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Some kids never grow up. That's Michael and Ellen Mayer. Most days you can find him out playing in his rows of pecan trees and her playing with her three-story doll house.
This couple, who is celebrating their 48th wedding anniversary today, is happy to be helping children when they open their home for the 38th annual Muskogee Christmas Home Tour. The tour benefits the Kelly B. Todd Cerebral Palsy and Neuro-Muscular Center in Muskogee. The Mayer home is one of five homes on the tour from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2. Tickets are $10 and available at the door of any of the homes.
When guests walk into the Mayer home, Ellen wants them to feel it's "a happy home." That happy feeling begins with the short drive from Harris Road to Mayer Lane — named for the Mayer family that owned land from the Arkansas River to Harris Road.
"My grandfather built the first farmhouse in 1909," Michael said. "They came here from Wainright with 11 children. The creek was pristine."
They have a painting of the creek called "Johnston Creek" named for his mother's family. Michael was raised on the land. They moved back from Oklahoma City in 1995 after he retired as a planning engineer from AT&T Lucent Technologies. After receiving a master's degree from the University of Oklahoma, Ellen worked as a clinical social worker. They built their home in 1997 in the pecan orchard.
He started the south pecan orchard in 1986 and the north orchard in 1992. It started with a few trees and grew row by row. Guests drive by the orchard to get to the brick house with its 2,760 square feet, four bedrooms and three baths.
The house has oak wood floors except the bedrooms. The decorating and floor plan are all her ideas, Michael said.
"I just wanted a roof over my head," he said.
That's the big house. It's the little house that will have people talking. The idea to have her own doll house was inspired by their granddaughter, Amanda Mayer, 9. After buying her one, Ellen wanted her own.
The white frame doll house has a prominent place in the living room. The light from the window illuminates the tiny things inside. It started with a kit four years ago with Ellen adding her own touches. The house is a 1920s farm house. Ellen has made many of the furnishings and items in the doll house. Some were ordered online and others were things that had other uses first like charms on a charm bracelet.
"The oven has a turkey in it and the refrigerator has milk," she said. "All the drawers open and close."
There are itty-bitty checkers, cards and the family Bible she made herself. Photo albums have real family photos that she has shrunk with the computer. Other family portraits have been shrunk and hang in frames on the walls. The miniature people have the option of reading National Geographic or The Saturday Evening Post dated May 27, 1920, Ellen's birthday.
"A lady in Wisconsin did the handmade quilt," she said.
There's a room decorated for Christmas complete with a tree. There's a nativity scene in the front yard and a pumpkin patch on one side of the house.
"The swans are from Germany when we lived there and the shoes are from Holland when we visited," she said. "It's a big accomplishment. I will donate it to Three Rivers Museum some day."
Michael said he's ready to move into it.
"I love playing with it," she said. "I decorate for every season."
Big house or doll house, "she's never done decorating," he said.
The two seem to complement each other. She was born in a little three-room house on Main Street and went to Jobe School, before it merged with Harris School, now Harris-Jobe Elementary School. He went to St. Joseph's Prep School, which is now St. Joseph Catholilc School. They were married at the old home place near their current home.
Their home has the family history woven into every room. Several rooms have trunks Ellen has redone like the one in the antique bedroom as she calls it. It has her dolls she's had since she was 5 and the last one she got at age 12. It has red hair. A white corcheted bedspread is on an antique white iron bed.
The hall bath is all white with a white claw-foot tub from 1910, white pedestal sink and white tile floor.
The master bedroom has silouettes of "Aunt Elizabeth" and a friend from 1916. An old altar cover from the Catholic church is framed in the center of black and white photos.
Antique family furniture pieces are throughout the home like a 1930's buffet with inlay wood that was Ellen's mother's and a trunk from an elderly cousin. A trunk in the breakfast room belonged to Michael's father.
The family Bible is on top of an old treadle sewing machine. The sewing machine looked identical to the one Michael's mother had and his grandmother used. He bought it for Ellen as an anniversary gift.
In the mix of antiques and collectibles, the home will be decorated for Christmas for the tour and their family — son Michael Vincent Mayer and wife Sharla Jean Mayer, and daughter Shawn Margarette Mayer, and granddaughter, Amanda Calista Mayer.
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Believe this or not one site has ripped a load of watermarked images and simply written their own watermark over the top with absolutely no attempt to disguise the original owner!
Google's lost any semblance of control with images, period.

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My family loves Mexican food, so I created this easy recipe one summer when our garden was bursting with zucchini. For milder quesadillas, use Monterey Jack instead of pepper Jack cheese. If you want them spicier, add some red pepper flakes or chopped jalapenos. -Linda Taylor Lenexa, Kansas
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Prep/Total Time: 25 min.
1 large onion, chopped
1/2 cup chopped sweet red pepper
1 teaspoon plus 2 tablespoons butter, softened,
2 cups shredded zucchini
2 tablespoons taco seasoning
8 flour tortillas (8 inches)
8 ounces pepper Jack cheese, shredded
Salsa, sour cream and pickled jalapeno pepper slices
In a large skillet, saute onion and red pepper in 1 teaspoon butter
for 3 minutes. Stir in zucchini and taco seasoning; saute 3-4
minutes longer or until vegetables are tender. Remove from the heat.
Spread remaining butter over one side of each tortilla. Place
tortillas butter side down on a griddle. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup
cheese and 1/4 cup zucchini mixture over half of each tortilla; fold
Cook over low heat for 1-2 minutes on each side or until cheese is
melted. Serve with salsa, sour cream and jalapenos. Yield: 4
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The Cardiff Giant, 1869
The Cardiff Giant on display in the Farmer's Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
Speculation ran rampant over what the giant might be. The central debate was between those who thought it was a petrified man and those who believed it to be an ancient statue. The 'petrifactionists' theorized that it was one of the giants mentioned in the Bible, Genesis 6:4, where it says, "There were giants in the earth in those days." Those who promoted the statue theory followed the lead of Dr. John F. Boynton, who speculated that a Jesuit missionary had carved it sometime during the seventeenth century to impress the local indians.
A sketch of the Giant made in 1869 as it lay on display in Cardiff, New York.
Hull's idea turned out to be a stroke of genius. The entire venture cost him over $2,600 (all done with the collusion of the farmer Newell and the stonecutters who carved the giant), but the gamble paid off when a group of businessmen paid $37,500 to buy the giant and move it to Syracuse, where it could be more prominently exhibited.
In Syracuse the giant came under closer scrutiny. Othniel C. Marsh, a paleontologist from Yale, paid it a visit and declared it to be a clumsy fake. He pointed out that chisel marks were still plainly visible on it. These should have worn away if the giant had been in the ground for any appreciable length of time. Sensing that the game was up (and having already cashed out), Hull confessed. But the public didn't seem to care that it was fake. They kept coming to see it anyway. They even began referring to it affectionately as 'Old Hoaxey.'
Alex Boese (left) and Marvin Yagoda (right) in front of Barnum's fake replica of the Cardiff Giant. July 2005.
Many have declared the Cardiff Giant to be the greatest hoax of all time. Whether or not this is the case, its huge size and mysterious presence certainly tapped into some strange element of the post-Civil War American psyche. Although the massive public interest in the giant gradually died down, it remained popular. Even today people still make the journey to visit it at its permanent home in the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York (down the road from the Baseball Hall of Fame).
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The Giant That Fooled the World
...the incredible tale of history's weirdest hoax
When George Hull left his weed-choked, debt-ridden tobacco farm outside Binghamton, N.Y., and headed west in 1868 to seek better fortune, he thought maybe he'd go prospecting for gold. But he never reached gold country. On the way, 90 years ago, he stumbled on something more precious than the yellow metal: human gullibility.
The result was one of the most successful scientific hoaxes in history. On a total investment that probably didn't top $4000, Hull netted a profit estimated at $30,000 to $60,000 -- a small fortune in those days.
Hull's hoax was the famous Cardiff Giant -- a 12-foot statue of a man, secretly made, secretly buried, and then "discovered." Hull had a fabulous double-barreled lie to go with it: It was either a petrified man or an ancient statue -- take your choice. Not only the general public, but many learned men, paid to see it and swallowed it whole.
IDEA. Wandering west to seek his fortune, George Hull stopped at Ackley, Iowa, to visit his sister. One night a clergyman dropped in, talked about giants who once strode the earth. Hull argued there were no such giants, then fell silent. The Big Idea had hit him. People would believe anything, he thought...
RAW MATERIAL. Hull had heard of petrified trees. Why not a petrified man -- a giant, aged to stone in his tomb? Near an Iowa railroad construction site, he found beds of gypsum, a soft limy rock. He paid a grading crew one keg of beer to quarry out a mammoth 12-by-4-by-2-foot block.
TRANSPORT. The block weighed some three tons. Hull had it wrapped in canvas and hoisted onto a dray. It took three weeks to move it 40 miles to the nearest railhead. Two wagons and a bridge broke under the weight. Hull cut off a ton, told bystanders the stone was for a monument.
SCULPTURE. Hull confided his scheme to Chicago stonecutter Edward Burkhardt, had the block hauled into an empty barn Burkhardt owned. With two assistants, Burkhardt began hacking the gypsum into the figure of a 12-foot-tall man who had died in agony. The face was a likeness of Hull's.
FINISHING TOUCHES. To simulate pores in the giant's skin, Hull made special hammers by setting needles in lead bases. To make him look antique, the stonecutters rubbed him with sand, water, ink, and sulfuric acid. By unexpected luck, veinlike lines appeared in the gypsum.
SETTING THE BAIT. In Cardiff, N.Y., a relative of Hull's, William Newell, had a farm. For a fourth interest, he agreed to have the giant buried there. In November, 1868, Hull, Newell and two friends lowered the 2990-pound colossus into his tomb, carefully filled it over.
SPRINGING THE TRAP. Hull waited a year until all talk of his mysterious wagon cargo was forgotten. Then, in October, 1869, Newell hired two neighbors to help him dig a well -- pointing out just where they should start. The point of a shovel hit something. The hoax was on.
LAST HURDLE. Hull's one worry was that scientists would spot the hoax, but to his delight they were awestruck. They came from universities and museums far and wide. They didn't go for the "petrified man," but called the giant an ancient statue. Hull told Newell to bill it as such to the public.
IN THE MONEY. Huge crowds came to see the giant. Newell fenced off the area, hired a barker, charged 50-cents admission. Hull refused one $10,000 offer for his "find," finally sold a part interest to Syracuse businessmen for $30,000. The giant was exhibited in Boston and elsewhere.
TROUBLE BEGINS. Showman Phineas T. Barnum offered a huge sum, reportedly over $50,000, for a share. Newell turned him down. Barnum then had his own giant made of papier-mache, exhibited it in New York, offered a $1,000 reward to anyone who proved his less genuine than Hull's.
THE JIG IS UP. Stirred by Barnum's spoof, scholars examined the giant more closely early in 1870. Prof. O.C. Marsh of Yale noticed crevices ink and sulfuric acid hadn't reached, fresh tool marks near worn surfaces. The Iowa rail crew remembered quarrying the gypsum block for Hull.
THE END. Hull finally sold his giant to a carnival. He was a rich man. But by 1873 he was flat broke again, a result of bad investments. He tried to repeat his great hoax with another giant "discovered" in Colorado, but this second hoax never got off the ground. Hull went to England... and oblivion.
Links and References
- Ross, Irwin. (1968). "The Cardiff Giant Hoax." American History Illustrated. 3(5): 38-41.
- Sears, Stephen W. (1975). "The Giant In The Earth". American Heritage. 26(5): 94-99.
- Franco, Barbara. (1969). "The Cardiff Giant: A Hundred Year Old Hoax". New York History. 50(4): 421-440.
Cardiff Giant Haiku (submitted by Hoax Museum readers)
Whatever you do,Don't call him jolly or green.
It'll make him mad.
(by AB)
Made for cash or pride
He's a man-made Man of stone
Guess who's the fool now
(by Daniel Sheggrud)
"The Bible's not true!"
Cardiff Giant scoffs aloud
(But he is so stoned)
(by DKE)
A giant of stone
Found buried in the ground
A hoax by George Hull
(by J)
People keep coming
For imagination's sake
They want to believe
(by Bill Ectric)
What of this giant?
Why is he so curious?
He is simply stoned.
(by Evan Olcott)
So many people
came to see the giant man
but he was not real.
(by Emily Dellenbaugh)
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The poor giant is not stoned! I have saw him with my own eyes he is huge. It was an amazing experience i hope all you guy have the chance to see him just like I did.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday Morning Coffee
OK so this has two parts to it in terms of how I try to frame the answer.
Long time readers may recall my saying that I try to combine what I know about market history with an assessment of current events to try to make a forward looking analysis.
An assessment of current events with an eye toward reequitizing becomes difficult because it may not make sense to reequitize for a year and a lot can change between now and then.
Starting from the top down it makes sense in a new bull market to reduce the average cap size of the portfolio (I made the portfolio larger and larger cap-wise as the bull aged) because small cap usually leads off the bottom. In making the portfolio smaller you are increasing the volatility which again makes sense to do as obviously the prevailing direction of a bull market is up. All of this probably reduces the yield a little bit but in a year where the market goes up 25%, squeezing out an extra 50 beeps in yield should not be the priority.
In terms of sector the first thing that comes to mind to overweight is industrials. Globally speaking money must flow into infrastructure so I believe industrial stocks that benefit from this capital flow stand to do well.
Financials would be another area that usually does well emerging from a bear. Problems at Citi are not new. After a the famous near death blow in the early 1990s Citi went up about 2000% versus 300% (just eyeballing a chart) for the SPX into year end 2000. Citi was not my fav before this all started and probably will not be after but the point is that the financial sector (the ones that survive) will come back from this and probably outperform meaningfully for a while.
Tech should be one to overweight but if I were reequitizing right now I would be skeptical of that one but we'll see when the time comes.
Discretionary does well early cycle too. Energy is a tough call from a historical perspective as I think there are skews to each of the past episodes that make looking back especially unhelpful. Based on my perception of what is going on with supply and demand I would probably want to be overweight. Ditto materials.
Telecom equipment should do better than the ma bells of the world (and I do mean the world) but I am a little distrustful of making a big bet on that. Utilities, staples and healthcare would probably lag a little.
Most of this is based on how cycles work. I tried to add in a little current thinking in there but I think it will be a while before this matters and the manner in which the bear plays out will influence how I actually execute.
As far as countries I am not likely to make really big changes to the countries I favor. I have talked about adding China back in across the board at some point and I might add a little to a couple of the other countries I currently own. While that mind not sound like much keep in mind I have about 20% cash so at 2 or 3% per position it wouldn't take much to reequitize.
The picture is obviously from South Beach last week. That hotel is on Ocean Drive and looks out on to the beach (where I am standing) and the ocean beyond that. Unlike most of the pictures I took I don't hate this one.
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- Dumb Money said...
Roger, using the Ultra short ETF's has me concerned with the derivative activity that creates the higher returns. Are you concerned with the ability of the funds, (QID, SDS), to cover volume outflows of a large nature when this market does indeed turn to the upside and people are closing their short positions? I enjoy your take on the markets and thank you for your reply.
- Born2Code said...
the ETFs buy futures to manage their positions. If there is outflow from the funds they reduce their position size. If there is lots of interest in the ETFs they simply buy more futures contracts. I do not believe your concern will be an issue.
However, just like any other large participator in the market their actions do affect the market. But that's no different than what happens when people pile into or out of the SPY. - 9:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
Good comments, but I am surprised you did not emphasize Asia more. In the short run I think they have as big of problems as we do, but I still see the balance of the world shifting to Asia this century.
Although if the dollar really tanks I may have to rethink things.
seg - 9:49 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
dm, that does not concern me in the least for the reasons Sami said.
SEG, i mentioned china, i have one stock from singapore on my radar and i would be interested in the sing dollar if there is every a product for it. - 10:01 AM
- Anonymous said...
FWIW, I'll be looking to wade into the sectors mentioned via the proshares ultra etf's. Comments on why this is/isn't a good strategy are welcome.
Go Davidson! - 2:01 PM
- Mike C said...
Hey Roger,
I watched your Saturday video yesterday, and noted your comments about the market (FWIW, I'm basically on the same page).
Anyways, just finished up reading Hussman's weekly commentary, and here is an excerpt:
Generally speaking, it is true that the stock market has tended to bottom about 4-5 months before the end of a recession. It is quite dangerous, however, to assume that the current downturn in the market or the economy will be of a specific duration, and to start "looking for a bottom" on that basis. Just as market tops are marked by expectations that economic strength will persist indefinitely, stock markets hit bottom when an economic downturn is taken as full fact, when conditions are widely expected to get substantially worse, and when investors have largely given up on any hope that the economy will improve in the foreseeable future.
My impression is that the early calls for a bottom ignore a realistic sense of history about how market peaks and troughs are formed. Once an ongoing and worsening recession is taken as a matter of common knowledge, it will be reasonable to talk about durable market lows. Until then, investors should recognize that a standard run-of-the-mill bear market averages a loss of about 30%.
Maybe he is taking material from you :) - 2:29 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
to the Davidson fan, the answer is it depends.
if you have $1 in your account and plan to put $0.50 into some combo of double long funds anf keep the other $0.50 in cash then I would ask what time period you expect to do that. Look at a chart for 2007 comparing SPY and the ProShares Double Long S&P 500 ETF. The double long lagged for the year.
Over longer periods of time you don't know what you will get.
If you are looking to put every nickel into double long funds then you are essentially on margin except there is no margin clerk who will force you to sell.
going all in with double long funds is not for me, if you want to do it, have some sort of exit strategy defined before you go in.
Mike C, i think it is a good bet that Dr Hussman does not have this site on his list of sites to read, lol. - 2:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
I admit you recognize china and clearly identified it. All your comments were good.
I just thought you might have jumped into Asia with both feet. Of course both feet is a little different for the two of us :)
seg - 5:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Mike C, i think it is a good bet that Dr Hussman does not have this site on his list of sites to read, lol."
I love your humor and I am not shy about disagreeing with you. But, I hate when you sell your self short. You really do a rather good job IMO.
seg - 5:29 PM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
thank you
- Anonymous said...
We hate to add to what we consider a pretty gloomy prospect, but Tilton takes care to note that the $460 billion that Goldman expects to go down the drain is "only part of total credit losses," which it anticipates will reach a tidy $1.2 trillion. However, he explains, the leveraged losses are especially critical, as they cause a significant tightening of credit as institutions curb their lending to conserve shrinking capital. Which, for us, anyway, makes the tunnel a lot longer and the light a lot dimmer."
Above from Barry's site and the 1.2 trillion estimate is from Goldman.
I guess those trillion dollar loss estimates are not crazy, gaining credibility, and may have been slightly on the low side.
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This package contains the X client-side cursor loading library. WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xlibs
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only required dependencies information. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/x11/libXcursor/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install x11/libXcursor
cd /usr/ports/x11/libXcursor/ && make install clean
pkg install x11/libXcursor
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 35
Switch FreeBSD CURRENT to use the new xorg stack (WITH_NEW_XORG=) [0] If the old xorg stack is still needed, it is possible to add WITHOUT_NEW_XORG= to /etc/make.conf to get the old version. Update several xorg related ports, including: x11/libxcb 1.9.1 -> 1.9.3 graphics/libdrm 2.4.46 -> 2.4.50 x11/pixman 0.30.2 -> 0.32.4 x11/xkeyboard-config 2.9 -> 2.10.1 x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0 Fix dissapearing cursor in xf86-video-vmware [2] Stagify all x11@-owned ports Bump portrevisions for xf86-* ports due to xserver version change. Fix fallout from updates where needed. Thanks to: all testersi, bdrewery and the FreeBSD x11@ team exp-run by: bdrewery [1] PR: ports/184684 [1], ports/181385 [2] Submitted by: Douglas Carmichael <email@example.com> [2] Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery), core (jhb) [0]
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat: x11)
Fix security issues in xorg client libraries. Most libraries were updated to newer versions, in some cases patches were backported instead. Most notably, x11/libX11 was updated to 1.6.0 Security: CVE-2013-1981 CVE-2013-1982 CVE-2013-1983 CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1985 CVE-2013-1986 CVE-2013-1987 CVE-2013-1988 CVE-2013-1989
The FreeBSD x11 team proudly presents an zeising, kwm, miwi, bapt, eadler production: Xorg 7.7 Starring: xserver 1.12.4 (new xorg only) Mesa 8.0.4, including libGL, libGLU and dri (new xorg only) libX11 1.5.0 libxcb 1.9 libdrm 2.4.42 (new xorg only) freeglut 2.8.1 Also starring: Updates to drivers and other libraries and utilities
- Remove WITH_FBSD10_FIX, is no longer needed
- Fix build on FreeBSD 10.0 Notes: all x11@ ports fixed for FreeBSD 10
Change license from X11 to MIT we do not have x11 in the database and x11 is a MIT license: MIT license / X11 license (from bsd.license.db.mk)
- update iceauth to 1.0.5 - update libXcursor to 1.1.12 - update libXdmcp to 1.1.0 - update libxkbfile to 1.0.7 - update rstart to 1.0.4 - update smproxy to 1.0.5 - update viewres to 1.0.3 - update x11perf to 1.5.4 - update xauth to 1.0.6 - update xbacklight to 1.1.2 - update xbitmaps to 1.1.1 - update xclipboard to 1.1.1 - update xcmsdb to 1.0.3 - update xcursor-themes to 1.0.3 - update xcursorgen to 1.0.4
- Please welcome Xorg 7.5.1 The X-Server has been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers and fonts have been updated to the latest versions. This update includes some components from Xorg 7.6 with a lot of improvements, and it seems that the performance is much better than the old version. Also this Update fix build issues with clang and binutils 2.17.50 in current, remove 6.X gruft and de-author pkg-descr. I would like to thank: Beat Gaetzi Dima Panov Koop Mast Eitan Adler and all Testers. PR: ports/147646 ports/148035 ports/148744 ports/150223 ports/152889 ports/154457
- Update to Xorg 7.5 The Intel drivers was patched to work with the new server. The drivers for Vesa, NV,NVIDIA and ATI have been tested thoroughfully and seem to work fine. A complete changelog of Xorg 7.5 can you read here: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/ A note to FreeBSD 6.X users: We strongly recommend you to update your system to 7.x or above. For updating try portupgrade -af \*
- Mark xtrans as a BUILD_DEPENDS only (unless specified otherwise with :both) - Bump PORTREVISION on ports having xtrans in USE_XORG. - Add some missing dependencies in various xorg libraries.
- Update X.org ports to 7.3. - Mark XFree86-4 as DEPRECATED with EXPIRATION_DATE set to 2007-12-25. I hope that nobody will be bored enough on Christmas to remove them on that day. Tested by: vehemens, Rene Ladan, Beech Rintoul, sarek on x11@
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/. - Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}. - Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
Conversion to a single libtool environment. Approved by: portmgr (kris)
SHA256ify Approved by: krion@
Mass-conversion to the USE_AUTOTOOLS New World Order. The code present in bsd.autotools.mk essentially makes this a no-op given that all the old variables set a USE_AUTOTOOLS_COMPAT variable, which is parsed in exactly the same way as USE_AUTOTOOLS itself. Moreover, USE_AUTOTOOLS has already been extensively tested by the GNOME team -- all GNOME 2.12.x ports use it. Preliminary documentation can be found at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ade/autotools.txt which is in the process of being SGMLized before introduction into the Porters Handbook. Light blue touch-paper. Run.
Fix MASTER_SITES.
Fix up plist after modifications to mtree (BSD.x11-4.dist rev. 1.27).
At Kris's request, back out the MACHINE_ARCH spelling correction until after 5.4-RELEASE.
Assist getting more ports working on AMD64 by obeying the Ports Collection documentation and use 'ARCH' rather than 'MACHINE_ARCH'.
Generate proper package listing when using new mtree from xorg-server port.
Remove hardcoding of MTREE_FILE. This is handled in bsd.port.mk since rev. 1.503 for ${PREFIX} == ${XPREFIX} cases.
Register missing CONFLICTS, mostly on xorg-libraries-* Reported by: Kent Stewart <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Use the right MTREE_FILE Reported by: kris
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Declare CONFLICTS between freedesktop.org X extension/library ports and XFree86-libraries.
Add a missing BUILD_DEPENDS on renderext. Reported by: bento via kris
Whoa there, boy, that's a mighty big commit y'all have there... Begin autotools sanitization sequence by requiring ports to explicitly specify which version of {libtool,autoconf,automake} they need, erasing the concept of a "system default". For ports-in-waiting: USE_LIBTOOL=YES -> USE_LIBTOOL_VER=13 USE_AUTOCONF=YES -> USE_AUTOCONF_VER=213 USE_AUTOMAKE=YES -> USE_AUTOMAKE_VER=14 Ports attempting to use the old style system after June 1st 2004 will be sorely disappointed.
Add a missing dependency on libXfixes. PR: 64038 Submitted by: michael johnson <email@example.com>
Correct dependency in last commit.
Add a missing dependency on libXrender, and add a missing '\n' to the end of the pkg-plist.
BROKEN: Does not compile
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading. (Part 1)
Update to 1.1.2
New port: Prerelease version of libXcursor from freedesktop.org: X client-side cursor loading library Testing is encouraged, but please do not use these ports as dependencies until they are updated to release tarballs and the XFree86 ports have been updated to depend on them.
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8:30am Tuesday 4th February 2014 in Sport
Mickey Lewis is thrilled to finally have some attacking options up front as Oxford United visit Bury in Sky Bet League Two tonight.
James Constable and Deane Smalley have had little back-up over the last month, but the U's suddenly have four experienced strikers available.
David Connolly scored on his debut last weekend and Dave Kitson also came on after recovering from an ankle injury.
Lewis said: "It's brilliant, we have a lot of games coming up and we're going to need them all."
The caretaker boss is limited for choice elsewhere, though, with seven first-team players out.
Sean Rigg (calf) is the latest to suffer a problem, although he, Ryan Williams (knee) and Michael Raynes (hip) could be back by Saturday.
Bury: from Jensen, McNulty, Veseli, Mills, Jones, Miller, Grimes, Sedgwick, Tutte, Forrester, Akpa Akpro, Charles-Cook, Hinds, Burke, Procter, Soares, Platt, Obadeyi.
Oxford Utd: from Clarke, Bevans, Hunt, Mullins, Newey, Davies, Wroe, Rose, Ruffels, Smalley, Constable, Kitson, Connolly, Marsh, O'Dowda, Long, Lynn, Henly.
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Written in 2001
Expensive jacket
When: November 2000
Where: Moscow, Russia
What: Ended up paying a ton for a jacket
Of all the stories I've written so far I think they're all funny, except this one. This one still makes my teeth gringe when I think about it. I can fall into a coma, or have really bad days, and laugh about it later. But I don't like being ripped off, especially by a government and system. During this time my view of Russia was flushed down the toilet, but I would get over that and view the country better afterwards. It all started when winter was coming and I asked my family to ship me some things. I needed a winter jacket, boots, gloves, and a teach yourself German course. It would have been the same price to ship it through the postal service than to buy the whole lot in Moscow. Now this jacket is very special to me, I bought it from my old ski coach who coached the Canadian national ski team. This jacket was a team jacket, so it was worth a lot but I got it at a good price. So my family sent the package, but not by the post like I had asked, but by Federal Express. It cost them around $270 US to send, ouch. Guessing the value of it all, they put it at $660 US. It took almost two weeks before it even arrived in Moscow. But when it did Russian customs wanted around $400 US to clear it. Angry as hell I told them to send it back to Canada, only to be told that it would cost even more, it would take weeks to process, and in the end Russian customs could keep it anyway. I was furious and screamed at the customs agents on the phone. They told me this was Russia, not Canada. Idiots. A government that robs its own people and foreigners like that. This jacket was very special, and with the help of my family we actually paid the money to get it. When you add it all up it cost around $670 US just to get this package. Don't get me wrong Russia is an interesting country with smart and friendly people, but it is a very, very stupid system that in the end keeps this country from getting anywhere. As you can see here.
My three big starts
When: First days in each country
Where: England, Holland, and Russia
What: Ended up paying a ton for a jacket
A strange and funny fact of my trip that I can't wait to break the streak of is the fact that for every first day I have been in a new country I would live in, those first days were nuts. For example when I arrived in Oxford, England from Canada I was told by the employment centre that there was a problem with my visa. I had been issued a wrong visa, the British Embassy in Canada had made a mistake in advising which visa to get. So I had to leave for France, come back, only to be stuck at customs in Dover, and then return to Dover again days later to get my new and proper visa. That taken care of things went well afterwards. Then comes my first day in Holland. I left England one evening and traveled all night to reach Holland the next afternoon, when I got near Rotterdam I had an oil leak on the highway that covered the bottom of my bike and wheels. My first day in Holland was spent traveling from that town by train to Rotterdam looking for oil and parts, with all my bags, running around the city, coming back to the bike, and working on it until late that night. Fixing it I was then on my way but got lost looking for the small hotel in a small town, when I got there it was around 2-3 am. I had to wake up at 6 to go to work. I was now in Holland. This picture shows me and my bags at the Rotterdam station going back to repair the bike. But Russia gets the goofy first day award. After riding for sixteen hours on my bike, through rain, fog, and near freezing temperature, I finally reached Moscow. But unable to reach my contact person. My night was nuts, I couldn't read the signs, didn't have a map of the city, couldn't find a safe place to park my bike to go eat or rest, etc... I couldn't go anywhere. It was a very long night. Out of money I spent the night sitting on a sofa in a secured hotel with fenced parking. Only to fall sick that morning. I wouldn't be able to reach my new employer for another day. Fortunately my family wanted to pay for a hotel room, which at first I didn't want them to, but I wasn't feeling well, big headache, vomiting, so I finally got one. The next day the school was open and my stay in Russia started ,and it was great. So that makes for three wild first days, and one wild last day in Russia. All these put together it's just a fact about my trip so far and it makes it even more interesting. I never see these things in a negative way, only from a funny point of view. At least afterwards. I like challenges and these experiences keep making me stronger, it definitely helps in the troubleshooting department. Now I'm going to Switzerland and I'll try and break this streak.


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A coworker asked me who I voted for today, and I said that I didn't vote. She asked me why not, her disapproval being frankly palpable, and I told her I didn't vote for the same reason I don't always come to complete stops at stop signs: the act reeks of undue deference to constituted authority. The presumptive obligation of each citizen to vote is one of those goofy tenets of the democratic civic religion. Like most religious precepts and practices, we continue to valorize it even as we abandon it. Well over half of us now abstain. Even Catholicism is in better shape. I actually will haul myself into a booth if there's a seat on the city council at stake, because, fuck, man, the potholes. On the opposite end of the scale you get instead the idea that if you aggregate the binary decisions of millions of people you will produce some aspirational avatar of The People, The Country, whatever . . . some pure representative of the collective will and the Direction We're Going In and so forth and so on. Most political discourse is infected with the plainly insane notion that there exists a sort of ineffible national political consensus which political leadership must tap into, like a bunch of psychic mediums, in order to Get Things Done, Bipartisanly. "The American People want . . ." begin many such ponderings. Naturally, the American People don't want anything in particular, because there are 300 million of them. We live, as we dream, alone, says Conrad. What any given soul desires at any given moment of any given day is the impenetrable business of that person uniquely. All else is obfuscation of the essential randomness of individual existence--we are but slaves to fate, etc.--usually in the servie of keeping those who are better fed and better paid than you better fed and better paid than you. Participation in the maintenance of a political order is a sucker's game. It's a beautiful day in Pennsylvania. Go outside. The sun doesn't give a damn who's president.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
27 comments:
- puppylander said...
too lazy to google at the moment, so i'm just going to put this out there... do you folks think "ineffible" and "unfuckable" share the same etymological root?
- Anonymous said...
Man, great closing line, IOZ.
- Peter said...
Oh, the sun will give a damn when we invade it!
- Anonymous said...
"presumptive obligation?"
That's a funny way to describe a right.
- IOZ said...
The idea of voting "rights" strikes me, more and more each day, as eminently silly.
- Leonard said...
I always go to the polls to vote for nobody (or equivalently, a Libertarian or maybe Constitutionalist). Overty withholding my consent from the Democrats and Republicans is worth expressing. Nonetheless I have no beef with those who don't vote -- it's a far more rational strategy than mine. Spending any significant effort on a meaningless gesture is not completely rational.
Nonetheless, if practically everyone did as you do... nothing would change. Nonvoting is interpreted by the system as apathy and also as consent. If practically everyone did as I do, the system would collapse. Thus the categorical imperative suggests voting but abstaining, not nonvoting.
I fought out the issue of voting vs nonvoting with Billy Beck at UO, in the following thread:
Nonlibertarians probably won't be interested in that, but libertarians might be. - 5:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
"The sun doesn't give a damn who's president."
And the world doesn't care about American imperialism. Except that it does, of course -- your blog assures us -- thereby making this closing a complete non-sequitur, and a not very poetic one besides.
The problem is not Americans' shared apathy but, as you imply, that the choice is inevitably a "binary" one. - 6:00 PM
- Brian said...
Ioz never said the world does not care about American imperialism, only that the ritual of choosing between two identical in all fundamental respects "parties" has no real effect. If Obama is elected, we will still be "Supporting the Troops," we will still be digging ourselves into bankruptcy, and the sun wkll still be shining. Your post is itself has no relationship to the arguments or discussion at hand.
Nor do we really make the claim at it is a binary choice? I don't see that at all...Leonard throws in a third "option" which makes plenty of sense for him. - 6:24 PM
- stephanie g said...
Hey IOZ. I haven't checked in here in awhile. I dig the new design. Your entries in the last couple of weeks have been sublime, lots of gems to be kept. Keep up the good work.
I haven't paid attention to what's going on with the whole voting thing in like...four months. Haven't even watched network news or anything, even for laughs. It's really quite relaxing and I recommend it to everyone.
But they're still going on? Maybe a duel would solve this once and for all. Think of the ratings. - 6:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
Even if there were 3 or 4 or 5 parties, the likelihood is that none of them would be particularly interested in running on an entirely deconstructionist platform. They would likely all run on the vision of the Mythic America. That doesn't really get you anywhere substantial.
- TGGP said...
Jeffrey Friedman has done a good job of elaborating our hosts ideas on "majority will". You can find some links from here.
The classic essay on the "right" to vote is, of course, Lysander Spooner's. - 8:03 PM
- Thomas Daulton said...
...you get instead the idea that if you aggregate the binary decisions of millions of people you will produce some aspirational avatar of The People, The Country, whatever . . . some pure representative of the collective will and the Direction We're Going In and so forth and so on.
It certainly does seem to me like for the past 30 years or more, Americans have been using the Presidential Election process to try and find Neo Andersson from 'The Matrix', rather than an efficient, honest, and/or effective chief bureaucrat of the State apparatus, which is the way elections work in sane countries. Another peculiarly American disease, we seem to take Hollywood clichés seriously when making real-life decisions. - 10:20 PM
- otteart said...
Beautiful post.
- La Rana said...
Single Member District Plurality Voting. That is All.
- The Culture Ghost said...
I'm writing in dead people this year. Very unlikely they'll win. If they do manage to pull off an upset, the legal challenges to their capacity for the office will be vast. And if they do survive the legal battles, they're dead...what harm can they do?
- stephanie g said...
If someone gives you shit for not voting then you can always (shamefully) pull a page from Dr. Phil's book and ask "How's THAT been working out for ya?"
- Anonymous said...
la rana wins
- Mikee said...
My answer is: "I'm not a Democrat."
Very simple really. I don't belong to either party, so I don't get involved in their run-up festivities.
Here in GA, we can vote in EITHER primary, no matter what party we belong to. But only one vote per customer, so you got to choose which primary you want.
That, to me, is the epitome of stupidity and yet, representative of where we are as a democracy today.
Egalite, fraternite, stupidite! - 8:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
But IOZ,
If everyone emulated you, where would this great nation be?
Do you want the bad guys to keep winning?
If fewer of Pa.'s finest had acted like you, that awful, awful woman would no longer be in the Race, and we would be discussing the impending Obama/St. John runoff.
Oh well, it's still a glorious morning. The sun is out, no rain is falling from a heavy sky, and some of us, anyways, have faith that Obama will indeed lead us to the Promised Land!
You're still welcome at the Party, whether or not you actually voted.
(I believe in my heart of hearts you'll come around by November!)
FOD (Friend of Dibgy) - 8:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
Msr. puppylander:
Not sure, but I do believe "ineffable" and "unfuckable" share the same roots...at least in the "Not to be uttered; taboo" sense.
Mike - 8:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
If everyone emulated you, where would this great nation be?
Dear Immanuel Kant,
1) You neither can nor should attempt to live your life as if "everyone" should do the same things you do, unless you're a totalitarian-in-training;
2) It could never happen anyway. No one is ever going to get "everyone" to emulate them. There are some people who will reflexively do the opposite of what a large group of people is doing. Why bother with such a ludicrous hypothetical? - 9:11 AM
- almostinfamous said...
But IOZ,
If everyone emulated you, where would this great nation be?
i dont know, somewhere in pittsburgh?
and what the fuck do you mean by great anyway? - 9:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
Guys, Friend Of Digby is clearly a gimmick poster, and a great one at that.
- Mr.Fundamental said...
I'm voting for McCain.
we've got one wheel off the vehicle, three more to go.
we could really use a pothole. - 11:54 AM
- nasrudin said...
"Maybe a duel would solve this once and for all."
So many Hamiltons, so little time.
-- A. Burr. - 1:16 PM
- Brian said...
Amen, Mr. Fundamental. McInsanity ahoy!
- RLaing said...
Perhaps that it is better to give than to receive where global violence is concerned? Admittedly, the connection between this and the right to vote is not something I feel I could make clear without a very long post. - 3:32 PM


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Getting to high-value care, at least for Scott & White—a nonprofit healthcare system that includes 12 acute care hospitals, 140 clinics, and a health plan—is dependent more on producing a quality outcome than lower prices.
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photos by Dominick Mastrangelo
Win Butler schooling on the bball court
POP Montreal continued on Saturday (9/22) and BV photographer Dominick Mastrangelo was on the scene and got shots of The Sadies, "Shut Up and Eat Your Ballads" (Leif Vollebek and friends Michael Feuerstack, Laurel Sprengelmeyer of Little Scream, and Brad Barr covering Tom Waits), and Rags to Radio. He also stopped by the Pop vs. Jock basketball game which saw members of Arcade Fire and The Strokes playing basketball with other celebrities like actor Martin Starr (Freaks & Geeks, Party Down), pro basketball player Luke Bonner, and more.
David Byrne, who played a POP Montreal show with St. Vincent a day earlier (9/21) (they start their NYC-run of three shows tonight), performed at the game's halftime show. During his set, he was joined by Arcade Fire's Win and Will Butler and The Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture to perform covers of ? and the Mysterians' "96 Tears" and KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's the Way (I Like It)." You can watch a video of the latter below.
More pictures from Friday (9/21) are HERE. Pics from Sunday (9/23) are coming soon and more from Saturday are below.
POP Montreal is returning to Montreal this year from September 19 - 23. The initial lineup was revealed and it includes Grizzly Bear, Gang Gang Dance, David Byrne, Tim Hecker, Julia Holter, I Break Horses, Hot Snakes, Dirty Three, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Cate Le Bon, Bertrand Burgulat (!), and more. The full initial lineup is listed below and many more announcements to come. Early Bird tickets are on sale until June 30, when regular sale begins.
Meanwhile, Montreal will be getting the Ohsheaga Festival even sooner.
Initial POP Montreal lineup below...


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Cedar Rapids Weather
16 Sick in 5 States Including Iowa; Linked to Ground Beef Recall
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials say at least 16 people in five states have been sickened by salmonella food poisoning linked to ground beef.
No one has died, but half were hospitalized. Most of the illnesses have been in Michigan, but a few cases were scattered in Arizona, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Seven people ate a raw ground beef dish called kibbeh last month at a suburban Detroit restaurant that wasn't identified. Health officials say consumers should not eat uncooked meat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the cases have been linked to last week's recall of more than 1,000 pounds of ground beef from two Michigan businesses, Troy-based Gab Halal Foods and Sterling Heights-based Jouni Meats. Conversation GuidelinesBe KindDon't use abusive, offensive, threatening, racist, vulgar or sexually-oriented language. Share KnowledgeBe truthful. Share what you know and what you are passionate about. Stay focusedPromote lively and healthy debate. Stay on topic. Ask questions and give feedback on the story's topic. Report TroubleHelp us maintain a quality comment section by reporting comments that are offensive. If you see a comment that is offensive, or you feel violates our guidelines, simply click on the "x" to the far right of the comment to report it. read the full guidelines here » Commenting will be disabled on stories dealing with the following subject matter: Crime, sexual abuse, property fires, automobile accidents, Amber Alerts, Operation Quickfinds and suicides. |
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COLUMBIA — It doesn't matter whether it's out on a playground, in the backyard or in a gymnasium, seeing a team of five guys playing basketball wouldn't make anyone think twice. Except when that team is playing against a group of women. For the Missouri women's basketball team, though, it's the norm.
Male practice squad a plus for Missouri women's basketball team
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CST
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Defender, you are a character! But you have a good point. What are your top three or so 'fictional' autobiographies? I think one of my favorite autobiographical works is West with the Night by Beryl Markham. I think this book is fairly accurate, but if I recall she got into a little trouble by pilferring some stories from others later in her writing career. So who knows how accurate West with the Night is. Captain Crow, Yes, every now and then I pull an old favorite off the shelf. I think I read the John Carter of Mars series in the early 1960's. I have thinned out my teenage collection to just a few books. My favorite authors of that sci-fi/fantasy genre are C.S. Lewis, Ursula LeGuin, Peter S. Beagle, T.H. White, Tolkein..... In the 1980's I read extensively about the study of comparative mythology. I still have over 125 titles on my shelves, including nearly all 30 of Joseph Campbell's books. Do you still have an extensive collection of sci-fi books? |