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Finally back after over a month! I've been way too busy with studying for exams, thankfully I only have one exam remaining, so I can actually catch a breath and take this chance to film a DIY video for you guys.
This is an adaptation from Annika's hearts rubber stamp tights, check out her DIY blog post here:
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We're continuing our quest to get e-books out for nearly all of our books. Yesterday we announced that Doc Savage: Horror in Gold made its debut in e-book form. Today we're pleased to announce that Paul S. Powers' Riding the Pulp Trail is now available for the Kindle, iPod/iPhone/iPad, and the Nook. Here are the links:
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- "Hybrid Joyce": The Fifth Biennial International Korean James Joyce Conference, Chonnam National University, Kwangju, Korea, 10–11 November 2012
On 10 November 2012, the Fifth Biennial International James Joyce Conference in Korea took place at Chonnam University in Kwangju, an ancient city in the southwest of South Korea. It was effectively organized by Taeun Min, the president of the James Joyce Society of Korea. Most of the speakers were Korean, but there were some from Italy, China, Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, as well as four Americans working in Asia. The theme of the conference was "Hybrid Joyce." As Robert Grotjohn pointed out, Korea has been compared to Ireland because of their tragic histories as colonies. The devotion to Joyce in Kwangju was inspiring, and the conference used the ingenious device of only having one session at a time, so attendees did not have to dash back and forth trying to figure out which session to attend.
Among the impressive presenters, Eishiro Ito spoke of Joyce's relation to Haruki Murakami; Duncan McColl Chesney discussed truth in fictional autobiography; Ki Heon Nam examined the polarized political significance of potatoes and tea in Joyce's works; Giovanna Vincenti traced Joyce's relationship to the theater; and Homing Chang analyzed Joyce's relation to Theodor Adorno. [End Page 601]
I delivered the keynote address on Joyce's extensive parallels to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE, an experimental work by a Korean-American writer that questions memory, language, and identity. At one point, DICTEE meditates on the Kwanju uprising of 1980, in which soldiers from Korea's dictatorship killed two hundred protesters, a turning point that led Korea to move toward democracy.
The most magnificent feature of the conference was Chong-Keon Kim, a robust octogenarian who made frequent and striking comments from the floor. Professor Kim had just published a complete Korean translation of Finnegans Wake, accompanied by a book of notes longer than the Wake. These works are available from the Korea University Press. [End Page 602]


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Isolation Ward 4 was an area of a medical facility where Benny Russell was treated after his mental breakdown.
In Russell's room on the ward, he had written the story of Benjamin Sisko on the walls. Russell was able to finish the story despite Doctor Wykoff and an orderly trying to stop him. (DS9: "Shadows and Symbols")
See alsoEdit
In the novel Unity, the hospital Russell is treated in is called Riverdale Asylum.
"Isolation Ward 4" is also the title of a short story in Strange New Worlds IV that takes the form of Wykoff's medical notes about Russell.
External linkEdit
- Riverdale Asylum at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Acer's new ultrabook is out now, check out our full review of the Acer Aspire S5.
It's blacked out, chopped, and pops up and down with the flick of a switch. No, it's not a lowrider, it's Acer's Aspire S5.
That's about where the analogy ends, since Acer's second Ultrabook oozes understated class and modern style, while your standard SoCal lowrider is more a study in excess and retro charm. Fortunately, we think they can share the same sense of cool.
At only 15mm thin, the S5 is the thinnest Ultrabook we've seen at the show, bested only by Samsung's 14.9mm Series 9 (which technically isn't an Ultrabook, narrowly giving Acer the honors). Apple's MacBook Air, by comparison, measures 17mm thick at its deepest part, giving the S5 an edge if you're willing to factor out Apple's famous tapered design.
Hammering a notebook down so thin creates some challenges with ports, which Acer resolved with one of the strangest features we've ever seen on a notebook: a "MagicFlip" rear hatch that pops open with the press of a switch and the whirring of a motor. The entire notebook lifts a few millimeters as it happens, giving the lowrider effect we alluded to. The ports inside include one HDMI, two USB 3.0, and a Thunderbolt port. If you're a bit skeptical of typing on a notebook supported only by a rear pedestal that sounded like a car sunroof when it opened, we were too, but Acer claims the mechanism is rated for 50 pounds of force. Just hope the motor never goes out or you'll never use a thumb drive again.
Unlike the silver S3, Acer will only offer the S5 in an inky anodized black, which we definitely prefer. Although black has a nice habit of picking up stray fingerprints, the prototype we handled did a pretty good job keeping them at bay.
Like the S3, the S5 uses a 13.3-inch display that looked pretty solid on first appearances. The keyboard sits within an ever so slightly dished-out section, with thin island-style keys. It also gets the typical supersized Ultrabook clickable trackpad, in a smooth matte black.
As the thinnest in its species, you won't be able to equip the S5 with some of the frills we've seen in porkier versions, like non-SSD hard drives, discrete graphics, or optical drives, but for the target audience, we doubt that will be an issue. The Aspire S5 will start shipping in the second quarter of 2012 with a price to be announced, and we'll be sure to get one in for a full evaluation.


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We also welcome your questions here.
"Queen City" Entrepeneur
In 1919, Harry Husman started making potato chips at his home on Laurel Street. He hoisted sacks of potatoes to his second floor "Sunlit Kitchen" by attaching a rope to the bumper of his car.
Where did potato chips originate?
The potato chip, or Saratoga Chip as it was first called, was invented in 1853 by Chef George Crum at Moon Lake House, Saratoga Springs, New York. Chef Crum was trying to please a demanding guest who was badgering him that his home fried potatoes were not sliced thin enough. Crum decided to show him and the other guests. So he sliced the next batch with a razor -- and thus the potato chip was born.
How many chips can you make out of one potato?
About 27 pounds of chips are produced from 100 pounds of potatoes (potatoes are 80% water). It takes four pounds of raw potatoes to make one pound of potato chips.
What kind of potatoes are there?
Where are potatoes grown?
The basic types of potatoes are Atlantic, Snowden, Dakota Pearls and Dakota Crisps.
The potato or tuber is a storage organ that is developed from the swelling at the end of an underground stem. Potatoes that are harvested before they mature are often called "new potatoes" or "early potatoes." We chippers are always happy when the "new potatoes" crop comes in from Florida. "New potatoes" almost always are an appetizing soft golden color. These potatoes have a thin tender skin, which is easily rubbed off during harvesting and handling. They will discolor and wither rapidly at skinned places and are more susceptible to decay than mature potatoes. For this reason the early crops from Florida and North Carolina are not suitable for long storage and must be used right from the field. Typically, potatoes from Florida are ready for harvest in the early spring, then move to North Carolina in June, and then follow the growing season north. In July and August one can find decent potatoes in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; these are considered field potatoes.
Some field potatoes are used September through March, but most storage potatoes (or "late crop") from Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North and South Dakota are used. These potatoes aren't harvested until the vines are mature or dying and the potato skin is firm and tough. These potatoes are not easily injured, and if free of serious diseases and stored under proper conditions, they will not change very much for three to six months.
Potato growers in the Red River Valley of North Dakota are the largest producers of "chipping potatoes" in the world. Much of the winter supply comes from this area.
Where do Husman's potatoes come from?
About 43 million pounds of potatoes are used annually. That's about 12 acres of harvested potatoes per day. These days, more than half of the potatoes come from southcentral Pennsylvania. The balance in winter comes from Florida, Virginia and the Carolinas.
Imagine our grocery bill!
We use approximately:
How are potato chips made?
Potatoes are delivered to the Husman's Snack Foods manufacturing plant by truck. When a shipment arrives a sample is taken and tested before unloading. The potatoes are tested for defects, cooking quality, and size before we unload them. If the potatoes meet Husman's standards they're unloaded and put into large wooden crates.
The first step in making potato chips is the destoner. The destoner cycles the potatoes through water to remove rocks and other external debris. Next the potatoes tumble through a peeler (abrasive rollers with water), to remove most of the peels. After the peeler the potatoes are inspected to ensure that adequate peel has been removed and that the potatoes are free of defects. We remove any unsatisfactory potatoes.
The potatoes then go to a slicer assembly that cuts them into chips of the required thickness. The chips then go through a washer where excess scrap and starch is removed. The slices are blown off to remove extra water and conveyed to the automatic fryer and uniformly cooked to a golden crispness. They spend 2 to 3 minutes in the fryer.
The chips are salted immediately at the outfeed of the fryer. The chips then go through an Optical-Sorter that can pick out and remove any defective chips. The individual seasonings are then applied to the chips and the chips are sent to the packaging machines where they are packaged by weight and put into cartons for shipping.
What about Salt and Cholesterol?
Husman's chips have 0% cholesterol because they are fried in vegetable oil and not in animal fat (lard).
Less than 1/10th of a teaspoon of salt is on 1 oz. of chips. The salt is on the surface of the chip and therefore gives a saltier taste to it.
Why do some varieties of chips seem whiter and have a more consistent color?
Some potato chip manufacturers wash their raw chip slices in hot water, approximately 180 degrees F. This method results in lighter color chips by removing some of the sugars. Since this treatment will leach any soluble material from the slices in addition to sugars, it usually results in some loss in flavor and increased oil absorption in the chip. For this reason we do not use this method when we make Husman's chips.
What causes the brown chips?
The potato is the storage organ for nutrients manufactured by the potato plant. The reason some potatoes produce brown potato chips is due to the high sugar content in these potatoes. During growth, sugars are converted to starch. When a chipping potato is mature the sugar level of the potato is below 2%. After harvesting if the potato isn't stored or transported properly these starches can revert back to sugar. The secret to good chip color is that the chipping potatoes must be mature at harvest and not ruined from harvest to processing.
Waste not...
The scrap chips and snacks products that are picked out from inspection tables are recycled by sending them to composting and digesting operations.
Husman's always has an eye for recycling, being one of the first to use returnable cartons for product distribution.
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Husman's popcorn popper holds 300 pounds of popcorn per batch. That's enough to make about
Why are there sometimes pink or purple marks on the Husman's Pork Skins?
The marks that are occasionally on the Husman's Pork Skins are actually USDA stamps used on the skins to mark that they have been inspected, and graded. We do our best to remove these stamp markings. These markings are in no way harmful.


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My dad used to be a vegetarian. I'm not sure he's not anymore tbh, but I don't think I could be. I admire those who are though xReplyDelete
I used to eat meat for every meal when I was young (almost) but then thought "I say I love animals yet I eat them too. That doesn't make sense." So I stopped :)Delete
I really admire people who are as there are so many benefits of doing it. I don't think I could be. Great this though for those that are considering it. XReplyDelete
Many people assume a vegetarian diet is really difficult. It really isn't! A wide range of veggie foods are readily available in supermarkets.
You can still eat your "regular" meals, just replace the meat with meat substitute, mushrooms or something else.
At the end of the day, a roast dinner is 95% vegetarian. It is only the meat and sometimes the gravy that isn't veggie and they are super easy to replace!
Being vegetarian is as easy as you want it to be.
This is a great veggie primer. I'm vegetarian myself but have been meaning to blog about it (I'm going on 17 yrs now! though I had a small lapse of eating pepperoni for about a year--was in a bad place mentally). Hope this helps others!ReplyDelete
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At BCG, Explorers are unafraid to embark on new journeys. They try new solutions to untangle complex problems and drive transformational change. Simon goes deep to understand challenges.
Each morning at BCG, I know that my workday will give me the opportunity to take up a new challenge.
After my education as a general engineer, which provided me with a generalist, high-quality training that I highly valued, BCG seemed an obvious choice, as it would give me the opportunity to address many diverse issues and quickly learn how to deal with new high-level challenges. This was a fascinating opportunity. I found a very strong team spirit, shared motivation, and collaborative ways of working.
My first months as an associate exceeded my expectations. I worked for two highly different clients, a large European bank and an investment fund, on very distinct and impactful issues. At BCG, you face new challenges every day, you benefit from advice and regular feedback, and you are given meaningful responsibilities and put in direct contact with clients early in your career. Days go by incredibly quickly, and I know that I will make many more discoveries during my next projects.
Simon Jonchère joined BCG after his graduation as an engineer from École des Mines Paris.
Q: What is a typical day like for you?
A: It is highly unpredictable; no two days are alike. The only thing you can almost always be sure about is that you will discover new issues, new industries, and new markets and that you will acquire new skills or meet extremely smart people. Depending on assignments, I spend my day in client meetings or stay at the office with the team to brainstorm and make hypotheses. Sometimes, I need to focus on information search, use BCG's expert network and documentation, and conduct interviews with BCG experts or external analysts.
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Go Gets A Green Light From Reviewers
It may not have been universally positive coverage, but the combination of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston proved irresistible to most reviewers over the weekend, with their romcom Just Go With It being among the best reviewed films of the past seven days, as our weekly round-up of DVD and Blu-ray coverage proves. Also scoring […]Click here for more >
The Eyes Have It…
As soon as we saw this trailer, for the forthcoming Eyeborgs, we knew Momentum was on to a winner with this release. It's got all the perfect ingredients for a DTV release: a cracking title that reduces the idea of a high concept pitch to one word – eyeborgs, natch; a commercial sleeve, pictured left, […]Click here for more >
Let's Make This Pure…
A Monday night in the West End. The Raygun is sat in one of the plush screening rooms at London's swish Soho Hotel. On the screen, dominating the room, is Malcolm McDowell's face, complete with false eyelashes on one side and topped off by a bowler hat, one of the iconic images from A Clockwork Orange. In […]Click here for more >
Gnome News Is Good News
BVA award-winning agency Premier PR is among the best when it comes to organising stunts around releases it is looking after and its latest ruse aimed at attracting the media's attention was among its best. Organised to mark eOne's impending release of homegrown animated hit Gnomeo And Juliet, it targeted the Chelsea Flower Show, which […]Click here for more >
Seconds Out…
With David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko doing the rounds, drumming up publicity for their forthcoming world heavywight unification fight due to take place early in July, boxing seems to be enjoying something of a resurgence. After Haye effectively killed off the hardly-inspiring Olympic medal winner Audley Harrison, the stage has been set for the unification […]Click here for more >
Tangled Up In Blu
Black Swan continued its strong run of coverage into another week, as did Gulliver's Travels and The Next Three Days. But the real winner of the week was probably Disney's Tangled, which got plenty of coverage as highlighted in our weekly round-up of home entertainment coverage in the national press and elsewhere. What's more most […]Click here for more >
Silence Is Golden
We've oft extolled the virtues of the BFI's June 20 release The Great White Silence. It's just had a theatrical release ahead of its dual format release. It really is an outstanding title. Originally released in 1924, but filmed more than 10 years prior to that by Herbert Ponting, it follows Captain Scott's ill-fated, doomed […]Click here for more >
Down To The Lake I Fear
The mock documentary and found footage genre is a relatively recent one, but, in horror film terms, has proved to be fruitful, in terms of not just originality, but also profitability. And it seems as if it's far from over yet. As long as titles such as the Paranormal Activity franchise is proving to be […]Click here for more >
The Week In Screenings Part X
The latest missive from our regular correspondent at Soho's darkened screening rooms and London's multiplexes, Alex Kidd, reviewing his past week's cinematic exploits with a home entertainment friendly slant… Monday night and after a very hectic weekend I really wanted to catch up with Attack The Block. I've been hearing about the debut film from […]Click here for more >
Charlie Don't Surf
It's been out in assorted forms before, but Optimum's forthcoming Apocalypse Now release, its first time on Blu-ray, really promises to be the definitive version of the film. Due on May 27 for a brief theatrical bow ahead of the June 13 BD release, the film has been cleaned up, both in terms of the […]Click here for more >
Gladiators… Ready!
Shoppers along London's Oxford Street and elsewhere in the busy West End were somewhat shocked on Monday to see this lot carousing about on the streets of London. This hardy bunch of gladiators and wenches were pounding the pavements to mark the release this week of Anchor Bay's Spartacus: Blood And Sand. Their appearance outside […]Click here for more >
The Week In Screenings Part IX
In which our regular correspondent, Alex Kidd, formerly at HMV, takes us on a tour of his assorted screenings, films and other events he's been off to over the past seven days… How much you enjoy Bridesmaids will really depend on how funny you find Kristen Wiig, sadly for me I just don't find her […]Click here for more >
The Swan's Way
After dominating the proceedings last week, Momentum's The King's Speech had another outstanding week in terms of reviews and coverage, as our weekly round-up of press coverage for home entertainment shows. Chief among Monday's releases receiving coverage were Fox's Black Swan and Lionsgate's The Next Three Days both scoring well. On the television side, there […]Click here for more >
Death Star Nears Completion
As the Star Wars Blu-ray bow nears, more and more details are emerging about the content. The Raygun was among those revealing further news about the Fox release of the Lucasfilm classics, due on September 12, in three SKUs, one, pictured left, pulling all six Star Wars films together and another two featuring the first […]Click here for more >
Top 10 Box Office Data Charts
While we wait for our BVA Yearbook to turn up, and were idly twiddling our thumbs, this year's FDA Yearbook plopped on to our desks and we picked up some interesting material from the BVA's theatrical equivalent (it stands for Film Distributors' Association. We're already fans of the FDA anyway, as its launchingfilms website is […]Click here for more >
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by Gray Graham
I have been told many times by some that I come off harsh to single mothers. To some I do not understand their plights and circumstances. I do not sympathize with how they feel. All of these things are true.
The majority of single mothers I have encountered and know of, are single mothers because of their own actions. In most cases it was due to poor choices and decisions that they made of their own free will.
Many were the classic bad girls that did not want to listen when they were warned while others ignored common sense and their moral values for the thrills and passion of the moment. The myth of a woman being fooled is just that a myth. The majority knew exactly the kind of man they chose to have impregnate them.
Now I know this hits a lot of people hard in the soul especially in the Black and Hispanic communities. Very few people want to think of their birth as an "accident", an act of stupidity, or the worse mistake of their parents life, but the truth is that is exactly what a lot of people are. God does not make mistakes, but people constantly do.
So instead of accepting the responsibility of their actions, we have instead developed a culture where people are suppose to feel sorry for the bad choices of these mothers and never actually tell them that they made a bad choice while completely ignoring the plights or their children.
This is not a movement I am going to join because of one simple reason, I care more about the well being of the children born from these bad choices than their mothers. I say mothers because no one feels any sympathy for their fathers. No we actually point out what they did wrong and what they need to do now. We constantly tell them to man up and be a father to their children yet you will not hear the same directed at women.
Too many people think that just because a woman is around she is being a loving mother to her children. Just because she is feeding them and providing a shelter does not mean she is being a nurturing mother.
Slapping kids in the middle of the store, leaving them in the care of just anyone, beating them with extension cords, hitting the club every single week, and running different men in and out of their lives every week is not being a mother.
Repeating the behavior that led to one child being born, so that there are now multiple children with the same circumstances is definitely not being a loving mother or a responsible woman.
So can we please start putting our focus with the children instead of their mothers. These children did not ask to be born. They often endure lives that are less than desirable. They have a pain that will never be healed. These children often live in poverty, have poor educations, and will have a lifetime of trouble understanding the simple concept of love.
Imagine how it feels to live a life where you are told that you "owe" someone for a miserable existence. Where you are constantly told how your father has no worth. Where you see your mother make the same mistakes over and over again and you are powerless to do anything to stop her or even make your life better. When you try to complain to others you hear the tired old "well she is doing the best that she can" or "at least she is around." Funny how those are suppose to be good enough reasons for you but they were never good enough for her and the situation in her life.
I am well aware that stating these things automatically is going to upset many, make some angry and cost me a few followers. Where I am from they always say that the truth cuts likes the sharpest sword, but in my observations in life there is nothing that hurts like having a bad mother, whether one has the courage to admit it or not.
4/5/2014 07:03:37 pm
All good points. It's a start on stemming this epidemic.
11/18/2014 01:09:35 pm
You have a nerve stereotyping single mothers.
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I am an old member of this forum. I am cleaning out my garage and found a box of stuff from my beloved 2008 SDR. I crashed it back in 2009 or 2010. After it was salvaged, it was auctioned through Crashed Toys in Minnesota. It was mostly cosmetic damage all on the left side. If you believe you own this bike or know who does, please contact me!
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The Situationist app is a new iPhone app designed to bring strangers together through bizarre activities. The Situationist app is a location-based service that locates users in the same area and assigns them random challenges.
Challenges range from telling someone they are beautiful to giving them a hug for five seconds. Users can upload a photo of themselves along with new "situations" to be completed. Unfortunately, no rewards are offered for completing the challenges, something which may discourage people from signing up. Fortunately, the app is moderated, which means that pictures of private parts and sexually explicit challenges should be filtered out. If you are feeling adventurous, then head on over to the Apple app store and download the Situationist app today.
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Lumus, a leading developer of optical display technology for augmented reality and smart eyewear, announced today that CEO Ben Weinberger will join a panel presentation on virtual and augmented reality at the Goldman Sachs TechNet Conference – Asia Pacific 2016. Weinberger will be one of three presenters for an opening-day panel on "The Reality of Virtual & Augmented Reality" at the exclusive conference, to be May 18 – 19 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.
Top Lumus executives plan to meet privately with investors throughout the invitation-only conference to offer a personal look at the company's see-through wearable display technology. The 50-minute meetings will be scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and advance conference registration is required. Attendees can contact Irene Lau, conference coordinator (email@example.com), to schedule a meeting with Lumus, or for general information about the Asia-Pacific conference. Attendees may also contact Lumus Vice President of Sales and Business Development Ari Grobman (email@example.com) during the conference.
"We're very pleased to be participating in the TechNet – Asia Pacific conference this year," Weinberger commented. "I especially look forward to joining my colleagues Eugene Chung, founder and CEO of Penrose Studios, and Wondo Kang, director of VR at Samsung, for what's sure to be a dynamic discussion on the state of VR and AR today. It's a great forum for showcasing our own advanced augmented reality optics technology as well. Visitors to our booth can experience true augmented reality in the real world with demos of our DK-50 development kit, which is unparalleled today."
Presented by the Goldman Sachs Securities Division, TechNet – Asia Pacific will feature expert overviews on global research and global banking highlights, and keynote speeches from Eric Jing, president of Ant Financial, and Jim Wang, senior vice president of technology for Baidu. In addition to the VR and AR panel, panel topics will range from "Transforming Logistics in China" and "Digitizing India" to "Rise of the Robots" (artificial intelligence) and "Mapping the Future of Mobility." The agenda also includes a full slate of breakout sessions focusing on such topics as big data, e-commerce, online education, healthcare, transportation, and drones, along with interactive expo booths.
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hTC is in the rumours once more, thanks to notorious leakster, Evan Blass, who claims the Taiwan-based mobile maker is internally building a couple of Nexus devices for Google, codenamed M1 and S1.
Both hTC M1 and S1 will run the latest flavour of Android, build N. Unfortunately for Nexus fans, Blass hasnt revealed anything about the specs of these alleged up and coming devices.
This new rumour hits the Internets about the same time the Nexus 9 tablet has been retired (or not?) by Google Inc from the Google Play store, which might be a lead to what hTC is working on right now. Could it be secretly working on a Nexus smartphone and a new tablet? We dont know that, but it leaves room to speculations.
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It seems like 2008 was a hectic year for everyone, librarians included. After going through the most media-saturated election in history and a late-year financial collapse, I think we were all ready for 2009 to get here.
We begin the new year in tough times--there's no question about that. The economic challenges we face are a genuine threat to our ability to do, or in some cases keep our jobs. Funding is falling short across the board. Libraries are closing or cutting back hours. Librarians are struggling to fund adequate technology for their patrons while demand for services going up.
But with all that's happening, its encouraging and heartening to know that people in our profession are pushing forward, as determined as ever to blaze new trails despite whatever temporary obstacles may be present.
Norman Oder at Library Journal found some New Year's encouragement in President-elect Obama's first weekly radio address of 2009, which included this sentence:
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Stephen Abram has wasted no time getting down to business, and has provided outstanding coverage of what technology experts are saying will happen in 2009. Check out his entries here, here and here.
The economy may be rough, but social networking is still free. Trendspotting created this outstanding slide show, "Influencers on Social Media; 2009 Predictions."
Jessamyn West pointed us to this article from U.S. News and World Report, which listed Librarian as one of 2009's best careers.
Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today's librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping patrons plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records, often starting with a clever Google search but frequently going well beyond.
That effort to land a job will be well worth it if you're well suited to the profession: love the idea of helping people dig up information, are committed to being objective—helping people gain multiple perspectives on issues—and will remain inspired by the awareness that librarians are among our society's most empowering people.
Whatever difficulties our profession will face in 2009, I'm glad to be part of an optimistic blogosphere that is focused on the future. We aren't going to face our challenges by staying stuck in the past.


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- Case Report
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Chronic granulomatous disease presenting as retinal mass
- Ahmad M Mansour1Email author,
- Mays Al Dairy1,
- Rola Hamam1 and
- Ahmed A Hidayat2
© Mansour et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2008
- Received: 25 September 2008
- Accepted: 21 October 2008
- Published: 21 October 2008
1-year-old girl was admitted for fever of unknown origin. Funduscopy revealed juxtapapillary retinal inflammatory mass in one eye with a differential diagnosis of sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, retinoblastoma or metastatic disease. Retinal biopsy showed necrotizing granulomatous retinitis. Extensive workup and therapeutic trials failed to confirm the diagnosis of tuberculosis or sarcoidosis. Her 7-month brother and 4-year-old male cousin presented with nystagmus, poor vision, paravascular pigmentary changes and were initially diagnosed as recessive retinal dystrophy. The girl died at age 2 from tuberculous meningitis and the boys had recurrent tuberculous and Aspergillus infections. Awareness of the typical fundus findings in chronic granulomatous disease allows early diagnosis of the disorder.
- Sarcoidosis
- Retinal Detachment
- Retinoblastoma
- Chronic Granulomatous Disease
- Tuberculous Meningitis
Case presentation
Chronic granulomatous disease is a syndrome that presents as pneumonia, infectious dermatitis, and recurrent abscess formation beneath the skin and in multiple organs, including the eye [1]. Tissue examination typically shows microscopic granulomas [2]. There is a recent shift in the most common infecting organisms away from staphylococci and enteric bacteria to Aspergillus species [1]. At the cell level, neutrophils and macrophages phagocytose but do not kill all organisms effectively as the NADPH oxidase complex does not convert oxygen effectively to microbicidal oxidants.
Around 76% of patients had the X-linked recessive form of chronic granulomatous disease [1]. Chorioretinitis may be more common than previously appreciated (23.7% [3] vs. 35.3% [4]), and boys with the XLR disease should have routine full eye exams. Fig. 3 displays the typical "punched out" chorioretinal lesions with pigment clumping along major retinal vessels (that may interfere with vision) seen in up to one third of patients with chronic granulomatous disease [3, 4]. Occasionally the presentation is that of a retinal mass [5] as in the present case. Chronic granulomatous disease needs to be included in the differential of inflammatory retinal mass and the clue lies in family screening for paravascular pigmentary retinopathy.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient's family for publication of this case report and accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
Ziad Bashshur, M.D. for referring the patient after performing the retinal biopsy.
Authors' Affiliations
- Johnston R: Clinical Aspects of Chronic Granulomatous Disease. Cur Opin Hematol. 2001, 8: 17-22. 10.1097/00062752-200101000-00004.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
- Grossniklaus HE, Frank KE, Jacobs G: Chorioretinal lesions in chronic granulomatous disease of childhood. Clinicopathologic correlations. Retina. 1988, 8: 270-274.View ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar
- Goldblatt D, Butcher J, Thrasher AJ, Russell-Eggitt I: Chorioretinal lesions in patients and carriers of chronic granulomatous disease. J Pediatr. 1999, 134: 780-783. 10.1016/S0022-3476(99)70299-4.View ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar
- Kim SJ, Kim JG, Yu YS: Chorioretinal lesions in patients with chronic granulomatous disease. Retina. 2003, 23: 360-365. 10.1097/00006982-200306000-00012.View ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar
- Buggage RR, Bauer RM, Holland SM, Santos CI, Chan CC: Uveitis and a subretinal mass in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease. Brit J Ophthalmol. 2006, 90: 514-515. 10.1136/bjo.2005.081505.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
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Aberdeenshire Council celebrated the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) last week (Thursday May 14).
The image above is of Equalities Members Champion Cllr Alison Evison (second from the right), Aberdeenshire Council Straight Ally and Garioch Area Manager Douglas Milne (second from the left) and LGBT Network Group members.
The Deeside and Donside Piper was also proud to support IDAHO and thought readers would be interested to know the fascinating story of a famous Donsider who suffered turmoil and confusion because of their own gender identification.
Sir Ewan Forbes of Craigievar ( September 6 1912 – September 12 1991) was the 11th Baronet of Craigievar from 1968 to his death.
At birth, he was christened "Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill", and officially registered as the youngest daughter of Lord Sempill.
The birth registration recorded a female child, but Forbes later commented that this was "a ghastly mistake".
Elizabeth was brought up as a girl alongside Margaret, but found childhood to be dominated by a growing gender insecurity.
They spent a large amount of time playing with cousins Patrick and David, and in many contemporary photographs Forbes can be seen dressed in trousers and a male jacket, unconventional dress for a young woman of that era.
In his book The aul' days, written many years later, Forbes recalled a hatred of being "made to dress up" for social engagements, and of going to great lengths to avoid them.
Forbes refused to go away to a girls' school, which meant being educated at home; at fifteen, he pressed to be allowed to go overseas to attend a pre-university course, and eventually settled on a co-educational institution in Dresden.
After coming out as a debutante in London in the late 1920s Forbes studied in Dresden for a year, 1929–1930, before travelling through central Europe, visiting Prague and Vienna.
In the following academic year, he continued his studies in Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonne and studied the harp under the principal harpist of the Paris Opéra.
In 1939, Forbes was accepted as a medical student at the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1944 and taking up the post of Junior Casualty Officer at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. After a swift progression to Senior Casualty Officer, he began to work as a general practitioner in Alford in 1945.
In addition to the normal work of a rural doctor, he was called upon to act as a medical officer for a large number of German prisoners of war who were held in the area in 1946, due to his command of the language.
The Alford area was one of the largest medical practices in the United Kingdom, and in the winter months Dr. Forbes often had to travel through ten-foot snowdrifts in a converted Universal Carrier.
These conditions were not entirely unfamiliar; a trip to see an uncle in St. Moritz at the age of thirteen had led to him taking up skiing and figure-skating, and winning a number of bob sled races.
He did not live in Alford, but remained at Brux, appointing a medical assistant to live in the town. The farm, left in the hands of a small resident staff, quickly ran into financial troubles.
To raise a large amount of money quickly, Forbes sold the practice in Alford, and returned to the farm in 1952, running it directly as a going concern from then on.
On moving to Alford, Forbes had begun to publicly look and behave like the man he personally identified as being. In 1952, he formally became male by the simple process of requesting a warrant for birth re-registration from the Sherriff of Aberdeen, registering himself as male, and changing his name to Ewan Forbes-Sempill.
He announced this with a notice in the Aberdeen Press and Journal of 12 September 1952: "Dr E Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill".
His plans had been known in advance to many of his patients, who were reported as universally supportive.
Forbes was equally candid with the press, describing the situation to one reporter as "...a ghastly mistake. I was carelessly registered as a girl in the first place, but of course, that was forty years ago ... the doctors in those days were mistaken, too ... I have been sacrificed to prudery, and the horror which our parents had about sex".
A month later, on 10 October, he married Isabella Mitchell, his housekeeper for the past five years, and formerly co-founder of his dance troupe.
The marriage took place at the kirk in Kildrummy, which he had recently joined
The re-registration passed without much public comment, and the issue of his gender would remain a private one until 1965. That December, his elder brother Lord Sempill died, leaving daughters but no sons, and thus posing a problem of inheritance. The barony was able to be passed through the female line, and so could pass directly to Sempill's eldest daughter Ann, whilst the baronetcy – along with the bulk of the land – would have to pass to the first male heir. The family had assumed that Ewan would inherit, as the younger brother. However, this was challenged by his cousin John Forbes-Sempill, who argued that the 1952 re-registration was invalid. This would mean that Forbes was still legally considered a woman, unable to inherit the title, and so it would pass to John Forbes-Sempill.
At the time, gender re-registration was permitted in a limited set of cases; the leading case, decided in 1965, had held that re-registration of this form was only permitted when "the sex of a child was indeterminate at birth and it was later discovered ... that an error had been made". The challenge was taken to the Court of Session, where the case was heard in great secrecy – no papers were publicly filed, and the judge sat in a solicitor's office rather than in open court to hear the case.
However, the records of the case have recently been made available via the National Archives of Scotland.
They show that a total of twelve medical experts were called to give evidence, and their testimony was taken by the court to indicate that Forbes was a physical hermaphrodite, which would accord with the legal requirement of "indeterminate at birth". However, the medical evidence was not conclusive; Professor Martin Roth observed in evidence that he felt Forbes' condition was closer to that of a transsexual, and Professor John Strong described the medical tests involved as "not wholly conclusive".
The judge ruled in favour of Forbes, though it has been suggested that the judge desired to ensure the estate and the title was inherited by the "right" candidate, and was flexible with his judgement to obtain this result.
The ruling was appealed to the Lord Advocate, who referred the matter to the Home Secretary, James Callaghan. Callaghan finally ruled in December 1968 that Forbes was the rightful holder of the title, confirming the court's decision.
The level of secrecy of the case, which was criticised by some contemporary observers, meant that it was not properly recorded or published, and the exact facts of the argument were not known for some time. As a result, whilst it sharply differs from later rulings such as Corbett v Corbett [1970], it was not able to be considered as precedent in later judgments on the legal recognition of gender variance.
On taking up the baronetcy, Forbes dropped the "Sempill" from his surname; this had been adopted by the family in the 1880s when they inherited the barony, and there was no reason to persist once the titles were separated.
With the inheritance case settled, he left the public eye and returned to the life of a rural landowner; he placed Craigievar Castle in the hands of the National Trust for Scotland and continued to live in his house at Brux.
Forbes was an elder of the local kirk at Kildrummy, and was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire in 1969. He published a book of reminiscences of his early years in 1984, The aul' days.
Forbes died, leaving no children, in 1991 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his cousin John, the man who had originally mounted the legal challenge in the 1960s. His widow Isabella survived him, dying in 2002


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Senior Learning Expert Partner and Head of Learning Expert Partner Function
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- 06 Jun 2018
- Closes
- 26 Jun 2018
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- Category
- Education, Human Resources and Training, Public Sector
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
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Civil Service HR sits at the heart of government has led a transformation programme aimed at improving the professionalism of HR to enable the Service to attract, retain and develop the best talent, so that we can deliver better business outcomes at a significant cost reduction. We aim to do this by:
● Working together across government to organise ourselves better
● Providing HR Services more efficiently and effectively
● Delivering a responsive and professional service
● Removing duplication
● Simplifying the way we do things
● Increasing standardisation
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The Senior Learning Expert Partner (LEP) will lead a new strategic team providing advice, guidance and expertise on all aspects of learning and development to all senior Cross-Government Heads of Profession (typically Director-General, or Chief Executive Level). They will be responsible for/expected to deliver:
1. Promoting and enabling a culture of learning in the Civil Service – leading the way in new and developmental ways of strengthening capability and learning
2. Working with Cross-Government Heads of Profession and Head of Function to conduct learning and capability needs analysis at individual, group and profession level to inform the Professions Capability Growth Plan
3. Provide support and challenge to Heads of Profession, Permanent Secretaries and Business Leaders on issues relating to capability development & learning
4. Sourcing and developing effective and efficient blended learning solutions that reflect the 70:20:10 learning model
5. Promoting consolidation and evaluation of learning at all levels
6. Building a new team of Grade 6 level Learning Expert Partners within Civil Service Learning to embed professional, and expert partnering to all professions across government
The post holder will be a key member of the ODD&L Senior Leadership Team for Learning and the wider Civil Service HR Function. They will deputise for the Director as required, and represent the Learning Expert Service at key governance forums including the Performance and Risk Committee.


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The time for H-1B filing is just around the corner. US Customs and Immigration Services would start accepting applications from April 1, 2015, allowing US employers to bring foreign skilled workforce to the country to meet their manpower requirements. Professionals from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) background are likely to top the demand list with India and China being the main suppliers.
H-1B allows US employers to sponsor a visa for foreign skilled workers allowing them to legally work in the United States. Those who are granted a visa can work in the US for a period of 3 years initially, then apply for an extension not exceeding a total period of 6 years in the country. Visas granted to individuals during filing season in April can start working with the sponsoring employer from October the same year.
Candidates who see a good chance of obtaining the H-1B visa must prepare their application in advance. Ensure all documents are in place and all forms are duly filled and submitted on time before USCIS stops accepting petitions. Each year USCIS receives more petitions than the cap in the first week itself resulting in closure of filing period.
It's important to avoid mistakes to get a visa approved. Few petitions are rejected because of insignificant mistakes that can be avoided by understanding H-1B rules and regulations for both employees and employers.
Each year 65,000 H-1B visas are granted to highly specialized foreign individuals and a cap of 20,000 is reserved for those with a US degree i.e. masters or above. The results are conducted through random lottery process: first for the reserved 20,000 and then second round for the remaining 65,000.
When talent, education, and experience go unnoticed, it's destiny that could get you the H-1B visa. At least, that's what most H-1B visa holders say! After all, the entire lot of 85,000 professionals is picked through a lottery system, and winning a lottery is sheer luck! And in case of H-1B visa, luck favours those with a strong file, proper documentation and on-time submission.


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Adding colors to the duo Red & Yellow (Caitlin Gowdey & Erin Chapin), Rainbow Girls loosely formed in 2010 with the addition of Cheyenne Methmann (Green) and Vanessa May (Violet), playing at a weekly underground open-mic in Isla Vista, California, at the unofficial housing coop known as Rainbow House. In December 2010, they set off for a week long self-recording camping trip to Joshua Tree and Big Bear Mountain, where they made their very own 5 song demo.
At the end of January, after only a few shows, Rainbow Girls was put on hold while one of the gals skipped town to study abroad in Rome. Impatient, the three remaining members followed suit in June, and the group of four spent the summer of 2011 busking and couch surfing their way around Europe, playing gigs and spreading music throughout Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, the Netherlands, and France. Fifteen cities, six countries, four self-recorded audio tapes, two French recording studios, and 1 deportation later, they found themselves back in Santa Barbara with a drummer -Savannah Hughes (Blue)- and the beginnings of a whole new sound.
Since then they have toured the western half of the US extensively, playing festivals and opening for bands like ALO, Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers, Brothers Comatose, and the California Honeydrops. In May 2013, they released their first official studio album, "The Sound of Light," featuring 16 original tracks and funded by almost 200 friends, fans, and family members. That summer the gals returned to Europe and the UK, but this time with a van, a tour manager, an album, and a legitimate list of gigs and festivals lined up.
After returning to the US in September, the girls decided to take the winter to make money, work on new material, and gear up to tour both the US and Europe again in the Spring and Summer of 2014.
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Finally, the Overwatch Competitive Play is live and kickin'. Blizzard did everything right and the competitive mode came out as promised. For those who are still not up to date, and we are sure there aren't a lot of you, this whole month was about Overwatch and its Competitive Play mode.
Overwatch developing team and Jeff Kaplan always had us informed about the progress of the game and we would like to thank them for that. Additionally, some of us had the chance to try out Competitive Play on the official PTR, but there is always that special feeling when something goes live.
Unfortunately, and Blizzard is quite straight forward about it, the Competitive Play won't go out on all platforms at the same time. All players that have the PC version of the game will be able to play it, but Playstation 4 and Xbox One players will have to wait for a bit. Blizzard said that those players can expect the mode live sometime next week.
Additionally, the first season of the game will be short and it will last only 2 months since the plan was to sync world seasons to the game seasons, and summer has already begun. As they like to say, "a minor side-effect of our real-time season system".
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The Intrauterine Device (IUD)
An Intrauterine Device (IUD) is a T-shaped, plastic device inserted into the uterus by a health care professional. There are two types of IUDs available:
- Copper, which can remain in place for 10 to 12 years.
- Progesterone (natural female sex hormone); two types:
- Mirena, lasts five to seven years.
- Other types, replace every year.
- Mirena, lasts five to seven years.
IUDs are recommended for women in long-term mutually monogamous relationships, such that the risk of getting a sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is low.
- How Is It Used?
- How Is It Inserted?
- Does It Protect Against STIs?
- Does It Protect Against Pregnancy?
- Advantages & Disadvantages
- Things to Remember
How Is It Used?
The IUD is inserted into the uterine cavity by a health care provider, usually during menstruation when it is easier to insert. The string at the end of the IUD will hang down through the cervix a short distance into the vagina and should be checked periodically (especially after menstruation).
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How Is It Inserted?
Answer from Barbara Boyer, DO:
The IUD is inserted during an office visit. It is placed into the uterus through the cervix. The patient is placed on the table just like she is going to have a Pap smear. A speculum is inserted, like with a Pap smear.
The area that the brush touches when you have a pap smear is your cervix. The IUD is inserted in through the cervix up about 1 inch into your uterus. This is moderately painful, like bad cramping.
I usually ask people to take two Tylenol or ibuprofen before they come in for the procedure. After that, the string is cut and the speculum is removed.
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Does It Protect Against STIs?
No! Unfortunately, using an IUD does not protect you against any STIs.
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Does It Protect Against Pregnancy?
Yes. The chances of getting pregnant while using an IUD is:
- Copper:
- Typical use: 0.8 percent
- Perfect use: 0.6 percent
- Typical use: 0.8 percent
- Progesterone:
- Typical use: 2 percent
- Perfect use: 1.5 percent
- Typical use: 2 percent
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Advantages & Disadvantages
- With an IUD in place, the female does not have to think about using contraception when having sex, or every day in the case of the pill, although she should use other means to prevent against STIs. For this reason, IUDs are rarely placed in women who are at risk for STIs.
- The IUD does not change the hormone levels throughout the body as do other contraception methods such as the pill.
- The cost of the copper IUD can be low in the long run compared to birth control methods that must be purchased more frequently.
- For a progesterone IUD, period flow and cramps decrease.
- For copper IUDs:
- Menstrual cramps may increase.
- Bleeding may occur between periods.
- Periods may be heavier and last longer. This may cause anemia.
- Increases risk of serious infection – such as Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) – and sterility.
- IUD may fall out.
- Menstrual cramps may increase.
- Pregnancy while using the IUD, although rare, may be dangerous and lead to infections or ectopic pregnancies.
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Things to Remember
IUDs do not protect against STIs. Women who do not know the sexual health status of their partners should not use this form of birth control!
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There are numerous books about J.D. Salinger and this most recent one by Slawenski is an interesting account of Salinger's life, focused mainly on his writing years. This book was somewhere in the middle of my 'to-read' list, but jumped up to the top after a patron recommended it. The patron is a former teacher of Catcher in the Rye, and said that the chapter about Holden Caulfield described the character just as he taught it. He actually only recommended reading that chapter, but I was intrigued by the entire book, and decided to read the whole thing.
Slawenski is a huge, HUGE Salinger fan. He says as much in the introduction, writing about his website devoted to Salinger. This love and devotion comes across in the book – his admiration is palpable. But it doesn't detract from the telling of Salinger's life. He presents Salinger in full light, though tending to ennoble his flaws a bit.
Prior to this, I had no idea who Salinger was, what he was like. I had read all of his books, including the short stories, but had never read anything about the author himself. His life was definitely interesting. He fought in WWII, and was in a unit that took part in some of the bloodiest battles of the war. He became an intelligence officer, interrogating Nazis and their sympathizers. He wrote before, during and after the war, many of his stories exorcising his demons of war. Once back home, Salinger became an early American proponent of yoga and organic gardening. He was married multiple times and had children but was very much an independent spirit, preferring to lose himself in his characters' lives. According to this biography, Salinger initially chose to separate himself from the world in order to produce his works; he knew he would otherwise be too distracted by his own fame, parties and fanfare. He felt he had a duty to write – to his spirit, his god. To do otherwise would be "phony", something his most famous character, Holden Caulfield, would have despised.
This biography not only gives you a look at Salinger's life, but describes the stories he wrote at various times, given some critical analysis in light of his life events. I'd read his books and stories over the years, and enjoyed each one. But after reading the bio of Salinger, I definitely want to go back and reread all of his works. Salinger was a master storyteller, presenting his written world through small details, allowing the reader to complete the picture. He described the trees, so that we could see the forest.
Franny and Zooey is one book I remember loving, but do not recall specifics from. It's about a large, quirky family in New York. It was published in the 50s, but feels timeless. The story is about the relationships between family members and how they see the world. He also was a great short story writer. He wrote "For Esme – With Love and Squalor", originally published in the New Yorker and anthologized in Nine Stories. This is a powerful tale of a war veteran and a chance encounter with a young girl who changes his life by simply reminding him of innocence.
I actually had the opportunity to hear this short story being read aloud in a coffeehouse by a friend of mine. The New Haven Theater Company presents a seasonal series of short story readings by actors called Listen Here – they do a wonderful job choosing and reading the stories. Attendance is free, the stories are priceless. In one of these sessions, Steve Scarpa's reading of "For Esme" brought the emotions of the story to the forefront – I can say without any trace of sarcasm that 'I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats'... If you have the chance to attend a reading, possibly in the fall cycle, I highly suggest it.
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:188.8.131.52) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/126.96.36.199
Description of problem:
I am trying to use 'virsh' (part of libvirt RPM apparently) to manage
virtual machine instances. Whenever trying these commands ...:
virsh connect localhost
virsh connect 127.0.0.1
virsh connect SHORT_ALIAS_NAME
virsh connect FULLY_QUALIFIED_DNS_NAME
virsh connect FULL_IP_ADDRESS
... I always get this error message:
"virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor"
I compared this behavior with the virt-manager program ...
and that always works. When virt-manager (started from the
same shell in which I was trying to use 'virsh') runs,
it lists virtual machines, I'm able to start/stop virtual
machines, etc. I'm assuming 'virt-manager' and 'virsh' use
much of the same underlying infrastructure. Also, a comparison
of 'lsof | grep libvirt' and 'lsof | grep qemu' before and
after starting 'virt-manager' both imply extra activity
between 'virt-manager' and 'libvirtd' (???) or something
like it, with client-side loading (?) of libvirt*.so and
related, and a new (UNIX domain?) socket connection between
virt-manager and the virtual machine mgmt infrastructure.
More info:
* I am booting the *.fc7 and not the *.fc7xen kernel
* I am connecting to the QEMU hypervisor when running
* documentation for 'virsh' doesn't indicate any different
procedure when connecting to QEMU vs. Xen hypervisor
(though I've tried qemu:///server_name instead)
* I am running virtual machines with KVM (hardware
acceleration), but I understand QEMU is used to
create/manage these instances)
I'll be willing to provide more info.
I'm interested in using 'virsh' because it's easier
than mucking around with /etc/libvirt/qemu/* files,
and I'm not sure what implications of doing that are
yet (is stuff cached elsewhere? need to re-start
* tried shutting down one or both of 'qemu' and
'libvirtd' services ... virt-manager works only
when both are runing, 'virsh' doesn't work ever
'root' USER.
ALSO, server was originally named something else before
being renamed and having IP address changed ...
virt-manager worked before and after, and I tried 'virsh'
only after re-booting after IP address/hostname changes.
Maybe something is cached somewhere.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.2.3-1.fc7 (possibly libvirt-python-0.2.3-1.fc7)
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ... already did that above ... sorry
Actual Results:
'virsh' never connects to hypervisor
Expected Results:
'virsh' should have connected to hypervisor
Additional info:
... willing to provide more info ...
There is no supprt yet for remote access.
By defaut libvirt connects to Xen, which you don't have running
To connect to QEmu instances locally use
See http://libvirt.org/remote.html
There is also VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI environemnt variable where you can
set the default connect argument.
This is just a lack of documentation, I guess I would need a "getting started"
section in the libvirt site. But it doesn't look like a defect in the way
libvirt or virsh works a priori, i.e. unless you come up with more data.
Changing title from "virsh does not connect to QEMU hypervisor (virt-manager
does)" to "'virsh connect qemu:///system', must use env var to communicate with
QEMU hypervisor". The following 'bash' session transcript with comments shows
confusing inconsistencies in how QEMU hypervisor is treated. Re-opening the
bug, perhaps this is just a documentation issue or program feedback guiding the
user on how to use the 'virsh' tool with QEMU.
[root]# # Make sure no env effects
[root]# unset VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI
[root]# # Try a 'virsh' command just to make sure
[root]# virsh list
virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# # ok, didn't connect to hypervisor, expected
[root]# #### ---- See
[root]# #### for my impression of 'virsh connect' syntax: "virsh connect
<name>" where <name> is hypervisor machine name
[root]# # hmmm ... using QEMU, can't connect to remote system, only localhost
through special "qemu:///system" ...
[root]# # when I read that somewhere I thought perhaps the "system" should be
substituted with the machine name
[root]# # hosting QEMU, but thanks to bugzilla comment I now underestand ... so
I'd suppose THIS would work:
[root]# virsh connect qemu:///system
virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# virsh connect 'qemu:///system'
virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# virsh list
virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# # still doesn't work
[root]# # So let's try the env var
[root]# export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI='qemu:///system'
[root]# virsh connect
error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# virsh connect asdf.asdf.asdf
libvir: error : no support for hypervisor
error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
[root]# # env var doesn't affect 'virsh connect', and doesn't override
attempted hostname (makes sense)
[root]# # ... but how about other 'virsh' commands?
[root]# virsh list
Id Name State
4 BogatzaWinXpProM02 running
5 nnXXXXXXXXXX01 running
[root]# # HEY, IT WORKS NOW ... thanks, a bit confusing but at least works
[root]# # Right now, seems the only way to bake this in QEMU is to (a) ignore
'virsh connect' command,
[root]# # (b) make sure to set the env var, and (c) use the other 'virsh' commands
I'm glad that I can now use 'virsh', looks like a very useful tool.
The whole virtualization system you all have put together is very nice!
You are using the wrong syntax to run virsh.
Instead of
virsh connect qemu:///system
You need to use
virsh --connect qemu:///system
The former 'connect' command is only relevant in interactive mode, to change the
existing connection. The initial connection attempt uses the '--connect' arg.


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Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics, linguistic iconicity in semiotics, iconic structures in Sign Languages, natural and unnatural sound patterns, the iconic nature of parts of speech, the relation between (un)markedness and naturalness, and lexical and syntactic iconicity. The research conducted is based on sound (meta)theoretical analyses and/or original empirical research. The data and innovative views presented are bound to spark discussion in an age-old debate that has lost nothing of its significance.