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Pacman's loss provokes religion debate
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CEBU CITY -- His choice of religion has nothing to do with the defeat of boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, high-ranking Roman Catholic Church officials said Monday.
"There are other (boxers) stronger than him," said Msgr. Esteban Binghay, episcopal vicar of the Archdiocese of Cebu and a canon lawyer. "For me, (the defeat of Pacquiao) is not related to religion."
A day after Juan Manuel Marquez knocked him out in their fourth fight, Pacquiao dominated the news and talk shows. Some fans have connected his stunning loss to his failure to make the sign of the cross or to bring along rosary beads, which he used to do before and after every match.
His mother Dionisia, in televised interviews, blamed Pacquiao's loss on his reported conversion, as well as the amount of time he was spending with pastors, instead of training.
Pacquiao, who watched one of the interviews by satellite, shushed his mother and requested her to discuss the matter with him in private.
"But I do not think failure to make the sign of the cross or carrying the beads, which are good signs, caused his downfall," said Binghay.
"He (Pacquiao) is a born-again (Christian), meaning he had a change of heart," he added.
Msgr. Binghay said the loss may also be a time for reflection on the focus of the boxer-turned-congressman's life.
"Now is the time to reflect more on his personal life, career and political life. What is his direction in life?" said Binghay.
Archbishop Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan Oscar Cruz told ABS-CBN that Pacquiao was just overpowered by his opponent and that he saw no reason to drag religion into the discussion. (BAP of Sun.Star Cebu)
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on December 11, 2012.
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The prehistoric overview is a brief summary of Native American cultural development in Pennsylvania. This process begins over 16,000 years ago with the earliest inhabitants migrating into the New World during the Ice Age. The process ends in Pennsylvania during the early 18th century when native populations are forced to leave due to the overwhelming intrusion of Europeans. Between the times of their arrival and dispersal, there is a fascinating story of an incredible variety of developments in culture, which archaeologists define as a society's way of life, passed from generation to generation. It is important to remember that culture change, or evolution, is not simply a gradual increase in cultural and technological complexity with "man pulling himself up by his own boot straps." It is a series of changing adaptations in reaction to changing natural environments, increasing human population density, and influences from adjacent cultures.
Pennsylvania is on the edge of several environmental zones and several cultural areas. Bordered by the Canadian and New England boreal forest to the north, coastal environments to the east, and fertile valleys of the Piedmont zone to the south, the region is situated at the crossroads of the cultures that occupied these zones. This results in a series of cultural adaptations and changes that make Pennsylvania archaeology both complicated and fascinating.
All of the information on prehistoric Native Americans in Pennsylvania comes from the scientific study of archaeology. Archaeologists have divided Native American cultural evolution into at least five time periods – the Paleoindian, the Archaic, the Transitional, the Woodland and the Contact Periods. The Archaic and the Woodland are further divided into Early, Middle and Late. These generally correspond to changes in artifacts, and archaeologists believe that this means there were changes in the way in which people lived, acquired food, organized their families, and practiced their religious beliefs. Archaeologists call this cultural evolution.
CONTACT(Susquehannocks and otherhistorically recorded tribes)1550 A.D. - 1780 A.D.
This was a period of cultural transition, fragmentation and eventual collapse. Europeans moved into Pennsylvania andessentially displaced Native American cultures. Native madeobjects were replaced by European equivalents such as iron axes,brass kettles and glass beads. Extensive warfare occurred forcontrol of the fur trade and land acquisition
LATE WOODLAND(Late Prehistoric)800 A.D. - 1550 A.D.
Horticulture was practiced across the state and, by the endof this period, most groups practiced agriculture and lived inpermanent stockaded villages. Native Americans organized intotribes. Numerous pottery shapes and designs were used alongwith elaborate clay smoking pipes. Stone celts were common andthe bow and arrow developed as the main mode of weaponry.
EARLY AND MIDDLE WOODLAND(Adena andregional equivalents)(Hopewell andregional equivalents)1200 B.C. - 800 A.D.
Horticulture began in western Pennsylvania and hamlets becamemore common. Ceremonialism and wide spread trade continuedfrom the early Woodland period. A variety of cord marked,stamped and net marked pottery styles emerged. In easternPennsylvania, this period is poorly known, but permanentoccupations seem to be more common.
Semi-permanent settlements began during this period. Fired claypottery was introduced from the south along with stone gorgetsand tube-shaped smoking pipes. Trade was widespread and inwestern Pennsylvania, burial mounds, burial ceremonialism andlarger semi-permanent villages developed.
TRANSITIONAL(Terminal Archaic)1200 B.C. - 1800 B.C.
A climatic change resulted in less precipitation and Native Americansfocused their activities on floodplains. New tools were developedto adapt to this environment, including soapstone bowls andbroad bladed spear points reworked into a variety of knives, drills,and scrapers. The first evidence of extensive trade is found in theform of highly desired stone used for making tools.
Hunters and gatherers used a variety of special tools such as axes,atlatl (spear thrower) weights, grinding stones, stone drills and adiversity of stone spear point styles. They hunted and fished, andcollected plant foods in an emerging deciduous forest. NativeAmerican groups continued to migrate through a cycle of seasonalrounds but territories became smaller compared to Paleoindiantimes. The population gradually increased during this period.
Paleoindians were highly nomadic foragers in a late glacial/earlymodern environment. They hunted, fished and collected a varietyof animal and plant foods. In the northern parts of the state, theirannual migration route covered hundreds of miles. The mostdistinctive artifact is the fluted spear point. Scrapers were used forworking hides and making wooden and bone tools.

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Dr Murray's research area is comics, although he also works on Film. He is primarily interested in British and American Comics, and writers such as Grant Morrison and Alan Moore. He is currently writing a book on the British Superhero.
He has published on various aspects of comics, including:
- the relationship between American superhero comics, popular culture and propaganda during World War Two;
- the comics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison;
- horror comics;
- independent/small press comics (mini-comics);
- British comics, specifically DC Thomson.
Chris is editor (along with Dr Julia Round) of new peer-reviewed comics journal, Studies in Comics (Intellect Books). He is Secretary of the Scottish Word and Image Group, and co-editor of Universe Publications titles such as Anthology and Tales of the Universe, which publish work by comics students. He is also on the Steering Committee of the Centre for Scottish Culture: http://dundeescottishculture.org/
Find out more about comics at Dundee.
AHRC funded studentships are available in his research area - more details
Top tips for students
Before studying Comics, Chris recommends that you:
- Read lots of comics!
- Investigate the rich variety of comics scholarship being produced, and attend a comics conference
- Think critically about comics as a medium, in terms of narratology, composition, and form
Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero Comics, Propaganda and Popular Culture in America During World War Two (New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press, 2011).
Articles & Book Chapters
"These are not our Promised Resurrections…" in Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition, ed. by Matt Green (Forthcoming 2011, Manchester University Press).
"Denise Mina's Hellblazer and the Triumph of Scottish Schadenfreude", in Gothic Studies, Special Issue in Contemporary Scottish Gothic, ed. by Monica Germana (Forthcoming 2011, Manchester University Press).
"The Pleasures of Persuasion: Comics and Propaganda", in Critical Approaches to Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. by Matthew Smith and Randy Duncan (Forthcoming 2011, Routledge).
"Signals from Airstrip One: The British Invasion of American Mainstream Comics" in The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and their Contexts ed. by Paul Williams and James Lyon (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2010), pp.31-45 (ISBN: 978-1-60473-792-9).
"Islands of Memory: The Science Fiction Films of Andrei Tarkovsky", in Alienation and Resistance ed. by Gordon Spark, Laura Findlay, Pauline MacPherson and Andrew Wood (Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2010), pp.96-114 (ISBN (10): 1-4438-1964-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1964-0).
"Subverting the Sublime: Romantic Ideology in the Comics of Grant Morrison" in Sub/versions: Genre, Cultural Status and Critique , edited by Pauline MacPherson, Christopher Murray, Gordon Spark and Kevin Corstorphine ( Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp.34-51 (ISBN (10): 1-84718-372-7, ISBN (13): 9781847183729).
"Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!: A Comics Conference in Dundee", in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 10:1 (2008)
"Thur's a Man wi a Big Chin an' a Dug in Thon City Centre: The Importance of Dundee 's Comics", in The Scottish Society for Art History Journal, Special Dundee Issue, ed. by Matthew Jarron (November 2006)
"Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and The British Small Press", in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 7:2 (2005)
"My Mouth is Quiet But My Mind is Noisy: The Work of John Watson", with Joyce Walker and Douglas Webster, in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 5:2 (2003)
"Superman vs Imago: Superheroes, Lacan and Mediated Identity", in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 4:2 (2002)
"Rhetoric and Response: Superheroes and World War Two", in Comics and Culture, ed. by Anne Magnussen and Hans Christian Christiansen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000).
Online Publications
"Holy Hypertexts! - The Pose of Post-modernity in Comics and Graphic Novels of the 1980s", in Reflections on Creativity, ed. by H van Koten (Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College, 2007) [ISBN: 1 899837 56 6]
Debating the Difference: Essays on Gender, Representation and Self-Representation, ed. by Christopher Murray, Keith Williams, Rachel Jones and Hamid Van Koten (Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College, 2010)
Encyclopedia Entries
Entry on Comics Theory for Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Cultural Theory, ed. by M. Keith Booker.
Entry on Comics and Graphic Novels for Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Various entries on comics for Greenwood's Encyclopedia of Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. by M. Keith Booker.
Entry on Film Theory, with Brian Hoyle for Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Cultural Theory, ed. by M. Keith Booker.
"Comics and Culture Conference", in Comics Forum (London: Comics Creator's Guild, 1999)
Selected TV and Podcast Appearances
- "Sexism and Propaganda in Wartime Comics", Woman's Hour (2 August 2011)
- "Panel Culture: The Changing Landscape of Comics", MaekstarProductions (2011)
- "Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes", ArtWorks Scotland, BBC (11 Jul 2011)
News and Online Articles
News and Online Articles
- Interview with Chris Murray: "Treating Comics Seriously - Six Questions for Dr Chris Murray", downthetubes.net (22 October 2011)
- Review of Comics Day 2011, downthetubes.net (5 November 2011)
- Café Arts talk on DC Thomson Comics at McManus Galleries, Dundee (11 December 2010)
- Review of Comics Day 2010, downthetubes.net (2 May 2010)
- Review of Comics Day 2009, downthetubes.net (1 July 2009)
- Review of Comics Day 2008, downthetubes.net (24 June 2008)
- Review of Comics Day 2008, metaphrog blog (24 June 2008)
- "Having a laugh", BBC Radio Wales (21 August 2007)
- Malvern, Jack, "The new adventures of Dennis the Menace, direct to your mobile", Times Online (20 August 2007)
- Jamieson, Alastair, "It's time to take cartoon capers seriously ... even academically", The Scotsman (26 May 2007)
- "Capers at comics conference", The Courier (26 May 2007)
- "Jings! Comic lovers come to city", BBC News (25 May 2007)
- "Six Cities Design Festival", The List, 575 (8 May 2007)
- Hainey, Raymond, "Bash Street School gets its first new pupil for 50 years", The Scotsman (28 April 2007)
- "City hosts major comic conference", BBC News (23 April 2007)
- Dalgarno, Paul, "Wonder Woman helps launch pioneering research centre", The Sunday Herald (26 March 2006)
- Tavares, Marcus, "Spider-Man: A good model for kids?", Rio Media


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The Turks take food seriously and no trip to Turkey would be complete without a visit to some of the many glorious restaurants on offer. From fine dining looking over the Bosphorus to borek in Bodrum, meze in Antalya to fresh fish in Fethiye, the choice of food and restaurants in Turkey is endless and suited to all tastes and budgets.
Many assume traditional Turkish food is spicy – Turkey being known as the spice capital, but you may be surprised. Turks don't tend to use too much chilli, not in the way the Indians, Thais and Mexicans do. They tend to stick with pul biber (red pepper flakes) and the odd few pickled or grilled peppers with their kebabs and toasties. The majority of the local food isn't that spicy, just simply tasty, seasoned well with undertones of tomato, onions, garlic, cumin and parsley. Turks everyday food tends to be a healthy affair of vegetable, lamb or chicken guvec (stew), fresh or dried bean dishes (fasulye), BBQ fish, kebabs or kofte (meatballs), pastry dishes, salads and meze (similar to tapas). Everyday Turkish food relies heavily on what is cheap and in season in the local markets. Take a trip to any vegetable market to see the Turkish women all perusing the produce, haggling over the price of peppers and buying fresh vegetables by the kilo. A trip to a lokanta (local restaurant), or an invite to a family home for dinner, generally results in an impressive spread of dishes served up with bulgur, rice, salad and bread. Turks also like their sweets and puddings. Larger supermarkets sell a good array of baklava, cakes and biscuits and fresh fruit and yogurt seems to be a staple with breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Fancy traditional dishes are normally found in restaurants. Fabulous clay pot stews and slowly cooked lamb and meat dishes (tandir) are particular favourites, as is seafood served simply with salad, fresh bread and the all important raki.
International Food in Turkey
Turkeys unique location between Asia and the Middle East has meant that its cuisine has been influenced by many flavours for centuries. For years Istanbul and the larger Turkish cities have been known for their fusion food and wonderful international restaurants. Many resorts have followed suit but it can't be denied that UK and European tourism has certainly made its impact. English breakfasts, shepherds pie and English fish, chips and mushy peas can now be found in most places alongside Chinese, Italian and Indian restaurants. Some may say this is a shame or too commercial as the traditional food on offer is fabulous but, let's face it, there are certainly occasions when a little home comfort cooking is a good thing!
For a better overview on restaurants in Turkey why not talk to those in the area in our Turkey Expat Forum, you can even see a list of our very own Turkish Food Recipes, or see our region guides:
Restaurants in Istanbul or our Istanbul Guide
Restaurants in Fethiye or our Fethiye Guide
Restaurants in Antalya or our Antalya Guide
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November 1, 2007, 7:01 AM
By Scott Raab
Michael Edwards
If Mrs. K's analysis sounds unreal -- starry-eyed and wishful unto raving -- I still prefer it to the cynicism of clubby assclowns like Blitzer. But I try, while at Saint Anselm, to glean the wisdom of CNN's correspondent Candy Crowley, whose considerable girth is matched only by her plus-sized brain. I find her a few hours before the debate, standing by the arena in a misting rain, waiting for a golf cart to come lug her up the path to the Media Center.
I ask Candy if she can foresee a scenario whereby Kucinich gains enough traction....
"Dennis serves a very useful purpose for a certain brand of Democrat," she says. "He pushes the other candidates -- "
Uh-oh. Candy has spotted a CNN intern and rumbles over to accost her.
"I don't want to be a bitch," she snarls, "but I've been waiting here an hour and a half for a cart."
I don't have the heart to tell her Blitzer zipped by earlier in a rickshaw pulled by a squadron of Saint Anselm cheerleaders.
Later, I phone MSNBC's Philly Phoghorn, Chris Matthews, for some Dennis-traction-scenario insight. Matthews knows things. He wrote speeches for Jimmy Carter. He clipped Tip O'Neill's cigar tips. He once ran for a House seat and lost. Four years ago, he dismissed Kucinich as a twit. Now, he's not so sure.
"He may have found his time," says Matthews. "He has to decide if he wants to ride the trail all the way to the end. There will be a tremendous prize -- a trophy for the person who's willing to stay in the race and debate Hillary from February to the end of the route. There is an incentive to still be in the race, just to have a lottery ticket in case something happens. Whoever's got the ticket -- if Hillary has a problem, and we can all imagine that -- " I chuckle, imagining Bill wandering that lonely trail.
"You're laughing," Matthews says, "and I know it, too -- it's the obvious imaginable problem, which we've had before. But anything can happen -- and whoever's out there on the stump and still active as a candidate might be able to be the Cinderella candidate."
Dennis Kucinich's home has no number anywhere to indicate its address -- a leftover precaution from his days as mayor, when he had the $25,000 bull's-eye on his back -- but you can't miss it: It's the only house on its lower-middle-class West Side street painted a strange shade of blue -- cornflower? Periwinkle?
"This is the color you get when you mix red, white, and blue," Kucinich explains. "We were painting it on 9/11. We're painting it again."
Elizabeth calls down from upstairs, "We're going to paint it white."
"I was elected to city council from this house," Kucinich says. "Clerk of courts. Mayor. State senator, congressman. My brother and his family lived in this house. My mom lived in this house. This is kind of a family homestead here."
It is a small house -- eighteen hundred square feet, tops. If you could find a buyer for it -- this street and the streets nearby have plenty of FOR SALE signs planted on the lawns -- you'd ask maybe seventy grand, and be happy to settle for sixty-five.
"It's a nice neighborhood," Kucinich says. "The neighbor to the right's a mechanic. Across the street's a mechanic. The fella just sold his home -- his mom went into a nursing home. The people are nice. It's a nice feel."
It's a summer Sunday morning, quiet and slow. The curtains are pulled back on the living-room bay window. The couch and chair are covered with old bedspreads. Someone's crooning "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" from a small boom box playing softly on a low table near the window. Kucinich is right: It's nice.
He isn't sure.
"This is a compilation tape that Willie Nelson left," Elizabeth calls down.
Once upon a brief time, the Boy Mayor was as famous as any country singer. Tom Snyder did a whole Tomorrow show sitting in Tony's Diner with Kucinich, back when the Tomorrow show followed Johnny Carson on NBC, and Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers, the PBS Logorrhea Duet, still had straw between their teeth. Playboy ran its Kucinich Interview in its 1979 "Playmate of the Year" issue. He was the Man.
When Cleveland spit him out -- Kucinich lost his reelection bid by more than twenty thousand votes -- Hollywood took him in, in the person of Shirley MacLaine. They met at Elaine's, in New York City, a couple of weeks after the election. Kucinich walks into the place with Jerry Brown; Shirley's at the table behind theirs, with Bella Abzug -- and boom!
"There was a recognition that went beyond the connection of the news or celebrity," Dennis says now. "We closed down the place -- and when we left, we agreed we'd talk the next day. And it started a conversation that continues to this day. Shirley introduced me to a whole different range of people, some of the biggest names, not just in show business, but in the arts, in literature, all kinds of things. She just literally opened the world to me." Hence Willie, I guess.
It would be easier to make fun of this -- hell, it would be fucking irresistible -- if not for a few fairly simple truths that go deeper than where Dennis Kucinich stands on health care, Iraq, and the verities of soul recognition.
Truth number one is what happened to Kucinich after he lost the mayor's office. Nobody in Cleveland would hire him. Nobody. Ten years in city government, a master's from Case Western Reserve, and he couldn't find a job. At first there were offers, says Kucinich, but those offers all were rescinded -- "the business establishment effectively blackballed me," he explains -- and to make his mortgage, he had to cash in on his pension. When that was gone, he borrowed money from MacLaine to save his home.
To save his home -- that's truth number two. Let me tell you something truly ugly about Cleveland, a city I will love with all my heart until I die: It eats its own. It has, over the last forty years, so deeply internalized the worst aspects of its image -- as a joke, as a shithole, as a place that anyone with any means and half a hope will leave behind -- that the locals scorn anyone who hasn't fled as a loser. And for Kucinich, this contempt was multiplied by the furious humiliation of default. To this day, the only Cleveland mayor in its history whose portrait doesn't hang in city hall is Dennis.
Still, Dennis Kucinich clung to this homestead. And in 1993, the city announced a $146 million expansion of Muny Light, and the Plain Dealer reported that he'd been right all along. Right about scotching the 1978 sale. Right about the banks and the private utility company. Right about the city's long-term fiscal health. Kucinich was on the beach at Shirley's place in Malibu when the PD reporter called, but he had this home to come home to, and so he did. He came home, to Cleveland.
But the deepest truth of all is also the most simple and most plain: The mark of the boy's poverty etched into the man's face. It isn't any sort of metaphor. It isn't shame and it isn't anger and it isn't hunger and it isn't need. It's all of those -- and more: the fire to make things right for those who truly suffer -- and it isn't going away.
No pity -- it's a matter of respect and gratitude. Whatever helped to make that boy grow up into this man, making fun of it means only that you never knew a kid as poor as this guy was -- and that you're too bereft of soul yourself to count your own blessings.
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Irish Cream Mini Cheesecakes
Good morning and welcome to the Irish Cream Spiked! Recipe Challenge reveal day. Carrie and I cannot wait to see what you created with Irish Cream! Carrie posted her recipe on Saturday. You can see her delicious Irish Coffee French Toast Casserole recipe here. You can link your recipes up below. Please be sure to include a Spiked! Button in your post. You can grab the button from my sidebar.
What did I decide to make? Well, if you read the title of this post, then you already know. But just in case you missed the title of the post, I'll tell ya right here..I made Irish Cream Mini Cheesecakes with an Irish Cream Chocolate Sauce!
Now these cheesecakes aren't the muffin size mini cheesecakes. I was actually able to find a 3 pack of 4 inch spring-form pans at Target so I snagged those babies up because they were perfect for my recipe and I had wanted to buy some of them for a while. I made 3 4 inch mini cheesecakes and had enough batter left to make 3 muffin sized cheesecakes. This recipe would make 4 of the 4 inch pans but unfortunately, I only had 3. I hope you enjoy this recipe!
- 1 C graham cracker crumbs
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp melted butter
- 3 tbsp white sugar
- 3 eggs room temp
- 3 8oz packages of cream cheese, softened
- ¼ C Irish Cream
- ¼ C sour cream
- ¾ C white sugar
- ¼ tsp vanilla
- ¾ C semi sweet chocolate chips
- ½ C Irish cream
- To make the crust, combine the graham crackers, cocoa powder, melted butter and 3 tbsp of white sugar. Press into the spring form pans (and muffin cups, if you have leftovers)
- To make the filling, beat together the cream cheese and ¾ C sugar. Add the vanilla and beat in the eggs, one at a time. Then beat in the sour cream and mix in the Irish cream.
- Pour the filling into the spring form pans (and muffin pans, if you have leftovers) and smooth the top with the bottom of a spoon.
- Bake at 300 for 40-45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the chocolate sauce. In a sauce pan, bring ½ C Irish Cream to a boil. Add the chocolate chips and whisk together until melted and smooth. This will be a thick sauce.
- All the cheesecakes to cool on a wire rack and then refrigerate overnight before serving.
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Stockholm Star: Step 11: Measure, mark, and trim
I'm going to have to do this on the floor. I have a pair of cool laser levels that will help me mark my trimming line. I'll start by measuring from the center to the shortest point on the side, in all four directions. 25", 25", 24 ½", 24 ½". Darn. OK. It's [Read More]
News from the big apple
This morning I had an email from Dale Riehl. TQL readers might recognize his name from an article in the June 2011 issue, "Quilt shop to the world." Dale and his wife, Cathy Izzo, are the proprietors of The City Quilter, a New York City quilt shop with such a vast [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 10: The final seam
Thanks to the careful matching I did when I joined the sections (and also pressing the seams open – you can really see what you're doing) I hit that center point dead on the first time. Woo hoo! I'll block the quilt on my design wall before I trim it. You might wonder [Read More]
Salvaging the selvage
We quilters hate to throw anything away. Am I the only one who remembers cutting the legs off old pantyhose and saving them, just in case I might someday need to stuff something, like a biscuit quilt? I even once heard about a quilter who had a big box labeled "scraps too [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 9: Joining the sections and blocking
Joining the sections is the same as joining rows, but this time I mark the sewing line on both sides. What I'm really concerned about is getting the points matched in the center. After all, you're watching! Once I have half of the quilt assembled (only three seams! Why [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 8: On the design wall
Here's a fun way to watch a quilt grow…Jan Magee, The Quilt Life This free digital slideshow personalized with Smilebox [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 7: Joining the rows
Joining the diamonds into rows is easy. Joining the rows so the points match perfectly is easy, too, if you just take a little extra time. First, determine which row will be on top when you join it to the section. With a ruler and a pencil, mark the sewing line, ¼" [Read More]
You've got to see this.
We always get a kick out of seeing a quilted car. You might even know (or be part of) a group of quilters who have managed to piece their orphan blocks into a quilted tea cozy for a Mini or VW bug, and they drive it on special occasions. I'm sure that day [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 5: Ready to start sewing
Confession time. Just in case you thought a quilt mag editor has all the latest and greatest new gadgets in her studio, here's one of my secrets. Yes, I do have a lovely board that's 14 inches square, covered with sandpaper, for arranging the patches for a block and [Read More]
Stockholm Star: Step 4: Cutting, finally
Admittedly, templates are old school. But for this quilt, it's the way to go. I speed up the cutting process a little by first rotary cutting 3" strips. Then I mark around the template, rotary cut along the straight lines, and use a sharp new scissors to snip the [Read More]


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New Mixtape: Don Cannon & Set Free "Your City My City Vol. 1"
When two of the hip-hop industry's major factors of main stay brands come together to make some new magic, you have to take the time to check it and rock. Marketing, promotion and content creation is Set Free's lane and mixtapes, beats and tearing down parties around the world is DJ Don Cannon's forte. As a unit, the duo created the Your City My City brand/site to serve those that need to be hipped to the latest music and fashion lifestyle that peaks their interest. Starting with the mixtape's Vol. 1 edition, you'll find all of the hits that need to fit in your daily playlist. Bop to Set's and Don's curated song selection and realize why you can't do what they do. Download the project on Livemixtapes or visit the YCMC website and get the full flavor direct from the fellas.
Bonus: "BTS of the mixtape series: Your City My City Vol. 1—hosted by legendary AND1 Mixtape creator, Set Free, and the mixtape circuit's number one co-signer, DJ Don Cannon. When it comes to music and fashion, this duo is no rookie to the game."


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Carrick sure this is a hiccup
MICHAEL CARRICK says there has been endless soul-searching at Old Trafford this season.
A slip from the summit of the English game to seventh is as bad as it has been for the club in nearly quarter of a century.
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In the early Christian church, the "agape meal" was considered a witness to the band of Christian unity, according to a church spokesman.
Rich and poor, widows and orphans, ordinary people, master and slave met together as equals to share a common meal.
A Czech reformer named John Hus led a protest movement against the Roman Catholic Church in 1415. He was accused of heresy and burned at the stake.
Hus' followers formed the Unity of Brethren in 1457. The church promoted "the Scriptures" and further spread the movement. Despite persecution, the movement grew.
In the 1770s, the Moravian Church found renewal with the help of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a Saxony nobleman. The count encouraged the Unity of Brethren to "take the gospel to the far corners of the globe."
The Moravians had three purposes: One they were devoted to mission work among the Native Americans; second they wanted to spread their faith among the colonies and thirdly they were devoted to a system of common work to support their missionary interests.
In 1735, the Moravians came to America as part of Gen. Oglethorpe's venture in Georgia. The first settlement in Georgia was short-lived, however, the group was able to establish a settlement in Pennsylvania.
The Moravians founded the small colony of Salem, meaning peace, and dedicated to "God and our service to fellow men."
While the Moravian way of life was structured and discipline, it was also peaceful. While some settlers were farmers, Salem was a center for crafts and trades as a way of supporting the church's mission.
This focus on community provided by Salem's craftspeople created a constant and shared motivation. They flourished, transforming the simple missionary settlement into a center for crafts.
Salem produced America's first symphony orchestras and first composers. Music was a vital part of the Moravian religious and social life and the same motivation drove the musicians and the craftspeople.
The worship service Dec. 9 will be a "festival of worship during the Advent and a tribute to a group of early Americans who devoted their lives to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a tradition celebrated in the Moravian Church and which has been a part of the First Presbyterian Church for 36 years," a representative noted.
"It is a celebration of worship that reminds us yet again of the grave and mercy found in the Christ child, Jesus, our Lord and Savior," he said.
The public is invited to attend this special service.


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- Breed: Boxer/Brittany Mix
- Color: Red/Golden/Orange/Chestnut - With White
- Age: Young
- Size: Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)
- Sex: Male
Yogi's Info...
I am already neutered, housetrained, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and not good with cats.
This is Yogi. Yogi came to us about a year ago and was adopted as a pup. His family doesn't feel they can give him the love, attention and training he needs. Yogi would do well in a family with children and other dogs. He would love to have a fenced in back yard. If you would like to adopt Yogi please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Why Adoption is a Great Option
Yogi, a Garden City Boxer/Brittany dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Boxer/Brittany for sale in Garden City, or seeking a Boxer/Brittany dog from a breeder in Garden City.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Garden City already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Garden City breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Boxer/Brittany breeders who help with Boxer/Brittany rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Garden City paves the way for another one to be saved.


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3 Beauty Cures for When You're Feeling Like a Hot Mess
You know those days you wake up and don't even know where to start? So you don't even try, and then you feel worse as the day wears on? I was having one of those… but fortunately, my job involves meeting with and interviewing makeup artists on a daily basis.
So today, when I ran into Yadim, Maybelline's global makeup artist, I figured I had my golden opportunity to turn things around. I asked where to begin when it seems like a bag over the head is the only solution. It turns out it's quite simple:
• To treat puffy eyes (a tell-tale sign of hot messedness), run two green tea bags under hot (not boiling!) water, and place over eyes for ten seconds. Then run bags under very cold water and do the same. "It tightens the skin and makes the bags look less noticeable," says Yadim.
• Curl your lashes. Even if you don't follow with mascara, this will give you an instantly more alert and with-it look. (For lasting results, heat the curler with a hair dryer, then clamp it near base of lashes and pump it as you move it out toward tips.)
• Add cream cheek color (or blend a few dots of rosy lipstick into cheeks). Eye makeup and lip color give you "a look," but blush perks up your whole face. It's a bang-for-the-makeup-buck thing.
Bonus pick-me-up tip from me: Take a selfie of yourself with something or someone you love. Whether you post it for public praise (your friends will always like it) or just come back to it throughout the day, it'll remind you that you've actually really got it going on.


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Beastie Boys 'Paul's Boutique' Broke Ground w/ Country Influence
Today we learned of the death of Adam Yauch, aka "MCA" from the hip-hop and hardcore punk group The Beastie Boys. You may wonder why such news would be germane on a country music website, but 25 years after the release of The Beastie Boys commercial blockbuster album License To Ill, country music is attempting to fight off an incursion of the most awful, ill-advised, and poorly-executed attempts to bridge country and hip-hop influences into something called "country rap".
In my Survival Guide to Country Rap, I pointed out many reasons why the fusion of country and rap rarely works, and how it can be harmful to the health of both genres by killing contrast and aiding the formation of one popular mono-genre of American music. But I also left open the idea that at times, when approached with respect and understanding, the two polar genres of country and rap could be bridged successfully.
Today many people will be pouring their brass monkey's while listening to License to Ill, but it was not The Beastie Boys 1986 blockbuster that had the most influence in music, it was their 1989 follow up Paul's Boutique that is considered their magum opus. Along with albums such as Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger and The Sex Pistols' Nevermind The Bullocks, I and other music critics would put Paul's Boutique up there as one of the most influential albums in all of music, for all time.
The reason for this is because Paul's Boutique created many of the trends that continue to be alive in popular music today, the biggest being the use of sampling in songs. Though many music listeners, especially country music listeners may see this practice as cheating, this was a completely inventive approach at the time, and a way to make old-school-sounding music in a music world The Beastie Boys had difficulty relating to. The Beastie Boys were the old-school pioneers of the late 80′s, similar to the neo-traditionalists of country today. Feeling an inferiority with present day sounds, they borrowed from the past to create feeling and nostalgia through their music. The Beastie Boys were embarrassed of being labeled one hit wonders and hacks, and wanted to assert their creative influence on the music world.
Where the country world comes in is in the heavy-handed and stark use of country and Southern influences in Paul's Boutique. In many ways, country and Southern sounds and themes are the foundation for the album. The problem with Paul's Boutique was that it was not very popular in its time, and was considered a flop compared to License to Ill.
The most important mark of the project on popular culture was how it interjected violent themes into rap music. At the time, "Word To Your Mother!" was about as violent as rap got, while Johnny Cash had been serenading prisons about killing a man just to watch him die for 35 years. The Beastie Boys and Paul's Boutique took stark country and western themes and lyric modes and set them to hip hop beats built in many cases from Southern sounds and artists. Many people credit Paul's Boutique as being the formation of "gangster rap", and country music themes may be just as much to blame for this as The Beastie Boys and The Dust Brothers who DJ'd the album.
Paul's Boutique's Country & Southern Foundations
"5-Piece Chicken Dinner" is the most obvious example, a simple fiddle and banjo riff put in the album to be completely ironic, but at the same times speaks to an appeal for country music that runs like a vein through the most influential hip-hop album of all time.
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"Looking Down The Barrel of a Gun" borrows from the Southern rock anthem "Mississippi Queen" from another from another New York band called Mountain, though most of the track is played live by Adam Yauch (MCA) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock). This song is the best example of the violent influences of country mingling with hip-hop beats into what would become "gangster rap".
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"Johnny Ryall" is another storytelling song about a "rockabilly Star from the days of old" who "got a platinum voice but only gold records" who now is a homeless bum living on the streets of New York. This song that also references Bob Dylan's song "Maggie's Farm". The amazing thing about "Johnny Ryall" is how closely it mirrors the tragedy songs written about Nashville's forgotten stars and songwriters, songs like "Murder On Music Row" that wasn't released until a decade later. As much of the song seems to be centered around making fun of a homeless man, the underlying message is of a forgotten rockabilly great who never was given his due.
Whole album is below, "Johnny Ryall" starts at the 4:48.
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Paul's Boutique is an example of where country elements can be integrated with hip-hop successfully, but it also teaches us the lesson of why in the end there is no country rap, there's only country, and hip hop. At the very beginning of the formation of hip hop, of which Paul's Boutique is an essential element of, it became a genre of music that borrowed from other genres, like the country elements in Paul's Boutique.
Nobody would argue that Paul's Boutique is a country record, for the same reasons you can argue Colt Ford isn't country either: because as soon as you integrate hip-hop elements into country music, it ceases to be country and becomes hip hop. Hip-hop elements have no history, and no place in country music, while country music, just like every other music genre, went into forming hip hop. The lessons learned from Paul's Boutique prove this.
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Two guns up for Paul's Boutique.
RIP Adam Yauch, aka (MCA)
(Fellow Beastie boy Mike D also has an alter ego "Country Mike", and recorded an album "Country Mikes Greatest Hits" for friends and family in 2000).
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The Timing Is Good For Alabama Shakes' "Boys & Girls"
The current landscape of hip American music is like a lyric out of a classic Bob Dylan song about the changing times. Old is new, and nerdy is cool. It is in this environment that the Alabama Shakes have flourished like the imperceptible germs on the tips of your fingers when rubbed into a Petri dish and left to fester. A style that notched a bullseye smack dab in the middle of the wave of current popular appeal without sacrificing artistic purpose is the reason The Alabama Shakes are becoming an American music success story we can actually be proud of for once.
This rootsy, soulful rock band is bound together by the force known as Brittany Howard, part Janis Joplin, part Kimya Dawson, both poetic, and fanatically possessed. Whenever I think of the true embodiment of the word "soul" I think of an old black woman. Whether it's an old black female singer, or young white male guitar player, if they truly want to have soul, they must have an old black woman trapped inside of them somewhere, with 1,000 injustices fighting back tears in world-torn eyes, and infinite wisdom bred from bad choices by the self and others. Soul is anger only semi-controlled, and that is what Brittany Howard has. ("I'll fight the planet!" she proclaims in the song "Heartbreaker". )
This is backed up by the rest of The Shakes, a solid group of musicians who know how to flesh out the vintage vibe Brittany's original compositions are written to convey. This is a very youthful, energetic-sounding album, which is refreshing to hear coming from roots circles that generally are dominated by post-punk or indie rock-converted 30-somethings studying under gray-haired alt-country elders. The Alabama Shakes sound only a few steps outside of the garage, and that's a great approach to hear with music that is textured to feel aged.
This their first full length album Boys & Girls has some fun moments and some rocking moments that really touch on a groove, and then some very deep, tearful moments. It is exquisitely arranged where Brittney is never buried by anything else going on, though even if the mix was imbalanced, it would still be impossible not to be drawn to her presence in the music. I guess you would call that magnetic. In such a shallow, simple-minded world, she would command a room full of magazine models. Brittney is bold; a power generator of a human earth being.
The best part about Boys & Girls is the promise you can hear in this music. Man, I love when you can hear promise, when you can enjoy how good the music is here and now, but also spy the branches where something even better will spring from.
There's nothing really country about The Alabama Shakes, though some country foundations are there if you listen deep. And with their soul and roots sound, you could slip them between a Wayne "The Train" Hancock and Scott H. Biram on a bill and nary an eyelash would be batted. Maybe a guilty pleasure for some country fans, certainly a better music choice for the masses, we shall see what fate awaits The Alabama Shakes as the fickle winds of style and appeal blow back and forth in the American conscious. We will also see if any band or scene or style is big enough to contain Brittany Howard, or if she will burn too bright to sustain.
The Alabama Shakes are not for everyone, but I struggle to find a wart to point at.
Two guns up!
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June 26, 2012
Mobility and the large file sizes that accompany camera-equipped devices will see one-third of consumers' digital content stored in cloud environments, according to Gartner. While just 7 percent of consumer data was stored in the cloud in 2011, the research company believes that the percentage will increase more than five times, to 36 percent, by 2016.
Gartner believes that the pace of cloud adoption quickened after October 2011 floods in Thailand reduced the manufacturing capacity of many companies that produce traditional hard disk drives (HDD). InfoWorld reported at the time that nearly 25 percent of the world's HDD manufacturing was knocked out with the floods. Even as production is back to normal, prices remain elevated by as much as 70 percent, according to InfoWorld.
Drive for mobility
Floods weren't the only factor in increased cloud storage, as many consumers are making the move improve mobility, some eschewing traditional computers for tablets and smartphones. With the average household's storage needs growing from 464 gigabytes to 3.3 terabytes by 2016, according to Gartner, the need for cloud storage became more marked.
"Historically, consumers have generally stored content on their PCs, but as we enter the post-PC era, consumers are using multiple connected devices, the majority of which are connected with cameras," Gartner research analyst Shalini Verma said. "This is leading to a massive increase in new user-generated content that requires storage."
Data location
Data volume is growing across the business landscape as well, necessitating greater use of cloud storage in many companies. Despite some organizations showing concern over cloud security, 74 percent of companies do not have a tracking process for files placed on a third-party cloud, according to a study from a data governance company. Partly because of this, 67 percent of those in senior management were unaware where the company's data resides.
Only 9 percent of companies had a cloud authentication process in place to authorize access, with 23 percent claiming such a plan is still in development. Because the data is generally less important than some company information, personal cloud security is not often required to be at the same level as that of enterprise systems, though the move to mobile is just a much of an issue. Fifty-seven percent of respondents in the data governance company's study are looking for a bring-your-own-device policy to include secure, internal file sharing.
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I have a garden plot thru our park district for the first time this year. This is a volunteer plant that I just let grow up the fencing. Can anyone tell me what it is, and what it should look like when I harvest it?
This one is already 2 1/2 feet long and there's lots more on there.... I've included a picture of the white blossom also. It's vining about 6 feet or so.... |
Here is a link that might be useful: mystery squash
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- Posted by missingtheobvious Blue Ridge 7a (My Page) on Fri, Aug 19, 11 at 23:21
What a wonderful surprise for you, isewnbake! And how clever of that seed to sprout where it could grow up the fence and not be in the way. Snapfish won't let me see more than one thumbnail unless I join. However, the mention of a white blossom means you have some sort of Lagenaria siceraria; they are the type of gourds known as hardshell gourds. (Some other gourds belong to a different species, Cucurbita pepo, where you will also find cucumbers, acorn squash, field pumpkins, etc.) The Lagenaria siceraria gourds bloom at night and are pollinated by moths (including the moths that become tomato hornworms, so watch out if you're growing tomatoes in your plot). Their origin is Africa and Madagascar, though they spread to India, Europe, and parts of the Americas many hundreds or thousands of years ago. The long snakey gourd in the photo could be -- guess what? -- a snake gourd! They're edible when young. It might also be a club gourd (AFAIK not edible) or a zucca melon (edible). I believe there are other edible gourds with that shape which are not well-known in the West. But mind you, I am not promising yours is edible. Some info about hardshell gourds, when to harvest them, and what to do after that: Be sure and save seeds. |
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Being Sad Can Cost You
The classic carol claims that "it's the most wonderful time of the year." But for some, the holidays are a time of melanholly, a.k.a. the holiday-season blues (as dubbed by last week's issue of the New York Times magazine). And those moody feelings could end up costing you more than a gift-buying spree at the mall.
New data from Harvard and Columbia University has found that feelings of sadness can cause you significant financial loss. Participants in a recent study that watched a video which induced feelings of unhappiness and impatience made financial decisions that earned more money in the short-term—but then had smaller, overall gains over a longer three-month period of time. Researchers concluded that depressed feelings can cause people to seek instant gratification with their spending and investments.
The next time I'm feeling down, I'm going to keep this in mind and make sure that I reach for a cookie or turn on some mood-boosting music—instead of reaching for my wallet.


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So I decided to get an account on here, because I've sort of fallen out of touch with the online LGBT community, or whatever you wanna call it. It might help me to be able to blog about random shit in my life. I used to have a blog, but then I just got too busy for it and got out of the habit.
So, hi. I'm Antithesis. I was going to put my real first name, but then I decided that was a bad idea on the Internet. Music speaks to me like nothing else has, and I think it would be awesome if I were able to make a living off of it when I'm older. I'm sixteen and play the guitar. I've played my guitar for two or three hours collectively today, so my fingers hurt. If it weren't for that fact, I would still be messing around on it right now.
I tend to play rock and metal, but I want to learn jazz and/or classical, because those are the only genres colleges in my state will give you a degree in. Oh, and I play guitar in marching band at my school. Because I'm awesome like that. Yeah.
For some reason, I found myself listening to Adam Lambert a few minutes ago. He's really catchy, somehow. And is probably into S&M, given the implications of the lyrics to "For Your Entertainment."
Oh, here's the part y'all probably care about most, considering this is an LGBT site. I'm bi, at the moment. I've fluctuated from straight to gay to what I consider myself to be now, bisexual with a strong preference for girls. Physically, I prefer girls, because boobs rock. But I tend to identify with guys more, for some reason. (I'm a girl, BTW.)
I have a boyfriend! (This fact makes me happy.) He and I have been going out for six months now. (This also makes me happy.) He's pretty damn amazing, and I don't really know how to describe how much he means to me without sounding overly sappy, which I try to avoid. Except in conversation with him for some reason. He brings out the sappy in me.
I think I've been rambling long enough. Comment away, guys! If you care enough to, anyway.


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The city of Matera has two levels: the upper, modern part, with its fancy boutiques and wineshop selling the increasingly popular wine of the region, Aglianico del Vulture; and the lower level—the sassi—in two pits near the edge of town, where we would be staying. Down, down we drove, into the sassi, in search of our hotel, Locanda di San Martino, which the proprietor had claimed would be easy to find.
But the sassi all looked alike at first glance: off-white and chalky, with dark, carved-out windows. They resembled the homes you might see on a Greek island—but without the blue water. Within seconds, Lisa and I were completely lost, like a pair of sorry Minoan heroes in the Labyrinth of Knossos.
The roofs of several of the sassi were the sidewalks of the next level, the steps worn low and shiny from centuries of foot traffic. I wondered whether Great-great-grandma Vita's feet—when she was running from the authorities—had helped erode the path we were now taking.
We found our hotel, finally, with the help of a man on a moped, and over the next several days made our way around by means of trial and error. Day after day, Lisa and I scaled the steep sassi steps, drinking in the churchlike serenity, each cave chimney like a tiny bell tower made of pocked tufa stone.
When the monks left these caves centuries ago, the Italians moved in, sharing the space with their donkeys and chickens and the painted Madonnas. But long before the monks and Materans, there were Paleolithic and Neolithic cavemen wandering in search of shelter from the weather and the immensity of the heavens above. My ancestors, no doubt.
There weren't any trees in this inhospitable ground, but nature found its way of intruding. Plants grew out of ancient sewer grates. Purple flowers tumbled down crumbling walls.
Back in the 1940's, Carlo Levi described this place in his memoir, Christ Stopped at Eboli. But the picture was not enchanting. Levi, a physician, writer, and painter exiled here by the Fascists, depicted Basilicata (then Luciana) as a forgotten land, invaded, then abandoned time after time, by those just passing through: the Greeks and Romans, Goths, Lombards, Saracens, Normans, Swabians, and Bourbon kings.
In Levi's day, malarial children, their eyes swollen from trachoma, sat on the sassi steps begging for quinine. Levi compared the sassi to "a schoolboy's idea of Dante's Inferno"—a hellish place where no one should live, never mind vacation. Because of Levi's book, the sassi came to be known as La Vergogna d'Italia, the Shame of Italy. Out of embarrassment, as well as for health reasons, the Italian government began evacuating the sassi in the 1950's.
But things have changed. Over the past decade, the sons and daughters of those who were forced out have started moving back. And for the first time, tourists from Italy and the rest of the world are coming, joining me on the long list of Basilicata's invaders.
Though I would have been happy to hibernate in our cave hotel for the week, Lisa and I ventured out into the villages of the province. We traveled south, past Badlands-like gorges, to Pisticci—one of the places where Vita had lived—a shepherd's town with green hills and pastures, tiny white houses, and 13 churches, each prettier than the last.
With the help of a friend of a friend from New York City, we found a local café bearing my family name, Vena, which is my mother's maiden name. We interrogated the bartender (who knew nothing of the murder) and tasted the local drink, amaro lucano, a bitter made from wild roots and herbs. The family had invented this Basilicatan liqueur; I bought three bottles as souvenirs for my Vena uncles and moved on.
The next day, in the rain, we drove to Bernalda, Vita's hometown. On the way, we saw people crouched by the side of the road with baskets in their hands, looking for something. They seemed to be collecting small rocks. But the landscape was lousy with rocks. Houses were made of them. Churches were carved from them. Why would anyone collect them? I wondered. Especially in the rain.
In Bernalda, we visited the family of a man I had met in New York's Little Italy a few years earlier. As soon as we arrived, his mother and sisters hugged us and treated us like their own, offering to help me find an apartment for my upcoming summer visit and get me acquainted with the town. I asked Olga, the daughter who spoke the best English, why people were out collecting rocks by the side of the road.
"Those aren't rocks," she said, laughing. "Those are snails!" They would take them home, where they would cook them with mint to create a local delicacy, o vavalic po pulej.
Snails were not on Mama Rosaria's menu that night, but there were homemade pickled artichoke hearts, handmade orecchiette, and polpette, tiny meatballs that Olga's brothers liked to eat straight from the frying pan.
Olga introduced us to a friend who owns some property in the historic district of Bernalda, around the corner from the town's medieval castle. And it was here, on a cobblestoned street, that I found an apartment that was large and airy, with a balcony, tall wooden shutters, and old, tattered furniture, including one bed that seemed to be stuffed with small rocks. Or maybe they were snails.


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I think that Larry Elison summed it up nicely when he stated that Cloud computing is just, servers and the internet. Video is here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOEFXaWHppE Testing "Cloud" applications should be tested as though you would test any existing web application with a few added test cases to test the additional "Cloud" features, if you application has them: Dynamic scaling You would want to test that the application can dynamically scale up and down, with no loss of data and end user connectivity. Automated provisioning For apps that provision new services automatically when a new user signs up, you would want to test this process, as well as the reverse when a user leaves the service. Device Synchronisation If the service is like Dropbox, or iCloud, then there may be device to device synchronisation issues that need to be tested, particularly recovery situations when a sync is disrupted and incomplete and needs to be restarted. |
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I found this nice article by Matt Heusser which nicely sums up software testing in the cloud. Providing the link here to share with all those who are looking for some advice. In other words (a short summary): Cloud computing has made available two very useful technologies to the masses
This creates new opportunities for testers to test quickly and efficiently. The challenges would be test around the edges of these services. Some of things to look are
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1. Egress windows for a bedroom - it appears that it's "code" to require an egress window in a basement bedroom. Without a "walkout" or "daylight" basement, does anyone have ideas on how to make this a bit more attractive than the plastic half-circle that you usually see around the dug-out area? 2. Ceilings - acoustic or drywall? I realize drywall looks MUCH better, but then anytime you need to repair plumbing, electrical, cable, etc...it's a pain. Any suggestions? |
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- Posted by fnmroberts (My Page) on Tue, Jun 14, 11 at 7:43
1) I surmise by the "plastic, half-circle" to which you refer you are meaning a window well. The ones I see are generally galvanized steel and corrugated. I painted mine white on the inside to reflect better light. I've seen some actually built of stone which are really attractive. 2) Personally I like drywall because it just makes the space seem more like part of the house. Drywall can be easily repaired. Consider access panels for locations that you might need to open like heating dampers. Building code requires that all electrical junction boxes be accessible. When finishing our basement I installed 2x4's flat over the joists in order to bridge existing electrical/plumbing. This provides space to fish future cable. I also installed some vacant conduit to accommodate future electrical needs. The most useful suggestion I can offer is to draw a plan to scale. Place masking tape on the floor to imagine spaces. Consider lighting, plumbing, heating and features. Whether you are DIY'ing or obtaining a professional quote, a plan will assure you get what you want. I'm attaching a photo gallery of our basement. It was DIY'ed. Some of the photos have explanatory information below the picture. Good luck. |
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- Posted by hairmetal4ever (My Page) on Tue, Jun 14, 11 at 14:43
I also had the idea of putting PVC pipe along the length of a few of the studs as a "futureproof" way to fish extra wires and cables across the room as needed, with access boxes at strategic locations if I need to get in there to shoot something up to the main floor. |
- Posted by fnmroberts (My Page) on Wed, Jun 15, 11 at 7:05
A chaseway is a good idea. I would suggest separate ones for electrical vs. cable. High probability of electrical interferrence if they are too close to one another. |
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August 16, 2010, 7:00 AM
By Tom Junod
Sheila goes to the door of the white house in the green fields and walks outside. Don is still not home. She walks to the field across the street, a sea of corn seven feet tall. It moves in the hot breeze like water and she touches it. "Did Don like his job?" she asks. "I don't know. Does anyone like that job? I don't think I'd like that job."
She gets in the car and drives to the Dixie Dandy. Don would have walked. The Dixie Dandy is a grocery store combined with a gas station and a barbecue shack. It is the last big business in Newellton, and Don went there — wound up there — every day. Sheila drives, and when she gets there, she meets one of Don's brothers. He looks just like him, trim and contained, one of the remaining Clarks of Newellton. He explains that the Dixie Dandy is the last skin on Newellton's bones, the last thing that permits Newellton to call itself a town. "When it goes, it's all gone," he says, and when Sheila backs out of the parking lot, he calls to her: "Don't forget us."
"I wonder if Alonzo is home," Sheila says once she's back on the road. "I think I'll go see Alonzo." Alonzo is Alonzo Petty. He and his brother were the first Newellton men to work on the rigs and gave Don his application. He was on the Deepwater Horizon when Don died. After Don's memorial service in the gymnasium of Newellton's elementary school — the bodiless service of a cremated man — he came over to talk to Sheila, but he couldn't get the words out. He wanted to tell Sheila what happened, and Sheila wanted to know, because no one had told her. Transocean has never told any of the families what happened to their men. And BP has never contacted them to offer explanation or sympathy or apology. Sheila was desperate to know. But when Alonzo opened his mouth, no words came out.
Alonzo is home when Sheila gets there. He should be out on the rig, but his rig was the Deepwater Horizon. He went to Korea to see it being built. Now he is rigless, and he is mowing his lawn on a riding mower. He is wearing faded red Halliburton coveralls, the name NICK stitched on the breast, and a black skullcap. He is a wiry man with hollows in his face and a jet-black goatee. He gets off the mower and takes a seat against the garage, bringing his knees up and shooing his grandkids inside. "How you been doing, Sheila?" he asks.
She sits across from him, hunched over, hands folded between her knees, fingertips pointed to the ground. She's very quiet, and he looks at her now, slowly, his body untangling itself in his seat. "I hate it to death what happened to Don," he finally says. "I still hate it, because it could have been avoided. It was a bad hole. But it wasn't the worst hole. Anybody who says it was the worst hole just ain't been working offshore long enough. And it was finished. We were displacing it. Ain't no big deal, what we were doing. We displace holes in hurricanes. We had procedures for displacing holes. But they changed the procedures. They cut corners. Ain't no mystery what happened. They put everything on the cement job and it was a bad cement job. They started getting mud back out of the hole. That ain't supposed to happen. You ain't supposed to get nothing back. They should have shut down that hole then." He's looking at her now, with a transfixed and transfixing glare. "The first thing I asked the fellas when we got to the lifeboat was 'Where Don at? Where Don at?' I knew Don. I talked to Don every night out there. Nothing going to bring him back, Sheila. But you need to know it didn't have to happen. Now you got to look out for Number One. You know what I'm saying? You got to make them remember your name. You got to make them remember Don's name. You know what I'm saying, Sheila?"
"I know what you're saying," Sheila says quietly. "But why didn't you tell me this before?"
His face changes, as if he's been slapped. But he holds her eye. "Because after what happened out there," he says, "I couldn't even look at you."
The ocean is always there. They can smell it. During the day, it's blue, it's green, depending on its mood, and it shimmers with wonders: pods of dolphins and whales. Flashing schools of barracuda. Flying fish. Pelicans. At night, it's different: It's black, and its annihilating prospect merges with a sky robbed of stars by the rig's frantic light. The men don't look at the ocean at night, because there's nothing to see.
Still, even if they're working at the heart of the rig — the complex of workstations and machines surrounding and servicing the drill — they can't get away from it. At the bottom of the complex is the moon pool, and the moon pool is the ocean, the hole through which the drill leaves the rig. Up one floor is the floor containing the pump room and the pit room, where the drilling mud is pumped in and out of the well. Up another floor is the shaker shack, where the circulating mud is shaken through filters, and the mud hut where it's analyzed. At the top is the drill floor, where the driller and the two assistant drillers control the drill from the drill shack. The drill floor is cramped, loud, and bright, and it's where the drilling team works.
The drilling team that's working the night of April 20 is on the last shift of its hitch. Each man working is hours away from getting on a helicopter and getting off the rig. But they've been too busy to think about it. Though the well has been sealed by Halliburton with a cement plug, it's been returning mud all shift, and the mud's been gassy and impure. They're not wearing the usual Transocean coveralls but rather white ones meant to be worn around the mud. Here is where they all are:
At around 8:30, Karl Kleppinger is in the shaker shack. It's been a tough day but there's no sense of emergency, because when a floor hand comes to see Karl, he finds Big Poppa about to nod off. He nudges him alert. That's the last time the floor hand remembers seeing him. It's also the last time he remembers seeing Gordon Jones and Blair Manuel in the mud hut. Gordon Jones does not have to be there for another three hours, but he relieves another mud engineer who looks tired. Get some sleep, he says.
Adam Weise and Shane Roshto are standing at a workbench in the pump room, trying to fix a valve. They're giving each other shit, as always. At around 8:45, though, Adam calls two floor hands into the pump room and asks them to clean two pollution pans that have filled up with sludge. This is the second time during the shift the pollution pans have required cleaning. This has never happened before. It's never even happened once. "This is weird," Adam says. "I wonder what's going on."
Upstairs, on the drill floor, there are three men in the drill shack: Jason Anderson, Dewey Revette, and Stephen Curtis. Don Clark is the only one who isn't there. Though an assistant driller, he went out through the open door and is doing work out on the deck. The rest of them are doing what Dewey Revette said they'd do when he lost the argument at pre-tour. He'd said, "We'll work it out on the drill floor." That's what's happening now. The drill shack is about the size of a bedroom, with blackened windows and a mesh roof. Inside are screens and monitors and two big reclining chairs, each with a joystick. When Jason Anderson became a driller, he was so proud that the chairs were made by the company that makes the seats for Porsche. Now he's in one, in the fight of — and for — his life.
Do they know this? They know that there is a "situation": Stephen Curtis sends out a call for help from the drill shack. Jason Anderson is talking about shutting the well down. That it isn't shut down leads Jason's wife, Shelley, to believe he is not aware of the peril they're in: "I know Jason. If he knew that the situation was as serious as it was, he would have shut down the well. All he wanted to do — all any one of them wanted to do — was survive and come home to their families."
An hour after they started, the two floor hands, Dan Barron and Caleb Holloway, finish cleaning the pollution pans. They are standing on the drill floor, next to a door to the deck. They are used to "kicks," the little belches of the deep earth below the deep water. But what happens now is the earth's groaning vengeance: A methane bubble rises up through the well and what it produces when it hits looks for all the world like something from the movies: a gusher. It blows mud and seawater out of the hole, up through the derrick, and into the sky, whence it falls as black rain. Everybody on the rig floor is painted black. Everybody on the deck, too. Even people in the supply boats surrounding the rig are spattered in mud. There is an unimaginable moment of shock, panic, and crazed relief as something impossible happens on the Deepwater Horizon: Its lights burn even brighter. Its generators, force-fed methane, go crazy until the lights finally explode and go out. In that moment, Caleb Holloway says to Dan Barron: "I smell gas. Run." They go out through the door, and Don Clark is running in. Alonzo Petty says that he's heard that Don is responding to an urgent page from the drill floor; the floor hands figure he's just running instinctively toward the drill floor to help. He goes through the open door and is greeted, immediately, by the second blast, one that rips steel doors from their hinges and knocks the crane operator, Dale Burkeen, to his death. For a second, there is only the sound of gas in the darkness — the sound of a gas jet magnified to inhuman scale, the aaaaaaah amplified to a terrible roar — and for a second the ocean is restored to what it has always been, black and vast and as dismissive of human intrusion as it is of human hopes and human fears. Maybe even the stars come out.
Then, the fire.
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FOOTBALL: Oxford City fall to fourth successive defeat at Worcester
7:30am Wednesday 28th January 2015
OXFORD City slipped to a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Worcester City in last night's Vanarama Conference North clash – their fourth successive loss.