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Gregory Echenique had a season-best 20 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots in just 20 minutes, and No. 25 Creighton also clicked from outside in a 99-71 rout of Evansville in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament semifinal Saturday.
Doug McDermott added 14 points and Antoine Young 13 for the second seeded Bluejays (27-5), who were 8 for 10 from 3-point range in the first half while building a 19-point cushion and shot 60 percent overall. They entered the day leading the nation with 50.7 field goal percentage and were third in 3-point shooting at 42 percent.
Creighton carries a six-game winning streak into the championship game against No. 4 seed Illinois State.
Kenny Harris had 17 points and Colt Ryan 13 for Evansville (16-15), which has lost 14 of its last 16 to Creighton.


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Easy trick to make DIY project
I'll tell you all about it in a few seconds, but first let me tell you a bit about myself... just so you know where I'm coming from...
My name is Alex Grayson. I work in the car industry as an engineer. I used to be the kind of kid that took apart his parents' TV just to see how it works... along with the toaster, the fridge, and anything else I could get my hands on.
I was surfing online... desperately searching for instructions to improve my woodcarving technique... and I stumbled upon a video of some guy using a machine to carve-out ultra-precise details into wood.
He called it a CNC machine and you can actually use it for any kind of woodwork.
See... CNC stands for computer numerical control which basically means you punch some numbers into a computer and those numbers command the machine to move exactly how you want it...
In this case... it gives the machine the exact spots to carve onto.
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Pornchai Mittongtare
Dense, moist, and delicious, this bread is great as a quick snack or with a bit of whipped honey butter for afternoon tea.
- Yield
- Makes 1 loaf
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup canned pure pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup dried sweetened cranberries
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 9 1/4x5 1/4x3-inch loaf pan. Line bottom and 2 long sides with waxed paper. Whisk flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in medium bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Gradually add 1 cup sugar, beating until blended. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Beat in pumpkin, then vanilla. Beat in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions each. Fold in cranberries and nuts. Transfer batter to pan. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Bake bread until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool bread in pan on rack 15 minutes. Cut around bread at short ends to loosen from pan. Turn bread out onto rack; peel off waxed paper. Cool bread completely. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Wrap and store at room temperature.)


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Sweet. Well I was known as Docmartin on the other Wiki. And I'm in the process of transferring the not-shitty stuff I've written from that wiki to this wiki.
Indeterminable Edit
With the new additions to the Indeterminable, do you think it might have shifted balance levels? --Ghostwheel 13:22, January 30, 2010 (UTC)
- Definitely. I must have forgotten to shift it after I made the changes. Thanks for the heads up, Ghost. STDoc 21:00, February 1, 2010 (UTC)
Forsaker Changes Edit
A new user went and made a bunch of changes to your Forsaker, and then made a new page with your work for his changes when I reverted them. I've left it up, but I'd prefer to merge them or turn his into an ACF package (even if it's an alternate feature you don't pay for). Can you take a look at his stuff and decide if you think the changes are worth including in the class? - TarkisFlux 18:30, July 20, 2010 (UTC)
- If you are wondering about the edits I just made (revert and then unrevert), I accidentally hit the revert button while browsing recent changes. --Andrew Arnott (talk, email) 20:35, July 20, 2010 (UTC)
- You guys are too good to me, watching out for my pages while I'm gone. Thanks for the revert, guys! STDoc 22:37, July 24, 2010 (UTC)
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The Gnu Ventures brand now focuses on publishing Kate's books on local history. You can find out more at GnuVenturesPublishing.com. Follow the links on the page to each of Kate's books, and to Kate's author website as well.
Our previous number (630-548-0468) has changed.
Call Gnu Ventures at 630-687-1111
Gnu Ventures has been proud to provide website marketing solutions to companies of all sizes since 1996. Founded as a husband and wife team who started working out of our home, we've been active in the local Chamber of Commerce and in our community, networking with folks from a wide range of industries.
In 2008, we met another couple who were also providing web design services out of their home. We enjoyed each other's company socially and started working together as well. Doubling our team gave us new capabilities to provide even better service and so we launched a new company together, Sprocket Websites. Things have really taken off since then and we help more people than ever before.
All of our web development is now done through Sprocket, although many people still think of us as Gnu Ventures. We had become very fond of the name ourselves, so it seemed fitting to let it live on as an entity for some of our other "new ventures."
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No, not a discussion of how to become an EconomistMom like me, but rather, the Economist magazine's take on the "Mommy Track" and the "real reason why more women don't rise to the top of companies." I agree with this reasoning (especially where I have added emphasis):
Several factors hold women back at work. Too few study science, engineering, computing or maths. Too few push hard for promotion. Some old-fashioned sexism persists, even in hip, liberal industries. But the biggest obstacle (at least in most rich countries) is children. However organised you are, it is hard to combine family responsibilities with the ultra-long working hours and the "anytime, anywhere" culture of senior corporate jobs. A McKinsey study in 2010 found that both women and men agreed: it is tough for women to climb the corporate ladder with teeth clamped around their ankles. Another McKinsey study in 2007 revealed that 54% of the senior women executives surveyed were childless compared with 29% of the men (and a third were single, nearly double the proportion of partnerless men).
Many talented, highly educated women respond by moving into less demanding fields where the hours are more flexible, such as human resources or public relations. Some go part-time or drop out of the workforce entirely. Relatively few stay in the most hard-driving jobs, such as strategy, finance, sales and operations, that provide the best path to the top.
Consider this example. Schumpeter sat down with a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer who says that, before starting a family, she was prepared to "give blood" to meet deadlines. After the anklebiters appeared, she took a job in corporate strategy at an engineering firm in Paris. She found it infuriating. Her male colleagues wasted time during the day—taking long lunches, gossiping over café au lait—but stayed late every evening. She packed her work into fewer hours, but because she did not put in enough "face time" the firm felt she lacked commitment. She soon quit. Companies that furrow their brows wondering how to stop talented women leaving should pay heed.
But I don't like how the Economist insinuates it's up to the new Yahoo CEO to prove that working moms really can rise to the top, this way:
Ms Mayer of Yahoo! is an inspiration to many, but a hard act to follow. She boasts of putting in 90-hour weeks at Google. She believes that "burn-out" is for wimps. She says that she will take two weeks' maternity leave and work throughout it. If she can turn around the internet's biggest basket case while dandling a newborn on her knee it will be the greatest triumph for working women since winning the right to wear trousers to the office (which did not happen until 1994 in California). To adapt Malia Obama's warning to her father on his inauguration, the first pregnant boss of a big, well-known American company had better be good.
I think it's all too easy to claim before the baby comes that you will be just as committed to your professional job, time-wise as well as attention-wise, once the baby arrives. And in my own experience, going back to work full time soon after the baby is born is far easier than staying at work full time after the baby has turned into a teenager with needs that can't really be properly met by anyone other than their actual parent. Mothers have an obvious comparative (biological) advantage to fathers in caring for our newborn kids, but I think mothers keep the comparative advantage in terms of the "tug" we feel toward home over office (i.e., where we feel we make the biggest difference) throughout our kids' childhoods.


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Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel is a staple of the Burnaby community. We provide Burnaby families with compassionate funeral services. Our funeral home serves families from Vancouver, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, North Vancouver and the rest of the Lower Mainland.
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Every person's life deserves to be celebrated in a unique way. At Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel, our imaginative team is skilled at creating one-of-a-kind tributes that celebrate a loved one's passions, personality and individuality. We can find inspiration almost anywhere, whether it's a favourite colour, a cherished photograph or a lifelong hobby.
Did he spend his weekends sailing in Vancouver Harbour? Envision a nautical-themed event with his regatta trophies on display in the chapel and a catered seafood lunch. Did she make the best pasta in Burnaby? How about a catered spaghetti dinner in our reception room? We could even give guests jars of her signature tomato sauce. Of course, if you prefer something more traditional, we're happy to do that too. We are committed to meeting your needs and wishes.
Specializing in Italian Catholic funerals
Burnaby is a diverse city and we are privileged to serve families of all religions, backgrounds and cultures. To better serve the community, our team specializes in providing Italian Catholic services. We're proud to be a part of our rich Italian neighbourhood, and it's our honour to be there for those families at the time of need. Our associates are well-versed in providing Catholic funerals and understand all the customs and rituals that make up a traditional Catholic funeral service.
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Whether you are seeking an intimate ceremony with close family and friends or a large celebration with hundreds of guests, our modern and versatile facility can adapt to meet your needs. The entire building is wheelchair accessible, including our front entrance, rear entrance and elevator. The parking lot has 16 spaces and includes an electric car charging station; however, many people park on the residential streets surrounding our buildings.
Located on our main floor, our chapel comfortably seats up to 120 people. The chapel has set pews and a tasteful atmosphere with cream and gold tones. The chapel also has an 80-inch TV monitor to display videos and pictures of your loved one. For Catholic families, we offer a large crucifix as well as kneelers. Many families choose to have the funeral at their church and use our chapel for visitations the evening beforehand. Visitations can be scheduled for family and friends to pay their respects to the family.
We're also honoured to accommodate other faiths and culture. For example, we can conduct a Buddhist funeral, including the burning rituals associated with a Buddhist funeral ceremony.
Our reception room and casket room
The upper floor of our building has a reception area and casket room. We are also one of the few funeral homes left that still offers a casket room. This room is where families can come and physically view and experience the quality of the caskets and urns while making a selection.
Our reception room can accommodate up to 75 people.
Partners in the community
While we do have a chapel on our grounds, the majority of our families choose to hold funeral services at their churches. We have worked closely with local clergy members to achieve funeral services that follow Catholic customs. Our staff is able to work at any church a family chooses.
Wherever you choose to have the funeral service, our team can make all service arrangements at your place of worship, our funeral home, a cemetery or alternate gathering place.
Cemetery partners and transportation
Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel has a close relationship with many cemeteries in the Lower Mainland. We work hand-in-hand with Ocean View Burial Park and Forest Lawn Memorial Park for many of our families. If you'd like to conduct burial services at any particular cemetery, let us know and we'll assist in coordinating such arrangements.
We are also able to help with transportation of your loved one's earthly remains to other places in Canada or abroad. Many of our Italian and Croatian families use this important service.
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In addition to funeral and memorial services, we also coordinate cremations. We do not have an on-site crematorium, but we work closely with our affiliate, West Coast Crematorium.
If your family chooses a cremation, we can finalize arrangements and coordinate without your ever needing to contact West Coast Crematorium. Our aim is always to handle the logistics, so your family can focus on supporting one another.
For Buddhists or other cultures that would like a cremation viewing, also known as witness cremation, we are able to coordinate. Simply let our staff know.
Obituaries, Book of Memories and print memorials
Our staff can assist with writing obituaries to honour your loved one's life experiences and social connections. Obituaries are placed on our website for friends and family to read, and we can also assist in publishing obituaries in the newspapers of your choice.
We also offer the Book of Memories, a beautiful, perpetual online memorial where people can build a legacy by sharing treasured photos and memories online.
Additionally, we offer print materials, including memorial folders, prayer cards and memorial books. There are also thank-you cards for you to acknowledge the emotional support received from friends, co-workers and community members.
Professional, compassionate staff
Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel is not just any funeral home. With our years of experience and professional, friendly and compassionate staff, we are the first choice for hundreds of Burnaby-area families each year.
We are proud to embrace traditional values, diversity and innovation in honouring the spirit and life of each person we serve.
When you choose Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel, we will strive to ensure you get your own funeral director who will stay with you throughout the entire process. This one person will be a familiar face to help your family through every step of the process, from the arrangement to the funeral ceremony. That same funeral director will also be available to assist your family after the services with any follow-up questions or needs you may have.
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If you believe Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel might be able to assist you or your family, please reach out and find out what we can do for you.
Burnaby Funeral Directors
On June 1, 1934, John Edward (Ted) Slavin founded Burnaby Funeral Directors. Ted, his wife, May, and his parents, Margaret and John, established North Burnaby's first funeral home. The original building was purchased from the Royal Canadian Legion and located at 4259 Hastings St. in North Burnaby.
The Slavin family operated the business and became a large part of the newly forming Vancouver Heights area. In 1949, Burnaby Funeral Directors moved across the street to its current location at 4276 Hastings St. This new location would also become the residence for the family.
A family-run business
Ted's son, Ron, became the Slavin's third-generation funeral director in 1952. In 1959, Ted's nephew, Charles Bonner, also joined the business.
In 1982, Ron's wife, Nancy, assumed the administration role within the funeral home, and Ron's son, Tony, became the family's fourth generation funeral director in 1985. Tony's wife, Roslynn, would later become the co-administrator until her passing in 2006.
Expansion and Bell Funeral Chapel
With expansion in mind, the Slavin Family purchased the business of Bell Funeral Chapel from the Armstrong family in September 2004. They operated Bell Funeral Chapel in East Vancouver for 2 years until the property was sold to make way for a new development.
Merging to become Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel
In 2007, Bell Funeral Chapel merged with Burnaby Funeral Directors to become the new Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel in North Burnaby.
We finished a renovation to our concourse area in 2017. Our concourse is enclosed and directly off the chapel to house our hearse and limousines and allow families to move from the funeral services to limousines or their cars without having to endure the elements.
Treating every family like our own
Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel continues the tradition of exceptional service with compassion, dignity and respect. We pride ourselves in offering every family the utmost respect and our full attention. We are a proud member of the Funeral Service Association of BC, Funeral Service Association of Canada and the Better Business Bureau.
We care about Burnaby
At Bell & Burnaby Funeral Chapel, we are always looking for ways to make a positive impact on the Burnaby community.
We support local religious organizations, including Our Lady of Sorrows, Holy Cross, St. Francis of Assisi and St. Helen's. We regularly volunteer and support at fundraisers for these Catholic churches, such as their events.
We also love participating in Hats Off Day—one of the biggest festivals of Burnaby. For the first Saturday in June, we open our doors to provide cookies, drinks and coffee.
During Christmas time, we hold our Christmas mass where families can hear the name of their loved ones read during a mass. Then, after the mass, we hold a reception for people to gather and share fond memories of their loved ones.
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Google maybe the big name when it comes to Internet search, but Bing is certainly not giving up the fight. Now it's the default search engine on all the new Kindle Fires, which will give it yet another foothold on its long, hard climb.
If default Bing search strikes you as just another thing that's slightly unappealing about the new Kindles, don't worry too much, unlike the ads, Bing search is something you can change if you want. Google and Yahoo! options are available. Nonetheless, this is going to bring a lot more people to Bing, whether they know it or not. The alternate search service may have a way to go, but it's definitely gaining relevance, not losing it. [Ubergizmo via Ars Technica]


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Pool Care in PerthPosted by Ben, Apr 26 2006, 04:13 PM
Autumn and winter is when the leaves fall into your swimming pool. If you use a pool cover in winter, leaves and other debris falling into your pool area won't be a problem. But if you keep your pool open year-round, these leaves can block filters, crates and stain your pool.
The initial stage in erasing pool stains left by leaves is with a shock of chlorine in the pool. You can then scrub the stain with a brush. In many cases, doing this will remove the stain completely. If the stain is at the waterline, try using an enzyme-based cleaner. Since these cleaners erase the oils that hold the dirt at the waterline, the stain should vanish with little or no scrubbing on your part. To finish, use a vinyl or tile cleaner thats appropriate for pools. This will remove the remainder of the pool stain.
If you are looking to remove leaf and other organic stains from your pool deck, first you must pressure wash to remove all solid leaf matter and debris. You can then apply a household detergent to the damp decking. After letting it sit for a few minutes, scrub vigorously with a stiff broom or scrub brush. Rinse the concrete with water until you remove all the soap. If this procedure doesn't completely remove the stains, repeat the process. It's important to note that spot cleaning just those areas where there are leaf stains can result in blotchy pool deck. You should clean the entire deck, or least a larger area, to avoid having blotchy spots.
Contact the helpful staff at Pool Equipment Price Slashers for pool care advice such as pool stain removal and winter shutdown advice.
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Copendium: An Expedition into the Rock'n'Roll Underworld, Julian Cope (Faber and Faber 2012)
A big book with big ideas about BIIIIIG sounds. As Cope himself might put it. I'd always been vaguely interested in him – what I chanced to hear of his music seemed intelligent, quirky and original – but never bothered to investigate further. But I knew that he liked Krautrock and stone circles, so it was a surprise to pick this book off the shelf and discover that he also liked Pentagram. And Blue Öyster Cult. And Grand Funk Railroad. And Van Halen.
Plus a bunch of obscure stuff. Very obscure. There's a Danskrocksampler at the end of the book, including Steppeneuvlene's "Itsi-Bitsi" from 1967. But whether it's famous or obscure, Cope brings the same enthusiasm and open mind:
The problem with someone like Kim Fowley is that the intellectuals know that, on a long-term, sensible career level, he doesn't mean any of what he says. So they dismiss him because they've fallen for the idea that you gotta mean what you say in the first place for it to have any value. Baloney! The innate truth of rock'n'roll shamanism is such that it can still ooze out and inform the world, even from the works of those who claim to be engaged in nothing more than some kind of parody. (Review of Kim Fowley's Outrageous, 1967, pg. 32)
The writing is always fun, occasionally fiery, as he explores music from many decades and many genres: rock, heavy metal, doom, drone, glam, psychedelia, and more. There are also a lot of autobiography and digression in it, as he draws parallels between the music and his own life and interests, like landscapes and (pre)history. But I think he uses more words than he needs to. He isn't writing Guardianese, but he gestures towards it at times. And I think his enthusiasm for weed and magic mushrooms must have led some of his fans into bad places:
Although the double-vinyl artwork is huge, gatefold and magnificent, the CD version of Dopesmoker is the best option overall, because you can get utterly narnered once you've put it on and not have to get up for an hour and ten minutes. (Review of Sleep's Dopesmoker, 2003, pg. 367)
Cope doesn't spend a lot of his time utterly narnered. Like Vox Day, he's one of those people who get a lot done and make life more interesting for everyone. Copendium is a good example. Big book, big ideas, BIIIIIG sounds.


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As a card carrying member of the Rogue Nation, I drink by the pledge to Dare, Risk, Dream. I fear no beer and welcome the extreme, unusual, adventurous and sometime even insane concoctions being brewed up. I've had a pale ale brewed with jalapeno's that was so hot it was borderline undrinkable, I've had a spruce ale that tasted like they ran a Christmas tree through a juicer and carbonated it, I have never turned down a beer because of an ingredient, because you just don't know until you've tried it. While browsing the Rogue website recently I saw that they had released another Voodoo Donut beer, the previous beer was the Maple Bacon Donut (I have a bottle in the fridge to review soon), and this new one is based on the Voodoo Memphis Mafia donut, since I was already ordering I picked up a bottle.
Name: Voodoo Donut Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana Ale
Brewed By: Rogue Brewing Company
Pours a very dark, almost black with a frothy tan head that lasted the whole glass and left a lot of lacing down the glass.
Smells a bit sweet, some dark malts come through, not picking up any peanut butter, maybe just a touch of chocolate, the banana comes through strong but smells artificial, it actually reminds me of those banana flavored hard candies.
Tastes of dark grains, based on the smell I was expecting a much sweeter beer but that's not the case. The chocolate comes through lightly up front but is quickly overtaken by the banana, which like the smell has an artificial flavor, the peanut butter shows up mostly in the aftertaste but it's very light, I'm not sure I would pick it out if I wasn't looking for it. This beer finishes dry with a slight bitterness.
Overall an interesting beer that makes me want to try the donut it was based on, but probably not something I would pick up again. I do think this would be a really fun beer to slide into the lineup of a blind tasting with friends. If you are like me and always want to try something new and unusual then I would recommend looking for a bottle of this beer and remember to always Dare, Risk, Dream.
What is the most extreme, unusual, adventurous or insane beer that you have tried and how was it?


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slack(redirected from take up the slack)
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Related to take up the slack: in droves
a. a patch of water without current
b. a slackening of a current
2. Prosody (in sprung rhythm) the unstressed syllable or syllables
small pieces of coal with a high ash content
Looseness or play in a mechanism, as the play in the trigger of a small-arms weapon.
A hollow or depression between lines of shore dunes or in a sandbank or mudbank on a shore.
1. Coal of relatively fine size, usually not exceeding 2½ in. (6.35 cm) in diameter; often screenings.
2. Fitting loosely.
slack(operating system)
Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information.
In the theology of the Church of the SubGenius, a mystical substance or quality that is the prerequisite of all human happiness.
Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".
See ha ha only serious.
Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that "Unix has no slack".
See ha ha only serious.
SlackA popular workplace collaboration application from Slack Technologies (www.slack.com). Introduced in 2013 and originally developed as a tool for its own video game development, Slack lets people organize chat "channels" for projects, departments, groups of users, etc., all of which reside in a sidebar. Messages can also be made private, and files can be shared by dropping them into a channel.
Documents can be searched, and social media, cloud storage and other services can be plugged in to keep all communications in one place. Available as a freemium product, the paid versions offer many more features, including tech support, usage statistics and unlimited searching and service integration. See collaborative software.


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Suddenly, I get this: C:\ProgramData\Noteworthy Software\nwc2\UserPlugins\Trill.ms.nwcuser.lua:138: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil valueUnfortunately, I cannot reproduce in a smaller score thatn the complete one.Harald
Couple of observations:If there is a fermata delay then it does not trill through the added delay. If the fermata is on the trill staff then it doesn't start until the delay (added on the front of the note) has elapsed. If the fermata is on another staff on a later note then it stops trilling for the length of the delay and then starts again!
If the trill is on a note tied to a subsequent note then the sound stops altogether at the end of the first note.
Not a big deal but it would be nice to have it perfected. I had thought that a work around would be to have a hidden tied note to mimic the fermata but the second problem kills that idea.
If there is a fermata delay then it does not trill through the added delay.
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I'm not sure exactly why this is happening.
It happens because there can be no MIDI events during the pause.
In this system, the trill stops at the end of the rest under the note, not the end of the note.
Also it seems difficult to get nice short trill markings - I'd like tr. then maybe two waves; it seems to want to shoot off for ages.
I should probably create an object for that, if you think that would be useful.
I think the notation you are referring to is called a mordent.
I disagree. Looks like a trill.
The current speed options available are: 'Sixteenth', 'Thirtysecond', 'Sixtyfourth'.In some cases I find Thirtysecond too slow and Sixtyfourth too fast. In others Sixtyfourth is still too slow.Since in both Arpeggio and Acciaccatura Mike used the much more flexible parameter "Rate" (and surreptitiously allowed the fusa ) I'm wondering if the same could be done in Trillo too.
I assume you would want values of 16, 32 and 64 to correspond to those three note types?
It seems that you want to have faster trill options, so I assume that 16 would be an acceptable minimum value. Would 128 be a fast enough top value?
there would be the issue of backward compatibility
Hi MikeI was looking at my computer file for user plug ins and objects, and I noticed that I had two versions of a few things, with different names. For example, Trill.ms.nwcuser and Trill.ms.nwcuser.luaCan I safely delete the .lua versions (which have an older date on them)?Thanks
It depends on whether you have Windows configured to hide the extensions of files.
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Nevermind: UVA editor's charge dropped at trial
A University Judiciary Committee ruled it did not have jurisdiction over the Cavalier Daily October 18 after it heard the alleged breach of Honor Code confidentiality trial against editor-in-chief Jason Ally.
The case stemmed from a September 12 editorial in which the managing board of the newspaper advised readers that an unidentified columnist had plagiarized material and been turned over to the Honor Committee.
Honor chair Ann Marie McKenzie filed charges against Ally and four other members of the Cav Daily managing board, alleging they'd breached Honor confidentiality in the editorial. She later dropped charges against four of the Cav Daily 5, leaving Ally to face the panel alone.
A Judiciary executive committee ruled September 22 that the case could go forward, despite the newspaper pointing out the UJC's constitution states it "shall not have jurisdiction over the exercise of journalistic and editorial functions by student groups."
"It's kind of odd to be sure, since that's the same argument we made to the UJC Executive Committee last month, yet they declined to dismiss the case at that time," writes Ally in an email after the three-and-a-half hour trial.
"I'm happy the system worked," says Honor chair McKenzie. "I think the rules were not clear enough."
McKenzie says she stands by her decision to take the Cav Daily to student court– and to a statement she made to the Hook earlier about free speech: "The First Amendment rights are not limitless," she says. "There are standards the courts have maintained, saying there are limits."
Editor Ally, however, is not so sure the system worked.
"It frustrated me that it took six weeks for them to accept they didn't have jurisdiction," he says. "Also, that the dismissal took place during the trial. That's not where it should have happened."
He's also concerned about the Judiciary Committee's alleged misinterpretation of its own constitution. "It's infuriating that it doesn't operate under precedent," he says, which means a future group could challenge the Cavalier Daily's autonomy again or could try to amend its constitution to exert authority over student newspapers.
"[B]ut if and when that happens," says Ally, "we'll be ready to justify to our readers why the free press ought to be maintained."
He notes that the paper was put in a bad situation when it tried to correct and disclose the plagiarist. "We didn't ask for that situation," he says. "But when things hit the fan, we stood up for what we believe."Read more on: cavalier dailyhonor codejason allyplagiarism
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Ms. McKenzie should do some serious thinking in the future before making charges like this. A three-and-a-half-hour "trial" to dismiss the charges that were obviously illegitimate constitutes an abuse of the honor system. She would do well to resign.
Does anybody besides me wonder if the plagarism allegation is true? Loop holes are loop holes, but the original issue got lost. Despite the fact the Honor Commitee has no jurisdiction, the original issue of suspected plagarism must not be forgotten.
If the staff is protecting a plagarist on their staff or using a tainted information source, what does it say about their credibility?
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That McKenzie chick sounds like bad news--a classic megalomaniac. I can't wait 'til she graduates from UVa and probably law school and takes her abuse of power schtick on the road...straight up 29 to Washington!


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I hope you can help I have read many topics on this issue but thought I would ask for some help.
I am trying to isolate RNA from a small numbers of cells ~1000 (human samples). In my trial experiments using cell lines I managed to get usable quantities and quality RNA using Guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction (TRIZOL) with an additional ETOH sodium acetate precipitation, also tried a butanol concentration set with good results. I was able to repeat this in a number of differnt cells types.
However now I have tried it on the real samples I have good quantity and good 260/280 values however my 260//230 values are low ~1.3-1.5. I am at a bit of a loss about what to do. I will be unlikely to get more of these cells for a long time if at all.
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When asked about fellow Atlanta emcee Trinidad James' comments about the South running New York rap, Waka Flocka Flame took James' comments one step further as he stated that the South doesn't just run Hip Hop, the region runs music period.
During his interview with Vlad TV, Waka mentioned Kendrick Lamar and revealed that while the Compton rapper did warrant some attention for the West Coast, in his opinion the South is still at the top musically.
"The South run music period," said Waka. "They don't just run one region, one state, one genre, the South run music. That's just what it is. You know what I mean? Kendrick Lamar made the [bar] look West, but the South still winning. Like that's what it is. It's friendly competition. Some people just get carried away."
Waka followed up his comments about the South's dominance in music with a few boastful words about his past tour with Steve Aoki. The Riverdale, Georgia rapper referred to his tour with Aoki as "the number one tour" he's been on since the start of his career and commented on the camaraderie between artists.
"This tour, it's the best I ever been on in my life, ever," said Waka. "Any collab I ever did. It's the number one tour by a long shot. Like it's making every tour I've ever been on go in the garbage. This and Europe, best tour in my life…Niggas ain't competing onstage. Niggas was real friends back there, man. We going [paintballing]. We doing crazy shit. Skydiving back here, man. We living life."
Comments Waka made in regard to James' remarks about the South and New York rap, come one month after the "All Gold Everything" rapper let loose his thoughts on music during a performance at the Converse Rubber Tracks show in New York City.
In the middle of his performance, the rapper proclaimed that the South runs New York rap as he informed attendees, "I remember when New York ran this shit, dog…And us in the South, us bammas, we was like 'what the fuck' and we just did our own thing. But now we run y'all musically."
In the months since James' shared his critique of New York rap, the Atlanta wordsmith has received criticism from a number of New York City-based artists including N.O.R.E. and Maino. Maino remained the most vocal in his criticism of James' comments and even demanded an apology from the rapper during a recorded phone call between the two artists last month.
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There has been much debate lately in the advanced painting class I teach at the Art Center, Highland Park, over whether or not an artist should explain "what she meant" when she created a work of art. Stephanie looked at Susan's series of paintings and asked her, "What were you thinking about? What does this mean to you?" Susan replied, "It doesn't matter what it means to me, what matters is what it means to you, to the viewer." Stephanie made the case that it is interesting to know what the artist's intention or story is.
I weighed in to say that, as the creator of a work, I don't feel that my version of what it "means" is any more significant than anyone else's. In fact, once I finish a painting, what it means for me usually changes. I've been painting long enough to have people show me works they bought from me decades ago, and not only do I not remember what I was thinking when I made it, occasionally I don't exactly remember the piece! (This is a rather disorienting feeling, since I remember selling it to them, and I can easily recognize my style, as familiar as looking at the shape of my own fingers.)
Serena Kovalosky, in her blog "365 Days Of Everything I Love About Being An Artist," addressed the idea of interpreting art by saying: "I'm not particularly attached to my translation of a piece and I find it fascinating to learn how my work affects others. I'll offer my version, discuss my influences as I was creating it, and I'll gladly share the technicals. But what people will remember most is how my work made them feel."
I go a little further than Serena. Not only do I enjoy hearing what other people bring to my work, I have found that sharing my version seems to quash their creative response. Once they hear my "version," they no longer feel theirs is valid. I always hope that the engaged viewer actually has a creative experience when reacting to art, whether it's visual, music or literary.
The great literary critic William Gass explores the notion of the "self" in art in his new book, Life Sentences. As discussed by reviewer Adam Kirsch in the New York Times, Gass says: "'What works of art testify to is the presence in this world of consciousness, consciousness of many extraordinary kinds,' he writes… But this is 'not that of the artists themselves, for theirs are often much the same as any other person's… It is not the writer's awareness I am speaking of but the awareness he or she makes. For that is what fine writing does: it creates a unique verbal consciousness.'"
This is a fascinating idea: that art creates a unique consciousness in the viewer's experience of it. This goes beyond what I tell my students, that the art should always "speak for itself." What do you think: do you prefer to know the artist's story behind his/her work, or would you rather experience it without explanation?


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Democrats and media hounds are baying under the wrong tree. The point in President Bush's business career where he took outrageous shortcuts was not at Harken Energy, but rather when he was grabbing land for a new baseball stadium in Arlington for his Texas Rangers baseball team.
Mr. Bush broke no laws. Neither do the overwhelming majority of corporate executives. The cloud over the business world comes not so much from law-breaking as from avaricious bruising of the public interest.
The challenge is not catching criminals but injecting public scrutiny into a culture of cronyism in which executives, accountants, regulators and ''independent'' board members all ooze empathy for each other.
When Asia had its economic crisis in 1997-98, Americans properly trashed its ''crony capitalism.'' But we suffer from the same affliction ourselves, and President Bush will not address the issue seriously because cronyism has been his way of life -- the Bushes call it loyalty.
I have a stack of court documents from Arlington that portray the ''sordid and shocking tale'' of the Rangers stadium, as one lawsuit puts it. Essentially, Mr. Bush and the owners' group he led bullied and misled the city into raising taxes to build a $200 million stadium that in effect would be handed over to the Rangers. As part of the deal, the city would even confiscate land from private owners so that the Rangers owners could engage in real estate speculation.
''It was a $200 million transfer to Bush and Rangers owners,'' complains Jim Runzheimer, an anti-tax campaigner in Arlington.
William Eastland, a leading Republican in Arlington, is also outraged, and puts it this way: ''You're using public money for a private purpose.'' Mr. Eastland was a Bush delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2000 but still believes that the Bush group behaved shadily and against the public interest.
Local voters overwhelmingly approved the deal, so maybe we shouldn't get so exercised by star-struck local officials giving $200 million to rich baseball owners. But the most unseemly part of the deal was that Mr. Bush and the Rangers' owners conspired with city officials to seize private property that would be handed over to the Bush group.
''A group of wealthy and influential people threatened and traded their way into an unprecedented takeover of government power and private property in an awesome display of greed and avarice,'' charges a lawsuit by the landowners, in what strikes me as a fair recitation of events. Another suit charges that the deal ''can only be described as astounding, unprecedented and blatantly illegal.''
A copy of the secret agreement among Mr. Bush and the other Rangers owners shows that they intended to make money not just by running a baseball club but also by land speculation.
For example, one owner found a nice chunk of land and sent a memo suggesting that it ''sounds like another condemnation candidate if you want to work the site into your master plan,'' according to the court documents. Another of the owners' internal memos casts a proprietary gaze on a property and declares: ''We plan to condemn this land.''
For a group of financiers to go around town admiring properties and deciding which to seize through the government power of condemnation so that they can acquire free land and speculate on it is appalling. Even Kazakhstan would blush at such practices.
Horace Kelton, for example, owned land that the Rangers wanted. The owners got Arlington to seize it, with the city paying less than $1.50 per square foot even though it had previously paid $10 a square foot for other land nearby.
''It was an extremely low price, and that's why we had a court case that lasted seven years,'' Mr. Kelton recalled. Eventually, his family got $11 a square foot.
In fairness, Mr. Bush was simply being a hard-nosed businessman. He did a great job leading the owners' group, and it's hard to take seriously the caricature of him as unintelligent when he led the Rangers so lucratively. Indeed, his $14 million profit on the Rangers financed his entry into politics.
But it's also a sordid tale of cronyism, of misuse of power, of cozy backroom money-grubbing -- a more pressing threat to American business than outright criminality.


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One savvy Reddit user seems to think so! Also: hoards of other disgruntled and/or confused customers, according to Google. The scam? Charter's convincing customers that their perfectly good router hardware—including the Linksys WRT54G—just doesn't work with the ISP.
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I use a LinkSys router. I've had it set up and working perfectly for over a year. Well, the past few months, we've had several disconnects from Charter. We're paying for 10mbps service, but for the past week straight it would not go above 2mbps, and that's if it worked at all. We called Charter, and they had us plug the modem directly into the machine and Voila! over 20mbps speeds!
Maybe the router's got configuration issues! Or maybe it's just worn out! Or not:
I suspected that they might have blocked the spectrum of Linksys MAC addresses, so I cloned my PC's MAC address to the Linksys and it INSTANTLY connected. Our bad, out of date, incompatible Linksys router suddenly is getting the 20mbps speeds that our PC's were getting.
I'm not sure about the specific allegation that they've completely blocked Linksys routers' MAC addresses, since there do seem to be other—though obscure—ways to work around the issue, but this kind of thing (router blocking, specifically) is far from unheard of even for major ISPs. Charter's service does make it severely inconvenient for a computer-savvy person (or impossible for your average customer) to user popular router hardware that they already own, pushing them to rent or buy sanctioned, official router hardware like this, which probably isn't any more capable the the old WRT54G piece you've got sitting behind your desk already:
There's a small chance this is all some kind of misunderstanding, but with plenty of similar stories scattered around the internet alleging the exact same thing—sudden connection failure, then a hard sell for a new router over the phone—it's hard to imagine Charter coming out of this looking good. [Reddit]


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by Rabbi Evan Moffic
In 1903 philosopher W.E.B. DuBois said the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line. The problem of the 21st century may well be the problem of the religion line.
The two are interconnected and feed off each other. This truth came into sharp focus last week in a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee, where a white supremicist opened fire and killed six people at prayer.
I am from Milwaukee, so this act felt especially painful. That it came in the wake of the Colorado shootings only compounded my pain and frustration. While both shootings stem out of hatred and anger, the Sikh temple massacre carries a tragic resonance for people of faith. Adherents of a religion of peace became the target of murderous hate.
This is not an isolated incident. Just a few weeks ago, five Jews in Bulgaria were murdered for who they were and what they believed. Last month fifty Christians were burned alive in Nigeria while seeking safe haven in a pastor's home. In Burma the Muslim minority has been increasingly targeted for rape and murder. Is there anything we can do?
A Single Garment of Destiny
Yes. We can recognize that people of every faith are tied together in a single garment of destiny. When one group is targeted, we are all victims. People of one faith should be the most outspoken when adherents of another are attacked.
In America we have our problems. Yet, our founding fathers were extraordinary insightful and forward-thinking. They guaranteed freedom of religious expression in the First Amendment, and thereby assured that religions could flourish in freedom.
As democracy begins to take root in the Arab world, we need to share that vision. Fewer messages are more important and more urgent.
As my friend Pastor John Buchanan said, "There is one God: not a Jewish God, a Christian God, a Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu God, but one God who created all of us, loves all of us, and is with all of us, always and forever."
Rabbi Evan Moffic serves as rabbi of Congregation Solel in Highland Park, IL. He loves synagogues and the way they bring together members of every generation to study and experience Jewish wisdom and tradition.


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Since starting Systema, I have been able to recognize when I am tense (which seems to have been most of the time previously) and to learn how to relax. This has been a blessing both in my daily life and on the fencing strip.
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About a month ago I received an interesting email, apropos of nothing, from a lady at Penguin – the publishers, not the wacky dildo people. She said she wanted to share a book with you, my discerning readers. She said she knew you'd love it. It was about sex. Everybody loves sex. So she sent it to me, hoping I'd devour it with alacrity and urge you all, with all of my heart, to rush out and buy it for Christmas. And I tried. Believe me, I spent hours trying to write a glowing review with a none-too subtle sardonic undertone, but it didn't work. The fact is, this book is such a rancid, horrible mess that I couldn't even pretend to like it.
In actual fact, if I'm completely honest, I think Rock Her World by Seymore Butts is probably the worst book I've ever read - and remember, I've read both Jeffrey Archer and Dan Brown. So, with apologies to Jenny Chun of Penguin, who I'm sure was just doing her job and is actually unutterably lovely, I forbid you, my discerning readers, I forbid you to buy this odious mound of literary effluent.
Really. The man makes Chris Moyles look like Vladimir Nabokov. (Don't buy Chris Moyles either. VERBOTEN!)
Now, it's safe to say that certain groups of people have a poor reputation for intellectual prowess. Models, for example. Football players, for another. Toilet attendants, boxers, BNP voters, people who work in Argos. And, of course, porn stars. Now I don't know if Seymore Butts is considered a cerebral giant in the world of porn, but let me tell you, when he isn't ball-deep in stretched rectum, or else pointing a camera at someone who is, Seymore Butts is a moron. And I neither use this term lightly, nor mean it as an insult. What I mean is that, having studied Butts and the language he uses to convey his ideas, I have concluded that he has the mental age of someone aged between 8 and 12 years old, and therefore, according to the original medical classification, he is, unequivocally, a moron. And that is nothing to be ashamed of. At least he's not an imbecile. But should Penguin really be paying him good money to write horrible, rancid books? I'm not so sure.
'This isn't your ordinary book,' says Butts at the offset. Of course, he's flattering himself. This is barely a book at all. It's more like a soiled bib around the neck of a retarded sex pest.
It could be, of course, that I am very wrong, and it's actually more to do with the fact that I'm just not Butts' target audience. I do use pornography, don't get me wrong. I use it a lot these days. But also, I read, and Butts' readers don't read. Just as Butts himself does not write. In the opening chapter, in a touchingly honest exchange, non-writer addresses non-reader and lays it on the line:
'I realize you may not be used to reading anything without a centrefold and may look at the number of word-filled pages ahead and say, "Who the fuck has the time to read all that?"'
This is a nice touch. It immediately puts the reader at his ease. Essentially, Butts is saying: 'Fear not, my oafish friend. I too, am a moron. We're all friends here. Stupid horny men friends. At ease.'
He goes on to allay his readers' logophobia by promising lots of saucy cartoons (think Sun Fun circa 1975) and the following:
What do you think is on the following page? Can you guess? No, it's not a bunch of poorly-drawn women promising sex with anyone who reads Butts' book.
Oh, yes, sorry. It is.
I could stop there really, and I think you would agree that my loathing of this book is justified. But I'm not going to. Sadly, this is only just the beginning.
In the introduction to his book, Seymore Butts - real name Adam Glasser - lays himself bare in a brief biography of his sexual exploits and career highlights: porn star-cum-porn director-cum-reality TV (porn) star, all the while with the accent (maybe a bumlaut) on 'assplay'. He then embarks upon his first attempt to crystallise and clarify recent shifts in perceived gender roles which he maintains are responsible for the current socio-sexual environment, the very environment which he blames for necessitating the creation of this book.
'Women are now becoming empowered through their sexuality and it is up to you as a man to keep yourself in the game. Refining your sexual skills is certainly a step in the right direction, and I will go into great depth to help you achieve this. However, to me, the quickest way to become a "legitimate player" whom women are drawn to, whom women can give their respect and admiration to - something they naturally crave giving their man - is through the acquisition of knowledge. In my opinion, this is the only way for men to combat the change in sexual behaviour patterns (which is most certainly a psychological reaction by women to centuries of male dominance in and outside the bedroom, combined with the rise of the gay community and the recent emergence of the metrosexual.)'
Hmm. You see what I mean about words? Butts knows some, for sure, and probably even knows what some of them mean, but he has great difficulty amassing and amalgamating them into a coherent argument. Instead he just hammers away haphazardly, embarrassingly, achieving nothing, like a half-blind dog humping a dead man's leg.
And so he continues, with pre-pubescent clarity, attempting to explain how his book had to be written, how the very survival of modern man - 'in this new millennium filled with hypocrisy and contradiction and bound by a set of ambiguous new rules' - depends upon it. He doesn't really go into too much detail about the exact nature of the perceived hypocrisy, contradiction and ambiguity, but he knows it's something to do with the media, and women. And probably the gays.
Once he's established that his book is going to rescue the male species from... something or other, Butts gets stuck in, tackling the topics that other so-called sexperts just don't have the cerebral retardation to address. Topics such as Is Assplay Gay? Just in case you were wondering, it isn't: 'I know I'm suggesting a rectal exam,' says Butts, 'but I can absolutely guarantee you won't turn into a pickle smoocher.'
Ah, yes. 'A pickle smoocher'. You might imagine that as a consequence of having slept with more than 600 women, Butts would at some stage have stopped guffawing about sex like a 10-year-old boy. Sadly, this is not the case, and moronic euphemisms are splashed across every page of this book like bukkake. Now I'm no psychologist, but let's face it, you don't have to be Emma Freud to wonder if perhaps Butts' verbal moronia actually belies a deep-rooted shame over his feelings about the sexual act; shame which forces him to hide the physical reality of good honest genital contact behind a wall of infantile imagery, a veritable tsunami of bliss berries, love tunnels, clams, peaches, tushies, dipsticks, flagpoles, beanstalks and one-eyed monsters. Butts would probably argue that having a sense of humour about sex is a good thing. I would agree. Sense of humour is essential. However, referring to your genitals as your 'twig and berries' has nothing to do with humour. That's just being a cock. And quite probably having something to hide.
Whether Butts is actually a giant prude in porn star's clothing or a profoundly closeted, double-bluffing homosexual is a moot point, and not enormously relevant, but as he guides us through the labyrinthine anusphere of sexual relations like some brilliantine Venereal Virgil, his playground argot quickly becomes extremely tiresome.
The range of subjects covered by Butts, however, is impressive. In just 336 pages he covers everything from premature ejaculation to where to find virgins; from erectile dysfunction to what to do when your woman's vagina stinks; from chat-up lines to controlling her gag reflex when you're training her to deep-throat; from 'how to properly fist a lady' (presumably without splitting her infinitive) to how to spot if she's trying to steal your sperm and trap you into marriage.
This by the way, is the same book that Lisa Scott was all over like genital warts just last week in the Metro. She couldn't possibly have read it. Please, God.
At this point, it needs to be said that unfortunately, there is a broad seam of gender-related ugliness running through this book and you don't have to be Andrea Dworkin to find yourself wincing in discomfort at certain points. The section entitled Conception Deception, for example, in the chapter Bun In The Oven, is particularly repugnant.
'Some of the stories I've heard about women using deceptive methods to get pregnant,' Butts begins, 'simply astound me!' I have no doubt that this happens, of course, but is Mr Butts really suggesting that this practice is common enough to warrant five pages on how to identify and thwart these nefarious, psychotic women? Ah, yes. Evidently he is.
Read this and despair.
Wow. What kind of world is this fucked-up man living in? A world where women have to be escorted to the bathroom after a blowjob and men have to keep a bottle of Tabasco by the bedroom bin. Just in case.
Then there's the chapter entitled Something's Fishy. Can you guess what that's about? Yes. I'm afraid so.
It begins thusly, with all the tact and common courtesy of a gang rape (please excuse my outraged daubs):
Gorgeous. Overwhelming sensitivity.
Then there's Cherry Picking, the chapter on the best places to find virgins. 'Personally, I don't get it,' he writes. Still he devotes five pages to advising men who do get it where to find them and what to do once they've found them. Thankfully, Butts does not apply the same logic to paedophilia, presumably because there's a law against it.
However, having said all that, there is more to Butts' book than brutish ignorance and deep-rooted misogyny. There is also excruciating embarrassment.
At regular intervals throughout this book I found myself looking away from the text, my face contorted in a rictus of physical embarrassment. Sometimes it was because he was trying to be funny when he clearly doesn't have it in him. Sometimes it was when he put puerility to one side and weighed in with some heavyweight medical fact or other, such as this: 'Our testicles, the oval masses that sit within a sack called the scrotum, actually produce our sperm.' And sometimes it was when he was offering suggestions for what to say to a woman. And you just know, before you even get into it, that Butt's lack of word-wisdom is going to let him down.
'Send her a naughty text message during the day,' he says, 'telling her some of the things you are going to do to her later that night. The anticipation of it all will have her literally marinating in her own juices all day as she watches the clock and thinks about what awaits her when she gets home!'
Now, either Butts is unfamiliar with the definition of the word 'marinate' or he's unfamiliar with the definition of the word 'literally'. But I'm being pedantic; his meaning is quite clear. So, to the point: if you're unsure quite what to text to your woman in order to persuade her to spend the day soaking her 'hot box' in a combination of oil, vinegar, spices and herbs, fear not, for Cyrano de Butts is on hand to give a few examples of the type of texts he sends to his long-term partner, Mirna. Spices at the ready, girls:
'I'll pick you up at eight / and take you out to dine / then back to my place / for some hot 69!'
'Lips so soft / body so tight / can't wait to see you / gonna fuck you all night!'
Or what about this for a slightly more subtle role-play-themed text:
'This is a courtesy reminder that you have an appointment with Dr Feelgood at ten P.M. tonight.'
Oh, Seymore. Dr Feelsick more like.
Speaking of feeling sick, it's probably worth dwelling for one moment on the stories Seymore tells throughout the book. Whether he's being thrown out of a brothel for asking for anal sex, or being sprayed head-to-foot with some woman's shit after having anal sex in a public toilet, or coming face-to-face with Crystal, or as he sweetly dubs her, 'Elephant Anus', the porn star with the monstrous haemorrhoids, every last one of Butts' stories is as sweet and subtle as a sledgehammer made of excrement. They also have an air of the utterly contrived. Which is not to say that Butts is making stories up, but rather that, because he has no idea how to tell a story, everything he says sounds artificial, unconvincing and banal to boot. Although, having implied that I'm not accusing him of making stuff up, he does clearly get carried away at times.
For example, there's the anecdote which begins with a young Butts and a bunch of his 'practical joker' friends - who may or may not be named Mr Muffhound, Mr Porker, Mr Diggler and Young Master Glans - eating together at a local restaurant when one of their group excuses himself to go to the bathroom. Oh, here, I'll let Mr Butts tell it. In his own inimitable style.
Hmmm. Enchanting.
However, as much as I despise Butts for the childishness, the ugliness, the crass bravado and wilful idiocy of his writing, I think - perhaps - the worst section of his book sees him recounting his brush with genital warts.
He tells of how he discovered a series of bumps a short while before a planned trip to Palm Springs, 'the whole purpose of which was to get laid, and I thought the cauliflower growing on my dick might not go over too well with the ladies!' (He loves his exclamation marks.)
He told his friend Kurt. Turns out Kurt had them too. They wondered where they might have contracted whatever it was. Then it came back to them: 'Tanya, the girl we gangbanged with eight of our other friends!' So the first thing they do is to inform all eight of their friends, then a couple of them go to the doctor. There is no mention of anyone informing Tanya.
Then, and this is the really mind-bogglingly dumb bit, Butts tells of how, rather than follow the doctor's instructions and return to the clinic for intermittent treatment, he steals the ointment and, along with his friends, applies it over a period of four to six days instead of the recommended period of four to six weeks. Just so they can make the spring break. And get laid. Cool.
What's slightly worrying, however, is what if – and I know it's a long shot – but what if some of the people reading this are real easily-led, suggestible types who think that if they read it in a proper sex guide with a hardback cover, then it must be perfectly acceptable to ignore medical directions and recommended dosages and generally play fast and loose with potentially fatal sexually transmitted diseases, as long as you can get another fuck out of it. Eh? Eh, lads?
The irresponsibility is breathtaking. As is the very next page of the book, in which Butts writes: 'I'm hoping that reading this book will help you avoid many of the mistakes I've made.' Christ. The really depressing thing about this blithering fuckwit is that he's not even aware of most of the mistakes he's making.
So, to sum up, I would have to say that as well as being very, very, very bad, this is also a morally reprehensible and socially irresponsible book. It taught me nothing I feel better or richer or happier for having learned and it made me frequently despair at the parlous, unevolved state of the human brain. And not in a good way.
The really bad news, however, is that no matter what I say, Butts' abhorrent book will definitely sell thousands and thousands and thousands more copies than my absolutely beautiful and infinitely sexier book, which would make a wonderful Christmas present for just about anyone and which, if you haven't already done so, you must buy immediately. And that means you too, Jenny Chun!
Incidentally, if you have a product would like me to review, please drop me a line at the usual address. It would be my pleasure.


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Barnyard Cake
How cute is this cake? Wouldn't it be cute for a Noah's Arch baby shower?
Stand frosted animal crackers on mounds of green-tinted coconut. Then build a fence with pretzel sticks and icing to create this cool cake your little animal lover will adore. Parents.com
Polka Dots! I love dots! Especially those on this cake. :-)
To make this colorful cake, press rows of mini, regular, and peanut M&M's into the icing in bold patterns. Parents.com
Garden Delight
Ok...this will work perfectly for a garden shower.
To cover this cake in flowers, lay iced cookies with a round candy in the center of each on top of the cake. Then, roll out green spice drops and cut into small leaves. Parents.com
Try one, it's Fuss Free,you can do it!
Friday, August 7, 2009
Foodie Friday: Fuss Free Cakes
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That gagging sound you heard last week, when Ann Romney bellowed in her best Oprah voice, "I love you, womennnnnn!"? That was me.
And not because I don't love women; I do. And not because I don't believe that Ann Romney loves women; I'm sure she does. It's because, at best, this sentiment is utterly beside the point. And at worst, it's a cynical, calculated, transparent attempt to chip away at the current and sizable gender gap among voters.
My thoughts crystallized this weekend, while reading an adaptation from Hanna Rosin's forthcoming book "The End of Men: And the Rise of Women," which ran in Sunday's New York Times magazine. The piece–and Rosin's book, which grew out of a much dissected article that ran in The Atlantic two years ago–focuses on several real-life families in Alexander City, Alabama, families who now rely on mom to bring home the bacon, a circumstance which leaves everyone puzzling over the reversal of roles. This change of fortune comes thanks to a confluence of factors including the disappearance of good-paying work in the manufacturing sector (jobs traditionally held by men), and the fact that the economy has changed, as have the types of jobs that are available, and the skills that are needed in order to land them:
These days that usually requires going to college or getting some job retraining, which women are generally more willing to do. Two-thirds of the students at the local community college are women, which is fairly typical of the gender breakdown in community colleges throughout the country.
These shifts represent a reality that bumps with the worldview there, informed by both Southern tradition and the Evangelical church. Rosin writes of a conversation with Reuben Prater, currently out of work:
Reuben has a college degree and doesn't seem especially preoccupied with machismo, so I asked him why, given how many different kinds of jobs he has held, he couldn't train for one of the jobs that he knew was available: something related to schools, nursing or retail, for example. One reason was obvious–those jobs don't pay as much as he was accustomed to making–but he said there was another. 'We're in the South,' he told me. 'A man needs a strong, macho job. He's not going to be a schoolteacher or a legal secretary or some beauty-shop queen. He's got to be a man.' I asked several businesswomen in Alexander City if they would hire a man to be a secretary or a receptionist or a nurse, and many of them just laughed.
All of which makes me chuckle a bit, when one considers this:
'An important long-term issue is that men are not doing as well as women in keeping up with the demands of the local economy,' says Michael Greenstone, an economist at M.I.T. and director of the Hamilton Project, which has done some of the most significant research on men and unemployment. 'It's a first-order mystery for social scientists, why women have more clearly heard the message that the economy has changed and men have such a hard time hearing it or responding.'
Why shouldn't they have a hard time? We're talking about nothing short of a wholesale redefinition of what it is to be a man. Or a woman. We're talking about nothing short of a wholesale redefinition of what's valued–and when, for centuries, to be a man was to hold power and make money, finding a woman to fill the role of "helpmate" along his ascent, I'd say it's not mysterious at all that men are having a hard time hearing the message that things are changing.
Who wants to hear that their status is in jeopardy, their power no longer assured? Who wouldn't find themselves at a loss?
And, as for the women, we're taking on the challenges because we can. To earn a paycheck was not something expected of us as women; it's something we've had to fight for the right to do.
And it's not just the middle-aged men who have careers and lives to look back upon as they wonder what changed who are idling. Even young men seem resistant to what's really going on. One family profiled in Rosin's piece exemplifies it all: Rob Pridgen, whose job had recently been phased out; his wife Connie, a high school teacher; and her grown daughter Abby, who found Rob's explanation of "man-as-provider" laughable:
At this point… Abby, who was then 19, piped up with her own perspective on the Southern code of chivalry, which she said sounded like nonsense to her, given how the boys she knew actually behaved–hanging out in the parking lot, doing God knows what, or going home and playing video games instead of bothering to apply for college…
[Another] afternoon, while Rob sat nearby, Connie and Abby were mulling over a passage from Proverbs that is sometimes read at church for Mother's Day and that had come up in a Bible-study group.
The passage describes the 'wife of noble character,' who works with the wool and the flax, brings the food from afar, who 'gets up while it is still dark,' buys a field, plants a vineyard, turns a profit, and 'her lamp does not go out at night' because she's still sewing clothes for the poor and generally being industrious while everyone else sleeps. Her husband, meanwhile, 'is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.'
Traditionally the passage has been viewed as an elaboration of the proper roles of husband and wife. The husband sits in the dominant, protective role, watching his wife's efforts on behalf of the family and taking pride. But in a town in which many men aren't working steadily anymore, the words have taken on new meaning. There are people who have noticed that the passage never mentions what the husband is doing or what role he's playing in providing food for his family, tilling the fields or turning a profit. And what's dawning on Connie these last few months became obvious to Abby and Rob as she read the passage out loud. That noble wife is working from dawn to dusk. And the husband?
'Sounds like he's sitting around with his buddies shooting the breeze, talking about the ballgame and eating potato chips,' Rob said.
Abby wasn't surprised. Around Alex City, she said it seemed that it was the girls who were full of energy and eager to see the world. Her own brother, Alex, who was 17, seemed to want to stay in town forever and raise his family here. But Abby was enrolled in Southern Union State Community College, attending on a show-choir scholarship. Her plan was to go there for a year, as many girls in Alex City do, to save money, and then head to Auburn University.
Things are changing in major ways. And change is tough to deal with. But while we're all puzzling over these seismic shifts is precisely the wrong time to accept blatant pandering with nothing of substance beneath it. And it makes such pandering even more offensive. Women are important to Republicans only in as much as a vote is a vote. But women are increasingly important to this economy, not to mention to the financial support of the typical family and household–we are, in so many ways, patently integral to the success of our society. And the outdated structures and policies we're left with–and some are fighting fervently to preserve–are relics of a bygone era, useless as typewriters or VCRs. To refuse to recognize the changing times is the worst kind of denial–one that breeds backward-looking policies and irrelevant debate. Our society and our economy need us. To truly value women would be to prioritize policies that help working mothers, health care for everyone, reproductive rights. To patronize women by saying "we love you," or "your job has always been harder," is useless when it's paired with a refusal to acknowledge who today's women actually are, what they actually do. Because it's not just women who depend on it.