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Regular readers may know that I don't mind the occasional mixed beverage, no matter if with or without whisky. Quite a few of the classic cocktails require bitters
You will be amazed to see what drink can teach whisky a lesson
Here's one of those thoughts that circle around in your mind for ages in some way but for a long time you don't really get a grasp how to put them down in an article.
I have toyed with the idea of holding an online blind tasting competition for a while but couldn't really find the right approach to organize it. But now I have found a solution…
Interesting observations can be made at whisky festivals
Extensive evaluation at Dramming HQ of many sources has shown these factors to be important for the decision of what whisky to buy next.
Davin de Kergommeaux of canadianwhisky.org has been organizing the Canadian Whisky Awards for the second time now. Results are just out.
Today it's time to officially announce a new project I have been working on. I will take over as the webmaster for the Malt Maniacs!
Being a Malt Maniac is not only an honour, it can actually mean hard work. I volunteered to join the panel of judges for this year's Malt Maniacs Awards.
Summer is coming to an end. To keep up the spirit I decided to turn this week into the official Dramming Rum Week.
I received quite a bashing from a few people for my blog post and forum contributions regarding the new Amrut Herald release. And in hindsight, sometimes reading and sometimes writing was to blame.
Educating people about whisky is a good thing, and many writers try to do so. But are all of them knowledgeable enough to take on this task?
An in-depth review of five different whisky glasses
I live in a country that has a reputation for being over-regulated. Germany is widely regarded as a paradise for bureaucrats, and rightly so. But there is one area where British legislators are putting their German colleagues to shame.
"The International Whisky Competition is the premium whisky competition in the world." So the website of the competition proudly states. Bold words indeed from the newcomer who entered the ever-growing award and competition circuit in 2010.
Almost a year ago I wrote a little rant about the anachronism that is the German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot). This time, believe it or not, I spring into defense of German beer.
A followup to a followup to my recent E-pistle about various trends in the whisky industry.
If you are following me on Twitter or Facebook you will already have learned that I have been suffering from a string of Bad Nose Days.
I have recevied a document from an anonymous source shedding light on the inner workings within the marketing departments of the Scotch whisky industry.
The new Malt Maniacs Whisky Monitor Database was just presented to the public. It replaces the old Malt Monitor PDF file and boasts an exciting new feature.
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No, no you are not glamorous, not at all. Not tonight.
You see, things were so good.
But, if you've watched the Pens for the last couple of years, and if you're familiar with the Sharks, you knew it could only get bad somehow. It didn't get bad quickly, as it often does, but it was a slow build to Bad that left slivers of hope in the deepest recesses of a rumkugel.
Patrick Marleau's fantasies persisted. You know in this moment he's wearing a gray merino wool sweater next to the Christmas tree and saluting a kitten. It is very akin to Tyler Kennedy's pony goal celebrations.
In the same moment that things became possible, they became less likely.
The Sharks executed "play one terrible period, then act like that never happened and make everyone in Pittsburgh shit their pants" with gusto and perfection.
We knew the death shot was coming when Malkin got stuck in some chocolate on the way to Greiss. Here is said death shot from Ryane Clowe:
Fleury and Greiss were the story of the game. Greiss came up tall in the end. It happens.
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Alternative three stars can all be found in aspects of Deryk Engelland's face:
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Tommy Thompson? Has he been out of politics long enough to recognize the mess the GOP is in? He is a moderate, but will he cave in to the Jesus freaks currently in the list of leaders (I use that term carefully).
There are a lot of California Republicans searching for a moderate member of the GOP who will represent all of us, not just the chosen few Evangelicals. I'm not certain I remember him as being particularly an asset to the Party.


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Hi everybody! I'm new in the forum and unexperienced in videomaking.
I'm planning a big bicycle journey in central Asia with documentary purposes, you can check details at cycloscope.weebly.com. We're looking for a ultra light camera with semi-professional image quality and a reasonable price (<1.000€). Our interest is not to film from bicycles (or at least, to film few frames from the bicycles) but to have beautiful colours and good audio quality.
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Boston Red Sox lowered their magic number to six and dealt another blow to the New York Yankees' wild-card hopes with a 5-1 win at Fenway Park.
Jon Lester limited the Yankees to one run on three hits over eight innings, striking out five, while Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes and Shane Victorino had two hits apiece for the Red Sox.
Oakland were 1-0 winners against Texas, Bartolo Colon striking out seven over eight innings of scoreless ball as the Athletics stretched their lead atop the AL West to 5 1/2 games over the Rangers.
The Baltimore Orioles failed to gain ground in the wild-card race as they went down 4-3 in Toronto, Colby Rasmus connecting for the second straight game and Esmil Rogers pitching six solid innings for the Blue Jays.
Asdrubal Cabrera and Lonnie Chisenhall went deep during a five-run fourth frame as the Cleveland remained in wild-card contention with an 8-1 win against the Chicago White Sox.
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Early interest in Open Days encourages SuperHome owners to host more events. If you'd like to visit this property please contact the owner and let them know. SuperHomers are often happy to respond to questions about their refurbishment project by email between times. Please read 'more on contacting this SuperHomer' before you make contact.
Charles is a retired water enginer, ex Director of Sustainable Development with a consulting engineering firm. Judy is a retired social worker. After having installed solar PV in 2003, and solar thermal in 2005, we wanted to add a 'sun room' extension, and do other eco-retrofit improvements in 2008.
Motivation was originally strongly ecological, to save carbon emissions. Now that we have the house in use, comfort is better, and saving over 40% of energy and water costs is valuable for us as pensioners.
Detached bungalow, built 1950s, extended 1980s. The Superhomes entry describes eco-retrofit, summer 2008 [but solar PV and solar thermal were installed in 2003 and 2005 respectively]. Heated living space is 126m2 + 20m2 unheated 'sun room'. Household is 2 retired people (occasionally 3).
Starting point for the changes was: Old gas (65% efficient) non-condensing boiler for heating (radiators) & hot water. 'Low hanging fruit' had already been done – cavity wall insulation, double glazing, reasonable loft insulation, foil behind + control valves on radiators.
Extra roof and loft Insulation, draught-sealing and a MVHR system, and low energy light bulbs throughout, reduced energy use by about 15%.
MVHR uses electricty for fan, but makes the house very comfortable to live in, with no moisture or condensation problems.
Renewables – biomass boiler, solar PV and solar thermal – systems generated approx 16,700 kWh in 2012.
Wood pellet boiler runs usually for 7 winter months; solar thermal does all hot water during 5 summer mnths; they work well togther.
Savings of 84% in carbon emissions and 46% in energy and water costs.
Great eveness of temperature between rooms, and absolutely no moisture and condensation problems in spite of no draughts.
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Linux KVM as a Learning Tool
Processors compatible with the x86 architecture can support different operating modes. Two of them are 16-bit real-address mode. The most frequently used, these days at least, is 32-bit protected mode. The processor starts in real-address mode after a power-up or reset (so platform initialization code has to be written for this mode) and jumps to the instruction at address 0xFFFF0. Usually, the BIOS's initialization routine is located here. The first instruction of our simple kernel will be located there to take control of the platform as soon as it boots. Although with KVM it is possible to start a virtual machine directly in protected mode, our launcher won't do that in order to learn how to manipulate a PC just after power-up.
The 16-bit real-address mode is a legacy mode inherited from the Intel 8086 processor, which is able to address up to 1Mb of memory. 1Mb is 220 bytes, so addresses require 20 bits. Given that the 8086's registers are only 16-bit wide, addresses are built by pairing two values. The first value is used as a selector (stored in a segment register), and the second value is used as an offset. With these, physical addresses are computed by the formula: 16 * selector + offset.
For example, the selector:offset 0xDEAD:0xBEEF represents the physical address 0xEA9BF. To multiply the selector (0xDEAD) by 16, simply add a 0 to the right side of the number (0xDEAD0). The addition then becomes the following:
0xDEAD0 + 0x0BEEF ------- 0xEA9BF
Note that given a fixed value for the selector, it is possible to reference only 64Kb of memory (the offset's allowed range). Programs bigger than 64Kb must use multi-segment code. We will keep our kernel simple and make it fit into a single 64Kb segment. Our launcher will put the kernel image in the last segment (where the 0xFFFF0 entry point resides). The last segment starts at 0xF0000 as shown by the following calculation:
Start of the last segment = (Maximum 8086 Memory) - (Segment Size) = 1MB - 64KB = 0x100000 - 0x10000 = 0xF0000
A memory map of this is shown in Figure 2.
We now can write a kernel in assembler with its first instruction at offset 0xFFFF0. Note that unlike many processors, the x86 processor does not have a reset "vector". It does not use the value at 0xFFFF0 as the location of the reset code; rather, it begins executing the code that is at 0xFFFF0. Therefore, the "normal" code to place at 0xFFFF0 is a jump to the actual reset code.
Our first kernel is shown in Listing 4. It merely sets the AX register to 0 and then loops forever.
Listing 4. kernel1.S
.code16 // Generate 16-bit code start: // Kernel's main routine xor %ax, %ax 1: jmp 1b // Loop forever . = 0xfff0 // Entry point ljmp $0xf000, $start
In the second to the last line, the dot (.) refers to the current location counter. Therefore, when we write:
. = 0xfff0
we instruct the assembler to set the current location to address 0xFFF0. In real-mode, address 0xFFF0 is relative to the current segment. Where does the segment offset get specified? It comes from the call to load_file() in Listing 3. It loads the kernel at offset 0xF0000. This, combined with the assembler offset, will place the ljmp at address 0xFFFF0, as required.
The kernel binary should be a raw 64Kb 16-bit real-address mode image, and not a normal ELF binary (the standard binary format used by Linux). To do this, we need a special linker script. We use GNU ld for this, of course, which accepts script files to provide explicit control over the linking process.
A linker is a program that combines input binary files into a single output file. Each file is expected to have, among other things, a list of sections, sometimes with an associated block of data. The linker's function is to map input sections into output sections. GNU ld uses, by default, a linker script specific for the host platform, which you can view by using the -verbose flag:
$ gcc -Wl,-verbose hello-world.c
To build our kernel, we don't use the default script but instead the simple script kernel16.lds, shown in Listing 5.
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Thanks for this excellent article. I've tested out the sample but the program never returns after the kvm_run() call. I guess this is because the vcpu is halted in the last instruction of the test program. But how do I exit the KVM altogether and resume execution from kvm_run() onwards? Is there any documentation for libkvm somewhere I can consult?
This appears to be the libkvm in question, no?
See the userspace git tree. Is this the lib we need to be building to follow this article? I've been looking to do something like this with KVM for a while to create my own forth-like environment without having to screw around with low level hardware (or at least put it off til something interesting already works). Look forward to the follow up article. When is it scheduled?
-- Ben Scherrey
LibKVM on Ubuntu? Nonesuch...
My attempt to follow this tutorial died on page 2, when it announced that all of the examples would be using the LibKVM library. Several hours of searching on Google and I've found nothing; no way to install or use the LibKVM library unless I'm on BSD.
If anyone has a workaround for this, I'd love to hear it. I was really looking forward to following the tutorial.
Different libkvm
That's a different library. You need to install the qemu-kvm-devel package. Note you will probably have to get it directly from sourceforge since it does not appear to be in the Ubuntu repos. I don't use Ubuntu much so maybe I'm overlooking something, however, I know that openSUSE does not have a package for it either (at least in the standard places at 11.0). Make sure that you get the version that corresponds to the version of kvm that you have installed. For example, here is a link to the -devel package for release 88.
If you have to install it from sourceforge some fiddling around will probably be required. First, you'll have to build it, then install it, and then potentially modify your include/library paths to find the needed items.
Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
I used REHL5.5 installed devel package for release 88
I used REHL5.5 installed devel package for release 88, but still cannot find libkvm.h and libkvm.a, the installation was successful, can you give me some suggestion? thanks.
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If we could devise ways to increase the marriage rate with modest negative outcomes such as somewhat increased divorce, adults, children and society would be better off. But can it be done?
No one denies that a healthy, collaborative, long-term marriage benefits both the adults and children involved. But many claims about the social benefits of getting married mistake selection effects for causation effects.
Many thanks to our spirited debaters, Ron Haskins and Stephanie Coontz, who have gamely and courteously set the framework for this debate. Thanks too to our readers who have voted and commented.
This is a sensitive topic, and our debaters deserve a great deal of credit for keeping the discussion on precise and civil ground. I suspect that many people have an instinctive aversion to government meddling in such a profoundly personal arena. But I also suspect that many would hope for successful, stable, happy marriages for as many people as want them.
Certainly our two debaters agree on much. In our opening round, Mr Haskins supported government encouragement of marriage, but also conceded "that there are compelling arguments about why there should be strict limits on government involvement". Ms Coontz, opposing the motion, conceded that "marriage to a stable, committed partner who can hold down a job and is willing to share resources would certainly improve the lot of most low-income individuals".
But much is not all. Ms Coontz suggests that government encouragement of marriage for economic reasons misses the mark. Non-marriage, she says, "is as much a result as it is a cause of economic instability". Low wages, poverty and unemployment make people less likely to marry and more likely to divorce. Government should focus its efforts not on marriage, but on the underlying causes of non-marriage: improving economic stability for the poor and doing what it can to create more jobs that pay a living wage. Ms Coontz refers to a study that asked unmarried low-income parents why they had not yet married. The couples said they wanted to achieve a measure of economic self-sufficiency, and not have to depend on friends and family. Of those couples that did achieve that within four years of their child's birth, 80% married.
That would no doubt cheer Ms Coontz's opponent. If the government's role is to promote the "general welfare" of its citizenry (a phrase enshrined in America's constitution), Mr Haskins argues, then "there is no institution in society that is more directly aimed at promoting the general welfare than marriage". That is not merely because married people tend to be happier and healthier, but also—perhaps even primarily—because children raised in married two-parent homes are far less likely to wind up in poverty than children in single-parent homes. And children raised in poverty have more developmental problems and tend to fare worse in later life than non-poor children.
So far Ms Coontz's arguments appear, narrowly, to be persuading the most voters. Commenters seem sceptical of both the rightness and the utility of government intervention. Skinflint analogises: "In the same way as e.g. there are no tax breaks for individuals to be religious, there should be no tax breaks for being married." He and another commenter wonder about the effect of a weak economy on marriage rates.
Now we move on to the rebuttal phase. I look forward to hearing the next phase of our debaters' arguments. What are the likely effects of non-marital childbirth on children and on society? What policies can best counteract those effects? We hope you will stay with us.
Along with Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins professor, Stephanie Coontz is the most formidable critic of programmes designed to promote marriage. The major points in her critique of government policies aimed at encouraging marriage and teaching relationship skills are telling. Many poor women, especially minority women, have lousy choices for marital partners; women have an undeniable right to have babies even if they cannot find the right marital partner; non-marriage is often the result of poverty, not the other way around; family violence is a serious issue; and poorly educated adults have been experiencing greater and greater problems finding jobs that provide income and health insurance adequate to supporting a family.
Even granting all her criticisms, however, we are left with two important considerations. Numerous studies show that married adults are happier, healthier and more financially secure than adults who are not married. Even more important, there is now virtually universal agreement among scholars that children reared by their married parents do better than children reared by single or remarried parents.
If a small percentage of American children were reared in single-parent families today, the growing emphasis on individual freedom to choose lifestyles, the right to change partners, the right to form second families and other departures from the traditional married-couple child-rearing unit would not be of great concern. But as early as 1965, prescient observers like Daniel Patrick Moynihan began sounding the alarm that children reared by lone mothers were disadvantaged in many ways relative to their peers raised by their married parents. Mr Moynihan, who was concerned primarily with the demise of the black family, went so far as to argue that the repercussions of single parenting would disrupt whole neighbourhoods and cities and were a threat to the future of the nation.
At the time of Mr Moynihan's early warning, the non-marital birth rate among blacks was about 35%. Today the non-marital birth rate among blacks is over 70%, the rate among Hispanics is over 50% and the overall rate among all Americans is over 40%. Thus, the entire nation has reached the status that Mr Moynihan saw as threatening to black children and neighbourhoods. Equally important, as marriage scholars such as Brad Wilcox and Gretchen Whitehead have been emphasising for several years, the rise of non-marital births has been spreading to women with more education and seemingly better prospects. The percentage of women with a high-school or college degree who have had a non-marital birth has more than tripled over the past three decades. The decline of cultural prohibitions against birth before marriage seems to be moving up the socioeconomic scale.
Thus, an ever-increasing share of children is being reared in a family environment that greatly increases their chances of living in poverty and imposes constraints on their development. These constraints, in turn, are imposing major costs on taxpayers and are reducing the opportunity for millions of children to avoid developmental problems such as school drop-out, teen pregnancy and delinquency that reduce their odds of getting a good education, securing good jobs and establishing their own stable families.
Ms Coontz is rightly concerned about the potential negative outcomes that afflict young adults who rush into marriage. She cites evidence that poor women who marry often wind up divorcing their child's father and then suffer economic circumstances worse than the circumstances they would have achieved if they had not married. But I have yet to encounter a social policy that produces all benefits and no costs. If we could devise ways to increase the marriage rate with modest negative outcomes such as somewhat increased divorce, adults, children and society would be better off. But can it be done? That's next.
No one denies that a healthy, collaborative, long-term marriage benefits both the adults and children involved. But many claims about the social benefits of getting married mistake selection effects for causation effects.1 They confuse the economic, social and psychological characteristics that tend to push or pull people into certain family forms with the idea that those particular family forms create such characteristics. On average, married people are happier, healthier, more economically self-sufficient and less prone to crime than the unmarried. But individuals who are happier, healthier, more economically self-sufficient and less crime-prone are more likely to marry in the first place.
And the reverse is also true. People with significant problems are less likely to marry. The Fragile Families Study, for example, found that men who became fathers without having first married were twice as likely as married fathers to have a physical or psychological problem that interfered with their ability to find or keep a job, and several times more likely to abuse drugs or alcohol.2 Similarly, more than two-thirds of the low-income, predominantly single mothers studied by Linda Burton and her research team had previously experienced domestic violence or sexual abuse, which have been shown to interfere with people's functioning both as partners and as parents.3
When a couple marries and is able to make their marriage work, it helps multiply their initial advantages. But getting married does not guarantee good outcomes. Unhappily married individuals are more prone to depression than people who stay single. Having an argumentative or highly critical spouse can seriously damage a person's health, raising blood pressure, lowering immune functions, and even worsening the symptoms of chronic illnesses like arthritis.4
It is true that having only one adult in the home to earn income and provide daily supervision creates particular child-rearing challenges. But again, a large share of the problems seen in children of unmarried parents results from circumstances or personal characteristics that make it harder for those parents either to sustain stable partnerships or to engage in effective child-rearing. After taking into account parental education, income, occupation and aspirations for children, W. Norton Grubb, an educational researcher, found that coming from a single-parent family had little additional negative impact on the test scores of teens or on their likelihood of going to college. In fact, changing schools increases a teen's risk of dropping out more than does being raised by a single mother.5
Many of the purported advantages of marriage over cohabitation also disappear when researchers take selection factors into account. A recent British study6 found no statistically significant differences in the social and emotional development of children of married and cohabiting parents once they controlled for precarious financial situations, low education, likelihood of the pregnancy being planned and relationship quality between the parents.
I agree that governments should remove disincentives that discourage committed couples from formalising their relationship. I, too, favour allowing mothers to retain cash and food-stamp benefits for a year after marriage. The Earned Income Tax Credit—arguably America's single most effective anti-poverty programme—might be revised so it does not decrease so much when a recipient marries. But, as Ron Haskins admits, there is little strong evidence that such initiatives would have much impact on marriage rates. And even if they did encourage unwed mothers to wed, child well-being might not improve, because marriages formed after rather than before the birth of a child tend to be conflict-ridden and divorce-prone.
As Mr Haskins says, "better treatment of two-parent families in benefit programmes" is needed. Of the more than 2.5m married couples with children living in poverty in 2011, only 102,000 received help from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programme. We can only correct such policy failures by rejecting the myth that marriage is the solution to poverty. We need to invest in programmes to improve the earnings prospects for low-skilled workers and to provide higher-quality child-care and pre-school facilities for all children, regardless of their parents' marital status.
1 www.contemporaryfamilies.org/images/stories/ccfCowanfactafact2009.pdf
2 www.contemporaryfamilies.org/economic-issues/povertypolicy.html
3 www.contemporaryfamilies.org/images/stories/ccfBurtonfactafact2009.pdf
4 Brian Baker et al., "The Influence of Marital Adjustment on 3-Year Left Ventricular Mass and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Mild Hypertension", Archives of Internal Medicine, 160 (2000); Sharon Lerner, "Good and Bad Marriage", New York Times, October 22nd 2002; "Marital Stress and the Heart", Harvard Men's Health Watch, 8 (2004).
5 www.contemporaryfamilies.org/all/unconventional-wisdom-issue-3.html
6 www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm114.pdf
Comments from the floor
Ashek Imran wrote:
Dear Sir
I cant understand why government will be involved such a personal interest of its citizens. It is true indeed marriage could be benefited for happy & healthier life in some extent, on the other hand after getting married life could be in jeopardize specially for women, as freedom to lead own personal life can be squeezed.
Rather government could have contribution on social rights of its countrymen by ensuring proper rights and benefits.
Ravenswood wrote:
Dear Sir,
First of all, I'm not sure I can disagree or agree with a question so could we re-phrase the motion into a statement?
Taking it as such, in short, no - but nor should they discourage it by using the tax system to penalise anyone who marries. Nor should they encourage non-marriage by subsidising low-income (ie, unaffordable) parenting.
Further, health professionals should be careful about promoting the idea of 'a woman's right to have children'. Women don't have such a right, nor do men. The most valuable contributions to quality of life have to my mind been hip replacements and cataract operations and wonderful advances in neurological treatments eg for paraplegics. I'm very, very sceptical about the huge sums spent on fertility treatments, and especially on 'saving' very premature infants at all costs - too many of whom are so damaged that they will end up depending on the state, that is if they outlive their parents.
So in general, a bit less of this 'right to parenthood' and a bit more of the rights of all children to be nurtured by their parents, and the value of a supportive family in adulthood, would I think be helpful.
Escalus wrote:
Dear Sir,
Most comments and all of the arguments are to do with the impact that marriage has on children. Marriage is only tangentially related to the issue that people are discussing here.
Governments ought to focus on the obligations that parents have to children they agree to have. Agreement to have children is implied by marriage and it's about time that we started making this distinction explicitly. I would suggest that a refusal to terminate an unwanted pregnancy ought to be grounds for divorce if the mother to be had previously agreed that there were to be no children - a perfectly moral agreement.
If marriage was in fact a "child rearing" contract things would be much clearer. Wishful thinking aside, it isn't and therefore we need to institute such contracts and marriage be damned.
guest-ljwwmwm wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
While a stable family unit benefits both those within it as well as the society as a whole, I disagree with the concept of government intervention in this area. Even "soft" initiatives (such as tax breaks) must be used carefully. The decision to form or not form a family is best left to the people involved and any inducement or incentive is most likely to affect only those at the margin (who are possibly not the best candidates) or give a windfall to those who make the "correct" decision. In the latter case, the government is entering the role of arbitrator of moral behavior, a slippery slope at best.
All in all, less intervention is better and the society will find a way to take care of itself as it always has in the past.
NarayNsandiego wrote:
Dear Sir, it is absolutely true that children raised in two-parent households are better off than those raised in single-parent homes, on average. However, that does not mean that governments should encourage people to marry. They should not assume that women and men will want to have children regardless of whether they are married or not. Many people don't want to have children at all, or don't want to have children if they are not married. This is good. With more than seven billion people in the world and counting, we shouldn't encourage people to get married for the sake of having children, because they don't have to have children.
tacit predator wrote:
Dear Sir,
Man's existence on this planet can be explained only by the emotion of love. Love has answers to all the problems of the World. A family unit is the best way to display that emotion.
In the economic world, love is an incentive.. And rational people respond to incentives.. maybe not everyone is rational and cannot understand the emotion.. But a reason to live and contribute to this planet goes way beyond just passing on your genes. A marriage holds the intricate web of life..
By encouraging people to marry , the government gives its citizens a much stronger and secure zone than it can provide..Because meaninglessness is is not a cause of excessive pain , but excessive pleasure...
guest-ljwejla wrote:
Dear Sir,
If the role of the government is to promote the "general welfare" of its citizenry this includes citizens who conform to the living arrangements of the majority and also those who don't. Speaking as someone who is 42 and never married, I can tell you that there is no shortage of social pressure to marry. Laws that favor people in certain family configurations over others by definition do not promote the general welfare of those who do not or cannot conform, but decreases it.
Although people point to many negatives for people who are not married and for children in single-parent households, we live in a culture in which the parents are supposed to do all the heavy lifting of child rearing, and the marriage is supposed to provide almost all of the needs for social support for the married couple. If society were arranged so that communities felt more responsibility towards their neighbors or so that other types of living situations besides marriage were less penalized and stigmatized perhaps these negative effects would disappear.
My personal feeling is that the high divorce rate stems more from social pressure to be married by a certain age to be considered "normal," which leads people to marry people with whom they may not be compatible over the long run and then divorce.
FaithlessElector wrote:
Dear Sir,
The US military offers strong incentives for its soldiers to marry. Married soldiers receive better pay, benefits, housing, etc. These incentives are effective. American soldiers marry at much higher rates than civilians. However, they divorce more too. Also, many of their marriages are fraudulent (i.e. only to receive benefits).
There is wisdom in offering greater benefits to married soldiers. Military spouses sacrifice along with their spouses, and should receive compensation accordingly. It is hard to say the same for civilians.
guest-illjaww wrote:
Dear Sir,
I think that government should encourage marriage, but its means of doing so are very limited - nevertheless, they should be applied, because it is preposterous that married people should be paying more in taxes, for instance.
Where government has a lot more power is in discouraging divorce. In America, ever since California opened the floodgates in 1969 by instituting no fault divorce, every single state eventually followed suit, and divorce rates skyrocketed. This has created many victims in the children deprived of a family, and also the victims that no one talks about - the spouses who never wanted the divorce in the first place and who would do anything, including change for their spouse, to keep the marriage. Why is it that nobody ever mentions those victims, a lot of them older women who have been discarded because they have passed their expiration date?
Government could do a lot to help, and this is where it can be most effective. Instead of pushing divorce, the way it does now, it could help provide counseling in cases where one of the spouses doesn't want the divorce - that constitutes the majority of divorces, by the way. Divorces where both spouses want the divorce are a myth.
Government should make divorce by mutual consent in cases where there are children mandatory, unless there has been cruelty or spousal abuse. I am not going to go into all the cases here, but we are not talking about chaining people to one another - simply about making people face up to their responsibility to the children they have created and to each other.
brooksjd1 wrote:
Dear Sir,
It seems that the primary disagreement is in the methods of encouragement, not whether stable families are good for society. Even Ms. Coontz concedes that government policies which discourage marriage should be abolished, thus supporting the motion (paragraph 19).
One relevant area which I have not yet seen discussed is the role of media in influencing society's attitude toward marriage and family. Much of the media suggests that the single life is preferred and marriage is to be despised. Further, contemporary media often paints the picture that divorce has only a minimal impact on all involved. And more destructively, it presupposes and actively promotes the idea that individual 'happiness' and wealth should be sought above all else. If the government feels the need to regulate profanity, nudity, substance abuse, and violence in the media due to detrimental societal effects, why not also poor representation of marriage and families?
Idealist98 wrote:
Dear Sir,
I am waiting for Mr. Haskins' "Next".
Eric Paul Jacobsen wrote:
Dear Sir,
It seems that Haskins and Coontz may have some areas of agreement. I still await Haskins's concluding remarks, in which I will expect to read about his proposals in some more detail. Where these two differing but capable minds agree, we should pay attention.
guest-ljenlls wrote:
Dear Sir,
Most people focus on the pros and cons of this particular policy. However, I think there's one very important question we are missing here. Should the government's responsibilities include promoting marriage?
You want the government to fix the economy, to lower the crime, to give you a job, etc. Now you want your government to fuss about getting married? And such a policy comes with a cost. Do you want to pay the government to urge you to get married? I'm not sure it's a good idea.
There are some things a gov should do. But there are even more it shouldn't. A government is not an almighty god or a final solution for every problem.
Things like love and marriage should be left for people decide so that they will bear the responsibilities that come with the decision.
LOVElasas wrote:
In my opinion, we should remember the Scandinavian model, and the tendencies there. One of the argument was given that people's intention to marry is directly related to the couples' financial situation. However, Scandinavian countries are the welfare states, and the financial factor is not basically the key there but the amount of the marriage are relatively low. Usually, people are used to live together without the marriage even if their finance are stable more than enough.
Between, from psychological point of view people who are in the relationships get used to live together without the marriage longer and longer, and later the probability of their wedding becomes much lower. The biggest probability to obtain the marriage status for the couple is in the earlier stages of the relationships. Therefore, the question of marriage should be propagated by the state as well to avoid the situation that, after a certain period, couples get used to live together without any official commitment.
Eusebius Pamphili wrote:
I think you missed the entire point of the post and instead focused on one sentence surrounded by many which then caused you to go on a rant posting your comment three times. I'm not sure I saw a question. Just a repetition of "True Nature" repeated over and over and over.
You may think that supporting marriage means and the point of gun rather then special tax exemptions, proper education subsidies, etc. but that's because you are irrational. "True Nature" fine, bad choice of words. I was at work typing quickly. "the nature of human beings". People such as yourself get hung up on one word are hardly worth talking to so I'm not sure why I bother. The difference between a PHD and Bachelors degree is 2yrs and a thesis. It takes a lot of work and you still have to write a thesis so whatever.
From a certain standpoint nothing makes anyone an expert on anything as science and knowledge changes often. So often in fact that by the time you graduate all knew journals questioning the assumptions have been published and the zeitgeist has changed. Regardless some fundamental things never change. For example no matter how many times you run Harlow and Harlow, Ash Line Study, Milgrims Authority study, The Yale Prisoner Study, BF Skinner experiments, recreate kitty genovese case study and a whole host of other case experiments you end up with the same result.
You can read into my original comment whatever you like just like you can listen to your own internal monologue in a conversation instead of actually hearing what the other person is saying. However, the little voice inside your head isn't me and it isn't what I said. As to your "question"... I'm not really sure there was one. I'm pretty sure everything that had a question mark was rhetorical and an argument amongst yourself.
evanabevan wrote:
Dear Sir,
I believe that there are many areas where the government should not become involved. This includes social engineering, where state involvement is at best disturbing and at worst evil.
Encouraging marriage would fall within this area and personally I would not want to see government heavy boots trampling all over this issue. If there is anything that government should be doing, it is reviewing the issue of "what is marriage for?" so that legislation is appropriately aligned with society's needs, which may or may not include issues about child rearing, polygamy, extended marital networks and same sex couples.
Patriot1988 wrote:
Dear Sir,
Should governments encourage their citizens to marry?
Well, I know governments shouldn't discourage the citizens to marry.
If we really operate our society only on trust, love and forgiveness, why would we need the legal framework for?
We build a society and live in it according to the legal framework.This legal framework protects us and give us our rights. Getting a driver's license, get your company registration number, get your birth certificate, your degree certificate, your employee badge, your credit cards, all this is done under legal framework so why should it be different for marriage?
For the sake of a casual relationship, no you don't necessary need a legal binding to prove that you love each other. For example, Friendship doesn't need a certificate, you care about each other but you are still independent individuals.
But being married, tied the knots means you have made a commitment with each other and the legal binding makes a legal right to claim your partner as husband or wife. It means it is not a fling, a casual romance and you are devoted to take responsibility of your loved one. Why shouldn't that be legal? Why shouldn't we make this commitment legal?
Maybe the legal framework itself isn't perfect and still need some work for justice, but we are still living under the law and marriage shouldn't be an exception from the law.
guest-ljeoajm wrote:
College psychology does not make you an expert on the nature of human existence. You can dismiss me and my questions about your flawed logic, but it doesn't change the overwhelming majority who voted against your view in this debate. If it's any consolation, moral superiority existing in isolation can be a form of martyrdom.
KValis wrote:
Dear Sir,
If you go back in time to our ancestors, they had to be fit and healthy to get a mate. There were Alpha males(Kings) who can have any woman they want. In the name of civilization we have brought up the institution called Marriage.
In India, people analogise marriage as "Fettering" the person to a pole. That is what the Govt. wants, the alpha male to be tamed and domesticated so he can work for the state and pay his taxes. So Govt. has the incentive to encourage marriages. That is one of the main reason for India to be dealing with Traditional marriages still. Traditional marriages have its own disadvantages which Ms. Coontz has elaborately explained with her selection effects.
Marriage is a right of each and every individual, and not to be imposed on him/her. Govt. has to think in other better ways to get more work done by its citizen and improve the country and stop giving "Matrimonial Advice" to its citizens.
Before involving in their citizen's matters, that too the most life changing "Marriage issue" Govt. must think whether it is intelligent/smart enough to involve. And if the answer is "yes", I am sure that Govt. will not have time thinking about Citizen's marriage!!!!
John Pang 32 wrote:
Dear Sir,
Government should enable a society where people have higher chance to find happiness. One source of sustainable happiness is a happy marriage, prosper and flourish with children and grandchildren.
Government should encourage their citizen to marry, to form an effective family nucleus, thereby be a responsible and contributing citizen.
In todays age of possibilities, there are many choices besides marriage as a form of a personal commitment. A well intention government should take up the responsibilities to play the subtle role to help their citizen find and sustain happiness through good marriage.


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Spurious error message during addplits
I was running addsplits on a table on a 1.4.5-SNAPSHOT cluster and saw a
strange error message on the monitor. I haven't been able to track this down yet and see if it is still relevant in 1.5+ but wanted to see if somebody else remembered already addressing this. 10.20.134.105:10011 reports unload failed for tablet m<;user25 Relevant snippets of the logs included as a gist[1] My main concern is why the tserver logs it at debug, but the master logs at error. Mike [1]: https://gist.github.com/mikedrob/8679401 |


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LOL is a coming of age teen comedy movie directed by Lisa Azuelos. As a new year at school begins, Lola's heart is broken by her boyfriend, though soon she's surprised by her best friend, promising musician Kyle, who reveals his feelings for her. If you like watching teen movies like LOL find the recommendations for it below and don't forget to mention if we miss any as we keep on updating this list.
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I could not find a good upside down pineapple cake so I made this up. This cake is so moist it needs no icing. It's great, especially for breakfast!
Prep Time: 20 Min
Cook Time: 25 Min
Ready In: 45 Min
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, juice reserved
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 8 inch round cake pans.
2. Prepare cake mix according to package directions, replacing the water with reserved pineapple juice. In a bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Stir in the pineapple and nuts.
3. Divide the pineapple mixture evenly between the prepared pans, then cover each pineapple layer with the cake mix batter.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cakes for 5 minutes, then turn one layer out onto a plate scraping off any pineapple that may be stuck. Next, invert second cake layer onto the first so there is pineapple in the middle and on top of the cake. May be served warm with whipped cream, if desired.
Nutritional Information
Amount Per Serving Calories: 359 | Total Fat: 14.5g | Cholesterol: 13mg
Source: AllRecipes.com
by BOOBEAT1984
August 20, 2012
by JNBEEBOWER
August 19, 2012
I'd make this without the design. Otherwise, I'd be trying all day to get it right.
by LINDAKELLY
August 19, 2012
looks like all of the pineapple mixture is between the layer....none on top
by SCHEEPY
August 18, 2012
by TERRY S.
August 18, 2012
I love pineapple and look forward to trying this recipe. Thanks!
by FRRONALD
August 18, 2012
Will pass this on to my mom who loves to make cakes with pineapple.
by AZACOB
August 18, 2012
by FAMJR
August 18, 2012
been making this without the nuts & cinnamon, but I like the idea of the walnuts, thanks
by COGIT8
August 18, 2012
I like the fairly minimal sugar, too, Smajpp. Even better when you get juice-only (no sugar/syrup added) pineapple. Yum!
by SMAJPP
August 18, 2012
Sounds delicious. I like that there's not too much added sugar--usually it's much too sweet for me.
by DEFGRAMMY
August 17, 2012
hhhmmmmm....thought Mojo was a type of spice used for chicken?
by 92651
August 17, 2012
Just printed! This is a must make cake. We LOVE pinapple anything!!!
by PEACHIE2
August 17, 2012
Cake for breakfast? Count me in! Sounds good. Thanks!
by SWEETIEWHEATIESCOTIE
August 17, 2012
My grandkids would love this for breakfast.. or any time of day! It looks pretty and sounds good. Thanks for sharing.
by SHINAR00
August 17, 2012
never had it in layers. Sounds good. I also use the pineapple juice to replace the water.........mmmmmmm..........soooooo good.
by ANONYMOUS TOO :-)(-:
August 17, 2012
I agree, never thought of 2 layers. Can't wait to make it this way. Thank you.
by LINDAKR
August 17, 2012
Very cool; the pineapple sounds great and refreshing.~
by SPOOKY9
August 17, 2012
Hey does anyone remember the name of the the salad that had the watermelon in it. it was just listed the other day
Hey does anyone remember the name of the the salad that had the watermelon in it. it was just listed the other day
by BRANDIBOO
August 17, 2012
If you mean the one that had the blueberries in it, it is called "Watermelon Salad" from the Food Network Magazine
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Bartonellosis | |
Classification and external resources | |
DiseasesDB | 1249 |
eMedicine | med/212 |
MeSH | D001474 |
Bartonellosis | |
Classification and external resources | |
DiseasesDB | 1249 |
eMedicine | med/212 |
MeSH | D001474 |
Bartonellosis is an infectious disease produced by bacteria of the genus Bartonella.[1] Bartonella cause diseases such as Carrión´s disease, trench fever, cat-scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis, chronic bacteremia, endocarditis, chronic lymphadenopathy, and neurological disorders.[2]
Members of the genus Bartonella are facultative intracellular bacteria, alpha 2 subgroup Proteobacteria. The genus comprises:
Bartonella species | Reservoir | Disease |
Bartonella bacilliformis | human | Carrion´s disease/Verruga peruana |
Bartonella quintana | human | Trench fever, bacteremia, bacillary angiomatosis, endocarditis |
Bartonella henselae | cats | Cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, bacteremia, endocarditis |
Bartonella elizabethae | rats | Endocarditis |
Bartonella grahamii | Retinitis | |
Bartonella vinsoni | dogs | Endocarditis, bacteremia |
Bartonella washonsis | rodents | Myocarditis |
Bartonella clarridgiae | cats | Bacteremia |
Bartonella rochalimae | human | Carrion´s disease like syndrome |
The disease was named after medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión from Cerro de Pasco, Peru. Carrión described the disease after being inoculated at his request with the pus of a skin lesion from patient Carmen Paredes in 1885 by Doctor Evaristo M. Chávez, a close friend and coworker in Dos de Mayo National Hospital. Carrión developed the disease three weeks after the inoculation and kept a meticulous record of clinical symptoms and signs until the disease rendered him incapable of the task and he died at age 28 several weeks later—October 5, 1885. Carrión proved that "Oroya fever" and "Verruga Peruana" were two stages of the same disease, and not two different diseases as was thought at the time. Subsequently, 23 subspecies of Bartonella were discovered. His work did not result in a cure immediately, but his research started the process. Peru has named October 5 as "Peruvian Medicine Day" in his honor.
Peruvian microbiologist Alberto Barton discovered the causative bacterium in 1905, but his results were not published until 1909. Barton originally identified them as "endoglobular" structures, bacteria living inside red blood cells. Until 1993, the Bartonella genus contained only one species; there are now 23 identified species, all of them within the family of Bartonellaceae.[3]
In 1988, English et al. [4] isolated and cultured a bacterium that was named Afipia felis in 1992 after the team at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology that discovered it. This agent was considered the etiologic agent of Cat-scratch Disease (CSD) but further studies failed to support this conclusion. Serologic studies associated CSD with Bartonella henselae, reported in 1992. In 1993 Dolan [5] isolated Rochalimae henselae (now called Bartonella henselae) from lymph nodes of patients with CSD.
Bartonella spp. is commonly treated with antibiotics including azithromycin, based on a single small randomized clinical trial. Treatment may take up to one year to completely eliminate the disease. CSD often resolves spontaneously without treatment.[6]
Detailed descriptions of the disease were reported in soldiers during the First World War. It is also known as five-day fever, quintan fever, Wolhinie fever and "urban trench fever", because it occurs in homeless people and alcoholics .[7]
Carrión's disease, or Oroya fever, or Peruvian wart is a rare infectious disease found only in Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.[8] It is endemic in some areas of Peru,[9] is caused by infection with the bacterium Bartonella bacilliformis, and transmitted by sandflies of genus Lutzomyia.
Cat scratch disease occurs worldwide. Cats are the main reservoir of Bartonella henselae (etiologic agent), and the bacterium is transmitted to cats by the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis.[10] Infection in cats is very common with a prevalence estimated between 40-60%, younger cats being more commonly infective. Cats usually become immune to the infection, while dogs may be very symptomatic. Humans may also acquire it through flea or tick bites from infected dogs, cats, coyotes, and foxes.
Trench fever, produced by Bartonella quintana infection, is transmitted by the human body louse Pediculus humanus corporis. Humans are the only known reservoir.[11] Thorough washing of clothing may have help to interrupt the transmission of infection.
A possible role for ticks in transmission of Bartonella species remains to be elucidated; in November 2011, Bartonella rochalimae, B. quintana, and B. elizabethae DNA was first reported in Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Dermacentor nitens ticks in Peru.[12]
In mammals, each Bartonella species is highly adapted to its reservoir host as the result of intracellular parasitism and can persist in the bloodstream of the host. Intraerythrocytic parasitism is only observed in the acute phase of Carrión´s disease. Bartonella also have a tropism for endothelial cells, observed in the chronic phase of Carrión´s disease (also known as Verruga Peruana) and bacillary angiomatosis. Pathological response can vary with the immune status of the host. Infection with Bartonella henselae can result in a focal suppurative reaction (CSD in immunocompetent patients), a multifocal angioproliferative response (bacillary angiomatosis in immunocompromised patients), endocarditis or meningitis.
Patients can develop two clinical phases: an acute septic phase and a chronic eruptive phase associated with skin lesions.[13] In the acute phase (also known as Oroya fever or Fiebre de la Oroya), Bartonella bacilliformis infection is a sudden, potentially life-threatening infection associated with high fever and decreased levels of circulating red blood cells (i.e., hemolytic anemia)and transient immunosuppression.Bartonella bacilliformis is considered the most deadly Bartonella to date, with a death rate of up to 90% during the acute phase, which typically lasts two-to-four weeks. Peripheral blood smears show anisomacrocytosis with many bacilli adherent to red blood cells. Thrombocytopenia is also seen and can be very severe. Neurologic manifestations (neurobartonellosis) are altered mental status, agitation, or even coma, ataxia, spinal meningitis or paralysis. It is seen in 20% of patients with acute infection, in which case the prognosis is very guarded with an about 50% mortality. The most feared complication is overwhelming infection mainly by Enterobacteriacea, particularly Salmonella(both S. typhi and S.non-typhi, as well as reactivation of Toxoplasmosis and other opportunistic infections .
The chronic manifestation—Verruga Peruana—consists of a benign skin eruption with raised, reddish-purple nodules (angiomatous tumours). The bacterium can be seen microscopically, if a skin biopsy issilver stained (the Warthin–Starry method).
Cat scratch disease is due to an infection by Bartonella henselae and manifests as gradual regional lymph nodes enlargement (axilla, groin, neck) which may last 2–3 months or longer and a distal scratch and/or red-brown skin papule (not always seen at the time of the disease). The enlarged lymph node is painful and tender. The infection is self-limited.[14] The lymph nodes may suppurate, and most patients can remain afebrile or asymptomatic. Other presentations include fever of unknown origin (particularly in children), Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome, encephalopathy and neuroretinitis.[15][16]
Bartonella henselae can be associated with bacteremia, bacillary angiomatosis, and peliosis hepatis in HIV patients, and bacteremia and endocarditis in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients.[17] Symptoms may include fatigue, headaches, fever, memory loss, disorientation, insomnia, and loss of coordination. The bacteria blocks the normal immune response by suppressing the NF-κB apoptosis pathway.[18] Disease progression may be accelerated if the host is subsequently infected by an immune suppressing virus such as Epstein Barr virus.[19]
Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana can cause bacillary angiomatosis, a vascular proliferative disease involving mainly the skin, and other organs. The disease was first described in Human Immunodificiency Virus (HIV)patients and organ transplant recipients.[20] Severe, progressive and disseminated disease may occur in HIV patients.[21] Differential diagnosis include Kaposi´s sarcoma, pyogenic granuloma, hemangioma, Verruga peruana, subcutanous tumors. Lesions can affect bone marrow, liver, spleen or lymph nodes.
Bartonella henselae is the etiologic agent for peliosis hepatis, which is defined as a vascular proliferation of sinusoid hepatic capillaries resulting in blood-filled spaces in the liver. in HIV patients and organ transplant recipients. Peliosis hepatis can be associated by peliosis of the spleen, as well as bacillary angiomatosis of the skin in HIV patients.[22]
Trench fever, also known as 5-day fever or quintan fever is the initial manifestation of Bartonella quintana infection. Clinical manifestations range from asymptomatic infection to severe illness. Classical presentation include a febrile illness of acute onset, headache, dizziness and shin pain. Chronic infection manifestation include attacks of fever and aching in some cases and persistent bacteremia in soldiers and homeless people.[23]
Treatment of infections caused by Bartonella species.[24][25]
Disease | Adults | Children |
Cat scratch disease | no recommendation | no recommendation |
Retinitis | Doxycycline + Rifampin | unknown |
Trench fever or chronic bacteremia by B.quintana | Doxycycline + Gentamicin | unknown |
Bacillary angiomatosis | Erythromycin or Doxycycline | Erythromycin |
Peliosis hepatis | Erythromycin or Doxycycline | Erythromycin |
Endocarditis | Doxycycline + Gentamicin + Rifampin or Ceftriaxone + Gentamicin | |
Carrión´s disease (acute phase) | Ciprofloxacin or Chloramphenicol | Chloramphenicol + beta-lactam |
Carrión´s disease (chronic phase: Verruga peruana) | Rifampin or macrolides | Rifampin or macrolides |
While some authorities recommend the use of azithromycin,[26] it's difficult to gauge what, if any significant benefit, is afforded given the often self-limiting course in patients with intact immune function.


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SteveAugust 1998 |
These are a few entries from my journal, which I recently started. I hope that this will be interesting to someone. Probably not.
Well. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I still don't know if I can do it. I think it will be good for me, but I need to do it regularly. I just feel that if I put these thoughts and feelings into words that they will become known to the world. I'm not ready for that.
Basically I'm confused. I have been confused for a long time. I've been confused about everything. It's not just a confusion that you get when you don't know how to work something or how to put something together. It's deep. Rooted in my very being. Because of my inner being. If I wasn't the being that I am I wouldn't have a problem. But I am, and I do. And it sucks.
Some days I just want to die and others I feel wonderful. Sometimes I want to cry. Sometimes I drive in the car and sing out loud without a care in the world. But usually when I do, I realize that another may have seen me. Then I think about what I look like, who I am, what I am and wish I could die. Or I'll be at work just having a nice time, talking with somebody and then it will hit me like a load dropped from above. "Look at who you are! It doesn't matter how good it seems from your point of view, just think how they see you. You're a freak." Not a good freak, not the kind that people joke about, but the kind I hint at, hoping that they will see. A bonafide, outcast, freak.
And I don't know what to do about it. I don't want to live the rest of my life like this. But I'm too confused to know what to do. Maybe I'll figure it out someday.
Slow day. I didn't have to go to work until 1, so that let me sleep a little longer, and take a little more time getting ready for work. That was nice, except that Mom used that time to 'talk' to me. Basically bug me about all the petty things I haven't done. But she also squeezed in the question of, "Am I going to church tomorrow?" As nonchalantly as possible I told her, "If you guys are." Which brought about the barrage of questions, "Do you like our new church? Are you going to the college group or with us?" After grunting my vague answers, hoping that she wouldn't talk to me anymore and let me finish my yogurt, she asked the kicker. "Are you interested in church anymore?" Well, that was too much for me. But I couldn't let her know of the conflict I've been feeling. So as always, I just uttered a meek affirmation of my willingness to go to church.
She apparently decided she wasn't going to get anywhere with that because she changed the subject to my sister. She felt the need to tell me to be nice to her. Isn't that obvious? I'm not a total asshole. I don't know why they didn't see it coming. It was totally obvious. He went home to his parents, and was giving her any excuse he could about why he was staying. I don't know why he broke up with her. I don't really care. What bothers me now is that she is totally devastated. I'm sorry for her; it would be best if she just got over it. That's what I do. I've just told myself to get over things, to not let them affect me. They do though, but I don't let anyone know it. Aside from my usual 'blah' demeanor, which is enough to make it difficult for people tell the difference between whether I don't care, or I'm totally depressed. It's worked for this long, but I don't know if I can keep it up forever without destroying myself.
Work was especially slow today. Nothing really happened, it was just another day. I don't mind it though, even though it's another day lost. Lost to what? I don't know. I feel a potential for more, but I don't know how to use it.
I don't know. I'm going to bed.
I don't know what to do. I went to Godzilla tonight with Jan. I need to tell her right out that it isn't ever going to work and that we shouldn't even try. I can't do it. Even in the midst of all my other confusion, I have a clarity about that. It drives me nuts when she touches me. Not the kind of nuts most guys go though. It really bothers me when she does it in public. It makes my skin crawl. I don't know what I would do if she was a beautiful model. I don't think it would matter though. I can recognize beauty, but I'm not attracted. Kind of like that scene in "As Good as it Gets". She's more than a friend, and I don't want to lose that. I think that's partly why I've entertained this relationship with her. Even though some of the things we've done in the past were exciting, it just never felt right.
For almost the first half-hour of the movie she had her hand on my knee. I just ignored it. I felt so mean. So rude. But what am I to do if I have to live my life in deeper misery than I already am because I feel sorry for her. I've already told her once straight out that I don't think the relationship would ever work, and several times less explicitly.
She knows why too. But she's trying to change me. It's because she thinks it's 'the devil'. Maybe it is. Maybe I am condemned to hell. At least it won't be much different than it is here on earth.
Going back earlier in the day. I went to Eric's house to watch Starship Troopers. I didn't really care what we saw, or even if we saw anything. As long as I could see him. But that's my problem. When I'm with him, I don't know what to do. I'm speechless. I feel like if I say something he might think something that I wouldn't want him to think of me. I feel like if I express an opinion for something that he doesn't share, then being the talker he is he will let me know he doesn't feel the same. When he does that it's like a sword cutting through me. It is disapproval for me, not my opinions. So I just shut up.
He asked me to come to his RPG group tonight. I would have loved to spend more time with him, even though I'm not interested in the game. Instead, I made up an excuse that The X-Files was coming on, knowing that it was a rerun I've already seen. I don't know why exactly. Self-preservation? To preserve myself from his other friends. From seeing him with people that he apparently enjoys much more than I? Maybe.
I wish I could tell him. I wish I could tell him, and that he would at least be a supportive and understanding friend. I wish that I could tell him, and that he would say he felt the same way. I've seen things in him that might say, 'Yes, he is!' He isn't though, and that will never happen. He was raised by Christian parents that have ingrained into his soul that people like me are wrong. That I need help. I do need help, but not that kind.
Someday I will tell him. No matter what it takes. I will tell him. Whatever I have to do to get to the point that I can say those words, I will tell him. With whatever response or consequence comes from letting him know, I will tell him. Even if it means that I lose him as a friend. But I'm not at that point. I have to have something to fall back on. Something for me hang on to while my world crumbles around me.
I don't know what that will be.
It almost seems insignificant now, but earlier today, in the midst of discussion it was brought up that I will someday have to be married so that I can provide my parents with grandchildren. I simply sidestepped the declaration with my usual grunt. I'm not ready for that discussion.
The mortar is beginning to loosen.
More entries will come in future months. If you feel that I am worthy of your email you can send it to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Forever Tango: A Leg-Wrapping Argentine Joy-Ride with DWTS' Cheryl Burke
Watching expertly executed tango will make you wish you had the coordination to whip effortlessly around the floor while gazing into the eyes of a dude with creative sideburns. Since you probably don't (neither do I) (how sad for us), Forever Tango will fill that gaping rent in your soul.
How women can flick their legs so quickly in such high stilettos while remaining so sultry is one of tango's great mysteries. Solved in part by svelte tango vixens like Victoria Galoto, formerly of Alvin Ailey, and Bay Area native Cheryl Burke, of Dancing with the Stars fame. Forever Tango is a leg-wrapping Argentine joy-ride celebrating the sounds and movement of tango, from turn-of-the-century brothels to upper class soirees. A spectacle of tapping feet and arching backs, the momentum builds steadily from low-gliding seduction to impressively technical lifts.
Smuin's Christmas Ballet: It's Like the Holidays Gone 'Glee'
If you prefer deceased rock legends to nut-cracking soldiers and vixens to fairies, hit up Smuin's Christmas Ballet for this year's dose of athletic holiday cheer. Blue Christmas-crooning Elvis catches shrieking blondes and hoists them over his head while his hips gyrate wildly. A mini-skirted flirt bats her lashes for diamonds and a line of stool-wielding vamps oust the Sugar Plum Fairy. Drooping evergreens get the chainsaw and a woman eludes her very persistent date.
Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie
If the standard Nutcracker spectacle strikes you as insipid or expensive or just too darn reminiscent of enforced family outings, try Dance Brigade's Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie. Krissy Keefer's refreshing version of the nut-cracking holiday confection turns Clara into an undocumented worker for a wealthy family and Drosselmeyer into the pink Mohawked gay son, who presents Clara with a freedom-fighting South African nutcracker.
Encounters: New Moon Silk Road
Inspired by the fabled Silk Road (the western world's first connection with east, now symbolizing cross-fertilization of everything from music to spice racks), Ballet Afsaneh spent the past year orchestrating a collaboration with acclaimed local artists from the Central and South Asian diaspora. This impressive year-long exercise culminates in a performance blending dance, music, and text from the historic trade routes of Eurasia.
ODD at ODC Theater Speculates on the Nature of Flesh and the Human Condition
Ballet. Tap. Jazz. Modern. Hip hop. Rhythm and Motion. All forms of dance you're familiar with. Wheelchairs moving effortlessly in a seamlessly choreographed work of art—now, this is a dance concept you may never have heard of. This weekend, inkBoat and AXIS Dance Company come together to present ODD at ODC Theater, a collaboration inspired by the Scandinavian painter Odd Nerdrum whose work plunges to the depths of human condition, exposing loneliness, fear, hatred, birth, and death with uncanny precision.
Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance Comes To Berkeley
Laudatory quotes flow around Hubbard Street Dance like fog down the Richmond - and deservedly so. One of the first dance companies I ever saw perform, Hubbard Street set me up as a dance lover for life - it's the type of performance you recommend to friends and then invite yourself along. And they're moving more brilliantly than ever. The seventeen-dancer ensemble hits Berkeley this weekend, where they'll perform West Coast premieres of Nacho Duato's Arcangelo, Alejandro Cerrudo's Deep Down Dos and Blanco, and 27'52" by the incomparable Jiri Kylian.
JumpstART: A Free Day of Dance, Theater, and Performance at ODC Theater
How's this for a cool gig? ODC is throwing a housewarming party to celebrate its brand-spanking-new community performance space in the Mission. But unlike most housewarmings, you'll be the one getting the gift.
Haven't yet had the chance to witness Joe Goode's masterful choreography? Always been dying to see a skit by Killing My Lobster? Secretly want to get in on the madness of a Youth Speaks poetry slam? Curious about playwright/director Mark Jackson's work and Lily Kharrazi's world music? This Saturday is your chance to tap into the arts for free.
Art Goes Live on Market Street
Starting today, you may notice some unusual activity occurring on Market Street. Don't mistake it for the usual cast of crazies known for loitering and creating ruckus of all sorts on the sidewalk. These people aren't homeless and begging for money, but rather make up a troupe of characters telling the story of eight prominent African Americans who lived and worked near Market Street during the mid-19th century.
Lizz Roman: This Dance, This Place
Known for captivating choreography in unconventional spaces, Lizz Roman hits Danzhaus this weekend, sending her dancers on another athletic trawl through the halls and stairways of the sometimes nightclub in Potrero.
ODC's Summer Dance Sampler
If you're feeling the overwhelming urge to feast your eyes on modern dance and your teeth on bites of salmon (um, no promises on the salmon, the press release didn't include a menu), head to the Mission for tapas, ODC-style.