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When you ended the Subject line, 'with a twist,' it made me think of Curly Lucky Bamboo. Mine is living off the side of a window, in water, about 3 yrs now. There are different varieties, even colors. It does fine in low light, and pretty care-free. This is what it looks like. Is there any specific type of plant you'd like? For instance, one that flowers? Grows tall? Scented? Toni |
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Pretty, Toni! I have a couple of lucky Bamboos in my office. I was thinking of just moving them home. They're nothing as gorgeous as yours, though! In fact, one is slowly recovering from root rot. I'm not really picky on the plant. I could do a tall one on the floor or a smaller one on my dresser. Anthing that will flower in low light would be pretty cool, but I wasn't sure there was anything out there that can also tolerate lower temps. I went into Home Depot today for a couple of pots for my Pothos and, of course, had to adopt a couple new babies. I'm pretty sure one is a Dracaena of some sort. I've heard those will do fine in low light. The little guy looks a little sick. I couldn't just leave him there to die! I'll be posting a picture asking for help soon! :) |
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Kim, that's what I was going to ask. How cold does the room get? duh. lol. Plants will live in cool, even cold temps...the one thing you must remember: the cooler the temp, less watering is needed.. Both my plant rooms are cool. One room, gets really cold. One night it was 23F, but that was before we had new windows installed..Still, there's nights it drops in the high 40's. I keep Hibiscus, citrus, and many other plants in this room, but most that can endure cool temps. There's different levels of shade. Some plants are meant to live in shady spots, and bloom, too. In my experience, I pot in my own soil mix, withhold fertilizer during winter, use a humidifer, and mist daily. It balances out throughout the year. Dracaenas will live in low light, but not total shade or a completely sunless area. They really do best in medium light..It depends on the species and whether or not it's variegated. |
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Here she is! Like I said, I'm pretty sure it's a Drecaena. I'm sure I've even seen it named on here, I just can't think of it. It's a little sick looking, but I'm thinking some fresh soil and TLC will make a big difference! Poor thing had dirt, gravel and dead leaves of other plants between its leaves. :( I can see some leaves have been cut off. Should I cut just the brown tips off, or cut some more leaves....or just leave the poor thing alone until it has some healthy new growth? |
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1 To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah a love song. My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. | 1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer. |
2 You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you for ever. | 2 You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever. |
3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your glory and majesty! | 3 Gird your sword upon your side, O mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty. |
4 In your majesty ride forth victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds! | 4 In your majesty ride forth victoriously in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness; let your right hand display awesome deeds. |
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; the peoples fall under you. | 5 Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet. |
6 Your divine throne endures for ever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity; | 6 Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. |
7 you love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows; | 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy. |
8 your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad; | 8 All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad. |
9 daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. | 9 Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir. |
10 Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear; forget your people and your father's house; | 10 Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: Forget your people and your father's house. |
11 and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him; | 11 The king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord. |
12 the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts, the richest of the people | 12 The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift, men of wealth will seek your favor. |
13 with all kinds of wealth. The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes; | 13 All glorious is the princess within [her chamber]; her gown is interwoven with gold. |
14 in many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train. | 14 In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her and are brought to you. |
15 With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king. | 15 They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king. |
16 Instead of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. | 16 Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land. |
17 I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations; therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever. | 17 I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever. |
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Just plain great chow at reasonable prices! Daily specials include hand rolled Lobster ravioli, Thai calamari, pizzas that can be as plain as cheese or can be made with a variety of ingredients including BBQ chicken, oyster mushrooms and carnitas. Pizzas can be be half of two selections here. Out door patio nice too.
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This place was recommended and I am a pizza lover, so the stars were aligned, right? NOT!! This is a terrible place to eat and I urge you to avoid it. The service was very impersonal, and we had to wait quite a long time for our food. That was the worst part – 50 minutes to wait for a... More
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saucyasian wrote:huh? I don't get it
There is only one shade of red in this design. The two hearts looks like different colors because our eyes do not perceive colors by the sole color itself but by the surrounding colors or lack thereof. The top heart rests inbetweeen the black lines and our eyes perceive the red in relation to the black. The bottom heart rests ON the black lines and our eyes perceive the red in relation to the blue. This is why they look to be two separate colors
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microzeta wrote:This is my first post.... ever. This design is so hot you made me break my quasi-vow of silence. I really hope this one wins, good job!
Thanks. You rule. It looks like (literally) a couple votes separates 3rd, 4th, and 5th places. If you guys wanna wear these wall pixels, vote it up.
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Kind of a rough week for you (and riff) as far as rejections, but I think you really figured out the pixel art thing. Starry night and screamy night looked great. Of your remaining entries, I like this one. You should keep doing the pixel stuff for prints at least. Nice job. GMV
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cute. GMV
Re: Waves Where None Exist
Good job!
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cool shirt
C'mon People. This is the best shirt in the derby...Of course, if you're reading this, I guess you voted on it already, but have you called everyone you know to make sure they have voted?
I really want this shirt...hope it wins
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JustJiggles wrote:C'mon People. This is the best shirt in the derby...Of course, if you're reading this, I guess you voted on it already, but have you called everyone you know to make sure they have voted?
Thanks Jiggles! Ah...this is just crazy. Exciting, unnerving, blood-pressure raising...all wrapped in one bite-size package. Going to be a crazy 24 hours as the battle for 3rd rages on. Thanks to all who have helped get this one to the fog! Fingers crossed!
Re: One Green and Pixeled Frog
love the drawing but not the shirt color... just not a big fan of green on olive green.
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I really wanted this one in the Fog and in the top three. Unless it can pull over 200 more votes in the next 24 hours, I don't see that happening. Sigh... I guess no Woot shirts for me this weekend since I'm not overly thrilled with any in the Fog right now.
Re: pix nebula
i love it! the colors and placement are perfect!
auggie24 wrote:thorax orthidentata?
I just checked today's shirt and got what you're referring to. I hadn't seen that design, actually. Yesterday was my frist day on the site, and I designed this yesterday afternoon just for fun. Pretty funny.
i love me some art deco.
cheesesandwich wrote:Kind of a rough week for you (and riff) as far as rejections, but I think you really figured out the pixel art thing. Starry night and screamy night looked great. Of your remaining entries, I like this one. You should keep doing the pixel stuff for prints at least. Nice job. GMV
Thanks, that's very kind. I think it's fun to take on these off-the-wall themes. I'm really curious to see how the final shirts look printed. I think a lot of people have commented on how they are all going to look better on screen than on shirt, I don't expect that to be true for klswoot's, because of the lack of curves, and the giraffe (struggling, I know) because it is so low resolution. But the others may not turn out so great. I worked on trying to make an Escheresque design, but never got enough done to make it worthwhile. I was going to do an ocean, with waves that morphed into clouds, and fish that morphed into birds. I am surprised that none of those kind of designs got entered, though.
Brutis wrote:I like it, wish it was a tad bit smaller on the shirt, but I'd have to see it printed to really be sure.
The robot was smaller in my first version, but the proportions just didn't look right. I'm actually wearing a full-frame print Woot shirt right now, and I think the image placement of the robot matches up pretty well.
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I wish more people were literate so that this could fog.
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I like, but just couldn't wear. Shading is good, I'm also curious if this is from a photo.
pennglendinning wrote:I wish more people were literate so that this could fog.
your assumption is that if we are literate, we like Walt Whitman? I can think of many writers and poets I far prefer.
Way to go KLS!
irina1105 wrote:cool shirt
radical idea!!
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So not that it matters, but I actually drew this image. No clipart or stock images here.
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What is ironic (and even funny) about Winston's thoughts when Julia hands him a note in 1984?
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What is ironic about this particular section of the novel is the way that when Winston sees Julia striding towards him as they are together in this corridor, he sees her as a figure representing danger as well as also a figure who has just fallen and hurt herself. Note how this is described:
A curious emotion stirred in Winston's heart. In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him: in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone.
The irony is based around the way in which Julia is at one level the character who will be responsible for Winston's downfall, as it is through pursuing their relationship together that he is caught. Therefore, Julia is his enemy in more ways that Winston is aware of. Also, it is ironic because he assumes Julia is a supporter of Big Brother and therefore his enemy, when in fact she is just as opposed to Big Brother as he is.
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The Rev. Scheff leaves St. Mary's after three years
Date: September 9, 2009
by: Robin Hartill | Community Editor
The Rev. Philip Scheff has missed the people of St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Catholic Church, since he was reassigned a month ago to St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, in Port Charlotte.
But he said he's looking forward to the new opportunities at St. Charles Borromeo.
"It's very much a regular Catholic parish," Scheff said. "There are families of all ages."
Scheff was reassigned Aug. 1 to St. Charles Borromeo after three years and five months at St. Mary's. Scheff was already familiar with the area, having served at San Antonio Catholic Church, in Port Charlotte, before he was assigned to St. Mary's. He was serving there in 2004, when Hurricane Charley struck.
Scheff said his new role as parochial vicar at St. Charles Borromeo keeps him busy. His church covers two hospitals, six nursing homes and one hospice. Plus, the church has a parochial school for pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade students. Although Scheff doesn't teach, occasionally, he celebrates Mass for the school.
"It's a very busy, active ministry," he said.
Because Scheff left St. Mary's in the summer, he didn't get a chance to bid farewell to many parishioners. But, they could still see him around from time to time. Although Scheff's current work keeps him busy, he will still be coming to Longboat Key to visit occasionally.
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In different branches of mathematics, primitive polynomial has different meanings:
- In field theory, a primitive polynomial is the minimal polynomial of a primitive element of the finite extension field GF(pm).
- In algebra (and specifically ring theory), a primitive polynomial is a polynomial over an integral domain R (such as the integers) such that no non-invertible element of R divides all its coefficients at once.


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By Intern Brooke Connolly in Feminism on Jan 25, 2010
Myriam Merlet was killed in the Haiti earthquake last week. Our heartfelt prayers go out to her family, friends and all of the lives she touched as a pioneer for women's rights in Haiti. Democracy NOW! reporter, Amy Goodman reports on her death in the episode below and Eve Ensler, American playwright of The Vagina Monolouges, speaks to Myriam's life, spirit and efforts. This touching report also includes a portion of Myriam speaking at V-Day in New Orleans in 2008. The bitterest tears shed over gravesare for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.-Harriet Beecher Stowe[video: 425x344]photo courtesy: Paula Allen for V-Day
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July 31st, 2011 Letter To Fred Haitt's Pathetic Excuse For An Ombudsman… Haitt hired Rubin because he knew she'd stoke right wing vitriol. And he hired you because he knew you'd make excuses for that. Crisis Of Democracy A default looms, but not the one everyone has on their minds just now. I'm glancing at my Twitter feed, and I see Think Progress tweet: "$2.8T in spending cuts is essentially a quadruple reverse-stimulus." Yes, but it's more then the stimulus that's being drawn back. It's two-hundred plus years of American democracy that is being drawn back. The republicans haven't just screwed our economy, they've trashed our democracy by finding and exploiting a fatal weakness in the system of checks and balances our founders created. They've found, to use the metaphors of my trade, a bug in the code, and they created an exploit. They have discovered that as long as you have enough votes to sustain a filibuster you don't have to stop at merely blocking certain specific bills you find particularly odious, you can run the entire ship of state simply by threatening to bring everything crashing down unless you get what you want. If the democrats capitulate on this, and it's looking like they will, then we are lost. The American Experiment in democracy will be over. We have simply stopped living in a democracy at that point, and the grip of a bitter, brutal radical cult unlike anything our history has known will have taken its place. And that cult is passionately determined to cut the American Dream down to their liking. It'll be an America where women and minorities have no rights a straight white protestant male is bound to respect. Where workers have no right to a safe work environment, let alone the right to organize into unions strong enough to push back against the steady loss of our middle class. Where once again the elderly die alone and in poverty. Where factories can once more dump whatever toxic sludge they like into the water you drink and the air you breath. Where no science that contradicts fundamentalist dogma can be taught to school kids. Where the sale of contraceptives are once again outlawed. Where your gay neighbors can once again be denied a job, a professional license, a place to live, be thrown in jail simply for being what they are. None of this is hyperbole. The so-called tea partiers say these things time and time again. That they are a movement mostly concerned with small government and not social issues is a convenient fiction of a corporate news media that desperately wants not to be seen taking sides. Yes the tea party sings a mantra of smaller less intrusive government, but one only has to pay attention to see that is simply the means by which they mean to achieve their hard right ends. A government big enough to protect minorities is too big. A government big enough to make the states butt out of people's private sex lives is too big. A government big enough to protect the environment, the rights of workers, the economy from corruption, is too big. Small government is the oligarch's friend. I've often wondered if this is how it felt to be living in Europe in the 1930s, as another bitter, brutal radical cult methodically undermined the democracies tentatively rising from the ashes of monarchy. Step by bitterly determined step they smashed what they could, and with every new success came new demands, which were followed by more appeasements that were supposed to finally mollify the radicals. What it did was convince the radicals they had nothing to fear and everything to gain. Everything they said they would do, that nobody believed they would actually do, they eventually did. And afterwards the world wondered at how people could have been so blind to have not seen it coming. Look around. Now you know. July 27th, 2011 The Many Faces of Joy Via Twitter, I see that BuzzFeed has 60 Awesome Portraits Of Gay Couples Just Married In New York State posted just now… See and share the joy in their faces…and then look more closely at the stunning diversity of us. Remember it next time you hear someone speak of a gay lifestyle or a gay agenda. July 16th, 2011 History Uncloseted In a previous post I discussed the ramifications of a bill before California governor Jerry Brown that would add the history of gay people to the textbooks and lessons of California schools. He signed it. As I mentioned before, that honestly, not so much about the accomplishments of gay people but more, a factual account of the witch hunts violence and political and social persecution we have endured as a people, is greatly feared by the anti-gay industrial complex. And as expected, they are already moving to do a Proposition 8 on it… They'll probably get their signatures too. Whether or not they can wage a successful campaign to erase a minority group from the pages of history in California remains to be seen, but expect more of The Homosexuals Are Coming For Your Children rhetoric in the coming months. And…more anti-gay violence for them to wash, wash their hands of before the multitudes. One part of that history they never want told is coming to the screen. A documentary based on David K. Johnson's The Lavender Scare is now in production… There's more at the documentary website, including a trailer. The book it is based on is available in cloth, paperback and ebook form from the University of Chicago Press. I also highly recommend Neil Miller's Sex Crime Panic (Alyson Books) and David Carter's Stonewall (St. Martin's Press). I would also love to hear gay history book recommendations from the readers here. July 12th, 2011 Yes, We Exist. And So Does Our Past. "History is who we are and why we are the way we are." In California bill, SB48, hopefully to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, seeks to help correct a longstanding and bitter historical wrong. No…not the absence of gay history in the classroom… Ostensibly the bill is intended to improve awareness of the contributions of gay people to history. That's a worthwhile goal in and of itself and as the second paragraph above notes, the usual suspects are raising a ruckus about it. But positive images of gay people are not what the opposition is afraid of. Here, in the Catholic Reporter, the real problem is daintily addressed… Note the formulation "unjust discrimination". There's the problem. Here's the naked fear of this bill: The filing by the Obama Department of Justice goes beyond simply bowing out of the case…it makes a dazzlingly clear cut case that DOMA is an unconstitutional attack on a suspect minority that has suffered a long history of legal and social persecution: The full text of the brief is Here (PDF). It also reads in part: Now consider this, and ask yourself how many times you have heard comparisons of the struggles of gay Americans and black Americans denounced because gays never were sold into slavery, never had to ride the back of the bus, never were denied the right to vote. Or comparisons with antisemitism denounced because gays were never herded into extermination camps. How many times have you heard the struggle for gay equality dismissed as the pastime of privileged rich white men. How often have we heard, and still hear, that laws protecting gay people from discrimination are unnecessary, are really just about seeking social approval. Below is how Mad Magazine looked at our struggle back in 1971. I include this to show what the popular view of our struggle was so shortly after Stonewall, not to be pointing a finger specifically at Mad. This was how our struggle was commonly viewed back then and Mad like a lot of publications is way, way nicer to their gay readers nowadays. Mad #145, Sept '71, from "Greeting Cards For The Forgive us if we're more concerned with Indians and Blacks… So easy to say, when the shear brutality of anti-gay persecution was so completely unknown to most Americans. But of course to know that history they would have only had to look… But looking at what was happening to us was exactly the problem. There was no news footage back then of gays being dragged off in manacles because we were considered too disgusting to even talk about in family newspapers, let alone on TV. And when we were talked about, it always had to be in the most reassuringly scary and disgusted terms… We had to fight just to be seen, before we could fight to have our stories told. Some years ago I watched a documentary on Logo about the gay history of Fire Island. During a time when same-sex couples risked arrest for dancing together the police would patrol the streets around a club called the Botel and arrest random young men as they left. On those nights the bartenders would get the word somehow and warn people not to leave the club alone, but go out in large groups. Typically the police would arrest at least twenty gays. There was a large telephone pole near the Botel, that had a chain fastened to it, and as the police would randomly arrest gay men as they left the Botel they would cuff them to the chain…one by one…until they had their twenty for that night. No, we never rode the back of the bus. We rode the boat back to the mainland and to jail. We sat in the cells of all the 50 states where sodomy laws put us. As Neil Miller documented in his book, Sex-Crime Panic in sentences of indefinite length in special wings in mental hospitals created specifically for homosexuals. As David Carter documented in his book Stonewall, bars and restaurants could have their licenses revoked if they served us. And as David K. Johnson documented in his book The Lavender Scare, we were relentlessly witch hunted in the 1950s because even more then the communist threat we were viewed by the republican party as a useful tool to play wedge politics against the democrats with. And as the Obama Justice Department brief states… Yes…as a matter of fact… Decades since Stonewall and it's still going on. But at least now there can't be an expectation that we will endure it quietly. And that has consequences. Bigotry no longer has the free reign it use to have over us. Sometimes we win a few. The closet as it turned out, not only kept us hidden, it kept the crimes against us hidden. It is the prospect of that history of anti-gay persecution becoming commonly known and understood that terrifies the anti-gay industrial complex. Because then the need for laws protecting us from discrimination becomes crystal clear. Because then the hatred at the root of groups like NOM and the Family Research Council becomes sickeningly obvious. Because then it becomes hard, obscene even, to argue as Maryland Delegate Jay Walker did that, We sure did… So many more things we could participate in… At one time all fifty states had sodomy laws but never mind that, homosexuals were never really a persecuted minority. At one time bars and restaurants were forbidden from serving known homosexuals but never mind that, homosexuals were never really a persecuted minority. At one time the Post Office with help from the FBI tracked down suspected homosexuals for government witch hunters but never mind that, homosexuals were never really a persecuted minority. At one time homosexuals were rounded up and held indefinitely in mental hospitals, could have their children taken away from them, could loose their jobs, their homes, their professional licenses, their freedom, but never mind that, homosexuals were never really a persecuted minority. Nothing to see here…move along… That is why our history must never be taught. As long as this history, which is still being uncovered and documented, remains hidden the haters can keep right on posturing as the aggrieved parties whenever we compare our struggle to that of other hated minorities, and their bar stool prejudices toward us to their bar stool prejudices toward others. They can keep insisting that we do not need the protection of the courts because we are not a suspect class and were never really persecuted to begin with. That we are merely a small group of privileged mostly rich white men who are seeking special rights at everyone else's expense. That they are not bigots whose concern was never about anything more then that their hatreds always have free reign over the lives of those they hate. Forgive us if we're more concerned with Indians and Blacks. That is why our history must never be taught. June 15th, 2011 The Silence That Speaks For Itself Andrew Sullivan this morning: If in the process of conducting your political campaign you give a silent consent to hate then you are just as much a part of the mob as if you had born one of their torches yourself and screamed for blood. Anyone who cannot muster the moral backbone to denounce hate is unfit to be director of public parking, let alone president of the United States. It is that simple. June 8th, 2011 From Our Department of It's Only Wrong When Homosexuals Do It… [Posted on Truth Wins Out, May 23, 2011...] So this little nugget from the California Catholic Daily breezes across my news screen this morning… The Catholic Daily goes on to note the proclamation of Harvey Milk Day issued by Governor Jerry Brown. Of course they couldn't let all this pass without denouncements of "sexual brainwashing" from the usual gang of bigots and political thugs posing as "Pro-Family" advocates. I'm putting scare quotes around pro-family because…seriously…you really can't claim to be pro-family while at the same time trying your damnedest to rip to shreds families that don't conform to the model that's actually in the minority of family types these days. It's like saying you love the human race except for all those people who aren't straight, white and male. I see. Randy Thomasson and NARTH want mothers and fathers to warn their children's teachers about…what was it again…? Okay…I have a question. Is the Catholic Church really going to go after Harvey Milk day on the basis that he preyed sexually on teenagers? That the game plan? Sexual boundaries. Yes. Do let us know when you've found some. [Edited a tad to limit quoting...] January 12th, 2011 Crazy People, Guns and Gun Control This is another edition of what Atrios said… Actually, Rotwang… Glenn Greenwald Tweets somewhat sarcastically, "Remember the 1960s, when 1000s of people were involuntarily locked up in insane asylums and there were no assassinations? http://is.gd/kAbza" I remember part of the impetus for getting people out of the asylums was far too many were committed who didn't really need hospitalization, and the ones who did weren't getting it as long as they were being held safely out of public view. In far too many cases they were more dumping grounds then hospitals. It's tempting to engage in a little sarcasm myself when I hear my fellow liberals start yapping about gun control now. Hey fellas…I've got a Swell idea on how to lower the temperature of the rhetoric in this country…let's start making noises about gun control…! Yes…this will certainly lower the temperature of the dialogue in this country. But then there's this… I believe the 2nd amendment guarantees the right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms. I believe that freedom is part and parcel of democracy itself. And I despair. Never mind the lunatics who are selling the above back handed incitement to kill a president (I sincerely hope the Secret Service is watching where those rifles are going!). Never mind the NRA's grotesquely dogmatic stances on gun regulation and crime. The biggest reason we can't have a rational discussion about gun control in this country is the gun control crowd was very successful back in the 70s in convincing people that their ultimate aim was to eliminate private gun ownership in this country. People quite correctly concluded that even the smallest most perfectly rational regulations on gun sales and ownership was just a first step toward total confiscation. That wasn't paranoia…it was often stated quite openly by gun control groups. That seems to have changed on the democratic side of the isle. Good. But it isn't enough to get us to where we need to be regarding guns. There's a lot of things I think we could do, including bans on high capacity clips for instance. But the first step has to be acknowledging Americans, if they are peaceful and law abiding, do in fact have a basic right to own their own guns, which is to say, the means to defend themselves. How denying that somehow became a staple of democratic politics completely baffles me sometimes. I understand and share the liberal democratic impulse to hate war, revere life, nurture love and defend liberty, to work for justice and toward the peaceful society where we are all equals in the eyes of the law. I am completely disgusted by the the republican lock them up and throw away the key approach to crime. That we incarcerate a higher percentage of our own citizens then any other industrialized nation should be a matter of shame to all of us. But if democrats represent the interests of the common everyday working people as opposed to the rich and powerful, then they really need to remind themselves from time to time that the lot of the common people is not greatly improved by rendering them defenseless. I am not going to stand here and argue that had someone in Gifford's crowd been armed some or all of the killings may not have happened. I'm certainly not going to argue that a state that can't at least Try to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people isn't asking for trouble. The argument I often hear that an armed society is a peaceful one seems grotesque on its face. You need your gun when the peace has broken down, not when its alive and well. So the first thing is to nurture the peace. I was bullied horribly during part of my grade school years, the middle school ones, and it left me with a perfect understanding of how it is that your personal safety and security is ultimately on you and you alone. You need to prepare yourself for the worst. But having a fire alarm in your house is a pathetic excuse for playing with matches and gasoline. What…I had a smoke detector…why is my house on fire…?? The bromide is that guns don't kill people, people kill people. But turn that around. Guns don't make a peaceful society either. People do. And one way you Don't make a peaceful society is this: Or this… Or this… And this… And this… That last is from an ad that was televised in West Virginia as part of the campaign to enact an anti-same-sex marriage amendment in that state. It's a family in the crosshairs of an unseen homosexual sniper. More specifically, the unseen homosexual sniper is targeting their children. This is what gets people killed. This is what makes a society violent. This is creating the climate of hate that can set off a mentally unstable individual. But also the perfectly, murderously sane gay basher. Your gay and lesbian neighbors have been on the receiving end of this hate incited violence now for decades. What's changed is now the right is doing it more broadly, and more openly, and with even less compunction. What we've been seeing in this country in recent years, your gay and lesbian neighbors have been seeing for decades. A climate of hate, meticulously, relentlessly cultivated for political and social ends. There's your problem. Not guns. Hate. Last Saturday it was a crazy man. Tomorrow it might be the chillingly sane. Timothy McVeigh. Eric Rudolph. Scott Roeder. One political party has been ginning up hate as a way to win elections for decades now. The problem is when the inevitable violence results the other party responds by calling for more gun control, as if that's even possible in a nation that hates itself as much as this one is starting to. I understand that first amendment freedoms are sacred to a democracy. If we can't talk to each other we can't govern ourselves. Speech, even ugly disagreeable speech, is a right government cannot be allowed to trample on without opening the door to tyranny. Our ability to speak truth to power depends on that freedom. My hope is the killings in Arizona can finally, finally, enable us to also speak truth to hate without fear that we could sabotage freedom of speech in the process. If we don't confront hate we will loose that too. Hate will silence the democratic dialogue if we let it, and then we Will loose our precious democracy. All the gun control in the world won't matter if we hate each other enough. And if we love and care about each other as neighbors, as fellow Americans, regardless of race, creed or religion, then guns cannot do us any great harm. Just there in the background, like the fireman's hose if you need it, but the point is not to. How much crime could be eliminated if we actually cared about each other as fellow Americans enough to make our schools strong, and the economy work for everyone? How many gun accidents could be avoided if we cared about each other enough that we held our neighbor's safety, and their children's, as if it were our own? Yes actually, guns do kill people. When people hate each other enough. If you're worrying about the availability of guns in this country you are worrying about the wrong thing. November 20th, 2010 Hate Does Not Differentiate Between Gay And Transgender Today is the National Transgender Day Of Remembrance… Gender non-conforming people… A lot of people fall into that category who might mistakenly assume that violence toward transgendered persons isn't any of their concern. But the gay man casually holding the hand of the man he loves, the uppity straight woman, the insufficiently masculine and aggressive boy, all are regarded as fair prey by thugs, and for exactly the same reason. Many people who read that when it first hit the blogstream were appalled. What kind of man actually advocates bullying a child? But it is a vanishingly short distance between aggression toward adults perceived as weak, and children who are by nature vulnerable. The mindset of the adult who would excuse the one, is unlikely to shrink from the other, or even understand that it is wrong. There are two parts to the gay rights struggle. There is the freedom to love and be loved in return. There is the freedom from the closet, to live our lives openly, honestly, as the persons we actually are. No decent society denies these to its own. Our struggle then, and those of our transgendered neighbors, are one and the same. Against gender conformity. Against hatred of difference. But understand also, that the struggle of transgendered people in the broader sense reminds us that the American dream of liberty and justice for all is still very much an unfinished business. November 16th, 2010 Well I'll Probably Never Fly Again What do I have to change my name to so I can get on one of those No-Fly lists? Seriously. Got an open ear do you? Good thing I actually like long distance road trips. But hopefully in my lifetime the great ocean liners can start making a comeback. Please. I would still like to see the world someday. October 9th, 2010 There Are Some Things Google Just Can't Give You An Answer To… Scanning my server logs, I see someone hit my site today with the following Google search string… why are democrats not defending themselves against republicans I think the answer is Because they are democrats, but what do I know… August 16th, 2010 Images From A Sideshow Running Away With The Circus…(continued) Here's some shots of the counter-demonstrators… As I said previously, the main contingent of the counter-demonstrators came in two waves shortly after the NOM rally began. But even as NOM was setting up there were a handful of individuals there on the sidewalk near them, quietly speaking their truths. And among these was Mel White and his companions from Soulforce. I saw Mel occasionally walk over to some of the NOM folks and chat with them for a while. What was said between them I have no idea: much as I would have like to have snapped some photos of those conversations, I kept my distance. At 56 going on 57, I have a very negative opinion of the possibility of changing minds, let alone hearts of any of these True Believers. But I deeply respect anyone who still believes in their heart that it can be done. So I stay out of it. This is why I am not a professional news photographer. The spirit of Weegee laughs at my deference to the better angels. More and more I am seeing at these demonstrations, young heterosexual couples who see this struggle as their own too. And it is. Only on its face is this a fight about homosexuality. Look closer. It's a fight over the right to love and be loved, waged by the power hungry war mongering human gutter, that throughout history has viewed the power of love as the essential enemy to be smashed wherever it exists. The gay rights struggle is the lover's struggle. There were also lots of individual folks bearing simple statements in support of the right to love. Sometimes you thought you saw another lonely heart, determined to stand up for what in their own lives is yet to be… As I said, the main force of counter-demonstrators came in two waves. The first was peaceful and positive. The second wave were a tad angrier. And…louder. They were quickly asked/ordered to move further down the plaza, away from the NOM event. I understand this anger perfectly well. And I am not going to sit here and pontificate that this sort of demonstration is counter-productive. The other side turns us into scarecrows they can safely fear at a distance, and defeat with bar stool valor and junk food religion. They need to see that we are as human as they; and there is nothing less surprising on this earth then the sight of humans who have been attacked getting angry, and fighting back. When people are denied the dream of love, when that ability to love another, and accept their love in return is gutted out of them, what is left? I have have said often, that the one who fights this fight and doesn't put their head down on the pillow every night, just a little bit angrier then the night before, just a little more angry then they thought it was humanly possible to be angry, isn't really paying attention. But it is oh-so easy for anger to become hate. And hate will kill your soul. This is the lover's struggle. When all you have left in it is anger, you are done for. It is for love that we fight. Every moment you can put anger aside and remember that, you defeat hate. Images From A Sideshow Running Away With The Circus… Here's some of the shots I took at the NOM rally in front of the Capital yesterday… They held the rally in front of the Capital south wing, which is right across from the Supreme Court building, but you really couldn't see the court all that clearly for all the trees. The rally was mostly tucked away in one corner of the grassy park there in front of the south wing. This is what the crowd looked like, just a few moments literally, before Bishop Coles brought his cavalry in. It was almost exclusively white, and very nearly half media and NOM organizers. Brian Brown getting a tad heated in front of a media lady just before the rally started. I don't know what she may have asked him but he'd been really nice and polite to the media there, even the gay media, before this. A couple NOM supporters brought their kids along. Most of the early arrivals were older folks. You didn't start seeing many young people there until Bishop Coles' cavalry came along. That LET THE PEOPLE VOTE chant was an early hit with the crowd. Here they are while Brian Brown gives it a few turns. Sometime into Bishop Coles' speech a larger group of counter protesters arrived. (There had already been a few individual counter protesters there, including Mel White and Soulforce companions, as NOM was setting up.) The first wave of them just made themselves quietly known with signs around the perimeter of the event. NOM tried to have them removed, but the Capital Police told them basically that as long as they were quiet and didn't interfere with the event they had a right to be where they were. Some gay folk wandered around the NOM crowd during the event. I don't know if this couple were with the larger group of counter protesters or not. The man's t-shirt reads: Together 14 years, Married 1 year, 2nd class citizens every day. Walter Fauntroy, with some other clergyman whose name I thankfully don't know, waiting to speak. The white clergyman was there when NOM was setting up so I assume he was one of their local organizers. And unlike Bishops Jackson and Coles, he actually paid attention to all the other clergymen as they spoke. He didn't talk much with the crowd though. Coles worked the crowd a little bit. Jackson was working the media. Bishop Coles right after his speech, walked off the sump and whipped up the crowd with that LET THE PEOPLE VOTE chant. Black people were denied voting rights in this country for generations after then end of slavery. But those same rights were not won back by the ballot, but in the courts. The lesson that the courts have an important role to play in protecting the rights of all Americans, and that the basic human rights of minorities are not a popularity contest, seems to have escaped a lot of folks there. Prejudice does that to a person. Oh…YOUR rights don't count… More later… |
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The time has come: Miami is finally a fine-food town.
The signs are everywhere. The 305 is home to coffee roasters, supper clubs, a ramen house, and a northern Thai restaurant. Sourdough bread is a thing. The word "local" is sprinkled on menus like pepper on steak. The city's beverage scene, once regarded as frivolous and shallow, now boasts a brewery.
The people behind this rise are even more remarkable. They aren't foreign investors or New York imports. In the past year, local entrepreneurs have taken hold of Miami dining. They began with one business. But in 2013, they expanded their ventures and established themselves as royalty.
2390 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33127
Category: Restaurant > Coffeehouse
Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
565 NW 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127
Category: Services
Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
2415 Ponce De Leon Blvd.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Category: Restaurant > Buffet
Region: Coral Gables/South Miami
130 NE 40th St.
Miami, FL 33137
Category: Restaurant > Contemporary
Region: Central Dade
1211 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: South Beach
235 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139
Category: Restaurant > Caribbean
Region: South Beach
4141 NE 2nd Ave., 101A
Miami, FL 33137
Category: Restaurant > Brunch
Region: Midtown/Wynwood/Design District
And that's why this is the year of the food emperors. What follows are the ten leading figures in town.
Joel and Leticia Pollock of Panther Coffee. When Panther Coffee opened in 2011, Miami lacked specialty coffee shops. But that year, two other local roasters also debuted: Alaska Coffee Roasting and Eternity Coffee Roasters. Soon, Panther emerged as the strongest. Owners Joel and Leticia Pollock earned accolades in the New York Times. They won the Good Food Award, a prestigious prize for responsible food producers. Their coffee is served in the best restaurants in the city. And this year, they followed their first Wynwood location with a shiny storefront in Sunset Harbour. The Pollocks have already announced a third location, whose construction recently began in MiMo.
Luis G. Brignoni of Wynwood Brewing Company. It's been a long time waiting for a Miami brewery. In 2011, Luis Brignoni announced the opening of Wynwood Brewing Company — first craft brewery to open in Miami-Dade. While he dealt with permitting hassles, the suds began popping up at local events and festivals. Two years later, a taproom started serving beers such as a Panther Coffee stout, La Rubia blonde ale, Pop's Porter, and Wynwood IPA. Wynwood Brewing Company will be followed by several 2014 brewery debuts, including J. Wakefield Brewing Company in Wynwood and MIA Brewing Co. in Doral. Brignoni is the pioneer of the pack.
Matthew Sherman of JugoFresh. Today, there's Cold Pressed Raw, the Juice Spot, Ten Fruits, and Rawsome Juices. But before all of those cold-pressed juicing brands came to Miami, there was JugoFresh. Owner Matthew Sherman debuted his first storefront in South Beach in 2012. Since then, he has opened a 22,000-square-foot facility in Lemon City, a juice bar at a fitness center in Coral Gables, and a shop at Wynwood Walls. And there's more to come. Sherman has three other Miami-Dade locations in the works.
Jose Mendin, Andreas Schreiner, and Sergio Navarro of the Pubbelly Restaurant Group. The Pubbelly Restaurant Group revolutionized Miami's dining scene. At a time when overpriced, snobby restaurants were the norm in South Beach, this trio — Jose Mendin, Andreas Schreiner, and Sergio Navarro — launched a brand that was geared toward locals. The Pubbelly boys hatched their signature model in 2010, featuring loud music, a young vibe, and cool settings. They opened Pubbelly, Pubbelly Sushi, Barceloneta, and Macchialina (the last now independently owned). This year, they debuted two new concepts: PB Steak in Sunset Harbour and Taco Belly, a pop-up that takes over the steak house during lunch. There's more growth ahead. Next year, the boys will spearhead food and beverage operations at the Hilton Cabana Miami Beach, where they'll also launch a French brasserie named L'Echon.
John Kunkel of 50 Eggs. John Kunkel, the CEO of 50 Eggs, can identify a hit from miles away. After Sean Brock led a Southern food revolution in South Carolina, Kunkel dreamed up Yardbird Southern Table & Bar in South Beach. After Andy Ricker introduced America to northern Thai food in Portland, Kunkel debuted Khong River House near Lincoln Road. And years after Danny Meyer made barbecue cool at Manhattan's Blue Smoke, Kunkel launched Swine Southern Table & Bar in Coral Gables. He's a visionary. This year, he introduced Miami to Swine and also Patpong Road, a bar serving Thai snacks and cocktails atop Khong.
Michael Schwartz of the Genuine Hospitality Group. Michael Schwartz is no stranger to expansion. Since opening Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in the Design District in 2006, the James Beard Award-winning chef has built an empire that includes six other restaurants. In 2013, Schwartz debuted the Cypress Room, a highly anticipated fine-dining restaurant spearheaded by Roel Alcudia, formerly the chef de cuisine at the critically acclaimed Barbuto in New York. He also launched Restaurant Michael Schwartz, which is part of his gig as food and beverage operator for the fabled Raleigh Hotel in South Beach. He's the biggest restaurateur in town.
Todd Erickson of Haven Hospitality Concepts. At Todd Erickson's Haven, the gastropub concept meets futuristic South Beach lounge. There are liquid nitrogen cocktails, wraparound LCD walls, and blasting techno beats. But this year, the boyish, blond chef took things in a different direction. He launched Huahua's Taqueria — an order-at-the-counter Mexican joint that serves fried chicken tacos and frozen blackberry margaritas. Located just a few steps from Lincoln Road, the place proffers affordable, chef-designed dishes. It's a winning formula — and that's why this Huahua's might be only the first of many.


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News published February 2012
Central Library to form new development trust
A new charity will be formed to support additional activities of Manchester Central Library intended to complement and add value to Manchester City Council's major ongoing commitment to core services.
Game on as Wythenshawe sport spectacular launches
Thousands of potential athletes are poised at the starting blocks for the country's only full community replica of the 2012 Olympics – to be held in Wythenshawe.
Manchester Digital City bid aims to make city a world-leader
Manchester City Council has submitted a bid for up to £12 million of government funding to become a 'superconnected city.'
Piccadilly by Design: Manchester's Newest Market
Piccadilly Gardens is set to host Manchester's brand new market, Piccadilly by Design, on Saturday 4 February.


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Re: HDFS - MapReduce coupling
Yes. There is quite a bit of need for the local file system in clustered
mode. For one think, all of the shuffle intermediate files are on local disk. For another, the distributed cache is actually stored on local disk. HFDS is a frail vessel that cannot cope with all the needs. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Matthew John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ... > 2) Does the Hadoop system utilize the local storage directly for any > purpose > (without going through the HDFS) in clustered mode? > > |


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Summer 2013 brings new colours, new shapes! Every females will look hot, eye-catching, different, womanly! Summertime heels are absolutely should eat every females!
Shoe fads for Summer 2013 period are about pointed feet, metallic surface, straightforward details, and home shapes. An ankle joint band is also a key trend in footwear for Summer 2013. Lots of designers were affected by style and high-rise building forms and colours.
Chunky heels were spotted at Chanel, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga's, and other shows. Heavy shoes also include higher platforms and several bands.
Metallic shoes is one of the largest trends for Summer season 2013. Silver foil shoes and sandals were around the runway during Style Week identified at Nicole Miller, Emporio Armani, Giambattista Valli's fashion programs. At Moschino heeled sandals were decorated with smashed crystals and metal leaf plates while at Viktor & Rolf metal pumps were made of distinctive product.
Shoes with eye catchy heels are 'in' for the season. Just Cavalli, David Koma and Amaya Arzuaga preferred to add shade to their uncommonly designed heels while Matthew Williamson and Calvin Klein Collection concentrated more on forms and structures. Helmut Lang, Givenchy, and Gianfranco Ferre made impressive unusual heels that most definitely draw attention.
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