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Stand By Your Man: Miami Heat Defend Dwyane Wade In Suspension Judgment After 'Kneeing' Incident
From ESSENCE
Dwyane Wade was suspended from Friday night's Miami Heat game against the Detroit Pistons for an incident that occurred during Wednesday night's game against the Charlotte Bobcats. Wade allegedly kneed guard Ramon Sessions in the groin. The Miami Heat issued a statement disagreeing with the judgement, according to the Associated Press.
"While we accept the decision of the NBA regarding Dwyane Wade, we do not agree with it," read the statement. "In his 10 years in the league, Dwyane has never been suspended, and has been an exemplary player and positive influence to his teammates and fans and we have been honored to have him as part of the Miami Heat family. Unfortunately, he is the type of player, along with other players on our roster, that defense take privileges with. We stand with Dwyane and support him in this situation and have made our feelings known to the league office."
Fair enough. You can read the rest, including Wade's reaction to the incident, on ESSENCE.
Tags:defense, Gabrielle Union, miami, NBA, violence
These Promoters (And Gangsters) Keep Holding Him Back: Rick Ross Cancels Tour
Over the last few weeks, Rick Ross has been the subject of hip-hop news after videos surfaced of members of the Gangster Disciple gang threatening Ross. Apparently, they're still upset because Ross shouted out Larry Hoover, one of the founders of the, one his "BMF" track. Well more recently, a North Carolina chapter of the gang allegedly sent death threats and released their own video to Ross and the MMG camp and now, two of the North Carolina dates on the second leg of the tour have been canceled, immediately prompting people to believe it was done so as a direct results of the threats.
However, MMG reps have released a statement and none of it had to do, as expected, with any gangs:
"Rick Ross has been engaging in a tour which commenced November 2 and was initially scheduled to continue until December 2. However, the tour was extended until December 16. Unfortunately, the tour promoter abruptly cancelled the Greensboro and Charlotte, NC, dates. Rick Ross completed the first leg of the tour without incident and eagerly anticipated performing the balance of the dates, but due to apparent lack of organization and communication on the part of tour promoter, the remaining shows of the tour will be canceled."
So perhaps the promoters were fearful of possible violence at the concerts and wanted to avoid it by canceling the shows. It appears the problem is that the promoters canceled everything so suddenly that it didn't allow for MMG to pick up the pieces and immediately do "damage control" with fans and venues.
Ross also reached out to allhiphop.com and sent a message to fans: "I want to apologize to all of my fans who I missed performing for due to the cancellations and want to let them know that I will get back to their cities. I enjoyed my experience with my little bros Wale and Meek Mill and I'm ready to get back in the studio to make good music."
This is certainly an unfortunate situation as sales for the remaining shows in MS, TN, TX, CA, MI and NY were doing fairly well.
I guess gang dudes don't get over anything because that song is beyond old at this point. Let the man make his money while the fans enjoy a show.
Guns, Drugs And Racism? NBA Player Andre Bynum And Neighbors Battling In Lawsuits
Former L.A. Lakers star and current Philadelphia 76ers player Andrew Bynum is in an all-out war with his neighbors.
According to TMZ, Bynum filed a lawsuit against neighbors, Ramond and Cindy Beckett. According to the papers filed, Bynum has lived in his Westchester, CA home for more than 7 years and during this time, he's been subjected to constant harassment and racism from the Becketts. In the lawsuit, he states they have objected to his "profession, his race, his friends, his cars and his taste in music."
But what he probably didn't expect was for the Becketts to immediately countersue Bynum, claiming they are the ones who always had problems with him. In their lawsuit, they accuse Bynum of brandishing guns in an attempt to intimidate them, blasting loud rap music, using drugs and letting weed smoke drift onto their property, blasting video games at "window shaking" volumes, letting his dogs run loose around the neighborhood and more. In fact, the Becketts state the only reason Bynum is suing them is because he knew they were planning a lawsuit of their own.
Oddly enough, Bynum says in his filed papers that the Becketts have moved out of their house so why are they even suing each other at this point? Lifestyle of the rich and bored, I suppose.
Down Til The Very End: 9 Ride Or Die Celebs!
Loyalty is a very impressive trait to have, especially for people who are surrounded by celebrities. So many times it seems as though people who are too amped to get a taste of the limelight that they'll sell a famous person down the river for fifteen minutes of infamy. But what's even more interesting is when celebrities are so loyal that they'll sometimes put aside their fans' adoration, their happiness, and to some extreme incidences their own freedom to be loyal to someone or something close to them. Let's examine these celebs:
When All Else Fails, Get Arrested…AGAIN! Ex-NFL Player Larry Johnson Arrested In Domestic Dispute!
This man just can't keep his hands to himself.
Former NFL running back Larry Johnson was arrested in Las Vegas on Friday night, once again for domestic violence. At the time of the arrest, police would only say that he was accused of strangling someone and his bail had been set at $15,000. But as the night progressed, it was revealed that the victim (name still withheld) is actually Larry's ex-girlfriend of four years, according to TMZ. When the police reached the Bellagio hotel where the incident occurred, the victim was allegedly crying and had bruises on her neck. According to police, the victim said she'd been strangled to the point of unconsciousness.
The sad thing is that this isn't the first time Johnson has been arrested for assault. His entire football career, which has been non-existent for quite some time, has been marred by these arrests. He's been arrested four times since 2008; all arrests have been on the heels of him assaulting a woman. In 2011, he was arrested for allegedly beating a man down on Miami Beach.
I'm sure his ex-girlfriend, television personality and Empire Girls star Julissa Bermudez is glad she no longer has to deal with that. He also used to be best friends – and oddly enough, roommates – with Jay-Z but as we all know, Jay tries to steer clear of anyone that can negatively affect his business.
Seriously though, his sick behavior is extremely disturbing. Women still tend to gravitate to him (I can't tell you the number of conversations I've heard where women say they'd still date this guy knowing his history) because of his looks but when his pattern allegedly seems to be beating you up, there are enough good looks in the world that should want to make you go down that route.
Larry is being held in a Clark County jail until he is able to see a judge.
Are We As A People Really Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago?
As I read through the latest outrage at the moment, aka, the hoopla over new rapper Chief Keef, I keep hearing Georgia Anne Muldrow and Erykah Badu lyrically asking, "what if there were no n****rs, only master teachers?"
For those who don't know, Chief Keef is the Chicago teenager (above photo, to the left), who started out of as just another YouTube rapper and has now become one of hip-hop's most buzzed about artists. Not only has he just inked a deal with Interscope Records, but he also has caught the attention of such hip hop mavericks as Kanye West, who hopped on a remix of his song, "I Don't Like." He is also being investigated for a possible connection in the shooting death of fellow Chicago rapper, Joesph 'Lil JoJo' Coleman (above, to the right), who may I add, was only 16.
Keef, who was born Keith Cozart, drew the attention of law enforcement after laughing off the murder of Lil JoJo by saying via Twitter, "Its Sad Cuz Dat N—– Jojo Wanted to Be Jus Like Us #LMAO." He is also known for promoting and supporting gang culture including dancing around in his music videos with what appears to be automatic weapons and tweeting the hashtag "#300" — a known reference to the Black Disciples. And at 17 years old, Keef has already faced numerous criminal charges, including a weapons charge, which has already landed him on house arrest.
The response to the rise of Keef has been rather swift, most notably from fellow Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco, who publicly criticized Keef for perpetrating the hoodlum lifestyle, which runs parallel to the culture of violence already running amok in the streets of Chicago. Many folks I have encountered have agreed with Lupe, claiming that Keef, and others of his elk, are a burden to the community. "These n****rs are the reason why our community is the way it is," has become a commonplace mantra in the minds of some black folks. But truth be told, I see plenty of Chief Keefs in my community all the time. And when it comes to what's wrong with the community, there is enough of that blame to be shared all around.
Young people, particularly young black people, have longed played witness to serious and lethal violence within their own communities. When I graduated from high school, the murder rate in Philadelphia was around 4oo deaths per year. My nephews and niece, who only a month ago, learned of the shooting death of a teenager only steps away from their front door have already grasped the finality of death, even before they can mature enough to witness adulthood. Recently, I saw a bunch of little kids, between the ages of 9 to 11, roaming the street around 12:30 in the morning like a bunch of aimless orphans. Unfortunately, seeing hordes of parentless children at odd hours of the night has become so much of the norm that I didn't even bother to flinch. The reality is that long after Chief Keef's moment in the limelight has faded – whether it be from gang violence, the prison industrial complex or crossing over to the mainstream – the community will still have a violence problems. If we don't get a handle on it, there will be someone else, someone younger, to take his place. Exhibit 1: 13-year old Lil Mouse.
But even as the threat of losing an entire generation (i.e. the children) grows uncomfortably near, many of us have become stagnated in prayer, hope, apathy and the wait for change to come. I noticed this much last week when all eyes were fixated on the Democratic National Convention. Collectively, African-Americans are more involved in the political process than most other minority groups, supporting a one-party system by as much as 90 percent. However, we have yet to see the fruits from all of our labor or loyalty. Nevertheless, when Rahm Emanuel asked us whose leadership we wanted in event of "an unforeseen crisis, challenge or conflict," we don't bother to question whose leadership is in charge as a teachers strike looms and blood runs red in the streets of Chicago. We smirked and laughed alongside former President Bill Clinton, who worked his arithmetic mojo while reaffirming President Obama's commitment to the work requirement in welfare reform, a policy called by most a dismal failure. And as the RNC's mantra/question – "Are you better now than four years ago?" – blared from our television sets, many of us couldn't wait to nod our heads in the affirmative, even when the reality – at least for us – suggests otherwise.
Don't Waste Your Influence, Co-Sign Responsibly
Nicki Minaj's endorsement of Mitt Romney instigated some of the splashiest headlines following the Labor Day weekend. Head scratching and eye rolls accompanied readers' mouse clicks, racking up traffic numbers for news and gossip websites. "I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney," she said on her mentor Lil Wayne's mixtape. "You lazy b***** are f****** up the economy."
Later in the week, panicked tweets began to surface. Chicago is losing its mind. A sixteen-year-old rapper named JoJo was killed after being shot twice on Tuesday. The incident occurred hours after a video emerged of JoJo taunting a rival named Lil Reese, an associate of popular rapper Chief Keef, making the violent lifestyle Chicago's drill music glorifies that much more real. Keef's notoriety stems from "I Don't Like," a local anthem made popular nationwide when Kanye West remixed the song with his G.O.O.D. labelmates.
With her closet full of wigs and the wardrobe of a teen in Tokyo, Nicki Minaj doesn't present herself as someone to be taken seriously for her political views. Perhaps that's why she felt she could get away with an easy punch line that puts down others to illustrate her supremacy. Most of her fans aren't old enough to vote. What harm could it do?
What harm could a remix do either? West repeatedly partners with rappers who have grittier followings (including G.O.O.D. signees 2 Chainz and Pusha T) to appropriate buzz in the streets that his "luxury rap" distances him from. Not only that, he was able to bring attention to emerging music in his hometown. Everybody wins, right?
Everybody except for the impressionable young fans that take Minaj's demonization of poor people as gospel. Except for kids like JoJo, certainly not the last to get swept up in a scene that produces music videos with kids as young as thirteen brandishing automatic weapons and throwing up gang signs. A scene that the music industry had already started to monetize.
As an immigrant raised in Queens, I doubt Minaj believes the poor are to blame for the nation's ills and that the wealthy are better than the class she was born into. As a native of Chicago, I doubt West wants to promote music that fuels the killing of black youth. But their endorsements, ironic or otherwise, send a different message.
Whether Minaj took herself seriously or not, she used her influence to champion an elitist mindset without offering the slightest critique. Whether West intended to or not, he validated and publicized art that encourages violence, without the critical thinking artists like Lupe Fiasco have brought to the table. These messages are now tied to their brand, whether they like it or not.
Minaj and West's missteps are unfortunate, and reflect a lesson we all should learn. An endorsement is not something to be taken lightly. Up-and-coming artists and politicians clamor for the stamp of approval of popular artists and publications for a reason. An endorsement transfers over a portion of the co-signers resources, influence, and reputation without signing a single contract. It doesn't take an official partnership to endorse something; your words and actions speak just as loudly.
Before you align yourself with an outside person, brand, cause, or organization, do your research. It is important to have a solid understanding of what you are supporting and why you are supporting it. Your co-sign should do more than bolster your ego; it should promote your values.
The public wants the people and organizations they support to stand for something of value. Eighty-three percent of Americans say they wish brands would support causes, and 41 percent have bought a product because it was associated with a cause. With success comes an increase in power and responsibility. Ask yourself, what are you using your influence to promote?
Cortney Cleveland is a freelance writer and content strategist in New York City. You can follow her on Twitter @CleveInTheCity and visit her personal column The Red Read.
Tags:brand, chicago, Chief Keef, drill music, election, endorsement, influence, jojo, kanye west, marketing, mitt romney, music, nicki minaj, partnership, politics, violence
Say It Ain't So! Chad Johnson Arrested for Headbutting Evelyn Lozada
Well, this is not good.
Chad Johnson, receiver for the Miami Dolphins, was arrested Saturday night for headbutting his wife Evelyn Lozada, star of Basketball Wives, after they got into a heated dispute. According to police, the couple was at dinner when Evelyn confronted him about a receipt she'd found for a box of condoms. As they left the restaurant, the argument continued until they got outside of their home where Chad then headbutted her.
Evelyn called the police and Chad was charged with a misdemeanor for simple assault, domestic violence. He is being held until he can appear before a judge and Yahoo! reports that it might not be until Monday before that happens. Evelyn was treated at the hospital for a cut on her forehead and then released. The Miami Dolphins are aware of the situation and because most teams have rules about getting into such trouble, I'm sure they'll have a few questions for Chad when they're able to speak with him.
These two have had quite the fiery relationship from the very start and accusations of cheating have flown over them at many different times. In fact, many were skeptical as to whether or not their July 4th wedding would actually happen (yes, they've only been married a month and a half). Although you never want to see or hear about someone being abused, I would hope this isn't yet another call for attention for their reality show. Domestic abuse is really not something that should be taken lightly or played around with for ratings since many people deal with it (or have dealt with it) on a daily basis.
Neither of their reps have made any statements yet but I'm sure there will be something forthcoming.
My Hip-Hop Dilemma: Should I Hate Myself For Bumpin' Morally Corrupt and Misogynist Songs?
Junior year of high school I refused to buy "Doggystyle," the revolutionary Snoop Dogg album that set my school abuzz. It was an informal boycott based on the album's ethos and subject matter – a seemingly nonstop celebration of decadence, violence and promiscuity. My stance lasted for about a month. Then I caved and bought the CD, listened to it faithfully for the rest of the year and kept it in regular rotation thereafter. Musically, it was near-perfect, and even if I disagreed with what Snoop was saying, I couldn't bring myself to dislike the way he was saying it.
And so we come to my central dilemma with hip-hop, a complicated love/hate relationship that finds me scolding myself for enjoying music – on the surface, at least – that often clashes with my personal values.
Case in point: Last year, I bought the ringtone to Waka Flocka Flame's "No Hands" against my own better judgment. The song concentrates exclusively on watching a stripper remove her panties — sans hands. At one point in the song, he even talks about running a train on a female.
But there's that monstrous, gargantuan beat from Drumma Boy, and that captivating chorus from Roscoe Dash that turns women into sex objects but manages to entrance a self-respecting woman who should know better. I would be appalled by the excitement I feel when this song comes on in the club if I wasn't so busy dancing. It's only afterwards that I'm left feeling guilty and ashamed, like I just ate a carton of ice cream while watching "Jersey Shore" reruns.
It's a similar situation with Lil Jon's "Get Low." Although the entirety of the song deals with females bending over and shaking their asses while Lil Jon and his posse of Eastside Boyz spew vulgarities and implore women to drop it to the floor, I essentially become a woman possessed when I hear this in the club; I'm liable to burn off my entire daily caloric intake before the song is over.
And then there's Weezy. I appreciate Lil Wayne's wordplay, but I often feel the need to shower after listening to his songs, which typically involve lewd descriptions of random sexual relations with some female, somewhere. "Now jump up on that d— and do a full split" Weezy instructs on "She Will." Thanks, but she won't be doing that anytime soon.
In spite of myself, I love Young Jeezy's "I Luv It," a song that revolves around drug dealing and its so-called financial rewards. I also love Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin." I don't want to ever not love it. I don't want to overthink it to the point that I can't enjoy the song. But at what point do I draw the line, say enough is enough, and decide not to sing along while rappers call us b—–s and h—s, glorify destructive lifestyles and turn the very real social ill of pimping into a punchline?
Am I supposed to excuse, for example, Clipse's morally bankrupt tales of cocaine-slinging because they're lyrically brilliant, and because I personally understand the conditions that leave black men feeling like drug dealing is their only escape from poverty?
Hip-hop is my favorite genre of music. Always has been, and probably always will be. While R&B from the late '60s and '70s spoke to the promise of a post-Civil Rights culture enjoying new freedoms, hip-hop was the outgrowth of broken promises, of crack-infested inner cities realizing that while old forms of oppression had fallen away, new ones had taken their place, and they often came from within: the pimp, the pusher, the player, seemingly inescapable cycles of violence and poverty.
I have defended hip-hop early and often, spouting its virtues to relatives who only know hip-hop as a Nelly song, or jazz music professors who deem it universally "aggressive" and don't understand that rap music is, in fact, a direct outgrowth of jazz, and aggressive content is only one aspect of a much larger, more nuanced picture. I've spent hours explaining, educating and making and listening to suggestions of those who think hip-hop is comprised entirely of promiscuous criminals and weed-smoking thugs.
But I'm tired of having to defend hip-hop. Tired of having to serve as a rap-to-real world translator for people who simply don't understand the culture and see only its top layer. Tired of realizing that more and more, mainstream hip-hop is becoming that one-dimensional portrait of a black criminal or a self-absorbed hedonist, a misogynistic caricature that record companies and radio stations seem all too happy to depict and rappers seem all too willing to embody in exchange for a paycheck.
I love what hip-hop stands for in its essence: freedom, self-expression, the will to fight and overcome oppression. It emerged as the culture of the forgotten and the disenfranchised, the voice of a people that previously had none. It is the purest form of urban journalism: Chuck D of Public Enemy once called it the Black CNN.
I love hip-hop's rhythm and its cadence, its wit and its charm, its anger and its defiance, its boldness and its swagger. I will continue to blast "Doggystyle" from my car speakers as I glide down the highway and rap gleefully along with every word. I just wish I didn't have to temporarily stash my values on a shelf in the process.
Ladies, do you have a love/hate relationship with hip-hop? Let us know in the comments.
Lauren Carter is a writer, blogger and hip-hop head from Boston. Follow her on Twitter @ByLaurenCarter.
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Why Focusing on Mental Health Might Be Key to Decreasing Violence
So, yesterday morning, I was listening to a local, black news radio station. This particular program was discussing a weekend shooting, which happened outside of a popular specialty hamburger restaurant here in Philly. According to news reports the shooting was the result of an altercation, which began between two tables outside of the eatery. The altercation eventually spilled over to a side street, where one of the guys shot the other guy he was arguing with. The shooting victim would die later at the hospital.
As I'm writing this, there have been 162 murders in Philadelphia. That number might have increased by the time you finish reading this post. As sad as that is, the senseless violence on the streets of Philadelphia has been showing up in major, and minor, cities across the country. In Chicago, a city which has been suffering through double digit shootings over the last few months, the number of Chicagoans murdered in the last decade is two and a half times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan. And in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the homicide rate there exceeds the rates in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
It should come as no surprise that handguns are the weapons of choice in most of these murders. Many folks believe our easy access to guns, is responsible for the high murder rate in the country, particularly our community. Even the host of the radio program I was listening to theorized that guns make cowards fearless and most folks nowadays are scared of a fair one-on-one fist fight. All of those might be suitable responses however none of that really addresses the root cause of why people feel the need to resort to violence – be it with a gun or a fist fight – in the first place?
Later on in the day, I read an article in the Huffington Post about how meditation has been proven an effective treatment in lowering blood pressure among black teens. According to a group of researchers from Georgia Health Sciences University, in a study of 62 black teens with high blood pressure, those who mediated for twice a day had managed to lower left ventricular mass, thus reducing the chances of heart attacks and strokes later in life. So what does this have to do with the murder rate?
Homicide and suicide are the second and third leading causes of death, respectively, among teens ages 15 to 19, The common belief is that most homicides are over drugs or involve gang violence however the reality is that there are a lot of hotheads out there ready to pull the trigger and take someone's life over the most mundane reasons. We read too many stories of people dying over parking spaces and other domestic disputes than we do about folks dying over gang colors.
And that got me thinking about how so much of our existence centers around insecurity, which contributes to stress. I'm not talking about insecurity in the most vain sense of the word but the insecurity that comes from living in a situation of uncertainty. In the 2008 PBS four hour long documentary, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, the role that social determinants such as class and race was proven to have a greater impact on one's health outcomes than genetics or personal behavior. According to the film poor people are often subjected to a poverty tax, which basically means that they must pay more for goods and services (including rent, food, transportation and taxes), have lower access to parks and recreation centers and are constantly living in fear of both violence and their shaky financial situation.
And let's not forget about the impact that the persistence of racism has on the minds and spirits of black men, women and children? It has been proven that there is a clear association between experiences of racism and psychological distress for black folks. Taking all of this evidence combined, it would seem that both poverty and racism not only adversely affect one's own mental health but also can also shorten one's life through heart attacks, strokes and yes, even violence. In short, what we are probably seeing across the country is a collective mental breakdown among folks, who just can't deal anymore.
Of course, the short answer to ending violence is a consorted effort to ending racism and poverty. However, this is America: the land of exploitation and indifference. And even folks, who genuinely care about doing one or the other – or even both – find themselves spitting into the wind, so to speak. While many of us know how to survive, very few know the key to learning to deal with what is the reality of our constant situation. I'm not saying that we have to accept our fate as eternal subjugated people, but we do need to learn how to mentally work around poverty and racism so that we, as a community, can be strong enough to not only fight against the trappings of racism and poverty but also ensure that it doesn't kill us – or worse cause us to kill somebody else.
Folks have to take care of their mental health as seriously as they do dieting and exercising. Some thing as simple as sitting quietly for 15 minutes and meditating, twice a day, could go a long way in giving yourself the clarity needed to deal with whatever situation crosses your path.
The best thing about mediating is that there is no one correct way to do it. I did a traditional, legs cross, eyes closed and palms to the sky meditation sit-in before. It wasn't my thing plus my legs got numb after the first ten minutes. So once a week, take a walk, preferably outside of the neighborhood. There is also yoga, tai chi and chanting. Heck, go to a park and engage in walking mediation, which teaches how to tune out the distractions and tune in to your inner self in a real life situation. I don't know if it will cure all violence in the community but in the spirit of my favorite song by Talib Kweli, folks got to start questioning what it is they do to Get By.
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While everyone should speak and offer ideas at these meetings, some people may have to give more thoughtful, polished information. These people should be identified beforehand so they have time to prepare. This is crucial, because in most organizations, to be promoted you must have solid public speaking skills.
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A DC power distribution system can aggregate the conversion of AC supply to DC use, eliminating required conversions at each device. It also directly connects a natively DC renewable source to its applications, improving overall efficiency.
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Varying views exist on using DC (direct current) power vs. AC (alternating current) power, but the two aren't necessarily in opposition. Depending on the applications, utilizing both AC and DC power supplies can improve efficiencies.
"We ought to stop fighting," says Brian Patterson, chairman of EMerge Alliance, an open industry association developing strategies to encourage DC power distribution. "The power community is well-prepared to service the entire industry with hybridized energy and, where it's appropriate, use DC. Where it's not, use AC."
Aggregating DC at One Point
Many devices – from computers to electronic lighting ballasts – are "DC-native" and require the incoming AC power supply to be converted to DC, and that takes a toll on efficiency, Patterson says.
Companies like Armstrong World Industries and Nextek Power Systems have developed strategies to address this inefficiency.
"Instead of converting at every device, you can aggregate the rectification of AC to DC with a small DC power system called a microgrid," Patterson says, adding that this addresses energy waste and improves efficiency in single-digit percentages.
However, the gain isn't enough to initiate a retrofit, he says.
"Be opportunistic. If you're already going to refurbish ceilings and lighting, consider DC. Don't just put the old stuff in again," he advises. "The initial shift due to inefficiencies is the tip of the iceberg. We're taking it to the next level."
Generating DC On-Site
The second driver of incorporated DC use involves renewable clean energy sources like solar, wind, and fuel cells, which are natively DC. The potential of a DC system is maximized when DC energy is produced at the facility.
"If you want to power your building with renewable energy like photovoltaic (PV) cells, you can blend that in on the DC side of the system," Patterson says, stressing that current AC-only systems must convert a renewable DC energy source to AC for distribution, only to have it converted back to DC for certain devices and applications.
"The microgrid takes 100% of the power generated from the renewable source and couples it directly into the application, so you maximize the investment," he explains, adding that conversion to AC wastes about 7-10% of renewable energy production.
Armstrong World Industries developed the DC FlexZone Grid to distribute power in the ceiling plane. The University of California, San Diego's Sustainability Resource Center recently installed four rooftop PV panels, DC-driven lighting and controls, and the FlexZone. The solar power source is connected directly to the ceiling grid, eliminating multiple conversions required in a traditional AC system.
The facility earned LEED Gold certification and a special credit for its high-efficiency DC microgrid.
"We're at the tipping point where buildings are bringing more DC to the building in renewables and so many devices are already DC," says Susan Rhoades, marketing manager at Armstrong. "It's time to rethink energy infrastructure inside the building."
Vision for the Future
The hybrid use of a DC power system is new and relatively complicated, but it's a resource that needs to be tapped, Patterson says.
"People ask why DC hasn't taken over yet. The answer is because it's hard to make these kinds of transitions. It's a bit of chicken before the egg – where do you start?" Patterson says. "The idea is to be progressively or modularly transformative."
When you're retrofitting air handlers, consider a DC-input variable frequency drive. When you're installing solid state lighting, consider how DC can maximize its potential, he recommends.
"Take a hybrid approach next time you renovate," Rhoades agrees. "It's not any one thing. It's about looking at managing the building as an asset in a different way."
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- May 1 here in the Springs will see a high of 36, and a low of 16…with 2-4 inches of snow likely. I'm thinking I'm going to have to drain the sprinkler system yet again.
- The end must be near: Jeff spent some time fooling with a Samsung ATIV running Windows 8…and was impressed. It's a 12″ tablet with a dockable keyboard, not unlike a bigger version of my Transformer Prime. The first thing the Best Buy sales guy showed me was how to flick away the Windows 8 UI like a bug. What remained was enough like Windows 7 to be usable.
- Alas, Office 2000 will not run on Windows 8. Nor will Office 2003. But Atlantis will. As will Libreoffice. Not sure about AbiWord.
- Something shot a hole in one of the ISS solar panels. Guys, the Universe is armed and dangerous.
- And unpredictable. There are now more spots on the Sun than I've seen in years. Will need to spin the dials a little later today to tell if it's doing us any good.
- Wikipedia's psycho editing community got on the wrong side of feminists recently, and Salon did a nice piece on "revenge editing." Requiring that real names be published for all editors would help this problem a lot. (If I had a Wikipedia entry, I'm sure I'd be vandalized for saying this.)
- Poking around Salon led to this: We once tried to weaponize the weather. (So much for those bucolic 1950s that everybody seems to love.) Of course, the key to weaponizing the weather is knowing where to deploy your butterflies.
- Suddenly I'm seeing the word "adorable" used with what appears to be a straight face. Is this a hipster thing?
- These see-through highlighter pens were a long time coming, but they're simply adorable.
Odd Lots
Does anybody have any experience with Glom? It's an open-source GUI database builder created in the spirit of FileMaker. Someone suggested it in the comments of my entry for April 9, 2013. I've just downloaded it and have not yet installed it, but the (slightly sparse) product wiki makes it look pretty compelling, at least for the sorts of smallish databases that don't have to support tens of thousands of records. It's specific to the PostgreSQL database back end, about which I know less than I should. Working on that.
While I'm asking for user experiences, how about LyX? It's been around forever but I don't see much in the line of books on it. A 2007-era tutorial PDF for version 1.4.1 is available here without charge. I was using TeX by hand (and later LaTeX) in the late 80s and early 90s, and it was impressive on the 386/486 machines in broad use at the time. LyX is supposedly a WYSIWYG word processor based on LaTeX. The TeX universe generally is a science/math geek paradise. LaTeX will typeset equations like nothing else in the galaxy. My primary wonder here is whether LyX is now good enough to use for nonscientific word processing, or if the increasingly silly WYSIWYG vs WYSIWYM argument gets in the way. Our CPUs are more than gutsy enough these days to render TeX content in realtime, and my view is that WYS should always reflect WYM. (I understand the conflict, which is really about markup vs rendering; please don't lecture me about it.)
The crescent moon and Jupiter are in conjunction tonight, and they will make a good pair in the west just after sunset.
That is, if winter ever decides to end in Colorado Springs. We're apparently due for snow and perhaps even a blizzard midweek, with temps down to 12 above. Poor Carol is itching to get out and work in her garden, which is still cowering an inch below the surface and keeps yelling about ice giants. The water is welcome, obviously, but I don't need it on (or as) ice.
We did get a little rain last night, which kept me from seeing if Colorado was getting any aurora activity in the literal wake of a CME that hit Earth yesterday at 2300 zulu. The forecasts focused on the East Coast as far south as DC, which doesn't get a lot of aurora activity. The sunspot number is also approaching 150, a number I haven't seen in quite a while. We may get a solar maximum after all…but don't lay money on it.
Finally, I had an interesting (in the Chinese curse sense) education yesterday in printing your own business cards. I've had a card design in the tinkering stages for literally years. The intent was always to get it printed professionally, and heck, the owner of one of the biggest print shops in Pueblo lives next door. Next weekend I'll be at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference and will need some. So I bought a pack of Avery 5871 laser-perf cards and tried to print the design on them. Whoops–the right third of the card is a green bleed. If you're doing business cards from a laser printer onto laser-perf stock, do not use bleeds. Arranging the art so that the left edge of the cards in the right column didn't show a green streak took a great deal of kafeutherin', as Aunt Kathleen would have said. Even after much wasted stock and torn virtual hair, I still had to trim a little bit of green edge off half the cards with a scissors. Lesson: White all the way around…or let the pros do it.
Odd Lots
- This Easter, automate your Easter-egg rituals with an open-source egg-drawing robot.
- Here's more on the comet that may hit Mars in October 2014. Whether it hits Mars or not, that comet will come mighty close, and from here it could be a fascinating show indeed.
- Walter Jon Williams is still taking applications for his Taos Toolbox SF/fantasy writers' workshop. I attended in 2011 and it was spectacular . (I didn't finish the Contra series because my house almost blew up. However, I wrote a little more here.) Powerfully recommended.
- OMG! Jeff Bezos has invented mainframes!
- George Mason University has an elaborate 50-state ranking on freedom, broken out by category and pulled together by color-coded maps of the states.
- Wikipedia has a nice chart indicating the colors given off by various gases when used in gas-discharge lamps.
- People are still making cantennas to throw their microwaves a little more sharply in one direction, but here's a cantenna that isn't a waveguide. (Watch those edges!) Hacker Dave Mirecki builds something similar but much larger using foil-backed duct insulation, in Ten Gentle Opportunities.
- Here's how a strike that essentially shut down the American music industry allowed unconventional (and largely non-white) music to rise to public prominence.
- Once people begin making dieselpunk keyboards, will dieselpunk itself move from being a blip to being a trend?
- Shop carefully, lest you choke on a banana bone.
Odd Lots
- I'm a day late and a shamrock short, but I want to endorse an obscure but wonderful animated film with connections to St. Patrick's Day: The Secret of Kells . It's a fantasy about the creation of the Book of Kells, drawn in the style of Medieval illuminated manuscripts.
- Granted that I'd prefer to achieve immortality by not dying, the notion of writing your memoirs for the sake of documentation rather than publication is catching on. I have 67,000 words so far. It's good practice in writing, and may prove useful against the future possibility that I myself can't remember what I did in high school.
- Earth is passing through a significant CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) and the aurora have been excursing as far south as Colorado. I had bad weather last night but I'll check again tonight.
- Chicago's quirky habit of dying the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day has its roots in detecting illegal sewage dumps into the river. Having grown up at a time when falling into the Chicago River was sometimes fatal, I boggled during a recent visit, when I looked down into the river and saw bottom.
- Our new pope has only one lung. This is less important than it would seem to the uninformed.
- Irrespective of the number of his lungs, is Pope Francis I more liberal than his predecessors? The question is tricky because "liberal" often means completely opposite things to North Americans as it does to Latin Americans.
- A 12-year-old girl is selling kits of Lego bricks that can be assembled into a case for Raspberry Pi computer boards. If ever the phrase "You go, girl!" applies, it would be here. I'd actually like to see a custom case with properly sized gaps and mounting holes for the Pi inside and Lego bumps on the outside, and I suspect at some point the product will appear.
- It's possible to have too much gold…if you're a Cray.
- While Carol was raking up the season's dead leaves, pine needles, and other plant debris from our front "yard" (we have no grass, only gardens) the other day, she found one of these lodged in one of our bushes. It had evidently been there for some time, but within its air-tight case was pratically mint. Still not entirely sure what it can do…nor what to do with it.
Odd Lots
- My four-year-old niece Julie is working on a pair of roller skates…built from the Lego set we gave her for Christmas. Somewhere her engineer grandfather is smiling.
- Stay up too late and damage your genes. You cannot win by shorting sleep. Somebody, somewhere may be able to survive on five hours a night. It almost certainly isn't you. (Thanks to Mike Bentley for the link.)
- We have just lost Jan Howard Finder. No details available yet. I only met him once, but he bought my story "Marlowe" for his anthology Alien Encounters in 1982. 74 is too young for a man of his energy and high spirits. (Thanks also to Mike Bentley for letting me know.)
- Here's an interesting story about a major publisher (unnamed) who won't sell an indie bookstore more than 200 copies of a book at a time, even if the store buys them on a nonreturnable basis and pays cash. Happy ending: The indie bookseller drove down to Target, bought 300 copies of the book at 45% discount, and pulled off the author signing, no thanks to the idiot publisher. (Thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.)
- Refining certain rare earth metals from their ores is about to become easier and cheaper. Alas, ytterbium is not on the list. Bummer.
- As much as we support Girl Scouts, I must warn that their Samoas coconut cookie contain sorbitol, to which some people (me included) are sensitive. I don't think this was always the case. Be careful. (Their Savannah Smiles are just as good, and do not contain sorbitol.)
- If the PadFone 2 is too big for you (see yesterday's Contra) ASUS announced the FonePad, a…7″…smartphone. The notion of holding a thing like that up to your face doesn't bother me at all, but I'm just weird.
- Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio may buy the bricks-n-mortar retail arm of the company, but does not want the Nook division. This could be trouble…I'm just not sure which side the trouble is on.
- Discovered an interesting new wine: Middle Sister Rebel Red. Dry but in-your-face fruit-forward, almost no oak (a big plus for me) and very spicy in a wonderfully peculiar way. Highly recommended.
- We could see a comet hit Mars in 2014. Just our luck that it might happen on the hemisphere of the planet that we can't see.
- Oh what a feeling, to drive a…
- Here's a nice summary of the current state of the Sun. Something truly odd is going on: We're getting very close to the predicted solar maximum, and yet yesterday's sunspot number was…25. It should be more like 250. I built a steerable 10M dipole for this?
- While perusing solar activity graphs such as the above, I discovered that IPCC climate science chairman Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has admitted that there's been no global warming for seventeen years. I guess Dr. Pachauri has joined the Deniers Club. Then again, because he isn't a climate scientist, I guess there's really no reason to believe anything he says.
- From the Words-I-Didn't-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: Rageaholic , someone who simply cannot resist expressing anger, either in person or online, especially in comments sections or discussion forums.
- Related to that: Larry Gellman of HuffPo describes anger addiction in terms of rage against the Other, which is basically my longstanding definition of tribalism: Tribalism is the reflexive demonization of the Other. There can be many overlapping tribes, each with its own Others.
- And, of course, anger's nonobvious implication: Whatever or whomever makes you angry owns you.
Odd Lots
- Carol and I are now home from Chicago, still bumping into walls but doing better. If you haven't heard from me in a couple of weeks that's why.
- Chicago burned on October 8, 1871. The cow did it, right? Well, there were a lot of other serious fires around the American midwest that same night. Tucking my ears into my tinfoil hat here: What if a cluster of biggish small meteorites hit the country that night, sparking fires wherever they fell? The more Russian dashcam videos I see, the less outrageous I think the idea is. (Thanks to Michele Marek for the link.)
- And for people who say that the Russians seem to attract meteorites, look at this. I'd say The Curse of the Splat People has been laid upon northern new Mexico.
- Why am I so fascinated by the Neanderthals? Aside from the fact that I may well have a Neanderthal-ish skull and ribcage, it's hard to beat our big-brained, musclebound brothers for idea triggers. I had never considered Taki's startling question: Would they vote Republican? Or would they just tear your arm off for asking? (Thanks to Bruce Baker for the link.)
- Search Google Patents for Edward F. Marwick, and you will find 205 different patents filed by my very own late high school physics teacher. He told us about a few of them (like this one) in 1969. We thought he was kidding. The man was a damned good physics teacher, and he thought big.
- Bill Beaty posted a comment on Contra for my September 7, 2011 entry describing a very simple solid-state equivalent using an MPF102 and a 9V battery. A full description is on his site, and it's worth seeing if you have an unscratched itch for a half-hour project.
- I think I aggregated the Steampunk Workshop before, but it's worth mentioning again. Beautiful stuff, startling craftsmanship. Like this Mac Mini mod. Wow. (Thanks to Bill Cherepy for pointing it out.)
- Carol and I had to cancel our entry of Dash and Jack in the big Rocky Mountain Cluster dog show for obvious reasons, but one of our Bichon Club members posted a wonderful video of her seven-year-old son Adam showing their puppy, Ruby. Ruby and Adam got a blue ribbon. The kid is amazing. Sheesh, when I was that age I was still throwing mushrooms at my sister at the dinner table.
- I guess this was inevitable, at least in Washington State and/or Colorado. I suppose the research is useful. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.)
Odd Lots
- I've been playing with the new generation of desktop "all-in-ones" at Best Buy etc. and can't get my head around the notion of using a touch screen on a desktop–especially a big touch screen. I thought I was just being a grouch, but now I have company.
- This slightly confused piece from the BBC raises a crucial issue–what the whole self-esteem movement is doing to our kids–but appears to confuse "self-esteem" with "confidence." Confidence means "I am well-calibrated." Self-esteem means "I don't need to read the dial."
- Make is going deep on Raspberry Pi. Check out that repurposed Mac Classic.
- One of my domains got on an RBL the other day. Not sure why; it's off now. But it's a good time to remind you of the valli.org RBL checker.
- We've experienced a very sudden burst in sunspot formation in recent days, which you can see on this startling photo. When I was projecting the transit of Venus on foamcore this past summer, line of sight to the setting sun passed through the approach to O'Hare Field, and I saw four or five of these much quicker transits. It's nice to see one captured, for those who didn't get to see them in realtime.
- And while we're talking sunspots, here's a good piece on the technical details of how we count sunspots.
- This past Christmas I had my first sip of Goldschlager in 30+ years. Was stronger than I remember it, or maybe I'm just weaker. Moot point: I'm holding out for Ytterbiumschlager.
- Made me wonder how strong booze has to be to be burnable in an alcohol lamp. When absinthe burns, what happens to the wormwood?
- Carol had heard good things about Shasta sodas, particularly their diet ginger ale. I wasn't sure where they could be found, but they have a "soda finder" that I wish more independent brands would emulate, particularly Green River.
- That said, you can get diet Green River from Wal-Mart, but you have to order a case. I don't think it's in their stores.
- Alas, the wonderful retro soda-maker across the street from my alma mater vanished in 1986 and won't be found again: The Lasser factory building has been converted to half-million dollar lofts. I do remember having a lime rickey or two while at DePaul. I guess I just like seriously green sodas.
- I think they did this in Colorado last fall.
Odd Lots
- Making you fat and diabetic is the least of it: Sugar (especially fructose) sabotages your brain. If it's your first favorite organ (as it is for me) put your brain at the top of your personal food chain. Be a caveman: Eat more animal fat and less sugar.
- Eat more fat and less sugar, but do it this way: Trade sugar for sleep. Lack of sleep makes you hungry, and I'm guessing that chronic lack of sleep makes you lots hungrier than you would be if you just admitted that you can't get by on six hours or possibly even seven. Cavemen slept when it got dark. Dark is your friend. (Thanks to Jonathan O'Neal for the link.)
- While we're talking Inconvenient Health Truths, consider: The downside of demonizing salt is that people have begun to show symptoms of iodine deficiency. (I myself am…unlikely…to ever have that problem.)
- Instagram walked back from the cliff and withdrew its mind-boggling policies on commercial use of user photos without permission or complication. The Internet firestorm was one reason, I'm sure…but I'm also guessing that someone in their legal department got the message through that the firm would be sued into subatomic particles if it went ahead.
- I wasn't aware that a sack of potatoes stands in well for a human being in Wi-Fi tests on networking in crowded spaces like aircraft cabins. I do wonder what happened to the potatoes.
- "Thorium" is my answer to the question of how to best reduce CO2 in our atmosphere. We need base load; wind and solar are necessary but not sufficient.
- There are at least five planets orbiting SF favorite Tau Ceti, and one may be in the star's habitable zone. What the article does not mention is that the habitable planet is considerable closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun, and at a distance closer than Venus is probably tidally locked on its star. That's not a dealbreaker, but tidal locking certainly makes the journey from slime to sublime a lot less likely.
- My ongoing (and slow-going) project of rewriting Borland Pascal from Square One for FreePascal continues, and there's a new and expanded PDF up on my FTP site. 9 MB. 180 pages done out of about 350 or 400 planned. Not all 800 pages of the original book will be included, because some of it is now mostly useless, and some will be kicked upstream to a Lazarus book that I'm planning.
- FreePascal contains a clean-room clone of Borland's TurboVision, which I actually named way back in 1989. (Its original name was TOORTL: Turbo Object-Orietnted Runtime Library.) I'm going to recompile my Mortgage Vision application in FPC with FreeVision and see if it still works. That is, if I can find the source…
- We're getting our Mayans, Aztecs, and Oreos mixed up. Actually, I read the oreoglyphics on the cookie and it said that the world will end in 1947.
- Furthermore, it's a lot tougher to dunk a Mesoamerican stone calendar in your coffee.
Odd Lots
- From the Some-Things-Just-Sound-Right Department: "Glitzenstein" is German for "rhinestone." It suggests an ironic horror novel in which a mad plastic surgeon stitches together an unreasonable facimile of Liberace from pieces of washed-up Vegas lounge singers.
- From the Words-I-Never-Heard-Before-But-Won-A-Word-Of-The-Year-Contest Department: "Omnishambles," which basically means, "big mess."
- Jonathan O'Neal found a much better link to the "impersonating marijuana" cartoon from Kliban that I cited in my November 13th entry.
- Bill Cherepy sent word of a $29.95 steampunk thumb drive that appeaars to be mass-produced and not a hand-made work of art.
- And while sniffing around the same site, I came upon a steampunk telescope ring. Oh–and a slightly less compact steampunk wrist monocular.
- Good paper on historical solar activity by Dr. Leif Svalgaard. If you want to work all continents on a Sixer, you might have to wait awhile. (I'm hoping to get some traction on my G28 this max–if we actually have a max.)
- We forget sometimes how diverse old telephones were–because we (mostly) had to get them from the phone company. The others we mostly saw in spy movies.
- There is bubble-gum flavored vodka. Fair enough. Now, is there a wintergreen-flavored cordial of some kind? Or lavender?
- Carol's sister chills room-temperature box sangria by throwing a few spoonfuls of frozen blueberries into it. Granted, you have to let the glass sit for a few minutes, but it's way easier than slicing oranges.
- Some may argue that allowing radioisotopes to perform music isn't exactly music, or if it is, we can definitely call it very heavy metal.
- Just what I want in my Thanksgiving wine.
Odd Lots
- Jim Strickland sent word that Lindsay's Technical Books is shutting down next year, not for financial reasons but simply because Lindsay is retiring. Their last print catalog has been sent. Order the stuff you've been procrastinating about for years–I will be. (Recommendation: Radio for the Millions.) Tip for those who haven't heard of him before: Lots of steampunk-pertinent do-it-yourself there.
- Amazon can wipe any Kindle it wants to, anytime, without telling you. We've known this since the 1989 dustup over the rights to Orwell's 1984. It's still a risk, and you can trigger it by trying to sneak around region restrictions. Now, Ars Technica explains how to keep what you've bought by removing the DRM. I object to region restrictions in digital content because it makes piracy a safer way to acquire content. Don't train your customers to be pirates. When are we going to learn?
- I knew this, but not in detail: Kodak had a working digital camera prototype in 1975, and it used a casette tape to store photos–which took 23 seconds per photo. Here's more on the device from the man who invented it.
- If that sort of thing intrigues you, here's the motherlode.
- In case you've never actually seen it (I hadn't) here's where you can stream the video of Doug Engelbart's prophetic (to put it mildly) Mother of All Demos, during which he showed how a mouse could be used to help with various computer tasks like word processing.
- I bought the original Microsoft Mouse in 1983 and still have it. It still works. It had better, as I paid $200 for it.
- The placebo effect may be genetic–which is a far less significant question than how the hell it works to begin with.
- The first mirror for this telescope has now been completed. The finished telescope will have seven of them. I struggled to grind, polish, and figure a ten-inch mirror when I was 15. This helps me put the whole thing in perspective. Wow.
- Slate seems to think that humans would win fights with Neanderthals. Having seen a number of skeletal and muscle reconstructions of those gnarly guys, I tend to doubt it. Why, then, did they go extinct if we didn't kill them? My guess: They killed each other. Why do I think that? I read human history and anthropology.
- You can now buy a brand-new, reinforced and factory rustproofed body for a 1940 Ford Coupe…from Ford. If they made an AWD minivan I'd already have one. Here's hoping.


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i got roped into one of those tagging things
- top three least favourite movies
- name a fandom you wish would drop off the face of the earth
- are you a morning or night person?
- if you could be reincarnated as any animal, which would you fucking hate to have to be?
- name your favourite kind of candy
- your house is on fire. what three things do you grab
- if you could punch anyone in the face, who would it be?
- you've just met god: what did he say to you?
- the world ends in two weeks: what do you do?
- can you tell I don't like making up questions? fuck idk. what's your favourite colour?
1. Top three least favourite movies.
Tron fucking Legacy. It was just fucking I can't believe I sat through it. I cannot believe I was excited for it. The plot was see through, it's called "Tron" but Tron isn't revealed until the end. The only good thing was the music and effects.
Avatar. I don't need to say anymore.
The Last Airbender. See above.
2. A fandom I want gone.
All of them.
HA I'M KIDDING. but seriously, I'm not sure. Every fandom is fucking dumb.
3.Morning or night person.
NIGHT. night night night night i am a night owl.
4. Reincarnated as an animal, what do you loathe to be.
5. Favourite candy.
I really like jolly ranchers? And Smarties.
6. Ma, the house is on fire.
Computer, wallet, cell phone if I had one.
7. Punch anyone in the face.
JAMES CAMERON? No actually it'd probably be social justice. I can do that.
8. Just met God, what'd he tell me.
"You fucked up."
9. World ends in 2 weeks.
I'd go see my heterosexual life partner, and a whole bunch of my friends along with my family. It'd be a party.
10. Colour, what do you like.
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"Everybody deserves a second chance" - is this applicable to everyone? Well for me, it depends. Depends on who you're giving the chance to, and on the situation you guys are in.
Most of us don't appreciate the things we have until they're gone. That's just how life is. It a complete bullcrap. But still, a big BLESSING. Chances are rarely given by people. But from what i have experienced and what i see in people, most of us just blows every chance we receive. It sucks right? But its true.
When chances are wasted, that's when REALIZATIONS come in. Fvcking realizations which drive you crazy. Even if you don't want to, random thoughts just pop out of your head. Ones that you want to think about and ones that you don't want to remember. And when you realize things, that's when you start to have regrets. Well, not always, but most of the times, people regret decisions and certain things.
They say "Don't regret anything that made you smile", that true, we shouldn't. Because in the first place, it's exactly what we wanted. If we make mistakes, we should just accept it, learn from it, and then move on. But we should never regret.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is, give out chances to those who deserve them but never regret giving it to them. ;)
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The feeling isn't mutual anymore. Sucks! :| I guess that was the wrong move for me to do. Right? Angbilisnamanmawalanungsayo. HAHA! Well, I guess all I have to do and what I should do now is wait. :) You'll come to your senses soon.. Will I invite you? I'm scared, yeah, I am. I'm afraid you wouldn't come. Or when you do, everything else will be so awkward for me. But we'll see. Who knows, I might change my mind and have the gutts to ask you if you wanna go. For now, let's just keep this distance we have. But I have to admit, it's killing me, and I'm starting to hate it. :P It's like, we WERE NOT FRIENDS. :| Oh well. If that's how it's supposed to be, then I'll let it be. :) :(
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By this I believe Spenser meant an allegory, in other words the Faerie Queen is meant to be read as an entertainment that also has a purpose. I found the following quote on enotes:
according to Spenser, the point of the "Dark conceit" and the book itself is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." The Faerie Queene thus functions as a conduct book used to train a perfect courtier. Each of the six books is devoted to the exploits of a knight who represents a particular virtue: holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy.
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Nicknamed Bootsie, this little hedgehog is currently being cared for by staff at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Buckinghamshire. The young male was taken to the wildlife hospital by a group of kids after he was found with fractured front feet in Pinner, Middlesex. Les Stocker Tiggywinkles founder said, "Bootsie was found walking on his Knuckles because his wrists were injured. We reset the wrists and plastered the legs and he now has a shallow food bowl to make it easier to eat. I've nicknamed him Bootsie because he looks like he is wearing little boots made from the bandages. He is doing very well. We'll assess his legs in two weeks time for any improvement."
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So Benedict says he wants to do Sherlock for another 15 years?
Wow! That's like, 6 new episodes to look forward to.
Wow! That's like, 6 new episodes to look forward to.
Sleepless nights… Gotta love em :/
the progress of benedict cumberbatch (x)
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Sherlock x John - Twin Moments
Mmm, lovely.
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Like a good neighbor, I do not care
That describes me in so many ways ^
Oh, that box.
The magnificent TARDIS
AU - The times we had, eh? Would've had. Never had.
└Rose comes back and the Doctor takes her on adventures again.
Rose <3
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Latte and Macaron hanging out on my desk while I move a few things around. Hands down my favorite looking aibos. They remind me of teddy bears :). Running kawaii aibo on the latte and chatty life on the macaron.
Plan on having an aibo get together this year july in pittsburg. If you are interested be sure to contact me,
i have wanted these for so long. used to lurk on a message board just to read about their exploits.
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Have you visited the new Polygon yet?
Played around on Polygon.com yesterday - looks like a great website, just a shame I'm not into games.
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That's seriously nice; I don't think I've been in a car with a nicer interior bar perhaps the last generation of Honda Civic (yet to see the inside of the new model).
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YOLO. Unless you're a cat. YOLNT (nine times) then.It just came in my head when I saw a YOLO gif…
Microsoft gambles on a touch-based futureWindows 8 is a rebirth, a "reimagining" of Windows and the entire Microsoft brand. It's also the single riskiest project that Microsoft has ever embarked upon — a bet from Redmond that users can adapt to a new way of computing. With mobile alternatives from Google and Apple eating into sales of traditional PCs, Microsoft needed to act quickly to protect its Windows revenue. A short testing phase of under a year from Developer Preview to a finished product in stores shows that Microsoft is serious this time around. The result? An entirely new Windows user interface designed for touch and a new generation of Windows apps. This isn't the Windows you're familiar with, but is that a good thing?
Another technology reblog - I'm trying to do less technology things, but there has been a lot going on recently.
Looks very, very, nice. Though I think the bigger iPads look better in the white, and the Mini is more aesthetically pleasing in the black (in the PR photos at least!).
Would love to try one out soon.
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In case you missed it last night, catch our full Microsoft Surface review.
Of the reviews I've seen/read, The Verge's seems to be the least impressed with Microsoft's new Surface - a hybrid tablet/laptop device that runs Windows RT, with a separate Surface coming later with Windows 8 Pro.
I really wanted this to be great product - it held a lot of promise. However, it appears that the software situation is not ideal. Hopefully, developers will begin to make apps quickly for Windows 8 - Surface sold a lot of pre-orders and Windows 8 will be rolled onto new devices in the coming time.
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