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Dear Hillary Clinton Supporters, This is Why You Lost…
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Dear Hillary Clinton Supporters,
Why did she lose?
How did this happen?
We can tell you. But you won’t like the answer.
You lost because “liberals” and “progressives” are only a small minority of the population and the media had you convinced you were an unstoppable majority.
In reality, you are nothing more than a tiny group of self-righteous and egocentric hypocrites, arrogantly belittling everyone who disagrees with you. You claim to support your buzzwords of “diversity” and “tolerance” and “acceptance” but the moment anyone questions your viewpoint, you disparage dissenters with vulgar labels. Racist! Bigot! Sexist! Homophobic! Islamophobic! Hateful! Nazi!
Those are the only words you know. You can’t use your big words. Colleges are passing out coloring books and having “cry-ins” for you! You are children. Toddlers. When you don’t get your way, you attack fellow citizens in the streets like animals. Throwing tantrums like infants.
And you wonder why the majority of the nation doesn’t respect you? Your juvenile reactions reinforce our justification to ignore everything you represent.
You keep screaming things like, “WE WON’T BE SILENCED!” We don’t need to silence you. You’re just starting to learn that we don’t need to listen.
Let’s do the math. 318 million people live in the United States. Only 60 million voted for Hillary Clinton. 60 million. That is a mere 18% of the country.
82% of your fellow Americans did not vote for Hillary Clinton. Think about that.
82% of the United States of America did not want Hillary Clinton to be president.
Only 18% of the country agrees with you. You are outnumbered more than 5 to 1. Despite what the media brainwashed you into believing, you aren’t even close to being a majority.
And you have no idea why.
Because the moment any mature adult tries to explain it to you, in a civilized manner, you cry, you weep, you “mourn”, you need healing, you need a “safe space”, you cover your ears and regurgitate your preprogrammed insults. Racist! Bigot! Sexist! Homophobic! Islamophobic! Hateful! Cisgendered White Power BASTARDS!
Why do you do that? You are still doing it now. You get on social media and tell everyone who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton that we “Voted for hate” and “Support bigotry”. No. We don’t. That is why she lost. We are sick and tired of seeing celebrities and journalists trying to bully us into compliance. You honestly think that insulting us will compel us to obey you? When has that ever worked? When has mocking a group of people ever made them respect your opinion? Are you honestly that full of yourselves? You honestly think you are some kind of “holy warriors” and the other 82% of the country is filled with evil and xenophobic monsters? Really? You are that delusional? You know us. We are your friends and neighbors. We are your children and parents and coworkers. This is reality. This isn’t a dystopian fantasy novel. You are not “the chosen ones” battling the forces of darkness.
Why can’t you see the simple truth that being relentlessly condescending to 4/5ths of the country is the reason you lost? When will liberals learn that shaming people into conformity does not work? Crying that you are “offended” is not an adequate retort to vindicate your stance.
You have no idea how to engage in a genteel debate. You are incapable of participating in articulate discourse.
82% of your fellow Americans disagreed with you. 82% could see that Hillary was a deceptive nightmare.
The reason liberals find that so shocking is because you only listen to the media. They assured you that the coronation of Queen Hillary was inevitable. You never paid attention to reality. You believe blathering talkshow hosts. You trust celebrities on Twitter. You have faith in CNN polls. You get your news from Facebook feeds of people who agree with you. You remain sequestered on college campuses where you refuse to let anyone speak if they question your agenda. You think Saturday Night Live skits reflect the pulse of the nation.
Mainstream media is betraying you. Social media is feeding you what they want you to read. You never stop to consider, “Maybe if we mercilessly oppress and denigrate people with opposing views… they will never listen to us.”
Look at your beloved newscasters. Look at your braindead Hollywood actors. They are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric. They are still condescending to everyone that didn’t vote for their Queen. They learned nothing.
On 8 November 2016, you lost far more than an election. You lost the most powerful weapon you possessed – your veil of deception. We have to give you credit. Your dominance of the media worked. You had us convinced. We thought you were powerful. We thought Hillary was going to win. We thought traditional values were withering away and we believed you were changing the world. Changing it for the worse, but you were changing it. You tricked us. You succeeded. You hammered us and belittled us and silenced us at every turn and we truly thought you were winning. We thought you were taking over the nation. This election taught us, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we were mistaken. In reality, there are very few of you. You represent a minuscule fraction of our society. The media gave you a loud mouthpiece to drown out all other voices, but there are far more of us than there are of you. We know that now. This election confirmed it. And we won’t forget it.
When you are done crying like babies, and finishing your coloring books, maybe you should wake up. Maybe you should try to make the world a better place by volunteering at a homeless shelter, instead of posting memes on Facebook. Maybe if you support women so much, you could assist at a rape crisis hotline, instead of retweeting Miley Cyrus. Maybe you should attempt to talk with people who disagree with you, instead of scorning them. Maybe you should try to find out why only 18% of the country thinks like you and your friends. Maybe you should accept the possibility that the other 82% of the nation knows something you don’t and we are nowhere near being as stupid as you presume us to be. Maybe those who have different opinions aren’t hateful, racist, sexist, xenophobic, redneck, bigots. Maybe you’re in the vast minority because you were wrong. And maybe the other 82% of your fellow Americans are not so deplorable after all.
Did it ever occur to you that maybe our true enemies are not one another, but rather, those who are constantly trying to divide us?
With Utmost Respect, Love & Unity,
The Flyover States
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PhD defense on Tuesday , June 5th, at 3 pm.
The event will take place at the Salle Langevin (29 rue d’Ulm).
You can check the abstract of my dissertation below.
Understanding semantic ambiguities
Sentence ambiguities have been at the center of the research on language comprehension for some time. For semanticists, these ambiguities have been taken to suggest the existence of different abstract mechanisms that may apply to the same syntactic structure at the interpretation stage. For psycholinguists, semantic ambiguities have provided a tool to analyze the dynamics of sentence parsing : since ambiguities tend to be solved incrementally (i.e. before the end of the sentence), the processing pattern of ambiguous sentences might allow identifying the linguistic and non-linguistic factors that play a role during online comprehension.
This dissertation informs theories of language comprehension by exploring two complementary questions : (1) how are different meanings associated to a single sentence form, and (2) how are we able to access and compute these alternative interpretations during parsing. To address these questions, the present work mainly focuses on the so-called plural ambiguities, which arise by the interaction between certain predicates and their plural arguments. For instance, the sentence Amir and Milica built a sandcastle has a non-distributive, collective, interpretation (i.e. Amir and Milica together built a sandcastle) as well as a distributive one (i.e. Amir and Milica each built a sandcastle). Most linguistic approaches assume that distributive readings are derived from more basic non-distributive interpretations by the application of a covert “distributivity” operator (Link, 1983 ; Champollion, 2014) .
The first part of this dissertation presents two studies that aim to identify the abstract mechanisms underlying the distributive/non-distributive contrast through a priming paradigm. This priming method is then extended to other semantic phenomena (i.e. scope ambiguities) in the second part of the dissertation, where some interactions between plurality and scope phenomena are also tested experimentally. To assess the dynamics of ambiguity resolution, the third part of this work presents a mouse-tracking study designed to establish the features of mouse-trajectories that correlate with decision making and disambiguation.
The methodology developed in this study is then used to analyse preliminary data on the processing of plural ambiguous sentences.
I am a PhD student under the supervision of Benjamin Spector and Emmanuel Chemla. My research project (funded by École Normale Superiéure) aims to explore the online comprehension of plural expressions, specifically in cases where they give rise to more than one sentence interpretation (e.g. Two boys hold three balloons).
Therefore, my proposal relies on the application of techniques from both linguistics and cognitive psychology, ranging from modeling by means of formal semantics techniques to traditional psychological and physiological indices, such as reaction times, priming and mouse and eye-movements.
Previous education : BA in Literature and Linguistics at University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; MA in Cognitive Science at Paris V/ EHESS / ENS
Cognitive Sciences, Semantics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics.
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They go together. Curiosity begins with an interested, inquisitive mindset. Someone being curious asks genuine questions like "I wonder what's happening there?" or "I sure didn't expect that! I need to figure out what's going on." Curiosity is powerful because it can reduce or replace defensiveness, one of the biggest obstacles to good multicultural communicating. Curiosity can also be empowering, because it helps make another person the "expert."
Curiosity begins at home. When you want to communicate better with people different from you ("cultural Others" in the biz), begin by understanding your own cultural identifiers. What cultural features are most relevant to you--your age? gender? racial or ethnic identity? ability? class? A good way to do this is to create your own "Identity Wheel" (see p. 49 of Personal Communicating and Racial Equity, 2e--PCRE2). You draw a circle and divide it into pie-shaped pieces, with the larger pieces representing the most important parts of your cultural identity--for me it's race, gender, and class--and the smaller ones the less important parts--for me it's ability, age, and religion. This kind of cultural self-reflection is a crucial part of becoming multiculturally competent.
The next step is to be genuinely curious about what's most important to people who are different from you. You can do this by asking genuine questions like "What are your main goals?" "Who would you like to include?" and "What do you want to have happen?" Avoid questions that begin with "Why," because they can generate defensiveness. Also avoid statements masquerading as questions like "Do you really believe that?" (which means, "I don't believe that") and "Won't that create problems" (which means "I think that will create problems."). Ask genuine and open questions and listen carefully to the responses you get.
When you're being genuinely curious about the cultural identifiers of people different from you, you're practicing cultural humility. Academics define cultural humility as "the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oreinted (open to the other) in relation to aspects of cultural identity that are most important to the person." I define it as Holding your own cultural identifiers lightly rather than tightly PCRE2, p. 54).
It can be difficult to practice cultural humility, because most of us are pretty ethnocentric. We automatically believe that the ways we've learned to do things are the "normal" or "best" ways. But when we pay attention to our own Identity Wheel (which visually displays our cultural commitments) and realize that everybody's wheel is different, we can understand what we need to be culturally humble about.
Since I'm a straight white male, I need to remember that I'm seriously privileged in relation to my Black friends. Even when I'm at an NAACP function where people who look like me are in the minority, I still carry these privileges. I don't need to feel guilty or ashamed about them, and I do need to be aware that they're affecting what I notice and how others respond to me.
Cultural humility does not mean giving up any of my cultural identifiers. I can't abandon my whiteness, for example, or my age. It just means (a) being aware of who I am culturally and (b) being open to and accepting of others' differences. As a practical matter, it can mean accepting--rather than condemning--talk that is "too loud," dress or body art that I wouldn't wear, and anger that I don't feel. It means staying engaged when things get challenging.
George W. Bush clearly displayed cultural humility when he spoke at the dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bush said,
"A great nation does not hide its flaws. It faces its flaws and corrects them. This museum tells the truth that a country founded on the promise of liberty held millions in chains. That the price of our union was America's original sin."
Especially in situations of difficult cultural difference, work to practice curiosity and cultural humility.
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"A long period of repression and gloom" - Discuss this view of Nicholas I reign. Nicholas I reign has been described as a 'particularly dark period of Russian history' full of repression and gloom. Nicholas' restrictive policies, use of force as a means of restraint, stagnation and lack of progress suggest his reign was one of repression and gloom. However, it would be a mistake to dismiss Nicholas as 'merely a repressive monarch' because reforms were introduced and some progress was made. Nicholas' reign began amid the 'revolutionary fiasco' of the Decembrist Rising, causing him to begin his reign with repressive action in order to stop the insurrection. He was compelled to use the force of arrests, executions and exiles to restrain the revolutionaries, therefore, acting repressively. Five leaders were executed and three thousand people were arrested, of which over one thousand were exiled to Siberia. Nicholas' attitude to the rising was repressive because he believed his prompt actions had saved Russia from revolution and change. It could be said that the Decembrist Rising caused Nicholas to be repressive because he thought 'Revolution is at the gates of Russia' but swore 'that it shall not enter' as long as he was Tsar. ...read more.
Nicholas' censorship policies appear to be repressive because they did not allow any freedom of expression. The Censorship Law in 1826 allowed the authorities to ban almost anything if they wanted to. However, it was not applied strictly and in 1828, more lenient laws were introduced, but after 1830, censorship once again became 'strict, unfair and often absurd'. Writers could be shadowed, imprisoned or exiled and articles on poverty and serfdom were forbidden. The censorship laws show that Nicholas' reign was repressive. The number of people exiled in Nicholas' reign could be seen to be repressive because 150,000 people were exiled to Siberia during his reign. During his reign, Nicholas used the force of exiling as a means of punishment as he exiled 10000 people a year for undetermined periods of time. Intellectuals such as Dostoievsky were exiled to forced labour camps. The number of people exiled shows how repressive the reign of Nicholas was. Nicholas' attitude towards foreign travel appears to be repressive because it was forbidden. Even wealthy people could only travel under rigid conditions through a passport system. ...read more.
Nicholas tried to abolish serfdom by establishing a secret committee of leading reformers such as Speransky and Kiselev to examine the feasibility of gradual liberation. The committee introduced reforms such as prohibiting the sale of serfs as a means of settling private debt, and the auctions ended. Literature and the arts flourished and Russian was transformed into one of the worlds greatest languages be Pushkin. Currency reforms established confidence and stability in the monetary system and Nicholas was concerned about corruption so appointed a committee which reorganised the courts. Nicholas therefore, did introduce some reforms which imply that his reign was not completely one of repression and gloom. Although Nicholas' reign is notable for intellectual and creative achievement, economic and technical advances and attempts to introduce moderate reforms in government and the lives of state peasants, it is still characterised as a period of repression and gloom. Nicholas used force to repress the Decembrist Rising, education was brought under government control, the Third Section surpressed any liberal ideas, censorship laws restricted freedom of expression and the policy of 'Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality' promoted Russian traditions and blocked change. Nicholas' lack of change and reform suggest his reign was a period of repression and gloom. ...read more.
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Here I come here I come here I come :) just call me the rollaaaaa... with my posts about history. After this one the other night Noel on the radio talked about Italian food :)
Some time ago, writing about Beady Eye @ the isle of Wight, I posted an Italian song about it. Usually me and a lot of Italians don't like Italian music (not because it's bad music, it's quality, but especially because it's too much about love bullshit ahaha) and so we prefer the British one... but modern Italian music is famous for our opera singers as Pavarotti, Bocelli, etc. and the "musica leggera" (light music), sometimes very successful also in other countries (for example Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, etc.).
In the Sixties it was clearly influenced by the Beatles, I think these songs can still influence very much. Some foreign musicians were also inspired, in fact they also covered some.
This image comes from Fausto Papetti records (he played the saxophone), always with nude girls ^_^
And Italian 60s music influenced us too (then you can see why today we still love Oasis, inspired by the Beatles), 'cause our parents used to listen to their old songs also in the 80s and 90s, so when I hear them I feel a bit of nostalgia, reminding me of when I was a kid.
Then the 70s were famous for the Italian "progressive music", but it's another story :)
The Rokes (by Shel Shapiro from London),
they were the "Italian Beatles".
"C'è una strana espressione nei tuoi occhi" (=there's a strange expression in your eyes... they mean that you don't love me anymore")
(there was another singer from UK, Mal, singing in Italian here below)
Pretty Green graphics and clothes, lol
Gianni Morandi (very famous not only in Italy), "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones" (=there was a boy who as me loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones)
It says, he was from the United States of America, he was not handsome but he had a thousand girls by his side... He was singing "Help!" and "Ticket to ride" or "Lady Jane" or "Yesterday"... but then he received a letter, gave me his guitar and went to fight in Vietnam (and then died there)
Other hits: "Fatti mandare dalla mamma a prendere il latte", "Scende la pioggia", "In ginocchio da te", "Non son degno di te", etc.
For a period he was dressed as soldier, 'cause it was compulsory.
Mina (extremely popular, a sort of holy figure, as Noel Gallagher lol, also because she doesn't appear anymore in public, some say because she's fat, but she's still one of the greatest artists, born near Milan),
Renato dei Profeti (born in Milan), "Gli occhi verdi dell'amore" (=the green eyes of love)
"I was walking in the night, can't sleep anymore...when I met a girl who was alone as me, with the face of a child..."
Don Backy, "L'immensità" (with Johnny Dorelli, from near Milan, whose wife is the sexy Gloria Guida).
When I was a child in the '80s I liked Don Backy very much, I think he was cool :)
Rita Pavone, "La partita di pallone" (=old way to say: the football match), featuring AC Milan champions in the '60s.
Edoardo Vianello, "Guarda come dondolo" (=look how I swing)
Famous ones about seaside: "A-Abbronzatissima", "Con le pinne, fucile ed occhiali", and "I watussi", etc.
Patty Pravo, "Pensiero stupendo" (=wonderful thought), she's a vamp. Song of Breil Milano with Charlize Theron. It's from the '70s, but she was already successful in the 60s, other ones: "La bambola" (the doll), "Pazza idea" (crazy idea), "Ragazzo triste" (sad boy), etc.
Bobby Solo (he was very influenced by Elvis Presley, Liam Gallagher's idol),
"Una lacrima sul viso" (=a tear on your face) + "Non c'è più niente da fare" (=there's nothing left to do)
Another song: "Domenica d'agosto"
Little Tony, "Cuore matto" (=mad heart)
The man speaking @ 0:15 was Ferruccio Amendola, the most famous Italian film dubber, gave his voice to Dustin Hoffman, Sylvester Stallone, etc. They say Italians have the best dubbers while in other countries they're shite.
Another song: "Riderà" (she'll laugh)
Nada, "Ma che freddo fa" (=how cold is it),
here she was 16 years old and very similar to my mamma in the '70s :)
Adriano Celentano (very popular, born in Milan, also appearing in "La dolce vita" film.
His nickname is the "Molleggiato" for the way he moves),
"24 mila baci" (=24,000 kisses)
Another famous one, a story from Milan: "Il ragazzo della via Gluck", then "Azzurro", etc.
Mario Tessuto, "Lisa dagli occhi blu" (=Lisa with blue eyes)
Gino Paoli, "Sapore di sale" (=taste of salt), very nostalgic reminding past summers.
Other ones: "Il cielo in una stanza" (the sky in a room), "Senza fine" (without an end)
Maurizio (born in Milan), "Cinque minuti e poi" (=five minutes and then), about airports :)
Caterina Caselli, "Nessuno mi può giudicare" (=nobody can judge me).
then "Perdono", "Bugiarda", etc.
Equipe 84 (Maurizio Vandelli), "Io ho in mente te" (=I've got you on my mind)
Nico Fidenco, "Legata a un granello di sabbia" (=bound to a grain of sand)
Fidenco again, "Con te sulla spiaggia" (=with you on the beach)
my favourite video, lol...for the faces. Featuring brunette Victoria Beckham at 0:10 and at 0:52 with the ball the double of an English girl I know, we laughed for one week, lol
i Camaleonti (founded in Milan), "L'ora dell'amore" (=the hour of love).
Other ones: "Applausi", "Io per lei", etc.
Another song: "Tema"
Mal, from UK, I think from Wales (then became Italian), singing with a British strong accent :), "Pensiero d'amore" (=thought of love)
Rocky Roberts (from Miami, USA, became Italian, singing with American accent), "Stasera mi butto".
Another one: "Sono tremendo"
Nino Ferrer, "Vorrei la pelle nera" (=I'd like to have a black skin)
Another one: "Agata"
Lucio Battisti (the most important one, now a legend also because he died, many famous songs by him), this one dedicated to our presidents, both of them born on 29 September, Alan McGee and the songwriter Silvio Berlusconi, lol.
Other ones: "La canzone del sole" (The sun song), "Acqua azzurra acqua chiara" (Blue water clear water), "Mi ritorni in mente" (=you come back to my mind), "Emozioni" (emotions), etc.
"Sognando California" (cover of California dreamin')
and many more (I will add), especially about holidays and beach life :), as Fred Bongusto ("Una rotonda sul mare"), but also Fausto Leali ("A chi"), Ornella Vanoni (from Milan, see the post about Milan songs), Luigi Tenco (legend who died young), Peppino Di Capri, Massimo Ranieri ("Rose rosse"), Giorgio Gaber (from Milan), Jimmy Fontana ("Mondo"), Gianni Pettenati ("Bandiera gialla"), Iva Zanicchi, Memo Remigi, Bruno Lauzi, Enzo Jannacci (from Milan, comic songs), Riccardo Del Turco ("Luglio"), Sergio Endrigo, Gigliola Cinquetti, Giuliano e i Notturni ("Il ballo di Simone"), Piero Focaccia, Michele ("Se mi vuoi lasciare", "Soli si muore"), etc. etc.
8 commenti
1. Milla Says:
2. love this post!!!!!!! thank you!!!
3. Vanessa87 Says:
4. the funniest videos are Cuore matto
and Con te sulla spiaggia
^.^ ^.^
5. G Says:
6. ti ricordi a scuola: forse sono brividi brividi hahahahaha
7. Marco Says:
8. I added 2 other videos :)
9. silvy Says:
10. my favourites are: The Rokes, Piccola Katy, Don Backy, Ho scritto t'amo sulla sabbia, Cinque minuti e poi, Con te sulla spiaggia :-D
11. Laura Says:
12. its amazing to see how one can become a legend also not showing himself in public or, unfortunately, dying :-(
13. celeste Says:
14. "Con te sulla spiaggia": the brunette is Victoria Beckham in the 60s hahahaha
15. Marco Says:
16. the girl at 0:52 is totally similar to an English girl I fool every day ^_^
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Relax, don't panic. It's going to be alright. I promise. As a web product manager, I get asked about sucky websites all the time. And, yet, I don't get asked often enough to fix some of the truly atrocious websites that can be found all over the internet (like this one). So, what do you do now that you've realized that your website is a hideous blotch on the digital landscape?
Step 1
Every website and every page in a website needs a clearly defined purpose.
Most small businesses treat their websites like amateur digital billboards. And I totally understand why....
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Every Question You Ever Had About Going Gluten-Free — Answered
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Yes, Sweets Can Be Part Of A Well-Balanced Lifestyle. Here's How
Got a sweet tooth? Not a problem, here are some ways to keep it all balanced.
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PalmSource officially spun off
Oct 29 2003 - 02:19 PM ET | Handspring, In The News, Palm
PalmSource is officially its own company as it today began to be traded on the NASDAQ exchange. You may remember that Palm split itself into two parts: PalmOne and PalmSource. PalmOne is the hardware company, while PalmSource is the software company. In one of the first visible signs of the high-profile acquisition of Handspring by PalmOne, both PalmOne and Handspring have today begun to be traded under the ticker symbol PLMO on NASDAQ (before today PalmOne traded under PALM and Handspring under HAND).
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Go Away
Feed-back is appreciated, please dont be mean though i haven't written anything this big for a while
1. Go away
Why did you come here?
I wanted to say hello
Then I’ll sew your mouth shut
I just wanted to see you
I’ll take your eyes out
I wanted to hear your voice
I’ll rip your ears off
I miss you
I hate you
Takes a step towards her
Pulls out a revolver
Let me explain
I don’t want to hear it
Then let me show you
I don’t want to see it
Please just-
I just wanted
Takes another step
Gun clicks
You wouldn’t
Try me
I love you
Go Away!
Steps closer
Starts crying
Another step
Closes eyes
Reaches for gun
Pulls trigger
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Monday, February 4
Updates Updates!!!!
WARNING: This is a super wordy post (until I can upload some photos).
I know a lot people would give me the cock-eye stare. Why can't I blog at home with the UNIFI super-speed connection? You see, *banyak excuse* when I am at home, I have to do houseworks (lying), then I have to cook (lying), then need to feed FiNi, then exercise (lying).... HAHAHA. Seriously, when I am at home, I do unproductive stuff, such as playing Facebook's CoasterVille, Chefville and FarmVille 2. *winks* Occasionally, I would watch Running Man (from episode 1), and Running Man is so addictive!!!!
Those who doesn't watch Running Man should dig a hole and bury their heads inside! *joking* It's crazily funny. The Running Man that I like most is KwangSoo because he is just so ugly!!! *faints* Ok, I shall stop talking about Running Man and continue with updating what's happening in my life right now.
Let me see, from my last post is about this Ms. Sharifah and Bawani, the issue has all died down, but the joke remains circulating amongst friends. I organized a Chinese New Year Reunion Gathering Dinner on 1st of February, and we all were sharing gossips and then everybody starts interfere with each others' speeches. Then someone randomly said "Listen Listen Listen!" then everyone burst into laughter! You never knew that the word "Listen x 3" could induce such powerful effect. This, for one, we have to thank Ms.Sharifah! As you can guess, the next word to follow is "I forgive You" when you offended someone. It was hilarious!
During the reunion, someone told me that my BFF Marccus actually got married. Shocked till death! I mean, it's not that he cannot get married. But how could he marry without informing me, we are BFF!!! But I haven't seen him in years. I guess he never changed. Still the merry Ol' him. *hopefully* So i gave him a call and asked him whether he's married? And he declined la.. For a second there's a tinged of bitterness... Marccus marry also never inform me! For the record, when XeRoz proposed, he's the 1st one I informed (minusing TianChad out). Happy things are to be shared with BFFs! (all my BFF should read this and take a note to inform me when you are gettting married).
Last week also, another friend, (I guess it's ok to reveal her name here) Charmaine and Teck have good news to share! Teck proposed in a romantic ceremony and Charmaine said "I do"! Wohhoooo... Welcome Charmaine and Teck to the Marriage Club. Their proposal announcement brings me back to memories of my very own un-romantic (but meaningful) proposal. I can say that I've planned and moved very fast! Kudos to myself for such efficient planning. So now for my wedding, all I need to do is snap my official wedding photos and buy some stuffs. Then me and XeROz can shake legs until October 19th! *muahahaha* Of course, I don't think shaking legs will be in our schedule, as we havent finalise our guest lists, and our heng dai n jimuis.
Speaking of wedding plans, I've been pretty agressive. This, i have to apologise to XeROz (he never reads my blog, so i guess he wont see this public apology). I don't know about all the future husbands-to-be outside there, but this husband-to-be is very, very lazy about wedding planning. He dislikes finding his wedding attire. LOL. He felt like I'm torturing him (I feel the same way too). So the other day, we went to select my gown. I only chose ONE gown for photoshooting. *gasps* WHY only 1 gown? If follow my hearts desire, I would want 5 gowns and 3 evening dresses! But no. HAHA.. I'm still rational on this. For me, what's most important about wedding is the meaningfulness and also affordable. Me and XerOz actually do not have so much budget for a grand wedding, but we are doing our best in pulling off a proper and happy day for both of us. So, yes, 1 White Gown for photoshooting. I can imagine the photoshooting to be a challenge with limited costumes. So, let's see how i pull off this challenge! I'm not at all worried because I always had trusted Sky Arts Production's photos to produce meaningful photos.
So, let's see how it goes! *finger crossed*
Of all the days for bad things to happen, my small 1 door fridge chose to emit a horrendous stench as we are all preparing for CNY! *rolls eye* I can't describe the stench, it's from the back of the fridge, smelling like rotten eggs/corpse, and only happen occasionally. I was looking forward to buy a new fridge but since the internal is still functioning, why need to waste the money. Anyway the smell was really traumatic. We checked every nook and cranny of the fridge and there's no dead mice anywhere. So i used the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to flush the drain. And now the stench isn't that bad. Well, I guess if the smell don't go away, I need to go hunt for a fridge already! *stress!!!!*
Chinese New Year is just around the corner. MsXeRoz wishes everyone a HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR and drive safe!
Marccus Màrcchiato 犸轲丝 said...
ah, u got a nice header photo finally =D
Marccus Màrcchiato 犸轲丝 said...
ah, u got a nice header photo finallya =D
atreyustrange said...
why don't you try to use the bamboo charcoal thing to reduce stench. hehe
cklim said...
haha boss, it's time for me to inform you i am in the club. Wedding dinner, 2 yrs later, in Dec 2014. :)
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Sh*t People Say to OTD People
Excellent article from
Top Ten Things Not to Say to a Kofer | Imamother
People going through religious struggles or an off-the-derech journey are often confronted by well-meaning individuals who make useless and even offensive comments. I did a little survey of my OTD friends and here are the worst offenders, in no particular order: 1. Oh, you’re off the derech? You must meet my Rabbi.
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What is soused hog's face?
Answer In Danish that's simply called "Sylte" - which is a word of doubble meaning. It's slang for head, but also means "to pickle".This is how it's made:Ingredients for 6 servings A hog's head4 chalott o... Read More »
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What is the best thing to drink to numb the ringing in my ears, but not get soused?
NyquilBut your gonna get soused.:(I never could follow directions :D
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Beach Beauties
During a zany week in spring, two friends from Chicago decided to come to California for a visit.
Touching the Pacific always gets top priority.
Though perhaps I shouldn't actually touch it. Particularly the sketchy sea foam. I went against my better judgment and went for it, because how bad can something be that resembles Mr. Bubble?
Take note: heading back before sunset is a really good idea. Here we are racing the tide.
Even if you aren't in close proximity to the beach, remember there is always a sunset everywhere.
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Carbon emissions from making electricity could vanish by 2060: study
By [email protected] (Stephen Edelstein) One of the major sources of carbon emissions is electricity generation. It’s an issue that is becoming increasingly important in the automotive sphere, due to the slow rise of plug-in electric cars. So what would it take to eliminate carbon emissions entirely from making electricity? DON’T MISS: Bipartisan governors’ group urges Trump to back…
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Monday, May 21, 2012
A Monomer I Won't Work With
Derek Lowe's blog, "In the Pipeline" has an ongoing series of posts entitled "Chemicals I Won't Work With", usually something that is frightfully explosive or odoriferous. Today I'm countering with my own offering - a monomer that I won't work with. Maybe surprisingly, the monomer has a number of positive features inherent with it
1. It is biobased, so you would think it would be rather appealing in this era of "get-us-off-of-Big-Oil".
2. It is an oil found in the sap of various species of the genus Toxicodendron, plants which grow in the temperate zones all across the northern hemisphere, so it can be grown widely.
3. The plants are actually considered undesirable weeds plants and are not cultivated, which is a further attraction of this plant as it will not need arable land.
But if you looked closely at the Latin genus I just listed, you will notice that it is made up of two words - toxic as in "poison" and dendron as in "tree". Put the together and you have "poison tree", as in poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac, three popular (?) species of the genus. Having been in the Boy Scouts for 7 years, I've already "worked" with urushiols and found that they don't like working with me.
Urushiols are actually a bunch of substituted catechol molecules as this figure shows [*].
The molecule has two parts - the catechol head (the dihydoxybenzene)and the mostly unsaturated hydrocarbon tails. As far as the contact dematitis and associated itchiness, it seems to me that the catechol is the business end, as catechol itself is noted for causing contact dermatitis. (I've never done a side-by-side test of urushiol and catechol to see if the effect is similar. I would, but my calendar is booked out for the next 23 years or so...). But in terms of forming a thermoset polymer, the double bonds react with themselves and oxygen to polymerize, much like what occurs with drying oils.
Urushiols have actually been used in Asia for hundreds of years to create the beautiful lacquers that are so emblematic of their furniture and artworks. The sap is diluted down with solvents, a thin layer is applied and allowed to dry/cure. The process is repeated hundreds of times building up to incredibly beautiful finish.
[*] Source The source can be freely accessed (after a simple registration) for the remainder of 2012.
levinebar said...
happily, the catechol is a no-go for small-molecule drugs (rapid clearance via oxidation to the isoquinone or conjugation to the sulfate or glucuronide) and the hydrocarbon chain flunks on rotatable bonds.
Anonymous said...
dendron comes from greek, the latin word for tree is arbor
Anonymous said...
just sayin'
John said...
While you are correct that dendron is Greek, scientific names are still called "Latin names" and the are of Latin grammatical form, regardless of their origin.
It's a thin line, but it does exist.
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Barber: Gays Seek to ‘Desecrate’ Church Property
On yesterday’s edition of Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Matt Barber complained that now that gay activists had corrupted the military, it is up to the church stand up and oppose the “contamination of our culture with this sexual sin” because gays are trying to force the church to affirm their “spiritually, physically, emotionally” destructive lifestyles:
I have asserted for years now that this, again, has never been about equality, never been about tolerance, you hear the term “celebrate diversity.” The political strategy here, the legal strategy is – and even with the last vestige of the embracing of sexual morality, of biblical sexual morality, the church, even the military is gone now, so now the church is essentially left as defenders of sexual morality and opposing the contamination of our culture with this sexual sin, whether it’s homosexual sin, the embrace of adultery, fornication, whatever.
This has never been about celebrating diversity or equality; it’s about, yeah, you celebrate diversity, you affirm our demonstrably destructive, spiritually, physically, emotionally, our lifestyle, under penalty of law, or else. And that goes for you too, church. You either allow us desecrate your property with our counter-biblical, sinful civil union ceremony or we will see that you are sanctioned by the United States government.
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Comments on: Albert Einstein: “Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge” Home of The Saturday Evening Post Thu, 21 Jun 2018 05:59:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Something Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:32:00 +0000 Without imagination, there would be no knowledge. If imagination didn’t exist, the computar wouldn’t exist. None of Alberts’ creations would exist. The lightbuld wouldn’t exist, NOTHING would exist. If there was no imagination, everybody would the same, there would be no such thing an opinion. Life would be boring. That’s just the final truth. Goodbye.
By: Robert Brison Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:42:21 +0000 Is imagination no longer relative to science?
Just check out the major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask) for the search term: A concept of space and time
You will find the same imagination-based essay at the TOP of each list of many millions of web sites.
Strangely, reference to this same concept has yet been hard to find in any scientific journal. What happened to imagination?
By: Ima Ryma Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:34:08 +0000 Albert Einstein did theorize
Relativity as a fact.
And it should come as no surprise
That humans seek by thought and act
To make the concept fit the way
That each one imagines as true.
And so the term gets lots of play
As all the many think and do,
And play with truth as though a toy.
In time and space he occupied,
What in his life was greatest joy?
To which Dr. Einstein replied,
“My sweetest relativity -”
“Making music with Mrs. E.”
By: Frank James Davis Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:30:43 +0000 Not sure what the inclusion of “d” represents regarding Einstein’s mathematical expression of energy’s relationship to matter. The revised formula sounds a lot like a new rap group.
Acceptance of the reality of Relativity does not foster moral ambiguity–unless, of course, you believe a hammer is the same thing as a guiding principle.
This is one of Nilsson’s better articles–though I’ve always liked all things Einstein. Had a grandfather who resembled the humble genius quite closely.
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Stratovolcano, internal structure
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Caption: Stratovolcano erupting, cutaway artwork. During a volcanic eruption, melted rock (magma, red/orange) moves up from a chamber through a conduit (pipe) and is forced out the top of the volcano as lava. Shattered rock (volcanic ash, grey) is also ejected. The enlarged section depicts crystals forming in cooling magma. The magma is cooling due a change in pressure as it migrates. When magma cools, minerals contained in it begin to crystallise, forming phenocrysts. The number of crystals in the magma determines it viscosity. Volcanoes with more viscous magma tend to erupt less frequently than those with less viscous magma, but with greater energy.
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Caption: Scanning electron micrograph of the weave of a piece of linen. Linen is made from the fibres of the stem of the flax plant Linum usitatissimum, the seeds of which yield linseed oil. For fibre production the plants are sown close together to produce a tall, erect stand. Harvesting of the stems is followed by a process called retting, in which the stems are steeped in water for a period of time. During the steeping bacterial action (Clostridium spp), dissolves the soft, fleshy parts, leaving the tough, thickened cell walls of the fibrous tissue. This is mechanically beaten & combed to produce a pure cellulose fibre material. Magnification:X45 at 10x8 inch, x13 at 6x7cm size.
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Caption: Gustaf Dalen (1869-1937), Swedish engineer and inventor. Dalen was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing automated flashing beacons for lighthouses. He developed the use of dissolved acetylene for light, making it brighter and safer to store and use. He also invented the sun-valve, which automatically turned the light on at dusk and off again at dawn. In 1909 he became president of AGA, who sold his beacons. In 1912 Dalen was blinded by an explosion at the factory. He never regained his sight but remained an active head of AGA until his death. During that time he invented the AGA cooker. Dalen had almost 100 patents pending during his lifetime.
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More on the New Batman Begins Footage
Scooper ‘L’ has sent us some more details on the Batman Begins footage which was shown at Wonder-Con in San Francisco this weekend with Christian Bale in attendance:
-footage begins with young Bruce and Rachel (Katie Holmes’ character) playing in the Wayne Manor gardens. Bruce slips and falls into the batcave. He is then swarmed by bats. He is saved later by his father, who repells down. Then you see a brief scene of his father explaining that the bats attacked Bruce because they were afraid, because fear is one thing all living things have.
-Later, during the opera play with his parents Bruce is STILL terrified by the bats and that is the reason he urges them to leave early. Then we actually got to SEE his parents shot and killed in this footage.
-Next we saw Bruce and Alfred at the funeral, where Rutger Hauer comes over to young Bruce and explains that “you’re in good hands. When you’re old enough, your empire will be waiting.”
– Bruce goes to Ra’s Al Ghul’s monastery, and finds Ra’s waiting in his throne (that picture from the official site) right as Bruce enters. Ra’s is motionless and says nothing. But Ducard (Liam Neeson) does all the talking, and proceeds to kick Bruce’s ass in the hallway right in front of Ra’s. It’s obvious this is a scene of seeing if Bruce has what it takes.
– you see a longer cut of the Bruce/Ducard sword fight on the ice. In it, Ducard says that the death of Bruce’s parents is not his fault, but is the fault of Bruce’s father, Thomas Wayne himself. Interesting twist.
-Batman fires his grappling hook gun in this footage. As well as glides through a Gotham at dusk.
-You see Cillian Murphy (without the Scarecrow mask) terrified and looking up at some dark rafters..whispering “it’’s the batman.”
Source: L
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In post-war Turkey, former O.S.S. operative Steve Roark is still involved in espionage activities and occasionally functions as a double agent for the Russians. He is assisted in his activities by suave Turk, Ali Imagu. Steve receives a message that Austrians Linda Carlson and Dr. Eric Viertel are in Sofia, Bulgaria. Steve also learns that Linda, with whom he fell in love during the war and thought had been killed by the Germans, and Viertel were working on atomic research when the Nazis captured them and sent them to a concentration camp. The Russians liberated them and encouraged their research, sending them to Sofia to interest other scientists in working on the same research. Steve finds it hard to believe that Linda would willingly work against the interests of world peace, but agrees to help them escape to America. In order to obtain papers to go to Sofia, Steve agrees to work with ex-Nazi Peter Goltzen and Rumanian nightclub singer Magda Onescu, who is attracted to him, in arranging the escape of a Russian political prisoner from an Istanbul jail. After Steve and Ali free the prisoner and get him to Sofia, they are given papers enabling them to remain there. Steve is shocked to learn that Linda has married Viertel, as he is still very much in love with her. Steve seeks help from Dr. Stoyan, one of the leaders of the Balkan underground, who is attempting to set up an independent coalition of democratic states. To convince Stoyan of his integrity, Steve tells him that, during the war, he, Linda and Viertel hid in a mountain chalet in Austria and photographed important atomic research papers for the Americans. However, Stoyan cannot promise to assist Steve in getting Linda and Viertel out of Bulgaria and, ultimately, has to refuse to help as this could jeopardize his compatriots' activities. Meanwhile, Goltzen, who is working for Russian agent Ana Sokolova, kidnaps Linda and Viertel and puts them on a private plane to Vienna. However, Steve and Ali manage to take over the plane and deliver them to safety in Salonika, Greece. Steve and Ali return to Sofia, where Magda furnishes them with an alibi for their absence. In Athens, meanwhile, Goltzen's agents shoot and kill Viertel and Linda is tricked into returning to Sofia. After Goltzen and Sokolov capture and torture Steve and Linda to reveal the atomic secrets, Ali pleads with Stoyan to help free them. With Stoyan's help, Ali engineers Steve and Linda's escape, during which Goltzen is killed and Sokolov captured. Their mission accomplished, Steve and Linda head for America.
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Swaragini (A Unique Love story) Episode 2
Hey guyzz….here is the 2nd Chapter…
Thank u guuzzz for ua support….
Aishu: thank you for reading….and the pairs will b revealed soon ….till then keep reading and commenting.
Rakhi: Thanks…I hope next part also u ill like it ….and thank u for reading and commenting.
Anusha Reddy: Though Ragini is ma favourite…i ill try to give inportance to both ….and there b will triangle but u have read for it…and thanks for reading. Keep reading and commenting.
Jwala: Thanks for reading….In this Episode u will get to know what did swaragini do. Keep reading and commenting.
Here is the link for 1 st chapter.
Swara: Actually…
She is cut by Ragini.
Ragini: Actually ma I said Swara to do.
Sumi:wat did u ask her to do?
FB starts
Ragini and Swara goes to Rajshri’s house.
Swara: Wat i hav to do?
Ragini: Go to Rajshri Auntys garden and pluck some Mangoes and come
Swara: No baba. She ill kill me.
Ragini: Dont worry.. wen Ragini is here Y to fear.
Swara: Enuf of ua filmy dialogues.
Ragini: Now go fast.
Swara goes to pluck the mangoes but the mangoes fell down to the kitchen and all her food fell down. Swara comes down and says sorry…it fell down.
Ragini: Without me u cant to do any work.
Ragini again goes to pluck the mangoes but the leaves and branches fell down and Whole Rajshris Kitchen became mess.
Swaragini runs from there.
Fb ends.
Ragini: Sorry Maa…
Sumi: Dont ask forgiveness from me …ask from fogiveness from Aunty and even u also Swara.
Both swaragini says Sorry Aunty.
Rajshri: I will forgive if u come and clean my kitchen.
Swaragini luks at each oder.
Sumi: Go wat r u seeing each oder.
Swaragini nodes and goes to her kitchen.
Rajshris Kitchen:
Swara: This is happening bcz of u Ragini.
Ragini: afterwards u scold me..
Swaragini cleans her kitchen.
Rajshri comes and says Very nice…next tym u ill do this??
Swaragini: No Aunty.
Rajshri asks them to go. Swaragini goes.
Gadodia House:
Dadi: i said u to handle u daughters now itself.
Sumi: Let they come once.
Swaragini comes.
Swaragini: Sorry Maa..
Sumi makes a angry face and goes from there.
Ragini: Papa ask her to listen to her plzzz papa.
Shekhar: par beta.
Swaragini makes a cute baby face and says plzz..
Shekhar: ok beta.
Swaragini bcmz happy.
Shekhar goes to Sumi and says plz forgive them.
Sumi: If i forgive them they will do mistakes again and again..and it is parents responsibilty to make their childrean realise their mistakes.
Ragini holding her ears: Sorry Maa i will never do this mistakes again.plz maa maa
Sumi smiles and says: till how much tym parents ill b angry with their childrens and hugs Swaragini.
Shekhar: Enuf of ua hugging dont u have to go to college today?
Ragini: Ufff i forgot..
Swara: Okay lets go fast.
Sumi ask them to eat their breakfast and then go.
Swaragini nodes and goes.
Precap: Swaragini enters the college. Sanlak entry.
Sorry for short update…hoe u ill like ma 2nd chapter..nd leave ua commentz
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1. Oh swaragini are naughty…especially rags,……. Nice….
2. hahaha ….nice … one ….
3. nxt epu sooon
4. Plz write recap of last epi. It vl b good. And ur story line is different. I liked it.
5. Awesomee….very nyc nd Raglak plzzz
6. Awsm episode..update nxt prt spon plzz
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What are the statewide water restrictions?
• No watering lawns or landscapes for 48 hours after rainfall.
• No using water to wash hardscapes like sidewalks and driveways — except for health and safety reasons.
• No sprinkler runoff or overspray onto streets, sidewalks or driveways.
• No washing a vehicle with a hose without a shut-off nozzle. Tip: Going to a car wash that uses recycled or reclaimed water is an even smarter choice.
• No using fountains or decorative water features that do not recycle water.
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1. Why is there a drought?
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7. Should I continue to water other outdoor vegetation?
11. What if I’m already conserving?
12. How likely am I to have a leak?
14. What are some ways I can save water outdoors?
15. What are some ways I can save water indoors?
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Writing Saturday; Question Time
8:25 AM
All right, here is your chance to ask me anything that relates to writing. Are you writing a book and having a problem? Do you want to know something about my book? I’m all ears, ask away. Next week I will post my answers.
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1. Hi Sarah!
I do have a question, but it's a little complicated. :D
Near the end of the book I'm writing, I thought I might have a period of time where the heroine is suddenly convinced that the hero is not in love with her, and in fact is in love with another 'mystery' girl... and so she struggles through that until finally learning that the report was completely untrue, and the hero's heart belongs solely to her.
It sounds good to me, but I'm a little unsure that I can write it without making my readers annoyed at the heroine for being a little dumb, and anxious that the hero might not be in love with her after all. Do you have any tips on how I could write this section of my story?
(I can email you with more details if you need them to help you with your advice) :D
Love & Hugs,
2. I'm at the place where I've finished the first draft of one project and ready to pounce on another, but I want to do a little foreplanning to reduce the amount of rewriting that came with my very first novel (which I literally plunked down according to how I felt like it - think NO planning for this plan-oriented girl = lots of work to do after THE END). How much "research" do you conduct prior to diving into a WIP? Do you plot? Outline? Make character charts or journals? Decide on a theme?
Just curious. :)
3. By the way, Julia, that sounds heart-wrenching and so suspenseful! It sounds like it would keep me flipping the pages and yelling, "No! No! He really does love you!" (yeah, I'm a really engaged reader.)
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The Full Wiki
Albanian American: Wikis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albanian American
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Notable Albanian Americans:
James Belushi · Eliza Dushku
Regis Philbin · William G. Gregory
Total population
113,661 Americans
0.09% of the US population
Regions with significant populations
California, Florida, Washington, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Nebraska, Connecticut, Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Albanian, American English
Predominately Albanian Orthodox, the rest Roman Catholic, and Islam.[2]
Albanian Americans are United States citizens of Albanian ancestry. According to the 2000 US census, there are 113,661 Americans of full or partial Albanian descent.[1]
Geographic distribution
The states with large population of Albanians are New York (500,428)[citation needed], Michigan (150,343)[citation needed], Massachusetts (50,594)[citation needed], New Jersey (70,336)[citation needed] and Connecticut (37,200)[citation needed]. Albanians began to settle in the USA in the early 1920s from Southern Italy, Greece, and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and in the 1990s from Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, as refugees of war. Another Albanian American (Kosovar Albanian) community in the Riverside/San Bernardino area of California includes Kosovars who entered the United States at the March Joint Air Reserve Base in Riverside.[3]
Some Italian Americans who arrived in the U.S. during the early 20th century were descended from 15th-century Albanian refugees to southern Italy and spoke an archaic dialect of Tosk Albanian called Arbëresh. The Greater New Orleans area has a large Arbëresh community, mostly descended from 19th-century Sicilian immigrants.[4] Similarly, some Greek American immigrants would have spoken a Tosk Albanian dialect called Arvanitika and traced their ancestry to southern Albanians settling in Greece from the 11th to the 16th centuries.
Similar shifts in ethnic identification happens today when Albanians come from many different countries other than Albania.
List of Famous Albanian-Americans
Notable academic awards
Actors and actresses
Arts and entertainment
Business and industry
• Anthony Athanas - restaurateur and patriot
• Ekrem Bardha - businessman and patriot
• Florin Krasniqi - businessman and nationalist (patriot)
Science and technology
See also
1. ^ a b US Census Bureau, Census 2000, Table: Ancestry for People with one or more Ancestry Categories Reported
2. ^ Albanians of the USA are either Catholics or Orthodox or Muslim
3. ^ Fischer, Bernd J. "Albanian refugees seeking political asylum in the United States: process and problems" in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31.1 (2005)
5. ^ [1] "John and James Belushi are Albanian as well."
6. ^ [2] "John Belushi, the Albanian-American actor..."
7. ^ [3] "...she was recently invited to visit Albania, where she has become something of a national symbol, being the most famous American Albanian -- or at least half-Albanian since her mother's heritage is Danish -- actor since John Belushi." [4] "There is a joke in our family that the Dushku's and the Belushi's are the only Albanians in show business. Who knows? That might be true." [5] "One issue which hits close to home for her is the plight of the Albanian refugees, being of Albanian and Danish descent herself. "It's hard with all this war stuff. They're helping the Albanians, but you can never say you're happy about bombing. I don't know how I feel on the issue. I watch the news, I'm watching Albanian refugees piling onto trains, and they look like me and my brothers. I feel like I'm watching my family, and it's so disturbing."
8. ^ [6] "Kovach, who was Washington bureau chief for the New York Times and for two years edited the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, uses himself as an example. "I'm Albanian-American," he says, "and things that happen in the Balkans are inherently important to me. No matter how good an editor I am, I'm not going to follow African news in the same way.""
9. ^ Albanian Americans
10. ^ [7]
11. ^
12. ^ [8]"With her tough talking, “born to be bad” style, this bisexual party girl refuses to be the Albanian Muslim ideal of a passive, obedient female her family would hope for."
13. ^ Untitled Document
14. ^ Albanian American Women Organization "Motrat Qiriazi"
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Meet and Greet!
Organizer: Learning, Design and Tech Moms Meetup
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• What we'll do
Hey everyone! We are so excited you have joined the group and look forward to getting to know you. Let's start with coffee or tea and share our interest in going back to work, or starting a new career, in tech.
• Important to know
Common Grounds is located inside the Hope Community Church Apex Campus
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Switching to Commercal Paper Towels
I use paper towels because 15 minutes after you leave that damp rag on the counter, the bacteria that live there double in population. After an hour their numbers are 16 times what they started at. if it has been sitting there overnight? 250 million times. All bacteria need are moisture and a food source and they can thrive. So...I switched to paper towels. it turns out, commercial is cheaper than residential paper towels. You can buy a wall mounted automatic paper towel dispenser and never have to worry about spreading the bacteria from your hands back onto the roll of paper towels, because then you spread the bacteria around next time you grab a paper towel. Counter productive.
Georgia Pacific makes some quality paper towels that won't fall apart with frustrated spill-based agitation and they make an Automatic Paper Towel Dispenser that allows you to set the length of the paper towel down to as small as a half length towel. This is perfect for preserving your paper towels. This allows you to portion the paper towel based on the spill, so you don't waste a whole towel on a half towels spill!
If you have an amazon prime account you can buy them by the roll and get free two day shipping.
OR you can order them by the case of 6 and get them for almost half off! (Unfortunately they aren't prime eligible by the case.)
What do you do with all those left over paper towels? Put them in a separate bin and mix in a blue oyster mycelium kit (after you fruit the kit!) and grow some blue oyster mushrooms on them!
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"The Chase, Pt. 3" lyrics by FES TAYLOR
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"The Chase, Pt. 3"
[Fes Taylor:]
Red ID, population, banned for six months
Wound still stitched up, going to get lunch
How to get free, spread a little love in the joint
After rec, slide off, while the God's off point
Hotter than a court bust, sirens going off
Inmate missing, my conscience said 'give it up', man, listen
Caught me running man, life in jail, hard to understand
Feeling like a slave snatched from the motherland
But anyway, make a run for it, get across the water
I'm good, heard dogs barking, running through the woods
Helicopters over me, pictures flashing on the news
Saying that I'm young, black, with an attitude
Shoot to kill, escaped and considered real dangerous
Tried to get away, twice before, back on the same shit
Ran into a fast food joint, yoked this dude up
Took his new coogie suit, and matching blue chucks
Now I need a V, sho' nuff, what did I see?
A 2003 Bentley, on twenty-three's
Caught 'em at the light, nigga, I'm from Car Jack City
Get shot in front of your girl, it won't be pretty
Before I peel off, snatch shorty for security
Now I got a hostage, ain't trying to be boxed in
Pedal to the metal, tires burning the street up
Bullshit, police cars, trying to keep up
Guilty til proven innocent, cause I'm black
Fuck that, I know one thing, I ain't going back
Catch me if you can... arrest me if you can
I ain't never seeing the pens, again
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Vermont Governor On FDA's Role In Opioid Epidemic16:00
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Gov. Peter Shumlin at WBUR (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Six governors from around New England were in Boston Tuesday, speaking at a round table at the International Conference on Opioids at Harvard Medical School.
One of the most outspoken governors was Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin. We sat down with Shumlin to talk about what he's doing in Vermont, how much responsibility the pharmaceutical companies should hold for the opioid epidemic and why he's not exactly making friends at the FDA.
Update: The FDA's response to Gov. Shumlin is this speech dated March 29, 2016 by Commissioner Robert Califf.
Peter Shumlin, governor of Vermont. He tweets @GovPeterShumlin.
This segment aired on June 7, 2016.
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This Weekend - Pitchfork Music Festival 07/13/16 9:26AM
Pitchfork Music Festival kicks off this weekend July 15-17, 2016! Head out to Union Park for a range of genres in music, as well as many other activites. President of Pitchfork Media Chris Kaskie tells us everything you can find at the festival this weekend.
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We are a local church with a global vision.
Our Vision
We are a movement of friendship encounters and we live to preach the gospel to every person, pastor believers, prepare disciples who form other disciples, and plant leaders in every nation of the world. This is our vision and purpose.
We are a church without walls.
— Apostle Kimberly Angulo, World Harvest Church Co-Founder
Four things we believe all people need
1. To be valued
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Our Primary Goal Is To Win Souls, Make Disciples.
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
X-men Supreme Pics Update - New Commission From Brian Brinlee
The final arc of X-men Supreme Volume 2: War Powers has begun! This fanfiction series is ready to once again tell an amazing story that culminates in a major way. I'm very excited about seeing how it pans out and how readers respond. However, there will always be time for me to keep the other parts of X-men Supreme up-to-date. That includes new pics from the ever generous and ever talented Brian Brinlee. Once again, he has contributed to this fanfiction series in an amazing way. He has completed a commission for Issue 21: Chasing a Memory. It is the last issue of X-men Supreme Volume 1: Mutant Revolution, which means ever issue in that volume now has art to go along with it! This pic involves Wolverine reliving a tragic memory. It's a powerful moment and a wonderful way to round out Volume 1. Thanks Brian!
X-men Supreme Official Panels
The commissions for X-men Supreme are always a joy to add. I deeply appreciate Mr. Brinlee's contributions, but please keep in mind that I'm always open for others! If you have art skills and want to showcase them here on X-men Supreme, please contact me and we'll work something out! In the meantime, stay tuned for more updates as this fanfiction series enters it's greatest arc to date! Until next time, take care and best wishes! Excelsior!
Generation Hope #9 - Hard-Hitting Awesome
I know I can be a harsh son-of-a-bitch when I review books sometimes. I admit I'm bias as fuck just like anyone else, but I try to be as honest as I can while making it entertaining with assorted dick jokes. I don't expect everyone to agree. I expect even fewer to take me seriously, but I try to offer insight in between the drunken ramblings of my reviews. That's where I hope to give value to the world of comic books. Now why do I say this? What the fuck does this have to do with Generation Hope #9? I could spend a whole blog post explaining it, but I'll skip that shit and get right to the meat of the issue.
I won't deny it. I've been pretty harsh towards Generation Hope. Ever since Nick Lowe killed the mystery about this book by essentially affirming that Hope Summers is a Jean Grey ripoff, it's been hard to really get into the book. Kieron Gillen's writing has been great and some of the Five Lights have been very compelling. The problem is that Hope has become more and more unlikable as a character. So while there is a quality story to enjoy, there's this 900-pound gorilla standing next to you slinging his shit right into your face. The gorilla is Hope Summers and the poop...well, it's a metaphor so I'd rather not get into details.
But I keep reviewing Generation Hope because it is an important part of what is going on with the X-books. The Mutant Messiah is the key to getting the mutant race up and running again. She's already assembled a new generation of mutants into this freakish cult that has made for some interesting and at times fucked up stories. Some have fallen flat. The last story with Teon was a bit of a mess that one could easily skip and not miss anything. With Generation Hope poised to play into Schism, it's a hard book to drop. So I'm left to keep following it and hoping that Kieron Gillen can do something that makes the shit that 900 pound gorilla is slinging just a bit less smelly. Now Generation Hope #9 doesn't tie into Schism. It's just a one-shot that takes place before it. But that doesn't mean it can't be good. Stranger shit has happened. Keep in mind we live in a country where angry white people make the most noise, yet we elected a black president.
Generation Hope #9 starts off with a somewhat simple premise. Jea-I mean Hope (I'll get it right sooner, I swear!) and Gabriel are hanging out in Cerebra with one of the Cuckoos, who is on monitoring duty in case a new light shows up. They offer to keep her company, but she reminds them she's part of a hive mind. She has all the company she needs. Jean G-I mean Hope makes some random comment about being ready. Gabriel tries to make out with her as he's tried to do since he first met her. So really, there's nothing new here. Gabriel is a horny teenager. I don't think we need to be reminded. Most teenagers his age would hump air if they could.
Speaking of horny teenagers, the real meat of the story begins with three seemingly normal-looking teenagers who are clearly breaking the law by getting pissed faced drunk and playing truth or dare. If Michele Bachman was president, she would have a massive migraine at how her imaginary god complaining how wicked they are. It's as racy as any truth or dare game I ever placed, except the dares we often did involved ingesting various insects and assorted substances we found in the back of my neighbors refrigerator (good times). The conversation soon shifts to mutants where one of the guys that's wearing a T-shirt saying "Bacon is a vegetable" (couldn't agree more) says he fantasizes about having sex with a mutant. Let's face it, that's nowhere near the kinkiest idea anyone has ever had. Clearly, this kids have never been to Japan.
Then the other guy in the room (who I assume is still sober) offers a different take. He doesn't see mutants like his bacon loving friend. He sees the pretty mutants that people want to bone like Cyclops and Emma Frost as the lucky ones. Other mutants who are deformed or have a body structure that makes them literally and figuratively unfuckable are the mutants with the real problems. He's not wrong about that either. The main X-men has a bunch of pretty people who are very fuckable to both genders. What's that say about the mutants who you can't jerk off to? It's somewhat of a mood killer that requires more booze.
Then just as someone's about to make a dare to eat something that will require poison control, irony steps in and pretty much date rapes them. The guy who just showed sympathy for deformed mutants suddenly start's melting. And I don't mean in the Wizard of Oz type tradition either. The kids face literally turns to goop and no sooner had he shown sympathy for deformed mutants that he suddenly looks like he just looked at the Ark of the Covenant from Indiana Jones. And what does his bacon-loving buddy do? Does he call an ambulance? Well keep in mind this guy may have been drinking so it's not that rational. In fact, it may be the cruelest thing anyone has ever done in X-men since Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Wolverine's body. He takes out his phone and starts filming it.
Now it's worth pointing out some real world parallels here. It wasn't long ago that some kid killed himself because his asshole roommate secretly video taped him, showing that he was a homosexual. That royally fucked up his life and was an utterly monumental dick move on the part of the roommates. I don't care how much this guy loves bacon, this is a dick move.
Hope (I got it right!) and the Five Lights detect this activity and spring into action. But while they're on their way to help this kid, his asshole friend decides he isn't a big enough douche-bag. So he starts broadcasting shots of his melting friend over the fucking internet. So not only is he freaking out, his life is being ruined. It's a lot for any kid to take in and as many of us who did dumb things that left permanent stains on their high school bathroom wall would know, teenagers don't always respond rationally. So while this poor kid is finding many reasons to unfriend this kid on Facebook, he grabs a fucking kitchen knife. No matter how drunk you may be, when someone starts swinging a knife you back the fuck up.
The Lights are on their way, really not sensing anything amiss at first. Then out of nowhere, they feel something and not in the same way you feel something when you see your first porno. It's more like you feel something when someone walks in on you with when you're holding said porno with a bottle of lotion and underwear that shall never be worn again. They know something is horribly wrong so Laurie in all her nude form jumps out of the X-jet and flies out ahead of them. When she arrives at this truth or dare nightmare, she makes a shocking discovery. That kid whose powers basically ruined his life is dead. It wasn't his powers that killed him either. He did that himself. That's right, a kid in a comic book commits suicide. It's not shown and it's not all that graphic either. But it gets a message across and it's a pretty damn powerful message.
Now this is quite a twist for a comic book. Whereas much of Generation Hope has involved needless Jean Grey hints and goofy teenage mutant antics, this is some serious shit. Teen suicide is something you just can't make a dick joke out of. It really happens and for reasons that aren't all that unbelievable in this comic. It's a very raw and very touchy issue. For Kieron Gillen and Marvel to address it is pretty bold and something that should be applauded.
The book then takes on a Nuff Said feel as no more dialog is said for the next few pages. The Five Lights arrive to see the body of the kid wheeled off. Hope is understandably pissed and that bacon loving douche-bag has made a bad name for every bacon loving douche-bag that ever lived. It's a sad moment because she knows they failed. They done fucked up and there's no way around it. If they got there sooner, Hope could have stabilized him and probably used her cultish personality to make him drop the knife. But that didn't happen. There's no supervillain here to beat up. There's just failure and a dead kid.
It seems over, but for some this shit can't stand. For some, these type of bacon-loving douche-bags need to be taken out. That's what Kenji tries to do after everyone leaves. He puts together some new art of his to sneak up on the kid and drill a fucking hole in his head so he'll think twice before being such an asshole again. It makes sense that this is Kenji. In the very first arc of Generation Hope, he had a much more liberal view of killing. But before he can start the lobotomy, Wolverine shows up to talk some sense into that twisted teenage brain of his.
From here, we learn a bit more about Kenji. Apparently, suicide hits close to home. His own father killed himself because he couldn't keep it in his pants and fess up to his mom that he's an asshole. They talk about how the world is fucked and on the seventh day God should have added fairness to the mix instead of resting. Now it's a bit odd getting advice from a guy whose killed more people than heavy metal music and OJ Simpson could ever hope to, but he makes a good point. Even if some people deserve death, that bacon-loving idiot does not. He's just what he is, an idiot. He then offers the it gets better line that has become such a rallying cry for people like that kid. It's a nice way to tie up a story that's based around this kind of tragedy.
In addition, Wolverine reminds Kenji that he's 19 and in Great Britain. That means they can reinforce another good message for the ages. A wise man once said that alcohol is the cause of and the solution to all of life's problems. When tragedy strikes and there's nothing you can do about it, sometimes the best thing you can do is just get shit faced. Excuse me. I just teared up a little.
I won't get too cute this time. This issue was pretty damn awesome. I know I've given Generation Hope some low marks lately. I think the book has earned those marks. For quite some time, the quality has really declined so for a single issue to come out of the blue and really kick ass like a Thai kick-boxer is a pleasant surprise. Kieron Gillen didn't just try to move the story of the Five Lights forward. He told a story that was more personal and more hard-hitting than most other comics on the racks. This was something very raw. A kid finds out he's got a condition he can't control and rather than deal with it, he kills himself. Not only that, his so-called friends made fun of him. That's pretty rough shit because that happens in real life. People have killed themselves over similar problems and for Kieron Gillen to craft a story like this is really amazing. Forget the whole Jean ripoff angle or the Five Lights. This is a story that hits readers on a personal level and hits them in all the right ways.
As powerful as the story was, there were still some sticking points. It was harsh, but like I said earlier it was a bit too tame. It could have gone further, but it didn't. Now I get that Marvel can't be too graphic here. This isn't the fucking MAX series where they can show tits, ass, and the Punisher ripping someone's guts out. But the story didn't even try to walk that fine line. That limited the impact, as strong as it still was. Gillen's writing was still strong, especially with Kenji at the end. However, this lost potential keeps this good story from becoming truly great.
Now as someone who still has night terrors about high school, I can fully appreciate these hard-hitting issues. I'm a big supporter of the it gets better movement. For Kieron Gillen and Marvel comics as a whole to do a story like this is something to applaud. Part of the original premise of the X-men was to relate to those who feel like outcasts. Generation Hope really tackled that issue and did so in a great way. It could have gone further, but it's still makes for a solid and memorable book. It may affect some more than others. It may come off as too light. Even so, it's a quality book from a series that desperately needed it. That's why I give Generation Hope #9 a 4 out of 5. It's a good segway into Schism. While issues like this may not affect the bigger picture of the X-books, it's definitely a story that's worth telling. No dick jokes here. I mean this in a way as serious as any raving drunk can say. Nuff said!
Friday, July 29, 2011
X-men Supreme Issue 38: Overlord Part 1 is LIVE
The end is near! At least it is for X-men Supreme Volume 2: War Powers! This fanfiction series has been building towards another climactic moment, one that links with many of the major events in both this volume and X-men Supreme Volume 1: Mutant Revolution. As with every major volume of stories, the end brings both closure and profound change. When the dust settles, the X-men and the world they live in will never be the same. This fanfiction series has grown in both scope and scale since it's inception. This new arc, Overlord, will amp up that scale in a way that words simply cannot describe! So for all those who have been eagerly waiting to see where X-men Supreme goes, I present to you the final arc of X-men Supreme Volume 2: War Powers!
Issue 38: Overlord Part 1
Make no mistake. This fanfiction series is going to undergo major changes! As with the real comics, X-men Supreme will go through progressions of development. One event leads into another. All events affect one another. In the middle of it all the X-men themselves go through changes both personal and in the greater scheme of this fanfiction series. The world that I've created is as much as a character as the X-men themselves and when you see the impact on the world as a whole by this arc, you'll understand!
Since this is set to be the final arc of X-men Supreme Volume 2: War Powers, it's even more important that I get feedback. This arc will set the stage for this fanfiction series in a major way. So many future events will stem from it so I'm eager to get feedback from my wonderful readers! Please contact me at any time or place your comments in each individual issue. In addition, be suer to stay tuned for more commissioned panels in the pics section! There's plenty more to come with X-men Supreme! Until next time, take care and best wishes! Excelsior!
X-men Schism #2 - The Cracks of Awesome Begin
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Uncanny X-Force #12 - Dramatic Awesome
Well bend me over, kiss my ass, and shave the hair off my balls! The wait is over! The next issue of Uncanny X-Force has arrived! Has it really been that long? In the time between issue 11 and issue 12, Casey Anthony became a free woman and Amy Whinehouse went to that big rehab clinic in a sky. Damn! It has been too long! For a time, this series was on rapid fire. Rick Remender churned out quality stories the same way Russia churns out quality vodka and tennis stars/cover girls. He really stepped up his game as he began the Dark Angel Saga, his dimension hopping uber-arc that linked 616 with Age of Apocalypse. The last issue ended with X-Force stranded in Age of Apocalypse and Wolverine finally confronting a version of Jean Grey that he doesn't have to immediately stab. To have to wait this long for a story like that is like having to wait 134 days for the NFL to get back in business. Wait...bad example!
Now I'll be the first to point out that crossovers are gimmicks by definition. They can be pretty damn cheap sometimes. They're like the reality TV of comics. However, just like over 95 percent or reality TV is trash, there's a small 5 percent where crossovers can be pretty damn awesome. What makes Uncanny X-Force crossing over with 616 so compelling is that Age of Apocalypse has a number of characters that are currently shacking up with Amy Whinehouse in 616. Nightcrawler, Jean Grey, and Sabretooth are all dead and buried and Marvel has little inclination to bring their asses back. So instead, we get a story where X-Force gets to confront these characters and we get to see them in a way that isn't the same as a full blown resurrection, but it's something none-the-less. It's like having your cake and eating it to. It's not quite the same. It's still a gimmick. But it can still be awesome! It takes a damn good writer to make a gimmick awesome and Rick Remender has shown with Uncanny X-Force that he's pretty damn good.
Now in the last issue, it was a fairly compelling moment when Wolverine and X-Force confronted Age of Apocalypse Nightcrawler and Sabretooth. But the real pants-shitting reaction came when he met up with Age of Apocalypse Jean Grey, who unlike her 616 counterpart was never cock-blocked from shacking up with Wolverine. So when he saw her and she saw him, it was a big fucking deal. Rick Remender ended the last issue with them seeing one another for a reason. That's exactly where this issue begins.
Now I'll also go on record as saying that I think the Wolverine/Jean Grey relationship in 616 is more fucked than a three dollar whore outside a Viagra factory. But Age of the Apocalypse is one of the few (actually, it's the only) places where the relationship actually worked. So it's awkward for both of them. Wolverine is left with a bottle of whiskey making sense of it, musing how he had such a huge hard-on for Jean Grey. Then Age of Apocalypse Jean comes in and reminds him that the Wolverine she knew is gone and she misses that sweet, feral ass of his. It makes for a powerful moment and one that will send Jean Grey fans into seizures for the next month or so or whenever the hell the next issue comes out.
While Jean is lamenting on how she lost her version of Wolverine, the Wolverine that never got to tap that beautiful ass of hers is musing endlessly on how hot she is and how much he wants to bone her. He does show some reservation to make it seem like he's not a complete prick. He reminds Jean that he's not the same Logan that she fell in love with. He also reminds himself that he's boning someone else at the moment, which would be Melita. That doesn't stop AOA Jean from actually hinting that it might be better if he stayed in the world Apocalypse ravaged just to be with her. So she lost her Wolverine and she's okay with a substitute. Not sure what that says about her, but it's no more fucked up than any of the other relationships Marvel has ever utilized.
Now I'll state again that the Wolverine/Jean relationship was so horribly managed in 616 that I had mixed feelings about this scene. But given that this is AOA Jean, it does have a different context and one that is very well-done. I still have a problem with Remender depicting Jean as the love of Wolverine's life. Never mind his fascination with redhead pre-dated Jean (which would be Rose) and that he came close to marrying Mariko. I disagree strongly with him making it sound like Wolverine is overly hung up on Jean Grey when he still makes pilgrimages to Mariko's grave every year. But that doesn't make the kiss Jean tempts him into any less sweet.
But just like in 616, Wolverine gets cock-blocked before he can enjoy this moment. This time it isn't Cyclops who gets in his way. It's a fucking sentinel. And in the Age of Apocalypse universe, that's a pretty big deal because Apocalypse uses more style in their killer robots in 616. Also keep in mind they're in Atlantis, which means they're fucking underwater so it's a dangerous attack. But AOA Jean shows that she's more badass than even the Jean that Wolverine knew and makes quick work of it. Again, Jean fans should go into their second round of seizures at this point. If you start seeing blue flashes and a face of Teddy Roosevelt calling you a pussy, then it's time to call a doctor.
The sentinel attack means that Apocalypse knows where the X-men are. So that means Atlantis is no longer safe for them (as if anywhere was safe on Age of Apocalypse to begin with). That means Jean and Logan don't have time for a quick bone. They have to rally the troops and make their move. So they meet up with the rest of the Age of Apocalypse misfits, which included a neutered MODOK and a twisted version of X-men that looks like something Alan Moore would write on his lunch break. They discuss their mission, which links to this celestial seed that X-Force needs to save Angel. And since Dark Beast screwed them over (again) by stranding them in Age of Apocalypse, they have to find a way to get back.
So the mission they come up with is two-fold. One team would locate the ruins of a dead celestial to recover the components of the seed. The other would seek out the Age of Apocalypse version of Gateway, whose powers they say should get them back to their world. There's just one problem, one that goes beyond raiding the dead body of a Celestial. Gateway is in the Akkaba prison, which is their version of Guantanamo Bay mixed with Alcatraz. It's not a tourist attraction or a prop in a Michael Moore movie. It's dangerous on a level that even Deadpool can't joke about, but seeing as how Atlantis is now essentially an underwater coffin they really don't have a choice.
Before they head off onto this mission, we get another enema of soap-opera drama. But this is the good kind! The one you pay a prostitute working her way through med-school to do. This time it's Psylocke and Fantomex. Now Fantomex has made no secret of his intent to bone Psylocke. Hell, he seems intent on boning every beautiful woman like any snooty faux French man would. But he's being a hell of a dick to Psylocke because she's trying to save Angel. Everything she's doing on this mission is to save the man she loves and that's a pretty big issue for her. So leave it to Fantomex to be a massive dick-cheese by saying she's deluding herself into thinking that this is healthy for her. What makes it even worse is the man has a point.
Now I normally don't agree with snooty jack-offs like Fantomex, but he hits the nail on the head with Psylocke and not in a way that costs a hundred bucks in Tijuana. He points out that so much of Psylocke's relationship with Angel has been about helping him. That she loves being needed almost as much as she loves the man. There may be some truth to that because throughout Uncanny X-Force, most of their relationship has revolved around Psylocke helping Angel with his Arcangel persona. He's not wrong to point that out. It's a great way to add a new angle to a relationship that has just begun to face such scrutiny.
As expected, Psylocke punches Fantomex in the face for being an asshole. But then in a move that's completely unexpected, she fucking kisses him. Or actually, he kisses her. Yeah, he's a jerk, but he's a jerk that can get a woman's panties wet in all the right ways. He's a guy who doesn't need help and that is something that can appeal to Psylocke. It doesn't come completely out of nowhere since Fantomex has flirted with her before, but it still seems a bit contrived. It's one of the few instances where the cover of a comic isn't a massive tease. But Psylocke does push him away. She makes it clear that she's not giving up on Angel just because some smooth-talking French man told her so, although she is clearly tempted. It adds yet another layer of drama on top of Wolverine having a chance to bone an inter-dimensional version of Jean.
The teams separate before anyone else can try to get in a quick bone. Fantomex's team heads off to find the Celestial. Wolverine and Jean's team heads off to Akkaba. Along the way, Wolverine meets up with Kirika, who is his daughter in Age of Apocalypse. She's like a cross between X-23 and Psylocke, which in and of itself should give everyone with an Asian fetish a six-foot boner. It also gives Wolverine a chance to bond with someone who doesn't have red hair, showing that he's not just out to get freaky with a redhead.
When they arrive at the prison, it's as dark and dreary as you would expect any prison run by Apocalypse. It's a shitty place to find their ticket home, but no worse than a TSA pat down at LAX I suppose. Along the way, Wolverine makes a bold request. He suggests to Jean that since Age of Apocalypse is pretty much fucked that some of them (namely her) comes back to 616 with him. Now this is a hell of a turn. Earlier he was trying to push Jean away because she wasn't the Jean he knew. Now he's asking her to come back? I guess he (and Rick Remender) forgot about Melita. That's quite a shift and one that will leave some with mixed feelings. 616 already has a Jean Grey knock-off in Hope Summers. It doesn't need a psudeo-Jean from another dimension. Luckily, they don't get much of a chance to debate it because Apocalypse's prison guards show up and they're not just overpaid guys in uniforms. They're basically a collection of Marvel heroes and villains that were run through a Marilyn Manson concert. It's as awesome as it sounds.
The team knows this isn't a fight they can win. So rather than push their luck, they let their balls shrivel and make a run for it. Now you would expect in a comic like this that Remender just throw as much action into the scene as possible, but it makes sense when you consider they're not looking to beat the shit out of an Apocalypse-fueled band of super-powered assholes. They're trying to find their ticket home. Well they don't end up running too far because they end up finding it. They also find out what happened to the Wolverine in Age of Apocalypse. Earlier, Jean Grey told a story about how he was lost in a battle against Apocalypse. Well he apparently got better and got a promotion in the process. That's right! Just as Angel is becoming Apocalypse in 616, Wolverine became Apocalypse in AOA! He shows he's not a nice guy when he fucking kills Kirka, the daughter Wolverine never even got a chance to know. That's what X-Force is up against. That's the kind of shit you can only get in a book like this!
So once again, Marvel throws a corpse into the mix to add shock value for a book. Now at this stage in comics, most should be pretty numb to shit like this. But when it's done with such an amazingly awesome backdrop, that numbness is nullified and as overstimulated as Ted Haggard's dick at an Elton John concert. This final moment is like a cherry on top of a perfectly layered cake. This issue was heavy on drama, dumping a lot of ink on soap-opera shit like Jean/Wolverine and Psylocke/Fantomex. One made you go aww and the other made you want to shit out your kidneys. Then in between we get a sentinel attack, an assault by a fucked up collection of biker villains, and the appearance of Wolverocalypse (I know that sounds goofy as hell, but that's what I'm calling him). You couldn't ask for more if it came with a free bag of weed.
If there's any flaw with this book, it's that it took so damn long to get here! I get that awesome shit is worth waiting for, but when a book is so heavy on drama like this one then waiting sure doesn't help. Over time, you get overstimulated by other shit like Fear Itself and Schism. Also, certain fans with certain tastes may be turned off. There are those out there who despise the Jean/Logan relationship and for good reason. You may not agree with Rick Remender's note at the beginning about how Jean Grey was the love of Logan's life. That's bullshit on a stick. He nearly married Mariko and Jean married Cyclops. Remender needs to check up on his history. Then there's the whole issue with Melita. One minute Wolverine is pushing Jean away and then he's offering her to come back to 616 with him and why would he want to do that? Just so she could stand around and make Cyclops look like an idiot (when he doesn't need help with that in the first place)? It's too much of a 180 and pretty much ignores the Melita issue. But if you don't really give a shit about Wolverine's love life, there' not much else to complain about.
Uncanny X-Force has been one of the best X-books on the rack since it started and the Dark Angel Saga is already cementing itself as the arc that will solidify it in the annuls of X-books for years to come. There are still a lot of unresolved issues. The stage is definitely set for some crazy shit involving Wolverocalypse. The prospect of some Age of Apocalypse refugees finding their way to 616 is a big fucking deal as well, even if the whole timeline of this arc is still confusing as hell. Overall, at a time when there are a lot of exciting X-books unfolding, Uncanny X-Force #12 still finds a way to stand out. For that, it's awesome deserves extra praise! I give this issue a very spirited 5 out of 5. It tells a great story while putting dead characters to good use. It's an awesome combination that makes Uncanny X-Force worth it's weight in adamantium! Nuff said!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Captain America - Patriotic Awesome
It's been a damn good year for Marvel's movie division. As I blogged earlier this year, Thor was a godly orgy of awesome complete with Natalie Portman's ass to make it all the more sweet. This movie, like Iron Man before it, is assembling a massive load of C4 caliber awesome to help build up the impending nuclear blast of pants-shitting awesome that is the Avengers movie. But like any self-respecting Marvel fan knows, you can't have the Avengers without Captain America. That's where Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger movie comes in.
Now this movie wasn't without controversy and some of it was fairly warranted. The man who got the role of Steve Rogers, Chris Evans, is no stranger to Marvel movies. He also played Johnny Storm in the two maligned Fantastic Four movies, two movies that despite solid visuals had about as much depth as a two-year-old's fingerpainting. I've yet to see both movies fully sober and Chris Evan's flat performance was only the 5th thing wrong with that movie. But unlike some fans, I believe in second chances so I gave Chris Evans the benefit of the doubt with Captain America.
The movie starts out in the present with a scene all Cap fans should be familiar with. SHIELD, having too much free time and money on their hands, search an arctic wasteland for ruins of something deemed more precious than gold or the Grateful Dead's secret stash. They end up finding Captain America encased in ice and from here, we go from the present to the past. This is where most of the movie takes place, but it's not just one big flashback. If anything, the present is the prelude. The real meat of the story takes place in the 1940s where Steve Rogers is a sickly kid from Brooklyn and everyone else is busy shitting their pants over the prospect of Nazis taking over the world.
In these early parts of the movie, we don't get straight into the action. We actually get a glimpse into the kind of man that Steve Rogers really is. He's not some tragic figure who pisses and moans about everything. He's a guy who God slacked off on when crafting his body, but he doesn't let that stop him. He's willing to pick fights with guys who can kick his ass and he's willing to lie in order to get into the army to go fight the Nazis. He's basically the anti-George W. Bush.
One of the most powerful scenes in this area is when Professor Erskin, the man behind the super soldier formula, does a quick test to find his first specimen. He takes a grenade and throws it into a crowd of recruits. It's a bit of a dick move, but it makes a point. While all the other macho men tighten their assholes and adjust their panties, the sickly and weak Steve Rogers dives right on top of the grenade. I don't care who you are, but that shit takes balls and it proves more than anything that Steve Rogers is the man for the job.
So Steve gets his shot at the Super Soldier serum. And low and behold, it works. He becomes the strong, tough guy that used to beat the shit out of him. Except he doesn't let it go to his head. He uses his skills to chase after the goons from Hydra, who have secretly become the kind of force that Hitler could only have jerked off to in his sleep. They succeed in killing Professor Erskin, which pretty much puts Captain America on a collision course with these assholes that would dominate the rest of the movie.
At first, he doesn't get his shot. Rather than send him into the field to kick ass against the Nazis, the politician of the 40s show they're as shameless as the politicians of today. They send Cap on a PR campaign to beef up support for the war. They dress him up in what looks like the Captain America costume my old roommate wore to a Halloween party, which he later pissed in when he got drunk. But that's another story. Naturally, Steve Rogers doesn't care for this shit so when nobody is willing to throw him into the field, he throws himself into the field. With balls as tough as adamantium, he single-handedly frees over 400 prisoners from Hydra including his old buddy Bucky Barnes. This finally gets the point across. He's not a showman. He's a soldier and he's ready to kick some ass.
His chief opponent is the Red Skull, who throughout the movie is working to tap a power that if you stayed after the credits for the Thor movie you will recognize. Somehow, this guy got his hands on the fucking cosmic cube and is preparing to use it to sodomize the world on a level not seen since boy bands hit it big in the late 90s. There isn't much depth to the guy. He sees himself as a demigod, drunk with power. He doesn't get the same treatment that Steve Rogers gets in that we never find out what makes him tick. That's a bit of a shame because there's no denying that the son-of-a-bitch is motivated. He makes it a point to beat the shit out of Captain America any chance he gets. This is what leads to the big climax of the movie when Cap has to stop the Red Skull from bombing the entire eastern seaboard of the US with cosmic cube powered bombs.
It makes for a heroic finale, but the best parts happen when the credits stop rolling! Like with Thor and Iron Man, we get some extra scenes. However, this time it's a lot more than just a teaser. It's a full blown trailer for the Avengers movie! If you see this trailer and your brain is still intact, you're either comatose or dead! THAT'S how awesome it is.
So what can I say about Captain America overall? Well for one thing, it made me feel patriotic again. After a decade of George W. Bush, my love for America was ranked at about the same place as my love for my back scratcher. America doesn't give us a lot of reasons to love her these days, but Captain America epitomizes what makes America awesome. Chris Evans fully redeems himself from Fantastic Four. He depicts both the hero and the man with Steve Rogers. He leads a story that's full of action, personal drama, and depth. Moreover, the details in this movie closely connect with the other Marvel movies. Howard Stark shows up as does the cosmic cube and references to Norse mythology. It's a beautifully coherent and beautifully crafted story that sets the stage for the Avengers movie. For that, I can only say that Captain America accomplishes everything it set out to accomplish. For that, I give it a 5 out of 5. It's not quite as good as Thor, but it's within spitting distance! If you want to see the next step to the Avengers movie and get a sneak peak while you're at it, you owe it to yourself to see this movie! If you start agonizing over the prospect of waiting until next summer to see Avengers, then don't worry. That's to be expected! Nuff said.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Uncanny X-men #541 - Making Unstoppable Awesome
Bear with me, I'm still hung over from the recent announcements about Uncanny X-men going day-and-date digital release. I feel like Juggernaut and Hulk are taking tap-dancing lessons on my head at the moment so forgive me if my dick, poop, and boob jokes are a little off. This is a great time to be a fan of the X-books because between Fear Itself, Schism, Uncanny X-Force, and X-23 no fan has any excuse to not find something awesome. If so, then you're a douche-bag. I'm sorry, but that's the only way I can put it. An embarrassment of riches like this doesn't come along too often. We have no idea how long it will last until someone comes along and fucks it up so like a good bottle of whiskey, enjoy it!
Uncanny X-men recently dove head first into the pool of topless bikini models that is Fear Itself. Uncanny X-men #540 took the events that began in Fear Itself and showed how they affected the X-men in their neck of the woods. San Francisco is certainly not equipped to handle super-powered beings armed with magic hammers and anger management issues. A city of hippies, gay pride parades, and pot dispensaries needs the X-men to step up. The last issue had the city stare down a poison tipped dildo that was ready to fuck them over in all the wrong ways. That poison tipped dildo...Juggernaut. And he's packing some heat courtesy of the Serpent!
Now the last issue I reviewed really fed off the quality from Fear Itself. I commended Kieron Gillen from not giving into the obvious temptation to just turn the whole issue into some over-the-top beat-em-up between the X-men and Juggernaut. The way Fear Itself was set up, he could have gotten away with it and used the paycheck he got from the issue to buy his wife a diamond ring that would have earned him get-out-of-mowing-the-lawn duties for the rest of the year. Lesser men would have taken the easy way out. He did not. Instead, he spent Uncanny X-men #540 setting up the action and the situation. He had Juggernaut make a new friend and by that I mean he fucking mind-wiped some random kid into being his fanatical cult-follower/prison bitch. It was a solid transition that took Fear Itself right to the doorstep of Uncanny. Well now the time for building it up is over. It's time for people to start beating the shit out of each other.
Uncanny X-men #541 starts by introducing Mayor Sadie of San Francisco to a headache the X-men have endured for many years. Juggernaut is on his way to her city and he must be receiving subliminal messages from Michele Bachman because he's prepared to level their decadent city like Sodom and Gomorrah, except Juggernaut uses his bear hands and doesn't need no stinkin' divine retribution! To get a sense of what's going on, they meet up with Emma Frost. And by meet up with her, I mean she sends a telepathic conference call that has them in this psychic mind-scape that looks like the set of a porno. Emma is even dressed as a sexy cowgirl who looks like she was fired from the Dallas Cowboys cheer-leading squad for trying to bone Tony Romo, Emmitt Smith, and Roger Staughbach at once. But it's Emma freakin' Frost. This is how she roles. Accept it, jerk off to it, and be happy.
Once you're done firing off some knuckle-babies, you return to see Juggernaut arriving in San Francisco. He makes himself at home the same way drunken frat boys make themselves at home. He starts blowing shit up. All this while irrational protesters are letting the Serpent's whole wave of fear fuck them like a Bankok transvestite on meth. And remember that kid from the last issue? The one who got roped into being Juggernaut's rodeo clown for stealing a fucking candy bar? He plays the part of a preacher and the way he preaches would make even Jeremiah Wright cringe.
So after some coordination with Emma Frost and Mayor Sadie, the X-men show up on the scene to take on this guy who was unstoppable before he had a hammer forged by a pissed off Asgardian god. Cyclops plays his usual strategy role. He has Cecila Reyes and Emma Frost protect the civilians so they don't become wack-a-moles in Juggernaut's attack. Then he, Colossus, Shadowcat, Iceman, and Magneto begin their attack. It goes about as well as you would expect any attack to go against an unstoppable force. They might as well be trying to refill the oceans by spitting in them. Juggernaut really doesn't break a sweat, which when you've got a giant hammer on your side should be a given.
That hammer isn't just good for ruining perfectly good pants either. In addition to being strong and invincible, Juggernaut actually does show that the hammer has other uses. When Magneto enters the picture, he demonstrates way. Even though the hammer is made of metal, Magneto can't stop it. Some master of magnetism he is. He makes a comment that the hammer is as unstoppable as Juggernaut. It isn't just because he threw the damn thing like Nolan Ryan. It's part of his power.
This adds a slight if not miniscule touch of intrigue. We haven't really found out much about what this hammer is doing to Juggernaut. In Fear Itself, he just picked it up and that's it. He became Juggernaut 2.0, the Asgardian upgrade. He was unstoppable before. So what's this hammer doing? Is it making it so that he's unstoppable in a way that makes for more than just a good pick-up line? It's not clear, but it is an intriguing possibility that might actually get some brain cells working while you're still drooling over the pages.
So even Magneto is as useful as a Vanilla Ice Greatest Hits album against Juggernaut. This forces Cyclops to reconvene with Emma and Mayor Sadie via psychic conference. They have to figure out how to stop a guy who was already unstoppable and now has an unstoppable hammer on top of it. Sadie wants every X-man, including the kids whose powers only involve farting toxic fumes, to save her city. Cyclops and Emma remind her that throwing kids into battle is crazy even by San Francisco standards. So Cyclops orders a new strategy. This one involves someone with red hair, green eyes, and cosmic power. That's right! She's back! Jean Grey is...oh wait, it's still fucking Hope Summers. Never mind!
I'll skip another rant about rip-off characters. Cyclops's strategy is not without merit. He takes as many mutants as Utopia can offer and puts them around Hope, who is like the Wal-Mart of mutant powers minus the lawsuits. Surrounded by all these mutants, she takes on as many powers as she can at once. With those powers, tears into Juggernaut with the kind of force that James Cameron only wishes he could use in the Avatar sequel. It's flashy, it's intense, and it's pretty fucking awesome. Seeing a teenage girl kick Juggernaut's ass when the X-men and Magneto could not is just satisfying in a way you can't describe without a handful of valium and a tank of laughing gas. Not only is it flashy, it works. She gets Juggernaut's helmet off. And like so many previous battles, the next step is easy.
Except this time is different. This time, a simple psychic shot to the brain isn't enough to make Juggernaut go sleepy bye. He's channeling Asgardian level power. His mind is no longer on the same level as a burned out football player who had one too many concussions and one too many shots of steroids in his ass. So when Emma Frost, who has been manning Cerebra the whole time, launches her attack, it doesn't go as planned. Her eyes start glowing, which could mean any number of things. Maybe she saw a thong that she had yet to wear yet or Cyclops's penis finally overpowered her. But whatever it is, Emma Frost loses this mind game. It's just not clear why and it would be a lot easier if it was clear.
It doesn't get much clearer either. Remember that psychic conference room that looked like a strip club in Dallas? Well once Emma's mind gets overpowered, that crazy kid with the tattoos somehow enters. Now this guy got punched out by Cyclops ten pages ago. How the fuck he came into this psychic domain isn't even hinted at. He doesn't say much to indicate what he's up to. He just keeps droning on about how the Juggernaut can't be stopped, as if we haven't heard that for over 40 fucking years of X-men comics. Not only that, he somehow takes the form of Juggernaut and then proceed to stomp on Mayor Sadie and Cyclops. But keep in mind, they're in that psychic conference room. It doesn't kill them. It just jolts them back to reality. It's as fucked up as it sounds.
It still doesn't stop there. They're no longer in that psychic domain. They're back in the real world, looking around and seeing all the destruction Juggernaut has brought. That's really about it. Juggernaut doesn't finish them off or anything. He just keeps walking. I really don't know what more I can say about it. I want to make a poop joke, but I'm too busy scratching my head. So Juggernaut kicks their asses, resists Emma's psychic probe, and then that groupie of his cuts off the psychic conferencing? And then he just walks away? Did I miss something? Am I really that hung over?
We don't get much else in terms of hints. Emma's eyes are still glowing. That's really all she can do now. This leads me to the same rant I went on in my last review. In Uncanny X-men #540, Emma and Namor had a rather awkward encounter. By awkward I mean Namor tried to bone her and why not? She's Emma fucking Frost. But in this issue absolutely nothing comes of it...again! It's happened before. Emma and Namor have shared awkward moments, but as always nobody does shit with it. It might as well have not even happened. Now maybe it'll come up later in this arc, but a teaser or two sure would help. The same shit happened in Matt Fraction's last Uncanny arc. It looks like Emma faces something dramatic, but it's glossed over and completely forgotten about. You would think that Marvel would try to do more with their flagship vixen that all their fans fantasize about boning. But really she still comes off as a fucking barbie doll. If something is going to happen with her before the Uncanny relaunch, now is a good time. But if recent history is any indication, it's not worth getting your hopes up.
X-men vs. Juggernaut is as classic a fight you can get without pitting Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in a cage match. It's been done many times before. There are only so many ways you can tell the story about the X-men ripping off Juggernaut's fish-bowl helmet and have it be compelling. In that sense Kieron Gillen is basically having to write this story after Joe Pesci walked in and smashed his hands with a hammer. But somehow, he's able to make this classic and arguably overused element work. There's a personal element and there's the mindless violence element that those who get off on blood lust get their rock off. Gillen doesn't just focus on the X-men. Mayor Sadie and the city of San Francisco itself is very much a character in this series. This isn't just an X-men vs. Juggernaut Round 48729452985 brawl. It feels like a strong part of the Fear Itself story.
The action was solid. The personal touch was there. However, the only thing keeping this comic from being perfect was the coherence at the end. One WTF moment is enough to really kill the momentum like a jackhammer to the base of the skull. It's not that it was completely outrageous in the same way half the anime porn that comes out of Japan is outrageous. It just isn't really that clear what happens at the end. As such it's a little hard to get excited about the next issue when you don't know what the fuck happened at the end of the last issue. That's like being excited about a blowjob and not knowing if the person giving it to you is a hot chick, an ugly ass tranny, or some hobo who thinks your penis is the antenna to the aliens controlling his mind. When it comes to a story like this, a little clarity goes a long ways.
Aside from the end, the book is pretty damn solid. It builds on most of the foundations Gillen made in the previous issue. It nicely mixes in the Fear Itself elements while demonstrating some new combat strategies that make Hope Summers somewhat less a bratty Jean Grey rip-off and the badass bitch that Cable raised in a post-apocalyptic future. While the end makes it hard to gauge just where the hell this arc is going and what will come of it, there's still a solid comic here. It's not as good as the previous issue, but it's so close it can smell it's farts. I give Uncanny X-men #541 a 4 out of 5. Now if the next issue can ease up on the WTF and give San Fransisco a remodeling that every gay guy on Castro Street will go crazy trying to fix then we'll have something truly awesome with this arc. Nuff said!
Friday, July 22, 2011
SDCC X-men Panel - Hints, Teases, and More Reasons to Get Drunk
Well I've been waiting for and dreading it all week! I made sure I was good and drunk before it happened. I got naked just in case. Sometimes I get excited and it helps to be naked, especially when these comic panels are such a mixed bag. There have been years where I've come away needing a good kick in balls and a thorough shower to wipe off the stench. There have also been years where I need to inject beta blockers into the base of my spine because the awesome is just so intense that my heart would explode if I allowed it to overwhelm me. I'm never sure which it will be. This year we've had Schism, Fear Itself tie-ins, a new Uncanny writer, more Jean Grey teases, Age of X, X-23, and Children's Crusade. So the guys at Marvel that actually get paid to blow our minds have a lot to work with. CBR posted a full report and I think I can say with confidence that there is plenty of promise for the X-books.
CBR: CCI X-men Panel
Schism was the main topic and understandably so. It's a big deal when the X-men's most epic bromance crumbles like Larry King's last three marriages. It's going to change a lot of shit. Uncanny is getting relaunched alongside a new book unoriginally entitled Wolverine and the X-men. Gee, I wonder what it's about? Titles aside, we don't know who will be on which team. Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine are more divided than hoards of Twilight fans fighting over pubic hairs from Robert Pattinson. The only confirmation revealed was Emma Frost. She was on the cover of Uncanny X-men, which pretty much affirms who she sides with. But seriously, how is that shocking? Wherever Cyclops and his penis go, she goes. So any prospects of the Cyclops/Emma relationship ever being shaken up by this shit can be shot in the head and buried with the Pope's gay porno stash. But there were some other strange hints by Axel Alonso that indicated that Cyclops might not be around after Schism. Now he could just be blowing hot air, but if Cyclops is not involved in the X-books then that's a big fucking deal. The X-books have been the Cyclops and Friends show for quite some time. If Schism is really that bad, then maybe everyone's favorite psychic-loving leader may be on the out. If that's the case, it could be a shift on par with Pat Robertson wearing assless chaps to a Lady Gaga concert.
As always, there was a Jean Grey question. As always, Marvel brushes it off. And even though Nick Lowe confirmed that Hope and Jean aren't linked, Axel saw fit to be coy about it. All I can ask is why? Marvel still has a strict "No Jean Grey in 616" policy. They brought up her Age of Apocalypse version, but for some fans there can be no substitutes. It's not a matter of coke vs. pepsi. It's a matter of Rolex watch and a shitty replica.
Overall, there are some intriguing prospects to be gained from this panel. There's nothing too disgusting, but nothing that warrants breaking out a mountain of blow. It definitely heightens the potential for Schism. I'll definitely be keeping track of that series here on this blog so stay tuned for more assessments as they come in as well as more tips on how to mix booze and comics. 2011 has been a decent year so far. Before the Mayan Apocalypse sets in, Marvel has plenty more to offer! Nuff said.
X-men Supreme Issue 38: Overlord Part 1 PREVIEW
It's been a steady progression for the X-men Supreme fanfiction series lately. Volume 2: War Powers has shaped up nicely from story to story. The X-men are dealing with a world that has a mutant nation scaring the public to no end. That conflict has been steadily escalating as this fanfiction series continues to unfold. Well now it's about to take a massive leap! X-men Supreme Volume 2: War Powers is nearing it's end. That means the big climactic arc is upon us! Just as Uprising before it, this arc will forever change the face of X-men Supreme.
Thus I submit to you an arc I call Overlord. In this arc, the events that have been developing throught Volume 2: War Powers start coming together. The X-men mythos has often been defined by big moments with certain characters. None will be bigger in this story. Both Volume 1 and Volume 2 will affect where this massive event leads. In the end, expect a world very different from the world that started out in Volume 2: War Powers. It sets the stage for X-men Supreme Volume 3, which I already have planned out! There are some amazing stories that lie ahead, but the X-men have to make it out of Overlord first! I've provided a brief preview. It should set the stage for the biggest moment in this fanfiction series to date!
“We’ll see about that,” said Mystique skeptically.
“Did it work?” asked Exodus.
As always, I deeply appreciate the support I've gotten from all you lovely readers out there. I hope it continues. I promise big things with Overlord and I intend to deliver! X-men Supreme has so much potential and I intend to tap it as best I can. To do that I require as much feedback as can be provided. So please take the time to contact me or comment on each issue to let me know how this fanfiction series is doing. Until next time, take care and best wishes everybody! Excelsior!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
SDCC 2011 Update: Uncanny X-men and Wolverine and the X-men to go Day and Date Digital Release
Hey everybody! You know I wouldn't take time away from writing X-men Supreme, reviewing comics, and getting drunk unless I had some big fucking news to share with you all. As some of you may no, namely the ones that live under a fucking rock, the San Diego Comic Con is taking place this week. This is where fanboys get to be kings and girls can dress up in spandex and not be mistaken for a stripper. Every major comic company comes here to announce to the world why they've got the most awesome shit that you should buy. Every year there's been one particular announcement they've never made. It has nothing to do with X-men, reboots, rip-off characters, fanfiction, or selling your marriage to the fucking devil. It has to do with the basic act of actually getting these comics in the first place. Well that announcement has finally come!
Newsarama: Uncanny X-men and Wolverine and the X-men to go Day-and-Date Digital
That's not a misprint and I'm not stoned (for the most part). Marvel has jumped onto the bandwagon that DC has strapped a fucking rocket on and decided to make some of it's top titles day-and-date digital release. I'll repeat that just because it feels so damn good. Marvel is making Uncanny X-men and Wolverine and the X-men Day and Date digital release. Fuck, I need to change my pants again! But I don't care! This is the best news to come since a two-for-one deal at a Tijuana whore house. At last, my limited proximity to a comic shop shall never get in the way of me enjoying quality comic awesome! Praise Odin, Galactus, and hell even Mephisto! I'll praise any higher power I can because that's how excited I am about this news! It's a great day to be a comic fan and an X-men fan. Between this and DC's relaunch, computers are going to be even more important and not just because of porn content. If more details come in, I'll be sure to blog about them when I'm sober enough. Until then, feel free to run out in the streets and celebrate! I'll be waiting here, passed out drunk but ready to absorb this new generation of awesome!
X-men #15 - A Requiem of Awesome
Get yourself a box of tissues and a fresh bottle of anal lube because the end of an major arc is upon us. The end of an awesome story is always bittersweet. A part of you is crying, a part of you is ecstatic, and some other part of you is craving a victory bottle of whiskey. Or maybe that's just the alcoholic in me needing more reasons to get drunk, of which I can never have enough. But drunk or sober, X-men First To Last has been an amazing story. The premise itself seems destined to get more convoluted than the last three seasons of Lost. Telling a story in both the past and present, tying them together, and making it so they don't become more fucked up than the first half-hour of Inception seems impossible. But damn it if Chris Yost hasn't made it work, keeping the story coherent while presumably juggling chainsaws and giving quantum physics lectures at Oxford.
Now I make a big deal of this because relatively speaking, whenever a comic book tries to mix both the present and past it turns into a clusterfuck that even German porno can't match. It gets so fucking confusing at times that the ink needs to be laced with LSD just to get the neurons in your brain to make the right connections. The stories that succeed are few and far between. My main concern with this arc from the beginning was whether it could start strong and actually sustain it. Now that it's over, I can safely say I can throw those concerns away into that dark pile of used condoms and old porno that shall never see the light of day. I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I want to emphasize how fragile this story was. It was only one twist away from getting fucked up and this final issue was critical in more than one way.
In the previous issue, all remaining secrets and lost memories came out like Anthony Wiener's penis at a sorority house. Toad and his drinking buddies got Celeste of the Stepford Cuckoos to give everyone a telepathic wake-up call that revealed why nobody seemed to remember the Evolutionaries. It left a lot of people pissed at Cyclops, as if they didn't have enough reasons to hate the guy who was sleeping with Emma Frost. It also allowed Magneto to remember and keep in mind he's still the guy who used to have wet dreams about humanity kneeling before him like a crack addict giving hand jobs for another hit. So now that he has another chance to finish off humanity, the big question was would he take it? Would old bucket-head fall back into his old genocidal habits?
Well X-men #15 seeks to answer that question, but in order to do so it starts off in the past to show just how close Magneto got and how he fucked it up the first time. In the First Class storyline, Magneto had the full attention of the Evolutionaries. He kidnapped a pre-silicone Emma Frost to use Cerebro and contact every mutant on the planet. He was supposed to speak for all mutants to prove to the Evolutionaries that he could lead his kind after all of humanity finished shitting their brains out through their feet. He was getting pretty damn close, but that's when the X-men showed up again to take him on. Say what you will about how the X-men have changed over the past 50 years, they're still pretty consistent when it comes to their anti-genocide stance. They take out the Brotherhood and confront Magneto, essentially telling him to cut this shit out because killing all humans is a dick move no matter what era you're in.
Even Magneto's own kids understand that this kind of mass murder just ain't right. And when your own kids start fighting you, then you done know you've fucked up. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch both side with Cyclops and Angel, opposing their father and all his genocidal inclinations. Quicksilver swipes away Emma (presumably copping a feel he won't remember anyhow) and the Scarlet Witch tries to attack, only to get a faceful of rubble. This is pre-Decimation Wanda so she's not going to play as rough, especially against dear old dad. Needless to say, the Evolutionaries aren't impressed. If this guy can't get his own kids to follow his lead, how can he do the same for mutants? Long story short, he can't.
Carry it over to the present and Magneto has another chance. Now this is where it gets tricky because if Magneto does go through with it, he's basically back to being the genocidal douche-bag he was in the First Class days. If he doesn't, then he's just gone soft. It seems like a no-win situation. Well, Chris Yost doesn't just flip a coin to figure this shit out. He takes what was shown in the past and makes sure Magneto uses it in the present. Keep in mind, everybody has remembered now thanks to Celeste. He knows that by going along with the Evolutionaries, it cost him dearly. His own children turned against him. Granted, they ended up turning against him anyways, but he saw how in the end he fucked himself worse than Mel Gibson at a neo-Nazi rally. So by that logic, he fights back against the Evolutionaries.
Again, it's worth pointing out that this is a tough spot to write your way out of. Chris Yost could have really fucked up Magneto in ways that only Japanese fetish porn can exceed. But he didn't. He used the story in the past to create a viable outcome in the present. It's that kind of attention to detail that sets "meh" stories from "OMG that fucking rocks!" stories.
So in both the present and the past the Evolutionaries are at a dead end. They continue to talk about the extinction of all mankind as if it's necessary. They keep trying to convince the X-men that they're helping mutants. You would think at this point they would get a fucking hint. Guess celestial level power doesn't make cosmic powered space gods any less arrogant. By wasting all this time trying to win hearts and minds through their pro-genocide stance, the X-men in both the past and present were working on a countermeasure. In the present the X-men science team was working on a machine that Hank McCoy slapped together in a flash, presumably with duct tape and an old VCR. In the past, Beast showed why he can still kick ass even when he doesn't look like an overgrown extra from Cats. He's able to construct a device that looks like a glorified flesh-light that cuts the Evolutionaries off from their cosmic power. Like pulling a baby away from a tit, the Evolutionaries start whining.
This should come as a boner-inducing moment for many ailing Beast fans, who saw him take a hippie stance in Uncanny recently before leaving the team entirely. In First to Last, he shows why he was awesome enough to be part of the Original Five. Only a guy like him could slap together a machine to fight celestial-powered space gods the same way I slap together hot pockets wrapped in bacon.
Now weakened, the Evolutionaries aren't in a position to play the genocide card just as Tiger Woods is no longer in a position to play the married to a hot white supermodel card. They start to throw a cosmic hissy fit. Then Cyclops confronts them. He asks for a chance to prove that it isn't necessary to wipe out humanity in order to save mutants. Now this seems like an easy argument to make, but the Evolutionaries don't make it easy for them. Maybe they're just trying to save face from being wounded by a bunch of teenagers and an old man, but they do hear him out.
It's at this point we see the timelines start to come together. Cyclops is able to convince the Evolutionaries to give him a chance. However, they are super-powerful space gods so that means they're bound to make a dick move or two. They agree to disappear, but before they do they basically wipe everyone's mind. They don't do this just to fuck with them. They do it so they don't remember how effective Beast's weapon was against them and they can't spend years putting together a coherent plan to prove them wrong. That's basically like telling someone to win a race and then cutting off their legs before it starts. Some understand that this will fuck them over. So Jean Grey, yes the REAL Jean Grey and not some rip-off character or some cosmic parrot, intervenes and uses her powers to protect Cyclops's mind. This is why he remembered in the beginning of the story. Jean protected him. Not Xavier. Not Angel. Not even Beast who built the damn machine. She protected the guy she would eventually die for, marry, and die again for. It's a nice gesture that reminds the Cyclops/Emma crowd that Jean Grey could still capture Cyclops's heart and do so without extensive plastic surgery. Seeing as how Marvel is intent on keeping Jean dead and replacing her with Emma and Hope Summers, it's a nice moment and one that Jean fans should treasure because they sure as hell won't be getting something like this anytime soon. I'll quit drinking before Jean Grey ever comes back.
While the Evolutionaries willingly step down in the past, they put up a much tougher fight in the present. They won't fall for the same bullshit again. They're prepared to begin their assault on humanity and all over the world, people start getting the kind of migraines that would make them rip their skulls off. So rather than use diplomacy like old Cyclops, the new Cyclops instructs Madison Jefferies and the Science Team to throw the switch on Beast's machine, which they've been building for the past few issues. Now the machine works it's colorful magic, just as it did in the past. This time, they amp it up. So the Evolutionaries feel more than just a pin prick this time. Now it's more like a full fledged ass-infection. Those cosmic balls of their shrivel faster than David Hasselhoff's liver at Ocktoberfest.
Now as dramatic as this scene is, there is one slight oversight that's worth noting. In the last two issues, Toad and a few randomly assembled goons were harassing Celeste and the science team. After Celeste spilled the beans on what the Evolutionaries made them forget, they basically disappeared. Did they just leave Jefferies alone? What gives? We never find out and while that's not a gaping hole, it is a hole. It's not big enough to fuck over the story, but it's there and easy to overlook. We're left to assume that after Toad and his buddies found out what happened in the past, they were too busy shitting themselves to keep fucking with the science team. They realized it probably would be in their best interest to stop the Evolutionaries before they got too comfy with their pro-genocide policy.
Regardless of the logistics, the machine works. The Evolutionaries are defeated. Cyclops and the X-men don't bat an eye even as the Evolutionaries essentially tell them their fucked. They're the X-men. They hear that shit at least five times a week. Even when it comes from evolutionary space gods, they don't bat an eye. It's nice way of showing how far the X-men have come while still clinging to the shit that makes them heroes. Sure, humanity is full of assholes, but they're worth saving. That's the X-men for you, past and present.
So the battle in both the past and present is over. The last few pages are a nice epilogue that ties up the remaining loose ends. It shows how the Brotherhood are back in place, poised to be the assholes they're destined to become. Emma Frost is back in the insane asylum, still a ways off from becoming the oversexed vixen that comic fans everywhere jerk off to. And the X-men are back to their First Class roots. We get one last nice scene with Cyclops and Jean Grey. Again, this is something X-men fans should cherish because between Hope Summers and watering down Emma Frost to make her more Jean-like there's no incentive at all for Marvel to ever bring Jean Grey back. So savor these precious smudges of ink. Jean probably won't be showing up in 616 in our lifetime. My liver will kick my ass into my grave by the time someone finally has the stones to bring her back.
As for the Evolutionaries, their story isn't quite over either. They had their asses kicked in both the present and the past. So now they have even more incentive to prepare for the day when they serve up a little ass of their own and not in the massage parlor in Las Vegas sort of way. They're still intent on seeing evolution take what they deem to be the correct path. To do this, they have to go through a pesky mutant who wears a giant condom for a costume named Cyclops. Seeing as how he'll probably have only half the balls he has now after Schism, they'll be in a prime position to fuck him up. It ties up the loose ends while leaving the door open just a crack for another story down the line! You can't ask for a more complete ending if you tattooed it on on a strippers snatch!
Now that the arc is over, excuse me while I take a few shots of vodka in both celebration and mourning. While I'm still partially sober, I'll say outright that this arc was awesome. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Giant Sized X-men #1 started strong and it stayed strong all throughout the adjectiveless X-men run. That's saying a lot for a series that made a habit out of underwhelming me with arcs that used vampire gimmicks, lizard people, and Spider-Man to fane interest. No amount of gimmicks can take the place of a good, coherent story. X-men First To Last had many opportunities to become convoluted in mixing both the present and past. It avoided every one of them. For that, this arc is as special as it is awesome.
As for the issue itself, it tied up as many loose ends as anyone could ask for. It resolved the present and the past, making it so the retcons didn't effect the overall timeline of 616 while still adding an interesting twist. It offered some nice moments that showed Cyclops being the strong leader he is, which I think is somewhat appropriate given that he's set up to be humbled in a big way with the upcoming Schism arc. So he might as well shine one last time before fucking everything up. He also makes a powerful enemy in the Evolutionaries, who really set themselves apart as characters that aren't inherently evil. They genuinely believed that they were doing the right thing and are intent on completing that task while giving Cyclops the finger. The door is left open for them to enter the picture again. It was also nice to see Beast contribute to the X-men in ways that don't involve his incessant whining. That machine of his did the trick in both the present and the past. He also did it without looking like an overgrown cat. So that's always a plus.
I won't go so far to say that this issue was perfect. It did have some faults. The scene with Madison Jefferies seemed somewhat inconsistent. We didn't see what happened to Toad and his goons. Did they just stop after they learned the truth? Did Emma Frost fuck them up for messing with her student/clone daughter? This is a woman who probably goes into a PMS fueled rage when someone borrows her eye-liner without asking. It would have been nice to see how Toad would have had his day and his brain ruined. But this oversight didn't take too much away from the overall book. It still came together nicely in all the ways that mattered. It closed up all the major and most of the minor plot holes. To dock it just for one issue would be a dick move, even for a drunk.
X-men First to Last has all the classic and contemporary elements that make X-men stories great. Chris Yost proves that even while he's busy kicking ass on the Avengers cartoon, he still has enough energy to force feed awesome up overcrowded rectum of the X-books. It makes me wish that he could stay on board, but if he can only focus his awesome on one project at a time like Avengers, I'm okay with that. So while I'm sad to see this arc end, I'm proud to give X-men #15 a 5 out of 5. This story is everything an X-men fan could want. It has mystery, explosions, secrets, and Emma Frost in a straight jacket. Whether you're old school, new school, or even remedial school you'll find something to love about X-men First to Last. Nuff said!
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Modularity 2016
Mon 14 - Thu 17 March 2016 Spain
The First International Aspect Oriented Strategies for Domain Modelling (AOSDM16) workshop provides a forum to discuss the possible applications of aspect oriented techniques to domain modelling and management.
Domain modelling is a well-known practice to capture the essential semantic of a rich domain. It covers the processing and checking of domain constraints. Both of them that can ideally be automatically checked based on the information contained in the design. Aspect oriented techniques suits perfectly to support an automatic and transparent management of all these aspects that other way, should be managed manually by the developer.
The purpose of this workshop is to create a space for discussion around the possible applications of aspect oriented based solutions to the different task that developers must deal with in relation to domain modeling and management. The main goal is to explore new AOP strategies that would prevent developers from implementing and maintaining logic that could be generated automatically from the information contained in the design.
• Daniel Fernández Lanvin (Universidad de Oviedo)
• Alberto M. Fernández Álvarez (Universidad de Oviedo)
• Manuel Quintela Pumares (Universidad de Oviedo)
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“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being”
I saw the quote above recently, and it really made me think. How often do I treat my dear sweet children as “inconveniences?” Exactly when did they go from precious blessings entrusted to me by God to small, loud, challenging things sent by God to interrupt my day? (Probably when they started to talk, but that’s really beside the point.)
I remember being pregnant the first time. I remember the excitement and joy at the thought of a baby! MY baby! A sweet, beautiful, precious living creature. I remember holding Jonathan for the very first time. They placed him on my chest, and he was crying. Tears came to my eyes, and I remember thinking, “I wish you would never have to cry again in your life.” The instinct to protect him kicked in immediately.
Granted all of parenting is not sunshine and roses. My sweet, precious babies are little sinners. Just like me. And, sinners put together means arguments and discord. My children need me to teach them to behave, and that is not fun, for anyone. I am responsible for raising them and for teaching them about obedience. I am responsible for showing them and teaching them about God’s grace and mercy. I am also responsible for my own attitude.
When I start getting irritated at my children, I’m trying to ask myself a few questions. What exactly about their behavior is getting on my nerves? Are they sinning? If so, I should get off my tush and deal with it, and not just sit here and hope it stops. (or yell until it does) Am I expecting behavior that is not age appropriate? (for example, is a 6 year-old boy going to need to run off energy, or can he sit still all day?) Am I mad at them because they want my attention, and I want to do something else? Am I showing them the same grace and mercy that God shows me every day, even though I start sinning again immediately after I ask for forgiveness?
Parenting is hard. There are lots of rewards, but the day to day life of it is often not fun at all. It’s work to take care of others and put their needs first. It’s painful to watch my child struggle with sin, especially when it mirrors my own behavior. How can I change my attitude so that I am not constantly frustrated?
For me, I am trying hard to focus on God’s grace. It’s such a beautiful thing. “For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom. 5:8. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23. We don’t get what we deserve. We get grace. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t deal with our sin, nor does it mean that we can just forget about discipline with our children. But it does mean that my attitude towards my children should be one of grace. The discipline I show them should be out of love and not anger. I should see my children as the blessings they are, and not as “inconveniences.”
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Anal Discipline
(At the request of a reader – hope you enjoy the story.)
Okay, so I’d been bad. Like, really bad. I was way, way over budget, mouthy, the house hadn’t been cleaned in 2 weeks, and I lied about going to visit a friend at her home when in fact we halusciousnet_naked_over_the_knee_spa_351042160d been clubbing. Mister was well within his rights to punish me. First, he had me strip and assume the position over his lap. He used his hand to spank me until I was sobbing a bit, kicking a bit, and my bottom was good and red. I was also quite wet! Did I learn? No. I mouthed off again telling him that disciplining my bottom always made me excited. This was not the proper state of mind for someone who had so badly misbehaved. He obviously needed a much more stern punishment. He took me into the bathroom and I watched as he filled the sink basin with water. He then took out his pocket knife and cut a thick stick of glycerin soap, dropped the stick into the warm water, and positioned me with my hands on the rim of the tub, feet spread wide apart. A few moments later he slid the softened soap stick into my bum. My eyes flew open and I felt the burn immediately. Glycerin soap melts fairly quickly and has a quick effect on the bowels as well. He asked me if I was still excited or if I was beginning to understand that my actions had distasteful consequences. I started to move to the “throne”, but he stopped me. I would have to beg and show true respect first. I was sobbing in earnest now and quickly did as he ordered. This went on for a while and I was terrified I was going to humiliate myself horribly, but he relented and allowed me to eliminate. He did, however, stand there with his arms crossed, staring at me the whole time. I truly was humiliated. How can this get worse, I thought. Mister unzipped his jeans, pulled out his cock, and told me that I was going to suck him off, swallowing every drop before he would allow me to clean myself up. I opened my mouth to protest, giving him the opportunity to shove his cock deep into my mouth. I gagged, but sucked. His cock in my mouth always soothes my nerves and soon I was calm, almost forgetting my humiliating position. He came quickly, smiled down at me, and told me I could clean myself. I was them to meet him in the kitchen. I lInflating Anal Probe eft the bathroom far more humble than I’d entered it. What I saw on the kitchen counter, though, made me tremble. An inflatable butt plug . Holy Shit! Plus a tube of pre-ground ginger, plus a harness! Now I cried in earnest!! I begged and begged him not to use that, but he ignored my pleas, smiled at me, then calmly ordered me to bend over, my hands flat on the floor, legs spread. He inserted the ginger covered plug. The burn was immediate and harsh, but I knew it would last only about 20 minutes. Nonetheless, my tears were making quite a puddle on the floor. He helped me to stand upright and strapped the harness on me, locking it in place. I would have to, he sweetly informed me, suck him off each and every time I needed to release my bowels. As he said this, he used the pump to inflate the plug. This, I assure you, got my attention. The bulb hung down between my legs to about mid-thigh. Now that he was sure I understood my predicament, he then told me to go put on a long skirt and top. We were going out. I was to put on make-up and smile. No one, absolutely no one was to know that I was in any distress or discomfort. We were meeting friends for dinner. I lod5ad8adc841afd538c63ef1d07684d64oked at him with horror, but nodded. He was my Dominant, my Mister. If he were a weaker man, a less stern disciplinarian, I wouldn’t respect him as much. Dinner, let me just say, was a trial. Mister sat next to me and every now and then would take hold of the bulb, inflate the plug inside of me, then smile. I’d have to sit there, eating, drinking, or chatting as if everything were perfectly normal. Then, he’d release the air for a while only to reinflate it after a few minutes of relief. Then, the soap stick reappeared (figuratively) and I really needed to use the facilities. I looked at Mister and said that I needed to go powder my nose. He smiled and said I looked fine. It could wait until we got home. The plug reinflated – it was HUGE!! I gasped and our firends looked at me oddly. Crap! Shortly after that Mister made our excuses and we left. Tears were running down my face I was so uncomfortable. As soon as we got home, I stripped off my clothes and knelt before Mister who obligingly removed his trousers. I went to work, feeling that wonderful sense of calmness, and soon he was releasing down my throat. He unlocked my harness, deflated the plug, and allowed me to eliminate. When I finished, he had the plug lubed up with the ginger again. I begged him not to put me through that again, but he kissed me and quietly told me that this was the penalty for a week’s work of bad behavior. I was again plugged and harnessed. I asked how long this was going to go on. Mister asked me how long had I been misbehaving. I groaned. About 2 weeks. One day for each week, he decided. I’d be locked into the harness and plug for 2 days, having to beg and earn the right to eliminate, and then suffer through the burning effects of the ginger afterwards. Oh. My. God. I had to go to work the next day! My eyes widened when I realized that I’d be plugged while I was at work! He smiled at me, knowing I’d comprehended my plight, kissed me gently, and told me that he was sure that my behavior would improve. Mister is a strict, but brilliant and creative disciplinarian.
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Cradle of Civilization
A Blog about the Birth of Our Civilisation and Development
The church complex of Bagrevand
Posted by Fredsvenn on April 7, 2015
St. Hovhan Church, Bagrevand
Cultural genocide – Armenia
Armenian cultural heritage in Turkey
Bêlit is a form of the Akkadian language word beltu or beltum (meaning “lady, mistress”) as used in noun compounds; it appears in titles of goddesses, such as bêlit-ili “lady of the gods”, an Akkadian title of Ninhursag. The word bêlit appears in Greek form as Beltis, considered to be the name of the wife of the god Bêl.
Baal, also rendered Baʿal, is a North-West Semitic title and honorific meaning “master”, “lord”, “owner” (male), “keeper”, “husband”, which became the usual designation of the great weather-god of the Western Semites. The title is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant and Asia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu. A Baalist or Baalite means a worshipper of Baal.
Bagmashtu (also known as Bagparti, Bagvarti, Bagbartu) is an Urartian goddess, and the consort or wife of the chief Urartian god Haldi. Although throughout most of Urartu Arubani, the Urartian’s goddess of fertility and art, is known as Khaldi’s wife, at the excavation of Musasir references to “Khaldi and his wife, Bagmashtu” were found inscribed on some of the items.
It is assumed that when Urartu expanded its territories to include the area Musasir, local gods were incorporated and a new pantheon was created for that region. The locality and addition of Bagmashtu are supported by the fact that her name is of Armenian origin.
The name has been used as Baghdadu on Assyrian cuneiform and Babylonian records going back to at least 2000 BC. An inscription by Nebuchadnezzar (600 BC) describes how he rebuilt the old Babylonian town of Bagh-dadu. There used to be another Babylonian settlement called Baghdad, in upper Mesopotamia, near the ancient city of Edessa. The name has not been attested outside of Mesopotamia.
Even though the name has been attested in pre-Persian times, a Persian origin has been accepted by most scholars. It has been proposed that the name is a Middle Persian compound of Bag “god” and dād “given”, translating to “God-given” or “God’s gift”, from which comes Modern Persian Baɣdād. This in turn can be traced to Old Persian.
Another proposal is the Persian compound bāğ “garden” and dād “fair”, translating to “The fair garden”. However, a Persian explanation remains somewhat problematic, given that the name was used long before the Persians arrived in Mesopotamia.
Bagrevand was a region of the old Armenia ruled first by Mamikonians and then by the Bagratuni family. The Bagdasarian are a noble family of Nakharars in Armenia and are of hereditary right to Bagrevand with Armenia in the province of Ararat. Variations include Bagawanean, Bagawanian, Bagdasarean.
The Battle of Bagrevand was fought on 25 April 775, in the plains of Bagrevand, between the forces of the Armenian princes who had rebelled against the Abbasid Caliphate and the caliphal army.
The battle resulted in a crushing Abbasid victory, with the death of the main Armenian leaders. The Mamikonian family’s power in particular was almost extinguished. The battle signalled the beginning of a large-scale Armenian migration into the Byzantine Empire.
The battle was a watershed in Transcaucasian politics. The defeat of the Armenian revolt eliminated the power of several of the nakharar houses, most notably the Mamikonian, Gnuni, Amatuni, Rshtuni, Saharuni and Kamsarakan families, which survived either as dependants of other families, or as exiles in Byzantium.
On the other hand, the Artsruni, who switched over to the Caliphate in time, profited from the power vacuum to rise to power in Vaspurakan, while the Bagratuni, after retreating for a while to their mountain strongholds, managed to reclaim a dominant position in the country during the 9th century.
Bagavan, consisting of the words bagi (meaning: idol) and avan (meaning: city) was an ancient Armenian church-city complex situated in the south-east of what is now Ağrı Province, in eastern Turkey.
It was a well known settlement in the pagan and later medieval Armenia times because of a huge monastic complex in it known as St. Hovhannes Mkrtich (St. John the Baptist) Monastery of Bagavan.
Bagavan was situated in the south east of Bagrevand province of the Historical Armenia’s Ayrarat region. Founded in the pagan Armenia as a religious center, it was the site of tombs of the pre-Christian rulers of Armenia.
Here, in the waters of Aratsani (Eastern Euphrates) river in 314, the baptism of King Tiridates III of Armenia by Gregory Illuminator (Armenian: Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ) took place, becoming the first Christian King of Armenia, which marked the start of a Christian medieval Kingdom of Armenia. The Armenian Apostolic Church as a separate independent Christian denomination emerged later.
After that, this place was marked by a huge number of crosses engraved in the riverside rocks and pagan temples were reconstructed as monasteries.
In the nearby slopes of mount Npat dozen of chapels stood, praying places of famous Catholics Nerses the Great (second half of the 4th century). Therefrom he watched Dzirav’s battle between the Armenians and Persians.
The monastery had three churches, and their most famous bishops were Yeznik Koghbatsi and Movses Khorenatsi. Under whose leadership it became the main monastery in the Bagrevand and Arsharunik districts. Final phase of construction ended in 639.
The church is 46 meters in length, 27 meters in width and 20 meters in height (with dimensions comparable to the Armenian Apostolic churches of Dvin, Zvartnots and Talin). The monastery had 5 doors and 51 windows.
The outward appearance of the temple is made of strict shaped masonries and ornaments, a contrast to the well brightened interior. People of 19th century associated the monastery’s appearance with the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
Trdat the Architect (circa 940s – 1020; Latin: Tiridates) was the chief architect of the Bagratuni kings of Armenia, whose tenth-century monuments have been argued to be the forerunners of Gothic architecture which came to Europe several centuries later.
Trdat was active in Armenia before and after his reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia. In 961, Ashot III moved his capital from Kars to the great city of Ani where he assembled new palaces and rebuilt the walls.
The Catholicosate was moved to the Argina district in the suburbs of Ani where Trdat completed the building of the Catholicosal palace and the Mother Cathedral of Ani. This cathedral offers an example of a cruciform domed church within a rectangular plan.
Trdat is also believed to have designed or supervised the construction of Surb Nshan (Holy Sign, completed in 991), the oldest structure at Haghpat Monastery.
After a great earthquake in 989 ruined the dome of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine officials summoned Trdat to Byzantium to organize repairs. The restored dome was completed by 994.
During Russo-Persian wars from 1877–78 the church complex of Bagrevand was damaged, but after a period of repairs, it remained functioning until Armenian Genocide in 1915.
In the late 1940s the monastery, also known in “Turkish: Üç Kilise” “Three Churches”, was completely destroyed by the Turkish Army, along with 4,000 other Armenian monasteries in eastern half of today’s Turkey.
Part of its stones were used in the construction of houses in Taşteker village that was founded around the monastery, but most of them were removed to the town of Ağrı, where they were laid in the lower stonework of the principal mosque erected in 1950.
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Life as I know it… plus commentary
End of the year news
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Some pretty incredible things are happening in the world. Here’s what you missed while siting around drinking eggnog and opening gifts from Best Buy…
For instance, scientists plan on igniting a tiny sun. This could lead to cheap, unlimited power for the planet. Imagine a little sun in a box powering your house or your car. Sounds cool eh? I suppose the worse thing that could happen is people could leave a small sun on a park bench and you don’t see it and you sit down on it. Or maybe a tiny sun implodes into a small black hole and now you can’t find one of your socks because it’s been sucked into the event horizon. Still, it seems worth the risk.
Also, the Cassini Equinox mission is sending back some great pictures from Saturn. I can’t help looking at this one of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and thinking, “That’s no moon… that’s a space station”.
And lastly, the last words of the Obama swearing in may just be “….so help me.” if the atheists get their way. A California doctor and lawyer is suing so he doesn’t need to be subjected to hearing references to God and religion as he watches the inauguration. Paprika bothers me but you don’t see me trying to outlaw goulash. I’m just sayin’.
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December 31, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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1. Hey, way to capture the nuance of the “so help me God” case: “If the atheists get their way.” I think most atheists deserve more credit than this Newdow guy who’s filing the lawsuit, which actually says (and I’m not making this up):
Oh, the injustice of such an “untenable” position! Aren’t McCain/Palin fans in the exact same boat, having to either turn their heads in horror or watch something they don’t agree with? Or what if I don’t believe in oaths at all (Jehovah’s Witnesses). What if I don’t believe in presidents (anarchists)? Can I file a lawsuit on the same principle and get on TV? The fact that this story has even gotten a whiff of press coverage baffles me.
the kyle
December 31, 2008 at 4:58 pm
2. Tiny suns exploding turning into tiny black holes?? No wonder I can never find anything! Once I give my wife this information she’ll HAVE to admit that it’s not my fault.
SA Cubby
January 1, 2009 at 4:20 pm
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Title: Mode-Target Games: Reactive Synthesis for Control Applications
Abstract: In this paper we introduce a class of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications for which the problem of synthesizing controllers can be solved in polynomial time. The new class of specifications is an LTL fragment that we term Mode-Target (MT) and is inspired by numerous control applications where there are modes and corresponding (possibly multiple) targets for each mode. We formulate the problem of synthesizing a controller enforcing an MT specification as a game and provide an algorithm that requires $O(\sum_i t_i n^2)$ symbolic steps, where $n$ is the number of states in the game graph, and $t_i$ is the number of targets corresponding to mode $i$.
Comments: This version is an extension of the conference version of the original paper titled "Controller Synthesis for Mode-Target Games"
Subjects: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT); Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO); Systems and Control (cs.SY)
Cite as: arXiv:1504.07702 [math.OC]
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DCI Talk by James Copelien
James Coplien(@jcoplien), thankfully, gave us a talk titled "DCI and Ruby — the current DCI language of choice". Which was arranged by @kakutani to, I guess, let us, Japanese Rubyists, know about true DCI concept given by its main advocator. Thanks guys for the great opportunity.
Here, I'll wrap up what I got from today's talk. It probablly includes many misunderstanding, though. It doesn't precisely represent what @jcoplien said. You're be warned.
At the first, he said that almost all of us didn't understand truely what OOP was. What we thought of ourselves understanding was "Class-Oriented Programming", not "Object-Oriented Programming". It can be said that only JavaScript guys are actually practicing it now.
"Object" originally represents our mental model and it has no relation to class, polymorphism, or other such so-called "OOP" terms. It's for personal relation to computers as when we recognize "object" on a computer screen and touch it with mouse. When Alan Kay, the inventor of Dynabook, refers to "object", he's talking just about "object", not class or other things at all.
Historically, limiting factor of our programming has been changing as below:
1. CPU-centered
2. Storage-centered
3. Communication-centered
I don't have to explain about 1 and 2, but, for 3, some addition is needed; "Communication" can be done through "bus" such as "hardware bus" connecting CPU, storage, or other hardwares, and "information bus" that represents interactions by objects. What matters here is interactions and reflective dynamics of such forms. There, class diagrams fail. Object diagram just can do.
Such grasp on programming, that is, what matters is objects and their interaction fits way of Agile thinking, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Business values come from objects. Program's values come from its use cases. It's never from class or something like it.
Classes prevent us from knowing about it. We can't reason about objects interaction if we think about only classes. The form of the interaction is just "program". This form lives in neither single object nor classes. It dwells in "runtime" interactions.
What we should think about is not class hierarchy but use case. Use case is "Context", like a stage director, which knows what "Role" objects should assume and teaches them how to play. In DCI, classes are just dumb. Algorithm represents "Role" and "Context" allocates the "Role" to object. "Context" is like a stage. "Data" play their "Roles" and "interact" with each other on the stage.
From around then, I was really fatigued to hear English discussion, so my notes almost ended here. I was very impressed by what he said, "Going to OOP from class-oriented programming is a paradigm shift." I saw that I didn't understand what OOP is actually. I'll read his and others' books on OOP, patterns, and architecture designs, and dig more into better thinking on it.
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Previous post in this series: Discovering SCP Workflow – Workflow Definition.
We’ve now seen the workflow definition from 10,000 metres. It’s time to zoom in on the first of the three tasks therein – the user task “Present Recommendations”:
In my mind, user task types are special, in that they involve a human, and as such need extra moving parts to work.
As you probably know, when you enable the Workflow service in your SCP cockpit, various things are provisioned, including the My Inbox app in an SCP Portal service based Fiori Launchpad (see Discovering SCP Workflow – The Monitor). It’s in this global workflow worklist app that user tasks appear, and remain until the user takes action (such as to accept, reject, continue or otherwise make known their decision or action related to that specific step in the lifetime of the workflow instance). They can also be suspended or terminated by an administrator.
Our user task
You’ve already seen a glimpse of what the user task is, and should enable, in Discovering SCP Workflow – Service Proxy:
We see that the My Inbox app is presenting 2 to-be-completed workflow items – user tasks – for me to process. It just so happens that both user tasks are the same (to select recommended beers), but My Inbox collects together all user tasks from all types of different workflow definitions.
Configuring the task
Workflow definitions are created and maintained using the Workflow Editor feature in the Web IDE:
This provides us with the facility to model entire workflow definitions, including describing the flow with a graphical editor and specifying task details too. Here’s a screenshot of our user task definition details:
We’ll cover some of these now and some in the next post, but I don’t want to dwell too much on the mechanics of the User Task Properties themselves – there’s already a post by Seshadri Sreenivas R “How Configure SAP CP Workflow User Tasks” which covers this in great detail.
There’s documentation for configuring user tasks available, but in its present early form is a little light on detail. It does make me smile, because it reminds me of a comedy flowchart which looks something like this:
The documentation goes something along these lines:
1. enter this value into this property
2. press “OK”
3. select some other value for another property
4. specify the UI5 app you’ve built for presenting and handling the user task
Wait, what?
The My Inbox context
What UI5 app? How do I build it? What are the requirements? Well, we’ll cover some of this in this post, and complete the picture in the next post. To set the scene, though – let’s look at the context in which the UI5 app appears – the My Inbox app.
There’s a screenshot of the My Inbox app in action earlier. But even before then, there’s some SCP Workflow service goodness going on, related to the dynamic tile on the Launchpad home page:
The value “2” is coming from a call to the Workflow API. Let’s dig in and use the Network panel of Chrome’s developer tools to see:
Each of these three requests are the same, repeated every 15 seconds. There are other requests too but I’ve filtered on the string “bpmworkflow” here. (I can imagine this polling by the unified shell infrastructure being eventually replaced by web sockets. But that’s a story for another time.)
That Request URL shown in the “Headers” section in the screenshot looks pretty complex, let’s break it down, decode the URL-encoded bits, and add some nice whitespace:
?$filter=Status eq 'READY' or
Status eq 'RESERVED' or
Status eq 'IN_PROGRESS' or
Status eq 'EXECUTED'
That’s better! Much more friendly. What can we discern from this URL?
• it’s a call to my instance of the portal service, of course (flpportal-p481810trial)
• there’s a reference to a UI5 app (/sap/fiori/bpmmyinbox)
• and within that, a reference to a destination (/bpmworkflowruntime)
• following the destination reference there’s some supplemental path info that suggests an OData service at that destination (/odata/tcm)
• and specifically within that OData service, there’s a task collection entity (/TaskCollection)
• we’re looking for how many entities there are (/$count)
• specifically for entities with certain statuses (?$filter=…)
Indeed, looking at the neo-app.json file for the bpmmyinbox app, which, with a bit of luck and a following wind, we can retrieve thus:
we see the bpmworkflowruntime destination:
path: "/bpmworkflowruntime",
target: {
type: "destination",
name: "bpmworkflowruntime",
entryPath: "/workflow-service",
description: "TCM Provider",
TCM stands for Task Consumption Model, by the way.
So after picking apart the URL earlier, looking at the definition of the “bpmworkflowruntime” destination to see that the URL is our old friend:
and being mindful of the value for the “entryPath” property, we can reconstruct the “real” unabstracted URL which we can consider as part of the wider Workflow API:
?$filter=Status eq 'READY' or
Status eq 'RESERVED' or
Status eq 'IN_PROGRESS' or
Status eq 'EXECUTED'
which, in my case, gives us, somewhat anticlimactically:
This of course is the value that’s shown in the dynamic tile earlier.
Anyway, at this point I find myself asking myself, as David Byrne did once, “well, how did I get here?”
UI5 app as task UI component
The answer to that question is simply that there’s a lot to learn by looking at what network calls are made. So let’s continue.
When we think about it, it’s obvious that the My Inbox app and everything to do with it is going to make use of the Workflow API. Even before it’s loaded, in the case of the dynamic value on the tile as we’ve just seen.
But what happens next? Well, let’s click on the My Inbox tile and observe the flow of traffic to the Workflow API using the same filter in the Network panel. This is what we see, requests that follow on from the repeated polling we saw already:
(Even though I value the performance improvements of batching requests up with OData’s $batch, it does make me grimace somewhat when I’m trying to see what’s going on behind the curtain. Yes, I can use setUseBatch to hack the model so things aren’t batched up, but that’s not the point. Perhaps setting debug mode on in UI5 should also turn off batch mode for OData models. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below).
At this stage the UI looks like the screenshot earlier – the My Inbox app showing two entries in the master list, with the first one selected and showing the detail (for beer recommendations related to my checkin to Buxton Brewery’s Subluminal).
These requests to URLs containing “bpmworkflow” tell us quite a bit. Let’s dig in. The first request shown ($metadata) is for the metadata document that describes the tcm OData service that we saw earlier.
To a UI5 programmer, a fetch of an OData services $metadata document is a good indication that an OData model is being instantiated. If we take a look at the initiator stack, we can see that the signs are strong:
Inside the Connection Manager module we can see the function flow:
initModels -> each -> (anonymous)
and at this point we have it confirmed:
var oModel = bUseV2Model
? new sap.ui.model.odata.v2.ODataModel(sUrl, oConfig)
: new sap.ui.model.odata.ODataModel(sUrl, oConfig);
(That’s on line 219 of ConnectionManager-dbg.js that is loaded with UI5 1.50.7, for those of you who are interested.)
And the absolute URL for the OData service’s metadata document is, as we’ve established:
So it’s likely that we’re going to see some OData query operations on this service to retrieve the tasks relevant for me in My Inbox. Sure enough, following the metadata document retrieval, in one of the $batch requests to this OData service is exactly what we’re looking for. It contains a single call, an HTTP GET on the TaskCollection entityset, representing a query. Here it is (at least, the most significant part) in all its URL-decoded glory:
&$orderby=CreatedOn desc
&$filter=((Status eq 'READY' or
Status eq 'RESERVED' or
Status eq 'IN_PROGRESS' or
Status eq 'EXECUTED'))
That OData query operation returns a collection of two entities. Yes, you guessed it, those two entities are the two tasks shown in the master list in My Inbox.
There are further $batch requests that contain more OData operations that are used to bring back data to populate the details of the automatically selected first task, but we’ll ignore those for now. Instead, let’s look at the detail – specifically the <content/> – of the first of those two TaskCollection entities returned in response to the query we’ve just examined. Here it is, representing the task “Recommended beers similar to Subluminal”:
Lots of goodness there.
There’s one particular property that catches my eye. And it’s what I’ll leave you with to take us through to the next post. First though, a question.
How does My Inbox know how to represent a particular user task?
Going back to the high level steps described earlier in the official documentation, we have step 4, which says: “specify the UI5 app you’ve built for presenting and handling the user task”. Well, it represents a user task with this very UI5 app you’ve specified for that particular user task in that particular workflow definition.
And look – that property which caught my eye is the GUI_Link one, which has this value:
That’s a funky kind of internal scheme (“sapui5://”) going on there! But it makes sense. When the workflow instance was instantiated, and the user task step initiated, the configuration specified here:
was bound into the instance, so that when it comes to the crunch, and My Inbox needs to display that particular user task, it knows which UI5 app to load. Magic!
Let’s confirm that by changing the filter in the Network panel and seeing how the requests continue as the task detail is loaded into the UI. And yes, we see what we’re hoping to see – a request for the heart of the UI5 app we’ve specified for this user task, the Component of the HTML5 app “untappdrecommendationapproval”:
What’s more, in the initiator stack, we get a clear insight into what goes on and how the decision is made in the controller belonging to the S3* (detail) view as to which Component (ie which UI5 app) to load:
fnGetDetailsForSelectedTask -> fnParseComponentParameters -> fnRenderComponent
and you can bet a decent craft beer that it’s in there that the URI we saw earlier:
is parsed and used.
* S3 is traditionally the detail view, and specificially the detail view in a scaffolding-based app. Did anybody notice that My Inbox was a scaffolding-based app? Let me know in the comments what you spotted in this post that suggested it was.
OK, so where are we?
We have a couple of workflow instances, and we’ve seen how the My Inbox app retrieves information for them, and when it has to display the details for one of them, we know how it works out how to display those details.
In the next post, we’ll keep on digging, and look at understanding what happens when a task UI component like this one (the Component of qmacro.UntappdRecommendationApproval) is instantiated. How does it know what to do, where to get the information from, and so on?
Next post in this series: Discovering SCP Workflow – Component Startup.
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My Version of FREE Practical Life Tips
patrick tips
2. When an elderly person can’t hear you, speak deeper, not louder. This will make it much easier for them to hear.
3. When a bag of chips is stuck in a vending machine, don’t buy the same bag again to unjam it, buy something above it.
4. Hate how videos automatically play on Facebook? Turn them off by going to and then go to “videos” and switch the tab “off”
5. Do this for 21 days, you’ll be surprised how good you feel. No candies, no cakes, No chips, no white breads, No fast foods, No chocolates, No ice cream.
6. As much as you hate them, cold showers are much better for your hair and skin.
7. Forgiveness can actually has health benefits. It can reduce the risk of heart attacks and slow the spread of cancer.
8. Tilting your head to the right and slightly up makes you look more attractive. Tilting it to the right makes you more intelligent.
9. If you’re feeling nervous, start chewing gum, your brain will reason that you’re not in danger because you would not be eating if you were.
10. Physical touch makes you healthier. Studies show that massages, hugs, and hand holding reduce stress and boost the immune system.
11. If you toss onions in the freezer, 15 minutes before you cut them you won’t tear up.
12. If you don’t ask, the answer is already “no”. If you ask, there’s a chance you’ll get a “yes”. It doesn’t hurt to ask.
13. Sometimes, it’s best to keep quiet. Silence can say so much without you ever having to say a single word.
14. Life tip: If someone’s giving you a ride, don’t insult the car.
15. Learning from your mistakes is wise. Learning from the mistakes of others is quicker and easier.
16. If you want to get rid of bad breath, brushing your teeth is important but what’s more important is brushing your tongue.
18. Starting your day with 30 minutes of exercise will make you 10% smarter for the rest of the day.
20. Put a red cap on your blue pen to prevent people from stealing it. Nobody steals red pens.
21. In a public bathroom, the stall which is the closest to the door is usually the cleanest because it’s the least used.
22. Clogged drain? 1 cup of baking soda + 1 cup of white vinegar = unclogged drain.
23. If you laugh together at least 10 minutes a day, your relationship has a 75% higher chance of lasting.
24. Having trouble sleeping? Blink fast for a minute. Tired eyes help you fall asleep.
25. Studies shows that having plants in your office can help you think more clearly and recall more information. This is due to the fact that our brains benefit from the exposure to nature.
26. When studying something new, teach a friend about it. Let them ask questions. If you can teach something well, then you understand it well.
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Excerpt Tuesday: Sky Woman Meets Determined Suitor
I have a special place in my heart for Sky Woman. Not only was it my first full-length novel, but it was quite a departure from just about anything else out there in the paranormal/fantasy romance genre. The plot device was every woman’s fantasy come true, and I spent many a squirmy afternoon commute home from the day job fantasizing up scenes and dialogue.
In this scene, our girl Miri and the eldest son of Falenua house, Lunan, find themselves trapped in a mountain cabin during a rainstorm. Night is falling, and so are Miri’s inhibitions…
She became aware that it had gotten much darker, and their faces and bodies were bathed in firelight. A flickering reflection against one wall had her looking at it a bit more closely, and that’s when she realized that the entire wall was intricately carved with figures of animals, trees, the ocean, and flowers of all varieties.
“These are amazing!” she exclaimed, running her fingers over them. “Did you do these, Lunan?”
He walked over to where she stood, staring up at the wall. He said a few unfamiliar words, and then resorted to pantomime. Miri tried to keep up.
“A man….a woman…a baby….and the baby grows…oh, I see. The baby becomes a man, and he has a baby…and that baby grows and has a baby….”
She was lost for a moment, as he seemed to pantomime a string or a chain between the youngest baby and the first man.
“Oh! A grandfather! These were carved by your grandfather.” She pantomimed back as she spoke, and he shook his head, affirming.
“They’re amazing. And so detailed. This must have taken years.” She turned again to run her fingers across some kind of jungle scene. She felt like she’d had a static shock when Lunan’s hand closed over hers and he led her hand up to what looked like some kind of lizard, jutting out a bit higher on the wall. He gently pushed her fingers into the lizard’s mouth where she found she could feel each individual tooth inside – it was such a skillful detail, to be able to carve like that in such a small area.
She turned to express how impressed she was and found herself staring at Lunan’s chest, as he’d moved closely behind her. Her eyes flew up to meet his and her breathing got choppy when she saw how he was looking at her. He leaned in, his chest pressing her into the wall and she felt another jolt go through her when she realized she liked it. She liked it a lot.
He lowered his head very slowly and deliberately, as if he were giving her time to say no, and when she raised up on tiptoe to meet him, he kissed her with such a searing intensity, she forgot how to breathe. Her hands moved up to clench his upper arms, her body leaned in as his lips moved on hers and his tongue explored her mouth. A small moan escaped her and then suddenly, he was gone.
She staggered back against the wall, unsure of what had just happened. Lunan was getting another armload of wood, and laying it on the fire.
He smiled triumphantly to himself as his face was turned away, working hard to keep his breathing in a regular rhythm. Finally, he turned from the fire, standing up and taking her in for a moment. Miri was still pressed against the wall as if afraid to move, her breasts rising and falling in a rapid rhythm as her startled eyes remained locked with his.
Keeping his eyes on hers, he crossed to the bed, sitting down and facing her. He gestured across to the chair as if to say You can sit there, and then he very deliberately patted the bed beside him. Or you can sit here.
Miri swallowed hard.
She hesitated a moment more, while his eyes never left hers. There was no anger or frustration in his gaze, just patience and a very definite message. She remembered how he had looked that morning after their fight, his eyes locked with hers as he said the word:
It had been a promise.
And his eyes carried that promise still. She just needed to decide to walk over there.
Sky Woman is the first book of The Seeder Saga trilogy – now available as a complete set with a bonus novella! Find out what makes this book a little different than your usual romance….
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• About Sinusitis
A bad cold is often mistaken for sinusitis (sinus disease). Many symptoms are the same, including headache or facial pain, runny nose and nasal congestion. Unlike a cold, sinus disease may be caused by bacterial infections. It often requires treatment with antibiotics (drugs that kill the germs causing the infection).
What is Sinusitis?
Sinusitis is an inflammation of the sinuses. It is often caused by bacterial (germ) infection. Sometimes, viruses and fungi (molds) cause it. People with weak immune systems are more likely to develop bacterial or fungal sinus disease. Some people with allergies can have “allergic fungal sinusitis.” Acute sinus disease lasts three to eight weeks. Sinus disease lasting longer than eight weeks is considered chronic.
The sinuses are air filled cavities. They are located:
• within the bony structure of the cheeks
• behind the forehead and eyebrows
• on either side of the bridge of the nose
• behind the nose directly in front of the brain
An infection of the sinus cavity close to the brain can be life threatening if not treated. In rare cases, it can spread to the brain.
Normal sinuses are lined with a thin layer of mucus that traps dust, germs and other particles in the air, tiny hair-like projections in the sinuses sweep the mucus (an whatever is trapped in it) towards openings that lead to the back of the throat. From there, it slides down to the stomach. This continual process is a normal body function.
• deformity of the bony partition between the two nasal passages
• nasal polyps (benign nasal growths that contain mucus)
• narrowing o the sinus openings
People with these defects often suffer from chronic sinus disease.
What are the symptoms of sinusitis?
Common symptoms of sinusitis include:
• postnasal drip
• discolored nasal discharge (greenish in color)
• nasal stuffiness or congestion
• tenderness of the face (particularly under the eyes or at the bridge of the nose)
• frontal headaches
• pain in the teeth
• coughing
• fever
• fatigue
• bad breath
Allergies can play an important role in chronic (long-lasting) or seasonal rhinitis episodes. Nasal and sinus passages become swollen, congested, and inflamed in an attempt to flush out offending inhaled particles that trigger allergies. Pollens are seasonal allergens. Molds, dust mites and pet dander can cause symptoms year-round.
How is sinusitis diagnosed?
Your allergist will look for:
• redness
• swelling of the nasal tissues
• tenderness of the face
• discolored (greenish) nasal discharge
• bad breath
Knowing what kind of bacteria is causing the infection can lead to more effective antibiotic therapy. A fungus could also cause your sinus disease. Confirming the presence of fungus is important. Fungal sinusitis needs to be treated with antifungal agents, rather than antibiotics. In addition, some forms of fungal sinus disease-allergic fungal sinusitis, for example, do not respond to antifungal agents and often require the use of oral steroids.
Your allergist will check of underlying factors such as allergies, asthma, structural defects, or a weakness of the immune system.
How is sinusitis treated?
• Antihistamines: Antihistamines block inflammation caused by an allergic reaction so they can help fight symptoms of allergies that can lead to swollen nasal and sinus passages.
• Nasal decongestants and antihistamines: Over-the-counter combination drugs should be used with caution. Some of these drugs contain drying agents that can thicken mucus. Only use them when prescribed by your doctor.
• Topical nasal corticosteroids: These prescription nasal sprays prevent and reverse inflammation and swelling in the nasal passages and sinus openings, addressing the biggest problem associated with sinusitis. Topical nasal corticosteroid sprays are also effective in shrinking and preventing the return of nasal polyps. These sprays at the normal dose are not absorbed in the blood stream and cold be used over long periods of time without developing “addiction.”
• Nasal saline washes: Nasal rinses can help clear thickened secretions from the nasal passages.
• Surgery: If drug therapies have failed, surgery may be recommended as a last resort. It is usually performed by an otolaryngologist. Anatomical defects are the most common target of surgery. Your surgeon can fix defects in the bone separating the nasal passages, remove nasal polyps, and open up closed passages. sinus surgery is performed under either local or general anesthesia, and patients often can go home on the same day.
What to do if you think you have sinusitis?
If you think you have sinus disease, see your allergist for proper diagnosis. In most cases, sinus disease is easy to treat. By stopping a sinus infection early, you avoid later symptoms and complications.
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Blackthorn (Gil, 2011)
Blackthorn (Mateo Gil, 2011)
As a man who has fallen in love with westerns over the last couple of years, this movie helped prove to me that I’m not just a sucker for the genre. Westerns can still be as average as any other film if not done right, and Blackthorn is a perfect example of that. Outside of being rich in cinematography, it offers nothing. This is an unfocused ‘what if’ tale of Butch Cassidy had he lived past the Bolivia shootout. It begins well as a poetic observation of a lonely and secluded old man, but not long after it abandons that approach for an unfocused barrage of several different and unrelated plot lines, and poorly used flashbacks. None of this offered much insight into Cassidy and who he had become. The film is then punctuated by a small twist which leads to laughable re-watches of previous scenes while Cassidy looks on in anguish at the revelation of what he now knows to be misdeeds. Oh the horror. But check out how pretty this was. 6.25/10
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there are free lunches everywhere.
The concept of TANSTAAFL is ubiquitous in economics–“there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” If something is advertised as free, there are probably strings attached. Solid advice.
My favorite class in college was an advanced Economics course taught by Israel Kirzner on Austrian Economics. I’ll never forget the time he stood in front of us all and smiled, as if he were a benevolent magician anticipating our delight as he imparted to us with a stage whisper–“There are free lunches everywhere!”
My Christmas gift to my parents never arrived. Weeks later, it turned out the matching set of Grandma and Grandpa scented candles in apothecary jars was not only sold out permanently, but mine had been declared lost by the international courier. The US company was very sorry and offered to replace the candles I had purchased with two other candles that retailed for over twice as much as I had paid. I was disappointed, but accepted their replacement and they guaranteed it would ship out that day. (And I have to admit, the idea of owning an $85 candle was pretty seductive. How can $85 of value be squeezed into one small cylinder of wax?)
That very same afternoon, however, the lost packages arrived on my doorstep. Wrapped adorably, even!
I wasn’t sure what would happen–would the company find out it had been found and stop the replacement order? I couldn’t very well ask them about it, so when nothing came for a few days I began to lose heart. I wanted my free super-expensive replacement candles. My instinct was, markets are NOT that efficient, and to just be patient.
I was right. The following Saturday, this arrived on my front door:
Oh well, I thought. I guess they only shipped one. At least it was the more expensive one.
But then, I checked the back door:
I guess they just sent two of the more expensive ones instead of that inferior, ugly-sister $65 candle!
So, I had thought the matter already settled in my favor and long since laid to rest, when this past week, I got one more package from them:
Ugly-sister candle! You are so much more beautiful than I remembered.
I had stumbled upon the Perfect Storm of market inefficiencies–about four or five fuck-ups all had to go my way in a row for this outcome. I won the candle lottery! And since I figure the markup on an $85 candle is probably about $83, I can’t even feel too guilty about it.
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id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 4200 get_admin_log template tag returns nothing if no user is specified Bryan Chow Adrian Holovaty "The get_admin_log template tag defined in django.contrib.admin returns nothing if no user is specified. Although there are currently no cases in admin where this tag is called without specifying a user, the usage comments for the template tag indicate that this should be supported, and this would be useful for other apps using the tag. Patch is attached." closed contrib.admin master fixed Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0
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Java Question
Best Way to Reset Browser State in TestNG with Selenium and Java
Can someone recommend the best way to 'tearDown' in the @AfterClass with testng? I occasionally get a hung window or popup and can't get back to the homepage to logout gracefully for the next class to start and avoid modal dialog errors.
I've tried getting a window handle on the homepage, then one on the popup, then putting a switchTo in my @AfterClass but it doesn't work. I've also tried driver.close(). But then my next class will be skipped with an unreachable browser error.
I really need a good tearDown @AfterClass method that can get out of whatever errors and popups are on page, and just leave a clean browser window at login page for the next test class to run.
Edit: Adding Code:
package TestPackage;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.*;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
//@Test (priority = 1)
public class test1 {
public static WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
Environment environment = Environment.QA03();
User testUser = User.ns_system();
AxUtilities axUtilities;
public void login(String environment1){
// environment = new Environment(environment1);
axUtilities = new DAxUtilities(environment1, driver);
// DAxUtilities dAxUtilities = new DAxUtilities(environment);
Login login = new Login();
login.getLogin(testUser, axUtilities, driver);
public void testNothing(){
String s = "public void testNothing() reached...";
public void verifyOKAndLogout() {
// DAxUtilities dAxUtilities;
test class 1 and 2 are the same except for the class name...
And the tests are run from xml file. And I've tried many variants of the xml file, even putting each test in its own xml file:
<suite name="TestSuite1" verbose="1">
<parameter name="environment" value="QA03"/>
<test name="Test1">
<class name="TestPackage.test1"/>
<!--<class name="TestPackage.test2"/>-->
<test name="Test2">
<class name="TestPackage.test2"/>
But always two web drivers get created, one right after the other, at the very beginning of the test run, before any other code is executed. And breakpoints show the code is definitely skipping from the beginning of class 1, to the beginning of class 2, before running class 1 tests...
Answer Source
From what you wrote it seems that you are creating browser (instantiating WebDriver) before entire test suite and then execute all the tests using the same browser instance. Although it results with faster execution time it also introduces problems like the one you are having right now.
I would suggest creating a new instance of the browser before executing each test class (or even test method). In such case you can safely use driver.quit() in your @AfterClass method. Restarting browser every test will make your tests much more stable.
EDIT comments on your newly added code
• the way you are instantiating WebDriver is not correct. If you have several test classes you will end up with multiple browser windows opened before any test is executed
• you annotated one method with both @Test and @BeforeClass - this will cause the method to be executed twice in a row
The way it should (more or less) looks like is
public class MyTest {
protected WebDriver driver;
@BeforeClass //I would even suggest to use @BeforeMethod but that's up to you
public void setUp() {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
//other instantiations and assignments if necessary
public void login() {
//do whatever
public void someOtherTest() {
//do something else
@AfterClass //or @AfterMethod
public void tearDown() {
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layout size
Discussion created by ajcvet on Nov 7, 2016
Latest reply on Nov 9, 2016 by ajcvet
good day
i can't seem to change the size of a layout. i've gone through both FM training pdf's (basic and advanced), searched this forum, searched help.
a couple of things, the new layout looks like its set for a printable page with grey margins top, bottom, left and right that are not usable parts of the layout (the layout appears to be on a standard sheet of paper size). also, when selecting a new layout, selecting computer and then selecting form, there are no dimension windows for width or hight in that window as per the manuals.
the resizing instructions all seems pretty straight forward in that it says to drag the "dark grey line" to set the explicit width but my lines and dark black and i cannot select and drag them to new size.
i appologize as this seems like pretty basic stuff but i've been at this for hours trying to resize a new layout. any suggestions ?
thanks in advance
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to choose
Intensive Care Unit - by U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Shane T. McCoy. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Writing about social issues isn’t the most fun thing in the world, but sometimes I just feel like clarifying ideas around what seem like lopsided topics.
“Abortion rights” were one of the sacred tenets of my youth, and I would still push for an intelligent application of these now (as for instance is needed in Northern Ireland, where women are denied recourse to termination of pregnancy, and suffer what I consider an appalling injustice).
The way these have been framed by some feminist abortion campaigners has been very unfortunate at times though, indeed somewhat desperate, beyond all common sense.
To my mind it is absurd to think that a fertilised egg is a “person” (though obviously it may become one eventually), or that a seven month old fetus is nothing but a redundant organ that the mother may do what she wants with, as if only one being were involved.
On the one side we have had (usually religious) protesters trying to prevent all terminations, and on the other have been radical feminists demanding that a fetus of any age should be legally abortable at the sole discretion of the mother, as if it were her absolute property, and did not in any way count as a human life. Sometimes it is pointed out that the fetus is entirely dependent upon the mother, and it is asserted that only the mother’s bodily autonomy needs to be morally considered.
Taken to their logical conclusions, the two positions would lead to every mother that unavoidably miscarries being charged with accidental manslaughter, or the parents of every new-born being able to kill their baby, thanks to its total dependence upon them.
There is I think, if you do not take the absolute position of every fertilised egg being a human life, a line to be drawn somewhere, after which the personhood of the fetus needs to be considered. Beyond a certain point a pregnant woman carrying a fetus cannot be said to be autonomous, anymore than a parent can be said to be independent of their child. It might not be nice if you don’t want it, it might be terrifying, but that’s how human life works. In general no one gets to walk away from their child without someone else taking care of it, not without consequences, and I have never met a mother who felt that their child, the person, didn’t exist before birth.
This is the glaring piece of dogma in feminist thinking on the subject, as often expressed. The need to, at all costs, deny the fetus any “rights” or personhood. And this is where the “pro-choice” argument runs out. Not in principle, if on the right side of a line (which may admittedly be to an extent arbitrary), but in absolutist assertion.
The radical feminist argument only sees a woman. Her autonomy. Her right to choose. The “pro-life” argument only sees the killing of a human person without consequence. When the former asks the latter how they can call themselves “pro-life” when they don’t care about the lives of the unwanted babies, they fail to see that what they are concerned with is preventing a killing, not quality of life. When the latter call doctors who perform abortions “murderers”, they fail to see the absurdity of everything after fertilisation being considered a person, and how this can alter some moral priorities.
Let’s switch to another scenario where there is an unconscious, entirely dependent life. Someone on life support in a coma. This person has no choice, and their selfhood is nascent (though might, under the right conditions, awaken). This person, who is unconscious, dependent, and in no way able to survive without the “umbilical cord” of artificial life support, has no choice. They may indeed be a burden on someone else’s autonomy. Does their lack of choice and consciousness deprive them of personhood? Does it absolve the carers of responsibility? Does it give them the right to choose against the unconsciously vulnerable? To transfer not just agency, but essential worth?
These are the sort of moral questions that abortion may raise. It is not just a question of “a woman’s right to choose”, unless you consider every fetus to be entirely null in terms of personhood.
A tiny person, in a coma, on biological life support. Or not.
I have no intention of telling anybody what they should judge on the issue, but to pretend that it isn’t an issue, a question, is facile and disingenuous. When we seek to erase or bury these questions, we ultimately make it more difficult to determine where the ethical “line” is, because we are denying the existence of the line at all, any shades of grey, any messy, lifelike, inconvenient detail.
That doesn’t help us attain moral maturity.
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Cloudera QuickStart VM Setup
1. Cloudera QuickStarts for CDH
NOTE: 4.8 GB Download – so plan accordingly! J
This blog post will use CDH 5.8, which is Cloudera’s open source software distribution. We will also use VMWare player on a Windows 10 workstation.
Under “Get Started Now”, select the following options:
Version: QuickStarts for CDH 5.8
Platform: VMWare
There will be a quick information form to fill out, then the download will begin.
1. VMWare Workstation Player
In order to run Cloudera’s CDH, you will need VMWare Workstation Player. Download and install VMWare player.
1. PuTTY (Optional, but highly recommended)
PuTTY is a nice terminal window for SSH and Telnet.
1. WinSCP (Optional, but highly recommended)
WinSCP is a nice GUI for file transfers between Windows and various other hosts.
Running Cloudera QuickStart VM
Cloudera QuickStart VM zip file ( can be moved to a directory on a local drive, or on a USB drive. Extract file. In directory where files were extracted, double click on cloudera-quickstart-vm-5.8.0-0-vmware.vmx VM virtual machine configuration file.
1. The first time VMWare Workstation Player is run, you may be prompted to install updates. You can install the updates, or click “Remind Me Later” button to defer updates.
2. The Cloudera QuickStart VM will take a few minutes to start up – be patient.
Connect to Cloudera QuickStart VM
Once the Cloudera QuickStart VM is running, start a terminal session using Applications | System Tools | Terminal option.
At the Linux command prompt, type ifconfig and the enter key. The “inet addr:” is the IP address of the VM that can be used by PuTTY and WinSCP. Use cloudera for username and password.
Hadoop System Monitoring
You can look at system statistics within the Cloudera QuickStart VM by opening a web browser in VM and go to the following URL:
Quick System Validation / Hadoop Commands
Type the following the commands at the Cloudera QuickStart VM command prompt
hadoop fs –ls
hadoop fs –mkdir input
hadoop fs –mkdir output
hadoop fs -ls
Put a Text File in HDFS
1. Download file nfl_2016_games_allseason.txt from the following Github site.
1. Use WinSCP to copy file from Windows workstation to Cloudera QuickStart VM.
2. Use hadoop command to put nfl_2016_games_allseason.txt file in input directory.
hadoop fs -ls input
hadoop fs -put nfl_2016_games_allseason.txt input
hadoop fs -ls input
Shutdown Cloudera QuickStart VM
At the command prompt, type command:
sudo halt
Additional Hadoop Tutorials
Cloudera’s site for people who are new to Hadoop ecosystem:
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Spring Design For Journalism Section 2
Becky’s Website
Posted in Uncategorized by rkerner on May 7, 2010
I tried to orient my website design around Williams’ CRAP principles. I varied size of fonts and colors to create contrast. I repeated my logo on each page, as well as my footer, to create a cohesive feel for the page. I also used columns on the “Home” page to create repetition. Alignment is present because I consciously tried to line all my images up with one another to make the website look more organized. I did use center alignment often in the site, but it seemed necessary for where the alignments were needed. Proximity is conveyed through the different use of orange and purple.
I also used links a lot in the site. My email address in the footer links directly to my email address. Also, on my “Home” page, all the images below my navigation bar link to the section they fall below. In addition, in the red “Other Clips” box on my portfolio page, the names of those stories link to Word documents of those actual stories, as to minimize the amount of scrolling needed. Finally, the names of my news stories on my “News” page link to the actual article. I also utilized the “form” on Dreamweaver to insert my resume in an organized way.
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how we are working.
If you are waiting on an email, phone call or thank you card (ha!) from me, this is how I’m working these days:
Photo 17
Right now we’re jamming to the black eyed peas while i try and catch up on band stuff!
6 responses to “how we are working.
1. How sweet! I bet your are glad to take a little longer with your work with that precious little girl in your lap! 🙂
2. just keep holding her and providing for all of her needs…she’ll get over her shock and begin to bond soon…I pray peace, wisdom, strength, rest over you as you transition.
3. Do you have a sling for baby wearing?
4. great pic!!!! just keep jammin out to BOOM BOOM POW!!! Everything else can WAIT!
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Step-by-step guide to buying Ether
In a Quora blog entry, a “How to buy Ether?” question went viral, for a unique reason. Erin Chang’s answer reads: “Don’t (but Ether)!!. […] Diethyl ether is incredibly flammable, very dangerous to have in residential structures. Furthermore, it forms organic peroxides over time, which are shock-sensitive explosives.” She just won the sarcasm-of-the-year award and should consider a career on internet memes.
While this is not organic chemistry, buying Ether isn’t as straightforward as one might think. As a matter of fact, I spent the entire day trying (and retrying) the steps listed below. It turns out, most cryptocurrency exchanges and buying platforms crashed today (November 29th, 2017), including the notorious Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken. Nonetheless, this step-by-step guide will allow you to buy Ether using good-old USD. Let’s dig deeper.
1. Create an account on GeminiCEX, Coinbase or Kraken. They all accept FIAT currencies like USD.
2. Verify and activate your account. You might need to upload a wide variety of documents like ID, SSN, Bank Information, Activation and Advance Access codes (for Gemini) and .. wait for it .. a selfy with your Debit Card (for CEX). The verification process takes about a day or two, so hang tight!
3. Follow the instructions on the exchange to deposit USD into that exchange. Minimum deposits are between 1 and 5 USD. Depending on your payment method (bank, wire transfer), this will typically take 3-5 business days.
4. Now that you have USD in your exchange account, you can buy Ether (ETH) with it.
5. The next step is to store your ETH in a wallet. Think of it as a safe storage, as long as you keep your private key to yourself and never share it. A widely accepted web wallet is MyEtherWallet. Another trending option is mobile & desktop wallet Jaxx. A personal favorite that even exists as a Chrome extension.
N.B- You can use your public key to receive ETH or ERC-20 Tokens. But you should NEVER share your private key, ever.
Congratulations, you have officially a crypto-investor. And no, none of the links are referrals!
Check the latest ETH price here.
Disclaimer: this content should not be used when making investment decisions. Investors should seek professional financial advice.
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pettifog + -ule + -ize
pettifogulize (third-person singular simple present pettifogulizes, present participle pettifogulizing, simple past and past participle pettifogulized)
1. (nonce word, obsolete, intransitive) To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
(Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)
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Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
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Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
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Developer(s) Capcom Production Studio 4
Nude Maker
Publisher(s) Capcom
Director(s) Hifumi Kono
Producer(s) Atsushi Inaba
Composer(s) Masafumi Takada
Platform(s) Xbox
• JP: February 26, 2004
• NA: February 27, 2004
• EU: March 26, 2004
Genre(s) Vehicle simulation game
Mode(s) Multiplayer
Xbox Live(Formerly)
Steel Battalion: Line of Contact (Japanese: 鉄騎大戦, Hepburn: Tekki Taisen) is a 2004 video game created by Capcom for the Xbox console where the player controls a VT (Vertical Tank). It is the online-only (via the Xbox Live broadband gaming service) sequel to Capcom's Steel Battalion game. The game was developed by Capcom Production Studio 4[1] and Nude Maker. Gameplay is similar to that of the previous game, and makes use of the same 2 joystick, 3 pedal, 40 button controller.
Within the game, players engage in mechanized combat using Vertical Tanks, the game terminology for very large bipedal combat platforms. Vertical Tanks are fictional vehicles that range in height from 8m - 15m in height, with unknown tonnage. These vehicles are the platform of choice for future combat in the year 2084.
The campaign mode for Steel Battalion: Line of Contact was taken offline on September 30, 2005.[2]
Gameplay is entirely online and consists of various game types (such as deathmatch, capture the flag, and others). Up to 10 players (five against five) can supposedly participate, and each player must have an Xbox, Xbox Live, and the special controller to play the game. However, at this time everywhere except Japan, most matches are limited to 3 vs. 3 with the some 4 vs. 4 and rare 5 vs. 5 combat. Players connecting with less than 100 kB/s up and 300 kB/s down are usually limited to 4 on 4 or 3 on 3 combat. There are a total of 10 new VT's introduced in this game, for a total of 31 different models, but it is worth mention that there is no single player mode available. After having their VT destroyed during an online match, the player must go through the entire start-up process again before re-spawning onto the battlefield.
Steel Battalion: Line of Contact was for all intents and purposes an online-only expansion to the original Steel Battalion. Although the game also supports a System Link mode, the logistics of outfitting for LAN based play are quite daunting. Each player must have an Xbox, Steel Battalion controller, game disc and display. However, due to LAN support, the game can be played online through lan tunneling solutions such as XLink Kai.
Prior to the closure of the Campaign servers, two modes of play existed for online combat; Campaign Mode and Free Mission mode.
Campaign mode[edit]
Campaign Mode was embodied in a persistent battlefield on which up to four factions would engage in mechanised combat to control landmass areas on the fictional south east Asian nation of Ocean City Island. The overall Campaign progress was divided into Rounds, each of which would last a total of eight weeks. Each week within a Round was termed a Turn, during which 3 Mission maps were available to select from as the battle arena. At the beginning of each Round, on Turn 1, players would be required to select a faction in which to participate. Initially there were only two factions to select from, the Hai Shi Dao and the Pacific Rim Forces. With the arrival of Turn 3, a 3rd independent faction would become available for pilots to transfer their allegiance to, the Right Brothers. Turn 5 would offer the option to transfer to the Jaralaccs Mercenary Forces. Turns would continue to progress over the eight-week period, after which the game would then return to Turn 1 and begin a new Round.
Each Turn would dictate the Vertical Tanks available for purchase from the Supply Bin of each faction.
Hai Shi Dao (HSD) - in Steel Battalion: Line of Contact, the Hai Shi Dao are presented as a strongly patriotic nation who are actively resisting the occupying army of the Pacific Rim Forces. HSD 1st Gen VTs: Vitzh, Vortex, m-Vitzh, Scare Face, Scare Face A1 HSD 2nd Gen VTs: Scare Face II, Maelstrom, Garpike, Behemoth HSD 3rd Gen VTs: Regal Dress N, Regal Dress A, Juggernaut
Pacific Rim Forces (PRF) - unlike in the original Steel Battalion, the sequel casts the Pacific Rim Forces in a much darker light, having them play the part of invading oppressors against the Hai Shi Dao nationalists. PRF 1st Gen VTs: Decider, Falchion, Decider Volcanic PRF 2nd Gen VTs: Prominence M1, Prominence M2, Prominence M3, Blade, Rapier PRF 3rd Gen VTs: Quasar
Right Brothers (RB) - only available after Turn 3 of each Round, the Right Brothers are fierce individualist freedom fighters, adept at using guerilla tactics and specialised Vertical Tank equipment to defend the native lands of their ancestors. RB 1st Gen VTs: Colt, Colt Executive RB 2nd Gen VTs: Yellow Jacket, Sheepdog, Siegeszug RB 3rd Gen VTs: Earthshaker
Jaralaccs Mercenary Forces (JAR) - the only "faction" that does not fight for its own land, the Jaralaccs Mercenaries were able to participate on behalf of any faction within the context of an individual mission and individual pilots could switch their loyalties from mission-to-mission. They First enter the conflict in turn 5 of the round. The Vertical Tanks of the Jaralaccs were much more durable and suited to individualistic fighting tactics, but also more expensive. JAR 1st Gen VTs: Vitzh, m-Vitzh JAR 2nd Gen VTs: Jaralacss N, Jaralaccs C, Jaralaccs NS-R, Jaralaccs Macabre**
• The Jaralaccs Macabre was initially classed a 3rd generation VT during the Line of Contact BETA test period and its performance profile still reflects this lineage despite its current 2nd generation classification.
Vertical Tanks are classed across a number of different performance specifications, with the most generalised being Generation. 1st Generation VT's are generally slower and less unresponsive, have lower armour ratings, firepower or range. These units are generally very cheap in comparison to the later generations and are easily disposable in the battle field. 2nd Generation VT's have increased armour, speed and performance capabilities. 3rd Generation VTs are the epitome of VT design and performance, but also very expensive to field. The loss of 3rd generation machines within a battle would often result in defeat, however fielding a 3rd generation VT afforded a team an advantage.
Beyond the Generation classification, VTs are further broken down by role type, which included Standard Combat, Support (artillery), Assault (frontline combat), Scout (reconnaissance) and Light (typically fast hit-and-run assault VTs).
Players participate in missions, the result of which determines the number of Supply and Command points they are awarded. Supply points are used to purchase additional Vertical Tanks from the Supply Bin of a pilots respective faction. Command points are accrued and determine the rank of the pilot profile.
The Supply Bin for each faction could contain both "mass-produced" and "limited-edition" Vertical Tanks. The mass-produced variety were in continuous availability, whereas the limited types could only be purchased if units were available. Typically the more powerful and expensive VTs were classed as limited. Each VT had a serial number which marked it as unique, thus allowing players to "own" specific VTs within the game world. Unfortunately, due to a flawed resource management design in the programming of the Campaign server, there were no facilities for reallocating limited VTs back into the active pilot community. As a result of both normal player attrition and a rampant use of 2 month Xbox Live trial cards, innumerable limited class VTs were forever locked up against pilot profiles for Xbox Live players who no longer actively played the game. This resulted in a massive shortage of limited VTs as the gameworld progressed.
Players would purchase VTs from the Supply Bin to use in missions. When these VTs were not actively being fielded they would be stored in a virtual hangar space for each player, which was retained on the Campaign server. Each VT would have both a Sortie Point and Supply Point value, the latter being the value required in order to purchase the VT from the Supply Bin. The Sortie Point value was a "weight" that the vehicle would debit from a team if destroyed in a battle. This value was also used to limit the number of VTs a single player could own, with a maximum of 600 Sortie Points in available hangar space being allocated to each player profile.
In the Campaign Mode players had to purchase multiple copies of the same type of VT to remain in the conflict.
On September 30, 2005 Capcom ended the Campaign portion of LoC. Free Mission mode was still supported and continued to be popular with LoC players up until April 15, 2010 when support for the original version of Xbox live was dropped, however the LAN portion of the game, which is similar to Free Mission mode, is still played online using XLink Kai.
Free mission[edit]
Free Mission mode relied only on the Xbox Live matchmaking services for players to host sessions, thus no external servers were required. Unlike Campaign Mode, Free Mission did not have a complex economy or persistent online conflict, instead players hosted individual battle sessions using both the original campaign "Conquest" mode of play, as well as "Battle Royale" and "Capture the Container". The LAN portion of the game works in a similar fashion to the Xbox Live Free Mission mode.
Conquest mode follows much the same formula as Campaign did, with players participating in a single battle on opposing factional sides which are chosen by the host of the session.
Capture the Container[edit]
Capture the Container is very similar to traditional Capture the Flag type play modes from other online multiplayer games, but instead of a flag, each team attempts to steal a container from their enemies base and return it to their own to score points. Bases may be captured, as in Conquest mode, and the flag may be returned to any base their team owns. VT combat is still in play, but does not directly affect the outcome of the mission other than to eventually remove opposing players from the battle by eliminating their remaining vehicles.
Battle Royale[edit]
Battle Royale is considered a training mode, in which all Vertical Tanks appear on the overall map radar view. Additionally the game mode is "every player for themselves" in a last player standing fashion.
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic 70/100[3]
Review scores
Publication Score
Edge 8/10[4]
Famitsu 30/40[5]
GameSpot 7.3/10[6]
GameSpy 4/5 stars[7]
IGN 8/10[8]
OXM (US) 8.1/10[9]
TeamXbox 9/10[10]
Maxim 6/10[11]
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[3] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, two sevens, and one eight for a total of 30 out of 40.[5]
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2. ^ Maragos, Nick (September 6, 2005). "Round-Up: Steel Battalion Offline, Laser Mouse 6000, DMB Vs. Tiger". Gamasutra. UBM plc. Retrieved April 4, 2009.
3. ^ a b "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact for Xbox Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
4. ^ Edge staff (June 2004). "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact". Edge. No. 137. Future plc. p. 107.
5. ^ a b IGN staff (March 17, 2004). "Gaming Life in Japan". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
6. ^ MacDonald, Ryan (March 1, 2004). "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact Review". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
7. ^ Meston, Zach (March 10, 2004). "GameSpy: Steel Battalion: Line of Contact". GameSpy. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on November 2, 2005. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
8. ^ IGN staff (March 3, 2004). "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
9. ^ "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact". Official Xbox Magazine. Future plc. May 2004. p. 74.
10. ^ Nardozzi, Dale (March 15, 2004). "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact Review (Xbox)". TeamXbox. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 13, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
11. ^ Porter, Alex (February 26, 2004). "Steel Battalion: Line of Contact". Maxim. Biglari Holdings. Archived from the original on February 29, 2004. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
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Urse d'Abetot (DNB00)
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URSE d'Abetot (fl. 1086), sheriff of Worcestershire, derived his name from St. Jean d'Abbetot, near Tancarville (Seine Inférieure). He appears in ‘Domesday’ as a tenant-in-chief in the counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, and Warwick, being also styled in it ‘Urso de Wirecestre’ (f. 169 b) from his office as sheriff of Worcestershire. William of Malmesbury, describing him as ‘Vicecomes Wigorniæ a rege constitutus,’ tells the story of his encroaching on the cemetery of Worcester Abbey to make his castle ditch, and of his stern rebuke for it by Archbishop Ealdred: ‘Hightest thou Urse, have thou God's curse’ (Gesta Pontificum). He figures largely in Worcestershire as a despoiler of the church, especially of the monks of Worcester (Heming, Cartulary, pp. 257, 261, 267, 269), in one case seizing on a manor as an endowment for his daughter (ib. p. 251). Evesham and Pershore also suffered at his hands. On the other hand, he was traditionally the founder of Malvern Priory (Monasticon, iii. 477). On the revolt of the Earl of Hereford in 1074 he joined the bishop of Worcester and the abbot of Evesham in defeating the earl's forces (Flor. Wig.) Freeman states that he was sheriff of Gloucestershire as well as Worcestershire (Norm. Conq. iv. 173), but this seems to be an error.
Throughout the reign of William Rufus, Urse is found as a witness to royal charters, and the charter of Henry I, for holding the local courts, issued between 1108 and 1112, is addressed to him as sheriff of Worcestershire (Select Charters, p. 99).
He was succeeded in this reign by his son Roger, who offended Henry I by slaying one of his officers (Will. Malm. ut supra). There can be little doubt (though the fact has escaped notice) that this was the Roger ‘Vicecomes de Wirecestria’ to whom is addressed a writ of Henry I (Hale, p. 30 a), and the Roger de Worcester whose lands were granted by Henry I to Walter de Beauchamp in a charter entered in the Warwick cartulary. With him Urse's male issue seems to have become extinct, though members of the house of Abetot continued in the county (Liber Rubeus, p. 266), giving name to Croome d'Abitot and Redmarley d'Abitot. The ‘Evesham Chronicle’ speaks of them as ‘Ursini.’ Freeman speaks, at the battle of Lincoln, of ‘Richard, the son of Urse, a descendant, it would seem, of the old enemy, Urse of Abetott, whose exploits that day might be taken as some atonement for the crimes of his kindred’ (Norm. Conq. v. 300). But there seems to have been no connection between the two.
Walter de Beauchamp, who married Urse's daughter Emmeline (Dugdale), obtained from Henry I a confirmation of the lands given him by Adelisa, Urse's widow, together with the shrievalty of Worcestershire and the office of constable. These grants, which are recorded in the Warwick cartulary, founded the greatness of the Beauchamps, whose descendants, it is said, preserved the memory of Urse in the well-known ‘bear’ cognisance of the earls of Warwick.
It is well ascertained that Robert the Despencer, another tenant-in-chief, was brother to Urse (Heming, Cartulary, p. 253; Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 314), and his office of despencer was obtained by Walter de Beauchamp. It is usually stated that the Marmions were the heirs of Robert, but it is certain that much of his property passed to the Beauchamps (Ancient Charters, p. 2; Geoffrey de Mandeville, pp. 313–15; Feudal England, pp. 170–76, 179–80, 194–5).
[Domesday Book; Will. Malmesbury's Evesham Chronicle and Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls Ser.); Heming's Cartulary, ed. Hearne; Dugdale's Baronage; Hale's Cartulary of St. Mary's, Worcester (Camd. Soc.); Flor. Wig. (Engl. Hist. Soc.); Monasticon Anglicanum; Stubbs's Select Charters; Round's Ancient Charters (Pipe Roll Soc.), Geoffrey de Mandeville, and Feudal England; Warwick Cartulary (Addit. MS. 28024).]
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Los Angeles Psychedelic Science Symposium - June 22-23
Ralph Metzner
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Ralph Metzner
Ralph Metzner, who was born and spent his early years in Germany, has been exploring altered states of consciousness for over fifty years. He earned his B.A. from Oxford University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Harvard in 1962. In 1964 he co-authored The Psychedelic Experience with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert.
He served as the academic dean at the California Institute of Integral Studies from 1979 through 1988. He is now Professor Emeritus, available for consultations as a psychotherapist, and he teaches private seminars on alchemical divination eco-psychology. He is co-founder and president of the Green Earth Foundation, an educational organization devoted to the healing and harmonizing of the relations between humanity and the planet. Dr. Metzner has also composed and performed a music CD of visionary balads, titled Bardo Blues.
Author of (Books)
• Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (2009)
• Mind Space and Time Stream (2009)
• Alchemical Divination (2009)
• The Roots of War and Domination (2008)
• The Expansion of Consciousness (2008)
• Invocations
• Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca [reissue of Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature] (2006)
• Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl (2004/2005)
• Ayahuasca: Hallucinogens, Consciousness, and the Spirit of Nature [Reviewed] (1999)
• Green Psychology (1999)
• The Unfolding Self (1998)
• The Well of Remembrance (1994)
• Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness (1986)
• Know Your Type: Maps of Identity (1979)
• Maps of Consciousness (1971)
• The Ecstatic Adventure (Editor, 1968)
• The Psychedelic Experience, with T. Leary and R. Alpert (1964)
• Author of (Articles)
• "The Relation of Expectation and Mood to Psilocybin Reactions" (1966)
• "The Pharmacology of Psychedelic Drugs" (1963)
• Index of Articles by R. Metzner
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A sixteen bar blues originally composed by San Francisco bluesman Jessie Fuller. Notably covered by Peter, Paul and Mary in the 1960s and by Eric Clapton on his album "Unplugged." The song is famous for its kazoo solo.
I got the (C)blues when my baby left me (F)by the San Francisco (C)Bay. (C7)
The (F)ocean liner, it (F)took her so far a(C)way. (C7)
I (F)didn't mean to treat her so (F)bad. I lost the (C)best girl I ever have (A7)had.
She (D7)said goodbye, She (D7)liked to make me cry, (G7) I wanna lay down and (G7)die.
I (C)haven't got a nickel, I (F)ain't got a lousy (C)dime. (C7)
If she (F)don't come back, I (F)think I'm gonna lose my (E7)mind. (E7)
But if she (F)ever comes back to (F)stay, it's gonna (C)be another brand new (A7)day,
(D7)Walking with my baby down (G7)by the San Francisco (C)Bay. (C)
Sitting down, looking through my back door, wonderin' which way to go.
The woman I'm so crazy 'bout, she don't love me no more.
I think I'll catch me a freight train, because I'm feelin' blue.
Ride her all the way to the end of the line, thinking only of you.
Meanwhile living in the city, just about to go insane.
Thought I heard my baby's voice, the way she used to call my name.
If she ever comes back to stay, it's gonna be another brand new day,
Walkin' with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay.
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Name: Clannad
Creator: Key
Medium: visual novel, anime, light novel, manga, OVA
Country of Origin: Japan
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Clannad is a visual novel turned anime series developed by Key animation studios. It follows the story of a young man named Okazaki Tomoya and his journey into adulthood. It was funded on Kickstarter and later released on Steam.
The main character falls in love with Furukawa Nagisa, and with a few supernatural elements thrown in, he is taken on a roller coaster ride through life.
Given that almost every female character in the show expressed an interest in Tomoya at some point during the storyline, there are several available shippings:
• Okazaki Tomoya/Furukawa Nagisa - canon relationship.
• Okazaki Tomoya/Sakagami Tomoyo - a bonus episode showed an alternate reality where these two were in a canon relationship.
• Okazaki Tomoya/Fujibayashi Kyou - Both Kyou and her sister Ryou were shown to have an interest in Tomoya, both in canon and in another alternate reality bonus episode, where they competed for his affections.
• Okazaki Tomoya/Ichinose Kotome - Tomoya helped Kotome through a traumatic experience, so it's feasible that she too would have feelings for him.
• Okazaki Tomoya/Sunohara Mei - When Mei was visiting her older brother Youhei, she and Tomoya spent time together, and Mei 'adopted' herself as his little sister for a while. In spite of her young age, a ship is feasible.
• Okazaki Tomoya/Sunohara Youhei - When Mei tried to set up Nagisa with Tomoya, she misunderstood, and believed that Tomoya was in love with Sunohara, leading to a cutscene where they were both running along a beach, wearing nothing but heart patterned boxer shorts. This, and a few other instances, lead to a feasible shipping.
• Sunohara Youhei/Sunohara Mei - Similar to the above instance, another misunderstanding led to the belief that Sunohara was experiencing the 'ultimate taboo' with his little sister.
• Fujibayashi Kyou/Fujibayashi Ryou - the sisters are very close, and several subtle hints are dropped during the series, which could allude to Kyou's feelings for her sister.
• Furukawa Sanae/Furukawa Akito - canon relationship
• Sunohara Youhei/Furukawa Sanae - there is an episode where Sanae poses as Sunohara's girlfriend to appease his little sister Mei. So this ship is technically canon.
• Sagara Misae/Yoshino Yousuke - it's implied that these two had a history, be it romantic or not. But it's enough for a ship.
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Map With All the Common APIs at Once – Mapstraction
Jul 8, 2008
For those who want more out of the commonly-used mapping APIs from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc, but don’t want to get too heavy on the programming, Mapstraction is for you. Mapstraction is a javascript mapping abstraction library that lets you easily use different mapping APIs all at once (or switch between them).
This means you can use functionality from one API and apply it to another, or you can just put a whole bunch of synced maps on one page like above. Other features include geocoding, polylines, marker filters, and GeoRSS and KML, so go for it. Go map crazy.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2014
Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
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Conical soup label template needed!
Discussion in 'Design and Graphics' started by AmyHope, Aug 9, 2011.
1. AmyHope macrumors newbie
Aug 8, 2011
Hi there,
I have to design a sticky label for a soup container. It has a slight conical shape that the label has to go around. It is made of plastic.
I have no idea how to work out the template shape for the label and i am not good at maths!
I have illustrator and photoshop to work with.
The container is 112mm tall, the base is 74mm diameter, top 88mm diameter.
The label needs to be 90mm high.
Can any of you clever peps out there help me? My deadline is quite tight for this.
Many thanks,
2. YESimBLUNTED macrumors member
May 25, 2011
In my cubicle somewhere in this rat maze
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Not so sure why this would be all that difficult? Make a mock-up bottle in illustrator using your dimensions, then use your label specific dimensions to make your template. Given your going to have to wrap the label around the bottle which could present an annoyance depending on if the label has to go all the way around the bottle or if there can be space in between the edges of the bottle. If there is space in between the edges then that is simple. If the label has to completely go around the bottle then just leave some space (extra bleed?) on the edge so they can overlap. :rolleyes:
Or even easier, if you actually have the bottle you will be making the label for, just use scrap paper and wrap it around the bottle and measure the paper when you are at your appropriate length and enter that into illustrator for your template. :confused:
3. ezekielrage_99 macrumors 68040
Oct 12, 2005
I would be guessing that if you set up box in Illustrator then conform to the dimensions required that would be the most logical way of achieving the what you're trying to do.
Just basically once the initial box layout is created then resizing the box to the dimensions plus bleed you need.
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Skin Worries and Concerns
There is an accepted pathway of treatment for Acne both in and out of the NHS however many people look for additional help with their skin. Here at fresh Faces there are a number of treatments and skin care ranges that can be used alongside your prescribed treatment.
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Majora’s Mask 3D Modding is Now a Thing?
For quite a while now, people have modified various games in the Zelda series. From the original to A Link to the Past to Ocarina of Time, each and every one has been modded or hacked to add in more content or change features.
But did you know that this has now extended to the 3DS remakes too? Yes, now we have our very first mods for Majora’s Mask 3D on the Nintendo 3DS! Here are some videos showcasing some random changes:
As you can see, it lets the player change Link to his Fierce Deity form by pressing a permanent button on the touch screen, and lets him do things like use the bow in said form. Pretty neat, given how limited Fierce Deity Link is in the normal game.
There’s also this showcase video too:
This one is a bit more obviously edited. You’ve got dummy textures set up in the grottos. You’ve got a creepy new character standing in the middle of Clock Town. Heck, you’ve even got what seems to be a test room at one point! That’s rather impressive given how new the game is and how basic modding tools likely are for it at the moment.
Either way, the mods in the videos are apparently by someone called fkualol, who hasn’t made many videos of his work. He’s also apparently set up a version of the game with custom music, but I can’t find a video of that either.
So yeah, it seems like we’re seeing the start of a modding scene for The Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask 3D now. Hopefully we see more full scale hacks and mods of the game sometime in the far future.
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Lets be honest, everything it took to get the final mask, there should have been a new game option which lets you use it from the very start which makes the adventure all the different.
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“In 2013, China replaced Mexico as the top sending country for immigrants to the United States. This followed a decade where immigration from China and India increased while immigration from Mexico decreased.”
Source: researchmatters.blogs.census.gov
While the Wall Street Journal is declaring this news, it is nothing new to the Census Bureau and those that look at the data rather than listen to the news media. Some in the media would have you imagine that there is a flood of Mexican migrants entering the United States when the recent history shows that narrative simply doesn’t line up with data. Would you have guessed that both India and China were sending more migrants to the U.S. than Mexico? This is one of those examples where our preconceived notions interfere with actually ‘getting it right.’ This is why Hans Rosling started the Ignorance Project.
Tags: Mexico, migration.
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Every living organism contains DNA.
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The organic bases contain nitrogen and are of two types.
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This set of notes is very well presented, with clear annotated diagrams in colour and covers the AQA AS specification unit 2 that covers DNA structure and function, genes, the triplet code, meiosis, mitosis and the cell cycle. These notes could be used by any biology student needing to study these topics at GCE level.
It says 'the stages of meiosis' when it talks about prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. I think that's suppose to be mitosis not meiosis. Other than that its definitely worth having a look through.
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I used your resources (primarily the PDF documents) for my AS biology exam this summer and they really are so helpful, they condensed the information from the textbook in a way which I was unable to get my head around. I was hoping to use your A2 resources this year, however unfortunately you appear to have removed them from your account. Are they going back up or have you removed them permanently? :)
hi, according to a lot of people your notes are very helpful so I was wondering if your AQA AS Biology notes could go up?
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It is very useful
This resource is very helpful a lot of good information supported with images.
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Punishment and Victimology
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Punishment and Victimology
Punishment can be seen as a form of crime prevention. It involves deliberate harm against the offender, justified as a means of reduction and retribution.
Reduction – punishments that prevent future crimes:
• Deterrence – making an example of the offender to put others off (functionalism -Durkheim – degradation ceremonies
• Rehabilitation: to reform and prevent reoffending (e.g. education)
• Incapacitation: to remove the capacity to reoffend (e.g. prison)
• Punishes crimes that have already occurred: the offender pays society back for breaking society’s moral code.
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Punishment serves the interests of the ruling class. It helps maintain their power and control over the subject class and forms part of the repressive state apparatus (e.g. police/courts/army/prisons etc) that force the subject class to conform to the ruling class ideology.
The repressive state apparatus stops the subject class from challenging the ruling class, by repressing them through the different agencies and enforcements of the law.
Punishment can be seen as part of the RSA repressive state apparatus is a means of defending ruling-class property from the lower classes and forces people to conform to the ruling class’ ideology
This is essential for a capitalist society because if the subject class were not oppressed, they would challenge the ruling class and overthrow them.
Prison reflects relations of productions (factories) because if a person does something wrong, they are punished, in either circumstance. Moreover, capitalism puts a price on their worker’s time; so prisoners do too ‘pay’ and do time for their crime.
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Durkheim argued punishment has the function of reinforcing a value consensus and creating social solidarity as society unites in an expression of outrage against the offender. Durkheim identifies two types of justice, both of which are expressive or emotional:
Retributive justice: punishment is expressive against those who have offended in a traditional society.
Restitutive justice: typical of a modern society and punishment aims to restore society to how it was before the offence, therefore, restoring social stability.
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Foucault: birth of the prison
Foucault distinguishes between two types of power:
• Sovereign power: before the 19th century, a monarch had absolute power over their people. Punishments were against the body and in public
• Disciplinary power: from the 19th century onwards. This creates governance of the mind and soul through surveillance, as shown by panoptican: a prison where all cells are visible from a central watch tower. The prisoners know they could be watched but not if they are being watched, so they must behave if they are. This creates self-surveillance, and discipline becomes self-discipline. It takes place in a prison and ‘inside’ the prisoner’s mind or soul.
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What has happened to the prison population in England and Wales between 1998 and 2005?
It has greatly increased. The number of prisoners in England & Wales grew by about 70% to reach 77,000.
How does the prison population of England and Wales compare with that of other countries?
It is the highest than almost any other in Western Europe.
What reasons are given for the recent prison population in England and Wales?
Because the politicians have sought electoral popularity by calling for tougher sentences. So that not only serious offenders are prosecuted, but also as a deterrent for persistent petty offenders.
What consequences are identified?
It is producing overcrowding. Therefore, it is adding to existing problems such as poor sanitation, barely edible food, clothing shortages, lack of education, and work opportunities and lastly inadequate family visits.
What evidence could there be to suggest that prison is not effective?
That about 2 thirds of prisoners commit further crimes on release.
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Use an interactionist view to explain why prisons are ‘simply an expensive way of making bad people worse’
They are labelled as a criminal by being put in prison, which they would be unhappy and embarrassed with this label. Because they are publically labelled it becomes their master status. This then leads to the self fulfilling prophecy which then usually leads to them committing further crime.
Which social groups are most likely to end up in prison? Explain this using a interactionist view
As the police have their ‘ideal’ criminal they are more likely to be arrested. This is usually young black males, so it’s no surprise to see that the prison population is largely male, young and poorly educated, black and ethnic minorities are over-represented.
Why could it be argued that the UK and USA are now in an ‘era of mass incarceration’?
prison population has largely risen, most of last century
Explain what ideological function Marxists may believe an era of mass incarceration may serve
They would say that because of an era of mass incarceration, the number of unemployed people will decrease. Which will make the capitalist society look good. Even though, there is a rise of criminals in society.
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A victim is someone who has suffered harm (including physical, emotional, financial, etc) because laws have been broken. Victims are an essential part of the criminal justice process as they provide much information to the police and courts for the prosecution of offenders. There are two approaches to victimology:
• Positivist victimology: looks at factors that make some groups more prone to be victims (e.g. women and the elderly). This implies the victim ‘invites’ crimes against them because of the person they are. Positivist victimologists also recognise the victim may start the crime. E.g. where one personal assaults another but is injured when the other defends themselves.
• Critical victimology: based on conflict theories (e.g. Marxism and Feminism) and examine structural causes in society that mean some groups become victims of crime (e.g. capitalism/poor, patriarchy/women). They also recognise the state has the power to apply or deny the label of the victim: e.g. the victims of police violence might not be labelled as victims. Slabber and Tombs argue this hides the crimes of the powerful and denies powerless victims the recognition that they have been harmed.
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Patterns of victimisation
The risk of being the victim of a crime is not spread evenly across the population: some groups are more at risk than others:
· Class: lower class are more likely to be victims as they tend to live in areas of high crime rates and lack home/personal security. Homeless people are particularly risk of violence.
· Age: infants under one are more at risk or murder; teenagers are most at risk of violence/sexual assault and the elderly at risk of abuse, from carers and families
· Gender: males at risk in public; females at risk at home and of sexual assault
· Ethnicity: ethnic minority groups more at risk of violence than the ethnic majority, especially racially motivated violent crime
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The effects of victimisation
Crime can have serious psychological consequences on its victims. In some cases, they may also feel let down by the criminal justice system that should protect them and it can generate a fear of further crimes
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Researching victims of crime
Some crimes do not have an obvious victim e.g. drug dealing/prostitution. Sometimes a victim may not be aware they are a victim, especially with corporate crime.
Some victims are hidden e.g. domestic violence/child abuse.
Victims are vulnerable and need to be treated with sensitivity. Victims are talking about a past event, and are therefore dependent on their memory: some information may be concealed or exaggerated.
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f214 communication
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F214 Module 1-Communication and Homeostasis
Chapter 1 - Communication
a. Outline the need for communication systems within multicellular organisms
· External environmental changes are the changes in the external environment can cause stress. It may change slowly so there will be a gradual response. It may be a quick change so a rapid response is needed.
· Internal environmental changes are the environment of internal cells is that they are protected by epithelial cells and they are bathed in tissue fluid. The activities of cells alter their environment e.g. releasing toxic products that need to be removed.
· Coordination of activities of organs is that the groups of specialised cells form tissues and organs. Cells monitor the blood and can release a substance into the blood to remove certain substances.
b. State that cells need to communicate with each other by a process known as cell signalling
· Cells need to communicate to ensure that the different parts of the body work together effectively.
· Cell signalling is the process where one cell releases a chemical that is detected by another cell which will react and respond to the signal.
· Neuronal systems are the interconnected network of neurones that signal to each other across synapse junctions.
· Hormonal systems are the blood is used to transport signals. Cells in an endocrine organ release a hormone which is the signal into the blood which is then carried around the body and recognised by specific target cells.
d. Define the terms negative feedback, positive feedback and homeostasis
· Negative feedback is the process that brings about a reversal of any change in conditions. It maintains and optimum steady state due to the return of the internal environment to its original set of conditions.
· Positive feedback is the process that increases the change detected by the receptors. It destabilises the system meaning that it tends to be harmful.
· Homeostasis is when the internal environment is kept constant even though there are external changes. It can include conditions such as body temperature, blood glucose concentration, blood pressure and carbon dioxide concentration.
From optimum conditions, it changes away from optimum, the receptor detects change, the communication system informs effector, the effector reacts to change and it returns to optimum conditions.
1. Sensory receptor
· Internal receptor to monitor conditions inside the body.
· If a change is detected they will be stimulated to send a message.
2. Communication system
· E.g. nervous system, hormonal system.
· Acts via cell signalling to transmit a message from the receptor cells to the effector cells.
3. Effector cells
· E.g. Liver cells, muscle cells.
· They bring about a response to reverse the change detected.
f. Describe the
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Anxiety and Psychosis
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- A feeling of fear/apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal - becomes a disorder when it impacts our normal life, is prolonged and causes distress/impairment
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Adaptive anxiety
Normal, we all experience
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Maladaptive anxiety
Anxiety that constitutes an anxiety disorder
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Specific Phobia
Fear/avoidance is disproportionate/excessive to the feared stimulus
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Fear and avoidance of being alone in a place from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing
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Social Phobia
Marked fear/anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possible scrutiny from others
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Panic Disorder
- Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks - Persistent worry about future attacks and/or maladaptive behaviour to avoid future attacks
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Generalised Anxiety
- Constant excessive anxiety about things in general, occurring for more days than not for at least six months - 3 or more of these symptoms: restlessness, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
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Treatment for anxiety disorders
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): 1. dropping of safety behaviours 2. Cognitive restructuring 3. Relaxation training (or applied tension) 4. Systematic desensitisation (graded exposure)
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Loss of contact with reality
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Positive Symptoms of Psychosis
Presence of symptoms seen in someone with a psychotic disorder but not in people who are not experiencing this disorder e.g. delusions, hallucinations, disorganised thinking
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Negative Symptoms of Psychosis
The things they don't experience that normal people do e.g. diminished emotional expression or decrease in motivation to do everyday tasks (avolition)
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Psychotic disorder, associated with marked deterioration in functioning - Best explained by vulnerability stress model
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Schizophrenia DSM-5 criteria
Two or more of the following, present for one month: 1. delusions 2. Hallucinations 3. Disorganised thinking 4. Grossly disorganised behaviour 5. Negative symptoms
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Treatment for Schizophrenia
Antipsychotic medication is most common. Also Psychological treatment: 1. CBT 2. Family Therapy 3. Skills training 4. Challenge stigma 5. Psychoeducation. - Combination of both is best
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The Max Force Shadow Hawk (deep breath) 100 is a sort of hybrid between Nerf and Super Soaker, flinging spitball-ish wads of paper at your friends—from up to 100 feet away. Dope. But does it do that?
The Shadow Hawk 100 looks really, really cool. Like a Fisher-Price 50 cal. There's a giant barrel, sliding scope, sniper stand, and very satisfying bolt-action loading. And when one of the moist pellets makes contact, it stings real bad. Alarmingly (awesomely!) bad, for an orange a toy gun. Gizmodo's darling Kyle Wagner has the welt on his neck to prove it. It's fun to hold, and it's fun to hurt your friends with it. And that's what toy guns are all about, right?
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The problem is that the $40 Shadow Hawk 100 just doesn't work very well. I was willing to overlook the fact that you need to douse and then dry the ammo before loading each individual wad in a magazine. But once loaded (which is tricky), there's no trigger—instead, you have to jerk off a pump-firing mechanism like crazy, and maybe, one of the paper bullets will go flying. Usually they didn't. And when they did fly, they sure as hell didn't go 100 feet, or travel there accurately.
Be glad this isn't a real gun, because you would probably die in a battle. [Max Force]
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No you are not misreading reading the title, I am allergic to my own sweat... well sort of. I have what is called Exercise Induced Urticaria. What is that you ask? As I understand it, its when the mast cells in your immune system releases histamine and causes welts or raised bumps due physical exertion.... Continue Reading →
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Hi everyone!
The longer I don't post, the harder it is!
2012 has been a bit of a bitch, so far.
How are you?
Hi everyone,
Feb. 29th, 2012
Hi everyone
Love to you all.
Hi everyone
Anyway, I thought I should let you all know.
Happy New 2012!
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
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Earthquakes again
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State of the ME
Hi everyone!
I am still alive! (I have to stop delaying so much between posting that I feel like I have to reassure on that account first thing, I think).
Thank you belatedly but from the bottom of my (quite inflated with joy) heart for all the birthday wishes, virtual gifts and texts from Canada. Nothing much happened on the day, but it still was one of my happiest ever, I felt very loved and appreciated.
Life is incredibly busy at the moment. Not only have we lurched from one (really intensive and large-scale) performance to another (hugely technical and acrobatically difficult) performance, I have gone from teaching during the second semester of the year STRAIGHT into teaching summer school. We have a brand new course called "Puppetry, Animated Film and Gaming" and I'm pretty much responsible for teaching the puppetry component of this. If I remember later I'll share some of the links to the material, it will make you laugh and cry.
Anyway, so I'm kind of working night and day seven days a week at the moment, but Christmas is on the horizon, so I'm holding out for that.
ALSO - AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE HEADLINE NEWS: Tony and I are going to San Francisco in January for a holiday. It's been a really hard year what with the earthquakes and everything (status of house= still a big hole in the ceiling, still a bit hole in the wall, landlord still musing about what to do about that! status of city= still wrecked and largely off limits: they're going to demolish the cathedral :( - status of earthquakes = much quieter, a little shake last night was the first I'd felt for about a month ) so we decided to go to a place where neither of us have been but where both of us wanted to go. I'm very excited, or at least I will be when I get a chance to take a breath. Question: I'm a confident driver. I'm accustomed to driving on the left. Should I hire a car to go up the coast and to see the Redwoods etc or will I crash and run over kittens? There will be more and more questions coming about all aspects of this trip!
UM... My mum is good, she's presently in England visiting the grandchildren. Work is insane. Tony is very busy also (but successfully so, he's been invited to contribute an article to the main journal in his discipline). I'm doing some writing but it feels sloppy and haphazard, so I'm trying to find time in each day to sit with that properly and give it the attention it deserves!
We have a general election coming up. The present PM is a DOUCHE (oh, you wouldn't believe how much!) but will probably get in again no problems, because he's a smiling congenial DOUCHE.
Anyway, I have not even been lurking the last three weeks. So please, tell me about your exciting life events? And sad ones. I will henceforward try and be around more, because I miss it, and you guys give me a perspective and sense of balance that I really lack otherwise and I so notice when I am away from it.
Much love to all and see you HERE, SOON.
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New Zealand just won the rugby world cup. By one point over France. It's hard to explain to those Americanish people among you what a big deal that is to New Zealand (we last won in 1987, but still kind of think of it as some kind of bizarre national birthright). Right now it's half past eleven in the evening and there are youths driving around honking and shouting "All Blacks" around the city.
I watched the game (I think almost everyone did, I don't even like rugby that much). It was a horrid experience, because you know so much hangs on it. To be honest, part of me didn't want us to win. Because it's overrated and a stupid macho part of our culture and SO MUCH funding gets put into it, instead of, you know, the arts, and hospitals and so on. But now everyone will be happy tomorrow (it's coincidentally a public holiday) rather than depressed. People will be self-congratulatory instead of as usual the endless rounds of recriminations and self-analysis. There won't be a spike in domestic violence tonight, unlike other times when we lost. Our right-wing government will be healthily reelected in November. And so on. UGH. It's a good thing! I felt proud of the team, and as usual a bit meh about being represented by a "fine team of men".
It's better than losing but still better would be if no one cared, or if it were just a sports game, or if people didn't live in fear of how their husbands might react if we lost. If it was just an enjoyment, rather than this national identity weirdness!
There are fireworks in the park now! We had no games here because the stadium was destroyed in the earthquake. But there's a "fanzone" in the park (with the pantless dudes on it as discussed earlier). And the sounds of great celebrations are forthcoming.
I'm a bit bah humbug, but I'm secretly pleased as well. It's hard not to be, in a weird way, even though I really don't care that much. DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN. Bloody nail-biter of a game, as well. I HATE THAT I CARE!
Thanks, Steve.
Hi everyone
As you all know by now, Steve Jobs died: I was pretty sad about it.
Steve Jobs, for me, made Apple successful because he respected the consumer. He understood what we find seductive about technology. He respected that his market was made up of regular people, and that regular people have dreams: we want to write, we want to communicate, we want to make films, and take photos and record the beautiful small crazy details of our lives. We want to parent creative, ambitious, caring children, we want to travel, we want to imagine the world as a place that will be better in the future, rather than worse. We celebrate creativity, and hard work, and intellect, but we also celebrate things that are fun. We celebrate community, but we also celebrate individuality.
I think Steve Jobs really got that, which is why he was so successful, and why Apple was so successful. I'm sad to see him go, because he was still young; because it was a hard way to go; because he was kind of a magician. He wasn't a hero, he was an arrant capitalist, and the bad things that go with that are pretty profound. But the good.... are pretty good. Thanks, Steve, for making technology something that we could feel affection for, for making our lives more human, for seeing us as who we'd like to be.
I'm writing this from my MacBook Pro, which is like a weird kind of handbag. Post-earthquake I take it with me everywhere I go, in a backpack, because it's the container for some of the best work I've ever done, the ever-ready recorder of writing and thoughts, my connection to the world, to you guys, my photo album, my diary, my journal: not quite my most prized possession, but high, high on the list.
So, that's why I was sad about that.
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A list (glide_list) with a choice list cannot be filtered.
Steps to Reproduce
On a Helsinki or Istanbul instance using the List v3 plugin:
1. Navigate to Incident > All.
2. Click the Personalize list icon .
3. Add the Watch list column.
4. Expand the quick search filter.
Note that the Watch list is grayed out and not searchable.
On a Fuji or Geneva instance using the List v2 plugin:
1. Navigate to System Definition > Dictionary.
2. Create the filter [Table] [is] [kb_knowledge].
3. Click Run.
4. Click New.
5. Create the following dictionary entry:
• Type: List
• Column Label: Type of Agent
• Column Name: u_type_of_agent
6. Click Submit.
7. Navigate to Knowledge > All.
8. Open any record.
9. Right click on the Type of Agent field label.
10. Select Configure Choices.
11. Add three choice values.
12. Click Save.
An alternative to steps 7-12 is to add hard-coded choice values on the Type of Agent sys_dictionary record.
13. In the Type of Agent field, select an option from the choice list.
14. Click Update.
15. Navigate to Knowledge > All.
16. Attempt to filter on: [Type of Agent] [is] [<anything>].
Note the following errors:
• Page not found
• The page you are looking for could not be found.
This is expected behavior. All glide_list fields (for example, Watch list) need a reference value to a table and cannot be used in the quick filter list view (they appear grayed out).
Glide List columns can be queried in a list expanding the breadcrumb filter with only the operators 'is [not] empty' and '[does not] contain'.
The following article contains an example script that can be used to implement a more advanced filter on a Glide List:
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The Hollywood Con Game (Swindlers List)
Hollywood is not known for its accurate depictions of historical events. “Schindler’s List” is no exception. Only someone with a twisted worldview or some sort of mental disability would expect a Hollywood production to be faithful to events as they occurred. Thus, we do not expect Spielberg to deal with questions such as whether or not Schindler was working as a Zionist agent. Likewise, we do not expect Spielberg to introduce any ambiguities into his examination of Schindler’s character by dwelling on his postwar behavior, including the shabby way he treated his wife. Avoiding issues such as these make it easier to tell the story, but they do nothing to enhance the film’s historical accuracy.
“Schindler’s List” the movie is based on Thomas Keneally’s book of the same name, which is clearly presented as a work of fiction, and indexed by the Library of Congress as such. From this novel, writer Steven Zaillian created the screenplay from which Spielberg shot the movie — which we are now told is virtually a documentary of what actually happened. To its credit, Universal Pictures goes no farther than advertising the film as “based on a true story.”
This is correct, up to a point. There really was an Oskar Schindler who was married to a woman named Emilie. There was also an Amon Goeth, a factory by the name of Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik, and a camp by the name of Plaszow. Most everything else is made up, or altered to fit the needs of the story. One good example is that whereas the film’s Schindler is penniless at the end of the war, in reality, he had piles of money when he went into hiding.
Regardless of whether “Schindler’s List” is fact or fiction, there are a number of scenes that cannot be explained, and indeed, Spielberg makes little effort to do so. During the relocation of the Jews to the Krakow ghetto, for example, Spielberg introduces a bag of gold-inlaid teeth into the area where the luggage and belongings are being sorted. How and why this collection found its way to the heart of the city is a mystery unless we are to believe that one of the Jews had it in his luggage, but that is clearly not what Spielberg intended to imply. Later, at the Plaszow camp, Spielberg shows a pile of burning corpses so large that a conveyor belt is required to add new bodies to the top, the implication being that bodies burn like cordwood, which of course they do not. Also at Plaszow, a team of German doctors, their white coats accessorized with stethoscopes, conduct a “selection” to see who is healthy enough to live and who is to die, only they are so incompetent that they did not know to keep the healthy inmates and “select” the unhealthy. After such scenes, Spielberg demolishes any remaining pretensions he had to technical accuracy by depicting a crematory chimney at Auschwitz spewing smoke and flame, which crematories are specially constructed not to do.
Spielberg also blurs the line between fact and fiction by referring to factual matters in a fictional way. For example, he has Stern use the phrase “special treatment” as if it could only mean “death,” even though Schindler has previously used the word in a completely benign context. Lice and typhus are also mentioned as if they were minor inconveniences and not the life-threatening scourge they are.
‘Schindler’s List:’ A review
David Brockschmidt on Schindler’s List
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Twice the Speed? USB C-ing Things!
During this past weekend, I heard from my client from May, on whose Dell PC I had performed a clean Windows 10 installation. Since I last reported, we’ve done a RAM upgrade (from 12 Gigabytes to 16); and we’ve added a spiffy new graphics card. These upgrades have extended the usefulness of the now nearly seven-year-old PC. And it continued to run swimmingly, until a recent video editing assignment took things to a new level.
A new graphics card can make a huge difference for a PC. Source: MSI.com
The client was handed two portable hard drives, each holding two Terabytes (TB) of footage. This was too much to transfer to the PC’s internal hard drive, so she had to run directly off the externals. That’s not an entirely unreasonable task, as we had installed a USB 3.0 card some time earlier, and that allowed her to input data at five Gigabits per second (5 Gbit/s). But she was still experiencing a frustrating lag when trying to play video directly from the drives. When she called, I asked her to provide me with the model numbers of the drives, so I could get a better sense of what we were working with.
“MU-PT2T0B,” she texted me. This is the model number for Samsung’s T3 Portable Solid State Drive (SSD).
Samsung’s T3 Portable SSD. Note the shape of the port on the left. Source: Samsung.com
Checking out its specs on Samsung.com, I saw one line that intrigued me:
“USB 3.1 Interface”
I thought to myself, “Three… point… one?
No, just 3.1!
I remembered the blog post I did last November about the advent of Thunderbolt 3, and how it shared the rounded, “USB-C” connector shape with the nascent USB 3.1 format.
Okay, there it was, bottom of the chart:
This is where things get a little messy. On their website for the portable SSD, Samsung doesn’t get into which USB 3.1 standard the drive uses: 3.1 Gen 1 (formerly 3.0) with a top speed of 5 Gbit/s; or Gen 2, which, as you can see in the chart above, is twice that speed. All they say as far as speed is, “450MB/s Transfer Speed.” If that seems slow, note the capital “B.” That indicates Megabytes, as opposed to Megabits. It’s a subtle difference, but a Megabyte is equal to 8 Megabits. That means 450MB/s (Megabytes per second, mind) is 3,600 Mbit/s (Megabits per second). Applying the metric system, this becomes 3.6 Gigabits per second (Gbit/s). It’s still within the threshold of USB 3.0’s 5Gbit/s speed, but I wanted to try something nonetheless.
This chart shows how USB 3.0 became 3.1 Gen 1. Honestly, this whole mess could have been avoided if “Gen 2” had just been called, “USB 4.0.” Source: Kingston.com
Adding USB 3.0 ports had been a simple, effective upgrade. Would it be just as helpful to add 3.1 ports? I went to my local Fry’s Electronics to look into it. If the upgrade was too expensive (or unavailable), then we’d just carry on at 3.0 (or 3.1 Gen 1, whatever you want to call it) speeds.
As it turned out, Fry’s had a wide variety of affordable 3.1 cards. But a closer look indicated that many of them were indeed “Gen 1,” and thus offered no speed boost over the “3.0” card we had installed a while back. I had to keep my eyes peeled for that essential piece of fine print.
I did find a few that offered 10 Gbit/s speeds, but the connectors gave me pause. You see, most 3.1 cards either use just the old, rectangular “USB-A” ports; or they go 50/50, with one rectangular port, and one rounded “USB-C” port. Both potentially work at the full Gen 2 speed, but I was thinking about my client’s Samsung drives. I wanted to go directly from each of their native USB-C ports directly into the computer’s, without using an adapter cable, or a hub (and more on that in a moment). We had two drives, so I wanted two USB-C ports (at that full Gen 2 speed, remember).
A typical USB card with both shapes of the USB 3.1 interface. Source: Frys.com
Luckily, after a little digging, I found the only card in the store that met my needs: The Xtrempro 11107 PCI-E 2Ports USB3.1 Type-C Card (just rolls off the tongue, don’t it?). It met both my needs: 10 Gbit/s transfer speeds, and two USB-C ports. All that, at less than $30.
And this is the FRONT of the box! But at least it doesn’t leave anything to the imagination!
I did, though, have to buy some cables: an internal power cable to run from the PC’s power supply to the USB card; and of course, two USB-C cables to connect those Samsung drives to this new card. When shopping for the USB-C cables, I was just as diligent about reading their specs as I had been about the card’s. I didn’t want the cables to choke on the full data rate promised by Gen 2, after all! Several USB-C cables I found were indeed only rated at 5 Gbit/s, so I’m glad I didn’t fall for the old “they all look the same” trap. I eventually grabbed a pair of PPA Int’l cables, after reading on their package, “Up to 10 Gb/s.”
PPA’s USB-C cable. Source: ppa-usa.com
So I brought everything to my client, and we opened up her PC. The next consideration was where I was going to put this card. You see, a motherboard’s expansion slots can be just as prone to the “they all look the same” trap as the cables. And that can make a huge difference. Her motherboard contained six slots, all based on the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) standard. One slot (labeled 25 in the diagram below) uses the original PCI format, capable of speeds between 133 and 533 MB/s (note that capital “B,” as in Megabytes). The other five use the newer PCI Express format, capable of anywhere between 250 MB/s and 63 GB/s. And that’s a pretty wide range, so let’s narrow it down a bit.
Dell’s schematic for the motherboard. Note the PCI slots toward the lower-left. Source: Dell.com
Slots 26, 29, and 30 are what’s known as PCI Express x1. This is a “single-lane” link, which means the following, according to howstuffworks.com:
Each lane of a PCI Express connection contains two pairs of wires — one to send and one to receive. Packets of data move across the lane at a rate of one bit per cycle. A x1 connection, the smallest PCIe connection, has one lane made up of four wires. It carries one bit per cycle in each direction.
Slot 28, an x16, was already in use by the snazzy new graphics card we got—and rightly so, as that’s the fastest PCI connection on the motherboard, and where better to put the indispensable graphics processor!
This left #31, which I’ll call, “Goldilocks.” It’s neither too slow, like its x1 siblings; nor too fast, like the x16 slot. This slot runs at x8, which—I checked—the new USB-C card supports.
So I installed the card into that x8 slot; and after running a power line to it from the internal power supply, we were good to go. We connected the Samsung drives directly to the card, and suddenly video that couldn’t even open was now coming up, buttery-smooth. We were no longer at the mercy of a 3.0 card in an x1 slot. We were now coasting at 3.1, Gen 2, via x8. And apparently, those numbers make all the difference.
I thought about the prospect of adding a third USB-C component in the future, like another Samsung drive, via a hub. To my surprise, as of this writing, nobody has manufactured a hub that supports the USB-C shape and the Gen 2 speed of 10 Gbit/s. I have reached out to the USB Implementers Forum at usb.org, to see if they know of anyone who has built such a device. I’ll post if and when I hear back from them. Until then, it appears if you want to connect more than two USB 3.1 (Gen 2) devices to a PC, you’ll need to use adapter cables. So make sure they don’t slow you down.
A typical “USB-C Hub,” from Macally. Except it only connects (right) via USB-C, and the USB-C port on the left is only for passing through a charge into a laptop. The USB ports included are both the older USB-A shape, as well as the slower 3.0 speed! Hopefully, newer, better hubs are on the way.
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Hydroponic Marijuana Sexing
How to sex marijuana
Marijuana sexing simply means determining the gender of your marijuana. While cannabis occasionally may be hermaphroditic (having both pistils and stamens), generally, plants are wholly male or female.
After four or five weeks you will start to have a chance at sexing the plants. Although generally considered one of the trickiest parts of growing your own marijuana. Marijuana sexing is quite straightforward and will become easier as you gain more experience. The reason for sexing your plants is so that you can remove male plants before they have a chance to pollinate the females. If this occurs the females will start to develop seeds and this will divert their energy from THC production. Which if course is not cool.
Left to their own devices plants will develop pre-flowers after around 4 – 6 weeks. This is the right time to remove the males and commence the flowering stage.
Marijuana is a dioecious plant which simply means that the males will produce pollen and the females will produce seeds. Although, as in other forms of life, hermaphrodites do occur.
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Unless you are a breeder or otherwise growing for seed stock, it is preferential to have all female plants as it is the unfertilized calyx or buds which are the most psychoactive and potent part of the plant, the THC, CBN and CBD. So your seedless buds (sinsemilla) are the most preferred harvest for smoking as no energy or weight has gone into making seeds. Therefore, to use energy, time and space on male plants is wasteful of limited resources; thus they should be identified as early as possible and either segregated (for breeding) or destroyed before they release their pollen.
Occasionally marijuana will show pre-flowers (immature indicators of the sex of the plant) while still in the vegetative state, but generally require the shift to the flowering phase (shortening the light regimen to 12/12 – 12 hours of light and 12 hours of total dark).
Male preflower
Flowering is the only true way to sex your plants
Although you may get a clue from their growth patterns before flowering. Male cannabis plants tend to be leggier than female plants with a longer internodal length. Female plants are squatter with more leaves and a bushier aspect.
Male preflower
Female pre-flowers will also form at the junction of branches and stem but will normally start to form at the fourth or fifth branches up from the base. They are easily distinguished by the appearance of pairs of tiny white hairs, known as pistils.
Female preflower
Some growers force flowering by changing the light cycle before the appearance of pre-flowers. They then watch their plants closely for the appearance of flowers and remove the males. However, others believe that this can stress the plants and is not a proven way of speeding up the process as plants forced in this way may spend longer in the flowering phase, cancelling out the advantage.
Identifying gender
A magnifying glass is helpful though not necessary. Look near the top branches right where they fork from the stalk. The male sex organ will look like a small playing card-type club. The female sex organ will display a calyx with two small white hairs protruding from the top. If you are unsure or unable to determining the sex, then simply wait a few more days until the organs are more mature and easier to identify. The males are still way too young to create pollen so there is no danger in waiting.
Male and Female Marijuana
Early sexing
There are two ways to tell the sex of a plant earlier than the plant would normally reveal its gender.
1. Force flowering by putting the plant under 12/12 light cycle. The drawbacks of this are that two separate rooms or grow spaces are required. More importantly the plant gets hormonally confused being switched between vegging to flowering, then back to vegging and finally flowering once again. This method allows you to cull your males early, but most likely will delay your harvest for a few weeks.
2. Cover a lower branch with black plastic cut from a garbage bag. Do not use a thin bag that allows light to pass through. This must be put on every 12 hours and removed every 12 hours at the same time. The branch will show its sex long before the rest of the plant while still allowing it to ‘veg’ otherwise normally.
Female preflower
Occasionally a plant will exhibit both sexes. This usually occurs when a female plant is late into flower and remains unpollenated. In a last ditch effort to create seeds, marijuana plants have an emergency back-up plan: they sometimes create a small number of male flowers in an attempt to pollinate themselves. Some growers pinch off the few visible ‘bananas’; others may remove and/or destroy the plant so as not to pollenate a whole crop.
Marijuana sexing is not difficult once you familiarize yourself with some basic plant physiology.
Cloning marijuana is a great method to use as all shoots are genetically identical to the parent. Thus if you find a donor parent plant that you like (one with desirable genetic traits) and is large and healthy enough to remove branches for cuttings, you may skip the whole sexing ritual as they are 100% the same sex as the parent.
Feminized marijuana seeds
These are a relatively new phenomenon on the cannabis culture scene, and while looked down upon by some old-timers, purists and large-scale growers, are a great boon to the small grower with limited space and time.
It is currently not possible to tell the sex of a cannabis seed by examining it (though many untested myths abound), but the mix of males and females is roughly half and half. The larger the amount of seed purchased and/or planted, the closer the ratio will be to 50%. However, if you purchase a small quantity such as five seeds, it is possible to get all males, all females or any mix in between.
Feminized marijuana seeds are not foolproof nor 100% guaranteed, but ratios of 90%+ female are quite common.
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1. Luftwaffe65 says:
I bought some good bud. Smells very citrusy and its nice full, thick buds. Def a good buy. I found 6 seeds in the buds. This score is from a hermaphrodite yes? I am starting a hydroponic grow. Tent, led lights, bubbleponics. Seeds from a plant like this will grow and if female, will turn out (if I do it right)like the stuff I am smoking that I bought? I love it, its great smoke. thick, sweet smoke and helps me sleep. Any advice? Thanks
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• John says:
Not necessarily from a hermaphrodite, it could’ve been that there was a male in the grow tent and the growers didn’t notice it until too late.You might get the same cannabis from the seeds as the cannabis you bought, there are differences between each seed the way there are between human offspring. Especially when you consider most cannabis today is F2 or greater so the chances of weird offspring is greater.
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2. Holland Grower says:
The most direct observable & important traits of male cannabis best to breed with are as follows:
1. Resistance to hermaphrodism
2. Vigor
3. Stature
4. Maturation rate
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3. smokeman says:
Grow my on plant need help. Have a 23 day plant
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4. jayrok says:
thanks for the info my Question is how long after u see the signs of it being a female due the buds start to come
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5. Pat says:
Which sex of the plant gives you the THC?
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6. dobie says:
Which sex of the plant will generate THC?
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7. Badger says:
Hi First timer
Sounds about right. 8 weeks might be quite long in the veg stage, depends on the strain, a lot of plants really stretch during flowering so if space is an issue at all I would think about switching to 12/12 sooner. If you’ve got lots of room then let them go the 8 weeks and count on somewhere around 7-10 weeks for the flowering stage to finish.
Don’t forget to change your feed to a bloom formula.
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8. Don says:
Where do i get the seeds to start up? and how do you know the diference of male and female seeds?????
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9. firstimer says:
i have planted seeds i got from my stash n the are flourishing, 4 weeks from seed now, I have no idea what type of plant or length of growth cycle. I was planning to have atleast a 8 week vegetative stage, then reduce lighting to 12 n 12 to begin the flowering stage, does this sound right and about how long is the flowering stage.
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Updated on April 4, 2016
We sometimes wonder if the choices we made are the right ones and how our lives are affected. There are several well-established and time-proven religions of faith each with at least hundreds of millions of followers. For someone who seeks spiritual salvation, one will wonder which one will fulfill its promises. For those who are looking for guidance to a prosperous yet harmonious life style, there are schools of philosophy to consider and their success is not guaranteed. There are/were people who:
1. Have won the Nobel prize,
2. Have become unimaginably wealthy,
3. Have committed unspeakable evil acts,
4. Have devoted the entire life to raise a family,
5. Have drink, dance, and partying the whole life, etc.
Is there a single yardstick or the absolute standard that we can rely on to evaluate whose life is more meaningful and essential to the survival of the human species?
Before a person reaches adulthood, the choices in life are mainly made for the person by other people – what food to eat, clothes to wear, school to go to, friends to play with, etc. When the person achieves mental and physical maturity, one is usually free to choose how to spend the rest of the life:
1. A person may want to be an educator, a lawyer, an astronaut, a professional singer, etc. But, soon one will realize that one can choose to be what one is supposed to be.
2. A person may choose to have many friends to share common interests, ideals, and desires. But, due to economical, political, and social influences, a person is lucky to find one close friend that lasts for a life time.
3. A person may want to live a long, productive, and meaningful life. But, all that also depend on external forces (genetics, environment, etc.) that the person has no control of.
A person’s life is not defined by the choices one made but by the choices that are available for the person to make.
In the animal world, it is survival by any means at any cost. All living things are checked and balanced by Nature’s ecosystem. In the man-made world, the game of life has become more complex as it is no longer just to survive and to reproduce:
1. Some people want to know when and how life started and is there an end to life,
2. Some people are only interested in making money to enjoy the material comfort,
3. Some people prefer a simple family life adhering faithfully to the religious doctrine,
4. Some people have no choice but to follow a path of crime and punishment,
5. Some people are destined to rich and fame because of their innate talent and special capability.
In the man-made world, the competition to make a living is fierce. But, new opportunity is also abundant. To find a mate and raise a family is not difficult. But, to meet someone and share a long lasting and happy family is a rarity. What a person can accomplish in life is defined by Nature and refined by Nurture.
What a person does and accomplishes may affect the life of not only the people around the person but also the people around the globe, sometimes, even the future generations. What is obvious is the great inventor, the leader of the nation, the mass murderer, the great philosopher, the great religious leader, the financial swindler, etc. What is not obvious are the parents of those people and the average person who keeps the family together, who works tirelessly in one’s part to keep the economy going, or the teacher who patiently educates the young about the man-made world, etc. Who is to say whose life is more important and meaningful as no one has a choice to be what one is and limited choices to be who one can be. Everything in Nature may seem to have occurred in random and by chance without purpose. But, we have learned that they all can be explained by physical laws, mathematical formula, and environmental resources. We may think that we have many choices to live our life and change the future to our likings. But, we have learned that nothing will work without following those 3 criteria.
Our solar system was formed from a cloud of gaseous dust that contained the essential chemical elements for the animated as well as the in-animated matters. The Sun was formed first followed by the planets around it. All these continuous, incessant, and chaotic activities occurred randomly but guided by the physical laws and mathematical equations. When the dust finally settled and the structure of Our Solar system stabilized, our planet, Earth, turned out to be the only one having all the right conditions that allowed life to germinate, flourish, and evolve through a process controlled and directed by these invariant, invisible, and absolute physical laws and mathematical equations. As the human civilization advances, we have uncovered more and more of these laws and equations. We have learned that in the Universe, there are billions of solar systems like ours in a typical galaxy and there are billions of galaxies in the Universe. But, there is only a fraction of those solar systems containing planets with the right conditions to harbor intelligent life. The laws and equations do not dictate where the intelligent life will be but how many there will be and the numbers are still staggering. There are many intelligent living forms on Earth. We are the only ones who possess the designs to uncover and understand those hidden laws and equations that dictate how things are and what they can be. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of this grand scheme. Each person is born slightly different with different physical and mental capabilities. By combining all our unique traits, we will one day unravel all the physical laws and mathematical equations and come face to face with the absolute meaning and purpose of life and its many wonderful and inspirational as well as disgusting and contradictory attributes.
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Comparing: STOP IT!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I have a big problem. I tend to compare my writing journey with those of my peers, and it results in nothing but depression, self-loathing, and serious doubt in my writing abilities. This is clearly not a good thing, and I need to stop it. If you’re doing it, you need to stop it too.
Really. Because if you’ve read about any handful of famous authors, you’ll see their journeys are as different as their writing styles. For example:
Both Veronica Roth and Stephanie Meyers wrote, found an agent for, and sold their books within a 5-6 month period. Meanwhile Kathryn Stockett queried for 3 YEARS before finding representation.
Nicholas Sparks got an offer of representation with the first query he sent, while Stephen King talks about having enough rejections that he had to nail them to the wall with a spike.
J.K. Rowling spent the better part of 6 years writing the first Harry Potter book, and it was out on submission for a year before finding a home at Bloomsbury. (Did you know, Rowling said there were times she HATED her book while she was editing it? HATED it. Can you imagine?)
As you see, no two stories are the same, and the amount of time it takes to “catch your break” doesn’t indicate the level of success you’ll have.
I have friends that have been querying for years with no luck. I have friends that jumped into the query trenches after me and have book deals already.
Personally, I’ve been in the trenches over a year now and I don’t know if I’m any closer to finding an agent than I was when I started. But I’ve learned a lot. My manuscript gets better with each rejection. I keep writing, and I tell myself that I’ll get there if I just keep moving.
In the meantime, I need to remember that my journey is my own. I don’t need to follow somebody else’s path or feel threatened when someone finds success before me. Because that would be comparing. And I need to stop it. So do you.
Good luck on your individual writing journey, and write on friends!
Shout out in the comments: Whose writing journey inspires/surprises you the most?
1. Aeryn Rudel · March 5, 2016
I think it’s only natural to compare your success to that of your peers, and it can even be a good thing if it provides motivation. You know, the ol’ “if he can do it, I can do it.” That said, yeah, it can get you down if you let it. I think a good cure for that is to revel in the success of your writer friends, support them, and really focus on the positive. I mean, shit, they’re your friends. You should be happy for them, right? 🙂
The writer that inspires me is Stephen King. He often tells a story about submitting work to various magazines early in his career and pinning the rejection slips to a nail on his wall. He quickly ran out of space on the nail and had to replace it with a railroad spike (I believe). I dig that because it demonstrates perseverance, which is, I believe, one of the defining qualities of a successful author
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• slimjym27 · March 6, 2016
And of course he’d use a spike… because STEPHEN KING, lol. Totally agree:)
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A web accelerator is a server-side application which quickens a website. Such a piece of software may work in different ways based on the website content, but in the general situation all such applications cache content and deliver it instead of the web server. That's valid for both static and dynamic websites since the cached content could be simple text or database responses and the reward of using a web accelerator isn't just the faster loading website, but also the minimized overall load on the hosting server. This way, you could employ a lower-end hosting plan that'll also cost less while your visitors could still enjoy fast browsing speeds. Several businesses offer web accelerators with their hosting plans and they often offer only 1, while we offer 3 different ones which will permit you to improve the performance of any sort of Internet site tremendously.
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Memcached, Varnish and Node.js are offered with all dedicated servers ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and depending on the plan you select, you will also have several gbs of dedicated memory for them. Memcached will decrease the web server load by lowering the amount of queries that need to be dealt with as it caches database calls and responses. You shall be able to use it on any website that uses an API or a database - as an example, any site created with WordPress or Joomla. Varnish can easily boost the performance of any type of site by caching whole pages the first time a visitor opens them. The accelerator delivers the pages if the same visitor opens them afterwards and given that it does that way quicker than the hosting server, the website visitor shall be able to browse your website at least several times faster. That is why Varnish is often referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. Node.js is a sophisticated platform that will enable you to build booking sites, web chats and other apps in which real-time server-user interaction is needed. It processes the information in little pieces as the client fills different boxes and doesn't wait for all boxes to be filled and processed as one big chunk of information, which makes Node.js way quicker than similar apps.
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The Romance Review’s Sizzling Summer Reads Party
ssr2014I’m participating in The Romance Review’s Sizzling Summer Reads Party during the whole month of June!
There are over 250 authors participating and there are giveaways from each author PLUS a Grand Prize of a $100.00 Gift Card! To participate you need to click HERE and register, then answer the questions and win prizes! There are different questions each day of the month, so there are prizes from June 1 until June 30. (My question is on June 23.) How cool is that!
My Summer Sizzling Reads are my Medieval series: Betrothal, Betrayal, and Beleaguered. They are the three novellas that make up the novel Time Enough to Love. My giveaway is copies of both my currently published medieval novellas Betrothal and Betrayal.
Betrothal tells the story of Lady Alyse de Courcy, betrothed to a stranger, Sir Geoffrey Longford even though she loves Thomas, Lord Braeton.
They are betrothed by law but can he make it an affair of the heart?
In Betrayal, a horrible betrayal forces Alyse to marry the best friend of the man she loves.
The worst betrayals come from within.
Blurb for Beleaguered:
Excerpt from Beleaguered:
Mirth and Gladness Lead a Dance from Roman of the Rose
Mirth and Gladness
Lead a Dance from Roman of the Rose
Geoffrey hurried on with a suggestion. “’Twould be the work of a few moments for me to teach you the dance, my lady.”
It would have to serve. She shot a look over her shoulder at her husband, who nodded and laughed with the princess though his eyes were trained on her. Best get on with it then. The sooner ’twas done, the better.
“Your skill at dancing is such that you would certainly learn the steps with but slight instruction from me.” Geoffrey leaned so close his voice, against her ear made her jump and recall herself. She stepped back and looked at him.
His practiced courtier’s smile flickered at her, and she caught something deeper shining in his eyes that she fought not to see. Her heart stuttered a beat. Her body flushed with the anticipation of dancing with him again even as misgivings swirled in her mind. No good would come of this dance, but Thomas watched closely to see that she acted cordially to Geoffrey. Would that it was an act.
With a sense of heavy foreboding, she extended her hand to him. “Very well, Sir Geoffrey. What must I do first?”
He placed her hand atop his arm and led her to their place in the circle of dancers then grasped her hand to pull her around to face him.
The moment his hand touched her skin, a streak of fire shot through her. Her mouth went dry, and her gaze flew to his face. Surely he felt that as well?
He stared back, his eyes mirroring all too clearly the blaze that coursed up her arm.
Damn Geoffrey Longford.
In a daze, she looked around at the other dancers, expecting them to stare accusingly at her. As if they could see this sinful feeling that tore at her soul. At a loss for how to act, she raised her gaze to beseech Geoffrey. “What do we do now?”
’Twas an apt question for, God forgive her, at the touch of Geoffrey’s hand, all thought of her husband had fled. She was back on the deck of the Phillipa, facing him once more. Loving him once more.
Geoffrey cleared his throat, his face flushed, and said simply, “Follow me.”
Then they were twirling around the circle, hands clasped, arms touching intimately. He
Medieval Dance Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Medieval Dance Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
seemed to brand her wherever he touched. The figure reversed, and her other side was scorched as if a red-hot blade seared her. Her gaze locked onto Geoffrey’s, and the music, the dancers, the Great Hall and all its inhabitants melted away until all that was left was the whisper of his breath in her ear and the heat of his body pressed close against her.
He leaned in closer to whisper, “I must lift you now.”
Before she could grasp that staggering news, his arm went around her waist and he lifted her, twirling them around full circle. She panted, blood pounding in her temples, roaring in her ears.
They continued to dance, but she moved as though she were a doll made of rags, her legs barely able to stand. Her world narrowed to the single source of light and life that was the man who held her in his arms again. The man whose love she could no longer deny. Despite the agony of the betrayal, in the core of her being she knew neither the vows she had spoken to Thomas nor the passion they had enjoyed in his bed would ever match the intensity of love and belonging she shared with Geoffrey. As soon compare a candle’s flame to the sun.
My giveaway is a copy of both my medieval novellas Betrothal and Betrayal to the winner.
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1. D'Ann says:
Looks great!
2. Tweeted and shared!
3. Can’t wait for Book #3! Fun party 🙂
4. Toni Kelly says:
Tweeted and shared. Admittedly haven’t read any of these books but am seriously intrigued after reading tag lines, blurb and excerpt above. Sounds wonderful!
5. lizaoconnor says:
I’m getting very anxious for book 3. So far I’m barred from entering anything, because confirmation has gone on a walk about. I’ll go back to editing and check later. I am axiously awaiting book 3
6. melissakeir says:
Tweeted! I love these parties! Can’t wait for book three!!
7. Wonderful post. Tweeted 🙂
8. Daryl Devore says:
Great excerpt. Lots of great authors.
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3 Ways to Get (or decode) That Fancy, Short URL for #tcea14
Day before yesterday, I shared that I’d managed to snag the short URL featuring the tcea14 hashtag. If you aren’t familiar with URL shorteners, they essentially take a long, unmanageable and difficult to share web address (e.g. Google Sites or GoogleDocs web address) and make it short enough to print on a business card handout.
I’m using the Training2 Template from Google Sites
Here are 3 URL shortening services (free, of course) that you could use to shorten long web addresses, as I did with My TCEA 2014 Google Sites web site:
1) TinyURL.com
This is one of my top two favorite URL shorteners. It’s free, easy to use and most of the time, works great.
Example: http://tinyurl.com/tcea14
By the way, here are some ways to “decode” or unshorten TinyURLs:
And this excellent tip via TheJoshMeister.com:
Add “preview.” before the “tinyurl.com” portion of the URL to see where the link will take you, e.g. you can change http://tinyurl.com/cz23u4 into http://preview.tinyurl.com/cz23u4Better yet, you can force TinyURL to always take you to the preview link whenever you click on a tinyurl.com shortcut. If you go to http://tinyurl.com/preview.php you can set a cookie for the site that will enable this feature.
2) Bit.ly
Although I have suspicions that the “ly” stands for Libya or something, this URL shortener lets you create a free account then track hits (or number of visits) to a web site.
Example: http://bit.ly/tcea14
Some ways to decode Bit.ly URLs:
And, another tip from TheJoshMeister.com article cited above:
Just add a plus (“+”) after a bit.ly URL to see where the link will take you, and also to get statistics for that shortened URL
3) V.gd
This incredibly short URL shortener allows you to also create a custom web address for your web site.
Now, I know some of you are grumbling, “Miguel, you’ve used up all the tcea14 words!” but the truth is I haven’t for V.gd.
BTW, other URL expanders mentioned here will work with V.gd links. Just add a dash “-” without quotes to the end of a v.gd link to see it:
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Plants that store water in their thick, fleshy leaves or stems are called succulents. They are classed as xerophytes because they can live in dry environments. Succulents have been called the camels of the plant world.
Succulents grow in dry regions all over the world. The most familiar succulents are probably the cacti of North and South America. The agave family, including sisal and the yucca, is also native to the Americas. Africa…
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Person Activity Report
Person Activity Report
The Person Activity Report details a Person's use of the Access Control System. This article discusses how the report can be used to manage a Facility as well as some of the options for creating this report.
The Report
The Person Activity Report can be used to track someone movement through a building. We hope that you will never need to check in on your employees but in the case you do, this report can provide valuable insight into someone's movement through the Facility. For example, one of our customers had an issue with an employee constantly being away from their desk. Using the report, the customer was able to see a pattern of frequent breaks and steps were taken to correct the issue.
Person Activity Report
Name Description
Person The name of the person who requested access at a Reader.
Card number The card number used associated with the Person using the Reader.
Location The place where the Person used their card
Time The date and time of the access request.
Access Granted This field displays either true or false, depending on whether the Person was allowed to proceed through the Portal or Floor Stop.
Creating the Report
1. Log in and navigate to Person Activity Report. Main Menu-> Reports-> Person Activity Report
Person Activity Report
1. Select the Person or People to run the report against.
• Enter search criteria as needed. Once a System, Facility or Occupancy is selected, a new selection type will become available. This new type allows you to select all people of that Occupancy, System or Facility. (Fig 1.)
• Select each Person and click the button to move them from the unselected list to the selected list or use the button to move everyone from the unselected list ot the selected list. Note: You will not be able to select people individually and use the special selection types. (Fig 2.)
• The button will deselect everyone selected so far and the button allows you to deselect them individually.
• The Undo Button button will undo your last action and the Redo Button button will reverse the undo action.
• When finished, click the Choose People button to select the People and close the Person selector.
Fig 1.
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1. Select the Portals and/or the Floors by clicking on the or the button.
Fig 3.
Fig 4.
1. If you are only looking to generate a report during a period of time of time, you may do so by specifying the time in the From and To fields.
2. Select the format you want the report in, either PDF or Excel spreadsheet.
1. When finished use the shortCreateBtn.png button to generate the report.
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Kelly Christopherson‘s insight:
As the school year approaches, here are some tips for those times when you’re sleep patterns get a bit out of order. Best thing, don’t worry about it because it happens to everyone. And just maybe, your pattern is "normal"!
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10 Best Super Nintendo (SNES) RPG Games
Updated on October 15, 2017
Here's a list of 10 RPG games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . These are my top 10 favorite RPG games which I believe to be the best. Many people will not agree with me on this list but that's to be expected. When making this list I took in many factors :playability, graphics, originality, difficulty, personal taste and the memories I have attached to the game. When a game means something to a person, it tends to be more important. I could have easily made this a top 20 or even 25 list. There are tons of awesome SNES RPG games but I decided to go with the classic 10. If you haven't played a game on this list, I strongly suggest you do. Especially if you're an RPG fan or classic gaming fan.
Secret Of Evermore
Secret Of Evermore
10. Secret Of Evermore
Secret Of Evermore holds the ten spot on my list. I've talked to a few people who think this game shouldn't even be on a top ten list. I don't understand why. I played this game for the first time when I was already a teenager. I loved it. The games about a boy and his dog who are messing around in a crazy scientists mansion. They accidentally get transported to another world where they have to fight their way through monsters and other baddies to find their way back home. It featured an Alchemy sytstem, allowing you to find new recipes to earn new spells. The live action battles were cool and you could switch between dog and boy. The graphics were pretty damn sweet for that time period and the game play is fun. In fact, i just finished this game again last week. I played it on my tablet using a SNES emulator.
Breath Of Fire Battle
Breath Of Fire Battle
9.Breath Of Fire
Coming in at number 9 is Breath Of Fire. This game was developed by Capcom and licensed by Squaresoft. Let me tell you, I have put many hours into this game. It's totally fun. The story starts after a Civil war between Light and Dark Dragon clans. Ryu, the hero finds his home set on fire by the Dark Dragons and vows revenge. First, he must become stronger in order to defeat his powerful enemies. He does this by gaining allies and Dragon Powers. Dragon Powers are freagin' sweet and I spent much time trying to get them all. It's a turn base RPG with some alright graphics, a pretty cool soundtrack and definite re-playability.
8. Lufia II : Rise Of The Sinistrals
At number eight, brought to you by Neverland, is Lufia II : Rise Of The Sinistrals. Another awesome RPG game for the classic SNES. This RPG has some pretty cool puzzle element s that add to the fun and difficulty of the game play. Certain dungeons require certain object to progress through the dungeon. Not as advanced as other RPG games but definitely one of my favorites. The soundtrack is pretty cool for a SNES and the graphics are also good. The enemy sprites in fight scenes look very decent. The story line is good and is centered around Maxim, an excellent swordsman hell bent on destroying super humans known as Sinistrals. You can have multiple party members, up to four. You can control each party member but you can also get pet like creatures that are computer controlled. Allowing to effectively have five in your party. There's also a dungeon with 99 randomly generated levels. That alone is making this game worth a try.
7. Final Fantasy II
Alright, number seven..... It's Final Fantasy II! Released in Japan as Final Fantasy IV. This game was developed by Squaresoft and blessed the US in the year 1991. This game opened my eyes to awesome classic RPG games. I still play this game today and I'm currently in the middle of the many hours of game play Final Fantasy II has to offer (once again). The story in this game is complex and just plain awesome. You're a Dark Knight, a Paladin, you can play with Mages, Ninjas, Bards and all other kinds of classes. The world is huge and even includes going to the molten core of the Earth and also the moon. This is a must for RPG and Final Fantasy fans. Please, please, please if you have never played this game. Do it.
6. Illusion Of Gaia
Illusion Of Gaia is a unique game with an awesome score and characters created by the God Mother of manga herself, Moto Hagio. This game introduced a unique yet simple style to the RPG genre. There's only three playable characters and the attacks are basically melee with each character using a different weapon. All characters share the same health and defense points. Bosses can not be done twice and enemies disappear after defeat unless you completely exit a dungeon or area and come back or if Will loses all his lives. The game has no equipment or currency system. The only healing items are herbs. Even with these limitations, I truly enjoyed the game. The simplicity, I believe made it unique yet challenging. Some of my friends became frustrated with these points but I enjoyed it. The story begins with the main character, Will stumbling into a Dark Space and meeting Gaia. Gaia informs Will that he has been chosen and must leave his home to save the world from an approaching comet. I don't want to describe it much more to avoid spoilers but trust me, even though it seems simple and lacking in features, trust me, it's a great game to play.
5. Secret Of Mana
You had to know this game would be in the top five. Secret Of Mana. What can I say? This game was freaking sweet! Awesome graphics, great sound and lots of innovation. Another live action RPG game as opposed to turn based. This game brought us the Adaptive Time Battle meter making it possible for awesome real time action. It also introduce the Ring Command battle system allowing you to pause the action while making important battle decisions. Another awesome system in the game was multiplayer. This feature allowed other players to join in when they wanted and leave if they wanted, a great feature for when your friends come over to play. This game is just pure quality. The plot is very intriguing and has a great flow to it.
4. Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars
Developed by Square and produced by Nintendo this game was released in 1996. The first role playing game in the Mario series. In this RPG you're after Smithy. Smithy has stolen the seven stars and Mario must get them back so people can again receive their wishes. This game had some awesome 3D graphics and some pretty darn funny dialogue. Super Mario RPG features turn based battles when encountering an enemy. Yet, much of the game is like a platformer with jumping and the ability to avoid battles that you deem unfit for your great powers. You start off in the game with only Mario but end up gaining 5 party members. 2 of which can be chosen to join in battles with you. I loved this game. It had Mario <3 in a freaking RPG adventure! The graphics were awesome, the colors were bright and the soundtrack was good. I still play this game today via emulation.
3. Chrono Trigger
At number 3 is the epic: Chrono Trigger! Published by Square in 1995, this game was created with three awesome designers known as "The Dream Team". Hironobu Sakaguchi, of Final Fantasy fame, Yuji Horii known for his work in Dragon Quest and Akira Toriyama an artist famous for his work in Dragon Quest and the ever so awesome Dragonball. This game is like a fanboy's wet dream. The game play is much like other RPG's with a world map where you travel to other areas which may have other explorable areas within. One difference is the fact that Chrono Trigger's enemy's are visible so you are not randomly thrust into a battle. I loved playing this game and I still love playing this game (like most of the RPG's on this list). The battles are fun but still challenging, the story is another great one and the graphics and character designs are amazing for a SNES. Play this game now!
2. Final Fantasy III (VI)
Role playing landmark and one of the greatest games of all time. Final Fantasy III was released as Final Fantasy VI because Final Fantasy IV and V had not been released in North America yet. It's final Fantasy, people. Arguably the best RPG series ever created and still running strong. Featuring yet another awesome plot, beautiful graphics, excellent game play and a sweet ass soundtrack, it's no wonder this is my number two. When my older brother first introduced me to this game, I watched him play it for hours. To this day I have completed this game 4 times and I am currently playing it right now via a SNES emulator. I know what you're thinking, "Number 2 and only 4 times!?" Give me a break, I didn't get introduced to this game until later on. This game is hard, but not nearly as hard as some of the earlier Final Fantasy games, giving you a challenge while not be "too" frustrating(...sometimes...) Still a classic and still awesome as ever.
1. Zelda: A Link To The Past
Number one , The Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past, booooooom! The one and only Zelda game for SNES. A Link To The Past follows our favorite hero, Link on a journey to defeat Ganon, save Hyrule and rescue the Sages. In this one they killed the side-scrolling bull crap that was implemented in Zelda II: The Adventure Of Link. By the way, I hated the side scrolling so very much. Going back to the roots of a top down 3/4 perspective, Zelda: A Link To The Past blew my freaking mind. The game introduced the parallel universe idea to the masses, which is still being used today. You got heart vials, Pegasus Boots, Spin Attack, The Ocarina, the Master Sword and arrows as ammo instead of depleting your precious Rupees. The replay value of this game is insane. If you're not (a cheater) following a guide step by step, you're going to find something new the second time around or even the third or fourth time. The graphics are clean, the sound is great and the story is, well, it's a Zelda story. Get more power, kill the bad guy and save Hyrule. One of the greatest games ever. I can't count how many times I've played this game.
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Jean-Francois Cyr 4 months ago
All these butthurt people crying a river lol.
Those comments are deliciously stupid
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Eric Farmer 6 months ago from Phoenix Arizona
Chrono Trigger is one my favorite SNES games. I had a lot of fun beating the Nintendo DS version. Earthbound is another SNES favorite of mine.
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Boom 8 months ago
This is, basically, the answer to all these comments. Taken straight out of the very first paragraph.
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Dev 8 months ago
Wait, you didn't even list Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen?
GTFO. Naaaaooow.
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AshyLarry 11 months ago
I respect your ability to have an opinion, but it doesn't shock me this list is getting roasted. Zelda doesn't even classify as an RPG, and how the first BOF makes the list and the second doesn't goes WAY over my head. There's almost some unwritten rules to this topic, like CT is hands down the most agreed upon top RPG of the system. And where is Earth Bound? Star Ocean? Tales of Phantasia? Come on man, this looks like a 5 year old put it together . . .
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ES 12 months ago
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Zachariah Kaer 12 months ago from Ohio
I would disagree. I believe it to be an action-RPG.
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Michael Ryan 12 months ago
I don't classify Zelda as an RPG. It does have RPG elements but it is mostly an action adventure game. While I see some good names here, I think Super Mario RPG is way overrated. It is pretty, and the graphics looked liked PS1 RPGS or game cube 3D graphic way but its plays like a platformer even if its turned based. I prefer 8 bit 16 bit or even 32 bit RPGs that play in the traditional sense and you should play JRPGs games that add significantly different layers to game play like Treasure of Rudras which lets you invent different casting spells or Strategic RPG like Front Mission that lets you upgrade your mecha, Super Robot Wars 3 that introduces all japanese popular mecha against aliens or Fire Emblem Seisen Non Keifu which lets you match people to create future generations of warriors or Bahamut Lagoon which lets you evolve dragons.. You should put in your list Tales of Phantasia, the grahics and the soundtrack is out of this world and it has a a good story and Star Ocean is amazing too. breath of fire 1 is great but breath of fire 2 is better. Dragon Warrior4,5 6 are also very entertaining. You definitely should put Earthbound, the storyline is very different and weird, you have to revisit your ranking. If you put Illusion of Gaia you should put Terranigma or Soulblazer. Also Uncharted Waters New Horizons is an RPG where you upgrade your boats and trade with other countries. Also Romancing Saga 3 is excellent.
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denio 15 months ago
Your comparison is like night and day. It's same as if someone would compare Mario vs Street Fighter. Although many of those games are RPG games, not all RPGs are same genre. There's huge difference . between turn based RPG games and real time action RPG games. Also Fire Emblem is turn based RPG but it would be unfair to compare it with Final Fantasy because except for turns they are completely different genres. Zelda II Adventure of Link was the only Zelda RPG game. Other Zelda games are just adventure.
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Matt 18 months ago
Illusion og Gaia is better than LTTP. It has a story. Character development. and better boss mechanics. IT is the same gameplay, but better presented. The story is top notch with its engaging characters and awesome soundtrack!
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Paul 18 months ago
Really good list, I agree with most of it, especially Zelda and FF3. I would put Earthbound in the top 10 for sure, probably instead of Evermore or Gaia.
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Dethklok slayer 18 months ago
top 3 chrono trigger, secret of mana (multiplayer rpg!! so awesome), and FF VI. secret of evermore is awesome too! glad it made it in your top 10, i feel its highly overlooked
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19 months ago
Zelda wasn't a brilliant game, nowhere near the quality of others on the list, and is in some senses more a quasi-rpg than anything else.
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anomus 20 months ago
i so agree
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Dotorak 21 months ago
Legend of Zelda? Do you even know what is a RPG?
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drahcir 2 years ago
I don't think that Zelda is usually considered an RPG. I'd say the top 3 are Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. But I haven't played Earthbound yet...
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Kuan Leong Yong 2 years ago from Singapore
Link to the Past is possibly the best Zelda game. (At least to me). But most Japanese players would vote for Chrono, I suspect.
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DemonAlchemist 3 years ago
A Link to the Past is not an RPG. It's a great topdown adventure game, but not an RPG.
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orandze 3 years ago from Pittsburgh
When I clicked onto this hub, I first expected to see Chrono Trigger at #1, but after doing some thinking I feel like the top three are pretty well tied, so your list is valid :)
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Sam 3 years ago from Australia
Good to see Secret of Evermore and Breath of Fire, two games I got lots of hours from in my younger days!
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Zachariah Kaer 4 years ago from Ohio
Sorry, I like it...but not as much as these :) I'm seriously thinking of changing Chrono to #1
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Casey 4 years ago
Earthbound lol
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Justin Watkins 4 years ago from lakewood Washington
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Zachariah Kaer 4 years ago from Ohio
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Justin Watkins 4 years ago from lakewood Washington
Mario Rules!!!
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Zachariah Kaer 4 years ago from Ohio
thanks for ur comment
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Zachariah Kaer 4 years ago from Ohio
this is a top ten
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Zachariah Kaer 4 years ago from Ohio
earthbound would be a 15 or 20.....
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NESS 4 years ago
no EARTHBOUND??!! you don't know anything about RPGs
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Anthony Arsenault 4 years ago from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Totally Agree!
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book review: the last policeman
book review: cyberabad days
Cyberabad Days is a collection of short stories set in the world of Ian McDonald’s River of Gods. That world is a 21st century where India has fragmented into mini-states banning or making huge amounts of money on aeais and genetic engineering and drought (and cricket).
The collection is good for getting into the details of how some of the weirder aspects of the world worked than you can really get into in the middle of a novel. Setting up other characters who are marrying aeais while the Water War happens is a great way to make the world feel deeper. The final story in the book is about one of the hugely-long-lived Brahmin gengineered children and it’s the only story that really moves the world past the big events that happen in the novel. I think it was my favourite story because of that, though “Sanjeev and Robotwallah” was te kind of complete little tale that I enjoy.
If you wanted to see if you’d like River of Gods (which is a pretty big fat book) you wouldn’t do too badly to read one or two of these stories, but don’t read “Vishnu and the Circus of Cats” because that will kind of mess up a lot of reveals from the novel. And for the record, my favourite Ian McDonald book is still Desolation Road.
book review: river of gods
River of Gods is a science fiction book by Ian McDonald, set in 2047 India (mostly). It was pretty great. It felt like a William Gibson book, but in India. There were some expat characters, a scientist hiding out on a southern beach, an Afghani-born journalist, and a virtual worlds researcher, but the book wasn’t about magic westerners coming to save the world and the world-saving point just happened to be in India.
It used India really well, even though the country had balkanized into a bunch of mini states. One of the characters was the advisor to the nation of Bharat (where Varanasi is) and Bharat and Awadh (which is bigger than traditional Awadh and I believe included Delhi) are involved in a water war because there hadn’t been a monsoon in over 5 years and the Ganges was being dammed up in Awadh. Meanwhile the Banglas were bringing a chunk of Antarctica up into the Bay of Bengal to try restarting the monsoon.
India is a haven for artificial intelligences that have been regulated out of existence in North America, but to keep up decent relations the Ministry of Information has agents who disrupt and destroy AI systems that break India’s (laxer) rules. A chunk of the storyline follows one of these agents, a “Krishna Cop,” and this was where it felt the most cinematic with the gods guiding his EMP gun and decrypting all the virtual stuff. I loved those sequences because of their mix of traditional cyberpunk elements without a jacking in type sequence. It felt updated with all that Internet of things type stuff instead of “going into the machine to hack the hell out of it.”
And there are the nutes. There are these people who’ve forsworn gender and get their bodies (and brains) rewired out of sex drives and into something else. Something almost entirely fashion driven. They can manipulate their bodies’ response to stimuli with nodes on their arms, since they don’t have the glands and wiring for being driven by their genitals any more. They were very SF, very neat.
As you can see, there’s a lot in this book (someone also goes into space). There was one storyline I wasn’t too big a fan of, though it was useful in depicting some of the caste/class issues of Varanasi society life. But yes, in all a great SF book, even if as a regular SF reader you can tell what’s going on with one character long before the characters around her seem to figure it out. I’m now actively looking for more by McDonald.
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Re: porting troubles
> > Wine so the code may be unportable. There's still enough in the way of
> > windowmanager-Corel interaction to make you cry).
> Using wine as a porting library is not x86 specific. Companies could use it to
> quickly port to Linux, testing the response from the community and then doing a
> real port. I'm sure Corel could port Wordperfect to PPC/Linux just by running
> "make". (They also used an abstraction layer to port Wordperfect to MacOS).
Using Wine _is_ x86 specific in the sense that Wine emulates enough of the
Windows low level API to let x86 code including DLLs run on Linux. To my
knowledge, there is no port of Wine to another architecture. You cpould
argue Wine can be run under some x86 emulator - does making Windows apps
run on VirtualPC constitute a Linux port?
Anyway, the point is moot (yet).
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10 Terrible Diseases That Ravaged Historical Royalty
Jana Louis Smit
Sometimes, we forget that diseases have always been here. They don’t simply pop into existence when a set of symptoms are given a name and declared a disease. Royal families are no more exempt from serious conditions or genetic weaknesses than anyone else. Because of their important status, however, their recorded histories hold some of the oldest case records of medical problems. The blue bloods on this list date back from a few hundred to a few thousand years. Based on their symptoms and the diseases we know today, previously unknown health failures can now be tentatively given a modern name. Other conditions, while known at the time, were not understood very well.
10 Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
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While her status as the first known carrier of hemophilia is well documented, few realize just how devastating the spread of Queen Victoria’s genes were on the next three generations that followed her. Two of her daughters and four of her granddaughters were carriers of the disease. A son, three grandsons, and four great-grandsons were all sufferers, most of whom bled to death. Since her children eventually married into other politically important wealthy bloodlines, Queen Victoria’s genes weakened the royal houses of England, Russia, Spain, and Prussia.
While she was the first documented carrier in the British royal family, her son, Prince Leopold, was the first sufferer. Hemophilia doesn’t appear to have turned up before Victoria, and the theory is that the trouble started with a mutated gene in her father, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent. The “royal disease,” as it is sometimes known, is attached to the X chromosome as a recessive gene. Since women have two X chromosomes, they’re very unlikely to suffer from hemophilia, only carry it. The X chromosome with the recessive hemophilia gene will be dominated by the other X. It’s possible for both of a woman’s X chromosomes to carry the hemophilia gene, which would cause them to suffer symptoms, but it’s statistically unlikely. Should males, with only one X chromosome, inherit the gene, they will be full-blown bleeders. Due to missing proteins, their blood can’t clot, and they can bleed to death from even a minor cut. Perhaps the most famous of Queen Victoria’s hemophiliac descendants was her murdered great-grandson Alexis Romanov, the future tsar of Russia.
9 Prince Albert
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Prince Albert Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was the husband and first cousin to Queen Victoria. He died young and unexpectedly at the age of 42 in December 1861. The distraught queen forbade an autopsy, which could have determined the caused of the royal consort’s death with more certainty. Something needed to take the blame, and for the last 150 years, typhoid got the stick.
More recently, Oxford historian Helen Rappaport’s research suggested that the prince had actually died from Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s is an inflammatory bowel disease that affects one out of every 500 people. Although it’s treatable today, sufferers in the 1800s had no cure or even knowledge of the disease’s existence. It wasn’t described until 1932 and was often fatal. Symptoms include painful abdominal troubles, which Prince Albert battled for months before his death. Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital also re-examined the medical evidence and agreed that the prince was more likely a Crohn’s sufferer than a typhoid victim.
8 King James I
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In 1566, James was barely one year old when he was crowned King James VI of Scotland. When the childless Queen Elizabeth died, he also took the English crown and became King James I of England. Until he was five, James struggled to walk unassisted. It’s possible that he had a hereditary neuromuscular disease, since he shared his frail and thin legs with both his father and one of his sons.
The hereditary disease porphyria manifested in some of his descendants, and James certainly had the symptoms. Fever, stomach upset, and pain, during which his urine was wine-dark, were all in line with porphyria, a disease that occurred in episodes, two of which his personal physician recorded in 1613 and then again in 1615. Insanity is also a symptom, which he arguably displayed plenty of. When hunting, James would tear open a deer’s belly and put his hands and feet inside the animal before disturbingly slathering its blood all over the rest of the hunting party.
During his golden years, James was crippled by severe arthritis, became skeletal, and had sores on his mouth. His mental problems were now permanent, an early onset of dementia that may have been caused by several small strokes. He was like a child, couldn’t recognize people, and was in no state to make royal decisions. He died in 1625, amid symptoms of porphyria and an inability to talk or swallow.
7 King George III
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King George’s madness is well known and, given his family’s medical history, possibly caused by variegate porphyria, a type of porphyria that was symptomatically displayed in his ancestors, James VI of Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots. But, whereas James was a milder case and given kingly consideration during his bouts with this distressing disease, an acute form struck George III, who was tied to a chair for hours and eventually kept in inhumane conditions at Windsor Castle.
The disorder occurs when a specific enzyme is missing during the production of hemoglobin in red blood cells. As a result, porphyrins are overproduced. This buildup causes a wide range of symptoms, including abdominal trouble, nervous system issues, madness, skin sensitivity, and dark urine. George III became violent and rambled for hours during his bouts but also had remission periods when he could rule normally for years.
In 1810, he suffered a devastating episode. He didn’t recognize his wife, Queen Charlotte, and the king was hidden away from society. For the last 10 years of his life, he was held at Windsor Castle, disheveled and uncared for, while his son acted as regent. To add to his suffering, he went blind and deaf. In 1819, perhaps mercifully, the king died after a particularly bad porphyria attack.
6 King George V
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King George V isn’t particularly notable for suffering from misunderstood symptoms, but new knowledge about his death is certainly intriguing. George V had reigned for 25 years and was also the royal responsible for changing the ruling house’s name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. The reason for his passing in 1936 was officially listed as pleurisy. It was certainly true that he had the condition, but that’s not what killed him. The king was euthanized.
Lord Dawson, the royal physician who administered the fatal cocktail of drugs, kept notes of the events that lead up to that moment. According to the Dawson notes, still kept in the archives of Windsor Castle today, the doctor was told by the 71-year-old monarch’s wife (Queen Mary) and his son (the future abdicator Edward VIII) that they did not want the king to suffer if his condition was fatal. Since Dawson recorded no mention that the king was included in this decision, the line between murder and a mercy death turns rather blurry. The doctor also timed George’s death so that it would get the maximum exposure in the morning newspapers and not the evening edition. Around 11:00 PM on January 20, the comatose king was injected with a fatal amount of morphine and cocaine, but the end wasn’t instant. It took him nearly one hour to die.
5 Tsar Ivan IV
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Ivan The Terrible remains one of the most brutal leaders in the memory of mankind. He might have been plainly sociopathic, but one disease probably caused or worsened the tsar’s murderous nature. When his remains were re-examined in the 1960s, they were found to be laced with mercury. He suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, and the bones showed signs of syphilic ostratis. A tsar always stood the chance of being poisoned, so the possibility that somebody finally got tired of Ivan and served him the deadly mercury cannot be dismissed. However, back then, mercury was also a treatment for the final stages of syphilis, a disease that often brings on the kind of arthritis that Ivan had.
It’s not hard to imagine how he contracted the venereal disease. If there was an Oscar statue for promiscuity, he would’ve won many. He took both sexes to bed, mostly against their will. His personality change is also reminiscent of syphilis. When he became ruler, he was intelligent and peaceful. But as the years progressed, paranoia and rage turned him into a sadistic torturer and serial killer of note, his victims including several close friends and even his son. Ivan sacked his own cities, massacred the inhabitants, and insanely gave speeches on Christian values at parties where he and his ilk tortured people to death.
Mercury poisoning and tertiary syphilis both cause episodes of violence. Some say his behavior stemmed from severe childhood abuse and the loss of his coveted wife, but considering that abuse survivors and bereaved spouses don’t generally sack their own suburbs, that theory doesn’t hold up. Ivan died in 1584.
4 King Richard III
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The long-missing remains of Richard III have been found in a Leicester parking lot in recent years, and the skeleton matched many historical references. The horrendous wounds that marred the bones supported the fact that he was the last English king to die in battle, and spinal anomalies confirmed the stories that he was handicapped. After looking at the king’s vertebrae and spine, markedly deformed with a deep curvature, it was found that Richard had a condition known as idiopathic adolescent onset scoliosis. It was most likely progressive, beginning in his teens and worsening as he aged. In life, his left shoulder would’ve been much lower than the right and from the pressure scoliosis exerts on the lungs, he would’ve suffered from breathing problems as well. The deformity also made him much shorter than the 172-centimeter (5’8″) stature he would’ve had in perfect health.
There were no signs of the other deformities that some stories attribute to Richard. Born in 1452 and very unlikely to reach the throne (being the 12th child), Richard was crowned after the suspicious disappearance of his 12-year-old nephew, King Edward V, and his brother. He ruled for two years, dying in 1485 during the Wars of the Roses, fighting against the men of Henry Tudor (the father of Henry VIII).
He was apparently buried with little respect. The grave was too small and badly dug. There was no sign of a coffin, and by the looks of it, his hands might have been tied. Buried at the church at Greyfriars, his grave disappeared when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries. The University of Leicester matched the DNA from the remains to living descendants, and King Richard III was reburied in Leicester Cathedral.
3 King Henry VIII
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This Tudor king, famous for killing some of his wives, desperately wanted a male heir. It is believed that he caused up to 13 pregnancies with six wives and untold mistresses, of which only four resulted in live births. Research shows that it’s possible that the king’s blood was to blame. He might have had the rare Kell antigen, a protein that weakens the immune system, causing stillbirths, miscarriages, or death soon after birth.
If that was the case, then McLeod syndrome fits with his bad health and even worse behavior. McLeod syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects only Kell-positive individuals. Mentally, it brings on dementia, which might explain why Henry VIII went from being a relatively benevolent guy to a chopper of wives’ heads and executioner of anyone whom he suspected was against him. The disease also degenerates muscle tissue, and by the time the king hit middle age, he could barely walk. Some suggested that he was instead a syphilis sufferer, but his track record with sickly pregnancies partners better with McLeod syndrome.
2 Queen Mary I
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Queen Mary I was a daughter that would’ve done her bloodthirsty father, King Henry VIII, proud. Her tendency to burn people at the stake earned her the name “Bloody Mary.” Born in 1516, she was crowned queen after her half-brother, King Edward, died at the age of 15. To ensure the succession of her own line, Mary had to produce an heir, so she married her love, Prince Philip I of Spain.
In September 1554, doctors declared the queen pregnant, she was treated for morning sickness, and her belly grew. But 11 months later, she still hadn’t given birth, and when she left her confinement room and appeared at court again, her body was nearly emaciated. When she was 42, Mary was certain that she was pregnant again, but the same thing happened. After the second “pregnancy” symptoms disappeared, her health went into a decline from which she would never recover, dying from the flu about a year later.
Several conditions could’ve caused this heartbreaking condition for the queen, who only wanted to be a mother. One is pseudocyesis, better known as a “phantom pregnancy.” What causes it is still not fully understood by medical science, but it’s possible that her intense longing for a baby might’ve contributed. A much more serious diagnosis would be that she was a cancer sufferer, possibly ovarian cancer. She may also have had a reproductive cyst, which manifested the pregnancy-like symptoms.
1 King Herod
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King Herod appears in the New Testament as the cruel, insecure ruler of Judea, who ordered the deaths of every baby boy in Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the infant Jesus. Curious about what had caused the death of this biblical King, Dr. Jan Hirschman from the University of Washington decided to perform an autopsy. Since Herod died over 2,000 years ago and nothing remains of the royal, the autopsy was more of a marriage between modern medical knowledge and the studying of ancient records.
Hirschman considered the writings of Flavius Josephus, born about a century after Herod, who had scoured the notes written by the king’s court historian, Nicholas of Damascus. The symptoms Herod displayed during his final illness included a fever, all-over itching of the skin, abdominal discomfort, genital gangrene, asthma, convulsions, and bad breath. Going on the trail of diseases that can cause severe itching, Hirschman checked to see which one of those also matched the king’s other symptoms.
The most likely winner was chronic kidney disease, although Hirschman couldn’t say for how long it afflicted the king. A condition known as Fournier’s gangrene, a genital disease, was likely induced by Herod himself. As he tried to ease the nonstop itching with nonstop scratching, it lead to a possibly untreated infection, and the dreaded rot began. It’s been suggested that the gangrene was from gonorrhea, but without a body, the origins of the gangrene cannot be ascertained. Once Fournier’s set in, the king would’ve died within days or weeks.
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Stephen Marche Tries to Shame Men into Being Feminists and Fails Miserably…AGAIN
I gave Stephen Marche some treatment last year after he took a swipe at the Manosphere in general and TRP in particular. Much as I dislike having to defend TRP, I will do it when confronted with Feminist acolytes clucking their tongues and wagging their fingers at men.
But Marche is back and like most of the Progressives, he is struggling through early-onset Trump Derangement Syndrome. Combined with his pre-existing Feminist sickness results in a very aggressive and likely untreatable form of TDS. He wants to shame men into his particular brand of politics.
Let me knock down a beer and get to business.
The situation has, in one sense, simplified enormously. The elaborate labyrinths of identity politics have crumbled and left behind basic questions of fundamental human decency. Trump’s actions as president, more than his demeaning behavior on the campaign trail, are deliberately keeping women from power and attacking programs that promote their health, both in the US and globally. Feminism as humanism – the very basic idea that women are people – is now under threat. Any man who claims to possess a shared sense of humanity with women must stand with them.
Demeaning behavior on the campaign trail, including calling one-quarter of the electorate “deplorable”? Demeaning behavior like firing up a rumor that the front-runner in your party’s primary isn’t a natural-born American citizen in order to undermine his entire campaign? Or circulating a photo of Obama in a turban to emphasize the point? Demeaning behavior on the campaign trail like using party apparatus to limit debate and sandbag Bernie Sanders’ efforts? Spare me the disingenous gasping and clutching of pearls. Hillary Clinton is one of the dirtiest, most hardball campaigners in American history.
The Mexico City Policy is much simpler: He who pays the piper calls the tune. If you want Big Daddy Government’s money, guess what? You dance to the tune he calls. Don’t like it? Get your private money donation game up so that you don’t have to live and eat off of federal grants. Simple, yes? I guess it’s not simple for Progressives. They have this peculiar idea that they are entitled to spend other’s money on things they don’t support (Americans are split on abortion), to say nothing of the propriety of taking money from Americans and sending it abroad.
The evidence has become too glaringly obvious. Who could embody more perfectly “rape culture” than a man who was elected president of the United States while boasting about sexual predation?
Let’s see: A choice between a guy who said that “And when you’re a star they LET you do it. You can do anything.”
Notice the words of permission, there.
On the other side, we have a woman who brags about destabilizing foreign nations (Libya), resulting in the deaths of thousands, and exacerbated the “refugee crisis” by adding Libya to the mix.
President Warmonger vs. President Consensual Pussy-Grabber.
Not even a close choice.
What more proof do you need that women face structural disadvantages in their work lives than Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes and still losing?
Today I learned that Andrew Jackson, Samuel Tilden, Grover Cleveland, and Al Gore were women who faced “structural disadvantages.”
Two contradictory processes are at work. One is the rise of women to dominance of the middle class; the other is the intractable continuation of male power at the top. Since 2000, women have increased their workplace participation in most countries in the world. Across the OECD, the pay gap declined significantly between 2000 and 2011. In the United States, the number of households led by women has been increasing since the 60s and currently stands at around 40%.
But I thought dominance was a bad thing? I thought “Feminism means equality”?
Oh that’s right, dominance is only bad when men do it.
Got it.
At the same time, women are kept from the top positions. There are any number of ways to register this fact, from a comparison of the salaries of male and female movie stars, to the number of women who are full professors, to the scandalously few women who are equity partners in law firms.
Women are kept from the bottom positions. There are any number of ways to register this fact, from a comparison of the sex-ratio of workplace fatalities, to the number of women in dangerous or high-risk occupations, to the scandalously few women who are loggers.
But what am I saying? “Feminism means equality” and “equality” only matters in the C-suite, not on the back of a garbage truck.
We cannot shape men until we have some kind of critical understanding of the mechanisms of masculinity. And simply put, we do not have that understanding. The first graduate program devoted to masculinity studies in the US began in 2015.
Here’s the money quote, right here. For the last 50 years, Feminists have raised a mighty howl, that no man should even dare to entertain the idea of telling a woman what she ought to do. Meanwhile, Feminists have waged a campaign by which they not only have the privilege, but the duty to alter, shape, mold and change men into something that suits their purposes: New Soviet Man…I mean, NEW FEMINIST MAN.
There have been calls for men to join in the feminist movement from its beginning, with two main difficulties: the first is that feminism is inherently about women. And so feminism’s message to men has always been pretty simple: behave better to women.
While creating no similar obligation of women to behave better to men.
The other problem is that men do not talk explicitly about their own gender.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Is this guy for real?
Men talk about their sex. We talk about it and matters pertaining to it. The problem that Feminists like Marche have is that when we talk about it, we proceed down lines of thinking towards conclusions are in no way useful to Feminism.
See Men’s Rights.
See The Red Pill.
And to Feminists, men discussing manhood in the absence of Feminist supervision is not acceptable. Can’t have the proles engaging in Wrongthink or the slaves discussing freedom.
Those facts, in themselves, reveal how far the way we talk about gender has deviated from its reality in American life. During a campaign stop for Hillary Clinton early in 2016, Madeleine Albright declared: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – a line that has appeared on Starbucks cups. Forty-two percent of American women felt otherwise, as did 62% of non-college educated women.
A comment for which Albright was roundly and rightly blistered. Albright reserved her own seat in hell by sponsoring a war that led to thousands of deaths and the raping of hundreds of women.
Gloria Steinem famously declared that women’s liberation will be men’s liberation, too. Trump has clarified that the opposite – women’s bondage, men’s bondage – is also true. It is men who need to say “this is not us.” But then we would have to think about who we are.
“Liberation” from what?
Women don’t owe men anything. Conversely, men don’t owe women anything. Not time, not attention, not labor, not blood, and not happiness. Consequently, I don’t “need” to do anything on the behalf of any woman.
They are our equals. Let them do for themselves.
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I see you under the limelight
bending your body, toes on the ground
Hands on hips, in a circular motion
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The kill
They drag me down the alley
It’s raining cats and dogs
Remember, I am half-dead
I am cut
they take out a bean-shaped thingy
Followed by something spongy
Then goes my eyes
I can feel them
keeping their hands
inside of me
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June 12
Psalm 121, Part 3
Psalm 121:2 & 5 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth…. The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade at your right hand.
What a promise to those on a journey—that the Lord (the more personal, covenant name of our God) promises to be with us, as close as our shadow. See Deuteronomy 31:6 and Isaiah 41:10 for the Lord’s encouragements to those who feared. There is nothing more powerful or encouraging to say to someone fearing than to tell them that He would be with them.
He’s also promised to be our helper. We tend to think of “helpers” as assistants, as people less important than the person doing the main task. There is the “real do-er,” and then there is “the helper.” It’s hard sometimes to see that God has put Himself in that role for us. If we are honest, we know that we need help on our Christian walk. Happily, our helper is God Himself.
We’ve all had “helpers” in the kitchen, on our taxes, and in our personal lives. Some were of genuine help, some weren’t. Some just cared, but didn’t really have the power to help. God cares more than any human could, and He describes Himself here as the One who made heaven and earth. That’s real help, and real power, and puts into perspective any need we might have along the way in our journey.
Our culture makes us feel bad for needing help. It takes the experiences of life and the power of the Holy Spirit to show us how much we need help. And that’s good! We’re created to need it, and created to have that main Helper be the God who created the universe!
We’ll talk about how He helps us specifically in the next days. But for now, let us not “think of [ourselves] more highly than [we] ought to think” (Romans 12:3) in terms of needing help. And let us remember that God’s goal is not our self-sufficiency. That should never be our goal, either. We need to get it settled that we are in constant need of help, and that our Creator has made it this way. The good news is that He Himself is our helper.
Prayer: Lord, You are my helper. Please remind me of this until I get a complete understanding of it. Forgive me for my independence and self-sufficiency. Help me to learn how to work with You as my Lord, Savior and Helper.
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There are great moments in the history of food that often go unheralded: the first person to slice bread, the first person to figure out how to eat an artichoke, and of course the genius behind the Hot Pocket. Some of these names and faces have been sadly lost to history.
A spread from Westborough Korean Restaurant.We have seen a number of Korean restaurants coming online here in Central Massachusetts. And on the 80th birthday of SPAM, the most American of processed meats (sorry Taylor Ham), and amid the sabre rattling on the Korean Peninsula, it is only right dear reader, that we consider the rich and bizarre history of the Korean dish budae-jjigae (pronounced budd-ah jig-ee). The name for this dish translates directly: army base soup. This is, quite frankly the melding of two food cultures by dint of war, famine, and one woman willing to make the best of a bad situation.
In my search for this signature Korean dish, I found the highly regarded Westborough Korean Restaurant right off the rotary in Westborough center. I was impressed by the array of dishes on the menu (how many local restaurants are doing blood sausage?) and quickly ordered the kimchee scallion pancakes, the bipimbap, and of course their ‘budae chiggae.’ A side note on kimchi: it’s one of the cornerstones of Korean cuisine. Books have been written on it. When South Korea sent its first astronaut into space, kimchi went with him.
While South Korea has had a vibrant and prosperous fifty years or so, its history from 1900 to the mid-1970s was marked by occupation – the Korean War and a strict military dictatorship. Following the war, South Korea was in the grips of a famine. The U.S. military continued to occupy large bases outside Seoul and it was just outside one of these bases that budae-jjigae was born. Koreans who worked in the cafeterias at the US Army base would smuggle out leftover food. This was during a time when a Korean who was caught smuggling SPAM was could be put to death.
Westborough Korean Restaurant.Budae-jjigae is as varied as the cans of American military rations that could be smuggled out of the “post exchange” (PX) on any given day: hotdogs, SPAM, American cheese, ground turkey, baked beans, Vienna sausages, or macaroni. These American military rations, whatever could be bought or bargained for, were combined with Korean ingredients: instant ramen noodles, kimchee, beansprouts red pepper paste, and a wide array of Korean spices.
The woman who started it all was Heo Gi Sook. She opened the first budae-jjigae restaurant in the city of Euijeongbu, right next to a U.S. military base. Since this food was contraband, Heo Gi Sook named her first restaurant “fish cake restaurant” to keep from arousing the suspicions of local authorities. As the dish proliferated and became more and more popular, she felt initial pushback from locals; some saw it as inedible, others as another U.S. aggression against Korean culture. Delicious and illicit, the dish took off.
When my order arrived, the kimchi pancakes along with the banchan (a selection of pickled dishes served with every meal), followed by the bipimbap, and ‘budae chiggae,’ the waitress said simply, “Red means hot.” I’ve learned this is a good rule of thumb when eating Korean food. I felt my eyes water from the steam coming off the bubbling crock of soup in front of my face. The broth is rocket hot and bright red. Hiding beneath a bed of scallions and egg were chunks of sliced ham and thick cut bacon and onions.
As I sat there sweating and slurping, I realized that this was not unlike the English dish bubble and squeak, the Carolina Lowcountry Frogmore stew, or my mother’s lime Jello ambrosia salad (which I can only describe as inedible, like the carcass of a Muppet and my god…is that Kool Whip?); necessity is the mother of culinary invention.
So was it a culinary travesty or a symbol of U.S. occupation? I’m not smart enough to answer that question. And to be clear, my immediate thought as the fiery red broth stared back at me, was simply: this is probably the greatest hangover cure imaginable.
As I picked through what I wasn’t able to finish in one setting, the slices of sausage and ham and scallions, it felt like an archeological dig – almost 70 years old now, this dish was living history. It has remained essentially unchanged since Heo Gi Sook first took smuggled military rations, combined them with Korean ingredients, and created a sensation. I was subsequently satisfied and utterly defeated by this amazing soup.
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