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death is slimming.i.last yeara boy in my gradetook his own lifeand people said howsorry they werethat they all picked on himbecause he wasgay. they gave a shitfor about two weeks,but after that, itall came down.ii.they were backto calling each other faggots in the hallwaysand making gay jokes as if they don'thurt. as if theyhadn't ever hurt. iii.then this yeara seniorwas drinking and he got in a car to gohome. you can tellme what happened next,because we've all readthose stories. thosetragedies. and the day afterit happened, all the students were cryingbecause this was a boywas a great guy. hehad a girlfriend anda life ahead of him, and thiswas such a terrible accident.iiii.they said that thegood die young. butwhat is goodabout getting behind the wheelwhen you can't even see straight? iiiii.and when someonefinally got fed up with thelies and the idolizing,they called her the same thingsthat they called the boy last year
Untitledi cut my mouthon the thought of you.blood fills myharsh tongued mouth and dr i p dri p d
/.there is no amount of smokethat can keep youout of my thoughts. to see youis to see stars, and i'm dizzy enoughwith the image of youright before dawn stuck in my head,but i want more.i have the instinctive needto run a finger down yourneck, to memorizehow you look when yousmile, just so that i canwrite about you,to make you realizehow spectacular you are.
live'n in a box.a guide to sweet talking a girl into hergrave:i) tell her she's beautiful and that she looks like she fell straight from heaven's top 10and landed with crashon your lap. ask her to come homewith you. keepasking.ii) touch her hair when she sleeps, just to reassure herthat you're there,and make a promise to herthat you won't just write about her when you're stoned. say,"i'll write about you every time i breathe, baby."iii) keep telling her that it's not too soon, that, yesit's okay to love againand that she's only human,after all. everyone makes mistakes,you know, and hewas a massive one.iiii) start to realizethat maybe she's not your princesstrapped in a tower; in fact, she's more like a dark hearted teenager convulsing in the corner of her own thought process, andwonder if you want to fight the dragon.iiiii) buy her a ringand smile at her, because you love her, as you slip
how to be a poet: the basics.kiss all the peopleyou know you shouldn't,solely for the reasonthat they look goodin stanzas. look at your scarslike mothers peer into cradles. then makemore; make yourself intoa symbol for infinity,or at least try,because it never works. patch yourself up. say, "darling, you're okay," while staring at yourself in the mirror with your hairdamp and your lipschapped (refer to stanza one). change. grow. it's what we like to read, isn't it?miss the people in your lifeuntil they leave,and then miss yourselfas well. screw everything up,and then write about itlike it had to happen.try to believe it, ignorethe voice in your head that hissesand groans in your sleep,behind your eyelids."baby, you're a fuck up,you know it know it know it".try to carve the hummingout of your bodyby exit way of your veins. be hospitalized. give in, give up,play along, stop writing. get better. but then you start writi
here is my heart, and here is my home.i am done writing aboutblood. you can find mein the "new beginnings" isle, splashed with scar tissue and pale skin--i amwhole. dear child, open youreyes: there are stars, a galaxy, andthere is breath in your lungs. the past is neverforgotten, but you have lived through it,swam through it andmaybe died a little through it, but youcame out on top. when this winter ends, itwill end harshly;but spring comes every year,and i hope that youremember that;i hope you open your eyesto rain and i hopethat you fall in love with it, and i hopethat you let life movelike i had to.
don't love me until you've seen me bleed.i think thati'm falling in lovewith you.no. no, no no, don't you say that, because you've never seen meat 4 amwith my eyes glazedand my mind a battle field (and my arms paying for the weaponry).you haven't heard mechoke back sobs after midnightbecause god dammit i can't sleep,and the screams in my earsaren't helping matters,and i don't thinkyou will ever see me bre a kand shatter andfall into the greedy gripof a panic attack and then try in vainto claw myself back up. but there is that hot hope in methat tells me that youare different. youcan look pastthe scars and the tearsand the screams and the nightmares. andmaybefor once in my damn lifei'm praying that i'm rightabout someone for once.
red.these cigarettes will kill me, but only ifi don't do it first. (inhale, breathe, hold, exhale. then concentrate on the scenery. feel the smoke on your tongue and think about how you're killing yourself, when in reality, you're already dying.)we're all going todie, so what's oneday less? it seems like anhonest bargain to me,but then again, you should neverlisten to a word i say, because i ama class A fuck up (or so they say). see, i'm either too fator too skinny,much too heart wildfor any man too marry. ("who would want to marry a girl like you? you're too stubborn," my father says. i am fifteen with purple hair and fire on my cheeks and my heart coiling away from my sleeve. "fuck anyone who wants to take anything about you away," my mother tells me when i'm nearly 16, with sad eyes and a worn out expectation.)but i think i realize nowthat i don'tcare. for me i am good enough,good in general,an
Inordinate-she's petrifiedof being fixedbecause being brokenis all she's ever known-
all we ever do is decayI.nobody falls in love with saturn,but everyone, her rings.II.this disjointed skull is a smirkingmirror bending back reflections.this disjointed skull is a sleep-smoker.III.you were a utopian seven lives ago,but nobody lives in this body anymore.
.he told me prayersare uselessand if i really want hisforgiveness, i should get onmy knees and beg
a lover's observations.when you asked me to define love,i answered with this.love isi. a collection of sighs strung together by remembered dreams and rapid heartbeatsii. fingertips on knuckles and the hugging of thumbsiii. making silverware on the mattress in the company of the starsiv. exchanging dialogue with our mouths shut and our eyes openv. cheekbones and crow's feetvi. turning every what if into a realitywhen i asked you to describe love,you took the answer from my mouthwith your lips.
the higher they stand, the harder they fallhe considers her a stranger.she could've been a singer or adancer or a baker or a star, but shechose to be a fighter becauselovers always lose (inthe ironic, metaphorical sense.)she could've been happy, but she didn'tchoose that path.because "it is better to have loved,and lost,"but sometimes old washed-out poetslike tennyson are not always right.love is a hurricane ofsticks and stones that may or may notbreak skeletal frames and hearts.once: he considered her a maybe-possibly-sort-ofinfatuation, because eight-thirteenthsof a heart is not,i repeat not,enough to love someone. twice: he considered her just anotherfeather in a bird flock,and strangely, that was okay with her.but she was a fighter andhe was her magnum opus of sorts.goddamn, did you see that girlthrash at the wavesjust to hold on to a tiny pieceof a man not strong enough to hold his own?she was a fighter becausehe claimed he was a lover, but in the endshe lost and he was stilljus
.when her love left, it leftthe house emptyand she saysi hope one day it'llcome back to me,cos i don't keep this shotgunon my front porch for nothin'
one shot of ignorance, pleasesip, swallow, repeatis the mantra of every college studentfacing their inevitable unemployment withvodka dribbling down their acne scarred chins.put education first,they said.we will always be here for you,they said.and sure enoughthe first eighteen years of your life were spent believingthem just like the teen mom on television whobelieved that the father would propose.then you turned 19and god said,"let there be student loans"leaving you shackled to your dorm room floorby economics textbooks written by a miserable spinsterwith a pretentious name in helvetica font.and if that wasn't bad enough,you have to pay for them by scrubbing toiletsat the thai bistro across the streetand bagging pregnancy tests for antsy high schoolersat 2 a.m. in the morning.you're tired, slightly deliriousand the pungent smell of microwave currywafts off your moth-eaten sweater.every other week youexperience an existential crisis,wondering why a mass-produced shee
.the sun did notkiss my skinyesterday, he sleptlateshowed hisface around noonand then went backto bed; theearth exhaled
.confess;let thosesquirmingthingsinside youhatchand falloff thetongue(i'd rather walk myself home, bare feet cold on pavement)
the skin on my bones, the sun on my fingers.at 8:54 p.m., i realizethat i love you morethan the sun loves the moon,the seaand the sand and shells,and morethan the wind loves therain. i love you likei love the last dragof a cigarette,the humming of the airbefore a thunderstorm and i love you likei love my blankets afterwork, like i love my habitof turning offevery single lightbefore i go tobed.you are morethan how the sky looksand midnight in the dead of winter;that perpetual ink-spill ofpink;and you are more dear to methan the thousands of wordsi have written. if i couldi would put the worldinto my palmand then burn it, torch it all and pick awayat the flaming remains andi.o.u'suntil i can paint a lifein ashesso that it half way resembleswhat i feel for you.
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Robert KC Johnson - 7/29/2004
The Chicago Trib yesterday had an article noting, probably correctly, that Obama has given better speeches than the one he delivered in Boston thus far on the campaign trail--one reason, obviously, why he scored such an amazing victory in the primary and was all but a shoo-in for election even before Jack Ryan's sex scandal. It was the best speech that I could recall at a convention of either party.
Jonathan Dresner - 7/29/2004
Unless 'pundits' is code word for Republicans, actually, it was more, I think, an attack on David Brooks and anyone else who tries to analyze the situation in simplistic terms. True, it seems to me that Republican rhetoric and campaigning is more about the red-blue 'divide' but he didn't, in fact, make that connection.
Timothy James Burke - 7/28/2004
I thought it was a very good speech. Definitely the best part was the central attack on the red state, blue state rhetoric and the use of it by the Republicans.
Manan Ahmed - 7/28/2004
Amazing, uplifting, electrifying. For this immigrant - the best speech. ever.
Derek Charles Catsam - 7/28/2004
Jonathan --
I have to disagree with you, and adamently -- the reason it was on eof the great speeches of our time because it was about many of the things you say it was not -- where he talks about us being the United States of America, when he talks about liberals in red states and conservatives in bue states, and when he talks about hoped and dreams he speaks to Americans, and not just to democrats. It was great precisely because it wasn't just about the Democrats or winning back Congress or getting out the vote (though he may well have helped on those fronts). It was about a vision or dream for what we are as Americans. This, folks, is what a uniter, not a divider, looks like.
Jonathan Dresner - 7/28/2004
Well, when I'm working from home, as I am these days, I only have dial-up speeds, so I tend to avoid video. I did manage to catch it on C-Span, though, and it was well delivered.
But, to be honest, I'm not that moved by personal narrative in a politician. Maybe it's cold of me to say it, but I don't care if their background is 'all American' or whatever it is they're trying to present. That stuff is just too easy to say, to mythologize, to essentialize, to pick and choose and sentimentalize. I want to know what they believe, and sometimes personal history is useful, and I want to know what they can do and I want to know what they will do, and rarely is personal/family history, at least the parts they put in a speech like this, a great predictor of those things. 'Vote for me because I had the right kind of parents' doesn't work for me.
The ending was more effective, for me, because it was about values and missions and goals, and correcting the path which we are lurching down. In other words, it was stuff I agree with (in part because of my own upbringing, with folk music and all) presented with some real energy and flair and eloquence. It was a fine statement of principles and values. It was also a campaign speech, and that wouldn't have bothered me quite as much if it had been just a bit broader: it was about Obama, which was to be expected, and about Kerry/Edwards (again, lots of personal history), which was to be expected; but it wasn't about the Democratic Party, or about winning back Congress, or about state-level elections or getting out the vote.
I realize that there's an effort to appear, in a sense, non-partisan and unifying, focused on the presidential race, but those things make a big difference in what kind of Kerry Presidency we might have, or, for that matter, what kind of Bush Presidency (God forbid) we might have.
Ralph E. Luker - 7/28/2004
Can you not access the link to watch and hear the speech? Why would it being a campaign speech disqualify it? What kind of speech would qualify?
It seemed to me that telling his family's story, as an instance of the American story, was quite powerful. And the embracing of our polarities was crucial to the success of the speech.
Jonathan Dresner - 7/28/2004
Thanks for the link. Without actually seeing it, it's hard to judge for sure, but it reads a bit too much like a campaign speech (which it is) to qualify as "one of the great speeches of our time" in my mind. But there are bits and pieces of it which are indeed quite powerful and elegant.
I think my favorite single line, though was the rather partisan "When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going."
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On Learning Unions of Pattern Languages and Tree Patterns (1999)
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We present efficient on-line algorithms for learning unions of a constant number of tree patterns, unions of a constant number of onevariable pattern languages, and unions of a constant number of pattern languages with fixed length substitutions. By fixed length substitutions we mean that each occurence of variable x i must be substituted by terminal strings of fixed length l(x i ). We prove that if an arbitrary unions of pattern languages with fixed length substitutions can be learned efficiently then DNFs are efficiently learnable in the mistake bound model. Since we use a reduction to Winnow, our algorithms are robust against attribute noise. Furthermore, they can be modified to handle concept drift. Also, our approach is quite general and may be applicable to learning other pattern related classes. For example, we could learn a more general pattern language class in which a penalty (i.e. weight) is assigned to each violation of the rule that a terminal symbol cannot be changed ...


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KC has some special Special Teams and I'd argue they can be the X-factor, the pick me up that's needed sometimes when neither the O or the D is making it happen. When they pin the opposition at the 5 with a monster tackle, the D is salivating and the O just KNOWS it's getting the ball back at the 50 or better. Adrenaline flows. A ST unit that gets gashed by big returns or muffs punts has a draining effect. This crew does not do that. Sometimes just doing your job is what's needed.
One of the great things to watch this year is how the team seems to weather the ebb and flow of the game, much better than the fans. Each of the three "legs" picks up the others at times. Oh, we march down the field methodically (cuz that's how we roll) poised to score and whoops, Avery fumbles. Fans go insane, fear the worst. The D? OK how 'bout an interception? You're welcome. Offense: thanks for the INT we'll just punch in a TD. Nice. Tight game, how about an 89 yard return? Everyone just relax.
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Edit: I don't know why I said that Pogo is "back," considering he never went anywhere.
Demoscene — Alive and Well
I grew up on the demoscene, though I never participated. When I was 13 years old, I would dial in to a BBS that had ftp capability so I could download demos and songs off hornet.org. In its most basic form, a "demo" is an executable file that shows off the graphics/programming/music talents of a group of people that form a "demogroup". It can be any visual effects/themes imaginable, synced to music. Demos have been around for over 20 years on all platforms of computers. About a week ago, I was curious to see if the demoscene was still alive, and it is still alive and well (mostly in the EU, just like when I was a kid).
Demos were always "cutting edge" as far as technology was concerned. People were programming 3d effects in their demos well before computer games were using 3d textures and shadowing effects. The average user could not run the current day's demos when they were first released due to not owning the most current model of CPU/graphics card. Nowadays, the visual effects/animation world has completely caught up to the demoscene as far as visual effects go. Special effects producers can now do all the things that programmers could do. This has really made the demoscene less relevant, in my opinion.
One thing that continues to be fresh about the demoscene, though, is the file-size limitations. There are categories for 64k, 4k, and 1kb filesizes. This places a limit on the total size of the demo (including textures, music, graphics, and coding). For instance, this demo has a file size of 1k:
Untraceable by TBC (2009)
That entire video, including the song, is generated on a PC from a .exe that is 1024 bytes (smaller than the size of this post). These days, it's all about exploiting tricks in people's graphics cards. Even though it has a very small file size, it has very steep system requirements to run this file. There are even competitions who can make the best PC Game at different file sizes. All downloads are free and can be found at pouet.net.
Some more demos with small file sizes:
4k – Elevated by RGBA and TBC (2009)
4k – nasa by Still(2010)
128bytes – spongy by TBC (2009)
32bytes – matisse by orbitaldecay (2010)
1k – Tracie by TBC (2007)
4k – Sincere by TBC (2008)
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Stephen figured out how to scroll down a webpage today. On this laptop, you can scroll by dragging down with two fingers on the touchpad (like a mac). So he dragged his hand across the touchpad and the web site moved. Well, this made him extremely happy, so I started guiding him, showing him how to scroll up and down. Everything was going well–it was a cute little moment–until he snatched my left Shift key in one motion. He completely removed it and was chewing on it within a second. He also removed my left Ctrl a few days ago. Fortunately, a replacement keyboard is about 11 bucks for this laptop.
We went hiking yesterday with Russ and his sister. I didn't attempt any time-consuming landscape photos, but I did get some shots of Stephen playing on the path up the mountain. He is on the ground playing with a little stick and there is a huge, distant landscape behind him. Some cute stuff. I can't get them off my camera until I fix/rebuild my computer, though. Also, when I got home and looked through the photos, I realized that every shot was under-exposed by 2 stops. My camera had switched to some "custom" setting that automatically adjusts exposure time to be 2 stops too dark. So instead of getting a proper exposure at 1/500s, it was shooting everything in 1/2000s. Pretty pissed about that. I had to reset all settings to factory default to clear the "custom function."
Apparently a lot of people are going to be here tomorrow afternoon. Tonight and tomorrow morning we have to clean, clean, clean. I am trying to set up Jaime's old desktop computer with Ubuntu to replace Eric's dying computer. Lots of other people are coming over to play SNES and eat pizza.
A good article on Usain Bolt. There is a lot of hype in sports. Among still-active athletes, we are supposed to believe that:
- Peyton Manning is the best quarterback of all time.
- Roger Federer is the best Tennis player of all time.
- Tiger Woods is the best Golfer of all time.
- Michael Phelps is the best swimmer of all time–and maybe the greatest olympian ever.
- Usain Bolt is the fastest man in history.
- James Stewart Jr. is (or will become) the best motocross racer of all time.
These are just claims that I have heard mentioned directly. People like to indirectly claim things about LeBron James too, but I have never heard of anyone coming out and challenging Michael Jordan's "greatest ever" status directly.
Is it really possible that all the greatest athletes in history are alive and active right now? Doubtful. Usain Bolt, however, is not hype. All "what if" discussions aside, he is the fastest man in history. And he doesn't even care.
Some good music-related youtube vids.
Skip James – Crow Jane
Roscoe Holcomb – Little Birdie and Graveyard Blues
Bluegrass Jam in Brookline 2
Leadbelly – Only footage to survive of the legendary Leadbelly
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs – need I say more?
The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Great Irish ballad. Maybe my favorite. The Lakes of Pontchartrain is thought to have originated from Irish immigrants in the South during the American Civil War. The Irish melody also could have been brought over by the hired British soldiers in the South, where the story involving an immigrant and a "Creole girl" would later be affixed to the classic melody. Lake Pontchartrain is in Louisiana, and is the second-largest saltwater lake in the U.S. This is a great version of the song. The singing is spot-on and the two musicians are perfectly in-sync from start to finish. Paul's choice of hairstyle/glasses frames is rather unfortunate, though.
Paul Brady and Andy Irvine in 1977
Song Lyrics
Evan Valentine – Complete Discography
I mentioned some time ago that a lot of my music is hosted on archive.org, and that I would get to the details later. Well, later is now. Or.. now is later. I'm confused.
Netlabels release material under Creative Commons licenses. This means that the author can determine how his music (or video, or book) is licensed. Typically it is released as "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative" which means you are free to share the music–spread it far and wide as long as you give the author credit and do not use it for commercial purposes. This means that people can take my songs and burn 100 copies to CD if they like, as long as they do not sell the CDs for profit or use them for commercial gain (use them as the soundtrack to a film, for instance). In the unlikely event that someone 'stole' my songs for commercial use, I could sue and it would be upheld in court, even though I have not pursued an actual copyright. Not to mention, I have the source material for all my songs and could prove that I composed them.
I followed the custom of releasing material as albums, though they are not actual albums. I will list them here in chronological order, with a bit of explanation. All the following music is non-dance electronic music. The whole genre is really esoteric and not for everyone. Although I started making music in 1996, all of this "released" material is from 2001 and beyond (there's good reason for that).
Ekiv EP – several short, intense tracks from my first year living with Jaime in Athens. Most of the percussion sounds on here were sampled by me (smash two things together and call it a snare drum)
Fish Food EP – more laid back, more lush sounds
Safety Glass EP – back to rough, harsh sounds. I think this is my best release
Sinister Device LP – full-length (about 50minute) release that has over 15,000 downloads. "The public's" favorite release of mine. Lots of help from friends on this one.
Millions Never Tried EP (with e-sin) – cooperative album with a friend of mine. The latest (and most mature) of my releases. I love the first two tracks, along with "Seren." (The link below plays the songs out of order, so scratch that previous statement)
Plus there are several more songs (of different types) on my personal music page, and several "leaked" tracks on different file-sharing networks.


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Jenna Dewan Tatum, who grew up in Texas before attending USC and joining the sorority Pi Beta Pi, was initially discovered by a dance agent and her fancy footwork sent her on the road with Janet Jackson and Ricky Martin and got her part in videos for Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore. Those skills would also land the former model the audition that would change both the trajectory of her career and her personal life forever. Her role as Nora Clark in the original "Step Up" film (2006) paired her with Channing Tatum and the two were soon hot to foxtrot offscreen as well. After dating for two years and getting engaged in Hawaii in 2008, they tied the knot in Malibu in July 2009 with a wedding party that included Emmanuelle Chriqui and Haylie Duff. First, they created a production company, 33andOut, together and then moved on to making a baby. Daughter Everly was born in May 2013. While her husband has arguably made a bigger name for himself, she has booked continuous work since her early 2000s TV gigs on shows like "The Young And The Restless" and "Joey". Dewan Tatum has booked high profile gigs for the last three TV seasons — "The Playboy Club", "American Horror Story" and "Witches of East End" She recently reteamed with her husband onscreen for the first time since "Step Up" in the high school reunion dramedy "10 Years".
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Your BBT Chart and Getting Pregnant:
What Can BBT Charting Tell me about Ovulation, Implantation, and Pregnancy?
When women start BBT charting, the first and primary objective is to learn about one's unique menstrual cycle and determine when you are fertile. To this end, the BBT chart is instrumental in telling you when you ovulate each month - and based on graphing your monthly "basal temperature spike", you can determine your ovulation date and anticipate those days of the month you will most likely get pregnant.
However, women who have been BBT charting for a number of months or have experience from previous pregnancies quickly extrapolate other applications from their BBT data. And other questions often arise:
To learn the how-to of bbt charting, visit our BBT charting guidelines
These are advanced and somewhat controversial applications, and because human fertility is so complex, some women may be able to use their charts to answer the above questions, while other women will not be able to decode their charts without a great deal of ambiguity at all. In effect, while your chart my provide clear data about when you ovulate, in many cases other applications often enter the realm of pure speculation... Before we delve into these issues above, let's do a quick review of BBT charting and human fertility and see how your fertility chart "mirrors" changes in your body and reflects fluctuation in key reproductive hormones.
Reviewing the Fundamentals: Basal Body Temperature and Progesterone
Estrogen is reproductive hormone that crests during the first part of your cycle. In configurative terms for our purposes here, estrogen is the "nurturing" agent, the hormone that prepares the womb for a pregnancy, that cultivates blood flow to the uterus, that swells the uterine lining with blood vessels and tissues, and that helps the reproductive organs produce cervical mucus and soften the cervix. For approximately one-half of your cycle, your body prepares itself for ovulation and pregnancy.
During the "other" half of your menstrual cycle, a new hormone ascends to prominence, taking over as the estrogens recede (approximately twenty-four hours after you ovulate). Of course, this hormone is progesterone. It's function is to provide warmth and in the case of a pregnancy, to prevent menstruation. A BBT Chart is biphasic: it provides a clear graphical image of when ovulation occurs, marked by a sharp rise in body temperature. This basal temperature rise will vary among women, depending on several impacting fertility factors, but will typically conform to a 0.4 to 1.0 F thermal "spike". Please take a look at the image below. Right about midcycle, you'll see the dramatic basal temperature shift - and this indicates that ovulation has taken place. (Note that BBT charting does not "predict" when you ovulate within a discrete cycle; it only verifies ovulation approximately 24 to 48 hours afterwards. Hence, charting your bbts for just one month provides useful fertility information. However, only after a handful of months will your bbt and fertility data begin to become crystal clear and determinate patterns begin to emerge).
Let's return to the image above: In a biphasic BBT chart, you'll see your menstrual cycle divided into its two phases - the cool and the hot - with each phase reflecting the dominance of either estrogen or progesterone (and with your ovulation day marking the middle-point separating these phases). During the second half of your cycle, note that your BBT temperature remains high. This is because progesterone is produced until one of two things happens. In the case of a pregnancy, the fertilized egg will implant in the uterus about a week after you ovulate. Following implantation, the embryo will release another hormone, hCG, into the mother's system, and this hormone will tell the body to keep the progesterone high. This, in turn, effectuates amenorrhea - or the interruption of the menstrual cycle. If progesterone keeps cresting, you'll see your bbt temperature remain high and you should experience one of your first pregnancy symptoms: A missed period.
On the other hand, if you are not pregnant, the message to keep progesterone flowing will not be broadcast through your body, and therefore progesterone levels will drop (along with your basal body temperature). And when you see this thermal decrease in your basal temperature, it's likely that menstruation will soon ensue and your cycle will begin anew. The image above displays the red line's fall, paralleling the culmination of a particular menstrual cycle and the onset of menses (your period).
What We Learn from Our BBT Chart: As you can see, we can learn much from our chart, particularly about ovulation and general cycle trends.
We can learn the average length of our menstrual cycle. We can discover if our cycles are regular or irregular. We'll get a graphical display of when we ovulate each month (allowing us to time intercourse at maximum fertility). We can determine the relative length of our two cycle phases. If our bbt temperature does not drop (or stays high longer than previous cycles) we may discover one of our first early pregnancy signs. If our cycles are irregular, quite long or very short, we can also get an inkling that there may be issues to discuss with a doctor.
In a situation when the second half of our cycle following ovulation is very short, this may be an indication of insufficient progesterone levels (or luteal phase defect). In short, luteal phase defect is characterized by the failure of the corpus luteum to generate enough progesterone to keep a discrete cycle going. A luteal phase defect can only be diagnosed by a doctor - and a bbt chart can only alert us to possible fertility issues (it should not be used for "home" diagnoses or guesswork). Luteal phase defects are not uncommon and your doctor can likely provide treatment. If your BBT chart shows inconsistency or displays unexpected temperature shifts (or no temperature spike at all) then share your charting records with your doctor. Here, selecting a proper basal thermometer and simply charting correctly (observing all the very specific guidelines) may prevent any frustration with inconsistent results.
Next Question: Can my BBT Chart diagnose a pregnancy? While a bbt chart cannot give you an unequivocal diagnosis, it can provide a compelling indication that you might indeed be pregnant (or that you should take a pregnancy test). If your bbt temperature stays high longer than usual (based on previous records), it could be a a sign of pregnancy.
The triphasic curve and implantation: Some women who have been charting for a while and have an intimate familiarity with their own BBT histories and patterns may look for a slight decrease in BBT temperature during the luteal phase, about a week or so after ovulation. This dip would, in theory, be followed a day later by a resumed high temperatures - a third phase of the cycle following a pregnancy. The problem with the "triphasic" curve is that there are simply too many variables for it to be an accurate indicator of implantation or pregnancy. Hence, while a prolonged thermal increase may indicate a pregnancy, its not advocated to look for an implantation dip or triphasic chart.
To learn more about the how-to of BBT and fertility charting, please click here and visit: BBT Charting Instructions
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I started using this method one yr after the birth of my dd when the iud I had after her implanted into my uterus. Having it removed went fine but i had a pretty bad run with depression from the hormone withdrawals for i have been on some kind of birth control from age 13( heavy/ irregular cycle) 11 yrs - 9 months
I really wish this was part of sex-ed or at least an option
v card till 21 by choice
Teen mom for a mother who bailed after 14 months
Didn't want to be her
This is not a schools responsibilty to teach, it is a patents. This method does not control diseases and infections. Teens should not be taught this as a reliable form of contraception.
I would agree to all that has been said here. I think that there should be a way to teach young girls how to understand their bodies cycle, fertility, and the importance you should have for charting and reading those charts. This should be taught at school or by the parent/guardian at some time in the young ladies life. At some point when she becomes a women and does make the decision to have a child she will understand the way her body works. Often we don't get all the information that would help us become successful in conception or not to conceive because we were not taught, or do not understand our bodies signs. Let alone able to infer the charts that helps with our fertility cycle.


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Obama Pledges to Enact Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal
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Published: 29th January 2014 09:40 AM
Last Updated: 29th January 2014 11:41 AM
US President Barack Obama pledged to press ahead with the planned troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
In his annual State of the Union address in Congress Tuesday, he also challenged the Afghan government to sign a security pact allowing a limited American military presence in the country, reported Xinhua.
"Together with our allies, we will complete our mission there by the end of this year, and America's longest war will finally be over," the president said.
"If the Afghan government signs a security agreement that we have negotiated, a small force of Americans could remain in Afghanistan with NATO allies," he added.
The Obama administration has threatened to pull out all American troops at the end of the year, as Afghan President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a bilateral security agreement that grants legal immunity to residual American troops tasked with training and assisting Afghan forces.
Obama ordered all US forces to leave Iraq in late 2011 after Baghdad failed to ink a similar security pact with Washington.
Karzai has set new conditions for his signing of the deal, including a promise by Washington not to allow its forces to conduct counterterrorism raids on Afghan homes, and US agreement to free Afghan prisoners held at its Guantanamo prison.
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December 06, 2000, 12:00 AM — My friend Fred Avolio has been making me feel guilty about not trying
to use secure email. In his latest essay (Fred is an independent
network security consultant and he also writes a regular series of
essays), he encourages his readers to start using digital signatures
and encrypt their message traffic. He claims, and I completely
agree, if we continue treating our electronic correspondence as
worthless, then eventually our businesses will suffer.
So, how hard can it be? Well, after trying several different
technologies, I have come to a conclusion: secure email is still the
pits. Sorry Fred, much as I'd like to follow your shining example, I
just can't get anything to work here at Strom HQ. For the time being,
my email is still going out in the clear, unencrypted form it always
has been.
When I last wrote about this topic a few years ago, Marshall Rose and I
were deep into research for our book "Internet Messaging". You can read
the original essay here (http://strom.com/email), as well as find links
to a longer excerpt that appeared in Cisco's Internet Protocol Journal
on the topic. And copies of the book are still available too (including
a wonderful preface written by Penn of Penn and Teller fame)!
Not much has changed in the two-and-a-half years since I wrote that
essay. Standards are no help whatsoever; indeed, as more products
support S/MIME, more implementation issues crop up. Products are
difficult to use and setup (I'll get to that in a moment). And keeping
track of your cryptographic infrastructure can drive anyone nuts.
Truly, only the most motivated paranoid could persevere and really use
these products anyhow.
First I tried a regular digital certificate and Microsoft Outlook.
After retrieving my certificate (I created one years ago but never used
it) and I imported it into Outlook. Outlook 2000 has a zillion
different security settings, and I am still not sure that I set things
up properly. One clue: whenever I try to send a message with a cert
attached, Windows tells me that there has been some protection
violation by Outlook. So much for that path.
So I tried a few other products that claim to be dirt simple to use.
Well, they got the first word right -- they are pretty dirty. I took a
look at three of them:
* SecureDelivery.com has a web-based client, in addition to working
with Yahoo Mail and Outlook
* CertifiedMail.com has Web, Outlook and Notes software
* Safe-Mail.com has just a Web client
The SecureDelivery add-on to Yahoo Mail is the easiest to use. You just
click on a button while composing a message and send it. That's about
the easiest thing I can imagine.
By Web client, I mean that you ultimately have to read and or compose
your secure messages inside your Web browser. Yes, you do have a
secured (SSL) session, which does encrypt the conversation between you
and their Web server over the wire.


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Welcome to the websites of Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), a recognized leader in the field of grants management and program administration in the South Caucasus. EPF is comprised of three locally registered offices in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, each with nearly 13 years of experience in the field of grassroots civil society development.
EPF is linked into the expertise and resources of the broader EF Network – sharing programming, ideas, systems and lessons that enrich all activities in the South Caucasus.
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The Program offers an unprecedented opportunity for Georgian businesses to showcase their employee volunteering systems.
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Under the supervision of the President and Vice-President, the Program Manager supports effective implementation of the EC-funded Partnership for Budget Transparency: Civil Society Oversight of Public Spending in Georgia project.
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
EPF is seeking an expert in public finance management and budget execution, who will work with the EU-funded project team (to be set up by November 2014) and the targeted civil society organizations, in order to lead the process of drafting position papers and recommendations for legislative/policy changes that are to improve public finance management and budget execution.
Wednesday, 04 June 2014
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National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice research in India and China
AbstractWe measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India, using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. Genetic or pedigree information is used to partition the total benefits between these two countries and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Finally, reported elasticities of poverty reduction with respect to agricultural output growth are used to assess the effects of national and international research on poverty reduction in rural India and China. The results indicate that rice varietal improvement research has contributed tremendously to increase in rice production, accounting for 14% to 24% of the total production value over the last two decades in both countries. Rice research has also helped reduce large numbers of rural poor. IRRI played a crucial role in these successes. In 1999, for every US$1 million invested at IRRI, more than 800 and 15,000 rural poor were lifted above the poverty line in China and India, respectively. These poverty reduction effects were even larger in the earlier years. Copyright 2005 International Association of Agricultural Economics.
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Larry Foote's departure from the Steelers either was one smart move on his part or merely a gamble with his own money that he can carve out a better situation for himself in the NFL.
Either way, it's a case of a player believing in himself to the extent he was willing to leave a team that has a chance of delivering him a third Super Bowl ring to join one that may not return to its winning ways until he's ready to retire.
Foote gets to play middle linebacker in the 4-3 defense in his hometown of Detroit. He signed a one-year contract, which is all he had left on his deal with the Steelers anyway. If Foote does well, he'll be a free agent going on 30 in one year; if not, he'll find a job somewhere at least as a backup, which is what he believed he would become with the Steelers anyway.
So, the only thing he's losing is money, and there's no guarantee he would have been paid the $2,885,000 salary called for in his Steelers contract this year. Although the Steelers have a good record of releasing veterans early -- or ask them to take a paycut -- if they know they need to save a hefty salary, Foote's case might have been different.
The Steelers were not going to sign Foote to a long-term contract extension because of Lawrence Timmons. When they drafted Timmons in the first round in 2007, they said he was an outside linebacker. In 2008, however, they placed him behind Foote at the inside "mack" position.
At this time last year, Foote said it was a fait accompli that Timmons would take over his spot, calling it "political." That did not happen. Foote started for his fifth consecutive season, and Timmons played in the nickel.
Foote cited this as another reason for leaving the Steelers, that he was turned into a two-down player. But he only played on passing downs during his pro career when James Farrior was injured, which was rarely.
The problem for Foote is that his buddy, Farrior, has not slowed down. Farrior is 34, and Foote will be 29 in June. Timmons' qualities seem to fit Farrior's position -- involved in more drops and pass defense rather than merely being a run-stopper -- more than Foote's. It seemed logical that when the Steelers placed Timmons inside, ultimately he would take over for Farrior, not Foote.
Perhaps, Foote read the tea leaves wrong, as well. It might have been the Steelers' intention to do just that in 2010, to replace Farrior with Timmons. Farrior signed his third contract with the Steelers in 2008, a five-year deal worth $18.25 million. He will have earned almost $10 million of that through 2009 with close to $3 million for 2010.
It's possible the Steelers hoped to keep their options open by keeping Foote this season. That way, they could judge how Farrior held up and whether to re-sign Foote after 2009 or stick with Farrior.
They still might have that option open because Foote will become a free agent after his one-year deal with the Lions expires.
It's also possible that the Steelers wanted to see how things went in training camp and then either ask Foote to take a paycut or release him. It's not usually how they operate, though.
They released Joey Porter early in 2007, but he was due a huge roster bonus that March, so that was practical on their part. Foote did not have such a bonus coming his way.
But Foote took the initiative and forced their hand. It would not have looked good to the rest of their locker room had they kept Foote on the roster, then released him in August.
Foote may have been a luxury they could not afford, but they had a perfect setup with him and Timmons last season. Also, Timmons could play outside if James Harrison or LaMarr Woodley were injured. Now, he will start and perhaps play every down except when they go to the dime defense.
What they do not know is if Timmons can hold up playing every down inside as did Foote, who did not miss a start in five seasons. And they also do not know if he will be as successful in that run-stopping role.
But those are decisions NFL teams must make every year in the salary-cap era.
With the money and the salary-cap room the Steelers saved by releasing Foote added to the savings from Hines Ward's new deal, the Steelers should be armed to negotiate some contract extensions with select players entering their final year.
They have many from whom to choose, including Casey Hampton, Brett Keisel, Ryan Clark, Willie Parker, Heath Miller, Jeff Reed, Max Starks, Willie Colon and Justin Hartwig.
They had been negotiating only with Starks, mainly so they can get a lower cap figure than the nearly $8.9 million he will count as their franchise player this year without one. That will be a tough sell because it's already guaranteed and the signing bonus on a new deal would have to be enormous.
So, who should be their next priorities?
Miller would have to be high among them. He's irreplaceable for what he brings to the Steelers' offense, a combination of good blocker and receiver. If they do not sign him, he would be in his prime and could be attractive to a team that would use him more as a target in the passing game, and thereby also make him more of a Pro Bowl candidate.
If the Steelers do not sign Miller and there is no new collective bargaining agreement, Miller will not be an unrestricted free agent but a restricted free agent, and the Steelers could maintain their rights to him.
If there is an uncapped year in 2010, players need to be in the league six years and not four to become a UFA. Many of the players are not aware of that, including Miller.
"Oh, really?" Miller said. "No, I didn't know that."
Keisel, Clark, Parker, Hampton, Reed, Starks and Hartwig all would be UFAs. Colon also would be, like Miller, an RFA if there is no new CBA.
An interesting note on Hampton: His salary in 2009 will be much less than that of 2008. He earned $3.8 million in 2008 and will make $3,075,000 this season as negotiated in the contract extension he signed in 2007.
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