text: Getting the word out is never a bad thing, it can always help to bring in more interested people, and getting some new worlds in the works would be great but as Erik mentioned there are a few significant things that would be great to get sorted out so that new user experiences would be better. Being a fresh set of eyes and a new perspective can not be overlooked as a contribution. As you work your way through things into building a world taking notes on what you liked, disliked, or found easy and hard is good because it can show us where we need to provide more information in the form of documentation, videos etc. Something that gets hard to do when you have been looking at things for a long time. On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Erik Ogenvik <erik at ogenvik.org> wrote: > The one thing we really need is more development resources. There are a > couple of glaring omissions in the current stack, with NPC path finding and > proper collision detection being the most major ones. I'm working on them, > but there are so many other things that needs doing that the progress is > slow. > > /Erik > > 2015-01-11 22:55 GMT+01:00 Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at me.com>: > >> Ill see if i can help with that. Anything else you need, like project >> promotion etc? >> >> Marisa >> >> ---- >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marisagiancarla >> Opensim City: https://OpensimCity.org >> Opensim Radio: http://radio.opensimcity.org:8188 >> Empire Directory: https://EmpireDirectory.net >> Lugdunon City: https://LugdunonCity.org >> IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/company/pocketfiction-pocketgames4me >> >> On Jan 10, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Erik Ogenvik <erik at ogenvik.org> wrote: >> >> We're always in need of help. This work would mainly involve working with >> Ember, using CEGUI for the interface. >> >> /Erik >> >> 2015-01-09 23:30 GMT+01:00 Marisa Giancarla <fstltna at me.com>: >> >>> This looks really good, and my change requests would fit in nicely as >>> additional fields. Need any help with this? >>> >>> Marisa >>> >>> ---- >>> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marisagiancarla >>> Opensim City: https://OpensimCity.org >>> Opensim Radio: http://radio.opensimcity.org:8188 >>> Empire Directory: https://EmpireDirectory.net >>> Lugdunon City: https://LugdunonCity.org >>> IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/company/pocketfiction-pocketgames4me >>> >>> On Jan 1, 2015, at 5:40 AM, Erik Ogenvik <erik at ogenvik.org> wrote: >>> >>> With "working game" I mean a game world that is set up and allows people >>> to play a fun game. >>> We have to recognize where we've failed and remove those things that >>> only have a detrimental effect on the experience. >>> >>> I assume that the vision from the start to have a vibrant community of >>> many different worlds, but we're not there yet. If we ever gonna get there >>> we need to make the system more accessible. >>> The server browser just makes that impossible. >>> >>> When starting up Ember you don't want to see a confusing list of >>> cryptically named servers, the majority of them running broken or >>> incomplete worlds. You instead want to see what the system can do, you want >>> to play a game. No one gains anything from having to choose from 20 >>> different versions of the Braga world. >>> >>> The server browser will still exist for those that want to connect to a >>> random server, but the initial experience should be that the user is >>> presented with a list of games that can actually be played. >>> So far that's pretty much constrained to the Braga world being run on >>> mainly the amber.worldforge.org server. I don't know the status of >>> Dean's sandbox world; the metaserver doesn't respond currently (it's down?). >>> This also means that this isn't an automatic feature; it's a manual >>> feature where we enter the data about working games. If someone sets up a >>> working and unique world we'll add an entry. But there's no need for >>> functionality whereby the Cyphesis server automatically uploads data. >>> >>> As such I'm content at just having an Atlas file served through HTTP. >>> Ember can fetch it through curl. >>> >>> If would look something like this: >>> >>> [ >>> { >>> name: Braga, >>> ruleset: deeds, >>> description: "Enter the exciting island of Braga, where blah blah >>> blah...", >>> screenshots: [ >>> {url: "http://foo.bar/1.png", title: "A view from the dock"} >>> ], >>> entrypoint: amber.worldforge.org:6767 >>> } >>> ] >>> >>> /Erik >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 2014-12-30 20:08 GMT+01:00 Sean Ryan <sryan at evercrack.com>: >>> >>>> Hi Erik, >>>> >>>> We might have to sit down and haggle out the details, but conceptually >>>> I agree more or less with what your saying. >>>> >>>> I had occasion recently to review how WoW does their stuff, and it was >>>> interesting to see how similar it was to the current metaserver >>>> functionality ... very nifty. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I have responses for all your stuff below, but the short >>>> version is sure I can do that. >>>> >>>> Let me know, >>>> Sean >>>> >>>> A server-based listing like the one we currently have makes sense for >>>>> quick match games like shooters or RTS's, but makes no sense for >>>>> players looking for persistent worlds. For them, the server listing is >>>>> just baffling, and doesn't say anything at all about the servers. This >>>>> is all made worse by the large number of broken and incomplete servers >>>>> that are running. >>>>> >>>> Point 1: I agree the current methodology is less than ideal, and we >>>> should revise it. >>>> >>>> Point 2: I'm not certain having default behaviour to isolate by "game" >>>> is appropriate. I would say "server" is ok, but doesn't necessarily have >>>> to indicate 1 world server, 1 process. >>>> >>>> The last update I did for cyphesis with respect to the metaserver added >>>> in functionality to transmit additional data to the metaserver ... such as >>>> what server it's running (which typically will be cyphesis), and what >>>> ruleset it's playing, etc. This could be helpful information to make >>>> additional decisions for display purposes. >>>> >>>> We can tune the metaserver query capabilities so that, *if configured >>>> by the client* you could only get certain types of rulesets, servers, >>>> version, ordered in a simply gui-configured fashion. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> We should instead present the user with a list of well known Games >>>>> they can play. Instead of by default offering up all servers willy >>>>> nilly we should start by presenting a curated list of known working >>>>> games. These are games that are running and known to be working >>>>> >>>> >>>> This is a tough one. The question really is ... what is working? I >>>> know exactly what you mean, but what I'm talking about is the need to have >>>> a unit test ... or have some sort of certification process that in an >>>> automated way can provide a green light for listing. We could possibly use >>>> some sort of server info to handshake a key or something ... like they >>>> register and include a property like the server_key (or any such thing), >>>> and we derive a session key on the ms and tell the server in the response. >>>> If we don't disclose this anywhere else, we could use that as a reasonable >>>> authentication for some server enquiries to accommodate that. I've thought >>>> about how to do this, but we should sit and have a real think on it to >>>> decide where thing will go. >>>> >>>> >>>> the Braga world we host on amber.worldforge.org [1]). The presentation >>>>> needs to be much better than the simple table we currently show. Each >>>>> world should be presented with a title, a collection of screenshots >>>>> (people love screenshots) and an extensive description of the world. >>>>> We should try to only show unique worlds by default; there's no point >>>>> in having ten versions of the exact same Braga world. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think screenshots are an excellent idea, but the question is how. >>>> The devil is really in the details on this one. A default image and once >>>> logged into the world you can then have ember snag a screenshot or >>>> something? We could have the MS store a blob, but I think that might be >>>> very onerous, and would drastically increase the operational requirements >>>> of the MS. The other thing is some sort of "registration" process, and >>>> then we attach that info into the dynamic streaming media repo. That way >>>> dynamically it can be requested and cached client side. Thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>>> The way the client gets the information needs to be changed too. >>>>> There's really no need for the client to contact each server. >>>>> >>>> This would not be required going forward from the next cyphesis release >>>> as is. >>>> >>>> From the cyphesis vconf: >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> # additional attributes to send to MS of Monitor Variables >>>> # as a pipe delimited list >>>> metastats="clients|entities|version|ruleset|buildid" >>>> >>>> [metaattributes] >>>> server="cyphesis" >>>> ----- >>>> >>>> We can send anything we like ... stats, version, whatever. This >>>> information above (which was committed awhile back) would allow for all the >>>> sorting you have described (as well as a few others, such as latency which >>>> I calculate in round trip milliseconds from the first server registration >>>> packet, to the ack. We are in 100% agreement, that the server should >>>> expose what information it wants (along with a default set that is >>>> required, we can discuss what that is exactly), and the client interacts >>>> with the metaserver to get that. The first time there should be >>>> client->server interaction is the login process. >>>> >>>> >>>> My suggestion if that the metaserver should respond with the Atlas >>>>> protocol, rather than the current bespoke protocol it uses. That would >>>>> also make its operation simpler, and more extensible. >>>>> >>>> I'm not certain that I'd call atlas "simpler", but as the low layer >>>> communication is done via atlas for everything, I agree that unifying the >>>> metaserver under that umbrella is the right thing. >>>> >>>> >>>> Note also that I talk about "games" rather than "servers". It's >>>>> important that we present different games to the user, rather than >>>>> different servers. Part of my future vision of the system involves >>>>> having interconnected worlds hosted on different servers, something we >>>>> already have intial support for with the "teleport" functionality. As >>>>> such, the actual server should not be presented to the user (which >>>>> doesn't care about it anyway). Instead we should show the various >>>>> distinct games we provide. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I love the idea of interconnection, I am not certain it should be quite >>>> that willy-nilly, but I think that it's important for scalability (think >>>> instead of having 3-4 cyphesis servers running separately to cover "chunks" >>>> of a world, or different cities/fiefs, whatever ... seamless transport >>>> would be essential, but you wouldn't want for example some space skinned >>>> avatar bust in on your medieval themed game). >>>> >>>> >>>> Sean, you're in charge of the meta server. What would it involve >>>>> making these changes? I'm tempted to initially just have a simple >>>>> endpoint serving up a static Atlas document. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I've actually thought of making significant changes over time to the >>>> metaserver to make it work differently, but one of the most important >>>> constraints that I was given was to be backward compatible. >>>> >>>> So, a few important questions: >>>> >>>> 1) Are you talking about a complete break in compatibility (i.e. total >>>> abandonment of the current MS protocol in favour of using strictly atlas >>>> comms )? Or are you talking about having having the current MS protocol >>>> deprecated, and eventually phased out once usage is below a certain >>>> threshold? My opinion on this is that we should collect when the next >>>> round of LTS supported distros are coming up, and aim for a complete break >>>> for the next LTS distro. It might take some time to get it right, so this >>>> should be fine unless we're under the gun in terms of timing. I'll need to >>>> rethink things if we want to maintain legacy functionality, because I do >>>> custom serialization in MetaServerPacket ... and i'm pretty sure atlas does >>>> that itself. I'm not really in favour of just wrapping blobs to make life >>>> easier either ;) >>>> >>>> 2) If we're going to overhaul it ... we should have a list of >>>> requirements ... in terms of functionality, rather than implementation >>>> details. Here are some things again off the top of my head, I'm sure you >>>> have some, and the wider audience might have some suggestions too. >>>> >>>> - maintain specific attributes x,y and z for each server >>>> server=foo >>>> ip=x.x.x.x >>>> >>>> - maintain optionally server specified attributes >>>> current_players=123 >>>> foo=bar >>>> >>>> - allow data structure to be exposed via dns (this leads into all kinds >>>> of goodness with security, and making life easier for all kinds of stuff). >>>> >>>> - comms protocol to be atlas >>>> >>>> - allow the request of information in a flexible manner (this will >>>> probably mean defining a request/response interface, and making handlers >>>> for each type of request ... pretty standard). >>>> Example Handlers: >>>> : Meta Request (data about the data ... so what rulesets are >>>> registered, how many servers, etc) >>>> : Full Request (dump of data structure) >>>> : Limited Request ( request servers that are limited based on name, >>>> latency, ip, whatever ) >>>> >>>> - logging of specific information TBD >>>> >>>> - store anything in database? 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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Mushrooms Stuffed with Brie
I made these tasty little guys for every Christmas party I had and every party I attended. They are addicting, their classic and classy. I found them on The Pioneer Woman
Mushrooms Stuffed with Brie
1 package White Button Mushrooms, Washed And Stems Removed
4 cloves Garlic, Minced
¼ cups Flat-leaf Parsley, Chopped
4 whole (to 5) Green Onions, Sliced (up To Middle Of Dark Green Part)
Splash Of White Wine (optional)
1 slice (wedge) Of Brie Cheese
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Melt butter in large saucepan. Add mushroom caps and toss to coat in butter. Sprinkle lightly with salt and cook for 1 minute. Remove mushrooms from pan and place upside down in a baking dish.
In the same saucepan (without cleaning it) throw in garlic, parsley, and green onions. Sprinkle very lightly with salt and splash in wine, if using. Stir around until wine evaporates, about 1 minute. Remove from heat.
Cut rind off of brie wedge, then cut pieces of brie to fit each mushroom cap. Place inside, lightly pressing to anchor each piece of brie.
Top mushrooms with parsley/garlic mixture.
Place into the oven for 15 minutes, or until brie is melted.
Note: mushrooms are best when they've been allowed to cool slightly. Delicious
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The call to support her is a good one. I don't see her stepping aside as a good option, it sets a precedent where people could be bullied out if others don't like the work.
Chris, the wayback machine and cached pages confirms it was more than gossip. There's also a facebook page where the claim is still up for the first book. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=203350669734918
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Letter(s) from Irina Vinogradova to John (England)
Letter 1
Hello sun, my John. I hope you do not mind the word "sun"? I call you the sun, because your letter to me really was like a ray of sunshine in the gloomy weather. I very much waited and missed your letter, and now, when I finally read your letter, I calmed down. John maybe I have many times written to you about this, but I again want to tell you that your letter is always lifts my mood. On my face always a smile and I can even say that to feel happy. Right now even my colleague noticed it. She sits opposite me and ask me why I smile? I told her that I received a welcome letter from you and so I have to cheer up. She also smiled and said that probably is my beloved man wrote me a letter? I blushed a little before her and only that she no longer asking me questions, told her "YES". John, I hope you do not mind that I introduced you to my colleague, as my dear man? I know that we are now only good friends, but I think that there is nothing wrong if she will think of you as my man. I very much hope that you are not going against it.
So look something like today is your day? How your mood, your health? I hope all is well there with you and you have a great mood today? If you have today is not a very good mood, I would hope that my letter will lift you up, as your always lifts me.
John last letter I wrote to you was your cell phone numbers. If you honestly, I was expecting your call, because it is very much like to speak with you. But no phone call from you was not for me it seemed a little strange, because you write me that you tried to call me. At first I thought that maybe I wrote to you my number is not correct, but now I looked her last letter to you, and there was a need to give my correct number. I do not know why you could not get through to me and so I decided to call the operator of my voice and learn from her. Before you sit down to write you this letter, I spoke to my operator and a woman on the phone operator told me that my room service only for Russia and so I can not just call and receive phone calls from other countries. That is, my connection is not international and I can only receive calls from within Russia, but never with other countries. John please forgive me for what I am encouraged by your telephone conversation. I know that you are very much like to talk to me on the phone and wanted to hear my voice, but I did not know that services my room only to Russia. If I'd known about it, I would just tell you this, but I did not know about it and now I can only ask you for forgiveness for what I am encouraged by your phone call. I hope you are not very upset? John please do not fret. I promise you that I have something in mind. I'm like you can call itself a negotiating point. In our town there are many negotiating settlements and as soon as I have more free time I will call you, ok. Maybe even I can call you on this weekend, unless of course you can talk to me. Please just send me the phone number where I can call you always. Would be better if you write me your cell number from which you can always reply to me. So I'll wait for your phone number with country code.
John You know, last night to my home to come visit my closest friend. Her name is Sonya. We're friends with her childhood and always shared their secrets. Yesterday we had a lot of talking, sharing news, secrets, and somehow unnoticed topic of our conversation turned to our relation with you. My friend asked a lot about you and I did not hide anything from her. She asked about love and whether we love you and I to each other. I told her that before this, our relationship has not yet reached and that we're just friends. But in response, she told me that everything begins with friendship. She said that love is such an unpredictable thing that you can not guess what will happen tomorrow. So you should strive for more and always use all that gives us every day life. Personally, I agree with her, but I did not realize that's just what she wanted to tell me that. Today at work I thought about her words and I came to the decision that maybe she talking about us and about the meeting? Maybe she just wanted to give some advice that we do not lose time and have thought about how to meet with you in the near future? I know that we are still not very well know each other, but I think that one meeting will replace the thousands of letters and a million words. Do you agree with me? You would agree? If yes, then I can take leave from work for one month, in order to arrange this trip for you. What do you think about this? John please just do not think of me as a frivolous woman. I am not so and the more I am now seriously to you. Give me an answer that you think about the meeting? If you agree, then tomorrow or in the week to visit a travel agency and find out the cost of travel to you. I then send you all the information that you know, ok.
Well, you're probably already tired of reading my letter, especially with such a serious issue. I will not rush you with the answer and I would like to see you first thought. Write me when you're confident in your answer. I can do is wait for a response from you and hope that you have as much desire to meet me.
With love your Emiliya.
Letter 2
Hello my dear John. Again I want to begin my letter with a request to forgive me for my long silence to you. You probably insanely bored and waiting for my answer, but not until today did not write. Excuse me. John please just never think that I lost interest in you. This is not so. Just at this time there were problems with the internet and that is why I could not write to you yesterday, although I very much wanted and waited for your letter. Yesterday I could not even be reading your letter, because I could not get access to my e-mail box and all this because of problems with the Internet. But today, now all is well and that's only recently appeared online and I immediately sat down to write you this letter. Now I can only hope that you are not angry at me and you will be glad to see my letter.
John today we already Friday, but despite this I would like to ask you how you spent the week? How was your Thursday, what was the mood? Do not get bored alone? On my same Thursday I will not write much, because it was a boring Thursday. The street was - 19 C, it was a cold north wind, so I went nowhere, and almost all the time, was in his apartment. As you can see to write about anything. STOP, by the way I'm wanted to call you by phone on Thursday. In his last letter, I had promised you that I call you on the phone this weekend and that's why I left it on the street just to call you via telephone office. On Thursday, I came to the negotiating points had already been hoping that I call you and finally hear your voice, but when I pulled the door to negotiation point, it was closed. It turns public telephones will not work because there is a repair, but I did not know about it and had promised to call you. John I now feel guilty in front of you and the fact that I am again encouraged by you as a telephone conversation. Please forgive me. I really did not know that it will be closed and so I was promised to you in a letter that call you. But unfortunately the telephone office was closed so I could not call you. John I hope you do not very much were upset on Thursday, when not received a call from me? I really hope not and I ask you to be a little patient. In this Sunday or Monday I will have more free days, and I promise to try to call you. I hope you will be able to talk to me in these days? I tell you later in a letter to more precise time, how much exactly I can call you. So do not fret and wait for my call, ok.
Okay, now the news. In my last letter, I suggested that it was for you to meet with you this month and I can celebrate your birthday with you on March 31. I will be 29 years old. If you honestly, I was worried about your answer, because I invited you to come so soon to meet with me. but I think you'll be glad to meet me at home. John my dear, you can not imagine how glad I am for what you have just as much want to meet me. I hope we will be satisfied and our expectations about the meeting will come true. In my last letter I wrote to you was just that I go to a travel agent and try to learn more about how I would be easier to travel to your country. Yesterday afternoon I went to the travel agency. In the travel agency, I asked the travel agent and asked her to explain to me how it would be easier for me to travel to your country. The agent told me that the easiest way would be for me to travel to you as a tourist. So I need to make a tourist visa and then they can arrange for me to travel to you on a tourist visa. I need to conclude a contract with them for the paperwork and just collect their documents in which they will need to process my visa. I was told that the best way to make a Schengen visa, as this visa can be even later to travel to all countries of the Schengen treaty. The visa costs 34 euro, plus consular fee in your embassy 100 euros. Also I need medical insurance - 1 euro per day (30 euros per month) and travel agency services 150 euros. In general, get 314 euros for the documents and the visa. John I think that it's not very expensive. Do you agree with me? By the way, the agent also told me that for the paperwork for the visa will take about 5-7 days from the date of the contract with them. After the paperwork, they sent my documents to your embassy for consideration. If all goes well, after 10 days visa will be ready and you can already travel to you. Yesterday I signed a contract with them. But now I am tomorrow morning to go to a travel agency to enter into contract with them. So in the middle of the month, I'll already have a visa on his hands and arrive to you for the meeting. I hope you welcome this news.
John I still have one question for you. If you arrive on a tourist visa, then I shall have to book a hotel. But you dearly and so I would like to ask you to meet me at home. It is possible for you? If yes, then I must leave your home address and telephone number of travel agents, so that they can always contact me. But if you can not meet me at home, I would like to ask you to search for me a cheap hotel in your city. You can do this service for me? I will be grateful to you if you can help me with this.
Well, now I finish my letter and will wait for your answer. I ask that you do not make me wait for a reply and write me soon, ok. I miss you, do not forget about it.
By the way, tomorrow I'll make a copy of the contract with travel agency and send it to you.
With love your Emiliya
Letter 3
Hello my sweet John. I could not write to you before, because my work is always closed in the weekend. and yesterday we have in Russia was International Women's Day and all of Russia rested. But today I have not good news for us and I had to tell you about this news. John my dear, first I would like to tell you that I have not lied to you in my last letter. You were really expensive for me and I fall in love with you more with every day. I do not know what was happening to me, but I am more and more I think about you and about our meeting. In my heart I was very happy with what I see you soon, but today I called my agent with the travel agency and now I realized I do not know our meeting or not. No John, please do not think that there are any problems with registration of my documents. With this all in order and travel agency has all the documents from me, who were required to obtain a visa. But despite this there is a problem that may prevent us to meet. This afternoon I called my agent with the travel agency and we had had a long conversation. At first she told me that my registration of my documents is going well and on Friday next week, they sent my papers to your embassy. So if all goes well, then the next week I will be able to get a visa on his hands. I was very glad of this news, but then she told me not good news and this news has upset me. My agent told me that until Wednesday before they sent my papers to your embassy, I should pay them money for the paperwork and just for the visa itself. It is 314 euros. She told me that the money they need until Thursday, because with this money they would pay for the visa and also for the consular fee. I told her that I was not able to pay up to Thursday, because my salary is only March 20 and asked them to wait until my salary. But my agent told me that they will not wait for the money, because it is not in their rules. It made me understand that I must pay them up to Friday, otherwise they will stop my journey to you under the contract that I signed with them. John remember from my last letter I had sent you a copy of my contract? It turns out it is all written in the contract, but I did not notice that the item for payment. Maybe now it's my fault, because I myself did not recognize the payment and now I do not know what to do. Before Thursday, I did not pay them, these 314 euros, then my journey to you to stop and I can not come to you in your vacation. I do not want that, but I do not know where I find the money. Today I tried to borrow this money from my friends and acquaintances, but none of them wanted to help me and all say only that they now have no money. I no longer one to turn to and that is why I now have the courage to write you this letter of request to help me with these 314 euros. John my dear, I'm not very comfortable in front of you and I now hate myself because of this request, but I no longer have to turn to for help. John Please do not be angry at me because of my request and if you can help me with 314 euros, then I ask you to help me. I promise you that your money is not lost and that I return to you the money on March 20, as soon as I get my wages. It turns out that I ask you the money borrowed. John you can give me the money borrowed for a week? I know that you now do not trust me, but I promised you a call tomorrow and I do it. I very much hope that our telephone conversation will add you to trust me.
Now I can only anxiously wait for your heart response. I can only pray to God that you are angry at me and understood my situation. I am sure that today I will have a very bad night, because I'll always think about it, but I hope that tomorrow after reading your response, my mood rises. Please, do not make me wait and tell me once, ok.
With impatience I shall wait for a response. I love you and it is not a joke !!!!!!!!!
Your and only your Emiliya.
Letter 4
Hello my dear John. How are you today there without me? What is your mood, your health? I hope all is well with you?
My God, finally left this check with the principal of the firm. I will not write it about it, but to work with us so come and check these 2 days very hard work. Now they are gone, but I feel very tired. I need a rest, but I have no time to rest, because you and I are still so many cases. I am thinking now of our meeting. Today I have not been contacted by my agent, but it just did not call me and I believe that in processing my papers are all right. It seems to be I gave her all the personal data, in which she needed for the visa, so we now need to have only patience. I already told you was that for the preparation of documents should be about 5-6 days and 10 days after the consideration of my documents in your embassy, I must get a visa. I hope that everything will be fine and a week later I get a visa on his hands. John I have a question for you. Have you already thought about how you will meet me? You'll be waiting for me at the airport with flowers or if you wait for me to call on the phone when I'm in your town? Of course I would like to romance a bit. I think that every woman dreams of is to meet her at the airport with flowers. I also would like this, but if you can not, then I understand. By the way, I give you my suggestion - my favorite flower - this white roses. Maybe you do decide to meet me at the airport and I will be glad if you will stand there with a bouquet of white roses.
John is not very good at it with my hand. I promised you to call you on the phone, but I had never done so. Believe me John, I wanted to call you, but unfortunately I could not find any free time to do so. Please forgive me if I make you wait with my phone call. Now I promise you that I will try to call you on Thursday and this time I keep my promise. So wait for my call on Monday, ok.
John I just did for you a copy of my contract with the travel agency. I remember that I promised it to you send it. So now you can see it and believe in what I actually organize a trip for you. It is a pity that it is in Russian, but I hope you can understand.
Well, I'm tired now and need a rest. I now go home to rest. I will wait your answer tomorrow and will hope that you will write me. Tightly to kiss you on the lips! (I hope you do not mind?) John I'm really falling in love with you every day and probably can tell you now that I love you. I hope your heart is happy these words.
Miss you very for you.
Your and only your Emiliya.
PS: By the way, I send you just a copy of my passport. Now you have a copy of my public document and I hope that it will add you to trust me.
Letter 5
Hello my dear John. Maybe today I had the hardest night of my life. I never feel so much less has never experienced so much for your response. But after my yesterday's letter to you I worry for your answer with all my heart. I was very nervous, I hated myself very much for your request, but I hoped and prayed to God that you just understand me and my situation. Today I have a whole day mad waiting for your answer.
John I am now sitting at his desktop computer and I have now dripping tears from his eyes. Maybe it was because of the songs that I listen to now, but it's probably because of your response. No, I do not think that I cry. I do not cry, it's just tears of joy and gratitude for you. I am very worried by the fact that you turn away from me and help me with the payment of money in the travel agency, but now I read your letter and I have appeared on my face happy smile. John Thank you for what you have not refused to help me in money. You can not imagine how I am grateful to you. If you would be here at my side, I probably kiss and hug you tight. But you're far away from me, but this does not mean that I forget my gratitude. I will keep myself in my gratitude and at our first meeting, I present you with this kiss. I promise you this and you will see that I keep my word.
John in your letter you wrote to me that you can help me with money, but you do not know how to send me your money. Unfortunately I do not have a bank account and the more I've never had that. Maybe for you it seem strange, but in Russia only rich people have a bank account. I'm not a rich woman, I have nothing stored in the bank and so I never registered a bank account. Now for me the only option to get your money is instant translation. We are popular in Russia and almost every advantage of it. You have in your town of Western Union or MoneyGram? This reliable system and you will need only my full name and address to send your money. I already told you my address, but once again I write you this now:
Russia, Moscow 121165 Student Street. house 23 apartment 15.
My full name Jeleznyakova Emiliya
John Circadian BP rhythm, and today it is only 2 days for the payment of money in the travel agency. I ask you to help me until Thursday night, because on Friday morning, my documents have been send to your embassy and this is the last day for payment. If I do not pay the money on Thursday, then travel agency will stop my journey to you. My agent gave me to understand this and I think that they will not wait any longer. So I ask you try to send me your money today or tomorrow morning, ok.
John now I can only hope for you and believe in what you have as much desire to meet me. Today I again all night I will pray to God that He helped us and I hope that tomorrow you can send me your money. Please try us and do not forget that you will not lose this money. I promised you yesterday and also today I promise you that I return to you the money from my wages next week. So you got nothing to lose and will help me organize our meeting. I will wait your answer tomorrow, and hope that you will immediately say to me. I love you and miss you terribly.
Sincerely Emiliya.
Letter 6
my dear, good morning. how you today? how is your morning? I went today to the agency and told me that they are ready to finish the movement with my documents. and that I should pay for it. I said that I would think that I can do and will do so today and tomorrow. the thing is that my vacation starts tomorrow and if I defer payment of the documents that I can not come to you because my vacation is over.
I learned in the bank and they told me that in your country there are offices of Western Union and moneygram. and you can tell me through them your help. if you look it up next to him. I do not have a bank account and not when did not have. and on this I can not do that in a bank account. I get your assistance only through Western Union. I want to call you and I ask you to write me at the phone number which I can call you and hear you to talk. is important. my dear, I beg you to help me with the payment of my documents to come to you, because I most want to meet you in person. I will return to you all that you helped me immediately as soon as I get my salary. I have already arranged with my boss that he will send to you my salary in the country when I'm with you. but if I wait for his own salary, I can not come to you because my leave will be treated to an end. I beg you to help me and all the rest I'll do it and soon I will be able to come to you. I wait your letter today and it is very important to me that you understand me. I hope that everything will be fine and we will soon be able to hug each other. kisses
Letter 7
my dear, I'll call you today. I beg you to help me tomorrow with 314 euros and I can come to you next week. and we will be together and be able to hug each other. I learned and I was told that you can send your help from the Western Union www.westernunion.com. I beg you to help me tomorrow so I can pay all tomorrow and finish the preparation of my arrival to you. kisses
Letter 8
my dear, I saw last night in a dream as we are sitting in the evening together and talk. I'm sitting on your lap and whisper in your ear all his thoughts. I woke up I was crying that it was all just a dream. I am so tired of my cold, lonely bed. My holiday is already underway.
and I learned everything. I was told that I can pay all until Monday.
on Monday evening to tell me that I must pay for all the documents and then everything will be fine and I can arrive to you within the next week. my dear, I have obligations to the agency. and my leave was not infinite, and for this I should come to you next week in time to the maximum time to be with you. ca I've already said I can receive your help only with the help of Western Union or moneygram. is a very well-known service on the transfer of money. and I learned and I was told that it is not all small towns. and you can learn all the banks location. and not difficult to find a Western Union. as you can see the office address of Western Union in the website of www.westernunion.com. and on this site, you can send money through the Internet. if you do not close the Western Union I am asking you to find out where he is and go there. and help me until Monday because it is very important. Here is the information you need to help me through Western Union-Russia, Moscow 121165 Student Street. house 23 apartment 15. My full name Jeleznyakova Emiliya. is my complete information for Western Union and no longer that does not require you to send me your help. I have not any other way to get your help just as I told you.
and I beg you to send me your help before Monday. and I will be glad if you help me today, then I can pay for everything now. when I come to you at the end of next week I will bring you gifts from my mom. a pack a surprise for you. and I beg you to tell me if you want something that I brought you out of Russia. I'll wait for your letter and I hope that everything will be fine. kisses
Letter 9
my dear, I'm so glad to write to you today!! the thing is that I'm so glad that my vacation is already under way, and I spent a lot of time with my mom and my girlfriend. it is only once a year I have free time when not to go to work and do something on that I do not want to waste my time! and I still have my birthday on March 31. and I will be 29 years old. I feel every year that I do not change and only time the clock ticks away =). how are you today? dear. I've wanted to be with you at my birthday and celebrate it with you. as with most special person. I wish that you showed me everything that you like next to the house. I have good news, I could not find a lot of money to travel to you and all my documents had in fact already prepared and I can come to you on Monday! I only need 170 euros to pay for my documents and tickets to you. everything else I've already paid part because most want to be with you in my vacation !!!!!!!!!! I thought it all up. you can help me on Monday with 170 euros for my trip? and as soon as I receive your support through the Western Union I will come to you at night. and we will celebrate the birthday with you and I think that in this day we will be the closest people on the planet! I will wait your letter now and I'll be the happiest girl when we meet with you on Monday and you gave me a bouquet of 15 roses. I am very fond of roses as I told you. kisses
Letter 10
my dear, I'm glad that I can write to you because we have in Russia celebrated Passover. I am very happy this holiday. as you celebrate this holiday? In Russia, we're painting the eggs in different colors. and then we take each one egg and say "Christ is risen!" and beat the egg on the egg and we find out who the egg stronger =). I spent all day yesterday, visiting my mother and it was the calmest day. I'm glad I was able to mentally relax. my birthday is on March 31 just held my mother's house and I only invited her three best girlfriends. and we sat up night and talked about everything that happened to us in life and laughed a lot. I hope that just as you went well. I most want to be with you and I very much hope that this week we will decide everything and I can hug you in person! My dear, do not forget that my vacation is already long? I went this morning to my boss to demand a salary and he said that the salary is delayed. and will be only the beginning when I get to work. I cried and screamed at him I said that I should go on a trip and I can not leave before he pays me my salary. He said that she understands everything but he transfers the money and to blame our employers. I was wrong. dear. My holiday is already under way and in full middle. I ask you to help me with the payment documents and I just come to you. and as soon as I have my salary, I'll give all that you have spent for our meeting. this is just the only option. if the wait is not much we can not meet because my vacation is over. I really want to come to you and be with you. I await your reply now and if tomorrow you will be able to help me I'm at the end of the week I'll be with you. kisses
Letter 11
my dear, I'm glad that you want to help me with the visit. I thought it was too late for that and went today to the agency and they told me that I can still go to you if you paid for. I ask you to send your help through western union as I do and requested. you have my information for western union?
Letter 12
my dear, I received your letter and immediately went to the Western Union to receive your help and prepare the flight for you. but I was told that I should speak to them 10 secret numbers to get your help. I was told that you had to say this code when you sent me help. I beg you to tell me the code of 10 digits so I could get your help. or you can send me a copy of the form of Western Union. I wait your letter now. kisses


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PLAYING CARDS IN CAIRO is a fly-on-the-wall account - like THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL - of life (for western readers) in a strange and exotic environment.
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Playing cards in Cairo by British author Hugh Miles is the perfect companion to understanding the January 25th Egyptian revolution and the people who sparked it. The recent edition was released in Canada by Abacus on February 11th, the very same day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president.Even though I lived in Cairo when I worked there as a librarian in 2003-2004, I was only able to skim the surface of this complex culture. Miles, on the other hand, offers us an up-close-and-personal portrait of the politics, beliefs, values and daily concerns and experiences of Egyptians from the women's point of view.Working as a young freelance journalist in the Arab world's largest and most vibrant city, Miles lives the good life as a British expat, mingling with an international community of aid workers, teachers, lawyers, and diplomats in Cairo's many bars and restaurants along the banks of the great river Nile.Shortly before he is to return to London, Miles attends an American friend's farewell party, where he meets Roda, a beautiful and intelligent Egyptian doctor. Miles is besotted. Back in rainy London he can't stop thinking about her, so he concocts a reason to go back to Cairo.Unable to date the woman of his dreams in the way a westerner is accustomed, Miles hits a brick wall. It is Roda who finds a solution to their cross-cultural dating dilemma: Miles will be her partner in the Egyptian card game of Tarneeb. Thus begins for Miles an adventure into the exotic world of middle class Cairene women. As a speaker of Arabic, he is the proverbial fly on the wall, privy to the women's most intimate conversations on topics as varied as religion, dating, hymen replacement surgery, hair removal, divorce, superstition, sexual harassment, drugs and alcoholism, desert raves, Arabic pop music, family honour, unemployment, Egyptian prisons, Western misconceptions about suicide bombers and terrorists, and more.Roda and her circle of friends form a colourful cast of characters: Nadia, a doctor, deals with abuse at the hands of her husband; Yosra, whose younger brother controls every aspect of her life, searches desperately for a decent man while battling depression and her addiction to prescription drugs; Reem is on the run from her Coptic Christian fiancé's friends intent on killing her for being a Muslim; Amira conceals her secret urfi marriage from her family while working for a clothing store with an Islamic vision of retail. And then there is Dwayne (real name Muhammad), the hashish-smoking slacker and honorary member of the group who accepts a job in war-torn Baghdad so he can make enough money to convince his beloved's father that he is worthy of her. Miles, who also authored Al Jazeera: How Arab TV news challenged the world, has a unique understanding of Egyptian and Arab politics and society. Early on in Playing cards in Cairo, he ponders what it would take to kick start a revolution in Egypt. As if divining the not-too-distant future, he muses (in the 2008 edition): "History has shown that when sudden change comes it often arrives in disguise and often small, apparently unconnected events can start a domino effect that no one can control." The first Palestinian intifada was triggered by a car accident, he writes, while the Iranian revolution started with a cinema fire. "I imagined how if a revolution were to take place, most likely an unexpected cause and an unknown leader would spark it."Commenting on indoctrination and the Egyptian tendency to buy into conspiracy theories, Miles quotes Yosra. "Most people say [the London bombings of July 2005] never happened. It was just a trick by Tony Blair to make an excuse to declare war on Muslims." Reflecting on this, Miles writes: "Conspiracy theories are the bread and butter of the Arab world and you hear them everywhere you go. I had heard stories so outlandish I wondered how anyone could take them seriously, even for a second. I had lost count of the times people told me that no Jews died in the twin towers on 11 September because they had been warned in advance not to turn up for work that morning."Views like these are not surprising considering that Egyptian and Arab cultures are not big reading cultures. I learned this when I worked as a librarian negotiating sensitive censorship issues in both Egypt and Kuwait. As Miles notes, "In reality the few Egyptians who do read books usually choose ones they think are useful, which typically means either the Koran or a computer manual. The range of foreign books available in Arabic is pitiful and if the West ever wanted to make a sincere and significant different to the average Arab's world view a good way to start would be by mass-translating dozens of liberal classics into Arabic and distributing them as freely and as widely as the Koran."On the subject of the very public process of conversion to Islam, Miles writes humorously regarding his own apprehensions: "Suddenly a loud wailing sound filled the room. Thinking it must be a fire alarm I leapt out of my chair and prepared to evacuate the salon. Everyone in the room leapt up too, including the sheikh in his red fez. 'Let's go! he shouted.'Let's go!' echoed the aspiring converts jumping to their feet.'Prayer time!' boomed the sheikh, clapping his hands.'Prayers?' I exclaimed, turning to Hanafi, a wave of panic sweeping over me. 'I don't know how to pray', I whispered in terror. I can't go into the mosque with all those people.''Just do as I do,' said Hanafi. 'It's easy.' And the pair's bumbling continues from there. Roda and her middle class friends Miles writes about so sympathetically are the very same educated, frustrated and under-employed people who made the revolution in Tahrir Square happen. Still, given the events in Cairo this last International Women's Day when a protest by two hundred Egyptian women demanding equal rights turned violent, with men verbally abusing and shoving the demonstrators, yelling, "now is not the time", it is obvious that there is a lot of work yet to do before everyone in Egypt is equal.For anyone wanting to better understand the Egyptian uprising and to learn more about contemporary Egyptian society, Playing cards in Cairo provides an excellent backdrop. The author's clear, lively prose interspersed with insightful sociopolitical analyses and anecdotes by turns tear-jerkingly sad, infuriating and loud-out-loud funny make for an enlightening and entertaining read.
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I hadn't noticed him making his way up the field behind me. It really wasn't something I expected lying quietly in a field waiting for rabbits to hop into range. He let me know he'd arrived by gently blowing in my ear, that and trying to eat my trousers. Once the munching had stopped, I turned over to find myself lying at Cid's hooves. I sat up and we looked at each other. He continued to sniff my jacket and then my trousers, as if to confirm they were indeed matching in both design and scent.
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I felt like a very small boy being that close to this very big horse. As a teenager I'd always felt uncomfortable in my physical self – my self, self. He was not, would never, could not. I longed to know how it felt to be comfortable in your own skin, as comfortable as he was, in all his dappled grey magnificence.
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I felt as though this confident animal was measuring itself against me and I was found wanting. So sensitive to my feelings, at one point he'd found me interesting, then acceptable but now was offended by my presence. My own insecurities made him uncertain of me. When I was open and feeling calm it was ok for me to be there, but now, I needed to leave. I made a sudden movement with my arms. He stepped away, threw back his head and allowed me to go.
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Paul C Siebenthal is a 38 year-old Aspie who was diagnosed at 25. Started blogging and tweeting last year as Aspienaut, working for NASA (New Autism Spectrum Awareness). He is passionate about creativity and helping young people on the spectrum to see just how amazing they are and how great it can be to be Wired Differently.