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One of the world's leading rugby teams is about to learn whether the sport, once described as "a ruffian's game played by gentlemen," can benefit from the genteel field of science.
The Leicester Tigers are the most successful English rugby union club of the past 25 years, winning the Premiership title a record nine times and twice capturing the European championship. Later this month, they'll play in their eighth consecutive league final. In an effort to maintain that impressive success, the club is working with IBM to use statistical analysis software in assessing the likelihood of injury.
In the past, Big Blue has used its SPSS Modeler predictive analytics software to help clients like Coinstar find the most profitable location for its coin-conversion machines and show the Memphis Police Department where to deploy officers to reduce crime. It believes the same analytical approach can help the Tigers optimize training and keep the best players on the field.
Although the company's system can gather thousands of variables, only a surprisingly small number really matter, said Erick Brethenoux, IBM's director of Business Analytics and Decision Management Strategy.
"We've found that on average, maybe 15 to 20 variables are more than enough—not a thousand—to be predictive," Brethenoux said. "When one of those factors gets out of line, we can reduce training in some instances, or prescribe other types of training for a period of time."
Players wear equipment during training that captures statistics like heart rate as well as the forces absorbed by rugby's frequent jarring hits. Data are uploaded to the team's database, where IBM's modeling software looks for patterns. Additional info is drawn from player questionnaires that could provide insight into their stress levels and injury history. Leicester used the program for a trial period this season, and the team's sports scientist, Andy Shelton, said the goal is to monitor the entire squad an entire campaign, gathering minute-by-minute data.
"We're at the very early stages," Shelton said. "We've run some models so far on stats that we've collected over the past five years and although they need refining, it's looking very promising in terms of injury prediction."
As usual, the devil is in the details. Or, in this case, the data. The success of the program depends not on the analysis, but on the reliability of the data being gathered, said Will Carroll, who writes the Under the Knife column about sports injuries for SI.com.
"How do you measure fatigue if you can't directly measure it?," Carroll said. "Data analysis is only as good as the data."
As professional rugby has grown in popularity around the globe in recent years, the influence of money has grown as well. With that maturation comes economic constraints for some teams, even successful ones like the Tigers. Although they dominated the British leagues during the past decade, Leicester has met strong challenges from some of Europe's top clubs. One reason for that is English teams have a salary cap of 4.5 million British pounds (about $7.2 million), while the top French clubs top out at about 7.2 million pounds ($11.5 million). If that sounds like a situation ripe for the Moneyball approach popularized by baseball's Oakland A's, you'd be right. Shelton said teams with big payrolls can easily sub in a top international player when one of their own stars goes down, but Leicester doesn't have that luxury.
"In one game, it might not make a difference, but over the course of a season and in the big games toward the end of the season, that's when it makes a big difference," Shelton said.
In addition to keeping their best players healthy, Shelton said IBM's system could also be used to develop young players from their sports academy into long-term productive pros. "All of this is just a tool to aid the coaches and help the players along," Shelton said. "None of this will ever replace coaching or talent. If we can keep our front-line players fit for longer and if we can give a little bit of help to the coaches to select academy players or pick up on ones they may not have noticed, then it can only be beneficial."


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If there is one thing Westerners like, it is naming things. Open up a topographical atlas and take a look: Every creek, butte, ridge, wash and reservoir has a name. We are fond of naming creeks Spring, buttes Pumpkin, ridges Red, washes Dry, reservoirs Cow, lakes Lost. We even re-name places that had already been named by the previous inhabitants; Devils Tower, for example, was once known as Bear Lodge.
We engage in a veritable identification bee when we talk about the world around us. We are proud to know the difference between sagebrush and rabbitbrush. We are haughty when someone refers to a moraine as a pile of rocks. We mutter under our breath when a piñon jay is identified as a Clark's nutcracker.
And yet, when it comes to naming the objects in the industrial landscape, most of us are at a loss. What do you call that jack-like object out there in yonder prairie, bobbing up and down in the grass like a robin with a worm? What is that mess of metal drums and pipes at the end of that gravel road, the new one that just appeared and is now crawling with white pickup trucks?
Sure, most of us know a windmill when we see it and know that a whole mess of them aligned on a ridge top is called a wind farm. But what is that other tall tower up there, the one with that gizmo at the top?
In Home Ground, writer Barry Lopez explains why it is important to know the proper names of things. "If we could speak more accurately, more evocatively, more familiarly about the physical places we occupy, perhaps we could speak more penetratingly, more insightfully, more compassionately about the flaws in these various systems which, we regularly assert, we wish to address and make better."
Home Ground, which Lopez helped edit, is a collection of lyrical definitions of every natural feature imaginable. But it makes no mention of pump jacks, natural gas rigs, or meteorological towers, although those things that have become as common in our Western landscape as rocks named Castle.
Of course, plenty of people can look at an oil refinery and immediately locate the coker. But ten to one those are people who've worked at an oil refinery. And others can visit a coal-fired power plant and identify the sulfur-dioxide scrubbers. Again, they are folks who know about generating electricity from coal. But the people for whom that sort of information is common knowledge have not -- so far as I know -- devoted themselves to constructing a poetic dictionary of industrial terminology.
Recently, I've been thinking about the industrial objects that increasingly occupy our physical spaces, especially in the energy-industrial complexes in the West. I suspect that our inability to name these artifacts affects our power to control or change them.
Take the vast natural gas fields of Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline. This high-country desert stretches out just beyond the Wind River Mountains, and it's a landscape beloved by the kind of people who know what natural things are called. There have already been about 1,000 wells drilled there since 2000. Those wells affect the local wildlife -- creatures called mule deer, pronghorn and sage grouse -- and they cause air pollution -- stuff known as ground-level ozone.
In response to public and governmental pressure, the Bureau of Land Management compromised on its new plan to allow 4,400 more gas wells on the Anticline. To ensure the safety of both people and wildlife, the BLM promised that those white pickup trucks will make 165,000 fewer trips up and down the gravel roads. The well development will occur in phases -- described as pumping out and reclaiming one area before drilling in an adjacent area.
The industrial has butted heads with the natural around the West in recent years with the force of male Dall sheep, which are not known for compromising. But at least the sheer volume of local public meetings, as well as press coverage by publications such as The New Yorker -- about as far removed from Pinedale as you can get -- is giving us Westerners a vocabulary to talk about what's happening to us. We are rural people smack in the path of industrialization.
If we can keep tabs on the proper names for things, both natural and man-made, we have a hope of understanding what is happening to our world. And if we can understand it, as Lopez says, we might be able to make it better. There's always the hope that we won't have to start naming our lakes Acid and our glaciers Melted.
Julianne Couch is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She writes in Laramie, Wyoming.

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Police told the Patriot Ledger that John Haddad, 50, robbed a Sovereign Bank branch in Wollaston last Saturday, the fifth robbery of a South Shore bank he is suspected of committing in the past month. Thursday, Quincy police, and officers from other departments and the FBI arrested him in the parking lot of James Hook & Co. in South Boston.
"He's definitely a career criminal," Quincy police Detective Bill Montieth said. Haddad has family in Rockland and Weymouth, and gave their addresses when asked where he lives.
In January 2008, Haddad was sentenced in Oregon to 39 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release. After he was released in March 2010, Haddad came to Massachusetts, where he has a criminal history dating back to the 1970s.
In addition to the Dec. 15 Quincy robbery, Montieth told the Patriot Ledger that Haddad is expected to be charged with robbing an Eastern Bank in Weymouth on Nov. 8, a Nov. 16 robbery of Crescent Credit Union in Norwell, a Nov. 18 robbery of Eastern Bank in Norwell and a Nov. 30 robbery of Eastern Bank in Braintree.
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Prior to the indictment, Haddad had been arrested for possessing counterfeit credit cards, false identification documents and Social Security cards, and using counterfeit credit cards.
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As long as it allowed said index to be dropped later if a DBA so decided that it wasn't necessary, then certainly. My only problem with just a simple index like this, is that it can force Key/Bookmark Lookups from the non-clustered index to clustered index, which on improperly tuned systems can result in deadlocks. A correct index that covers the query should be built by the DBA to resolve this problem, but if the proper indexes are in place then it is likely that the simple index built on the FK may never get used, but requires maintenance for every insert/update/delete.
I just deleted 40+ indexes on FK columns from a vendor database because of exactly what I describe above, so this post is relative to what I have experienced recently.
I'm not sure I want the index created automatically because I may be using the Foreign Key column along with another column in the where clause that I would want to be part of the index. Granted it would be easier, but you may end up with extra indexes that are never removed.
I'd say no. What if you want to turn around a cover it? Now you have an overlapping index.
My take is - no, it shouldn't. I believe in 6.5 and ealier it did (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). By creating it automatically it blurs the distinction between a foreign key (an integrity constraint) and an index (performance). This is the "dumbing down" of a database that happened a when 7.0 was marketed ("It tunes itself, you don't need a DBA" - I about dropped dead when I first heard that). I want the person creating the foreign key to understand what a foreign key is and what an index is. In the scenario you just described (of which I too have run into again and again and again), it can be either a 3rd party product trying to be "platform agnostic" or just ignorance in the initial design. I tire of these types of issues as well, but I think the solution is greater education, not automation (one of my personal mantras "Automated does not mean automatic").
There can be reasons not to place an index on a foreign key. I've seen people use lookup tables where the cardinality of the column is such that an index over a table scan isn't chosen by the query optimizer. That of course implies other design issues, but I'd rather have people think and understand rather than have the decisions made for them.
The fact that there are so many basic mistakes like this made out there in the field just shows how poor a job either MS has taken on education and stressing the importance of these typical DBA tasks, or the reluctance of the public to take SQL Server seriously as a data platform.
Still, a good issue to ponder. Just my two cents.
Hi Greg,
Almost all my FK constraints have covering indexes. So I'd suggest that automated creation of indexes for FKs should be optional, a configuration parameter. Also we should be able to specify an existing index to be used. BTW, than (the ability to specify an existing index) could be handy when creating unique constraints too.
The thing I'm regularly seeing is the problem where there is no index at all on the foreign keys, including other columns covered or not.
What concerns me is that it's such a common problem and I'm wondering whether there should be some automated way around it, given the level of problems it also tends to cause. The situations where having such an index causes a problem are much less frequent.
I suppose I'm weighing up "the greater good" in terms of the product getting an undeserved bad rap :-)
Just a though, perhaps warning may be generated for those who do not realize that fkeys may need indexes. Practices, or the lack of, will always keep us busy.
My .02. Cheers
My vote is "yes". PK constraints automatically create indexes. Why FK constraints cannot?
The index on foreign key issues usually occurs when one deletes from the primary key table. Not all applications do so. So really, one just needs the intelligence to look at an execution plan, but that item is the true source of problems
I can't say I agree that it's mostly used for deletes. Most systems I work on (OLTP) do such a small percentage of writes compared to reads that it's not the main problem. Clearly if you need to support any form of cascading deletes then it's really important.
However, the biggest need I see is where people are reading not writing eg: find me all the room types for a particular establishment. As others have pointed out, there's usually more to it than that. For example, you might say "find me all the orders for a given customer" but you are much more likely to have further criteria on that (eg: recent orders) and then heading into covering index territory.
The problem to me Greg is the variety of ways in which a foreign key is created... Automating a creation would be problematic... second... what if a foreign key is dropped... do you end up with an orphaned index?
Why not look at this from the other angle... why not look at the loads on the server... can you not have system generated test triggers on commonly called processes which return response times... then graph them.. so that the loads can be viewed and analysed... then if an unindexed foreign key is found inside the process... can it not be detected... and the appropriate scripts be generated by some kind of bolt on tool?
In this way you do not clog the schema... logs etc with a bunch of junk... I agree it should be easier for novice users (such as me) to get across this basic solution... which after all you see as a waste of senior people's time... its a very good idea... saves costs... improves productivity... I think the entry point for your idea is wrong. The tool should be able to identify the basics.. orphan keys etc... I know I am extremely untidy when I develop, I leave junk everywhere. My sandpit looks like a litterbox...
A while ago, I posted a script that detects any FK without a perfectly matching index and then creates said index...
May be there should be easier way but it should not be default. For example, may be there should be WITH INDEX clause for foreign key creation. However remeber, creating index is expensive (initial CPU as well as space as well as inserts etc). If your table has 10 million records and if it creates indexes by default you can get screwed.
ERWin creates indexes on forgeign keys by default. Maybe more databases should be designed in an application like this before they are deployed :-)
I think it would be great if SQL server provided the option to create the index when the FK is created. This way if the index is also required, the designer can check this option.
I would like to see it as a property of hte foreign key. At creation time, SqlServer would ask if this FK uses an index.
The index would have a default name suggested, similar to the constraint name and the DBA would be able to change it at creation time or rename it later.
The Index and the FK would be marked as "related" each other so SqlServer would include that index on its execution plans quicker than usual, the DBA would beable to specify if that inclusion is
(A) Always (quicker plan)
(B) Depending on Context, (in this case SqlServer would nalyze this index as usual).
SqlServer would ask the DBA at drop time if the other component should be dropped too (when dropping the FK you get prompted if you want to drop the companion IX or not).
All these characteristics would be able to be configured as default for any FK. The DBA would be able to adopt the default for a FK or specify properties ad hoc for one particular FK.
When FK and IX get marked as "related" by using the default rules, SqlServer would remember that the association was created as default. Then, later, if the DBA changes the Default, SqlServer would be able to replicate the change for each default relationship.
The DBA would be able to query metadata and retrieve these associations and all its properties.
My 2 cents.
The reason why the production of indexes over FK is not by default is that many of these type of index can be included in other indexes causing redundancy of index wich is quite poorless in terme of performances.
Take a look over this case :
Having an order table nammed T_ORDERS with ORD_ID the PK.
Having a product table nammed T_PRODUCTS with PRD_ID the PK.
Having an association table namme T_J_PRODUCT_ITEMS with ORD_ID and PRD_ID the combined PK and ORD_ID a FK for orders and PRD_ID the FK for products.
For this 3rd table, applying the default indexing technics will results 3 indexes :
You may see that the second index is inbclude in the firts one resulting of redundancy index...
As you must known, every index has a cost in terms of insertind, deleteing and updating. So it is not appropriate to create the 2nd index.
Such tools like AMC Designer (Power AMC for the french - it's in fact an original french product) can dreate FK indexes and detect included indexes...
Wow, it has been already a year since I wrote A year in review, The 21 + 1 best blog posts on SQLBlog
I would say this should be implemented and "on" by default. The reason being that for noobs, most of them will not index by default and therefore suffer performance issues. I too have seen this many, many times in my career.
If you are a DBA and implementing a covering index, then how much work is it to drop an existing FK index first?
In this case, the benefit to many outweighs the inconvenience to the pro in my opinion.
Anybody can help me in dropping Index, Which is a foreignkey in other table, i want to drop this index with out dropping the foreign key...
Thanks in advnce
I get the feeling that a lot of these comments are based on the assumption that a table may already exist that may have existing indexes, and that an automatically generated index on the foreign key may cause a redundant index to be created.
I think people forget that the outcome may be different if it was turned around and the table was just being created.
If the table was new, with no existing indexes, and if an index is automatically created when the foreign key is created, then the table would automatically provide some base-line performance that would benefit the majority of people, remembering, of course, that in development, there are less and less people that have knowledge of the database and how it should be optimised.
Of course, you would have to allow people to customise the automatically created indexes, but not everyone is an expert and would know when that should occur. Sure, you may want to add extra columns to an index, and extra covering columns, but that is entirely up to you based on analysing the query plan.
Also, there could be smarts included to prevent the creation of foreign key indexes if there are already existing indexes covering the foreign key.
But I believe what Greg is saying is spot on - by default there should be automatic adding of foreign key indexes, done for the greater good.
BTW, I have an improvement over Paul Nielsons's foreign key index generation that doesn't require the creation of a function. It may be found here: http://tonesdotnetblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/sql-server-generating-sql-for-missing-foreign-key-indexes/


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Fatal, accidental drugs overdoses have reached epidemic proportions in the past few years. The main culprits are prescription drugs obtained fraudulently and then resold on the street.
Illegal use of potent and addictive prescription pills have pushed substance abuse to the top of the list of health concerns in Haywood County's latest community health assessment conducted annually. That's up from third place in 2008.
Over the past two years, one in five deaths investigated by the Haywood County Medical Examiner are attributed to overdoses from drug abuse, according to Gary Wooten, the county medical examiner. And the vast majority of those are prescription pain narcotics.
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Overdoses have also caused debilitating paralysis, organ failure, nervous system impairment and brain damage. It also
While Parris reviles dealers, she has sympathy for drug users whose lives are ruined by their addiction, however.
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Parris said the recent undercover investigation that brought down 31 suspected drug dealers in Haywood County was a positive move in the fight.
"I am so proud of these guys," Parris said of the police and sheriff's officers that carried out the operation. "They care about our community and what is going on with our youth."
Parris, 74, has been pushing the message of illegal prescription drug abuse through a program called Drugs in Our Midst. She has the tenacity of a bulldog, compassion of a mother hen and stamina of a race horse.
She's given 170 talks and programs in Haywood County over the past two years for churches, community clubs, school groups, law enforcement, civic leaders, local government boards and anyone who is willing to listen.
Along with the talks, she's organized benefit concerts, support groups, marches, vigils — anything to get the word out that drug abuse, particularly prescription drug abuse, is a deadly epidemic. Parris has amassed a team of volunteers to help sound the alarm, including pastors and family who have lost loved one to drug overdose.
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RULES: Current 2017 U.S. Masters Swimming rules will govern the conduct of this meet.
ELIGIBILITY: The meet is open to anyone 18 and older. All entrants must be registered with U.S. Masters Swimming or a member of a FINA-recognized National governing body. Each swimmer is eligible to swim a maximum of six (6) individual events per day, excluding relays.
AGE GROUPS: Swimmer's age is determined as of December 31, 2017. Age categories are 18-24, 25-29, etc.
REGISTRATION: Online registration through Club Assistant.
All individual entries MUST be received by 11:59 PM EDT on Friday, September 22. Swimmers may also register in person at any Runners Forum location. Individual entries completed in a Runners Forum store will receive $10 off the entry fee. All relay entries MUST be received by 11:59 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 26. For assistance completing the online registration process, please contact Karen Gernert at 317-340-1001 or email@example.com.
INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES: Entry fees are $40 for 1 day and $55 for 2 days (maximum of 6 individual events per day). There are NO DECK ENTRIES for individual events. Swimmers may also register in person at any Runners Forum location. Entries completed in a Runners Forum store will receive $10 off the entry fee.
RELAY ENTRIES: Swimmers may only swim once in each of the following relays: 200 Medley, 400 Free, and 800 Free. For example, a woman may not swim in Event #1 (Mixed 200 Medley Relay) and Event #2 (Women's 200 Medley Relay). Relay age groups are determined by the adding together each swimmers age (72-99, 100-119, 120-159, 160-199, 200-239, 240-279, 280-319, 320-359, 360-399, etc.). Each of the four members of any relay team must be registered with the same Masters club.
Once individual entries are closed, a list of team eligible swimmers will be sent to the designated team representative no later than Sunday, September 24. Relays are $10 per relay and fees are due at the time of relay registration (between September 22 - 26). Relay entries and fees (including team designation and age group) must be received by Tuesday, September 26 at 11:59 PM EDT. At meet check-in, relay cards will be distributed to the team representative. Relay swimmers may be updated onsite and changes must be turned in to the head table up to 30 minutes prior to the event. However, while swimmers may be updated, the age group may not be changed. Any relays that were paid for, but not swum, will receive a refund of their relay fees.
EVENT DEADLINES: Individual entries close on Friday, September 22, at 11:59 PM EDT. Relay entries close on Tuesday, September 26 at 11:59 PM EDT. Relay changes must be turned in at least 30 minutes prior to the event.
EVENT SEEDING: All heats will be seeded slowest to fastest.
DISTANCE EVENTS: All distance events (400, 800, 1500 Free, & 400 IM) MUST list entry times. Competitors entering the 800 and 1500 Freestyle events must meet the 2017 LCM National Qualifying Time (including date and place achieved). The 800 Free and 1500 Free will be limited to the first 30 entries received meeting the NQT standard. The long distance events and 400 IM will be swum as mixed gender events, but scored by gender and age group.
POSITIVE CHECK-IN: The 1500 (Sat.) and 800 (Sun.) require positive check-in (in person) before 7:45am on the day of the event and by 12:00 noon for the 400 IM (Sat.) and 400 (Sun.). Failure to check-in before the deadline will result in being scratched from that event.
T-SHIRTS: With their entry, swimmers may pre-order & purchase a commemorative t-shirt for $15. T-shirts at the event will be $20.
WARM-UP PROCEDURES: Swimmers must enter the pool feet first in a cautious and controlled manner. No diving or backstroke starts will be allowed, except in designated sprint lanes. One or two lanes shall be designated as one-way sprint lanes during the pre-meet warm-up sessions in the competition pools only. Any swimmer who acts in an unsporting or unsafe manner within the swimming venue may be considered for appropriate action or penalty by the referee (Rule 102.15.3). Pull-buoys, kick boards, fins, and hand paddles are not allowed in competition or warm-up pools.
SCORING & AWARDS: Individual events: 9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. Relays score double the individual event point value. Each participant will receive a commemorative card suitable for posting individual and relay results.
RESULTS: Will be posted on both the Indy Aquatic Masters website and the GRIN website.
EVENT WEBSITE: www.indyaquaticmasters.com
Link To Online Registration Website : https://www.clubassistant.com/club/m...1526&smid=8639
SPONSOR WEBSITE: www.runners-forum.com
MEET DIRECTORS: Mel Goldstein - firstname.lastname@example.com / Dean Hawks - firstname.lastname@example.com
QUESTIONS: For questions or additional information, please contact Karen Gernert at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hebron - Hundreds of Palestinians and internationals took to the streets of the Old City of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank last Friday in a march to commemorate the 23-year anniversary of the Ibrahimi mosque massacre. On February 25, 1994 American-born far-right Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron and opened fire, killing 29 Palestinians and injuring 125 others.
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The Avant Window Navigator (AWN) is a dock utility for Linux that displays the task list, launchers, and other applets. It's heavily inspired by the Mac OS X dock and it leverages compositing to provide extravagant visuals as well as decent usability.
In a blog entry written yesterday, AWN developer Neil Patel demonstrated some impressive new AWN applets that have recently been created. Some of these applets use the new libawn Python bindings that were committed to the version control system this month.
One of the new applets, which is inspired by the new stacks feature in Leopard, provides quick access to the contents of a folder. The AWN stacks applet will display the contents of the user's home directory in a popup bubble and allow the user to open files or descend through the directory hierarchy by clicking on other folders in the bubble.
Another new AWN applet provides comparable functionality to the GNOME panel's Applications menu. When clicked, the menu applet displays a popup bubble that contains buttons for the top-level menu categories. Users can descend through the menus and launch applications by clicking the buttons.
There aren't any recent releases, so I compiled the current source from the version control system. To get the new applets, users will have to build them as well from the Awn Extras repository.
When I last used AWN in July, the preferences dialog was very rudimentary. It has improved significantly and now makes it very easy to control a wide range of visual settings and other features. Support for themes has also been added, and several themes are currently available from gnome-look.org.
AWN still has some minor bugs, but it's evolving very quickly and it provides a level of aesthetic quality that is unmatched in competing Linux dock programs.


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Spiked Apple Cider Dip. Yes, There's Liquor in It.
On November 17, 2012 By Jasmin
I'm thankful for 50 degree weather this fall. I am thankful for beer, football & baseball, high heels, happy hour, summer, and steak.
For Big Bird not losing his job this year. That reminds me, I am thankful the elections and cray cray political Facebook posts coming to an end. If you are still […]Continue Reading →


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The Trust is assisted by many volunteers who give freely of their time to plant trees, help with maintenance and carry out administrative tasks.
A large number of supporters donate regularly and they receive regular newsletters, respond to opportunities for planting programmes, assist with funding for appeals and provide invaluable feedback.
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From its inception the Trust has depended upon the generosity of benefactors, donors and supporters in order to pursue its goals. While not everyone can donate a regenerating forest or the funds to buy one, every little helps.
Our supporters are a very valued part of the Trust's ongoing activities, serving as a means to keep the flame alive, to get messages out to the wider community and to provide feedback. Fundraising drives are launched for specific acquisitions.
From time to time opportunities arise to take an active role – see Get involved for more information. In return for an annual donation our supporters receive copies of our newsletter Canopy.
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I've been using Scivation Xtend, and recommending it to others.
My original research led me to believe it's vegan, but someone recently told me that they source their BCAAs from feathers. At first I scoffed, but looked into it and their appears to be some controversy and a lack or clarification from Scivation. I emailed Scivation and politely asked what the source of their BCAAs. No response. That floored me.
So now I'm skeptical. I see people heartily recommending Xtend here. Are you sure it's vegan?
Scivation Xtend not vegan?
Anything else on your mind that you would like to discuss with other like-minded people.
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Hmmmm, interesting. Thanks for bringing this up as I have used Scivation products before, specifically Xtend! I will try to find what I can and if I find anything else I will post back here. Thanks again!
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1 cup cleaned and washed Red Lentil or Masoor dal
2 or 3 table spoons of chopped onions
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil or butter
1 teaspoon peeled and finely chopped garlic
1 teaspoon of turmeric powder
1 or 2 dried red chili (optional)
salt to taste
fresh cilantro leaves for garnish
In a pan heat the vegetable oil add the red chili (if you are using it) , chopped onions and garlic.
Stir fry for 2minutes till they change colour .
Add the red lentil /masoor dal and mix it well with the fried onion and garlic.
Add 3 cups of water .
Add turmeric powder and salt to taste.
Cook dal on medium heat for 15 or 20 minutes until soft and well blended with the water.
I cook my dal in a pressure cooker for 5 or 6 whistles.
Garnish it with fresh cilantro leaves.
Its ready to serve. You can eat it with plain white rice or chapatis or nan. Rice and dal is the popular lunch meal in India. It can be eaten with vegetables, poppadoms and salads.


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"I spent the whole time praying and cursing, and praying and cursing."
The tattooed Lutheran pastor and bestselling memoirist Nadia Bolz-Weber tells a story on The Moth stage about being afraid of being "needy" and what happens when you let people see you as you are. It starts at the 36 minute mark. Listen here: A Busload of LutheransRead More


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Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519
Oil and tempera on spruce29.9 × 28.3 cmAcquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett
Clyfford Still, 1957 - D No. 2, 1957
Oil on cotton289 × 407.3 cmDonated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy- fth anniversary ( 1958 ), 1959
Pablo Picasso, Seated Harlequin, 1923
Oil on canvas130.2 × 97.1 cmPermanent loan from the City of Basel, 1967
Henri Rousseau, Jungle with Setting Sun, ca. 1910
Oil on canvas113.6 × 162.3 cmPurchased 1948
Piet Mondrian, Composition No.I, with Red and Black, 1929
Oil on canvas52.3 × 52.2 cmDonated by Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, 1968
Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Japanese Print, 1887
Oil on canvas43.2 × 33.9 cmPermanent loan of the Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation, 1970
Frank Stella, Ifafa II, 1964
Powdered metal and acrylic on canvas197 × 331.5 × 7.5 cm Purchased 1970
Andy Warhol, Ten-foot Flowers, 1967–1968
Screen printing ink on grounded canvas293.3 × 293.2 cm Purchased 1972
Edgar Degas, Injured Jockey, ca. 1896-1898
Oil on canvas180.6 × 150.9 cmPurchased with special funding from the City of Basel, 1963
Hans Holbein the Younger, Erasmus of Rotterdam Writing, 1523
Oil and tempera on paper, mounted on fir wood37.1 × 30.8 cm Acquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett, 1662
Ferdinand Hodler, Lake of Geneva, seen from Chexbres, 1905
Oil on canvas82.1 × 104.2 cmBirmann Fund, 1905
Thomas Blanchet, Philip in Ecstasy after the Baptism of the Chamberlain, 1663
Red chalk, pen and brush, washed in various shades, heightened with white and squared with red chalk36.7 × 28.5 cmVermutlich aus der Sammlung Dr. Achilles Burckhardt-Blau eingegangen
Arnold Böcklin, Island of the Dead, 1880
Oil on canvas110.9 × 156.4 cmPermanent loan of the Gottfried Keller Foundation, 1920
Paul Klee, Villa R, 1919
Oil on cardboard26.5 × 22.4 cmPurchased with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1962
Cadmium red oil on fir wood with synthetic resin painted iron pipe121.5 × 83.5 × 55.5 cmPurchased 1984
Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Cardinal Matthäus Lang of Wellenburg, 1518 or after 1520/21
Black chalk; background later washed in black25.3 x 27.4 cmCIBA-Jubiläumsschenkung 1959
Paul Gauguin, Ta matete ( The Market ), 1892
Oil on burlap73.2 × 91.5 cmDonated by Dr. h.c. Robert von Hirsch, 1941
El Lissitzky, Proun 1 D, ca. 1919
Oil on canvas on plywood71.6 × 96.1 cmDonation from the Oskar and Annie Müller-Widmann Collection, 1965
Claude Monet, The Rock Needle and the Porte d'Aval, 1884
Oil on canvas60.2 × 81.5 cmPermanent loan of the Dr. h.c. Emile Dreyfus Foundation, 1970
Martin Kippenberger, Profit Peaks with Wirtschaftswerte by Joseph Beuys II, 1985
Oil, silicon, multiples by Joseph Beuys on canvas150 × 180 cm Purchased with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation, 2010
Alexander Calder, Big Spider, 1959
Iron, painted black296 × 395.6 × 339 cmDonated by Dr. h.c. Maja Sacher-Stehlin on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Basel University, 1960
Pablo Picasso, Esquisse pour "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", 1907
Black chalk and pastel over pencil on paper47.7 × 63.5 cmKupferstichkabinett, donated by the artist to the City of Basel; permanent loan of the City of Basel, 1967
Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Woman, ca. 1520
Oil and tempera on lime wood29.8 × 17.1 cm Museum Faesch, 1823
Max Beckmann, The Nizza in Frankfurt on the Main, 1921
Oil on canvas100.1 × 65.3 cmPurchased with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939, inv. 1737
Joseph Beuys, Hearth II, 1978–1979
Installation with elements made from copper, iron, felt, wood, and white chalkheight of vertical rods : 92 cmAcquired with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation, the purchase loan, and the Gallery Fund, 1977/Donated by the artist with the participation of others including the Alti Richtig Carnival society, 1979
Konrad Witz, Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate, ca. 1437– 40
Oil and tempera on spruce lined with canvas158 × 121 cmDonated by Prof. Louise-Elisabeth Bachofen-Burckhardt, 1894
Andy Warhol, Ginger Rogers, 1962
Bleistift auf festem ZeichenpapierBlatt 60.3 × 45.7 cmKarl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds 1972
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of the Artist 's Wife with the Two Oldest Children, ca. 1528/29
Oil and tempera on paper, cut out round the contours of the gures and mounted on lime wood79.4 × 64.7 cmAcquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett
Andreas Gursky, Frankfurt, 2007
C-print ( laser print ) / Diasec, framed ; ed. 1 / 6238 × 506 cmPurchased with funding from the Max Geldner Foundation and the Friends of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2008
Konrad Witz, Saint Christopher, ca. 1435–1445
Oil and tempera on oak101.5 × 81 cmDonated by Friedrich August La Roche-Burckhardt, 1868
Marc Chagall, Cattle Dealer, 1912
Oil on canvas97.1 × 202.5 cmAcquired with a donation from Dr. h.c. Richard Doetsch-Benziger, 1948
Egon Schiele, Woman Lying on Her Back, 1914
Pencil and gouache31.8 × 48.2 cm
Paul Cézanne, Five Bathers, 1885/1887
Oil on canvas65.3 × 65.3 cmAcquired with funding from the City of Basel, the Max Geldner Foundation, and private patrons, 1960
Eduardo Chillida, Composition, 1957
Tar paper pressed with a hot iron onto lightweight cardboard21.9 × 30.1 cmKarl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds
Robert Delaunay, Homage to Blériot, 1914
Glue-bound distemper on canvas250 × 251 cmPurchased 1962
Mark Rothko, No.16 (Red, White and Brown), 1957
Oil on canvas252.5 × 207.3 cmDonated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary (1958)
Barnett Newman, White Fire II, 1960
Mixed media on unprimed canvas244 × 193 cmPurchased 1973
Amedeo Modigliani, Marie ( Marie, Daughter of the People ), 1918
Oil on canvas61.2 × 49.8 cmBequest of Dr. Walther Hanhart, Riehen, 1975
Hans Baldung gen. Grien, Youthful Self-Portrait, ca. 1502
Pen and black ink, heightened with pink and white, on bluegreen prepared paper22 × 16 cmAmerbach-Kabinett, 1662
Gerhard Richter, Motorboat, 1965
Oil on canvas170 × 170 cmDonated by the Hanspeter Schulthess-Oeri Fund, 1977
Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Judgment of Paris, 1528
Oil and tempera on beech84.7 × 57 cmDonated by Martha and Robert von Hirsch, Basel, 1977
Edvard Munch, Road in Åsgårdstrand, 1901
Oil on canvas88.3 × 113.8 cmDonated by Sigrid Schwarz von Spreckelsen and Sigrid Katharina Schwarz, 1979
Jasper Johns, Flag Above White with Collage, 1955
Encaustic and collage (newspaper) on canvas56.2 × 48.6 cm Donated by the artist in memory of Christian Geelhaar, 1994, inv. G 1994.1
Paul Cézanne, Study for "The Eternal Feminine", ca. 1870/75
Pencil and black chalk on paper17.8 × 23.7 cmAcquired 1934
Paul Klee, Siebzehn irr, 1923
Feder und Aquarell auf Papier, aufgezogen auf Karton22.3 × 28.6 cmLegat Richard Doetsch-Benziger
Félix Vallotton, The Pond (Honfleur), 1909
Oil on canvas73.2 × 100.2 cmPermanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1995
Walter De Maria, Beds of Spikes, 1968–1969
Stainless steel; five plates mounted with 307 spikeseach plate 33.5 × 200 × 106 cm, each spike 27 × 2.5 × 2.5 cm Purchased 1996
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Erich Lederer, 1912–1913
Oil and gouache on canvas140 × 55.4 cmDonated by Mrs. Erich Lederer-von Jacobs in memory of her deceased husband, 1986
Constantin Brancusi, Torso of a Young Woman, 1918
Marble on limestone base33 × 20.4 × 19.4 cm; base: 21.2 × 21.2 × 17.2 cmAcquired with funding from the Acquisitions Fund, a special grant from the Basel Great Council, and private gifts, 1980
Rosemarie Trockel, Untitled, 2000
Silk-screen print on cotton fabric; ed.2/2110 × 285 cmPurchased with funding from the Petzold-Müller Foundation, 2010
Joseph Anton Koch, Macbeth and the Witches, 1829/1830
Oil on canvas114 × 155.2 cmDonated by Emilie Linder, 1849
Oskar Kokoschka, The Wind' s Bride ( The Tempest ), 1913
Oil on canvas180.4 × 220.2 cmAcquired with a special grant from the City of Basel, 1939
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1521–1522
Oil and tempera on lime wood32.4 × 202.1 cmAcquired with the Amerbach-Kabinett, 1662
Sebastian Stoskopff, Glutherd mit Artischocke, Grünspechte und Wasserzuber mit Karpfen,
Öl auf Leinwand54.5 × 72.8 cmVermächtnis Noetzlin-Werthemann 1928
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, ca. 1939/42
Pen with black and brown ink on sketchbook paper33 × 26.2 cmAcquired 2002
Jasper Johns, Out the Window Number 2, 1962
Oil on canvas with objects (wire, metal spoon, piece of folding rule)183.3 × 122.3 cmDonated by the artist in memory of Christian Geelhaar, 1994
Georges Braque, Pitcher and Violin, 1909/1910
Oil on canvas116.8 × 73.2 cmDonated by Dr. h.c. Raoul La Roche, 1952
Barnett Newman, Day Before One, 1951
Oil on cotton334.7 × 127.3 cmDonated by the Swiss National Insurance Company on the occasion of its seventy- fth anniversary ( 1958 ), 1959
Georges Seurat, Woman with an Umbrella, ca. 1884–86
Conté crayon on Michallet paper31.7 × 24.7 cmMit einem Sonderkredit des Basler Grossen Rates erworben 1978
Silvia Bächli, Untitled, 2007
Gouache on paper200 × 150 cmPurchased with funding from the Karl and Margrith Schaub-Tschudin Foundation, 2013
Bruce Nauman, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, 1967
Glass and neon tubing; ed.3/3+1AP150 × 140 x 5 cm Purchased 1978
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Holy Family, ca. 1519
Pen and brush in black and grey wash, heightened in white, on reddish-brown prepared paper42.7 × 30.8 cmAmerbach-Kabinett
Ferdinand Hodler, Communion with the Infinite, 1892
Oil on canvas159 × 97.2 cmBirmann Fund, 1910
Joseph Beuys, Elk with Woman and Female Faun, 1957
Watercolor on paper49.2 × 74 cmKupferstichkabinett, Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin Fund, 1969
Oberrhein (Elsass) 15. Jh., Ornamental designs with birds perched on tendrils and banderoles, 1470/80
Pen (black)21.6 x 26.3 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Museum Faesch
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 35, 1914
Oil on canvas110.3 × 120.3 cmDonated by Jean Arp, 1966
Henri Matisse, Composition (The Velvets), 1947
Gouache on paper, cut out and mounted on white-painted paper61.8 × 239.5 cmKunstmuseum Basel, Acquired with funding from Richard Doetsch-Benziger, PhD (Hon.), Basel, and Marguerite Hagenbach, Basel, 1954 / © 2019, Pro Litteris, Zürich
Pablo Picasso, Man, Woman and Child, autumn 1906
Oil on canvas115.7 × 88.9 cmGift of the artist to the municipality of Basel; permanent loan from the City of Basel, 1967
Cy Twombly, Nini's Painting, 1971
Oil, chalk, and pencil on canvas260.5 × 299.7 cmPurchased with funding from the Arnold Rüdlinger Fund of the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, with additional support from the acquisitions fund of the Kunstmuseum Basel, 1995
Jan Jansz.van de Velde iii, Still Life with Wineglass and Cut Lemon, 1649
Oil on oak30.9 × 24.6 cmBequest of Max Geldner, Basel, 1958
Hans Arp, Pre-Dada Drawing, ca. 1915
Brush in ink over pencil17.8 × 22.2 cmDonated by Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach- 1968
Joseph Beuys, THE HEARTH (Feuerstätte), 1968–1974
Adriaen Brouwer, Peasant with Bicorne and Tankard, 1630-1639
Oil on oak wood14.8 x 12.1 cmKunstmuseum Basel, Vermächtnis Max Geldner, Basel


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Hi there, I just found this forum by searching for Roleplaying related forums on the Yuku/EZboard search facility. Although I;m an old hand at RPing, pen and paper style, (favourites include AD&D, Runequest and particularly Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay), I've never roleplayed online, and I've never encountered people RPing in a forum either!
SO, what I want to know is:
What gameworlds are you gaming in? If you have your own gameworlds and rules, where are they posted for perusal . . . ?
How do I create a character for gaming with, and without any GM or rulebooks no less?
Once I've got a character, how do I join a game?
Thanks for any responses, (I hope someone does), please make it plain for me, I'm a noob


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"Hackers, gamers and cyborgs" by Brendan Keoghhttps://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-218/feature-brendan-keogh
"The story of computers transitioning from the flesh to the digital, from the clerical (feminine) to the militaristic (masculine), provides a compelling origin myth for the digital computer." is a great sentence. where clerical (feminine) is in the context of women being the first "manual computers", where the name "computer" came from - it was good to see that the writer acknowledged this.
BUT this paragraph needs to be clarified:"Even as computers became increasingly significant devices in the last decades of the twentieth century, they remained entrenched in broader patriarchal structures that inscribed them as mathematical, scientific, important – that is, as male. They were embedded, more often than not, in parts of society already explicitly gendered: the science lab, the maths classroom and, when they moved to the home, the son's bedroom rather than the daughter's."
I think the writer should add a "predominantly" to next paragraph: "that is, as male" --> "that is, as predominantly male" & another clarification in the next sentence also. it was not "explicitly gendered", it was "predominantly gendered".
because there were and are some women who fit his example, myself being one. it was always annoying to be classed as "male" in this regard, when clearly, I and other women are not male. university researchers even did studies on us (two) female engineers at work in late 1980s/1990s asking how we felt to be doing "male jobs" which I found to be strange since I was doing my job, so how could it be a male job. & since I did physics (albeit only girl in class), chem, higher maths when at high school the statement is not true that it's male only. it needs to be clarified: "predominantly male", yes ok, I can agree with that
these statements are still annoying. as if we don't exist / are invisible.
and there are many more girls & women doing these things these days also - just as there were other women when I started, and women before me too. plus I did have a computer at home growing up (it was in the loungeroom so both I and my sister could use it, not the bedroom), not only the boys did. I programmed it too. as everyone did back then. and I'm sure there were other girls doing it too, across the world.
I can't see where to comment of the article, so ranting here (& twitter). if anyone has the writer, Brendan Keogh's contact pls let me know so I can let him know. if he's a PhD candidate at RMIT University then surely he should know better. I'm surprised his supervisor allows these declarative statements, and the editors of Overland Literary Journal too. with all the articles every day about women leaving technology you'd think people would start writing the history more accurately. adding one clarifying word can make a difference. women have been written out of history already too much!!
and now that article is in print, for yet another inaccuracy to continue. it seems things will never change.
I find it completely ironic that Brendan Keogh should write an article about gamergate and women in gaming "in the context of the broader patriarchal structures" and yet he write about women in computing / technology by applying those same patriarchal structures, leaving them out of history, and even though he admits that the article is flawed, does not want to correct the mistakes or improve it. how different is this to gamergate really anyway? to me, it's the exact same attitude.
it's just annoying and disappointing. when people write the history of tech / computing without women, and especially the exact examples used in that article which I know to be incorrect (as I was doing them) it feels like they are dissolving the past ~30 years of my life. why wouldn't they just add 1-2 words to include women in tech. someone else complained about his comments on gamers being male-only too, so I was glad to read it wasn't only me taking issue with it. not that it made much difference.
and yes, I was playing games during this time also - it's not a male-only characteristic as is implied later in the article.
I'm disappointed in overland too - I expected more, especially after reading their values on 'about' page. so much for "democratisation of politics and culture, providing room for diverse and marginal voices alongside the established and the authoritative" & the rest
update: I posted this on the Overland Facebook page for the article also. I was sent the author's contact details via twitter and had a conversation with him about changing the article. it may be possible to have the web version updated, but sadly the printed version will still be inaccurate.
update 20/04/2015: I asked the author, Brendan Keogh, how the update was going and he said he wasn't going to update it.
he also questioned why I replied to his tweets so my followers could see - well, it's not so they could reply also (although one friend did), it's because I believe it's safer for women, online and offline, to have witnesses when dealing with difficult men, which he proved himself to be
Brendan Keogh @BRKeogh · 11m 11 minutes ago
@AliaK Hi! Saw your tweets but didn't wanna just jump in. Ultimately, yes I agree. I leave things implied that should've been more explicit
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BrendonKeugh hi, I think there should be a few clarifications rather than declarative statements in your article.
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BrendonKeugh I enjoyed the history you wrote about, but it's not 100% male. I wrote my comments on overland fb page https://www.facebook.com/overland/posts/912913555397284 …
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK Hi! Saw your tweets but didn't wanna just jump in. Ultimately, yes I agree. I leave things implied that should've been more explicit
@AliaK: Apr 16 can you have the article changed? @BRKeogh it makes a difference
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK possibly tho it's just a reprint of a print article. Do you just want 'overwhelmingly' replaced with 'predominately?'
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK Or am i misunderstanding which part you take issue with?
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh overwhelminly is fine. the paragraph starting with ""Even as computers became increasingly significant devices" needs clarifying
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh "that is, as male" -> "that is, as predominantly/overwhelmingly male" whichever word, just to clarify not imply 100% male. +
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK Right I getcha. I meant 'inscribed as male' as in 'naturalised by society as male' not 'only males use computers' but i see how...
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh + "in parts of society already explicitly gendered" this needs clarifying too. explicitly reads as though it's 100% male, when not
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK ..that is unclear. Really I should've used 'masculine', not 'male'.
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh even masculine is not correct. I think if you wrote 'inscribed as male' even, it would have been better.
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh as there are women/girls doing these things too, how can it be male-only or masculine-only. it's not logical. majority, sure
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK well my intent was to say 'inscribed as male'! 'Inscribed as x, y, z--that is, [inscribed] as male'
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh each declarative statement saying male only, just belittles women's work. we are ignored enough as it is without continually being
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK but maybe. I should've repeated the verb rather than have it implied that's the verb the clause is linking back to
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh written out of history
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh I've made suggestions on how to improve the wording. I'll leave it up to you to decide what is best to use
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK But i don't think I ever say 'male only'. Huge difference between a space being inscribed/naturalised as male and...
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK no women at all being in that space. I say as much explicitly further down to stress that point.
@BRKeogh: Apr 16 @AliaK And I appreciate the feedback. Thanks!
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh "that is, as male" - where are the female here? explicitly gendered - the son's bedroom rather than the daughter's.
@AliaK: Apr 16 @BRKeogh each sentence should be correct or it's wishy washy anyway.
update 20/04/2015: I asked the author, Brendan Keogh, how the update was going and he said he wasn't going to update it.
@AliaK: Apr 20 how did you go changing the overland article @BRKeogh to be more inclusive of women in tech? it still seems unchanged?
@BRKeogh: Apr 20 @AliaK I respect & appreciate your critique of the piece but I don't agree that edit needs to be made and I won't be changing it, no.
@AliaK: Apr 20 that's different to what you said last week? why the change of view? @BRKeogh
@BRKeogh: Apr 20 @AliaK I still agree the piece overall could be better, which is what I said last week.
@BRKeogh: Apr 20 @AliaK Also, I'd appreciate it if you didn't move my @ to the end of the tweet to try to get your followers onto me.
@AliaK: Apr 20 why would that worry you @BRKeogh. I also don't appreciate lip service "respect & appreciate" - actions speak louder than words
@AliaK: Apr 20 you also said the web version could be updated and then proceeded to talk about what word to use over numerous tweets. then nothing @BRKeogh
@BRKeogh: Apr 20 @AliaK Well I do appreciate the feedback even if I disagree on the particular sentence. Anyway, have a good evening.
web version of the article archived 21/04/2015: http://www.aliak.com/files/Hackers_gamers_and_cyborgs-218_Autumn_2015-Br... (ZIP)
letter to Overland editors 22/04/2015: http://www.aliak.com/files/predominantly_male_versus_male-email_to_overl... (PDF)
"...wind and breath are intimately related in the continuous movement of inhalation and exhalation that is fundamental to life and being. Inhalation is wind becoming breath, exhalation is breath becoming wind. --Tim Ingold, Being Alive" via Debbie Lyddon's "Aeolian Pipes and Air-Songs" booklet on her textiles (felt, wax, resin & wire) sculptures at the beach https://debbielyddon.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/aeolian-pipes-and-air-s... (pdf)
having recently had an appendectomy operation in which the recovery left me with reduced lung capacity (bilateral pleural effusion with lower lobe collapse), these words rang true for breathing and learning to breath through my tummy/diaphragm rather than chest.
with all the talk of data retention and vintage (clothes) stores & work stuff this week, I had a great dream about an encryption dress this morning. I couldn't find anything in the store that I liked, then finally chose a dress & said this'll do. turns out it had an encryption chip in it. we couldn't find the pricelist card for it — flat, vertical cards covered in plastic frames — sort of like house listings in the window of the real estate offices. had to scan through heaps of them - layers and layers. & seems to be waterproof also as the dress becomes swimwear/togs too (changes). lots of dream spent on adventure looking for it. turns out it cost $100K due to software licence. but they waived it & I got to keep the dress & encrypted all communications from then on. I was trying to work out how it worked without a keyboard to enter passphrase. but it was new tech. touch was all that was needed. I was also worried about the chip being so close to my heart (physical location) but it was proven to be safe to wear. good dream. chip was like a square button, sewn into the fabric. gather & press to activate. the encryption dress and chip were waterproof too because at some points in the dream it turned into togs/swimmers and I was in the water, I think when I was looking for the pricecards.
maybe it means I should get back to working on the flora gps test - flora's working, & gps arrived recently
I had the idea today to write a story about memory windows. I think it was after the second coffee. now I can't think of what to write - the characters. this week I've been on holidays and have been relaxing and reading. the "Exegesis" by Philip K Dick arrived (finally - it seems it might have been delayed due to a missing / between my apartment number and street number on the package's postal address).
piano sounds
Matty Fresh - Trail Blazer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFtoCdghlCs
today, I listened to a song that Matty Fresh had posted on facebook. very lush - lovely piano sounds & beats. I've seen a video interview with him where he showed the process he follows in producing a beat - digging in the crates, sampling the vinyl records, transferring to the computer.
then I had these thoughts about the piano sample taken from the record. the sound has layers of stories and human connections with it. there's the pianist - all those years of training and practicing the piano which led to them playing that song on the day it was recorded. the composer of the original song. the booking of the sound recording studio - I can imagine the musicians in the room - the pianist at the piano, playing the song. how many times did they play this melody that day. did they get into the zone. the sound recording engineer recording the sounds - how did they adjust & tweak the sounds. was it recorded onto tape. was it a new tape or had it been used before and were there traces of older sounds already on the tape. then it was sent to the vinyl processing plant to be both archived and brought to life during the vinyl production process. were there any imperfections introduced in this process. all these steps took time. did the musician think about their performance again afterwards - wonder if they could have changed something, or if it was perfect as is. then the industry takes over and the record gets released and people buy it. who bought this record - the one that the sample was taken from. how many hands has it passed through, and how many plays did it have on people's home record players, or out & about? what were the people doing when they listened - what were they thinking. did their record players add some imperfections to the sounds by faulty equipment, or overuse? did they play the record over & over so it was almost worn out and the vinyl getting thinner and thinner with each play. at some point their lives changed and the record was sold and ended up in a dusty record bin that Matty Fresh pulled it out of and took home and added to his collection. how many other songs were listened to before this one was chosen - how many times was it played by him to be imprinted on his memory to pull it out later when this song was being created.
I read the other day about all the atoms in the world. http://www.aliak.com/content/rearranging-patterns-atoms-monads has some of my ramblings on it
Sunday TINA 2011 was a day when the rain set in - it was heavy at times, yet it didn't stop people attending the festival panel sessions and performances. this is recorded with binaural mics (line-in adapter - finally found the little battery for it!) on Hunter St Mall - complete with locals/passerbys talking as they walked past me
best listened in headphones
papert logo program output - I made a little program to draw sun ra circles
this looks a lot like the lisp I used to use in early versions of AutoCAD in the 90s.
(I wrote a very crude program below - first try. run it multiple times without clearing the previous)
http://logo.twentygototen.org/i2-IgazF ::: program link
15/09/2011: this AI book (Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach) is good so far. hopefully it's all like this, not just ch1 ;) am thinking a test to help with archive project would be good. [1]
prob more of a parser than AI but maybe useful to learn some natural language processing & machine learning & automated reasoning #terms [2]
saw mention of using money as the 'reward' for the atoms/monads to learn. thinking of using music instead. like real life in that community [3]
music taste -> street cred -> popularity(?) of sorts. have to know history/share knowledge/durations of participation etc. [4]
reading issue #7 of Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology & Australian forum for acoustic ecology [1] - one guy has been recording sounds of beetles & found behaviours they'd missed by studying them in labs.[2] makes me think about all the sounds that have been lost. species & places lost. but sounds too
I guess there's less protection of the sounds lost since they're not living creatures. [3]
do you ever wonder if they are? little living frequencies [4]
I see beauty in the soi - I went for a walk around bangrak streets this evening. it's still so hot & humid 6-7pm, but there's so many things to see. I'm not the best photographer, and my camera is not that good at colours, so they've come out more muted than they really are, and it doesn't focus well in low light - especially when zoomed - but here's a photo slideshow of some of the buildings and people in the soi. a couple of times I could hear people talking and looking - like the motor-soi drivers who sit on the corner, so I snapped a quick shot and kept walking past. there's also lots of very small and scrawny street cats. I love the colours and textures of the buildings - and the windows - I can imagine people looking out of the windows to see what's happening in their neighbourhoods - though I think they also seem to spend a lot of time outside, on the streets/soi, eating at the food stalls and talking with friends. it's nice.
beauty in the soi photos
notes over coffee today - not very coherent & I notice I contradict my own argument/plot.. oh well. will try (perhaps) to make it easier to read later / think more on it. stream of consciousness notes between sips of coffee. fix / adjust later
04/06/2011 bangrak, bangkok
With the articles in the international herald tribune this week about China's plans to divert one of their rivers to meet the water supply demands of its people, and then today's article about the race to find food that can be grown in droughts – rice growing experiments – it's just like living in the opening page of a science fiction, futuristic novel.
Character: a global nomad – the prices of food have risen too high so she is forced to travel the world working in other places, living in hotels, because her employer is paying for her food and accommodation.
Places like India where there was a grain shortage and there was risk that the poor people would not be able to afford to buy rice.
tonight's taxi driver got a little lost - we ended up on the wrong side of a split one way road and he couldn't find a place to turn, so we did a loop of the back streets / soi. I can't remember the name of the street nearby - at first I thought it was charoen may but it might be (thanon) charoen chan?? not too far from (thanon) charoen krung anyway, if you take an earlier exit off the highway and end up in turning sai (left) instead of qua (right) to get to charoen krung (there was a sign but we were in totally wrong lane by then.
anyway, it was great to be lost - I just love the soi! (small streets / lanes) there's so much activity - people getting their hair done at the local hairdresser, people eating at one of the many street stalls, people waiting for the bus, people at the stores - working, visiting or shopping, people just sitting out on the street / stoops talking or watching the cars and motor-soi drive/ride past. the tuk tuks. the motor soi waiting on the corner with their coloured flouro jackets and motorbikes - they're like a single person taxi on a motorbike. people at the fruit stalls. I saw a durian store and a man about to cut a durian open.
the soi feel "very Thai" to me - at least in my limited view of Thailand & Bangkok so far. perhaps "very Bangkok" or "very Bangrak" / "very Si Phraya", though the latter two I think of the Chao Phraya River too. I've walked down to the temple in the charoen krung video & back on my first weekend here - it was so hot though. I was really dehydrated and hot & sweaty when I arrived back at the hotel. "very Thai" is a phrase I hear all the time - even the Museum of Siam posed the question "what does it mean to be Thai?" in their exhibit. and the WordPlay! Writer's Festival at Neilson Hays Library a couple of weekends ago had speakers who also spoke about this and posed the question. (even though they were mostly expats! which I thought was a little strange - why wouldn't you ask a local Thai citizen, rather than an expat - granted some had lived here for a number of years..)
I'd bought and tried a durian earlier today after we went for lunch (great pad thai too!) - it was in my bag. I could still smell it - it was intoxicating in a way - the tangyness of it is really striking, though the texture is really smooth - sort of like a hard banana texture, but the taste is sweet - I kept thinking of dragon fruit punch (though perhaps that's not the right smell / taste also - have forgotten my words again). not sure if the taxi driver liked the smell of durian - I could hear him sniffing every so often. the smell changed during the evening, I couldn't eat all of it, but I had some more after dinner. it's in the minibar fridge now so the room smells less of durian. apparently it's banned on some public transport and hotels because of the smell. I've tried many Thai fruits now - most from this Thai fruits page that one of the guys from work had sent me - they've been sooo generous at work, especially with food. once I commented to one of the guys that they had a lot of food, and chats at work with food (usually at the end of the day or lunchtime), and he replied, "yes. happiness is most important" which I thought was a fantastic attitude! work pays for the food - apparently it makes the programmers work better in the afternoons. I'd say they're probably right - maybe more places should do this - it's quite common in Asia (so I've noticed) for work to provide food at the workplace.
some photos - lots of river and food photos this time. I hope to get some more of the buildings, doors, gates and windows - they have such great textures, though I feel a little strange walking the back streets taking photos of people's houses and the soi are very narrow so it's hard to get them all in frame on my nicer camera (as opposed to phone camera)
Hunter & Mortar - Fear and Loathing—a few words with Hunter SBX about his new album with Mortar—this was originally an article for ozhiphop.com : article in forum & on http://officialozhiphop.tumblr.com. by AliaK 31/05/2011. Thanks very much to Hunter for taking the time to answer my rambling questions
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lunch by the Siphraya Pier, Bangkok. reading McLuhan's interview from late 1960s and thinking of it related to the Jean M Auel Earth's Children's series books I've read - am reading her latest "The Land of the Painted Caves" during this trip. so his ideas on the development of the phonetic language are interesting. I think he's talking about more recent times (& Homo sapiens / modern humans - probably around 3500 years ago up until today). but since I've just finished the book - which is about the period when both Neanderthal & CroMagnon man/humanoids are living together on Earth, I was relating his ideas back to the ideas in the book. Auel's books have talked about the sign language and large, communal memories of Neanderthal man (previous to CroMagnon) - they didn't have developed speech - or the ability to talk properly apart from a few words/sounds. so perhaps McLuhan's ideas mean we get the best of both worlds - memory outsourced to writing. I think Erik Davis has talked about these things in his Techgnosis book too iirc. I also liked how in the McLuhan article he was talking about such a "connected world" & computers and communication networks in the early 1960s! well, he did pretty much invent "communication studies" type uni classes, but still, you could read this article with today's technology in mind and it would still be relevant - if not even more today than in the '60s
anyway, a lovely afternoon - lunch, reading and writing and ideas.
tonight I've been listening to some of this talk and reading the article - it ties in to the book/ideas of this trip / today's reading also : Scott Taylor and Bob Dobbs discuss "FIBONACCI AND THE ECSTATIC DIGITAL CLUB SCENE" http://bit.ly/iy9YNK http://bit.ly/jbSrZP the "anti-cave cave" - they're talking of techno club as a modern cave with paintings on the walls (glowing lights) as well as mentions of the more obvious comparison to Plato's cave & the archetypes of reality, and McLuhan's ideas of advertising and tv being the "cave paintings" of our modern world.
[quote]The McLuhan Dew-Line; and, punning on that title, he has also originated a series of recordings called "The Marshall McLuhan Dew-Line Plattertudes".[/quote]
McLuhan Dew-Line newsletters ad - love some of the topics: future editions will discuss.. "the end of history via the computer" "the end of the stock exchange via the computer" "the satellite as the end of Nature" "why the 'backward' countries will inevitably dominate the western world"
& I watched this video "I'm not beer" - mentions Bob Dylan, McLuhan, and Bob Dobbs
I also came across this : LITERARY/AESTHETIC CLICHÉ-PROBES IN THE AMERICAN CLASSROOM-WITHOUT-WALLS whilst searching for online versions of the McLuhan Dew-Line newsletters. & some more essays by Bob Dobb's on McLuhan - I haven't read these yet - might try the McLuhan and Holeopathic Quadrophrenia essay (every time I heard it on the not beer video above I kept thinking of the band Quadrophonia - different word, but close enough for my tired mind)
2011 is the 100th anniversary of McLuhan's birthday. there's a few events celebrating this : McLuhan 2011 (this weekend - just heard about it) and McLuhan on Maui has phone conferences feb-dec 2011 and an in-person conference later in the year (december) their about page has the details - there seems to be audio archives of the calls (eg the one above discussing the essay)
Next Nature has published one of his interviews from Playboy magazine in the 1960s (the one mentioned above that I was reading today) - maybe it is true that some people just bought it for the articles?!??
siphraya pier, bangrak
sunday 29/05/2011
siphraya reflections of light
the camera didn't really do this justice, but there were these amazing ghostly reflections and patterns of light moving on the ceiling next to the Si Phraya pier today whilst I was having lunch. mezmerizing


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Brenly leaves Cubs broadcasting booth
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Cubs broadcaster Bob Brenly says he won't return to the team next season.
WGN-TV and Brenly released a joint statement Wednesday announcing his departure from the Cubs. Brenly says he's looking for another baseball broadcasting position. Brenly leaves the team after eight years and a 101-game losing season.
Brenly first worked for WGN radio in 1990, spending time with Harry Caray for two seasons. The former catcher left Chicago to return to the field as bullpen coach for San Francisco. He eventually went to Arizona, where he served as Diamondbacks manager and led the team to a World Series championship in 2001.
Brenly says working in Chicago was one of the most enjoyable experiences of his career. WGN officials say they wish Brenly well.


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Linux Mint 14 Screenshots
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Jan 28 2013
All these mint14 screenshots have a menu button, bottom left.
I have loaded mint14 twice and still NO menu button WHY?
I hope someone can explain it to me.
I live in hope.
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Get a load of Randon Reid, a 26-year-old from Phoenix arrested after his car was spotted speeding away from a shooting at a local airport. The victim: a private plane, parked there and minding its own business.
The officers followed the license plates to Reid's home, where they found the gentlemen you see in this mugshot, as well as two guns that matched the shell casings found near the aircraft. Reid was charged with DUI and felony flight. He's expected to plea the Cornholio Defense. [ABC15.com, mugshot via ABC15.com]


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Update – Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate is now available and helps address many of the concerns listed here. Please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4-1/ to download and install Lightroom 4.1 RC.
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