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HALF MOON BAY, CA There's only one explanation for ES 300's transformation: the "Jenny Jones Show" has begun airing in Japan.
One glimpse of the '02 and it's clear someone at Lexus saw television's makeover matriarch and was inspired by the episode entitled, "The girl next door was a frump now she's a fox."
The car's familiar business suit, the one that made even ardent admirers wince, is hanging in the closet. In its place is finery that accentuates the curves ES 300 has always had, but Lexus was too timid to show.
Toyota's premium brand has induced ES 300 to remove its horn-rimmed glasses and shake loose its hair like the lithe but stodgy young librarian with pouty red lips who finally succumbs to her animal urges.
I digress but these are the emotions Lexus seeks to evoke. And it succeeds.
"Far more aggressive" is how Dennis E. Clements, Lexus group vice president and general manager, describes the automaker's approach to the new ES 300, due to hit showrooms in October with a sticker in the low $30,000 range.
"We've always done very well with the rational reasons people buy luxury cars," Mr. Clements says. "But we don't get a lot of emotional hits."
In a bid to turn up the heat, Lexus already is showing flair, albeit restrained, with its upscale GS and ES 300's sportyish segment-mate, IS 300. But at the other end of the scale is SC 430, with just the right ration of radicalism.
"You're going to see that from us," Mr. Clements promises. "It's part of the evolution of the brand. So when people think about Lexus, we want them to think of more than a great, reliable car."
Again, one glimpse of the '02 ES 300 gets the message across. Accented by chrome extensions, its taillights now turn the corner, hugging the rear quarter panels like a fanny wrap.
The front gets similar treatment, as its halogen headlamps, with their "three-pod" configuration (daytime running lights, low beams and high beams), creep up the fenders like a slit on a skirt, suggesting a windswept look.
Longer and wider than the '01 by 2 ins. and 3.6 ins. (5 cm and 9 cm), respectively the new ES 300 offers more interior room, especially for rear passengers.
And its low drag coefficient (0.28) is the product of refinements such as a flat underbody and reshaped mirrors. But the most significant benefit of the latter is viewed best from the inside.
The '01 might as well have been equipped with a periscope. But the new model's enlarged mirrors offer ease of use that only enhances the superior ride.
Mercifully, Lexus has abandoned the pleated leather featured on the new model's precursor. In its place are smooth clean lines consistent with the car's sleek exterior. Less is definitely more here.
Speaking of quantity, how long will it be before walnut trees go on the endangered species list? Just asking, because their wood is available on every Lexus line. The '02 ES 300 features California Walnut, but in tasteful measure.
Further enriching the interior is an optional Mark Levinson audio system so sophisticated it could make Björk sound pleasant in the right hands. And when integrated with the optional DVD-based nav system, it features a flip-up face.
While pricing won't be set until next month at the earliest, sound and navigation packages on current Lexus models include amenities such as heated seats. And they list for about $5,800. Worth it? Put it this way, you won't be disappointed.
The same can't be said, however, of the adaptive variable suspension (AVS) Lexus is pushing. (Cost on the current model: $692, but available only when ordered with feature packages ranging from $1,900 to $2,500).
How do you improve on the ride of the base '01? Why try? On the winding hillside roads above Palo Alto, switching AVS settings from sport to comfort and back to sport produced negligible thrills.
Like its predecessor, the new ES 300 is equipped with a 210-hp, 3L V-6. It's as comfortable as an easy chair but always ready to rock, thanks to a silken 5-speed electronically controlled transmission (ECT) that's new for '02.
The good news: Success hasn't spoiled the ES 300.
The bad news: Jenny Jones is expanding her audience.
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Vehicle type: Front-engine, front-wheel drive lower luxury sedan
Engine: 3L 24V Four-cam V-6
Power: 210 @ 5,800 rpm
Torque: 220 @ 4,400 rpm
Compression ratio: 10.5:1
Bore & stroke: 87.5 mm × 83 mm
Transmission: 5-speed ECT with overdrive
Wheelbase: 107.1 ins. (272 cm)
Overall length: 191.1 ins. (485 cm)
Overall width: 71.3 ins. (181 cm)
Overall height: 57.3 ins. (146 cm)
Curb weight (convertible): 3,439 lbs. (1,563 kg)
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Trip Summary: Friday, July 22: My flight left Detroit Metropolitan airport at 10:30 pm
Saturday, July 23: Arrive at Heathrow Airport in London. They held me in a sort of semi-high security holding cell for suspicious people for almost 4 hours because I didn't have proper printed evidence of my itinerary (a return tick or evidence of the date I was going to leave). I forgot to print and bring the information from the website I bought my tickets from, if this would have helped.
Sunday: Went on a two hour walking tour that stopped at 4 palaces. Went to the British museum. Walked past the London Eye. Saw a magician who who quit in the middle of his show because his microphone died.
Tuesday: Went to the Wallace collection. Went to the National Gallery for 2 hours before they closed. Went to the Play "Ivanov" by Anton Checkhov. Cost just under 42 US dollars, bought 4 weeks in advance. I wanted a non-musical play.
Wednesday: Went to Buckingham palace. Tickets cost about $33 US dollars. There is a path through certain rooms and an optional audio guide with headphones. Ropes and guards keep people out of the private areas. Pictures are not allowed...Walked along so called Queens walk (path along the Thames River, passed by Tower of London, Tate Britain, outdoor seating areas of restaurants/bars, London Eye, and so on.
Thursday: Went to the Tower of London (about $40 US dollars), then Tower bridge (about $14). Walked past the Prince Albert Memorial.
Friday: Went to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It was a waste of time. To be fair, there was a 50,000 square foot greenhouse and a tower modeled after east Asian architecture that were are both closed for renovations until sometime in 2917-2018. Then saw the Victoria and Albert Museum. They were open until 10pm because it was Friday. (A crowd of younger people were in the lobby and a techno DJ was playing music. But I was just there for the museum). 10-25% of the crowd was diffusing into the museum.
Saturday: Went to the Jewish museum. The place is small but you could spend two or more hours there if you read everything. Went to Portobello Road Market to see scenery and walk past small stores and gift shops. Might or might not have been a waste of time. The only souvenirs I brought back were two t-shirts for myself. British sizes seem smaller than the same American sizes.
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If this was your first time to London, and it sounds like it might have been, you really did a lot! Next time for trips out of central London, try Hampton Palace, Hampstead, boat ride on the Thames to Greenwich. Walking tours by London Walks are economical and very informative.
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I was on the London Walks tour. My tour was "free" but I gave the tour guide a tip.
I stayed in a hostle and I bought my own food from small grocery stores. I traveled alone. This is why I spend so little compared to what other people in these discussions think a trip costs.
I gave a tip or donation to each "free" museum Invisited.
My airplane tickets + hostle cost just under $1,984 US dollars. Food was 93.13 pounds or 13.31 pounds a day on average. I spend under $2,500 US dollars total. I really got ripped or screwed by not exchanging my US dollars for pounds at a gift shop, like the ones on Oxford street or Portobello road or somewhere outside the airport.
For the next trip, of course I want to avoid getting held in a cell for imigrants and suspicious people while they decide whether or not to let me into the country. What happens next time I take a trip to somewhere outside thr U.S.A. and then get sent right back home? Does trip insurance cover this?
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Insurance, you need to read your policy
Why did you exchange dollars, why not just use ATMs?
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If your walk was free, it wasn't with London Walks.
Ditto on ATMs.
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London Walks charges up-front for their (excellent) walking tours, unlike some of the "free" ones, and tipping is not necessary.
For anyone reading who is planning a trip to any foreign country: yes, they want to make sure your paperwork is in order before they let you in. As most travelers purchase in advance their flight or train travel for returning home, or onward travel, and have the details of same to hand at Immigration, this is unlikely to be an issue.
Also for anyone reading who is planning a trip: don't take large sums of cash to exchange, just use an ATM when you get there. Of course you tell your bank at home ahead of time where and when you plan to travel, and make sure your card will work, and make sure you have a PIN, and have called your credit cards, et cetera.
Read the fine print on your trip insurance policy before you buy it.
It's a pity the OP didn't seem to enjoy his/her trip to London more. Apparently the street performer with the faulty microphone was one of the more memorable points of the trip. How about that Tower of London, then?
Speaking of which, adult admission cost for the Tower of London is £25 at the gate, which is $30.39 at today's exchange rate, and would have been $32.88 on 27 July 2016.
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I think the OP just has quite a terse style of writing - I didn't take it to mean they didn't enjoy themselves.
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I spend 5 hours at the Tower of London. This included the 1 hour tour narrated by a Yeoman guide, the coin-minting exhibit, armor displays in the White tower, walking on the street-like paths, and on the upper path that leads into a reconstructed bedroom, a display about soldiers training at the tower during World war one while the place was still open to visitors, the crown Jewels, the basement area with the medieval killing device. I partially looked at the display about the Royal Fusiliers but I didn't read everything.
Costs: in pounds of stuff I did:
30.45, Ivanov play, Royal Olivier Theater, bought 4 weeks in advance.
21.50, Buckingham palace.
25.00, tower of London
9.00 Tower bridge
12.00 exhibit, undressed, a brief history of underwear, victoria & albert museum. Could have skipped it.
about 45.00 worth of London underground train rides
2.00 coin pouch
10.00 Two t-shirts, which seemed like the standard souvenir shirts all the gift shops I walked past on Oxford street or Portobello road sold. They were wrapped in plastic. They look like too-lightweight undershirts somebody ironed the designs onto.
2-4 pounds each at the Tate Britain, Wallace collection, Victoria & Albert museum, British museum.
15.00 Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
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Typically, I am rather cheap. I typically only allow myself to spend have to possibly 2/3 of what I think I can afford to spend, when I take a trip, but I have no rational reason for this. I saved money by staying in a hostel and buying my own food from small grocery stores, but I didn't try to be cheap on museums and activities.
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Just want to say thank you to the OP for making a donation at the museums - this is purely voluntary and frankly most of us residents never give anything as we figure we pay via our taxes. But tourists don't HAVE to contribute so it was nice that michaelpianko - a self proclaimed 'cheapo' - did. So sorry for the hold up at the airport. I'm glad you had a good time (apart from that) and hope you come back and explore even further afield. Kew is actually a bit off the usual tourist trail which makes me wonder if OP has an interest in things botanical. In which case, there are many wonderful gardens to be visited throughout the UK.
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Kew is actually a bit off the usual tourist trail which makes me wonder if OP has an interest in things botanical. In which case, there are many wonderful gardens to be visited throughout the UK.>>
probably not if he didn't like Kew.
I'm wondering what happened to Monday!
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Entirely possible to be interested in things botanical and still be disappointed in a visit to Kew.
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On Monday, July 25, I went to the British museum, then wondered to the South Bank area, walked over a bridge where the london eye near me on my left hand side as I walked over it, pased a woman dressed as Shrek, who asked where I was and I repled, Michigan in the United States, and she replied, Romania. Maybe she was hoping people would have their picture taken with her and then give her money. passed the london eye, passed the magician who I watched until his microphone died... do other people also keep a paper diary of what they have done, while traveling?
I thought about going to the town of Bath but I didn't. I am thinking of visiting Italy on my next trip.
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Other than the Rosetta stone, the second most memorable thing in the british museum is the Lindow Man, a dead man found in a bog in England in 1984 who was killed about 6,000 years earlier, which reminds you that when he was killed, about 40% of people died early due to murder.
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Lindow Man, a dead man found in a bog in England in 1984 who was killed about 6,000 years earlier, which reminds you that when he was killed, about 40% of people died early due to murder.>>
mm - it's a while since I've been to the British Museum, perhaps I'll go and look him up next time I'm in London.
I'm interested in that statistic Michael - where did you get it from?
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While there are, of course, a lot of Roman remains in Italy, I'm not sure there are any like the baths in Bath. And, of course, there is plenty more to see in and around Bath.
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I was off on when Lindow man died. He died sometime approximately between 2 BC ans 119 AD. I might have read the statistic in a book called, The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker. I already took the book back to the library and he might be wrong.
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I might have read the statistic in a book called, The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker. I already took the book back to the library and he might be wrong.>>
mmm - I thought it sounded a bit out. I suspect that most people died of disease at that time, just like now really, They just died earlier than we did.
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I suspect infant mortality, especially at birth and in the first 6 months would have been the major issue
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that too, bilbo. infant mortality rates were probably very high.
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How did you like the hostel? Pros and cons? Was it the one you couldn't take food into or did you book a different one?
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I stayed at SoHostle, on Dean Street, near Soho park and Oxford Street. I think the reason the rules say that no food is allowed in the hostel is because they have a cafe in the Hostel. But they didn't care that I brought food into the hostle bedroom. The con of eating my own food is that exposed myself to fellow youngish or cheepo travelers less by not eating in the cafe, but I typically am not good at talking to strange people I don't know. I did briefly talk to another man from Chicago, three man friends from Singapore who who had slight knowledge of English, and two women friends from the town of bath who pronounce "Bath" with a sort of low mid or low back vowel similar to the o in "con".
The hostel provides bunk beds, a fitted sheet over the matress, and a quilt but no top sheet. There were 4 bathrooms per section of the hostel, and the showers are in separate rooms than the toilets. And in England they bathrooms are called "the toilets", not bathrooms. I actually rarely talked even though the country speaks lamost the same language I do. It would have felt too silly to stay in a hotel that costs $200 or more per night, given that I am just traveling alone. And if wasn't such a health nut I still wouldn't sit alone in restaurants. I took what I will call a Young Person Cheep Trip, while other people in these forums seem to take what I will call Middle Aged Expensive Trips. I could have spent a little more, but I only spend money if I can really justify the cost.
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And in England they bathrooms are called "the toilets", not bathrooms.
Isn't diversity a wonderful thing?
Actually the brutal truth is that if a room has a toilet, but no bath, it's a toilet.
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Actually the brutal truth is that if a room has a toilet, but no bath, it's a toilet.>>
or "the loo" [though those ladies from "Both" might refer to it as the lavatory].
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Mayor seeks flood levy answers
Corangamite Mayor Matt Makin has joined those calling for more information about how money raised through the Federal Government's flood levy will be spent in western Victoria.
Councillor Makin was one of 14 mayors who sent a letter requesting more information to the Federal Government last month.
On Wednesday, Liberal MP Dan Tehan asked Prime Minister Julia Gillard about the issue during question time.
Cr Makin says flood-affected local governments need to know when the funds will be available.
"We're fortunate that we can carry that expense for a short period of time through our cash reserves but we can't do that in the medium term and we really need to get some certainty from the Federal Government as to what their role is and how their flood levy is going to actually benefit people in the south-west of Victoria," he said.
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An awesome but grainy series of stills from Dr. Strangelove's mythical, climactic pie fight.
I'll finally be able to use my Home and End keys the way I want to! w00t!
Year: 2006 (Page 1 of 38)
Were it not for my brother mentioning it the other night, I don't know when I would have been clued into Children Of Men. And now I want to see it, badly. As someone who is a fan of movies and books about dystopian futures and whatnot, I'm seriously all over this.
78 minutes of great mash-ups from 2006 hand picked by A + D, with bonus tracks.
I probably ought to enable this on my sites — even tho I don't own a Wii yet.
This is so getting added to my feed reader.
Mmm… Dark grey woolen Tigers — Only at Urban Outfitters. Drat.
I've been arguing with myself over getting rid of my MySpace accounts — both my personal one and the one for Preshrunk — for the past hour. Just ignoring them and turning off notifications doesn't hurt anything, I guess. Still, the last thing I want is some sort of atrophied social networking profile that sits ignored for months or years until I finally remember that I have it.
So unless someone can make a good case for keeping them, they're gone on January 1st.


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The Morris President's Club Award was handed out Wednesday to an advertising employee with The Augusta Chronicle.
Melissa Starrette was honored for her work in 2013.
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There's a bit of noise about how the defence isn't so good now.
People are really pleased with AJ's form.
Under Roy Hodgson we never had these problems in defence.
But the forwards really suffered.
All of the above is not a coincidence!
Under Hodgson we rarely committed men ahead of the ball. The back door was always being watched, usually by at least five players. So if we lost possession we still had our shape. It was mad to see and felt a bit like overkill, but a testament to all the hours of training the team put in.
Now is different. At one point Riise was a legitimate left-winger. Clint Dempsey doesn't really defend like he used to (playing that slanting in role he's all over the show, which isn't good for structured defending). Duff works hard but in the midfield there's a new balance: defence is important, but it's not all powerful like it was. Before the midfield could attack but had to be careful. Now they always attack but try to be careful if they possibly can.
It's a big difference.
So the defence looks much shakier and the forwards look better!
More fun but less 'good', perhaps.
There's always a balance. Stack the stones high and you might have a higher tower, but it might fall down in a mess, too. This is the situation we face. You can build a big tower against Wisla Krakow, but against the better teams it might be an idea to add a few more stones at the bottom so it's harder to knock down.


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Partners from health care, faith-based organizations and educational institutions have teamed up to provide free flu shots on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 24.
Eight separate clinics will be held in Winnebago County. Clinics will be open from 8 a.m. to noon at Carpenter's Place, Morning Star Baptist Church and at St. Bridget's Food Pantry in Loves Park. Shelter Care Ministries will have a clinic from 10:30 a.m. to noon. New Zion Baptist, Rock River Valley Food Pantry and St. Elizabeth's will provide flu shots and free blood pressure and blood sugar checks from 8 a.m. to noon. Rockford Rescue Mission will have flu shots available from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Two clinics will be held in Boone County. The Belvidere/Boone County Food Pantry in Capron and Salvation Army in Belvidere will provide flu shots and free blood pressure and blood sugar checks from 9 a.m. to noon.
Whiteside County is also participating with clinics at the Whiteside County Health Department in Rock Falls and the Salvation Army in Sterling. Flu shots and free blood pressure checks will be held at these locations from 8 a.m. to noon.
Any adult 18 and older is welcome if they have no health insurance, are unemployed or otherwise cannot afford a flu shot. No proof of identification is needed. Supplies are limited. Medicare or Medicaid cards are not accepted.
Anyone can get the flu, and it can be serious. Every year, protect yourself and those around you by getting a flu shot. For more about the clinics, call the Winnebago County Health Department at (815) 720-4217.
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I know what you're thinking: "This is just some bronze noob that isn't even good, and wants to get attention by making an un-meta guide to a trolly character". This is correct. I am not even bronze. Moving on, if you want to build AD ****er, then you need to maximize your crit chance and attack speed, so that you can throw as many of those infinite big wrenches as possible. Most people will not be expecting an AD ****er, that is, of course, until this guide changes the meta entirely, so for those few weeks, you will be able to wreck them in their stupid, Magic Resist building faces ;).
Pros / Cons
- Not Good
- Your team will hate you for playing it
- Not meta
- Inferior to every other ADC in nearly every situation
- Fun as heck
- Your team will hate you for playing it
- Okay skillshot-based CC in the Grenade
- Awesome Bloons Tower Defense gameplay achieved with turrets
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In order to maximize your gold income, you want to have one champion kill every thirty seconds. In order to do this, you must rely on a CC-heavy team, and some amazing teammates setting things up for you. Make sure to pick up some CS while you're at it, and let the enemies fall right into the honey and activate your trap card, Hidden Bush Turrets! You don't need to approach, because remember, the best offense is a good offense. You really want to make sure that you get them to hang themselves, that way your inevitable after-kill BM is warranted. Make sure that your BM is good enough to let them know how much of a bakara they truly are :3
BM Guide
This is one of the most essential components to the living, breathing, throbbing machine that is Heimerdinger's kit. There are a multitude of ways to BM them, ranging from mere fun laughs to utter destruction of their pride. But before you start BM-ing, you want to get your Dance, Taunt, Joke, and Laugh hotkeys set in the Communication tab of controls. My personal favorite BM is the spamming of dance, to get HD to the point of looking like "what, you tryna dive my turrets, young blood?". Another of my favorites is the classic "Illumiantiei confrimed" BM, where one places three turrets in a triangle and initiates an uninterrupted HD dance in the middle of said triangle. Now, HD also has a passive BM known as the IDGAF Walk. This is where his walk cycle is modified to where his head trails behind his body like it weighs more than half of his weight. This can be initiated by simply pressing one Taunt, Joke, Laugh, or Dance.
Team Work
As the saying goes, team work makes the dream work. What you want is three supports covering your back and front with tons of CC, preferably healing too. What this will reward them with is an amazing scaling ADC with tons of area lockdown at end-game. You can basically choose your lane, and say "No, enemy team, you are not getting through here". If anyone refuses to support you, make sure you explain to them how amazing of an end-game champion ADC Heimerdinger really is.
Thank you for reading my first guide. Don't trust any of it because I am just some random Bronze that doesn't know anything about the meta, or how the game is played. All I know is that ADC ****er can carry games, as long as your two supports get you fed enough. I've been fed numerous times by my enemy laners, in multiple games. On another note, I find that Riot Games' match-making system is semi-broken, because I keep finding myself being matched to the same enemy team, some Five Man party of friends who think they're funny because they named themselves Bots, like Galio Bot, Annie Bot, and Lux Bot, and only play the character that they're named after.


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Actor Pandiyarajan's Aanpavam team celebreated the 25 year today( 07 December 2010) at chennai. Baghyaraj, Santhanu, Ramesh kanna, Revathi, Sasikumar, Samuthirakani, RK Selvamani, Ameer and sangeetha attended the function. Pandian the lead of the movie is no more was the missed person during the event. Also the lead actress seetha Did not make it to the vent.
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PENTICTON - Music icons The Doobie Brothers will celebrate the fall harvest in Penticton this year, with a concert planned at the South Okanagan Events Centre.
The rockfest is scheduled for October 27, 7:30 p.m., and they'll be performing all the classic hits you know and love. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
The first seeds of The Doobie Brothers were planted in 1969. Budding professional drummer John Hartman sought out Canadian-born guitarist/singer/songwriter Skip Spence who was playing with a band called Moby Grape. Next came songwriter/guitarist Tom Johnston. They performed for awhile as a trio then teamed up with bassist Dave Shogren and guitarist/songwriter Patrick Simmons. The group played as many concerts as they could in 1970, perfecting their sound all over northern California.
The sound — rock harmonies layered with styles from various genres — earned them a contract with Warner Bros. Records and in '72 they launched what became a multi-million dollar collection called Toulhouse Street, with hits such as Listen to the Music and Rockin' Down the Highway. The No. 1 single Black Water followed in 1974.
In 1976 they pulled in another songwriter, Michael McDonald, produced their Best of the Doobies album, selling more than 11 million copies, then, in '79 the Brothers came out with yet another No. 1 single, What a Fool Believes. In all, the Doobies have tallied five top 10 singles and 16 top 40 hits.
The band earned a place in the North American music firmament, with three multi-platinum, seven platinum and 14 Gold records and four Grammies. Their music is often used to set the mood in relation to time and space in movies and commercials.
"We have entered a territory that we never imagined for ourselves, as far as being a part of the cultural landscape," Pat Simmons said in a press release. "It's kind of odd when you see your songs in television commercials and hear yourself as background music in a commercial business, but it's cool. I hear B.B. King in the same places. We're in good company."
Tickets for The Doobie Brothers are $49.50, $64.50 and $82.00 and are on sale to the general public on Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m. Tickets can be purchased at www.ValleyFirstTix.com by telephone at 1-877-763-2849 (SOEC-TIX) or in person at the Valley First Box Office at the SOEC and Wine Country Visitor Centre.
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The Institute for Government's programme director, Daniel Thornton, has raised further concerns about the use – or misuse – of the government's Digital Marketplace, Whitehall's central procurement tool for the purchase of cloud services and digital skills.
Thornton's comments come shortly after diginomica raised concerns about government buyers' use of the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework, which is one of the key frameworks listed on the Digital Marketplace.
The framework is meant to be a vehicle for SMEs to get business within the public sector and for departments to buy digital outcomes. However, sources have suggested that the framework is being 'abused' after some supplier opportunities for the framework have budgets that reach as much as £25 million and don't resemble anything like a digital outcome.
It has been suggested that the Government Digital Service (GDS) isn't doing enough to build up buyer capability and enforce projects that comply to their standards.
However, speaking at a Westminster eForum event this week in London, Thornton contributed to broader concerns about the Digital Marketplace, stating that whilst it is "frictionless", he said that "it's not leading to the standards being spread across government". He said:
If you look at some of the contracts that are put out on the Digital Marketplace, there are lots that are a very long way from what GDS would describe as the standards they are putting out there.
I've seen things like 'must know PRINCE2', 'must have worked with the MoD for the past three years'. So the idea that you're opening things up to SMEs to come in and break up these big contracts, you're just not seeing that in the contracts that are put out there by lots of departments.
And there's no vetting of these tenders that are put out. They just go up.
The most recent sales data for the Digital Marketplace shows that £1.6 billion has been spent through the 'store' (November 2016). However, this is just for the G-Cloud framework, which supplies commodity services to the public sector, but there is very little transparency around the spending on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework.
GDS is supposed to approve all spend on digital projects over £100,000, but it was revealed by the department's Director General, Kevin Cunnington, that this approach would be reversed in the coming weeks. Cunnington is in favour of "much more considered, continuous interactions".
However, this does raise the question of how GDS is going to get buyers to change their behaviour, without controls in place. How is GDS going to build up buyer capability? Thornton said that the government needs to do more. He added:
We've been talking to quite a few contractors about doing business with government and using the Digital Marketplace. I think the Digital Marketplace is a welcome innovation, I think it has brought lots of new suppliers and opportunity to contract with government, with lower transaction costs than previously.
But it's also clear that the Digital Marketplace isn't being used in the right way. People are putting out tenders that shouldn't be there. What I think we are going to be saying to government is that they need to start having a bit of vetting of the stuff that goes up in the Digital Marketplace.
They need to work harder in getting the departments and agencies to understand the standards you set and have you comply with them. The government's policy is that they want to bring more SMEs and innovation into government, with these contracts – but how are they actually going to do it?
Thoughts on the Strategy
Thornton also had some thoughts on GDS' recent Transformation Strategy, which had been delayed for several months, but outlines how the government's vision up until 2020. As many have noted, Cunnington's strategy is for more conciliatory in its approach compared to his predecessors, but there were also few targets or ambitions included that could be measured.
Thornton said:
I think the strategy did have a change of tone from the previous strategy in 2012, it focused on transformation, rather than 'the answer is digital, the answer is agile, and we are going to build it all ourselves'. There was much more of a focus on working with suppliers and a view that not all legacy is bad. I think the new team is more pragmatic.
However, Thornton added that if you search for £ signs in the document, you don't really find any. And that there was no allocation of funding at all in the strategy, which he said was a "problem".
Thornton suggested that part of the problem with GDS getting departments and the wider public sector to adopt its standards and ways of working is that the new Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer aren't as supportive of the digital agenda, compared to their predecessors David Cameron and George Osborne. This has an impact, Thornton said.
While it's clear that the Bracken era did lead to new ways of working in many departments, new approaches to digital, some services being transformed, there is still a long way to go in terms of the standards that GDS has set reaching the far reaches of government.
We've been saying that it's not enough for the Minister for the Cabinet Office to cheerlead this. It's not enough for officials, however they good they are, to lead this process. George Osborne got this agenda and David Cameron talked about it and said it was an important part of what government was up to.
I think it's the case that the Prime Minister and Chancellor have not said anything about the overall agenda. If you work in government, you pick up signals from what senior ministers say. Is this serious or not? Why do departments have to listen to GDS if the Prime Minister and Chancellor aren't backing it?
My take
It was by pure coincidence that I happened to listen to Thornton speak this week and it just so happened that he raised concerns similar to mine about the Digital Marketplace. But it's becoming clear that the problem isn't with the marketplace itself, rather than buyers' ability, or willingness, to comply with GDS' new way of doing things. So, why does GDS then want to relinquish more control and argues that change has been embedded? It clearly has not.
GDS needs to come up with a clear strategy of how it is going to affect change within departments, build up buyer capability and enforce the standards it has set. At the moment, things are slipping and that is dangerous territory to be embarking on.
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Brave Cameron Donald won't duck out
An engine blow up while flat out in fifth gear on a Superbike - which he described as 'a hand grenader!' - was not the sort of TT return two-time winner Cameron Donald was expecting.
Currently racing in the Malaysian Superbike Championship aboard a ZX-10R Kawasaki, Aussie Donald, who took a double win for Relentless Suzuki in the Superbike and Superstock classes at the 2008 Isle of Man TT races, is back on Japanese machinery at this year's showpiece event with Londonderry-based Wilson Craig Honda Racing.
The affable Warrandyte resident had entered semi-retirement from pure road racing following his fantastic second place in the 2013 Superbike race at the TT, but was lured back to help PR the new Norton venture by company CEO Stuart Garner in 2014 and 2015.
Competitive by nature, Donald decided that the lure of jumping back onto Honda machinery for TT2016 would help him deliver some achievable top six results on Mona's Isle.
So far, however - as can so often be the case at the Isle of Man TT -practice week has been nothing short of pure torture.
"It's been a tough start to say the least," said Donald.
"I came here feeling a bit like a newcomer again if I'm being honest. After two years riding the Norton, it was all about getting my confidence back.
"That was an adventure in itself and although we were lapping under 125mph, I really was riding my backside off to get the lap times we did."
If that was an adventure, his 150mph engine blow up at Shoughlaigue, which has been re-named McGuinness' after the 23-time winner and is situated between Handley's and the ultra-fast top of Barregarrow section, almost had him booking an early flight back to Melbourne.
"I've never had a component failure in such a catastrophic way riding the TT circuit," he continued.
"And if I'm honest I was lying on the grass bank after I'd got the bike stopped thinking, 'what excuse can I make to walk away from here with the minimum of fuss?' It really was that type of moment."
But he was back in the saddle on Tuesday night aboard his Wilson Craig Racing Supersport 600, which ironically had stopped on him during the opening session on Saturday night.
But by the end of practice on Tuesday, the wide toothy smile that we've come to expect from the tattooed Aussie was back, accompanied by a respectable 122mph lap.
"The Supersport class is not my strongest class as I'm not riding one these days. It's now all about getting the Superbike rebuilt and back out there for some laps before Saturday's six-lap Superbike race," he said.
Confident in his own ability, but also pragmatic in his summing up, Donald said of the week ahead: "I came here looking to work myself into competing in and around the top five. If you do that at the TT anything can happen.
"The competition out there this year is huge, but I've done the times before and I'm as fit as I've ever been and riding well in the Malaysian Championship, which I want to contest all year.
"Taking that into consideration, if I can get more laps to get acclimatised and top the confidence up, we will certainly not be a million miles away."
Adding to his podium collection over the next week at this year's Isle of Man TT could well turn out to be a mammoth task.
But the 38-year-old will remain a big hit with the hardcore TT fans, who always respect a former winner on the world's toughest strip of pure road racing tarmac.
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Unanswered: Clarification - dsync on Windows
I'm investigating performance issues on an ASE 15 server running on Window 2003. Setting dsync false on the devices is making a significant performance difference. e.g. an insert that takes around 5 mins with dsync false takes 30 mins with dsync true.
Is this expected? The sybase docs indicate the dsync setting is ignored on Windows:
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Just following up on this...
The SAN monitoring tools show clearly the dsync device settings makes a difference in Windows. With dsync on, the write IO comes through in 2KB blocks as expected. With dsync off, the write IO is coming through delayed and in much larger block sizes.
So here's, a tip: for test/dev databases I'd highly recommend experimenting with dsync = off for the devices. You need to restart Sybase for the change to take effect. Makes a big difference to performance.


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I assume you all know who Carlos Castaneda was, but then assumptions make an ass of you and me, so for those few who might have forgotten, Carlos Castaneda was a best-selling author of books, from the 1970s till his death in the 1990s, which purported to teach how he learned to go into altered states of consciousness at will.
Castaneda's teacher was supposed to be a Yaqui Indian shaman from Mexico named Juan Matus, respectfully known as don Juan. We won't go into the details, but it's pretty certain that Carlos was a trickster who invented a teacher so he could, as 'Carlitos' you might say, play the foolish young devotee who obstinately refused to listen to and learn from don Juan's teachings, forcing don Juan to repeat his lessons over and over, which enabled Carlos to later write book after book about their time together. Fortunately the books are meaty and well worthing reading more than once in spite of the famed flaws of the books and their author.
Casting himself as the student instead of the teacher was a true stroke of genius on the part of Castaneda, who was in fact a highly energetic genius with a sense of humor several worlds beyond most people's ability to apprehend what he was cackling about behind his hands. But instead of setting himself in front of us and saying, 'You have to listen to me because I'm a highly energetic genius,' he went around the resistance this would have generated by sitting sideways to us and at the feet of a third party who knew everything and was also not addressing us directly. We were thus effectively tricked into passively absorbing the information that the real Carlos wanted to teach, while never questioning his qualifications as a teacher. Carlos was just an anthropologist who met someone in the field who changed his life.
Castaneda's approach was mimicked by a few new age writers who are probably still giving lectures and such, but Carlos didn't need to give seminars. His books made him a millionaire. But he succumbed to the temptation of a highly energetic Latin American millionaire, and used his impish personality and wily ways, not to mention his status as an exotic foreigner--to attract a group of female disciples around himself who could satisfy his ferocious sexual appetite while being convinced that it was all part of their practice in 'sorcery' which is one of the names that Carlos called unworlding.
One of these women was an author and the daughter of a well-known novelist, and she wrote a tell-all about Castaneda's real lifestyle after he died. The book was mostly a whinefest in which she blamed Carlos for other people's decisions to like him and follow him. She even wondered aloud, in her book, if Carlos might not be a psychopath or sociopath, that is, someone without real human feelings who takes what he wants from people, leaves them high and dry without the satisfaction of a human relationship, lacks a conscience, lies compulsively, etc. etc. Sounds like the typical rap of an average ex-girlfriend. Of course you and I know that the covert purpose of these psychiatric labels such as 'sociopath' is to help shrinks get richer faster, but let's not go too deeply into that. Let's just say that Carlos announced to the world in his third book that he was in fact a compulsive liar, gave his reasons for doing it, and of course the wanna-believers who read his books in a superficial way did not notice that they were reading not-a-novels. Not that it matters, one way or the other, whether they are novels or not.
I'm here to tell you the real story of Carlos Castaneda's apprenticeship, and this was delivered to me in a series of ROTEs by little green angels, so you must know for a fact that everything I am about to say is literally true.
As a young man or teenager, the energetic Peruvian, who had been born on Christmas Day in 1925, was nearly destroyed by the death of his mother. He went into his room and barely moved for two weeks. But at some point, his self-pity and distress were interrupted by some strange things that happened to his state of mind. This happened for two reasons: firstly because he barely moved day after day and had even wrapped a dark cloth around his eyes, trying to make himself disappear. And secondly because he had, in his grief, stopped masturbating. And it so happens that Carlos had two or three times more sexual energy than most men, and as most men remember from when they were young, this energy must go somewhere or it can drive you crazy. At this critical juncture in his life, none of his energy was going anywhere.
But part of being a highly energetic person is that when Carlos made a decision, it was made, and when he went into his room he made the decision that his life as he'd always known it was over. Because he had effectively convinced himself that he was literally the most depressed and unfortunate young man who ever lived, it was natural for him to lay off the typical adolescent practice of spanking the monkey fairly constantly.
So here's what happened to the mentally seized-up, inert, rigidly immobile, emotionally destitute Carlos as he lay in the dark with no social input and no physical means of venting, day after day after day: he started to experience unworldings spontaneously.
And forgot about his mother completely. Having met the Unworld, he never cared about his family again. When he'd gone into that room, stricken with grief, he'd wanted out. But when he came out of that room, he knew where Out was.
To make a long story shorter, one day Carlos stood up from his bed, tore the dark cloth off his face and pitched it into a corner, and set off for America, intent on making unworlding his life. He was gonna get rich teaching Americans how to escape into alternate realities. In Los Angeles he worked odd jobs such as taxi driving for years, saved money and made plans to complete his education and begin writing books about unworlding, so that he could one day live the luxurious dream life of a best-selling author. This was not something he had any doubts about. It was one of those decisions he'd made and it was going to come true, no matter what.
Only one problem. He couldn't master unworlding. Out in the real world, unworlding wasn't easy any more, the way it had been when he was emotionally flatlined with a broken give-a-shitter, immobilized by psychic pain, with a black cloth wrapped around his face. And worse, he couldn't get laid. He was considerably older than most of the girls at the university, slightly overweight, and shorter than the women he found most attractive. The clownish behavior that had made him popular back home in Peru threatened to make him look like a middle-aged wanna-be in the relatively snooty middle-class environment of UCLA. In response to various discouragements and everyday fears, he started losing his focus as he descended into the foul pit of hopelessness known to the masses as compulsive masturbation. Worst of all, he believed that losing his seed would make it impossible to unworld, and because he believed this so strongly, it was true.
So because of the Catholic ghosts in his closet, his ability to unworld went from slight to none, and in desperation he began to seek out the most capable psychiatrist in the world, certain that no amateur or wanna-be would have what it would take to help him with his superlatively monstrous dilemma. For on one hand, he felt he was a little too short, fat and old for the girls he truly liked, but on the other hand, having oftentimes spanked the monkey over and over that very day, he would then find some acceptably attractive damsel putting the moves on him, but he would flee in terror that he would not be able to get it up once more that day. He decided that for him, being a wanker was literally suicide, but he didn't know how to stop. And he was sure that people would talk if he sought counselling; his reputation would be ruined, so in order to protect the career he'd planned for himself, he would consider only psychiatrists who lived far from Los Angeles.
With the pretense of writing a college paper about psychiatrists who were somehow able to get better results than the average shrink, Carlos asked around among professors he knew at school. It wasn't long at all before the name 'Milton Erickson' had found its way to the top of his list, and steadfastly remained there. So Erickson it would have to be, and Carlos' regular life-changing drives to Arizona began, which he later characterized as journeys to the Sonora Desert to visit the mythical don Juan Matus.
Milton Erickson M.D. was one of the most influential psychiatrists of the 20th century. As founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis he was perfectly qualified to serve as Castaneda's 'don Juan'; he knew more about altered states, and intuitively so, than any number of people proclaiming themselves experts on such matters. Erickson, like Carlos, had the energy of several people, but served it up from a wheelchair. Carlos Castaneda's books gave him wings, but Carlos had infinite respect for him, so he never breathed a word of the truth to anyone about where he got the idea for an old man who had somehow managed to transcend the human form and knew everything about altered states of consciousness, including how to get there and back again.
At first Carlos had the single, simple, but seemingly impervious problem to present to the old man, and this problem had a typically ingenious Ericksonian solution, which I will reveal presently. But while describing himself to Erickson, Carlos made the mistake of not saying anything that was true, and Erickson was one of the few people Carlos had ever met who could easily see through his habit of never revealing the facts about himself.
'Young man,' said Erickson after letting Carlos reel off a completely fictitious life story from start to finish, 'now I hope you are serious enough about solving your problem to start your story over, and if you ever lie to me again, the door's over there, fella, and I'm not kidding. One more lie and we will never meet again.' You see, Erickson had recognized Carlos' high energy and instantly loved him, so he had every intention of giving the middle-aged Peruvian immigrant his undivided attention as long as possible, because he saw in Carlos a lot of potential as well as a learning opportunity for himself. He badly wanted Carlos to stay, and he knew the easiest way to pull this off would be to threaten him with expulsion. He didn't actually care about the lying, he just used it as a lever.
So Carlos told him everything, because he was desperate. He sobbed, he laughed hysterically, he rolled on the floor in the ecstasy of vent and release, everything came out on the table, all his frustrations, his cultural anxiety about living in a foreign country, his fear that the tall women he fantasized about would never look at him, and most of all, his decision to become a best-selling author like Lobsang Rampa, but better, more sophisticated, and smarter. In short, Carlos begged Erickson to put him in a trance, get rid of the presenting problem immediately, and then teach him how to hypnotize himself so he could get unworlded anytime he wanted, like he'd been able to do when he was locked in his room after his mother's death. Once he had met Erickson and experienced the depth of his charisma and intuitive abilities, he was not going to leave unless he was tied up and dragged away.
'We can do all that,' Erickson stated flatly. 'And first we're going to solve the presenting problem, because a man your age should not be playing with himself several times a day, or several times a week for that matter. Not unless he wants to.' Carlos hid his face in his hands, and Erickson continued. 'You can be as embarrassed as you need to be, and since you were brought up Catholic you might think shame is normal, although since you are also begging me to pry open your mind, I don't mind telling you that shame and remorse are not very good motivation tools for most people.' Carlos unhid his face. Erickson went on. 'Now you must never again do what you just did, what I made you do. Never again tell your true story to anyone. Because you don't want to, you should never let anyone make you. I don't know why, because I just met you, but for some reason you thrive on not letting people into your secret world with you. And if it makes you happy, if it makes you thrive, if it makes you powerful to live alone in a secret world, that is reason enough. From now on, everything you do will be your big secret. Everything.'
The two men stared at each other. Carlos Castaneda had never felt so validated in his life. Not even close. This was the first person he'd ever met who really understood him. He was, you might say, hooked.
Next, Erickson told Carlos that he could easily solve the presenting problem, even without putting him in a trance, but he would not do it unless Carlos agreed to some very unusual terms. Carlos didn't hesitate for a moment, because when Milton Erickson says, 'I can help you,' you know he's telling the truth. And Carlos was not only desperate, but had decided that Erickson could somehow convey to him the facts of how to get unworlded, although Erickson seemed a bit reluctant. But he promised to teach him all about altered states and how to get into them, if and only if Carlos would agree to his terms. And the terms would not be revealed to Carlos until Carlos should willingly and truthfully agree to those as yet unspoken terms. In advance.
Upon receiving Carlos' promise to go along with anything, the old doctor looked the chubby little Peruvian up and down, wordlessly, for a solid five minutes, maybe six. Finally he said, 'OK, here is your assignment. You will report to work here at my house every weekend, cleanly shaven and dressed as a maid, a girl maid. You will clean the lecture room while I lecture my students. You will learn everything they learn, without the privilege of asking questions. You will never speak. I will explain that you are a deaf mute. If you ever break your cover, you will be expelled from our secret school of secrets. And never mention my name when you leave here. You will need to invent an excuse for travelling to the Sonora Desert so often.'
Carlos agreed reluctantly, but his course of study over a few short years made it possible for him to write the books which some credit with introducing the new age philosophies that are nowadays taken for granted. A mixture of what it really takes to get into altered states of consciousness, Taoist and Buddhist philosophies, along with homespun tactics for breaking free of one's own limiting beliefs and habits. As indirectly straight from the horse's mouth as the horse could make it, because, you see, it had been one of Milton Erickson's lifelong passions to find out just how indirectly he could manage to influence people.
For his part, Erickson warned every single one of his students and visitors privately, one at a time, that his maid was a cross-dressing deaf-mute that he--Erickson--had rescued from 'an abusive Catholic mental institution,' who was both intuitive and paranoid and would know instantly if anyone was talking about him or making fun of him. Once they'd been so carefully informed that the stubble on the odd woman's face was real man whiskers, they assumed the deaf-mute mental patient story was real too. The result is that not one of Erickson's students ever spoke to Carlos; in fact, since they knew he was a man pretending to be a woman, and since they thought he was both deaf and crazy, many were so intimidated that they pretended he wasn't there at all. Carlos learned a huge lesson from this, and incorporated similar stories into his books. During his time with Erickson, the deaf-mute Peruvian cross-dressing psycho maid only revealed himself once. Here are the sordid details.
The founders of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), a psychology student and a linguistics student who I will call Nitpicker and Potwatcher, were students of Erickson too. They were very devout students, but they were pushy, always wanting more information than Erickson was willing to spoon-feed them. Carlos was angry at their pushy treatment of the old man, who suffered from the aftereffects of polio and other disorders, he didn't like them, and ached in silence to find a way to get rid of them, hoping to either scare them away or find a way to blackmail them. One day our Peruvian maid sidled up to the two boys when they were sitting alone together in Erickson's yard, and dropped a word bomb on them. He didn't mention that he didn't like the way they were pushing the old man around, demanding that they be allowed to use cameras and tape recorders, but rather he pretended he wanted to get friendly. He said he wanted to sell them a fairly large quantity of pure liquid LSD at a steeply discounted wholesale price, and he wouldn't mind taking payments because he had a child back in 'Brazil' to support, and he was desperate. But it backfired. Nitpicker and Potwatcher threatened to report Carlos to both Erickson and the immigration authorities, and as a result, Carlos ended up doing what he never did, telling them his real name and what he was really doing at Erickson's house.
As it turned out, Carlos' first book and Nitpicker & Potwatcher's first book came out around the same time. What no one knew until now (and this must be true because it came to me by way of a ROTE from a little green angel), is that Carlos did in fact manage to get rid of Nitpicker & Potwatcher. He caught them jerking each other off behind the door in a coat closet, with one hand, while eating Twinkies with the other. They tried to tell him they were doing a scientific experiment upon the effects of junk food on heterosexuals experimenting harmlessly with homosexual behavior. He threatened to put the incident in one of his books if they wouldn't stop bothering the old man, and they promptly disappeared.
So that is the real story of Carlos Castaneda and his real don Juan. Of course the part about the founders of NLP is all made up.
But speaking of wankers, I promised to reveal how Milton Erickson helped Carlos Castaneda solve his little problem, the one that had brought him to Erickson to begin with.
Once Erickson had satisfied himself that Carlos would really keep his end of the bargain, he laid out the grand solution in less than six sentences.
'I'm not going to tell you to stop doing what everyone with a peter naturally wants to do from time to time. And I hope you intend to fall off the wagon now and then if you accept the cure, but whether you do or not is none of my business. But to tell a man never to auto-stimulate again would be an exercise in futility.'
Carlos nodded unconsciously in agreement while developing a hostile, suspicious squint, afraid he was being hoodwinked. Was the old man telling him to just keep at it, after all his promises to make the problem go away?
The old psychiatrist continued, leaning forward and speaking in a conspiratorial whisper. 'You can masturbate all you want, you know, and I would never try to stop you, but if you want to receive my teachings, and you have already agreed to this, you will never touch your dick again, as long as you live.'
Carlos and the old man stared each other down for a full minute. Finally, Carlos said, 'You mean I have to learn how to masturbate without touching myself?'
Erickson shrugged.
Carlos said, 'Well I refuse to rub myself on the wall like a filthy dog.' And Carlos Castaneda never beat his meat again.


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Pyre places you deep in purgatory as you lead a band of exiles through a series of combat trials, known as the Rites, through which the worthiest competitors will be granted safe passage back home. Supergiant Games Creative Director, Greg Kasavin, had this to say:
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The game will be available to demo at booth #8212 during PAX East in Boston, which runs this weekend from April 22-24.
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- At 8:56 AM, Jolene George said...
LOL...way too funny!!! Pear art is good too. :o)
- At 5:36 PM, preppypineapple said...
It totally does look like a bird...a big chick I'd say. Your daughter sounds so cute & funny. Mine is waist deep into the TERRIBLE 2's. Ugh. Not so cute.
- At 8:05 PM, Lisagh said...
ha ha... soooo funny. I mean, it's no peppermill (smile) but it still made me laugh.
- At 8:20 AM, Southern Sugar said...
What a great way of seeing things she has. Hope she never loses that. Things are beautiful through a child's eyes. Adorable!
- At 8:44 AM, j said...
That is so cute!
- At 1:54 PM, said...
I could no sooner eat pancake that looked like Elvis.
Honestly it looks like a lovely still life. I think your daughter is brilliant.
- At 8:49 AM, jilly said...
I love the art! My niece laughed SO hard when someone made the comment about ham coming from pigs, she thought that was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard. She walked around all day saying a pig, imagine that, a pig. At 5, it was just way too cute, do you think any of us told her otherwise?


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This will be the year Blu-Ray dies. It'll be come a niche product with everyone opting for streaming.
Windows 8 will be a success after its stumble out the gate, though Win RT will be a bomb.
Apple TV will not happen, but likely in 2014.
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Streaming will become dominant, Blu Ray will not die.
Next gen console, all in one device. DVR like features and partnerships with cable companies. Xbox 720 and Ps4 at E3.
More day 1 downloadable games, decline of physical disc but not death.
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Nintendo will release a gamepadless Wii U for $250
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These peanut butter brownies are a dottycakegirl original recipe, tried and tested- and I love them! Even though they're not on my diet…Well, they're not on anybody's diet to be honest. So maybe keep it down to four slices a day (I saw you!). Some words of advice: keep your windows shut. Because once these bad boys come out the oven you'll have all your weirdo neighbours popping round. Stay strong, don't waste them on just anybody, save them for people you can blackmail later…
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Estimating numbers for the proliferation of HD voice codes (that aren't G.722/AMR-WB) via soft clients gets to be a very slippery slope in short order.
Global IP Solutions (www.gipscorp.com) was very frank with HD Voice News in the challenges of providing an accurate estimate of softclient numbers.
"You [are] absolutely right that GIPS technology is used in connecting hundreds of millions of IP endpoints globally, which all includes GIPS wideband speech codec iSAC," said GIPS's John Gallagher. "But while wideband codecs are an important element of HD voice, it by no means guarantees HD voice because a codec cannot tackle the intrinsic problems of IP networks and devices such as packet loss, jitter, delay, echo and noise for example."
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At last count, Skype cited 521 million "registered users" and up to 20 million users online at "peak times." The software has proliferated beyond PC-style platforms and is now found on numerous mobile handsets and even higher-end HDTVs.
SILK, Skype's "superwideband" codec, does indeed support HD voice, but the codec will also – by design – drop back to wideband and then to narrowband voice if the compute and bandwidth resources are not available to support the highest encoding rates.
In addition, calls moving via SkypeIn and SkypeOut will be downgraded to narrowband at some point since the PSTN is, well, narrowband.
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It seems like everyone but Skype has license the GIPS iSAC codec for use in everything from consumer IM clients to integration into UC enterprise applications.
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UN supports Pakistani Christian on blasphemy charges
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that Pakistani Christian, Ayub Masih, was arbitrarily deprived of his liberty and has asked the government of Pakistan to free him. Ayub Masih was arrested in 1996 when he was 26, after allegations that he had blasphemed against Islam. Masih was sentenced to death in April 1998 for blasphemy. In July 2001, the Multan Bench of Lahore High Court rejected an appeal by Masih and upheld the death sentence earlier awarded against him. In February, 2002, the Supreme Court of Pakistan granted leave to appeal in Masih's case. The date for his appeal hearing has yet to be fixed. The UN Working Group studied the case and found in favour of Masih, saying: ".. the threats and atmosphere surrounding his trial and appeal denied him any chance of having a fair trial... the procedure conducted against him did not respect the fundamental rights of a person charged.....this coupled with the fact that under Pakistani law blasphemy cases insulting the Muslim religion are compulsorily heard by Muslim judges, undermines the credibility that a fair and impartial trial is being conducted." The Jubilee Campaign is also calling on British MPs to ask President Musharraf to intervene in the case of Nadia Clemence, a Pakistani Christian girl who was kidnapped in Mariamabad, Sheikupura District, in Punjab Province last year and forced to convert to Islam and marry. She was just 15. The police have taken no action and the Pakistani authorities have so far failed to ensure that Nadia is rescued and restored to her anxious parents. The kidnap of Christian girls and their forced conversion to Islam in Pakistan is not unusual and Jubilee Campaign has interviewed a number of girls who had been kidnapped and who were later rescued or managed to escape. Jubilee Campaign's researcher and Parliamentary Officer, Wilfred Wong, said: " We hope the decision by the UN Working Group will significantly add to the pressure on President Musharraf to ensure that Ayub Masih is released. Furthermore, we should not forget that there are at least 13 other cases of Christians who have been imprisoned because of blasphemy allegations. Justice needs to be done for them as well. For those girls who are kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam, unless efforts are made by the authorities to rescue them, it is likely that they will be condemned to a lifetime in captivity."


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We've had a chance to visit Prado and the MBar a couple of times recently. One night was on a Monday when visiting friends were staying at the Montelucia for a couple of days. The first glitch was when we were told we just missed Happy Hour - after my girlfriend spoke personally to someone at the pool area, who called the front desk, and said that there was no more Happy Hour on Mondays. But Diane, the bartender, graciously offered to give us the tapas at HH prices. She was GREAT, personable and friendly, and made excellent drinks (I LOVED the Amante Picante with its secret ingredient of green Tabasco, and Julio's Margarita was excellent too). She made a nice first impression, and one of the reasons we liked MBar so much. We also really enjoyed all the tapas we ordered too - smoky grilled head-on prawns, velvety jamon serrano with delicious bread, spicy merguez sausage, and crispy, tender calamari with roasted garlic aioli ($5 at Happy Hour, Monday thru Friday, 5-7).
The four of us also had a very good dinner - excellent wood-grilled ribeye with burrata, fideua with day-boat scallops and langoustines (a little salty, but still delicious and one of my favorites), and for me the Monday night wood-oven grill special - cochinillo or suckling pig (great). These nightly specials are limited, so be sure to call ahead. In fact, one of the chefs (Ivan) came out personally to tell me they were out when Diane told him I'd be disappointed with the bad news, but then returned to our table to happily inform me that there was one serving left. Nice personal touch that was very much appreciated. The nightly specials from the wood oven are: Sunday - Wood-grilled meats, Monday - Cochinillo, Tuesday - Roasted leg of lamb, Wednesday - Roasted chicken with garlic and rosemary, and Thursday - Roasted duck.
They do have some kinks to work out though - the hostess "misunderstood" our reservation and request to sit outside on the patio, which we made in person before we went to the bar for pre-dinner drinks and HH. She did apologize and ended up seating us at a nice table by the window, however. Also there was some confusion once seated, and it took half an hour for someone to take our order. I think there was some mixup about who was to take our table, though once we met our waiter, he was efficient, helpful and very attentive.
On a subsequent Tuesday night we were back for HH at the bar. Again, we enjoyed the tapas and excellent drinks, this time made by Ross (who makes one of the best Negronis in the Valley). One disappointment. I'm a big fan of the splurge-worthy jamón ibérico de bellota now that it's finally available in the States, but the serving were small pieces, some cut too thick, instead of the thin slices it should be, especially for a splurge on a high-quality menu item like this. Maybe it was the end of the leg?
Overall, I was impressed with the food, but think right now it's good, not great. OTOH, it's a gorgeous restaurant, love the menu (hopefully they'll have Padron peppers this summer!), and beautiful bar area with friendly, skilled bar staff. I was able to speak to Pavle on our last visit, so knowing he'll be there this weekend, we're planning another visit tomorrow night for a birthday dinner. Besides, Ross tempted me with the promise that Saturday there's a new cocktail he'll be putting on the menu - something with Campari and passionfruit syrup. hmmmmm.......
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