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Observing Evolution Over 40,000 Generations
Re:hmmm (461 comments)
It was a bloody silly question. Suggested reading - The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins, though as he's a prominent and intelligent atheist you'd probably burn the book.
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Re:hmmm (461 comments)
It was a bloody silly question. Suggested reading - The Ancestor's Tale by Dawkins, though as he's a prominent and intelligent atheist you'd probably burn the book.
Re:I've been doing just this (480 comments)
Just launched OO.o on my cheap netbook (533 MHz Atom, 512 MB RAM, no swap, Linux and a little 8GB SSD) and it only took 8 seconds.
So yes, OO is much faster to load than it used to be
Re:Developers should use *slow* machines (480 comments)
Are you paying $50 per hour for your developers' typing?
Or are you paying them $50 per hour for their intellect?
Long compile times, in my experience, give an opportunity to nip off for a coffee or a cigarette, both of which tend to lead to greater productivity because you actually interact with co-workers.
Most of my programming problems have been solved during coffee or smoke breaks - yes it's frustrating to wait for a recompile, but the benefits of chewing the fat with other developers far outweigh the perceived loss in efficiency.
Re:Umm... (480 comments)
Well smart-arse - the next time you write a 60 gig project, please publish the details.
Re:No ORM? In 1998? Yeah, right. (201 comments)
Well in 1994 when I did an Objectivity programming course, ORM was discussed, and there was even talk of working the other way with a SQL dialect aimed at talking to OODBMS systems.
Happy days - that was my first bit of C++ programming, and overloading operators blew my mind
Re:Caught red-handed, some unofficial translations (341 comments)
After reading your post I would like to meet Monique - do you have her mobile number?
If there's one thing I like, it's big hairy lawyers.
Re:What is everyone drinking? (187 comments)
May I beg to differ, and offer Talisker as a fine (and slightly better mannered) alternative?
It's got the peat, but it's from Skye and is a little more subtle than either Ardbeg or Laphroaig (bigger island, so perhaps the influence of the sea is slightly less).
But then I am Welsh, so inclined to perversity in my choice of beverage
Re:How to Falsify Evolution (951 comments)
and any sensible evolutionary system would have seen us wiped out long ago.
Give it time...
Re:I want that problem - 40gb!! (388 comments)
Honestly has anyone ever heard of wireshark or netflow?
Nice troll - good luck to you reading packet traces from a 40Gb link.
No wonder you post as AC
Re:*Sniff* they grow up so fast! (388 comments)
My thoughts exactly - but then I've only ever set up redundant networks on Cisco kit - perhaps there is a way to set up HP switches to failover without STP, but it's a mystery to me
Re:Where exactly are these cards? (205 comments)
Trouble is with this government it's more likely that pro-Palestinians will be targeted, as criticism of Israel will soon be against the national interest once Mandie has completed his putsch.
Re:there are two enemies of science and progress (367 comments)
Some researchers published an article with an inflamatory title: "Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously", and got sued for libel. This isn't about censorship or intellectual property laws, it's about a company protecting its image from mudslinging.
That's one perspective, true.
My perspective differs somewhat - the 'company protecting its image' are IMNSHO a bunch of snake oil salesmen, who are misusing libel law to silence researchers who point out that their snake oil is no better than any other snake oil.
How anyone can believe in lie detectors has always been a mystery to me - there may be a way of detecting a lie through imaging of brain activity, but the notion that voice analysis can detect lies is truly farcical. At best, voice analysis can detect stress, but then so could polygraphs, and they aren't overly accurate.
You're right though - most of the preceding discussion was off-topic and irrelevant.
Re:It's all a red herring (222 comments)
Once you have the complete Dubliners' discography, what need have you for other fripperies?
Re:The other 55% (307 comments)
Aye - those clogs are a bugger when trying to move silently.
Re:In other words... (155 comments)
Haha - you're entirely wrong.
Complimentary = with our compliments.
Complementary = making complete.
Unless you are trying to claim that the meaning of 'complementary' is that the bathroom sans soap is somewhat less than whole, you've just made a complete arse of yourself.
Thankyou for playing the pedantry game - please feel free to come back when you are better at it.
Re:OOOK (1061 comments)
Historical facts?
Point me to some documentary (i.e. not hearsay) evidence for gas chambers, and I'll revise my position.
Until then, all I see is Soviet propaganda taken as convenient evidence, and an apparently random number of 6 million bandied about willy nilly.
So there's no great difference, sorry.
Re:OOOK (1061 comments)
Well I'm fairly sceptical of the gas-chamber claims for the 'Holocaust', and if I were to voice my doubts in certain European countries I can be jailed for 'holocaust denial', although I have never seen any proof of the existence of gas chambers.
But then that's different, isn't it?
Re:Nothing New (1061 comments)
Well why don't you fund 'Trojan Aid' to give them the choice of whether to reproduce or not?
Re:"Furious stream of mini-debates on Twitter"? (644 comments)
restofworld:UN shld nvr hv allwd the frmtn of isrl in 1st plc.wrst idea evah!
Well, if the people doing the shelling were being "all but completely" starved by my government's actions, I might consider a point of view that differs from your Zionist apologia.
But then again you're a Zionist shill whose comments on this thread show you to be abusive as well as stupid, so I guess you'll just carry on in your delusions.


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My activist friend, our young occupation friend and I left McDonald's and walked the length of the sidewalk to the end of Zuccotti Park to Charley's. The rain had stopped completely.
As we stood against the glass inside, nursing our coffees, my friend disclosed she had just read somewhere that Chase had donated over $4 million to the NYC Police Foundation. I supplied how I had read that Commissioner Raymond Kelly, ambitious to be our next mayor, was assuredly hungry for all those Wall Street fat cat donations. How important to him was it to keep the one percenters feeling nice and protected by him and the NYPD at the expense of the rights and needs of the citizens of conscience. The OWS community.
It was well after 4am I discovered through the steam of my rained upon watchface. We noted that some space had become available on the benches outside Charley's. It would be a more comfortable perch awaiting the morning demonstration than the cold wet cement blocks over on the plaza.
I had put a small rectangular box of plastic waste basket liners into my carryall (unfortunately I had forgotten their existence earlier when I was getting drenched with rain). We stretched out two plastic trash bags over the wet wood.
Two young OWS demonstrators, farther down the row of benches, had begun discussing Spanish political history. I could not clearly hear their points, but I was certainly impressed by how well read they sounded.
Suddenly a young woman approached us and asked us if we knew of a nearby bathroom. I indicated the direction of the McDonald's. McDonald's had been closed down completely she exclaimed. I urged her to go into Charley's and insist they let her use their facility. Several more people showed up in search of a bathroom. I encouraged them to try inside. Later I would find out Charley's had continued to turn such people away.
This really burned me. Once again, a retail establishment was doing a whopping business from these young people occupying the plaza, especially at these late hours, and yet would not deign to extend use of their toilet, even on a limited basis and in the face of an emergency with the all night McDonald's suddenly closed down. Where was the humanity? Let us take your money and cold shoulder your extenuating needs. Rigid American capitalism without heart.
I was beginning to get a sense of the constant indignities and inconveniences the occupiers of the plaza had been facing down that most of us had no idea of.
My friend also needed a bathroom she announced and set off to find one on the still, dark streets around us. When she hadn't come back an hour later I was concerned and sorry I hadn't accompanied her at that hour. Not a safe time for a woman to be alone on the streets of NYC.
In the meantime, I had been chatting with an engaging group of young men most of them chomping on the most savory looking and smelling small pizzas. Two of them disclosed they went to Rudgers and tried to visit the occupation as often as they could. They were majoring in American Studies. One very charismatic young man, an Irish musician (an American-Irish Irish musician?), began receiving such high praise and admiration from the group for having dedicated himself so hard to the occupation since almost the very beginning.
He did seem very knowledgeable and generous in disclosing his experiences. But when I suddenly rather indignantly began questioning the lack of port-o-potties, he didn't have any definitive answers. He shrugged mildly and said that perhaps not having them had reduced the stench they would have created.
I wondered if they had been too costly for the OWS organization, although I had been reading they had received substantial donations. Had it been their fumbled responsibility or the mayor's and city governance's to leave the hundreds of occupiers so unprovided for in the middle of the night?
I would find out later from a blog of interviews on Democracy Now's website it was indeed Mayor Bloomberg's and the City's fault:
PONCHO GUTHRIE [an occupier]: The park is cleaner than a lot of areas around here. Now, I'm not from the area, but a lot of people I know who have lived in the area say it's cleaner now than it was before the occupation came in. There aren't any rats in there. The place is very sanitary. Garbage is picked up three times a day. We take care of the recycling. It's very sanitary conditions. The only things that are lacking are things like showers and restrooms, which could be provided with a city permit. But unfortunately, we don't have a city permit. So, any sanitary issues are kind of on Mr. Bloomberg's plate.
So let me be blunt about this restroom-less scenario connecting the final dots, since my and others' cold, wet, toilet-less-hold-it-in-for-a-good-long-while experience on the Plaza. Less than half a dozen hours before the "obsessed with the sanitation of the park" Mayor and police or whomever were to inspect and enforce a cleanup of Zuccotti Park, HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS LIKE MYSELF HAD NO TOILET FACILITY TO URINATE OR DEFECATE AT because presumably the police had closed down the ONLY toilet reasonably located in the Zuccotti Park area overnight.
How is that for a crazymaking not to mention cruel catch-22? Keep it clean, folks. But let us make it all the more insultingly challenging for you with your own normal and predictable bodily needs for evacuation.
Deviousness and/or inhumane obtuseness? Certainly empathyless-ness once again, from the retailers at that hour, for sure, but also from the mayor and city government. And what was this, the fifth week of the demonstration?
Yes, amoral, empathyless crazymaking. Something like taking $10 trillion of our money and then blaming us for that loss and denying they are inflicting economic terrorism on us. Telling us to suck it up and tighten our belts since it is our fault we are losing our homes, jobs, health care, even lives. The cronied corporatists and the politicians so willing to posture righteousness over "irrational mob anger and social inconvenience" when it is THEY who are responsible for defrauding us and creating circumstances of serious mass suffering and desperation. How cravenly low can they go?
Why would I be surprised at their not extending toilet facilities to a few hundred people when they are enabling those so savagely screwing millions? Hundreds of millions, in fact! Worldwide, just not nationally.
After exhausting the "why are there not more toilets" topic, I asked the young musician about what Bloomberg's "new rules" might do to the occupation, such as no longer being permitted to bring sleeping bags into the park. He said simply, "We'll work with it like we have done everything else" and gave me a serene smile. He did disclose some degree of frustration, however, at how the people who had brought along with them workable, state-of-the-art tents had not been allowed to use them -- at least to their full and efficient capacities. Like actually opening them up???? Say what? He said they had to lie them flat out unopened. He shook his head over the foolishness of this. Was this to make the little colony of occupiers look more makeshift and temporary, make them certainly less comfortable, GRATUITOUSLY, while encamped there?
He shared that Mayor Bloomberg had stopped by recently. He himself had walked up and given him a hearty welcome. "How did he react to that?" I asked, impressed with this young man's charisma, savvy and bravado. "Cordially enough," he related. He confided he had been far more impressed upon spotting Peter Yarrow visiting the park one day. I had only been down at the park when there was the group chanting to a few skilled drummers. I mentioned to him it was too bad the folk songs I'd heard in the 60s and 70s weren't around more, since they had carried my generation through those challenging anti-war times. He assured me that he himself was leading people periodically in Pete Seeger songs. This young man was looking more and more like a super-hero to me.
At one point, while he, his friends and I were sharing, a young man in overalls, very drunk and pontificating about politics and poverty, then his own desperate straits, lumbered along the sidewalk before us. A couple of the college guys gave him some money for food and then he finally sloppily moved on. A few of them shook their heads. My superhero friend said, "He will be the one that Fox News will film as an example of how out of control we are."
The OWS occupiers had made space in their community for this troubled young man, feeding him, offering him company and space, it seemed, but at the same time there was the double bind for them, he was harming their image to a media very eager to find titillating examples of fault or weakness.
The young musician finally took his leave. He gave me his card. I'd love to stay in touch. In fact, I thought to myself, I'd love to work for him if he ever decides to run for office. Like maybe TOMORROW??? I could think of nearly 100 senators I would like to see replaced! Or shoot for Prez? I would volunteer to be his anti-Axelrod campaign manager. Or he could start as next mayor of NYC?
My next bench sharer, attacking a delicious looking panini, was a young Californian. He had decided to hitchhike from California to OWS in New York as soon as he heard about the occupation. His intention was to do video interviews with random citizens along the way.
He apparently did pretty well until he got to Reno and then had to Greyhound bus it a good part of the way. He finally managed to cyber-connect to a car ride the balance of the way to NYC. He was part of the "media group."
He told me more about the general assembly system the occupiers relied on. About the people's mic, whereby phrases were repeated by some in the front of the crowd so people could hear in the back. Apparently no bull horns were allowed for the occupiers. He confided that the horizontal hierarchy of decision-making could be frustrating and cumbersome at times but it did work. He demonstrated the hand gestures. Wiggling one's upwardly pointed fingers meant assent, downward meant disagreement, level meant mixed feelings or indecision. Making a triangle with both hands was asking for information.
I asked him where his gear was and he said the most important gear was with him, patting his laptop beside him. He wasn't sure where his other clothes were and didn't seem to be too concerned if he would relocate them or not. This was the third young person who had this situation and attitude. They certainly weren't sweating the small stuff. There was clearly a communal system going on that they respected and worked with, trusted and even forgave at times if things went missing.
By this time my friend finally returned defeated from her bathroom search. A few new people nearby told her that McDonald's had finally reopened and she could go back there, or there were finally one or two other places in the neighborhood now opening for the early early morning breakfast crowd. My friend headed to one. NOT McDonald's.
A tall, balding man with an expansive smile, a large coffee, and a small rolling suitcase sat down on one of the nearby benches to my right. He seemed close to my age, which was unique to this crowd of overnight occupiers. We quickly introduced ourselves. Such unusual non-New Yorky behavior for sure. But given the extenuating circumstances so natural and comfortable.
He shared that he had just arrived from Tucson to join the occupation. I thought once again of the Close Encounter types, like the woman from upstate NY who had just suddenly decided to take a week off from work. They felt the "call." Recognized it was time to commit to fighting for decency and integrity. This man, too, like all whom I had been meeting through the night, resonated a quiet grace, strength and even modesty about what he was doing.
One of the younger men brought back to the benches a copy of the early morning edition of the New York Post. I noted the provocative headline, "High Noon at 7am!" I gulped. He shared the article with me. The Post was playing up the looming showdown about the evacuation for cleaning. Playing it up for all it was worth. Absolutely drooling over the specter of police violence.
The Irish musician had earlier explained to me how the occupiers were willing to vacate 2/3s of the area for cleanup but would not surrender the last third in order to keep the occupation going. Whether the mayor and NYPD would cooperate with that condition was to be seen. The NY Post clearly hoped successful negotiations would not happen.
When my friend returned from her second bathroom pilgrimage, I told her I had better go find one myself before high noon! I was shaking a bit about what the next hour or so would mean in terms of possible violence and arrest. I could already hear some chanting from across the street. The chant sounded like, "I am not afraid." I figured I could use some of those group affirmations.
My friend had confided earlier in the wee hours that as life circumstances stood with her this day, she could not afford to be arrested and would not engage on the plaza at 7am. I told her that she had risked arrest so often in her life with so much anti-war and human rights activism, I hoped she didn't harbor any guilt about not risking it this day. "Today we should let it be MY turn!" She smiled in support. High time for me to seriously walk the proverbial walk. She told me she would wait until I got back from my trip to the bathroom before saying goodbye.
I rushed north two blocks and then turned right to a little empty coffee shop. It was the closest bathroom I had heard about. When I asked for the bathroom location from three very busy foreign-looking gentlemen in whites, the one at the cash register told me nervously that I could not use it unless I purchased something. I nodded my head but in exasperation. I told him, "I promise I will buy something as soon as I use the bathroom, okay?"
Actually, relieving myself and getting a bite of food before getting arrested seemed the way to go, anyway. I glanced at my forearm in the bathroom, surprised by the faded but still legible digits of the phone number for the National Lawyer's Guild. I freshened up a bit. But my sneakers and clothes were still oppressively clammy. I had become amazingly acclimated to them, though. It helped that the temperature had been benign.
When I returned to the front of the little restaurant I glanced at my watch. 6:15 am. "High noon" was 45 minutes away. I ordered an egg sandwich and a small coffee. As two of the men hastened to accommodate my order, I suddenly blurted out, "I'm with the occupation down the street a couple blocks!"
They looked over at me in surprise. One of them smiled and nodded. Taking this as encouragement, I continued on, "So, I'm wondering if I am going to be getting arrested in the next half hour or so." I saw three sets of hands suddenly freeze in mid-air from their food preparation. I guess I had managed to, and somehow needed to, capture their silent and not unsympathetic attention. I exhaled and finished, "You see, I've never been arrested. I'm a bit nervous about it all."
The man at the register rang up my order respectfully. "Wish me luck!" I said turning to the door. He nodded. One of the other men shot me a shy smile and gave me a thumb's up. I was grateful.
When I got back to the block I gulped down half of the sandwich and offered the other half to my friend, who declined, and then the fellow who had shared his paper with me, who accepted. I noticed a few older men with long-sleeved electric yellow T-shirts with some kind of insignia who seemed to be part of a labor union. They were looking intently at the occupiers chanting across the street. That was a good sign, but were they not going to join in, too, over there I wondered?
Apparently there were a lot more union workers than just they. My friend eagerly told me that there seemed to be legions of people arriving to join the occupation. She had walked up the block to scope things out while I was gone. What great news. We exchanged hugs at the corner and she cheered me on one more time, exclaiming at my bravery.
I re-entered the plaza, heading up toward the Broadway edge where I could hear announcements and then chanting. "ALL DAY -- ALL WEEK -- OCCUPY -- WALL STREET!!" There was a powerful wave of energy among the people. The sunlight had broken through. I could feel my heart pounding in my chest. Echoing in my ears. I wondered if this were happening to my compatriots to the same dramatic degree. I had to say, the crowd certainly seemed discordantly animated for the possible pending wave of police force against us.
As I took my place beside a friendly looking couple, around my age, I looked about me and noted that now there were many different age groups represented. I had felt like my friend and I had been two visiting tourists from another generation during most of the night.
I kept glancing at my watch as the minute hand approached the 12 to 7 AM. Not exactly as benign as awaiting the ball drop at Times Square I thought. I also kept thinking of that titillating and provocative New York Post coverage. There I stood, sipping down the last of my coffee, wondering where and how the police would press upon us. How the ambush would come? What would it be like being restrained, penned and forcibly labelled and recorded as an official enemy of the state for protesting the corruption of said state?
I noticed two tall young men in dark sweatshirts who had swimming goggles pushed up on their foreheads. Aha, I thought. That is the proper wardrobe for pepper-spraying. Still, I had my glasses on and my eyewash in my knapsack.
I thought of that horrible police officer, an inspector wasn't it, Bologna, who had pepper-sprayed four corralled young women near Union Square not long ago. They were helpless and he inflicted that pain gratuitously upon them. He and the police captured them for arrest maybe, but he was captured, thankfully, too, on video. It had been 80 people who had gotten arrested that day.
And then, the Saturday before last, I had made it to the march late, in fact I had missed all those arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge by only fifteen minutes. 700 people were "kettled" on the bridge and then arrested. 700 plus at once. Stunning and disgusting. What on earth happened during this "kettling"?
Would we be somehow "kettled" today? I looked around nervously. Apparently the police had done it with some kind of orange netting. Netting? Scooped you up like helpless fish from the sea? With the same indifference as pragmatic fishermen to the future welfare of their catch?
Those police during the bridge ambush. They had clearly given the marchers the false impression it was OKAY to march across the bridge on the roadway. Then, ENTRAPMENT!!! It reminded me of what Bloomberg also had done during the demonstrations against the Republican Convention years ago. I had escaped a close call back then when I had had to leave a march prematurely for work. An acquaintance hadn't been so lucky.
Getting roughed up. Knocked off your feet. Having your hands pulled behind your back and cuffed for hours and hours. I girded myself for such treatment.
My friend who had just left had posted an account of her friend who had been arrested that Brooklyn Bridge day, had been successfully kettled and arrested. Another person our age.
He had shared about the experience in intimate detail on her blogsite. Even about how his dripping nose was making him crazy as the hours passed since he couldn't blow his nose what with his hands and arms constrained behind him. Most moving in his account was how finally a young man, being held with him, offered the back of his shirt for him to use to wipe off his nose and get some relief. My friend's friend took him up on it with gratitude. What a sweet and profound example of generosity and bonding among this movement's standup heros and heroines.
I took my last gulp of coffee then turned to the woman next to me and said, "I wonder how the police might come at us?" ?
The woman furrowed her eyebrows for a beat, then exclaimed, "Honey, RELAX! Word came down the kids did such a good job scrubbing up the plaza they don't need to clean it. It was cancelled."
What????? I had apparently been standing there on a far more uncomfortable emotional channel than the rest of the crowd. WHEW!!! I exhaled and laughed. Then thanked her exuberantly for taking me out of my misery of anticipation.
I thought of those over a dozen at least young people I witnessed upon my arrival so zealously sweeping and scrubbing, even in the midst of a driving rain. A driving rain, no less. Nature had even taken a hand in shining and buffing up the place to make it clean and tidy for the mayor's inspection! I couldn't stop smiling.
Maybe during my bathroom pilgrimage and pre-arrest speech to that coffeeshop's tiny staff the call-off announcement had come down?
I would later read on Democracy Now's website:
Democracy Now!'s Ryan Devereaux. "At about 6:00 in the morning, a march of union members arrived to Liberty Square, and the reception was one of pure joy, chanting, cheering," Devereaux says. He describes how protesters allocated $3,000 from their treasury to purchase cleaning supplies and then "spent the better part of all day yesterday cleaning this plaza, making sure that it was as clean as possible when the inspectors would arrive, giving the city absolutely no excuse to say that this was a unsanitary place."
JUAN GONZALEZ: The situation at the Occupy Wall Street encampment is rapidly developing this morning. Thousands answered a call for support and streamed into New York's Financial District overnight ahead of a, quote, "cleaning" that many feared would actually lead to a [clearing] of Zuccotti Park, where protesters have stayed since September 17th. Well, shortly before 7:00 a.m. this morning, they got word that the feared evacuation had been canceled.
UNIDENTIFIED: It is 6:30 a.m. in Liberty Plaza right here. The mood is jubilant. Brookfield Properties announced they are postponing the cleaning.
PROTESTERS: The people, united, will never be defeated! The people, united, will never be defeated! The people, united, will never be defeated!
AMY GOODMAN: Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway issued the following statement about the canceled park cleaning, which reads in part, quote, "Late last night, we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park—Brookfield Properties—that they are postponing their scheduled cleaning of the park, and for the time being withdrawing their request from earlier in the week for police assistance during their cleaning operation," unquote.
RYAN DEVEREAUX: That's correct, Amy. As the sun began to rise over Liberty Plaza this morning, news started to break, started to filter out, that the cleaning operation, that some had viewed as a pretext for an eviction, was going to be delayed. Cheers broke out. People blared horns. The mood was incredibly jubilant and celebratory. It was a tense night here in the park. They were cleaning all day yesterday and all through the night to make sure that this place was spotless when city inspectors came to check it out. And I must say, it is very, very clean. The rain also helped. But the mood here is one of sheer joy. A number of protesters have marched down Broadway in the direction of Wall Street, unclear where they're headed. But it's quite the scene here.
The crowd kept getting thicker and thicker around me and there was a lot of picture-taking going on with the increasing daylight. Vans for media crews lined up on the side streets. The sidewalks on both sides filled up to capacity. There were a lot of news people talking into mikes with the protesters in the background.
I managed to bump into the original woman I had met upon arrival over 7 hours earlier. With the red hair, green slicker and still bright smile. She seemed excited and happy. I also spoke to a British fellow next to me, sporting a peace jacket and an edgy and mischievous grin. At one point he mentioned Woodstock. I asked him if he had been there. He responded hotly that he was only in his forties. Oooops.
He pulled a serious looking Egyptian man into our conversation. The Egyptian shared a bit of his recent life story. Apparently six months ago he had been in a life threatening attack in Egypt and had watched over 200 of his fellows get killed. Dear God, this man must have serious PTSD I thought to myself. He seemed calm, serious and clearly well read. He said he doubted that the occupation could really clean up corruption and help the citizens of the United States. "You should focus on something important but narrow and catchy," he advised, "as a goal and slogan. Maybe 'Bail Out the Kids' or 'Bail Out the Students.'" Sounded good to me.
He then mentioned the conspiracy behind 9/11 and the war crimes of Israel. I said, "Those are two third rail issues you are bringing up now, even for many of us on the left." Then I had to first explain to him what a third rail was. He said that these issues may be denied or minimized by Americans, but not the rest of the world. I told him I also was dumbfounded by our collusion with Israel. I had been horrified by the Gazan War. The killings on the flotilla. I also told him that lame joke I had once heard about why Israel would never become a fifty-first state. "Because then it would only have TWO senators." He didn't laugh.
His anger was so intense about Israel. I told him that there was a lot of denial in our country even among so-called progressives about Israel's oppressiveness. I also said, "Don't you agree, though, that over in Israel there are people like us fighting for peace and justice? Just terribly disenfranchised by, in Israel's case, a kind of borderline personality government that seems incapable of serious negotiation and trust of other countries and peoples?"
He never had a chance to answer. The Brit we had been standing with had decided to go sabotage the news commentary of an attractive young Asian woman holding a mike a few yards away from us. It was hard to tell in that sea of people where these news crews were from. Whether alternative news or corporate. That is why I was so stunned when the Brit slyly walked behind her and then lifted his middle finger to the camera, spoiling the shot.
The Egyptian man and I looked at each other nervously, startled by his brazenness. Instead of walking back over to us, he did it again after circling back. What on earth? This time one of the camera men went after him, pushing him hard and back into the crowd and knocking over a few people. The Brit rallied and came back at him shoving him the opposite direction knocking over still more people. Whoa. High noon had apparently come for this reckless British cowboy!
I turned to see that the Egyptian man had moved significantly farther away from the breaking conflict. I decided to myself. To have escaped general arrest and then be possibly arrested in this guy's one-man and seemingly irrational anti-media campaign would have been too cruel. I saw people pulling the two men away from each other. There was such rage on both their faces.
And then, much to my astonishment, the Brit was dusted off by some of the news people as they set him up in front of their collective cameras and mikes to pop off on HIS political position and why he had acted this way. What on earth? I could not hear him. Though he looked glowing and confident. To me it looked like he was just being a jerk and a troublemaker. I thought of that young musician's concern about the media focusing on the wrong people while covering the occupation. This was certainly one of those occasions to my way of thinking.
I said goodbye to the Egyptian man and wished him luck. I decided it was time to go home. I headed toward Broadway and the Wall Street subway. I had done right by the occupation for this day at least. My legs were wobbly, my clothing damp still with rain and maybe what they call "flop sweat" awaiting the police violence -- looming in my own mind if not reality there at the very end.
I felt like a fish swimming upstream as the corporate workers and/or new occupation attendees streamed down Broadway toward me.
My activist friend and I had participated in history I knew and I was grateful. Some further exciting events would be happening at Zuccotti the following day and I was determined to go back. Also I wanted to go to an anti-war rally at Times Square Saturday late afternoon. "Wall Street is War Street" was an apt chant I had recently heard.
For now, I simply wanted to shower and sleep. I thought of the occupiers for whom those luxuries may not be available for an uncomfortable while. For the thousandth time that day I felt gratitude and awe about them and what they were sacrificing for America and the world. I saved a little gratitude and awe for myself, too. I may not have been arrested but I proved to myself I was willing to go that distance.
The dynamics are not to be to overly simplified or quantified nor reduced to a complexity that overwhelms and disperses. An MIT professor can understand it, as can an out of work factory worker understand it. Only a few, whose motivations are embarassingly and shamelessly obvious, have the temerity to make a pretense of not understanding it.
The camel passing through the eye of the needle... will not be easy, nor pretty, who follows. That banker, CEO or Wall Streeter who, from the culture of greed, as taken for granted as the air we breath will, guaranteed, be receiving his or her multi-million dollar golden floating manna from heaven Christmas bonus, honestly, won't be feeling much pain for a long time to come. Now... "shame" , that they might be made to feel and hear, even despite their solid gold earplugs, perhaps a little sooner.
Though, it will be shame the 99 percent feel, if... when the dog barks, they all run away in the other direction...
Saludos libby ~
NB - As a supposed "writers" site, Open Salon should be rewarding this "writing" by putting it on the cover, in my opinion.
You know I wouldn't exchange your extraordinarily generous and validating comment for hundreds of hits and dozens of Ed Picks!
And actually, there is a certain freedom to simply be real and not artistically strategic in the certainty I will never be eligible for an Ed Pick considering my outspoken politics on the Obama administration nor will I garner massive numbers of visits, though I am so grateful for those who are willing to still tune me in.
I appreciate bonding here and the cronyism that inspires so many of us, but not lock-step toxic-group-think cronyism that I have also seen here.
I went with this experience and then dedicated some intense writing time to try to share it it was so powerful. Thank you so much for getting and appreciating it!!! And for your own always so eloquent commentary above on those "dark forces"!!! How I enjoyed your reference to their golden earplugs! All so well said, my friend.
II, there is so much dangerous myopic "groupthink" on os it gets me down. Not only did Obama massively betray us, but he is still being championed by seemingly intelligent people in the name of a willing to minimize and/or deny "pragmatism" (the kind that lost us universal health care chasing down the public option trojan horse that suddenly went poof -- the willingness to settle for nothing and be hoodwinked by kabuki and hypocritical pol and media rhetoric) who use the cronyism (which can give so much beautiful support and good will) for evil -- to obstruct national recovery -- to discourage awareness of reality and to pile on messengers of reality. I see the righteous Obama deniers as a greater dead weight than the right wing whack-jobs.
So much of my life "generosity" seemed more important than loyalty or honesty and I acted according to that priority. Now I realize honesty is the most generous and courageous way to go. Sometimes I wish I were less impulsive but still, better to say stuff I believe than accommodate and placate the ego and myopia of another. Fighting over-sentimentalized and over-prioritized loyalty that defies both honesty and generosity is so very frustrating. Again, loyalty is a good thing, except when it is so overblown as peer pressure cliqueishness and group think to calcify myopia and denial.
Anyway, thanks for lifting my spirits and faith in those who are spiritually wide awake! Thank God for you all!!!
Alysa, thank you so much for coming by and your generous comment. Yes, I felt such "life" during that string of hours I was there, within my physically discomforted self. I was willing to trade that for feeling the fire within me spiritually, and the opportunity to be around people who had that fire going within them. PASSION and HUMANITY. That is what has been missing in the "deciders" of this nation. That is what is so spiritually compelling with the OWS community. They are not about trusting political and corporate bullshit, they are about caring for all of us as the global family of men and women and children.
It was a little long for me but I'm a former TV news anchor/reorter and I think I'm just a cynic. Normally I would have folded in two paragraphs. I read substantially more of yours. I'm a dialogue girl, soooo... hard for me
BTW, I can take it as well as dish it out so feel free to follow me and return the critique. I did publish my first piece in "Seventeen Magazine" in 1976 and I have about 150 magazine and articles out there, so I'm no newbie. Still some of my posts are chock-full of egregious errors from she who bills herself as an annoying grammar geek and grammar enforcer. Oh, the horror as I look back on some of my posts. As Herman Cain would say "MEEah COOPAH." Anyway, good piece.
wow, what a weird scene.
i am glad u got your caffeine fix.
citizens of conscience are brave and true and how i wish
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AHL Game Night: 2-8-14 Falcons at Crunch
Submitted by pete on February 8, 2014 - 21:25No one can call the Syracuse Crunch quitters.
ECHL loaner Allen York allowed 6 goals on 23 shots for the OT Loss. I'll let you all speculate on whether Desjardins or Gudlevskis would have performed better under the circumstances.
First Period
SPR Prout, (1) (St. Denis, Miller), 3:19
SYR Paradis, (1) (Rankin, Cote), 5:45
SPR Skille, (6) (Jacques, Chaput), 9:18 (PP)
Second Period
SPR Jacques, (7) (Prout, Bass), 8:50
SPR Aleardi, (6) (Thompson, Chaput), 12:55
SYR Tyrell, (6) (Richard, Korobov), 15:36 (PP)
Third Period
SYR Rankin, (11) (Richard, Sustr), 8:19 (PP)
SPR Miller, (1) (Marchessault), 14:35
SYR Angelidis, (8) (Tyrell, Connolly), 15:46
SYR Mormina, (3) (Richard), 17:28
SPR Prout, (2) (Marchessault, Bass), 3:52
Dana Tyrell and Evan Rankin were the game's second and third stars.
Springfield is the top team in the Northeast Division. Syracuse is last in the East Division. Syracuse came into this game with an ECHL loaner goaltender. They came into this game without Namestnikov on top of all the other players they lost due to recalls. They fell behind 4-1 more than halfway through the Second Period. Would've been easy to make an excuse and quit. They battled back and got it to 4-2 headed into the Third Period. Then Springfield cuts the comeback off making it 5-3 with less than 6 minutes to go. "Nice try, better luck next time, boys?" No. They found a way to tie it up with 2 goals late and Panik hit a post in OT before they finally surrendered the OT winner.
Springfield is the top team in the Northeast Division. Syracuse is last in the East Division. The Crunch outshot them 41-23. No one can accuse the Syracuse Crunch of being quitters.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
AHL Game Night: 2-7-14 Crunch at Falcons
Submitted by pete on February 7, 2014 - 21:59Overmatched Crunch make a game of it.
Allen York, back in the crease with Kristers Gudlevskis being recalled to Tampa earlier in the day, allowed 4 goals on 27 shots for the loss.
First Period
SPR Sedlak, (8) (Smith), 13:00
SPR Skille, (5) , 15:51
Second Period
SYR DiSalvatore, (5) (Mormina), 15:24
Third Period
SPR Jacques, (6) (Weber, Marchessault), 1:56
SYR DiSalvatore, (6) (Paquette, Nesterov), 7:40
SPR Chaput, (11) (Marchessault, Jacques), 14:13
Jon DiSalvatore was the game's second star.
The team was without an AHL level goaltender and its top center, arguably, with Vladislav Namestnikov also being recalled earlier in the day. It just continues to be too much of a mountain for the team to climb, unfortunately.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
Crunch Rookie Paquette Climbing the Charts
Submitted by jghoughtaling on February 7, 2014 - 11:01At the beginning of the season, Cedric Paquette classified himself as a third line center.
A defensively responsible forward that plays with an edge, Paquette knew where he was likely to find ice time. But with injuries and call-ups constantly shuffling the Syracuse Crunch lineup, the rookie has found a home where he didn't expect — on a scoring line.
Paquette has seen spot duty on the top line, but has spent most of the season on the Crunch's second unit. Forty-five games into Syracuse's season, the 20-year-old leads the team with 14 goals and is tied for first with 30 points.
"He's quickly found his way up the charts," said Crunch coach Rob Zettler. "He just does a lot of really good things. Above all the things he does well, he's a competitor. He plays hard every night, and that's why he's been successful."
AHL Game Night: 2-5-14 Crunch at Americans
Submitted by pete on February 5, 2014 - 21:38Syracuse snaps their winless drought.
Kristers Gudlevskis, fresh off his one day stint with the Lightning, allowed 1 goal on 22 shots for the victory.
First Period
Second Period
SYR Paquette, (13) (Rankin), 18:06
Third Period
SYR Connolly, (13) (DiSalvatore), 4:42
SYR Paquette, (14) (Rankin), 6:14
RCH Roy, (5) (Pysyk), 12:41
SYR Korobov, (1) , 19:28 (EN)
Cedric Paquette, Evan Rankin, and Gudlevskis were the game's three stars. It was the Crunch's first victory since January 17th against the Hershey Bears. In the meantime, they found themselves mired in a 0-6-0-1 slump that has likely torpedoed the team's playoff hopes. Even with the victory tonight, Syracuse is 12 points out of 8th in the Eastern Conference. Still, the Crunch can claim a mini points streak of two games and at least look to be getting their equilibrium back. You have to walk before you can run. Next up is Springfield on Friday.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
Witkowski Learning from Increased Ice Time
Submitted by jghoughtaling on February 5, 2014 - 09:19Luke Witkowski has learned many lessons in the first half of his rookie season.
The defenseman is surrounded by quality teachers, whether its a coaching staff with decades of experience in professional hockey or the many veterans that dot the Syracuse Crunch lineup.
But sometimes, the best lessons are taught through personal experience.
"These guys help him and we try to help him as much as possible, but I think sometimes you have to live through some of those mistakes," said Crunch coach Rob Zettler. "You can tell a guy to move the puck quickly as much as you want, but sometimes he has to learn the hard way and get caught doing it."


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"I still have your wine glass in my pocket, is mine in your bag? Do you still get drunk with wine and bliss every full moon? I heard you moved; is your new room green, too? Are you happy without the memories and the mirrors? Are you peaceful in your new life? Do you still crawl under the blankets and read? Do you doze off with a smile on your face? Do you have a boyfriend? Does he love you; does he hold you?
I am sorry I never really held you..."
Dumbfounded she looks at his face. She knows this face. She had memorized it once upon a time, hadn't she? She knows the sea on those lips; she knows the sun in that hair. They are gone now. Without them he looks quite dull.
"Are you mad at me; can I be forgiven? I know I hurt you a lot, but I never lied about who I am. Can I sit down; can we talk? Won't you smile for me once even if it's for the last time? Do you hum your nonsongs and dance as you please? What do you write about now; do you still hide them from other eyes? Do you walk around with your camera? Do you walk around with that endless heart of yours? Do you have a lover? Does your heart hold him and protect him? Does he know?
I am sorry I never really knew you..."
The girl looks around. The girl holds her right hand with the left. The girl looks around. The sentences aimed at her bounce off her soul. The girl looks around. Does anyone else see what is happening? Is this really happening? She looks at his face. His lips move, and silly little words come out galloping. She can feel her mouth forming a joker smile. She can't take the chance. She drinks the last shot on the table. Tequila numbs her face. There she sits like a doll sans expressions. There she sits motionless, mute.
"Am I bothering you; shall I go? Won't you say anything? I deserve this silence but I want your words back. I want your laughs back. I want your eyes back. Maybe you can't love me again, but I want your mind back. I love you, I miss you; let me hold your hand. Don't walk away from me; don't you dare turn your back! So you love someone else now, is that it? Does he come running to you? I always made you wait. Is he a better friend; is he your soul mate? Do you tell him about your nightmares? Do you let him calm you down? Please, don't go; I beg of you.
I am sorry I never really heard you... "
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DR. WILLIAM PECK received the Washington University Eliot Society Search Award at the annual dinner of the William Greenleaf Eliot Society? The award recognized Peck's 36 years of leadership, vision and service to the community. Peck is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the director of the Center for Health Policy at Washington University. Pictured: Chancellor Mark Wrighton presents Peck with the award.
More than $375,000 was raised for North St. Louis� De La Salle Middle School? Money raised at the school�s �Catch a Rising Star� event will help continue its tradition of excellence and allow it to operate as an independent school with its own governance structure and financial resources. Honored at the event as �Guiding Stars� were Christian Brothers College High School, Bob and Maria D�Agrosa Sweney and Paul LaVigne. Pictured: President of De La Salle Middle School Corey Quinn and award recipient Paul Lavigne
It seems that around the holidays, it's incumbent on writers like me to find people who convey the spirit of the season, someone who reminds us why—as Andy Williams sings—It's the most wonderful time of the year. I thought about the effervescent Sugar Plum Fairy, she of the St. Charles Main Street Christmas Festival, but we all know the rest of that story. Santa Claus is way too busy—with all of his personal appearances and his tight toy production and distribution deadline. I was starting to give up.
ROBERT MCCULLOCH, DAVID DICK and JAMES HOLLORAN have been elected to the board of directors for the St. Louis Society for the Physically Disabled and GARY SIEGEL has been elected as president of the board.
• Saint Louis Cellars Food & Wine opens this weekend after an impressive redesign of the 1912 Maplewood Auto Parts building. Not surprising, the stainless steel cabinets are the eye-catching feature of the open kitchen where chef GREG MAGGI is in command. There are 10 stools along the counter where you can watch him while eating a fresh salad, thin flat bread or hot panini. (Tip: Grilled cheese is awesome with bacon and beefsteak tomatoes.) The refrigerator case displays offerings by the pound that Greg has half cooked, with instructions for finishing at home. Or there's cafe-style seating inside and on the patio. 'The Table' is a dining option that can be reserved Friday or Saturday for a multi-course, wine-paired dinner.
nlike many St. Louisans who forsake St. Louis for coastal climes once they graduate college, Josh Goldman decided to make a difference in his hometown community. After receiving his master's in education from Peabody College in Nashville and working in elementary school classrooms for several years, he created a literacy program here in St. Louis that has become a positive influence in the lives of disadvantaged children.
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Hiring (or Not) & Planning For Mobile Marketing
by Jack Loechner on Feb 28, 7:20 AM
According to Aquent, in a Forrester Consulting commissioned study, to evaluate how companies are adjusting their staffing to support mobile program growth, there is a mismatch between current hiring practices and organizational needs.
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Smartphones Capture Almost Half of Canadian Population
by Jack Loechner on Feb 27, 11:25 PM
47% of Canadians now report using a Smartphone, a significant increase over last year's 34% of Canadians reported using such a device. Tablet device use has also jumped, with 21% of Canadians reporting use of these devices, from just 10% a year ago.
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Localize Brands For Success
by Jack Loechner on Feb 26, 6:55 AM
A new study from the Chief Marketing Officer Council shows that many companies, dissatisfied with the effectiveness of local channel and field sales partners, are seeking new digital media avenues and localized engagement activities.
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Will The Kids Take Over The Business?
by Jack Loechner on Feb 25, 6:15 AM
For owners of family businesses, nearly half want to keep the business in the family. But, only 13% believe it is very likely that it will actually happen.
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Myths of Multichannel Retailing
by Jack Loechner on Feb 22, 6:15 AM
According to the annual survey of global shoppers by PwC, based on more than 11,000 shoppers in 11 different countries spanning four continents, the study debunks some of the mythology concerning consumers, retailers and CPG companies. Using a "10 Myths" framework, the report separates fact from fiction to better serve today's multichannel shoppers.
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"Don't Stress" Seems To Be The Mature Counsel
by Jack Loechner on Feb 21, 6:15 AM
The recent Stress in America survey, from the American Psychological Association PA, shows that, across generations, younger Americans report experiencing the most stress and the least relief, reporting higher stress levels than older generations and say they are not managing it well.
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Fluidity In Facebook Population
by Jack Loechner on Feb 20, 6:15 AM
New findings from the Pew Research Center indicate there is considerable fluidity in the Facebook user population. Though 67% of online American adults are Facebook users, 61% of them say that they have voluntarily taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more. 20% of the online adults who do not currently use Facebook say they once used the site but no longer do so.
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Structural Packaging Impacts Repeat Purchase
by Jack Loechner on Feb 19, 6:15 AM
According to a new MeadWestvaco consumer satisfaction study, "Packaging Matters," the role of packaging in product satisfaction as consumers purchase, transport, use and dispose of products, packaging satisfaction can have a significant impact on purchase intent and repeat purchase, and there is a low level of satisfaction once consumers leave the store and rely on the structural or functional features of the package at home or on-the-go.
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Web Login Through Social Sites Deemed Valuable
by Jack Loechner on Feb 18, 6:15 AM
According to a recently released report that Janrain commissioned to Blue Research, social login is understood, recognized and increasingly used by a majority of consumers. In addition, consumers better understand the value of sharing access to their social profiles when it results in a more personalized, relevant online experience. While the majority of respondents said they are likely to leave a website or give false information when required to register, 66% of consumers surveyed say social sign-in, the ability to sign-in to a website using an existing online identity from providers like Facebook, Google and Twitter, is an attractive solution ...
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Personal Habits Impact Consumer Shopping
by Jack Loechner on Feb 15, 10:25 AM
According to The 2013 BrandSpark/Better Homes and Gardens American Shopper Study, with BrandSpark, 77,500 respondents contributed data weighted to a national profile of shoppers to not only select Best New Product Awards, but also to uncover what is on the minds of American shoppers. In addition to the winning products, the highlights of the American Shopper Study with regard to specific consumer positions on important personal habits.
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"This recipe is wonderful! The sweet caramelized onions and the tangy sour cream are perfect. Someday Alton Brown and I are going to run away together to an island in the Caribbean where he can teach me the science behind packing a picnic cooler. """


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23 Gideon said, "I most certainly will not rule over you, nor will my son. God will reign over you." | 23 But Gideon told them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you." |
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved. (The Message Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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I have had a BD-P1200 for about two months now and am happy to say that I have not had this problem. My display is a Sony VPL-HS51 projector connected directly to the Samsung by HDMI. My audio runs from the Samsung directly to my Preamp. I regularly listen to CD's from the Samsung when the projector is in standby and the Samsung has never turned itself off. Perhaps the standby in my VPL-HS51 is more of an "off" than indicated. Perhaps I have just been lucky. Overall my entry into the Blu-Ray world has been very positive with the Samsung BD-P1200.
A Failure to Communicate
The player had functioned without this glitch in my main system. There it had been linked to the JVC DLA-RS1 projector by way of the HDMI switching in a Denon AVR-4306 AV receiver. The HDMI link provided both the audio and video for movies. But I used a separate coaxial digital connection to the receiver for CD, music only, playback —a setup I prefer until I'm convinced that HDMI for audio alone, with no video, involves no sonic compromises.
The problem arose when I moved the Samsung player to a system in another room for use with the Toshiba LCD. The connections were similar, but this time the HDMI was connected directly to the Toshiba. The setup here included an older Outlaw 1050 receiver that lacks HDMI switching, so a separate digital link to the 1050 was not merely a preference in this case, it was mandatory.
When I first popped a CD into the Samsung player, with the Toshiba display plugged in but turned off, the music began normally. I could also hear the clicking of relays inside the television, possibly indicating that the player was trying to communicate with it through the HDMI cable. After a few seconds the player turned itself off. It didn't just mute the music through the coaxial audio cable. It didn't just stop. It shut down completely. The entire operation, from music start to player shutdown, took only a few seconds.
If I turned the set on first, then put on a CD, it would play through without interruption (it also displayed a CD playlist on the Toshiba's screen).
If I disconnected the HDMI cable, the Samsung would also play the audio from the coaxial digital link with no problems—whether the Toshiba was on or off.
And if I unplugged the set, the Samsung played back the coaxial digital source without a hitch, with or without the HDMI cable connected.
Here's what I believe was happening. With the Toshiba TV plugged in but not turned on, it is in a low power standby mode. But in this mode it is still able to respond to a query from the player through the HDMI link, telling the player that the display is turned off. Apparently, if the Samsung player, receives this response, it concludes, "Your display is off and it's obvious you don't need me. So I'm going to sleep now." Thanks, HAL.
But if the player receives either an "On" message from the set, or no response at all (the situation with either the set unplugged or the HDMI link disconnected), it stays on and will play audio via its digital outputs.
It's by no means certain that all sets will respond this way to the Samsung. My JVC projector did didn't have this problem, possibly because it has no standby mode. It was either on or completely off.
But I did not have this problem when I tried the Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray player into the Toshiba. This suggests that Samsung might want to look to its firmware to analyze why this occurred. Other set and player manufacturers might also want to check into it such potential interoperability issues.
I am SO glad that you are bring these issues out into the open. Ihad a feeling that there would be problems. To some of us, such as myself, these "issues" are HUGE. Now, I am even more hesitant about taking the HDTV plunge. That said, keep us posted.
that is nothing compared to what I'm going threw with sony.I purchased the sony BDP-S2000ES player for around $1079.89,and it was playing fine for 3 months.on a blu-ray movie i rented from block-buster it started to freeze and skip with sound dropping out.then it started to do the same thing with all blu-ray disc.so i returned it after waiting a week for a shipping label.they could not fix it,because they didn't have the parts! so they shipped me a refurbished unit! and of the 22 blu-rays I own it would not play 7.it would not do anything with these disc except say loading on the TV but the disc would never start. so i'm sending this 2nd player back today,and they are sending me a new,not b-stock player some time this week.and the place where i bought the first player has not returned my calls!it has been a month sense the first player went down,and i'm very upset right now.because if i get this new player and it don't work,then i'm going be pissed!anyone else having problems with t


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Poetry Meets Percussion - Young Audiences helps schools recovering from Superstorm Sandy restore their spirits through an afterschool program called Sandy Relief Arts Education Program. Samsel Upper Elementary School students in Parlin meet once a week for 16 weeks to work with professional artists on percussions and poetry. The goal was to get children to talk about their experiences with the storm and the losses that they suffered. The program encourages and hones in on students' original creativity, confidence and performance. The Young Audiences Arts for Learning is the nation's largest arts in education learning network. That organization provides the artist, and an NJEA Pride grant pays for the materials for the percussions and other items.
Exchange Student - German exchange student Anouk Elias made a lasting impression on her teachers and fellow students at Middletown High School. While her European perspective was giving her classmates a broader view of the world, she grew to appreciate the more personal teacher-student dynamic found in American schools, the different types of classes offered, and the inclusion of all students in the classroom, including those with special needs. Irvington High School teacher John Amberg and his family helped to make Anouk's exchange year possible by hosting her during her time in the U.S.
Earth & Space Science - The Paterson Great Falls is not only a tourist attraction; it is also a great place for students to learn first-hand how to solve real life problems. Ahmed Salama, trigonometry teacher at the PANTHER Academy, shows students how to measure the height of the falls by using trigonometric functions and Parallax. The students then visit the planetarium to demonstrate how they use parallax to measure the distance from Earth to other planetary objects. The school was formerly associated with NASA; and they hope to regain their relationship once more so they can allow students more opportunities.
Our School Museum - Students at New Egypt Primary School learn to be curators at a school museum. Students will create exhibits containing artwork, writing, scientific materials and cultural artifacts. The purpose of the museum is to celebrate students' work in a place of honor – the school entry way and hallways. During a family fun night, the children will host the gala opening. This is project if funded through a Frederick L. Hipp Grant.
Clarissa Hug Teacher of the Year - Classroom Close-up viewers know Danielle Kovach – the 2010-11 New Jersey Teacher of the Year and advocate of children with special needs. But now an international group pays tribute to the teacher from Hopatcong. The Council for Exceptional Children, an international community of special education educators, has named Danielle the 2014 CEC Clarissa Hug Teacher of the Year. The CEC Clarissa Hug Teacher of the Year Award recognizes a CEC member who currently provides direct services to students with exceptionalities.
Audubon's Heroes - Audubon is the home of three Medal of Honor recipients, the most awarded per capita of any town in the United States: Samuel M. Sampler (World War I), Edward Clyde Benfold (Korean War) and Nelson V. Brittin (Korean War). Twenty years ago, a group of students from Audubon Junior/Senior High School decided to create memorial to the town's three heroes. Each year since, the student-led organization, Project Memorial, has organized a moving Memorial Day service for the local community.
Living History Museum - South Harrison Township Elementary 4th graders are creating a Living History Museum. The students research biographies, create time capsules and perform in character during a school wide event. The students from other classes, parents and the community talk directly with the historical figures, from Elvis to Amelia Earhart.
Carbon Footprint - Most people don't think about the carbon footprint that they leave on the environment when they buy a product. But students at Samsel Upper Elementary School in Sayreville are not only paying attention, they are working on ways to reduce their carbon footprint. The children are looking at ways that products, food, energy consumption, and transportation impact our environment. They also have a Waste Free Lunch competition in which different grades are pitted against each other to determine who can make the least amount of waste at lunch.
Art & Literacy at Princeton - At Elms Elementary School, art teacher Trevor Bryan and several literacy teachers align their teaching approaches to take advantage of the similar skills needed to interpret both artwork and written texts. The students from Jackson are able to practice these skills during a visit to the Princeton University Art Museum where they interpret sculptures and paintings through discussion and writing exercises.
Wanda's World - Park Ridge Middle and High School combines the lessons of musical theater with lessons about bullying, exclusion and self-confidence through the performance of Wanda's World. This musical is the result of creative thinking by vocal music teacher Brandon Langer and theater teacher Stephanie Buckley. When 94 students, half of the middle school's student body, requested vocal music, Brandon and Stephanie came up with a creative idea of a music theater course, but they had no funding. So the Park Ridge Education Foundation, a parents' organization, provided the financing for the rights to a production as well as the other costs associated with staging a musical (microphone rentals, costumes, properties, etc.) As a result, the culmination of the course is a 90-minute musical called Wanda's World.
Pre-K Garden Project - It's never too early to teach young children about the joy of eating healthy. Pre-Kindergartners at Jefferson Elementary in Summit will show off their planting skills during a garden festival. Thanks to a grant from the Summit Junior League, the school was able to afford this special garden project.
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Jackson STEM Academy - This year the Jackson School District is launching a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Academy. This four-year program allows students to choose from three college pathways: Life and Biomedical Sciences; Physical Sciences, Computer Science and Engineering. Studies show that over 70 percent of the nation's economy is driven by science, technology and invention. The curriculum meets the common core standards and prepares students for PARCC readiness.
Interpretive Trail Design - A team of environmental science & design consultants work closely with students from the Marine Academy of Science and Technology in Sandy Hook. The freshmen study location specific ecosystems as well as nature's forms to solve human-related design problems using biomimicry. Biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. Each student team designs, develops and produces the signs installed in NJ parks partnered with the program. The signs are designed to enhance educational opportunities for those who use the park trail system for recreational and educational purposes.
Jammin' with Julio – A select group of music students at Hoboken High School have the honor of jamming with Julio Fernandez, a jazz guitarist for Spyro Gyra. A former graduate of Hoboken High, Fernandez returns to visit with the students, his former band director John Cuozzo and fellow band member from the 1970s Gary Enrico. While at the school, Fernandez was presented with an NJEA Award of Excellence, which is given to graduates of New Jersey high schools who have excelled in their field.
Planetarium - Lenape Valley Regional High School in Stanhope is home to one of just a few operating planetariums located in New Jersey public schools. When the school opened 26 years ago, they included this unique educational venue where John Scala serves as the Planetarium director and educator. He mesmerizes first graders from Byram Lakes Elementary School during their field trip to the high school planetarium. Then he quickly switches his attention to an in-depth discussion about astronomy with his high school students! Explore the stars at Lenape Valley Regional High School.
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Does anyone have any plans of what they are doing for fall planting? They already have mums out at my Lowes. I guess soon it will time to replace my petunias with them. I just do container gardening, other than my my veggie garden so not much to do around her I guess. |
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Well I'm still having lots of summer veggies. I've planted late beans and peas. Waiting for the squash to quite producing so I can plant greens soon. Too early for mums as petunias and other summer plants are going strong. |
Just cleaned up a couple of rows of tomatoes today getting ready to plant turnips, mustard and kale. Will be looking for some mums for around the house. Norm |
My petunias are looking rough. I am starting to collect seeds now. I still have quite a few green tomatoes to wait on. I was hoping my bell peppers would get bigger. Other than mums what other plants with color is everyone planting? |
- Posted by amazindirt z7 ETN (My Page) on Tue, Jul 24, 07 at 22:02
I'm still planting everything from SPRING! LOL. I'm sooooo happy for the cool wet days this week. I've actually gotten a bunch planted yesterday and today, and I hope for more tomorrow. I'm waaaaaay behind -- playing catch-up! You've given me the idea of planting some ornamental kale this fall. Anybody got favorites? |
Squash is still blooming and producing like crazy but noboby wants it any more :) Tomatoes are still going crazy. I've got late beens about a foot high and will be blooming soon. Lots of flowers are just now blooming. I plan to plant kale, mustard, turnip mix, maybe some broccoli and I've got three late tomatoes getting big. Yes, thank heavens for the cool rain we got this week. Hoping for more :) |
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The Subject Librarian for Modern Languages is Tim Smith. Don't hesitate to contact him for assistance in finding information on your research topic. He has written a Subject Guide to Portuguese Language and Literature that is on the Libraries' website. The items listed below are a small selection from that Guide. Follow the link above for many more resources about Portuguese language and literature. Please note: some of these resources are available to members of Ohio University only. Off-campus users will be asked to login and identify themselves as part of Ohio University in order to access these resources. |
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The call number area for Portuguese dictionaries is around PC5333. Non-circulating dictionaries are in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor of Alden Library. For volumes which you can check out, try the same call number area on the 7th floor.
We have many additional dictionaries. Here are links to listings in ALICE: WordReference Online Dictionary |
For Portuguese grammar books, try these titles from ALICE. The Mango Language Learning Center is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian and more. Other Language Learning Books The links below will lead you to other kinds of books, listed in ALICE, on various aspects of learning French: |
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Mother tries to discipline child for unlawful behavior becomes victim.
A 14-year old girl returning to her Via Canon home at 1:30 a.m. didn't like what her mother had to say and took it out on her physically.
According to Lt. Brenda Cambra, the girl told her mother she wanted to sleep, but after arguing with her mother, tried to leave and began striking the woman in the head and face before escaping by tearing the window screen of her bedroom.
After the girl left, the mother called deputies. While deputies were attending to the injured mother, the girl return, having taken a late-night swim. She was arrested for the battery on her mother, taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital to check on her alcohol level and is in custody at Sylmar Juvenile Hall. She faces charges of battery, vandalism for the damage to the window and curfew violation.


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Overview - Psalms 78 | |
1 | An exhortation both to learn and to preach, the law of God. |
9 | The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. |
67 | The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David. |
Psalms 78:4 (King James Version)
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.


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