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Hurricane force social media
The current US devastation from Superstorm Sandy is showing the positive – and negative – sides of social media and our reliance on technology. Already there have been over 4 million mentions of #Sandy on Twitter and Hurricane Sandy was the top phrase in the US on Facebook. People are using it to check on friends and relatives and update them on their own safety. And there have been some incredible pictures and videos of the storm and its aftermath posted on social media, which have then been picked up by online and broadcast media. Google has launched a map of affected areas, linking to power outages.
But we're also seeing the downside of our technology addiction, and in particular the electricity needed to make it work. The over 5 million people without power obviously can't communicate. And this hasn't been helped by the datacentres hosting sites such as Gawker and the Huffington Post being knocked out by storm damage. As Jeff John Roberts of GigaOM points out drily, there's no app for disaster survival. Many people have replaced battery powered FM radios with internet versions and most of us either don't have landline telephones or have swapped to DECT phones that need electricity.
The emergency services are also affected – people have been asked to use text messages to communicate rather than mobile phones to avoid overloading networks, leaving capacity free for official traffic.
It could potentially get even worse if the crisis precautions at major East Coast data centres and network exchanges fail and they go offline. Yes, it's the end of the internet for all of us, wherever we are located. Press exaggeration obviously, but there is potential for disruption as some sites go down. While this level of inconvenience is nothing compared to that being suffered on the ground it does show our reliance on the world wide web.
The good news is that most data centres are designed to withstand a disaster of this scale – and Cloud computing means that processing should be switched automatically to other locations across the globe. But it does show everyone that you can't rely solely on technology – time to make sure that you've got a basic phone, lots of batteries and a torch just in case.
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Joaquim Andrade, longtime flight attendant, Brazilian journalist, and our rocking intern shares his wealth of knowledge on flying.
When it comes to traveling, flying has become a real battle lately: delayed flights, finding space on board for your carry-on luggage, arriving on time, making sure all your checked luggage arrives… intact, finding a cab, and the list goes on…
It's pretty evident that the days when flying was fancy and elegant are way gone. But, we still need to get places, and there's no avoiding the airport. Here are some tips to make flying a little more bearable… before the booze kicks in:
- Pack what you can carry. You don't need that extra sweater you are taking "just in case."
- Invest in a good, solid suitcase. The cheap ones may seem like a good deal, but they rarely last more than two trips, or two falls off the baggage claim carousel.
- Pack light. You've heard it before and that ain't a lie. Heavy bags make for cranky travelers.
- Don't take what you've never worn… let's be honest, you probably won't wear it there either.
- You don't need more than two pair of jeans; one on you and one in the bag.
- Wear the heaviest shoes you are taking. Think, boots. It saves space and weight in your luggage.
- DO NOT pack watches, jewelry, iPads, laptops, MP3 players, important documents or anything you would not want lost or stolen in your checked luggage.
- Go for the early check in. You miiiiight still find the staff in a good mood.
- Ask for upgrades at the check-in, not on board.
- Ask for emergency exit seating. It's only available at the check-in and there is usually more legroom. If you get one, take an extra blanket; because of the door or the removable window next to you, it gets cold as hell.
- Eat before you fly. Food has become a rare item on board lately.
- Pressurized cabins and foods that make you bloat do not make a happy passenger. Avoid broccoli, beans, processed foods… alcohol (ok, ok, limit the alcohol).
- Complimentary doesn't mean "free refill."
- Do not fool yourself with books and magazines. Just take that one you have at home that's been taking you forever to finish.
- Respect your bin (overhead compartment) area. Use only the one near your seat.
- Set your watch to the time zone where you are traveling to the moment you take off. That helps your body and brain adjust to the new time. Don't wait until you land to do it.
- Take your own earphones. Depending on the airline, you may be charged for earphones. And, getting charged for shitty earphones is worse than not having earphones.
- If it's a long flight (more than six hours), do not party too hard the night before. Your body bloats on board. Just so you can have an idea of the power a pressurized cabin has on the human body, the effect of one beer on board feels like four beers in your system--it might be the worst hang over you've ever had.
- Be nice… but not overly nice. Not everyone on board wants to know you are visiting your sister who has three kids, and their names, ages, and the school play they're in, or the snow man they built and… zzzzzzz.
- The crew probably does not know the name of that river or the city they are flying over. Don't even bother to ask, they will probably make it up anyway.
- We all know smoking is prohibited on flights, but did you know that anything resembling a cigarette is also banned? No electronic smoking. Although the T.S.A. hasn't officially forbidden e-cigs, don't play. E-cigarettes are not FDA approved yet, and they are not under tobacco regulations either, but airlines have internal regulations and they forbid anything that resembles a cigarette.
- Try to sleep. It's good for you.
- Don't rush to get off the plane. Your checked bag probably hasn't even been taken off the plane yet anyway.
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Okay, I'm in two minds about my blog today. On the one hand, I am so excited about summer and swimming, etc. -- but the other side of it is, I'm bothered by it, because there are so many activities outdoors, and I hate the heat!
It's even hotter for me, because I never take my shirt off while I'm swimming. Am I the only guy out there that's like that? I'm not sure I would even if I had a buff body. Who knows? Maybe I'd go shirtless everywhere, Matthew McConaughey-style.
Am I the only man who feels this way? Ladies, does your man swim with his shirt on? Guys, chime in and let me know!
Either way, I guess I'm excited and ready for summer!
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First Don Purdy tells me how he had to deny Jennifer Aniston access to the gym at his Rock House Hotel on tony Harbour Island in the Bahamas.
And then he mentions he had to kick Cameron Diaz off the hotel's private beach.
"If you're not staying at the hotel you can't have access to our amenities -c elebrity or not," says Purdy matter-of-factly.
"I would have loved to let Jennifer use our gym - after all, we have the only gym on the island. But she wasn't staying here, she was staying at a private rental. And I know Cameron from a party in Miami, but in the end she understood that if she's not a guest of the hotel, she can't use the beach."
This is quite the position of power for a guy originally from Kingston, Ont., who now finds himself owning and operating one of the hottest properties on Harbour Island - the pink sand paradise just off the east coast of North Eleuthera.
Via an event planning company in Toronto and then construction project management in trendy South Beach in Miami for clients such as Cher and the late fashion designer Gianni Versace, Purdy took a vacation to Harbour Island and was smitten.
First he and late partner Wallace Tutt bought two small islands, built beautiful homes on them and rented them out under MyOwnPrivateIsland.com.
And then they saw the private home on the bayside of Harbour Island that was a dump, but had lots of potential.
"In a bolt of insanity we bought it - and the old Catholic school beside it -and turned it into a 10-room boutique hotel," says Purdy.
An incredible renovation produced Rock House Hotel - a stylish Bahamas colonial meets South Beach fusion complete with dreamy rooms, a pool tucked hillside in the palms and a restaurant on a two-tired veranda overlooking the water that's considered the finest dining on the island.
Take note Aniston and Diaz, you don't have to be a hotel guest to eat there.
Try the hogfish special, a delicious type of snapper that can only be caught with a spear.
While tiny - it's only five kilometres long by one kilometre wide - Harbour Island has managed to make a big tourism impact.
It offers tourists the choice of buzzing around on their golf cart between their little hotel, restaurants, activities and Bristol's liquor store and the Piggley Wiggley grocery store to pick up essentials, to doing nothing at all on the beach.
When my wife and I visited, we definitely put in our time relaxing at the beach, but also whipped down on the golf cart to Valentine's Marina for a snorkel tour to nearby Man Island.
The first stop was coral heads populated with colourful tangs, snapper, triggerfish and conch.
The second stop was the shallows, where we spotted a sea turtle, stingray and barracuda.
But back to the beach.
Pink Sands Beach is the island's biggest asset -a powder soft strip that runs the entire length of the east coast of the island.
This is where I catch up with transplanted Brit Pamela Barry, the manager of the 39-room Coral Sands Resort, located smack dab in the middle of the beach.
"This beach is consistently ranked the best in the Bahamas, if not the whole Caribbean," she says.
"I don't think we can overstate how beautiful it is both to look at and lounge and swim or scuba dive at the reef farther out."
Descriptions can also fall into the cliche of gin clear waters melding into the lightest greens and blues against an almost purple sky. But that's because the cliche is true.
Such attributes attracted the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue crew to use Coral Sands grounds and its beach for the 2006 edition - the one featuring supermodels Rachel Hunter and Elle Macpherson. To keep coming back, Macpherson bought a holiday home on the island.
Celebrities who favour Harbour Island's beauty and respect for privacy run the gamut from Robert De Niro, Richard Gere and Harrison Ford to Peyton Manning, Mick Jagger and Jimmy Buffett.
Apparently, Buffet's hit Cheeseburger in Paradise was written after eating such at Ma Ruby's restaurant, an authentic island eatery run by the 77-year-old who's been knighted by Prince Charles.
For a drink at the quintessential island dive bar, drop by the Vic-Hum Club, where the decor is all dented car licence plates from around the world and there's an outdoor dance floor, basketball and ping-pong.
Proprietor Humphrey Percentie Jr., a.k.a. Shabby and Crooked Dog, will also show you the world's biggest coconut, which is 33 inches in diameter and holds pride of place over the bar.
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- Twenty-five per cent of all Canadians who visit the Bahamas now do so in the summer.
- As a result, Air Canada and WestJet have year-round daily flights from Toronto to Nassau, where you can catch the 15-minute connector fight to North Eleuthera and then the water taxi to Harbour Island.
- Overnight rates at the Rock House Hotel - RockHouseBahamas.com - start at $300 US.
- Overnight rates at Coral Sands Resort - CoralSands.com -start at $250 for hotel rooms and $600 for the new beachfront cottages.
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I figure I'll share an additional photo as I'm processing my shots from this trip. The fall foliage was really amazing during the first week of October up in the Green Mountains. There were plenty of reds, oranges, yellows, and not a whole lot of green.
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Canon's status as a producer of the highest quality lenses brings the experience of lens design excellence to the REALiS WX520's fixed F-stop lens. The projector's sophisticated lens maintains f2.8 throughout its focal length, virtually eliminating any brightness fall off throughout the entire zoom range.
You will find a host of image processing features built into the REALiS WX520 to help maximize system performance and image display quality. The 4-point keystone adjustment provides more precise keystoning and a wider range of choices for diagonal projection, while reducing visually disturbing 'moiré' in the image. The projector's integrated micro digital lens shift allows for pixel precise adjustment of image position in addition to the physical lens shift. The included edge blending brings multi-projector imaging with an easy to use processor equipped with precision luminance ramp adjustment and pixel overlap control. Low TV distortion (0.1%) lenses mean clean, uniform edge blends both horizontally and vertically. True image calibration capability means maximum image quality directly in normally accessible menus.
Measuring 13.3" x 4.6" x 16.9" and weighing only 13 lbs, the REALiS WX520 is one of the smallest projectors in its class, offering high end performance in a compact package. When you need a big, bright, clear image but your installation location is challenging, there's no need to compromise performance. In an auditorium, boardroom, conference room, classroom or house of worship, there will be a perfect spot for a REALiS WX520. Its convenient size means you can do multi-projector installations in places you never thought possible before. The light weight helps make securely mounting the REALiS WX520 easier and changing locations as needed less burdensome.
The REALiS WX520 offers state of the art installation features in an LCOS projector. The projector's integrated mechanical lens shift increases placement flexibility, and the zoom lens provides a consistent f2.8 aperture with virtually no loss in brightness across the zoom.
The construction of the REALiS WX520 provides a new heat management system with a flat top and bottom for flexible placement. Optional feet (not included) can also be installed on the top of the projector for inverted ceiling type mounts. Two units can be easily stacked, still fitting in a compact space while doubling light output.
The REALiS WX520 can also be placed vertically pointing upward or downward with no ill effects for table type configurations. The new long life (12,000 hour) filter system addresses concerns about frequent filter changes, and a built-in test pattern makes configuration simpler without requiring a pattern generator or PC.
The REALiS WX520 boasts the capability for true network management with a range of features, including full control over IP. The onboard LAN port allows for power management, usage tracking and control for up to 250 projectors on a network - a boon for schools or in trade show applications. Integrated Crestron RoomView support is also provided.
Another key network feature is the content streaming capability. Without dedicated software, one or more PCs can connect to the REALiS WX520 over a standard LAN to share content. The system has a built-in processor to show up to 4 different screens simultaneously. This can be done within a room, or in multiple locations, simplifying installation.
Advanced multimedia functions include 4-point keystone correction, simultaneous Picture-by-Picture HDMI and DVI split-screen display and built-in edge blending with easy integration adjustment. It is also possible to use the REALiS WX520 without a PC, thanks to the built-in USB memory stick slot and pre-installed JPEG image file support with one of the fastest load times in the industry. The built-in 5W speaker allows audio playback without an external audio component.
Not only will the REALiS WX520 take up less space, it will also be a quiet companion to your presentation, with a low fan noise rating of 38dB, going down to 32dB in Power Saver mode. Your audiences will be totally concentrated on what they see and only on what you want them to hear.
The REALiS WX520 makes your life easier as it is backed by Canon USA's Projector and Lamp Limited Warranty, which guarantees that the projector will be free from defects in workmanship and materials for 3 years from the date of original purchase, and the lamp for 120 days from the date of original purchase.
This new model is also backed by Canon USA's Projector Protection Program* ("Triple P"). Triple P is a FREE service program that provides a loaner projector of equal or greater value in the event that a qualifying unit is in need of repair. Triple P is available on all Canon projector models during the Canon USA Projector and Lamp Limited Warranty.
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Compatible Supplies & Accessories
Canon offers a wide range of compatible supplies and accessories that can enhance your user experience with you REALiS WX520 Pro AV that you can purchase direct. Scroll down to easily select items to add to your shopping cart for a faster, easier checkout. Visit the Canon Online Store
Ceiling Attachment RS-CL12
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RS-CL08 ceiling extension measures between 16 and 24 inches. It is compatible with a variety of ceiling mounts.
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RS-CL08 ceiling extension measures between 16 and 24 inches. It is compatible with a variety of ceiling mounts.
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RS-CL09 ceiling extension measures between 24 and 39 inches. It is compatible with a variety ceiling mounts.
Ceiling Extension (RS-CL09)
RS-CL09 ceiling extension measures between 24 and 39 inches. It is compatible with a variety ceiling mounts.
Compact Install Soft Carrying Case
Soft carrying case for projector.
Lamp Assembly RS-LP08
Genuine Canon Replacement Lamp.
Option Foot RS-FT01
Replacement foot for the REALiS Compact Install projectors.
Option Foot RS-FT01
Replacement foot for the REALiS Compact Install projectors.
Wirelessly control projector within approximately 8 meters of receiver. Optional wired connection. Requires two AA batteries.
Wirelessly control projector within approximately 8 meters of receiver. Optional wired connection. Requires two AA batteries.
Wirelessly control projector within approximately 8 meters of receiver. Optional wired connection. Requires two AA batteries.
Wirelessly control projector within approximately 8 meters of receiver. Optional wired connection. Requires two AA batteries.
Remote Controller RS- RC06
Replacement Remote Control for REALiS projectors.
Replacement Remote Control for REALiS projectors.
Replacement Air Filter RS-FL02
Replacement air filter for the REALiS Compact Install projectors.
Replacement air filter for the REALiS Compact Install projectors.
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The Counselor is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated films of 2013. Ridley Scott is directing, the film marks the screenwriting debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men, The Road), and the cast is insane: Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Breaking Bad's Dean Norris. The story centers on an attorney (Fassbender) who gets in over his head when he teams with Bardem's character to sell $20 million worth of cocaine. Though this may seem a simple premise, we can reasonably expect a great deal of depth given that this comes from the mind of McCarthy.
Production is now firmly underway and the first image of Pitt on the London set has hit the web. This marks a reteaming of sorts for the actor and his Thelma and Louise director, and in this first image Scott looks to have Pitt back in the cowboy hat. Hit the jump to take a look and to see what Pitt had to say about his involvement in the film.
First off, here's an amusing quote from Pitt about his McCarthy obsession and his involvement with The Counselor from an interview with Empire in May:
"I'm only doing a few days on that. [Killing Them Softly director] Andrew [Dominik] and I are both Cormac McCarthy fans – I mean, I've read every word the guy's published and most of them more than once. So this was a chance to do something of his and also to work with Ridley [Scott] again. Ridley gave me my first break into the big leagues. And I'm a [Michael] Fassbender fanatic too."
It's nice to see someone of Pitt's stature so enthusiastic about a project, and I'm more than eager to see how The Counselor turns out. For now, this set photo via Just Jared will have to do:


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Riding shotgun in a tiny plane flying low over Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one my favorite memories. As the pilot took a serpentine course back and forth across the formation— some of its islands rising above the ocean's surface, some not quite— I was mesmerized by the colors and shapes, which subtly changed with the movement of water and light.
The experience washed over me again as I spent time with Judy Watson's exhibition of etchings, "heron island suite," currently on display at the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Watson, whose mother is of the Waanyi people of Northwest Queensland, created the prints after serving as artist-in-residence at the University of Queensland's Heron Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. She set up her studio in a lab and spent her days not only observing and collecting items from around the island— including charred relics from when the original station burned in 2007— but also learning about the research interests of the facility's scientists.
All of these activities come into play in the resulting etchings, which bring together descriptive illustrations with watery abstract shapes, often overlaid with graphs and scientific charts. Watson uses multiple plates to create each print and varies her palette to reflect the earthiness of the island and the luminosity of the surrounding sea.
Now and then, Watson re-uses a plate, changing the context of its content. For instance, a linear illustration of a clamshell that occurs in "heron island suite #1," where it floats like an island in a frothy sea of electric blue, reappears in "heron island suite #14," where Watson shifts the background to coppery sand and overlays the image with a white graph of diagonal lines and white circles.
The charts Watson includes delineate the effects climate change and pollution are having on the Reef, such as mapping endangered sea turtles' feeding patterns and tracking coral calcification. In her prints, however, the scientific information becomes secondary to the graphs' aesthetic qualities, particularly in the way their staccato geometry contrasts with organic areas of diffuse and watery ink.
Watson intuitively balances each piece's components and skillfully manipulates the inks to create a mix of articulation and abstraction, opacity and transparency. Working on micro- and macrocosmic levels, her etchings offer detailed illustrations of collected specimens coexisting with layered colors and shapes that suggest aerial views of an effervescent ocean washing over island reefs.
Judy Watson's exhibition of etchings, "heron island suite," is on view through December 18 at the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. A video documenting Watson's time at the Heron Island Research Station and providing insight into her creative process accompanies the show. 400 Worrell Dr., 244-0234.


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Courtney Cox and her "Cougar Town" cast and crew are packing up and moving all the way from ABC to TBS.
The "very funny" basic cable network announced Thursday that it has picked up the comedy for a fourth season and will also air previously seen episodes. The season three finale will air on ABC Tuesday, May 15.
Negotiations between "Cougar Town" and ABC were scratchy to say the least, making the move to TBS not a complete surprise.
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Cast member Busy Phillips made her dissatisfaction with ABC public when she told E!: "It has not been fun to feel like the ugly stepsister of the network. They moved us around, they took us off air for months."
Since it debuted in 2009, the half-hour sitcom – that focuses on a divorced woman (Cox), her friends, ex-husband and her son who all live in fictional Florida town – has jumped time slots, days and was held over from last fall before returning to screens on Valentine's Day of this year.
Previously, "Cougar Town" followed ratings juggernaut "Modern Family" on Wednesday nights and averaged nearly eight million viewers. This season's 10 episodes have averaged 5.3 million viewers following a move to Tuesdays. An ill-fitting move for the female-friendly comedy that saw them preceded by the Tim Allen-macho fest "Last Man Standing."
Co-creator Bill Lawrence experienced a similar situation on a previous show, "Scrubs." At the time, Lawrence complained about the treatment the hospital-based sitcom received at the hands of NBC for seven seasons. Only it was ABC that swooped in and picked up "Scrubs" for a further two seasons.
"So happy we get to continue making our show!" tweeted Courtney Cox soon after the move to TBS was made public.
"Cougar Town" will begin airing on TBS in early 2013.


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I've been looking at a few different technologies to improve the scalability of one of our applications. We're scaling pretty ok to be honest, considering that we currently have a traditional database centric solution. The cost for scaling an database bound application running Oracle is crazy to say the least considering they charge $47 500 per two x86 cores for Oracle Enterprise Edition. On top of this it's 22% for software updates and support per year. As this wasn't enough, they also increase the support cost with 4% per year.
You might think that the price above is for production environments, but in fact you have to pay for every single installation throughout the organization. There are no discounts for staging, DR, test or development environments.
I have a piece of advice for all you kids out there considering to run Oracle – just don't do it.
This advice goes for all Oracle products really, as they all have the same pricing model.
Databases are overrated
My strong recommendation is to build an application that doesn't rely on an underlying RDBMS. The relational database is an overrated, overly complex form of persistent store. They are slow, and are also usually a single point of failure. Does this mean that databases are dead and a thing from the past? No, but the role of the database will probably change going forward. In my opinion we should use the RDBMS as a System of Record that is mostly up to date.
If you ask me, databases are great at mainly two things:
- They make the data accessible for other systems in a standard way and
- They have a strong query language that many people know
So, write to databases asynchronously and use it for reporting and extracting data. Store the data in a data grid in the application tier (where it's used).
What is a Data Grid?
A Data Grid is a horizontally scalable in-memory data management solution. Data grids try to eliminate data source contention by scaling out data management with commodity hardware.
Some underlying philosophies of data grids – according to Oracle (sic!):
- Keep data in the application tier (where it's used)
- Disks are slow and databases are evil
- Data Grids will solve your application scalability and performance problems
I have been looking at three different data grid vendors; Oracle Coherence, Gigaspaces EDG/XAP and Terracotta DSO.
Oracle Coherence
I really like this product. It focuses solely on being a potent data grid, with abilities to do act as a compute grid as well. Although I haven't used Coherence for any large projects, its design and concepts are easy to relate to. It supports JTA transactions and consists of a single jar that you drop into your class path. The Coherence configuration doesn't contain any infrastructural descriptions which means that you can use the same configuration on a your development laptop as in the production environment with multiple servers. The main issue with Coherence is the fact that Oracle owns it since a few years back.
Gigaspaces XAP
Gigaspaces mission seem to be to provide a very scalable application server with XAP – "The Scale-Out Application Server". The EDG – enterprise data grid – packaging seem to provide about the same feature set as Coherence. The main difference to me, is the fact that the Gigaspaces offerings are both application server infrastructure that needs configuration, deployments and all of that. As I see things, the main drawback is the application server approach – it feels overwhelming. On the other hand, Gigaspaces is still a smaller company and eager to do business and provide great implementation support and the product seems to be a really good application server.
Terracotta DSO
Terracotta has a different approach. They provide Networked Attached Memory for the Java heap. If you can write a thread-safe program, you can scale out using Terracotta with no or minor changes to your application. From a technical point of view it's a beautiful solution: You declare what objects you want to make available using Terracotta, and then Terracotta will makes your data persistent (if you want) and available on all clustered nodes. When you invoke new() on a clustered object, you will get a reference to the cluster object (if one exists). Another important difference between Terracotta and the others is that they only send the part of an object that's been changed rather than the full serialized object graph.
I'm in love with this product. Its free and open source too and Terracotta Inc provides commercial support. The main concern I have with Terracotta is that its really a paradigm shift to the average java enterprise developer to start to write multi-threaded programs without having JTA transactions. Another concern is the magic – the low-level hooks they do in the JVM:s. At the time of writing, only Sun and IBM JVM:s are supported. It runs fine on OSX though.
The bottom line
So which one is the better? Well, that depends on a lot of things as always. If you decide to move to the grid it's going to require retraining of your developers regardless of what solution you go for.
Please do keep in mind that products doesn't usually solve your problems. And that you can go a long way using a less expensive RDBMS by partitioning the data across multiple servers – sharding. This is what a lot of large sites out there do.
Further reading:
The Coming of the Shard
eBay's Architectural Principles
Oracle Coherence
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The Federal Reserve lies about United States Notes
Exposing Faux Capitalism
October 30, 2009
The Federal Reserve first starts off by telling the truth about United States Notes:
"U.S. notes, the first national currency, began circulating during the civil war; they were authorized by the Legal Tender Act of 1862. The Department of the Treasury issued these notes directly. Issuance was subject to limitations; the Congress established a statutory limitation of $300 million on the amount of U.S. notes outstanding and in circulation. Although this amount was significant in Civil War days, it is a very small fraction of the total currency now in circulation in the United States."
Then, they tell a big lie:
"U.S. notes serve no function that is not already served by Federal Reserve notes."
They lie, not only mislead, since they give so many accurate details, only to lie aboutthe most important distinguishing function of U.S. Notes from Federal Reserve notes — their interest-free issuance. Sarah Emery, in her 1887 work, Seven Financial Conspiracies Which Have Enslaved the American People, states: "the enactments of July 17, 1861, and February 12, 1862, authorizing the issue of $60,000,000 treasury notes, not bearing interest and payable for all debts, public and private."Completely false! U.S. Notes were issued interest-free by the government. The purpose they served was to not bankrupt the American people in funding the Civil War, by not subjecting them to an unpayable, interest-accruing debt, from the moment of creation, as Federal Reserve notes do.
The function they serve that isn't already served by Federal Reserve notes is that not a single penny of interest was ever due on them, nor will ever be due, by the American people to the bankers or the government.
Furthermore, Federal Reserve member banks are unable to draw United States Notes whenever they please, unlike Federal Reserve notes. As the U.S. Treasury states,
"A commercial bank belonging to the Federal Reserve System can obtain Federal Reserve notes from the Federal Reserve Bank in its district whenever it wishes. It must pay for them in full, dollar for dollar, by drawing down its account with its district Federal Reserve Bank."
While the Federal Reserve gives some very factual information on its website, such as the fact that they don't 'print' any money, in this case, however, they told a lie about U.S. Notes — their interest-free competitor.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
I Feel Great
Been a long time since I managed that, but I couldn't resist tooting my own horn. I did make the finals in Literary Agents Nathan Bransford's first paragraph contest. I already feel like a winner after being one of the ten finalists out of more than 2600 entries. Hop on over to his blog so that you can read all of the finalists entries and vote for your favorite. There are some really good ones so the competition from here on out will be extremely stiff.
47 comments:
- Michelle D. Argyle said...
Travis, congratulations! I was a finalist last year, and I'm still floating on air. It's just a big deal to be picked out of so many!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- jjdebenedictis said...
Congratulations on being picked, and congratulations on already being one of the clear front-runners in the voting, too!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- Michelle D. Argyle said...
Oh, and Travis, if you have short stories, you should enter one into our Genre Wars Contest over on The Literary Lab.
- October 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Corey Schwartz said...
HUGE congrats!!! Just saw at Nathan's blog and came straight over to congratulate you!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- Janna Leadbetter said...
It's great news, and I can't say I'm surprised in the least. Congratulations!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- Melanie Hooyenga said...
Travis, I'm so excited for you!!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Bubblewench said...
WOOHOO! That's awesome! Congrats!
- October 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Dawn Anon said...
I was just on Nathan's blog and saw that you are a finalist. Congrats!!!!! I hadn't seen your entry before that... Somehow, i hadn't yet managed to read through all of them yet. Gee, imagine that. :P (I don't know how Nathan has read through all of them already!)
Anyway, Good luck. How exciting!
- October 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
Woo hoo! Go for it! Congrats, big guy.
- October 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Eric said...
Travis, big congrats to you pal. You have some stiff competition, but I'm not surprised at you being in the finals. You have some good stuff there.
Good luck, buddy.
- October 16, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Literary Cowgirl said...
I told you! I told you! Yipee! I am so excited for you!!!!!
- October 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM
- Literary Cowgirl said...
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- October 16, 2009 at 2:16 PM
- Robin Lemke said...
I just saw your paragraph on his blog! Congratulations!!!! Off to vote for you now!
- October 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Mary E Campbell said...
Congratulations Travis! I knew it was awesome - glad Nathan thinks so too.
- October 16, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Crystal Phares said...
Congrats! Though, I'm not surprised at all!
- October 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Congratulations! I saw the competition page yesterday and just the thought of it paralysed me. Well done for making the finals - must be good stuff. I look forward to hearing when the book will be published and reading it!
- October 16, 2009 at 3:54 PM
- Debra Lynn Lazar said...
Major congrats to you!! That is really quite an accomplishment, especially given the number and quality of entries this year. ;-)
- October 16, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Ello - Ellen Oh said...
Travis - yours was my absolute favorite! You better write it or have written it cause I'm now dying to read it!!!
- October 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM
- Dolly said...
Travis, congratulations. I really liked your first paragraph.
- October 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM
- Laurie Powers said...
Congratulations, Travis! That's huge, especially considering the number of entrants.
- October 16, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Trixie said...
Congratulations, Travis! That's really great. Glad your writing is going well.
- October 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Natasha Fondren said...
Travis, I just saw and came running over here! Congratulations! I'm so excited for you!
I loved the voice in your paragraph. :-)
- October 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM
- Barbara Martin said...
Travis, a hearty congratulations to you. How wonderful you must feel...floating above the ground.
- October 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM
- Being Beth said...
Congratulations, Travis! Nathan made great choices, and your paragraph is superb. Good luck!
- October 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- Teresa said...
Congratulations, Travis!!!
- October 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Mary Witzl said...
Way to go, Travis, making top ten! I went, took a look, paled -- and wimped out. I tell myself I might have made top ten, though. (It's easier this way...)
- October 17, 2009 at 5:57 AM
- Angie said...
That's excellent! Congrats! :D
- October 17, 2009 at 6:56 AM
- Writing Without Periods! said...
Way to go, Travis! You already know how much I love your Feed Store Chronicles.
- October 17, 2009 at 7:24 AM
- Chris Eldin said...
Very, very nice!
- October 17, 2009 at 8:50 AM
- Michelle H. said...
Congratulations! Good Luck!
- October 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- jerseygirl89 said...
That's terrific! Congratulations!
- October 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Beth said...
And I voted - your piece is excellent. My number one choice.
- October 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Angie Ledbetter said...
Woohoo and write on, Travis!
- October 17, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- writtenwyrdd said...
That's great, Travis. Nothing makes one feel better about one's writing than getting recognition.
- October 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM
- Terrie Farley Moran said...
Hi Travis,
I ran right over and voted for you!! Congrats on making the top ten.
- October 17, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- Rancid Baloney said...
Not to shabby. I voted for you but fraught? Really?
- October 18, 2009 at 8:54 AM
- Carleen Brice said...
Good on you! Thanks for stopping by my blog today...I've been pretty lax on visiting blogs since I got on Facebook & Twitter.
- October 18, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- Maria said...
Congratulations, Travis on being picked!
- October 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- That Janie Girl said...
YOW!!! Congratulations, Travis! That's amazing!!
- October 18, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- Helen Ginger said...
Congratulations Travis! That seriously is a big deal. Yay!
Straight From Hel
- October 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM
- pattinase (abbott) said...
A terrific paragraph and you got my vote.
- October 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Lexi said...
Add in my congrats, Travis! What an amazing accomplishment! Did you celebrate?
- October 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Hilary said...
Oh that's wonderful news. I'm so happy for you. Congratulation. :) There's no question as to why that's a winning paragraph. Nicely done.
- October 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- Debra Lynn Lazar said...
I just read the great news on Nathan's site!!! This is far better than winning the lottery. I can't imagine how happy you must be. I'm sure this is one small step from representation. Go Travis!!!!!
- October 19, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Tena Russ said...
- October 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Maya / מיה said...
Congratulations, Travis!
- October 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Melanie Hooyenga said...
Travis!! Congratulations!!!
- October 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM


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Nearly a decade after "Anchorman" became a comedy classic, Will Ferrell and his fellow newsmen are about to try to re-create box office magic with a highly anticipated sequel.
But a new trailer for the Dec 20 release, which hit the web Wednesday, raises the question: Can the 2004 original really be topped?
For years, Paramount Pictures was hesitant to make a sequel to "Anchorman," which grossed a strong $85 million at the box office. In 2011, Ferrell said that he and co-stars Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner wanted to make a second film, but the studio said it had "run the numbers and it's not a good fit."
Just a year later, Ferrell unexpectedly arrived on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show in March 2012, dressed as his signature character Ron Burgundy to announce a sequel had finally been green-lighted.
Unlike the first film, famously set in classy San Di-ago, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" sees Burgundy and his fellow anchors travel to New York City to begin working for a national cable news network called -- what else? -- GNN. The trailer features the same kind of over-the-top, quasi-moronic gags seen in the original: The bus the men are on, which inevitably crashes, is filled with bowling balls and scorpions. Burgundy sneezes directly onto a camera lens.
There's even a funeral for Carell's clueless Brick, who is, of course, still alive.
But does it all have the potential to go down in one-liner history, forever to be quoted by frat bros? Paramount better hope so, or it might end up trapped in a glass case of emotion.


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So I have half a can of OБoлoнь (Obolon) to finish and rather than let it go flat and warm by tomorrow morning, here is my World Cup blog…
There's a comedy internet T-shirt site that I like that has one shirt with a map on it and the words "The Ukraine is weak". The Ukraine is not weak – it is annoying and grumpy. And this makes it extremely difficult to see the Ghana-Uruguay quarter-final of the 2010 World Cup in Vuvuzela (Venezuela? Ed.).
I have purchased train tickets in places far more crazy than this (Azerbaijan, for instance… or Fulton, California) with no problems at all. But here it's too crazy, too fast.
I meet Alexis in the line for "International" (and I only knew this was international because the woman behind the word that kind of looked like "Information" in Cyrillic had stuck two fingers up at me when I said clearly to her: "Iaşi [Ee-ash], Romania?")
Over to Window 2 I go, whereat Alexis – who is a kind of French Indian Jones character who lives in yurts in Mongolia while digging for God knows what – confirms that this indeed "International". The poker-faced girl with 80s hair behind the plexiglass and microphone relay here at Львів (L'Viv) railway station, south-west Ukraine, even seems to have a smattering of English.
Alexis – who speaks Russian, which the Ukrainians don't like but grudgingly understand – agrees with me that this is one of those countries where people just push to the front of the line. This is happening now; little men, people in uniform, loud women – all butting in. This, however, is not our biggest problem. Big-hair Girl behind the counter has got the whole glacial Communism thing down straight, despite the fact she probably only five when the wall came down. She's not doing this shit in triplicate, it's apparently quintuplicate.
"They don't have a computer?" I ask in disbelief on seeing cash-only payment ahead of us. "Yes, they have it," says the Frenchman, who knows this place well. But they also have two different stamps, piles of maybe-meaningless forms and carbon paper, which I haven't seen in years.
Alexis is impressed to learn that the train I just rolled in on from Kraków, Poland, was a brand-new (albeit cramped) sleeper which has adjustable wheels to cope with the change of railroad gauge between Europe and the former Soviet Union, cutting the journey time by around five hours.
This time saved was being cancelled out waiting here in this solidly imposing, polished wood and marble station – a building belying the broken sidewalks, pollution and railcar buildings in the 30C heat of the avenue outside. It's actually pretty hot here in the concourse too and I am sure I can feel air-con coming out of the cash hole in Big-hair Girl's plexiglass.
"Arggh… I don wanna wait twice," says Alexis with Gallic directness. "I'm getting some cash." He makes off and on his return laughs at the fact that the little lady in red, the only person who had been left in front of us (we're hunting as a pair now) is still there, still deep in conversation with Big Hair Girl.
"How much needs to be said?" I ask rhetorically. "She's buying three tickets to one destination. It's been about 20 minutes…"
"More," sighs Alexis.
"In UK, she could've organised a round-the-world trip by now. God, when she actually takes the cash off her, the price will have gone up."
I have it in my head that today I would like to find someplace to watch the Holland-Brazil quarter final and later the Ghana-Uruguay game. This dream is fading fast as I decide too that I need to get hold of some Ukrainian money, a currency I now know to be called the ривня (hryvnia or UAH).
The station is packed with "bankomats" but it takes me three goes (and some paranoia that I've been debited without getting the cash) to find one that likes my British debit card. This machine, of course, has a line of six people, strangely queuing at a right-angle to it, directly across a busy doorway. Some unshaven guy in a shiny suit siddles up and I stare at him angrily, channelling: "Don't even think about it Mr Butinski!" He looks a little scared by me and leaves with a face-saving dismissive motion of his hand. Later I feel sorry for him. He was probably just standing there.
This ATM is clearly around three times slower than a western one and by the time I get my money I'm drumming my fingers on it and swearing in English to the slight bemusement of the resigned Ukranians now behind me.
I think I've lost my new ally but he finds me and he's seeing the funny side of the fact that as soon as he'd gotten his ticket to Budapest, Big-hair Girl had gone on her break. I suggest getting the hell out of this nuthouse but as I say this, a schedule is slapped up on the inside of Window 2. It seems they re-open, bizarrely, in just five minutes' time and, sure enough, at 8am Big-hair Girl is replaced by Porno-cashier Girl.
Alexis starts banging on at her in Russian and I coufuse things by periodically saying the word "Romania". We're only about 40km from the Romanian border but all we're getting from this super-blonde whose uniform appears to be about to give up the fight with her breasts is:"No train. No train."
Ominously, Alexis tells me as an aside that in the former Soviet Union they sometimes won't let foreigners have a ticket just for the hell of it. He drills Porno-cashier girl further and she tells us the border is closed all weekend (it's Friday today) and the weather is to blame.
(Much later I piece together that this is, amazingly, pretty-much true. A Ukranian train boss tells me through a Russian-Canadian couple I meet the next day that there was a landslide which blocked the line. And in Romania I hear that, despite the baking heat elsewhere, there were rainstorms causing terrible floods in that area, killing 23 people…)
Alexis quickly discrens that my best bet is to go to the border and that means the city of Чернівці (Chernivtsi), where there'll probably be a bus into Romania (and, indeed, there is – the replacement bus for the landslide train, which I eventually get on for free). We make for a local window and within four minutes I have my ticket. For the six-hour journey, it costs me 40 UAH (about 4 euros). I've just withdrawn 500 UAH of one of the world's least wanted currencies, in a country where a 500ml beer or a bowl of borsch costs 50 euro cents)…
So I wander L'Viv with Alexis for about an hour or so getting heat-stroke, share some poppy-seed bread with him after which he shows me the tram to ride back on. His train is tonight so I say goodbye and "spasiba" ("thanks").
I find my platform by remembering my destination begins "4ep" as (in "Чер") and, in good time, the battered communal sleeper rolls in from Moscow. I stagger with my luggage through the sun feeling like Woody Allen as each carriage boss in turn points me at the next car. Mine is two from the end. The cleaning lady takes my ticket and checks it. She gives it to a guy in uniform who keeps it all, despite my puzzled look. So I'm hoping that they remember me and that I remember that my stop begins "4ep".
The carriage is dozens of vinyl bed-shelves, and complicated tables that fold into beds and thick bedrolls with people lolling, standing, sitting and laying all over the place. Many of the men have their shirts off. But it's relatively fresh in there, if a little stuffy. There are water bottles everywhere and few beer bottles.
There's a guy reading the paper next to me and a babushka laid out on the table-bed across the aisle. I use my wire-lock to secure my safety bag (which holds my two other bags) to a stanchion. A comely young woman arrives and sits on the "bed" opposite me.
Then, as the train is pulling away, as always, a respectable-looking couple shuffles in and squeezes to sit on the bed next to the comely girl. There always has to be a talker and this guy is today's. Don't get me wrong. This can be good or bad. You never know. He talks to everyone and immediately and it's clear he's taken a good quart of vodka. I have to admit, of course, that I am "Anglia" and to him, this is hitting the jackpot.
The discussion mostly revolves around the standard of his English, or at least it keeps coming back to that. "I made residential for English," he boasts.
"A course?" I put in.
"Yes. Course," he agrees, and goes on to ask me what sort of job he could get in England, while taking my water bottle for a "little sip for me" and not giving it back. But he really wants to know what he can do in Anglia and looks at me expectantly. "Um. You could have a restaurant," I suggest for some reason. It turns out he wants to be a security guard. He is at least 60.
"Chris! Chris! How much you weigh?" I tell him in kilogrammes. He tells me proudly he is 86kg. He tells me he will die when he is 96. But only God can know this really, he adds, after some thought. "God and the insurance man," I say. There is a glimmer of agreement in his eyes at this suggestion.
His mortified wife is periodically cornering him and literally wagging her finger at him while berating him in high-speed Ukrainian. During one of this respites I make the international drinky-drinky gesture to the comely girl and she says to me "oh yes" in English.
"My wife do not understand," says the talker, after extricating himself from her fury.
"Oh, I understand," she mutters in English, never looking at anyone but her husband.
The talker, who has told me his name but I've already forgotten the pronunciation, says a few things in Ukrainian that make the others smile, even laugh; especially the babushka and her shirtless husband. I'm sure these are about me but I feel no resentment. He's a tedious but genial, even though he's trying to wind me up about my water bottle.
"Chris! Chris!" he gestures to the comely girl. "She is your wife?"
"Da," I say and the comely girl giggles shyly (then denies this vociferously).
Five or six times the talker has said to me: "Chris, do you have little glass, little glass?" I obviously do not, but eventually it occurs to me that he is offering to share with me the remains of his vodka. Every woman who walks past is also asked for a "little glass" for me, usually with the pre-amble, in English: "Waitress! Waitress!" I find this re-assuring but our vodka party does not come to pass.
A short time later, he totters off to make a pipi or to smoke (oddly, only one woman is smoking in the carriage itself) and this gives me a chance to climb into a middle bunk and sleep a bit, propped against one of the huge bedrolls. On his return he wants my juice and the remains of my poppy-seed bread.
"Chris! Chris! You want me die?" I give him just a twist off the bread and everyone laughs as he holds on to it quizzically.
Then he sings a loud song and falls asleep. I get my water back.
Of course, like all good generalizations, not everyone in Ukraine is grumpy, just a lot of them; and it's that Communist grumpiness which is just a way of dealing with life rather than from the soul. In Chernivtsi I eat something in the station "restaurant" – a place, like so many in the former Soveit Union, which has these fancy net curtains, apparently from Stalin's office, circa 1945.
I have to tell the woman who served me three times the 2 UAH I left is her tip (a man helps me explain; she just keeps saying in Ukranian: "It's yours. It's yours." But she smiles when she realises what I'm going on about.) A stray dog comes in when I've finished all my food. But the woman gives the dog a bone and I watch the dog crack it and lick the bits up off the floor.
There is even some English on the "Tickets for Foreign Destinations" window and the woman there is like a blonde Bella Emberg, the wobbly comedy woman from 70s UK television. When my turn comes she explaines things with the help of five Ukranian Hannah Montanas behind me. With the exact mannerisms of American teenage girls they tell me about the landslide and that I must come back at 6 tomorrow and get on a bus into Romania at 7.
Bella's gaggle have directed me next-door to the station hotel, wherein a cleaning lady sits on a sofa outside the reception desk.
"You?" I sign, and receive an unsmiling "niet". I pick up an ancient plastic phone receiver at the deserted desk and listened to it, dumbly. As if by magic – but entirely by coincidence, I'm sure – a nearly identical cleaning lady arrives from the street and goes behind the counter. I know she's a cleaning lady because, like the other woman, she's wearing the generic, global cleaning lady tabard. I stupidly begin signing to her that I will get a bus at 7 the next day. I now realise she probably thought I was in a party of seven.
She isn't happy from the start, and after some minutes of awkwardness and grumpiness (on her part) and pointless scribbling and sniggering (by the other cleaning lady) – and me inexplicably asking: "Sprechen Sie Deutsch?" (inexplicably because I don't) – she grabs a key and begins to show me upstairs.
"Spasiba!" I blurt. Relieved, I've used my only Russian ("thank you") apart from "da" and "niet". She starts jabbering at me and it's immediately clear to me that she's saying something like: "No! Not thank-you! Not thank-you! You ain't in yet, buddy!"
At the open door of the room she stares at me. I stare back (I've understood already I have to pay for a twin – about 14 euro) and then I say "Da! Da!" and move to sling my bags inside. She's OK with this so that's it – I can finally use some of this Ukranian cash (later I am waved away from eight different currency exchange places in Romania).
I want to look at Chernivtsi, but darkness has descended before I venture out of the room. This hotel is spotlessly clean (after all, cleaning ability appears to be the main pre-requisite for employment here) but there is only one seat-less toilet and a wobbly sink for the whole 10-room floor. I'm thinking about this as a finally re-enter the reception area and it hits me: the jabbering black-and-white TV on the wall is showing Ghana-Uruguay.
Four men are watching the match, apparently intently (until I realise that one of them is sound asleep). I stare at the screen. I can't really tell the difference between the two teams at first. There is no score or time showing.
I turn to the men and make a "nil-nil" with my fingers. One makes "1-1" back, cheerily. There's an update on the screen. I've missed Holland-Brazil and slept through 63 minutes of this.
There's vinyl armchair for me but I've gotta eat and Grumpy Woman sure ain't gonna solve this problem for me. She even gives me some grief when it becomes clear I'm heading out into the town. I give her my key and she writes down something I understand to be "Check-out is at 12, idiot". I take the pen, indicate myself and write down "06". She seems to get it.
I cross the wide, cobbled and tram-lined street to a "Бар" festooned with fairy lights and people hanging out in front. My spirits are raised: inside, in the corner, is a colour TV and the footy is already on. I sit and begin to watch. Within seconds it's clear to me that this is some kind of weird Eastern European chat show/football game with a long sofa of opinionated men, a couple of pretty girls and a black guy who, it turns out, barely gets a word in. They appear to be talking about the game which, infuriatingly, plays live on a fuzzy screen behind them or on a strangely angled "coffee table" screen at their knees. Only occasionally does it actually cut to the match itself and a lot of screen-time is taken up with the main man's head just gassing away.
I sigh and steel myself to approach the counter. I grab a beer from a fridge and make the international eaty-eaty gesture. I am encouraged: the woman is smiley and laughs when I make the befuddled "Anglia" disclaimer.
"Chicken?" she asks.
Me: "Da! Da!"
Her: "Brot? Salat?"
Me: …you get the idea. It comes pretty quick and I'm just about being able to read the game and – as I'm the only person who seems to be watching – I'm working myself up for a sly channel-change. After all, I know from the hotel there is a conventional screening of the game being broadcast in these parts. But then some woman comes and sits behind me, facing the TV. She's alternating between the match and reading her beer can.
Then the whole issue becomes academic: the screen suddenly becomes just static, like someone has ripped off the TV aerial/satellite dish. Like the good football survivalist I am, I instantly decide to eat and run, back to the monochrome squinting of the hotel lobby.
At this point a cop – or he could be a security guard or some kind of paramilitary – clicks past me and starts fiddling with the juke box screen. After a moment he looks at the TV, struts over to it and turns it off. Whatever he is, I'm not arguing with him. As I leave, I think I hear Michael Bolton.
I manage to install myself in the vacant armchair back at the hotel with too much of a farting noise. It's not clear what's going on in the game. But I'm sure the "1-1" guy would've updated me if necessary. After some time I realize I'd returned just before the end of the first period of extra time.
It's not clear who my fellow hotel guests are supporting. Two of the three men who are actually awake seem to be looking for ideas to the "1-1" guy – who is resplendent in a John Belushi Hawaiian shirt. Come the late penalty, and its subsequent miss by Asamoah Gyan, it seems they like the Uruguayans.
I restrain myself. I would love to see Ghana get into the semi. I even have my Ghana shirt in my bag upstairs in my room. Soon I feel like I am projecting the England World Cup jinx on to the brave Black Stars. And, lo, it comes to pass.
There's a Ghanaian Stuart Pearce. There's a Ghanaian Chris Waddle.
When it's all over, the others make straight for their rooms. Grumpy Woman is asleep across two chairs behind the reception desk. I try to sneak back there and get my key from the rack but I move the door with my shoulder bag and she wakes. She clearly feels a little silly. But she's still grumpy. She wakes the guy who's slept through the whole match.
Much later I see pictures on Facebook of my Ghanaian friend (whose name, bizarrely, is Deric Mills). He is draped in a huge Ghana flag and has on a curly Ghana wig. He looks happy. The picture album is called "happy day". It's not clear which match this is, but it's just occurred to me that it would be a very Ghanaian thing to still call it "happy day" even if it was the Uruguay game.
Sorry, Deric. It was all my fault.


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