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A few fellow Automatticians and me were having drinks at Annabelle's tonight. Stephane and I stepped outside for some fresh air. An older black man walked over to us and started singing The Dock Of The Bay. He said his name was Otis as he politely asked our names. He offered a fist bump instead of a handshake. He looked to be in his late fifties or early sixties. His hair was balding, he had a short and scruffy salt and pepper colored beard. He was dressed in a worn out navy blue blazer, pin-stripped shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes. He was missing his upper teeth, but that didn't stop him from singing his heart out.
I knew that he wanted money, and I rarely ever give money to people on the street, but he seemed eager to sing us a song in exchange. Surprisingly, he sings very well.
I gave him the twenty-dollar bill I had in my wallet. I figured he'd just move on, but he stayed and talked to us for a while. He said that he always sings The Dock Of The Bay "Because everybody just loves that song, they always ask me to sing it for them".
As it turns out, Otis was from "A little town called Stamps, Arkansas". I said, "Well, I'll be damned, I'm from Waldo". He smiled real big and said, "Yeah, that's not too far from Stamps is it". "Nope, only about twenty or so miles down Highway 82", I said.
I asked him how long since he'd been back to Arkansas. He said he hadn't been back there since the early 80's. He said he still had family that lived in Stamps and Pine Bluff.
Otis is a bit of a storyteller. He told us a story about his father who lived to be one hundred years old. He said "Daddy was a hell of a shot, even at seventy years old he could still throw an apple up in the air and shoot it with a pistol using only one hand".
He told us about how he used to be homeless, "But now I have a hotel room" so he felt like he was doing pretty well. He said, "One time this man gave me a hundred and fifty dollars just because I sang for him and just talked to him for a while. That man offered to take me to the store and buy me some groceries too. But at that time I was homeless and wouldn't have anywhere to keep them. So he just gave me another eighty dollars. Just like that."
For some reason, Otis' story touched me. He looked like he'd lived a hard life, but over the years he'd also known kindness from strangers. That makes me happy and sad at the same time.
I've been sitting in my hotel room listening to Otis' song over and over again while writing this. I wish you all the best Otis. Thank you for the stories and for your song.

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WISN 12 News asks police how they decide when to fire weapons
Milwaukee police said the man shot by an officer Saturday threatened that officer with two large butcher knives.
The shooting at 71st Street and Cleveland Avenue was the third officer-involved shooting in southeaster Wisconsin within a week.
April 21, Waukesha police shot and injured a man who was allegedly armed with knives.
Wednesday, Milwaukee police shot and killed a man at 73rd Street and Mill Road, who they said had a knife.
But Saturday's incident left a neighbor questioning the police response.
"I'd like to know what's behind this. Why did they have to shoot him? If there are two officers, didn't someone have a stun gun?" said Richard Land, who lives near the shooting scene.
WISN 12 News reporter Abe Lubetkin put that question to Milwaukee police Monday.
Milwaukee police said a stun gun is most effective when it's used on someone who is 17 feet away or closer.
"People move very, very fast. So to deploy or see a Taser, even a firearm, it's incredibly difficult to hit a moving target," Macgillis said.
Police showed Lubetkin how it takes the human brain more than one second to process a threat and begin to react.
In Waukesha County, where police shot a knife-wielding man on April 21, Brian Dorow explained what he teaches students, as associate dean of criminal justice at Waukesha County Technical College.
"It's never shoot to kill. The standard is shoot to stop the threat," Dorow said.
The officer who fired his weapon here Saturday night is on administrative duty, while the investigation plays out. That is standard procedure.


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Then I can blame you for this video!
Be warned, this is 15 minutes of the parties, oil rubs, underwater shenanigans of full-on, unadulterated cosplay. It is more intervention than entertainment.
So that's the nightmare. Here's the dream, the amazing imagery and fan service we're use to seeing come out of this conventions. Both show the Anime Los Angeles convention, both were shot by Ackson.
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Eva Longoria has wardrobe malfunction
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It happened at a Golden Globes post-show party.
Eva Longoria, 37, bent down a little as she talked to hairstylist pal Ken Paves while on the red carpet to enter the Warner Bros./In Style party, and her cut-out black Pucci gown opened up at the top.
Uh Oh. "Nip slip" time.
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23 April. H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden urged participants to "turn problms into opportunities" in his opening speech of the so-called Stockholm + 40 conference in the Swedish capital.
"We have to be smart enough to turn problems into opportunities," he said, and pointed out the importance of the younger generation in these efforts.
The international conference on sustainable development 23-25 April is organized by the Swedish government to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the1972 Stockholm conference which, in the words of King Carl Gustaf, "put global environmental and sustainability problems on the political agenda".
The three-day Stockholm +40 conference brings together scientists, experts and ministers from more than 60 countries and is the last informal ministerial meeting ahead of the major UN Conference on sustainable development in Brazil in June.
The conference in Rio de Janeiro, the so-called Rio+20, is a follow-up to the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in the Brazilian city that galvanized the global environmental movement and paved the way for the Kyoto protocol on reducing CO2 emissions.
UN Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang, who is also Secretary-General of Rio+20 pointed out in his speech that since the 1972 conference the world population had doubled, the world economy tripled, but about half the forests that covered the earth were gone, groundwater resources were being depleted and biodiversity was declining.
"We are currently living not only on one, but on several borrowed planets, and on borrowed time."
Mr. Sha told a press conference in Stockholm that efforts by states to honour their agreed environmental commitments should be measured through a performance evaluation that should be created during the Rio Conference:
"We need accountability, some kind of evaluation," he said, noting that although he's against naming-and-shaming, such a review would help apply "friendly pressure" on countries that are lagging behind in their pledges to contribute to a greener global economy.
"What we need now is to just implement what we have agreed," he said, but did not single out any countries in particular.
Among the speakers is China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao who will address the conference on 25 April.
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By: Shaun So - Nov. 1, 2012
I joined the military in a time of war to help people in need. I didn't know it at the time, but my natural proclivity for risk-taking drove me to eight years of service and a 12-month tour in Afghanistan. While my life as an entrepreneur has been wildly fulfilling, I still had a desire to help people in crisis after I left the military, so I joined Team Rubicon.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Starting an Iwagumi Aquascape
There's a lot to like about iwagumi aquascapes. Their simplicity is calming and beautiful and there's something special about watching a school of fish hover over a "field" of grass. Starting your own iwagumi aquascape, especially your first, is likely to lead to the exact opposite feelings: lots of pulling out of one's own hair and frustration as your aquascape is consumed by every algae known to man. Why? Well iwagumi aquascapes usually rely on only 1 or 2 species of plants, usually carpeting plants like dwarf hairgrass or HC, which don't grow particularly fast or soak up a lot of nutrients. Let's imagine a typical beginner mistake starting up an iwagumi aquascape.
When you first start an iwagumi, chances are you have some rocks, and a species or two of carpeting plants. You probably have a CO2 system of some sort, and pretty powerful lights and a fertilizing schedule. The aquarium probably looks pretty barren, aside from a few sprigs of plants strategically placed. Fast forward 3 weeks and you probably have a mess of algae that has covered your rocks, plants, and even substrate, suffocating the remaining carpeting plants into submission.
What happened? You created a perfect environment for algea. When you set up a tank, it's critical for your aquatic plants to establish a dominance, soaking up all the nutrients they can. If you don't have enough plants, algae moves in and will smother everything, thriving on the excess nutrients your plants aren't using.
So how can you avoid this when you set up your first iwagumi aquascape? The key is fast growing stem or floating plants. Add as much of these as you can, without shading out the carpeting plants. They are excellent at soaking up excess nutrients and some even release chemicals that retard the growth of algae (called allelochemicals). They don't have to disrupt your pefectly planned iwagumi layout, simply float them in your aquarium for the first few weeks, or until the carpeting plants have a chance to take hold and spread. Also, hold back a bit on fertilizing until your plants really start growing, and fertilize in proportion to the amount of plants you have in the aquarium. Gradually up the fertilizing, keeping track of algae and reducing it if you see the algae starting to crop up. This helps swing the balance in favor of your aquatic plants, and algae won't have as much of a chance to gain a foothold.
Some plants that work particularly well at keeping algae at bay in the early weeks of a newly set up aquarium are Hornwort, any hygrophila species, or any floating plant (although these can quickly become a pain to get rid of since they grow so quickly and tend to hide in everything--I'm looking at you duckweed!).
If algae does get out of balance, the best thing to do is reduce your lighting period, reduce fertilizer dosing if you are dosing too much, make sure your CO2 is steady and wait. As long as everything is balanced, your plants should be able to outcompete the algae and your iwagumi will be back on track.
Good luck!
*Photo by Mikhail Sharonin of Russia, who placed #435 in this year's IAPLC contest
6 comments:
- AnonymousAugust 16, 2009 at 7:12 PM
Great post - very helpful.ReplyDelete
Can you do a post on your nano sometime?
Great info, thank you.ReplyDelete
I always wanted to have a iwagumi aquascape aquarium. I just haven't have time and resources.
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Those Rams on top right look almost too perfect. You didn't use good old Photoshop there now, did you?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM
What about using Tom Barr's dry start method?ReplyDelete
The image of your aquarium plants at the top is amazing. Is that one of your own tanks?ReplyDelete
Wonderful post which you shared with us, As long as everything is balanced, your plants should be able to out compete the algae and your will be back on track.ReplyDelete
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Police warn of flood victim scam
Police said people are posing to be part of an association dedicated to helping the families of Sheriff Cody Carpenter and Wildlife Officer Joel Campora.
The men died trying to save two women in last week's floods. Police said someone is calling around representing themselves as the State Police Association and the Local Police Association.
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Global consumer confidence dipped one index point to 91 in Q4 2012, as 33 of 58 countries posted lower confidence levels than in Q3, 19 countries experienced upticks and six remained flat, according to findings from the Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions. Global discretionary saving and spending patterns also declined across most lifestyle areas in Q4.
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions measures consumer confidence, major concerns and spending intentions among more than 29,000 respondents with Internet access in 58 countries. Consumer confidence levels above and below a baseline of 100 indicate degrees of optimism and pessimism.
"Consumers around the world grappled with increasing economic concerns as the eurozone crisis spread from troubled to core countries, the U.S. fiscal cliff threat loomed large, and China's rising inflation sparked monetary policy action," said Dr. Venkatesh Bala, chief economist at The Cambridge Group, a part of Nielsen. "Consumers are proceeding with caution in 2013 and showed renewed discretionary spending restraint in the last quarter amid further global economic and political uncertainty."
Saving spare cash remained a priority among 45 percent of global respondents, but down three percentage points from Q3. Intentions for paying off credit cards decreased one point to 24 percent, and plans for saving for retirement fell one point to 10 percent, compared with Q3. Goals to invest in stocks and mutual funds remained stable at 18 percent. Globally, 15 percent of respondents said they had no spare cash, up one point from the previous quarter.
Twenty-nine percent of global respondents said they plan to spend their spare cash on holidays and vacations, down two percentage points from the prior quarter. Spending plans for out-of-home entertainment and new technology each declined one point, to 28 percent and 23 percent, respectively, compared with Q3. Thirty-one percent of global respondents indicated they bought new clothes in Q4. Nineteen percent of respondents said they spent on home improvements and decorating, which remained unchanged from Q3.
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- Declining confidence in Europe spread from troubled to core countries
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|Biographical information
|Alan Bradley
|Compile Date
|1983 (Copied into the system)
1989 (Becomes Rinzler)
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|2010 (Presumed end of Rinzler identity)
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|Masked program with limited circuitry coloring
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|Warrior, enforcer
|Dual identity discs
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Light Jet
Black Guards
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|Anis Cheurfa (stunt)
Bruce Boxleitner (voice)
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TRON: Uprising
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Rinzler is Clu's primary enforcer. He is an exceptionally skilled warrior and is the elite combatant in all games in the Grid. In addition, he is the only known program to use two identity discs in battle. Originally known as Tron, Rinzler's identity came into being when Tron was "repurposed" by Clu.
In TRON: Uprising, Tron was forced to adopt the name and appearance of Rinzler after his battle with Clu, using the disguise to avoid capture as most programs believed that he was dead.
Rinzler appeared as the final opponent of the Disc Wars, where he identified Sam as a user after seeing him bleed, and brought him before Clu. He was later summoned when Quorra interrupted the light cycle duel, but was unable to prevent her from rescuing Sam. Despite the setback, he continued to assist Clu, acting as a personal enforcer.
On Clu's Carrier Ship, Kevin, Sam, and Quorra noticed Rinzler patrolling the area, and Kevin immediately recognized him as Tron, the former System Monitor program of the Tron system. Quorra allowed herself to be captured by Rinzler in order to lead him away from Kevin and Sam. Rinzler took her to Clu for interrogation, before being charged with escorting her back to Clu's Command Ship. Once there, Rinzler interrupted Sam, who had been in the process of liberating his father's Identity Disc. He pushed Quorra away to engage Sam in a disc fight, but this battle was cut short when he evaded two thrown discs only to be kicked off a nearby ledge by Quorra, lying forgotten at his feet.
Rinzler was left dangling only briefly and promptly vaulted back into the ship as Sam and Quorra made their escape. Clu then arrived with four Black Guards in tow, and together with Rinzler set out in pursuit of the fugitives, following their captured Light Jet with smaller Light Jets of their own. In the ensuing fight, Rinzler and Kevin Flynn made eye contact. From that point on, Rinzler began to experience flashbacks of when he had once saved Kevin, and was able to overcome Clu's reprogramming, eventually overriding it altogether.
Once freed of Clu's control, he deliberately crashed his Light Jet into Clu's, derezzing both craft and allowing the three heroes a chance to escape. Clu and Rinzler scuffled briefly as they fell, but Clu grappled Rinzler's spare baton away, created a new Light Jet for himself, and left Rinzler to plummet into the Sea of Simulation below.
Rinzler's circuitry flickered and died after he plunged into the sea, then relit in Tron's earlier white glow as he sank out of view.
Rinzler has a jet-black helmet and red-orange circuitry similar to the Black Guards, although these splashes of color are far more limited on Rinzler than on other programs. Four squares make a 'T' shape on his chest, hinting at his true previous identity of Tron. His Identity Disc is a fusion of two discs that separate to form a matched pair when he needs to fight, a second disc having been acquired in 1989, prior to Tron's corruption. Rinzler often communicates his aggression in an electronically distorted growl, but otherwise has little use for vocal communication.
He also had enhanced physical abilties, enough to send Sam Flynn gliding across the floor when he tackled him.
- The t-shaped series of dots on Rinzler's chest near the collar of his suit match the ones on Tron in TRON.
- Rinzler is portrayed by Anis Cheurfa and is voiced by Bruce Boxleitner in TRON: Legacy.
- Rinzler has traits that echo TRON-creator Steven Lisberger's original conception of the Tron character, which his studio created in the 1970s as a backlight animation test, depicts an orange gladiator who throws two discs that boomerang back to him.
- Rinzler was named after Lucasfilm Executive Editor J.W. Rinzler, who authored books such as "The Making of Star Wars" and "The Complete Making of Indiana Jones." Joseph Kosinski officially acknowledged this link.
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The flu knocked me for a loop, and as I have been slowly pulling myself out of it, I haven't had much energy, so my blog has slipped off the rails.
I did want to mention, however, that I made a video about cutting up garments to upcycle them by weaving or knitting with the fabric strips.
In early October, my son in law's step-dad passed away.
This was, of course, very hard on our grandson.
I talked with him about what it meant to him to have his 'other' grampa (not my husband) pass away.
I asked him if he needed something of his grampa's to hold onto, and he said yes.
So, I asked for a couple of Bill's shirts so I could make comfort critters with them.
I cut them up and wove them into kittys, as that was what my grandson asked for, so he has one, and other family members have them too. (I didn't photograph all of them).
I also knitted a teddy bear for one of our relatives, as he is definitely a teddy bear guy 🙂
The bear and kittys have been well received and they do carry the love that went into every stitch of making them.
I've done this before, and have found that 'compassion critters' made from upcycled clothing of a dear one is very comforting for people in grief.
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It was a shock to many on Wednesday when Blizzard announced that it would be cutting 600 positions from the company, including many support and customer service jobs and even some developer spots. Very sad news for a great group of people, absolutely. Maybe we can do a little digging and figure out why Blizzard cut these positions and make some sense of it.
You don't just cut workers "because." Activision Blizzard is a publicly traded company in the United States, where corporations are beholden to their shareholders, profits, and the bottom line. We still live in a world where the price of stock is paramount, so raising the price of stock combined with investor satisfaction is key. Every decision by Activision Blizzard must, at the end of the day, be made with the knowledge that the investors matter.
Let's start with what employee staff reductions do not mean. Blizzard is not going broke or bankrupt because of these 600 jobs. World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and unannounced titles are still being developed and pored over. Mike Morhaime himself said that the active positions cut were mostly non-developmental, which leaves support, customer service, and potential redundancies in the company's structure. All in all, 600 jobs is a large enough number that there is a reason for all of this.


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Matt Sandusky lived with Jerry and Dottie Sandusky as a foster child before being adopted by them when he was 18. Shortly after he moved into the Sandusky home, Matt burned down a barn and attempted suicide, and his life's been marked by episodes of unstable behavior ever since. In November, shortly after the initial charges were filed against Jerry Sandusky, Matt's biological mother told ABC News she long suspected that Jerry had abused her son. All the while, Matt, who's now 33, denied it. Until today.
Matt Sandusky's lawyer told Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News of Harrisburg (Pa.) that Matt had met with prosecutors this week to say he had been abused and that he was prepared to testify as a witness against Jerry. NBC's Michael Isikoff had reported on this morning's Today Show that Jerry only agreed not to take the stand in his own defense after Matt had met with the judge and lawyers from both sides at the courthouse on Wednesday.
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Thoughts of changing the landscape of Small World have been in my head for quite some time. A land filled with Mountains seems to require running water, and so now we have Underground rivers. There is a double impact of the river: being difficult to cross, it can protect your regions... but you can also navigate the river to cross the board quickly. Mountains also begat Volcano regions that can't be conquered, which of course leads us to a race (Flames) that can exploit them!
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In one of the many (many) startling scenes in the new HBO drama Tell Me You Love Me, which debuted Sunday night, a young, attractive married couple sit side by side on a sofa, watching a boxing match on TV. The wife unbuckles her husband's pants, and after some noisy kissing, she pulls away and says, "I want to see it." She sees it and—holy cow—so do we.
Over the past few months, the breathy buzz on the show—about married and almost-married couples in various stages of intimacy-related despair and dishabille—has centered on the amount of its frank sexual content. And it was there all right—from minute two, when a man masturbates under the covers, to real-time full-monty couplings, to angelic, white-haired Jane Alexander kissing meaningfully down her husband's graying chest. Throughout the hour, as bodies moved and eyefuls of flesh and bikini waxes flashed, it was still the sight of that erect penis being clinically manipulated into a graphic orgasm that prompted did-I-just-see-what-I-think-I-saw gapes from less action-packed couches nationwide.
"That scene … who knew that would be the most shocking?" said Tell Me You Love Me's 47-year-old creator Cynthia Mort, a day after the show's premiere. She insisted that when she wrote the pilot, she was not thinking about sackfuls of sex on the show. "I have to say, some of the guys [actors] were more squeamish than the women were about taking their clothes off. They're not used to it. They're not used to being exposed in every way," she said. "One thing the show is doing, I hope, is giving guys a voice emotionally. You can't do that unless you're honest and authentic in every way. If that means showing them in bed nude … well, I don't know a guy who has sex with his underwear on."
But if a casual survey of initial male reaction to the show is any gauge, many men may not be so keen to be given a voice emotionally if it also means the male member is going to be on conspicuous, prime-time display. Just as the cinematic baring of female breasts led many women to compare themselves and despair, putting the male organ out their for public consumption may strike many men as disempowering, deflating and just plain icky.
"Male nudity—full-frontal nudity—has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity," said Darren Star, executive producer of Sex and the City. "As far back as I can remember, there's been a double standard between men and women. I think it's time that men get equal time in terms of nudity."
Ask and ye shall receive! Slowly but surely a seismic shift is occurring across the entertainment landscape: men are dropping trou, and penises and testicles are seemingly everywhere, flapping in the breeze. This year, major franchise players like Lord of the Rings' and X-Men's Sir Ian McKellen ("Gandalf's Gonads!" cheered the British press) and Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe have continued the theater's (always ahead of its cinematic cousin) tradition of disrobing on the stage. Three movies currently working the festival circuit, and pointing toward award-show glory, all offer an eyeful more than what we're used to from established actors. There's Ang Lee's NC-17-rated Lust, Caution, which this week snagged top honors with the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival despite the film's graphic sex and partial male nudity (compliments of famed Hong Kong star Tony Leung). Into the Wild, written and directed by Sean Penn, contains a scene of Emile Hirsch (certainly all grown up from his The Girl Next Door days) floating au natural down an Alaskan stream. And Viggo Mortensen heroically fights for his life wearing only his tattoos in one of the more gripping scenes in the David Cronenberg thriller Eastern Promises. One could be forgiven for wondering: Is the scrotum the new cleavage?
"David [Cronenberg] is great," said Mr. Mortensen, via phone from the Toronto Film Festival. "He said, 'It's got to be like this, if you're okay with it. It's uncomfortable, but it won't be exploitative. It's integral to the story and I will do my best to make you as comfortable as I can.' And I knew that." Mr. Mortensen's ballsy moment takes place in a London bathhouse as his character, an enigmatic toughie rising through the ranks of a Russian mob family, is taken by surprise when attacked by two fully clothed men while wearing only a towel (which falls by the wayside during battle). The savage scene is made more poignant by the sight of Mr. Mortensen's soft exposed parts; it's an added layer of vulnerability that throws the brutality of physical violence into sharper focus. "[David Cronenberg] said, 'You know, there's this scene in a bathhouse, and there's a towel, and I don't know … in the script, all it says is that you're attacked. How do you see that?' And I said, 'I think it should be as realistic as everything else and what everyone else does in this story. There's no reason to make it look pretty, or conceal, or be vain about it. It should be as awkward and vulnerable and ugly as it needs to be.'
"It has gotten people's attention because it's unusual. And it's also unusual to see it in such a straightforward manner," Mr. Mortensen continued. "It's not glamorized. I guess it's not the most attractive of things to see … but it's what it needed to be."


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The Religion of Murder and Mayhem strikes again, proving once again that Islam is incompatible with Western civilization.
Firebomb hits French satire magazine
The offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly French magazine, have been burnt down in a firebomb attack on the same day that it published a special edition entitled "Charia [Sharia] Hebdo" with the Prophet Muhammad depicted as editor-in-chief.
The paper's website was also brought down by hackers in what staff believe was retaliation for the publication, which "celebrated" the victory of an Islamist political party in the recent Tunisian elections and the promise from Libya's interim leader that Sharia law would be the principal source of legislation in the country. The magazine's front page carried a large picture of the prophet, which is forbidden in Islam, with the caption: "100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter".
See also:
French satirical paper firebombed after publishing Mohammed cartoon
French Satirical Magazine Office Fire Bombed Ahead of 'Muhammad Edition'
Newspaper firebombed after Arab Spring satire
French magazine bombed for caricature of Islamic prophet Muhammad
Firebomb Torches French Weekly
Satirical weekly offices attacked
French Newspaper Firebombed After Satire Involving Prophet Muhammad
Fire hits French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo after it publishes cartoons of the prophet Muhammad
Muhammad cartoon sparks attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo – video
Jidhadists celebrate attack on French satirical paper
Satirical website remains offline after death threats
French satire is no match for militant Islam
Chris Selley: First, they came for the bad satirists…
Satire And The Prophet: Supporting French Magazine's Right To Spoof Mohammed
French paper reprints Mohammad cartoon after fire-bomb
Free speech is a basic tenet of a free society and satire is a subset of free speech, including the right to satirize religion. Of course, there is no freedom of speech in Islam, under Sharia law, which would be fine if they kept to themselves and Muslims, driven by the basic mandates of their religion, weren't continuously attempting to conquer and impose their beliefs and values on, often by violent means, the infidels of Western civilization.
/so, until Muslims, as a society, collectively decide to leave the 7th century, reform their religion, and catch up with the 21st century, Islam and Western civilization will never mix, because us infidels refuse to time travel backward in terms of freedom and world history
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Microsoft may not offer an external Blu-ray Disc drive for the Xbox 360 after all. The software giant this week said it remains "fully committed" to HD DVD and has "absolutely no plans to support other optical formats".
The company's stance is detailed in an official statement made this week in response to comments earlier this month by Peter Moore, head of Microsoft's entertainment division. Moore indicated that if Microsoft could add an external HD DVD drive to the console, it could just as easily offer an external Blu-ray box.
The key word, apparently, is "easily". According to Microsoft, Moore was simply indicating the console's flexibility. "Xbox 360 is a future-proofed system - one that allows us to add features as consumers demand them - as evidenced by our offering of the HD-DVD drive as an accessory," says the statement, published by GamesIndustry.biz.
"As we've said before, we're confident that HD-DVD will bring the excitement of high-definition movies to the consumer faster and at a greater value," the statement add. "We believe that consumers have signalled what format they want to enjoy high-definition DVD and we're going to follow them down that path.
"Current reports indicating that we have a back-up plan which includes Blu-ray support are incorrect."
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
I said this about last year, but I can't believe I'm already looking back on 2009. It was another fast year and another year full of knitting.
I finished a sweater this year:
Sadly, I haven't worn it because the yarn grew a lot and it's just too big. At some point I plan on ripping it out and using the yarn for a different sweater. (I adore this shade of green.)
I knit a blanket for a friend's baby:
I knit a dog walking hat for a friend's husband:
2009 was mostly the year of socks. I spent the first half of the year unemployed and I spent most of that time (when I wasn't job hunting) knitting socks:
I have more socks on the needles.
This pair is almost finished:
I'm anxious to finish these socks because I love the color:
I'm also anxious to finish these socks because I love this pattern and this yarn:
I started this scarf and hope to finish it by next winter (I'm back to being obsessed with socks so it's taken a back seat):
I started out the new year with my 365 project and the intent to document the year by posting one picture every day. I lasted 139 days before my camera broke. When the camera was repaired I had lost interest in the project. So, 2009 taught me that I'm not as interested in photography as I thought I was. I do like to take pictures, but (if forced to make a choice) I would rather do other things.
When I did my end-of-the-year post on 12/31/08, I had one big wish for 2009: to get through the year without any of my pets dying. I'm happy to say that my wish came true.
Sadie has lost 18 lbs. since I adopted her and has discovered that she loves to run:
Kishka spent a lot of time this year doing the things that she loves most.
Rolling in the grass:
Keeping the tennis ball away from Sadie:
And digging holes (note the dirty nose):
What did Romeo do this year? He bossed around his sisters and surveyed his kingdom.
I'll end this post (and this year) with one of my very favorite pictures. It was taken in the car on the way home from the dog park. They were both exhausted.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. ~ Lord Byron
Hey, look! This post has words!
I'm one month into my 365 project, so I figured it was time for some reflection
Wow. This is hard. I didn't expect the 365 project to be easy, but I also didn't expect to have days where I wander around the house in the late evening desperately looking for a subject to photograph. Thankfully, this hasn't happened too often and I've had just as many days where I have to choose my photo of the day out of five or six great pictures.
Throughout January I spent some time thinking about just what I want to get out of this project. My main goal is to document my life. It's already working. When I look back on the January pictures I am reminded of some ordinary days that would otherwise be forgotten. That alone makes this project worthwhile.
This project also has me looking at the world differently. I'm noticing light and shadow more than I ever have. I also spend my time at red lights looking all around me instead of staring blankly at the car in front of me.
I'm grateful that so many of you have stuck around while I take this blog in a new direction. Thank you.
On to usual blog topics…
I posted a picture of my finished Kermit Sweater on January 10. Here are some more pictures:
I'm pretty happy with how this sweater turned out. I could easily have gone down to the next size. The sweater is huge. I like my sweaters a bit baggy, but this is pushing it. I intended for this to be a casual sweater (for knocking around the house or to wear while running errands) so I'm not too disappointed. I'm thinking about shortening it a few inches, though. The Cascade 220 grew a lot (lengthwise) when it was soaked.
As always, details are on my Ravelry page.
My current WIP is a lovely pair of pink socks:
Unlike the rest of the country, we've had a pretty mild winter in my neck of the woods. So when the world froze over earlier this week, I had to get outside and capture it:
I always have a tough time getting nice pictures of Romeo, so I was thrilled with this one:
I've also been taking an obnoxious number of dog pictures:
Maybe next year I should post a dog picture a day. I don't think I'd have a problem doing that!
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~ John Burroughs
Is it just me or did 2008 just fly by? It seems like I was just posting my farewell to 2007 and it's already time to bid 2008 goodbye.
All in all, 2008 was a pretty good year (for both knitting and my life in general).
I finally found my sock mojo:
And, I developed some sweater mojo:
I should be finishing another sweater soon:
I knit a bunch of wash/dishcloths:
And, I knit something I needed:
The highlight of 2008 was definitely finding Sadie. She is such a joy to have around and I firmly believe that she was destined to be my dog.
Unfortunately, I did experience heartbreak again this year. I had to say goodbye to my beloved Samantha. My big wish for 2009 is to get through the year without any of my pets dying. (It's been a rough couple of years.)
Since I detail all of my projects on Ravelry, I've decided to do something different with this blog (well, at least for 2009). For the next 365 days, I am going to take one picture a day and post it here. I've decided I want to challenge myself to look more closely at the world around me and also to document each day in my life. I have no idea what I'll find to photograph each day, but I'll figure it out. I also want to experiment with Picnik and discover more of their editing tools (I tend to use the same ones over and over). I'll still do knitting posts from time to time, but for the most part this blog is going to become a picture blog.
Happy New Year!
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. ~ Paul Beatty
There has been a lot of knitting (and TCM movie watching!) around here lately, but the sweater is still in the big, green blob stage:
This is actually the second incarnation of the sweater. The first attempt was way too big and hit the frog pond just after I split for the sleeves. I am hopeful that this size will fit.
While I've been knitting the girls have been busy…sleeping.
Occasionally they wake up to see what's going on:
And there has been some snuggling:
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ~ Gallagher
I think this is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started this thing. Since I'm documenting the heck out of my knitting projects over at Ravelry, I haven't felt the need to blog my knitting details here anymore.
I'm considering changing the focus of this blog for 2009. I enjoy blogging (and looking back on old blog posts – they always jog a lot of memories), but there's no need to repeat what I post on Ravelry, so this blog may evolve from being a knitting blog to being something else.
Speaking of knitting, there has been a lot of it!
The arrival of snow motivated me to knit a Dog Walking Hat:
The hat is AMAZING. I knit it out of Cascade 220 (both regular and Superwash) and it's like a furnace on my head. I love it!
Changing up how I knit socks (from top down on dpn's to toe up on Magic Loop) inspired me and I knocked off five pairs of socks.
This is my first pair of toe up/Magic Loop socks:
The next pair is knit out of my new favorite sock yarn, Kaleidoscope Superwash Sock Yarn from Blue Ridge Yarns:
This pair is knit out of Opal's Harry Potter line in the Hedwig colorway:
I do love these socks, but calling this a Hedwig colorway is bullshit. I've read all the books and seen all the movies and I don't recall a blue/green owl making an appearance.
Like many sock knitters, I joined the sock blank dyeing craze. This blank:
Turned into these socks:
And finally, these socks were knit from one of the first balls of sock yarn I ever purchased (at least three years ago):
The sock obsession soon morphed into sweater knitting. I've never been a sweater knitter, but now I'm obsessed.
Baby sweater for my best friend's newborn son:
Around this time last year I started a Central Park Hoodie. It knit up quickly, but then I got distracted (and frustrated with how to knit the collar and buttonbands). I picked it up again last week and it's finally finished. And it fits! (This is the first sweater I've ever knit for me, so I was afraid it wouldn't fit.)
Here are the bones of my Weekend Sweater. It's blocking now and I hope to sew it this weekend.
I'll be swatching for my next sweater tonight. The yarn is waiting for me:
Details for all of the knits can be found on my Ravelry page.
My furry family has all been doing well. Here's Romeo watching the dogs:
Kishka and Sadie's relationship continues to flourish:
The three of us did a lot of hiking this fall:
Sadie especially loves chilling out in the stream:
Colorado scenery never ceases to amaze me, even after living here for 11 years.
Here's an early morning shot of Pikes Peak:
And some high country shots from my trip to Vail in October:
I can't really explain it, but this is one of my favorite 'scenery' pictures that I've taken this year:
And this picture is one of my favorite critter pictures I've taken this year:


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Okay, no it's not. This is beyond disgusting. It's as if someone were attempting to demonstrate the most misogynist idea that could possibly be conceived, in an attempt to satirise the ghastly trend. A text book example of the most extreme ends of misogynist fantasy, a woman reduced to nothing but her tits, her wounds hideously depicted in gore, jutting bones, and of course barely a mark covering her globular breasts.
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Discussion in 'Fan Art' started by CTM, May 12, 2009.
SA WEEEEEET.....oh that was worth the wait...
So will this be the TMP/TWOK/TSFS/TVH bridge or the newer TFF/TUC bridge? The exterior looks fantastic, BTW! Do you plan on skinning/texturing the overall exterior of the ship matching the original paint job?
Saquist - I'm still not happy with the joint along the side of the dome where the aft portion is supposed to merge smoothly into the forward surrounding edge. Glad you approve anyway. There is much detail left to add, but I didn't want to deprive folks of the current state of the project.
This is a solid object, I will carve out the space inside and build the bridge there, eventually.
137th Gebirg - I haven't decided. I rather like the TUC bridge from an actual operations standpoint, but I don't think it would fit in this "module" - this module is based on the TMP model - with two lifts in the rear. The TUC bridge would require the lifts approximately on the midline on the sides. I would build a specific bridge module for that particular design (and I may do just that). As for textures, that is beyond the capability of my AutoCAD. I can do some basic coloring (which I haven't yet on this object), but basically I'm doing Engineering Drawings, not Artistic Drawings.
Yeah this is even more of a challenge with 2000 at least 2007 has some additional tools to blend this better. I respect the work anyway. And know you have to carve this out...
If you could I would like to see some pics on that...may help me to see the process.
All of the bridges, TMP, TVH, TFF, TUC, fit inside that module, no problems with the lifts.
I wouldn't be too sure of that. They may fit in the floorplan of the module, but this is a 3D object that curves and has different heights. The 'box' attatched to the dome contains the turbolifts and the airlock. Move the lifts forward, and the 'box' has to surround the dome more.
Actually, no they don't. There are lots of problems, in fact. CTM is right and I forgot about the lifts. they are both farther apart by one full panel each away from each other in TFF and two full panels by the time TUC was made. This would put the lift shafts well outside the outer skin of the bridge dome. This is an even more horrendous bridge interior/exterior mismatch issue than the TOS Franz Joseph/Matt Jefferies "rotated bridge" wars that have plagued fandom for decades.
Here is the TMP refit bridge, along with the TWOK/TSFS bridge and the TVH bridge. All basically the same design where the turbo lifts are close together and to the rear of the bridge module, fitting nicely in the "airlock box" all the way in the back. The two domes on CTM's model are supposed to indicate the top of both shafts.
Now, here is the TFF bridge, where you're seeing that the lift doors are a bit farther apart. They might possibly fit, but they certainly don't line up with the two domes on the airlock box any more.
Finally, here is the TUC bridge, with similar aesthetics to the TFF bridge, but now the lift doors are on damn near opposite ends of the bridge module. there is absolutely no way that this design would fit in the old TMP refit module. They would stick out like ears if we saw a properly constructed exterior that was consistent with the set design.
My guess is the producers didn't want a separate set for the new Excelsior bridge like they had back in TSFS (which wasn't that great anyway, IMHO), and they really wanted that "kewl" alcove in the rear to make it look noticeably different from Kirk's ship without a lot of other big alterations (kind of like what they did between Enterprise and Reliant in TWOK, Grissom in TSFS and Sarotga/Yorktown in TVH), so they widened the lift doors to allow for that extra set piece and just re-skinned and reupholstered everything to save some money on the production for both bridges without much regard for the original filming miniature.
No. They don't. Specifically, the ST VI: TUC bridge cannot fit. The others can, but with the lifts on either side, it would absolutely HAVE to add bulges on either side to fit the lifts. All the other bridges can fit, but that one cannot fit.
If you look here:
you can see the Turbo Lifts will not fit within this modeled exterior in the TUC version.
Links....allll of them...dead.
Ya it is better if you post links to the gallery pages that these pictures are in rather than the pictures themselves (I see this ALL the time).
Right click "Copy shortcut" (for IE) or "Copy link location" (for FF), paste that into your address bar and hit [Enter]
That website does not allow direct linking.
But if you backtrack to the gallery page there is wealth of bridge imagery!
Weird. I can see them all fine through the links. Running Ad-Blocker Pro, Ghostery or RefControl, maybe? Anyways, here's the main page which has links to all the bridges I cited on the first three rows:
I forgot to note that this project is awsome by the way
^^^ Seconded...
Well that is, if the top of the turbolifts would be the top of the module. But it is not, either is the dome you see the top of the bridge ceiling.
Between the top of the bridge/turbolifts and the top of the module/dome, there is a big space. Once you model the bridges to specs, you will notice that.
Ofcourse, however as said above, the top of those turbolifts is less high than you might think.
To proove my point here some pics:
Top of the TWOK bridge:
Top of the TUC bridge:
TWOK persp:
TUC persp:
With dome:
As said, if you model them up to specs.
Thanks for those perspective shots, wjaspers - that makes sense.
wjaspers - Those are some beautiful renders. However, to my eye it looks like your interior is scaled too small for the exterior. What dimensions did you use for the bridge interior and the bridge module exterior?
When I first saw the doors in the foward Position I thought that it was a hallway going to the turboelevator shaft. So I came up with this variation
Great work by the way.
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