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0.110925 | <urn:uuid:9eddc65a-5455-4fc6-85f2-fa7efca92c97> | en | 0.959304 | The Chairman of Abia State Board of Internal Revenue, Mr. Udochukwu Ogbonna, has decried the rate of tax evasion in the state. He said mobile courts had been established by the government to try defaulters.
Ogbonna said yesterday that the situation had adversely affected the state’s finances, because its major revenue source is taxes.He condemned individuals and corporate bodies like banks that evade the payment of property taxes. He said some of them were being tried by courts designated by the government to handle tax matters.
According to him, there are over 1,000 cases pending before these courts. He, however, lamented the slow pace of hearing and prosecution of these offenders. He said: “If these cases are heard and defaulters pay what is due, over N1 billion would be realised by the state government.”He urged the citizens and property owners to pay their taxes or risk their premises being sealed off on conviction by the court.
©The Guardian.
1. What’s so special about paying taxes when our amiable and active governor okezie ikpeazu can falsify it for abians.God if not okezie ikpeazu, I’m wondering how elderly people has been dodging all these poverty stricken PDP faithfuls sent to catch tax evaders
2. Change begin with me said by president for court 2 prosecute tax evasion in Abia state let start wit our Govenor ikpeazu
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From the Editor Emeritus / John F. Fink
Medieval Church: The six crusades of the 13th century
John F. Fink(Eighteenth in a series of columns)
There were six crusades during the 13th century. (Seven, if you count the Children’s Crusade.) In this series, I already wrote that the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) was a disaster because the crusaders abandoned their original purpose of liberating the Holy Land, and instead conquered Constantinople from the Orthodox, establishing the Latin Empire of Constantinople for 57 years but setting back relations between the Orthodox and the Catholic Churches.
The Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III, but he died before it could be organized. Pope Honorius III tried to carry it out, but the political situation in Europe made it difficult. He arbitrated between the kings of Aragon and France, got France to abandon its planned invasion of England, and helped Henry III obtain the English crown.
He also tried to participate. Honorius had earlier crowned him as the leader of the Holy Roman Empire, which was largely made up of present-day Germany and Austria. Eventually, some troops were sent to fight, but they weren’t very effective. The crusade eventually simply fizzled out.
The most remarkable thing that happened during the Fifth Crusade was that St. Francis of Assisi showed up in Egypt where the crusaders were in 1219 and, during a truce, met with the Sultan al-Kamil. Francis was allowed to continue on to the Holy Land, and the Franciscans have been there ever since.
Emperor Frederick II seemed ready to lead the Sixth Crusade (1228-1229), proclaimed by Pope Gregory IX. However, he seemed to abandon the crusade after he became ill. Pope Gregory, remembering the trouble Pope Honorius had with Frederick, excommunicated him for not fighting.
But Frederick recovered his health and went on to fight the crusade, even negotiating the surrender of Jerusalem. But it only enraged the pope that an excommunicate would lead a crusade. Soon, Jerusalem went back under the control of the Muslims.
Nineteen years later, the Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) was led by the saintly King Louis IX of France when he was 30 years old. During a battle in Egypt, St. Louis was captured. He was released after paying a ransom, and he then remained in Syria for four years before returning to France.
But St. Louis returned to crusading in 1267, leading the Eighth Crusade with his younger brother, Charles of Anjou. It ended disastrously when the army was decimated by disease within a month, and Louis died at age 44.
In 1271, Pope Gregory X was on the Ninth Crusade with the future King Edward I of England when he learned of his election to the papacy. He returned to Rome.
In 1291, Acre, the last Christian outpost in the Holy Land, fell to the Muslims. The crusades were over.
About that Children’s Crusade: In 1212, thinking that the Holy Land could be captured by the pure of heart, 40,000 children started a march toward Palestine. There were two groups, one from France and the other from Germany. Few of the children reached the Holy Land. Many died on the way, and some were sold into slavery. It must be considered amazing that this was permitted to happen. †
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Guion Bluford Experiences Weightlessness on th...
Guion Bluford Experiences Weightlessness on the KC-135 – GPN-2002-000148 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Why does an astronaut feel weightless in a space capsule orbiting the earth?
I’ve gotten a key point saying that the space capsule orbiting the earth has a centripetal acceleration, but I cannot figure out why is it related to the question.
Asked Ganondorf Jallida
Answer: The centripetal acceleration is provided by the force of gravity. Since the force of gravity is completely used up in providing the centripetal acceleration to the space capsule, the astronaut feel weightlessness.
Conservation of linear momentum – Problem
(a) 0.21 m/s, 0.80 m/s
(b) 0.80 m/s, 0.21m/s
(c) 0.12 m/s, 0.08 m/s
(d) 0.08 m/s, 0.12 m/s
Please provide me the solution part step by step
Question from Special Relativity
Posted by Mona
Speed of Gravity
Why hasn’t anyone measured the speed of gravity yet?
As in, how long does it take for the gravitational field of a mass to affect another mass?
Musaddiq Sajjad asked.
Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Cluster Abell 37
Who said that speed of gravity waves is not measured?
Please go through the links below and you ca get details,
Parallax Method to determine the distance of stars
See the animation below to understand the parallax method for determining the stellar distances
Find more information here
Aswin Ramesh Asked (via email)
is it the same method that we use in trigonometry ?
Parallax is a different concept, though we are using the principle of trigonometry to solve problems based on it.
What physical phenomenon is there that a black hole has a high gravity?
What physical phenomenon is there that a black holehas a high gravity?
Simulated gravitational lensing (black hole go...
Simulated gravitational lensing (black hole going past a background galaxy). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Relative Dimensions
Could u pls read my below theory of the universe [Ramkumar posted this]
and pls contact me when done with ur real frank comments…..
The metric expansion of space. The inflationar...
Assumption:Matter is Infinitely divisible…
if so we can infinitely into the micro and levels…
Matter can be divided into many levels
upon their size
this that only result of 1 level affects
the above and below levels…
the levels are consistent…
i.e the levels are complete in their sense….
this whole theory is better explained with an example.
for eg,
there is the microlevel comprising of atoms something below the micro levels
comprising of what we call ‘elementary particles’ or simply fermions comprising of leptons ,quarks etc…
and there is a level above the macro level i.e
the cosmic level comprising of planets, stars etc..
what i’m saying that we cant completly explain the macro level with the micro level but using the resultant of the micro level…
like we say that since we see neutral things there are equal no: of protons and electrons making the macro object neutral….
we are only seeing the resultant o the micro level on the macro level…
we dont see protons ,electrons etc….
lly the resultant of the micro level
comes into the macro level and the resultant of the macro level comes into the cosmic level….
and vice versa ….
what i’m saying is that
we can only explain ‘things’ the micro level using the micro level only
but we can explain the micro level as a whole using the resultant of the macro level…..
its like we cant use equations in the macro level and use it in the micro[atomic] level and vise versa
i.e every level is bizarre and every level is whole….i.e complete
i.e we
summing up in simple words..:
whats happening is the deeper u go down or up… u dont have a clue of what the hell u r saying….as we can only have the resultants of the levels above and below of ‘our’ level.
and there can be infinite no: of things in each level of which we are not aware of since we only have the resultants.
and so there could me more than 11 dimensions we knw….
the universe is changing..
every lim t tends to 0 sec..
so the set of the universe can be rationally defined…
ie is there is no set of complete infinite universes…
i.e the universe is beyond all dimensions….
Thankx for reading and please comment..
and clarify any douts u hav….!!
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Why is Life so complicated??
I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now.
I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time." ...so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. ...I think I've forgotten this before!!
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. ...so I had to buy them again.
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!!!!!!!!
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. ...every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said, "Leave the friggen switch alone already!"
I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. ...now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly, and says, "Here, you can go."
The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honor, ...who in their right mind would park in the passing lane?"
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It takes 2 to tango
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Where would we be without our ability to remember important information or, for that matter, to forget irrelevant details? Thanks to the flexibility of the nerve cell's communication units, called synapses, we are good at both. Up to now, only the receiving side of a synapse was believed to play an active role in this reorganization of the brain, which is thought to underlie our ability to learn but also to forget. An incorrect assumption, as scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried could now show. In the prestigious scientific journal Neuron, they report that the neurotransmitter-releasing part of a synapse dramatically remodels itself in response to electrical stimulation. It may thus make a decisive contribution to the adaptability of the brain to ever-changing environments. (Neuron, November 26, 2008)
Communication is the be-all and end-all of the brain. Every one of the hundred billion nerve cells that comprise our brain is a master of data exchange, with contacts to thousands of neighbouring cells. At these points of contact, known as synapses, the neuronal information flows along a one-way channel; from the upstream cell to the downstream cell. The brain can deal with its complicated tasks only when the nerve cells manage to exchange information at the right time and place via their synapses.
It therefore comes as no surprise that one of the most outstanding attributes of the brain is its great adaptability. This is due to the versatility of the synapses, which, depending on whether they are required or not, can proliferate or are pruned accordingly. Most scientists are of the opinion that this flexible exchange of information is what makes learning and memory possible in the first place.
The two sides of information transmission
The receiver side of the points of contact, the spines, plays an active role in the assembly and break-down of new synapses. The more information to be processed, the more receiver stations the nerve cell will set up. New spines grow towards neighbouring cells to form new synapses. If the flow of information weakens, the synapses disappear and the spines can regress. By comparison, the other side of the synapse, the transmitter unit, also known as bouton, was believed to play only a passive role in the formation of synapses.
However, this presumption turned out to be false, as scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now shown. They are the first to successfully observe both the receiver side and the transmitter terminal of a synapse over an extended period of time. This involved tagging a number of nerve cells with a red fluorescent dye and labelling the connected cells in green. Using a high-resolution two-photon microscope, changes on both sides could be observed in time-lapse sequences. It soon became clear that the transmitter unit of a synapse played a considerably more active role in the assembly and disintegration of the synapse than hitherto assumed. Once the flow of information to be passed on by a cell is reduced, many of the meanwhile superfluous transmitter stations are broken down. Furthermore, since this novel experimental approach enabled them to watch the contacts between boutons and spines breaking down directly under the microscope, the scientists were able to verify that the reduction in the number of spines does, in fact, result in the loss of synapses.
The brain's reorganization is unexpectedly complex
"What is particularly exciting is that, all in all, the number of transmitter terminals remains constant", project leader Valentin Ngerl explains. While the number of synapses is reduced when the flow of information weakens, new transmitter terminals emerge elsewhere in a seemingly balanced fashion. Since only those cells that originally communicated with each other were tagged, the scientists do not know whether the new transmitters pass the information on to nerve cells that were hitherto not involved in the communication. "Perhaps the cells form new synapses to inhibitory nerve cells, which would reduce the transmission of synaptic information even more", Nadine Becker speculates on her results. The scientists now aim to investigate precisely this possibility by also visualizing synapses formed with inhibitory neurons. One thing is for certain: The processing of information is not exclusive to the receiver cell. The transmitter cell reacts actively to the situation at hand and therefore plays an important role in our ability to learn and remember things.
Contact: Dr. Valentin Naegerl
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Tea with cream, hold the sugar please.
Most people love coffee, not me! Both the smell and the taste leave something to be desired. As an avid tea drinker, a few questions cross my mind about coffee drinkers. Besides the caffeine, why do people drink coffee? It seems to me, most coffee is loaded with cream, sugar, and flavors like vanilla or mocha. So, do people really like the coffee itself, or is it all the stuff that dresses it up that they like?
Growing up, my grandmother introduced me to tea. She would buy a powdered tea mix, chocked full of sugar, of course, and prepare it for us. Although I thought it was tasty back then, this isn’t what made tea a permanent part of my life.
My grandmother would also brew hot tea, and dress it with milk and sugar. The first time I had it, I thought to myself, how amazing is this? We had a daily ritual. Once the tea was brewed, she would pour it into her china tea pot. It was white with pale blue flowers. It also had matching cups and saucers. She would fill both of our cups, leaving room at the top. Then, she would add milk. After that, she would allow me to add my own sugar cubes. We would then stir our tea and sip it until it was gone. All while I practiced my reading, reading her the Reader’s Digest.
Sitting with my grandmother, sharing a cup of tea, became my favorite part of the day. Today, drinking my morning cup of tea is still my favorite part of the day. Although I no longer get to share this experience with her, I often reminisce on the days we did.
I now drink my tea a little different, my hot tea is made with cream only, and no sugar. I also like cool brewed tea. I take that with no sugar as well. One of my good friends, claims that’s strange. However, I wouldn’t enjoy it any other way, unsweetened tea for me, please!
via Daily Prompt: Tea
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0.021471 | <urn:uuid:c5bb2ab8-a099-4d44-a781-3636003c59e0> | en | 0.98256 | If you like weed and black chicks and stolen typewriters, you'd love Paul Kinsey's party, which has all three. Everyone at Sterling Cooper is invited, except for Sterling. And Cooper. And Don, who probably went to bed at 8:30 anyway.
It's at this little underlings-only mixer that we meet Harry's wife for the first time, and she's pretty much a horrible shrew, giving him hell for drinking. At a party. He's beholden to her, though, which is probably a lasting effect of confessing his infidelity from Season 1. (However, since the girl Harry cheated with, Hildy, is easily the most attractive woman at Sterling Cooper not named "Joan," everyone – including his wife – should give him a sustained, enthusiastic round of applause.)
We also learn that former drama student Paul used to "dress up like a girl" in college (presumably for the stage, but possibly just for fun), which is still far less gay than the beard/neckerchief combo he's sporting this evening.
Speaking of beards and gayness, Sal and his wife appear again briefly before walking off to go not have sex somewhere. Paul has a phony relationship too, but, conversely, his is meant to make him stand out. His girlfriend is black, and Joan (who used to date Paul) sees this as a transparent bid for attention, and says something vaguely racist to the girl. (Then again, in 1962, vaguely racist was pretty polite.)
Out in the hallway, Paul's old college roommate is necking the fuck out of Peggy, but she's pretty scared of penises ever since one of them put a baby inside her, so she says nay to intercourse. "I'm in the persuasion business," she tells the guy, "and frankly, I'm disappointed in your presentation." It's actually a pretty impressive shootdown, which makes me hate Peggy slightly less. But still a lot.
The next day at work, Roger and Don walk in to find everyone crowded around a radio. Assuming they're listening to coverage of a nearby parade honoring astronaut John Glenn, Roger orders them back to work. (A man who has seen Joan naked is no longer impressed by things like space travel.) Instead, though, it's news of a plane crash: American Airlines Flight 1 decided to make an unscheduled stop at the bottom of a lagoon, killing everyone onboard. Looking to avoid negative association by consumers, Don instructs the staff to pull every Mohawk Airlines ad immediately. Meanwhile, like the internet commenters of their day, some are already cracking jokes about the tragedy.
One of them, Pete, soon gets a very relevant phone call. Turns out his dad (who hates him) had been on that flight, and will now be doing all his Pete hating from beyond the grave. Pete responds to this news by walking into Don's office and confiding in him. Despite their differences, it seems, Pete still craves his boss's cameraderie. He asks Don how he should react, and Don says he should go home, because "that's what people do." "Is that what you would do?" Pete asks. "Yes," Don lies. He lies because these nemeses have something in common that didn't even occur to me until tonight: They both hated their fathers. Here, Pete seems to be looking for an understanding answer from a kindred spirit (who's secret past he discovered last season), but Don can only respond by telling him how to feign grief, much as he would do in the same situation. All told, it's still probably the nicest Don's been to Pete since, ever.
Later, Don meets with Roger, Bertram and Duck, all of whom want to make an immediate bid for American Airlines (presumably at Duck's urging). In the wake of this grisly accident, they reason, the company will be looking for a new direction. Don opposes the idea on the grounds that they've already brought on an airline account (Mohawk), and trading up so soon – not to mention capitalizing on death and destruction to do it – just wouldn't be right. For once, though, he's the odd man out. And not only that, it's Don's job to give Mohawk the bad news.
Pete goes home to help his family make arrangements, and learns through his brother that their dad died broke. Not really a big deal, because Pete wouldn't have seen a penny of it anyway, but still. What a dick.
At the Draper residence, Betty and Don are holding poker night with friends Francine and Carlton, and Carlton has really chubbed up. Then again, with the jowls and belly, he looks a lot like Peggy did last season, so maybe he's just pregnant? Really he's just miserable because Francine won't let him cheat on her anymore, that selfish bitch. Also, in the "Mad Men" tradition of "Look how comically negligent parents were in the 60s!" type scenes, Don enlists his young daughter to make everyone drinks.
Scoff if you will, but when I have kids, I'm bringing that back. Daddy's bourbon and coke isn't going to mix itself.
Next we get our first glimpse of Peggy's immediate family, which consists of a sister and a very Catholic mom who alternates between scolding Peggy for not going to mass and telling her how pretty she is. For a religious person, she seems to have no problem telling huge lies. After dinner, Peggy peeks into a bedroom and OH SHIT SON IT'S HER BABY. He has a giant head, but seems otherwise fine, and is apparently being taken care of by his aunt and grandmother. Ashamedly (or maybe because of the giant head), Peggy can hardly stand the sight of him, and quickly shuts the door.
The next day at work, Paul rolls up on Joan like "Why'd you say something racist to my girlfriend? Is it because she's BLACK?" Joan calls him out for being a pretentious fucktard, which he most definitely is. I will say though, I do detect a note of jealousy in her voice. Maybe Paul's feelings are legit after all, and red's just upset to see someone else in a happy relationship. Her doctor boyfriend would rather play with her boobs than propose, (But I mean, seriously.) and her clock continues to tick.
Elsewhere, Duck walks into Pete's office, and after buttering him up with all the kind, consoling words Don could never muster, drops a bit of a bombshell: He's meeting with American Airlines, and wants Pete to be the pointman. The flattery seems to chip at Pete's armor (which I imagine looks like pajamas), but not quite enough. Pete says he'd be a little uncomfortable pitching to the air carrier that knocked off his pop.
Perhaps still seeking acceptence, Pete goes straight to Don to tell him what Duck wanted him to do, and is summarily shooed the fuck away. (Why won't you let him love you, Don?) I guess the niceness didn't last. Meanwhile, someone has posted a piece of paper containing Joan's true age on an office bulletin board, letting everyone at Sterling Cooper know just how close the expiration date on those eggs is. Could this be Peggy's revenge for that giant copier Joan installed in her office? I dunno. Maybe.
That night, Don meets a Mohawk exec at a Japanese restaurant, and breaks the bad news to him, though he clearly doesn't want to. The guy seems pretty miffed, recalling Don's personal assurance that Sterling Cooper wasn't looking to court a big airline. Don has nothing much to say back but, "JK, i guess," and they part ways, but not before Don makes eyes at one of the waitresses. Just when you think he might fall back into his philandering ways, however, he stands up and walks out. (Maybe he remembered that their vaginas are sideways. Everyone knows that.)
In another bar, in another part of town, a very different meeting is taking place. Duck is pitching pretty hard at an American Airlines exec, and so far he's not really biting. But suddenly, perhaps spurned by Don Draper one too many times, Pete shows up to the rescue, ready to use the death of his father to help broker some sort of deal. And sure enough, as sson as Pete lets the AA honcho know that his plane pretty much murdered dad (but in a nice way), the guy is all, "Hey lets hear some of those ideas."
The final scene is a Sunday mass, which Peggy has decided to show up to. And as she's handed her baby, she replies with a look of "ew." Even still, she's already a better mom than Betty Draper.
- In hiring Duck, Don may have been the unwitting architect of his own demise. There's a lot more potential for trouble here than there was between Don and Pete in Season 1, as Duck is much closer to an equal, job title wise. And as he makes a play to bring Pete under hiswing, Duck's anti-Don army may have just grown by one.
- Pete appeared to be a little more sympathetic this week. The more we learn about where he came from, the easier it is to understand why he is the way he is. And while it may seem callous upon first glance that he use his father's charred corpse as currency, the guy never gave him anything, so he really might as well.
- Much like the episode last season in which Don was turned off by a rival firm's methods of recruiting him (which included falsely entertaining his wife's fanciful notions of resuming her abandoned modeling career), we see once again that Don seems to have a strict code of ethics that not many in the industry adhere to. Having to break things off with Mohawk seems to fuel Don's growing distaste toward the business side of things.
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High blood pressure is a typical condition where the long-lasting force of the blood versus your artery wall surfaces is high enough that it could eventually create health issues, such as cardiovascular disease.
You can have hypertension (hypertension) for years with no symptoms. Also without symptoms, damages to capillary and your heart proceeds and can be spotted. Uncontrolled hypertension enhances your danger of severe health issues, consisting of heart assault and stroke.
High blood pressure normally creates over many years, and it impacts virtually everybody eventually. Luckily, hypertension can be easily spotted. And as soon as you understand you have hypertension, you can collaborate with your medical professional to control it.
Many people with hypertension have no signs or symptoms, even if high blood pressure analyses reach precariously high degrees.
A few individuals with hypertension could have migraines, lack of breath or nosebleeds, however these signs and symptoms typically aren’t particular and generally do not happen till hypertension has gotten to a serious or life-threatening stage.
When to see a doctor
You’ll likely have your high blood pressure taken as part of a routine medical professional’s consultation.
Ask your medical professional for a high blood pressure reading at the very least every two years beginning at age 18. If you’re age 40 or older, or you’re age 18-39 with a high danger of hypertension, ask your medical professional for a high blood pressure reading every year. High blood pressure normally should be signed in both arms to identify if there is a difference. It’s vital to utilize an appropriate-sized arm cuff. Your medical professional will likely suggest even more regular analyses if you’ve currently been identified with hypertension or have various other danger variables for heart disease. Kid age 3 and older will generally have actually high blood pressure measured as a part of their yearly examinations.
If you do not consistently see your medical professional, you could be able to get a totally free high blood pressure testing at a health source reasonable or various other locations in your neighborhood. You can additionally locate equipments in some shops that will certainly determine your high blood pressure totally free.
Public high blood pressure equipments, such as those located in pharmacies, or read this post covering best blood pressure monitor could offer useful info regarding your high blood pressure, however they could have some limitations. The accuracy of these equipments depends upon a number of variables, such as an appropriate cuff dimension and proper use of the equipments. Ask your medical professional for recommendations on utilizing public high blood pressure equipments.
High blood pressure has many danger variables, consisting of:
Age. The danger of hypertension enhances as you age. With very early midlife, or regarding age 45, hypertension is extra usual in men. Women are most likely to develop hypertension after age 65.
Race. High blood pressure is specifically usual among blacks, commonly developing at an earlier age than it performs in whites. Significant difficulties, such as stroke, heart assault and kidney failure, additionally are extra usual in blacks.
Family background. High blood pressure often tends to run in family members.
Being overweight or obese. The even more you evaluate the even more blood you have to supply oxygen and nutrients to your tissues. As the quantity of blood distributed with your capillary enhances, so does the pressure on your artery wall surfaces.
Not being physically energetic. People who are inactive have the tendency to have higher heart rates. The higher your heart rate, the more challenging your heart must collaborate with each contraction and the more powerful the force on your arteries. Lack of exercise additionally enhances the danger of being overweight.
Making use of tobacco. Not only does smoking or eating tobacco promptly elevate your high blood pressure briefly, however the chemicals in tobacco can damage the cellular lining of your artery wall surfaces. This can create your arteries to slim, increasing your high blood pressure. Pre-owned smoke additionally can raise your high blood pressure.
Excessive salt (salt) in your diet regimen. Excessive salt in your diet regimen can create your body to retain liquid, which enhances high blood pressure.
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The pop rock song "You're Beautiful" by English singer-songwriter James Blunt, is featured as the second track in Blunt's debut album Back to Bedlam (2004). In 2005, the popular song topped the charts in the UK, Australia, and United States. James Blunt, as well as Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost are credited for writing the song. The song has been nominated at the Grammy Award's for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The music video of the song won Best Male Video and Best Cinematography at the MTV Awards.
Back to Bedlam
Released: 11 October 2004
Genre: Soft rock, pop rock, folk rock
Label: Custard
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1. folly, foolishness, unwiseness(noun)
the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
a stupid mistake
3. folly, foolishness, craziness, madness(noun)
the quality of being rash and foolish
foolish or senseless behavior
1. folly(Noun)
This is a war of folly.
2. folly(Noun)
Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
3. folly(Noun)
A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
4. Origin: From folie, from the adjective fol.
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1. Folly(noun)
2. Folly(noun)
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4. Folly(noun)
the result of a foolish action or enterprise
5. Origin: [OE. folie, foli, F. folie, fr. fol, fou, foolish, mad. See Fool.]
1. Folly
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1. Folly
fol′i, n. silliness or weakness of mind: a foolish act: criminal weakness: (B.) sin: a monument of folly, as a great structure left unfinished, having been begun without a reckoning of the cost.—v.i. to act with folly. [O. Fr. foliefol, foolish.]
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• безразсъдство, глупостBulgarian
• Torheit, NarrheitGerman
• malsaĝecoEsperanto
• mielettömyys, hullutus, hölmöily, hulluus, typeryys, hömpötysFinnish
• folie, sottiseFrench
• amaideachd, amaideasScottish Gaelic
• butaság, ostobaság, könnyelműségHungarian
• eccentricità, edificio decorativo, stravaganza, follia, unicumItalian
• איוולתHebrew
• 愚行Japanese
• neprātība, neprātīgumsLatvian
• głupotaPolish
• bobeiraPortuguese
• глупость, дурь, блажь, прихоть, недомыслие, безрассудный поступок, безрассудство, глупый поступокRussian
• dårskap, dåraktighetSwedish
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By: kitchkinet
I've been working at a Boy Scout camp for about 5 years now. I happen to be an Eagle Scout I keep going back because some of the coolest people I know are also on staff. For the past 3 years a guy named D.H. had been camp director and he was GREAT at it for a number of reasons. He was charismatic, flambouyant, intelligent, devious and playful. He also fully knew we smoke weed and we'd smoked weed with him many times.
well I arrive at camp this year to find a few things have changed, DH is no longer in charge. There's quite an interesting cast of charecters when I arrive though.
Brown-the new camp director, a friendly but meek man who tries to project confidence and authority
ledeux-Brown's assistant camp director. He's 20, about 300 pounds and has the face of an 8 year old.
Jay-program director, lazy fat and sweaty, but a pretty good guy over all
Phil-assistant program director. Phil has been working at camp for 4 years. He's really good with office work. He's also about 7' 250 pounds and very very gay, though he hasn't realized it yet. He's completely obsessed with advancement in scouting. During his time when he was under 18, he earned every single merit badge. There's 120 of them, you only need 21 for eagle.
Mr. G-director of stuff. Mr. G is a 40 something kindergarten teacher. He also smokes a ton of weed, and is very good at getting things done. He's also James's father.
my boys:
James-Mr. G's son. He's been my best friend at camp for 4 years. He's very ecology minded, goes to essex aggricultural high school. He's also really smart, and can play the bass just like ringing a bell. He's too charismatic for his own good sometimes though. He doesn't use any drugs, or even drink much, but he's always down to chill while we smoke, he says he likes it. He was the ecology director this year, but managed to organize it so his instructors did EVERYTHING in ecology so he literally did nothing.
Smurf- smurf spends most of his year in boarding school, so summer is his one escape. He's a hippie and he loves the dead so we get along good. He started off the year as the senior aquatics instructor.
Keith- Keith is the pretty boy of the group, probably because he's gay. He always dresses all nice n shit. He had enlisted in the marines about a month before camp so I was surprised to see him back. Turns out he got kicked out of boot camp for failing his drug test. They made him Shooting Sports director.
Me-well y'all know me, but they made me communications co-direcor with phil. basically I had to teach 3 bookwork merit badges a day, no biggie.
side charecters:
Reggie-Reggie is about 7 and a half feet tall. He's also dark dark black and an ok cook. He's from the ghetto and has been stabbed a good number of times. still he was pretty chill and we smoked a lot with him.
Tom-Tom was the new head cook this year. He's in his 40s (a guess) extremely fat, ugly, dirty, vile and perverted guy. He's also a pretty serious alcoholic.
Shamma-shamma's never really been in our group. He tries real hard to be accepted but when it gets right down to it he's a lonely fool.
Kokernac-kokernac is gonna be a good military leader some day. He's very dedicated to ROTC. Sometimes he chills with us, sometimes he doesn't. He's scoutcraft(camping, wilderness survival, axes knives etc) director
Chris and Dave-Brothers who have been working at camp about as long as me. Dave is 22 and studying to be a catholic priest. Chris is going out with Sarah. Dave is waterfront director and chris is his assistant.
Sarah-the only hot girl in camp. She's 17 and runs the trading post. Not the brightest girl, bit of a princess complex but she's a sweet girl.
Maria-a 25 year old school teacher. She ran handicraft and ended up going out with kokernac within a week of camp starting. they were pretty private about it
Ashley and Michelle-15 and 16 respectively, sisters who ended up at camp basically because their little brother stays in provo all summer.
ok sorry the introductions were so long, kind of a complicated web.
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Finding bugs in Haskell code by proving it
Tue, 05 Dec 2017 09:17:43 -0500
Last week, I wrote a small nifty tool called bisect-binary, which semi-automates answering the question “To what extent can I fill this file up with zeroes and still have it working”. I wrote it it in Haskell, and part of the Haskell code, in the Intervals.hs module, is a data structure for “subsets of a file” represented as a sorted list of intervals: data Interval = I { from :: Offset, to :: Offset } newtype Intervals = Intervals [Interval] The code is the kind of Haskell code that I like to write: A small local recursive function, a few guards to case analysis, and I am done: intersect :: Intervals -> Intervals -> Intervals intersect (Intervals is1) (Intervals is2) = Intervals $ go is1 is2 where go _ [] = [] go [] _ = [] go (i1:is1) (i2:is2) -- reorder for symmetry | to i1 < to i2 = go (i2:is2) (i1:is1) -- disjoint | from i1 >= to i2 = go (i1:is1) is2 -- subset | to i1 == to i2 = I f' (to i2) : go is1 is2 -- overlapping | otherwise = I f' (to i2) : go (i1 { from = to i2} : is1) is2 where f' = max (from i1) (from i2) But clearly, the code is already complicated enough so that it is easy to make a mistake. I could have put in some QuickCheck properties to test the code, I was in proving mood... Now available: Formal Verification for Haskell Ten months ago I complained that there was no good way to verify Haskell code (and created the nifty hack ghc-proofs). But things have changed since then, as a group at UPenn (mostly Antal Spector-Zabusky, Stephanie Weirich and myself) has created hs-to-coq: a translator from Haskell to the theorem prover Coq. We have used hs-to-coq on various examples, as described in our CPP'18 paper, but it is high-time to use it for real. The easiest way to use hs-to-coq at the moment is to clone the repository, copy one of the example directories (e.g. examples/successors), place the Haskell file to be verified there and put the right module name into the Makefile. I also commented out parts of the Haskell file that would drag in non-base dependencies. Massaging the translation Often, hs-to-coq translates Haskell code without a hitch, but sometimes, a bit of help is needed. In this case, I had to specify three so-called edits: The Haskell code uses Intervals both as a name for a type and for a value (the constructor). This is fine in Haskell, which has separate value and type namespaces, but not for Coq. The line rename value Intervals.Intervals = ival changes the constructor name to ival. I use the Int64 type in the Haskell code. The Coq version of Haskell’s base library that comes with hs-to-coq does not support that yet, so I change that via rename type GHC.Int.Int64 = GHC.Num.Int to the normal Int type, which itself is mapped to Coq’s Z type. This is not a perfect fit, and my verification would not catch problems that arise due to the boundedness of Int64. Since none of my code does arithmetic, only comparisons, I am fine with that. The biggest hurdle is the recursion of the local go functions. Coq requires all recursive functions to be obviously (i.e. structurally) terminating, and the go above is not. For example, in the first case, the arguments to go are simply swapped. It is very much not obvious why this is not an infinite loop. I can specify a termination measure, i.e. a function that takes the arguments xs and ys and returns a “size” of type nat that decreases in every call: Add the lengths of xs and ys, multiply by two and add one if the the first interval in xs ends before the first interval in ys. If the problematic function were a top-level function I could tell hs-to-coq about this termination measure and it would use this information to define the function using Program Fixpoint. Unfortunately, go is a local function, so this mechanism is not available to us. If I care more about the verification than about preserving the exact Haskell code, I could easily change the Haskell code to make go a top-level function, but in this case I did not want to change the Haskell code. Anot[...]
Less parentheses
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:10:16 +0100
Yesterday, at the Haskell Implementers Workshop 2017 in Oxford, I gave a lightning talk titled ”syntactic musings”, where I presented three possibly useful syntactic features that one might want to add to a language like Haskell. The talked caused quite some heated discussions, and since the Internet likes heated discussion, I will happily share these ideas with you Context aka. Sections This is probably the most relevant of the three proposals. Consider a bunch of related functions, say analyseExpr and analyseAlt, like these: analyseExpr :: Expr -> Expr analyseExpr (Var v) = change v analyseExpr (App e1 e2) = App (analyseExpr e1) (analyseExpr e2) analyseExpr (Lam v e) = Lam v (analyseExpr flag e) analyseExpr (Case scrut alts) = Case (analyseExpr scrut) (analyseAlt <$> alts) analyseAlt :: Alt -> Alt analyseAlt (dc, pats, e) = (dc, pats, analyseExpr e) You have written them, but now you notice that you need to make them configurable, e.g. to do different things in the Var case. You thus add a parameter to all these functions, and hence an argument to every call: type Flag = Bool analyseExpr :: Flag -> Expr -> Expr analyseExpr flag (Var v) = if flag then change1 v else change2 v analyseExpr flag (App e1 e2) = App (analyseExpr flag e1) (analyseExpr flag e2) analyseExpr flag (Lam v e) = Lam v (analyseExpr (not flag) e) analyseExpr flag (Case scrut alts) = Case (analyseExpr flag scrut) (analyseAlt flag <$> alts) analyseAlt :: Flag -> Alt -> Alt analyseAlt flag (dc, pats, e) = (dc, pats, analyseExpr flag e) I find this code problematic. The intention was: “flag is a parameter that an external caller can use to change the behaviour of this code, but when reading and reasoning about this code, flag should be considered constant.” But this intention is neither easily visible nor enforced. And in fact, in the above code, flag does “change”, as analyseExpr passes something else in the Lam case. The idiom is indistinguishable from the environment idiom, where a locally changing environment (such as “variables in scope”) is passed around. So we are facing exactly the same problem as when reasoning about a loop in an imperative program with mutable variables. And we (pure functional programmers) should know better: We cherish immutability! We want to bind our variables once and have them scope over everything we need to scope over! The solution I’d like to see in Haskell is common in other languages (Gallina, Idris, Agda, Isar), and this is what it would look like here: type Flag = Bool section (flag :: Flag) where analyseExpr :: Expr -> Expr analyseExpr (Var v) = if flag then change1 v else change2v analyseExpr (App e1 e2) = App (analyseExpr e1) (analyseExpr e2) analyseExpr (Lam v e) = Lam v (analyseExpr e) analyseExpr (Case scrut alts) = Case (analyseExpr scrut) (analyseAlt <$> alts) analyseAlt :: Alt -> Alt analyseAlt (dc, pats, e) = (dc, pats, analyseExpr e) Now the intention is clear: Within a clearly marked block, flag is fixed and when reasoning about this code I do not have to worry that it might change. Either all variables will be passed to change1, or all to change2. An important distinction! Therefore, inside the section, the type of analyseExpr does not mention Flag, whereas outside its type is Flag -> Expr -> Expr. This is a bit unusual, but not completely: You see precisely the same effect in a class declaration, where the type signature of the methods do not mention the class constraint, but outside the declaration they do. Note that idioms like implicit parameters or the Reader monad do not give the guarantee that the parameter is (locally) constant. More details can be found in the GHC proposal that I prepared, and I invite you to raise concern or voice support there. Curiously, this problem must have bothered me for longer than I remember: I discovered that seven years ago, I wrote a Template Haskell based implementation of this idea in the seal-module package! Less parentheses 1: Bulleted argument lists The next two proposals [...]
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Communication Failure
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I am still far from being a professor, but I recently got a glimpse of what awaits you in that role…
From: Sebastian R. <…>
Subject: re: Errors
I've spotted a basic error in your course on Haskell ( Before I proceed, it's cool if you're not receptive to errors being indicated; I've come across a number of professors who would rather take offense than admit we're all human and thus capable of making mistakes... My goal is to find a resource that might be useful well into the future, and a good indicator of that is how responsive the author is to change.
In your introduction note you have written:
n contrast to a classical intro into Haskell, we do not start with numbers, booleans, tuples, lists and strings, but we start with pictures. These are of course library-defined (hence the input CodeWorld) and not part of “the language”. But that does not make them less interesting, and in fact, even the basic boolean type is library defined – it just happens to be the standard library.
Howeverm there is no input CodeWorld in the code above. Have you been made aware of this error earlier?
Regards, ...
Nice. I like when people learn from my lectures. The introduction is a bit werid, but ok, maybe this guy had some bad experiences.
Strangley, I don’t see a mistake in the material, so I respond:
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How is coinduction the dual of induction?
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 22:05:32 -0400
Earlier today, I demonstrated how to work with coinduction in the theorem provers Isabelle, Coq and Agda, with a very simple example. This reminded me of a discussion I had in Karlsruhe with my then colleague Denis Lohner: If coinduction is the dual of induction, why do the induction principles look so different? I like what we observed there, so I’d like to share this. The following is mostly based on my naive understanding of coinduction based on what I observe in the implementation in Isabelle. I am sure that a different, more categorial presentation of datatypes (as initial resp. terminal objects in some category of algebras) makes the duality more obvious, but that does not necessarily help the working Isabelle user who wants to make sense of coninduction. Inductive lists I will use the usual polymorphic list data type as an example. So on the one hand, we have normal, finite inductive lists: datatype 'a list = nil | cons (hd : 'a) (tl : "'a list") with the well-known induction principle that many of my readers know by heart (syntax slightly un-isabellized): P nil → (∀x xs. P xs → P (cons x xs)) → ∀ xs. P xs Coinductive lists In contrast, if we define our lists coinductively to get possibly infinite, Haskell-style lists, by writing codatatype 'a llist = lnil | lcons (hd : 'a) (tl : "'a llist") we get the following coinduction principle: (∀ xs ys. R xs ys' → (xs = lnil) = (ys = lnil) ∧ (xs ≠ lnil ⟶ ys' ≠ lnil ⟶ hd xs = hd ys ∧ R (tl xs) (tl ys))) → → (∀ xs ys. R xs ys → xs = ys) This is less scary that it looks at first. It tell you “if you give me a relation R between lists which implies that either both lists are empty or both lists are nonempty, and furthermore if both are non-empty, that they have the same head and tails related by R, then any two lists related by R are actually equal.” If you think of the infinte list as a series of states of a computer program, then this is nothing else than a bisimulation. So we have two proof principles, both of which make intuitive sense. But how are they related? They look very different! In one, we have a predicate P, in the other a relation R, to point out just one difference. Relation induction To see how they are dual to each other, we have to recognize that both these theorems are actually specializations of a more general (co)induction principle. The datatype declaration automatically creates a relator: rel_list :: ('a → 'b → bool) → 'a list → 'b list → bool The definition of rel_list R xs ys is that xs and ys have the same shape (i.e. length), and that the corresponding elements are pairwise related by R. You might have defined this relation yourself at some time, and if so, you probably introduced it as an inductive predicate. So it is not surprising that the following induction principle characterizes this relation: Q nil nil → (∀x xs y ys. R x y → Q xs ys → Q (cons x xs) (cons y ys)) → (∀xs ys → rel_list R xs ys → Q xs ys) Note how how similar this lemma is in shape to the normal induction for lists above! And indeed, if we choose Q xs ys ↔ (P xs ∧ xs = ys) and R x y ↔ (x = y), then we obtain exactly that. In that sense, the relation induction is a generalization of the normal induction. Relation coinduction The same observation can be made in the coinductive world. Here, as well, the codatatype declaration introduces a function rel_llist :: ('a → 'b → bool) → 'a llist → 'b llist → bool which relates lists of the same shape with related elements – only that this one also relates infinite lists, and therefore is a coinductive relation. The corresponding rule for proof by coinduction is not surprising and should remind you of bisimulation, too: (∀xs ys. R xs ys → (xs = lnil) = (ys = lnil) ∧ (xs ≠ lnil ⟶ ys ≠ lnil ⟶ Q (hd xs) (hd ys) ∧ R (tl xs) (tl ys))) → (∀ xs ys → R xs ys → rel_l[...]
The perils of live demonstrations
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:54:36 -0700
So I arrived at the offices of Target1 in Sunnyvale, got on the WiFi, uploaded my slides, which are in fact one large interactive CodeWorld program, and tried to run it. But I got a type error…
Turns out that the API of CodeWorld was changed just the day before:
commit 054c811b494746ec7304c3d495675046727ab114
Author: Chris Smith
Date: Wed Jun 21 23:53:53 2017 +0000
Change dilated to take one parameter.
Function is nearly unused, so I'm not concerned about breakage.
This new version better aligns with standard educational usage,
in which "dilation" means uniform scaling. Taken as a separate
operation, it commutes with rotation, and preserves similarity
of shapes, neither of which is true of scaling in general.
Ok, that was quick to fix, and the CodeWorld server started to compile my code, and compiled, and aborted. It turned out that my program, presumably the larges CodeWorld interaction out there, hit the time limit of the compiler.
Luckily, Chris Smith just arrived at the venue, and he emergency-bumped the compiler time limit. The program compiled and I could start my presentation.
Unfortunately, the biggest blunder was still awaiting for me. I came to the slide where two instances of pong are played over a simulated network, and my point was that the two instances are perfectly in sync. Unfortunately, they were not. I guess it did support my point that lock-step simulation can easily go wrong, but it really left me out in the rain there, and I could not explain it – I did not modify this code since New York, and there it worked flawless2. In the end, I could save my face a bit by running the real pong game against an attendee over the network, and no desynchronisation could be observed there.
Today I dug into it and it took me a while, and it turned out that the problem was not in CodeWorld, or the lock-step simulation code discussed in our paper about it, but in the code in my presentation that simulated the delayed network messages; in some instances it would deliver the UI events in different order to the two simulated players, and hence cause them do something different. Phew.
1. Yes, the retail giant. Turns out that they have a small but enthusiastic Haskell-using group in their IT department.
2. I hope the video is going to be online soon, then you can check for yourself.
ghc-proofs rules more now
Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:11:38 -0400
A few weeks ago I blogged about an experiment of mine, where I proved equalities of Haskell programs by (ab)using the GHC simplifier. For more details, please see that post, or the video of my talk at the Zürich Haskell User Group, but one reason why this approach has any chance of being useful is the compiler’s support for rewrite rules. Rewrite rules are program equations that the programmer specifies in the source file, and which the compiler then applies, from left to right, whenever some intermediate code matches the left-hand side of the equation. One such rule, for example, is {-# RULES "foldr/nil" forall k z. foldr k z [] = z #-} taken right out of the standard library. In my blog post I went through the algebraic laws that a small library of mine, successors, should fulfill, and sure enough, once I got to more interesting proofs, they would not go through just like that. At that point I had to add additional rules to the file I was editing, which helped the compiler to finish the proofs. Some of these rules were simple like {-# RULES "mapFB/id" forall c. mapFB c (\x -> x) = c #-} {-# RULES "foldr/nil" forall k n. GHC.Base.foldr k n [] = n #-} {-# RULES "foldr/undo" forall xs. GHC.Base.foldr (:) [] xs = xs #-} and some are more intricate like {-# RULES "foldr/mapFB" forall c f g n1 n2 xs. GHC.Base.foldr (mapFB c f) n1 (GHC.Base.foldr (mapFB (:) g) n2 xs) = GHC.Base.foldr (mapFB c (f.g)) (GHC.Base.foldr (mapFB c f) n1 n2) xs #-} But there is something fishy going on here: The foldr/nil rule is identical to a rule in the standard library! I should not have to add to my file that as I am proving things. So I knew that the GHC plugin, which I wrote to do these proofs, was doing something wrong, but I did not investigate for a while. I returned to this problem recetly, and with the efficient and quick help of Simon Peyton Jones, I learned what I was doing wrong.1 After fixing it, I could remove all the simple rules from the files with my proofs. And to my surprise, I could remove the intricate rule as well! So with this bug fixed, ghc-proofs is able to prove all the Functor, Applicative and Monad rules of the Succs functor without any additional rewrite rules, as you can see in the example file! (I still have to strategically place seqs in a few places.) That’s great, isn’t it! Yeah, sure. But having to introduce the rules at that point provided a very good narrative in my talk, so when I will give a similar talk next week in Pairs (actually, twice, first at the university and then at the Paris Haskell meetup, I will have to come up with a different example that calls for additional rewrite rules. In related news: Since the last blog post, ghc-proofs learned to interpret proof specifications like applicative_law4 :: Succs (a -> b) -> a -> Proof applicative_law4 u y = u <*> pure y === pure ($ y) <*> u where it previously only understood applicative_law4 = (\ u (y::a) -> u <*> (pure y :: Succs a)) === (\ u (y::a) -> pure ($ y) <*> u) I am not sur if this should be uploaded to Hackage, but I invite you to play around with the GitHub version of ghc-proofs. In short: I did not initialize the simplifier with the right InScopeSet, so RULES about functions defined in the current module were not always applied, and I did not feed the eps_rules to the simplifier, which contains all the rules found in imported packages, such as base.↩ [...]
veggies: Haskell code generation from scratch
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:30:27 -0400
How hard it is to write a compiler for Haskell Core? Not too hard, actually! I wish we had a formally verified compiler for Haskell, or at least for GHC’s intermediate language Core. Now formalizing that part of GHC itself seems to be far out of reach, with the many phases the code goes through (Core to STG to CMM to Assembly or LLVM) and optimizations happening at all of these phases and the many complicated details to the highly tuned GHC runtime (pointer tagging, support for concurrency and garbage collection). Introducing Veggies So to make that goal of a formally verified compiler more feasible, I set out and implemented code generation from GHC’s intermediate language Core to LLVM IR, with simplicity as the main design driving factor. You can find the result in the GitHub repository of veggies (the name derives from “verifiable GHC”). If you clone that and run ./ some-directory, you will find that you can use the program some-directory/bin/veggies just like like you would use ghc. It comes with the full base library, so your favorite variant of HelloWorld might just compile and run. As of now, the code generation handles all the Core constructs (which is easy when you simply ignore all the types). It supports a good number of primitive operations, including pointers and arrays – I implement these as need – and has support for FFI calls into C. Why you don't want to use Veggies Since the code generator was written with simplicity in mind, performance of the resulting code is abysmal: Everything is boxed, i.e. represented as pointer to some heap-allocated data, including “unboxed” integer values and “unboxed” tuples. This is very uniform and simplifies the code, but it is also slow, and because there is no garbage collection (and probably never will be for this project), will fill up your memory quickly. Also, the code is currently only supports 64bit architectures, and this is hard-coded in many places. There is no support for concurrency. Why it might be interesting to you nevertheless So if it is not really usable to run programs with, should you care about it? Probably not, but maybe you do for one of these reasons: You always wondered how a compiler for Haskell actually works, and reading through a little over a thousands lines of code is less daunting than reading through the 34k lines of code that is GHC’s backend. You have wacky ideas about Code generation for Haskell that you want to experiment with. You have wacky ideas about Haskell that require special support in the backend, and want to prototype that. You want to see how I use the GHC API to provide a ghc-like experience. (I copied GHC’s Main.hs and inserted a few hooks, an approach I copied from GHCJS). You want to learn about running Haskell programs efficiently, and starting from veggies, you can implement all the trick of the trade yourself and enjoy observing the speed-ups you get. You want to compile Haskell code to some weird platform that is supported by LLVM, but where you for some reason cannot run GHC’s runtime. (Because there are no threads and no garbage collection, the code generated by veggies does not require a runtime system.) You want to formally verify Haskell code generation. Note that the code generator targets the same AST for LLVM IR that the vellvm2 project uses, so eventually, veggies can become a verified arrow in the top right corner map of the DeepSpec project. So feel free to play around with veggies, and report any issues you have on the GitHub repository.[...]
Why prove programs equivalent when your compiler can do that for you?
Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:38:57 -0500
Last week, while working on CodeWorld, via a sequence of yak shavings, I ended up creating a nicely small library that provides Control.Applicative.Succs, a new applicative functor. And because I am trying to keep my Haskell karma good1, I wanted to actually prove that my code fulfills the Applicative and Monad laws. This led me to inserted writing long comments into my code, filled with lines like this: The second Applicative law: pure (.) <*> Succs u us <*> Succs v vs <*> Succs w ws = Succs (.) [] <*> Succs u us <*> Succs v vs <*> Succs w ws = Succs (u .) (map (.) us) <*> Succs v vs <*> Succs w ws = Succs (u . v) (map ($v) (map (.) us) ++ map (u .) vs) <*> Succs w ws = Succs (u . v) (map (($v).(.)) us ++ map (u .) vs) <*> Succs w ws = Succs ((u . v) w) (map ($w) (map (($v).(.)) us ++ map (u .) vs) ++ map (u.v) ws) = Succs ((u . v) w) (map (($w).($v).(.)) us ++ map (($w).(u.)) vs ++ map (u.v) ws) = Succs (u (v w)) (map (\u -> u (v w)) us ++ map (\v -> u (v w)) vs ++ map (\w -> u (v w)) ws) = Succs (u (v w)) (map ($(v w)) us ++ map u (map ($w) vs ++ map v ws)) = Succs u us <*> Succs (v w) (map ($w) vs ++ map v ws) = Succs u us <*> (Succs v vs <*> Succs w ws) Honk if you have done something like this before! I proved all the laws, but I was very unhappy. I have a PhD on something about Haskell and theorem proving. I have worked with Isabelle, Agda and Coq. Both Haskell and theorem proving is decades old. And yet, I sit here, and tediously write manual proofs by hand. Is this really the best we can do? Of course I could have taken my code, rewritten it in, say, Agda, and proved it correct there. But (right now) I don’t care about Agda code. I care about my Haskell code! I don’t want to write it twice, worry about copying mistakes and mismatchs in semantics, and have external proofs to maintain. Instead, I want to prove where I code, and have the proofs checked together with my code! Then it dawned to me that this is, to some extent, possible. The Haskell compiler comes with a sophisticated program transformation machinery, which is meant to simplify and optimize code. But it can also be used to prove Haskell expressions to be equivalent! The idea is simple: Take two expressions, run both through the compiler’s simplifier, and check if the results are the same. If they are, then the expressions are, as far as the compiler is concerned, equivalent. A handful of hours later, I was able to write proof tasks like app_law_2 = (\ a b (c::Succs a) -> pure (.) <*> a <*> b <*> c) === (\ a b c -> a <*> (b <*> c)) and others into my source file, and the compiler would tell me happily: [1 of 1] Compiling Successors ( Successors.hs, Successors.o ) GHC.Proof: Proving getCurrent_proof1 … GHC.Proof: Proving getCurrent_proof2 … GHC.Proof: Proving getCurrent_proof3 … GHC.Proof: Proving ap_star … GHC.Proof: Proving getSuccs_proof1 … GHC.Proof: Proving getSuccs_proof2 … GHC.Proof: Proving getSuccs_proof3 … GHC.Proof: Proving app_law_1 … GHC.Proof: Proving app_law_2 … GHC.Proof: Proving app_law_3 … GHC.Proof: Proving app_law_4 … GHC.Proof: Proving monad_law_1 … GHC.Proof: Proving monad_law_2 … GHC.Proof: Proving monad_law_3 … GHC.Proof: Proving return_pure … GHC.Proof proved 15 equalities This is how I want to prove stuff about my code! Do you also want to prove stuff about your code? I packaged this up as a GHC plugin in the Haskell library ghc-proofs (not yet on Hackage). The README of the repository has a bit more detail on how to use this plugin, how it works, what its limitations are and where this is heading. This is still only a small step, but finally there is a step towards low threshold program equivalence proofs in Haskell. Or rather recover my karma after such abominations such as ghc-dup, seal-module or ghc-h[...]
Global almost-constants for Haskell
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:03:17 -0500
More than five years ago I blogged about the “configuration problem” and a proposed solution for Haskell, which turned into some Template Haskell hacks in the seal-module package.
With the new GHC proposal process in plase, I am suddenly much more inclined to write up my weird wishes for the Haskell language in proposal form, to make them more coherent, get feedback, and maybe (maybe) actually get them implemented. But even if the proposal is rejected it is still a nice forum to discuss these ideas.
So I turned my Template Haskell hack into a proposed new syntactic feature. The idea is shamelessly stolen from Isabelle, including some of the keywords, and would allow you to write
context fixes progName in
foo :: Maybe Int -> Either String Int
foo Nothing = Left $ progName ++ ": no number given"
foo (Just i) = bar i
bar :: Int -> Either String Int
bar 0 = Left $ progName ++ ": zero no good"
bar n = Right $ n + 1
instead of
foo :: String -> Maybe Int -> Either String Int
foo progName Nothing = Left $ progName ++ ": no number given"
foo progName (Just i) = bar progName i
bar :: String -> Int -> Either String Int
bar progName 0 = Left $ progName ++ ": zero no good"
bar progName n = Right $ n + 1
when you want to have an “almost constant” parameter.
I am happy to get feedback at the GitHub pull request.
Showcasing Applicative
Wed, 26 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0400
My plan for this week’s lecture of the CIS 194 Haskell course at the University of Pennsylvania is to dwell a bit on the concept of Functor, Applicative and Monad, and to highlight the value of the Applicative abstraction. I quite like the example that I came up with, so I want to share it here. In the interest of long-term archival and stand-alone presentation, I include all the material in this post.1 Imports In case you want to follow along, start with these imports: import Data.Char import Data.Maybe import Data.List import System.Environment import System.IO import System.Exit The parser The starting point for this exercise is a fairly standard parser-combinator monad, which happens to be the result of the student’s homework from last week: newtype Parser a = P (String -> Maybe (a, String)) runParser :: Parser t -> String -> Maybe (t, String) runParser (P p) = p parse :: Parser a -> String -> Maybe a parse p input = case runParser p input of Just (result, "") -> Just result _ -> Nothing -- handles both no result and leftover input noParserP :: Parser a noParserP = P (\_ -> Nothing) pureParserP :: a -> Parser a pureParserP x = P (\input -> Just (x,input)) instance Functor Parser where fmap f p = P $ \input -> do (x, rest) <- runParser p input return (f x, rest) instance Applicative Parser where pure = pureParserP p1 <*> p2 = P $ \input -> do (f, rest1) <- runParser p1 input (x, rest2) <- runParser p2 rest1 return (f x, rest2) instance Monad Parser where return = pure p1 >>= k = P $ \input -> do (x, rest1) <- runParser p1 input runParser (k x) rest1 anyCharP :: Parser Char anyCharP = P $ \input -> case input of (c:rest) -> Just (c, rest) [] -> Nothing charP :: Char -> Parser () charP c = do c' <- anyCharP if c == c' then return () else noParserP anyCharButP :: Char -> Parser Char anyCharButP c = do c' <- anyCharP if c /= c' then return c' else noParserP letterOrDigitP :: Parser Char letterOrDigitP = do c <- anyCharP if isAlphaNum c then return c else noParserP orElseP :: Parser a -> Parser a -> Parser a orElseP p1 p2 = P $ \input -> case runParser p1 input of Just r -> Just r Nothing -> runParser p2 input manyP :: Parser a -> Parser [a] manyP p = (pure (:) <*> p <*> manyP p) `orElseP` pure [] many1P :: Parser a -> Parser [a] many1P p = pure (:) <*> p <*> manyP p sepByP :: Parser a -> Parser () -> Parser [a] sepByP p1 p2 = (pure (:) <*> p1 <*> (manyP (p2 *> p1))) `orElseP` pure [] A parser using this library for, for example, CSV files could take this form: parseCSVP :: Parser [[String]] parseCSVP = manyP parseLine where parseLine = parseCell `sepByP` charP ',' <* charP '\n' parseCell = do charP '"' content <- manyP (anyCharButP '"') charP '"' return content We want EBNF Often when we write a parser for a file format, we might also want to have a formal specification of the format. A common form for such a specification is EBNF. This might look as follows, for a CSV file: cell = '"', {not-quote}, '"'; line = (cell, {',', cell} | ''), newline; csv = {line}; It is straightforward to create a Haskell data type to represent an EBNF syntax description. Here is a simple EBNF library (data type and pretty-printer) for your convenience: data RHS = Terminal String | NonTerminal String | Choice RHS RHS | Sequence RHS RHS | Optional RHS | Repetition RHS deriving (Show, Eq) ppRHS :: RHS -> String ppRHS = go 0 where go _ (Terminal s) = surround "'" "'" $ concatMap quote s go _ (NonTerminal s) = s go a (Choice x1 x2) = p a 1 $ go 1 x1 ++ " | " ++ go 1 x2 go a (Sequence x1 [...]
The new CIS-194
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:09:41 -0400
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Explicit vertical alignment in Haskell
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:35:18 -0400
Chris Done’s automatic Haskell formatter hindent is released in a new version, and getting quite a bit of deserved attention. He is polling the Haskell programmers on whether two or four spaces are the right indentation. But that is just cosmetics… I am in principle very much in favor of automatic formatting, and I hope that a tool like hindent will eventually be better at formatting code than a human. But it currently is not there yet. Code is literature meant to be read, and good code goes at length to be easily readable, and formatting can carry semantic information. The Haskell syntax was (at least I get that impression) designed to allow the authors to write nicely looking, easy to understand code. One important tool here is vertical alignment of corresponding concepts on different lines. Compare maze :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer maze x y | abs x > 4 || abs y > 4 = 0 | abs x == 4 || abs y == 4 = 1 | x == 2 && y <= 0 = 1 | x == 3 && y <= 0 = 3 | x >= -2 && y == 0 = 4 | otherwise = 2 with maze :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer maze x y | abs x > 4 || abs y > 4 = 0 | abs x == 4 || abs y == 4 = 1 | x == 2 && y <= 0 = 1 | x == 3 && y <= 0 = 3 | x >= -2 && y == 0 = 4 | otherwise = 2 The former is a quick to grasp specification, the latter (the output of hindent at the moment) is a desert of numbers and operators. I see two ways forward: Tools like hindent get improved to the point that they are able to detect such patterns, and indent it properly (which would be great, but very tricky, and probably never complete) or We give the user a way to indicate intentional alignment in a non-obtrusive way that gets detected and preserved by the tool. What could such ways be? For guards, it could simply detect that within one function definitions, there are multiple | on the same column, and keep them aligned. More general, one could take the approach lhs2Tex (which, IMHO, with careful input, a proportional font and with the great polytable LaTeX backend, produces the most pleasing code listings) takes. There, two spaces or more indicate an alignment point, and if two such alignment points are in the same column, their alignment is preserved – even if there are lines in between! With the latter approach, the code up there would be written maze :: Integer -> Integer -> Integer maze x y | abs x > 4 || abs y > 4 = 0 | abs x == 4 || abs y == 4 = 1 | x == 2 && y <= 0 = 1 | x == 3 && y <= 0 = 3 | x >= -2 && y == 0 = 4 | otherwise = 2 And now the intended alignment is explicit. (This post is cross-posted on reddit.) Update (2016-09-05) Shortly after this post, the Haskell formatter brittany gets released, which supports vertial alignment. Yay![...]
HaL deadline extended
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:40:11 +0200
There is this long-running workshop series Haskell in Leipzig, which is a meeting of all kinds of Haskell-interested folks (beginners, experts, developers, scientists), and for year’s instance, HaL 2016, I have the honour of being the program committee chair.
So if you have something worth talking about, please do submit a proposal1 and come to Leipzig!.
And why should you come to Leipzig? Because of all the interesting talks and tutorials! Of course I cannot say a lot here yet, besides that our invited speaker Alejandro Russo from Chalmers and Gothenburg University will present his work on information-flow control in Haskell (i.e., SecLib, LIO, MAC, HLIO).
GHC performance is rather stable
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:17:43 +0100
Johannes Bechberger, while working on his Bachelor’s thesis supervised by my colleague Andreas Zwinkau, has developed a performance benchmark runner and results visualizer called “temci”, and used GHC as a guinea pig. You can read his elaborate analysis on his blog.
This is particularly interesting given recent discussions about GHC itself becoming slower and slower, as for example observed by Johannes Waldmann and Anthony Cowley.
Johannes Bechberger’s take-away is that, at least for the programs at hand (which were taken from the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game, there are hardly any changes worth mentioning, as most of the observed effects are less than a standard deviation and hence insignificant. He tries hard to distill some useful conclusions from the data; the one he finds are:
• Compile time does not vary significantly.
• The compiler flag -O2 indeed results in faster code than -O.
• With -O (but not -O2), GHC 8.0.1 is better than GHC 7.0.1. Maybe some optimizations were promoted to -O?
If you are interested, please head over to Johannes’s post and look at the gory details of the analysis and give him feedback on that. Also, maybe his tool temci is something you want to try out?
Maybe a different selection of test programs would yield more insight; the benchmark’s games programs are too small and hand-optimized, the nofib programs are plain old and the fibon collection has bitrotted. I would love to see a curated, collection of real-world programs, bundled with all dependencies and frozen to allow meaningful comparisons, but updated to a new, clearly marked revision, on a maybe bi-yearly basis – maybe Haskell-SPEC-2016 if that were not a trademark infringement. | http://www.feedage.com/feeds/2099450/nomeata%E2%80%99s-mind-shares-haskell | dclm-gs1-168741087 |
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0.063459 | <urn:uuid:99e0ab4b-2e89-4ef4-84f8-35d998683ed3> | en | 0.971257 | * Delphi bankruptcy lenders win out in auction
* Move supported by GM; Platinum Equity remains in talks
* Court OK for deal would end costly four-year bankruptcy
(Adds detail, statements from GM, Platinum, bylines)
A group of hedge funds that provided bankruptcy funding to Delphi Corp (DPHIQ.PK) on Monday won a high-stakes auction to take control of the auto parts supplier, scuttling a rival deal brokered by the Obama administration.
Delphi's board of directors and GM both offered their support for the proposed deal that would hand the company's assets over to its debtor-in-possession lenders in exchange for their forgiveness of nearly $3.5 billion in loans.
The result, announced by Delphi late Monday, came after a two-day auction in New York.
Delphi, GM and the White House-appointed autos task force had all previously backed a rival bid that would have given control of Delphi to private equity firm Platinum Equity.
A bankruptcy court hearing to review the results of the auction was scheduled for Wednesday.
Approval of the proposed deal would end a costly and long-running bankruptcy that contributed to GM's own collapse and became wrapped up in the effort by U.S. officials to restructure GM's operations with some $50 billion in aid.
Because the U.S. Treasury provided bankruptcy financing to GM, government officials had a dominant say in the shape of the new company that emerged from bankruptcy earlier this month.
But the government has had little direct influence in the end game for Delphi, which remains a crucial parts supplier to GM with the power to shut down its assembly plants.
GM, which would have provided $2 billion in cash and credit under the now-rejected Platinum deal, said the transfer of Delphi's assets to its bankruptcy lenders would provide GM with better terms as well.
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sigaltstack() allows a process to define a new alternate signal stack
and/or retrieve the state of an existing alternate signal stack. An
alternate signal stack is used during the execution of a signal handler
if the establishment of that handler (see sigaction(2)) requested it.
The normal sequence of events for using an alternate signal stack is
the following:
1. Allocate an area of memory to be used for the alternate signal
2. Use sigaltstack() to inform the system of the existence and location
of the alternate signal stack.
3. When establishing a signal handler using sigaction(2), inform the
system that the signal handler should be executed on the alternate
signal stack by specifying the SA_ONSTACK flag.
The ss argument is used to specify a new alternate signal stack, while
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typedef struct {
void *ss_sp; /* Base address of stack */
int ss_flags; /* Flags */
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To establish a new alternate signal stack, ss.ss_flags is set to zero,
and ss.ss_sp and ss.ss_size specify the starting address and size of
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signal stack if the process is currently executing on it.)
The alternate signal stack is currently disabled.
sigaltstack() returns 0 on success, or -1 on failure with errno set to
indicate the error.
EFAULT Either ss or oss is not NULL and points to an area outside of
the process's address space.
EINVAL ss is not NULL and the ss_flags field contains a nonzero value
other than SS_DISABLE.
ENOMEM The specified size of the new alternate signal stack
(ss.ss_size) was less than MINSTKSZ.
EPERM An attempt was made to change the alternate signal stack while
it was active (i.e., the process was already executing on the
current alternate signal stack).
SUSv2, SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
The most common usage of an alternate signal stack is to handle the
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process stack is exhausted: in this case, a signal handler for SIGSEGV
cannot be invoked on the process stack; if we wish to handle it, we
must use an alternate signal stack.
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that it may exhaust its standard stack. This may occur, for example,
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on the alternate signal stack.) Unlike the standard stack, the system
does not automatically extend the alternate signal stack. Exceeding
the allocated size of the alternate signal stack will lead to unpre-
dictable results.
The following code segment demonstrates the use of sigaltstack():
stack_t ss;
ss.ss_sp = malloc(SIGSTKSZ);
if (ss.ss_sp == NULL)
/* Handle error */;
ss.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
ss.ss_flags = 0;
if (sigaltstack(&ss, NULL) == -1)
/* Handle error */;
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What Does A Poke Mean On Facebook: You've just obtained a Facebook poke, as well as the initial thing that involves your mind is, "Just what is this, and just what does it imply?" A Facebook poke is a basic and enjoyable communication feature. For some, it's an enjoyable means to communicate, but some individuals consider it annoying. Regardless, it excels to know what a Facebook poke is, so you can recognize the best ways to react if you get one, and whether a good friend would be open to receiving one.
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The formula of magnesium oxide is MgO. This is predicted from knowledge of the Periodic Table and understanding of bonding.
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Finding the formula of Magnesium Oxide Prediction The formula of magnesium oxide is MgO. This is predicted from knowledge of the Periodic Table and understanding of bonding. Method 1. A strip of magnesium ribbon is cleaned using emery paper. 2. A crucible and its lid are weighed. 3. The magnesium is placed in the crucible and the crucible, its lid and contents re-weighed. 4. The crucible is placed on a pipe-clay triangle on a tripod and heated strongly. The lid is raised slightly from time to time to allow air to enter the crucible. 5. When reaction is finished, heating is stopped and the crucible is allowed to cool. 6. The crucible and its contents are re-weighed. 7. Stages 4 - 6 are repeated until the mass is constant. 8. The whole experiment is repeated but for different masses of magnesium oxide. The Results Mass of Crucible +lid (g) Mass of Crucible + lid + Mg (g) Mass of Crucible + lid + MgO (g) 19.69 19.76 19.85 19.16 19.29 19.37 23.61 23.66 23.69 24.20 24.25 24.29 23.60 23.68 23.73 23.55 23.67 23.70 23.67 23.73 23.77 23.06 23.16 23.22 23.23 23.35 23.43 18.94 19.04 19.11 21.39 21.45 21.49 24.75 24.81 24.85 22.52 22.60 22.65 Analysis To be able to find out the ratio of magnesium to oxygen, I have to calculate the amount of magnesium that was used and the amount of oxygen, and so as a result finding out the amount of magnesium oxide that was produced. ...read more.
So, the empirical formula of the product, magnesium oxide, is MgO. In addition to this we can also look at the placement of magnesium and oxygen in the periodic table and the way in which they bond during the reaction. When reacting a metal with a non metal, in this case a gas, they undergo ionic bonding. This is when an atom loses electrons and gives them to another atom which needs to gain electrons in order to have a complete outer shell, or in other words to gain the structure of a noble gas. Magnesium is in the second group and has an electron arrangement of 2.8.2 and so needs to give away two electrons in order to have a full outer shell. Oxygen is in the sixth group of the periodic table and has an electron arrangement of 2.6 and so needs to gain 2 electrons to also have a full outer shell. Diagram to show the reaction of magnesium and oxygen. Now we know that when these two elements react they form magnesium oxide (MgO), which is made up of magnesium ions with a double positive charge (Mg2+) and oxide ions with a double negative charge (O2-). Therefore it must be true that 1 atom of magnesium reacts with 1 atom of oxygen, seeing as when they react their outer shells will be complete, because the magnesium atom needs to give away 2 electrons of which the oxygen atom needs to gain. ...read more.
Also this could have been that the reaction had not fully taken place, and so not all the amount of magnesium was allowed to react with the oxygen in the air. This was the main reason why anomalies occurred. To have avoided this happening, after heating, cooling and weighing the contents and the crucible lid. The magnesium oxide could have been heated again, and weighed until the mass was constant. This would have proved that the magnesium had fully reacted with the oxygen in the air. Despite the anomalies that occurred, it became apparent that they did not affect my results or conclusion in any way, as my prediction was supported. To further this investigation I could: * Try to react other metals from group 2 in the Periodic table with oxygen to see whether a pattern occurs in the result. For example, if I were to react Calcium, Ca, with oxygen then I would expect the empirical formula to be CaO. This is based on the idea that Mg reacted with one oxygen atom, and so Ca will react with one oxygen atom also, seeing as Mg and Ca both have similar properties. * Try to react magnesium with other gases in group 6, such as sulphur, to see whether the empirical formula is MgS, on the basis of my knowledge of magnesium reacting with oxygen. Nana Agyeman. 11V Chemistry Investigation Ms. Yates ...read more.
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By Maddy Butcher Gray
Justice Roland Cole sentenced Brett and Alexis Ingraham to nine-months jail time, all but two days suspended, and three one-year terms of administrative release in Kennebec County Superior Court yesterday, June 29, 2011.
Under the terms, the Ingrahams are not allowed to care for or have contact with horses unless the horse owner and property owner consent to unannounced visits by the Animal Welfare Program to monitor the condition of the horses.
The Ingrahams were also ordered to pay fines and $6,000 in restitution to the state. The amount is about 10 percent of the amount spent caring for the seized horses.
At the sentencing hearing, Cole told the audience of about 40 people that he had reviewed the extensive documentation from the state.
“I understand what appropriate care is. I own several horses. I breed horses. I fed five horses before leaving for this courtroom this morning,” he said.
He then heard Assistant District Attorney Paul Rucha who stated:
“It’s really about responsibility…the Ingrahams did not want to live up to their responsibilities…It’s not about leaving a bike out in the rain for it to get rusty. These horses paid a terrible price.”“It’s really about responsibility…the Ingrahams did not want to live up to their responsibilities…It’s not about leaving a bike out in the rain for it to get rusty. These horses paid a terrible price.”
Rucha introduced Travis French, a farrier who treated 12 of 15 horses after they were seized from the Ingrahams in June, 2010. French told the court:
“Never in my life have I seen horses with such extreme thrush in all four feet.”
Some horses were so weak and malnourished, they were unable to stand to be trimmed, French said.
Defense attorney David Van Dyke followed by introducing a parade of family and friends, including Alexis’ parents, sister, and Brett’s mother and grandmother.
All the family members stated they had never seen any form of abuse by Alexis or Brett.
Said her mother, Betty Pelletier: “She became an excellent rider…My daughter has unbelievable talents, God-given talents…We hoped she’d go to vet school.”
But, said Rucha:
“We gave them the benefit of the doubt,” referring to Animal Welfare’s multiple visits before seizing the horses and pressing charges last year. “They showed pretty outrageous behavior, pretty bad show of conduct.”
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6/30/2011 Daryl DeMoor
sounds like swift justice to me, so swift it passed right by with little to no effect, in 12 months they can be horse owners again with no supervision?
6/30/2011 Jody
Thank God she did not become a vet! What does the Ingrams family consider abuse?? Sounds like they have no understanding even now of what abuse is.
6/30/2011 Me
As i said in the last post about this "people" and i use the term loosly. i would save my woohoo's till i heard the sentancing ,, and here it is... a painless slap on the wrist !!! i sat and cried for a 1/2 hour to think they pretty much walk away scott free , i wouldnt have cared if they did no jail time , had to pay no fines or any money of any kind ,, what should have happened is they would never be allowed to own a horse , work with a horse , have any horses on poperty where they lived , be in any way shape or form be around horses , be allowed to haul horses , to be able to maek a living off these animals they have treated so poorly .. but no ,, they get away with this and life go's on as usual for them "no harm , no foul " sad as this is i STILL beleive what go's around comes around.. they may not pay for this now but they well some day !!!!! God bless the horses that was taken away they got a fighting chance ,, and god please watch over the ones they still have they are going to need it !!!
6/30/2011 Norma McQuarrie
I am hopeful to think that they would not ever again think of owning horses for its going to be pretty obvious now that these people will be watched and monitored often since now people know the horror of what they put those horses through.
6/30/2011 SimplyMe
"The amount is about 10 percent of the amount spent caring for the seized horses." HUH?? Bad enough they really didnt get "in trouble',, but at least they should have had to do is pay back the state for the horses care and all other expenses incurred because of what they did.
6/30/2011 Cowgirl 20
Does this mean she can not have contact with the horses at the farm in Burnham?
6/30/2011 Meris
JMO. The sentence was not all that I believe it should have been, but I am not impartial. I am an animal welfare advocate. Neutrality is the role assigned to the decision-maker and in this case, Justice Cole did what he believed was appropriate on the facts before him. That was his job and I thank him for doing it. Whether anyone else, including me, might have decided on a different sentence is moot in this case. I also am grateful for the work done at the DA's office and by the public / horse community members who clamored for action when the condition of the animals at FPF became more widely known. Thank you to the members of the press who publicized the situation and helped bring the necessary governmental attention to the plight of the animals. It was worth every bit of effort expended by everyone even remotely involved in this case ? and more. It will take more effort to make real change in the way Maines excellent animal welfare statutes are enforced, to insist that prosecution, conviction, and appropriate sentencing of those who abuse animals is a higher priority, and to expose inhumane conditions for animals where ever those exist. Join MEWA, contact and educate your local legislators, volunteer at an animal shelter, give your time, energy, and money (if you have any! lol) to efforts to improve animal welfare. There is no magic wand to wave and make it all perfect. The obstacle is the path and it is walked step by step. This case was a good step forward. And once in a while, take a moment to smile and celebrate the justice albeit modest - that was achieved for the animals who suffered and died at Fair Play Farm. Then, get back to work! : )
6/30/2011 StablePerson
The advertisements for lessons and board will not stop.If the family thought so highly of their daughter, then why didn't anyone step in and ask.."Do you need help?" "What can we do?" After the horror that was FPF, how can anyone call these people talented? I would and have gone w/o so my horses could have what they need.I hope word of mouth travels fast and that these two decide to GET JOBS not related to horses and for people to stop giving them $ for ANY kind of horse related business! They are listed in Uncle Henry's and in Burnham.I believe these horses deserve better justice....
6/30/2011 Lin
We see Alexis advertising on Uncle Henry's (web) to give riding lessons. Guess she kept a horse, OH yes, and put it in her mom's name. Those parents are as irresponsible as Alexis and her husband are. They are poor, Alexis and Brett are poor, neither one has a job. Get ready for round two...sick people get no help and repeat again, again and again. SAD
I'm sorry you guys but you have this whole situation all wrong..They simply got in over their heads.. They never ever purposely neglected any horses. But please don't leave any nasty comment after this i just want the truth to be heard and why i believe they are innocent... And the horse that the farrier was talking about was brought in the day I was there.. The horse was in terrible condition and they tried to save it but the horse was too long gone. Alexis stayed up all night just to try to save that horse... What you guys don't understand is that Alexis does have a magic touch with horses. She turned my supposed crazy nut-job arab into the most amazing horse. ...She told us send him to me. I can fix him. And you want to know something so amazing that you all are going to think is untrue and blah blah blah... She did fix him. I hope that at-least some of you have alittle different perspective of Alexis and Bret. If it makes you feel better you have all ruined her. Crushed her. She can never truly have a horse farm because of you. Imagine if you got in a rough spot and all of sudden you lose everything you ever loved. She can still go on with her business but everyone knows it's not going to be the same. I just hope and pray that some people who read this comment will change their perspective alittle bit and not be so rotten and childidh towards them. I gave them a horse who i didn't want and change him into everything i love. Please do not leave any nasty rude and unwanted comment about this because i'm only 14 years old and do not wish to be harrased because of this comment. Please do not tell me that I don't know what i saw or anything like that because i did if you do not like what i wrote than don't talk about pretend you never read it ... Thank- You :)
6/30/2011 Becky
I wish the punishment had been more, mostly to NEVER EVER be allowed to be near a horse in any way, shape or form! But it IS a step forward, maybe a baby step but that's where we all start, right!?!?!?! The WORST part of this is that they STILL believe they did NOTHING WRONG, that is the worst, scariest thing I can think of. You don't start screwing up 9 yrs ago with about 15 horses and continue to collect 70 or more til they are dropping like flies and say you did it all for the good of the horse, BARF!!!!! They both have 9 months hanging over their heads and they think they did nothing wrong so hopefully they will continue on this path and the remaining horses can be removed and they can be shut down forever then!!! I hope the horses remaining with them will be well supervised for their protection, but I don't believe AWP can afford to keep a close enough eye on them to keep them safe, but that is my opinion.
6/30/2011 Betty
It is about time people learned to take care of there animals.And if they dont they need to be punished.Animals look for us to love and care for them.
6/30/2011 Anne
I too feel that this whole mess swirled so far out of control from the start. I believe a witch hunt was in progress and hopefully will stop now. Witch hunting went out about 300 years ago. I do have one really big question for all of the concerned horse people out there......where was your help? Why did not some of you offer help, shelter, food, vet and farrier services, hay or just stop and say what can I do? Alexis and Brett have been hung out to dry and instead of asking or offering help you still want to vanish them to the ends of the earth. I think that their sentence was fair. I know they learned from this. I know they have changed a lot of their practices. The saying goes "you do the crime you pay the time". And they have paid and paid and paid. I lost my job 6 months ago and cannot find another. (Not horse related). I know what it is like to live day to day. So I have a suggestion for all of the nay-sayers, instead of skulking around or trying to find out something that is detremential, why not help? This situation was created by hate and a holier than thou attitude and the bible does say "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.". Thank you for allowing me my opinion.
7/1/2011 Anonymous
To those friends and family who have posted here, ya must have been hoodwinked by Brett and Alexis. Either that or you just weren't paying attention. Or you think that letting horses starve, be bullied, and freeze before being disposed of is OKAY. It ain't ok in my book. I seen what they did. You must not have.
7/1/2011 KDW
For those of you who are asking why people were not "Asking her if she needed help, offered services, feed, etc." The answer is, she WAS asked, MANY times if she needed help. She flat out refused! She was getting farrier service done for free because the person she had doing them, boarded his horses at her barn!!! Brett was seen/caught STEALING hay on more than one occasion, it got so bad that he was actually arrested for theft. Don't complain that WE put them through the ringer. They did it to themselves, "rescuing" and "rehabilitating" horses is not cheap. She should have stuck with what she knew...teaching riding lessons and training horses. AND the rent for the property they were on was NOT cheap, so they knew well ahead of time what they could and could'nt afford and still went beyond their means. No one should be blaming anyone but them for the things they have done. Myself and lots of my friends who personally know Alexis offered to help her with hay and vet bills. She always said no. SO WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE CONDITION OF THOSE ANIMALS???? ALEXIS AND BRETT.
7/4/2011 Linda
As one person stated, this is not the perfect outcome, but it is a start. I would feel sorry for Brett and Alexis, but this has been going on for years. Again, I hope that Animal Welfare keeps and eye on the Burnam property.
7/5/2011 Jan
I, too, felt that they got off far too lightly. But, it is a start. As Meris stated "Justice Cole did what he believed was appropriate on the facts before him. That was his job and I thank him for doing it." Maine does have some very good animal welfare laws and it's going to take a huge effort to continue to have them enforced. Our AWP program is in a sad state of affairs currently .. for many reasons. IMO, it's the responsibility of the caring and responsible horse community to step up and help. Meris had several good suggestions of where your assistance could make a difference. And, regardless of where you stand with the slaughter issue, if Hemphill's closes .. watch out! It could open the door to another situation like FPF in no time!
Was this whole situation blown out of proportion? Yes and no. I truly believe that the Ingrahams had good intentions but once they started gaining momentum, they simply could not say "No" or turn down a 'good deal' on a horse that they thought they could turn a profit on. YES they did take in horses that nobody wanted, the problem is that they took on too many and didn't have the good sense to stop. And by time things started to spiral out of control it was too late... However... Once a few choice individuals started to play the role of vigilanties, that's where it began to get ugly. These people saw 'skinny' horses with no blankets or dirty blankets and automatically assumed that they had been that way since day one and that they needing saving. Yes, people were actually up in arms that some of the horses had dirty blankets on and that ::gasp:: they were standing in the snow- oh the horror! So they started snapping pictures of the horses and the alleged deplorable conditions that the horses were kept in... though not a single one of those individuals had stepped foot on that farm and actually spoke to the Ingrahams or asked them what was going on. They started on their own little crusade and were determined to right this terrible wrong... And then the harassment ensued. Other off the wall accusations and statements were being thrown around like nobody's business. Some people were even pathetic enough to state that they had no business having children and that the children ought to be watched very closely. All I have to say to those people is SHAME ON THEM! But do I hold the Ingraham's accountable for the condition of the horses, you bet your bottom dollar I do. There WAS help available, they only needed to ask and they choose not to and therefore the punishment that they were dealt for their action is the end result. They could've prevented this whole debacle from occuring if they had simply put their pride aside and just asked for help.
7/7/2011 Elaine
Well, here we go. The truth is really beginning to come out now. This is amazing. Some humility now? Yup, it appears the Ingraham's were over their heads. I agree this was a witchhunt and people's minds spoke out of turn. What should have, could have, is in the past and the Ingraham's took responsibility for their actions. I'm really ashamed of my fellow horse people who stretched the truth and began a crusade of gossip and untruths. Its called "what's right and what's wrong." I'm afraid now its time for those that witchhunted to take responsibility. The Attorney General's office was present during this sentencing. I believe they have been following this case and many changes have and will continue to take place at AW. I also believe that those that witchhunted need to have accountability. Will that happen? Don't know. Writing comments like "Brett was seen/caught STEALING hay on more than one occasion, it got so bad that he was actually arrested for theft." seems to me witchhunting when records show its not true. Enough is enough -- go home -- look at your own place -- is it up to code/standard, probably not.
7/18/2011 Julie
The punishment that the judge dished out IS NOT ENOUGH!! These beautiful creatures were put through hell,,inwhich they did not ask for, and DID NOT deserve!!! The punishment needs to fit the crime,,I'm so sick of people getting away with a slap on the wrist for committing such horrible acts against such wonderful creatures!!!! When is the law/judges/courts going to see that these wonderful creatures have a soul, they have feelings, that they put their trust into people, the human race and are being treated in such a horrible way! It's not just the people that do such a horrible thing to such beautiful creatures that make me sick,,but the damn courts/judges that give them such a light slap on the wrist,,when is there going to be equal justice for these beautiful souls!! When are people going to realize that the punishment that is dished out needs to be as extreme as the treatment that was dished out to such wonderful animals!!!! Anyone that hurts an animal or child in my book aren't worth the ground these beautiful souls walk on!!!
12/26/2013 Thankful
Let me update you...thank you for posting this article. The mother Betty must now be the buying agent for them as the Ingraham name is too known. She sent me 2/3 of the money for my horse to purchase but "couldn't" drive this far to see her. Thank God you guys had this info online and just saved the fate of my sweet,loving horse!
1/26/2016 ME
She's doing the same thing now! There are reports of 60+ horses on her property, most of which are in horrible condition again receiving less than adequate care. How is she able to do this all over again?
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These days, it is not only the naked shorts that arouse ire. Governments in Europe have imposed bans on selling financial stocks short since the August market turmoil. Those bans have not kept financial stocks from being the worst-performing stocks on the Continent, but of course there is no way to know what would have happened without the ban.
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It may or may not be relevant to note that financial shares in the United States, where the S.E.C. has resisted pressures to impose a comparable ban, have done better than their European brethren. But returns have been volatile here too, raising questions about whether shorts deserve blame for manipulating markets.
NovaStar Mortgage Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., was a unit of NovaStar Financial, a favorite of short-sellers that collapsed.
Historically, short-sellers have tended to be right a surprising amount of the time, at least in cases where the company grew upset enough to publicly complain. In 2004, a Yale professor, Owen Lamont, published a study of 266 companies that had publicly complained about short-selling during the quarter-century ending in 2002. Because some companies grew angry more than once, he studied a total of 327 share-price movements. On average, stocks underperformed the market by about 25 percentage points over the following year after they began to campaign against short-sellers.
Mr. Lamont conceded that such data did not prove the companies had been overvalued. An alternative explanation, favored by company managements, he wrote, “is that short-sellers are actually manipulating prices, driving prices down over long periods of time.”
But he noted that a significant number of the companies turned out to be frauds. “The evidence suggests that short-sellers play an important role in detecting not just overpricing, but fraud,” he wrote. “Policy makers might want to consider making the institutional and legal environment less hostile to short-sellers.”
The data Mr. Lamont used is now, of course, rather old. The S.E.C.’s rule to prevent naked short-selling dates from 2004, and was strengthened in 2008. Is there any evidence that those who violated the rule had similarly identified overpriced stocks?
The Bell case is at least the fourth one filed by the S.E.C. that claims violations of Regulation SHO by options market makers, but only the second one I could find that named actual stocks that were illegally shorted, the other being a 2009 case against traders who operated firms with the delightful names of Rhino Trading and Fat Squirrel Trading. All the cases concerned trading that took place before the rule was strengthened.
The two S.E.C. cases concern trades in 2006 and 2007. The strategies are common to both: options market makers, who enjoy a limited exemption from the rules, are said to have abused their position. They used options to create what are called synthetic shorts by the commission, and then used similar strategies to make it appear they had purchased shares to cover their short position when they had not actually done so. I’ll spare you the details.
A total of eight stocks are mentioned in the two cases. One, NovaStar Financial, is named in both.
What these stocks certainly had in common was that people were so eager to sell them short that they were willing to evade the rules.
Owen Lamont of Yale found evidence “that short-sellers play an important role in detecting not just overpricing, but fraud.” Credit Harvard News Office
Reviewing the list brought back memories of bitter controversies. NovaStar was a subprime mortgage lender whose profits were doubted by shorts. There was litigation that claimed Wall Street firms had facilitated naked shorting, but in the end it was the financial crisis that did the company in. It collapsed in 2007, as did American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation, another company on the list.
Some of the companies were undoubtedly substantial, successful companies. One was the NYSE Group, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. It is certainly still in business, but its shares trade for a fraction of what they fetched when the illegal shorting was taking place. The shorts thought enthusiasm for stock exchanges was overdone, and they were right.
Of the eight companies, only one was a good investment when the shorting was taking place. Chipotle Mexican Grill, a restaurant chain, was then thought by many to be overvalued, with its stock price dependent on growth that was unlikely to be achieved. In fact, the forecasts by its fans turned out to be conservative. The stock is now trading for nearly five times its average price when the illegal activity was taking place.
For the other seven, if short-selling — legal or otherwise — was holding down the price, the shorting may have increased market efficiency and reduced the losses that otherwise would have been suffered by those buying the shares at the time.
The New York Fed did a quick study this fall after markets plunged in August when Standard & Poor’s decided to downgrade the credit of the United States government. That study, by Hamid Mehran, a Fed economist, and two finance professors from Notre Dame, Robert Battalio and Paul Schultz, also looked at the impact of the 2008 bans on short sales of financial stocks, which were imposed in many countries at the height of the financial crisis.
They concluded that there was no evidence that stocks then being sold by short-sellers did worse in August than did shares of other companies, and in fact a little evidence that they did better. That would seem to indicate that short-selling did not play a major role in the market turmoil.
“As a whole,” they conclude, the evidence indicates “no harm in the aggregate from short-selling during market downturns and no benefit from banning short-selling. There are likely to be other ill effects of short-sale bans besides decreased liquidity and higher trading costs. Short-sellers restrain management malfeasance by rooting out fraud and earnings manipulation. The evidence does not suggest short-sellers are the problem. They are the messengers with bad news about companies’ prospects. They are unpopular because they deliver messages that people would rather not hear.”
Correction: January 5, 2012
The High & Low Finance column on Dec. 16, about the regulation of so-called short sales, misstated what was publicly known about some stocks involved in two Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions against traders. All the stocks appeared on a list, maintained by the securities exchanges, of heavily shorted shares in which there had been a large number of failures to deliver the shares. It is not the case that most were absent from that list.
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Re: The basics
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2006 at 18:47 UTC
what is the use of #!/usr/bin/perl other than to interpreter?
• (Possibly) to the interpreter indicated in the #! line.
For instance, perl reads the additional arguments on the #! line as a sort of "setup parameters". Example: #!/usr/bin/perl -wT will run perl with global warnings enabled and in taint mode.
To the shell. [...] At least on unixish systems, there is always a shell involved in this process
The #! line, also called shebang, tells nothing to any shell. It's the kernel who interprets it. When the first two bytes of an executable file are #!, the kernel runs the command that follows them, with the parameters specified, and feeds it the whole file on its standard input:
$ cat > a #!/usr/bin/tail -n2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ^D $ chmod +x a $ ./a 6 7 $ strace ./a 2>&1 | grep -c sh 0
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Re: The basics
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2008 at 10:18 UTC
can use #!/usr/binsh and #!/usr/bin/perl at the same time in the same file directly?
where perl
Should instead read
which perl
Then enter the reported directory at the #! interpreter line.
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Re: non-repudiation vs. revocation
Carl Ellison wrote:
> To be sure of that, you need the card itself to display to you what
> it's signing -- not just a hash.
> The problem is so difficult that we're forced to fall back on trusting
> our H/W and OS as if it were a TCB -- which it isn't. Therefore,
> non-repudiation is really out of the question.
I do understand that total non-repudiation is out of the question.
However, I fail to see why it would not work in some circumstances, say
when you are signing a SPKI cert. Provided that we identify some standard
SPKI auths, I think it would be fairly simple to devise a smartcard that
can parse such auths and present them to the user for signing.
Just a thought. But I like it. :-) Then again, I've been known to be
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Historically, romantic love has played out as a gendered performance across many cultures.
Roland Barthes
"Love? You're kidding," says a student, upon learning that the last section of our transnational studies course concerns precisely that oft-used-and-abused word. Love. "There's a method in my madness," I protest. The class has just completed "Homes and hybridity," a set of articles in the syllabus which interrogate real and symbolic borders and boundaries; and "Lost in translation," where we talk about the near-impossibility for individuals and collectives to completely comprehend ideas, experiences, cultures and contexts different from our own. I have designed the final section of the syllabus to suggest that the most human way to fill this gap, globally, is not by abstract reasoning but through love, romantic and otherwise. For the mind may have its limitations; the heart does not.
Historically, romantic love has played out as a gendered performance across many cultures: man the active pursuer, woman the passive pursued. Thus wrote the 19th century Victorian poet Constance Naden, exasperated by her times: "My logic he sets at defiance, declares my Latin is no use/And when I begin to talk Science, he calls me a dear little goose." The roll of the dice is a bit more equal now, but in heterosexual games of the heart, a woman's brilliance is still a bit of a liability just as her physical beauty is an asset. "Especially in arranged marriages, like in India. When will these conservative ideas end?" a student in my introductory class opines. "Well, marriage itself is a conservative idea," I say, with a laugh. "Everywhere, the rhetoric of marriage ranks the unimaginative comfort of sameness higher than the personal growth obtainable through engaging stark difference. Also, read Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed. It critiques the Western narrative form of 'falling in love,' the institutionalization of love into law." Silence. "What then?" someone asks. "Revolutionary love," another student murmurs.
Yes. I'm thinking of A Lover's Discourse, where the famous French literary theorist and cultural critic Roland Barthes had spoken of love's "artful un-anchoring," the language of lovers that punctures everyday narratives tying us to dulled social worlds to permit a "gentle hemorrhage that makes anything possible." For Barthes, love is a "place of life," between narrative forms and beyond ideology, a wounded space, a site of shifting. It reminds me of the African American poet Reginald Shepherd's "Therefore You," which has some of the most lyrical lines one has ever read on love. ("...Home is nowhere, therefore you/a kind of dwell and welcome, song after all/and free of any eden we can name.")
According to Barthes, romantic love is not the same as revolutionary love, but can access it, by freeing citizen-subjects from ties that bind. Revolutionary love: a stormy place beyond language, beyond mediocrity and institutionalism, a place of passion, excess, madness. Pablo Neruda is playing in my head now: "The morning is full of storm, in the heart of summer/The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye/The wind, travelling, waving them in its hands/The numberless heart of the wind, beating above our loving silence/Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees/Like a language full of wars and songs."
From the personal, it's a fairly short route to the political. I'm reminded of the Urdu poet Jigar Moradabadi's glittering gem "Ek lafz-e-mohabbat ka, adnaa yeh fasanaa hai/simte to dil-e-aashiq, phaile to zamanaa hai (The word love tells a pithy tale/When it shrinks, it is the heart of a lover/When it expands, it encompasses the entire world)." Or Dagh Dehlvi's retort to our worthy friends on the far right: "Ashiqui se milega ai zahid/bandagii se khuda nahin milta (God is obtained not through pious worship but through courtship)." Or, on similar lines, the Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's lilting "Bhalobashi bhalobashi (I love, I love)." An open-ended love, an objectless love, love as social ethics, love as the global practice of freedom. So far, so good. But I can't seem to recall why I have titled this section of the course syllabus "Death, life and love." Ah, yes. Neruda again: "If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life."
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(21-05-2016 01:37 PM)Alla Wrote: He was not found guilty accept one trial. Business failed. It doesn't mean that Smith was a con man.
A lot of people wanted to destroy Joseph Smith. I have an idea why.
They finally killed him. I have and idea why.
But I don't have to share this idea on this forum.
Alla, how many liars, con-men, and other charlatans have existed throughout human history? How many of them came to ignoble ends? It is relatively common, and by no means miraculous.
Why should anyone think that Smith is the exception, and not the rule? Especially when every time he ever made a claim that could be falsified, it was proven to be false.
Things we can prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Smith lied about.
-Polygamy was an 'everlasting covenant ordained by Jesus', until it wasn't (conveniently in time for Utah's statehood).
-The darker skin of blacks was a curse upon then and they were eternally unfit, until they weren't (conveniently in time for the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
-There were no 'lost tribes of Israel' in the Americas, modern genetics proves this decisively.
-They did not have iron and steel tools, and the infrastructure needed to create them, 1500 years before they were invented in Mesopotamia. It's possible to lose a steel sword, but you cannot simple lose iron mines and steel mills; both of which are entirely nonexistent in the archaeological record.
-They didn't wear silk or flax. Silkworms were a carefully guarded Chinese trade secret for thousands of years, until at least 300CE in Japan.
-They didn't have any animal pulled carts, because the Americas entirely lacked any suitable domesticated draft animals. Americans only domesticated the Lama, and it carried weight directly; nobody ever built roads or carts for their use.
-The Americans didn't cultivate the crops Smith claimed they did (with the singular exception of maize), there is no evidence of fig, wheat, or barley cultivation; and plant pollen is one of the most indestructible things in nature. If they had grown these crops for a few decades, let alone the thousands of years claimed, their pollen would saturate soil samples. Instead, we see no evidence of these crops existing pre-Colombian; or basically, before the Europeans settlers introduced them.
-Americans didn't make use of or mint coinage. No copies of these supposed coins have ever been found, all evidence indicates that they used barter and other means of transferring value such as shells or stones.
I light of all this, Smith has less than zero credibility. There is every indication that he was nothing more than a charismatic conman, whose silver tongue burnt as many bridges as it built for whim, and whose lies and deceit finally got the better of him in the form of a lynch mob. No miracles are needed to explain the life and death of yet another religion charlatan who emerged out of the burned-over district of New York during a time when the area was rife with emerging and fringe religious movements. Dozens of ideas were thrown against the wall, most did not stick; a few (Mormonism, Quakers, 7th Day Adventists) did.
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The first time that we see the word baptism in the Bible is in Matthew 3, and the concept is attached to John as a part of his name. Now we need to know that the word baptism is a transliteration instead of a translation. When the translators of the Bible worked through the New Testament, they decided that they would take the greek word, baptizo and simply transliterate the sound of the word instead of the meaning. The word baptizo means to immerse in water. Because of this, John could be correctly identified as John the Immerser.
Where did this idea of baptism come from?
The origination of baptism can be traced back to the practice of ritual purity stemming from the commands for such purity in Leviticus, as well as other places in the Old Testament Law. This being the case, the immersion of people for repentance was not something that John invented. This practice would have been very familiar to the people of his day. In Hebrew, this ceremonial washing was called mikveh.
Mikveh was associated with repentance and was performed for two primary purposes. Most of the time, mikveh was practiced by a Jew prior to worship in the temple or in a synagogue. In this case, the individual would go down into the water, spread out their fingers and toes (so that the water could touch every part of them) and pledge their heart, their mind, their hands, and their feet to the service of the LORD. In this process, they would fully immerse themselves in the water to display their complete commitment.
Mikveh was also used by Gentiles who had made the decision to convert to Judaism. Converts would go into the water, recite the Shema (Deut. 6:4-8), and immerse themselves as a picture of their new life as a Jew.
Mikveh was an important precursor to baptism.
John’s baptism can best be understood in the context of the first use of mikveh. He baptized for the repentance of sin and to prepare the way for the One who was coming. Just as mikveh displayed a desire to be right before the LORD before entering into His presence in worship, so too did the baptism of John offer Jews the opportunity to display their repentance prior to the appearance of the Messiah.
While John’s baptism was important, it was never intended to be the final form of baptism in the Christian church. John made this point clear in Matthew 3:11, when he referenced the fact that “He who is coming after me is mightier than I… He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit…” Much like the conversion aspect of mikveh in the Jewish faith, Baptism in the Christian church is the means of public declaration of repentance and belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The vast majority of Christians recognize baptism as an extremely important practice in the church. Here are three reasons from the Bible why this is the case.
Baptism and the Great Commission (Matthew 29:18-20)
In the great commission we find four action words. One imperative verb, and three participles. This is important because imperative verbs give us commands while participles tell us how to accomplish the command. The imperative verb of the great commission is to make disciples. The three other verbs give us particular ways to fulfill the command to make disciples. We make disciples by going, teaching, and baptizing. So Jesus chose to use baptism as a part of His commission to us. Clearly baptism is important.
Baptism and Salvation (Mark 16:16)
From this verse we can see that baptism is closely connected with salvation. This being the case, we need to be careful to clearly define this relationship.
First of all, we know that we are saved by believing the good news of Jesus Christ. We are saved by God’s grace (Jesus dying on our behalf). And this gracious act is only credited to our account through faith (trusting in Him and pledging our allegiance to Him.) Salvation is by grace alone, by faith alone, and by Christ alone. We don’t work for it. We can’t earn it. And we surely don’t deserve it.
So why does Mark 16:16 include the phrase, “and is baptized”?
Believing in something is completely intrinsic, meaning that it is something that takes place on the inside. We can’t see someone believing. We can only see the actions that are produced by the belief. So with that it mind, it is important that we see that, biblically, the first action of saving faith in Christ is the outward symbol of baptism.
Baptism is like my wedding ring. It tells the world that I am married. With the ring on, everyone that I come in contact with can quickly see that I am married. But if one morning I forget my ring, do I stop being married? Nope. The ring is only an outward symbol of a greater inward reality. Baptism is the same. It displays our faith to the world through a tangible act of obedience. Baptism doesn’t save us. It provides an outward symbol that we have believed the Gospel of Jesus. And it is that belief that saves us.
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Self Analysis
I am always afraid that I will be alone in my old-age. I will not achieve my dream even I am in my old-age. I am always afraid that I can’t stand for me till my death came. And I will not gain anything from this life. My dreams will fade in the dark and I will be the one who lost everything in this life. I’m always afraid about it. That fear it makes me to lack myself. And I am not able to overcome that fear. And now also I am living inside that dark spell. I tried a lot to come out of this circle. But When I tried to reach the top and come out, my legs will slip and I will fall in that well again and again. I don’t know what is happening in me. I just want to move out and explore myself and I want to made myself for all my dreams come true. But…
Why it happened to me? Why all of a sudden it changed my way. Is it bz of me. Am I the one who chose this path. There was lot of pin edged rocks in thia path. By knowing this why Chose this path. I always want to run away but why I’m standing here now. Plannings are not working. And the path is untouchable
Crazy thoughts
my crazy thoughts always increasing my madness. But I’m unable to resist this stupidness. Arinju kondu iruline muruke pidikuna pranth. Arum thodan madikuna ghosty momentsine thammilek cherthu annakan argahikuna pranth. This madness makes me to think what I’m thinking. Yea, I know this itself make others to understand how mad I’m. But I always built myself more mad through over thinking about my madness. Craziness lies in my heart.
Ee jeevithathine njn etratholam snehikunund ennath innum ente manasiloru chodhyachinam annu. Evide annu jeevitham thudagettath ennath innum ente manasile mattoru chodhyamannu. Pinthirinjodi njn maduthirikunu. Pakshe innum njn pinthiriyukayannu. Ethile sancharikanam ennu alochichit oru roopamilla. Kanduvalarna ochapadukalakkam ene puramthiriyan prerippikunath. “Self motivation” enna peril njn palapoyum swantham counselling naatharund. Palappoyum itharam kattikoodalukal enne munootu nayichittund. Innu njn etra moshamano athinu ente chindhagathi thaneyannu utharam parayendath. Innu njn etra nallathano athinu ente chuttum ente kaikorthu pidichavarodannu njn kadapadu parayendath. Jeevitham madhuravum uppum kalarnathanennu enne padippichath njn thaneyanu, ente ormakal thaneyannu. Bhoothakalam ormmikumpol athile oro nimishavum oro padagal annennu njn innu thirichariyunu. Maybe ee nimishavum athile onnakam. Ee nimoshavum avasanikunillayirikam. Ethukondu eniku present day agoshikan pattunilla. Ennum ente manasil murivuveezhthuna mattoru chodhyam annathu. Njn enthu kondu epoyum Pastilum Futurilum jeevikunu.
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my personal (mental) Möbius strip
"Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis"
Of that point I have no doubt.
Emma Mactrottlan said...
The nature and reason for a universe which supports life is always an interesting discussion. Aside from a Multiverse of an infinite number of universes, or an infinite number of multi-dimensional universes co existing, or even discussions about dark matter/energy contributing perhaps 85% of our somewhat observable universe there remain questions about the life of our observable universe.
Presently 14 billion years or so into our universe's life, it is now estimated stars will shine and support life for perhaps 100 Trillion years. In fact, future stars will be much more supportive of life and could individually shine for a trillion years. If our species were to survive for 100 Trillion years would we evolve? Would they look back at us as we look at the upright apes before they left the African Plains? Is out present magnificent brain power equivalent to less than a can of creamed corn in the universes scale?
Charles Maclauchlan said...
I can see that my grand daughter, Emma (the turtle lover) has been using my computer.
obakesan said...
thanks for your comment.
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0.043037 | <urn:uuid:c05510c5-e8bd-4ee9-8073-532a1a55dd3f> | en | 0.924317 | The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum / Ateliers Jean Nouvel
The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, aims at creating a welcoming world which associates lights and shadows as well as shimmers and calm places in a serene atmosphere. Its objective is to belong to its country, to its history, to its geography, avoiding being either a dull translation of this reality or a pleonasm meaning boredom and convention. It also aims at emphasizing the fascination generated by rare encounters. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Every climate likes exceptions. Warmer when the weather is cold, cooler in the tropics. Men have a bad resistance to thermal shocks, as do works of art. The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum was influenced by such basic observations. It is rather unusual to find a built archipelago in the sea; it is even more uncommon to see that it is protected by a parasol flooded with a rain of lights.
It is not evident to access a museum by boat, or to find pontoons to reach it on foot from the coast, before being welcomed like a much-awaited visitor willing to see unique collections, to consult books in the tempting bookstores, or to stay longer and enjoy the teas, coffees, and local gastronomy. It is both a calm and complex place which clearly stands out in a series of museums that make a point of maintaining their differences and their authenticities.
The project is based on one of the major symbols of Arabic architecture: the Cupola. But here, it is a modern proposal made evident by its obvious gap with tradition. The dome is doubled and flat with a 180-meter diameter, offering a perfect luminous geometry drilled in a more random weaved material which creates a shadow punctuated with sun bursts. It shines in the sun of Abu Dhabi. At night, the protected landscape turns into a haven of light under a star-spangled cupola.
The Louvre Abu Dhabi becomes the final destination of an urban promenade, a garden on the coast, and a fresh refuge. A shelter of light in the daytime, it aesthetically takes on at night its function of sanc
tuary for the most valuable works of art.
Architects: Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Text: Jean Nouvel
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Question by lfarrow
July 31, 2002
What exactly is partial shade?
Does a leather leaf fern need any direct sun of full shade under trees okay?
Also I have a spot that gets shade all day except 3+ - hours in the afternoon. What do you suggest.
I have tried full sun plants that didn't do much and now have a hydrangia the does pretty well until it burns on a really hot day then I have to trim and it looks awful. I have given it 3 seasons to establish.
Louise Farrow
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July 31, 2002
Partial shade is difficult to describe. It generally means dappled shade (such as you'd find in the shade of a tree) to full morning sun but with shade from the hot afternoon sunshine. Leather leaf fern will be happy in full shade (such as under trees). For the partially sunny spot (afternoon sunshine), you can grow Acanthus, Astilbe, Begonia, Coleus, Cyclamen, Dicentra, Lilies, Impatiens, and Viola (pansy). Hydrangea tends to wilt in the hot afternoon sun, but usually recovers by morning. Try to find a spot with morning sun but afternoon shade for your hydrangea and it should perk right up for you. Best wishes with your garden!
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0.158542 | <urn:uuid:139d06cb-633e-400d-96d8-50ca7f241c58> | en | 0.972975 | The Hellenistic Period In Greek Religion History Essay
The Hellenistic period, ( from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C ) refers to the clip between the go throughing off of Alexander the Great and the growing of the Roman Empire under Augustus. This term Hellenistic in many occasions was used to make a differentiation from the classical Hellenic period that preceded it. At this clip of the three hundred old ages, the Grecian civilization was extremely dominant in both the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. The Hellenic faith peculiarly consisted of a assortment of religious belief and patterns of the people who existed at the clip of the ancient influence of the Grecian civilization and the Roman Empire.
Many old ages back, between 540 and 300BC during Alexander ‘s Era, Greece exhibited alone features in their architecture deigns, civilization and tradition every bit good ( Lockard 171 ) . In the same period, Hellenistic age, Greek imperium experienced the terminal of Alexander ‘s epoch as Atigonus and Seleucustook over therefore going the new swayers of the imperium. However, these two leaders had their ain specific district to govern since Greece had been divided into several ( three ) parts ( Martin 75 ) . Greece, Macedonia and the close E constituted the three divided parts, which ab initio formed Greece antecedently ruled by the great Alexander. Antigonus controlled Greece and Macedonia, whereas, his opposite number, Seleucus, controlled the close E. These events had important influence to Greek ‘s economic system, civilization among other assorted facets. However, our treatment will majorly concentrate on the civilization of Greece during the historical period, Hellenistic age.
During the period of Grecian laterality, there existed a womb-to-tomb continuance of the Hellenistic faith. In kernel, Greek Gods and goddesses continued to be worshiped including the antediluvian rites and patterns that symbolized their spiritualty. However, new faiths from other states and states were adapted and brought alteration including the Egyptian Gods such as Isis, the Syrian Gods of Hadad and Atargatis provided a new dimension for those people in hunt of fulfilment in the present and hereafter. Despite the being of these Gods and goddesses, Hellenic swayers were besides normally worshiped by people at this period. In Egypt for illustration, the Ptolemies had taken up the worship of the Pharaoh and established themselves everyplace as god male monarchs. Some swayers even received the Godhead godly position in many parts of Greece ( Mikalson 195 ) .
The socio economic and political bends that were occasioned due to Alexander ‘s missions, the policies of his predecessors and wars brought monolithic alterations to the spiritual civilizations and traditions. The grade of these alterations nevertheless, varied so much for Greeks life in the different metropoliss and parts of the state. A good illustration was the Athenians who conventionally restored their old spiritual cults, festivals and a religious pattern in the 5th century B.C.E. At the same period in Alexandria, there was a major contrast due to the clear heterogeneousness of Greeks, Egyptians, the Judaic divinities and the common spiritual patterns in this multi-ethnic society ( Mikalson 57 ) . By design a the country had a assorted population of different civilizations in the Grecian universe as all the occupants and citizens of one metropolis were ne’er expected to idolize in the same sort of forfeits and festivals.
As a consequence of faith conveying together these several nationalities to make a homogenous metropolis that is does non curtail spiritual policies of its swayers became possible. The alterations attributed to Hellenistic Greek faith mostly came from this spiritual multiculturalism in other metropolitan countries and Alexandria finally impacting all other parts in Greek universe. During the Hellenistic period the Grecian faith had turned out to be a extremely developed polytheism of a comprehensively anthropomorphous sort. The Grecian Gods were merely simply male and females with normal human passions and wickednesss but more powerful so but non so righteous than the people who worshiped them. The Greeks believed there was nil lifeless about their Gods, whether it is being portrayed by the chisel of the sculpturers ; to them they were warm, living and eupneic human figures. However, there was no uncertainty in the moral quality in worship as it was regarded as a placation of hazardous autocrats.
After the successful conquering of Alexander, the Grecian civilization spread like wild fire all over coming into closer contact with other civilisations in Egypt and the close East. Although the loss of independency of some Grecian provinces to Macedonian swayers had a important impact on their faith, the development of new philosophical systems ne’er change their faith. There were cases of a diminution in Hellenistic faith due to the spoting rise in godlessness, incredulity and agnosticism and besides an addition in superstitious beliefs, mysticism and star divination. The Greeks continued to idolize the same Gods giving similar sacrificial offerings, festivals and dedications as it was in the classical epoch. This period in the Hellenistic faith did non witness new spiritual patterns as lone minorities of Greeks were concerned with them ( Fairbanks 121 ) .
Another cardinal facet of faith in the Hellenistic period was the establishments of cults that were dedicated to celebrated swayers in the assorted Hellenistic Kingdoms. The initial cults were established under Alexander ‘s regulation whose power, stature and conquerings had elevated him to a degree the dictated particular acknowledgment. Many of his inheritor extended his worship to the extent that in Egypt he was honored as God under Ptolemy Soter. Later on Ptolemy ‘s boy declared his late male parent as God and went in front to proclaiming himself as a life God and by making so, made the Ptolemies adapted to earlier Egyptian constructs of idolizing Pharaoh. In some parts the pattern varied since a swayer ended up having Godhead position and non full godly position. During 307 BCE in Athens, Demetrius and Monophthalmus were honored and respected as Jesuss for release of the metropolis. As a consequence of these, alters were mounted and one-year festival to tag the jubilations were founded including the debut of the office the priest of the Jesuss. It was rare to happen a temple being dedicated to swayers but in many occasions their statues were on a regular basis erected in different temples and male monarchs would stop up being worshiped as sharing Gods.
Interestingly during the Hellenistic period the usage of thaumaturgy was obviously practiced as portion of the faith of the clip. Sanctuaries for witchery and oracular shrines were really popular including the usage of appeals and besides incidences of projecting cussing enchantments on others. Assorted symbols would be seen placed many house doors as a belief in conveying good fortune or even prevent bad lucks for the residents of the family ( Fairbanks 234 ) . Appeals were designed and cut from cherished rocks and believed to transport protective power and sometimes were used to project evil enchantments. There were besides astrological beliefs that heavenly bodies like stars and planets had the capacity to act upon a individual ‘s hereafter, this arose normally in Babylonia where it was specifically applied to a male monarch or a state. However, the Greeks in the Hellenistic age sophisticated this construct into an highly complex system of Hellenistic star divination.
During the Hellenistic epoch, worship by and large consisted of sacrificial offerings of a figure of domestic animate beings in holy alters that were accompanied by supplication and anthem. The worshippers would eat portion of the forfeit go forthing the remainder to be burnt for the intents of pacifying the Gods. The Grecian authorization extended into the field of faith as during the early times the ancient Roman Gods in most occasions were recognized with Grecian Gods. In add-on, there were options to religion that were presented in the Hellenistic doctrine the most common system being stolidity. This spiritual philosophical construct taught the beliefs approximately life as to populate in conformity with the rational order which was believed to govern the full existence ( De Gruyter 207 ) . It farther explains that people must accept their destiny in conformity to the Godhead will. There was besides an extended mythology in the Hellenistic Greek faith that consisted of a batch of narratives about Gods and goddesses and how they affect the life of crude existences particularly worlds. Even though many of the myths revolved around epic actions most of them were recognized as portion of faith in all times. | https://graceandthetruth.com/the-hellenistic-period-in-greek-religion-history-essay/740/ | dclm-gs1-169881087 |
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Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
Updated on October 24, 2016
I will have always sold my soul
Why do we as humans attract things we don't have? Why are we so fixated on wanting what we cant have? In a dark and sinful industry exotic dancing is just one of the many ways we use our souls to get what we want. We are such a needy generation we are willing to do whatever we need, to have the best of everything. The nicest car, the biggest house, the most expensive fashion. First night walking into that club, lights flashing, music beating through my body, liquor being tossed around, money thrown into the air and falling from the ceiling, people everywhere. WOW! Gorgeous women getting tipped hundreds of dollars. This is the place for me! It started great, everyone was so nice. "Would you like a drink?' i hear from the most gorgeous bartender I swear I ever saw. I took the drink, then I took another. Before I knew it i was in a skimpy bikini and 8 inch heels, the two drinks I had had were to calm my nerves. That was the exact moment my life changed. I became obsessed, not just with the money but with the attention, the fact that everyone's eyes were on me. I felt so wanted, needed. I didn't need anything but the club. I went into work grabbed an energy drink and got to work. I was bringing in thousands a month! I was only 20 and I felt as if I owned the world. I had the same routine for a while. about a year. That's when life started changing. I went to another club, make new friends, friends that drank. The industry was changing, in a bad way. Things were starting to happen in the VIP rooms and dances became harder and harder to give. Drinking became easier and easier to do. One day and a few too many drinks I fell into the VIP pure pressure. $600 for 3 minutes of my time! (I'm sure you can picture what I mean and details not needed) This is amazing I thought to myself. So the next day I drank some more, did a few more "VIP's" I was bringing in more money than I ever have before. This went on for the next few years, next thing I knew I was 23 years old and the alcohol alone wasn't doing it for me, I was looking for something harder, more intense. A friend of mine introduced me to "party" the rich mans drug they called it. A few drinks and a line started my day for the next few weeks. Until a line wasn't working for me anymore. A line turned into a gram, turned into an eight ball. I was out of control. Drinking more than I had ever drank in my life. Spending $500 a day on "party" I couldn't stop. I was making the most money in my life, doing whatever I pleased, having the most fun I had ever had! this went on for the next 2 years, then BAM, one day it all came to a halting stop! I had been caught. I couldn't believe it was actually real life. I was actually sitting in jail. No one to bail me out, nowhere to turn, no one to run to. All my friends were drug addicts, selfish, had no money or wouldn't use it to help me. What have I done with my life? How did I end up in this situation. How did I get so fixated on wanting the best of everything, being so needy that I had to have the best car, apartment, clothes. I had become obsessed, a different person. I had lost myself. In the process it seemed great, it seemed like that's what life was made of. But its not. I went through hell. How did I look at myself everyday in the mirror and be okay with myself. I had sold my soul. I had no morals, My life was meaningless. Now I'm almost 28 years old. Out of the industry, with an amazing man. He saved me from who I used to be. He saved me from myself. Now I will always remember who that girl was, she will always be a part of me. She made me strong and made me into the person I am today. But I will never be the same. I will always carry that with me, and I will always have sold my soul for something that means absolutely nothing today.
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Hello again, and welcome back for another Science Fiction Problems! This is the second part of my talk on Nuclear Weapons in sci-fi, so if you want to see the first part, click here.
Last week I outlined how current day defenses worked against nuclear attacks and how those defenses are countered with the use of multiple warhead systems, so this time I want to take a look at a few things one of my favorite sci-fi stories has done and where I think current technology will go in the future.
The Japanese Miracle
ghost in the shell stand alone complex poster
Fair warning- in the movies, the female protagonist spends a great deal of time topless (for some reason), which is why I only recommend the tv series. That said, the tv series has a typical amount of skin-tight body suits, etc.
I’ve mentioned before how much I like the Ghost in the Shell anime tv series (not the movies), and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who likes cyberpunk anime. Aside from the cyborgs and other cool stuff, the writer Shirow Masamune’s world is intricately political and speculative regarding both immerging technologies and immerging relationships between countries in our world. Being Japanese, it’s no surprise that Masamune’s world has Japan emerging as a superpower, but given the reasons he devises, it’s not at all farfetched.
In Masamune’s world, the arms race has brought nuclear missile defense and offense to a relative standstill, the delivery systems becoming extremely mobile and unpredictable, but the defenses getting to the point where they can eliminate practically any threat. As a result, nukes have become almost exclusively political, since the use of them in any case has become extremely inconvenient. Even in an all-out strike situation, a country could empty practically all of their warheads at another country, and it’s not likely that any one would hit, leaving the attacker to have to explain themselves and meet the retaliation of the victim nation and all his allies, probably by precision air and ground assault and surgical strikes.
Additionally, the world now has the “Japanese Miracle”, specially designed nano-machines that “scrub radiation”, eliminating the fallout from nuclear weapons. They only work effectively if distributed at the site of impact before the strike, but they can also slowly clean an irradiated zone after the fact, making regions like Chernobyl inhabitable again. What this means is that in certain cases, the use of nuclear weapons can be authorized as a reasonable use of force by the UN, because the radiation can be controlled and eliminated, making the nuke nothing more than a really effective bomb. As a result of all of this, the international governmental organizations now actually have some power over rouge nations, and the threat of nukes has almost exclusively degenerated into terrorist activity.
Because Masamune wrote this series back in the 80’s and 90’s (the anime was updated and aired in 2002 and 2003), he wasn’t apprised of several technologies I think will have a role in the development of nuclear weapons in our future.
Where We Might Go From Here
I’ll be clear, first, that I have no actual authority on this subject. This is pure speculation from the perspective of a civilian, but I figure that my observations and predictions are far off enough that I could be right, and there’s not really any way for me to be proven wrong at the moment. So I’m going to go right on ahead!
• Laser Defense Systems: We are already working toward laser systems in air and ground defenses that would be effective in destroying incoming missiles, and so far the progress is promising. While as primary weapons, lasers are not as effective, you can’t really armor a missile all that well, so it’s relatively easy to burn a hole in them if you have enough power. Using lasers eliminates the risk of a ballistic missile missing its target, or failing to destroy it before MIRV’s can be launched. Lasers would also be much more effective in destroying multiple MIRV warheads because it is instantaneous, and it would be much more difficult to overwhelm a laser-based defense system with multiple warheads as long as it was sufficiently equipped.
• Railgun-based Delivery Systems: Because of the probable future development of laser-based systems and the rapid development of railguns, I think it is likely that nukes will someday be replaced with either railgun-delivered warheads or shear kinetic railgun “bullets”. Capable of delivering a round thousands of miles with accuracy and precision, railguns will likely become the future’s favorite threat against nuclear aggression. Additionally, while railguns could reasonably deliver nuclear warheads, they wouldn’t really need to, since the basic solid slug that they fire can have enough kinetic energy to be almost as destructive as tactical nukes on hardened targets.
Over all, I think Masamune’s prediction that nukes would shift to an almost exclusively terrorist weapon has already come true, for the most part, and will continue to become true as time passes and these technologies develop. Nukes will probably always be a threat, but the problem of who actually has them and will use them is shifting from scary dictatorial powers to crazed nutjobs closer to home- which is not really any better, if you ask me.
I’ll ask you instead- which do think is better in the long run? Dictators threatening the use of nukes, or terrorists? Also, what are some other sci-fi worlds that have done away with the problem of nukes in a way you think was effective? Let me know in the comments below!
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Cessation; conclusion; end in time or existence.
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My Biggest F*cking Aha Moment
Sita and JoJo xox
Dear Epilepsy: Am I Down Because of You?
Hey Friends,
In the midst of October, as the weather changes and gets cooler, the days are shorter, I feel myself starting to feel less motivated and excited about life. Why is this? Maybe because it’s colder, and less time is spent outside?
I really don’t understand though. I will be very excited and motivated about something before I fall asleep, but in the morning it is hard to wake up and get going. Last night I had exciting plans to coordinate teaching Seizure First Aid with my old high school, and it got to be so late today that the school is closed.
Does my mental health have anything to do with my Epilepsy? Or is it separate? November is a hard month for me because in November of 2014 the Neurological Hospital told me that the results to all the testing I had done was inconclusive. That really sucked and took me a long time to get over it. I know it is not November yet, but it is often the hardest month for me. Ironically, it is also Epilepsy Awareness month! Hah.
So I am not sure if this is a short term thing, or ongoing, but I thought I would tell you where I am at.
Lots of love,
Sita Gaia xox
Clicking in My Cowboy Boots and Feeling Exhausted
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Coming Out of The Depression Closet
So this is not an easy post for me to write at all. If you know me in real life, you will understand why, but the majority of you don`t so I will give you a quick run-down. I am a perfectionist, too hard on myself, and nothing is ever good enough in terms of my own achievements. (Well sometimes they are, but they feel short lasting and I must always strive for better). I also disregard my achievements and say they’re “not a big deal”.
Okay let`s keep that in mind. The short of it is this: I am depressed. I know there is a huge stigma in our culture surrounding depression, and it is not talked about very much. Well I am going to take my ax and burst down the wall of stigma and along with many other internet bloggers, I am joining the conversation of mental health.
I’ve learned that through my experiences with depression, different people have different ideas of what depression means or looks like. People who are struggling with depression are often mislabeled as unmotivated, and lazy, to name a few. This isn’t conducive to the healing of people with depression because calling a person with depression unmotivated will feel even more unmotivated to do something that needs to be done. Honestly, some people with depression wake up in the morning and have zero clue why they feel shitty. People might ask- did something bad happen? Are you okay? Well maybe nothing really “bad” happened, and there is no straight explanation to their mood. People who are depressed don’t want to be depressed. If they could, they would “snap out of it” in a second. It”s not that easy though. Like I said, depression isn’t all about feeling sad. It’s about lack of concentration, increased or decreased appetite, sleeping too much or too little, and unexplained aches and pains.
Check out this info graphic from buzzfeed to illustrate what I mean http://www.buzzfeed.com/annaborges/depression-101-yo
I have been great at wearing masks in the past- and to be 100% honest, I still wear masks from time to time. When I say I wear a mask, I essentially mean that I have been severely depressed but you would just think I was the most chipper person you knew. It`s a drag being depressed, and I don`t like dragging others through the mud of depression with me. Some people can see through my facade of upbeat moods and smiling. One thing about depression though- people are not always sad. There is a whole host of emotions that happen when someone experiences depression. Some of them are very heavy emotions such as guilt. Try carting guilt around with you every single day. It gets tiring. My depression goes in direct correlation with my Epilepsy, which is most likely because they are not well controlled.
With my Epilepsy, I have experienced depression on and off ever since 2011. It hasn’t been fun, but I just wanted to tell you.It is very hard to describe how I feel. I forget to eat lunch. Always. I sleep too much, and I have little triggers that can set me into a melt down. I have depression. I am working very hard to get better. Feeling better seems like an exceptional plan.
Love you lots xox
How I am Learning to Let Go of Perfectionism
Do I have trouble meeting my own standards?
Have I been told that my standards are too high?
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Lots of love! Stay imperfect!! xox
How I’ve Learned That I’m Never Really Alone
Hey friends. Okay I am going to be brutally honest. This week has been rough. I found myself in bed on Monday feeling so depressed that I needed to talk to someone. Of course, this depression washes over me at the most inconvenient of times. It was 12:30am where I was, and some of my best friends were in another province and in a deep slumber at 3:30 in the morning. There was no the fuck way I was going to call them that late.
So I thought. My parents were asleep (and I am sure they would have talked to me), yet I didn’t want to wake them. I thought of who I could call in my area that wouldn’t mind talking to me so late.
One of my bestest friends currently has a very bad cold and an ear infection. I felt so bad about calling her, but I knew she would understand. We talked for maybe over half an hour, and she told me that I could call her at any time. No matter where she was, and if she got a missed call from me while she was working, she would message me right away.
Feeling less alone when you are trying to pull yourself out of mental health issues (ie depression) helps soooo much.If you are ever in that situation, try to think of a friend you can call, or your area’s crisis line. Thank you, dear friend. You are helping to pull me out of the quicksand that is depression. With Epilepsy, I am at a higher risk of developing mental health issues (just a fact, not playing the victim card) so I really appreciate all the support I get.
Please, please please keep my story in mind if you find yourself in a tough position.
Love you all! Keep fighting the fight! xox
2015: Bring it On, I’m Ready
1. Graduating from University
2. The opportunity for extensive testing at the Neurological Hospital
4. I adopted my dog
5. My medication is working for the time being
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There are so many great villains from both DC and Marvel, so I thought I would create a list of my top 10 favorite villains. Bear in mind, that this is my opinion for the villains.
10. Lex Luthor - Superman (DC Comics)
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor
Luthor is primarily a villain of Superman, however has come into conflict with Batman and other heroes in the DC universe. Luthor is a wealthy, power mad businessman who is the head of LexCorp. Most of Luthor's plans revolve around killing Superman, through use of Kryptonite and his powerful exoskeleton. He has also been the President of the United States of America in some of the comics and animations.
First Appearance - Action Comics #23 (April 1940)
Portrayed By - Gene Hackman, Michael Rosenbaum, Kevin Spacey, John Shea, Lyle Talbot, Scott James Wells, Jessie Eisenberg
9. Deathstroke - Teen Titans (DC Comics)
Deathstroke, also known as Slade Wilson, was originally a villain of the Teen Titans, however, has been a pain to other DC heroes, including Batman and Green Arrow. Deathstroke is an assassin/mercenary who has been chemically enhanced to abilities such as healing factor, the strength of 10 men and heightened stamina and agility. Deathstroke is also a tactical genius as he has the ability to use 90% of his brain.
First Appearance - The New Teen Titans (vol. 1) #2 (1980)
Portrayed By - Manu Bennett, Antonia Sabato Jr, Michael Hogan
8. Red Skull - Captain America (Marvel Comics)
Red Skull is the arch nemesis of Captain America, and he is portrayed as a Nazi agent during World War II. While Red Skull doesn't have any powers as such, he has been injected with a version of the Super Soldier Serum that was used on Steve Rogers. Red Skull physical abilities succeed that of any Olympic athlete, and while he has been able to compete with Captain America in hand to hand combat, he has never been on par.
First Appearance - Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941)
Portrayed By - Scott Paulin, Hugo Weaving
7. Doomsday - Superman (DC Comics)
Doomsday is a deadly monster that was born in the depths of ancient Krypton, with no emotions. Doomsday is widely known as being the only person to have ever killed the Man of Steel, which was in the Death of Superman storyline. Doomsday warrants a place on any list of great villains due to the fact that he is the only person to have succeeded in doing what so many people haven't been able to, which was killing Superman.
First Apearance - Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (December 1992)
Portrayed By - Dario Delacio, Sam Witwer, Michael Jai White (voice)
6. Loki - Thor (Marvel Comics)
Loki is Thor's adoptive brother, and arch nemesis, and has also been a major villain for the Avengers. Loki has extensive training in magic, and has enhanced strength, stamina, speed and durability, as well as genius level intellect. Loki is based off of the Norse god of the same name, and in recent pop culture, he was brilliantly portrayed by Tom Hiddleston in Thor, Thor 2 and the Avengers.
First Appearance - Venus No. 6 (August 1949)
Portrayed By - Tom Hiddleston, Troy Baker (voice)
5. Magneto - X-Men (Marvel Comics)
Magneto aka. Erik Lehnsherr/Max Eisenhardt
Magneto aka. Erik Lehnsherr/Max Eisenhardt
Magneto is a Grade 4 mutant who has the abilities to control electromagnetic fields, to varying affects. Magneto grew up as being friends with Charles Xavier, however they have differing views on human/mutant relations, with Charles wanting the two to co-exist peacefully together, while Magneto wants a world with mutants as the dominant race, with human kind being wiped out.
First Appearance - The X-Men #1 (September 1963)
Portrayed By - Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender
4. Darksied - Superman (DC Comics)
Darkseid is the ruler of Apokolips, and villain of Superman, however has also come into conlfict with the Justice League, as he has attempted invade Earth a few times. Darkseid's power can only be challenged by the likes of Superman and Doomsday, however, he doesn't fight much himself and he sends his minions to do it, he saves himself for the big fights such as Superman. Darkseid is as close to pure evil as you can get.
First Appearance - Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #134 (November 1970)
Portrayed By - Michael Daingerfield, Steve Byers, John Glover, Michael Ironside (voice), Frank Welker (voice)
3. Riddler - Batman (DC Comics)
The Riddler isn't your typical bad guy, and he tests the World's Greatest Detective on an intellectual level. While he might not have any powers, Riddler employs weapons exploiting his gimmick, and he has extreme originality in decoding and formulating puzzles. Like most of Batman's villains, Riddler is insane, and he has an obsessive compulsive disorder which means he leave clues to his crimes in the form of riddles.
First Appearance - Detective Comics #140 (1948)
Portrayed By - Frank Gorshin, Jim Carrey, Cory Michael Smith, John Glover (voice), Robert Englund (voice), Wally Wingert (voice)
2. Venom - Spiderman (Marvel Comics)
Venom aka. Eddie Brock
Venom aka. Eddie Brock
Venom is a symbiote, that originally attached itself to Peter Parker, however, is most well known as being attached to Eddie Brock. Venom has been used to create the character Carnage as well. Venom's abilities include, shape shifting, invisibility (through the shape shifting), and telepathic abilities. Venom also has immunity to some of the powers of other heroes and villains, such as Spiderman and Ghost Rider. Eddie Brock blames Spider Man for what he is.
First Appearance - The Amazing Spider Man #252 (May 1984)
Portrayed By - Topher Grace, Hank Azaria (voice), Benjamin Diskin (voice), Steven Weber (voice)
1. Joker - Batman (DC Comics)
Of course number one is the Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime, and Batman's greatest nemesis. Joker is insane, and he knows it and loves it, and has even turned Dr. Harleen Quinzell insane, which then created Harley Quinn. He has no fears and is completely unpredictable, and has total disregard for human life. The Joker has been a part of crucial Batman storylines, including the death of Jason Todd and the paralysis of Barbara Gordon.
First Appearance - Batman #1 (Spring 1940)
Portrayed By - Ceasar Romano, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Mark Hamill (voice), Troy Baker (voice), Kevin Michael Richardson (voice)
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Standing tall, oblivious to your own shade;
Ages pass by thee, age old feels, pass by thee.
Holding your head still and high, almost proud;
Pride, is that your word? Have you heard of it, Love?
Bearing fruits of passion and of patience.
Year after year, those kids they throw pebbles,
Sweet your fruits, bitter your seeds.
Enigma to the oblivion, no, not to me.
I, the nomadic, the uprooted, hail thy stupidity.
Land, country, pride, mean none, I know but one;
Words the speechless; feelings the soundless;
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Temp Guage not going hot, replaced thermostat 4 months ago, so I don't think it's thermostat.
Turned the car off for five minutes, went back outside and all of a sudden won't start.
Still no power to computer monitor and radio
The temp was fine, no warning lights came on. I pulled over and it kept smoking. Drive it home, it smoked intermittently. it sat for a few days. A mechanic looked at it, and couldn't get it to smoke again. I drove it to work today, made it about 15 minutes into the drive, and it started smoking really bad again. White smoke. What could it be?
I want upgrade my 330i to six speed manual please advise
I even checked the fuses
My car all the just would not start. I put my obd on it to see what was going on an it states. Ignition low voltage.
Why will it not move in gear
My AC is not working just completely stopped
it has a cover over it and there is a strange noise coming from it. sounds like a ticking noise but almost like a water noise . car wasn't even running
I ran into a center median and no damage to car, Exception Flat Tire and dented rim. Right after the "accident" the car started flashing hazards, and all other "cluster Lights" were on. I was able to drive it home however once I Parked it in the garage it would not start again.
I got the repair parts a few months ago to fix it and it has already broken again, leaving me locked out of the car and the car sitting in a parking lot as it is Sunday and no one is open.
I know that my BMW has front wheel drive, but I always wondered why is it that most models of the BMW I have always gets the front rims of the wheels dirty just driving on a regular cement road.
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A little girl goes around knocking at car windows, asking for money. She is twelve but appears to be much older. Poverty has aged her much before her time. She has darkened from the rays of the sun and the fumes emitted by the cars among which she is walking even now. She has not bathed in days and an unpleasant odour hangs about her. She has been starved to the point where, being tall for her age, she resembles a human stick insect – all limbs and a scrawny neck. Her dress used to be white but appears to have been used as a canvas on which some inventive mind has painted with shades of yellow and brown. Maybe that’s the reason it is rarely washed, lest the masterpiece be washed away, but most likely it’s the other way around.
Walking beside her, his hand clenched tightly in hers, is a small wide eyed boy, probably her brother. He appears to be about five or six years old.
The light is still red and she continues to walk among the cars. Most of the time she is ignored after a customary glance, sometimes people are too busy even for that. If she is lucky a window comes rolling down and a hand emerges clutching a ten or twenty rupee note. However, most of the time she contents herself with the one or two rupee coins that people hand out to her.
She is also wary of people who might kidnap her. Her friends seem to disappear often enough. Come to think of it, she last saw Ravi two weeks ago.
A small boy presses his chubby cheek against the window as she passes by. He looks fat from all the chips he has been eating. He throws the wrappers out the window. He smiles at the little girl, the carefree smile of someone who has been sheltered from the harsh realities of life……..
Scene 2- Underneath a flyover
It is dusk now. The little girl walks towards her mother. She opens her palm to reveal a ten rupee note, two five rupee coins and a couple of ones and twos. She hands it over to her mother. She is admonished by her mother for not bringing more, who then shakes her head and brings her dinner. Dinner is a stale chapatti and rajma, probably salvaged from the bins of some restaurant.
It is night time. The little girl is sleeping on a dirty blanket which she shares with her mother and two younger brothers. She is thinking about the boy in the car, his carefree smile. She feels as if she is about to cry but all she manages is a single tear which makes its way to the tip of her nose and rolls onto her younger brother’s forehead. She falls asleep listening to the sounds of traffic. | https://shitijsharma24.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/red-light-girl/ | dclm-gs1-170351087 |
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Sanctions against Russia drive a wedge between US and EU
Sanctions against Russia drive a wedge between US and EU
The Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, also known as the ”Russian Davos”, has become the litmus test of the much touted “transatlantic solidarity”. While American CEOs shun the forum, European CEOs will be present, showing that the biggest part of the European business community is against antagonizing or alienating Russia.
Washington and a number of European politicians, who are best described as “European-born American patriots”, have been very vocal in their attempts to shame the German, Italian and French entrepreneurs and force them to give up lucrative Russian contacts and contracts in order to satisfy the ambitions of the US State Department. However, instead of caving in to the pressure, European business is stepping up lobbying efforts in order to force European politicians to act in the interest of European economy and not in the interest of Washington-based politicians plagued by Cold War mentality.
The fact that the Presidents and CEOs of companies like Daimler, E.On, Metro, BASF and ABB will go to Saint Petersburg is a sign that Europe is not willing to pay for America's failed experiments in Ukraine. Moreover, the lobbying efforts of big European corporations are beginning to pay off, significantly affecting the official political stance of top European politicians. Angela Merkel reluctantly agreed that “separatists” should be involved in peace talks in Ukraine, while vice chancellor Sigmar Gabriel admitted that the EU has committed numerous grave mistakes in its handling of Ukrainian crisis and that the EU was wrong to frame the Ukrainian situation as a choice between Europe and Russia.
Some segments of the European media claim that Russia has won the informational war against the US and this victory is influencing European politics. A recent editorial in Le Monde presents the Russian “media offensive” as a “knock out”, while Die Presse claims that Moscow used “KGB methods” to fight against American media narrative. The pro-American media can't publicly admit that the truth about Ukraine is coming out. The European society and the European business community know the truth about American involvement in the Ukrainian coup, the truth about Ukrainian neonazis sponsored by the US and the real facts about Odessa massacre where locals were torched alive by neonazi Ukrainian radicals with the blessing of the country's “authorities”. It is no wonder that European business is not interested in supporting America's wicked experiment of creating a neonazi state in Europe. Washington will have to get used with a new reality in which almost no one is willing to trust the US propaganda and kowtow to the US political agenda.
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My opinion is there really isn’t a difference between the two but if I was going to say there was a difference, I would say an artist has more freedom to express themselves with what they create. It doesn’t always have to be aesthetically beautiful it is what they interpret. As for a Designer, there are rules that have to be followed. For example if someone is creating a logo, the logo has to appeal to its audience it has to be recognizable for what it represents and it has to be simple and straight to the point. This does not give the designer enough free creativity because of a standard that may have to be followed.
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Today we are in a global Vitamin D deficiency pandemic. People all over the world, irrespective of location, ethnicities, genders and age, are suffering from vitamin D deficiency. Over 75% population in USA is deficient.
Unfortunately, there are several myths surrounding combating vitamin D deficiency, ranging from sun exposure, fortified foods as well as supplementation. However, studies have seen over 90% of population in India and the middle-east, with abundant sunshine, is also vitamin D deficient. Humans are losing their ability to harness the sun energy and synthesize Vitamin D in their bodies. Fortified foods and supplementation, while sound alternatives in theory, have little to no impact in practice due to poor bioavailability of the products and consumers.
The only and real solution is to either find a way to boost humans' ability to synthesize adequate amounts of vitamin D from sun energy or to bring to market food and supplement products that have high bioavailability to provide required levels of vitamin D in humans.
Alice Branton, CEO of Trivedi Global, Inc., is on a mission to champion the breakthrough of highly bioavailable food and supplement products to combat the vitamin D deficiency. Along with Mahendra Trivedi, founder of the Trivedi Effect, Alice is the co-author of over 250 research papers on the science of the Trivedi Effect that are published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Alice's research has been featured in over 1,200 universities in the U.S., including the Ivy League and the National Institutes of Health, as well as in over 3,000 universities worldwide across more than 130 countries.
In preclinical trials the Trivedi Effect has seen subjects increase their vitamin D3 synthesis by over 120%, much higher than the daily requirement. Alice herself, is a true living example of the power this breakthrough of the Trivedi Effect as the only real factor impacting quality of life, healthy aging and longevity. In May 2017 at forty-six years of age, a comprehensive full-body digital x-ray analysis revealed that Alice has no signs of degeneration and remarkably has a functioning growing cartilage as well as significant bone mineralization that is indicative of a healthy woman, twenty years of age.
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- Create data models & system architecture design to suit business processes with consideration to client's overall system strategy, security, future-proofing and change management implications.
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Individuals should typically have experience in 2-3 end to end implementations. Skills should include configuration in inventory management, puchasing, warehouse management, batch management, related organizational structures in SAP and knowledge about related master data (materials, vendors, other purchasing master data, warehouse management data, etc.). in logistics and finance).
Ideally you have integration knowledge to neighbouring modules like SD for outbound movements, PP/PP-PI for link to production, MRP planning etc. and FI/CO for integration of invoice verification with accounts payables, account determination etc.
Alternatively end-user experience coupled with excellent functional/process knowledge will be considered (specifically in logistic and finance).
Personal characteristics should include an excellent client focus, drive to achieve, ability to develop and maintain relationships at all levels within the company and client organisation.
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Court news.
Court news.
A teenage father killed his brother with a kitchen knife after growing frustrated about a loud argument he was having with his girlfriend, a court heard today (Monday).
The opening of a trial at Reading Crown Court heard that Brandon Lavender was staying in his mother’s house along with his girlfriend and his young son from a previous relationship.
Lavender’s older brother, Daniel, was downstairs in the family living room having an argument with his girlfriend, which disturbed the defendant, his girlfriend and the young child.
The hearing heard that the 18-year-old came downstairs to make food for his son and told the pair to stop arguing before returning upstairs to the bedroom.
Kim Preston, prosecuting, told jurors when Lavender came down a second time he grabbed a knife from the kitchen and took it to the living room.
“Brandon has come into the living room and there is not assault between the two of them, no fisticuffs, no pushing and shoving,” she said. “Indeed there doesn’t seem to have been any significant heated exchange between them but he has not put down the knife.
“He doesn’t put it down when he goes into the living room, what he does is approach his brother and he is stabbed not once but twice.
“He is stabbed in the upper chest area towards his armpit and a second time in his abdomen.”
The emergency services were called by Daniel’s girlfriend, who did not see the exact moment the stabbing happened, and she told them someone had been stabbed and was bleeding in the house before Lavender took the phone.
Mrs Preston told the court: “He said he had stabbed his brother in the stomach and that there was blood, a lot of blood.
“Immediately the emergency services were galvanised and attended within minutes.
“Brandon Lavender said ‘I had a knife, I was just messing around and I caught him. I stabbed him in the stomach and he’s bleeding quickly. He’s losing consciousness, it was a big knife - a kitchen knife’.”
Paramedics arrived to find Daniel Lavender had a small bit of cloth to try and stem the massive bleeding from the stab wound in his stomach and rushed him to hospital.
The 26-year-old was in surgery for around seven hours but eventually died due to losing 25 units of blood, mainly from his stomach wound which was around 4cm long and eight to 12cm deep.
Mrs Preston said: “The injury to his chest area has not obviously caused damage to any organ up there but is also a significant wound also about 4cm in its length.”
Lavender had been immediately arrested on January 16 at the family home in Brompton Close, Aylesbury, Bucks, which belonged to the boys’ mother.
Lavender, who was dressed in a grey jumper and jeans, denies one count of murder and the teenager wept in the dock as his brother’s death was described.
Mrs Preston told jurors: “What is not in dispute is the fact this defendant caused the death of his brother.
“The dispute for you to resolve is the prosecution say when the defendant acted the way he did, he did so in the full knowledge that he could, and indeed did, cause really serious injury to him that led to his death.
“The defendant on the other hand said he accepts that by using that knife it led to his brother’s death but said that it was an accident, it was not his intention to stab him, and that he did so because he thought he needed to defend himself from an assault that may have been about to happen.”
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Recently I went to have 5 stitches removed from a wound on my arm. The nurse struggled to remove them because they had been tied very close to my skin - he had to be very cautious not to cut me. The stitches which were in my arm had been done by a student doctor at whiston hospital's A&E. For the majority of the time he was not being supervised, though a senior doctor did check on him probably once or twice. The stitching (I thought) looked messy, but I wasn't sure if I was being fussy.
The nurse removing them said he had never had to remove anything that bad before and that Id now have some pretty scars from the stitching because it was that bad. Now they've been removed, I can see clearly how messy, jagged, and tight they were in my skin.
Surely student doctors need to be competent on practising on medical equipment (IE dummy's) before being let loose on public... And surely they should be supervised at ALL times - especially when they make such a mess like this.
He was also left alone to take a blood sample from me. On the 3rd attempt he was successful, but I can clearly see myself (and I'm no doctor) that for the first two attempts he was nowhere near my vein! The bruising on both arms when he attempted to take blood was unbelievable too. He didn't ask for help and he wasn't being supervised at all for this.
I wonder if things would have been different if I hadn't overdosed on tablets that made me very drowsy... would he then have been supervised more if I was alert and more aware of what was happening to me?
I am aware students need to practise - I practised a year as a childrens nurse, but personally, I always made sure I felt competent in doing something before I even went near a patient. If I was unsure I would refuse to do something and would ask to see the procedure being done or ask for full supervision if I felt I needed it.
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4 essential search tricks to finding the perfect holiday gifts on Etsy
Caitlin McGarry | Dec. 18, 2015
Finding handmade and vintage gifts just got a little easier with Etsy's new search tools.
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Tell me if this sounds familiar: You sit down in front of your computer to do a little holiday gift shopping, only to realize your mind is completely blank. You have no idea what to get for your dad. Your niece would like…some kind of toy, right? OK, it’s time to admit you need a little—or a lot—of help.
Online shopping is like falling down a rabbit hole. You can waste hours and hours without buying a single thing. Nowhere is that more true than Etsy, which is known for its wealth of handmade treasures—but, like a physical marketplace, it’s a better experience if you wander in without knowing exactly what you want.
Etsy realized how difficult it was to find the millions of items its sellers are hawking, so a few months ago it completely overhauled the way you search the site. I recently spoke with Jaime DeLanghe, Etsy’s senior product manager for search and discovery, to find out how to use the new search tools to find holiday gifts.
“Unlike a site like Amazon or another big, known e-commerce retailer, we don’t have a lot of things people have necessarily seen before,” DeLanghe said. “You’re not going to buy a flatscreen TV for the lowest price for the holidays, you’re going to buy a unique gift that shows the unique connection between you and the person you’re buying for. That makes shopping a little bit different, and to address that difference, we built a bunch of stuff.”
The new search tools have dramatically changed the holiday shopping game, making it easier to find a perfectly distinctive gift without stepping foot outside your house. We’re down to the wire in terms of the present-buying window of time, but don’t worry: There are tips for that, too.
A new way to search
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It helps if you have a vague idea what your loved ones like: old TV shows, photography, watches, a certain George Lucas–created space franchise. Before Etsy revamped its search tools, when you typed in a phrase like Star Wars, the site would show you all 80,000-odd results. Now, it surfaces the top categories of Star Wars listings—collectibles and clothing, just so you know—and you can filter products by price, seller location, and whether the items are handmade or vintage.
The search bar also autocompletes your phrases as you type, just like Google. A friend of mine loves everything rose gold, but I’m not about to drop a few hundred dollars on a rose gold iPhone 6s or Apple Watch for her. The autocomplete feature is populated based on what other Etsy users are searching for, so I typed in “rose gold” to see what popular items turned up. The search bar autocompleted “stud earrings,” which would make a great gift.
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Israel frees Palestinian long-term hunger striker
July 10, 2012
The family of Palestinian prisoner Mahmud Al-Sarsak, sits in front of his images at their home.- AFP Photo
BEIT HANUN: Mahmud Sarsak, a Palestinian footballer who staged a hunger strike of nearly three months while in an Israeli jail, was freed on Tuesday and returned to the Gaza Strip.
Sarsak was taken immediately to Gaza City's Shifa hospital, where he is expected to undergo medical tests before returning to his home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, for a celebration in his honour.
Sarsak went on hunger strike for nearly three months in protest against his detention without charge under Israel's “unlawful combatants” law. His detention order was due to expire or be renewed on August 22.
His protest attracted international attention, with world football governing body Fifa and rights group Amnesty International expressing concern over his ongoing detention.
Israeli officials called Sarsak an “Terrorist who planned attacks and bombings,” but never made public any charges or evidence against him.
He began his hunger strike on March 23, but briefly paused it in mid-April.
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1084: Syntax Error
Hi all,
I have a piece of code written in Actionscript. When I checked syntax, I got the following error message;
"1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before add."
duplicateMovieClip(tremble, "tremble" add c, c) code leads to the above error.
Additionally, I am using actionscript 3 and also tremble is an instance name of movieclip
How can I fix this problem?
Thanks in advance,
a = 3;
b = 6;
c = 9;
duplicateMovieClip(tremble, "tremble" add c, c);
tremble._x = random(a);
tremble._y = random(b);
tremble._alpha = random(45);
tremble._rotation = random(a);
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that won't work in actionscript 3
you cant use "add" in AS3 - you have to use "+"
_rotation, _x and _y are now just rotation, x and y (no underscore), but otherwise work the same
_alpha is now just alpha (again, no underscore), and uses a 0 - 1 range, rather than 0 to 100 (e.g., 0.2 in AS3 is the same as 20 in AS2)
most importantly, there is no duplicateMovieClip method in AS3. there is no equivalent. instead, create the clip you want to use repeatedly as a Class, and instantiate it using the "new" operator, e.g.,
// if you made a class previously called "MyClass"
var myClass:MyClass = new MyClass();
AS3 is very different from AS2 (and AS1), so plan on spending some time learning the new stuff and forgetting the older stuff : )
DelidumrulAuthor Commented:
it is a very quick and helpful solution.
Thanks a lot,
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When even Iron Man can't resist the siren song of shawarma, you know it must be something special. The Middle Eastern sandwich, which famously formed the final scene in the first "Avengers" film, usually consists of layers of rotisserie-cooked meat, vegetable fillings and a spicy sauce, all tucked into a rolled-up flatbread. You can assemble shawarma at home with store-bought pita bread, but making your own flatbread yields a more flexible and tasty wrap to encase the exotic treat.
Add a few scoops of flour to your mixing bowl. Mix in a spoonful of salt until the two ingredients are well-combined. Make a hole in the center of the flour mixture.
Whisk together 5 parts room lukewarm water to 1 part olive oil. You'll need about half as much liquid mixture as you have of the flour mixture, or perhaps a bit less.
Pour the liquid mixture into the well at the center of flour mixture. Add it slowly, stopping to push the flour into the center of the well to combine the dry and wet ingredients. Add more of the water-oil mixture, as needed, until a sticky dough forms.
Knead the shawarma bread dough on a floured surface until it becomes soft and stretchable. Once it reaches this smooth state, roll it into a ball shape. Add a bit of olive oil into the mixing bowl, put the dough ball into the bowl and roll it around in the olive oil.
Leave the shawarma bread dough to rest for at least 4 hours after covering the bowl with plastic.
Divide the room-temperature dough into even-sized pieces, then roll each piece into a ball. The balls should be about the size of golf balls.
Leave the balls of shawarma bread dough to rest under a clean dish towel for about 15 minutes.
Roll the balls into circles that are about 1/16-inch thick, and no larger than the inside of your skillet. As you're rolling the last of the dough, preheat your skillet over medium-high heat.
Drizzle olive oil into the preheated pan and tilt it so that the oil spreads evenly across the surface of the pan.
Set the first shawarma bread dough circle into the pan. Cook the dough for 1 to 2 minutes per side.
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“Famous” examples
How does MindSonar support organizations and individuals? How can it in help you solve problems and achieve goals? In each of the following MindSonar projects, a MindSonar professional helps an organization understand how key people think, and then helps them make good use of that information.
Developing leadership in the Dutch military with MindSonar
When an officer in the Dutch military is being prepared for a high ranking position, they start a leadership development training of approximately one year. In this year they work on their communication, strategic, and leadership competencies. At the beginning of the course a MindSonar profile is made and the candidate defines their own strengths and weaknesses as a potential high ranking officer. Their MindSonar profile is related to the competencies they want to develop (they choose five from a list of twelve competencies defined by the military). The Meta Programs and criteria in their MindSonar profile are seen as a “lever” to better enable them to develop these competencies. An officer might, for instance, want to develop a thinking style that has stronger “towards,” “general,” people,” and “structure” Meta Programs, combined with more “yellow” criteria (personal development and systems overview). During the year the officer has several conversations with a coach. At the end of the course, another measurement is done to determine if the target competencies have indeed been developed.
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Selling luxury cars with MindSonar
MindSonar Measuring Meta Programs and valuesSelling automobiles in the top segment of the market usually involves several hours of personal contact between a sales person and the customer. In this segment personal relationships are an important factor influencing sales. All Dutch salespeople of one of the top automobile brands were profiled with MindSonar.Their meta-programs and criteria were related to the number of cars they sold per year. In this way, the desired profile for a salesperson—with this brand—was calculated. The desired profile—where different Meta Programs were given different weights—correlated highly with the number of cars sold. From then on, all candidates for sales positions were profiled with MindSonar. How similar their profile is to the desired profile partly determines whether or not they are hired. Also, in the current sales force, salespeople who diverted from the desired profile were offered a training course, tailored to develop their underdeveloped Meta Programs.
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Selecting jury members for freestyle horse riding with MindSonar
MindSonar Measuring Meta Programs and valuesThe Dutch Association for Horse Riding Sports wanted to develop an objective basis for the selection of jury members for their freestyle competitions (concours hippique). The monetary value of a horse depends on its score in this competition. So, for horse owners, there are both emotional and financial interests at stake. The score, unlike that in other competitions like barrier jumping, depends entirely upon the subjective evaluation of the jury. The association hired two MindSonar professionals who profiled twelve outstanding jury members. They calculated an average profile and formulated a psychological explanation of why this profile described the thinking of a good jury member. The excellent jury members recognized both the profile and the explanation. This resulted in a desired profile with relative weights for different Meta Programs. Since then, every year hundreds of people wanting to become freestyle jury members are profiled with MindSonar. The MindSonar professionals present the selecting committee with a matching percentage for each candidate and they specify the meta-programs on which the candidate matches or mismatches the desired profile. The committee then coordinates their impressions from interviews with the MindSonar results to decide.
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Helping pedagogy interns adapt to their professional environment with MindSonar
MindSonar Measuring Meta Programs and valuesBefore pedagogy students of a Dutch university start their internship, for instance in an educational institution, they are profiled with MindSonar. Their supervisor, knowing the culture of the institutions where the students do their internships, can express that culture in terms of Meta Programs and values. The supervisor, comparing the profile of the student with the culture of the institution, then predicts the kinds of obstacles that particular student is likely to encounter in that particular institution. Let’s say the institution’s culture is reactive, specific, and information-oriented and the student has a proactive, global, and activity-oriented profile. The supervisor can then predict that some people in the institution may experience the student as rash, uncontrollable, vague, and inaccurate. The supervisor discusses this with the student and also how the student can respond, should this problem occur. This has advantages both for students and for the institution. If the predicted problems occur, the student is ready to respond adequately and this tends to prevent escalation and drop-out.
Keeping people involved in a volunteer organization with MindSonar
MindSonar Measuring Meta Programs and valuesA Dutch volunteer organization, promoting inter-ethnic understanding in schools, was having trouble retaining volunteers. MindSonar professionals profiled both the volunteers and the people recruiting them. They noticed that the recruiters and the older volunteers, as well as the new volunteers, all scored high on the meta-program “together.” Recruiters often enlist people with meta-programs similar to their own. In and of itself this seemed like a good strategy because similarity tends to enhance rapport. Within the dynamics of this organization, however, it had a contrary effect. Older volunteers, valuing togetherness and having had the experience that new people would leave the organization rather quickly, did not invest in the new people socially. Precisely because of their preference for togetherness, it was an emotional strain for them to see people leave. So they would focus on their in-group of older volunteers and more or less neglect the newcomers for the first few months. The newcomers, on the other hand, did not feel welcomed. This was a major setback, precisely because they too had a strong preference for togetherness. Their response was to leave the organization, which in turn consolidated the belief of the older volunteers that there was no use in investing in newcomers. To break this vicious cycle, all the MindSonar professionals had to do was to explain this to the older volunteers. As soon as they started giving more attention to the newcomers, the problem gradually disappeared
Banking and entrepreneurial attitude with MindSonar
MindSonar Measuring Meta Programs and valuesA large Belgian insurance bank defined a new corporate strategy in which it was important for their insurance brokers to develop a more entrepreneurial attitude. A central factor in this development was the relationship between the insurance brokers and the local insurance agents in the community. The company defined a list of key competencies for their brokers related to dealing with these agents. All brokers were profiled by MindSonar professionals. Surprisingly, after a statistical analysis, it turned out that there was no significant relationship between thinking style, criteria, and key competencies on the one hand and sales volume on the other hand. Further analysis revealed that this had to do with the targets that were being set. Because targets were set at a relatively low level, their MindSonar profile did not make a lot of difference. It did not matter much how brokers thought, what they found important, and which competencies they had. The volume of sales was determined mostly by demand from the local insurance agents and the efforts of the brokers seemed to have little to do with it. This finding led the company to change the system of setting targets. After targets were adjusted, thinking style did make a difference. A training program was developed in which brokers were trained in those competencies that their MindSonar profile showed them to be lacking in. For this project the company won a prestigious training award.
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Training child care auditors with MindSonar
MindSonar: Meta Programs and spiral dynamicsIn the Netherlands, a specific set of quality criteria is used to evaluate child care organizations, like day care centres for instance. These criteria are being audited once a year by independent institutions. To improve quality, it is also important for the child care institutions themselves, to do audits internally with their own employees. So they wanted to know: what exactly does it take to be a good child care auditor? MindSonar professionals investigated two things: First of all, what are the Meta Programs of a good auditor? And secondly, how do these relate to those of a good child care worker? They asked several organizations to tell them who their best Internal auditors were. They profiled these auditors, constructing an ideal MindSonar profile for an internal auditor. Good auditors were found to score high on Meta Programs ‘Visual’ and ‘Information’. They want to see what information has been stored about processes. Good child care workers typically have high scores on Meta Programs ‘Kinesthetic’ and ‘People’. So they need to shift their focus (Meta Programs) to be good auditors. The MindSonar professionals then built a training program around these two Meta Programs and achieved good results when the child care workers started their auditing work.
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1. This famous projects part of the site is very interesting and stimulating. It shows in what different areas of our lifes we can benefit from the Mindsonar approach. It stimulates me to further look into the possibilities with clients. Keep up posting your projects!
2. It appears from these diverse examples that Mindsonar could be very useful to HR departments in many industries, so long as the criteria that makes a good employee or professional person can be identified and agreed upon!
• Exactly! Usually the MindSonar professional will have a long conversation with the management about what the requirements are, and then translate those into metaprograms and criteria-categories. Sometimes these benchmark profiles are weighed (some elements are considered to be more important than others). Even better is to actually measure a number of people who are already doing well in that company and base the benchmark on that.
3. It’s fascinating to see all the different ways MindSonar is being used around the world. It brings to mind one of my favorite psychology related quotes: The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ~Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943 … keep up the good work!
4. Hello Jaap! Greetings from Chicago. I’m an attorney and specialize in high stakes civil litigation. I was very interested to see that MindSonar was being used in connection with jury selection. I was wondering if MindSonar principles and analysis could be adapted to traditional voir dire questions that can be submitted to potential jury members in US trials? Are you working together with any jury consultant firms? Have any jury consultants expressed interest in being trained? Thanks for your time.
• MindSonar world wide is a blue lagoon full of opportunities, like the one you mention. But no, nobody has done anything in that area, as far as I now. Closest thing is advising mediators with MindSonar.
5. I like the insurance broker example above because it shows how MindSonar can also be very helpful in challenging existing belief systems. Once a certain mindset is adopted by an organization, it can be very difficult to change the corporate culture.
6. Greetings. I am in auto sales at a BMW dealership. The luxury car sales research discussed above caught my eye and got me thinking. In my experience our customers are a pretty diverse group. Would it really be more effective to hire the same kind of sales person in one’s sales force? As you note in the article, it can take a lot of personal contact to close the sale in these situations. Some personality types might be more effective with some types of customers. It is also interesting to note that in the insurance project, the broker’s personal attributes were not correlated with sales. Why would personality be so important in car sales but not insurance and banking? I’m puzzled.
7. Hello everyone. Thanks for creating this blog. The research in the examples above is most interesting and has obvious practical value. I was wondering if you could give a ballpark quote of how much it might cost to engage a MindSonar professional for business projects? I know that each project is different and the cost would vary depending on the scope, but I would like to have some general framework to consider whether or not it would be right for my own company. Thanks in advance.
8. Voltaire is credited with saying, “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” I think the beauty of MindSonar is that it helps us to better understand what the thinking process actually is. I believe that will help us solve problems more effectively and in less time. Carry forward with your important work Jaap!
9. This appears to be a truly interesting finding. A unique way of developing very essential abilities in someone. I am thoroughly intrigued and impressed by the social and psychological aspects it can have. Keep up the good work. Hope to see more postings.
10. Well I guess it’s one thing to make claims, but another to make claims and back them up with actual evidence. I’m really curious to see if MindSonar will start to become more apparent in HR practices in North America.
11. The pedagogy example is great, I think that this would help very much as you say for institutions and students, educational institutions testing focus mostly on academic,social and learning skills but having this option to help predict problems in adaptation and being able to face them soon enough is really helpful.
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Scorpio Daily Horoscope say so
The Scorpio horoscope today August 16 2014 suggests that Scorpio natives are going to be very busy this Saturday, running errands. This means that they will have many encounters, with fresh information, that will keep them on the road for the vast majority of the day.
How do you take this description? Do you think is there any chance for this to apply to your day? It’s true that the stars are usually right and can give us clues but in the end it’s up to us what we do with the things that happen to us as we are the only ones to decide our destiny.
You make your own Scorpio horoscope, how is it today August 16 2014?
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Among hackers and modders, Sony's PSP is a favorite for its hack-ability. Depending on one's knowledge, the portable console can be altered to play custom games and programs (homebrews) as well as THE SITE THAT CANNOT BE MENTIONED FOR LEGAL REASONS games. Taking all it's learned from the weaknesses of the PSP, Sony developed the PS Vita with safeguards against such hacks and mods. But recently, a hacker in Japan has utilized a security hole to hack into the Vita and successfully run his own custom program, much to Sony's chagrin. The hacker known as "Wololo" recently talked with Kotaku about the Vita's security.
A software programmer in Japan and 4 year veteran hacker, Wololo is in fact not Japanese, but French. Beginning in 2007 with the PSP, Wololo created his homebrew card game "Wagic" that ran utilizing a security exploit in the console. He described his reasons for hacking as the enjoyment of exploring and experimenting.
"Mostly, it's for the excitement of making the device do something it wasn't supposed to do initially," Wololo told Kotaku via email. "The rush of adrenaline you get when the screen finally displays a 'hello world', especially after hundreds of hours of failed attempts or experiments."
In regards to the recent developments with the PS Vita security hole and his work on the homebrew program, Wololo elaborated that the weakness was not in the Vita's system, but rather, in the PSP emulator. This exploit was discovered by another hacker, "Teck4" who worked with Wololo in testing the exploit and homebrew programs. The hacking process utilizes a common "buffer overflow" vulnerability found in many PSP games that allows them to run programs inside the emulator, but is not "a real Vita exploit."
According to Wololo, "The Vita exploit, in essence, is nothing more than the same recipe applied to the PSP emulator, this is why it was so 'easy' to put in place."
Shortly after the exploit was announced, the downloadable game with the security hole was removed from the PlayStation Store. This course of action was seen as both understandable, and perhaps paranoid on Sony's part. Wololo explained that he had only announced on his blog what the title of the game was, and not the details, and yet Sony had acted almost immediately.
"I didn't realize I have a reputation high enough that Sony is ready to remove a full game and lose money on this," he said. "It was a dangerous move on their side, I could have been bluffing the entire time."
Wololo stated that Sony's immediate removal of the game, as well as the counter-piracy measures that were implemented in the development of the Vita seemed a little "over the top" and restrictive, especially for legitimate users. "In particular," Wololo explained, "the PC specific software (CMA) required to copy content from and to the vita is way too restrictive and intrusive—it requires people to be constantly connected to the internet when the copy files."
Most of the measures put in place by Sony, are to counteract piracy. Wololo made the distinction between hacking and piracy and stated that much like Sony, he does not agree with piracy, and even showed empathy to Sony for wanting to protect their product. But he reiterated his disappointment in the fact that Sony's anti-piracy measures could dishearten honest customers more that pirates.
"The best example I can give is my constant issues with DVDs on the PS3," he said. "The Japanese version of the PS3 does not support PAL playback.
"The DVDs I bought in France do not work on the PS3, not because of a hardware limitation, but because of software locks," he continued. "That kind of thing really annoys me because Sony makes it easier for me to pirate a movie than to watch one I legally purchased. Lots of those DVDs are cartoons for my son. I would love him to learn a bit of French by watching French cartoons, but he can't, because the PS3 refuses to play them."
Despite his disapproval of Sony's security tactics, Wololo expressed genuine enthusiasm for the Vita as a product, and stated that he looks forward to continue tinkering with it. As for fear of repercussions from Sony, Wololo stated, "Sony never contacted me about my work, so for now I'm not worried. I really believe I'm a small fish for Sony.
"Of course if I ever felt what I am doing is illegal, I would probably stop," he added. "Although sometimes what 'feels fair' and 'what's legal' seem so disconnected."
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As a Muslim and Arab myself, this is a subject near and dear to my heart. Generally, the media tends to show Arabs/Muslims in an unattractive light and just us Arabs/Muslims knowing the truth is not enough. Here are three things the media doesn’t always tell you about Arabs/Muslims:
1) Arab Does NOT Equal Muslim.
This might come as a shock to some but being an Arab does not automatically mean you are a Muslim, and vice versa. Islam is a religion just like Christianity and Judaism and is followed by people from many countries and ethnicities. Even though most Arabs are in fact Muslim, East Asia has the highest Muslim population in the world. On the other hand, there are a lot of Arabs that follow other religions and it is widely accepted as the norm in Arab communities.
2) Muslim Women Are Not Oppressed.
The Western media never fails to paint Muslim women in such a way that makes them look as if they are victims of relentless oppression by their religion when in reality Islam honors women. Islam has given women the right to an education, the right to work, to own land and to be an upstanding member of society just like any man. The only reason Muslim women, like all other women, face oppression and sexism is because misogyny is a universal issue, rather than a religious one. It is also believed that the hijab is forced upon women because Islam is obsessed with the idea of purity and virginity, when in reality most women wear the hijab because they are faithful to their religion and intend to reflect their personal devotion to God.
3) Muslims/Arabs Do Not Support Violence and Terrorism.
It is extremely ironic that groups like ISIS commit heinous crimes in the name of Islam when the Prophet Muhammed himself instructed his followers to help their Christian neighbors and to go so far as to help them rebuild their churches. It is important for the world to understand that Islam is a religion of peace. As children we are taught to be as kind as can be to people of all different races, religions and genders. 5:32 in the Qur’an says “…whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.” The Qur’an equates the soul of one to all of mankind, and to take one soul is to kill all of humanity. The Prophet Muhammed told his followers to do good by everyone, regardless of how they treat them. Kindness, generosity and peace is a fundamental aspect of Islam. Even in times of warfare there are Islamic laws that forbid the barbaric terrorism of groups like ISIS.
Islam perpetuates and instills clemency, compassion and humanity in its followers and it would be beneficial to all parties involved if the media stopped stereotyping Arabs/ Muslims in such harmful ways.
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ARGH!!!! MY EYES!!!!!!
Sorry about the color scheme, but Halloween is awesome...I'll change it back to something normal on Thursday. Those donuts in the picture were created by yours truly. Our son wanted me to go to Dunkin' Donuts to buy him some donuts.....if anyone ever sees me in a Dunkin' Donut.....shoot me please.
We have another local chain around here that I would buy donuts from because they contribute quite a bit of money back into the community and I used to work for them.....but Dunkin' Donuts? They've slipped quite a bit in the past couple of years.
Today's science break. I'm a science geek, I love reading stuff like that....check out this guys other essays at the bottom of the page.
This is kinda cool.
This looks like a good book. I know I'm gonna sound like an old fart when I say this.....but things were so much different when I was a kid.
Oh wait...........I'm still a kid. At least on the inside.
Have an orange day.
till later
You know you're tired........
You know you're tired when you get into the shower and you're still wearing your glasses. Sometimes, I even surprise myself with my own absentmindedness....I am the king of forgetting stuff.
I bought myself a simple Palm Pilot a year ago, I don't know how I'd get through life without it. If I am supposed to be somewhere or pick something up from the store...I gotta write it down in the Palm or 9 times out of 10-I'll blank out.
Ever walk into a room and forgot what you wanted to do or why you were even there? Sometimes, I'll have whole days like that.
I'm on vacation again next week, I am hoping to hit the foliage peak right on the money.
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I'm dyin' to get out and play with my new camera....
I think #13 is my favorite.
till later.
Monday, October 29, 2007
One thing about working shift work is that nights off can really screw up your sleep schedule. For instance, this is my night off and I took a short nap right when I got home from work Sunday morning and then another one Sunday evening and now it's 1:30 AM Monday morning and I'm wide awake.
This would be cool if I could actually do something besides watch TV and screw around on the internet. I'd like to cut the grass and fertilize but 2 in the morning isn't the best time to fire up the mower........
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
I've been reading about the wildfires out in Cali...between the fires, the traffic, earthquakes and housing prices-why does anyone choose to live there? I guess the climate is pleasant.
I don't know but when you have 2,700 factories making stuff for you on the other side of the world...some stuff is gonna slide by.
I ain't the smartest guy in the world, but it sure would be nice if we could figure out a way to make sure all kids under the age of 18 had healthcare....and yeah, I'd pay more taxes to make it happen.
Here's a really spiffy weather map. Just put your zip code into the box on the upper right.
This link might be dead by the time you read this, but if it isn't....click on the players names....somebody at Barton Collage was having fun.
If you've seen this video...........you've reached the end of the internet.
Butthole marketing.
1. Boxing.
3. Asparagus and rhubarb.
4. Strawberry
6. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
8. Lettuce
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
"Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank."
"Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank."
Next time I see a 12 year old with "Juicy" printed on her ass..........
I'm not much of a web page designer...
I was working on our churches web site and took a second look at the pages I had started to set up....I kinda didn't like them, so I deleted the lot of them and decided to start over.
Sometimes, life is just like that.
I only have one client appointment so far this week, so I should have plenty of time to do some more experimentation. It's mostly simple stuff with large, easy to read graphics.
Lots of the potential users don't spend a lot of time using a computer-so the easier the site is to navigate-the better.
till later.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Gotcha Gift Box: 3 Set :: Onion Store
I need to get a set of these...........
Gotcha Gift Box: 3 Set :: Onion Store
Since I had everything recently backed up on my laptop............I decided to play around some.
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I managed to pretty much make it look like Vista without crashing anything.....
till later.
Friday, October 26, 2007
So last night was kinda cold and drizzly..........my knees were absolutely killing me. So much so that I bought a tube of Icy Hot to slather on them. I went to the restroom, dropped trou and put a generous amount on both knees.
Not sure how it happened but some of the Icy Hot must have gotten on to my trousers.
After a few minutes, I noticed some things getting warm that really weren't supposed to be warm. Since my daughter and my mom read this blog........I'll leave those body parts up to your imagination.
Moral of the story.......be careful with where you put Icy Hot....it works good-sometimes a little too good.
I saw a commercial for Charmin toilet paper yesterday.....the commercial was touting the fact that Charmin leaves fewer pieces behind. Unless I get into a car accident and have to go to the hospital...........exactly how many people will know if I left a few pieces behind? What a dumbass commercial.
Our daughter is going to Italy sometime next year........not sure of all the details but I think it's way cool.
We need more people like Ed around........great job!
That's all for today......I'm a busy boy.
till later
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
An easy fix.......
I went to a clients house to fix their printer.........pretty easy fix as it wasn't plugged the whole way into the computer. I wish all the fixes were that easy. I didn't charge them anything....I didn't have the heart and it wouldn't have been right. Sometimes tech stuff can be easy...sometimes it can be hard.
In the next couple weeks, I'm gonna be spending a lot of my free time setting up a simple to use web site for our church.....so if ya'll don't see me post much-you know why.
This morning coming out from work was the first time this year that it felt like fall. Windy, rainy and cold....good sleeping weather, but not much good for anything else. Lucky for me...that's what I plan to do...catch up on some sleep. If there's one thing I do well, it's sleep. I might even be considered a professional sleeper.....I'm that good at it.
I love me some 80's music.
Why it's good to wear a full face helmet (don't worry-no gore). A friend of mine at work had a get-off earlier this year...his head hit the guard rail. Without the helmet....he woulda probably been killed.
Till later.
Mole Day
I'm pretty sure our daughter celebrated this.
Mole Day
Our daughter is a geek........I think she gets some of that from me.
Thankfully, she's got her mother's smarts.
NPR : Maine Middle School to Issue Birth Control Pills
My son sent this link to me.....
NPR : Maine Middle School to Issue Birth Control Pills
Jeez, when I was 11 years old, I was more concerned about building model cars and lighting them fire then I was about birth control.
Wait a sec...........I'm not even sure if I knew what birth control was when I was that old.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Work sucks............
Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh, work doesn't really suck....but my knees ain't used to standing up for 8 hours straight....I was a hurtin' pup when I got off this morning.
I was gonna try to post some good news from current events........but I could find any. Hell, even the guy who invented Rice-A-Roni died.
till later.
Monday, October 22, 2007
I'm a nice guy....honest.
Dumbledore is gay. I say........how bout it? I'm sure the news will piss off lots of conservatives, but lets face it-the world is made up of all kinds of people and the sooner we all get along......the better.
Speaking of trying to get along.....the neighbor directly behind us let their dog on their back patio all day this past Saturday. The only problem with that is that it barked for 4 hours straight. After it got dark, I walked over and calmly asked them how much longer they were planning on letting the dog out there barking. I got a "huh" look.
How can people be so damn dumb and inconsiderate? Next time, I'll just call the police and let them handle it. Not sure if bothering the police for such a trivial manner is okay or not-but they might be able to get through the guy's thick skull better them me.
More about getting along.....the neighbor next to me, is pissed because I mowed a strip of his property 8 inches wide by 20 feet. He asked me not to cut it because I cut it too short. 8 inches dude.......get a freakin' life. His wife has recently left him so he probably a little unstable, I'll try to be nice to him, but it's gonna be an effort.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot the neighbor on the other side of me.....they recently moved this past summer and while they've been busy with remodeling their house-they have let their yard go. I asked them to trim and weed an extremely overgrown flowerbed bordering our property a while back because it was seeding our yard with all kinds of weird weeds and plants.
Nothing happened for awhile....so I weeded it myself .......with a bottle of Roundup. No roots, no weeds, no problem. Except they give me dirty looks whenever they see me.
And don't get me started on dog owners that think it's okay for their dogs to defecate and urinate all over my yard and then try to clean most of it up with a shovel and a baggie........
Sounds like I'm a real asshole huh? Not at all...I'm a nice guy-honest. Just ask my mom.
Heros.......to zeros.
I know what I'm wearing this Halloween.
This is kinda scary....it's one of the reasons I went to Linux on one of my computers. You never know.....
I think I would go by "Bill" instead of "Willie".
This is a really good article about alternative fuels and some guy in Kansas who makes 800 horsepower Hummers. Me? I'm not looking for a Hummer with enough power to rotate the Earth, but I'll settle for a Smart car that gets 75 mpg.
till later.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
A hiking we will go......
I got to take some good pics yesterday-my wife and I went on a hike around Lake Williams. As you can see, it was close to 4 miles-nothing too tough but we both are feeling it a little bit. Actually, my knees are feeling it a LOT...but it was worth it.
You know you are getting old when you take Celebrex before you go out for a walk.
As you can see...there ain't a whole lot of Lake Williams left. It's really surprising that there hasn't been much coverage in the local media concerning how low our water reservoir is.
We walked past where all the clear cutting in the park took place several years ago, at the time-the Parks and the York Water company promised that they would reseed the logged areas with new trees.
I didn't see any new trees, just a lot of garbage vegetation. I guess the money the York Water Company got for the logged trees was more important then restoring what they destroyed. I know we need paper products, but jeez.....did they have to saw down trees in one of our county parks? I digress.....
Here are more pictures here of different locations along the trail.
I had my camera on full auto for all the pictures, I didn't want to hold up my lovely wife while I goofed around with settings...she likes to keep a nice steady pace. We did the hike in about 90 minutes so we didn't do much standing around.
Even with having the camera make all the decisions....I think it does a really nice job.
My friend Hank sent me this. My favorite is the pic with the bigger brother that decorates his baby brother with magic marker. I'm sure he got in a little trouble for that one.
I still think Rush Limbaugh is ten pounds of shit packed into a 5 pound bag, but hats off to him for doing this.
If you trouble falling asleep, listen to this.
24%........this country is f**ked up.
I didn't know this was a sport.
There's birthday cakes and then there are birthday cakes.
till later.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
I'm geeked out.....
How you know you might be a geek when you...........
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Use two computers with different OS'es at the same time.
I'm liking Ubuntu quite a bit, there isn't much that it can't do that Windows doesn't do. It even runs fairly well on my 8 year old PC. I'm no Linux expert, but I like having something different to learn, and fortunately.....I have a few readers that can help me out if I get stuck on something.
The weather here in Central PA has just been insane. I'm sitting here at 6 in the morning wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be in the mid 70's....not bad for late October. I'd be perfectly okay with a mild winter. I like the cooler temps but I can do without the snow, sleet and freezing rain.
With any luck, I'll be out later today to play around with my camera, I've pretty much mastered the basic settings and besides....it ain't rocket science-it's just getting out there and getting some shots.
I've found the candidate I'm voting for in 2008..........I'm going with the toad........I'm tired of all the bullshit.
till later.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I made a little money......
Wasn't feeling all that spiffy yesterday but I did a simple web site for my brother-in-law....nothing really fancy-actually, it's exactly how he wants it....simple and easy to navigate.
He's been talking to someone that does web sites for the last 6 months and been getting pretty much nowhere. I'm not a web designer by any stretch of the imagination, but I threw something together while he was here yesterday working on my windows.
He's happy-I'm happy and I get to put a little more money in the bank.
A joke......
She asks him why he is staring.
He replies..."I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you,"
She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just About everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.
"Forgive me, but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish."
The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween Party."
........gotta love Halloween.
I sold my Redline Monocog yesterday.....it's going to a reader of this blog and I'm sure he's gonna be using it a lot more then I've been. I hate to see it go, but being realistic-ain't no way I'm gonna be riding it with my creaky knees. At least it went to another computer geek-you gotta like that.
Still have my Cannondale R500 if anyone's interested.....
The pot calling the kettle black.....honestly, he's starting to scare me.
This is even scarier then Bush........these guys are actually intelligent.
Yay, the newest version of Ubuntu is here. Been using the previous version for a couple months, it's an excellent way to breathe life into an old computer.
Check out the cardboard bikes.
A list of lists........don't blame me if you are reading this at work and don't get anything done today.
till later.
I'm a slacker....
Jeez, I forgot how much fun it is to just wake up in the morning with no set plans until I go back to bed in the evening. I guess that's why they call it vacation.
My brother-in-law is a contractor and this week he's installing all new windows and patio doors in our humble abode. I'd post his name, but he already has way more business then he can handle. The dude is a total perfectionist and deals mainly with high end clients-he's real good.
I caught me a little bit of a cold or something, I got a flu shot the other day-that might have something to do with it. It's not where I'd call myself "sick".... just enough of a cold to where I just wanna flop around the house and take it easy. Since it's going to be rainy for the next couple days-I'm not too upset about it.
I'm a wallpaper junkie, these are some very nice high resolution pics.
I also like trying out new software.....anyone remember Netscape Navigator? They have a new version that's mostly a copy of Firefox. It's pretty much the same but I kept it anyways, it's a good back up in case I corrupt Firefox somehow.
How fresh is your Sushi?
I kinda like #1 the best.
Till later....
Monday, October 15, 2007
Dumbest product ever.
Time for some goofing off....
I haven't had one of those vacations where all I do is goof off for awhile.
My brother-in-law is a contractor and will be spending most of the week here putting in new windows so I can't stray too far.
It's just nice to wake up and other then taking our son to school.......the rest of the day is open.
I've decided to sell my Cannondale R500 road bike, I've ridden it exactly 5 times this entire year. I'm much more comfortable on my Cross-Check and I'm gonna use the money for computer stuff. I need PC equipment more then I need a bike that I never ride. You can check out more here if you're local and wanna buy a nearly new road bike.
This is wrong on so many levels.
Darth plays a mean harmonica.
Good news for my 2nd favorite band.
The visual puns in this ad make me want to go to the bathroom.....now.
It would be easier to just eat a banana or two.
Till later.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
SkyMall - Dough-nu-matic
Wow, this might put me out of a job.
SkyMall - Dough-nu-matic
Settings settings and more settings
Well, so far I've gotten about half-way through the manual on my camera and there are all kinds of settings for just about everything. It's kind of intimidating but to be honest....I'm kind of digging it. I'm sure once I learn what all the buttons, menus and settings do...it's gonna be awesome.
Just finished setting up a new PC for a client yesterday. They went from a Windows 98 machine with a 14 inch CRT display and dial up to a pimped out Vista desktop with a 20 inch LCD widescreen monitor with broadband. Super nice guy and he very well might have stayed up all night playing around with it....I know that if I was in the same situation, I woulda.
This guy has way too much time on his hands.
Me........I'm kinda busy.
till later.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
I like my camera......
I really like my birthday present.........I'm kinda busy with computer stuff this weekend, look for some pics next week-I'm on vacation and plan to do some major league slacking. I'll be taking some hikes and whatnot-gotta catch some fall scenery.
Till later.
Friday, October 12, 2007
Mmmm, funny-except for extremely creaky knees......I don't feel like I'm 48.
I know I sure don't act like I'm 48.
Which is at least half the fun.
What did I get for my birthday? Lots of love from my family. My wife puts up with electronic stuff all over the place so I can pursue my dream of running my own business, so I don't think I could ask for more......I guess I could ask for more, but I don't think I'd get it:-)
Last night at work they had a crew of guys come in and strip all the old wax off the floor and re-wax everything. Not sure what's in that floor stripper but none of those guys on the floor crew can have very many functioning brain cells remaining.
It gave me one helluva a headache.
I'm just glad I only have to smell it twice a year when they re-do the floors....those guys smell it every night. I'm thinking they probably have a hard time stringing meaningful words together to form sentences.
Working on a brand setting up a brand new computer this weekend and trying to restore an old one that's infested with spyware. I really hate to use the nuclear option when I try to save someone computer but this particular computer is just being used for browsing and doesn't have any documents or programs installed so it's getting formatted and a fresh XP install.
I'm gonna make it so fireworks go off if the client tries to open or download anything other then web pages:-)
Boing Boing TV is a lot of fun.....you might even learn something.
I was never that big of an Al Gore fan, but I think he's learned a lot in the past 8 years.....after winning the Nobel-I'd like to see him run for President.
I think Ann might have crossed a line this time.
Here's the ultimate NASCAR dad redneck pickup if you want a sporty car and a pickup but can't have both.
Being a business owner.........this is an interesting article. If someone tried to bargain with me? I'd tell them to shop my price around-it's already pretty good.
till later
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Better then last time.......
Soooo, I went to the doctor for a normal checkup and to get more arthritis meds.....I lost 7 pounds and dropped my blood pressure down to the high end of normal.....yay.
I'm looking forward to some cool weather but my knees always seem to bother me when it gets chilly. Meh, lots of folks have way worse problems than painful joints, so I'll shut up now.
Not much time to blog this week, busy as heck with computer stuff.
Cows. Lots of cows.
I love the hair in a can stuff. I wonder how well it would look on my shiny forehead?
Our daughter just learned to knit....she might like the site in this video.
How come they didn't have cool stuff like this when I was 3 years old?
Jesus gets busted. Think about it.....you know darn well it would go down like that.
10 idiots, read up.
When I'm 75...........I could see me doing this.
This site is a time sink. Don't blame me if you sign on and wonder where 4 hours went. I'm kinda partial to the Texas Hold'em.
I hope I live past 80............you can whatever you want and nobody gives you shit for it. J.C. wasn't that great a President....if he knew then what he knows now-things woulda been different.
Mmmm, I dunno, but maybe if he hadn't snorted and smoked his body weight in cocaine over the past 15 years.......he wouldn't be having heart attack scares. Just saying.
Till later.
Best Aunt ever..........
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My Aunt Helen passed away two years ago today.
I have lots of aunts and uncles but I only had one Aunt Helen.
One of my favorite memories of her was when I got to stay over at her house in the summer.
She always thought my mom and dad were too strict with me when I was a kid, so as a result....I got to do all kinds of fun stuff when I stayed over. Nothing too out of control, but when you're 12 or 13 years old......staying up 2 or 3 hours past your normal bedtime was sheer craziness.
......I'll always miss her.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
PhD's don't work at gas stations...
So I pull into the local mini mart to get gas on the way home this morning.....get the nozzle into the van and the guy inside say something like "Hidhgf kfheodsbb, gheosbcpqwu...BEFUSRID over the outside PA system. Then about 10 seconds later, he says the same thing but at the end he adds...those assholes don't listen. I assume that he thought he was off-mike when he said the last part.....
Since it's 4 AM and I'm the only customer on the property---I figure he's talking to me. I walk inside and tell him I'm the asshole that wasn't listening, but it was hard to understand what he was saying because it sounded like he was talking through a wet blanket.
Turns out he normally sounds like he is talking through a wet blanket and probably has a room temperature IQ at best because he doesn't apologize for calling me an asshole, he just tells me that I need to reset the pump.
I didn't try it, but I managed to tip over a 24 oz coffee all over his counter when I was checking out either so I guess we're even. Oh, if anyone from Rutter's follows the link back to my blog-the guy's name is Emory and he works at the Haines Acres store-he needs to learn some manners.
I know it doesn't mean much to most folks, but I finally figured out how to convert Matroska files to AVI.....I'm so proud of myself.
Even if you don't like it...you gotta to pay the tax man.
One of these days.....I'm going.
That's one big-ass plane.
I stay away from most religious topics in this blog- I think a person's beliefs are private matter....but this link is a good read.
Even if you aren't a computer geek.......you should read this article and download the PDF file.
Ain't no way I'd spend 400 bucks on a phone, but if i did.....I'd wanna tinker with it.
Lard.......mmmm yummy.
Sometimes a logo is worth a thousand words.
I wish this wasn't true but I'm sure there's alot of this crap going on with computer techs.
I'm 100% upfront with people and if I can't fix their computer or don't fix it to their satisfaction....I refund 100% of their money. So far, I haven't had to refund a penny.
I can't afford to have any unhappy customers, all my business comes from word of mouth and bad news travels way faster then good news.
Till later.
One less teenager around the house.....
20 years ago today at around 5 PM.....my lovely wife gave birth to the best daughter a father could ever hope to have.
We're prouder of our kids then words can describe.
Happy Birthday Katie :-)
Love dad.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Where the heck is Fall?
Holy cow, it's October 5th and we have the AC cranking. I checked the weather forecast for the weekend and we are supposed to get close to 90 degrees. Holy crap. My only misgivings with the warmer weather is that we're gonna miss out on the crisp cool weather and go right into winter. That would kinda tick me off....fall is my favorite season.
Yay, I got my laptop back and they got it all fixed up without having to format the hard drive. I had all my stuff backed up but it's still a pain to have to reinstall everything. Our son has a better laptop then me, it was fun using his for the past week.
Our daughter is coming home today to celebrate her 20th birthday tomorrow. We have a party and celebrate her birthday, my dad's birthday and mine all at once. Good times....
I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone listens to this guy. He'd be a lot more believable if he didn't dodge the draft because he had a boil on his ass.
Today's science break....you're gonna have to be a real science geek to enjoy this one. Me? I like it so far, it's already in my RSS reader.
I like this guy's idea. I contribute 5 bucks a week off my paycheck every week to one of our local food banks...he's right-most of the money being donated to various charities does squat for people that really need it.
Apple has been getting a lot of bad press lately. Here's some more. I own a couple of iPods but I don't think I'll be switching over to Macbooks or iMacs anytime soon.
Ummmm....if I had to guess-I'd say he downloaded it.
Everyone could learn a lesson from these folks.
Well, he did move his arms and legs.
Superworm is coming. Just fixed a computer with this problem. I'm pretty sure the client was about ready to throw his laptop out the window. I know how he feels, I've been there. I used to get extremely frustrated when problems cropped up. It's a lot easier to solve problems if you have another functioning computer that can access the internet to do research.
The media are eating this guy alive. Me? I think the whole deal is kinda sad. Whatever the guy does.....he's always gonna be known as Mr. Wide Stance.
Nobody likes a cheater.
Get Your War On.....it's a political cartoon but it's not even close to being work or family safe due to language. Normally I don't post links to stuff with lots of F-bombs, but these cartoons will make you think.
Thinking is good.
till later
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
My old man was a player....
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Here he is back in the day.....does he look like a badass or what?
I'm guessing this is about 1958.
Anyways, today is his 70th birthday and he is probably celebrating by working. If my dad has taught me one thing.... it's that hard work is how you make it in this world. I've had some sort of job since I've been 12 years old.
One of my favorite memories was when I was 14 or so and I had a Sunday morning paper route. Whenever it was raining on Sunday mornings, I'd go into my parents bedroom and wake him up and ask him to "help" with delivering the papers.
We would do the paper route and then go to Dunkin' Donuts and have breakfast....good times. I think he enjoyed rainy Sunday mornings as much as I did.
He's still out there working full time at age 70 not because he has to, it's because he'd probably drive my mom up the wall if he was home all day goofing off.
He's one of the hardest working guys I know and he's my pop.
I love you dad:-)
One of these days he's gonna retire and drive my mom crazy.
....My laptop is on it's way back to me, hopefully it's uptight and outtasight, because while the Indian tech support guy I spoke to was very professional-I don't wanna have to deal with the language barrier again.
It was annoying having to ask him to repeat nearly everything he said. I had a fairly straightforward situation, I'd hate to have a complicated problem to explain to someone that doesn't speak English very well.
I bought a laptop made by an American company that was manufactured in China that has tech support from India. It's a multi-cultural world out there.....I just have a hard time understanding foreign accents over a long distance phone connection.
This guy makes a lot of sense.
This guy is a scumbag, but he still has freedom of speech like anyone else in America...Congress should do something constructive...if that's possible.
What the heck kind of fish is that? Possible NSFW ads.
I usually ignore, but sometimes it's fun to engage for some laughs.
Don't steal or do drugs or this will happen.
This is a used car with lots of miles.
I like this lady.
Better living through chemistry....donuts with caffeine.
What will they think of next?
till later.
Monday, October 01, 2007
I don't think so......
Click on the Reskin bike patch section......ain't no way. I'm imagining how much it hurts when you peel it off.....
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Animal Spirit Guide
Hey ya'll, I've been having some weird dreams lately and I think it's my codeine cough syrup that's been doing it to me.
Lastnight after drinking 2 tbl spoons of my Codeine syrup, I went to bed and dreamt I was trying sneak into this magical lagoon and the only way I could enter was if I dove in headfirst because the entrance was underneath the water. I noticed I wasn't the only one diving in, I saw some other beings jump in and some of them morphed into ocean creatures like a whale or a dolphin. I was like, "wow, that is really cool" . So me being the clever person I am, I thought to myself, "I'm going to do that so I can swim better in the water" , and as soon as I hit the water I told myself I wanted to turn into a fish and when I tried to feel my tail and I couldn't because I didn't because I could still feel my fingers.
In the next dream sequence, I felt like I was in school. There were all these seminars going on in different rooms and the person I was with said, "pick anything you want to learn, go insdie, and you'll learn it" . They were so many rooms with so many different topics to pick from. I saw this one room with a sign outside that said, "Superiority" and peeked in. I remember the feeling of superiority made me uncomfortable so I stepped back out and looked at our hallway leader and said, "I want to learn how to morph into a dolphin or whale so I can swim better in the water" . He turned to me and said, "that's easy, you have to find your animal guide first" .
Maybe that's why I couldn't turn into a fish earlier because that wasn't my animal spirit guide.
I actually know how to find your animal spirit guide too, if anybody wants to know, then keep reading.
Meditate that you're on a sunny beach, the weather is nice, there's a cool breeze, you're relaxing listening the waves gentley coming onto shore. As you look across the beach you notice you're the only one there and that's when you ask your animal spirit guide to join you. So in your meditation, you close your eyes, ask them if they'd like to join you, and then as you open them, you look to the end of the beach, see a shadow forming, and whatver animal appears, that's your animal spirit guide.
When you find out which animal it is, keep it to yourself.
Cool, huh!
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" I just want my Jag. Do you want me to shoot you too? I swear I will."
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Pastor Tremble holding up the car dealership
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The police quickly arrived at the scene, though Darryl Morris called in the Charmed Ones. While infected with Pride, Prue believed herself to be invincible and charged into the car dealership while the pastor held a dealer at gunpoint. Prue tried to disarm him, but was grazed in the arm by a bullet as her powers were not working properly. According to her, she proceeded to "kick his ass" and asked Darryl to take him to a psychiatric hospital, where he could not hurt himself and Lukas could not find him. After Lukas was vanquished, the sin ball was extracted from the pastor and returned to the box.
Roger Tremble appeared in a total of 1 episode over the course of the series.
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git config --global user.name <your_username>
git config --global user.email <your_email>
It's good to have nice merge tool. There are some supporting 3-way diffs and some usual 2-way diffs. Two of them are worth recommending at this point:
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git config --list
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Diabetes? Fine. Infertility? Nope.
Kurt & Rachel Keyser said...
Logan was born shortly after our 5th anniversary...I was always so annoyed that people assumed that we were just putting things off because we owned our house, both of us were working, etc.
When, if, or how you have kids is up to you and the Lord!
Lyndie said...
Here's my two cents...Long story short we discovered some problems shortly after we were married and were encouraged to "try" soon if we wanted kids at all. We were quite aggressive and hopped onto fertility drugs. Eventually we got pregnant (without any help) and had three kids right in a row (closer than I would have planned in fact). It was hard to answer questions at the time mostly because I felt guilty that it was my fault (knowing I shouldn't but couldn't help it) and was terrified at the possibility of not having kids. Now people see our three girls and would never know it was once such weight on me. I don't think about it much anymore, in fact it even seems a little surreal that we had that experience.
I don't think I'm offering any insights but hopefully a little validation? It's very personal and was very sensitive to me. So even though I'm an open person, I agree that fertility is one topic I didn't want to discuss.
The ironic part is that when were were married, we wanted to wait a few years before kids came along. But then after our initial scare, we started trying much sooner than planned. However, our first baby wasn't born until our original plan called for. so when asked if we waited that long on purpose, it's hard to answer because we didn't, but at one time we would have.
These are questions that casual friends or strangers shouldn't ask and I learned to answer them flippantly, hoping to show them how stupid their question was like, "oh well the stork lost our address" or "yeah usually amazon is so reliable, weird that our order hasn't shown up yet". I agree; when, if and how many kids are private decisions. It may be something you volunteer to discuss with family or close friends but it's inappropriate for anyone to ask.
James and Lauren said...
Everyone deals differently. However you deal is your right and its ok. Ita a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing to deal with. I'm very open because I got tired of being mad at people all the time for saying stupid things. One benefit to having people know is that they are generally more sensitive. But then everyone knows your business which can be annoying. Good luck sweetie! I'm here if you need anything.
MH5 said...
You know, I once said something to Lauren (back when I was young, naive) about fertility/infertility that was super insensitive and very ignorant of me. The comment still irks me to this day and this was like 9 years ago. (I'm really sorry Lauren!)
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I do not know a single person on this planet who doesn't adore homemade macaroni and cheese. Do you know anyone who doesn't just love the stuff? I could eat macaroni and cheese any day of the week, but I especially love it when it's fall, the weather is getting colder and comfort food is my main squeeze. Macaroni and cheese is delicious, but most of the time it's filled with too many ingredients that I cannot pronounce. I know that when I eat this delicious, cheesy pasta, I want basic, simple, clean ingredients that I can pronounce. No artificial flavors or fillers. I want my macaroni and cheese to be cheesy, moist and have some vegetables mixed in so I feel like I'm getting a full meal without having to make other dishes. Usually, macaroni and cheese is considered a "side dish" but with my take on it, you'll have a complete dinner ready to go and then if you make enough you'll have leftovers for lunch, breakfast, brinner, whatever. It's so good, you'll be glad you made a lot for everyone to eat! | http://fittyfoodlicious.com/lets-eat/2016/10/6/delicious-cheesy-clean-macaroni-and-cheese | dclm-gs1-172231087 |
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Echoic tales.
Digital audio sound postcards.
Francisco Eme.
Echoic memory is one of the sensory memory registers specific to auditory information. I am interested in how people remember sounds.
In this project I collaborated with members of the San Diego Blind Community center to create “sound postcards”. Participants were exposed to different kinds of sound creations (electroacoustic music, soundscapes, sound postcards, field recordings) by different authors, and then they were asked to think about a sound that brings back special memories and talk about them. Sometimes we had just long conversations about how they perceive the world and sounds they remember or they appreciate. This was an exercise of memory and sound and a way of making noticeable for others how people with a visual impairment perceive sounds.
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1.Bike Ride. Aaron Greeson
2.Merced River. Joyce Porter
3.It´s Raining in San Diego. Lyn Gwizdak
5.Magdalena y el Mar. Magdalena Guillen
6.Morning Sounds. Janet Tucker
7.Northern Silence. Lyn Gwizdak
8.Skipping class Under The Coronado Bridge.(soundscape only) Susan
9. F.A.R.T.
Echoic Tales Multimedia Installation was part of the exhibition “Feel the Noise” At the Project Space of The San Diego Art Institute. | http://franciscoeme.com/echoic-tales/ | dclm-gs1-172251087 |
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Australia Day
Quote of the day (Will): Can somebody stand behind me? Quick, I've gotta fart and I don't want to waste it.
There are milestones all around today.
I have been noticing for a while that Euey is a child now. Not a baby. Not a toddler. A child. A boy. In fact, a boy who is off to kinder this year and school next year. Today though, it really hit home that they have both hit that stage. They can now both play like kids, take direction and are really helpful. Finn seems like such a little tiny baby in comparison (especially now, as he sleeps off his nasty head cold, sucking his thumb).
Will is outside cooking an Aussie Day barbie - this is a skill he has mastered as of today, which is an excellent milestone to mark his one year anniversary as an Australian citizen. I love it. I love being in charge of my kingdom, he says. In a complete turn around, I am inside, cooking the potatos.
Will has been sending the kids in with requests and comments - ask Mummy for a plate; give this (small burger bit) to Mummy and tell her it's a starter. In they both came, dutifully handing over the burger and stating quite seriously It's a starter. They're not just repeating what they're told either, this new grown-up-ness comes with answers that I can't really argue with. About 10 mins after coming in and grabbing a 'couple of forks' (which was actually three because he needed 'one for each of us'), Euey was back, getting two more forks. I asked how come all the forks kept disapearing outisde and he replied: Cause Aoife lost hers and I lost mine so we're getting each other another one.
I have to go, the meat is done and the kids are eating it all!
Ahh, I feel so Australian. Lamb on the barbie. Cooked by the man. Salad by the woman (that would be me). All we need now are lamingtons and pav for dessert.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
The 80s
I feel a little like I'm in a time warp. It is 2010 right? Read on if you were pre-teen in the 80s ...
I have discovered, along the way, that fashion goes in cycles. I first took note of this sometime in late high school. I heard Mum asking Charlie if she wanted a maroon woolen striped jumper (very 70s) and Charlie's NO! That's hideous. Then Mum's knowing reply: Well, I'll just put it away, obviously a bit early. About 6 months later Charlie sidled up to Mum's bedroom ... Mum, you know that maroon fitted jumper, did you happen to keep it?
So I get it. I understand that, hideous though they were (and still are in my opinion) ra-ra skirts, high waists with big belts, skinny jeans (ok, not so bad on the right person), side pony-tails (side pony-tails, really??) - basically everything 80s except shoulder pads - are all back. Hideous but comprehensible.
What I didn't expect was that television shows apparently also have fashion cycles. My kids are now watching (and loving) Inspector Gadget ('Spector Gadgek'), Scooby Doo, The Care Bears and ... leave the best 'til last - The Mysterious Cities of Gold! Awesome. No more computer games barely disguised as tv. No more killing sprees. No more ahh-ya, dinky-donk what-the-hell-are-they-talking-about bullshit shows. Back to the basics. Now all I need to find on good ol' Foxtel is Mr Squiggle and I'll be in tv heaven!
Sunday, August 9, 2009
I have a vegetable garden. It has a wooden border that we can take with us when we move (yes, this is likely in the near future, we have to get near a good school for the kids). It will grow for us spinich, silverbeet, rocket, leeks and snowpeas. I am hoping it will teach the kids to love greens. Is that wishful thinking?
Pics soon. (I promise. I'm a doer remember!)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Not a doer
I'm wondering if I'm a Gana not a Doer or if I really do just have a severe shortage of time in my life. I have fantastic ideas. Big projects I'd love to do, even small projects I'd love to do but never seem to have the time for. I'm hoping, if I write them here, at least I won't forget them when I do have time to do them. Or, if I never find the time, at least I won't forget I had the idea.
• Organise a street party to get to know the neighbours. After a few attempts at conversation with the next door neighbour (who has three kids similar to ours in age) that were completely shot down, I figure I better stretch my horizons a little.
• Organise the Heidelberg West community to rally and support the re-building of a new playground that was burnt down only months after completion. (Yep, this is a Big Project. I have no idea where to start with this one.)
• Plant a vegie garden with the kids. This is one I will definately do when we own our own house, but really, what's stopping me from doing it now?
• De-clutter the house. I have started this project, but I think it may be a work in progress for the rest of my life.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Media Callousness
There are some images that are inherently private. Everyone knows that, right? Apparently the media do not. Lately there have been so many examples on Australian tv that I am starting to think we need a movement. The public need to rise up and shout No, we do not need to know everything! Do not invade our privacy in the name of ‘news’.
The pictures I’ve seen have mostly been of grief.
China: relatives on their knees having just been informed that their family members, though alive, were trapped in buildings too dangerous to enter, so the search was being called off. The picture cut from the women before they were told, already showing signs of distaste at being filmed, to the same women after the news, in total shock and attempting to hide their grief from the camera.
Australia: victim of a horrific boat accident grieving the loss of his friends while being carried off to an ambulance.
These people did not ask to be on tv. It was obvious (by their hands covering their faces) that they did not want to be on tv at a moment like that. Exactly how does it aid the public’s understanding of disaster scenes to witness such invasions of privacy?
The latest episode was not as graphic, there were no pictures, but it was equally heartless and unnecessary. This morning on Sunrise, a current affairs breakfast show, there was a discussion about reports that Angelina Jolie has had her twins. So-and-so entertainment news in the US is reporting she has, this-n-that other entertainment news reporting she hasn’t, you get the picture. Toward the end of the segment the presenter mentions Jolie’s due date was announced as August, then laughingly says ‘I guess we’ll have to wait for the million dollar photos to be sure’.
August. That’s right, they were having a light-hearted discussion about whether a Mother had just given birth to twins 2 months prematurely. Without even a mention that this may be a complete disaster for the twins and their family. No consideration that if those ‘reports’, that apparently provided for such an entertaining debate, were true then there is no guarantee the twins will live, let alone live healthy non-hospitalised lives.
I complained. By email and by phone. I hope more people disgusted by such callousness will complain. Maybe then the media will get the idea that the public doesn’t have a right, or a desire, to know everything.
Friday, February 1, 2008
New Year Resolutions
Hmm. I think there are too many things in my life. I am a collector. A collector of things and of things to do. The things make for clutter (and many many full shoeboxes) and the things to do, I'm coming to the realisation, make for nothing done that well. A Jack of all trades, master of none, that's me. I realise this every time I read bon's blog. Not only does she write prolifically, but it's always interesting, thought provoking and often heart wrenching. Writing is what Bonnies do betht you might say (but you might be wrong, 'cause I'm betting she's also pretty good at Mummying, Wifeying and I know she's great at Teaching). Anyway, I digress. Back to me. I do many things, none of which I ever seem to have time for. What I've been trying to figure out is why I never have time for them. Is it because there are lots of them or is it because I'm useless at time management? Do I waste time? I think, truthfully, the tv wastes a lot of it for me. I don't turn it on, but once it's on I seem to have a real problem not watching it. Even if it is something as stupid as Next Top Model.
So because I never seem to have enough time I feel I don't do anything well enough. I don't write enough posts. The posts I do write are usually just a couple of tidbits of Eulish or a whole heap of photos. I do okay at the keeping-track-of-the-kids side of things, but the producing-thought-provoking-pieces-of-writing bit lets me down. I must say, I think more reading would help on this side of things, but again, more reading is something I don't seem to have enough time for. Mostly I read the Bulletin on the toilet, but seeing as that Australian Institution has shut up shop I may be doomed to complete ignorance of the world outside Bundoora. Which leads me to another thing I don't do so well, keep up with current affairs. This one I can not blame entirely on not enough time. It has always been something I forced myself to pay attention to rather than was actively interested in.
There are numerous other 'things to do': scrap booking the family photos (Euey's album, Aoife's album and the family album, plus keeping all the digital photos in some sort of organised manner); creating and updating family trees for both my sides of the family and Will's side and putting them on the family website I created (currently missing large branches); correspondence with numerous friends in far away lands (also not so up-to-date); keeping baby books for both kids; researching potential jobs for when I finally finish this damn law degree; researching potential areas of interest for a potential honours thesis; sewing; facebook; and lots of little organising things that will hopefully give me more time to do the other things but often just end up eating away at the time I have got.
So. What to do? I don't want to stop doing any of these things. And besides, I have done this all my life, this doing of too many things. So I need to figure out where I'm wasting time and stop doing it. Tv is the obvious answer. If anyone has any ideas on how not to watch a tv when it's on (that don't involve turning it off or defenestrating it) they would be greatly appreciated.
So, does not wasting time end up on my list of New Year Resolutions? Nope. You see, I have never made resolutions before. I always thought they are just promises you make to yourself and then end up breaking, so I didn't bother making them in the first place. This year I decided I would make two small, simple, doable resolutions. Not wasting time, when you don't know where you're wasting it, or even if you are, is not a small or simple resolution, so this is what I resolved:
1. Do the dishes before I go to bed.
2. Write more snail mail (it's fun to receive, much more personal and the kids can help)
So far I'm doing well on both counts. I've done the dishes every night (and WOW does it make a difference to my mornings) and I've sent 4 letters. Although I'm not sure either will help with my lack of time problem.
Friday, December 14, 2007
Chrissy Questions
I've been working. Yep. And loving it. But it doesn't leave much time for much else (especially after the washing, dishes, lunch making etc). So I have just read the couple of blogs I try to keep in touch with and came across this list of questions on Catha's blog. Sounds like fun. I am a HUGE Christmas fan. The antithesis of Scrooge.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Ahh. Questions written by a Nth American I see. A good cold beer for me thanks (or some of Cath's Dad's punch if I'm lucky enough ... and brave enough ... and not breastfeeding).
Puts them unwrapped in the Santa Sack.
3. Coloured lights on tree/house or white?
Lights on house for the first time this year. I've always wanted to do it but couldn't be bothered rigging up the electricity. This time, as I pulled the lights out I tripped over an extension cord, so up went the lights on the varandah. Oh yeah, they're coloured. And the ones on the tree flash differently when you press the button, and they're coloured too. And the ones over the door are white and the other ones are white but have little Santa covers on them (does that count as white or coloured? What a weird thing to ask anyway? Do people have a real preference on such things?).
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Wouldn't even know where to get some.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
Not before December, but as soon as December starts I start gathering my thoughts and trying to find a tree.
6. What is your favourite holiday dish?
Ham. The ham that you can only buy around Xmas. Cold ham on the bone. I have already bought and eaten my first leg of ham this year.
7. Favourite Holiday memory?
My memory sucks. I love holidays while they last though!
I have a vague memory of being in Mum and Dad's bathroom when it happened. Told you my memory sucked.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No. Of course not. What a question. Is Christmas Eve Christmas? No!
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
With balls, lights and tinsel? How else do you decorate a tree? This year the balls, lights and tinsel all start about 2 feet off the ground so Aoife can't eat them.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I'm sorry, I just can't rival this answer from Cath so I have to copy/paste it. I haven't laughed so hard in a while - part in the writing and part in recognition of the picture the writing painted.
never much thought about it at christmas time ("6 white boomers" for me, no "i'm dreaming of a white christmas") until a few years ago when i was in korea for my first potential white christmas. in truth, it ended up being just plain cold. yeah there was snow... but snow isn't as romantic when it's been turned into brown sludge by the traffic and there's some korean dude at the bottom of the hill trying to dig his car out of the ice with his shoe. this year, i'm pretty much dreading it. but i'll be ok... sigh...
12. Can you ice skate?
Yep. Not well. Not like a Canadian. Not backwards. But yep, I can get around and have fun.
13. Do you remember your favourite gift?
Refer above. I tend to like anything that's wrapped up and a surprise so there's been lots of favourites.
14. What's the most important thing about Christmas?
Family. (Presents are a very close second).
15. What is your favourite Holiday Dessert?
I used to hate Chrissy Pudding 'til the Christmas I was first pregnant. That Christmas I hate 3 helpings and I haven't looked back since. Although, even when I didn't like it I still loved the tradition of putting the sixpences in it.
16. What is your favourite holiday tradition?
Handing out the presents from under the tree. It was usually me and one or two other of the cousins who did it.
16.5 What is your least favourite holiday tradition?
Who has a least favourite holiday tradition??? That is just a weird concept. Everything about holidays is fun, and if it isn't it certainly doesn't become a tradition.
17. What tops your tree?
This year it's a really funky reindeer. Usually it's some dodgy handmade vague star-shaped affair.
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving?
19. Favourite Christmas Song?
There's one floating around on YouTube about a Holden Ute to the tune of Dashing through the snow. I'm not a fan of Christmas music on the whole, but that one is gold.
P.S. Will has just located the song and informed me it's to the tune of Jingle Bells, which happens to usually have 'Dashing through the snow' as a first line - told you I wasn't really big on Christmas music. | http://georgiasthinkingblog.blogspot.com/ | dclm-gs1-172321087 |
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WARMACHINE!!! This summer will be colossal fun ;-)
Hey everyone,
Having just seen the latest news from Privateer Press I can honestly say I am sold on getting in Warmachine properly. Whether I get just a small force to start playing or whether I get seriously into it I don't know, but I need to get my hands on some of these new monster miniatures!
Here are the models for Cygnar and Khador's colossals. Giant warjacks that will be coming out in a new supplement in July this year.
On a side note, let's enjoy a company that gives us five months of advance notice of sweet models being released rather than clamping down on rumours, even if it's the Hobbit movie backers who are behind the GW info lockdown.
Here is the Khador one next to a heavy warjack. For those who don't play Warmachine, that warjack is on a 50mm base and so is a similar size to a dreadnought, though less boxy in the shoulders. These new models are BIG.
Here is Cygnar's offering next to an Ironclad heavy warjack.
Now I don't know how these will work out on the tabletop but they look so good I think I might get them just for the collection if nothing else. This might be the final push to have me playing Warmachine too. If nothing else, I want to run one of those models as a Dreadnought, just to mess with an opponent's head :-D
All the best.
1. Lovely models! Should be a blast to paint too. :)
Privateer must be loving being their own masters when they see the controls being imposed on GW.
2. I'm definitely looking forward to having some fun painting them. I can see people looking at them for 40k Apocalypse games to represent knight titans or the like even if they don't play Warmachine. It'll be interesting to see what the other faction models end up looking like.
I think Privateer Press is in a good position with respect to being in control of their destiny. Of course, it's not fair to compare them directly with GW as a business since they operate in such different ways but I agree with you that they must love making these videos and previews when they hear the internet griping about GW's rumour control.
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Market rally no excuse to be complacent
Thursday April 19, 2007 article of icapital
Since the lows set in June 2006, the KL Composite Index (KLCI) has risen rather impressively and the volume traded has not been that bad either.
It looks like the KLCI it will be beating Bangkok for once, although we have lost to the Singapore or Jakarta markets. But should we exploit the current market rally or should we be more circumspect?
Stock market rallies can be very ego boosting. A rally seems to tell the whole world that everything is fine with the economy and that the Government has adopted the right policies.
Generally speaking, this is true but the stock market rallies for all kinds of reasons and sometimes, it can be self-deluding.
Or worse, the rally creates complacency among the politicians and policymakers so much so that painful but necessary decisions are not made or postponed until it is too late. Then, the market crashes. The Asian crisis in 1997/98 is a classic example of how stock market rallies can camouflage structural problems until the day of reckoning.
The way to manage a country or company is, in a sense, very simple. When things are fine, do not become over-confident; instead get ready for the storm ahead. So when the storm comes, which it eventually will, one will not be so devastated that one cannot even recover or that the recovery takes a long time.
Vice-versa, when the storm does come, do not panic and rush into making all kinds of silly short-term decisions that would harm the country or company. It will eventually pass and the whole cycle repeats itself. Take advantage of the storms and use them to ensure that the eventual bright sunny days are not so blinding.
i Capital has frequently criticised the Malaysian government for the measures it took in response to the 1997/98 Asian crisis. The essence of its criticisms was that the Government’s very short-term measures greatly reduced or attempted to reduce the pain of the crisis, but in so doing, it ignored the adverse long-term implications of its actions and decisions.
In many respects, Malaysia has paid a heavy price for this and is still paying the price for ignoring long-term problems. By shielding Malaysians from the harsh and painful realities of the market economy, we now have a Malaysian workforce that is hopelessly complacent and in the process, losing out to the many fast rising regional competitors.
With the KLCI now rallying, i Capital is deeply worried that our world-class complacency would become universe-class. As it rallies, the politicians and policymakers are patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
Such self-praise and complacency can be very infectious and soon Malaysians from all walks would fall into the same mental trap.
Then, the next crisis will hit us when we are totally unprepared.
A few rounds of such crises, and Malaysia would sink into an economic quicksand.
The simple but wholesome message of this week's analysis is directed at the politicians and policymakers and Malaysians from all walks of life.
Do not be seduced by the current market rally into thinking that we are on our way to developed status. Do not postpone the major structural reforms needed. Malaysia has already lost so much time.
The unemployment rate in Hong Kong shot up when the Asian crisis struck. In contrast, the unemployment situation in Malaysia, thanks to the drug addiction-like economic policies that had been implemented back then, was never as severe as Hong Kong's or the other Asian countries'.
Except for a few debt-ridden and badly managed Malaysian companies, Malaysians generally never suffered any pain during the Asian crisis. In 2002, we were pleasantly shocked at the totally changed attitude of the Hong Kong people.
The infamously rude Hong Kong taxi drivers or the world-renowned rude waiters were offering their services at Ritz-Carlton-class quality.
The Hong Kong economy had been severely affected and its people shell-shocked at the severity of the crisis. Imagine buying Hong Kong properties and losing their pants.
At that time, we thought that the change in attitude would be short-lived.
But lo and behold, four or five years later, the same polite and courteous service is maintained, although the economy has recovered and is performing better than Malaysia's.
The pain and shock of the Asian crisis have left a deep scar among the Hong Kong people. In contrast, the Malaysian taxi drivers, a representation of the typical Malaysian, are still offering the same lousy service at inflated prices.
Thanks to our brilliantly thought out economic policies, Malaysians do not have to deal with the harsh realities, yet they want to enjoy the fruit of hard work (especially if it is somebody else's).
Malaysians have no ugly scars to remind them that when things are fine, is the time to take painful but necessary reforms.
While others have had to “eat bitter fruit”, Malaysians had only been exposed to the sweet ones. Adversities like the Asian crisis have a major role in shaping positive attitudes and mindsets.
Malaysian politicians and policymakers must allow such character forming events to play their roles.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
A Malaysian's Singaporean dilemma
Huey GunApr 3, 07 4:07pm
I have been working in Singapore for eight years now. For eight years, I have been travelling to and from my home in Johor Bahru.
For the past eight years, I have been enjoying the benefits of earning the Singapore dollar and bringing it back to Johor Bahru to spend. This includes owning a bigger home and a luxury car.
A large number of Malaysian permanent residents in Singapore are doing this as well. Most of these PRs play an important role both in the development of Singapore and in the bringing back of money back to Johor Bahru to help the latter as well.
I must also say that a lot of these PRs are a ‘brain drain’ that Malaysia is losing.
I have been following the news from both Johor Bahru and Singapore. I want to share this to all of you in Malaysia.
It seems like Singapore is moving in a right direction in creating a vibrant, fun and safe place to live in. They are also luring our best brains to their country. However, in Malaysia, we are constantly being surrounded by such negative issues such as corruption, a deteoriating security situation and time-wasting racial politics.
I am currently in a dilemma as to whether I should just stay in Singapore permanently and buy a house there. I feel safe and appreciated there while I feel insecure and disappointed with the state of our country.
The charging of RM20 daily for my Singapore-registered vehicle to re-enter Johor Baru, I’m sure, will help make up my mind. | http://horac3.blogspot.com/2007/04/ | dclm-gs1-172441087 |
0.052128 | <urn:uuid:aca9ae1a-2442-4d38-bc06-37cbb68beb9e> | en | 0.969618 | Saturday, January 2, 2010
Immigration Reform Idea: Start-up Visas
BBC News is reporting about an innovative visa proposal from US congressman Jared Polis:
"If just ten thousand start-up visas were made available this would mean over 3000 additional new innovative and funded companies would be based in the US every year," said Kirill Makharinsky, YouNoodle co-founder."They would generate more than 10,000 jobs on average every year. In the first 10 years that would add up to over 500,000 highly-skilled new jobs. So the upside is huge and the downside is negligible because no jobs are being taken away from US citizens," Mr Makharinsky told BBC News.
I've blogged before about the need to reform Ireland's immigration policies. These are the kinds of ideas we ought to be considering if we hope to be competitive in the market for talent. | http://irishlawforum.blogspot.com/2010/01/immigration-reform-idea-start-up-visas.html | dclm-gs1-172511087 |
0.071657 | <urn:uuid:e8e5386a-f7c7-4c3c-b544-5f8f04a3a370> | en | 0.965902 | It’s no secret that in Chicago’s predominately black South Side many families fear for their lives, if they were to venture out for so little a pleasure as a simple ice cream soda at the local store. I dare say there are other suburbs of America with the same problems. “Say it ain’t so, Joe,” won’t address the problem. In fact, recently I’ve read where if we were to tally the killings of humans using just guns, it would be equal to or greater than the weapons of mass destruction.
For a country that places “In God We Trust” on our coinage and men on the moon, we certainly ought to be able to figure out a way to control gangs and illegal drugs in our society. The “pop” from the jingle that is frequently said from girls rope jumping of “Ice cream soda, ginger ale pop,” takes on a “Pop Art” (like in bang, bang, I shot you dead) connotation in today’s vernacular.
It’s unfortunate that illegal drugs in American society are poisoning mostly the downtrodden folks, but the wealthy share their portion of the take also. Even if one were to barricade themselves up in a locked room, a stray bullet from a drive-by has the potential to take an innocent life, and often does.
I’m afraid that the godly protection that seemingly was afforded America in the past is being eroded by the continued passiveness and liberalization of America–especially directed toward our protector from the spiritual realm. The more we take God out of the equation of humanity, the less human we become! | http://larrygagner.com/ice-cream-soda-ginger-ale-pop-pop-pop/ | dclm-gs1-172571087 |
0.022015 | <urn:uuid:cbefb46f-9135-4347-a20d-0a26e5ec1f40> | en | 0.904271 | August 2008
1. Anonymous (not verified)
Practice time changes
Tech's weekend practices have been moved up: Saturday's is at 1:30 p.m., two hours earlier than listed...Read more
2. scottslemmons
Friday Night Fights: Nap Time!
Let's keep this one short and sweet this time. Bahlactus demands that Friday nights be dedicated to ...Read more
3. Donald R. May
Democrats Affirm Lieberman as a Serious Threat
Senator Joseph Lieberman is looking more Vice Presidential with each new...Read more
4. Donald R. May
The Clinton Convention
The names of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be placed in...Read more
5. Donald R. May
Russia Invades Georgia: McCain Leads While Obama Whines
When Russia invaded Georgia on Friday, John McCain quickly condemned...Read more
6. Anonymous (not verified)
First scrimmage summary
I'll have more to come later, but here's a quick synopsis of Tech's first scrimmage this afternoon at...Read more
7. Donald R. May
The VP Waiting Game
While the Beijing Olympic Games and the Russian invasion of Georgia have...Read more | http://lubbockonline.com/archive/200808?page=8 | dclm-gs1-172631087 |
0.086303 | <urn:uuid:aee64c86-f953-4d4f-bc10-1bac868a8f18> | en | 0.964018 | Tuesday, July 29, 2008
YADS and RDF Molecules
BNodes Out! discusses how any usefully scalable system doesn't use blank nodes. What is interesting is the comment on YADS (Yet Another DOI Service). The best reference is Tony's presentation although it is mentioned in Jane's as well. "YADS implements a simple, safe and predictable recursive data model for describing resource collections. The aim is to assist in programming complex resource descriptions across multiple applications and to foster interoperability between them...So, the YADS model makes extensive use of bNodes to manage hierarchies of “fat” resources - i.e. resource islands, a resource decorated with properties. The bNodes are only used as a mechanism for managing containment."
This sounds a lot like RDF molecules and supports visualization (apparently). This seems like a good use of molecules that I hadn't previously thought of (Tony's talk gives an example of the London underground). The main homepage of YADS isn't around anymore - it'll be interesting to see if it's still being used/worked on.
Update: Tony has fixed up the YADS home page (there's also an older version).
Monday, July 28, 2008
Hadoop and Microsoft
Pluggable Hadoop lists some extensions to Hadoop in the pipeline: job scheduling (including one based on Linux's completely fair scheduler), block placement, instrumentation, serialization, component lifecycle, and code cleanup (the analysis used Structure101).
I found the reason why HQL was removed from HBase (to be replaced by a Ruby DSL and to ensure that HBase wasn't confused with an SQL database) and moved to HRdfStore.
There's also rumours that Microsoft's recent investment in Apache may lead to them working on Hadoop too.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Save us China
I was in Victoria when the ETS for Australia was announced (well the discussion papers). It's fairly funny, that replacing the world's worst plants even with other coal plants (Hazelwood is the world's worst), with Chineese brown coal plant technology, would reduce emissions by 30% to 40% (by just drying out the brown coal). It's still very poluting but it just shows how far behind Australia is. This has lead to greater compensation to Victorian polluters (which is just mad). At the same time Queensland is creating another coal port because we can't export the carbon fast enough.
The exclusions were annoying (aluminium, cement and some types of steel). Cement is annoying (5% of all CO2 apparently) as there exists green alternative technologies. The time is to invest not compensate.
Square brackets are scary
Friday, July 04, 2008
JRDF Released
Just a quick note about a new version of JRDF. It's been a short time between releases but it still contains one significant advance over the previous one and that's persistent graphs. It's still in the early stages but it's basic enough for simple use cases. It also contains text serialization (based on NTriples) that is useful for moving RDF molcules around nodes in a cluster (for example). A lot of this code is fairly much "spike" code and I expect that another release will be released after we exercise these new features more (and write some tests/rewrite the code).
Update: is now available fixing many bugs and introducing FILTER support.
Of Mats and Cats
There were a few quotes that I found interesting:
Bijan wrote:
But I, for one, wouldn't bet on it.
"Mary eats" "pudding" "on toast"
They just split up the sentences into somewhat equal parts!
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Round of Links
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Ob. iPhone 2
Good to see carriers actually putting up a bit of a fight for iPhone business. Telstra announces iPhone 3G details with $279, $30 a month on a 24 month, with free access to WiFi hotspots. This better be true.
Update: Optus releases pricing | http://morenews.blogspot.com/2008/07/ | dclm-gs1-172811087 |
0.832146 | <urn:uuid:f9df5df0-66e8-4b27-8fe4-3868b48f202a> | en | 0.971759 | Sunday, March 29, 2009
Dear President Obama, Please Don't Do This
An ordinary American, speaking from his heart:
Here's one very telling comment:
Obama is implementing "change." Don't you get it? The reason George Bush got us into so much debt is because he didn't spend enough. Thus Obama is making the needed changes and will spend seven times more to end this problem. That makes sense right?
So what is Obama's change? It's your change, my change, our children and grand children's change and beyond. It's total madness.
1 comment:
nachtwache said...
Think it'll be heard by those that it's addressed to? | http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-president-obama-please-dont-do.html | dclm-gs1-172971087 |
0.018161 | <urn:uuid:96bc1b49-67e4-4639-be59-fdc33c2974d1> | en | 0.976271 | Friday, November 28, 2008
Cause I feel that when I’m with you It’s alright, I know it’s right
"I know you'll never hit me"
"I could never hit the body I worship"
I will never forget your words and for the first time in years I'm actually letting myself trust.
I must want this because I no longer feel like throwing up when I think about the future :)
Thank you
Thursday, November 20, 2008
I HATE? no....I LOVE... pt 4
I could've made this an "I HATE" post but I have decided to make it into a positive.
Finding the strength that I forgot I had and being strong enough to use it!
This morning I took Allira to her new High School for orientation and to hand in her enrolment forms.
After the quick parent meeting I went to the office to discuss financial assistance.
I don't like asking for financial help, but I'm learning that it's there for a reason.
I spoke to the lady at the office with a smile and a "good morning" and explained to her that a little help may be required and how do I go about getting that.
She got the news letter and showed me that the yr 7 contributions are about $50 which is for cooking and a couple of other things. Then she showed me the list for year 8 and holy crap that was HUGE! I said ok next year should be fine, it will be year 8 that will be a problem. Office lady then says...
"Well, so you can afford the fees, your daughter should choose the less expensive subjects"
Hang on one friggin second lady.
Oh I was fuming inside, 6 months ago I would have just said "ok" but not anymore!
I kept the smile on my face, looked at her and calmly said
"Just because we don't have a lot of money does NOT mean that my daughter should be disadvantaged during her education, financial support is available at schools for a reason, and my daughter will be choosing the subjects that she wants to do"
I was very proud of myself for calmly telling her that what she said was downright rude.
Because I don't smell like alcohol, or cigarettes and am not walking around stoned
Because I am not a minority
Because I look younger than I am
Because I am articulate
Because I dress cleanly and I match
DOESN'T mean we have money and it DOESN'T mean that people can speak to me the way she did!!
My jeans cost me $3 at an op shop and my top was $10 and I look damn good! My family is a good example of how well people can dress without having much money and buying a lot of stuff at op shops.
That woman and others like her should NEVER assume that someone can afford something that should be free in the first place!
Financial assistance in schools should be available to all students who need it!
Whether they come from a previously well off family who has hit hard times, or they are a child who's parent's don't have their best interests at heart.
NO ONE should EVER be made to feel like they are a lesser person because they aren't rolling in money.
It's not fun asking for financial help, it's actually quite humiliating for me, I know it wont always be like this though..
Ahhh........yes, Strength... I has it
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I LOVE .... pt 3
I know.. sickening isn't it, I'm still happy and I'm not even medicated! I'm going it alone without the Lexapro, yay me :)
I keep thinking about Glain on monday night saying that she doesn't like it when people smile all the time.. that makes me smile lol Glain has the most beautiful skin, not in a "it puts the lotion on" (silence of the lambs reference... very funny) kind of way... but just beautiful, she so ethereal.
OK.. on with spreading the love
I Love.....
Dr E!
She's been my doc for over 15 years, she told me when I was pregnant with both of my girls, and even came to visit me in hospital to see Boo (Allira was born in Wollongong) She is a caring woman who has seen me through everything and has been supportive and not dismissive.
I Love....
Radiographers at the place near the Ibis in Newcastle. It's where I ask to go when something needs scanning, x-raying etc. I like that they're friendly and don't say "you'll have to wait to speak to your doctor" when you're worried about something. They scanned my lump yesterday and were happy to put my mind at ease
I Love......
Finding out that my lump isn't a cyst! It's a lymph node and should hopefully go down, it's a bit cranky about a festy ear infection.
I Love......
Waking up to the sound of rain :) perfect way to start the day
I Love....
My new fuji s5800 camera that lets me annoy my cat by taking macro pictures
Ahhh another happy day awaits :)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I LOVE... pt 2
yes, I'm still all loved up
I Love.....
Allira for making the yummiest chocolate mousse, she's turning into an excellent little chef :)
I Love.......
Boo, for what she wrote about me, it made me cry at 3am this morning when I couldn't sleep
I Love.....
Left over chocolate mousse for breakfast!!
I Love.......
Weight loss!!!!
2.9kgs in the last week. And yes I can see where there might be an issue with the chocolate mousse for breakfast but, omg it's so good.
I Love....
Friends in far away places
Thank you so much to G for helping me with something, I really appreciate it :)
last for the day.....
I Love
KokoBlack hot chocolate!
It is absolutely divine, perfect, bliss, yum
happy now Ozz? lol
pity the closest one to me is in the ACT, be quicker to fly to Melbourne. I'll meet you at Maccas Ozz :P
Monday, November 17, 2008
I LOVE......
I have decided that there is enough misery, so every day I am going to list things I love :)
I love.......
My Girls :)
They happily go along with my insanity!
Late Saturday night I said we were going for a walk, small complaints from Bianca, pfft.. like I care. We walked down to the Ocean Baths and jumped in, fully clothed, Bianca in her dress. It was fun! lots of laughs, lots of screams.. water was freezing. Standing on the edge, holding hands and jumping in. These are some of the good times that I wouldn't change for the world.
Bianca has her own blog FyreSpryte
I love....
Always have. Before we even met at the airport in Canada almost 10 years ago, I adored him.
No man has ever treated me the way he has. He loved the girls as though they were his own. I am eternally grateful for our chance meeting on ICQ, I still have the ring he made me out of one of those wire twist tie thingies...I wish he could be here for Christmas, I guess I'll have to wait for January... Swap hemispheres and Marry me dammit! :P
I love....
David Duchovny!
Yes he was a lusty man in The X-files and 15 years later he's still just as lusty in Californication. Last night's episode had me laughing hard!
I love....
My new found strength
I am glad I found it now, instead of still looking for it
Friday, November 14, 2008
I'm not horny
I went to Dr E yesterday about the horn sprouting out of my head, bit worried about it, just needed to know what it was...
It's completely unrelated to the ear infection, It's not lymph nodes, it's not a horn, it's a cyst. I have a friggin cyst growing in my head!!!
I wish I was a hypochondriac and none of this was real
She said I've been through too much this year, so it wont be cut out til the new year, fair enough.
I'm having all day headaches in the right back of my head, I don't know if this is from the ear infection or the cyst, so it's a wait and see thing and back to the doc on Monday.
And my car is still dead
Life is still good though (I only cried a little yesterday :)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It hurts
have middle ear infection
who gets a middle ear infection after the age of 6, I am a multiple of 6.
So I am on the only antibiotic that I'm not allergic to
and lots of advil
whole right side of my head is aching
my throat, my eye, my ear, my scalp
I feel like shit
I'm miserable
I'm in tears
I'd go and buy myself flowers to cheer me up, but...
My car died at the chemist, my portable jump starter recharger thingo is dead too, wont recharge
and I have an ungrateful daughter, which hurts the most
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Fuck off, leave me alone, don't call me, shut up
Why is it that my ex ex boyfriend's mother (not the last abuser, the one before that) feels the need to call me?
She's a nice woman, but extremely domineering and someone you wouldn't want to cross. So when she'd call, I'd listen, and make the occasional grunt, until one night Boo said to me "Why did you give up an hour of your life to talk to her?"
A light went on in my head.. exactly! why the hell am I taking time out of my life to listen to her wark on about the son who hurt me? The lying one who convinced me he had bowel cancer and was getting radiotherapy at the john hunter, yeah the john hunter doesn't do radiotherapy! but I believed him when he said he wanted to go alone and didn't want me turning up out of the blue. I supported him through all his friggin custody hearings, got high blood pressure, ended up on all sorts of medication from the stress, and then I get traded in, as his mother said one day "He doesn't need you anymore, you served your purpose" Pfft yes, I SUCK at choosing decent men.
She called tonight re: my fish tank which was taken to her place, and she conveniently snuck into the conversation did I "know that the ex is now engaged to the 23yr old neighbour that I was dumped for ?" no I didn't know, "well it was in the paper" I don't care "I just thought you might like to know" fuck off and die.
I am soooooooooooooooo much happier not having a mother in-law
Yes I am having a 15 minute pity party because I am pissed that everyone, yes EVERYONE'S life is moving forward except mine....
It's a pity party and I am allowed to be unreasonable
And I am also the happiest I have been in years, thank Goddess for Prince William and alcohol :P
Just kidding, I don't drink... much
ok over it
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Dream realised? I think so
Congratulations to Barack Obama and his family!
I think it is wonderful that he is President of the United States.
His speeches are awe inspiring, uplifting and fills me with hope. Even though I'm not American, I am aware that what ever happens in that country, there is a ripple effect.
So many people voted for the first time, because unlike here, it's not compulsory to vote in the US.
When people aged over 100, are voting for the first time, it's quite obvious that they're ready for change.
It's an amazing opportunity
Months ago when I saw him say this
“I think about my own two daughters, Sasha and Malia; and, sometimes it makes me stop and it makes me wonder, ‘What kind of America will our daughters grow up in? What kind of America will our daughters grow up in? Will our daughters grow up with the same opportunities as our sons? Will our daughters have the same rights, the same dreams and the same freedoms to pursue their own version of happiness?’”
That simple speech to me showed how passionate he was about his family, about people, equality and change and I knew he'd win, I just knew as a lot of people did and I annoyed someone with it quite often.
I am well aware that he doesn't have a magic wand to make every perfect overnight
But I do believe It is the start of something truly special
He is the President of the United States, and he just happens to be black
Poor Boo is just disappointed that there wont be anymore Sarah Palin videos on Saturday night Live lol
staying in bed
the world's best bed, no.. the universe's best bed
slept 10 hours, was lovely,
have nails in my throat
the cats wont get me my book which is way over there, and I need a drink, wonder if I'll dehydrate before the girls get home... why do I have cats if they can't take care of me!
why the hell do we need live coverage of the election in the US???!?!?
(3 hours on channel 7 and 4 hours on channel 9)
seriously! 30 minutes tops if we have to, but 4 friggin hours?!
thank god for doc phil and oprah...
blah, I think I'll knock myself out before then
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ye Olde Tania of the Tangent
I'm feeling a touch blerty today, so I'll be going off on all sorts of tangents
Get it all out in one long blog post
Swimming is still awesomely brilliant, I've lost 2 kilos this week, and I can see some toning, yay me :)
Had to buy a new sunscreen, my skin is so sensitive. Our sunscreens just weren't doing their job and I do buy good ones, with the correct UVB UVA protector thingos and still get burned. A few years ago when I wasn't wearing sunscreen, I got 2nd degree burns on my chest when the girls and I went for a walk. Boo had sunscreen on, Allira didn't and all she got was a pink nose. I was at the friggin hospital a week later in absolute agony still,
I still have an obviously different area on my chest all year round, stupid stupid stupid, see told you I was stupid.
Disturbed is an awesome band, so strong in their music and lyrics, fills me up and makes me want to sing loud! I'm Alive, Overburdened, Guarded and Ten Thousand Fists, are brilliant. Would've loved to have seen them in concert again. I saw them in NY in 2000 with Godsmack and Stone Temple Pilots. BEST.CONCERT.EVER
Timmy asked me to a Halloween party last night, was so much fun!!!! I love dressing up and being someone else. I was looking oh so sexy last night in my vinyl dress, can't believe I could get into it! long black velvet gloves, high high FM boots, lots of makeup and Boo straightened my hair and I looked like every mother should look, like an awesomely sexy don't fuck with me Mistress. I had no idea whose party we were going to, I just knew I needed to go out and have fun, and fun I had!
I drank, I laughed, I danced, I drank, I made friends, I gave out too much information, I drank, I broke my FM boots on uneven ground and hurt my ankle, so I drank some more! and came home and got Boo's sweet flat red shoes which she told me to wear before I first left for the party, it's funny that she was giving me motherly advice. So I went back to the party, thanks to Nathan driving me and drank some more!
We left that party and went to another one and I must have been a novelty cos I was adored as I should be and had numerous requests for the pleasure of my company. I left many blue lipstick smoodges. Oh yeah and I drank some more
I finally crawled home at 4am and then got online to torment Mr NY hahahahaha was fun wasn't it :P
Finally got to sleep about 6am and woke up at 11:15am to a sore ankle and a barrage of questions from Allira, but all I heard was thump thump thump, jesus is that what a hangover feels like? never had one before, I credit the good german drinking genes lol went to make coffee and god friggin dammit there was no milk, still half asleep put on a singlet and a skirt and went to walk down to the shop to get milk, Allira said "mum atleast put a bra on" pffft
I got milk and all sorts of crap I never buy, I haven't bought a Saturday paper in ages! I hate the way they look messy, I also bought a coke zero, blerk, yuck, I don't drink coke. But I had coffee when I got home.
Oh something funny, watching an add for a pizza and it has a ton of different meats on it, Allira says "jeeeez it's like sucking on a pig" hahahahahaha she's funny
I took a couple of advil and a few hours later Allira and I walked 6kms to go and get my car from Timmy's place, I could've caught the bus but I needed to work off alcohol calories.
I had such a good night!
I HATE being ignored, makes me insane. If I've done something to piss you off, then tell me, but don't ignore me, that's so fucking childish and I'm better without that hurt in my life
Something I have been telling myself for the past few months
I wont be anyone's "option" EVER again
How bad was the weather yesterday! 36 degrees!!, I swam 1.6kms, I only got out of the water when my mind went blank and I couldn't remember what I'd done.
I hate hate hate high temps, yes I'm supposedly like Lizzie Borden :P Closing all the blinds first thing in the morning makes a huge difference to the temperature inside our place, we don't have air conditioning so we have to do something so I don't go mental
I haven't eaten today, I should probably get something, but i'm not hungry either, probably just have an Xndo... watch out for another eating disorder
Hahahaha Iron Chef is flipping hillarious, the voice overs are so funny, they're too enthusiastic, I love the way they voice over everything including the laughs, cos you know, we wouldn't understand a Japanese laugh, it's so different to an English one
Boo is happy now, I've got cream for my eczema,
I think she was getting sick of me walking around with my breasts out saying '"LOOK AT MY BOOB.... LOOK AT IT!!!"
because I was scratching the hell out of it and it was all red and hiddeous
she'd calmly say "Mum, put it away and go to the doctor"
So I finally went to the doctor. I was trying to clear it up myself, but it wasn't working.
Stupid eczema, I get it when I'm stressed.
hmm... I think I'm hungry
The cat is next to me snoring
I want to add photos from last night dammit, but I have no idea where the cable to get the pics off my phone is.
have a great weekend everyone :)
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0.041641 | <urn:uuid:0550ecfc-86b6-4376-bc5f-846e90f5613b> | en | 0.9651 | Thursday, June 25, 2009
Transformers: Racists in Disguise?
I cannot believe that I am actually writing this. Let me explain why:
Back in 2005, movie critic Roger Ebert was labelled by many African-Americans as
being racist for panning Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
Having seen the film in question, as well as read both Ebert's review and the
accusing comments from and other cinematically oriented message boards, I came to the conclusion that the bespectacled self-possessed critic was
absolutely right and his detractors decisively in the wrong. I stand by that
conviction to this day: Considering the severe nature of racial, religious, and
sexual prejudice, as well as the intensive degree to which it has been
stigmatized by our society (rightfully so), people should not be charged with
possessing bigoted views unless there is a substantive reason for doing so.
Simply disliking a movie that happens to deal with African-American characters
and/or themes is not racist by a long shot, and it serves as a form of social
intimidation to imply or state otherwise.
Thus when I heard that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was being accused of possessing racist caricatures, I assumed that once again I would wind up writing about the danger of carelessly bandying about the "racist" label. That knee-jerk reaction went out the window the instant I saw a clip of what objectors are referring to. Unfortunately I cannot share that snippet with you, as it was removed from YouTube very shortly after I was lucky enough to watch it. Even so, here is an excellent explanation of the problem as concisely summarized by Manohla Dargis, one of the main film critics for The New York Times:
That disconnect only deepens with the introduction of two new Autobot characters, the illiterate, bickering twins Skids (Tom Kenny) and Mudflap (Reno Wilson), both of which take the shape of Chevrolet concept cars. The characters have been given conspicuously cartoonish, so-called black voices that indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas. For what it’s worth, the script, by Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, also includes a crack about Simmons, who’s coded as Jewish, and his “pubic-fro head.” You’re not meant to take that seriously, of course, just like there’s nothing to the reference to President Obama being whisked out of danger instead of standing tall like Optimus Prime and the rest of the robotic heroes. But that’s the perverse genius of Michael Bay. Despite the tediousness of his stories and inanity of his visual ideas, he always manages to keep you laughing and shaking your head in disbelief at the outlandishness of his cinematic spectacles, with their orange explosions, armament fetishism and even their noxious stereotypes. The man just wears you out and wears you down, so much so that it’s easy to pretend that you’re not ingesting 2 hours and 30 minutes of warmongering along with all that dumb fun.
Here is a more detailed description provided by
Check out 7 reasons why Transformers 2 might be racist…
#1: “Skids” and “Mudflap” sound suspiciously like “skid-marks” and “mud people.” Tell us how you really feel, cracker!
#2: Skids not only has old-school Raekwon bucked teeth,
one of them is actually gold! We’re assuming the rope chains and 40s for the action figures are sold separately.
#3: The twins constantly fight and snap on each other in inappropriate situations, like in the sacred tomb of the Primes. Sigh. Black robots just don’t know how to behave in public, do they?
#4: Skids and Mudflap refer to Leo, the Latino college student played by Ramon Rodriguez, as a “shrimp taco.” All black robots gotta be ign’ant though, right? That’s just like the white devil to put his secret racist thoughts into the mouths of black robots.
#5: In the twins’ vehicular incarnation, they’re flashy compact racing cars. Black robots aren’t concerned about the safety and security of their loved ones? Family sedans aren’t “urban” enough for you?
#6: The hip-hop jive that Skids and Mudflap spew comes from the mouth of WHITE voiceover comedian Tom Kenny, a.k.a. the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants. At least if Mike Epps was the one bamboozling, talking about “bustin’ caps,” we could take solace in a black actor getting work.
#7: The twins make R. Kelly look like an advocate for literacy. When Shia LaBoeuf asks if the twins can read ancient glyphs, they nervously respond, “Read?! Nuh-uh…” “No, we don’t really do much readin’!”.
Although the article makes one factual error (though the caucasian Tom Kenny of SpongeBob Squarepants fame does voice Skids, it is African-American actor Reno Wilson who voices Mudflap), for the most part its analysis is disturbingly incisive. I am amazed that director Michael Bay and screenwriters Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Ehren Kruger actually have the gall to insist that these characters were simply meant to be generically goofy as a means of appealing to children. Do they expect us to believe that the vernacular, aesthetic, physical mannerisms, intellectual abilities, personality traits, and even names that were given to these characters were selected entirely at random and that, by sheer dumb luck, they just-so-happened to be carbon copies of some of America's most well-known racist caricatures? Why did the writers have to select this particular set of attributes, when certainly there are any number of potential personalities that can be used to make the kiddies laugh (who are not known for being especially discriminating in their comedic preferences)? For that matter, are we really supposed to swallow this claim that Skids and Mudflap were necessary to draw kids to the movie - to assume, as that argument suggests, that the Transformers franchise has sophisticated subject matter which needs further dumbing down to attain commercial viability?
What makes this situation especially depressing is its timing. Less than nine months before this movie's release, almost seventy million people cast their ballots for the first African-American to ever run for president on a major party ticket (more popular votes than have ever be received by any one presidential candidate in a single election). While no one could have realistically expected even this monumental event to usher in an end to all racism, it didn't seem too naive to hope that it would have at least stamped out the last vestiges of blatantly crass racist humor within mainstream pop culture. Instead, the year 2009 - the first in American history to be presided over by a black leader - may wind up having as its box office champion a motion picture that harkens back to the very same racial attitudes that have disparaged and degraded that president's background for centuries. This is the kind of irony our society can do without.
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0.122363 | <urn:uuid:6e40f335-c9ff-4ce7-9032-425c482f23c8> | en | 0.948819 | Fish-moon, fish, sun, fish-head.
Fish-moon, fish, sun, fish-head - all the names of one pelagic fish, family loewenich, or the moon-fish (Molidae). In this family includes five types moon-fish, the most common of them view - Mola Mola.
Fish - the moon is the largest of modern bony fish, adult which on average is about 3 m in length and 150 kg in mass. In the Guinness book of world records recorded data about fish caught in 1908, near Sydney, the length of her torso was 4.26 m, and the weight 2235 kg
Although there is evidence that in the Atlantic ocean, near the coast of the USA (new Hampshire), was slowlen instance by a 5.5 m, the mass of which remained uncommitted.
The habitat of fish-moon tropical, subtropical and temperate waters of the world ocean. However, to spawn this fish-the sun is sent only in the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Some adult fish may include warm currents and to penetrate in lukewarm water.
In the waters of the Atlantic ocean, the fish can be seen near Newfoundland, Iceland, UK, in the Baltic sea and along the coast of Norway and the Kola Peninsula. You can also meet this fish in the sea of Japan and the Kuril Islands.
Fish - moon amazes with its unusual appearance. Her body squeezed from both sides, it is very tall and short. If you look at the fish in the profile, it seems that it is round and reminds the disk of the full moon, and Anfas fish more like a millstone mill. As if to look at this giant, he recalled the well-known us fish flounder. Thanks to this appearance of this fish and received its name (the moon, the sun, head). Continue reading
Interesting facts about the Atlantic ocean
The most interesting facts about the Atlantic ocean:
1. The Atlantic ocean is the second largest ocean of the world after the Pacific ocean.
2. Interesting fact about the Atlantic ocean - is that its present name comes from the name of titanium - Atlanta, hero of Greek mythology, which is held on their shoulders the sky. Earlier this ocean was called West. The first Explorer to cross the Atlantic, was Columbus.
3. Atlantis continent, according to a legend existed in ancient times on the territory of the Atlantic ocean. According to legend, in the result of changes on the planet, he went under water together with all residents. Officially Atlantis is invented by Plato as a way of evil men.
4. One of the most beautiful attractions of the Atlantic ocean - a huge underwater hole, which is located in the centre of the Atoll Belize barrier reef and is a great spectacle for all who saw her. The name she was given a severe border of dark and bright water. It seems that the depth in the centre of the bowl many kilometers, but in fact it is about 120 m Continue reading
Island Vila Franca do Campo
In the Atlantic ocean, remote on more than 1300 kilometers from the mainland of Europe, spread the nine Islands are divided into three groups, each of which includes three island archipelago Azores. However, nine Islands…
Pacific ocean
The largest ocean planet is located between the five continents: in the West it is limited Eurasia, Malay archipelago and Australia in the East, North and South America, in the South - Antarctica. Its Northern…
Subtropical latitudes of the Atlantic ocean
In subtropical latitudes of the Atlantic ocean in the warm season of the prevailing air mass is the Maritime tropical air in winter air from temperate latitudes. In the warm season in the Western parts… | http://scotsatlantic.org/category/oceans | dclm-gs1-173171087 |
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Zero's Stretched ET
Ball Electro Plugged
Brutal Stretching
Zerotsm is stretched out on the floor, legs wide and arms up over his head. Video shows last part of the scene where he is really hurting.2007-12-14 19:002017-12-17 16:48664
Heavy Bed Bondage
Zerotsm is led into the cell and secured to the bunk with Humane Restraint straps, then the door is locked.2006-07-30 20:002017-12-16 14:08679
Sawhorse Torture
Electro Tit Weight Torture
Zero is having his cock zapped while tied bent over with weights hanging from his tits.2011-04-20 07:572017-12-15 12:05777
Heavy Steel Bondage
Zerotsm is bound in steel, including a steel helmet. The video only shows the last part where we make it really rough.2006-08-07 20:002017-12-15 12:05839
Zerotsm's Tit Torture
Zerotsm is bound in an uncomfortable position and weights are hung from intense tit clamps. Unfortunately this 320x240 video is the only copy extant. We'll have to reshoot it in HD.2009-09-27 01:172017-12-15 12:05857
Candle Cock Torture
A lit candle is stuck up his ass dripping hot wax on his stretched out cock.2015-03-24 02:212017-12-15 12:05902
Zerotsm Foot Torture
Zerotsm gets his feet worked over2011-10-14 12:542017-12-15 17:35917
25 Chest Stokes
Zerotsm gets twenty five strokes with a dressage whip across the chest, no warm up.2008-02-20 03:402017-12-15 12:05926
Jail Door Flogging
Zerotsm is tied to a jail front to receive a good flogging.2000-12-15 20:552017-12-15 12:05949
Asshole Wax Torture
Zero gets hot wax on his asshole.2015-04-25 21:272017-12-15 12:05954
Weight Bench Electro
Zero's Suspended Bondage Electo Scene
Zerotsm Stool Torture
Zerotsm is tied on his stomach over a stool and left to suffer.2013-03-17 17:152017-12-15 12:05998
Straight Jacket
Zerotsm is put in a straight jacket, then locked in a cell. This video shows the whole process of putting on the straight jacket.2007-12-14 18:582017-12-17 09:591017
Office Tit Torture
Zerotaf works over Zerotsm's tits in the office.2008-03-02 13:372017-12-16 03:071028
Zerotsm Hog Tie Number Three
Zerotsm plugged, gagged, tit clamped, and hog tied.2014-08-02 02:392017-12-16 14:071028
John Gets Chest Flogged
Zerotsm gags John, then gives him a chest flogging.2009-10-11 20:562017-12-16 14:081049
Sixty Strokes
Zero receives sixty strokes with a dressage whip.2008-02-20 20:112017-12-17 12:431050
Ab and Ball Torture
John's Comfy Chair Electro part 1
Zero's Electo Scene
Zero is tied securely in a chair and receives electro torture/pleasure on his cock.2006-07-27 22:172017-12-15 12:051177
Zerotsm in "Comfy" Chair.
Zerotsm in "comfy chair" with 7 tormentor clips on each tit and heavy electro on his cock.2015-02-21 01:372017-12-16 14:301218
Cornwall Barracks Punishment
Zerotsm Struggles With Two Buttplugs
Zero's Tit Cock and Ball Torture
John's ElectroTorture
John is bound stretched out, then we do electro on his cock. A brief chest flogging at the end.2016-06-02 23:122017-12-15 12:051263
Hogtied Gagged to the Floor
Hogtied gagged to the floor and plugged.2015-05-09 00:292017-12-15 12:051270
Zerotsm's Revelation
Zerotsm reveals what is under the hood.2008-02-02 22:112017-12-15 12:051290
Tit, Quad and Ball Torture
Zerotsm is in predicament torture. He can't bend down too far or his tits get stretched, he can't stand up or his balls get stretched, his quads really get sore after awile.2009-04-06 01:062017-12-15 12:051369
Heavy ET
Heavy electo on his cock, harness and butt plug.2015-04-05 04:132017-12-15 12:051436
Heavy Hood Electro
Zerotsm on the Big Plug
69 Birthday Whipping
Earplugged, Gagged, Hooded and Hogtied
Zerotsm Outdoor Whipping
Zerotsm is led to a post, bound and whipped.2010-07-03 17:002017-12-17 14:491798
Zero's Rough Scene
Zero's Butt Plug Insertion
Zerotsm Branked
Zerotsm is put in a brank, plugged and tied to a bungee board, then he gets some serious tit stretching.2009-11-17 22:492017-12-17 11:562043
Standing Spread Eagle ET
Zerotsm is spread eagled standing. Heavy tit clamps are applied. Here we see the latter part of the cock electro scene. in pillarboxed HD, so use full screen for more detail.2017-03-08 23:562017-12-17 16:572079 | http://smboard.net/videos/index-va.php | dclm-gs1-173261087 |
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My Commercial Debut circa 2001
Anyone from around/in Oklahoma is familiar with the BC Clark jingle. BC Clark is a jewelry store in Penn Square Mall in Oklahoma City. Their jingle has been around for my lifetime plus about 20 years.
Several years ago, I was at the mall the day after Thanksgiving w/ one of my best friends, Carrie. For the record, I hate shopping on that day, but we decided to brave it. They just happened to be filming the commercial that day, so we sang it though we were cracking up through most of it (singing so isn't my thing, but after teaching a few years, I've gotten over the embarrassing part of it and don't really care how bad I sound). I never saw the commercial as I was still living in Dallas. Carrie never saw it either. However, my parents got quite a few calls that holiday season (and the next) of people asking if I did the commercial. It was quite humorous. Here I thought no one would notice.
I just saw this year's commercial and noticed the URL. Sure enough, my commercial is archived!
Here it is:
BC Clark Commercial
We are the 2nd to the last group and have a very short line "From BC Clark's". I'm surprised they haven't called me back asking me to come back for a bigger line. :)
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Robyn1007 said...
That's cute! | http://speculativemusing.blogspot.com/2006/12/my-commercial-debut-circa-2001.html | dclm-gs1-173291087 |
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Aromatherapy is a holistic therapy using volatile plant oils, including essential oils, for spiritual, psychological and physical well-being. Oils are typically inhaled or applied to the skin.
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It is comprised of 13 essential oils that have a special affinity for the digestive system. Due to the extensive amount of essential oils contained in Tum-Ease, it is able to address many stomach related issues.
Tum-Ease can be applied topically to the skin.
Dilution: 5 drops of Tum-Ease Synergy to 5 ml of carrier oil, this will give you a more concentrated formula.
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