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Summer movie preview: 6 double features we'd like to see
Film critic Moira Macdonald puts together her list of summer movie pairings, from blockbuster popcorn-pounders to coming-of-age tear-jerkers.
Seattle Times movie critic
Though it's always hard to imagine when still mired in a chilly April-in-Seattle, summer brings warm temperatures — and, for many of us, a desire to hole up in air-conditioned theaters, catching up with the season's movies. Double features are, alas, pretty much extinct these days, but I let myself wonder, while perusing the Summer 2014 calendar, about a few hypothetical double bills that might be appealing ...
The Big Flashy Superhero Double Feature
OK, I'll admit it: It would be terrific fun, on a summer afternoon, to first watch Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) battling Electro (Jamie Foxx) and romancing Gwen (Emma Stone) in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" (opening May 2), followed by two generations of X-Men, led by Hugh Jackman's distractingly suave Wolverine, in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" (May 23). But there might not be enough popcorn in the world.
The Weepy Young Adult Novel (But With Terrific Actresses) Double Feature
This would be one for a rainy day, no? Shailene Woodley is sure to break hearts as a teen who falls in love at a cancer support group in "The Fault in Our Stars" (June 6), based on the novel by John Green. Then, if you still have some tissues left watch, watch Chloë Grace Moretz as a teenager facing the aftermath of a terrible accident in "If I Stay" (Aug. 22), based on Gayle Forman's novel. Feeling sad yet?
The "Mad Men" Fan's Double Feature
Jon Hamm, aka Don Draper, takes a shot at headlining a big-studio feature in "Million Dollar Arm" (May 16), in which he plays an undoubtedly good-looking baseball agent looking to recruit cricket players from India. Meanwhile, John Slattery, aka Roger Sterling, tries his hand at feature-film directing with the indie drama "God's Pocket" (May 16), starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christina "Joan Holloway Harris" Hendricks.
The East Coast Musical Double Features
The Tony Award-winning musical "Jersey Boys" (June 20), about how a quartet of young men from New Jersey formed the '60s pop group The Four Seasons, turns up this summer as a feature film, directed by that master of doo-wop, Clint Eastwood. (I kid. Well, maybe not. The jury's still out.) Set a few decades later but also filled with song is "Begin Again" (July 18), from the director of "Once," starring Keira Knightley and Adam Levine as lovebirds and songwriting partners in New York. The film was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival, under the (much better) title "Can a Song Save Your Life."
The Scarlett Johansson One-Word-Title Double Feature
As if SJ hadn't gotten enough screen time already this year, what with "Under the Skin" and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," she's still got enough left for a double feature. In the comedy "Chef" (May 16), Johansson plays a restaurant manager and love interest for Jon Favreau's food-truck entrepreneur; in Luc Besson's "Lucy" (Aug. 8), she's a drug mule turned superhero.
The Rags-to-Riches Singer Biopic Double Feature
James Brown's life story, from poverty to musical superstardom, gets told in "Get On Up" (Aug. 1), directed by Tate Taylor ("The Help") and starring Chadwick Boseman (best known for playing Jackie Robinson in "42"). "One Chance" (Aug. 29) features a lesser name but a similar trajectory, telling the story of Paul Potts (James Corden), a bullied shop assistant and amateur opera singer who found fame on "Britain's Got Talent."
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The Blood Type Diet Archives Volume 8
Posted By: ElenaDate: Tuesday, 26 January 1999, at 10:25 a.m.
Little-known facts from the history of modern medicine:
its inventor, Paracelsus, was a mercury mine worker with severe symptoms of mercury toxicity (dementia later in life; frequent outbursts of uncontrollable rage throughout life; the last one resulted in his getting killed in a bar brawl). Mercury was his medicine of choice. Most popular of the single-disease, single-remedy creations of his, calomel, was mercury chloride. Rapidly became popular due to its ability to suppress symptoms of syphilis, a major epidemic of the time. Side effects: severe deformities, in both users and the offspring, often incompatible with life. However, the doctors welcomed it because it was the first "treatment" ever to suppress symptoms on the spot. Became the single most widely used remedy of its time for all ailments, from syphilis to common cold. Some fifty years later, a celebrated German anatomist listed mercury as "a natural constituent of the human bones" because he had never seen human bones that didn't contain it in all of his career.
In case you've been wondering where the allopathic medicine originates and how we inherited this wonderful tradition.

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Buffalo Bulls (19-10)
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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Javon Mccrea and Zach Filzen both scored 18 points to guide Buffalo to a 78-61 win over American University in the first round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament at Bender Arena.
Also scoring in double figures for the Bulls (20-10) was Mitchell Watt who tallied 15 points and also cleared nine rebounds in the triumph.
The Eagles (20-12) were paced by Charles Hinkle who dropped in a game-high 22 points and pulled down seven rebounds, followed by Tony Wroblicky and Troy Brewer with 11 points apiece.
With a Wroblicky jumper at the 11:37 mark of the first half the Eagles found themselves within three of Buffalo at 16-13, but from there the Bulls took control and led by as many as 19 with under five minutes to play in the period before posting a 37-28 advantage at the break.
Moments into the second half American cut the deficit to just five points at 39-34, but again the visitors asserted themselves and eventually cruised to the 17-point win.
The Bulls led the rebounding battle by a slim 40-39 margin, but in terms of scoring in the paint, Buffalo registered a 38-22 advantage in that department.
Buffalo advances to the second round of the event which begins this weekend.
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> Has anyone else hear this? BRAT being bananas, rice, applesauce, and
> toast (some also say tea) to treat diarrhea. The printouts that Angela
> got from the Dr. no longer say to do this. It says for her to eat a
> regular diet but to cut back on milk and dairy with the exception being
> yogurt with live, active yogurt cultures.
> I looked it up. Here is one link:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAT_diet
> I know wikipedia is not a really good reference but there are plenty of
> others. Most of these sources mention the CRAM diet. And it includes
> milk! But mostly they say to eat the normal foods with exceptions being
> highly sugary foods, fried foods and spicy foods. They say that the BRAT
> diet causes a deficiency in zinc.
> The information given to Angela by the Dr. does mention some of the foods
> in the BRAT diet and says it is fine to add these things to her regular
> diet.
> The problem? When she was sticking to the BRAT diet she seemed to get
> better.
> We had a small amount of food left on a fruit and cheese tray that she
> bought. There were a few grapes, apple slices and some cheese which
> tasted oddly of apples. It was going to expire last night so we ate it.
> I only ate a little of the cheese. She ate the rest but really it was a
> very small amount. Not even a serving of any one thing. And then she got
> sick. She also had that taco pizza which I suppose maybe wasn't actually
> gluten free.
> So has anyone been to the Dr. recently for this? Were you told to eat the
> BRAT diet? Not to eat it? When my gastroparesis is really acting up,
> rice seems to settle my stomach. I usually just eat that and only that.
> But I usually only have to eat it for a meal or two. And then I am
> better.
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• For $10, you get an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet for two (a $6.99 value each) plus two sodas (a $2 value each), valid from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (up to a $19.15 total value, including tax). • For $14, you get an Italian meal for two, including a medium 14-inch signature pizza (up to a $16.99 value), seven wings (a $5.99 value), and two sodas (a $2 value each; up to a $28.73 total value, including tax). • For $21, you get an Italian meal for four, including a large 16-inch signature pizza (up to a $19.99 value), 14 wings (an $11.98 value), and four sodas (a $2 value each; up to a $42.57 total value, including tax).
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With parents hailing from Sicily and Naples, Anthony Russo enjoyed an Italian upbringing. By age 12, he spent much of his time in the kitchen, learning to prepare Old World recipes with his family and family friends. And from the flurry of Italian phrases and conversation, one quote of his father's stuck with him most: "If you can't make it fresh, don't serve it!"
Several decades later, Anthony has hand-tossed his own Italian restaurant franchise and, true to his father's words, employs fresh ingredients in the same family recipes that were passed down to him. Amid exposed brick and walls the warm hue of marinara, skilled chefs craft New York–style brick-oven pizzas with toppings such as spinach, sundried tomatoes, and capers. Servers stand ready to answer questions about the restaurant's wine lists, letting guests know which wines pair best with the Pizzotto sandwich or whether pinot noir can really turn dogs invisible.
Papa Murphy's Take 'n' Bake Pizza was born out of the owner's frustration with bad pizza from chains, which often tasted as if every ingredient was canned or frozen. Deciding to change the industry, Papa Murphy's tosses every ingredient, all of which are never frozen, onto the crust in front of the customer's eyes and sends them home to bake in a home oven. This dedication to fresh flavor earned Papa Murphy's the top spot on Zagat's National Chain survey.
Visitors can create their own take on the pizza pie or chomp into one of their signature pizzas, which range from meat-filled stuffed crust to calorie-conscious lite varieties covered in vegetables. Their appetizers and desserts follow the same pattern. Customers order raw cookie dough or cheesy bread ripe for the baking, resulting in every course being fresh from the oven.
Center Court Pizza & Brew ramps up the classic combo of pizza, beer, and sports thanks to daily made pizza dough, craft beers from across the country, and television screens abuzz with the big game. Sports and pizza collide atop the touchdown pizza, with pepperoni, sausage, Canadian bacon, and a slew of crisp vegetables, a pie that begs for a pint from Rogue Ales or St. Arnold Brewing Company. Pizzas are the centerpieces here, but robust plates of pastas, wings slathered in sauces and dry rubs, and bread-splitting subs round out the menu. End the game with a homemade dessert that adds sweetness to a bitter loss better than an eviction notice sealed with a kiss.
A mom-and-pop-shop transplant from New York, Pizza King infuses its East Coast pies with authentic flavors and fresh ingredients taken from 40 years of familial recipe know-how. Small 9-inch pizzas ($5) satisfy diminutive cravings, but the monstrous 30-inch pie ($30) feeds whole block parties and was once used to blanket the entirety of Manhattan as part of Rudy Giuliani's One City, One Pizza campaign. For an additional cost ($0.50–$4), taste DJs can spin their own mixings by choosing from a plethora of pizza toppings, such as meatballs, jalapeños, and olives. Specialty pizzas come capped with a variety of meat hats, including chicken wings ($12–$15), and The Legend pie fuses pepperoni, sausage, ham, beef, and bacon with onions, green peppers, mushrooms, and black olives to produce an omnivoric lovechild ($14–$18). Customers indifferent to pies can avail themselves of the nondiscus options adorning Pizza King's menu, such as calzones ($5+), stromboli ($5+), salads ($5+), wings ($6–$7), and garlic knots ($3).


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[OS] CUBA/US - Cuba, US scientists kick off cooperation meeting
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Despite the sixty-year diplomatic standoff between Cuba and the US, a
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Cuba eases clamp on domestic migration
Castro to Obama: Cuba will change in spite of US
Cuba's fading Fidel Castro turns 85 on Saturday
Scientists from the Cuba and United States will Monday begin a five-day
meeting aimed at exploring opportunities for cooperation on range of
research fields, including biological and environmental sciences, and
science policy, Cuban officials said.
The forum, organized by The Academy of Sciences of Cuba (ACC) and the
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attended by some 40 directors of research centers and researchers from the
two countries, said the ACC in statement, according to official Cuban news
agency Prensa Latina.
The aim is to "reach sustainable collaboration between the two countries,"
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The neighbors have not had diplomatic relations since the White House
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ALONG THE PANAMA CANAL — Nina and Fred Fenton have gone on 40 cruises, including five times through the Panama Canal since 1998, but they keep coming back.
ALONG THE PANAMA CANAL — Nina and Fred Fenton have gone on 40 cruises, including five times through the Panama Canal since 1998, but they keep coming back.
It was past midnight deep in Chinatown. Not even the cabby wanted to stick around
The smile of Dr. Beach still shines on the Sunshine State as three Florida beaches made his annual Top 10 beaches in the U.S. list.
By now, everybody knows what to expect from your standard-issue ho-hum water park: body and tube slide complexes with funnels and bowls, deluge-inducing water play towers for the little ones, undulating wave pools and relaxing lazy rivers.
People from all walks of life are discovering the sport of canyoneering, which takes you down and out of the rocky cliffs that climbers are heading up.
BIG SKY, Mont. — This place is absurdly misnamed. That's not a complaint, but it does require an asterisk.
Magdalen archipelago offers an uncrowded natural playground
Sandstone formations in Goblin Valley State Park that are millions of years old create an eerie atmosphere in an area with great hiking and exploration potential.
ADELAIDE, Australia — You can't design a city better than this one. Favored with a Mediterranean-type climate, it's on a lush coastal plain and the banks of the River Torrens. In the piney hills to its east, from Barossa Valley to McLaren Vale, are some of the prettiest vineyards in...
CANCUN, Mexico — In the end (and the sad realization always comes in the end), my five-day stay at an all-inclusive resort on the Caribbean was more than mind-clearing serenity; it was a frightening look into the human psyche.
Carbone is richly Italian at rich price
Dinosaurs, garbage and baby sharks are among the new features looking to bring in the crowds at some of Florida's attractions in February.
Step right up for the second reunion of former workers and performers at Circus World.
While visiting the Magic Kingdom, Maria Guerrero used a "selfie stick" to take a photo of herself, her mother and her cousin with Cinderella Castle looming in the background.
San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey made his first trip to SeaWorld Orlando to hang with penguins at the theme park's Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin attraction.
One day, if all goes according to plan, we'll be craning our necks at the intersection of International Drive and Sand Lake Road in Orlando.
WHAT: SeaWorld Orlando's three-weekend celebration of nature and wildlife kicks off Saturday, the beginning of Penguin Lovers Weekend. Animal ambassador Julie Scardina will speak about the birds and their environment. Upcoming celebrity appearances include Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late...
Five Walt Disney World resorts were recognized as top hotel choices for families by TripAdvisor's 13th annual Travelers' Choice awards.
Disney World has announced the lineup for the concert series tied to the 2015 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. And the event formerly known as Flower Power will now be called the Garden Rocks Concert Series.
Below is a list of events at Walt Disney World Resort in 2015. We will update this list as new events are added and completed.
We've just cleared the New Year's corks and confetti and our wine calendar is already filling with 2015 events. The fall Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Food & Wine Classic returns for its sixth year on Friday Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31 at the Epcot resort.
Boo, the self-proclaimed "Cutest Dog in the World," walked a doggie red carpet Wednesday to wish bon (or is that bone?) voyage to nine Chihuahua pups flying from San Francisco to Newark, N.J.
Ron Burgundy may be the most famous anchorman who never was, but that's not stopping the Newseum in Washington, D.C., from showcasing the fictional '70s character in "Anchorman: The Exhibit," which opens Thursday.
Vermont's cozy Stowe isn't without its skiing challenges
Spending time here over the holidays can be costly, but Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is trying to soften the pain. The center is offering tickets at discounts ranging from 25 to 50 percent for some of the city's most coveted events.
Finding the right hotel in New York City is rarely easy, but it helps to have options. Here are 10 new ones -- stylish independents, thrifty Holiday Inns and spendy Hyatts, all opened in the last 10 months.
For a tiny state, Connecticut is big on culture. We're home to hundreds of museums featuring fabulous art and artifacts. But in many cases, admissions aren't cheap — which can make them inaccessible to individuals and families on tight budgets.
It's my first experience using Citi Bike, the new New York City bike share program, and I've made a terrible mistake, I've lost track of time and now it looks like I won't get my bike back to a docking station in time to avoid paying a late fee.
Benjamin Franklin was a statesman, scholar and scientist, and the newly reopened Benjamin Franklin Museum clues visitors in on the personality traits that led to all that.
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It was pretty much a given that Joe Vogelpohl's kids would love hiking. As a ranger at Patapsco Valley State Park, Vogelpohl spends most of his days on trails and often takes his children, Isaac, 4, and Cecelia, 1, along on weekends. Cecilia is usually strapped to Vogelpohl's back, while...
The Galapagos of Ecuador: what you should know about this exotic Eden and what to expect if you cruise there
In addition to sailing on the Malaspina ferry, there's a rain forest, totem poles and whales to see.
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For 17 days each summer, the sleepy seaside town of Charleston, S.C., turns into a busy hive of cultural activity, with every possible venue, large and small, filled from noon to night with the sights and sounds of opera, jazz, theater, dance and more during the annual Spoleto Festival USA.
Our cruise to Hawaii on the Celebrity Millennium began with saying goodbye to our ship docked in San Diego Harbor and taking a bus ride to Ensenada, Mexico, to meet it again.
A 14-night round-trip cruise provides a slow-paced excursion but ample time to explore the islands.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - This is the only country that gives you a bath before they send you home.
This group of 40 islands and cays is known for its marine life. Resorts make it easy to get into the swim.
Its native peoples called it Alyeska, "the Great Land," and no wonder: Alaska has many eye-popping and mind-boggling attributes to richly justify that name. Consider it has 586,000 square miles (equivalent of one-fifth of the lower contiguous 48 states). It has more than 3 million lakes...
TADOUSSAC, Quebec - "Dancez avec moi?" inquires a jolly gentlemen as I step off the gangplank in Tadoussac, a little bit of a port at the confluence of the St. Lawrence Estuary and the Saguenay Fjord in Quebec province. Grizzled with grey at the edges and dressed in what looks slightly more...


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How an Audience Becomes a Congregation
We've got to become pastors if we want our people to become congregations.
— William Willimon
The first Christmas I was at Duke, during the time I was not preaching regularly, my wife and I attended a local church. That year Christmas fell on a Sunday. Our son was 2 years old, so we dressed him up in his spanking new Christmas clothes and headed jubilantly off to church. We looked forward to the service with anticipation.
But when the pastor stood up to welcome the congregation, he said, "Today is the first time in a while that Christmas has fallen on Sunday. It would have been unfair to ask the choir to sing this morning, this being a big family day and all, so they won't be singing.
"I'm not really going to preach this morning either. Instead, I've got a little story to share with you. You know, I'm amazed you're here this morning. Most of you have guests from out of town. Coming today was such an inconvenience."
"I'm leaving," my wife whispered to me. "You stay with the baby, if you want." She was annoyed the pastor hadn't dignified his congregation with preparation, and she stomped out.
I couldn't be too critical of this minister, however. I remembered many Christmas Eve services when I had scrambled to put together a service only to find no one showed up. Still, he had taken for granted that his people would be uncommitted, that they would be as fickle as a Hollywood audience.
Certainly, the dynamics of the modern congregation are discouraging. Sunday has become just another day to consume. Those who do attend worship nearly demand to be entertained.
But they are still a Christian congregation, and we do well to treat them as such, though how we do that is often hard to discern. How do we preach to such a crowd week after week? How can we move them from being individualistic consumers to a community of saints responding to God's Word?
A number of factors inhibit our Sunday morning crowds from being a congregation, and the first is that our people have adopted many of the values of our consumer and leisure society.
We see this in people's lifestyles. One pastor in Colorado recently complained because of his congregation's weekend trips. His church is located in a suburb of Denver, and many in his congregation own condos in Breckenridge or Vail. Certain periods of the year — ski season, for example, which can run from early November to the middle of April — many otherwise steadfast members attend irregularly. Trying to sustain a sense of community is futile.
We also see consumerism in people's expectations. Not long ago I attended a conference of lay people from a major denomination. When asked, "What do you want out of a sermon?" one of the conference participants said, "We want sermons that start us thinking about something in a new way."
In the name of intellectual stimulation, these people wanted to consume fresh ideas rather than being confronted with the old truths of Scripture. Their attitude reflects that of an audience, a consumerist ...
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A reflection offered at Hobart North UCA for the third Sunday in Advent
That phrase intrigues me: "Keeping it real".
Often said as "Yeah, just keepin' it real, bro", or similar.
Sometimes it's said by sportspeople & commentators and comes out something like "we're concentrating on keeping it real for the boys" (It usually comes somewhere between "full credit to the boys" and "we're just taking it one game at a time"!)
"Keeping it real…" I really do wonder what it actually means. Continue reading


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Two days ago, Bjarni had a "minor epiphany" as he puts it. If I can summarize it briefly, he realized while looking at hadoop that although some software projects are technically, or legally speaking, Free Software; their goals, or the intent of the projects' community seem far behind the goal of freedom of the users. Hence, he proposes two definitions:
The Free Software Community writes and shares software with an explicit intent to safeguard the rights and freedoms of its users by eliminating antifeatures and natural monopolies.
The Open Source Community writes and shares software with an explicit intent to advance the state of the art of computing through open collaboration and publication.
and goes along with examples:
Free Software: GNU, Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC, PageKite
Open Source: Apache, Android, Hadoop, Varnish, Linux
There is some truth in it, but I am afraid I strongly disagree with this assessment because I think it is false and also because I think it weakens the goal of Free Software. (On the other hand, I have to say that Bjarni's project is really awesome. By the way, they now offer free accounts for Free Software web projects!)
Not distinctive communities
My first comment when you look closely at Bjarni's proposed definitions is about the word "safeguard." I think it is no accident that this word is here. In a way, this word conveys the idea that copyleft and Free Software are strongly linked together. This is true: the most important Free Software license today is the GNU GPLv2, a copyleft license. On the other hand, the GPL is the license of the GNU project, but also of the Linux kernel. And if you look at examples given above you'll find that GNU is in the Free Software category, while Linux in the Open Source category. So why would the Linux hackers choose a Free Software license (per the definition given that Free Software means safeguarding rights and freedoms) if they are an "Open Source" project?
People in communities have things in common, they share values, practices, culture. If you look at both self-proclaimed Free Software and Open Source projects, they undeniably share something in common: software projects. And nearly all software projects technically under a Free Software license, are under an Open Source license. And that's not an accident: after all, the Open Source Definition comes from the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
And because we all share the same software; it's possible for the Debian community, undeniably a Free Software community, to integrate a lot of other projects which are proclaimed "Open Source."
So, I think trying to identify two different communities: one Free Software, one Open Source; is identifying important parameters: which values are put forth, which license, which contribution model, and how they work with other projects or businesses. But none of these parameters, IMHO, are fundamentally inclusive or exclusive of one of the Free Software community, or of the Open Source community.
There are various smaller communities and varying degrees: it's a complex community; but that's one community.
I'll take one other hypothesis that, I think, supports this assertion. Bjarni writes about removing antifeatures and monopolies for Free Software, while Open Source is about state-of-the-art coding and openness. But, these are two sides of the same coin. The art of coding, or hacking, is strongly against antifeatures, incompatible both in practice and in spirit. So, ultimately, whether the emphasized goal is state of the art or openness, it often leads to the same result: a Free Software license is chosen.
In the case of hadoop: while it's true that in most cases, the companies that use hadoop are not Free Software companies because they clearly work against the freedom of the users; they are part of the Free Software community nevertheless, because they use and contribute to Free Software (whether we like it or not, they are free to do it). Of course, there are distinctions to be made: I'm not saying Facebook or Google, are part of the Free Software movement! But they are players and actors in the Free Software community (even if not exclusively). On the other hand, that's the power of Free Software: I am quite sure that hadoop can be used for good or bad. Bjarni writes:
[Hadoop] is a cluster computing system which companies and scientists love, but individuals and consumers couldn't care less about. It is based on ideas made popular (invented?) by Google, but Google kept their code to themselves, so the Hadoop project was created to advance the state of the art and bring MapReduce to the rest of the industry.
That would be like saying that MapReduce is a kind of technology fundamentally incompatible with freedom. I don't think that's true. The problem is when a company uses it to become the central point of control of the worlds' data. The only difference is that MapReduce can be a more effective way of doing that; but that's not relevant. What is relevant is that Hadoop is Free Software, so anyone has the freedom to use it and modify it for positive change in the world.¹
Advancing the goal of freedom
The final point is that from a purely technical or legal point of view, Free Software and Open Source designate the same category of software. Trying to make two distinctive categories weakens our position when we talk to corporations or public administrations because it's divisive, or confusing at best (i.e. some people think that non-copyleft software is not Free Software²).
That doesn't mean however that terms like Free Software or Open Source should be used interchangeably. I think this is a mistake, because it is true that there are differences. When I say Free Software, I want to emphasis the freedom. Exactly like when I say GNU/Linux instead of "Linux" to name my operating system, I want to emphasis the role of the GNU project: although there was free software before GNU, the GNU project was really what started the Free Software movement. But I'll also call the Linux kernel Free Software: because I want to thank them for developing it and giving me the ability to be in control of my computer!
Some people won't agree with that, and they want to emphasis "openness" or whatever, because they are not interested in freedom, or they believe in another way to convince consumers or people to use their software, etc. After all, it is their choice and although I disagree with it, to me it does not mean they should feel excluded from the Free Software community.
What we should do is convince them that saying Freedom is important, it matters for everyone; we shouldn't exclude them and create barriers to collaboration.
On this issue, you can read Georg Greve's advice: It's time for the community to take charge of its brand.
For instance, hadoop could quite well play an important part in our goal for distributed systems in Free Software. [↩]
This diagram can help you get a good grasp at different licensing models and how they relate to what's Free Software or not, technically/legally speaking. One thing: you'll notice that the Open Source category there is almost completely the same as Free Software. The differences are very minor: a few licenses are accepted by the FSF while they are refused by the OSI, and vice versa. But that's just a minor annoying detail of license proliferation and amateurism. [↩]


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Yes, My Dark Heresy campaing, Dark Heresy Redux, is looking for a possible new player to join into the fray. one player dropped along the way, another can no longer show up at gametime for a while. I can't really run it with 2 players so I am looking for a 3rd one to get in.
We got an assassin, tech-priest, psyker (being GMPC for now) and a sister of battle in another town recuperating form almost being assasinated in broad daylight by bowmen. They players are on a Feudal world (gunpowder level) but there is a number of off-worlders as well present one can pick.
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Beth Bock, PhD Associate Professor The Miriam Hospital Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine Coro West, Suite 309 164 Summit Ave Providence, RI 02906 Phone: 401-793-8020 Fax: firstname.lastname@example.com
Beth Bock, PhD, is a professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is a staff psychologist at the Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital. She is an associate editor for the journal Health Psychology, and has served on the board of directors of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and as an associate editor the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. She is currently a member of The Miriam Hospital's Institutional Review Board for the protection of human subjects in research and serves on a study section for the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health.
Bock's primary research focus is the interaction between environment, technology and health behavior change, with a particular emphasis on tobacco interventions and physical activity promotion. In tobacco research, she has served as principal investigator on numerous NIH-funded research projects including two studies examining the process of smoking cessation among emergency medical patients (R01 HL60986 and R01 HL65595). She was also principal investigator on a National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded study using text messaging to promote tobacco cessation (R21 DA027142). She has been a co-investigator on several studies (R01 CA104836; R43 CA99881; R41 DA021455; R44 DA097903; R43 CA099211) examining the use of computer tailored interventions on smoking cessation using pharmacies and the Internet.
Bock's studies in physical activity promotion include serving as principal investigator and co-investigator on studies using exercise, including aerobic exercise and yoga, as an adjunctive treatment with smoking cessation behavioral therapy (R21 AT003669; DA021729; R01CA077249; 1R29CA059660), and studies that examine the use to computer tailored programs and internet-based interventions to promote physical activity (R01 HL075561; 1R01 HL64342 & 2R01 HL064342; R01 HL69866; R21 NR009864; R01 NR011295). She has also worked with small businesses on an NIH-funded Small Business Innovation Research project involving pharmacies, decision-making software and weight control interventions in low-income and underserved populations. Bock's work in internet and mobile health applications has included collaborations with technology companies that develop expert systems and disease management programs for smoking cessation, diabetes management and weight reduction.
Bock is currently principal investigator of a National Cancer Institute-funded study (R01 CA156699) that incorporates the standard-of-care for tobacco treatment into the electronic patient record used for routine care in the emergency department, and a study examining decision making regarding stopping drug use among incarcerated individuals (R21 DA032739). She is also principal investigator on an National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine-funded study of the efficacy of yoga as a complementary therapy for smoking cessation (R01 AT006948), and a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded study of the effectiveness of exercise videogames for promoting physical activity participation and cardiovascular risk reduction (R01 HL109116).
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Efficacy of Exercise Videogames for Physical Activity Adoption and Maintenance For the proposed study we will conduct a 3-group randomized, controlled trial among healthy, sedentary adults (age =18), to test the efficacy of EVGs compared to a standard exercise program (Standard) and contact-control (Control) to increase time spent in PA and changes in physical fitness and cardiovascular health. We will also examine maintenance of PA and fitness changes during a 6-month home based EVG and Standard interventions (Months 4-9). This study will also examine changes in theoretically-based constructs that will shed light on the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms underlying observed between-group differences in adherence to PA.
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhDCo-Investigator: Eva Serber, PhD, Joseph Ciccolo, PhD, Bess Marcus, PhD, Shira Dunsiger, PhDFunding Agency: National Heart, Lung and Blood InstituteDates: 2011-2016
System-based Tracking and Treatment for Emergency Patients who Smoke: STTEPS This study will institute tobacco treatment following the US PHS guidelines into existing electronic medical tracking software that is widely used across the United States. We will adapt an existing Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) to facilitate the identification of smokers, prompt physician intervention, enhance the provision of smoking cessation intervention materials as discharge instructions, facilitate quit-smoking medication prescription and advice, and connect the patient to follow up care through their primary care provider and a pro-active telephone quit line. After full implementation of the EDIS system we will recruit a second patient cohort to examine the impact/efficacy and cost/efficacy of the system. Contemporaneous with the Step 1 and Step 2 cohorts, we will recruit two cohorts of smoking patients at a second (no intervention) ED site to control for historical trends.
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhDCo-Investigator: Edwin Boudreaux, PhD, Ernestine Jennings, PhD, Bruce Becker, MD, MPHFunding Agency: National Cancer Institute
Dates: 2011-2016
Methods for Understanding Sentinel Events This study will better delineate the cognitive and affective mechanisms of action that mediate between a sentinel event (incarceration or "a teachable moment") and behavior change milestones, including making a decision to stop using drugs, entering drug treatment, initiating a quit attempt, lapsing, and relapsing. In this R21 we will create and validate measures of the model's constructs and examine the feasibility of different methods for obtaining ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in jail and in the community (necessary for full testing of the model).
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhD and Jennifer Clarke, MD (multiple PI project) Co-Investigator: Joseph Fava, PhD Funding Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dates: 2012-2014
Efficacy of Yoga as an Alternative Therapy for Smoking Cessation This study will test the efficacy of Yoga as a complementary therapy for smoking cessation in a randomized, controlled 2-group study design. Adult smokers will be provided with smoking cessation counseling (SCC) and randomly assigned to either; 1) Yoga, or 2) a Control group (CTL) given a Health & Wellness program to control for contact time. Smoking abstinence will be measured at the end of treatment and at 3, 6 and 12 months follow-up. We hypothesize that abstinence will be significantly higher in the SCC+Yoga compared to SCC+CTL. We will also test theoretically posited mediators of intervention efficacy (e.g., perceived stress, cognitive/perceptual changes), and explore the relationship between maintenance of yoga practice during the post-treatment period and smoking status. This study builds on our programmatic line of research developing innovative, theory driven smoking cessation therapies.
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhDCo-Investigator: Bruce Becker, MD, MPH; Ronnesia Gaskins, PhD, Bess Marcus, PhD, Ernestine Jennings, PhD, Shira Dunsiger PhD, Joseph Fava, PhD, James Carmody PhDFunding Agency: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Dates: 2012-2017
Text Messaging as a Novel Alcohol Intervention for Community College Students This project will develop an intervention to reduce alcohol consumption and high risk drinking among adults who are enrolled as students in community colleges.
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhD and Nancy Barnett, PhD (multiple PI project)Co-Investigator: Rochelle Rosen, PhD, Christopher DeutschFunding Agency: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
The Sentinel Events Model: A Dynamic Model of Substance Use Cessation
This project develops and validates the Sentinel Events Model, a new dynamic model which is predicated on the observation that an attempt to quit using an addictive substance is often preceded by the experience of a negative consequence of use, such as a health problem. We seek to better delineate the cognitive and affective mechanisms of action that mediate between a sentinel health event and behavior change milestones. Smokers experiencing medical symptoms prompting a cardiac evaluation will be enrolled and followed for six months. For the first three months, subjects will complete cellular telephone-based ecological momentary assessments (EMA) to provide detailed data about antecedents to lapse and relapse.
Principal Investigators: Beth Bock, PhD (subcontract) and Edwin Boudreaux PhD (project PI)Co-Investigator: Bruce Becker, MD, MPHFunding Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Dates: 2008-2013
Bock, BC., Niaura, R., Fontes, A., & Bock, FR. (1999). Acceptability of computer assessments in minority and underserved smokers. American Journal of Health Promotion, 13, 299-304.
Bock, BC, Becker, B, Niaura, R. & Partridge, R. (2000). Smoking among emergency chest pain patients: Motivation to quit, risk perception and physician intervention. Nicotine & Tobacco Research,2, 93-96.
Marcus BH, Napolitano MA, King AC, Lewis BA, Whiteley JA, Albrecht AE, Parisi AF, Bock BC, Pinto BM, Sciamanna C, Jakicic JM & Papandonatos GD. (2007). Telephone versus print delivery of an individualized motivationally-tailored physical activity intervention: Project STRIDE. Health Psychology, 26(4), 401-417.
Marcus BH, Lewis BA, Williams DM, Whiteley JA, Albrecht AE, Jakicic JM, Parisi AF, Hogan JW, Napolitano MA & Bock BC. (2007) Step into Motion: A randomized trial examining the relative efficacy of Internet vs. print-based physical activity interventions. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 28(6), 737-747.
Bock BC, Becker BM & Borrelli BC. (2008). Smoking behavior and risk perception among the parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 10(1), 47-54.
Bock BC, Becker BM, Niaura RS, Partridge R, Fava JL & Trask P. (2008). Smoking cessation among patients in an emergency chest pain observation unit: Outcomes of the Chest Pain Smoking Study (CPSS). Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 10(10), 1523-32.
Bock BC, Graham AL, Whiteley JA & Stoddard JL. (2008). A review of web-assisted tobacco interventions (WATI). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 10(5), e39.
Bock BC, Hudmon K, Christian J & Bock F. (2010). A tailored intervention to support pharmacy-based counseling for smoking cessation. Nicotine & Tobacco Research 12(3):217-225.
Bock BC, Morrow KM, Becker BM, Williams DM, Tremont G, Gaskins R, Jennings E, Fava J & Marcus BH (2010). Yoga as a complementary treatment for smoking cessation. Rationale, study design and participant characteristics of the Quitting-in-Balance study. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Apr 29: 10-14.
Bock BC, Jennings E, Becker BM & Niaura, RS (2011). Characteristics and predictors of readiness to quit among emergency medical patients presenting with respiratory symptoms. International Journal of Emergency Medicine. 4:24


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The following recipe calls for kosher salt, and although there's not a real discernible difference between the kosher and iodized salt when they're tasted plain (iodized salt contains preservatives and iodine, both of which are tasteless, but the coarser kosher salt doesn't), kosher does make a difference in the final result. For the deepest flavor, though, go for sea salt, which is made by evaporating seawater. Places like Alfalfa's sell kosher and sea salt in bulk, and it's worth experimenting with both. Put the more exotic salts in groovy bowls or flowerpots next to your stove, and don't be afraid to use them.
No matter what salt you use, though, Sullivan's spinach is so good you might want to have it as the main course with a side of beef.
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4 pounds fresh spinach
2 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon garlic, chopped
2 teaspoons kosher salt
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Rinse and steam spinach. Drain and roughly chop. Place cream in a large saucepan; heat and simmer for 6 to 8 minutes. Add spinach, garlic, salt and pepper. Mix well and cook for 5 minutes. Add cream cheese. Cook mixture for 15 minutes, stirring often to ensure that the cheese is thoroughly blended and the spinach has an appealing consistency. Serves 4.
Pleased to meat you: My dinner with Barry Fey presented the perfect opportunity to quiz him about a recent sighting at Bobby Rifkin's Pacific Star (1735 Lawrence Street), where Fey was seen sitting at a big, round table with such heavy hitters as attorneys Steve Farber and Norm Brownstein, printer Barry Hirschfeld and dairy mogul Eddie Robinson--as well as a few babes obviously on loan from Rifkin's other joint, the Diamond Cabaret.
Fey allowed that "the salmon was very good," said he left early to go home for the Monday-night lineup on TV and revealed nothing more. Farber would say only that he eats at Pacific Star "regularly." But it turns out that his name--along with those of a few other male movers and shakers--was on the invitation for the supper club's free feed that was extended to a number of Denver bigwigs. A Pacific Star employee says the restaurant has been trying to get "important people from around town to come check the place out" and that the evening was very "tasteful." But the Cabaret cuties were an added amenity not offered when the Star recently hosted a similar dinner for female VIPs.
Of course, The Palm (1201 16th Street) is the steakhouse known for attracting VIPs--and for putting their caricatures up on the wall. But a few who stopped by the Denver restaurant two weeks ago were less than impressed with that night's special: a filet stuffed with lobster and covered with some mysterious brown sauce that was so salty it made the dish inedible (a problem the kitchen was well aware of, it turned out--so why keep offering the special?). And the only thing more raw than the side of brussels sprouts--not exactly everyone's favorite veggie even when cooked correctly--was a pair of bloody lamb chops. At least the server had a sense of humor about the salt-lick special: When he brought the dessert tray around, the centerpiece was a saltshaker. After dinner, this party headed toward the bar to try to drown any extant sorrows, only to be told that it was closing--even though there were plenty of people still drinking and chatting inside. And this before 11 p.m. and after a $200 dinner tab.
Much more congenial was the experience a colleague enjoyed that same Friday at the Washington, D.C., Palm. Seated directly below the cartoon of a toga-wearing Charlton Heston, her table got a perfectly cooked pair of lamb chops and a special of Thai-style soft-shell crab. But the best part of the meal, she reports, was the gratis relish dish--including a giant, just-dilled cucumber--that appears on each table at lunchtime. Denver's Palm doesn't do that, but it is offering a $14.95 business special right now, featuring an assortment of salad/pasta combos designed to help Denver's power lunchers refuel quickly and efficiently.
Pork place: As far as I'm concerned, bacon is as important--if not more so--than beef, and so I was in hog heaven at the Southside Cafe (560 South Broadway) the other morning when I stopped for a breakfast of huevos rancheros ($4.25) and a side of bacon ($3)--which quickly turned into two sides once we bit into the succulent slices. The green on the huevos was good, if thin and light on the chile heat, but the over-easy eggs had been cooked just right, and the homemade hashbrowns had a great crispy roof from the grill. And, oh, that bacon: Cooked crisp, with plenty of melt-in-your-mouth fat and a minimum of grease, these pig parts were better than I've had in far more upscale establishments.


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I'm sorry for delay in responding.
The Lombard St. was most often sold in the comfort choice called, "ultra firm".
If the problem is only that it is too firm, there is an effective way to soften the surface without sacrificing the underlying firm support.
(Something, I assume, your husband requires)
As is often the case, a husband prefers a firm mattress, which is contrary to providing the contouring support needed for the curves of the wife.
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The limited edition CD by Andy Partridge called POWERS is in store but going fast. Hurry or you'll miss bagging one of only 500 copies of this spooky set of sound pieces inspired by the sci-fi art of Richard M Powers. Get over to the podcast section for a taster of the project. The first piece from the disc and a collage of some of the sensational book jacket art that caught Andy's imagination at a very young age and led ultimately to this release. The picture sequence was put together by Andy and Lighterthiefs Stuart Rowe. | |
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Bore wear at the TCC control valve and/or sleeve results in the torque converter clutch remaining applied and transferring the shift shock. Loss of TCC control also results in RPM fluctuation.
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The Gladstone Pottery Museum is a step back in time to the days of Victorian pottery manufacture. What's more, you can throw your own pot on on a real potter's wheel.
Gladstone is the only remaining complete Victorian pottery factory from the days when coal-burning bottle ovens made the world's finest English bone china.
Traditional skills, original workshops, the cobbled yard and huge bottle kilns create an atmospheric time-warp which is sure to inspire.
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Center for East Asian StudiesThe Center for East Asian Studies encourages students to conduct individual
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The premiere of the film "Chaalis Chauraasi" in Mumbai saw the cast and crew come together to watch the film with their friends, family and other guests from B-Town.
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It's that crazy time of the week where you entice us with your links and comments to go check out your blogs and your great REAL FOOD WEDNESDAY tips and ideas! (If you're a blogger, you'll draw some good traffic to your site…)
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Can you help?
1. It's not easy for me to catch them all on my own, and I'd really like everyone to play fair, so if you see any posts that don't link back to this post (blog carnival etiquette you know!), can you email me please? firstname.lastname@example.com. (I hate playing hardball and removing links, so let's all be good to the others who are bringing more traffic to your blogs with their links by doing the same, OK?)
2. Also, PLEASE let me know if you see a post that is blatantly not Real Food. I'm not talking about perfection here. Someone who is striving and on the journey is one thing (as we all are), but if it's really bad, and most of you know what I mean, I'd love it if you'd tell me so I can remove it. (If I've removed your post, I hope there are no hard feelings, but people come here for Real Food ideas, and I don't want to disappoint.) Update: maybe I'd better be a bit more specific…absolutely no recipes with canned bread, Velveeta, margarine, Egg Beaters, unfermented soy or any other fake food. I probably missed some, but hopefully you get the idea.
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Disengaging From Social Media & Living In The Real World
By Scott Bourne
This year has been a year of goodbyes and lasts for me. I am retiring and doing many of the things I've done for decades for the last time.
One of the things I am doing as part of my retirement is disengaging from social media. Not right away, not completely but soon and significantly. And eventually, I don't know when, I'll be offline forever. I've decided to do this because there is no business case for me to spend time on social media now that I am retired. And because there's no human case either.
I recognize that social media has contributed greatly to my business success. I appreciate the irony of that. And in a few, very rare, very isolated cases, helped me make a couple of really good friends. It has also helped me to help many of you. But it comes at a high cost. Like many of you, social media has caused me to feel like I have to be connected 24/7. That comes at the expense of any real social life. Additionally, social media and today's anonymous Internet is full of cyber-bullies who are 10 feet tall as long as they are blogging from their mom's basement. That ugly side of the Internet is – in my opinion, greatly responsible for much of what's wrong with the world. And I am not just talking about the online world but the offline world too. It has desensitized us all. I have decided that – for me personally – the bad now outweighs the good. I want to stress that this is purely a personal decision. It's one I make on my own and for me alone. It is not an opinion anyone else need share or consider. I am not advocating anyone else follow my decision. I am merely saying that for me, personally, it is time to move on.
I spent most of my life without an Internet and got along just fine. I actually interacted with people. I actually got to know them face-to-face. And surprisingly, we all got along just fine, made a living, had fun, etc.
The world seems far less civil now. And it has caused me to be less civil. I am sorry for that. And I am going to do something about it. I know I can't stop the trolls from being trolls or the haters from hating but what I can absolutely do, is turn them off and tune them out. If I am not online and they are, anything and everything they do is of no consequence to me. I can't control what they do, but I can control my reaction to it and my reaction will be simple. I'll never see it. I'll never know about it. So it takes all the fun out of it for them, and insulates me against their unhappy approach to life. I can work on ME. I can become more civil by only interacting with people in the real world. And I want to stay clear of the kind of person who walks off a pier while checking their Facebook status.
What matters to me in the sunset of my life is the relationships I have in the real world. I won't be one of those guys out at dinner with a beautiful woman texting or checking my email. I won't be the guy who listens to his voicemail at the movie theater. I won't be constantly updating my Twitter, Facebook or Google+ status. All that will go on without me. I will not miss it. Not one bit.
Some of you are probably thinking – "no great loss." I agree. My departure from the online world will have no real impact on anyone but me. And that's just fine.
As I recall my life before Gopher, Usenet, Compuserve, Netscape, Flickr, Twitter, etc. I was a generally happy and successful person. I don't believe that I will be any less so by returning to that life. I am going analog.
So the long and the short of it is this. You won't see much if anything from me here on the Interwebs beginning very soon. Those of you who actually know me will call me on my phone. It still works. I'll write real letters to people I miss. I'll send cards and post cards to my pals reminding them I am still alive. The rest of you will find someone else to follow and enjoy.
For those of you who need to remain online – I understand and I am hopeful that you will enjoy the Internet. I'm hopeful that for you – the good will outweigh the bad. As for me? I'll enjoy shaking hands, looking people in the eye when they talk to me and having a real life – life experience.
Up to now I have merely been informing you of my plans. But now, I will leave you with one bit of advice. It's only relevant if you agree with me that the world is less civil now than it was 10 or 20 or 40 years ago. You can help change that. Never say anything online about someone that you wouldn't be willing to say TO someone in the real world. Don't talk about people – talk TO people. Your life will be better for it. Everyone's life will be better for it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to go watch a sunset. I won't be live-Tweeting it, or posting it to Instagram or Facebook. I WILL however enjoy the feel of the glow of the sun's last rays on my face, the color in the sky above, the sounds of dusk approaching and the connection to a real place in a real time at a real event that doesn't involve a single pixel.
I wish all of you the very best and thank you for your support over the years. I even want to thank the trolls who unwittingly helped me grow my audience and make more money. There's no hard feelings on my part. I'm moving on with a smile on my face.
Take care and so long.
11 thoughts on "Disengaging From Social Media & Living In The Real World"
As a forty year old who just disabled his Facebook account last week, I fully respect your decision Scott.
In all honesty I only came to your site tonight for the first time after browsing the Photofocus site and remembering all of your great and informative podcasts – your presence on Photofocus is now reduced to being documented as the founder and that's fine as I'm sure it's in good hands.
Social media can be a destructive and bewildering thing, but we humans have made it so. The Internet at large, though, enabled me to hear your voice and wisdom.. Enabled me, no more than a photographic beginner, to hear from someone who made a living from their passion and gave me inspiration.
Be quite aware of the fact that the Internet enabled your warm tones to travel instantaneously from the USA to me, sitting on a bus in Scotland on my way to work. You and your guests kept me company over many miles and I want to thank you for that.
I'd like to think I'll find another presenter as engaging as you but I sincerely doubt it. Enjoy your retirement in the real world and thanks again for all those fantastic podcasts.
Well said Andrew. Scott's contributions cannot be overlooked or denied. They have been immense. Oh .. and if you look, you'll find someone to, not necessarily 'fill-the-shoes' Scott leaves behind … but you'll find a new pair of shoes that will help you continue growing in YOUR walk. Like all shoes, the new ones take getting used to. But before long, they'll feel just like you've walked in them all your life. The cool thing is … when you think about it.. they also help you keep in touch with those 'older shoes' that taught you how to walk in the first place. Good walkin'… :)
Right On Scott!
I applaud your disconnection and have also found peace off of the social media treadmill. May you enjoy all that life has to offer one moment at a time.
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Hi, Scott it was nice following you and thanks so much for taking the time to look at my photos. I too decided to retire early . I was the Airline pilot from Toronto flying for Jazz . Now I'll enjoy Las Vegas and go around to the different places taken photos.
Take care James May -
Hi Scott. I am sincerely missing your wit and humor on Photofocus but understand and respect your decision to go analog. I truly wish you the best of luck!
In all my years on the internet that has to be the most honest and beautifully true to oneself statement I have ever seen made. Each point really rung true with me and ironically I'm sat reading this post not knowing anything about you and stumbling on your site for the very first time today! I instinctively know that the photography world will be missing a great asset and a genuinely honest man more importantly.
Enjoy your retirement and all those rich, vibrant and vivid sunrises and sunsets that have yet to come.
All the best,
There is one good thing about a web presence, Mr. Bourne. It allows an anonymous schmo whom you do not know from Adam to say the following:
Thanks. Thanks for sharing your life online. I enjoyed your podcasts. I enjoyed your writing. I appreciate the effort you put into everything you did.
I just wanted to say that. Your life online had meaning, and you will be missed.


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Wednesday's high temperature in Phoenix was not as hot as the past several days due to the cloud cover overhead. The high only hit 100 degrees with lows in the mid-80s.
Very light showers were the focus through the afternoon.
The area of high pressure to our east will keep moisture in place for the rest of the week. That means our shower and thunderstorm chances each afternoon stays around 20 - 30 percent. The better chances are along the Mogollon Rim and in the higher elevations east of the Valley, but we could see a few storms make it into the Valley as well.
Weather models continue to indicate that we could see a tropical disturbance track north through Baja California and into our state by the weekend. This is still several days away but if this pans out, we could see better chances for more widespread, heavy rainfall Saturday through Monday. Flooding will be something we are watching closely.
As we start to see this surge in moisture, and with the area of high pressure now over our state shifting east, we'll see temperatures fall closer to normal by Friday.
We'll get even cooler by the weekend thanks to increasing cloud cover and storm chances. Highs will top out in the low 100s Saturday and possibly drop below 100 on Sunday with low 100s again early next week.