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Ganda — The minister of Justice, Rui Mangueira, manifested Saturday in Ganda Municipality, central Benguela Province, his concern about the current state of degradation of the civil registry office, notary and identification services operating in the region.
According to the government official, the sector's structures are somewhat degraded, primarily services of registration and notary, with the provincial government of Benguela guaranteeing the construction of a Justice Building in Ganda.
The minister also inspected the state of operation of the one-stop shop for entrepreneurs (BUE), whose business continues smoothly.
During his stay in Ganda, the governor held an informal meeting with the local administrator, Caetano Mateus Lopes, to learn about the social, political and economic reality.


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That's what I figured, Bob. Like the posed photos of the entire family outside of their farm home that were common of the mid to late 19th century, complete with the horses/mules and milk cow.
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"P-P-Please Mr. Kennedy
I don't wanna go (please don't shoot me into outer space)
I sweat when they stuff me in the pressure suits
Bubble helmet, Flash Gordon boots
Nowhere up there in gravity zero (outer...space)
I need to breathe, don't need to be a hero (outer...space) -- "Please Mr. Kennedy" (Inside Llewyn Davis)
"Without going out of my door,
I can know the ways of heaven.
Without looking out of my window
I can know all things on Earth.
The farther one travels
the less one knows" -- "The Inner Light" (George Harrison - via Lao Tzu)
"Never get out of the boat.
Absolutely goddamn right." - Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) - Apocalypse Now
|Vinny Barbarino in the original
Those poems are long gone. My mom threw them out, of course. But their exact existential ennui is all over Gravity and Inside Llewyn Davis (both 2013), which in turn resembles Bubble Boy (2001). The three might just as well be remakes of one another: the same overall message reigns--we're all of us trapped in the 3-D space-and-time-suit that is the human body, the egoic gridlock that is the mind, and the whims of an Old Testament warden that is the soul, all three components relentlessly dragged back into our orbit of desk, car, couch, and bed no matter how high we fly outside the bubble.
It is the penitentiary of our unrealistic hopes preventing us from reaching through the brass bars of expectations towards the gold ring. After all, we know that ring is an illusion.
Better we learn to love illusion directly.
"You know that story of the Russian cosmonaut? So, the cosmonaut, He's the first man ever to go into space. Right? The Russians beat the Americans. So he goes up in this big spaceship, but the only habitable part of it's very small. So the cosmonaut's in there, and he's got this portal window, and he's looking out of it, and he sees the curvature of the Earth for the first time. I mean, the first man to ever look at the planet he's from. And he's lost in that moment. And all of a sudden this strange ticking... Begins coming out of the dashboard. Rips out the control panel, right? Takes out his tools. Trying to find the sound, trying to stop the sound. But he can't find it. He can't stop it. It keeps going. Few hours into this, begins to feel like torture. A few days go by with this sound, and he knows that this small sound... will break him. He'll lose his mind. What's he gonna do? He's up in space, alone, in a space closet. He's got 25 days left to go... with this sound. So the cosmonaut decides... the only way to save his sanity... is to fall in love with this sound. So he closes his eyes... and he goes into his imagination, and then he opens them. He doesn't hear ticking anymore. He hears music. And he spends the sailing through space in total bliss... and peace." -- Rhoda (Britt Marling) - Another Earth
The ticking, man, Brit Marling, you must hear that all the time, by which I mean the clamor of your geekboy devotees: those of us in love with your heavenly hair but confused by your weird mix of self-serious grad school high conceptual sci fi and skeeved by the wussy hipsters you stock your films with. So much potential so unsatisfying, so ultimately anemic. Those shaggy dork boys need some sunshine, Britt! They're pale. They make the hipster boys in Ti West movies seem robust. They'd break like glass goblins with the gentlest of knuckle taps. I'd fight them for you, Britt Marling. You remind me of a girl I used to know in college. She's older now though.
Save us all from the beauty-remover that is age, Britt Marling!
But if you bear her ticking quote about old Yuri up in space in mind with the upper deck Llewyn Davis ditty atop, recorded in the same approx. early 60s time zone as Britt's Another Earth anecdote WOULD have taken place, you realize there's more going on here than either film quite grasps --there's a very real trepidation about being next in line to be shot into space for both these films, and for Gravity the trepidation is in staying there. Britt only wants to go up in space to escape the shame of having killed a kid in a drunk driving accident; Sandra Bullock goes in space to escape the pain of having a daughter killed in a drunk driving accident. Meanwhile I'd spoil the plot to explain whose drunk driving and who or what they hit in Llewyn, but either way, without shame or grief to propel them there seems no real reason for these characters to ever escape other than such trite Screenwriting 101-style motivation
But the Coens can't imagine what else folk singers were for if not to express trepidation about having to die for their country. And in 1961 folk craze there's still no Vietnam to name Llewyn's generation. Vietnam, the war that made Milwaukee famous, that made Walter crazy with PSD-by-proxy, that gave Dylan's protests songs resonance for a young male populace pinioned by American flag pitchforks at the border between Canada and Cambodia. Without a war to name them the 1961 West Village scenesters of Inside Llewyn Davis can only float in the misty white smoke over the dark green corduroy; the color scheme and lighting like what it must feel like walking through an unlit folk museum in the middle of the day while slowly going color blind. Aurally, there's way too much quiet and too much resonance - old Llewyn can hike his guitar all over creation, whip it out and boom it's perfectly tuned and the sound resonates like you're listening to yourself in earphones with a good condenser mic, ne'er does he have to play over clinking cups or drunkards. Like Mad Men before it, and after it, this is a land where you can actually whisper at a bar and be heard from across the table.
But symbolically, it's the best film about elliptical orbits since The Werkmeister Harmonies!
Gravity has orbits too, and since there's nothing to slow you once you start moving, just bumping into someone can send you rolling along in an infinite terrifying somersault, until you're sure you're going to just hyperventilate up your remaining oxygen and die still somersaulting endlessly out into deep space, endlessly endlessly oxygen draining from your panicked huffing --until George Clooney comes to your rescue, time and again, and harrowing near death escapes and space station leap-frogging and immanent metaphysical evaporation come and go but your suits and pods always be pressurized. Sandra Bullock's incredible module hopping routine here has no correlation in any other film except, I think, The Swimmer, but it's just another orbit of cramped coffins--the average American's stations of the cross: bed, car, cubicle, car, couch, bed are interlocked space modules which she swims through in various space suits and in her underwear! But most of all she finds orbits --everything that goes past her is coming back around maybe twice as fast.
Such interlocking elliptical orbits are the Coens stock and trade, as folk musician Llewyn Davis says after "Hang Me Hang Me," the number that opens and closes the film and we have to wonder if it's the same night a, "it was never new and it never gets old." In Gravity, Ryan seeks a space ship or vehicle to escape her orbit, but Davis is the space ship, old and new and never getting old and it's a folk song around and around, just like any musician playing the same song night after night until he needs to suss out new ways to divert himself within it. He can't escape an orbit he doesn't admit exists, because it would mean acknowledging the ceaseless ticking of Britt Marling's spaceship's funeral clock. He's learned to sing over it.
He'd rather quit than make any artistic compromise that might jeopardize his folk failure; the basement clubs he plays in resemble (no doubt intentionally) medieval dungeons, spotlights coming in from above and the side like stray rays of sunshine down into Poe's pendulum swingin' pit -- and Corman's adaptation made in 1961, the year this is all set -- no doubt the Coens are champing at the bit for the days of Roderick Usher. I kept expecting Llewyn to catch a screening. Maintaining that allusion would have been nice, but instead the Coens cram in unlikable anachronisms like the dago red cafe owner, to rob the folk scene of every last ounce of solidarity, as if the Coens don't know the difference between a coffee house and a strip club."there's no success like failure,
and failure's no success at all" - Robert Zimmerman
But the Coens have never been even close to Altmanesque. People rarely talk in their films and dialogue certainly doesn't overlap like, so we must deal with the subject in isolation, ala Kubrick, forcing us to wonder: are they making movies about alienation BECAUSE they hate crowded ensemble cast naturalism, or the other way around. They make Llewyn into Susan Alexander Kane, driven by an inner Orson, seeking the operatic reputation even into the canon of indifference. There is, after all, only one Oscar Levant. So as Don Draper would say, what is the benefit?
But there are oases --the kindness of the Bohemian 'Lovahs'-style Columbia professor academics is timeless, so is the existential aura of the Coen Bros-brand Old Testament god-playing, which this time around is rather merciful. They are still finding ways to insert quotes and themes from O Brother Where Art Thou's source text, Homer's Odyssey into Sullivan's Travels-style deconstructions of the rich kid reverence for the poor working negro sick and sniffling at three AM dawn or whatever. Homer's gods note that men create for themselves "grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns"-- they also throw their proxy life lines and opportunities so he might throw them each in turn away, such as missing the chance for credit and royalties, cashing in on the cowardly claustrophobia of the above-quoted song for nothing more than a few hundred bucks which he quickly tosses away. For Llewyn, the fear of being stuck up above the planet, utterly dependent on a pressurized suit to survive, i.e. famous, is very real because the sun never shines in his current world and he's terrified to find what not being enshrouded by dark clouds might feel like.
Hold on my brother, Paxil is coming!
Bubble Boy (2001) is a round planet onto himself, attracting satellites wherever he bounces. Why is he so much better with people than poor Llewyn? Innocence, man, the naïveté of sheltered bubble child Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal) makes an 'honorable' goal of breaking up an impending marriage between his beloved neighbor Chloe (Marley Shelton) and some sleazy rocker. It's a wish that brings him on his own Candide-like innocent abroad incredible journey -- his pleasant manner is a rarity to begin with in comedy (it wouldn't be as cool if he was, say, Adam Sandler or Rob Schneider). It works because he's a gorgeous, sweet young fellow --the eyes, Manolo, they never lie. So the bubble is just the shell thrown up by any artistic extrovert who can't quite believe he could ever get a hot girl, regardless of how good he might look to himself in the mirror.
The mirror, Manolo, it a always lie.
In his sweet naïveté, Jimmy is really more like the Justin Timberlake character in Inside Llewyn Davis, the happy alive, gentle, kind fellow, open to the universe's giving because he is giving by nature, so earns the instant karma. Jimmy's plucky charm awes everyone he meets -- and though sheathed forever--apparently--in his yellow plastic film, he liberates souls wherever he goes, excepting a few, like Zach Galifianakis at the ticket window, who remains all alone, trapped in his own bubble of a middle-of-nowhere bus terminal.
"A man who has been through bitter experiences and traveled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time" ― Homer, (The Odyssey)
"How his naked ears were torturedI have some problems with Alfonso Cuarón, as underneath his gift for sci fi lurks idealized reverence for a madre's love for her nina that makes John Ford seem cold as Kubrick. I had some deep fundamental problems with the santa-de-madre core of Cuarón's Children of Men. Suicide kits made sense in Soylent Green (see my praise of same here) but if there's no more kids there shouldn't be any more overpopulation, just drunken parties and censorship free TV. The same Cuarón-brand sentimental mierda de caballo comes through Gravity in the form of Sandra Bullock's haunted past, which enables her to have a few scenes of big emotional crisis and acceptance, but it's tacked on, baby, like a poster of Rita Hayworth in reverse.
by the sirens sweetly singing" - "Tales of Brave Ulysses" (Creem)
|Salvation deferred (from top): Rita Hayworth (Bicycle Thieves),
Carey Mulligan (Llewyn), Marley Shelton (Bubble Boy)
What Bicycle Thieves has in spades is a deadpan analysis of the poor person sense of entitlement, oh woe is me, to the point the dad refuses the gifts and advice offered because it conflicts with his idea of himself as a martyr, for example brushing aside the offered ticket for a free spaghetti dinner only to then spend his last few coins on a far less nice-a meal for him and his son. It makes the rich feel better in a way, perhaps, seeing this poor financial planning as evidence of a will to fail --these peasants can't walk away from their conception of themselves as poor and so throw away their chances at wealth (such as the mother paying her last lira on a fortune teller to see if they ever are going to have any money). The Coens stack the deck, Vittorio De Sica fashion, and allow for lots of scenes of scruffy Llewyn hitchiking and trudging across the barren landscapes to Chicago to hit up a hotshot owner of the Cape of Horn, a big dusky club bedecked, like the Lamplight, with posters and memoranda. There's a lot of that memoranda here, amping up the sense that the winsome wand of folk history shall not upon poor Llewyn's shoulder tap, with good reason. He's a a glum tempo pony, destined for the two for a dollar bin underneath the good stuff at Princeton Record Exchange. So there's no emotion, only perfectly-modulated voice and guitar, rich with the idea he's impressing his listeners with the ability to fake 'realness.'
|Brave Ulysses. aboard spaceship Glum Folkie
It's the body, in the end, that is the prison: its incessant whining for oxygen, its overreaction to desired stimuli in a self-sabotage loop; all the illusions of permanence it creates-- one magnificent gesture, unzipping the bubble to kiss the Chloe in BB; going over the cliff hand and hand rather than surrendering to the law, sticking your tongue out to receive that holiest of tab communions in HAIR, or throwing caution to the wind to rescue a cat, or even just preparing for your immanent death alone in an airless capsule, surrendering one's corporeality to get that last minute mirage of freedom--that's the one decision that actually makes a difference.
Egoic fear keeps us locked into our breathing patterns on instinct, huffing that oxygen shit down like it's water. Shit will fuck you up, man, get you addicted to the tree of woe like a masochist Conan. Become an oxygen junky and become a coward when death beckons. Why can't we all be like Jake Gideon and just float into the warm body bag embrace of Jessica Lange? Instead we're slaves to our lungs. We're descended via evolution from those who feared death, not the good dying young. We are the spawn of cowards who survived and procreated as a last ditch effort to stave off the reaper, and who reincarnate as soon as they can to try it again and again. Our genes themselves are afraid of floating in that clear black ether, rejoining into the seamless endless lotus blossoming of the crown chakra like a cliff diver.
As I write this a rerun of SNL is playing on the TV behind me, it's Cee-Lo singing "Forget You." And suddenly the inescapable loop of karma clicks back in place like the revolution of the planet finally caught itself up back on the tape loop; any musician lucky enough to have a big hit (such as Cee-Lo's) is compelled then for the rest of his life to play that same song, the same way, stuck in amber, frozen in time to the one breakthrough moment, to let its original potency be distilled, pasteurized, for mass consumption. Let's Spend Some Time Together Now!
From there it's all downhill to the eventual burying and VH1 resurrection--this is the brilliance of the digital tape. Even now we should be able to find Llewyn Davis' entire early oeuvre with a few key words typed into Spotify. We can recapture the feeling of those coffee houses through the countless live-in-the-West-Village recordings of the era, all remastered onto digital, a perfect auditory capsule for a time when people could smoke indoors and were trusted to make their own decisions. But in doing so we see that Llewyn's world--where everyone waits in hushed reverence for him to finish his mundane songs--is an ever shrinking and expanding bubble, a prison of a thousand dimensions is still a prison, the gravity that paralyzes even Sandra Bullock's astronaut in a holding pattern rotation, like a stationary needle on an LP on a record player in the back of a speeding van. Her life is but the first track; her death but the second.
|Reflections of / the way life used us.
|Through your own reflection, the way out
The ultimate journey for Sandra Bullock's frightened astronaut is ultimately this. It doesn't involve having to be nice to external people; even George Clooney's fellow astronaut eventually seems to morph into the fabric of her psyche, animus as final gatekeeper to the divine; Bullock's real journey is the spiritual one, out in space no one can hear you whine, panic, argue, bargain, hyperventilate, or cast blame. There's no higher mom to cry to; the great thing about Bullock's master class performance here is that her gradual five stages process is so palpable we can almost feel the moments she begins to let go not just of her attachment to life but to her morbid attachment to death as well.
"History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake." ― James Joyce, (Ulysses)
There's only two beings who really wake up from history in this strange world, those in love or on drugs, and meditation-doers-tryers -- or even better, all three at once. Such a trio is a great armor -- Jimmy in Bubble Boy, a weird holy power is given as the ego's fear response is short circuited and it dissolves in a rush of pleasure and obsession and giddiness and loss of appetite that transcends all the concrete skies and yellow depressive bubbles that separate our senses from the fullness of the world. As the Coens seem more concerned with torturing their heroes it's up to us to instill the hope, to reach into the screen with our compassion in ways we don't have to with the holy Cuarón, or in the bouncing Bubble Boy. The difference is all within, baby --it's your perceptions alone... or in the words of T.S. Eliot:
"We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison"
The goal isn't to just not think of a key (almost impossible if you're told not to), but for us to stop thinking of ourselves as separate from the prison walls, the warden, the bars, the cot. You can still be yourself, but you are also your neighbor. You are also the world. Buenos Aires is your right foot. Your urine stream is as Niagara Falls. Every coffee or wine cup a holy grail; every shower a baptism. That is letting go. That is what we mean: the obliteration of the phony separations... this is true peace.
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Stan Bronson Jr. has been the bat boy for the baseball team at the University of Memphis for more than half a century. He holds the "most durable bat boy" title in the Guinness Book of World Records, has a retired jersey on the outfield wall, and is a beloved icon to generations of students and Tigers fans.
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Thursday, 03 May 2012
Some Oddities of Being Old (from 2007)
EDITORIAL NOTE: Time Goes By Sunday Elder Music columnist, Peter Tibbles and his Assistant Musicologist are visiting from Melbourne for a few days.
While they are here, in place of new posts are some vintage TGB stories that I kind of like and hope you will enjoy them in rerun. I won't disappear entirely. I'll be checking in now and then to see how it's going and perhaps join in the comments.
And, IMPORTANT, all Elder Storytelling Place stories linked at the bottom of these repeats are NEW.
It is the oddest thing, sometimes, being old.
I have often taken issue with such statements as, "I'm 65, but I don't feel that old." Huh? Since no one has been 65 before they get there, whatever they feel must be how it feels. What people really mean is, "This isn't nearly as terrible as I believed 65 would be."
But the feeling is more complex than that. It draws on unconscious ageism, misunderstandings of what old age is like, denial of one's age, knowing but not "grokking" that you are nearing the end of life, and most of all that whatever number of years you have reached, you are still and can feel, when you close your eyes, all the ages that have come before.
Any number of occurrences can slam you back to age 10 or 25 or 50: an aroma, for example, a taste, a piece of music you haven't heard in decades. When it happens, for a moment or a few minutes, it is more than a memory; you are there again.
It happened to me last fall at my first T'ai Chi class. The large, empty room, a full wall of mirrors, the polished wood floor and suddenly I was in ballet class again on the day I first accomplished a relatively competent series of pirouettes en pointe.
In that T'ai Chi room, I felt my calf muscle stretch up and down and the snap of my head during each turn, the thrill at controlling my balance through eight, ten, twelve turns along with the Wow! – how good I look doing it in the mirror. It was an important day 50-odd years ago, and I lived it again as both new and a memory in that T'ai Chi room. For those moments, I was 13 years old.
Even if you haven't worked at it much, by 50 or 60 and more, you've gained a lot of knowledge. One of the most important things you've learned is how little you know and that continues to be more true as the years pass.
I always told myself that I'd wait until my old age to re-read all of Shakespeare. I'd save studying the philosophers for then too along with digging deeper into the history of the Middle Ages, and spending the time necessary to really understand Wagner's music.
Yeah, right. In additional to all that, there's always something new to learn and on the day I die, the list of what I wish I understood will be longer than it is now (and undoubtedly still include those items in the immediately preceding paragraph).
On the other hand, so much of life is easier in later years because of the knowledge, experience and judgment gained, sometimes without noticing it's there until you need it. Practical stuff like what's essential to ask when buying a house and how to give dinners and parties without panic. And when it's a better idea to pay someone to do it than making yourself nuts doing it yourself.
By late life, you have answered a few of the big questions too: you know you can't solve friends' problems, but that listening, really listening, is almost as good. And you've learned how to mourn. It doesn't take the pain of loss away, but you know how to feel your way through the darkness and that there will, eventually, again be light.
These are good things, but that other list of what I would like to know keeps growing even though I haven't a chance of fulfilling it.
Then there is a paradox I have mentioned here before, one that becomes increasingly puzzling the more I ponder it.
In my youth and mid-years, I was always in a hurry. Rush, rush, rush so I could get on to the next thing to rush through – and woe unto anyone who slowed my progress. I still get irritated when my time is wasted unnecessarily (the only thing of value we own is our time), but the oddest thing has happened in recent years: it makes no sense to me that as my time on earth gets shorter, I am more willing to postpone almost anything (sometimes never to return) when another catches my fancy.
There's no telling how many unfinished books there are around the house. And some of them even interest me.
Other elders I've spoken with have noticed the same phenomenon and are equally puzzled. Why, when there are so many things we still want to do and know, do we lollygag along telling ourselves we'll do it tomorrow?
It makes no sense.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today – Jackie Harrison: Dandelions and Sunflowers
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I think you must have posted this before I became one of your admiring followers. At least I don't remember reading it before.
You really nailed it. All of the above rings true for me.
Absolutely spot on, Ronni! For example, I, too have shelves of unread books--purchased over the years with the intent to "stock up" for the years when I could not so readily afford to buy--but the "new crop" of books is so enticing, so I'm still buying!! Some of those pre-purchased may never be read, at least not by me. I'm having fun lollygagging though. If I get to it, fine, and if not, that's fine, too. When I'm gone, I probably won't remember what I didn't do! :)
"Why, when there are so many things we still want to do and know, do we lollygag along telling ourselves we'll do it tomorrow?"
Ronni: It seems clear to me. Perhaps because when we've "got it", we've had it.
There are several popular authors today who write about being in the NOW; staying in the present moment; there IS no past or future really, JUST the NOW. The key to superior mental health is staying present and alive to only this moment, so they say. I understand dwelling on sadness will only make you sadder, but the inverse is also true.
There is a therapeutic joy that old memories bring us. Especially when one is in physical pain; consciously drumming up old memories often feels good.
I'm pondering the word "resignation." Is it good or bad? "Can't" was never a word in my vocabulary; if I tried hard enough, my dreams always came true. I'm saying "can't" much more now, and it presents with a sinking feeling. Hard to accept.
OMG I needed this mail today!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going to be 61 next month, and I am in the final year of my MFA in Web Design (taking it slowly to learn the most I can).... my BA is in Graphic Design achieved in 2009....I'm working on a "group project" with classmates and most of them are, well, let's just say I have shoes older then some of them!!!.... and a couple of the others are my daughters age.
We are at the end of a grueling semester and of course I am feeling the pinch as well as they are to get the final designs turned in.
I'm at a time, where I'm putting myself in extreme debt to get this degree so I can go out and work and gain enough experience to teach.... and right now this past week when I'm flapping my wings like "Chicken Little" saying, "...the sky is falling..." and all but two of them are ignoring me.. I had found myself questioning why I am even doing all this and am I an old fool doing something stupid and accumulating debt because of it?
Then I get this mail and this information and I feel so much better. I've joked about my Social Security paying my SallieMae loans, but seriously, it probably will... LOL
Prejudice runs rampant in this industry; sometimes I am met with the attitude that being older, I'm "old fashioned" or not "trendy" enough.... or one time I had one young man tell me, "You're almost 60, what the hell do you know?" when disagreeing with him..... oddly, he barely graduated while I walked the stage with double tassels, the only one in my graduating class with "highest honors" I even had one of my professors tell me that he would not hire me simply because of the age factor... talent wise if he didn't know my age sure.....but knowing my age, no.....he thought he was being kind telling me what he called "the truth".... and maybe it is for most employers....but hopefully not for all.
I see daily the things that our youth take for granted and we as older adults with life experience play down because we have lived in a society that doesn't relish or recognize the "Life Experience" factor that seems to round us all out...
Employers would be well suited to hire us....to them I say:
Not all of us are old in our thinking... I'm into video games, techy stuff owning all of it because I like it... we like all the things that the 20's and 30's all love too... I can't help it that I'm stuck in this old body with a young brain and youthful spirit....but I can tell you...the Employer that...I won't get pregnant and be on maternity leave when you need me most.... I don't call in sick a lot and never because of my kids.... I'm rarely late.... I never miss a deadline.... I can see past my own talent..... I can see into the future enough to see possible issues BEFORE they arise instead of being blindsided.... I am broadminded.... and I don't miss meetings, excessively talk on the phone or watch youTube while working.... (Love it at home though).... and I think with a huge databank of things stored in my brain that sometimes come in handy when least expected.... my attention to detail is usually greater than the "young ones".... and you can count on me... I won't come in at the final hour with excuses....
Sure I walk a little slower and can take a little longer at times to learn things, but once learned I'm solid....and while some will give you 5 or 6 hours in a day of actual work, I give you 12 (on salary) because I won't quit until its RIGHT. I never do "just enough to get by!"
I realize that I am not going to "set the world on fire" with my designs... most designers won't.... but I am a strong designer who will handle all the things that make the $$$$ that the youth find "BORING".... the websites for banks and hospitals and all the bread and butter things...and I'll cause a lot less trouble and hassle for you the Employer while doing it.
So let's hope in another year.... someone will have read this newsletter/article.... and will give me half a chance!!
We do develop a greater appreciation for "time" as we get older. If only we could somehow convey this to today's youth.
Very nicely presented Ronni.
Thank you again. You go ahead so you can tell me (& others) what it's like and that my feelings & thoughts are somewhat normal.
I lollygag along when I don't want to do something.
@ Julie Boelter: You rock. I love your comment. It takes guts to stand one's ground and remain positive and productive in an environment of often mostly ignorant, bigoted, arrogant, clueless people (of all ages).
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Time, budget trap old Warrick County Jail | GALLERY
Structure listed on historic register, complicating restoration
BOONVILLE, Ind. - These days, the Old Warrick County Jail building with no heat and drooping insulation is used to store everything from bicycles and vintage computers to 19th-century deed books.
But once upon a time, the heavy steel doors and stark cells made this a most unforgiving place.
"Definitely hard time," said Chief Deputy Marvin Heilman. "No color TV. No air conditioning. No rec yard."
By comparison, the current county lockup that was built in 1989 is luxurious.
"Prisoners have visits now," Heilman said. "They have access to items from the canteen. Their meals must meet nutrition standards. The lighting must be adequate. That definitely wasn't the case back then."
While the facility that was built in 1876 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it's been vacant for several years. If folks want to visit, they have to get the key from Roger Emmons, the county administrator.
"The County Council has been approached on several instances to try to save the building, but there just isn't enough money," Emmons said.
"You'd need at least a half-million dollars," Heilman chimed in. "It needs a new roof and a new front porch."
The national listing, Emmons noted, "means there are a lot of rules attached to any kind of repair. You can't just tear it down. You'd have to hire a consultant for the design work."
"And, of course, the project would have to be paid for. The county would have to issue bonds and that would mean a levy on residential taxes."
Emmons doesn't hold out much hope for landing a grant.
"Just about every town in the country could spend money to fix up old buildings. There would be a lot of competition for the funds."
Heilman steps inside one of the old cells that's been preserved.
"These metal bunks make it look more like a cage," Heilman said. "Other than the addition of the commode, this probably looks a lot like it would have in the 1880s, especially the steel door."
A section of a jail wall is protected by a glass case.
"This graffiti here probably goes back at least to the 1960s," Heilman said. "The men would use pencils, forks or knives from their eating utensils for the scribbling. Those items weren't forbidden. They weren't as concerned for the safety of the officers as we are now."
Recognizable names on the wall include Jack Kendell, a former inmate, and Larry Casey, a onetime jailer. One con scrawled that it's better to serve the 60 days than pay the $90 fine.
When the old jail was built, the sheriff and his family lived upstairs. Access is by a winding staircase.
"It looks even worse up here," Emmons said, shining his flashlight at a section of missing ceiling. "I'm surprised we're not seeing things that are flying around."
The county administrator recalls escorting a family to the old jail who stopped in Boonville on vacation.
"It turns out one of the men was born in a bed in the upstairs portion when his father was sheriff."
A senior citizens group met at the old jail until about five years ago.
"Now we only come in here when we need to store something," Emmons said. "It will probably look the same 10 years from now. I don't see any change of status."
Heilman grinned.
"Might be good for a haunted house at Halloween."
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I was wondering. Do you teach your kids about finances? I mean really sit down and educate them about what money means. And I'm not just talking about this is what a dollar looks like; this is what a $100 bill looks like. No, I mean explaining that it is a medium of exchange, an element of accounting, and a store of value.
In the raising of my kids I have neglected to really educate them on the meaning of money and what its purpose is supposed to be. This is what they need to understand.
Money is a medium of exchange. Throughout the world we all have decided to accept it in making transactions. Businesses, dealers, traders accept money in exchange for their goods or services. And we all choose to accept money in exchange for the property of our labor.
It is used as a unit of accounting. This significant element of money provides us a way to identify and communicating value of something. This convenient and simple unit of accounting allows people to communicate the value of things very easily. It allows us to ask "how much is that pair of shoes?" That this pair is more expensive than that pair or that I need to work a few more hours in order to afford them.
Money allows us to accumulation or store the value of our labor in a pile of cash. For some our labor is worth more than others, but in the end for all of us we can measure our hard work in the reward of money. Without this measurement, we could not set aside and store this compensation for later use. If we were paid in bushels of corn how would we set this aside for later use? Being paid in gallons of milk would only see our hard earn efforts sour in a week or two.
Money can be in any form, but the best is easy to carry, light weight and can be easily broken into smaller units for exchange. Try hauling those bushels of corn to the store to but that new refrigerator.
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Dexter St Louis can boast of being the National Champion in 1983 as a 15 year old and then in 1985,1987,1990,1991, 1999. Caribbean Champion in 1998 in Trinidad, 1994 in Trinidad and 2005 in Guatemala more than any other Trinidad and Tobago player, not to mention the many doubles titles with Anthony Brown and mixed doubles titles with Rheann Chung. He went on to represent us with distinction winning a game but losing 1/3 to the Brazilian legend Hugo Hoyama.
St Louis after 5 years in the US got his opportunity whilst representing T&T in Martnique. Since age 24, he has played professionally in France flying the flag of Trinidad and Tobago. During that time he has had victories over top ranked players in the world of Table Tennis, including Carl Prean, Hong Kong's Lo Cheung Tsung and D.R Jin Lue.
At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he stunned England's top players Andrew Baggaley and Terry Young, but it was not enough for an historic win against England with the team of Reeza Burke, Courtney and Dexter losing 2-3.
Dexter St Louis has won medals at CAC level for Trinidad and Tobago, and has a highest world ranking in the 200's. However, the only ranking tournaments in which he participates is when representing Trinidad and Tobago. To be ranked so highly from one or two tournaments is a tremendous achievement. Dexter St Louis has a lot to offer in the service of table tennis in this country.


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All over the country, dark places are disappearing from the map. Computer images based on NASA photos show a steady spread of lights across the land, and the projected view of 2025 imagines the entire country east of the Mississippi as one great rash of yellows and reds, the most intensely populated areas blisters of white. Even west of the great river, only scraps of black remain, each surrounded by a civilization gnawing at its ragged edges.
Seen from satellites at night, our planet's continents burn as though on fire. Across the globe, the collected glow from streetlights, parking lots, gas stations, shopping centers, sports stadiums, office buildings, and individual houses clearly details borders between land and water, sometimes spreading even into the sea on squid fishing boats, their spotlights built to mimic noonday sun. It would be one thing if all this light were beneficial. But while some does good work—guiding our way, offering a sense of security, adding beauty to our nightscape—most is waste. The light we see in photos from space, from an airplane window, from our 14th-floor hotel room, is light allowed to shine into the sky, into our eyes, illuminating little of what it was meant to and costing us dearly. In ways we have long understood, in others we are just beginning to understand, night's darkness has always been invaluable for our health and the health of the natural world, and every living thing suffers from its loss.
Not long ago, I decided to see for myself what was left of the night. I would travel from our brightest, most intensely lit cities into the desert west, to a place where I could experience real darkness.
We like to think that darkness "falls," as though it were like snow, but as the earth turns its back to the sun, darkness actually rises from the east to wash and flood over land and sea. If you've ever stood at dusk and seen a gloaming on the eastern horizon, as though clouds were gathering, a thunderstorm brewing, that's what you're seeing—the earth's shadow as we rotate into it. What we call "night" is the time when we are caught in that shadow, a shadow that extends into space like the cone to Earth's ice cream, a hundred times taller than it is wide, its vertex 860,000 miles above the earth. Dawn comes as we rotate out of that shadow into the edges of direct sunlight.
Humanity evolved over millions of years to this rhythm of bright days and dark nights, and it's only within the past century or so that we have disrupted this ancient pattern. The potential consequences—according to sleep researchers, epidemiologists, cancer researchers, and other scientists—are enormous. New research suggests that confusing our circadian rhythms and impeding our production of the darkness hormone, melatonin, has the power to dramatically harm our body's ancient codes.
The World Health Organization now lists night-shift work as a probable carcinogen, and working at night has been linked to increased risk of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease. While those working third shift are affected far more than the rest of us, almost everyone living in the developed world is affected by nighttime light, including that coming from our electronic gadgets, and scientists are trying to determine how much light causes which problems.
Similarly, artificial light affects our ecosystems. Around 30 percent of all vertebrates and more than 60 percent of all invertebrates are nocturnal, and many of the rest are crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk). While most of us are inside and asleep, outside, the night world is wide awake with matings, migrations, pollinations, and feeding—all now suffering interference.


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Floyd Mayweather Jr. told MLive on Wednesday that Manny Pacquiao "blew his chance" to meet in the squared circle.
Finances and drug testing protocols have long been roadblocks to cementing an extremely lucrative bout between Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) and Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KOs).
"Manny Pacquiao had a chance to make the fight in the past and basically, that's the best place I'd like to leave it," said Mayweather, 36, who was named The Ring "Fighter of the Year" in 1998 and 2007. "Now, I'm feeling like I wouldn't even give him a chance… He had a chance, he blew it, so that's what it is."
Mayweather unanimously outclassed Robert Guerrero on May 4 and pocketed $32 million for the mismatch.
A five-division, eight-belt capturer, "Pretty Boy" is slated to scrap Saul Alvarez on September 14 in "Sin City."
As the reigning pound-for-pound king, Mayweather is a defensive virtuoso defying Father Time with an incredible work ethic.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao was most recently knocked onto Queer Street by Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40 KOs) in December.
Hoping to compete for another "two or three years," the Filipino says a match against Mayweather remains "important."
"For me, that's important," said Pacquiao, 34, the "Fighter of the Decade" for the 2000s. "It's going to be an important part of my boxing record."
"The Fighting Pride of the Philippines" will face Brandon Rios on November 24 at the CotaiArena in Macau, China.
Battling in front of thousands of passionate Asian supporters, Pacquiao should manage to finish the inferior Rios (31-1-1, 23 KOs) within 11 rounds this autumn.
Nevertheless, Pacquiao is a faded pugilistic legend who a neurologist claimed is exhibiting initial signs of Parkinson's disease.
Unfortunately for prizefighting fans, Manny Pacquiao will ultimately retire without having the timeless Floyd Mayweather on his "boxing record."by


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The Game Is Rigged Against Hardworking Americans
July 7, 2015 | By Elise Gould | BlogThe referee might miss an occasional handball, but a soccer game isn't rigged in favor of one group of players over another. Unlike a soccer game, the most powerful economic actors have rigged the labor market against everyday hardworking Americans.
The Supreme Court's Challenge to Housing Segregation
July 7, 2015 | By Richard Rothstein | CommentaryThis article was originally published in The American Prospect on July 5, 2015. In June, the Supreme Court issued several decisions with big policy implications.
EPI Economist Explains the Importance of President Obama's Overtime Rules and How They Can Benefit You
July 7, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | MultimediaEPI vice president Ross Eisenbrey talked with The Rick Smith Show about the new overtime salary threshold and how overtime protections affect U.S.
Why overtime is broken (and how to fix it)
July 6, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | MultimediaSince 1938, we've had laws to protect workers from being forced to work overtime without getting paid for it. It's a simple principle: pay people for the work they do.
Labor Department Proposes Expanding White-Collar Overtime Eligibility
July 6, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | AudioEPI vice president Ross Eisenbrey joined Texas Public Radio's "The Source" to discuss how the new overtime salary threshold affects workers and the economy.
Supreme Court: Fair Housing Act Bars Policies that Segregate, even if Segregation is not Intentional
July 6, 2015 | By Richard Rothstein | BlogIn June, Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and same-sex marriage overshadowed another important decision, this one on housing discrimination, confirming that the Fair Housing Act not only prohibits actions or policies that are intentionally bigoted, but also those that have the effect of disadvantaging minorities, even where no racist intent can be proven.
Professor Hubbard's Claim about Wage and Compensation Stagnation Is Not True
July 4, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogGlenn Hubbard, a leading conservative economist and key adviser to GOP candidate Jeb Bush, does not seem to believe there is a wage stagnation problem.
How Overtime Rules Could Help the Middle Class
July 3, 2015 | By Josh Bivens | BlogThe overtime rules the Obama administration announced Tuesday target genuine problems that middle-wage households face. They also do not require approval from Congress.
Public Sector Employment Is Stuck in the Doldrums
July 2, 2015 | By Elise Gould and Alyssa Davis | BlogA big fat zero. That's how many jobs the public sector added in June. Zero.
Paltry Wage Growth in June Is Another Sign the Economy Is Only Sputtering Along
July 2, 2015 | By Elise Gould | BlogAverage hourly earnings held steady between May and June at $24.95 per hour, a paltry increase of 2.0 percent over June 2014.
The Drop in the Unemployment Rate Is Not a Sign the Tides are Turning
July 2, 2015 | By Elise Gould | BlogWhile job growth was decent in June (though the downward revisions to April and May were disappointing), the news on unemployment was actually less welcome.
As Summer Jobs Season Begins, Teens Make Headway for the First Time Since 2012
July 2, 2015 | By Valerie Wilson | BlogSummer is typically the time of year when we see the highest rates of employment for teens — young people between the ages of 16 and 19.
Redefining American Overtime
July 2, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | AudioEPI vice president Ross Eisenbrey joined NPR's "On Point" to discuss the new overtime salary threshold, and what it means for American workers.
News from EPI › The Jobs Report is a Sign that the Economy Is Continuing to Leave Workers High and Dry
July 2, 2015 | By Elise Gould | Economic IndicatorsIn June, the economy added a disappointing 223,000 payroll jobs and the more optimistic gains for May were substantially revised downwards from 280,000 to 254,000, on top of downward revisions for April.
Are Disability Benefits Becoming More Generous?
July 1, 2015 | By Monique Morrissey | BlogAre disability benefits becoming more generous? The average benefit awarded is roughly a third of the average wage, a ratio that has remained essentially unchanged since 1985. And as Harvard economist Jeffrey Liebman points out, rising inequality and other factors have reduced the value of disability benefits relative to productivity per worker.
CEO Pay Has Grown 90 Times Faster than Typical Worker Pay Since 1978
July 1, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis | Economic snapshotOver the last several decades, inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased from $1.5 million in 1978 to $16.3 million in 2014, or 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth.
What to Watch on Jobs Day: The Coast is in Sight, but We're Still Navigating the High Seas
July 1, 2015 | By Elise Gould | BlogAre we there? No. Are we moving in the right direction? Yes. How will we know when we get there? See below.
Raising the Overtime Pay Threshold Will Help More Workers Get the Pay They Deserve
June 30, 2015 | Fact SheetHardworking, middle-class Americans have seen their wages stagnate in recent years, while for the most part, the benefits of the economic recovery have gone to the wealthy few.
Majority of Workers Who Will Benefit from Updated Overtime Rules are Women
June 30, 2015 | By Caroline Fredrickson | BlogA lot has changed since 1975. The Soviet Union collapsed, we fought (and are fighting still) several wars in the Middle East, same-sex marriage is now legal across the United States, we have our first African-American President, we have the internet.
What the New Proposed Overtime Rules Mean for Workers
June 30, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | BlogToday, the Department of Labor announced that it will raise the overtime salary threshold from $23,660 to $50,440. This higher threshold will guarantee 15 million more workers overtime pay on the basis of their salary alone, in addition to the 3.4 million workers who are already guaranteed overtime pay.
News from EPI › Win for Working Americans: Updating Overtime Pay Rules Will Raise Wages for Millions
June 30, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Press ReleasesThis morning, the Department of Labor announced that it will raise the threshold under which all workers are eligible for overtime pay to $50,440.
Why It's Time to Update Overtime Pay Rules: Frequently Asked Questions
June 30, 2015 | Fact SheetAmericans are working longer hours and are more productive–yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real (inflation-adjusted) hourly wage increase of just 6.1 percent between 1979 and 2013, despite overall productivity growth of 64.9 percent.
Are Disability Rates Increasing?
June 29, 2015 | By Monique Morrissey | BlogA closer look at the evidence shows that SSDI benefits have become, if anything, less generous. Moreover, even research cited by critics shows SSDI receipt has a negligible impact on work effort because few applicants, including marginal applicants who were denied benefits, are able to earn a living afterward.
An Updated Analysis of Who Would Benefit from an Increased Overtime Salary Threshold
June 26, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Will Kimball | BlogIn a 2014 analysis, former EPI economist Heidi Shierholz estimated the share of salaried workers who were covered by the overtime salary threshold in 1975 and in 2013. Now, in updating this analysis, we want to be as precise as possible in identifying the workers who will be affected by the updated salary threshold rule.
Refugees Deserve Support in America, Not Just a Home
June 26, 2015 | By Daniel Costa | BlogOn World Refugee Day, The Hill published a Contributors piece by the libertarian Cato Institute's immigration policy analyst, Alex Nowrasteh, headlined, "The US should be a home for refugees." In it, he offers a brief history of refugee policy and flows into the United States over the past century and suggests that the United States "should … allow more to settle here." That's a noble sentiment, but the headline is misleading because it leaves out the substance of what Nowrasteh proposes in order to help make this happen.
Time to End the Vicious Cycle of Inequality Begetting Unequal Education
June 24, 2015 | By Emma García | BlogThat early education inequalities are a reflection of economic inequalities raises serious concerns about the presumed relationship between education and social mobility. It also calls into question the claim that we can reduce income inequality if we just focus more on education.
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Kindergartners Lag in Reading Skills
June 23, 2015 | By Elaine Weiss and Emma García | Economic snapshotThe most socioeconomically disadvantaged children lag substantially in reading skills as early as kindergarten. This skill level rises along with social class. For example, children in the highest socioeconomic group (the high SES fifth) have reading scores that are significantly higher—by a full standard deviation—than scores of their peers in the lowest socioeconomic group.
Hall of Shame: 13 Democrats Who Voted to End Debate on Fast-Track Trade Legislation
June 23, 2015 | By Robert E. Scott | BlogFast-track trade legislation is the first step in the process of greasing the skids for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and any other trade deal proposed by this president or any other for the next six years. Last month, the 13 democrats listed in the table below voted to end debate on fast track (Trade Promotion Authority, or TPA), allowing a final vote to take pace. There are strong arguments against the TPP, which will increase inequality and hurt the middle class.
Testimony before the New York State Department of Labor Wage Board: Hearing on Increasing the Minimum Wage in the Fast-Food Industry
June 22, 2015 | By David Cooper | TestimonyThe following is the testimony of David Cooper, EPI senior economic analyst, in a hearing before the New York State Department of Labor Wage Board in Albany, N.Y.
Top CEO Compensation Soars, and Why We Do Not Look at "Average CEOs"
June 22, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogThe reason to focus on the CEO pay of the largest firms is that they employ a large number of workers, are the leaders of the business community, and set the standards for pay in the executive pay market and probably in the nonprofit sector as well (e.g., hospitals, universities).


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On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:04:57AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 08:38 am, Mike Simons wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:13:55PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> > > Someone I know runs a game server daemon but doesn't have
> > > the source for it. It has a bug that I suspect comes from
> > > doing send() calls to a nonblocking socket without checking
> > > for a buffer-full condition. Therefore some sent data is
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> > - Is the binary dynamicly linked against libc.so?
> > (send output from ldd /path/to/binary)
> Um, probably as that's the compiler default. Email turnaround
> from this admin is a bit slow. Where is this question headed?
> I don't think a suggestion of recompiling glibc will get far.
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It is not too tricky to write a little C code which pretends to be
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the around the real functions... doing a little book keeping and then
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You put this library in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD environment
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Dear Dr. Forsythe: I'm really worried about traveling with my dog, Ambrosia, this Christmas. I'm scheduled to fly home to Boston with her for a week, but I'm really worried that she could die on the flight since she is much too big to go under my seat and must be sent as cargo. I've heard so many horror stories of people's dogs and cats not surviving a flight, and I would never forgive myself if something bad happened to her all because my family and l prefer to have her with us for the holidays. What do you think about transporting a 50-pound Bulldog across the country to celebrate Christmas and New Years? Would you do it? – Issie, San Rafael
Dear Issie: Whether or not to transport Ambrosia would depend on her general health and also her temperament. In addition, some airlines offer premium pet service where the pet is boarded last and taken off first to ensure their safety and comfort If your girl is in excellent health and is a calm dog, I believe that it would probably be very safe to transport her with little to no worry that she would arrive in good condition and ready to soak up the family's kisses while she sits under the mistletoe.
However, if she is one of the rare bulldogs that is on the "hyper" side, easily agitated, restless and generally amped up, air travel for her might be rather stressful, and not in her best interest. Likewise, if she is one of those bulldogs that suffers from upper-airway-respiratory-syndrome, the condition comprised of up to four congenital problems that can contribute to difficulty breathing for many English Bulldogs, you may want to consider leaving her home for the holidays with a loving pet-sitter or at a dog camp, where she can be doted upon and worshiped in your absence.
If you do choose to take her, remember that while some dogs can benefit from a very low dose tranquilizer for travel, Bulldogs should NEVER receive sedatives or tranquilizers prior to travel in the cargo area of an airplane. Tranquilizers lower blood pressure and slow down breathing to calm the pet, but this can be dangerous or even lethal for a roly-poly bulldog that is cooped up in a crate in the cargo area of a plane for a prolonged period.
A quick checkup by your veterinarian (who will also supply you with the necessary travel certificate required by the airline) can allay your fears and offer you the reassurance you need so that your wrinkled up, swivel-hipped pet is able to jet east with you for the celebrations. My personal opinion is that Ambrosia sounds like a full-fledged member of the family and no doubt brings joy and delight to one and all; I would make every effort to bring her along-provided your veterinarian gives you the green light. After all, what gift could you possibly bring home to Boston that would be more magical than the huge lumpy sack of coal you've exquisitely named Ambrosia?
Happy Christmas to you and your family. - Dr. F


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At dinner tonight:
Belle: "Mama, look my nipple is growing. It's not as mushy as it used to be."
Lily: "Nipples are so weird."
Belle: "But look, I think it is really growing."
Drew: "It is my understanding that first your nipples bud and then breast tissue grows."
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Lily: "So first your nipple is just a bud and then she jumps {as she literally jumps} and budges out all over?"
Belle: "What are you even saying with this budges out all over?"
Lily: "Imagine if your nipples budge out over your boob and then it was like double boobs......"
Belle: "And then how would the baby even be able to open it's mouth wide enough to get over the double boob to get the milk?"


text: Want to explode your head like in the movie Scanners? Try reading Bill Jay's Occam's Razor and Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others at the same time. I personally believe that some college professors just like to stir the pot just for the fun of it. Someday I'll give you my opinion on both of the books. Personally I am more of a fan of Bill Jay, but it is sometimes hard to argue with ol' Susie.


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Modified Mustangs & FordsEvents
MCA National Meet - Mustangs Meet In The Mountains
The First Tennessee Regional Group, Take 30!
MCA National Meet
Johnson City, TN
May 26 - 28, 2006
There are several MCA National meets around the country each show season.
When Ford Motor Company introduced the low-performance Mustang II in August of 1973, many of us closed the door on the Mustang story and considered the 1965-73 models to be the only history worth preserving. Three years to the month after the II debuted, a hardcore group of fans launched the national Mustang Club of America with a show in Stone Mountain, GA. The (MCA) organization's stated goal was to preserve and enjoy the first-generation Pony car, while quietly ignoring any vehicles Ford might choose to label "Mustang" in the future.
Max Epps attended that inaugural MCA event, where he was inspired to start the first chartered regional MCA branch in his hometown of Kingsport, Tenn. As the legend goes, it was on a cold, rainy November night that same Bicentennial year when Max and nine others met in the Anderson Ford dealership to write the bylaws for the First Tennessee Regional Group. (FTRG) incorporated in '77, with Max elected its first president.
Since its formation 30 years ago, FTRG has been busier than a Republican fundraiser at a Texas barbecue. At the second MCA Grand National in '77 - again in Stone Mountain - FTRG won Regional Group of the Year honors. FTRG hosted its first MCA National event in 1978, its first Grand National in '81 (bringing in a then-record 226 show cars, still impressive today) and other Grand National shows in '84, '91, '94 and '97.
For those of you who don't speak MCA as a second language, we should explain that there are several National events around the country each show season, but only one Grand National. Mixed in with its history of big events are dozens of smaller shows, cruise-ins and charity rides. And we can't forget about the thousands of trophies accumulated over three decades by FTRG members as they attended judged car shows all over America.
When my caravan of Mustangs from Charlotte, North Carolina, pulled into the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City the afternoon of May 26 for the "Mustangs Meet in the Mountains" 30th Anniversary show, we were greeted by MCA's and FTRG's famously effi cient staff.
I was driving a beautiful 2005 Satin Silver Mustang GT coupe, courtesy of Carolina Regional Mustang Club president Greg Sullins, who had pulled his '66 and '73 coupes in one gigantic enclosed trailer. FTRG member and 20-year MCA veteran Steve Smith ran through a list of questions about the car: was the owner an MCA member (yes), did I know his membership number (no), how many miles on the odometer (20,000 and change), did we have a fire extinguisher onboard (probably)? Steve was taking me through the classification process, which is the first step for anyone entering an MCA National or Grand National event.
"Classification is how we help owners determine the best category for their car," Steve told me. "This especially helps first-time participants, but it keeps regular show people from entering a class 'beneath' them and taking trophies they might not deserve."
The process only takes five minutes, and everyone has to do it unless they pay an annual fee to secure classification status ahead of time.
Steve was the first of many people I would meet during the three-day show whose Mustang interests covered both old and new models.
"I had a trailer problem and could only bring one car to the show: my '93 5.0-liter LX convertible. It's triple black, and I just bought it last month. My '65 K-code convertible had to stay home."
Green classification sheet in hand, I coasted down the hill to the registration tent and met Margaret Davis, an FTRG member. Greg's '05 GT was not one of the 268 pre- registered cars, so he filled out the paperwork and paid the $40 show fee while I talked to Margaret.
"We should have about 40 drive-ups this weekend," she estimated, "so figure on more than 300 cars."


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The world's need for access to cheap, completely clean, inexhaustible electricity.
A safe, clean nuclear fusion reactor capable of "net gain" within 5 years.
General Fusion is compelling because it represents an absolute game changer, with the potential to demonstrate the "holy grail" of clean energy production on a modest budget in a reasonable timeframe. We did more due diligence on this than any other investment and the technical path the company has set out has been expertly validated at every stage. This is about the biggest risk/reward ratio ever seen in the venture capital business. If GF succeeds in getting Net Gain when forecast, the world will finally have a chance to see if the "holy grail" of energy generation can be achieved. This would be a stunning outcome.
The team's unique combination of technical creativity and practical ingenuity. The technology they have developed combines some 30-year old ideas about plasma formation together with a brilliant mechanical engineering idea and up-to-date off-the-shelf DSP components. It builds on the huge international investment in scientific development in fusion over the last 50 years, hopefully giving it a practical outlet in the engineering of a real power plant.
This completely changes the world's access to cheap, completely clean, inexhaustible electricity. It means the end of electrical generation by coal, or nuclear fission, and maybe ends any reasonable chance of success of the standard "renewables". If the electricity is generated at the forecast $.05/kWh, it will mean methanol can be made cheaper than today's price of gasoline, and would be carbon-neutral, and would not require any new fuel infrastructure. The impact on geo politics would be immense. If achieved in time, it would possibly avert complete climate change catastrophe.


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Clusterin' clusterin' Yeah!
by nick on Oct.21, 2011, under Administration, Cloud, E-Mail, News, Software, Virtualization
So I did a little bit of testing on my new web cluster.
Not bad for not having a real load balancer…
Cloudy With a Chance of Productivity…
by nick on Oct.11, 2011, under Administration, Cloud, E-Mail, Hardware, News, Software, UNIX 101, Virtualization
I've been waiting, and working.
I've been waiting for my work to release a its new product. I've been waiting, politely, for my boss to blog about it. I've been waiting to show off this new product.
I've been working on provisioning, and working with customers on beta testing the new product. I've been working on templates, and auto install media, to make everyone's life easier. I've been working on documentation for customers.
I've been waiting for, and working on, a VMware vCloud Director based product known as vmForge VDC.
This is cool stuff!


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Sex And The City star Kristin Davis was left choked up during an emotional interview about her time at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
The 46-year-old, best known for her role as Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the US show, unsuccessfully tried to stop herself from sobbing as she spoke about her trip as an Oxfam ambassador.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast's Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams on Monday morning the actress dabbed her eyes as she described her journey to the refugee camp where some 380,000 are sheltered after fleeing drought in neighbouring Somalia.
The star had been traveling in Tanzania with Oxfam at the weekend but decided to visit the Dadaab camp after hearing of the number of people arriving there - some 1,300 a day according to the charity.
Kristin explained: "We were really unprepared for how shocking it is. I think the main thing that struck me was how desperate their situation was that they left.
You would never come to this place if you weren't in absolute desperate need because it is in the middle of nowhere, it's extremely windy, hot, there's nothing there but the camp. "And the camp is so overfilled that a lot of these people, who are mostly women and children, have walked 20 days they have lost family members along the way... I might cry," Kristin said as her voice cracked.
But she was unable to contain her tears she explained the plight of one disabled Somali woman who had lost two of her five children and her husband on the way to the camp.