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Aside from the occasional reality show, Discovery and History channels, about the only thing I watch on television is national news channels. I learned a few things about the Warren Jeff's case in Utah yesterday that were so disturbing I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Unfortunately I'm not talking about one of my favorite water sports here.
I'm aware of the bigamy. The child marriages. The alleged 'brainwashing'. The whole god-like persona this man has assumed in order to maintain control of his sect. I refuse to label any of this as religion – I will however label it as false religion. False religion as in hiding under the word of God to promote his and others own selfish and unspeakable acts. Hey, I realize it's just my opinion – but it's what I believe.
As if all of the above wasn't bad enough…
I must admit, I had no earthly idea what waterboarding meant. Wiki describes this torture as 'water being poured over the face of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning'. Apparently there are varying forms of the abuse, and the women of this compound in Utah have put an entirely different spin on it. They are taught to restrict their babies from crying from birth throughout toddlerhood. When the babies cry, they instinctively cup their hands over the babies mouths to 'quiet' them. This deprives them of air, thus halting the crying momentarily. As more crying ensues, they repeat this torture until the child is completely exhausted and just
falls asleep passes out. By the time the child gets older, they will have been all but voided of their emotions – which was the plan all along. Transformed into a debilitative state of mind, the females become totally reliant on their male elders for literally everything.
This is an absolutely deplorable act. It's illegal. It's child abuse in one of the highest forms. It shouldn't be labeled something as aesthetically or audibly pleasing as 'waterboarding'. I'll just call it what it is, thanks – smothering.
As of last night, officials are pondering whether to file formal charges on the adult women with child abuse. Of course they should!! Officials should do anything and everything to take charge of this situation and protect these poor children who have no voice. How could you hand over your 11-year old daughter to a 50+year old man in the hand of
marriage rape? Sorry, no mother-of-the-year award for you this go-round. I say charge these women now, and get the children out now. Counseling for undue influence can come at a later date. Know that Warren Jeffs IS replaceable, and will be if convicted – no doubt about that little factoid.
It's 2011, and these unspeakable acts are still being committed against our children. Simply unbelievable… or is it?
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Warren Jeffs and others like him are the devil in disguise! And not a good one at that. They make me want to vomit!
People do not understand how or why these women stay with a man or men like Warren Jeffs. The answer is simple– FEAR.
Having been raised by a VERY controlling man and being married to a abuser- Not Eddie- I can understand why these women stay. BUT, I would have NEVER abused my child, no matter how scared I was. In fact, I left my abusing husband because I didn't want my child to grow up in that kind of mess.
Laws should be passed to jail men like Jeffs! And you are right, there will be another man to take Jeffs place and the sick bastard will be thanking his lucky stars for the chance to rape these little girls. I pray that all men like Jeffs will burn in Hell and even THAT is too good for them! Excuse me while I go and vomit!
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According to the study, "Escaping from Children's Abuse of Social Robots," obstruction like this wasn't nearly the worst of it. The tots' behavior often escalated, and sometimes they'd get violent, hitting and kicking Robovie. They also engaged in verbal abuse, calling the robot "bad words." [...]
Next, they designed an abuse-evading algorithm to help the robot avoid situations where tiny humans might gang up on it. Literally tiny humans: the robot is programmed to run away from people who are below a certain height and escape in the direction of taller people. When it encounters a human, the system calculates the probability of abuse based on interaction time, pedestrian density, and the presence of people above or below 4 feet 6 inches in height. If the robot is statistically in danger, it changes its course towards a more crowded area or a taller person. This ensures that an adult is there to intervene when one of the little brats decides to pound the robot's head with a bottle (which only happened a couple times). [...]
When questioned, 74 percent of the kids described the robot as "human-like" and only 13 percent as "machine-like." Half of them said that they believed that their behavior was "stressful or painful" for the robot. So basically, most of these kids perceive the robot they're abusing as lifelike, and then just go ahead and abuse it anyway. While that's a little disturbing, it appears to be in line with some child psychology research on animal abuse.
Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
"Helper often speaks of the coming war between man and the brotherhood of machines."
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At the start of the week I had the happy news of the publication of my first ever poem. Today I have the slightly mad news (I woke up this morning to find it wasn't a beer-induced hallucination!) that I am SpeedPoets 'call back' poet for April. This all happened quite by accident and I still feel as though I gate crashed someone else's party.
Stacey encouraged me to go along yesterday, (she was planning on reading and said I had to do it too!) and Friday during the write-in we read to each other a collection of poems and picked the ones we felt worked best. But I was doing this all as an act of support (for Stacey) and to keep pushing my own boundaries.
The beer flowed, the poems washed over us, it was good to among good friends and it was generally just a brilliant afternoon (after a bit of a shaky start!) The three of us (Stacey, Tom and I) all had a crack. There were spaces in the final set so Stacey and I read a second time.
I had completely forgot about the 'call back' component of the open mic segments, so when Simon Kindt (whose poetry absolutely blew me away when I heard him perform at the finals of the call back poets last year) read my name out, I was stunned. To have Simon pick me adds an extra aura of surrealness to it.
'Almost' is the poem that won me the spot (I say it was the poem because my nerves almost choked me when I was reading). It was inspired by memories of the movie 'Blue Velvet' from decades ago (the walk down memory lane triggered by a failed attempt to see 'Blue Velvet' on the big screen).
Many thanks to The Hideaway and to Andrew for being the most welcoming of organisers and MC.
So, I guess I will be writing more poetry between now and then. And perhaps have to revise my accidental poetic definitions of self.


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FF14 is Going F2Pish
Even after repeated attempts, FF14 has never managed to hook me. Part of the reason is because I am mostly done with the MMO genre in general. Another part is that FF14 is front-loaded with dozens and dozens of hours of irredeemably bad, garbage questing. The bar is pretty low for MMO questing, sure, but when everyone pontificates on how FF14 has the greatest story of all time, the "*only after 60+ hours of terribleness" asterisk is usually missing.
Nevertheless, I had heard of plans that the devs were going to overhaul the vanilla experience to make it less of a slog. Eyebrow raised, I made a mental note and went on with my life.
Well, the time is nigh.
Patch 5.3 is slated for August 11th and it includes:
- Main Scenario Questline Update: A Realm Reborn – The A Realm Reborn main scenario questline will be reworked to give new players a more streamlined experience as they progress through the story leading to Heavensward. Additionally, players will be able to use flying mounts to take to the skies in A Realm Reborn areas upon completion of The Ultimate Weapon quest.
- Expanded Free Trial – The free trial will now allow players to enjoy unlimited playtime up through level 60 and will also include access to Heavensward content, an additional playable race (Au Ra), and an additional three playable jobs (Dark Knight, Astrologian, and Machinist).
It is difficult to get precise information regarding how "streamlined" is streamlined. I have heard estimates ranging from 13%-30% of the quests have been removed, and other non-removed quests have gotten trimmed back in terms of required items. If after all this I'm still asked to run a dungeon to collect cheese for my own banquet, then I'm going to expect some dev seppuku in the future.
One of the bigger surprises though, was the second bullet point. Square Enix is expanding the Free Trial from level 35 to level 60, and including all content of the main game and the first expansion, including the new race and classes introduced. And keep in mind this trial is not time-based. For all intents and purposes, this makes the front half of the game F2P.
As it happens though, this will only be for "new" players. If your account has ever paid money to Square Enix, you are ineligible for any such trials. Which means if I come back to FF14, I will have to abandon the characters I already leveled. From *checks calendar* 2017. Which… okay, whatever. Hopefully the skids are greased enough that I can pass through the utter tripe of the starting experience and get to the supposed good stuff and see for myself if FF14 is the second coming.
My guess is No, but I have been wrong before.
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Sleep remains one of medicine's mysteries. Why do we even need to sleep? We don't yet know the answer to this basic question. We do know that sleep is critically important to our health and happiness. Part I of this blog will cover sleep hygiene and what you can do yourself to improve your sleep- Part II will cover over-the-counter and prescription meds. (And thanks to Liz for suggesting this topic!)
An important point to remember is that insomnia is a very common symptom in a variety of psychiatric illnesses. In these situations, the cure is to effectively treat the underlying illness, which will then have the secondary effect of improving the insomnia. If you focus just on the sleep problem you'll go astray. With that caveat, people with depression, anxiety, etc. can benefit from implementing the below techniques and tips for good sleep, so long as they make sure their underlying illness is being treated as well.
Regularity of sleep patterns is important. No one expects you to go to bed at exactly the same time and get up at exactly the same time every day- but coming somewhat close gets your body and mind into a rhythm. The people who seem to struggle with this the most are the night-shift workers- many of whom with families try to keep a normal schedule on their days off and then a night-shift schedule while working. The human brain is designed to sleep at night and stay awake during the day. I understand there may be many good financial reasons to work the night shift- just remember you pay a price with your sleep and mental health when you do so.
Exercise is one of the best treatments and preventatives for insomnia. My patients know I push exercise hard- it helps with lots of things! Just be careful not to exercise too late in the day- evening exercise can make it hard to wind down for the night.
We spend roughly a third of our life in bed- I say the natural consequence of this is that we should buy the best mattress we can afford. And resist the temptation to fall asleep in your recliner or sofa.
Establish a nightly bedtime routine- avoiding electronic screens of all types an hour or so before bed is advised. Many people tell me "I can't fall asleep without the TV on." White noise machines can be had for $15 on Amazon- try one of those instead. Many people find it relaxing to read for a while before sleep.
Caffeine is a powerful drug often overlooked because it's legal and in so many things. People with significant insomnia should have "extreme moderation" in the use of caffeine- morning use is generally fine but try decaf coffee, tea, or soda from the afternoons on.
Many prescription psych meds can adversely affect sleep and keep that in mind if insomnia is a new problem. Antidepressants like Wellbutrin and Prozac, antidepressant adjuncts like Abilify, and of course the stimulants like Adderall and Vyvanse can all do it.
Napping tends to be generally problematic. People get into a vicious cycle where they're tired from a poor night's sleep and take a nap, which makes it harder to sleep again the next night. For people over 65 napping is less of an issue as advancing age tends to worsen nighttime sleep regardless and an afternoon power nap often helps seniors get through the evening.
Finally, one of the core principles of "stimulus control therapy," one of the well-researched and validated therapy techniques for insomnia, is that you don't want to spend too much time lying awake in bed. If you don't get to sleep within a reasonable time frame of 30 minutes or so, get up and read, take a bath, or do something else relaxing for a while. When you think you might be able to get back to sleep, then go and lie back down in bed.
Next blog post we'll discuss medications for sleep! Until then, sweet dreams. . .


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If you missed the introductory post of this five-part series, click here; otherwise, read on!
It was Friday the 13th. I should have known to expect the unexpected, but I'm not superstitious. I drove from Columbia, South Carolina to Charlotte, North Carolina without fear. I was and am stupid.
Since I'm all about efficiency, I spent my layover in Memphis inputting all addresses to the hotel and select galleries and museums into my iPhone. Between inputs, I ate one of the best BBQ sandwiches I've ever had.
It was so good that I almost made my final destination Jim Neely's Bar-B-Cue restaurant in Memphis International Airport. I could have eaten the same meal there until Sunday morning. After convincing myself that New Orleans had food too, I boarded my connecting flight.
Delta 6152 arrived in New Orleans at 4:54 CST. What brought me to New Orleans in the first place was PhotoNola, the 8th annual photographic arts festival of New Orleans. I had a weekend of gallery openings and exhibitions planned. More about the photographic festival in the next few posts.
I was still calling it The Big Easy then, but it transitioned to The Little Difficult as I drove downtown in search of my first visual arts stop of the weekend, a portfolio review at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
I found the Arts District with no trouble, but had difficulty navigating from my iPhone while driving in rain and darkness and in the newness of the city at rush hour. Enough excuses?
I made my way to the Arts District, two policemen stopped me at an intersection. One stood in front of me with arm outstretched in my direction. The other slid barricades in front of my rental car, blocking the street.
I opened the door to ask what was going on, but they motioned me to stay inside and stay quiet. These two cops were not cops. As I mentally counted the money that would soon be stolen from my wallet, a jazz band began to play in the street. Beads fell from balconies.
Masked people danced next to a single Mardi Gras float gliding down the street in front of me. It was December 13th. Mardi Gras is March 4th, 2014. The fake Mardi Gras stopped as soon as it started. The music stopped and the beads ceased falling from the sky. The fake cops removed the real barricades and motioned me forward.
At the next intersection, a white utility van with the logo, NolaFilms, on the side. Of course. A film crew. Costumed extras hung out on street corners. They laughed and talked and smoked and scanned phones and tablets. Behind me, the float was towed back for another take.
After making several passes near the Museum (according to the little pulsing blue dot moving along the small phone screen), I decided that "near" was as close as I would get without ditching the car and walking.
I parked in an abandoned factory parking lot about five blocks away (yes, yes I did), finding comfort in the little blue dot led me to the main entrance of the museum. I love technology… when it works. I left the museum and pulled out my iPhone to retrace my steps to the abandoned factory parking lot. The screen was black.
I hit the power button several times with no effect. I love technology… when it works. I've got an iPhone 4 with IOS 7. Go ahead and try to establish a full day's charge on that device with that software, and actually use it.
I learned a valuable lesson once on a late night trip to St. Louis, Missouri, and I applied it to this trip. In St. Louis, I rushed from airport to rental car to hotel without noticing the make and model of the rental car. I woke up in a panic. I had not even paid attention where in the massive hotel parking lot I had parked.
At 3 am, I roamed the parking lot in St. Louis from row to row, hitting the panic button on the remote. The rental car keytag had the type of car, but that eliminated about three rental cars from a parking lot full of nearly identical rental cars. Eventually, I heard a horn that corresponded to my button pushes.
In New Orleans. I knew what make and model I was driving; however, I had yet to learn the lesson of remembering on which street I had parked. I relied on the navigation application in my trustworthy phone – the one with the dead battery.
I didn't pass a single person on the streets. I felt like an unintentional extra on a huge movie set. I felt a little uneasy in the big easy. After a few hours of roaming the streets within five blocks of the museum in every direction, all the while pressing the panic button on the car remote, I finally heard a comforting sound of a panic horn from the darkness.
I pressed the button again and there was silence. I pressed again and again the horn sounded. I walked toward the flashing lights, tripping over large chains and pieces of wood and metal.
I drove through the parking lot of the abandoned factory dodging the debris that I just stumbled over. I drove past something that looked like human remains from the late 1990s. I'm sure it was not that, but maybe more like human remains from the early 2000s.
Now all I had to do was to find and check into my hotel. Did I mention that I had yet to learn the lesson of remembering the name and site of my hotel? Why remember when the information is safely stored in your smart phone? That's called efficiency.
Next episode, I discover how much my life is really worth in money terms. Sadly, it's not that much.


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My father passed away on July 26. I didn't have a relationship with him really. But the loss is still there. I would have liked to know him more, do more with him but unfortunately I did not have the opportunity. From what I was told however, he had made some major changes and had wanted to build the relationship he never had with me and his other children.
I am incredible grateful though that the few steps he did take allowed me to know a family I had not known before. And now I have uncles and aunts, cousins, a grandmother – and siblings.
As with life often when one door closes, God opens a window. I am grateful. Although we may not always see the reason for a loss, we can trust that God knows – and that He has a plan to use it for our good (Romans 8:28).


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Just a year ago, NVIDIA and ATI were in the midst of a war for graphics processing unit (GPU) supremacy in the $18 Billion a year video game industry. Then, ATI was bought out by AMD. At the time, there was talk that the combined technologies from ATI's GPUs and AMD's CPUs would deal a […]
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Nice job yesterday. Amazing numbers and I'm seeing some awesome progress. Hopefully you all remembered that Monday is a recommended REST DAY.
With that here are the WODs for the week.
Complete the first Workout at Home Tuesday or Wednesday. Complete the second workout on Thursday or Friday. Rest on Saturday and I'll see you all again next Sunday.
Remember keep track of your rounds and email them to me at the end of the week.
First WOD:
Warm Up – 3-5 min run
3 x 10 jumping jacks
AMRAP – 10 (As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes) – Keep track of your rounds completed.
5 Pull-Ups (If you don't have a pull-up station or access substitute with Burpees)
5 Air Squats
5 Sit-ups (Olga skip the sit-ups, we'll work on them next week)
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Second WOD
Warm Up
2 rounds of
10 Frankestein walks
10 Push-Ups
10 Air Squats (Hold at the bottom of each squat for 3-5 seconds)
AMRAP – 10 (As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes) – Keep track of your rounds completed.
10 – Walking Lunges (Each leg is one rep, focus on keeping the knee over the angle, & second knee touches the deck)
5 – Burpees
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Watercolor Drawings
I recently got on a Raymond Carver kick. I found a copy of his book of short stories "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" and in it, his short story ,"Tell the Women We're Going", just blew me away.
The story is haunting and the writing is brilliant.
It stayed in my head for days and I ended up drawing the characters from my imagination and placing them in a landscape along with their '68 Chevy Hardtop.
This is an original painting using pen and ink, watercolor and colored pencils. The image measures 14" X 17" , and it has been rendered on a very heavy sheet of 18" X 21" Magnani Watercolor paper.


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It's not exactly a secret at this point: Samsung is about to unveil its brand new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ phablets. The company went back to the drawing board with its Galaxy S lineup earlier this year and designed the Galaxy S6 from scratch. Well, OK, so maybe it had a little inspiration. But the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge marked the first time Samsung launched phones with sleek designs and premium materials to match their class-leading displays and killer performance.
Now, its time to see if Samsung plans to be just as original with this year's flagship phablets as it was with its flagship smartphones.
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Leaks and rumors have painted a fairly complete picture of the phablet duo Samsung is about to unveil. If the dozen or so reports we've seen over the past few weeks are accurate, the Galaxy Note 5 will take all of the best elements from the Note 4 and stuff them into a larger version of the Galaxy S6's hardware. We can also expect an upgraded S Pen stylus and enhanced software to match.
To compliment the Note 5, Samsung is also said to be launching the Galaxy S6 edge+, which is expected to be little more than a larger version of the Galaxy S6 edge.
Will Samsung have any surprises in store? We're on hand at the event to bring you live coverage of the event. Below, you'll find live streaming video from Samsung's big Unpacked event that you can watch right inside this article. Beneath that, we'll have a live blog running where we'll post periodic highlights with key information like specs and release dates.
Samsung's Unpacked event is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. EDT, 8:00 a.m. PDT.
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Customer Story: Zerobridge
By AL Walker, Updated: 2021-05-10 (published on 2020-01-02)
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PyCon Australia 2012 starts here
So one thing I forgot to mention on this blog is that I've taken over the reins of PyCon Australia for the 2012 and 2013 conferences. After spending two formative years in Sydney, under the direction of Tim Ansell, Richard Jones et al., we're taking the conference south to Hobart, Tasmania. We've got a great team, consisting of myself, Joshua Hesketh and Matthew D'Orazio, and our papers committee is being led up once again by Richard Jones.
So, what can you look forward to? Well, here's what we know so far.
We're holding PyCon Australia around the weekend of August 18 and 19 2012. Our venue is the Wrest Point Convention centre in Sandy Bay. We're really excited about our choice of venue — as well as offering us perfectly-sized rooms for our conference, the wide variety of spaces in the complex allow us to bring all of the traditional PyCon Australia events — CodeWars, the sprints and the conference itself — under the same roof for the first time.
Wrest Point is situated on the shoreline of the River Derwent, and this not only admits excellent views from the conference venue, but will also enable us to run some truly memorable social events, including the conference dinner, which we hope to share more details about shortly.
Our venue also lets us offer accommodation across a very wide range of budgets (starting around $124/room/night) to our delegates — this is not just a nominated conference hotel, it's in the same building complex as the conference venue. This means that delegates can stay on-site for the entirety of the conference. We think this will prove very popular, especially amongst delegates sticking around for the conference sprints.
For students and those travelling on a budget — we plan on keeping the conference affordable: there'll still be heavily discounted student tickets, and we'll announce budget accommodation options when registration opens.
Finally, you might be wondering how you can help make PyCon Australia the perfect conference for you? Well, in the coming week, we'll be opening a Call for Topics. This is an opportunity for you, as a potential PyCon Australia delegate, to nominate both topics and presenters that you'd like to see at the conference. By nominating presentations, you can help ensure that PyCon Australia can help you enhance your skills and increase your knowledge of Python.
Of course, if you have something that you could present at PyCon Australia, we'd love to hear from you as well. We'll be opening a traditional call for presentations during February.
So, that's it for now. I'll be sure to keep you up-to-date on our progress as we seek to put on the best Python Conference that Australia can offer. If you've got something to ask, feel free to drop a comment, either here, on Twitter, or on our Google+ page — we'll get back to you as quickly as possible!
(Photos: "Wrest Point" by JJ Harrison, CC-BY-SA; "View of Hobart CBD" by Aaroncrick, CC-BY-SA)


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Coming home tonight I hoped I could get something hobby related done. I wanted something quick to paint.
Since I painted the Water Elemental from Rackham recently (see here), I decided to go for Rackham « minor elementals » (in the Aarklash universe wizards can summon elemental creatures related to the magic they use). The minis corresponding to the major elementals are mighty magical warriors, on the other hand the minor elementals are little magical creatures and the sculpts are original and funny. They are deeply rooted in low-fantasy iconography.
Talamh (my Earth Elemental, see above) needed little brothers so I decided to go for them :
I put some work into basing. Some rocks and sand for the Faune and some old GW resin fantasy bases for the two other minis. At that point I hoped I could finish the three minis tonight…that did not work.
But at least I finished one of them and got the rocks on the others well under way. Not what I aimed for, but better than nothing.
RockMan was fun to paint (he still needs work on his eye and varnish, but I am calling him « done » anyway).
I wanted to give the feeling that he rose directly from the rocks of the base so I painted everything as one piece. I am quite happy with the result. The receipe is quite simple. Successive washes of Administratum Grey ; Administratum Grey and The Fang ; then Administratum Grey, The Fang and Abaddon Black. I finished with Agrax Earthshad to give a more « earthy » look. After the washes I applied successive dry brushing (Admistratum Grey and then Karak Stone -on the top of the mini-).
A hint of black in some deep holes, some green moss on the base and a red eye and RockMan was reasy to serve a wizard!
I'll try to finish the two other rocks this week and it will be the occasion to work a little bit more on the eye.
Well that's all for folks. Hope you liked these guys, see you soon.
Banner picture: three primed little rocks, all pictures by me.


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Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing (DC: 0-3R and Associated CHADIS Criteria) Normal text is quoted directly from the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised Edition (DC: 0-3R; Zero to Three, 2005). Italicized text conveys information about the CHADIS items assessing the DC: 0-3R criteria.
General Information (p. 29) The diagnosis of Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing includes the presence of THREE FEATURES: (1) sensory processing difficulties, (2) motor difficulties, and (3) a specific behavioral pattern.
Hypersensitive Type A: Fearful/Cautious (pp. 30-32)
Hypersensitive Type B: Negative/Defiant (pp. 32)
Hyposensitive/Underresponsive (pp. 32-33)
In addition to the above symptoms, infants with Hyposensitive/Underresponsive Regulation Disorder may appear delayed or depressed. Preschoolers with the disorder may 'tune out' from conversation and may reveal only a limited range of ideas and fantasies in everyday behavior or imaginative play (one or more of the following)
Sensory Stimulation-Seeking/Impulsive (pp. 33-34)
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(When has your enthusiasm not helped you?)
I wanted to declutter my house, though it is overwhelming and I could never get myself to do it for long. Then about 2 weeks ago I decided that if I blog about it and get some friends and strangers rooting me on I would be able to finally accomplish it.
While taking hours and days to figure out where to blog and then figuring out how to set up my blog page I noticed I was eating less. Ummm, I thought. I wonder if decluttering will help me lose weight, I decided to kind of keep track of my weight in a blog and see if there is a correlation.
Since I was just starting to blog maybe I should blog about starting a blog?
But there were real life situations that will come up and since my site is titled 'Inside Diane's Life' maybe I should blog about my life also.
Am I taking on too much? Losing focus? Getting distracted? Sounds like how my regular life goes.
I am going to try to mostly focus on decluttering, but take a break off and on and blog about the other topics. I also just decided I want to make some projects out of wood and may start a blog. I have gotten out of control.
Stay with me and see if I can manage my enthusiasm.
When has your enthusiasm not helped you?


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Optimistic Concurrency Control
- 3 minutes to read
The optimistic concurrency control (OCC) mechanism is used in XAF applications if you inherit from any of the base persistent classes (with the exception of the XPLiteObject). This topic describes how data collisions are handled in an XAF application.
Object-Level Locking
Consider the following scenario. Two users access the same object, and edit it from different workstations. The first user makes modifications to the object's properties and persists them in a database. The second user also makes modifications, but tries to persist them after the first user has already done so. In this case, the second user will receive the following message.
In WinForms applications:
In ASP.NET Web Forms applications:
After refreshing the object (if required), the second user will be able to make modifications against the renewed object and persist them. If the first user deleted the object, the second user will not be able to make any modifications, and will instead receive the following message.
Field-Level Locking
In multi-user data-aware applications, there are times when one user edits a record while another user is editing the same record. As long as the changes being made do not affect the same field (e.g., one user modifies the task description while another user attaches a file), XAF applications can resolve the situation, and merge simultaneous changes made by different users. To enable field-level locking, set the static XpoDefault.TrackPropertiesModifications property to true.
In the Program.cs(vb) file of a WinForms application project:
In the Global.asax.cs(vb) file of an ASP.NET Web Forms application project:
When this property is set to true and a user modifies an object that was already changed by another user, a dialog window that suggests merging changes is displayed.
In WinForms applications:
In ASP.NET Web Forms applications:
Merging is possible when users modify the values of different fields. If both users change the same field value, merging is not possible, and the user can either refresh data or cancel saving.
In WinForms applications:
In ASP.NET Web Forms applications:
The dialogs illustrated above are provided by the ProcessDataLockingInfoController Controller from the SystemModule module.
To see field-level locking in action, refer to the Concurrent Modifications section of Feature Center demo installed with XAF. By default, the Feature Center demo is installed in %PUBLIC%\Documents\DevExpress Demos 22.2\Components\XAF\FeatureCenter.NETFramework.XPO.
View-Level Locking
Besides concurrency control at the data level, the LockController from the SystemWindowsForms module tracks changes at the View level (in WinForms applications). It displays the following message when an object is being modified in two or more different Views.


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Recent Posts
It had been almost more than a year since the last blog post. I had been rather busy since my job change two years ago. It's quite a struggle, juggling between my part time varsity programme and full-time work.
I managed to find time draft this post while I was on a day break from work (not quite a vacation break but rather a medical leave) on Monday. I was down with fever and headache on that day, possibly due to bad weather lately.
Weather had been unsually hot lately, probably due to climate change. The heat was unbearable, that Dad turned on two big high velocity fans just to keep the room cool and ventilated. But nothing beats than having a cool dip in the pool, and that was what my dear Black Capped Conure, Kacy did!
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Tags: Bath Bird, Bird, Bird Video, Companion Parrot, Conure, Kacy, Parrot, Pet Bird, Pyrrhura
The best part what I love about parrots is that I never ever had to chase them for bath time. With a dish of clean water, off they go for a bath! Most parrots (particularly species like lovebirds and conures) love to play with water, thus it's hardly a problem to get them to go for a few dips.
Kacy loves playing with water. She can spend nearly 2-5 minutes happily playing and getting herself completely drenched! She enjoys that, but often left me with cumbersome chores of wipping tabletop and mopping the floor dry!
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Tags: Bath Bird, Bird, Bird Video, Companion Parrot, Conure, Kacy, Parrot, Pet Bird, Pyrrhura
Why do Parrots love wiping their beaks?
Have you ever thought of why parrots love to wipe their beaks on their perches and other hard objects?
I happened to capture another a short clip of Kiki, my lovebird wiping her beak after a water bath earlier on. It's really funny to see her doing it.
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Tags: Bath Bird
Warmer Climate = Frequent Water Bath
The weather has indeed changed a lot due to global warming. Not only the entire human race has realize the changes in climate, but animals like parrots also notice the big difference.
The frequency of water bath taken by Kiki has seems to gradually increase from one to twice daily. It's a natural instinct, that Kiki will dunk herself into the water bowl once in the morning and the other time in the late afternoon. I have to change her water bowl frequently, couple of times a day, to ensure she has clean water all time.
I happen to capture Kiki bathing in action during the late afternoon after her "tea-break" treats to premium seed mixes.
Kiki initially was water bathing in the water bowl at Kermit's play-stand. Soon after she was chased off by Kermit, and she gladly returned back to her own ceramic water bowl continuing her water bath.
I'm sure the water bath helps to cool down the rising heat. Kiki must have enjoyed it.
Tags: Agapornis, Bath Bird, Bird, Bird Video, Companion Parrot, Kiki, Lovebirds, Parrot, Pet Bird
Lovebirds are one of the small parrots who really enjoy water bath! My lovebird, Kiki is a clear life example.
She loves playing with water and she enjoys water bath!
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Tags: Agapornis, Bath Bird, Bird, Bird Food, Bird Seed, Bird Video, Companion Parrot, Lovebirds, Parrot, Pet Bird


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Around Here: May
Happy May! The weather has warmed up here and it has been nice to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! Below are some items that have occurred around here in May, another month that has flown by much too quickly!
-continuing to work on the next steps concerning my long-term photography project; I am making good progress with the revisions in this home stretch, and hopefully all remaining revisions will be made by the end of next month, fingers crossed. I have been working so hard to finish these tedious revisions before our baby arrives.
-earlier this month, my good friends from law school gave Doug and I a baby shower, which was really lovely commemorating this special time in our lives! A good time was had by all!
-we took our last trip to Pups in the Park with our fur girl, Victory, as a 'party of three!' We had a great time together, as always!
-we were happy to go to our pool for the first time this year, which opened over Memorial Day weekend!
-we also enjoyed seeing friends over Memorial Day weekend!
-continuing this month with our parent, baby, and birth classes that go through next month — we have only a few more classes to go! And, if all goes as planned, the hospital is permitting our fur girl, Victory, to come to the hospital, post delivery, to meet her little sister! We are so happy to include our precious Victory, our fur girl, in order to have our entire family together during this time!
-I am now feeling quite big, as we have only approximately seven weeks remaining until we get to meet our baby girl!
-we have a few last items to get for our baby that we will take care of in short order; otherwise, we think that we are in pretty good shape to start!
-I am almost done editing our images from our Babymoon! We all had a great time together with many wonderful memories!
-I am now working on finishing two photos books via Artifact Uprising: one celebrating and memorializing our journey to parenthood and the other commemorating our Babymoon!
-around the house, we completed our gardening and mulching!
-we also got our decks cleaned and our deck furniture set out, which we have been using!
-we got our rugs cleaned; and our house windows get cleaned next month!
-we have been giving Victory lots of snuggles and love! We are doing our best to get her 'ready' for her little sister's arrival.
-Victory, unfortunately, had a recent UTI diagnosed last week and she is now on the mend with antibiotics, thankfully. (She has a history of these pesky infections, unfortunately.)
-Victory tried out her soon-to-be little sister's Bugaboo Fox buggy/stroller, pictured below! (Victory also tried out her little sister's crib when we were first getting her nursery together!) Doug picked out the color scheme for our Bugaboo Fox and we got the last one in stock; and once our baby is old enough, the bassinet will be swapped out for a traditional type stroller seat in the blue mélange color that also attaches to the Bugaboo Runner!
-since the weather has been nice, we have enjoyed taking Victory for rides in her Hound About! She loves getting fresh air and going for long rides, while I walk, albeit a little slower these days! We are also keeping up with going to the gym together.
-still using the 1 Second Everyday App to document a second each day — it will be interesting to see the finished video at the end of the year!
-continuing to work on getting fine art prints made, framed, and hung in our home, an ongoing endeavor!
-continuing to watch the final season of The Americans, a really good series — the last episode of the series airs this week, which is difficult to believe.
-continuing to watch the second season of The Handmaid's Tale, a really good series.
-started the second season of the The Path, a good series.
-listening to a myriad of podcasts, especially, at the gym and on walks!
-continuing to make incremental progress on our ever-growing to do list!
Happy Tuesday!


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Olodum is a cultural activism group created with the objectives of fighting racial discrimination and socioeconomic inequality. They have recorded ten LPs/CDs and have worked with Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Cliff, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, and Spike Lee. The group draws 4,000 people to parade in the bloco (which has about 200 musicians) at Salvador BA carnival, gives lectures on social and political issues, and publishes a monthly news journal, Bantu Nagô. The group also runs a factory for clothes and musical instruments sold to the public and a school for Salvador's poor children.
Olodum was created in Salvador, BA, in April 25, 1979. Olodum takes its name from the Yoruba deity Olodumaré ("God of Gods," in Yoruba language). Originally a bloco afro (a Bahian Carnival association devoted to research and the celebratation of black culture), the group drew 800 people to the streets in their first Carnival (1980). In the next year, they already had 2,000 affiliates. In 1983, the group constituted the Grupo Cultural Olodum. Neguinho do Samba joined the group that year as mestre (master) and is the figure responsible for the winning combination of samba and reggae that characterizes the group's musical approach. In 1984, Olodum was acknowledged as a state public utility organization, had 3,000 people parading in their bloco, was featured in the documentary Carnival Bahia. In 1987, their first LP, Egito, Madagascar, made a hit with "Faraó," by Luciano Gomes dos Santos, and sold more than 50,000 copies. Two years later, the group did their first performances in Europe and, in the next year, played again in Europe and in Japan, Argentina, and Chile.
In 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1994 they were awarded with the Sharp prize for Best Regional Group. In 1988, the group was recorded by Paul Simon on his The Rhythm of the Saints album, and toured with him. The video clip of that song was exhibited in 140 countries, leading to the first U.S. tour in 1991, which reached an apex in a Central Park concert with Paul Simon which gathered 750,000 fans. The Ford Foundation invited Olodum's president to Atlanta, where was given honorary citizenship. Their 1992 LP A Música do Olodum made the hit "Nossa Gente" (Roque Carvalho), which was re-recorded by Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil on their CD Tropicália 2. They toured South America and Europe in that year, with their European tour representing the longest ever by a Brazilian band in Europe. The 1993 O Movimento had the hit "Requebra" (Pierre Onassis/Nego), selling over 100,000 copies and receiving a gold record. The 1994 Children of the Sun sold more than 250,000 copies and earned a platinum record. The band performed several times in the U.S., most notably in the 1994 World Cup soccer final games, in which Brazil was victorious for the fourth time. In that year, the enterprise branched into publishing, realizing the first book telling the Olodum saga, written by Marcelo Dantas. In 1995, they recorded Sol e Mar live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. They have performed in 18 countries including Cuba, Senegal, and Angola.


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York graphic artist adding military sketches to portfolio
I have long enjoyed looking at full-color drawings of different military uniforms through the ages. My interest dated back to my childhood and many illustrated books that I checked out of the library in my hometown in southeastern Ohio. Over the years, I began collecting Osprey Publishing's finely-detailed books on uniforms and equipment, particularly during the Civil War period. Their stable of graphic artists is second to none in the military book world.
During a recent book signing in Gettysburg, I met Mark Leinweaver through a mutual friend. Mark is well known in the York, PA community as a graphic artist and designer through his Studio M. He has designed book covers, packaging, print advertisements and brochures, T-shirt graphics, and much else. He has recently begun expanding his portfolio of illustrations of American soldiers, including Civil War (Union and Confederate subjects), WWI, and other periods. Check out his website for complete information!
Mark and I began chatting, sharing our mutual interest in Civil War and military history in general. He graciously sent me a few sample illustrations of his work.
To chat with Mark and learn his pricing structure for prints of these or other images, or to inquire as to possible custom work, please send him an email and/or visit his website.


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April 25, 2005
Birmingham, England
Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler
Simon Dean defeated Robbie Brookside..
The Heart Throbs (Romeo Roselli & Antonio Thomas) defeated Eric Schwarz (Germany) & Domino (England). ..
The Hurricane defeated Maven..
IN THE RING: Batista + Jim Ross + Triple H..
Batista comes out to a huge ovation and says he is there tonight to honor the man who beat HHH -- Good ol' JR!
Jim Ross comes out with his head bandaged and a sick-looking black eye and hugged Batista..
Batista says everybody knows Jim Ross is one hell of an announcer but nobody knew JR had wrestling skills..
Batista says that Jim Ross beat a 10-time World Heavyweight Champion and that takes guts!
Batista leads the UK fans in a chant of "JR! JR! JR" until Triple H's music hit and he came to the stage..
Batista spoke up and said, what a surprise here's Triple H, he was starting to wonder what took him so long!
Triple H started to spew threats but Batista cut him off and said Jim Ross should be the #1 Contender now..
Batista says that Triple H doesn't deserve a title shot and it should be Batista vs JR at Backlash..
Batista plays the footage again of JR's win last week, only getting further under the skin of Triple H..
Triple H again tries to speak, but Batista laughs and asks that the footage be played once more..
Batista raised JR's arm in the ring, causing Triple H to take off his jacket and walk towards the ring..
Batista took off his jacket as well, awaiting Triple H, who changed his mind and backed off and left the scene..
RESTAURANT: Trish Stratus & Viscera..
Trish Stratus was at a local restaurant waiting for Viscera for their date..
Viscera showed up and said he was late because he had to go to the drug store to get condoms..
MATCH: Chris Jericho vs Sylvain Grenier w/Rob Conway..
Chris Jericho made Sylvain Grenier tap out to the Walls of Jericho..
Rob Conway attacked Chris Jericho after the match until Shelton Benjamin sprinted down to make the save!
Chris Jericho showed no appreciation so Shelton Benjamin gave him a belly-to-belly splash..
RESTAURANT: Trish Stratus & Viscera..
Trish Stratus & Viscera ordered their food while Viscera made sexual advances towards Trish..
Viscera says that food gets him in the mood, so Trish remarked that he must be the horniest guy on the planet..
BACKSTAGE: Tyson Tomko & Christian + Ric Flair..
Tyson Tomko was preparing Christian for his World title match when Ric Flair came in and interrupted..
Ric Flair said that its Tyson Tomko and Christian's job to soften up Batista so Triple H can Pedigree him..
Christian told Ric Flair to tell Triple H to stay away and then ordered Tyson Tomko to escort Ric Flair out!
IN THE RING: Christian & Tyson Tomko + Kane..
Christian came out and cut a heel promo, saying that historically Canadians are smarter than the English..
Christian predicted that he will hit Batista with the unprettier and win the World Heavyweight title..
Kane hit the ring and Christian escaped through the crowd while Tyson Tomko got manhandled by Kane..
INTERVIEW: Maria & Lita..
Lita explains that Kane sent a messege to Viscera and that Trish will finally get what's coming to her..
BACKSTAGE: Christian (wow one night overkill) + Ric Flair..
A paranoid Christian knocks on Triple H's dressing room and Ric Flair pops out..
Christian asks to talk to Triple H and tells him that he would like to talk business with him..
$1000 MASTERLOCK CHALLENGE: Chris Masters vs Andy Baker..
Chris Masters pulled a fan (wrestler Andy Baker) out of the crowd to take the $1000 Masterlock Challenge..
Chris Masters destroyed Andy Baker, who didn't stand a chance of breaking the Masterlock (Full Nelson)..
INTERVIEW: The Coach & Shawn Michaels + Hulk Hogan + Mean Gene Okerland..
The Coach says the boys in the back have a pool going on how long it takes for the egos to self destruct..
Shawn Michaels denies that there will be problems and tells The Coach to leave and brings in Hulk Hogan..
Hulk Hogan says if they're gonna do it, they're gonna do it right, and brings in Mean Gene Okerland!!
Shawn Michaels talked about making the decision to ask Hulk Hogan to team with him against Hassan & Daivari..
Hulk Hogan talked about the Hall of Fame ceremony when the fans chanted "One More Match" at him..
Hulk Hogan says when HBK asked him to join him against Hassan & Daivari, he saw it as a perfect chance..
Hulk Hogan asks "Whatcha gonna do when Hulk Hogan and the Hulkamaniacs run wild on you!!!!!"
Shawn Michaels tried to rip his shirt off like Hogan, but couldn't do it..
IN THE RING: Stacy Keibler & Christy Hemme + Candice Michelle + Maria Kanellis + Daily Star Page 3 Girls..
Christy Hemme took the microphone and introduced four random Daily Star Page 3 Girls..
Stacy Keibler then takes the microphone and announces that William Regal has put out a book about his life!
William Regal & Tajiri came down and William Regal soaked up the standing ovation as a local hero..
William Regal thanks the WWE and says a few years ago he didn't think he would be around to see his book..
William Regal asks for the music to be turned on so he and Tajiri could dance with the 8 divas..
Muhammad Hassan & Khosrow Daivari came down and insulted the British fans as well as William Regal..
Muhammad Hassan challenged William Regal to a tag match and Regal enthusiastically accepted!
NON (TAG) TITLE MATCH: William Regal & Tajiri vs Muhammad Hassan & Khosrow Daivari..
Khosrow Daivari pinned Tajiri after a flying elbow drop off the top rope!
William Regal went on the attack after the match, but got double-teamed by Hassan & Daivari!!!
The crowd chanted for Hogan -- but their wish did not come true..
RESTAURANT: Trish Stratus & Viscera..
Trish Stratus asks what "Viscera" means and he says it means "Inner organs" but his "Outer organs" are good too..
Viscera asks Trish Stratus if she wants to dance and he pulls the table cloth off the table as he gets up!
MATCH: Edge vs Val Venis (Edge's former brother-in-law)...
Edge beat Val Venis and put the crippler crossface on him after the match and wouldn't let go..
Chris Benoit eventually ran down to make the save and chase Edge to the back..
BACKSTAGE: The Coach & Triple H & Ric Flair & Christian..
Triple H gives The Coach a referee shirt and tells him he'll be refereeing the main event tonight..
Triple H says Ric Flair will be the guest time keeper, and he (HHH) will be Captain Charisma's manager..
RESTAURANT: Trish Stratus & Viscera..
Trish Stratus makes it clear that she won't give Viscera what he wants until he deals with Kane at Backlash..
Viscera agrees and says he did take her out tonight and wants an advance, so Trish shows him her breasts!
WORLD TITLE MATCH: Batista vs Christian w/Triple H..
The Coach was the referee and Ric Flair was the guest time keeper -- stacking the deck against Batista!
Triple H continuously interfered, and referee Coach repeatedly turned the other cheek..
The Coach was knocked out and Batista got the pin and lifted Coach's unconsious hand up and down 3 times!
Triple H attacked Batista after the match and they brawled briefly until Triple H hit a Pedigree!!!!!!!
And that's a wrap folks..
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Paid a Great Deal to be Terrible at Development Most of the Time
Let us define the business of software development broadly, as building working solutions and fixing problems relating to software as they arise in a development organization. That big tent covers quality engineering, devops, ops, the art of seeing when and how the building of new solutions can be evaded, random stable cleaning, and all sorts of other tasks that might not immediately spring to mind when thinking of the pristine software developer at his or her desk. It is my contention that if you are any good at the broader profession considered in these terms, and your talent and experience are recognized, then the further you advance in your career, the more time you will spend being an outright terrible, slow, poor developer - and while being paid a premium for it.
In any given organization there are always far more tasks to accomplish than there are people with the practiced experience to carry out those tasks. Who will make the critical updates to legacy Python devops scripts in a Java development group? Probably not the junior developers, but rather the experienced developer with a proven ability to pick up new frameworks and languages fairly quickly. He may not have touched Python in a decade, but he'll soldier though. For this and any similar task, he'll be terrible for a few weeks, then vaguely competent, and if the job lasts three months he'll be an informed practitioner, able to talk about many subtle issues with people who do nothing but Python development year in and year out. Skill and experience as a developer is precisely the ability to reliably become an informed, skilled practitioner in any branch of development given only a couple of months, and while building a solution that gets the job done at the end of the day.
If the mark of a junior developer is a focus on one field, one or two languages, one branch of the profession, until the underlying ability to develop with any tools is unlocked, then the life of a junior developer is largely one of working with his or her best skills. The life of a senior developer, by comparison, is one of getting paid a lot more to work with his or her worst skills. It is a process of rapidly becoming a temporary expert in narrow domain after narrow domain, only to throw that learning into the memory hole and pick up the next critical job that no-one in the organization has the experience to tackle with immediate competence. Half the time such a senior developer is terrible and slow, and the diverse specific experience of two years past rusts away in the meanwhile. Who has the time to keep up with a dozen very different languages and frameworks on an ongoing basis? It is enough of a challenge these days to stay relevant in one portion of one language when the pace of change is rapid, as is especially true for Javascript. It is almost a blessing that Drupal 8 has only a passing resemblance to Drupal 7, since how much of that will a person recall after working in a completely different ecosystem for a few years? And so on and so forth. It really isn't like riding a bike.
If there is a lesson in any of this, it is that development as a profession isn't writing code and poking at servers. Those are just symptoms. Development is learning. We are all professional learners, and learning in this business is paramount over all else. The sprawl of knowledge and tooling, and the exuberant pace of change, has outpaced the capacity of any individual to be and remain a broad expert, secure in his or her throne of stasis. There are some futurists, such as Vernor Vinge, who believe it likely that as technological progress continues to accelerate, all professions from top to bottom of the tree of difficulty will end up looking like development in this respect. Schooling in its present very bureaucratic, lumbering form makes a poor introduction to a world in which everything changes on a yearly basis; it hasn't moved much past the original goal of turning out interchangeable citizen bricks for the factory wall, set up for a life in which the last job undertaken will be the same as the first. Something will eventually give, some profound shift in the way the world works and civilization orders itself. Schooling will change dramatically, or perhaps we will compensate by integrating more active exobrains more closely with our own processes: today Stack Overflow piped to the IDE via an expert system, tomorrow strong AI, visuals via contact lenses, and a neural tap to the world library.
Regardless of what is to come, there is the certainty that senior developers at the time will be paid well to be initially terrible users of many of its facets.


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The house came without an electric stove and in my new-found penny-pinching peasant state of mind I took to cooking over an open fire. Once I had worked out through trial and error just what this fire stove required to work efficiently (my happiness now depends on a secure supply of pine cones) I have really become addicted to the whole rustic gourmet thing darling…
I'm not new at this rudimentary cooking game. Actually I'm something of a connoisseur of roughing it. I love to camp but I have to eat well. I remember the first time I ate wild garlic. I was camping in chilly Tasmania and I made a lasagne using the whole head of garlic sliced like a (larger) vegetable between layers of tomato and bechamel. It was baked in the ground covered with coals – sort of hangi style. Later, tucked up in sleeping bag under the stars I was treated to a glimpse of a rare Tasmanian Devil when he came to clean up the scraps. Mmmm it was good. Garlicky little Devil.
I can almost still smell a delicious asian style noodle soup I cooked up in a trangia while sneaky-spot camping in a Roman ruin in Tunisia. My trangia and I had some great adventures on that trip. Cooking on the open deck of a ferry on a Mediterranean crossing. Making hot chocolate for new friends while waiting for the sunrise on Mount Sinai. And then entertaining the pilgrim masses with the Miracle of the Burning Wall when I decided to add more fuel to an already flaming canister – oops.
I was also once a cook on a safari through the oases of Western Egypt. We roasted whole sides of lamb, barbequed freshly caught fish, but also made simple pastas with olive oil, fresh local cheese and roasted pine nuts. Yum.
So just give me a pile of sticks and some matches, and I can whip up something tasty from whatever is at hand. Forget fancy pants recipe instructions like "gently simmer for 3 minutes" or "dry in a slow oven" and forget rare & exotic ingredients. No kaffir lime leaves or galangal in Central Portugal. Curry just comes as curry, not as 24 different endangered spices. One has to make do.
… is Cod. It's an ugly meaty fish but inexpensive and versatile. They say the Portuguese have 365 recipes for bacalhau. It's a staple, you might say. The national dish.
And it's convenient! I still think it's funny when I bring home a dried cod carcass and put it in the cupboard and forget about it for a while. There's a fish, in the cupboard, for weeks. I think it's novel.
Bacalhau Risotto.
Dried bacalhau needs to be rehydrated by placing it in a cold water bath in the fridge for two days. You should change the water at least 3 times each day, and if I forget to then I'll leave it for a third day. Any less then your fish will be very salty.After the bath, I dry the pieces on a clean teatowel and cut them into large bite-sized chunks. Then I put the chunks in a bowl with garlic and olive oil.In a large frypan or casserole dish, fry a large onion. At the same time start warming about a litre of fish stock, hopefully fresh. If you only have cubes then you can improve them by adding sliced leek, carrots, onions and parsley to the warming stock water. To the onion pan I add the rice – I usually use carolino if I cant get arborio – and stir until all the grains are coated and transparent. Then I add the fish and garlic to the pan with the onion and rice, gently turning the fish so that it doesn't break up.At this point I might add some vegies – sliced leek, tomatoes or carrots all work well. Also good in this dish are peas and beans – but I wouldn't add these until the end as I don't like them well cooked.
Add a cup or so of white wine and let it reduce.
Then gradually start adding the stock, a ladle full at a time until it's almost completely absorbed. I check the base of the pan to prevent sticking, but otherwise I don't over-stir.When the rice is al dente I then add some chopped parsley, piri-piri and lemon juice. And then taste for saltiness. I don't add extra salt until I've tasted it as the saltiness of the stock and the bacalhau is variable.
Sometimes I omit the lemon and add a slurp of cream, for an extra decadent comfort-food experience. Yum!
Couve, a portuguese cabbage
More like a spinach than a cabbage, couve is one seriously popular plant. It is everywhere! There are hundreds of types of cabbages in Portugal but probably the most famous is the couve-galego which is used specifically in the classic portuguese soup caldo verde. Country people are passionate about their couve, and before I grew it myself the neighbours would proudly land huge bunches of the stuff on me. Generally speaking I'm not a big fan of green leafy vegetables, but they are one of life's necessities and so I gave the couve a go. It packs a vitamin rich punch, (it's actually one of the most nutricious foods you can eat) and now I like it so much I make this dish at least once a week. I'm converted.
This is my super-simple-fast-and-healthy recipe for when you can't be bothered thinking about what to make. And one I always have the ingredients for as couve produces leaves all year round.
Pasta couve portuguesa.
While the pasta is cooking, fry the onion & garlic in a frypan with a generous quantity of olive oil. Place the finely chopped couve leaves on the top with a spinkling of salt and pepper and put on the lid. When the pasta is al dente, drain it and add it to the pan. Serve with grated parmasan. That's it!
One thing I really like about Portugal is the variety of meat and seafood available at the local supermarket. I can't get other things I consider ordinary, like fresh milk and peanut butter, but I have a choice of 25 fish varieties, rabbit, quail, turkey, game like venisen and wild boar, and infinite types of sausages and dried and smoked meats.
And there's goat. There's a traditional goat & red wine stew here called a chafana, but I don't claim that this is anything like it, I just wish I had a more exotic name for this dish than Goat Stew.
Dredge the goat pieces lighly in flour and brown them on all sides in a pot. Add onions and garlic and finely diced carrot and let them sizzle for a bit. Deglaze the pot with 1/4 cup of balsamic vinegar, and 1/2 cup of red or rose wine and let it reduce slightly. Add quartered potatoes, a tin of tomatoes and a maybe some water or stock so that the meat is covered at least half way. Season with salt & pepper, a bay leaf and some rosemary or marjoram and then cook slowly for four hours. I do the slow cook on the top of the salamandra (pot belly stove) in the living room, as then I can watch TV, work on the web site, nurse the cat and cook dinner all while keeping cosy on the sofa.When it's cooked (the meat should be falling off the bone) I serve it topped with a pile of rocket leaves from the garden. A crunchy bread roll is essential for mopping up the juices. When you've eaten all the solid bits but there's still some sauce left, it's great for lunch with an egg tagliatelle or torn lasagne sheets. Mmmm, very wintery.
Peach Peru
While on the subject of stews cooked on the salamandra, this little invention of mine has become a bit of a favourite this winter. Turkey (Peru in Portuguese – interesting country name switch don't you think) is cheap, but the cuts are chunky and therefore not well suited to pan frying or anything else really but a slow braising. My mother used to make a yummy apricot chicken and the morrocans are fond of fruit in a tangine (see, the arabs have pretty names for stews as well), so with these things in mind, here's what I've come up with.
Have the butcher chop a couple of legs across the bone as in osso bucco. I usually remove the skin on turkey and chicken to reduce the fat. Fry onion and garlic with a few teaspoons of Caril (curry powder), a teaspoon or two of piri-piri (red pepper), a pinch of nutmeg, ground ginger and cinnamon, until the spices are well blended and darken slightly. Brown the turkey pieces and then add a cup of white wine or sherry. Let it reduce a few minutes then add a tin of peach halves. The liquid should be at least half way up the meat, but if not then you can add a cup of chicken stock. Cook slowly for 2-3 hours. I taste for seasoning at the same time as checking to see if the turkey is cooked through to the bone by inserting a small steak knife and watching if the juices run clear or pink. Sometimes I add little olive-sized new potatoes and carrots to the pot about a half hour before the end. Otherwise I serve it with with salad and rice and a blob of plain yoghurt.


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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Do you support freedom of speech?
Initial poll results:
Take the poll.
The initial poll presented, compared with the current poll status, reveals interesting facts.
|Poll with analysis
|yes, but
|dont know
Conclusion: The analysis has removed half of the "Butters" compared with the initial poll. Of this half, which has now chosen sides, 3,0% moved to enemy compared to 6,4% moving to friend.
In other words, more than 2/3 have realized the actuality and changed their conditionality to something that benefits freedom. The last third of the Butters have chosen the side of the enemy - this is good, since they are probably able to do more harm as discussers than as fighters. Some will at least claim political correctness and current trend of relativism is our greatest enemy.
This means light ahead, since it is harder to fight stupidity than terrorists.
Another noticable fact is the size of the enemy. 2 millions have visited this site. That means 160.000 barbarics against free speech actually saw the pictures of Muhammed - on this site alone. Must be tough to hate freedom, and still browse for it on the internet.
Maybe I even convinced a few islamists that they have been brainwashed.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Wikipedia Publishes Cartoon Map
A wikipedia cartoon map has now been made, somewhat similar to my Cartoon Clash map (first published 6th Feb).
The wikipedia map is displayed on top of the newspaper list which is one of the best sources for information about the cartoon publications.
The page has thousands of editors for updates and verification, and the map is very detailed. Tough competition!
But please note: The map includes blurred publications (which I deliberately do not), and does not have legends to indicate censorship, violence, boycots and acts of war. In the world of Wikipedia, the ball looks calm and quiet. It only shows where the cartoons have been published in some form. Still, if you note discrepancies with my map, please let me know.
Update: Michelle Malkin has a Google map, however totally unreadable.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Pen versus Sword
The pen:
- 1 newspaper publishes 12 satirical Muhammed cartoons
- Moderate muslims protesting peacefully against unconditional freedom of speech, requesting punishments and press control
- Islamic countries boycott Danish industry
- Court orders ban the cartoons
- Islamic requests for future banning of religious mockering
- Islamic requests for severe punishment of responsible editors
- Muslim protesters issue death threats to all who publish cartoons
- Death threats to cartoonists and editors in most publishing countries
- Muslim death threats to supporters of free speech
- Jailings and persecutions of editors
- Muslims burning flags in 10+ countries
- Violent muslim protests in 10+ countries
- Attacking and burning of western businesses in muslim countries
- Attacks on churches and killing of a priest
- Attacking and burning of 10+ government consulates and embassies in 5 muslim countries
- Republications of the cartoons in 130 newspapers in 49 other countries, as an act of sympathy and support of free speech.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
What dhimmitude looks like
Here is a picture of a man welcoming his new muslim overlords:
His name is Jens Byskov.
Jens, you should be ashamed of yourself. Please look at the map below and decide where you would like to live. You do not speak for the rest of us.
(Hat tip: LGF)
Monday, February 13, 2006
Naming the Future
News outlets are stumbling over their own legs trying to find the best nickname for the current conflict with the Muhammed cartoons.
The "Cartoon Controversy" has more than 800 news entries. Nothing bad here - move on!
The term "Cartoon Row" is almost just as popular with more than 700 Google news entries. This is a politically correct understatement of what is going on. It is used by most mainstream media. It somehow indicates that this is "stirred sentiment" and nothing else.
The name "Cartoon Intifada" seems to be picking up momentum with 67 google news entries. This is a wrong depiction of the conflict. It somehow indicates a rebellion, which it is certainly not. Unfortunately, many blogs repeat this term.
"Cartoon Conflict" has 33 hits, but must be considered too descriptive and weak to qualify for a common name.
The stupid name "Cartoongate" has 5 news hits. God knows who came up with this. This is not a political conspiracy.
I have started using the term "Cartoon Clash" on the map (17 news entries) but the clash is not really caused by the cartoons. The cartoons have had a catalyzing effect on an already existing conflict.
There is something in the making, that most have not yet come to realize. It is the great Clash of Cilizations.
100 years from now, should free countries stand up and defend their rights to freedom, it will come to be known as the 3rd World War.
Other than the 3rd World War, there are three other possible outcomes.
Either Islam will self-realize and undergo a worldwide Islamic Reformation and learn to live in peace and non-expansionistic existence with other religions. It is possible, but does not currently seem very likely. Only in very few societies are muslim reformists voicing opposition to the Dark Age mentality of Islam. Currently, the conservative forces of the islamic idea are too strong, and the core stands unquestioned by moderates.
The other possibility is that terror, immigration, muslim population growth, appeasement and dhimmitude will result in a worldwide Islamic state called the Ummah.
The third option is that the west will deport muslims supporting islamic law, and and ban all elements of Islam non-compatible with our concept of freedom.
The above is not politics. It is not warmongering. It is not opinion. It is fact.
Our ability to realize these facts, muslims and non-muslims alike, will determine the future.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
The difference between them and us
As a tongue-in-cheek gesture, Egypt paper Al Multaga Dawli prints a manipulated image of the Royal Danish Queen Margrethe II as a belly-dancer. This is probably the worst mockering of danes imaginable. A royal insult used to carry the death sentence in Denmark. However, that was in the Middle Ages.
I hardly doubt any Danes will boycot Egyptian products because of this, burn their flag in the streets or attack their embassy in Copenhagen. If they do, I promise to update the map. If anything, danes will just shrug their shoulders. That's the difference between them and us.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Muhammed on T-shirts
Letter from Mikka in Finland:
Hi s*brant, tought you might like to know this,
My webshop with Muhammed drawing T-shirts you linked last week was, as you know, banned. A week ago, I modified the T-shirt design to a distorted logo behind a large CENSORED banner. This was initially approved by Spreadshirt.
But as the world conflict escalated this week, Spreadshirt got scared. The CENSORED design has now itself been censored , and all products removed from my shop.
The only thing they didn't ban: The name of my shop.
But it gets even better...
Spreadshirt has a cool Design-your-own-tshirt feature, that provides users with a gallery of many icons and fonts to choose from. With my own design banned, i tried using the Spreadshirt gallery icons. I was surprised to find a large collection of anti-war, anti-bush and blatantly anti-american images, but none for opposing opinions. For instance, the Statue of Liberty on a bullet, or how about the handicap symbol for "blind" (three black dots on yellow background) shaped as the map of USA?
And - browsing more default spreadshirt images, what face pops of, in a stylized design ... that of Osama Bin Laden!
USA version of the Spreadshirt does not contain the Osama standard icon. I tried to ask them why the Osama logo was only available in European shops, but they never answered.
I can't believe the doublestandards of companies like that! They willingly print murderers as icons, to leech of anti-american sentiment in Europe, but are afraid to publish a sign that says "CENSORED", because the shop is entitled Muhammed. Talking about censorship is also censored - isn't free speech beautiful?
Yes, freedom of speech is beautiful.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Muslim nations, boycot Egypt!
Important news: The Egyptian newspaper Al-Faqr published the Muhammed Cartoons more than 3 months ago during the muslim holy season of Ramadan, with no reaction whatsoever.
Muslims, boycot Egypt!
Burn their flags!
Attack their embassies!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
United Kingdom - Where are you?
Embassies are being attacked in the Middle East, and our flags are burning. More than 30 countries have now printed or shown the Muhammed cartoons, in acts of solidarity and support of free speech and the freedom of press, but the UK press is silent. Why? Out of respect for islam? Or should we call it fear?
Dear reader, want to make a difference? Write the english press and urge them to print the Muhammed drawings. Here are the mail addresses: Sun -NotW -FT -Telegraph -Independent -Express -ITN -Megastar -Sunday Mirror -Mirror -Daily Mail -Guardian. More nationwide + local english newspapers and media can be found and contacted here.
Spending half an hour writing your local media is probably the best time you ever wasted in front of your computer.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Please leave
Dear muslims,
If you do not like my country, please leave.
If you do not like the way our women dress, please leave.
If you do not like our separation of politics and religion, please leave.
If you support violent responses to criticism of Islam, please leave.
If you support terrorism in any way, shape or form, please leave.
If you cannot accept satirical cartoons in our newspapers, please leave.
If you do not support democracy or the freedom of speech, please leave my country.
100 sites that post the Muhammed cartoons
Michelle Malkin has the list.
Sorry for giving you shelter and help
Sorry for giving you an education
Sorry for helping you financially
Sorry for allowing you to freely follow your faith in our Christian land
Sorry for sending aid to your countries
Sorry for not demanding blood revenge for the murders on our fellow countrymen, committed by muslims
Sorry for not running around with explosives on our bodies, when we feel offended( by you muslims )
Sorry for us not simply doing like your faith demands
But an excuse for uttering an opinion in our own country within our own laws - that you will never get !
Letter from a reader in the Danish paper Eksta Bladet
Friday, February 03, 2006
A Moment of Truth
A new non-political international movement is rising.
4000 terror attacks after 9/11, the world was still slumbering. But 12 innocent satirical drawings in a Danish newspaper, the kind of cartoons printed daily by the thousands in newspapers all over the world, have changed the geopolitical situation.
Suddenly, a new understanding is emerging across political differences.
In recent years, the world crisis between Islam and the non-Muslim world has been discussed in thousands of books, countless television debates and millions of articles across the globe. It did nothing but divide us. Even former western allies were divided, and a wave of anti-Americanism has swept even the free western societies.
Now ridiculous circumstances have changed all that. A sense of humour has changed what all the debating could not.
For 1400 years, Islam has waged war on all surrounding non-Muslim civilizations. During the course of history, Christianity was reformed, Europe colonized the world and set it free again, dictators lived, reigned and died, and totalitarian regimes emerged and vanished.
But Islam stayed, unreformed. And today, it imprisons more than 1 billion people, moderate and radical souls alike, in a huge gap of difference to the rest of us. Across political divides, across national boundaries, across various degrees of freedom, across race, people or religion, black or white, rich or poor; it stands out as our opposite. Only Muslim reformists seek to lessen the gap. And their voices are quickly silenced.
In modern times, waves of immigrants from Muslim countries have entered Europe. All European countries have been subject to islamization; the process of slowly incorporating Islamic values and Muslim customs into our way of life. Far East countries like India, Thailand, Indonesia and China are experiencing the Muslim Jihad. Israel lives with it. America feels it. Africa suffers from it, and is too weak from disease and poverty to resist.
It is suddenly coming to our attention that Islam is not, cannot, and will not be integrated or assimilated to the values of freedom and democracy. Islam is not only a religion; it is a totalitarian and expansionistic political ideology.
It is now a moment of truth. The current events unfolding all over the world are opening our eyes. 12 cartoons have touched the soul of the free societies: The right to speak freely without fear.
The drawings did not cause this. But they catalyzed a world conflict dormant since the birth of Muhammed.
Now we know what his face looks like. And we are still in majority on this earth to stand up to it.
The current events will eventually lead to either a 3rd world war or finally some sort of Islamic self-realization that has been 1400 years in the making.


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