a nest ensure worker wasps are exterminated. Wasp pesticide eliminates upon contact. Any lingering wasps are worker wasps (they search food and absent from the nest during the day). After ensuring that wasp activity is eliminated then dislodge it with a shovel (or broom) then enclose it (in a sealed bag) and trash it into container with lid.
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Dave Johnson's Eisner Winning Covers
How about that? Someone other than Alex Ross and Brian Bolland won an Eisner for cover artwork in 2002. Dave Johnson was providing covers for Detective Comics and 100 Bullets then and he infused each of them with covers that remind me a lot of dime novels from the sixties.
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Chapter 65. Hold-driven recalls
Table of Contents
Enabling hold-driven recalls
Editing the item recall notification email template
Added in Evergreen 2.1
In academic libraries, it is common for groups like faculty and graduate students to have extended loan periods (for example, 120 days), while others have more common loan periods such as 3 weeks. In these environments, it is desirable to have a hold placed on an item that has been loaned out for an extended period to trigger a recall, which:
1. Truncates the loan period
2. Sets the remaining available renewals to 0
3. Optionally: Changes the fines associated with overdues for the new due date
4. Optionally: Notifies the current patron of the recall, including the new due date and fine level
Enabling hold-driven recalls
By default, holds do not trigger recalls. To enable hold-driven recalls of circulating items, library settings must be changed as follows:
1. Click AdminLocal AdministrationLibrary Settings Editor.
2. Set the Recalls: Circulation duration that triggers a recall (recall threshold) setting. The recall threshold is specified as an interval (for example, "21 days"); any items with a loan duration of less that this interval are not considered for a recall.
3. Set the Recalls: Truncated loan period (return interval) setting. The return interval is specified as an interval (for example, "7 days"). The due date on the recalled item is changed to be the greater of either the recall threshold or the return interval.
4. Optionally: Set the Recalls: An array of fine amount, fine interval, and maximum fine setting. If set, this applies the specified fine rules to the current circulation period for the recalled item.
When a hold is placed and no available copies are found by the hold targeter, the recall logic checks to see if the recall threshold and return interval settings are set; if so, then the hold targeter checks the currently checked-out copies to determine if any of the currently circulating items at the designated pickup library have a loan duration longer than the recall threshold. If so, then the eligible item with the due date nearest to the current date is recalled.
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Courtney Love’s Bad Romance
By Misery Xchord
Last Fall Courtney Love covered Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance at a few appearances, including a Givenchy party in Paris where Gerard Estadella of I Can Teach You How To Do It captured it on video.
Am I the only person in the world that thought this was awesome? Not because she sings it so beautifully. Not because she takes it so seriously. Not because she gets it spot on PERFECT. But because she rocks the grungy ass shit out of it, with her raspy voice and liberty taking with the lyrics.
Check out more videos of Courtney singing Gaga after the cut…
A lot of the criticism on the Youtube vids seems to revolve around the opinion that Courtney needs to take singing lessons and learn the correct lyrics. My opinion is these people are 1) missing the point of rocking a cover; and 2) need to get over the idea that women need to have autotune perfect angelic voices and yodel through 4 octaves before they’re allowed to sing in public.
What do you think?
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Body Mass Index (BMI)
Madan Kandara - Saturday, August 08, 2009
Until recently, we have relied on height/weight charts to determine ideal body weight. And I am afraid say, many agencies related with healthy weight determinations are still using the same height/weight ratio charts.Body Mass Index is still most commonly recognised and used way of determining healthy weight. BMI is calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by height in square metres
Example : A 2.00 m tall man with weigh of 100 kgs. BMI = Weight in Kg / Height in Meters Sq.
His BMI is then (100/2^2) = 25.0)
According to BMI categories of weights are as follow:
BMI below 18.5 is defined as 'underweight‘
BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is 'normal weight' or 'healthy weight range‘
BMI of 25.0 - 29.9 is defined as 'overweight‘
BMI of 30.0 and above is defined as 'obese'.
BMI measurements are not always perfect and does not give full picture of body composition. Body composition is the term used in reference to body fat percentage to lean body mass. The fat component is ususlly referred to as fat massor percentage body mass and non-fat components of body are referred to as lean body mass. This is what we call lean body mass index and we now know is the most important in determining factor in healthy weight of an individual.
Let us put some testing questions like-Can you be leaner yet, gain weight ?
Answer is,yes. Simply, it rest with body fat percentage of an individual or what we can call as body fat percentage and it's ratio with lean mass.This is because they have so much muscle mass.
Let us take the example of someone weighing 200 pounds with a body fat percentage of 25%. He is carrying around 50 pounds of fat. Another person, also weighing 200 pounds with only a 10% body fat would be carrying only 20 pounds of fat.
Now muscles weighs more than fats and muscles are more compact than fat. One kg of fat would make you 40% more larger than 1kg of muscle.
Obviously, person person with 10% of body fat going to be much more leaner than the one with 25% of body fat even though scale may read same for both. This is because they have so much muscle mass. This means a more muscular version of your current body would make you look leaner and also fit you into clothes which are down on size. What it also means is that, you may have got fatter even though the scale says you haven't ?
Let us take another question - Can you get fatter, even though the scale says you haven't gained weight ?
answer is again yes, As you can see from above illustration, your weight is of little help in determining how fat you are or even how good you look because in both cases the two subjects weighed the identical amount. According to measurements such as the Body Mass Index (BMI) used by traditional medicine some super athletes are considered obese even though they may have about 4% body fat. This is because they have so much muscle mass
By the same token, some people according to the BMI scale are of ideal body measurements and are at their target weight, may have body fat of 20-25 or even 30 % and are actually over fat and out of shape. (Ideal range of body fat percentage for males is 12- 18 % and females 14-22%).What it also means is that, you may have got fatter even though the scale says you haven't ?
So, one of the best ways to begin to assess your personal shape is to look at your personal body fat %. Once we have a reading on that, it is a first basis for measuring your current shape and a yardstick for any future progress you might make on any program.You may be in your best physical shape ever, but your bathroom scale may not reflect the gains you have
Few fundamental facts about the fats :-
• One kg or fat would make you 40% more larger than 1kg of muscle.
• On an average we gains about 1lb or about 1/2kg of body fat /yr. from age of 25 years onwards.
• Body fat is accumulated under the skin we call sub-cutaneous fat and in and around all ourorgans. Excess fat acculation around organs can stresses our vital organs-Heart & Lungs,
Excess fat becomes a massive generator of hormones into the body with the potential to completely imbalance our natural hormone levels
What about Waste line ?
Fat in the abdomen is more strongly associated with adverse health outcome than fat deposited elsewhere in the body. As mentioned above, BMI alone is not necessarily a good predictor of your total body fat level, or of your level of abdominal fat. Therefore, you need to take into account waist circumference as well as BMI to determine how 'healthy' you are with respect to total body fat and body fat distribution.
To measure waist circumference, pass a tape measure horizontally around your waist at the level of the navel, breathe out, and measure the circumference before you breathe in again. A waist circumference greater than about 102 cm (men) or 88 cm (women) indicates excessive abdominal fat.
There may also be differences between people of different origins with respect to appropriate BMI and waistline circumferences. For example, for the same BMI and waist circumference, Australian Aborigines, people of Asian origin and South Pacific islanders appear to be at higher risk of developing metabolic syndrome than people of European origin.
Excess body fat around the waist is one of the best indicator of your current fitness and health levels? Risk of develpment of Metabolic Syndrome is greater with people who have waste circumferences greater than about 102 cm (men) or 88 cm (women).
Risk of Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) is best measured using a persons waist circumference rather than a BMI (Body Mass Index) or other outdated means.
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NASA reaches landmark 60th anniversary - VIDEO | Eurasia Diary
NASA reaches landmark 60th anniversary - VIDEO | Eurasia Diary - ednews.net
15 December, Saturday
NASA reaches landmark 60th anniversary - VIDEO
Science & Tech A- A A+
NASA, America's Space Agency, started operating exactly 60 years ago today - 1st October, 1958.
And little over a decade after its founding, it put men on the moon for the first time.
Dan Parry, author of the book "Moonshot" which chronicles the Apollo moon missions said:
"The highlights over the last sixty years for NASA start with the monumental space programmes they developed in a relatively small amount of time, beginning with the Mercury missions, the Gemini missions, but of course the Apollo missions in successfully sending people to the moon in 1969.
There are also the shuttle missions and the space station missions which came afterwards are also monumnetal. But for NASA, America and for all of us, there's nothing more impressive than sending people to the moon.
When President Kennedy announced in 1961 what NASA and America intended to do, I don't think everyone quite believed him. Even the astronauts themselves were sceptical.
Many of the technical requirements weren't there, the plan even to get to the moon wasn't in place.
"The amount of time was short; Kennedy insisted they would reach the moon before the decade was out.
For me, the most amazing achievement of NASA in those sixty years is that they made it; they got to the moon in that deadline."
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Linearity in Circuits
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Consider the relationship between voltage and current for a resistor (Ohm’s Law). Suppose that c current I1 (the excitation or input) is applied to a resistor, R. then the resulting voltage V1 (the response or output) is
Similarly, if I2 is applied to R, then V2=I2R results. But if I=I1+I2 is applied, then the response
In other words, the response to a sum of inputs is equal to the sum of the individual responses (Condition 1).
In addition, if V is the response to I (that is V=IR), then the response to KI is
In other words, if the excitation is scaled by the constant K, then the response is also scaled by K, (Condition 2).
Because conditions 1 and 2 are satisfied, we say that the relationship between current (input) and voltage (output) is linear for a resistor. Similarly, by using the alternate form of Ohm’s law I=V/R, we can show that the relationship between voltage (excitation) and current (response) is also linear for a resistor.
Although the relationships between voltage and current for a resistor are linear, the power relationships P=I2R and P=V2/R are not.
For instance, if the current through a resistor is I1, then the power absorbed by the resistor R is
Whereas if the current is I2, then the power absorbed is
However, the power absorbed due to the current I1+I2 is
${{P}_{3}}={{({{I}_{1}}+{{I}_{2}})}^{2}}R=I_{1}^{2}R+I_{1}^{2}R+2{{I}_{1}}{{I}_{2}}R\ne {{P}_{1}}+{{P}_{2}}$
Hence the relationship P=I2R is non-linear.
Since the relationships between voltage and current are linear for resistors, we say that a resistor is a linear element.
A dependent source (either current or voltage) whose value is directly proportional to some voltage and current is also a linear element. Because of this, we say that a circuit consisting of independent sources, resistors, and linear dependent sources is a linear circuit.
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Home / Induction Motor / Starting Methods of Three Phase Induction Motor
Starting Methods of Three Phase Induction Motor
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Three-phase Induction motors draw six or more times rated current when started at rated voltage. Such high currents may pose serious problems for the motor and the electrical system when large motors are started. One way to reduce the starting current is to start the motor at reduced voltage. After looking at some of the considerations for full-voltage starting, we will consider several different methods of reduced-voltage starting.
Full-voltage starting of Induction Motor
Full-voltage starting means the line voltage is applied directly to the terminals of the three-phase induction motor. The advantage of full-voltage starting is that the full locked-rotor torque is obtained, which may be required for hard-to-start loads. The disadvantage, of course, is the high starting current.
Induction motor characteristic curves.
FIGURE 1 Induction motor characteristic curves.
As shown in Figure 1, the current stays near its locked-rotor value until the motor accelerates beyond break-down torque. Because locked-rotor current is approximately six times rated current and heating is proportionate to I2, we can conclude that copper losses will be about 36 times normal during the motor-starting period. The induction motor cannot withstand such a high rate of heating for very long. In particular, slow acceleration of the motor due to heavy loads, or repeated starts, may overheat the induction motor. To preclude thermal damage to the induction motor, manufacturers recommend that locked-rotor current is allowed to last only for a brief time (10-15 s). One manufacturer’s recommendations are:
10 s for frame sizes 143T through 286T
12 s for frame sizes 324T through 326T
15 s for frame sizes 364T through 445T
Continuous-rated motors are typically rated for:
1. Two successive starts with a full stop in between, when the motor is initially at ambient temperature, or
2. One start when the motor temperature is between ambient and rated operating temperature
Reduced-voltage starting of Induction Motor
In some cases, especially for larger three-phase induction motors, it is necessary to start the motor at less than rated voltage to limit the current to (and the heating of) the motor. As we see in equation 1, reducing the voltage reduces the shaft torque by the square of the voltage reduction. Thus, starting the motor at reduced voltage means the motor produces less torque and a long time will be required to accelerate the motor to its normal operating speed.
\[\begin{matrix} {{T}_{d}}=3\frac{{{R}_{r}}}{s{{\omega }_{r}}}\times \frac{{{\left| {{V}_{1a}} \right|}^{2}}}{\sqrt{{{\left( {{R}_{e1}}+\frac{{{R}_{r}}}{s} \right)}^{2}}+{{\left( {{X}_{e1}}+{{X}_{r}} \right)}^{2}}}} & {} & \left( 1 \right) \\\end{matrix}\]
However, because the current is reduced, the heating will also be reduced and a longer acceleration time is permissible. Several methods are available for reduced-voltage starting of induction motors:
1. Y start, ∆ run (frequently called wye-delta starter)
2. Auto-transformer start
3. In-line resistor or inductor
4. Electronic “soft starter”
Y-∆ (Delta) Starter
Figure 2 shows the principle of the Y-Delta Starter. The phase coils are designed to be connected in Delta for running, but they are connected in Y to start the motor. Each coil receives times the line voltage during starting, which means the current and torque 1/3 of what they would be during a full voltage start. When the motor nears rated speed, the coils are momentarily opened and reconnected in Delta to receive full line voltage. This type of starting requires a motor designed for Y-Delta starting (6 or 12 leads) as well as control equipment to switch the connections. When Y—Delta starting is used, a maximum of 36 seconds is allowed for the acceleration time if the motor is brought to full speed on Y. If a full voltage is applied during acceleration, the maximum allowable starting time is 15 seconds.
Y-Delta starting of an induction motor
FIGURE 2 Y-D starting of an induction motor.
Figure 3 shows the current, torque, and horsepower for the motor that is started with a Y-Delta starter. When the motor was started on full voltage, the starting current was approximately 47 A. In Figure 3, we see the current has been reduced, as expected, by a factor of 3, down to about 16 A. For purposes of the illustration, this motor was switched to the Delta configuration when the break-down torque was reached.
Results of Y-Delta motor start
FIGURE 3 Results of Y-Delta motor start.
Autotransformer Starting
Another technique for starting large induction motors is to reduce the voltage with an autotransformer. A three-phase autotransformer is used to reduce the voltage applied to the motor during the starting period. The taps on the autotransformer can be adjusted offering the choice of several different levels of voltage reduction. This technique has the advantage of working with an induction motor. Like the Y-Delta starter, this method requires controls to do the switching. The disadvantage of the autotransformer starter is that the current level is reduced exactly the same as the voltage, while the torque reduction is still the square of the voltage reduction. In addition, there will some exciting current required for the autotransformer. The allowable starting time for an autotransformer start depends on the voltage reduction. If the motor is brought to full speed on reduced voltage, some manufacturer recommendations are:
80% voltage during starting →19 seconds allowed for acceleration
65% voltage during starting →28 seconds allowed for acceleration
50% voltage during starting → 48 seconds allowed for acceleration
ln-Line resistor or inductor starter
This method places an impedance (resistor or inductor) in series with each phase of the motor. By voltage splitting, the voltage is reduced to the motor. By using different impedances, different voltage reductions can be obtained. Like the autotransformer, this method works on a standard motor and requires controls to switch the impedances in and out. The current reduction is the same as the voltage reduction in this method, and extra energy is dissipated if a resistor starter is used.
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Never Hillary
This is a message to those thinking about voting for Hillary.
Under a President Hillary Clinton, two specific inevitabilities will hit everyone hard:
1) Young men will be drafted for a war. Do you know any young men or boys? How will you explain your vote for Hillary to them?
2) Any Hillary appointee who fills the Supreme Court seat left empty by the very suspicious death of Scalia will be the fifth vote to disarm the people, and will thus flip the former 5-4 majority against civil war to a 5-4 majority for civil war. Anywhere from 10,000 to 10,000,000 will die. Then how will you explain your vote for Hillary?
It may not be personal to most Americans, but hundreds of thousands of innocent people will die in other countries – as happened under Bush and as happened under Obama.
These are not certainties under other candidates.
Some general Hillary induced malaise will be:
• You will be lied to – a lot.
• The economy will continue to languish – just like under Obama and Bush – ever since the crash at the end of the Bill Clinton administration.
• You will have to hear about scandal after scandal where the Clintons turn out to be above the law.
• You will almost certainly witness an expansion of the policies of Obama, which were themselves an expansion of the policies of Bush.
• Did I mention you will be lied to … a lot?
How will you live with yourself if you voted for Hillary?
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Re: sex, yet again ~%6 (was Re: ; - )Neanderthal Miracles)
Eugene Leitl (
Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:55:00 +0100 (MET)
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996 wrote:
> (condensed)
> [Eugene: upload sex is obsolete.]
> >
> >I don't think the uploads will be able to afford conventional (simulated
> flesh) sex much longer. If we assume resources to be limited (unless
> computation can be detached from the material carrier and we start
> engineering our designer universes)>
> First of all, who here, assumes that sex, or
> uploaded simulation of, requires a flesh simulation?
Somehow, this silent assumption of physical love-making has crept into my
reasoning, as default... It seems I have underestimated the fraction of the
upload illuminati in here, obviously apologies are due.
> We can understand that "mind" itself can experience
> orgasm, in a 'wet dream' why must the uploads be
Ok, so you're already considering reward centre stimulation,
something resembling these ancient rat autoelectrostimulation
experiments. No flabby flesh physics to simulate, agreed.
But even this version is still obsolete, methinks.
(Btw dreams involve all the body representation systems, just inhibiting
the actual motorics. I think uploads have to forsake such things
relatively soon).
> in flesh form to trade the impulses, electro
> chemical or neuro connected (glandular) versions
> of the pleasant, visual "fireworks " of orgasm or
> pleasureable contact? In this case I wonder if you
No detailed sensoric body maps, just a fuzzy reward glow, eh?
> are missing the point entirely of being "uploaded".
Indeed ;)
> The idea of uploading assumes computational
> abilities which can carry an intelligence, a human
> personality which we can *recognize as us* into an
At least in the beginning. From then on, this version has to
rapidly evolve in a sequence of pseudocontinuum microsteps (and occasional
backtracks, issued by clone history consensus) into something Different.
Orelse join the populous extinction party, before long. Thanks, not me.
Trying to survive is one of those old-fashioned traits I'd like to keep.
Call me squeamish.
> environment. If we do want to retain some human
Will the brave new rules tolerate obsolescent strategies, on the
really long run, I wonder? What one wants, and what one finally gets are
usually not identical. Should digital reality be different?
> elements, it may be neccessary to emulate some
> hormonal action- remember this thread started with
> Rich, who seems to think men are pretty much
> hormone driven creatures; - )
I think actual implementation will rapidly drift away from raw physics,
into something more abstract, something with a yet better map to the
underlying hardware. (Always assuming canonical Dyson computer cluster.
Things beyond we cannot quite parse (yet)).
> How much bandwidth to simulate the impulses of the hypothalamus? In our
> current "WETWARE", it takes up
> only about one three hundredth of the brain.
Uh, so you want to make sex something casual, something which does not
tie up your resources for the AR equivalent of a few 10 ms? Then yes,
this is my idea of upload sex. But then this pesky partner selection...
> >>>_and_ we admit Darwinian evolution in
> (it will be impossible to keep him out, I'm afraid -- notice that this
> automagically introduces some form of death, or do we speak Lamarckian
> evolution here, where mutation leaves the organism altered, but alive-o?),
> I'm afraid Lamarckian evolution finally may
> have it's day in any conscious software that can
> reprogram itself at will.
It won't be Lamarck alone, most likely it will be an amalgam of Darwin
and Lamarck. (Pure Darwin only for the bacteria equivalents, which are
too dumb for autoengineering).
> >we'll wind up having scarce resources, more sooner than later. Some of them
> being time (attention devoted, etc), computation, whatever.
> Not enough bandwidth for VR? I notice there is no talk
AR, not VR. VR is something you can buy even now. Requiring an artifical
reality closely modeled after the pre-upload physical world is a weakness,
> here of what TYPE of upload, dry, semi-soft, wet...
I think only one optimal solution for a given conformation of atoms and
energy flux exists (assuming non-transcendence scenario here, which does
not look too likely assuming the Silence in the Skies). This solution
will precipitate pretty soon, even leaving no corpses of the other TYPEs in
its trail ("Assimilation, the new industry standard" -- Borg Gates).
> In neural activity, things move rather quickly, and
> upload time will be at least as fast, a healthy sexual encounter may be
> considered leasurely and lengthy
> if it takes a second....
(wonder, how long an unhealthy one might take... nah ;)
Yes, but relatively to the rest of the AR, one second lasts centuries.
Sign off now, and login to something utterly incomprehensible just a few
fleeting aeons later.
> >>>Burning computational resources for body dynamics, fakespace renderers,
> etc. might become too costly, once entire system matter has been
> converted into a Dyson shell computer
> (very soon, <<1 kYr), and this
> mind substrate dish populated sufficiently densely (much faster, <<1 Yr).
> You know this to be the only future? How so?
No. This is what I can talk about. Future will be different. Sufficiently
different, to be incomprehensible. But I can't talk about things
incomprehensible. So I either have to shut my trap, or talk about kiddy
stuff. I prefer kiddy stuff.
> Even Moravec doesn't put too much faith in this..
> I think he called Dyson's ideas "new and half baked..."
> these are lovely ideas, but hardly concrete.
> but even if it is so certain in your mind...
Nothing is certain. Moravec's no prophet, btw. He might see farther than
most, but he doesn't see it all. (He'd be god, if he did).
> ... why this attachment to replication and body? dont you enjoy a good
> mindfuck?
Ack, the dreaded word. The one I have so meticulously tried to avoid...
Too late. %&
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Index Website Links
Index Website Links
With the client's consent, Casey set up a tracking script, which would track the actions of Googlebot on the website. It also tracked when the bot accessed the sitemap, when the sitemap was submitted, and each page that was crawled. This information was kept in a database together with a timestamp, IP address, and the user representative.
Eventually I figured out what was happening. One of the Google Maps API conditions is the maps you produce need to remain in the public domain (i.e. not behind a login screen). So as an extension of this, it appears that pages (or domains) that use the Google Maps API are crawled and made public. Extremely neat!
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From fancy pants to the orbit of Venus, FadaDance will snap, fall and twirl like a three legged dog playing the accordion. Fascinated by the contrast of mechanical functionality versus the slurp of the organic realm, Bit Snips is an exploration of this duality in which our civilization is increasingly struggling to balance.
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Installing Zend Server on Mac OS X
This section describes the process for installing Zend Server on Mac OS X from a .dmg disk image. The disk image contains a .pkg installer for Zend Server (including MySQL).
• 64-bit Mac OS X 10.9
• An account with administrator privileges
• A minimum of 500 megabytes of available disk space is required to unpack and install Zend Server.
After installing Zend Server 8.5, you will automatically be using a 30-day Enterprise edition trial license. To continue working with Zend Server after this time period, contact Zend for a new license. For more information on Zend Serve editions, see Zend Server Editions.
Instructions on how to complete a procedure
To install Zend Server:
1. Download Zend Server for Mac OS X from
2. After downloading the package, locate the downloaded file, and double-click it to reveal the package file 'ZendServer.pkg'. Double-click the package file to start the installation process.
3. Follow the instructions presented by the Installer. Pay attention to the Important Information presented during installation process.
4. If necessary, click ”Change Install Location” to define a different location for installing Zend Server .
5. Zend Server is installed to /usr/local/zend.
Additionally, will be placed under /Applications through which you can access the UI.
To launch Zend Server, and access the UI, open your browser at: https://<Server_IP>:10082/ZendServer (secure), or http://<Server_IP>:10081/ZendServer.
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[MotuClient] Command line syntax issue with missing 'motu' mandatory parameter [RESOLVED]
• I am trying to download large amount of CMEMS Data . But when i am running the python scripts. I got in the foolowing lines.
absolute_path_substring = ["/home/", "C:\\"]
• Hi @sandy
Thanks for your post. I guess the problem comes from the python line codes which are not referring to the `os.path` module.
Anyhow, a colleague told me that you are going to be contacted on your email address because they'd like to your feedback about other exchanges you had with the Service Support in the be beginning of October.
Please, check your inbox :)
(I'll update this thread with the final solution for other users).
• sandy's answer:
I refer to python script in the discussion How to download a large amount of CMEMS Data? How to perform a loop on dates?
when i ran the code , I got the following error:
-- ERROR Incorrect Credentials :
18:50:18 [ERROR] Execution failed: [Excp 1] Option 'motu' is mandatory. Please provide it.
[INFO] Failed data extraction has been logged.
Can you please help to figure out
• Hi @sandy! I just input the conclusion of our private exchanges. The error is quite self explanatory. The 'motu' parameter was not correctly provided. By inputting the right parameter given by the Graphical User Interface, you were then able to submit successful data request.
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[NLUUG] Welcome to ftp.nluug.nl
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OpenBSD 6.1 - released Apr 15, 2017.
Copyright 1997-2017, Theo de Raadt and others
Contains OpenBSD 6.1 for i386, alpha, hppa, amd64, hppa,
macppc, sparc64, armv7, landisk, loongson, luna88k,
octeon, sgi.
If there are bugs found in this release, workaround information can
be found at https://OpenBSD.org/errata.html
Please refer to the following files for extensive details on how to
install OpenBSD 6.1 on your machine:
OpenBSD is free software
isn't written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release
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or educational institution. Theo works full-time on improving OpenBSD
and paying bills, many other developers expend spend significant
quantities of time as well.
For those unable to make their contributions as straightforward gifts,
not-for-profit corporation that can accept larger contributions and
business expense writeoff, so this is certainly a consideration for
some organizations or businesses. There may also be exposure benefits
since the Foundation may be interested in participating in press releases.
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infrastructure needs. Contact the foundation directors at
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Day 10: A song that makes me fall asleep
Honestly, except in the somewhat hyperbolic sense of "a song so boring it sends me to sleep" (in which case, Paul McCartney's 'Mull of Kintyre'), I can't think of any song which actively sends me to sleep. However, I do tend to listen to music in bed, so there's plenty of music to which I can fall asleep comfortably, which I suppose is close enough. Perhaps the album I listen to most often at night is William Basinski's Disintegration Loops, and today's video contains an extract from one of them.
I've just spent the best part of an hour trying to write a halfway-decent short essay about these eery, other-worldly recordings, and why they're among my favourite pieces of recorded music. Hell, I'd go further - I think they're among the most unique works of art I've ever encountered, in any medium. But I'm still feeling like crap, and the words just aren't coming together at all. It keeps coming out as either pretentious or banal, neither of which really does justice to the music, and while that's never really bothered me before, it's bothering me today. I didn't want to put this post off for another day, though, so I'm afraid this is all you're getting.
For the full story behind the creation of these loops, I'd recommend reading this review, which is actually the piece which persuaded me to listen to them in the first place. Basinski's own liner notes in the CD set are also enormously worth reading (yes, I just wormed my way out of actually having to write about something simply by linking to someone else who's done my work for me already. Sue me, I'm ill). If I'm feeling better tomorrow, I may come back and edit this to add a few more thoughts of my own ( EDIT : I didn't ) - in the meantime, sorry to anyone who turned up today expecting actual content.
But the history of how the music came to exist, while fascinating in itself, wouldn't mean much if the loops themselves weren't so powerful on their own. Repetitive without true repetition, violent without dissonance or ugliness, hypnotic without tedium - they're simply wonderful as music, entirely disconnected from their history. With that history, of course, they become something a little more profound - music which wasn't so much composed as carved into being by the passage of time itself, an audible demonstration of the power of entropy.
But on a rather less pretentious level, they're also a great soundtrack to fall asleep to. Hence my writing about them today.
1 comment:
Pål Hellesnes said...
Thank you for linking to this, Mark. Fascinating stuff!
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Using Hooks with Serial Numbers
One of the neat things about ON hooks is that multiple hooks of the same type may be given different priorities. A serial number may be any number, positive or negative; zero is the default and should not be used directly. The numbers themselves don't really matter, rather their relation to other serial numbers is what's important. For example:
on hook "*" echo foobar
on #-hook -5 "*" echo booya
on #-hook 5 "*" echo yadda yadda yadda
Then, when any HOOK command is issued, the following three lines will be displayed, in this order:
yadda yadda yadda
In general, it is always advisable to use serial numbers, if for no other reason than to prevent hooks from conflicting with each other. This is particularly true of the TIMER hook, which should always use serial numbers.
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Hobby Public Radio
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hpr1197 :: What I do with bash scripts
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Part of the series: Bash Scripting
In this episode I talk about the way I use shell scripting on a day-to-day basis. I am not employed in a technical field, so the fact that I use shell scripts at all surprises most people. I am just a music history professor with an enthusiasm for Linux and free software. Although I have dabbled a bit with Python, I don't feel nearly as comfortable with Python as I do with bash, so all of the scripts I mention in this episode are written for bash.
Here are links to blog posts about some of the scripts mentioned in the show.
Cowsay stuff:
"stick" scp script:
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Comment #1 posted on 2013-03-05T21:58:06Z by klaatu
cool stuff
Wow, that's some amazing stuff. I like the markdown2latex a lot! I'd love to hear more from you on HPR about how/if Linux plays into your "day job" and what you use as a music hist professor
Comment #2 posted on 2013-03-06T17:26:15Z by Ken Fallon
Welcome Welcome
Hi Jon,
Great episode and great topic. I could listen to shows on scripts all day !.
One thing though is that the stick script could also be done using youe ~/.ssh/config file. See
Comment #3 posted on 2013-03-07T21:56:59Z by Frank
Thank you
I want to learn more about bash, and just doing stuff because it's in a tutorial doesn't excite me. I have been looking for some ideas for scripts to write for myself to help motivate me to learn, and you gave me some good ones.
By the way, you are not the only person who grapples with selecting a topic for a podcast. Don't feel alone in that.
Comment #4 posted on 2013-03-21T16:00:59Z by Bradley
Ken beat me to it, but you can alias SSH hosts, specify keys, usernames, ports, almost any command line parameters using the ~/.ssh/config file. See man ssh_config for details.
I use it with some password-less ssh keys to allow me to move about my ssh hosts seamlessly. Not too safe I know..
I've also found it useful to add port forwarding to make an ssh proxy to my home network. All to evade my company's decency filters when necessary.. I mean to proxy from an insecure location.
Thanks for the interesting podcast.
Comment #5 posted on 2013-03-21T20:48:02Z by Urugami
Great Episode
Jon, thanks for the great script ideas. Between your scripts and ones that were linked in links and links, etc, I may be able to tweak a few of my own.
Comment #6 posted on 2013-09-27T22:07:00Z by Dangerseeker
LaTeX and UTF8
I really liked this episode, because it showed how to use the power of bash to simply make your life easier.
And I am happy to inform you that LaTeX handles UTF8 characters just fine, I use them every day. ;-)
Just import the package "inputenc" with the option "utf8" and it should work like magic:
Thank You for the entertaining podcast
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Chey Suspects ... A Spy? Log
Krummolt walks in from the Central Bowl.
See that good booze table over in the corner? This month, it is ALL CHEY'S. And Frusha's, but Chey likes to pretend Frusha doesn't exist. Accordingly, Chey has actually appropriated around half of the bottles from the good booze table, and had them arrayed in a little starburst pattern on the table in front of her. Her glass is empty, and she seems content with that. Her head is tilted sideways, laying on the table, and she peers blearily at a lot of fine liquor.
Krummolt strides into the living caverns and starts across the room. He makes it far enough to grab a small bowl and scoop out a handful of nuts. As he goes to pick up a thoroughly common mug of ale, he spots Chey and her astonishing array of alcohol. His eyes narrow for a moment, then he nods to himself and desists with his own drink, bringing only the empty cup and resolving to mooch off the rather drunken looking Weyrwoman. He comes up to the table and drops the bowl with a little thunk. "Hey, Chey. I'll share my nuts with you if you share your booze."
Shazi walks in from the Central Bowl.
"You propositioning me, Grampa?" Chey asks, tilting her head to grin up at Krummolt. It's a bit of a lopsided grin. "Don't think your nuts'd be worth much if you had much of the booze, really. But sure. Sit. How's… stuff?"
"Hah," Krummolt replies, plopping heavily into a seat at Chey's table and appropriating a bottle to pour a mugful of hard liquor for himself. He lifts the mug to sip appreciatively at the vintage of whiskey upon which he seems intent on overindulging upon and snorts. "Ain't nothin' gonna keep my nuts down for long," he asserts, probably untruthfully. "Stuff's good. I like ordering recruits around all day. You?"
Living Caverns
Scattered about in various perches and niches are twenty-two firelizards.
Chey, Krummolt, and Shazi are here.
"Weyr's going to hell," Chey answers genially enough. She pushes upright and pours herself another shot of something tequilaish. "My job sucks. Frusha sucks. Everyone sucks. But it's okay. Cause /I/ get the good booze." She downs the shot.
Scan scan scan. "Oh! Hey." Don't mind as Il'ad butts into whatever conversation it is that his sergeant and Weyrwoman might be happen. He has IMPORTANT information. "I figured out who ripped open all those bags in the stores and left a mess. I have his head on a stick outside if you want to see. Seriously. I do."
Jesha wrangles like the sexy little brownrider she is in from the Central Bowl.
Krummolt sips good whiskey like bad booze. In fact, it appears to be a bit much at one go even for him, and he has to take a moment to cough discretely into his hand. "Ah, well, things ain't so bad. You get to order bad things for the people who piss you off, right?" Only then does he look around at Il'ad and lift a hand in something between a wave and salute. This far off duty, he doesn't feel the need to rise, however. "Ah, cap'n, you beheaded someone and you didn't call me?" he asks with mock reproach. Probably mocking, anyway, since Il'ad is probably kidding.
Chey brightens at Il'ad's approach. "Really? I — wait. You killed someone without asking me?" She looks distinctly upset at this. "Captain, you need to ask me or the Weyrleader first! You can't just kill people out of hand!"
"Something, yes. Some big fluffy black thing. Weasel? Or-something? I don't know my animals. I know, I suck. But, it dun' matter cause it's DEAD NOW!" Il'ad even tries one of those evil cackles for kicks but ends up hacking into a fist instead. FAIL. "If you want some mittens though out of it, better get it fast 'fore all those bugs eat it alive—or you know, dead. Whatever. You know what I mean."
As ever, Jesha is completely oblivious to whatever may be going on around her. She trips in on her own plane, head in the clouds and humming to herself. Salutes are, of course, given (though half-assedly) before she taps one of her wingriders on the shoulder. He turns, she steals a muffin off his place. Ha ha, Jesha strikes again!
It seems that despite the warnings from Weyrsecond Shazi to stay clear of the Living Caverns and the central bowl, Hari is risking it, slipping in from the outside, cutting around the edge of the cavern as she attempts to get to the kitchen. Its snack time. Watching those immediately around her every step of the way, she's attempting to make herself seem as inconspicuous as a six-foot and a bit tall girl can do, fingers on her shoulder to hide the white knot that was, in a way, forced on her by Il'ad. Il'ad who happens to catch her attention, causing her to freeze and stare in his general direction after his outburst.
Krummolt rolls his eyes at Il'ad and reaches out to grab on of his whiskey-nuts. His brief foray into the realm of the unsubtle double entendre apparently forgotten, he tosses one of the small, salty nuts at his captain, apparently in protest of Il'ad's sense of humor. "Bah. Maybe good for target practice or something,"
"Oh." Chey considers this. "Well, killing weasels is fine. But we need to talk to the herders about getting some canines in to hunt them, or… something. We don't need rodents stealing our grain. Are weasels rodents? Whatever. We don't need anyone stealing our — who is /that/?" Her eyes have fallen on Hari. And she looks displeased.
…he says, flipping another nut at Il'ad in apparent illustration.
"It was an easy kill. Thing kind of stopped and stared at me like her," Il'ad points out, staring right on back at Hari, but with pointing! "Waitwait, a little higher." Il'ad apparently wants to catch one of those salty nuts in his mouth because he loooves those salty nuts. "Do canines hunt them or would felines? My canines that I've got in the barracks only wanted to play with them. Or maybe? I don't know. "Her? She's, uh, you know, for Frusha. I gave her a verbatim. Wait, that's not the right word. Hold on."
Pilfered snack in hand, Jesha ambles her way over to generic_empty_seat type thing, stopping only to ruffle her daughter's hair. The generic_seat turns out to be a bench and is thusly straddled (and conveniently not far from the chattering group). Greetings given and she is satisfied to regard Chey with an inscrutiable frown. And a hmm.
Hari is suddenly trapped as there's suddenly a woman looking straight at her. A woman who happens to be wearing the Senior Weyrwoman's knot - which she was definitely told to avoid. As Chey begins to question who she is, she's backing up, back towards the wall, trying to keep moving - if she keeps moving perhaps they'll forget all about her, right?
Krummolt looks around at Hari and frowns. "I dunno, off hand," he admits, though he doesn't seem overly concerned by this particular assertion. "She new?" he wonders in Il'ad's direction. "Reporting to the guard? I ain't noticed her there, but that doesn't mean anything for sure." His next sip of his whiskey is a little more cautious than his first.
Chey turns a look of frozen fury on Il'ad. Really, frozen might be the wrong word. Fury is not, though. There is a lot of fury. She pushes to her feet abruptly, her chair crashing to the floor behind her. "Does /no/ one in this place listen when I /say/ something?" She slams her open palm down on the table with a thunderbolt crack of sound. "I said /no/ outside searching. I /meant/: NO OUTSIDE SEARCHING. She is from OUTSIDE. What is /wrong/ with people?" She swivels abruptly. "YOU," she says to Hari. "Get over here. NOW."
Feilan walks in from the Central Bowl.
Hari freezes tensing and trying to shrink down a little but. And then the full fury of Chey is unleashed and she's slowly turning back, shuffling closer. "I'm.. I'm from here." Hari attempts to to volunteer, though her voice squeaks a little bit, and as she's staring at her feet, she's basically betraying herself.
"Isn't there a word for option that kind of sounds like verbatim?" Yes, Il'ad is still trying to remember his vocabulary words. "Maybe I was thinking of prerogative." Because that rhymes with verbatim now. "Whatever. You know, they key to avoid an attack is to remain very very still." Because raptors rely on movement, right? Something like that. "Don't worry 'bout her. She's not really from outside. Her brother's a rider here. So, that makes heryou know. Uhafug." Er. "I think it was before you said that, anyway." But, that's about the most he can do to help the girl now. "But see?"
"The hell you say," Chey snaps. Her eyes are on fire, and she advances a step towards Hari, staring her anger into the young woman. "Do you know what I think?" Her voice is oddly gentle here, for a balanced fraction of a second. That second ends too soon. "I think that you are a spy. KRUMMOLT." Her head snaps back to the guard sergeant. "We have a spy here." She turns to stare back at Hari. "Execute her for me. Now."
Krummolt stares at Il'ad. "I don't think I understood a word ya just said," he denies the greenrider with a blank face. Then he gives his head a little shake and looks on towards Chey and Hari with a faintly sadistic gleam in his eyes, dark above the rim of his mug as he sits again and settles in for what promises to be, to him, a satisfying reaming of someone other than him. He is watching with glee when Chey makes her order. The atomization of that much good whiskey is surely a crime in its own right, as the Weyrwoman appears to have caught him thoroughly off guard. Luckily, the spray is only over his own lap. Between a few quick hacking coughs, he manages to get out, "Ex…execute…her?"
Jesha buries her face in her hands, a few crumps dropping from her thin fingers and clinging to hanks of her chestnut hair. "Oh shaards, here we go again." This is, of course, muttered, barely audible through the muffling protection of her palms. Which lasts only a moment before she bolts to her feet. "WEYRWOMAN. At the risk of insubordination, you DISHONOR your dragon and this weyr with your attitude. Execute a young girl chosen on Search? What is going through your head?! Didn't we just get through total lack of logic with Frusha? What are you THINKING, if anything at all?!" Consid
Considerable volume: Check. Lack of caring for consequences: Double check.
Hari flicks her gaze to Il'ad, nodding ever so lightly, as if to give a silent, understated thank you for at least trying to stand up for her. But then Chey is stepping after her and she's rocking back on her heels, glancing down a bit at the senior, blinking. "Ma'am.." She starts, before the order is given and her jaw drops, though at least she doesn't cry. Before she can do anything else, there's another voice entering the battle and despite her best instincts, she's turning to look at this new source, wincing a bit, biting her lip.
Feilan wanders right into…an execution? Really, it's a good thing he's not in uniform right now. He's not really big on the whole..punishment thing. It's a slightly unsteady gait that takes him halfway across the cavern, quite possibly in the direction of food before he does finally manage a stop. Redirecting himself, he scurries right around and over to his fellow guards, voice lowering somewhat. "Erm..Captain? Sergeant? We don't actually..uh../do/ that, do we?" Because really, someone should've told him about the execution rule when he signed up! His gaze flickers right to Jesha as she yells, swallowing somewhat. Oooh..boy.
Oh, this is not going good. One hand lifts to rub at the side of his face before being elevated in a 'just hold up a second' gesture. To Krummolt, he says "I don't think I did either." And to Chey, he just says "/CHEY/." You know, in one of those stern fatherly tones. He can do those now! If only Pernese had middle and last names. Jesha's good, which is why he lets her speak before he does. "Think about your reputation if you follow through with this, Weyrwoman." And titles! Oh my! "Do you really want to go down in history like Lord Fax?" Eeeeverybody knows about that loon, right? At Feilan's entrance, Il'ad gives him the 'I'm handling this' gesture before continuing with "Think. About. What. You. Just. Said. You want to /execute/ a young woman without rhyme nor reason."
Chey turns that furious aze to Jesha. She listens without interruption to the wingleader's attack, then turns to look at Il'ad, this time. "And arrest Jesha. Now. I want her /brigged/ for insubordination." Her face is flushed. The flush of anger, for sure, is there. But the flush of drunkenness, too. "And I HAVE reason. She is a SPY. Reputation… I don't care about reputation. People seem determined to let this Weyr collapse in tatters. I /will not have it/. I will /not/. Pern needs to… to /know/. We are /not/ going to lie down and take this. We /will/ fight back. This is a /dangerous/ game. Let's /show/ them how dangerous!"
Chey would give that little "Who's with me!" rallying shout, but some part of her /knows/ the silence that would follow.
Krummolt spends another few minutes hacking, putting his cup down on the table and looking between Chey and Hari. He glances only briefly at Jesha, who, well, doesn't really have the authority to tell him to do anything. Feilan's commentary earns the younger recruit a frown. "Best get used to dirty hands, boy. Oughta make you do it," he says, half in threat, as he rises to his feet slowly, becoming a towering mass of guardly intimidation. For all that he is getting old, he is still in alarmingly good shape. "Weyrwoman, if I may suggest; let me take the girl for…questioning." The little pause before the word is anything but reassuring. "I'll find out who sent her."
"Oh for the love of the first shell, spy on what? I think everyone can see you drink yourself into a stupor, give out paranoid and disconnected commands." Jesha breathes, attempting to calm herself though pink still stains her cheeks with contained fury. "Chey. I have adored you as a good woman with a good head for many turns now. You helped us get past the damage weyrwoman Fruscha's leadership did. You made people calm down and get together again. Do you want to destroy that? You are young enough to be my daughter and I swear by the shell of my dragon I would take you over my knee if that's what it took to knock some sense into that pickled brain of yours."
Is she distracted? As Chey seems to be caught up in "discussion" as it were with the other riders and the guards, Hari's taking that moment to take a slow step backwards, hoping to put a bit of distance between herself and the Weyrwoman. "Not a spy.." She mutters, looking left and right before Krummolt gets a look of shock, and she's shaking her head, though it seems that Jesha is the best one to hide behind, and that's the way she's now edging slowly, silently.
"You want me to arrest my mother-in-law?!" Say whaa? "GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF, WOMAN!" Yes, Il'ad is raising his voice nose. He can do that too! "You've gone absolutely MAD!" Srsly. "If you want to justify yourself, then bring the girl to trial if you think she's a spy." Krummolt is nodded at in lieu of his offering. "Find your evidence and /then/, if she's a spy, my guards will be more than willing to act upon your command. And the only way our Weyr will collapse in tatters is by your reigning /right now/. Listen to what you're sharding saying. There is no war here! The only one at war here is yourself You're paranoid!" Jesha is now given the hand. "Please."
Chey's look at Jesha here is scornful, as much as anything. "You could surely /try/," is all she says to this last. Il'ad gets a glare. "You're fired," she says. Krummolt's idea, though, catches on. "Ah. Yes. Good. That's a… good idea. We should find out. Krummolt, you're the new guard captain. Information is a weapon, right? Did someone say that? Once we know, we can make it a public execution. An example."
Chey adds, "And arrest Jesha, Krummolt."
Feilan does give Krummolt a slight frown, brows furrowing just a little bit. He keeps a handle on his own mouth though, sending a quick look between his superior officers. He's off duty, after all, unless they happen to need him, and the teen clears his throat just a little. At least he keeps an eye on Hari as the girl starts to edge away..well, until Chey starts firing and promoting people left and right. "Wha..?"
Krummolt stares at Chey for a moment. Then, "Yes, ma'am." Those who aren't totally pickled will probably be able to recognize that there is a faint ironic tinge to his tone, but he trusts the general deadpan to satisfy Chey, particularly when he turns back to the room. "Come on, now," he says, moving towards Jesha and Hari, his hands spread slightly, but still well away from his knife. "Let's go down to the brig and we'll…get all this sorted out." He widens his eyes slightly at the pair, apparently trying to impart a hint.
One of Jesha's arms slinks behind her to squeeze Hari's trembling hand reassuringly. "Arrest me. Whatever. Like I even *care* at this point. Oh sure, let's jump at shadows and blame the cook and the drudges and send us all into questioning by force. Whoopie /that'll/ accomplish sooo much. You'll end up with sands full of eggs and no one there to stand and Impress. All because you can't get it through your drunken idiotic skull that maybe, just maybe, some of us are confronting you because we care."
"Great. Wonderful. I'll pack my bags now and go retire down at Ista." It's a good turnday gift for twenty nine turns and Il'ad's all about it. His grand exit would be a better show if he were able to unpin his knot easily. It gets stuck.
Chey flings her tequila glass across the room, where it shatters noisily against the wall. "I AM THE WEYRWOMAN!" she bellows at the room as a whole. "No one sharding FORGET that!" And, with that, she turns to stalk (stumbling a little) away.
There is yelling, more yelling, firings, hirings, and then knots are being pulled off, and Hari just stands there, before nodding slowly at Jesha though she looks at Krummolt with wide eyes. And she's slowly backing up further before there's a glass being thrown across the cavern, and Hari is wincing, watching her go, before looking to the other riders, quite unsure of what just happened, or what to do.
Feilan gives a little groan, bringing a hand up to rub at the bridge of his nose. "Of all the.." he mutters lowly to himself, although stands rigidly still as Chey bellows and throws things. He clears his throat then, tongue making a brief pass over his lips, and then turns to look at Krummolt advancing on Jesha and Hari. "Er…you need any help, Serge—er….Captain?"
Krummolt holds his teeth clenched and winces as Jesha continues. "Shut /up/," he hisses at Jesha, Il'ad, Hari and any other riders mumbling in his vicinity, "'til she sleeps it off." He makes little shooing gestures at Jesha and Hari, apparently trying to herd them out of the room without actually grabbing and hauling them away to the jail by force. "I hope not, but come anyway," he says, more openly, to Feilan.
"You." grates Jesha, her eyes aflame, "Are a paranoid drunken sot with less sense than a babe. So help me if you choose to exile me, I will not go down without a fight. Do you even LIKE High Reaches? Do you love your dragon or simply what she represents in the caste of our kind? Let me know when you've decided to scorchin' grow up and act your age and your rank and not sabotage my home and my people." In the meantime, Krummolt is given a salute of his own: One finger. Bing!
"Yeah yeah, you are the Weyrwoman, hear you roar. And we all were quick to jump on the fact that Frusha was the crazy one," Il'ad murmurs under his breath as he finally gets his knot off and waggles it at Krummolt. "Nice knowing you, Weyrwoman. I'm transferring. Have a nice life—as long as it lasts before someone suffocates you in your sleep." It's not a threat, honest. Krummolt is given a grin… and that's it aside from a helpless shrug and a muttered, "I'll be in my weyr."
Chey steps into the shadows that lead back into the Weyr.
Feilan gives his head a quick shake, and a wince as Jesha continues her own tirade. Oi..really, what /did/ he get himself into, joining up here? Hefting a sigh, he gives a nod as Krummolt offers for him to come along. "Yessir." Il'ad's departure is met with a slight frown though, brows furrowing.
Apparently, Jesha's tirade has exceeded Krummolt's tolerance. "Rider," he says softly, now looming directly over Jesha. "Come now." His eyes are cold, hard, unforgiving and angry. "A drunken order's still and order, and I'm taking you back 'til she sleeps it off, or the Weyrleader comes to spring you." He pauses for a moment, then adds, "But you best believe I'll send a runner to 'im." Actually, at that thought, he looks around at Feilan. "There's a job, recruit.
Hari is more than willing to let the rest of them do the talking, instead just standing there as it seems as if the Weyr itself is beginning to come apart at the seams, and sort of because of her. As Krummolt moves to usher them on, she's nodding slowly, just following as she stares at the others, watching Krummolt for a moment, before shaking her head. "Where am I going? Can I tell R'hard?"
Jesha rolls her eyes and steps back to allow Hari to pass in front of her. "Oh, so you're going to behead an innocent kid now too just because Crazy von Crazypants can't stop pouring hooch down her gullet? I'm /fairly/ certain that me opening my big mouth, while awesome, is not against the laws, whatever they may be these day. Crackin' shells, boy, isn't part of guard honor standing up for what's right?" Her face twists at Krummolt, staring him down. "Justice my milky white tush. Good to know y'all are yes-men. At least Il'ad had the stones to tell you to eff off."
Feilan seems to become a little more aware as he's actually given something to do. A quick nod is given in response though. "Right.. Yeah I'll do that." At least it gives him a reason to move rather quickly out of the caverns, despite not eating as he'd come to do in the first place. He can always do that later. Turning on heel, the recruit darts right on out, speeding off as best he can.
"That's it." Krummolt reaches out to grab for Jesha's upper arm with a powerful, ham-hand intent on squeezing too tight. "We're going to the /brig/ where you two are going to spend the night for the crime of getting our Weyrwoman to embarrass herself in public. Where T'ii can get you out whenever /he/ wants. If you shut up, I coulda got us outta here quiet like, but NO," he grumbles as he goes to lead Jesha and Hari out. "When Feilan gets back, he can run to let R'chard know what's up. Or another recruit. Whatever. Just come ON."
Hari takes a deep breathe before she's slowly trudging along, biting her lip. Thankfully, there are still no tears. Instead it seems that she's decided to deal with whatever she managed to get herself into. "Yes sir.." She murmurs, barely audibly as she looks almost wistfully over her shoulder at the others who are left to do as they want, as it were.
"Yeah, /we/ did that. She wasn't totally embarassing herself in the first place." A few truncated attempts by Jesha are made to reclaim her arm, but to no avail. "I swear on the life of my dragon, though, if you harm that poor scared little candidate I will find some way to … do … something. Just don't. She's innocent. Take it out on me. And I ain't gonna just not say somethin' when someone I care for like a daughter, rank or no, is acting the fool."
"I'm not going to do /anything/," Krummolt informs Jesha with some exasperation. Nothing like the protestation of innocence of a man habitually guilty but presently innocent. "Faranth's aching egg hole, I just want to get you two out of sight for the night!"
Snrrrrk. "That's a good one, Guard. Faranth's aching egg hole." The words roll around in Jesha's mouth and the remainder of her fury dissipates into just a slight seethe. "Got any others you can teach me while I have to deal with gruel and uncomfortable mattresses?"
Hari seems to relax just a little bit as Krummolt says there's not going to be any actual harm, at least for the time being, and she's nodding slowly, though she's stealing sidelong glances at Jesha, letting the older rider rant all she wants, she'll just float along. Please, forget about her?
Ground Weyrs
Once a mere overhang in the bowl wall, this arched stone enclave was deepened eons past to provide shelter for injured dragons and their riders. Once past the bowl's entrance, the cavern widens and climbs dramatically. The craggy walls loom high to dwarf rider and dragon alike, darkening slowly towards the back, ending at the large doors of the infirmary and the dragon-sized tunnel leading to the enclosed, inner ground weyrs. Off to the right is the dragonhealers' enclave with its supplies and small handful of dragon couches.
Small cave-like weyrs of various sizes dot the rocky walls of the large cavern at close intervals, giving the area its name. Heavy lengths of wherhide, providing both privacy and increased shelter, curtain off the weyrs' openings.
To the northeast, you see eight dragons.
Settled on rough-hewn ledge is a brown firelizard.
You see The Brig here.
Jesha and Hari are here.
Hari continues to lean there for another moment before slowly folding herself down to the floor, sighing softly and shaking her head. "I.. I think okay. Dickie.. he always talked about honor. I didn't know what to expect." And then she's idly drawing figures on the ground, before looking back at Jesha. "I'm not sure why I'm a candidate, other than he'd never let me be a guard." Her poor brother, stuck with her as the little sister he has to watch out for, now of all times.
A soft smile is tipped at Hari and Jesha gives her an assessing look. "You were searched, I'd imagine, for the same reasons most are searched. Though it's hard to say when things are so crazy. You've got potential, kid, and if you want to be a guard you be a guard. Just… when the current guards are not such fu…. oh speak of the devil. Hey, Il'ad. Come to give us thin gruel and scratchy blankets?"
There's a faint whistle and the familiar uniform of a Reachian guard—but it's probably the last person anyone within the brig might expect. One finger is held up to his lips as Il'ad waggles a set of keys out in front of him while shaking his head before slipping one into the lock on the brig. And he's actually grinning? Decadre, being we'll pretend he was here before, is given a quick chin-nod towards. "Came to break you guys out because I can." Literally.
"He just told me to stand, or be a guard. And.. I don't really want to be a guard." Hari admits, before there's a jingle of keys, and Hari is looking with a rather shocked expression at the rider who has appeared, quickly trying to get to her feet, brushing her pants off just a bit, though she's taking his motion quite literally, too cautious to even squeak.
Decadre is doing his best imitation of seriousness. Admitedly that's gotten better over the years but after a properly serious return nod to Il'ad he simply greets the man, "Captain," With a much more characteristic smile. Apparently either Deca didn't get the memo or chooses to forget he got the memo.
"You, Il'ad, are the best quasi-son and father of my child ever." Audible creaks and pops accompany Jesha's rising and she offers a hand to her cellmate for help in finishing the rising motion. "I think Hari here will need a place to hunker down for a day or two in case WHER-woman (Ooooh insult) from the tar pits of the south decides that her pretty little head should stay where it is."
Feilan hass been running. Running all over the place! Although, at some point in that stretch of time, he's managed to rather haphazardly fall into his uniform. Still trying to fumble with buttons, the recruit rushes a bit down the tunnel, and comes rather close to simply running right into Il'ad's back. "Captain!" Thereafter comes a slight wince, fingers brushing up through his hair a little. "Er..Il'ad." Well, that is the rider's name, after all. The jangling keys get his attention though, fixating on them before his mouth drops back open. "What..are ya doing?"
"Hey Deca." It's easier to greet than deny the title that no longer belongs to Il'ad. "You didn't see this, alright?" he says as the door swings open, but quietly as to avoid the squeakiness that sounds like nails on a chalkboard. "You didn't either," is offered to Feilan with /a look/. "You too, don't you think?" is asked of Jesha with a raised brow. "Maybe we should all just skip the continent before her HIGHNESS has an aneurysm and blames it on a drudge."
Hari is quick to move to help Jesha to her feet, giving her a little bit of a bow as she's on her feet. Even as the cell door is open, she's sort of standing there, rather dumbfounded, looking from Jesha to Il'ad, and then to the other guards. Only after biting her lip, as if contemplating if its better to stay or go, is she slowly sneaking out. Better not to let her brother find her here.
Decadre's blue eyes go round. "See what? I don't see anything. I'm just on patrol, nothing unusual just the usual spread of dragonriders going about their usual bussines," Decadre's expression is one of complete innocence. One that he's had much practice with over the years though it normally gives way to mischief. Today he demonstrates his ability to sustain it.
"Yeah, I might spend a couple days in Ista chillin' with Bajiren and his dad. Can't hurt. I owe him anyway. Plus I should give Lanti a winkwink since we made awesome dragons recently." An arm is forced through Hari's and Jesha steps over the threshhold to FREEDOM, dragging the hapless candidate with her. "Should I take Jedi with me, spend some QT while we're at it? Haven't been so good with that lately." Decadre is given a broad wink and nod. "Good man. Ain't nothin' goin' on here but .. um .. patrollythings."
Feilan does in fact look rather conflicted. Hey, it's his /job/ to not ignore this, right? After a moment though, he gives a turn, kicking the nearest wall once. "Il'ad, I /swear/ if I lose my job over this, I'm gonna punch ya right in the face." Hey, the rider currently isn't captain, after all. He can threaten with bodily harm! Hands stuff into his pockets then. "Didn't see anything, yeah."
"Maybe you could stay with your brother. He can at least 'fend for you better than I can," Il'ad says with a little snort to Hari. "That's some good training right there," is then murmured to the women as the greenrider thumbs towards Decadre with a little grin. But then that grin turns into a grimace. "Okay, I don't need to be reminded that you boinked my /sister/." Dude. DUDE. "Don't drop by 'cause that's where I plan on visiting and I don't need any awkward moments, 'kay?" One shudder later and Il'ad nods his head. "Good idea. I have to pick up Lilly anyway. This is just coincidental." You know, the fact that Il'ad's skipping the continent. "Feilan. You're not going to lose your job over this. And I bet you ten marks that /I/ don't really lose my job over this. I've known Chey my entire life, and my best friend is the /Weyrleader/. Enough said."
"Hopefully.." Hari murmurs, though it seems that she's already attempting to figure out somewhere else - best not to give the poor brownrider anything else to stress about. As she's escorted out by Jesha, she shakes her head slightly, letting them gossip as she's heading to duck out to the bowl. Lets just actually do as Shazi says and avoid Chey, how about that?
Decadre shakes his head and gives Feilan a grin. "You were somewhere else. I certainly don't remember seeing you on my patrol." Decadre looks away and gives a short innocent whistled. Cover for one, cover for all of them. "Things change pretty quick around here… then change back. You learn to roll with it." Though it had taken him a while to deal with the volatile environment himself.
"Bah, it won't be awkward, Il'ad! Just because I've tagged you, your sister, and gave birth to your weyrmate! How can you imagine that I'd make things peculiar!" BEAM. "Besides, I'll be busy giving Bajiren piggyback rides and reminding Jedi that she actually has a mom. Hari, you'll probably be fine. I'd put a mark on that she doesn't remember you in the morning. Still, might want to spend the night with your brother or in the guest quarters at the Hold."
Feilan rubs both hands over his face, and then just shakes his head, laughing a little. "Yeah yeah. You'd better get your job back though, Il'ad. Krummolt's just a bit too stiff for me, ya know?" Not that the man is a /bad/ guy or anything. Decadre is given a quick look though, a faint smirk twisting his lips. "Heh. Yeah yeah. I got it. Never down here at all."
"I'm not hearing this, la la la," says Il'ad as he covers up his ears as Jesha speaks, but it's only a moment later that he's walking to the outside of the groundweyrs, if only to scoop up a pink stuffie and toss it into the cell, locking it back up just a moment later. "Ten to one this ends up being just a bad dream for Chey. She won't remember half of it in the morning. And maybe I'll still have a job."
Hari pauses to nod at Jesha, even as she decides she's had enough of the conversation that goes over her head. "Thank you.." She offers as an afterthought before darting outside, to hide and hope for the best. And to hope she can keep her head.
"And now that I've made Il'ad taste puke in his mouth, I am going to get my stuff together so I can hide out for a few days until this blows over. Guards. Rider. Hari-the-kid." Jesha executes three bows and waves. "I'm gettin' the shards out of this place. You can't catch me, feds!" Cackling she darts for the bowl and, ostensibly, her dragon.
Jesha leaves the ground weyrs for the wide-open central bowl.
Decadre shakes his head. "I had probably better move on, on my patrol…" Decadre admits. With both women gone, there seems little enough reason to linger here. And besides large gatherings are much easier to notice than single people.
Hari goes home.
"Yeah, so—yeah. I guess I'll see you guys later. Maaaaybe," Il'ad grins crookedly and tosses up a half-salute before following after Jesha. "Stay out of trouble, boys." He peeks outside and shakes his head, lingering just a moment longer. "My grand exit would be a lot better if my dragon were /on standby/, waiting for me. Crap."
The place is indeed clearing out. Feilan gives a short nod though at the mention of vacating the place. "Heh. Yeah. I'd rather not be caught all alone in here with escaped prisoners on the loose." Someone /might/ want to know what happened. He gives Il'ad a light wave though, grinning at the rider a bit. "Guess we'll just have to wait and see. Certainly will /try/ to stay out of trouble."
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
Sunday Message: It is control?
So today at work (I typed this last Monday night), I was listening first thing (as usual) to David Jeremiah as he told a story of his early days in Ft Wayne. It involved starting out with equipment that was legendarily crappy and ancient (kinda like what we get from our Missouri plant), and how one day a viewer from Ohio asked him to stop in. The man had a daughter in her twenties- totally confined to what was basically a crib. She never passed infantile level mentally or emotionally. But there was ONE thing in the day to day world she ever reacted to- Jeremiah's Turning Point program. In thanks for providing her one spark of life, the family bought Jeremiah all brand new equipment- so that now his clothes didn't "change color" every time he moved.
You get that? God used this woman-child, who might never have affected the world beyond her nuclear family- to bring the Gospel- not only in clearer form to Ft Wayne, but to grow that ministry into what it is today. How powerful a God to make such change from such a fragile shell!
And it made me think of my own ministry, if you like, on my Sunday Messages. Because in a way I am like that girl. I have not been the fully-developed Christian I should be. Perhaps not a baby needing the first "milk" of the word, but certainly far from where I should be. And yet, God shows that He can use me.
But it should be better. The topics I address are borne of the battles I fight, and the battles I fight have a lot more to do with my level of maturity and obedience (or lack thereof) than my closeness in my walk with Christ, or my oneness with the Spirit. Put another way, that girl shamed me.
I know that man's odds of me ever being where I should be are dim. And if you are an outsider, you'd prolly say, "Don't worry, you ain't no worse than all the other alleged Christians out there." Because from the outside, we seem to pretend to Godhood or at least sainthood. But here's the thing about outsiders: they don't read the Word and understand. It's just words to them.
If they did, they wouldn't have to go any farther than the historical books of 1-2 Kings and Chronicles. After Solomon, Israel was split in two- ten tribes abandoning Jerusalem for a bastardized faith, two holding fast to the true faith. Or did they? Look at it this way. The ten that abandoned the faith of Moses and Abraham, NONE of their kings walked in the way of the Lord. Not surprising; but what of the two tribes, the ones who held the legacy, who worshipped at the Temple? You would think the advantages that they had, the resources still available to them, the prophets sent day and night to them, that they would have done better.
But only HALF of those kings walked in the way of the Lord. And far fewer ever did anything to bring the people back to God.
Those were the Chosen People. And you expect that Christians of today, with Jesus a couple millennia back in history, could really do better?
We SHOULD. We have the Holy Spirit with us, instead of just with the occasional prophet or king, who could always lose that spirit if he did not obey. But guess what, still human. Still breathe, still bleed, still have the sin nature.
A couple weeks back, I wrote about Focus-Surround-Control. But I think perhaps control is a poor word for what we do. Control implies we have something to do with the ultimate success. Perhaps reliance would be better, because what "control" boils down to is making the choice to rely on God at the point of decision. Control says we weigh the rights and wrongs of a thing and make the best choice; but what it really comes down to is everything else vs "WWJD". And that I didn't stress that in those posts shows how very far I have to go before I get to where that young lady was, in control of nothing, but willing to be used as a tool in God's hands.
1. Chris:
---I think you do well with your Sunday Messages. I know I do benefit from them (and it even gets me back into the Word for even more clarification.
Granted, we still suffer the humanness of being...well, human...and that sinful nature comes creeping back in.
---The aspect of control is brought out well using RELIANCE to better define that control.
It's something we, as followers of the living Christ have to WORK at...DAILY.
There is not real Christian "cruise-control" we can tap the button on and coast for a couple days.
---I know my walk with the Lord gets difficult, because too often, with each step, I find my foot in another pile of secular manure.
Oh, for a clear path once in a while...just to chase the smell away.
Very good post.
Stay safe (and blessed) up there, brother.
1. How true on the cruise control. I too often go into "if I can just get through the day at work" mode and forget I don't come home to "well, whatever".
2. First have to say another bloody great post, sadly so many people have zero control by choice, they go through life with their brain in neutral. I hope I I am not one of them
1. I don't think you are. Everything I've seen shows you to be guided by love.
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Distinguish between idealism and parody in
The notion of the void made motion theoretically explicable as well as sensibly apparent. Realism holds that the only reality is the material world, that study of the outer world is the only reliable way to find truth; the world is an objective phenomenon Distinguish between idealism and parody in our minds must adhere Distinguish between idealism and parody in.
They taught that everything consists of atoms and vacuum. This period was the twilight of the first experiment in democratic government. This world, which is the same for all things, was made by no god or man.
Pragmatism emphasizes on this practical application of thoughts by acting on them to test them in human experiments. There are many different ways to illustrate the idealist vs. This was in accord with materialism. The basic element of reality to the idealist is mind, or spirit.
Idealism causes you to see things in a very hopeful manner, shaping situations with your own ideas. Another of their beliefs was that the fundamental physical elements were unchangeable and alike in substance. Victorian Labor College lecture, circa First published: If what we have said above is the case — and we know it is from natural science — mind does not appear until we already have matter organised in a certain manner.
The idealist revisions of the nature of the gods arose from political calculations as much as from theoretical considerations.
Marx realismetc. Although pragmatists claim to have overcome the opposition between materialist and idealist standpoints, they actually dodge the decisive issues between them in the theory of knowledge. These original materialists offered a coherent account, crude and inadequate as it was, of the creation of the world and of humankind without bringing in the gods or magical forces of any kind.
The quality of this achievement can be gauged by noting that, during the same period, Judaism was emerging in Palestine, the religion of Zoroaster in Persia, Buddhism in India and Taoism and Confucianism in China.
One must be right, the other wrong. While countries were producing new religions the Milesians were breaking with the religious outlook altogether. The Milesians delivered a mortal blow to this mythological outlook by disposing of all gods.
We need to be able to understand them to extend empathy to others. He singled out fire as the first principle, the ultimate substance of things, from which all others were produced The following text from Heraclitus was preserved by Clement of Alexandria: He taught that things in themselves existed as objective realities.
Steve Painter From the earliest Greek philosophy, of which European philosophy is but a continuation, the philosopher has had to contend with the question: Thus, it must be noted that the basic propositions of these two types of thought are absolutely opposed to each other.
Any practical methods are appropriate, including technology. This philosophy also accepts the scientific testing of students to place them in appropriate classrooms. The value of religion as social cement and an instrument of class domination was clearly recognised, candidly discussed and openly acknowledged by the idealists.
The void was as passive and permeable as the atoms were restless and self-enclosed. This balance, however, is constantly being upset by the movement, the interaction, the contention of its warring opposites. He sought to oppose change with geometry, in which we could acquire knowledge about the properties of figures that was absolutely stable, firm and quite independent of the imperfections of any figure we might draw.
Moreover, atoms can act and react upon one another not simply by mechanical pressure and collision but also in electrical and other ways.
All other things derive their movements from the same prime mover. Atoms are hard and have form and size; they are invisible, have no colour, taste or smell, since these are secondary or subjective properties, and they are in ceaseless motion.Differences Between Idealism & Realism in the Philosophy of Education By Hobie Anthony, eHow Contributor, last updated April 27, Realism and Idealism are two competing philosophies in the field of education.
Dating back to ancient Greece, these theories influence the. What is parody: That is when you take an original work and modify it in a manner that makes fun of that work. Weird Al Yankovich only works in parodies, so is the gold standard for examples.
Weird Al Yankovich only works in parodies, so is the gold standard for examples. In the context of writing, a homage is an brand-new work that is a “shout out” to another writer through referencing the latter’s work in some way.
Differences Between Idealism & Realism in the Philosophy of Education
There are many ways to do this, including: writing something “in the style of” the other, or; reusing a famous character to tell a different story, or. This can also be equated with Plato’s theory of the forms style metaphysics (idealism) vs.
Hume’s skeptical empiricism (realism) or we can discuss Plato vs. Aristotle, or Thomas More (idealism) vs. Machiavelli (realism) vs., or Hegel (idealism) vs.
Political Realism Vs. Political Idealism
Marx (realism), etc. Infatuating Idealism in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon American Black Literature study of the short story " The Witness" Brutus and Idealism Distinguish between idealism and parody in Leucippe and Clitophon Idealism, Realism and U.S.
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Foreign Policy Pragmatism Vs. The key difference between pragmatism and idealism is that pragmatism considers practical consequences of an action as its main component whereas idealism considers mental entities or thoughts and ideas as its main component.
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Those are words that we were
or where we are, and we are, there, or were
on the hills above the river, dust and waste
what does a narrative construct that memory
tries to shape some abbreviated version of
that was the time when at the last moment
my life changed or my life did not change
nothing changed, it all went on as before
the wide sky,
the mowed hay, the fishermen on the river
these are still only words, there is no word
unaware of itself as an event that comes after
whatever it was, the river, the sky, the sum
or component, functions, not even a word: sky
It doesn't exist
any more than the memory of my first kiss
or yours, here
there are voices (the other language)
closing my eyes while writing
closing my eyes while writing this morning
flies, coffee grounds, particles of dust or snow
weightless or waste or else, how do we read?
the line from Mandelstam you said on the tram
where is it? what is it?
there is the sound of the sound of the sound of
warm blue late afternoon sky
the lines
of a Russian poet float across like the hawk or eagle
you said,
"I am not Cassandra"
the vase is moving
between the east and west window
the leaves of the gladiolas
are turning, the words
those words that were once
whatever it was we were
for anyone? why even stop
a line or return the invisible
sounds, those sounds that are heard
in the air, and nowhere near the writing here
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
I love you too..(Tangled #1)
Sun kissed morning, with rays shining bright through the window on her face. She reacted to the warmth of the Sun. She reached out from her bed to grab her cellphone. "2 new messages" it read. Lazily in bed, she read through them and there it was, a text from him. "I'll pick you up @ 8, Gloria's coffee shop". She couldn't believe her eyes.
She glanced at the clock and to her horror it was already 7.30. She jumped out of bed and rushed into the bathroom. She undressed herself and there she stood under the shower with hot water pouring down on her easing her to her cores. She could feel her tension wear off.
She always thought and believed she did most of her intensive thinking in the shower but today, all she could think of was his eyes. And she still couldn't believe that she was spending the day with him, "When did that happen!" she thought to herself.
It seemed like yesterday when we were still strangers to each other, both hesitant not only to talk to each other but to exchange stolen glances too. She didn't know how this would end but she sure wanted to know the end. Because if she didn't try it would kill her from her insides. She clearly remembered the day when she first saw him. He was sitting in the corner of a crowded room. He was calm and composed and there was something about him that drew him to her.
Someone had yelled out his name just in time for her to grasp it. She held on to it ever since. She continued to drown in his thoughts. The first time she spoke to him and it seemed like he was dying to talk to her too. She knew out of instinct the minute she saw, spoke to him, she wanted him greedily all to herself. Anything she would share in the world for the price of having him all for herself. She saw the desire, at least she thought she saw the desire he had for her in his eyes. His eyes she thought for one last time. She brought herself to reality and quickly washed of the excess soap. She walked out of the shower and dressed herself. She made sure she looked perfect from him. She picked up her things, walked through the door shutting it behind her.
It was rather a cold morning it was almost 8. She didn't want to be late. She wrapped herself warmly and continued to walk down the street. Her mind raced into thoughts of him again. "What would he be wearing?""Would he be comfortable with me?""I'm sure I am mad about him but is he?". These were the questions running in her mind. And before she knew it, she automatically had carried herself to Gloria's Coffee Shop, which was quiet close to her home. She was waiting and she curiously glanced around for him. She stared at both sides of the street. "Still no sign of him" she thought sighing.
It felt like she had been there forever already. She just wanted to be with him, to see him. She looked down at her phone doubtfully not sure if she should call him. Just as she looked up from her phone resisting the urge to call, he came on his motorbike, flashing his million dollar smile gesturing her to hop on. With out thinking twice she walked and got on to the bike.
He started to drive and moments later he asked "Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?". She was overwhelmed by his presence but still as exciting as it may seem she was still hungry. "Why don't we get some breakfast?" she suggested. He drove off rather quietly to a nice restaurant in the neighborhood. As strange as it may seem they finished their breakfast rather much too silently but by exchanging those glances you'd never want to miss.
They walked out of the restaurant and he brought his bike from the parking lot. She gently held on to his shoulder and got on as usual. He again asked "Where to now?". She seemed kind of puzzled. She didn't know him completely neither did he know her. She thought he might have been feeling the same too.
She thought of a moment took her time as said moving close to his ear "Why don't we watch a movie?". He gestured in agreement and directed to the closest multiplex. He parked his bike and they walked to the ticket counter. He asked her "Feel free and pick a movie you like" smiling. She saw the screen displaying the movies playing and she picked the one she wanted to watch.
They walked in to multiplex and they were chit chatting about their classes together and how they found their new acquaintances to be. Speaking more about their views trying to know each other was all they were focused on. It seemed as though it was there, the spark they expected to feel. There was still some time before the movie began. They were strolling along the corridors of the multiplex looking at stalls displaying various articles. She enjoyed his company and it did look like he was enjoying hers too.
He loved her way of talking, her expressions and most of all her eyes. They captured him like he could drown in them. He felt like she was some one with a good head over her shoulders. He was at a loss of words to explain the amount of happiness or excitement he felt around her. Perfect he thought in his mind looking at her and her gestures. He glanced at his watch and told her " Time passes by so fast with you.. It's almost 4. Movie will start.".
She couldn't believe what she was hearing she was with him right from 11 am in the mall time passed by so quickly. Looking at stalls grabbing a bite to eat. All that they spoke, locked in my heart safely she thought. She walked quickly behind him in to the cinema hall.
They found their way to their seats and settled. She told him she was thirsty. He smiled at her and walked away to get her some water. She needed a moment away from him. She needed to breathe. Her heart was thumping so fast it felt like it was almost impossible to stay around him. He was taking her breath away. Everything about him seemed so perfect. She felt he was handmade by god. Made for her!
Just then he returned with a bottle of water, handing it over to her. She grabbed the bottle and drank a little to ease herself. She sat down again next to her. They were sharing the same arm rest, his arm touching hers. Her pulse was high again. She wanted to know if he felt the same.
He was mesmerized by her radiance, her beauty and most of her simplicity. Nobody is perfect, but to him there she was, the personification of perfect. She sat elegantly next to him. She was something like he never imagined. His angel he thought in his mind, secretly smiling to himself.
He wanted to understand how could she be so flawless. He wanted to know if her cheeks were as soft as they looked. To feel the smoothness of her marble skin. She was driving him crazy. The movie had started and he couldn't concentrate on it. All he could think of was her. That she was there right next to him with her arm glued to his like she wanted to feel him too. Hw wanted her to feel his presence and know that he right royally belonged to her. And he wanted to make her realize just that same fact.
He was hesitant but he had to do it, somebody had to make the first move. He slowed managed to entwine his fingers between hers. She didn't resist at all, it was like she was there all along waiting for him to put his fingers between hers. Her hands were cold and he wanted to warm them.
She was losing her mind from his touch. His hands were so warm. Her hands fit perfectly into his. She wanted him all for herself not only for the fact that she needed him but also for the little of the person she knew of him. Ultimately she wanted him. He moved in closer, she could feel him breathe down on her. She was losing control over her breath. And he planted a kiss right under her ear. And then at that moment she lost everything to him. She was at her weakest.
He had done what he never imagined and more surprisingly he was taken aback by the fact that she didn't resist him, not one bit. He held her hand more firmly feeling more confident by her reactions. He wanted her to read his mind. And he wanted to know how she felt. The idea of knowing her thought was starting to eat him up, but he knew he had to be patient.
The movie got over and they started to walk out of the theater, hand in hand. She was lost in him. And all he wanted to do was scoop her into his arms. They walked to the parking lot and were driving out. She didn't know where they were heading. It was almost 7. He knew she lived with a room mate who worked at night. He didn't want to give her any wrong idea of his feelings. But at the same time he hoped she would invite him in. She tapped him on his shoulder and asked "Where are we headed to?". He replied " It's getting late I should drop you home." feeling slightly disappointed the day ended so soon.
She was silent on the way back. She was confused what to say. She didn't want to let him go. This day was like a dream she thought. She wondered what was running through his mind, if only she knew..
With all this running through her head she didn't realize they had already reached her home. She got off the bike. She stood there staring at him trying to make up her mind. He was dying of the suspense, he wanted her so bad to tell her he wanted her was more important. He was feeling so helpless. He didn't want her to walk away from him with just a goodbye. She had to make a decision. And she had made it. She walked closer to him and said "Thank you for everything today. I was wonderful something I will never forget.", she took a deep breath and continued "Would you like to come inside?".
He couldn't hold his excitement but he had to be calm. These things aren't done in haste he said to himself in his mind. He parked his bike and walked behind her towards the door. He watched her while she rummaged through her purse to find her keys. She opened the door and walked in with him following behind her. She dropped her things on the center table and walked inside to fetch him a glass of water. She handed him the water and watched him drink while sitting next to him.
She was out of her senses, the man of her dreams was there sitting right next to her in her living room. She almost thought she was hallucinating. He thought the house was warm and cozy. Just like the kind of person she would be. He drank the water she gave. His heart was pounding so hard he thought maybe she could hear it if it concentrated a little bit. She sat silently next to him clueless of what to say to him. She was there waiting for him to make a move. She didn't have the courage to sum up her feelings and tell him.
He looked at her and said "Your house is nice. Never imagined it to be so. It's so you". She smiled and said "It takes alot of work but i can manage i love my home". He smiled too. She felt like he was taking away her air every time he smiled. She looked down to the floor. He put down the glass on the table and moved closer to her.
She could feel him move closer to her. So close to her, she was about to lose all her senses.He gently caught her chin and moved her face up. She instantly turned pink. He looked in to her eyes for a minute. He could see her so clearly. She was looking in to his eyes too, lost in them. He moved closer to her aiming for her luscious lips, pink like cherries flashed in his mind. She shut her eyes willingly letting him move in closer. She wanted him. She wanted his lips to burn into hers. Her desire was at the utmost peak. She was burning like fire for him. All she wanted to fell was him. She longed to be in his world.
He had been waiting for this moment ever since he had first seen her. looking her from so close her skin feeling like heaven. He wanted to kiss her and show her show his felt. He needed her to see his desire for her. He kissed her with all he had. Passion flowing through his skin and veins. His heart beating for her. She reacted almost so naturally to him. Her body reacted to his passion to his need. Her hand automatically moved to his hair. Her fingers through his hair. She was in bliss.
He could feel that she wanted him too.She melted in his mouth like chocolate. She tasted so sweet he thought. He loved her fingers holding clumps of his hair, pulling his closer than he already is. He gently pushed her on to the couch. He lay himself over her. He was still kissing him. It could never be enough he thought. He held her waist with one hand with the other caressing her cheek. He slowly moved down to her neck. Gently placing kisses on her warm neck. She was lost in him. She couldn't explain what he was doing to her. She lay there helpless feeling his need for her. She was completely hypnotized by him. He kissed her on her collar bone. He could hear her breathe heavy. And he glad to hear her because he knew she was feeling for him. He moved lower to her sensitive areas. She reacted almost immediately. But she pulled him up to kiss him again. She gave him all she had. She was receiving his powerful desire in return. She was out of breath. She stopped and pulled away from him.
He was confused. Why did you stop he thought in his mind with concern. She looked at him with love and said " I don't want to take things too fast but I'm in love with you". She didn't understand how she managed to say those words. She didn't know she could do it, but she did. She looked at him with all her hope. He didn't immediately react to it. She thought she made a mistake by confessing to him. He looked at her and noticed she was almost at the verge of a break down. He thought to himself if he couldn't confide in her what a man he would be. He held her face with both his hands and said "If I didn't feel the same way about you, I would have never kissed you". She was looking at him with tears in her eyes.He took her closer and kissed her once again with his desire and said "I love you too.."
1. I could somehow relate myself to the story, nice work, excited to the read some more stories from your Book, keep up the good work :-)
-Nitin R.
2. Niri!!! I loved it!! So much description and detail and yeah I could so relate to it! :) Can't wait to read more girl! :)
3. I'm glad you could relate to the story Nitin! Thank you!
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WriteLog Contest Module Development – New Free Tools
I didn’t think it could be done but leave it to clever programmers…. You can use the free Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition to compile WriteLog mult-modules! Follow the instructions in this Code Project page. NOTE: the WriteLog Contest Wizard with *NOT* run because it does not work with Visual Studio 2008. I installed VC++ Express, the Windows Server 2003 DDK, and made the minor changes that were needed to a couple of header files described in the Code Project instructions. With Visual Studio setup and the Windows Server 2003 DDK installed, the modules compile without errors and will actually work in WriteLog. You need a resource editor as well because the Express editions of Visual Studio don’t come with one. There is a terrific free resource editor you can use for this called ResEdit. This is a great solution if you want to just poke around a bit without investing in a license for VC++ 6.0. Just download the demo module I’ve been writing about to get started.
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Showing posts from 2005
awwww. .. .Is it Cute or Cruelty?
best cat picture of the week.
Poor, poor pitiful me.
1. The Flirtin' Fir.
It sings, wiggles, bobs around (the marabou feathers add a lot with a kind of drifting effect) The star on the top -- slightly wonky off to the side --lights up. So do the bulbs all over it. And the ones on the base. The song is "Santa Baby" lithped in baby talk. We can get one phrase "Santa Baby" -- the rest is grating, high pitched gibberish. The boys press the on button to listen and try to figure out the lyrics. Often. **
The pink high heels. The random pink string. The glittering green cloth body. The not-quite-on-key horn accompaniment.
Thank you, L. I know where you live.
2. That puzzle.
1,500 pieces. The boy seems to be doing it. He's just messing up all the pieces I've turned over. I hate puzzles but I can't leave them alone.
3. YOU people.
I'm extending the contest a day or two. Granted, the entries I've gotten are pretty high quality, but more would be good.
Come on, ya lazy lubbers. If you don't enter, I …
Dear Me
Dear People Who Sent Me Christmas Cards,
You know who you are.
I know who many of you are. I don't know all of you and I wonder how you got my address.** But I won't worry about that until you send me pictures of yourself nekkid. Right now I like the Santas and whatnot. I'll just say:
1. I love Christmas Cards. Or Holiday Cards.
2. Don't expect one from me, because apparently I'm incapable of sending them.
3. Thank you.
**Or if you really meant to write to me. One of you said you loved my books and listed a title I don't recognize.
I should not be so nice to you
So very many of you have NOT ENTERED MY CONTEST. But here. I've got a flipping halo over my head and will share anyway. Make this AFTER ENTERING THE CONTEST.
I made the best chocolate pie. Ever. It had a pint of heavy cream in it. There were a coupla cups of skim milk, too. I invented it and will now share it with you because I'm just too great.
Make a graham cracker crust. (Standard crust: 1/4 butter melted, 1 sleeve graham crackers. Maybe a bit of cinnamon and sugar. Grind up or have kids stomp on ziplock bag carefully. Press into pan with your fingers. Don't lick em while you do this. Gross. Bake in oven for about ten minutes)
Use Oreos instead of graham crackers if you're feeling decadent. Or if you have a food processor, add some chocolate chips to the graham crackers.
Filling: Usually I just make ganache and pour it into shell and that's that. But I wanted more filling because I had a bigger pie pan and I wanted something that wouldn't freeze up so hard. gena…
Over at Bitches You Get Romance Covers Gone Wildly Bad
What could be worse? How about truly wonky holy depictions? There are plenty out there but just in time for the holidays really skeeeeeery natitivity scenes. Here's a goodie, literally. Marshmallow Mary and Baybee Jesus! Give us smores for the holidays.
Disclaimer for Bill O'Reilly: I love creches. Yeah, we weren't exactly Christians -- we weren't much of anything. But when I was a kid, one of my favorite people in the world was Christian -- and she made creches out of clay. She made one for me and told me how to set it up. I loved the fact that the little manger would stay empty, everyone in the scene sitting around waiting, until Christmas morning. Then . . . ta da! The little lump depicting Jesus would appear. (They were very small creches)
Almost forgot:ENTER THE CONTEST or I'll turn our thermostat down to 50. Don't make my kids shiver in the cold!
yet another version of Summer's cover
It's different from this one. Can you see the change?
No capital L in Futurelove!
HEY YOU--ENTER THE FLIPPING CONTEST or I'll eat those chocolate truffles and probably get adult onset diabetes or something. Boy, won't you feel bad then.
What? Being festive means you can't enter contests? What's the matter? Afraid Bill O'Reilly might think you're not Christmas Enough if you get competitive?
Enter my contest and enter Lori's too. Hers is actually useful--it's all about gift giving. Kind of Martha Stewart on the cheap.
To add to the incentive she's also throwing in a prize. Whoever has the best list, as picked by the elves at the RU Blog, will win two of the following: Get Bunny Love by Kathleen Long, Lady of the Knight by Jackie Ivie, Unlaced by Kristina Cook, Love is All Around by Lori Devoti or Prince of Frogs by Barbara Plum.
A Biographical Contest
I've been interviewed a few times and have gotten to blather on All About Me. . . and during the interviews I even told a version of the truth.
What a mistake, a waste of paper and bandwidth. Oh, how I wish I'd thought of this method instead. I should have asked the public to come up with my biography instead-- a la Liz at blondsense: Bugger. I can't seem to link to the memories, which are the best part. Does this work? (Yes! thank you, Liz)
You post a comment with a made-up, as in fictional, memory of you and the subject. It can be anything you want. Good or bad, it has to be fake.
IF this were a group blog, I'd definitely aim it at someone else.
I'm tempted to make you all post memories of you and Candy or maybe you and Doug. **
Heck, why not. . . Make it pg-13 at most, please.
Pick one of the players: Doug, or Candy and write a memory. The best one gets socks or mittens (I have a lovely pair all picked out-- my Fredneckian friend never identified herself in the last s…
the stranger sex
Me: So why are you using a heating pad on your knee?
DH: It hurts.
Me: Yeah, but you've been using the pad every day for almost a week. Maybe you should call Marcy the Wonder Doc.
DH: I'm going to see the physical therapist on Friday.
Me: Huh? But I thought we couldn't do that without a referral from Marcy.
DH: She gave me a referral last week.
Me: Wait a sec. I thought this only started a few days ago. How long has your knee hurt?!??
DH: A while. Started more'n a month ago.
Me: Why didn't you say anything?
DH: You didn't ask.
Me: [cursing and snorting]
Me:So tell me, darling, how's your elbow.
DH: fine.
Me: Your head? Your neck? Your foot? Your heart? Your stomach? Your liver? Your--
DH: okay, okay.
It could be a response to my not-feeling-well style: broadcasting medical updates every few hours. ("I still have a headache but now my throat isn't hurting.") I think it's more that he's a stoic=silly goof. We have to guess from his thin lips or his occ…
no, no bitches today
I have to figure out helium use in the future, okay? I'm busy. At least I stopped trying to write fluff and am working on another story about a lost person. Whoopee!
I can't manage to bitch, so here's the cheesecake.
Crust 1 9-ounce box chocolate wafer cookies
1/2 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
7 tablespoons hot melted unsalted butter
Ganache 1 1/2 cups whipping cream (I have better luck with heavy cream, don't know why)
20 ounces bittersweet (not unsweetened) or semisweet chocolate, chopped
1/4 cup Kahlúa or other coffee-flavored liqueur
4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, room temperature
1 1/3 cups sugar2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 tablespoons dark rum (or Kahlua! Hey, it's for Beth, right?)
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder or coffee crystals
1 tablespoon vanilla extract2 teaspoons mild-fl…
Suisan's meme
Turns out I really love to do these things. I wonder why.
Seven Things To Do Before I Die:
1. The stuff I do every day. I like it.
2. Go back to a tropical place.
3. Go on a long bike ride, even though I'll be on my ol' granny bike.
4. Get more book contracts.
5. Develop some more interesting ambitions.
6. Okay--I'll go for something standard. Write an excellent book that has staying power.. and, duh, that's a best seller.
7. Win the lottery and give away almost all of it to complete strangers.
Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. Exercise regularly for more than a couple of months before the routine falls apart.
2. Be chirpy in the morning.
3. Sing a tune when other people are singing a different tune. Rounds are out.
4. Give up certain harmful addictions.
5. Skate, ski or anything that requires a good sense of balance.
6. Stop reading blogs.
7. Find a reasonable plot for this book I'm writing.
1. He is fun…
The evil stroller
I dredged up this story when I read Bookseller Chick today--she talked about strollers as The Enemy. Yes, I, too, have loathed a stroller.
When I was preggers with boy 3, my friends got together and bought us a fabulous jogger stroller. It was used, but just barely. A primo machine. It sort of looked like this, only more stripped down. That thing was nimble and super fast--made for athletes so it didn't have a handy little basket underneath or brakes.
Know where I'm going with this already?
The boy was born in February and I soon discovered that the fab stroller actually worked in snow, unlike any stroller I'd ever owned (and by boy 3, I'd owned a lot of those things. I hated driving and we lived downtown in a compact little city. Could walk everywhere to anything).
One day, the baby and I dropped boy 2 at preschool and walked home. He fell asleep so I pulled the stroller onto the front porch. As I turned to put the key in the door lock, the stroller, that nimble lil thin…
Today's Fab Blog Find
by way of The General, Fafnir. Yes it has a big chunk of left wing political posting, but if you don't like that, don't give up. Slide down for another entry. It'll be worth it.
The email I sent this morning (from a winter wimp)
Hi School People,
This is the second time in the last couple of years you guys have decided to hold school when there was a layer of ice on the ground. Personally, I'd much rather haul the kids through snow than over this stuff. We live a block from school--my kid fell four times and I fell twice (ow, ow). More seriously--as we walked, a car stopping too fast at the corner of A___ and F___ slid and almost jumped the curb.
Now I'm going back to school to take a change of clothing to him because he got thoroughly soaked when he fell . . . but before I slide out of here, I thought I'd whine at you some: Cancel school on ice days. Please. I know the world doesn't look particularly menacing when it's just icy rain and not lots of the scenery-transforming white stuff, but believe me, it's a scary place out there just now.
limping back to school (by car this time),
Kate Rothwell
Summer Devon's second book
Two things about Summer's new book:
1. It's going to be available earlier than I'd expected--January instead of April.
2. It's got a cover. I really like it--posers, major man-titty and all. The mood fits a moment in the story, too.
I whined about another, earlier cover the art people sent me because I thought the posers' limbs were bizarre and both figures floated over the couch. (What is with that, anyway? is it matter of shadows?)
anyway. . . here's the new one.
The art department didn't tell me to stick my opinions where the sun don't shine. They didn't even politely ignore me. They actually changed the cover and anchored the characters on the couch. I think they're even going to change it again because the title doesn't have a capital "L". They caught that. I didn't.
I have to get a review copy to send to Mrs. Giggles because she inspired the story. Besides, she hasn't savaged Summer yet. ("Savage Summer" Now ther…
I don't like one of my character's name so I went hunting for a better one. I found two great tools.
This one actually helps with the names. Sort of.
here are the first four entries:
Able - totally useless.
Adam - not very bright and not very pretty, has almost mastered hygiene.
Adrian - usually short and very horny, watches cartoons
update: to prevent the appearance of a sexist blog, I'll also lift the first four women's names:
Abby - agony aunt, always willing to explain about your confused sexuallity.
Ada - blue haired, smells of wee.
Adie - quiet and shy, but when you get to know her .. quiet and shy.
Adrianna - eats like a horse yet incredibly scrawny, her girlfriends all hate her.
I just downloaded Babylon's little free tool and have been playing with it (messing about with translating into German, Swedish, Spanish and French--all in the same cute little window). So far I think it's great. We'll see…
ohhhh the weather outside is frightful
Walking to school rituals. . .
We sing every morning as we pass the giant tacky snowman ball in front of our neighbor's house. Inside the globe a manically grinning snowman family stands around under blowing white stuff. "Let It Snow" is written in christmasy font on the front of the snowball. We must sing. Too bad we don't know the lyrics.
A few houses down, Boy 3 and I pass the head-bobbing lit-up reindeer doe. More than a week ago I made the mistake of pointing out that it looked like a cat tossing up a hairball. Boy 3 must now make HURK HURK sounds as we pass that.
I love Christmas decorations.
This morning we added another ritual to the walk. We turned the corner and for the second day in a row, a blast of wind hit us. Whoa momma. Since the temperature is hovering at about 5 degrees, this is a big event. We yelled "Oh LAWSY!" yesterday and we did today, too. I feel sorry for the Hurricane Katrina evacuee who's staying across the street. he might have…
Does this scare the bejeebers out of you?
It should give you the kohlrahbis. Patriot act, my eye. Chunks are downright unpatriotic for a country that values personal freedom. I can't find a mainstream source about how political protestors are going to be shoved into special areas from now on--that's another fun aspect of the act I've seen mentioned on less reliable sources. And that protects us how?
When I was 16, my mother, her old Russian teacher and I visited the Soviet Union. We broke off from the tour group to visit a family my mother knew. When I started to say something in the apartment hallway, everyone at once made hushing sounds. My mother even put her hand over my mouth. Later on she explained that the family might get in trouble if it became known they had American visitors. . .
Right now it's too easy to imagine a scenerio like that in this country. Neighbors encouraged to turn in neighbors who have "foreign looking" people visiting them. I find that prospect far scarier than a bunch of Qu…
forget the politics, just check out the prose
The most breathtakingly snarky start to a political diatribe I've ever read.
Look, I'm going to make this simple. As simple as I can possibly make it. As simple as the laws of physics allow. I'm going to venture into the madness of the primitive mind, and make it "Dumbass Republican**" simple. I'm going to travel to far-off mental realms, and bring back a map to the Fountain of Simplicity. I'm going to board the U.S.S. Really Fucking Simple, and snag you a seat at the captain's table. I'm going to go to the Republic of Simple, and bring you back a T-shirt. I'm going to call up the Home Shopping Network, and buy you a goddamn Clue at the special sale price of one hundred thirty seven dollars, which is a good deal considering that they have less than two hundred cases left at that price.I am going to journey past the Singularity of Stupid that has lodged itself in the shared cortex of the planet, fighting the demons of Mental Craptitude that seek…
Some Days You're Music Hall, Some Days You're Not
Damn, I wish I'd saved my nub rant for SBD. Perfect one, huh? Anyway, the bitches have the subject of the nickname (Love Nubbin Jolie Pitt) settled. I'm using that phrase first chance I get. Maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll get sued and that'll give my book some fab publicity.
Another Attempt at SBD: romance schmomance
( or, I'll pass on the gothick, thank you)
I'm writing a book instead of cleaning the house. But my poor characters are going down, down for the third time.
I strive for more PG Wodehouse. ‘I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right deep down into life and not caring a damn…’
I want musical comedy. I strive for fluff. I believe in dark and light, but I prefer producing fluff.
Usually I can shape the same reality into any number of patterns. Even non-fiction romance can be messed with. Hey, I had the opportunity to observe a chunk of a marria…
An XXXX website ..warning, contains images!
Go on, click on the thumbnails. They're work-safe. No, I'm really not trying to get you fired.
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My boss called to say we're getting some new refugees--Turkish women.
I tend to scan the news for wars and unrest because I know that we'll be getting some in a year or so. And sure enough, we've gotten Darfur/Sudanese, Somalians, Liberians, Afghans, and, until a couple of years ago, Bosnians. But Turkey? Are there kurdish people there, too? because from my hazy knowledge of this stuff, kurds tend to be unpopular in a lot of places, kind of like Jews.** I assume they're not Jews because some group?? Jewish Family Services?? is extremely active (and amazingly good at their work) in this area and more likely to step in to help.
Something happen in Turkey in the last couple of years? I guess I better go google.
**I was a kid in DC, back when a synagogue near Connecticut Ave had a big sign that read "SAVE SOVIET JEWRY" Some…
don't eat somosas before bed
dream one--I went to Arkansas to help Mrs. H with her kids and she didn't want to see me. Another woman, I think it was Bronwhine, met me at the door. She announced we were going to a Harry Potter movie and that after the movie, she was driving me to England. Got to love dream geography.
dream two--an editorial assistant at a publisher called to tell me that there was no point in ever submitting to them again; they were cutting many of their authors. Oh, yes indeed, I was most definitely cut. I forgot to ask her if they were going to even publish the book I'd sent to them and they'd already accepted.
[insert big-ass space, indicating big-ass change of topic, here]
There is a whole lot of talk on the liberal blogs about this.--transportation of dead soldiers. I tried to imagine being one of the dead soldier's parents and I don't think I would feel outrage at the mode of transportation--where else could they put the corpses? It would be the boy's senseless death tha…
we's tough 'round here.
from today's Hartford Courant:
"It's pretty routine," West Hartford Town Manager Barry Feldman said. "If we can't figure out six inches of snow in New England, we all ought to move to Augusta, Ga."
I love Mr. Feldman. Seriously. The guy produces the best town council notes I've ever read. I'm going to start a Barry Feldman fan club (and I plan on remaining an active member even after I move to Augusta, Ga).
8 boring things about a rahthah boring day . . today
1. At 5:30 am, not a flake had fallen.
2. By 6:30 am, the schools had closed and there were at least two inches. (Now more'n 12")
3. I still haven't shoveled outside--inside, yes. Some of us still need to learn about taking off boots before wandering around the house.
4. What's with Children These Days? I have to shove boyz outside to play. I toss out the tobaggans and tubes. Lock the door. Scream "GO SLEDDING" through the keyhole.
5. That plastic shrink wrap stuff for insulating bad windows is extremely cool. It is kinda trashy for this neighborhood. . . Yet another advantage.
6. Boyz reappear within an hour, suffering from computer withdrawal.
7. I want more coffee.
8. Before I grind the beans, I will blast windows with brand new hairdryer. Dual purpose: gets windows smooth and drives boys from computer room. This window treatment makes me think about the past, too. That's always fun.
My Kids' Current Favorite Comic
( . . . and they love Harry Potter too. Love is not blind in this case.)
Dear Miss Manners
So here's a poser: You rat out your neighbors to an invading army--in fact you are the one to knock on their door with the soldiers behind you. You are directly responsible for your neighbors losing their home, their possessions, their freedom, their two sons who are still missing. Because you marked them as "enemy" (the wrong religion) the father is taken away, stripped, beaten and left for dead and ten years later is still something of a limping basket case. The rest of the family spends three years in prisons and then another five in refugee camps.
Skip ahead. . . Peace has come to the land. You still live in your house and the now ex-neighbors return to your town. What do you say when you see the father wandering around their old homestead--the house was burned to the ground, and the farm now belongs to one of the invaders?
"Hey, hello! How ya doin?"
Yup. You actually go up to the man and put out your hand to shake. Too bad the father can't really shake ha…
I blogged at Romance Unleashed
something of a whine of course.
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random thing:
Study Links Bake Sales, Weight Problems I mostly like the headline.
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R-(or X?)ratedrandom thing:
'k. I just read another historical romance (mainstream, as in not advertised as erotica) that had a long description of the guy's "manroot". Color, size, shape, texture--everything was dwelt upon in great detail. And for the woman? She had a "slit". Ha. Didn't even rate a delicate hued flower or tuna-scented lovenest.
And anyway, here's the thing, the vagina is the one part romance rioters go on about. "tight velvet sheathe." Granted, it's part of the package and plays a big role in those graphic love scenes, but since we're talking female pleasure and the female audience for romances, shouldn't there be excruciating detailed scenes starring the clit? Or at least a passing mention of size or something? Something more than "nub" What a word. Nub. (TMI-time: I've been…
I missed that Thursday thang
PBW and Monica marked Blog Against Racism day. So did Beth ("Please don't be a racist.")
For anyone who thinks that it's not a real issue these days, here's an article to help change your mind. Dang, I hope GAF takes its business elsewhere. Lovely if Walmart lost 50,000 dollah for obvious idiocy.
Chances are
Okay, so, what the heck kind of parent would name his/her kid "Chance" or "Slade"?
I've been sorting books in my house (moving them from plastic bags into cardboard boxes) and have discovered TWO of them feature heroes named Chance. What were those babies' parents thinking? Don't they know that every kid in elementary school is going to have at that little darling: Fat Chance! Slim Chance! Gack.
Even if the third graders don't take the bait later on in life, how do the parents come up with the names in the first place? Oh look honey, the little guy looks just like a slab of rock. Let's call him Slate.
In romanceworld, parents are always giving questionable names but they're not as bad as paranormalfantasyland where the parents just adore apostrophes. Ka'oht' Ton'k. Spe'w Fo'orth. K'la Onde R'cks
The absolute worst parents exist in spamville. I've looked through my undeleted spamfiles to bring you some of the best.…
map time
I keep seeing these things all over the blog world so I want one too. I just have to figure out where to put the little sucker.
In the meantime, I'll plop it down here. You can be the first and add yourself. I'm going to go to Jason's blog and look at his gorgeous photos of graveyards.
damn, now that's some FINE rejection stuff!
I'm quite the rejection letter connoisseur, and I must say I've been getting some good ones lately. I won't make the mistake of posting an editor's letter here again. Let's just say that the content of the letter is as good as the feedback you might get on contests.
It's more of a revise-this-and-we'll-look-again letter. And the stuff the editor points out? Wow, she's right.
Huh. She ought to do this editing thing for a living.
No, I'm not being a brown-noser. I happen to know that this nameless editor would never look at my blog. It's just kind of cool that sometimes a rejection is extremely useful--great advice from a professional for no cost, other than a moment's (or an hour's) sensation of "aw, damn".
I'm fond of that story, so chances are I'll actually get around to doing what she suggests. Some day. First I have to re-write all the crud I lost when the lap-top crashed. When that doesn't work, I'll have to cra…
I blogged TWO other places.
1. For left-wing ranty politics, please click here. Be warned, it's on the dailykos site and sometimes that place is just too far over the edge--and might have been influenced by the tone. Kate eyes ferfe nervously. Actually the only interesting part is a link to this story.
2. For a continuation (or perhaps the repetition) of the discussion of romance** as Rodney Dangerfield please click here.
More than enough Kate in the blogosphere, I'd say. I just got back from Bosnia and the ladies did NOT want to hang around long so we ended our day early. We went to an apartment, had cups of kill-me-now coffee and I came home as soon as I could. Now where did I put that bottle of TUMS?
** check the comments, particularly Bookseller Chick's.
well, it's one way to train the family
Thanks to Ari for the link to this auction.
the WINNER IS. . .
brace yourself, sock lovers. . .
A poignant slice of life--Can't get more poignant than wishing you weren't so different from your sisters. Slice of life? Line o' ants fits that bill. Click on the email thing on the right corner, Sam. Supply your footsize and tell me if you want a book too. Oh, and I'll need an address.
Robyn's entry would have been perfect, but the word-count went over 100.
Cheryl's also fit, but she has socks and anyway, she claimed it wasn't a real entry.
Heck--as usual, all of the entries were great. A round of applause! And the judge gets some chocolate.
Speaking of poignant, it's sort of piteous to think that my former guest the PIL will soon move out of the heavily drugged love stage. . . Or at least that's what these people say. Here's what I say: I'd buy stock in a company that produced Lurve in a nose spray.
and shark scribbles, too bad you're too late, because that really is poignant and a slice of life-…
why it works, SBD
It's all endorphins.
I'll bet I've said it before: romance can help what ails you. Everyone else has said it. Every conference I go to has a big name romance writer speaker who talks about the most horrible moments of her life with the climax of her speech being How Reading/Writing Romance Helped Her Through It.** We're all sniffling along with her and then uplifted at the conclusion. Yowza, talk about endorphins. (Not to mention the buzz brought on by sharing common experiences)
I was just yammering about Depression. and Embarrassment. those downers that we can revive with no effort. Sometimes it's like yawning. Just recall an incident and bang! you're in that state of mind vividly. (ever noticed that about certain words? Say "yawn" aloud and I bet you'll yawn within minutes. Say the word "lice" aloud and your head itches. I've never had lice and I have that response. Weird.) Anyway, those negative emotions are so easily accessed...we…
The Contest is Ending and Kate Does Depression
Only 13 entries? That is pah-thet-ick. But quality not quantity counts.
HEY go on. You have til midnight to enter.
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The Thanksgiving crowd is gone. I got a long email--half apologetic, half amused--from my niece who'd brought along the PIL. Next time the niece visits, she's going to bring along a friend who's never petted a dog or a cat. Can you imagine?
I'm not so sure Sooz the 70 lbs neuroto-pup is a good place to start pet patting, but that's between the niece and her friend.
Our dishwasher is relieved that the extra people are gone. The kids are in mourning. I did love having extended family here. They're such good extended family, too. My siblings have done a wonderful job with their kids.
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I'm grey, grey, grey. Glomming onto anything that is hopeless or sad and being very November about life. I'd like to give a miss to being a depressive, thank you. I'll take a cheery attitude for ten, please, Alex.
I wish I could use all this brain che…
We still have guests. Nieces and nephew and a niece's friend. The friend is young PIL**. It's been a long time since I've interacted with one of these and I must say, I'd forgotten what a bore they can be.
You'd think that a romance writer would be more sympathetic. Heck, I should probably sit the girl down and interview her. Does your heart actually beat faster when you see your adored one? Do you think of the object of your desire when you first wake up? Can you see anything interesting and not immediately think of how you're going to relate it to her? (they're PILLs**)
Fact is, I rarely see our houseguest. She's usually hiding in her bedroom IMing the object of her desire or talking to her on the phone. We're talking deeply, deeeeeeply in love. The guest has missed a couple of meals because of this obsession. She panicked when we went to the movie theater and discovered she didn't have her cell phone--turned out she did. And of course, part way…
Today's schedule--preparing for guests
1. Begin vacuum entire house.
2. Stop vacuuming when reaching boys' room because of huge mess on floor that they did not clean up even though I asked TEN TIMES over the last few days.
3a Begin to clean mess.
3b. Get mad and discouraged, leave vacuum cleaner in boys' room and decide to clean bathrooms instead.
4. Get wet cleaning shower stall, remember that I need shower.
5. Forget all towels still in laundry.
6. Walk, dripping and nekkid into bedroom.
7. Scream when dog puts cold nose on butt.
8. Dry off with clean unfolded bit of laundry.
9. V. cold from having no towel. Get dressed and make more coffee to warm up.
10 Check email.
12 Realise still need to pick up special order 28 lbs turkey from store closing early. Realise out of norvasc--contemplate fact that norvasc (newest of the godawful high blood pressure medications) sounds like some kind of missile treaty. Realise still need fair number of groceries. Wo…
Today's Blog Find
She gets a number of comments so the blog's not an undiscovered treasure that might bring out a possessive streak in some weirdos.
Hey, speaking of fab finds, what's the problem? You know you want those socks.Enter the contest, already.
enter if you dare.
1. contest ends a week from Monday . . . I mean November 28, because it's nearly Thanksgiving and we're going to have a bunch of people here. Three cousins and one cousin's friend will stay with us. On the big day we'll also get another family coming over. Lots of people and have I started to clean my house? nope. Will I? maybe. No refugees this year. I don't know anyone new any more.
2. maybe while I'm cleaning the pit of doom, I'll find the Billy and Blaze tape and will include that as part of the prize. It's read by David Cassidy. I have no idea how it ended up in our lives, but it's sure to be a collector's item fetching huge prices on ebay. Yours, if you enter and win the contest--and I find it. Don't forget you'll also win the Bosnian Socks, which now come with an informative pamphlet.
3. More rulz when I think of them. Void where prohibited by law.
Yep, this is the 200th post.
Private Life Check In
I'm printing out manuscripts. We're talking about half a box of paper, hundreds of pages, nearly three reams. Holy shit, I sure am a chatty person. My main emotion about the mountains of paper is embarrassment. Who are you to use up those natural resources? What makes you think your work is worth a minute of an editor's time? Naturally this is just a stage. Later on, when those editors send rejections, my outrage will be directed at them.
I'm telling you, the writer's lot is one of ego inflation, ego deflation and other really silly bits of torture, mostly self-inflicted.
Speaking of torture devices, have I mentioned my printer is 13 years old and cranky? It jams every 20 or so pages just to remind me who's in charge. I have to dissect it, fish out scraps of paper, reassemble it and then reassure it I love it. I do, too. HP Laserjet 4P, my fourth favorite baby.
As the stuff clunks out of the machine, I turn over and read random pages and immediately see how I coul…
eye rolling
The kids recovered from their temporary insanity. They felt the need to scream "SKILL CRANE" . I dunno. I suspect the moon was full.
I hid from them and read blogs. Right blogs, left blogs, black blogs, white blogs, big blogs and little blogs, par-tay blogs.
And now I'm the one who's insane.
From Bill O'Reilly to a standard vegfemPETA blog, everyone knows what's Good for This Country. And the other side? NOT TRUE AMERICANS. Nope, only if you're [fill in blank] can you be considered a TRUE AMERICAN. Guess what, Bill? A bunch of the people of San Francisco are truer Americans if only because they get the point--it's okay. We're all in it together.
a true American is on welfare
a true American joins the military after high school.
a true American works two shifts at the Colt factory then quits to join a cult.
a true American works 80 hours a week.
a true American owns three homes.
a true American knows all three verses of the star spangled banner.
a true Ameri…
my kids
They are driving me crazy. Pure up the wall and over the edge.
Time outs all around, but the longest one for the woman blithering quietly in the corner, yanking out tufts of her hair.
more veteran's day
I figure the best way to celebrate (and avoid work) was to actually read about what it's like to be a soldier so I wandered around that Operation Truth site a while.
I found blogs and other sites....and here's the summary: It's usually a really, really crappy job.
from one blog about the current war:
Counterinsurgency operations (COIN) present tons of challenges, not the least of which is how they complicate the moral calculus of killing.
A Soldier who fights in a high-intensity war against a uniformed enemy can confidently assume that every enemy soldier is a combatant, a threat, someone whom it's morally permissible to kill. That's why Soldiers don't fire warning shots; instead, they aim to "put two in the chest." People downrange are to be killed unless they surrender or become incapcitated.In contrast, a Soldier who is part of a security force in a situation where his mission is to protect the people and where a non-uniformed enemy hides among the pe…
"It sounded like a typewriter"
That's what a veteran said about the bullets hitting the side of his lander during World War Two. He didn't realize what the tapping was until a couple of hours later--which was just as well because he had to wade ashore through the rain of bullets.
It's Veteran's Day! Or Remembrance Day or Armistace Day. . .
To celebrate Veterans Day, here's a short list of sites run by veterans and/or soldiers' families that aim to make the troops veterans -- and not casualties.
bring them home now.
operation truth, advocacy
[note to anyone visiting twice: I took down one site devoted to collecting air tickets for military on leave because it had no activity after 12/04--not because it was pro-Bush policy]
veterans for peace
iraq veterans for peace
military families speak out
I'm supposed to be writing
Instead I'm thinking about the blog post I'm not going to write. No, no, stop me, I beg my computer Don't let me rant.
I lose readers when I rant. People email me to say, "I want to read your books but your political POV puts me off. I'll never read your stuff now." I understand that--hey I can sympathize with it.
Here's what I want to post but I know is inappropriate, alarmist and overwrought, not to mention so left-wing it makes my teeth hurt.
Chemical warfare[warning: link has graphic images],torture, secret prisons. Who's the bad guy again?
To stop myself from obsessing about this and getting to work (not to mention not posting this damned entry in a romance rioter blog, Teresa) I went looking for reassurance that we're really not a Bad Guy. First of all, the above methods seem to be seriously stupid actions in the circumstances--not the way to win the hearts and minds of a country we "liberated" and want to retain as an ally. But the re…
cold rain and a synopsis and more self pity
November in New England ... Feeeeeeeel my pain.
When my hard drive died, it took all my synopses with it. I mean honestly--who remembers to back up synopses? The agent wants to send out a book so I have to write another five pages or so about it. Oh lordy lord, I dislike producing a synopsis under normal circumstances but I know this means I'm going to have reread this book.
Can't I do something more palatable instead, like clean the boys' filthy bathroom with a toothbrush? Or the other task I'm avoiding -- trying to reconstruct the lost 200 pages of another novel.
Skip the second project. I'd much rather just grab the toothbrush and bleach and start scrubbing the grout. (I think an application of bleach behind the boys' toilet produces some dangerous chemicals. Seriously--ammonia and chlorine bleach? Didn't they use that in the trench warfare of WWI?)
Got a minute? You can go wish Teresa Bodwell happy birthday. You have to click the link to "Visit Teresa's LiveJournal" because it doesn't seem to have its own direct link. Hmmm.
Happy Birthday, TB.
Possessive ...Hey, that's my air you're breathing
Okay this is an astonishingly stupid quirk that has to go. We're talking a character flaw that I shall now reveal to the world.
I feel possessive of** the blogs I visit.
I'm adding booksellerchick to my list of blogs . . . and as I went swooping by to pick up her address I noticed that suddenly other people are visiting her and I think, hey, wtf? This is my blog. It's like going to my neighborhood Indian restaurant that was sort of quiet and suddenly there's a line waiting to get in.
Except it is nothing like that. I don't have to wait for a table--and the more people who contribute to a discussion the more interesting and livelier it gets. I know this. And the the wtf response doesn't last (well, at least until I notice that my blogger is over posting at other blogs and not at mine).
Never mind that it's not really my blog, that I don't really know the blogger and what the hell difference does it make. Just because I got to read Beth before most of the res…
SBD what is it with the food?
what I'll eat:
Really Good Category= twinkie-like sometimes it is home baked and the …
silver lining to the death of a computer
When you go to the back-up disks, you find old stuff you forgot about.
Here's a short story I wrote years ago. It was published in a now-defunct literary magazine and it's not romance. [eb--you've read it already] It won an award.
I loaded another short story at my website, a more recent one. That one is romance.
This hunting down and displaying old stories is almost like fun--I'm looking for my other short stories so I can put them on my site. I can't find my very favorite about a compulsive liar and her patient husband. It wasn't my best short story, but it was the first thing of mine ever published for cash** It appeared in the Monocacy Valley Review, yet another defunct literary publication. (I have the touch, eh?)
** Twenty-five dollars.
even more depressing than a dead computer
I finally finished reading Dude, Where's My Country?
Yeah, Michael Moore can be annoying. Scratch that--he is annoying. But if he's correct about even a single one of those accusations. . . even if the accusation is only partially correct . . .There are far worse things than being annoying.
The drive for money and power are apparently the only motivators for Bush and Co. What ugly souls they must possess.
Do I believe it all? I'd go look at the rebuttals that are plastered all over the internet, but just now I can't bear to read another sentence about the issue. Maybe later.
* * * * *
oh and this is the best answer ever for Cheney's love o' torture:
- Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon to Berthier 11 Nov 1798, Corres., V,…
The Long Day of Reconstruction
Jennifer--Watch out for that little stick. My once fabulously reliable fujifilm stick somehow got corrupted. I spent hours trying to work with it and it's really fried says the tech dudes.
Yeah, the hard disk isn't wiped, it's corrupted. I called a data recovery place and they said they'd do it for about $1000 a gigabyte, and just recovering one story would be about 400. They explained it's like reconstructing a shattered mirror, and they have to hunt around for the bits of things. The place I talked to does a lot of reconstruction for blue collar crime--cool junk.
Anyway, I sob in gratitude to the editors, my agent and crit partners who've emailed back copies I sent out to them. I'm reconstructing that way. I'm going to put everything in gmail again and I'm going to just have to corrupt--hmm, smash into pieces?--my poor boys by putting my stuff on this computer again. (I found one of them reading one of my stories on this computer and stopped sending…
bye-bye hard drive
bye-bye several hundred pages of stories, a couple hundred email addresses, photos of my family, every single work in progress I have.
I'm now going to take the hard drive out and put it in the freezer. My husband says that sometimes works. Wotthehell.
In the meantime, the boys will let me share this computer. They're scared of me just now so that should work out well.
Hard Drive Death Rattle?
We have the blue screen of death.
We have the expensive call into Dell Software types to make sure it's not Windows XP messing with my mind. (I did my blogging at the belfry while on hold.) Don't bother to ask: of course I haven't backed anything up this week.
This is the fourth time in two years I've had a laptop go south. Have I learned anything? Not enough, apparently. I might have lost 30-60 pages this time,** depending on whether or not Linda has the copy I sent her. That doesn't beat my old record of 80 pages of the unfinished Someone To Love going ffffffftttttt.
Damn. I don't haul the damn computer around any more. I treat it with kindness, consideration and a light touch. I keep it well stashed and away from boy and dog abuse when I'm not using it. Apparently this is not enough for Mr. Dell "OOooo She's lookin' at me funneeeeee" Inspiron Laptop.
I can't work. I might as well do Doug's meme. Lyn Cash's meme, really. Ms…
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Sermons - Kirby-le-Soken Evangelical Church
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Some of the sermons recently preached in our church can be accessed via the links below. If you just want to listen, you only need to click on the link (the underlined date). If you want to download, right-click on the link and choose the "Save Target As..." option to save the file to the desired location on your computer.
Recorded Sermons
Psalm 139 [Pastor Ken Houghten]
Luke 1:5-25 [Pastor Ken Houghten]
Luke 1:26-30 [Pastor Ken Houghten]
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Clumsys 2, The: Butterfly Effect Banzai Interactive / Gogii Games Corp. 2010
Like its predecessor, The Clumsys 2: Butterfly Effect is a hidden object game with adventure elements using time travel as the main theme. Once again, the inventor Albert Clumsy messed with history by using his time-traveling machine, and his daughter must revert all the paradoxical, anachronistic objects left throughout the timeline by the absent-minded professor. Each chapter takes place on a specific time period, where the objective is to collect all the items shown as blue-tinted images at the top of the screen. These objects are stored inside the inventory slots at the bottom, from where they can be dragged and dropped on logical places of the scenery to perform an action or complete a task. After deploying all the assembled inventory tools, the player has to finish the chapter by finding and collecting objects that don't belong to that time period. Besides the hint button at the bottom-left corner, that highlights the position of one of the required items, the game also provides three gadgets that can be built to help the player, all based on famous inventions. Fire replaces the cursor, burning brighter when near one of the objects. The x-ray shows all the objects hidden in the area for a few seconds. The time sight gadget gives a glimpse of the complete scene after all the items have been found. Some locations have mini-games, where a mechanism has to be manipulated directly to solve them. They can be optionally skipped after a few minutes.
Full Demo 162MB (uploaded by UberLamer)
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It helps to keep things in perspective and to have a good laugh, frequently. A good sense of humor, exercised regularly can help improve the quality of your life.
Enjoy the following, and please replace one of them with a joke that you've enjoyed:
• Idiot Sighting: "I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her couldn't understand why her system would not turn on."
• One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know. --Groucho Marx, quoted on Wikipedia
• Why did the chicken cross the road? responses in parody of famous people
• I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by. --Douglas Adams, courtesy of [1]
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Slamtastic #4 | Poetry Slam Wageningen
ma 22 oktober 2018 - 20:00
Monday the 22th of October we'll fill Loburg with word-wizards again. Come and check-out the one and only Wageningen POETRY SLAM!
Poetry Slam is a performative poetry competition in which the poets perform their own poems in 3 minutes rounds, judged by 5 jury members randomly picked in the audience. No costumes or music allowed (for the performers, you can totally come dressed as a unicorn if that is to your suiting!)
The Sacrifice: By host Donatella Gasparro
Round 1: No votes
Round 2: Votes
Round 3: Final (top 3 from round 2)
Monday the 22h of October, six slampoets are going to fight it out for the coveted title of "Slamtastic Champion #4", come and find out who will be crowned champion!
DATUM Monday the 22th of October, 2018
TIME: Doors open at 19:30, we start at 20:00!
ENTREE:: €5, can be paid in cash at the door
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Button Summary
Press this button to switch the number keypad to the opposite side of the game. (Lefties may prefer it on the left.)
The digit assistant is activated by this button. It will partially solve your puzzle using the easiest techniques, leaving the more difficult moves to you.
When the digit assistant is active, you may turn on auto answer.
You may turn the sound effects on or off with this button.
This button controls visibility of the timer.
Undo and Redo access your complete move history.
The eraser removes the answer or your notes, whichever is visible, in the selected (highlighted) cell.
This button will cause any wrong answers to turn red. You may then use undo to return to the point where you made your first error.
Use this button to change the pencil color for your answers.
This is the reset button. Your options are to reset the entire puzzle, reset the notes or reset the digit assistant.
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RSN -->
Real Soon Now
computing dictionary
(RSN) [Originally from SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in "BYTE"] 1. Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical.
2. When one's gods, fates, or other time commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath).
Acronym: RSN
(01 Jul 2002)
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Category Archives: Scripture
The thorn bush
One day the trees went out
to anoint a king to rule over them.
The olive tree answered them,
“Must I forgo my oil
which gives honour to gods and men,
to stand and sway above the trees?”
Then the trees said to the fig tree,
“Come now, you be our king!”
The fig tree answered them,
“Must I forgo my sweetness,
forgo my excellent fruit,
to stand and sway above the trees?”
Then the trees said to the vine,
“Come now, you be our king!”
The vine answered them,
“Must I forgo my wine
which cheers the heart of gods and men,
to stand swaying above the trees?”
Then the trees all said to the thorn bush,
“Come now, you be our king!”
And the thorn bush answered the trees,
then come and shelter in my shade.
If not, fire will come from the thorn bush
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.”
Judges 8:8-15
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments
Yahweh said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Be ready at dawn; at dawn come up Mount Sinai and wait for me there at the top of the mountain. No one may come up with you, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain; the flocks and herds may not even graze in front of this mountain.”
So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up Mount Sinai in the early morning as Yahweh had ordered. And Yahweh descended in a cloud and stood with him there and pronounced the name Yahweh. Then Yahweh passed before him and called out, “Yahweh, Yahweh, God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in faithful love and constancy, maintaining his faithful love to thousands, forgiving fault, crime and sin, yet letting nothing go unchecked, and punishing the parent’s fault in the children and in the grandchildren to the third and fourth generation!”
Moses immediately bowed to the ground in worship, then he said, “If indeed I do enjoy your favour, please, my Lord, come with us, although they are an obstinate people; and forgive our faults and sins, and adopt us as your heritage.”
2. “You will not cast metal gods for yourself.
7. “Three times a year all your menfolk will appear before Lord Yahweh, God of Israel, for I shall dispossess the nations before you and extend your frontiers, and no one will set his heart on your territory when you go away to appear before Yahweh your God three times a year.
9. “You will bring the best of the first-fruits of your soil to the house of Yahweh your God.
10. “You will not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.”
Yahweh then said to Moses, “Put these words in writing, for they are the terms of the covenant which I have made with you and with Israel.”
He stayed there with Yahweh for forty days and forty nights, eating and drinking nothing, and on the tablets he wrote the words of the covenant — the Ten Words.
Exodus 34: 1-28
These two tablets were carried in the ark of the covenant and placed in the holy of holies.
These the two tablets were carried in the ark of the covenant and placed in the holy of holies.
Note: Jesus does not ask us to follow these ten commandments, or any of the old law in the old testament. He asks us to love God with all our heart and mind and soul; and to love our neighbor as ourself. Everything else comes from this.
Babel undone
Now the Lord came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. “So they are all a single people with a single language!” said the Lord. “This is but the start of their undertakings! There will be nothing too hard for them to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another.” The Lord scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the town. It was named Babel therefore, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth. It was from there that the Lord scattered them over the whole face of the earth.
— Genesis 11:5-9
— Acts 2:1-4
Vengeance undone
“Adah amd Zillah, hear my voice,
Lamech’s wives, listen to what I say:
I killed a man for wounding me,
a boy for striking me.
Sevenfold vengeance is taken for Cain,
but seventy-sevenfold for Lamech.”
— Lamech speaking in Genesis 4:23-24
Then Peter went up to him and said, “Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times? Jesus answered, “Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.”
— Matthew 18:21-22
The Suffering of Jesus
“More than the other evangelists, Luke presents Jesus as the pattern man, and the Christian life as, through the Spirit, the imitation of Christ. This is particularly true of Luke’s treatment of the story of the passion. The New Testament as a whole does not present the crucifixion in such a way as to appeal primarily to our feelings, and certainly does not exploit them. The actual sufferings of Christ are not underlined in the way that we might expect when we remember that, as the New Testament itself shows, the Christian life was practically defined (by the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter) as a sharing in the sufferings of Christ. It is not the actual physical (or mental) sufferings of Christ which are emphasized in the Gospels, but the shame of Israel’s rejection of her Lord.”
The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible: The Gospel According to Luke by E.J. Tinsley; p 11
Day 3: Maria of the Seas
Rena as Stella Maris
Genesis 1:1-10; 1635 Douay
Genesis 1:1-10; Clementine Vulgate
English: Sea (singular), Seas (plural)
Latin: Mar (singular), Maria (plural)
Blessed is the One Who Finds Wisdom
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom,
and the one who gets understanding,
for the gain from her is better than gain from silver
and her profit better than gold.
She is more precious than jewels,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Long life is in her right hand;
in her left hand are riches and honor.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace.
those who hold her fast are called blessed.
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth;
by understanding he established the heavens;
by his knowledge the deeps broke open,
and the clouds drop down the dew.
Proverbs 3:12-20; ESV
The Sending of the Twelve
Sending of the Twelve
Mark 6:7-13; JB
Conversion of St. Paul
The Road to Damascus by Brian Doc Reed.
The Road to Damascus by Brian Doc Reed.
Acts 26: 12-18; JB
Jews and Christians: Separate Ways to the Father
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II at the Western Wall
—Ephesians 2:13-18; JB
Psalter Week 2: Friday Scripture Reading
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• Seeing Carl Mille’s Manniskan och Pegasus for the First Time, and: El cielo se está cayendo/The Sky Is Falling, and: Cloud Watching
• Natalie Diaz (bio)
Seeing Carl Mille’s Manniskan och Pegasus for the First Time
Slottsparken, Malmö, May
Had you never ridden your bike to the bar across the street from my apartment, had the sun not fallen like a library on fire, had I not watched and been filled with the orange flicker of melancholy,
had the thickening light in the bar not been honeyed, and had you not turned so sweetly-gold beneath it, had I not imagined the throb of some distant desert hive, not confused it with taste,
had your lips not curved like a bow bent with ache and trembling for an arrow, had you not pulled the glass to your mouth so slowly, and your lips, had they not worn the syrupy sting of Port like a dress made of inferno,
had there not been a drop of the Oresund in your eyes, not a glimmer of salt, not a rise or swell of wave, had there been no wet ships tossing within them, no wing of sail, no mast, no boom,
if only your wrists had been unbeautiful, as you pulled your hair back had there been no purple ribbons spilling into your palms, had I never asked, and had you said, No, I rode my bike here, then, had I not walked you home,
had the night not looked like a cracked sapphire, had the stars been less like tusks and narrowed eyes and had I not waited for shadows to rush over us like a herd of dark animals, had they not howled
until I touched your hand, had I known the word for castle, had you never turned in along the red paths of Slottsparken to show me the statue of a man and Pegasus—
had each not been so blue, and had we not wondered, had we known, if they were flying or falling, in that moment, had there been a difference between those things, had there been more space between us,
had the water not jingled like American dimes against the steps, had the ducks not slept like slick stones, had I not seen the shape of your throat in the lamplight, had you not whispered the reasons why you couldn’t kiss me,
and then had we not kissed, had your tongue not been like a garnet slipped into my mouth, had I not deepened like a mine, I still would have looked out the window of the bar [End Page 63]
on Copenhamnsvagan, across the street from my apartment, through each silvering day, into each broken open evening, waiting for you to ride past on your blue bike, bright scarf flying—
so I could wonder your name and finally know what Carl Mille meant, they were falling—both of them, the one with wings, the one without.
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El cielo se está cayendo/The Sky Is Falling
¿Qué te cuento sobre el río? ¿Qué vine a él con mi vida arruinada?
¿Qué se puede decir de las aves? ¿Qué arrancaron el vientre del cielo como si el cielo fuera una piñata de burro azul?
¿Por qué decir algo? Las nubes han comido las estrellas.
Y esto es tristeza— un azul sin comienzo ni final.
Todavía te puedo partir hasta tu luz amarilla. Devorarte mientras el cielo se abre desde el hueso de la cadera plateada y mil grullas se caen al río oscuro llorando.
What story can I tell you about the river? That I came to it with my ruined life?
What is there to say about the birds? That they tore open the belly of the sky like the sky was a piñata of a blue donkey?
Why say anything? The clouds have eaten the stars.
And this is sadness— a blue without beginning without end.
Still, I can split you to your yellow light. Devour you while the sky is opened until its silver hip bone and one thousand cranes fall crying to the dark river.
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Software Update #2
We are thru Phase #1 of RaceDay2.0 build with a stable databases that will support both of the Databases required, Master Athletes and Event Athletes.
Phase #2 is courrently 80% complet with Phase #3 about 50% complete. We found that working on both of these phase were required.
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How to avoid blue ticks in WhatsApp
In WhatsApp blue ticks indicate that someone has received and read your message. Once they have read your message you expect them to respond immediately. The same goes for people that send you a message, they expect an immediate response. What if you do not want to respond immediately or do not want someone to know you have read their message? Continue reading
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LP, the Larch Prover -- The complete command
The complete command provides a method of forward inference that extends the critical-pairs command.
<complete-command> ::= complete
The complete command enlarges LP's logical system by adding consequences of facts already in the system. It operates by computing critical pair equations between rewrite rules in the system, orienting them into new rewrite rules, and iterating this procedure until there are no further nontrivial critical pair equations.
When LP's logical system consists solely of active, nonimmune, quantifier-free equations and rewrite rules, the complete command attempts to transform the logical system into a convergent set of rewrite rules that has the same equational theory. The completion procedure is based on the Peterson and Stickle extension of the Knuth-Bendix completion procedure.
LP terminates the completion procedure if the current conjecture reduces to true.
A convergent rewriting system can be used to prove theorems by normalization using the prove command or to reduce terms to a canonical form using the show normal-form command. The completion-mode setting controls the operation of the completion procedure. You can interrupt and resume the operation of the completion procedure.
See also proofs by consistency.
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Scarlett Johansson for Mango F/W 09/10
I know that objectively it's not the best campaign in the world, but I can't help it. I like Scarlett, I like her new haircut and I'm starting to like Mango more and more with every month I'm spending in Spain.
Brand: Mango
Season: F/W 09/10
Photographer: Mario Sorrenti
Model: Scarlett Johansson
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44 Class
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The New South Wales 44 class locomotives were one of the first locomotives built by A. E. Goodwin in the Alco tradition. One-hundred of these DL500B units were built. Introduced in 1957, these locomotives have served every part of NSW, from services in the North and South, to the Indian Pacific. These units are very similar to the South Australian Railways 930 class. They have Alco 251 engines, which develop 1,450 kW (1,940 hp). With driving cabs at both ends, the front ('A' end) of the locomotive had a rounded nose (however not as round as the Clyde/GM "Bulldog nose" type) and a flat nose at the 'B' end. An automatic staff exchanger was fitted to allow the electric train staff to be exchanged at speed. Most of the class were withdrawn in 1994, but many have been retained for further use by many other freight companies, and some have been preserved.
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Sandcastles by the Sea
If we build sandcastles by the ocean’s edge, they will get washed away. All that we “build” in this world will be washed away by time. That is the very nature of this place. We should seek to build eternal structure in our life. It is entirely possible.
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Power, Love and Self control
Seated at the feet of the Lord, as you reflect upon pursuing peace in your life, in the words of the apostle Peter, may grace take you from where you are to where God wants you to be in your life, for His word declares that, The one who loves life and desires to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn from evil to do what is good; let him seek peace and pursue it. [1 Peter 3:10,11]
God wants you to experience peace that is wholeness in your being, your spirit, soul and body, for a lack in one aspect of your being could always trickle down to affect the other parts of it. A weakness in your soul, is invariably reflected in your body, and vice versa. But God wants you to prosper in all that you do, as you are planted and rooted in His word and in His house. It is a covenant of peace that He has made with you, one that requires you to put your faith in it, as He remains faithful to His covenant that is everlasting. The rudiments of the covenant come to you with clarity, in the words of the prophet Ezekiel to settle you and give you peace that removes all unrest from within you.
The covenant of peace :
Moreover I shall establish a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God and they will be My people. [Ezekiel 37:26,27] It is eternal and everlasting for you have an eternal God, who loves you with an everlasting and unchanging love. And this peace is also connected to prosperity, for it is one that sees a removal of all lack, that disturbs your inner well being, to bring wholeness.
It comes to you as you are planted by streams of living waters, as the psalmist has described. [Psalm 1:3] And, in the new covenant, one that the Lord has inaugurated and established through the one perfect sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary, it signifies the Holy Spirit that you and I receive in our salvation. And, the undisputable truth is that it is impossible to live a victorious Christian life, without the empowering of the Holy Spirit. It is needed in every aspect of your being, in your spirit, soul and body. For, when the work of the Holy Spirit is understood wrongly and is limited to external physical manifestations alone, it will find you missing out on many of the things that God has kept in store for you. The Lord Himself has described what the Helper, the Holy Spirit of God would do as you yield completely to be led and guided by Him.
The work of the Holy Spirit in you :
He will guide you into all truth, the Lord has said, to also add that, He will also glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. [John 16:14] And, how it all works out in you is that He gives you a revelation of the truth of God, to then also relate it to your circumstance very specifically, and also remind you of the truth, bring it to your remembrance at the appropriate time, when you need a word in season. He is your ever present Helper, who will never leave you or forsake you. Being sensitive to His still small voice is what is required of you, to progress and prosper in your life.
How does the Holy Spirit help you ?
The apostle Paul, in the understanding of the Spirit, was able to give Timothy wise counsel that would help him to arise and shine, to fulfill God’s call upon him, saying, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and self control. [2 Timothy 1:7] And, why does he say so ? It is to stir up the gift of God in him, through the laying on of his hands, Paul has said in the previous verse, in order to do something that God had called him to do. For, even when it comes to your life, it is in whatever that you do, that you prosper. It is not in the planning, but in the building of a house that you encounter challenges, that hinder you from doing it.
In the life of Timothy, it was his timidity that stood in the way of doing what he was called to do by God. A shrinking back from what he was called upon to do, was what Timothy was in danger of succumbing to. It was a spirit of cowardice that needed to be dealt with spiritually, instead of hiding behind an excuse of having been born with an introvert nature. Every human being has a spirit, soul and body, and all the three are interconnected.
And Paul knew that it was a spirit of fear that Timothy needed to be delivered from; and the alternative antidote, the gifting of the Holy Spirit, was already in him. That was the truth that he needed to be reminded of. Even in your life today as a child of God, the same truth needs to be applied in the face of challenges that arise when it comes to doing what God has called you to do. The Holy Spirit is in you, and therefore, whatever you do through Him you will prosper. For, He who is in you is greater than anything that can come against you.
Describing the Holy Spirit :
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of power, love and self control, is the truth that the word of God sets forth, in order to combat and overcome the spirit of fear, which can try to take control in any person, to paralyze them from doing what God has called them to do. It is described with specific clarity, for fear can come in you when you are weak, when you are insecure, and when things are not in control in your life. And the Bible is the book of truth, honestly declaring that fear can come in a person, when he feels weak in any way, even if he occupies the position of a king, with an army under him.
a. Fear – in times of weakness :
And Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout Judah. [2 Chronicles 20:3]Being a king, involves responsibilities and its’ share of challenges that can arise at any time. It is what happened in the life of King Jehoshaphat, as enemies came against him. But he did the right thing, as he turned to the Lord, in faith. For, when you are afraid, and you are looking at Christ, you are looking in the right direction. It is a valuable principle that needs to be imbibed and applied, for the faces of those who look to Him will never be put to shame. And, in a time of great challenge, he prayed a purposeful prayer, not a prayer of panic.
Maybe in your life today, there are people who are pursuing you, seeking to harm and trouble you. But what you need to do is to look ahead at Christ, for He who is in you is greater. The enemy may be strong, but the Holy Spirit of God will do His work of grace in your heart to lead you and guide you in your troubling circumstance, to remove any fear that may have entered in, and make you strong.
b. In a time of urgency –> fear –> weakness :
It was the experience of another king. Hezekiah was surrounded by enemies, and found himself in a situation that demanded urgent action to be taken, but it led to fear in him that depleted his strength and made him weak. The comparison that he makes in his words to the prophet Isaiah paints a very eloquent picture of his condition, depicting very clearly the urgency of it. They said to him, ‘Thus says Hezekiah; this is a day of distress, of rebuke and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver’. [2 Kings 19:3]
It was a time that needed urgent and immediate action, just as the birth of a baby cannot be postponed, but there was no strength to accomplish it. It can happen in your life and mine too, when surrounded by many problems that cause distress and despair. And, you may know that something has to be done, know what the action that has to be taken is, and yet, not have the strength to do it. But with the Holy Spirit in you, fear need not overwhelm you, even in such a situation, for God has not given you a spirit of fear.
You are never helpless or without hope, no matter how dire the situation is. For, with the Holy Spirit in you, you are like a tree planted by streams of living waters, and therefore, whatever you do shall prosper. And the classic example of fear induced weakness is what happened in the life of the prophet Elijah, when the threat that came through a single person drained all his energy and strength, to make him flee in fear, and pray that he may die.
c. Faced with an ungodly threat –> fear –> weakness :
Until then he had listened to the voice of God, to stand against nine hundred false prophets, but Jezebel’s vindictive message, made him pray a prayer, that God in His love, chose not to answer ! And Elijah was a man just like you and I, the Bible records. For, in times of desperation, and fear, sometimes you and I also end up praying silly prayers, saying words that we do not really mean. But, you have a loving Father who knows what you need in life, and has the best plans for you. To Elijah, God’s blessing was to energize and fill him with power, showing him that he had a long way to go, for there were things he needed to do that would prosper, the anointing of kings and also of Elisha.
1. Holy Spirit – the Spirit of power :
And, even in your life, God has a powerful answer for weakness that comes through fear. It is the Spirit of God who is power. You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, was the promise of the Lord, before His glorious ascension. It is the ability that is in you when you are a child of God. The Holy Spirit indwells you, and you do not have to wait to experience a physical feeling of it, in order to know that you are anointed. It is in the knowledge of the truth that you act, trusting and relying on the Spirit, and God’s word to see all that you do prosper even as God sustains you, keeping you strong. Stephen, the apostle was a young man, filled with the Spirit of God.
And how did the presence of the Holy Spirit manifest in him ? When he stood before the Sanhedrin, to be questioned, it was the Spirit of God who gave him the intelligence and wisdom, as he spoke to them with courage, and an absence of weakness and fear. [Acts 6:10] The early church faced persecution, even as the church does today, and will continue to do so, for proclaiming their faith in Lord Jesus. But the disciples gathered together to pray, not for the removal of persecution, but for boldness, so that they would not shrink back in fear, when it came to proclaiming the gospel. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. [Acts 4:31]
There will be times in your life when the challenges that arise cannot be bypassed. You need to go through them trusting in the Breaker who goes ahead, the One who removes hindrances. And, it is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of power, who gives you the strength to do it, without giving room to fear that leads to weakness in you. Your calling and gifting has come to you from God. And as the old Sunday school chorus goes, what the world has not given to you, the world cannot take away.
The gifting and calling of God are irrevocable. All it requires from you is to walk in it, doing what you need to do, something that only you can do. And in the Spirit’s power you can do it to experience prosperity that is wholeness and peace in your life. Fear can rear its’ ugly head, when you are weak spiritually, mentally or physically. But in knowing and walking in the truth that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of power is in you, you can overcome it victoriously, to prosper in what you do, and accomplish the purposes of God.
2. Holy Spirit – the Spirit of love :
Insecurity in any area of your life, can open the door for the spirit of fear to cause havoc and keep you from doing what you are called to do in your life to prosper and fulfill your divine calling. But, greater is He who is in you, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of love that conquers very fear that stems from a feeling of insecurity. Now hope does not disappoint us, for the love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. [Romans 5:5]
And the word of God further on declares, Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [Romans 8:37-39] Paul’s blessed assurance is yours too, as a child of God. Nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in you through the Holy Spirit. And, knowing and finding your rest in this powerful truth is vital, when it comes to facing challenges in your life, which can otherwise make you fearful.
As you may have observed, people tend to be afraid and restless, with no peace in them when their job is temporary and insecure. They can wake up disturbed and afraid each day wondering whether they would have a job waiting for them, when they go to work. But, the truth of the matter is that anything that can be taken away from you, can never be your security in life. It could be your employment, your finances, your house, your relationships, titles and position that you enjoy that can suddenly see an ‘ex’ becoming their prefix, and the list goes on.
It is why the Lord praised Mary for choosing what was better, what cannot be taken away from her, as she sat at His feet to listen to His word. Even today it is the word of God, the promises that come to you from Him, that are your true security in life. They ought to remove any doubt and fear that can arise in you, as you look at your situation. But, it is not always so easy, human as you are. It is illustrated in the words of the Lord Almighty as He lovingly rebukes His people for doubting His care of them, saying, ‘Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my just claim is passed over ?”. [Isaiah 40:27]
The psalmist too, expresses the doubts and fears that can come in a person, because of negative circumstances, that can try and override the knowledge of God’s love in him. The seventy seventh psalm to begin with, records an outburst of questions from him, that are poured out at the feet of the Lord, saying,
Will the Lord cast off forever ?
And will He be favorable no more ?
Has His mercy ceased forever ?
Has His promise failed forevermore ?
Has God forgotten to be gracious ?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies ? [Psalm 77:7-9]
But after these questions of anguish, he progresses to hope, to remember the greatness of God, and the mighty wonders that He had worked out in the past, on behalf of His people, to show Himself strong and to redeem them from the hand of the enemy. [Psalm 77:10-15] It lays down the principle that you and I need to apply too, when circumstances threaten to overwhelm you, and to doubt the all consuming love that God has for you. For, He has said that He will never leave you nor forsake you, that His grace and mercy is upon you for a thousand generations, and that all His promises are ‘yes’ and ‘amen’ in Christ Jesus.
Abraham’s imputed righteousness and blessing is yours too today, as you put your trust in the God who raised our Lord Jesus from the dead. God remembering Sarah, in no way implies that He had forgotten her, but only serves to show that at the right time He intervened in her life, to bless her with the son of promise. Human beings may disappoint you, and fail to keep their word to you. But ‘Am I a man that I should lie ? Will I say and not do ?’ says the Lord Almighty in His word. Nothing compares to the promise you have in Him. ‘How can I give you up, O, Ephraim, I am God, not a man’, is the proclamation of His faithful love and compassion upon you. [Hosea 11:8,9] Therefore, when doubts arise in you to make you insecure and fearful, all you need to do is to start talking to God in prayer, for His love that removes any insecurity in you, has been poured into your heart through the Holy spirit.
What does the Spirit do in your weakness ?
When in your weakness and fear, you do not know what to pray, or have the strength to pray, the Holy Spirit starts doing His work of grace in you, as Paul describes, Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. [Romans 8:26] It is what the Holy Spirit does in you, and the word of God in the same passage adds to say, Who is he who condemns ? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, and also makes intercession for us. [Romans 8:34]
Thus, with the Holy Spirit and the risen Lord interceding on your behalf, how can you not prosper in what you do ?! Therefore, when in your insecurity, fear tries to gain control, it is by praying in the Spirit, that His love is poured in your heart, to build you up and remove fear. [Jude 20,21] The counsel of Jude connects to the truth of God, in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, which declares that when you speak in an unknown tongue, you speak mysteries unto God. [1 Corinthians 14:2] They are mysteries that guard you in the love of God, and build you up in your faith.
Therefore, you do not have to cringe and shrink from challenges that you face, for the Holy Spirit is always a step ahead. Nothing misses the eye of God. And when you pray as the Spirit leads you, you will find that you are well prepared for the circumstances of life, in order to do what you need to do and also to prosper, or be victorious. It was the truth that Paul himself experienced and proclaimed on a perilous and stormy voyage in the sea, when everything seemed out of control !
3. Holy Spirit – the Spirit of self-control :
‘For there stood by me this night, an angel of the God to whom I belong and I serve, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar, and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you’. [Acts 27:23,24] When things are out of control in your life, fear can creep in. It is what is implied in the words of Paul on the ship, as he narrates the words of the angel of God to his fellow travelers. He was the man who wrote almost half of the New Testament; he had been taken up to the third heaven. But, on the boat Paul had experienced fear, and also the comfort of God !
They had lost all hope, and the circumstance was dire, for the storm was still raging. But in the midst of it, Paul stood up to say, ‘Do not fear, for the Lord has shown favor to me and to all of you’. And he took bread and broke it, and all on the boat partook of it, eating food after many days. It symbolized not that one particular meal, but pointed all the way back to Calvary, where on the night that He was betrayed, the Lord broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples saying, ‘Take eat; this is My Body, broken for you’. It was broken, so that you can be made whole. It is the magnificent and majestic truth of the old rugged Cross.
The God of all control :
Your life may seem irretrievably broken right now. But do not fear. For, in your brokenness God is going to bring about a beautiful wholeness. Therefore, when everything lies broken around you, and everything seems out of control in your life, like Paul, be the person who stands on the deck to declare what the Lord has accomplished on the Cross of Calvary, crying victoriously, ‘It is finished’! Everyone wants to be in control. In life though, there is more beyond your control, than what you can control. But, there is nothing beyond the control of God ! He is the God of all control. There may be a storm outside, but you have the Holy Spirit inside you. Therefore,be encouraged ! In the middle of the storm, Paul stood up to break bread and proclaim their deliverance and safety, all because of what Christ has already done on the Cross.
Self control – the fruit of the Spirit :
An apple tree does not have to struggle to bear an apple fruit; it is what comes naturally to it. And, self control is the fruit of the Spirit that is expressed in and through you, as you stay yielded to the working of the Holy Spirit in you. It is He who leads you, guides you and empowers you. Therefore, what is supernatural will become natural to you, when self control is in you, as the fruit of the Spirit.
And even in the storm, you can arise to stand on the deck, to give thanks unto the Father, for everything is in control, His control. You have been given a Spirit of power, love and self control, and not a spirit of fear. Let all unhealthy fear be gone from within you. There is no more room for fear in you. But, there is plenty of room for the power, love and sound mind, which is from God. Therefore, Let the weak say I am strong, and let the poor say I am rich, can be your anthem of faith. It is because of what God has done, for giving you His Son, and through Him, the Holy Spirit, to fill you with His power, love and sound mind. And, let all that you do in your life prosper, for the One who causes it to prosper is abiding in you.
In the Name of Christ Jesus Amen .
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Here are links to documents relevant to the 2018 HUD CoC grant funding process for Guilford Continuum of Care (NC504).
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Not a good night..
Got there at matt's game at 9:30pm, bought in for 200, down to 100 in like 20mins, bought in for another 100, played another 1 hour without winning a hand. finally had about 120 left, and Uncle bob raised to 15, I looked down at AA, i made it 45, and lil fag tilt called my 45, he's always on tilt!. and Uncle bob called too of course. flop Q87, check to me, of course i went all in for my last 70ish? called and called, turn Q, river 8, I ended up having the 3rd best hand. uncle bob showed AQ and lil fag flashed the "8". and my AA got cracked by 2 people. After that, I got up and left, down 300. frustrating night. nothing went right.
on my way driving home, I was thinking about why I always seem to need to at least reload if not rebuying fairly quickly with my first buy in. I need to fix this leak, I need to copy something from Mailman's poker book, he always seem to last forever with his initial buy in. He told me he almost never goes 2 buy-ins deep, he doesn't bring more than 2 buy-ins to cash games. For me, 2 buy-ins seem like nothing.
Also, it's tough to play 2 different stakes of games. I'm just starting to get comfortable at the 2/5 with raise sizes and pot sizes, now I feel I play too loose at the 1/2 - mainly calling too many raises with marginal hands like 97o. I mean it's only 12 bucks after all? that's a min raise at the 2/5. And before I know it, i'm down to like half of the buy in. Need to adjust to the different stakes. of course the online .5/1 NL doesn't go well either. It's only 3-4 dollars raise preflop! of course I'm calling with any 2 cards and it shows on my results why it's not good to do that.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
WIP Diablo 2 Amazon CG
Still need to add in atleast 30 flaming arrows firing in the background, finish the lightning effect, refine the shadow and light, finish the background with effects, and yeah... a lot still left to do.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Sforzinda and Utopia
Although the Quattrocento architects, and Leon Battista Alberti all proposed ideas for comfortable and habitable cities, they were not nearly as fervid as Filarete’s pursuit towards an ideal city. As a result, Sforzinda is perhaps the best example of utopian city planning from the renaissance period. In Filarete’s Trattato di Architettura (Treatise of Architecture), Sforzinda, the ideal city named after his patron reflects the epitome of utopian ideologies of the time. With clear influences from antiquity, Filarete fluently designed his ideal city embodying the views and virtues that philosophers of the past taught. This essay would first talk about the history behind Filarete and Sforzinda. Then through the analysis of the proposal in relations to the utopian concepts of Plato; Pythagorean; as well as modern day utopian ideologies; Sforzinda can then be proven to be an attempt in creating utopia.
Though more famously known as Filarete, it however was not his birth name. Born as Antonio di Pietro Averlino, the name Filarete, was adopted later, meaning the ‘lover of virtue’. While in Rome, he created what was probably his most important work in sculpture; the bronze doors for St. Peter’s basilica (c.1433-45). According to the Oxford Dictionary of Art; the doors show clear resemblance to his mentor Lorenzo Ghiberti’s style. However the craftsmanship was poorly done, in which “Vasari called them ‘deplorable’”[1]. In 1448, Filarete fled Rome under the suspicion of stealing holy relics. After temporarily staying in Venice and Florence, he eventually settled in Milan in 1451. In Milan, he would create his most well-known work, the Trattato d’Architettura, in which Sforzinda, the first symmetrical and centralized city planning of modern day would unravel.[2]
While trying to find a job as an architect in the courts of the Duke of Milan, Filarete wrote a 25 volume treatise on architecture, calling it Trattato di Architettura. It was probably due to the influence of Leon Battista Alberti’s architectural treatise that Filarete wrote his, in hopes of presenting the Duke of Milan with an impressive portfolio. Inside the 25 volumes of Filarete’s treatise, the most famous would be his proposal for the city of Sforzinda, named after his patron Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan at the time. It is because Sforzinda is a completely fictional city, which gave Filarete absolute freedom to create the city, and embody it with the utopian mentality of his time.
Just like the tales told by Marco Polo to Genghis Khan in The Invisible City, Sforzinda was aimed to present the Duke of Milan with an idea of what an ideal city could be, thus serving as a model on how Milan could be improved according to Sforzinda if Filarete was made the chief architect. Also, since the ideal city was named after the patron, it also decorates the duke with honour, just as mentioned in the Collage City by Rower and Koetter, “the ideal city of the Renaissance was primarily a vehicle for the provision of information to the prince; and, as extension of this, it was also an agent for the maintenance and decorous representation of the state.” [3] But before going into the organization and planning of inside the city walls, the shape of Sforzinda must first be analyzed.
The shape of the city takes the form of the city walls, which are essentially stacked square shapes, forming the shape of a star. What strikes one’s interest is the need for such distinctive or iconic shape. Filarete explains in his treatise that such a shape is employed for the sake of defense. Because the walls are angled, it provides great defensive opportunities for the defenders of Sforzinda. Suppose an army was to scale the walls, then they would be exposed to two sides of the wall (as depicted in the image: Defense of Sforzinda), as well as siege engines would not be able to destroy the angled protruding walls.[4] The need for such great emphasis on defense is probably a result of the many battles fought by Francesca Sforza for the Papal States, since Renaissance Italy was in constant war. Because maximum efficiency for the city wall would mean that it had to be concentric, the general plan as shown in his drawings is akin to the traditional structures of medieval cities, where the castle and cathedral would occupy the centre due to their importance. Therefore, by placing the castle in the middle of the city, it would symbolize the absolute power the patron has over the city, for from the centre, the patron would have entire view of his city. However, Filarete takes this idea of centralized power even further by placing the “Tower of Vice Virtue” in the center. Vice and virtue, being on the opposite ends of the spectrum
The idea of the centralized surveillance would be imitated also by Social Utopians during the industrial revolution, such as the idea of the Panopticon, where from the watch tower; the entire complex could be surveyed (as shown in image: Tower of Surveillance). One other project that share similar principles is the Royal Salt-Works at Arc-en-Senans by Claude Nicholas Ledoux. Although the Salt-Works is not entirely identical in form, for it was not an entire circle in the final design, the first proposal was circular. It was initially envisioned as a new ideal city, where the labourers could be easily put under surveillance, as to insure the efficiency and quality of the tasks done. The similarity in social structure between Sforzinda and the Salt-Works, where both are ultimately governed in an authoritarian way, suggests that there is a shared utopian vision.
“Plato’s suggestions in the Republic and the Laws for a well-governed city, social regulation, and educational reform were the ultimate roots of all Renaissance utopias…”[5] From the Republic by Plato, he believed that in order to achieve utopia, there must be an order to the cosmos, and within the cosmos, law and order that governs each person. First of all, there are three essential levels to society; the authority, the soldier, and the producers. The authority would rule and write the laws, the law soldiers would enforce the law and defend the state, and the producers would provide goods for the state. If any of the roles was badly performed, then the state would ultimately be lead to its undoing.[6] Likewise, when writing about Sforzinda, Filarete carefully outlines the city even going as far as to design the detail of the garments of its citizen, so that each societal class is well represented.
Surprisingly, the programming inside of the city was relatively empty. Aside from placing where the cathedral and castle would be, the next thing that Filarete seemed to be intrigued by was the design of the labyrinth, or garden as he would call it. “The garden was laid out as is described here. First of all [it was] a square of three thousand braccia (approx. 26-27 inches) and divided into seven parts, one hundred land braccia wide…It says that there was a square of one thousand braccia on each side which was reduced to a circle. This, in turn, was laid out like a map of the earth. All the streams flowed in and flowed out from the centre of this.” From Plato’s Timaeus, the shape square represents the element of earth, which would be elaborated further later in the essay.
“The story of the classical utopia of c.1500 scarcely requires inordinate explanation. A city of the mind, ultimately compounded of Hebraic apocalyptic and platonic cosmology, its ingredients are never far to seek; and, whatever other pre-disposing causes one might choose to find, fundamentally, one will still be left with either Plato heated up via the Christian message of the Christian message cooled down via Plato. Whatever qualifications may be added, it will still be Revelation plus The Republic or the Timaeus plus a vision of the New Jerusalem.”[7] Rowe and Koetter argue that the concept of utopia at the time of Filarete is one that embraces the harmonious relationship of the cosmic to the world and to the body as described in the platonic cosmology. According to Plato’s The Timaeus the term “cosmos” means “the physical world”, while the other world being the “eternal world”. Plato describes the physical world as one that has a bodily presence; therefore the two elements that make up of this world are earth and fire. Because the symbol of the earth is square, it is arguable that the reason why the form of Sforzinda was described by Filarete as stacked squares was to mean that his ideal city is one that embodies the world. “The part of the treatise which refers to Sforzinda contains nothing which actually indicates Filarete’s intention to build his city in imitation of a schema representing the world.”[8] Because Plato’s concept of the cosmos borrows heavily from Pythagorean’s concept of the world, it is then inevitable that Sforzinda also reflects Pythagorean’s ideas.
“The Pythagoreans believed that the only true realities existed in the realm of numbers and geometric forms… Accordingly, the perfect geometric forms of triangle, square and circle, visible in the heavenly orbits and in the natural world of crystals, became symbols of the eternal realm beyond matter.”[9] The concentric shape as well as the square shaped labyrinth-garden further defines this idea of the cosmos in the design of Sforzinda. “Ficino became aware of the labyrinth through neo-Platonic sources. God, for Ficino, is in the centre of four circles arranged concentrically like a labyrinth, another reminder of the cosmos.”[10]
Sforzinda would probably never be built, and that Filarete may have written his treatise simply for the purpose of impressing Duke Sforza. On the other hand, the similarities shared between Sforzinda and the utopian train of thoughts compels one to suggest otherwise. With the embodiment of Platonic philosophy in utopia, as well as showing clear influence towards the Socialist Utopian projects much later in the ages proves that, whether intentional or not, Sforzinda has attained the recognition of many scholars and architects. In a sense, the original goal set out by Filarete has been achieved, in which the influence has carried through even into current day urban planning.
[1] IAN CHILVERS. "Filarete." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. 22 Apr. 2011<>.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter. Collage City. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press. 1978
[4] S. Lang. Sforzinda, Filarete, and Filelfo. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. Vol.35. The Warburg Institute. 1973.
[5] Grendler, Paul. Utopia In Renaissance Italy: Doni’s “New World”. Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol.26. No.4. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1965.
[6] Jill, Frank. Wages of War: On Judgment in Plato’s “Republic”. Political Theory. Vol.35. No.4. Sage Publications, Inc. 2007
[7] Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter. Collage City. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press. 1978
[9] Miller, 1976
Monday, May 2, 2011
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Saturday, 2 April 2011
Translations: C-ute's Blog- Rehearsal ♥ -Mai 1/4/11
It's Mai ★
℃-ute 公式ブログ/リハーサル 画像1
Today we had the rehearsals for the concert with S/mileage~~!
Iya~~ We're going to finish pretty soon it's been decided ^ヮ^
I'm exciteeeed-oo(^^ゞ
Iyaa~ Lately
my body has been aching~~ T~T T~T
Stop ittt~~~
That's why I'll do my best
We're giving it our all~~~!!
Today we received the setlist for C-ute's live today ♥
Iya~~~It got me hyped up (^^ゞ
I look forward to it ^ヮ^
By the way, the necklace
is a pair necklace with Aika-chan!~~~♥♥♥
Well then well then tommorow let's do our best (♥ヮ♥)(♥ヮ♥)
Pretty Mai Mai~ is that her real hair or is she wearing extensions? 7/TEN -Risu
1 comment:
1. They're real, I think. XD (the hair) She's been keeping it since last year.
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Class Index [+]
Miscellaneous Syntax
Ending an Expression
Ruby uses a newline as the end of an expression. When ending a line with an operator, open parentheses, comma, etc. the expression will continue.
You can end an expression with a ; (semicolon). Semicolons are most frequently used with ruby -e.
Ruby does not require any indentation. Typically ruby programs are indented two spaces.
If you run ruby with warnings enabled and have an indentation mis-match you will receive a warning.
The alias keyword is most frequently used to alias methods. When aliasing a method you can use either its name or a symbol:
alias new_name old_name
alias :new_name :old_name
For methods, Module#alias_method can often be used instead of alias.
You can also use alias to alias global variables:
$old = 0
alias $new $old
p $new # prints 0
You may use alias in any scope.
The undef keyword prevents the current class from responding to calls to the named methods.
undef my_method
You may use symbols instead of method names:
undef :my_method
You may undef multiple methods:
undef method1, method2
You may use undef in any scope. See also Module#undef_method
defined? is a keyword that returns a string describing its argument:
p defined?(UNDEFINED_CONSTANT) # prints nil
p defined?(RUBY_VERSION) # prints "constant"
p defined?(1 + 1) # prints "method"
You don't need to use parenthesis with defined? but they are recommended due to the low precedence of defined?.
For example, if you wish to check if an instance variable exists and that the instance variable is zero:
defined? @instance_variable &&
This returns "expression" which is not what you want if the instance variable is not defined.
@instance_variable = 1
defined?(@instance_variable) &&
Adding parentheses when checking if the instance variable is defined is a better check. This correctly returns nil when the instance variable is not defined and false when the instance variable is not zero.
Using the specific reflection methods such as instance_variable_defined? for instance variables or const_defined? for constants is less error prone than using defined?.
BEGIN defines a block that is run before any other code in the current file. It is typically used in one-liners with ruby -e. Similarly END defines a block that is run after any other code.
BEGIN must appear at top-level and END will issue a warning when you use it inside a method.
Here is an example:
count = 0
You must use { and } you may not use do and end.
Here is an example one-liner that adds numbers from standard input or any files in the argument list:
ruby -ne 'BEGIN { count = 0 }; END { puts count }; count += gets.to_i'
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
Open Explorer from command console or powershell
I was reading this post about how to open command line from an explorer window at the same path. This is very helpful to speed up works a little bit.
In order to open command line in current directory you just need to type 'cmd' in address bar. Also you can type 'powershell' if you need powershell.
However, in reverse if you want to open windows explorer from command line this is what you need to type in command line:
explorer .
note that if you miss explorer then it will open your user's documents folder.
And for powershell the command is:
ii .
note: ii is alias for invoke-item.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Introduction to DotNetAuth
Recently I have been working on implementation of OAuth protocol. The outcome was not that much bad, so I decided to make it available for others to use it free. Although I am still working on its features, it is fully functional. I have used it in several of my projects.
OAuth protocol is a protocol which is implemented by a lot of famous social networks and is the fundamental key to working with most of their APIs, specially to access to methods which requires some of identity of the requester. So if you want to integrate your website with Facebaook or Google Plus or LinkedIn etc probably your first step would be to handle OAuth protocol.
Also it is a common practice to use OAuth for authenticating user's in your website. Instead of the classic set of username/password credentials, you can simply deliver the user identification to these social networks and ask for user's primary set of information like name, date of birth, gender etc through their API.
OAuth protocol is a complete protocol as it considers all the parties(one which needs to authorize, one which need to make an authorized request, end user who authorizes) and all common scenarios in ways of communication between parties.
DotNetAuth is a an implementation of the OAuth protocol which only supports the consumption of protocol, and it is only for server side flow. So if you are the developing a website which wants to makes user-authorized requests to social network sites like Facebook or Google API this library is for. Also this library helps you take advantage of the OAuth protcol to identify users of your website and use OAuth for user membership(sign up, sign in features).
Source Code:
Nuget Packages:
Install-Package DotNetAuth
Install-Package DotNetAuth.Profiles
Asp.Net MVC Sample:
This is just a sample to show what it would look like.
Just add above packages and then you can have the following methods in your ProfileController:
public class ProfileController : Controller
ProfileProperty[] requiredProperties = new[] { ProfileProperty.Email, ProfileProperty.DisplayName, ProfileProperty.UniqueID, ProfileProperty.DisplayName };
// GET: /Profile/
public ActionResult Index()
return View();
public RedirectResult Login()
var userProcessUri = Url.Action("Callback""Profile"null, protocol: Request.Url.Scheme);
var provider = LoginProvider.Get(LoginProviderRegistry.Facebook.Fullname);
var authorizationUrl = DotNetAuth.Profiles.Login.GetAuthenticationUri(provider, new Uri(userProcessUri), new DefaultLoginStateManager(Session), requiredProperties);
return Redirect(authorizationUrl.Result.AbsoluteUri);
// GET: /Process
public ActionResult Callback(string providerName)
var provider = LoginProvider.Get(LoginProviderRegistry.Facebook.Fullname);
var profile = DotNetAuth.Profiles.Login.GetProfile(provider, Request.Url, userProcessUri, new DefaultLoginStateManager(Session), requiredProperties);
return Content(profile.Result.ToString());
And that's it.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Bundling using Cassette in Asp.Net MVC
I am a big fan of Cassette library. It is an ending to lots of problems you will face in managing your web application scripts and style sheets. Basically what it does is serving JavaScript files and CSS files in a much more efficient and manageable way.
In short these are benefits of using Cassette:
• bundling assets
• multiple files concatenation into single file, so fewer HTTP requests
• reference management
• avoiding including unnecessary assets in a page
• performance improvements
• assets auto versioning and caching
• performance achievements through caching
• HTTP compression
• good transforms
• script minification
• support for CoffeeScript
• support for SASS
• support for LESS
• support for hogan html templates which means precompiled html templates
• embedding small images into CSS files
• a little bit of access control over script files.
• debug friendly
Although Cassette is for both JavaScript and style sheets, if you do it for JavaScript files the same process is for style sheets and HTML templates. So, let start by JavaScript files.
Setting up the Cassette in your web project
First of all we need to do a little work to make Cassette features working in our web projects.
The automatic way:
Using nuget package, just run the following command:
install-package cassette.aspnet
The manual way:
You may be a control freak like me, I need to do the things manually in order to make sure that I do know what is happening in my web application, and hence I know what is wrong in case of a failure.
So here are the things that should be done to make Cassette working:
1. Configuring web.config to
1. add required HTTP module and HTTP handler
2. add Cassette.Views to razor page namespaces, you have to do this step for areas manually, even if using nuget package.
2. Adding CassetteConfiguration class
3. Add references to required assemblies:
• Cassette
• Cassette.Views
• Cassette.Aspnet
• AjaxMin
For all the features:
• Cassette.CoffeeScript
• Cassette.Sass
• Cassette.Hogan
• IronRuby
• IronRuby.Libraries
• IronRuby.Libraries.Yaml
• Jurassic
This is the HTTP module you need to add to configuration>system.web>httpModules:
<add name="CassetteHttpModule" type="Cassette.Aspnet.CassetteHttpModule, Cassette.Aspnet" />
You may add the same to configuration>system.webServer>httpModules.
This is the HTTP handler you need to add to configuration>system.web>httpHandlers
<add name="CassetteHttpHandler" path="cassette.axd" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="*" allowPathInfo="true" type="Cassette.Aspnet.CassetteHttpHandler, Cassette.Aspnet" />
You may add the same entry to configuration>system.webServer>httpHandlers.
And you have to include Cassette.Views in configuration>system.web>pages>namespaces:
<add namespace="Cassette.Views" />
If you are using Asp.Net MVC Areas, Add the above namespace to every area's web.config.
How to implement Cassette
Simply there is only three steps:
1. create bundles to bundle a set of scripts together by writing the following line in CassetteConfiguration:
This will create a bundle named lib/js which bundles all files in lib/js folder.
2. reference bundles to specify which script is required in your razor page by writing:
It records a flag that bundle lib/js should be rendered when rendering scripts.
3. create the script tag(s) to load all the referenced libraries. in your razor page you write:
It renders all the so far mentioned bundles into one or several script tags.
Step 1. Creating and configuration of bundles
In step one you specify which files to be included in a bundle called "lib/js", you may also specify more advanced setting for bundle, like how to search for files, which files should be ignored, etc.
When bundling you specify a folder path, then according to some rules, script files within that path will be added to the bundle. Default rules exclude -vsdoc.js files and also if alternative .min or .debug file exists, then only one file is picked.
Step 2. Adding references to scripts
In step two you only mention that the specified bundle is required, you can do this 'referencing bundles' anywhere, it could be the layout page, a partial view. So you ask for a bundle to be included only when it is required and at the place that requirement is raised. For example you have a partial view that requires a specific script, so you add a reference to that script in that partial view. Assuming that no other view or partial view has a demand for that script, then that script only will be loaded for pages which contains that partial view.
The reference you specify is a bundle path. So if you write @Bundles.Reference("X") then you should have bundles.Add("X") in your Cassette configuration, or you should have a bundles.Add("Y") where X can be find in Y.
Step 3. Rendering the actual script tags
In step three you actually create script tags. So the bundles you have mentioned so far using the @Bundles.Reference will be rendered into one or multiple script tags. If your compliation debug attribute is set to true, then Cassette does not join scripts and does not minify them, so you still can debug your scripts. In contrast, if debug="false", then Cassette concatenates scripts files into a single file and also minifies them.
It may be a little bit confusing, at least it was for me. As I described it here, the step one may seems unnecessary, but you should note that in step two "lib/js" does not refer to a scripts folder, but it is referring to the bundle we created at step one.
Rendering script tags is where you get the point of Cassette, the way that Cassette renders script tags and brings scripts into your page has several benefits. But before going forward to discuss the benefits, first let me describe some facts about how Cassette works, so then I can tell how those benefits are achieved.
1. Cassette exposes a HTTP handler for sending back scripts to client.
2. Cassette computes a hash for each bundle. If the scripts change, the hash value will change.
3. Cassette will return a bundle even if you asked for a single script file. For example you asked for "lib/js/MySpecificLib.js", then Cassette will return bundle "lib/js".
4. Cassette will include dependencies and order scripts based on their dependencies.
So the benefits are:
- You can prevent direct access to your script libraries. So if you are using Cassette for all your resources then you may restrict direct access to libraries folder.
- Unless you created a bundle you can not reference to a script file. So there is a limited number of bundles all defined in CassetteConfiguration class. Each bundle is accessed via Cassette's HTTP handler and has a URL which is consisted of bundle's hash. So if you change the scripts then the hash changes and the URL changes, so the browser would not use the cached version and hence you forced browser to fetch the new version of bundle. And as long as the scripts are the same you can rely the browser caching. Here I have to point out an important guideline: put third parties libraries and your own libraries in different bundles, because they have different change frequencies Your app's scripts change more often, so they bundle need to be reloaded more often.
- When referencing you can be specific about exactly which scripts you need, you don't have to mention the bundle itself. If you specify a script file instead of a bundle, then cassette will render a script tag pointing to any bundle which contains that file, chances are that file already has been loaded once. However because you specified the file name rather than the bundle name, you can move that file to another bundle, for example make your bundles more granular and specific, without being worried about places which that bundle was referenced.
- You only need to reference the scripts you directly need, you don't need to be worried about if you have included the required libraries which your scripts requires.
- One important thing you should know is that the way script tags are rendered is dependent on compilation debug attribute. If it's value is true, Cassette will generate debug friendly script tags and script files are rendered as it is. In contrast, if debug value is false, then Cassette will generate efficient script tags and script files are concatenated and minified.
- Probably you are using layout pages in a way that your pages are not concerned with the head section of html. Using Cassette you render scripts only in layout page and then reference the bundles in page whenever they are required, so when each page is served the scripts(bundles) related to that specific page is rendered.
Note: For simplicity, I have written this article for scripts. However the same story happens for style sheets, the only difference is that instead of ScriptBundle you use StylesheetBundle. And instead of @Bundles.RenderScripts() you will write @Bundles.RenderStylesheets() .
Targeted Bundles
When defining a bundle you can restrict it to a specific target. Actually, the Cassette itself referes to it as PageLocation, however you can use this feature beyond page location, so I named it targetted bundling.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
A behavior to keep DataGrid's SelectedItem into View
The following simple behavior will forces a DataGrid to keep its SelectedItem into view. The way that it works is simply hooking SelectionChanged event and calling DataGrid.ScrollIntoView method.
An advice : Remove code behind files in WPF
In WPF when using MVVM it is better to delete the code behind file straight away. Those almost empty code files are not necessary at all and the project will compile without them. Moreover, if you have removed the code behind file an press F7 key, then nothing happens. It matters to me because I have a habit to press F7 to navigate to code related to XAML, and doing so it always opens code behind file which is not desired.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Meetup Invalid Authorization request
Trying to connect to API using OAuth2.0 I had a problem which I find out this is not documented in their API documentation.
The redirect_url parameter is case sensitive. So if this is the case then you will recieve the error message :
Invalid Authorization request
If you were directed here by another application, contact its developer
So make sure that the redirect uri of your application defined at exactly(case wise) matches the redirect_uri parameter you pass in your authorization request.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Automata and Compilers courses from coursera
I did write ve parser without any technical knowledge about parsing algorithms, I always wanted to improve my knowledge in this area and now I have the chance to do it.
I am very excited to start two online free courses today. These courses are Automata and Compilers.
There are some other computer science courses available on Have a look at it, there is also courses in other fields.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
WPF Grid Layout Simplified Using Rows and Columns Attached Properties
A major problem with WPF and XAML is that XAML code tends to be very cluttered and after a little your XAML code gets too much complicated. In a recent project I suggested to define new controls by deriving from existing controls, so you can assign a shorter name to them or avoiding setting the same property the same value for thousand of time(e.g. Horizontal orientation stack panel).
Here is another tip to make you XAML code less cluttered. One area that you may find it hard to write and read and maintain is Grid layout control. Defining RowDefinitions and ColumnDefinitions waste too much space and adds too unnecessary lines of code. Hence it become too complicated to handle it.
The solution I am sugessting here is to use some attached properties to define RowDefinitions and ColumnDefinitions in a smarter way.
You can fetch the code for attached properties here:
This code adds these attached properties to Grid
• Grid.Rows
• Grid.Columns
and adds these attached properties to UIElemnet
• Cell
Grid.Rows and Grid.Columns are same thing but one is for specifying rows and one is for columns. These two properties are simply text value which you can set it according to the following Rules:
• Separate items with semi colon(;) , Example "auto;auto;*"
• Use auto for adding an Auto sized row or column , Example "auto;auto"
• Specify * for adding an star sized row or column, Example "1*,2*, *"
• Specify only a number for adding a fixed size row or column, Example "200,200,100"
• Append # followed by a number to add multiple rows and columns of same sizing. "1*#4,auto"
• The number of starts in an item will multiplies star factor. Example "**,***,*" instead of "2*,3*,*"
XAML Sample:
<Grid s:Grid.Rows="auto;1*;auto;auto" s:Grid.Columns="*#5;auto"> ... </Grid>
Adds 4 rows to grid which are all Auto sized except the second row which occupies all remained space. Also adds 5 star columns followed by an Auto sized column.
As I said this is simply 3 attached properties which allows you to specify the rows and columns using a textual representation. Here is the function which converts the textual value into a GridLength value:
public static GridLength ParseGridLength(string text)
text = text.Trim();
if (text.ToLower() == "auto")
return GridLength.Auto;
if (text.Contains("*"))
var startCount = text.ToCharArray().Count(c => c == '*');
var pureNumber = text.Replace("*""");
var ratio = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(pureNumber) ? 1 : double.Parse(pureNumber);
return new GridLength(startCount * ratio, GridUnitType.Star);
var pixelsCount = double.Parse(text);
return new GridLength(pixelsCount, GridUnitType.Pixel);
And here is the function which makes # operator working:
public static IEnumerable<GridLength> Parse(string text)
if (text.Contains("#"))
var parts = text.Split(new[] { '#' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
var count = int.Parse(parts[1].Trim());
return Enumerable.Repeat(ParseGridLength(parts[0]), count);
return new[] { ParseGridLength(text) };
And finally the attached property change callback:
var grid = d as System.Windows.Controls.Grid;
var oldValue = e.OldValue as string;
var newValue = e.NewValue as string;
if (oldValue == null || newValue == null)
if (oldValue != newValue)
.Split(new[] { ';' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
.Select(l => new ColumnDefinition { Width = l })
The above code is for Columns attached property but this is the same for Rows attached property as well.
The whole source code for these attached properties:
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
GitHub Gist
Love sharing? Are you a social coder? A lot of times you may wanted to share piece of code but you give up just because it was going to be a cumbersome process to create a project on CodePlex or GitHub.
I just see a simple feature of GitHub, named Gist. It's a simple method for sharing your code that you find useful for others. For example, having to implement online payment functionality for my Asp.Net MVC website I ended up with a simple PaymentController which I just shared it with GitHub.
Here is my first gist:
Monday, March 26, 2012
Why Invalid Object Name 'dbo.__MigrationHistory'?
Unfortunately I am using Entity Framework in my project. After migration support added to Entity Framework I thought using this feature may help me feel a little better about Entity Framework . But the way migration is implemented in EF shows that nothing has changed. Migration has lots of problems and bugs.
After carefully doing all the required cumbersome procedures Entity Framework migration failed to work and I found no workaround until I strangely faced the exception 'Invalid Object Name 'dbo.__MigrationHistory''. This exception give me a clue about the cause of my problems.
It seems that Entity Framework team do not use appropriate testing methods and they only care about the main courses and are very negligent about alternative cases. For example in this case they presumed that always the default schema is dbo. It creates __MigrationHistory on the default schema, but queries for it on the dbo schema.
After a while I find another problem. Entity Framework also tries to insert rows into __MigrationHistory without specifying schema name.
Ok, I wrote this code to make Entity Framework script generator apply 'dbo.' before the __MigrationHistory. I know this is naive solution but at least it works.
A WPF Technique: Decorating controls by deriving from standard control
I always consider StackPanel as Vertical StackPanel as it is Vertical by default, but why there is no layout control that is horizontal by default?. I believe it does not worth for the WPF framework to introduce one as it is very easy to write if you need one. In this post I am going to describe how easy is to create a HorizontalStackPanel and a couple of related useful notes.
Define types by deriving from WPF controls.
The simplest way to write your own controls is to derive from existing ones. You do not need to do anything else. Yes, that it, you have the same control with the same functionalities but with a different Type. For example you may derive a class from TextBlock, it still is a TextBlock but it has its own specific type, so it is behave in a slightly different in some cases, mostly when you refer the types like in a TargetType of a Style.
Here is a summary of benefits of doing so:
• Defining some common behaviour in code and not using the styles
• Easier targeting them in styles
• More readable XAML code
• Very helpful for code sharing between Silverlight and WPF
HorizontalStackPanel as an example
For example you may define a HorizontalStackPanel by deriving a type from StackPanel and setting its Orientation to Horizontal in its constructor. Actually it is not a horizontal stackpanel but it is InitialyHorizontalStackPanel as the users have the opportunity to change the orientation later using XAML or code.
Also the HorizontalAlignment in StackPanel has a default value of Stretch, you need to set it back to Left and do the same for VerticalAlignment.
public class Horizontal : StackPanel
public Horizontal()
Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal;
public class Vertical : StackPanel
public Vertical()
Orientation = Orientation.Vertical;
So now you can write these XAML code
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
This way
Which is much more readable and less cluttered.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Entity Framework 4.3 Released
Just read this announcement about the release of Entity Framework 4.3. Despite some fixes, the only great feature added to this version is the Entity Framework Migration. So now using Entity Framework 4.3 you can keep your data after changing your data model. In the past, you need to drop and recreate database or handle database upgrade manually.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Using third party web services in your applications
Reading a question in StackOverflow website I thought I have to write about my suggestion to Windows Phone developers regarding the way you should use third party web services in your applications:
Adding a layer of indirection is considerable
It is very common that you need to consume a web service from a third party to show some information to your users or provide some functionality for them. So the easiest way is to add a reference to their web service in your application and call methods.
In certain scenarios you have to employ this method. But I am thinking of not adding a direct dependency to a third party web services. Ans I suggest to add a layer of indirection by implementing your own web service by dispatching the request from your applications to the third party web service.
Application Vulnerability to changes in web service definition
By adding a direct dependency to a third party web service and considering the fact that the web service owners may change the web service definition, all the installed instance of your application may fail to work if such a change happens. Then you have to provide an updated version of your application and wait users to install the update. Some users may not be happy with the situation and decide to uninstall the application instead of updating.
The chance of adding your own functionality
If you directly call the third party web service you are limited to functionalities provided by that web service, for example imagine that you call web service to receive a list of addresses. Now if you want to pin them on a map, you need the latitude and longitude of the addresses which is not provided by the web service. I believe in most of the cases you will be much more productive if you have some power to do the things in your own way.
Performance and efficiency considerations
As the designers of third party web service have thought about some specific scenarios the set of methods they provided may not match your exact needs. For example you may have to make two or three calls to receive all the required data and no single method gives all the response you needed. And the result from the first calls is not enough to provide any feedback to user . Or as an another example you may only need to show a part of received data and have nothing to do with the whole given data. As can be clearly seen by this examples there could be two kind of problems with third party web services, extra round-trips and extra bandwidth consumption, which avoiding them can increase your application performance.
Logging and tracking
Generally a good method for logging and other cross cutting concerns is to have an indirection layer, which receives requests and dispatches them. And here in our topic about third party web services, if we do not sit in user's way to access to data and services we have no chance to track them and have a report of it. So create a web service and dispatch the request to third party web service and meanwhile collect some useful data like error exceptions, calls count, performance logging, caching. And do not forget to be respectful to users privacy. If your application is mostly calling the web service then you could have a nice report your application usage.
Some disadvantages
No need to say, writing your own web service has its own disadvantages. First it is costly, you have to develop, test, maintain the web service. Also you have to pay for hosting, if you do not have a spare web space. And your hosting may not be as powerful and fast as the third party web service is, so your app would not be as fast as it could be. Also there are legal issues about using third party web services, some web services specifically forbidden not using their services directly. I am not very into security, but I have a vague idea about there may be some security issues.
What do you think?
Also there may be some other advantages and disadvantages, I would like to hear about them, so do not hesitate to leave a comment.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Assigning null to anonymouse type properties
Just a quick note about handling an issue for anonymous types, if you wanted to assign a null value to a property you will face a compile error which says Cannot assign <null> to anonymous type property, and the easy solution for this is to write to cast the null to desired type, this is important specially if you are creating an array of anonymouse typed objects.
Here is a sample code:
return new[] {
new { Name = "Fixed Value", ViewModel = (objectnew B_FixedValue_EditViewModel() } ,
new { Name = "Fixed List", ViewModel = null as object} ,
new { Name = "Calculation on one value", ViewModel = null as object } ,
new { Name = "Calculation on two values", ViewModel = null as object } ,
new { Name = "Loading a value from database", ViewModel = null as object } ,
new { Name = "Conditional Value Provision", ViewModel = null as object} ,
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Showing a modal and continue to execution of calling window
Again some bits of code. For a couple of reason you may consider not using the ShowDialog method of a window, one is that the calling method does not continue the execution and it blocks until the dialog window becomes closed. I have written my MVVM tool set in a way that this behaviour causes some problems. The other reason is ShowDialog blocks all other windows in your application, so what if you want to open a window over another window in a way that only the calling window becomes blocked. Here is the solution I came up with:
public static class WPFWindowExtensions
public static void ShowNonBlockingModal(this Window window)
var parent = window.Owner;
EventHandler parentDeactivate = (_, __) => { window.Activate(); };
parent.Activated += parentDeactivate;
EventHandler window_Closed = (_, __) => { parent.Activated -= parentDeactivate; };
I tried to keep it simple to be more readable, however you may add a check for the window.Owner to have a value and throw an exception if it is null, or you may automatically set the owner with the current active window as described in this blog post.
Friday, December 16, 2011
OnNavigatedTo will be called after selecting a date using DatePicker
Long Story:
During developing my Windows Phone application I faced a strange problem. At first I thought that the problems is related to DatePicker Value binding is not working properly. I tried several things and then finally I relaized that OnNavigatedTo method is being called when the user selects a data or presses the back button and then when this method is executed again I override all the bindings. And the solution is very simple, just check for NavigationMode of event args to not be NavigationMode.Back, here is a sample code:
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs e)
if (e.NavigationMode == System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationMode.Back)
viewModel = new AddWeightViewModel();
viewModel.Date = DateTime.Today;
this.DataContext = viewModel;
Short Story:
Always make sure that you add the following lines of code to the OnNavigatedTo method, specially if you have a DatePicker on your page:
if (e.NavigationMode == System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationMode.Back)
By adding the above code to the beginning of OnNavigatedTo you prevent from resetting your page data. Keep in mind although the OnNavigatedTo is called, the page is still has its own values.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Solution to a problem in Application Bar and Binding on the same page
Just a quick share of a useful code I found in MSDN forums for when application bar button invokes the event handler before binding on the current element takes place.
The problem is that if you add a textbox to the page and then user presses a button on the application bar, then if user presses that button just after filling that textbox, then unexpectedly you will not receive the updated value for that textbox's binding target, whatever the reason is the solution for this is to update binding manually knowing the fact that the textbox is the current focused control, here is the code:
public static class Utilities
public static void MakeSureBindingsApplied()
var focusObj = FocusManager.GetFocusedElement() as TextBox;
if (focusObj != null)
var binding = focusObj.GetBindingExpression(TextBox.TextProperty);
Then what you have to do is just to call it in the event handler for application bar button, make sure that you call this method before reading data from binding's targets.
private void saveButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Library for reading emails from a POP3 server
I needed to get the list of messages in a the inbox, so I can process them and save them into a database. After searching a while I found out a good free library for this purpose is OpenPop. Net . This library has a good interface and easy to use. Also is well documented, plus lots of useful examples. And one important thing, it supports SSL, so, for example you can read your emails in your gmail or live accounts.
This is a simple sample code for having your inbox in an Asp.Net page:
No need to say, you have to change the third line with your own gmail credentials:
Dim client = New OpenPop.Pop3.Pop3Client
client.Connect("", 995, True)
Dim messageCount = client.GetMessageCount()
Dim allMessages = New List(Of Net.Mail.MailMessage)(messageCount)
For i = 1 To Math.Max(10, messageCount)
Dim message = client.GetMessage(i)
Dim mailMessage = message.ToMailMessage()
grdInbox.DataSource = allMessages
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Finally I started Windows Phone 7 development
A couple of weeks ago I attended in a Microsoft's workshop for Windows Phone 7 development just after buying my Samsung Omnia 7 phone, the workshop inspired me with the fact that Windows Phone 7 development is just fun.
So moving to Windows Phone 7 world I will be posting about Windows Phone 7 applications, games, news, development tips in the future.
For the beginning I would like to write about why moving to Windows Phone 7, of course, from my perceptive. I have several reason but here is two of them that I can share. One is that its development is easy and the other one is that I hope in Windows Phone 7 future.
Reason 1 : Windows Phone 7 development is easy.
Now that I have wrote a couple of applications reading for publishing into market I am thinking of developing Windows Phone 7 application is even easier than writing Desktop or Web applications. For every functionality you desire to add to your application there is a too much simple API.
Also I attended in an Android development workshop at SystemGroup company. I was just pain. In two hours we only learnt how to add a button to UI and then handle it's click button. No need to say iPhone development is even harder than Windows Phone.
Reason 2 : Windows Phone 7 will beat both iPhone and Android in the near future
First of all I have to say I hate iPhone, I know iPhone is the favourite phone for most of you, but to me it never attracted me. I used iPhone as the company's phone, it was nothing special to me. iPhone seems too boring to me. To understand me you have to use both iPhone and Windows Phone for a while, then you will probably get this feeling. Also I am not inspired by the Siri as it is only a non practical funny feature.
Also there are some predictions that in the future Windows Phone will beat Android.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Compressing and Decompressing Text Strings using GZipStream
Simply wanted to pass a text to client and the receive it back again. Something like the old viewstate concept. I searched the web for ready to use piece of code that compress the text into byte[] and vice versa but I failed to find a working source code, so I wrote one.
Here it is:
public class Zip
//public static Encoding Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;
public static byte[] Compress(string text, Encoding Encoding = null)
if (text == nullreturn null;
Encoding = Encoding ?? System.Text.Encoding.Unicode; // If the encoding is not specified use the Unicode
var textBytes = Encoding.GetBytes(text); // Get the bytes according to the encoding
var textStream = new MemoryStream(); // Make a stream of to be feeded by zip stream
var zip = new GZipStream(textStream, CompressionMode.Compress); // Create a zip stream to receive zipped content in textStream
zip.Write(textBytes, 0, textBytes.Length); // Write textBytes into zip stream, then zip will populate textStream
return textStream.ToArray(); // Get the bytes from the text stream
public static string Decompress(byte[] value, Encoding Encoding = null)
if (value == nullreturn null;
var inputStream = new MemoryStream(value); // Create a stream based on input value
var outputStream = new MemoryStream(); // Create a stream to recieve output
var zip = new GZipStream(inputStream, CompressionMode.Decompress); // Create a stream to decompress inputStream into outputStream
byte[] bytes = new byte[4096];
int n;
while ((n = zip.Read(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)) != 0) // While zip results output bytes from input stream
outputStream.Write(bytes, 0, n); // Write the unzipped bytes into output stream
return Encoding.GetString(outputStream.ToArray()); // Get the string from unzipped bytes
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Found in my in-box
A faithful reader of the 'blog has forwarded me this e-mail:
Dear Dr. NameWithheldByRequest,
Fred Singer suggested that I send you the attached documents for your interest. If you would like to join Fred and many others in endorsing "A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming," we would be honored. You can do that simply by reply e-mail listing your name, title, and (for identification only) institutional affiliation, plus snail-mail address, phone number (for verification only), and a list of your degrees (subject, level, and granting institution). You will note that the "Open Letter" and "Call to Truth" are primarily from evangelicals and to evangelicals but that we have included endorsements by non-evangelicals with special relevant expertise. If you do endorse, please inform me whether I should list you among evangelicals or non-evangelicals. Thank you for your consideration.
In Christ,
E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Social Ethics
Knox Theological Seminary, 5554 N. Federal Hwy., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308
Here are copies of the "Open letter," the ironically named "Call to truth," and the press release.
I've read these documents and they're full of the usual crap that gets rolled out for these: Humans are not causing warming; if they are, the warming will be small; and in any event, we can't do anything about this. Their arguments are, by and large, either normative value judgments, or are misleading or downright wrong scientific statements. [Note added in proof: also see the discussion here.]
From a strategic view, however, this type of campaign makes perfect sense. First, the recent emergence of an evangelical coalition in favor of action on climate change was one of the most significant events of the recent past. This represented a titanic shift in the political fault lines of this policy debate. Those opposed to action on climate change had to be terrified that they were on the brink of losing the entire policy debate. So this response makes perfect sense. Second, by arguing about science, they can drag the debate into a complete gridlock, as argued by Jon Miller. The report, with it's appearance of credibility and objectivity, leads the other side (those in favor of action) to leap to an enthusiastic defense of the reality of climate change - and the trap is sprung: the public tunes out (too boring), the media downgrade the story (too complex) and the politicians have the greatest excuse for doing nothing (let's wait until the science is clear).
9 comments: said...
Dr. Dessler, I think you've got a research paper pdf linked instead of the Open Letter, unless the evangelicals have taken a 34 page excursion into "Principal Component Analysis of the Evolution of the Saharan Air Layer and Dust
Transport ..." :^D said...
OK, the press release link is taking us back to your website to an unauthorized section.
Anyway, link 2 is working, and I've heard of this, and the evangelical group they are opposing.
This is a public reply to another evangelical group which took the opposite position in a "Call to Action" letter and ad.
I have also heard fundamentalist preachers talk about global warming as "End of Days" stuff, too!
One guy said something about Jesus is coming back with an air conditioner for the righteous ...
Andrew Dessler said...
Links fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
EliRabett said...
This has been discussed elsewhere.
It is another version of the 17000 scientists can be fooled. It would be good to get their mailing list. Have they been so foolish.....
EliRabett said...
This has been discussed previously here.
The most interesting thing would be their mailing list. At that point it would be useful to put together a response.
George Landis said...
Correct tytler5, this is no worse than the opposite bible pounders jumping on the AGW bandwagon, but I have heard many pro-AGW forces are pleased to have Pat Robertson and the purposeful life religious jealot stumping for them. No accounting for taste, but true scientists will not get involved in this religious junk, just like they shouldn't have endorsed Environmental Defense, but somehow they just can't help themselves.
Andrew Dessler said...
From a policy standpoint, Pat Robertson's conversion is huge. Of course, it does not change the scientific consensus one bit. But policies that garner broad support have the best chance of getting adopted, and Pat R. brings a whole group into the AGW tent that wasn't there before.
George Landis said...
I don't disagree Dr. Dessler about Pat bringing along a political clout, but really, would you or your distinguished scientists like to stand on the same podium and shake hands or be involved with someone that ridiculous and obviously unhinged? If you welcome him you endorse him, and that is not something a real scientist would do, only a political one. said...
I've got a feeling the evangelical preachers on either "side" of the public debate would have to speak out on this, anyway, as they are obligated to guide their congregations.
I'm sure the "doomsday" reporting by the media has many religious people in the congregations wondering if these are "signs".
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The Cursed Camera
rating: 0+x
Item #: SCP-3134
Object Class: Safe
Description: SCP-3134 has the appearance of an Asahi Pentax 6x7 camera. The camera is 18 cm × 11 cm × 9.5 cm in dimension and has a 10mm lens. It was found after an article was published in a town newspaper in ███████, Nebraska about a "haunted camera" that killed anyone who it took a photo of. The camera's anomalous properties are only shown once a picture is taken of a living human being. In the produced photo, there is a distorted figure always standing to the left side of the subject. This figure has been designated as SCP-3134-A. No two people have seen the same figure. Around 2-5 days after the picture of the subject is taken, the subject enters Stage 1 of the camera's effects, manifested as auditory hallucinations. These vary from subject to subject. The most common
are reported to be soft whispers that appear to be coming from the left shoulder of the subject. No subjects were able to decipher the whispers. Around a week after the auditory hallucinations begin, the subject moves into Stage 2. Stage 2 is when the subject begins to see the figure from the picture. At first, the figure is only visible on the outer reaches of the subject's vision as a hazy outline. After a varying period of time, the figure become more stable and begins to move around the subject's range of vision. Research would appear to show that the figure gains stability based on the subject's stress levels. Two reported individuals were not affected by this at all, and did not progress to Stage 3. Stage 3 is when the figure is reported to speak to the subject. The figure is commonly reported to incite thoughts of suicide and murder. As the subject's mental state deteriorates, the figure slowly raises it's head. SCP-3134-A's head always begins slumped against its chest. When it's head is halfway up, the hallucinations begin to worsen. Different creatures begin to form around SCP-3134-A. The creatures are often called demons, abominations, and even "eldritch horrors". The creatures are usually described as twisted, primordial beings. Their appearance varies based on the subject's IQ. An autistic D-class subject reported seeing "dead bunnies that still walked", and a D-class with above average IQ said he had seen "indescribable abominations". When asked to elaborate, he almost threw up. (see Addendum 1) Stage 3 can last for extreme periods of time, and has once been recorded to have lasted 7 months before entering Stage 4. Stage 4 is triggered once SCP-3134-A's head fully raises. On the day that SCP-XXXX-A fully raises it's head, it's eyes will open at exactly 12:00 noon. When this happens, the subject "dies". Heart activity and brain activity all cease for exactly 72 hours. During this period, the body does not rot. When most subjects reenters a state of consciousness, they begin to scream. The ones who scream continue to shout until they are no longer able to, as a result of shredding their vocal chords. The ones who don't scream come back extremely changed. (see Addendum 2) In extremely rare occasions, the subject will progress to Stage 5. Stage 5 is believed to be a
SCP-3134 was classified as Safe and is currently kept in a safe at Site ███.
Addendum 1:
Interviewed: Subject D-97945
Interviewer: Dr. Wilhelm ██████
Foreword: Upon entering the room, subject seemed extremely anxious. Twitching eyelids and quick breathing were noted. subject was handcuffed as he was deemed unstable.
<Begin Log, 3:30, 10/24/2010>
Dr. Wilhelm: Alright Subject D-97945, I'm going to ask you a few questions about what you are seeing alright? Can you begin by describing to me the figure you should be seeing?
Subject D-97945: T-the man? In the c-corner? Sure, sure. W-well, he's, uhh just standing there. He has no shirt. Where is his shirt? I don't know. Why don't you ask him?
Dr. Wilhelm: Calm down, he can't hurt you. Could you describe his physical features to me?
Subject D-97945: Y-yeah. He's white. Pale white. No color. No color. His hair? White. Skin? White. Like these halls. So white. Too white. N-no white. No white. NO WHITE! GET ME OUT OF HERE! PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE, KILL ME! PLEASE! PLEASE!
At this point, Subject D-97945 grew increasingly disturbed. After about a minute of being restrained by security forces, he calmed down enough to continue.
Subject D-97945: S-sorry about that. I don't know what came over me.
Dr. Wilhelm: No need to apologize. Could you please continue to describe the creature around the figure?
Subject D-97945: T-the creatures? O-oh God, t-they're indescribable abominations, I-
Subject D-97945 dry heaves for a few seconds
Subject D-97945: S-sorry. You wouldn't understand, you can't see them. Anyway, t-those things are horrific. Calling them monsters would be an understatement I can't… oh God, just put me back, please. I can't look at them any longer, please put me back.
<End Log, 3:38 10/24/2010>
Closing Statement: Subject D-97945 was returned to his cell. The day after the interview, he rapidly progressed to Stage 4. 3 days after his "death", he returned as a screamer and was terminated.
Addendum 2:
Excerpt from Dr. Jacob ████████'s research journal.
Test #12 - Date 04/09/2015
Subject: Subject D-39582. Please note that aforementioned subject was always cheerful, even during Stage 3. Note that Subject D-39582 possessed an IQ of over 200.
Procedure: At 5:30 PM on 11/23/2014, a picture of Subject D-39582 was taken using SCP-3134. This test was to see the effects of the camera on an outgoing, optimistic person. 4 days later, subject reported experiencing auditory hallucinations, described as "funny little whispers". A week later, he progressed into Stage 3. He told us that SCP-3134-A was really just shy, and that she had told him so. I advised him not to make contact with "her" anymore. He did not listen. He held conversations with SCP-3134-A that lasted for hours. This could have been why Stage 3 lasted for 6 months. At the end of Stage 3, he told us that "Sarah" (the name he had given to SCP-3134-A) had raised her head. Subject D-39582 was moved to another room and strapped down to an examining table. He made jokes with nearby personnel until exactly 12:00 noon. As usual, subject was declared medically dead. 72 hours later, he woke. No screams were reported. This was highly unusual, as all previous test subjects had awoken screaming fit to wake the devil. I felt that something was different, so I went to check. When I approached the subject, he lay still, pale as the grave, and cold to the touch. Upon further examination, his lips were blue and he was experiencing common symptoms of hypothermia and Stage 2 frostbite on his fingers and toes. Cause remains unknown. I released his restraints and he sat up, slowly. I asked what he had seen. His reply was chilling. Quote: "There was nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Cold. Cold. Black. Dark. The eyes. The eyes. THE EYES! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT, YOU'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND! SO COLD, SO COLD! No warmth. Just cold. Only black. Just darkness. There's nothing there. Nothing after the end. No end. Just… void."
After finishing his statement, Subject D-39582 entered a state of vegetation. Brain function was the same as a brain-dead individual. One researcher commented that it was as if his soul had left his body. I refuse to believe that what Subject D-39582 said was coincidental. There must be more tests run to find out more about this "void".
Results: Subject D-39582 was pronounced brain-dead approximately 7 minutes and 4 seconds after he awoke from Stage 4. All attempts to revitalize brain wave patterns were ineffective. Subject D-39582 was terminated 2 weeks after he awoke. During autopsy, the surgeon found a mark seemingly burned into Subject D-39582's heart. Cause remains unknown. Analysis of the mark is ongoing.
Analysis: Results were disturbing. Statement from subject would lead me to believe that he came back from where the consciousness of a human goes after death. It was amazing that he retained even the slightest shred of sanity, no matter how brief. This camera may be able to summon a being from the "void", which will then gain strength by feeding off it's victims negative emotions. it is now believed that the smarter the victim is, the more likely they will be able to return from the void. Waiting for permission to test on Class D subjects with above average IQ.
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Search Over 30,000 FREE Plugins from the Official WordPress Plugin Directory Repository
WP Company Info
Allows you to input information specific to the company/website such as a logo image, address, phone number and social network links.
This plugin allows you to specify various company information such as a logo, favicon, and various contact information. There are various shortcodes and template tags available for outputting the information. See the FAQ for the available shortcodes and template tags.
Author Brianna Deleasa
Contributors bdeleasa
Tags company info, company information, contact info, contact information, social links, social network icons, social network links, social network widget
1. Upload the wp-company-info folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Input the branding information by going to Settings > Branding.
4. Input your contact information by going to Settings > Contact Information.
5. Input your social network links by going to Settings > Social Network Links.
6. See the FAQ for instructions on outputting all of the branding, contact information and social networks.
7. That's it! :)
• Only including the address field if another plugin didn't already register a CMB2 address field.
• Adding support for adding classes to the phone number link.
• Adding the $output variable to fix an 'undefined variable' PHP notice.
• Adding a new pencil icon as an option.
• Adding nofollow to the social links output.
• Adding support for links in custom contact shortcodes.
• Fixing issue with the email link not being outputted properly when the schema tags are active.
• Adding schema tags around the email address if schema tags are enabled.
• Adding a schema tag around the site name if the schema tags are being used.
• Fixing an issue with the address field getting broken because of renamed functions.
• Updating address function prefixes again.
• Updating the function prefixes for the address field functions.
• Renaming the shortcode date function.
• Updating the changelogs.
• Adding a new class for creating generic shortcodes.
• Making sure a comma appears after the address line 1 in the unformatted shortcode output.
• Adding two new shortcodes: one for outputting the site name and another for outputting the site description.
• Adding a widget that outputs the custom logo uploaded by the user.
• Changing the customizer control from an image control to a media control so it saves the attachment ID instead of a URL.
• Fixing an issue with the address shortcode when not using any formatting.
• Adding Instagram to the list of social network options.
• Removing the wpautop reordering function because it interferes with the Gravity Forms shortcode output.
• Modifying the schema tags for the address so it uses a span tag instead of a div tag.
• Adding support for showing addresses not formatted (on one line).
• Adding a function that moves wpautop priority higher so shortcodes used within page/post content are formatted with paragraphs and line breaks.
• Adding a missing constant that was causing some PHP warnings and an issue with the social network links widget.
• Initial version of the official Wordpress plugin.
How do I embed the logo I uploaded?
Using the [logo] shortcode will output the image uploaded via the Branding settings page. There is one size parameter available for this shortcode:
[logo size="thumbnail"]
The size parameter refers to a registered Wordpress image size. The default size is "medium".
How do I embed the contact information?
This plugin provides various shortcodes for outputting the contact information. The default shortcodes available are as follows:
• Address: [address] OR [address field="address-1|address-2|city|state|zip"]
• Phone Number: [phone]
• Fax Number: [fax]
• Email address: [email]
• Social Links: [social-networks class="class-name-here" icons="true|false" size="lg|2x|3x|4x|5x" square="true|false" styles="true|false"]
You may also specify additional contact information as well. A shortcode will be created for each of the additional fields you add via the options page. To output that additional field, use the ID you specified as a shortcode. For example, if the ID you specified is cell-phone, the shortcode created would be [cell-phone].
Are there any template tags available?
Yes, there are! Here are a list of the available template tags:
wpci_get_option( $key )
Returns the value for the specific key/field.
wpci_has_option( $key )
Checks whether the value for the specific key/field exists.
wpci_the_option( $key )
Outputs the value for the specific key/field.
wpci_get_logo( $size = 'full', $icon = NULL, $atts = NULL, $src = false )
Outputs the logo. The first 3 parameters are the same parameters as the wp_get_attachment_image function. The last parameter controls whether an <img> tag is returned, or if the actual image URL is returned.
• $size = Image size. Either a string keyword (thumbnail, medium, large or full) or a 2-item array representing width and height in pixels, e.g. array(32,32).
• $icon = Use a media icon to represent the attachment. Default is false.
• $atts = Query string or array of attributes.
• $src = Whether to return the full <img> tag or just the URL to the image.
wpci_the_logo( $size = 'full', $atts = NULL )
Outputs the logo as an <img> tag. Parameters are as follows:
• $atts = Query string or array of attributes.
Version 1.8.6
Requires WordPress version: 3.0.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 4.7.2
Last Updated 01 Feb 2017
Date Added: 04 Sep 2015
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Thomas Laurell's Biography
Thomas Laurell, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University
Thomas Laurell received his PhD in electrical engineering in 1995 at Lund University and obtained a position as associate professor in 1998 at Lund University performing research on lab-on-a-chip technology interfaced to mass spectrometry proteomics and disease biomarker research as well acoustic manipulation of cells and particles in microfluidics systems. He holds a position as Professor in Medical and Chemical Microsensors since 2000 with a focus on Lab-On-A-Chip technologies in biomedicine at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Div. Nanobiotechnology and Lab-on-a-chip (http://bme.lth.se/research-pages/nanobiotechnology-and-lab-on-a-chip/).
In 2005 Laurell co-founded the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, CBMS, the ruling body of the MicroTAS conference series and served as the President of CBMS, (www.cbmsociety.org) 2009-2017. He has also cofounded the Centre of Excellence in Biological and Medical Mass Spectrometry, a national infrastructure node at Lund University. In 2009 Laurell was appointed Distinguished Professor at Dongguk University, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Seoul, Korea and he is an elected Fellow of School of Engineering, Tokyo University since 2015. Laurell is also an elected member of: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, and The Royal Physiographic Society. Laurell is a founder of AcouSort AB, http://www.acousort.com/
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SIAF 2015 Conference outline
Many conferences focus on the important question of what to expect next in international arbitration in Asia. In the 4th Singapore International Arbitration Forum, we propose to go beyond that question. We propose to go beyond Asia, to go beyond arbitration, to look beyond the horizon. We propose to explore what the winds of international dispute resolution are bringing our way and, despite oft-repeated predictions, might well not be bringing our way.
Leading practitioners and academics will use both their intellect and experience to look beyond the standard conversations about investment treaty arbitration, “Asian international” commercial arbitration, and mediation of cross-border disputes.
Turning first to investor-state dispute resolution, why is the common assumption that ISDS is bearing down on Asia like a storm? Do the much-feared investor-state arbitration mechanisms in Asian FTAs and BITs even matter in practice? Will disputes, and arbitration of those disputes, be different with or without treaty ISDS mechanisms in place? Can and will Asia, as a “late mover”, benefit from the last two decades of investment treaty arbitration “jurisprudence”-- will Asian parties follow the leader, avoid the pitfalls, ignore the outliers? Is there real cross-pollination between the anticipated practice of investor-state arbitration and the established practice of international commercial arbitration?
And just how established is “international” commercial arbitration in Asia? To be blunt, is Asia part of “international” or is it not? As foreign investment increases in Asia, there is much talk about how Asia needs increasing expertise in international commercial arbitration. The talk tends to ignore underlying questions, some of them inconvenient. How and when will Asian law societies, bars and courts be really open to international expertise? How and when will the “international arbitration community” be really open to Asian arbitrators and advocates, for non-Asian disputes? In the context of reciprocity, are leading international arbitrators and practitioners overlooking the growing reality that they need Asia as much as (they think) Asia needs them? In pushing against this horizon, how do we walk the fine line between cultural differences, cultural sensitivities and political correctness?
Finally, can we see beyond the fixed horizon of arbitration-litigation to successful mediation of international disputes? With the launch of the Singapore International Mediation Center, can Singapore make progress toward the so-far elusive goal of early mediation of complex international commercial and investor-state disputes? Thinking more ambitiously, could Singapore be an “early mover” and leader here? What legal and practical infrastructure is necessary? Who and what might work to change defeatist and negative attitudes, especially involving investor-state mediation? Is there hope of breathing life into the “cooling off” negotiation period before investors can initiate ISDS cases?
There are risks in looking beyond the horizon – in challenging the conventional answers to conventional questions, in asking newer and harder questions. Come join us.
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