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When I wrote "they" I guess I should have limited it to Mike P. I would have expected you would be in favor, as is Ken Cameron for sure. But Mike calls the shots, and for whatever reasons he's not allowing the course and tools (GPS) to change. I can understand preserving the formula that's working now for the M1K, but how about a second or third rally that is oriented towards difficult navigation? I talked at length with Mike about Diabolical, and he basically said he's not interested.
BTW, it doesn't cost anything to eliminate GPS, and it's quite easy to catch those who don't follow the roadbook. No special equipment nor manpower are needed to do that. Just a couple of carefully placed small course adjustments would do it. I had it all figured out last year, but couldn't sell the idea. That wouldn't be full-blown Dakar Rally style, but an easy to implement step in that direction that would not affect the vintage aspect at all.
Pearlman has already hinted at the partnering with CODE to do a multi-day event (Mexicalli-San Felepe-Ensenada) rally in September? Why aren't you on that "like white on rice"?
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Critical Essay by Thomas Matchie
SOURCE: "Louise Erdrich's 'Scarlet Letter': Literary Continuity in Tales of Burning Love," in North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 4, Fall, 1996, pp. 113-23.
In the following essay, Matchie discusses similarities between Tales of Burning Love and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
In an address on National Public Radio, Amy Tan said she would rather be recognized as an American author than classified among multi-cultural writers as Chinese American. Perhaps for some the same might be said of Louise Erdrich, "the foremost practitioner of Native American fiction." She is most often represented as a mixed-blood, and much of the critical analysis of her fiction centers around her use of Chippewa mythology as a key to illusive meaning in her novels. It is also true, however, that Erdrich is an ardent student of American literary history and culture. One has only to look for references to Melville's Moby-Dick in Love Medicine (1984), Flannery O'Connor's notion of the Christian grotesque permeating Tracks (1988), or Lipsha's language and naiveté resembling those of Huckleberry Finn in The Bingo Palace (1994). And I would like to suggest that her latest novel, Tales of Burning Love (1996), is her contemporary answer—or parallel—to the classic American romantic love novel, The Scarlet Letter.
Those familiar with Hawthorne's plot know that Hester Prynne goes through many stages, manifesting in different contexts various "selves." There is the past self with her husband, Roger Chillingworth, a physician for whom she feels "no love" and leaves behind in Europe. Next, there is her past secret self with the minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, including a sexual act she later claims had "a consecration of its own." Ironically, though some would brand her with a "hot iron" for her "sin," she emerges as a kind of saint, an image of "sinless motherhood." A third tragic self is the Hester who promises Chillingworth she will keep his identity "secret," while he pursues his destructive vengeance on Dimmesdale. Still, another more assertive self surfaces in the forest with her pastor. After confessing her "deception," she throws off the scarlet letter and confronts Arthur directly with the "weight of misery" that this society has laid on him. Her honest talk of love and freedom (their leaving together for Europe) triggers in him a radical change—a "revolution" of "thought and feeling" that borders on the comical. But Hester's most pervasive self is the practical role she plays in public. In spite of either man or her own "shame," her sewing and other service causes the townspeople to "love her," and in this context she outlasts the other major characters in the novel. All things considered, there are at least five different postures (selves) that Hester takes toward reality in Hawthorne's Puritan love story.
Tales of Burning Love is a contemporary romance set in "the beautiful bleak landscape" in and near Fargo, North Dakota. It depicts not one but five "sharp portraits" of women with "fully individualized voices," all married to but one man, Jack Mauser, a mixed up, mixed-blood construction engineer. Neither religious like Dimmesdale, nor scientific as is Chillingworth, Jack is Erdrich's rendition of the modern (rather than a Puritan) male—one who has unfortunately buried "the Ojibwa part" of himself. But it is through him, or the relationships of the women to him, that Erdrich explores such Hawthorne-like themes as the mystery of love between the sexes, the inner and outer worlds through which it is manifested, the dubious connection of sexuality to religion, and how various types of personalities enter into and affect a marriage or lovers' union. In fact, if one takes these women separately, they might be seen as Hester's different selves relating to "a man," in this case, Jack, as well as to the public. Less moralistic and more humorous than Hawthorne, in Tales Erdrich may have written her "funniest, sexiest, most optimistic" novel. But she is every bit as much the romantic as Hawthorne, filling her plot with images of nature, particularly sunshine and snow, but especially fire, to accompany each of the wives' distinctive, "burning" tales of love.
Jack's first wife is June Morrissey. In Love Medicine and Bingo Palace, and now in Tales, June jumps from a truck near Williston in 1981 to get away from its drunken driver, apparently after meeting him in a bar only hours before. We now know from Tales that that man was Jack Mauser, and that he and June were united in a "one-night marriage." The episode is important, not only because June's presence permeates at least three of Erdrich's novels, but because it exemplifies a particular kind of love, one not far removed from that characterizing the marriage of Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. That, too, happened in the past. Never feigning love, she fled to America apparently to escape her relationship with a cold old man; in Erdrich's novel, June had jumped from the pickup and walked away to her death. Roger pursues Hester anyway; and in Tales we learn later that Jack thinks regretfully of his botched sexual affair with June. Later, having burned down his house and faked his own death, he comes to the rescue of his mourning ex-wives caught in the snowstorm in which each has been telling her tale of love. On the way he imagines June "wearing a wedding dress" and "bringing him home." Though some see Jack as simply "a loser," Michael Lee says Jack's other marriages represent a long-time effort to "recapture the love" he had for June, one (unlike Chillingworth's) that is finally fulfilled in Eleanor.
The woman in Tales most concerned, even preoccupied, with sex is Eleanor Schlick, Jack's second wife. As with Hester, Eleanor has a curious sexual past, ironically coupled with a "saintly" present. Nobody in the Puritan community shares Hester's private life, for the object of her love remains "a riddle," and of him Hester "refuseth to speak." As time goes on, however, Hester emerges as a virtual saint, in spite of the Puritan authorities and the people's initial scorn. In her "Divine Maternity" she walks among them as the mother of Pearl and sews garments for the rich and poor as a virtual New Testament model. Stubbs says Hawthorne represents her as a "madonna of Renaissance art" that contrasts with the rigid Puritan code. Others speak of a "spiritual greatness" that transcends her own weakness, the Puritan society, and Hawthorne himself. This is not to say that Hester is a saint, any more than it is true or likely that she and Arthur will get together as lovers, for their motives—which Crews says are "inaccessible to the conscious will"—are different. It only suggests that Hester's protecting the identity of her lover—who does not share her transcendental vision—is in itself a sacrifice of self that is the stuff of saints rather than sinners.
In Tales Erdrich in turn juxtaposes Eleanor's sexual past with the present in the context of sainthood, though her method is different, often comic. A novelist whose "eye for sensual detail is impeccable," she even shares with the reader graphic aspects of Eleanor's former erotic life, including intimate thoughts she remembers from her diary:
He turns me on my back carefully and kneels, his thighs just under my hips…. He comes into me, comes again, quietly and emotionally, looking into my eyes. "You're the one," he says … and we keep going, fuck ourselves stupid….
We also know a great deal more about Eleanor's past than we do Hester's. Specifically, her mother, Anna, was rejected by her father, Lawrence Schlick, a noted funeral director in Fargo, over a past sexual affair between Anna and Jack Mauser. Strangely enough, Eleanor herself then had an affair with Jack and faked being pregnant as a way of getting her parents back together. She even dressed like a kind of "passive martyr," or "Holy Mary"—a virtual parody of Hawthorne's representation of Hester. After leaving Jack, Eleanor went into teaching, but that didn't allay her "sexual need." Fired for seducing a student, she is now nourishing her spiritual life at a convent retreat house in Argus, north of Fargo, while doing research on the first potential mixed-blood saint, Sister Leopolda—whose own story appears in Tracks and Love Medicine. It is in this context that the spiritual dimension of Eleanor's love life comes into play.
While walking in the convent garden with the saintly nun, whose own prayer is ironically "a tale of burning love," Eleanor has a "miraculous" experience connected to her past sexual life. Jack, an engineer, catapults over the convent wall in a backhoe bucket at midnight to visit his ex-wife. In a hilarious episode, including "lightning" and thunder, Eleanor and Sister Leopolda (quite ignorant of what is really happening) end up "worshipping" Jack wrapped in a cloak standing on a pedestal being prepared for a statue of the Virgin Mary. If the whole affair seems like another comic version of something sacred, it also mirrors in a mythic way the union of all great lovers—from the Greek Leda (the name Jack and Eleanor hoped to give their baby) to Hawthorne's own Hester and Dimmesdale. In each case a dubious sexual union, symbolically if not really, seems to have the blessing of the gods.
After Leopolda expires, Eleanor and Jack meet inside the convent where they continue to discuss their love, often realized in secret, but which they have never been able to make work in marriage, any more than have Hester and Dimmesdale. In Jack and Eleanor's case, though they truly loved each other, "fury burned through" their love; "we fought over how we couldn't fight," she says, so she left him—went home to mother, entered college, even flew overseas. In speaking of Hester and Dimmesdale, Hawthorne himself claims that love and hate are often very close; and the same might be said of Eleanor and Jack. Unlike Hawthorne's lovers, however, these two eventually do get together. Late in the novel, after the snowstorm in which she walked away from the Ford Explorer stuck on the airport road in Fargo, Eleanor imagines that the saintly Leopolda appeared and "saved her life"—a life which eventually involves her return to the arms of Jack. Dave Wood notes that the novel, the author's "most sensual," ends with sex on a religiously symbolic staircase, testifying once again to the close relationship in Erdrich (as in Hawthorne) of sexuality and religion.
Jack's third wife is Candice Pantamounty, D.D.S., a dentist, "A professional!" Blonde, beautiful, and "brisk," she is interested in her own career and dependent on nobody. Free, but self-absorbed, her only companion is her dog, Pepperboy. Candy represents that part of Hester that relates to Roger Chillingworth after he comes to America. Hester, too, is free, for no individual or system—not Roger or the Puritan hierarchy—can touch her being. But then something happens. Chillingworth, who has no "household fire" in his heart, commits Hester to secrecy about his identity, whereupon he becomes Arthur's "medical advisor," a role he uses to undercut the man he suspects to be Hester's lover. His approach, motivated by revenge, and done with scientific precision, hits at the "heart's entire substance." In this way Chillingworth destroys Dimmesdale's chance at a full human relationship with Hester, and likewise Hester's with Dimmesdale.
In Tales, a similar pattern occurs. After a hysterectomy, Candy (a scientific type herself) enjoys frequent sexual episodes with men, for there is no risk of pregnancy. An old classmate of Jack's, she meets him again through a dental appointment, has sex with him, and goes hunting with him along with her dog; then they are married. What kills the marriage is Jack's abuse of Pepperboy. After being bitten, he hits and eventually kills the dog, not realizing what that does to Candy. He thinks it is accidental, "a goddamn freak occurrence," but she loses respect for one who misuses "helpless things." Hester's tragic flaw is that, in effect, she permits Chillingworth to tantalize her loved one, Dimmesdale, and only realizes it too late. It is that self of Hester's that Candy represents in Tales—the part that allows another's abuse of someone or something one loves, and indirectly undercuts a burning love of one's own. Candy is more conscious than Hester of what is going on; in Tales it is Jack who doesn't make the connection, but in either case the abuse drives the woman closer to her real lover—in Hester's case Dimmesdale, in Candy's another wife of Jack's, Marlis, who is pregnant with the child Candy would love, but can never have.
Marlis Cook is Jack's fourth wife. She has no Native blood (like June or Dot—Jack's fifth wife), no intellectual/spiritual bent (like Eleanor), no professional expertise (like Candy). She is simply a black-jack dealer at the B & B Bar—a pastime familiar to Erdrich—who meets Jack by accident. Quickly she gets "a thing" for him, and becomes pregnant—the only one of the wives to do so. His reaction, however, is to abuse her—"twisted my arm…. Shoved me. Hit me," she says. What distinguishes Marlis, however, is the direct way she responds. She treats Jack like none of the others; she not only tells but also shows him what he is like. Marlis is that side of Hester who, when the opportunity comes, speaks directly to Dimmesdale about their relationship. It happens midway in the book when they go into the forest together. Here, in letting down her hair and throwing off the letter A, she shows him what it would take to transcend his Puritan rules, to be free, to share her spirit. Sandeen calls this show of passion the "most moving" part of the book—a time when love itself transcends sin, guilt, shame, hypocrisy. And Hawthorne accompanies the event with a "burst of sunshine" in the sky. For Fogel the sun is a natural symbol, "real and indispensable," that is connected with love and never controlled by human law.
In Marlis' tale, she meets Jack quite by accident. She is knocked out after touching an electrical cable and Jack revives her. Later, he again "Dutch-rubs" her paralyzed face, giving her new (physical) life. Grateful, she marries him. "I love you so deep," she says. "Love me back." But he doesn't. In fact, he doesn't stop manhandling her, psychologically or physically—criticizing her makeup as well as twisting, hitting, and shoving her when he learns about the baby. In one way "childlike," but in another "mature-beyond-her-years," Marlis finally concludes: "What the hell do you know about being a woman?" She is much like Hester who through her language and gestures gives Dimmesdale a lesson in being a human being, not a product of a religious system.
Marlis' method, however, is unique. She and Jack are in a motel where she wraps him in duct tape while he is sleeping. When he is powerless, she pierces his ears, plucks his eyebrows, waxes and shaves his legs, and forces him to put on high heels in order to demonstrate what a woman has to go through. Her tactic is a bit different from Hester's with Dimmesdale—external rather than internal—but as with Hester it works, at least temporarily. In the woods Dimmesdale is elated and dances back to town, a new man, determined to become "wholly the lover and flee from all his obligations to the community." In Tales Jack is furious with Marlis, but he gets the point. Later, when Marlis wants to make love, he sees that her action was not a personal vendetta. "I'm using you," she says, and now he responds differently to the "taste" of her hair. Late in the novel, Jack, amid "snow" and "sun," comes to understand and accept many people he had heretofore neglected. He develops a new fire for John, Jr.—"a baby's indignant spoiling squawl of hunger," as well as "a piercing love" for a statue that looked like his mother, June, Eleanor, "All the women he'd ever loved." Though all this may be the result of a religious experience, much of the credit goes to Marlis. Like Hester, she is a good teacher because she is honest, personal, and direct, though in a modern, violent way that is as shocking as Hawthorne's more subtle psychological approach a century and a half ago.
When Tales of Burning Love opens, Jack is married to his fifth wife, Dot—the young arrogant girl in Beet Queen married in Love Medicine to Gerry Nanapush, now in and out of prison. Like Candice, an old high school acquaintance of Jack's, Dot is still impulsive, marrying Jack on a dare. If Hester's needle makes her a valuable part of the community, Dot's "accounting skills" save Jack's business, making her more a "business associate" than his wife; they even "make love with efficiency." Like Hester, Dot is "loyal" to her mate, and if people love Hester because she makes garments for everybody from Pearl to the Governor, Dot (who also knits) is the most practical among the wives. After Jack's mock funeral—he burns his house as a way of avoiding bankruptcy—Dot insists on seeing and handling Jack's ashes (which don't really exist), pays the funeral bills because she is Jack's latest wife, and drives the others to the B & B Bar in West Fargo to get Marlis' vote on what to do with what is left of Jack. In Hawthorne's novel, Hester is the one character, says Baym, "truly concerned with society and human relations"; Dot performs a similar mission in Tales. Less passionate than the other wives, she is the self who functions best in public.
Though the community "cannot do without Hester," says Sandeen, she still feels like a "pariah." In Erdrich's novel, Dot is also the loner in the group; June is dead, Eleanor is the object of Jack's passion; Candy and Marlis have each other—Candy having helped deliver Marlis' baby in the absence of Jack, and the two are together as lovers in the back seat of the Explorer during the storm. Never really divorced, Dot's "first love" is Gerry, but he is gone, or appears only periodically; in Tales he is the hitchhiker who joins the four women in the red Explorer where, "alive in the wrecked cold" after surviving a plane crash, he appears and "sealed her mouth with his."
But such moments are rare for Dot. More significant is that she capitalizes on her distance from Jack. In her alienated state, Hester cultivates a special knowledge of "the hidden sins" in others, the "unsunned snow" that contrasts with her own "burning shame." Dot does something equivalent. Unlike the intuitive Hester, she is aggressive, inquisitive, and brash, but this is her way of exposing others. Initially, she gets Jack to admit that she is "the goddamn fifth" of his wives, and almost stabs him with her knitting needle. "I don't know you from shit," she says, while exposing his secret past with Eleanor. Often the mouthpiece of Erdrich's "pungent and smart" dialogue, Dot abhors superficial talk. At the funeral when Eleanor says Candice looks happy, Dot (a former classmate of Candy's) replies, "Scum floats." Finally, it is Dot who sets the rules for each wife to tell her tale while marooned in the north Fargo blizzard. The least romantic of the wives, Dot is the firebird who sets ablaze the others' secret lives.
Though fond of Jack, Dot finally sees him as her "burnt hope," which is Hester's ultimate view of Dimmesdale. Recovering in the hospital after the storm, it is Dot's mother Celestine, not Jack, who comes to her side. Erdrich seems to use Dot to assert, not sex or romance, but the extended family so important to Native Americans. "Solid, responsible … brusque," Dot reserves her most genuine affection for Gerry, and a big priority in her life is to raise Shawn, whom she views as simply "my part of the deal." Real life, after the romance is over, is Dot Nanapush's role, much as it finally becomes Hester Prynne's, who continues to mother Pearl while serving others after her lover is gone.
So that is Erdrich's story—the five faces of Hester, so to speak, as reflected in the five wives of Jack Mauser. If Hester has a past marriage that has failed, causing her to flee across the sea, that is June Morrissey setting out in the snow near Williston in 1981. If Hester has had a secret life, where the passionate and sexual are intertwined with the spiritual and the saintly, that is Eleanor as she works out her relation to Jack in the convent garden in Argus in 1996, and later (after a vision of Leopolda) in the passionate scene on the stairs with Jack which ends the book. If Hester errs by allowing her estranged husband, now in America, to torture her new lover to the point of death, that is Candice, who is not able to sustain her relationship with Jack because he physically abuses her Pepperboy. If Hester needs to speak directly to her beloved and so takes him to the woods, where her words temporarily free the man from his rigidities, that is Marlis who ties up Jack and literally shows him what it feels like to be a woman. And if Hester must still maintain a public face, in spite of all her inner worlds, that is Dot, the "live-in accountant" of Jack Mauser, for whom personal love is not so important as the daily companionship of a man, the love of her family, and the knowledge that she can makes things work.
There is an irony in Tales that may also be a modern comment on The Scarlet Letter, as Erdrich like Hawthorne focuses on her favorite themes, "the salvation of love" through "the power of narrative." In Tales, two of the women, Candy and Marlis, struggle with each other. Candy, who would like a child, fawns on Marlis' baby—the baby she cannot have. If Jack has a problem with the pregnancy, Candy calls it "a treasure," and it is she, not Jack, who helps in the delivery room. Though at first Marlis resists Candy's concern and affection, eventually their struggle—an important factor in both Hawthorne and Erdrich—brings them together where their "first kiss tells everything." Finally, in the back of the Explorer in the snowstorm, they make love, having come to understand and accept each other as women—something Jack cannot seem to accomplish. For the author it is "an intimacy that rivals any lover's union." This love affair serves as a foil for Hawthorne's portrayal of the relationship of Chillingworth and Dimmesdale—a story of revenge, hatred, and manipulation that destroys both men. It involves a different type of dispute, but the implication is that men have to control, whereas women's struggles lead to self-sacrifice and love. It is another kind of tale of burning love—sinful and scandalous, perhaps, in the eyes of many, but also respectful and caring, much like that between Hester and Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter.
The Scarlet Letter is a romantic novel that represents a landmark in the history of psychological love. Though deprecated by Hawthorne's critics at the time, the novel made a much deeper impression than his other works. One of the reasons, says Cotton, is that "the symbolic" is different from "the real." Hester may have violated the Sixth Commandment, but she emerges as a free spirit who has integrated her sexual life into her being and now, Dimmesdale notwithstanding, lives a rather Christ-like life in public. She has faults, however, as does he, and because of them, the story is tragic—a conflict between religious repression and sexuality. What lives on in the reader, however, is a less-than-rigid notion of sexual love and its relation to holiness. Baym says that society's coming to love Hester shows its willingness to "make room for the human heart and its private needs." And Sandeen claims that in her public life she "bears the burden of man's affective nature, including outlawed passion," which the Puritan society tries to suppress "but cannot do without." For these critics, The Scarlet Letter is, above all, a love story wherein the heroine transcends her culture.
In Tales of Burning Love, Louise Erdrich uses The Scarlet Letter mythologically to paint a rather complex picture of love in a post-Christian era. Jack Mauser may be a flawed human being; toward the end he is still dealing with Lyman Lemartine, the money-driven entrepreneur "planning for a casino" whose devious ways are developed in The Bingo Palace. But Jack is convincing as a modern male, a "satisfying multi-dimensional character." A less-than-successful engineer, he is greedy, he drinks too much, he is egocentric, but he likes and needs women in many ways. June is a fellow mixed-blood Chippewa with whom, even in her fragmented life, he momentarily identifies and ever after pursues her spirit. Dot, too, is connected to the reservation, a steady companion more than a lover, but still there, a crucial part of his work-a-day life. Jack's abusive side surfaces in his relationship with Candy, and it takes Marlis to teach him something about feeling with a woman. It may be in response to her that he ultimately comes to appreciate other human beings—their son, his own mother, all his wives.
In the end, however, Eleanor is his real Hester Prynne, the one for whom his love smolders throughout Tales and finally bursts into flame. Lee says she represents "the passionate reversal" of his "sexual failure" with June. In contrast to Hawthorne, Erdrich makes sexuality, religion, and nature work together, so the ending is not tragic. Early on, Eleanor says:
Her love for Jack was still alive, disguised as everything. It ached pulled from the ground, it drew the air for her chest, sat of her head like bricks, closed across her lips like the wings of a moth.
Later, in contrast to The Scarlet Letter in which Hester departs for the forest after her lover's death, Erdrich in Tales actually brings "the forest" to bear on Eleanor and Jack; they consummate their love at the top of a stairs while outside "spears of grass rustled in their sheaths." If Erdrich is a "master of the heightened intimate moment," that skill comes through such lyrical passages.
One of those coincidences in the novel that perhaps "stretch credulity" is a miracle that sets up the finale—a phenomenon, says Max, Erdrich is "not afraid of involving" in her plots. Having survived the falling statue of a "stone woman"—a mysterious event testifying to the sainthood of Eleanor's idol, Sister Leopolda—we are told he "felt an unbearable heat of emotion, a jet of fear and joy." So both Jack and Eleanor experience epiphanies that change their lives and bring them together sexually, with the stairs adding spiritual significance to their passion. Moreover, says Lee, the images surrounding the encounter suggest a Chippewa-like identification with the earth that Jack had suppressed.
That may be, but the seasons, too, are ever changing and unpredictable. Jack is still a modern male, a businessman, "charming, preening," and "self-destructive." None of these women satisfy him completely, nor does he them. Eleanor says at one time that maybe "we each married a different man," as though it is Jack who has the different selves. Sister Leopolda tells Eleanor in her vision, "You and your sisters are blind women touching the vast body of the elephant, each describing the oddness beneath the surface of your hands." If that is so, then it may be that any one woman, given her needs, must go through five individuals to find one good man. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester's love remains tragically unfulfilled, though symbolically she transcends her loss. Erdrich's love story ends with Eleanor's passionate fulfillment. But it borders on tragedy that her counterparts must find other ways to keep the fire of love burning in a contemporary world, less Puritan but more complex than Hawthorne had ever imagined.
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It is no secret SOA is creating new vulnerabilities. It will be the users who educate themselves about how to protect against those new vulnerabilities, the ones who don't expect someone else in the organization to find the holes, who make the most successful switch to service orientation.
New lesson on SOA messaging
We spend a lot of time these days talking about governance and management when it comes to SOA. There's a good reason to take that macro view, because far too many people get lost in the trees and fail to see the forest when it comes to service orientation. We are talking about enterprise architecture after all, so an enterprise-level view would be appropriate.
That said, you can put the perfect governance model in place and it won't mean a thing if you don't understand messaging. SOA requires a lot of integration work and integration, more often than not, requires messaging. With that in mind we created a messaging lesson in our Service Orientation for Architects School. It features a Webcast with WSO2's Paul Fremantle on service-oriented messaging, in which he breaks down a slew of messaging alternatives, including JMS, HTTP, REST, SOAP, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging and traditional message queues.
Yet more than that, Fremantle delves into messaging practices that will aid you on the SOA front. It's one thing to boil up a big pot of integration spaghetti, quite another to architect a reliable messaging infrastructure. The lesson is focused on the latter.
Fremantle has also penned a tip on service mediation. As part of the Apache Synapse project, Fremantle has been instrumental in defining service mediation best practices.
The goal of mediation is to help create a flexible messaging backbone for your company. The tip covers a host of mediation techniques, including Web Caching, load balancing and message-based routing.
It's an ideal chance to catch up on the architectural underpinnings of messaging as they apply to SOA. Even for those of you who feel fairly confident about your messaging skills, this lesson is sure to give you a few pointers to hone your skills.
BEA, open enough to survive?
It's probably a sign of our times that we view BEA Systems Inc. as a little fish unable to defend itself against larger predators in the software industry ocean. According to its 3rd quarter financial report, BEA is on track to rake in $1.5 billion this year. It still needs to prove in the 4th quarter it hasn't been crippled by Oracle Corp.'s $6.7 billion October takeover bid, which it rejected, but a conversation I had last week with a BEA customer proved enlightening.
The customer in question, a CTO whom I contacted on a totally separate matter and wished to remain anonymous, believes BEA's approach to technology can help it weather this storm.
"They adhere to standards and their tooling is open enough that we see no reason to stay away," he said. "If a change we didn't like occured after a takeover, we don't feel like we'd be locked in with BEA. They get loose coupling. We could unplug from them if we had to."
His basic argument was that BEA has become open enough and embraced heterogeneity to the extent that it can continue to compete for customers based on functionality. It's got a service-oriented defense system.
"We need technology that works," he said. "This takeover drama might be interesting to Wall St., but it has nothing to do with my projects. From a user standpoint, BEA was in more trouble four or five years ago when we weren't sure if they were going to embrace more open systems. They did and because of that we'll continue to look at them."
He reinforced what we already know, BEA has proven successful at selling software during the past decade and it shouldn't be taken for granted that users will stay away from a vendor that has delivered for them in the past. This isn't some overly leveraged wannabe without the means to support itself. BEA has been a viable player in the app dev space.
Here's something I wrote in October about why Oracle might want BEA:
While there's massive overlap between BEA's offering and Oracle's Fusion line, BEA does have three particular strengths that Oracle might be looking to leverage: data services, internal portals and external transactions. Those were the three most popular types of service-based applications our users reported they are either working on or plan on undertaking in the next year. Even more importantly, the demand for these types of applications increased sharply with respondents who reported their companies had achieved some measure of architectural maturity. In other words, the farther along users are with SOA, the more important those projects are likely to become.
BEA has its AquaLogic Data Services Platform, it has its WebLogic Portal product as well as the portal functionality it acquired when it bought Plumtree Software in 2005, and it has the Tuxedo transactional business on which it built itself. So the BEA goose might be sitting on a few golden eggs … and that's not a bad pet for a would-be giant to have.
Yet if that's a good set strengths for Oracle to buy, then it's also a good set of strengths for BEA to have. If a user has a data services, portal or transactional project in the works, then BEA (which reports that more than 60% of its revenues are derived from services) stands to be a player.
While the Oracle bid surely staggered BEA, don't be surprised to see BEA do a fair job of fighting back this quarter. The fact that it has enough going for it to be a takeover target also means it might have enough going for it to fend off Oracle's advances.
SOA, IT's chameleon architecture
I was reading a recent blog entry by Joe McKendrick in which he noted that service-oriented architecture can save money during hard times and add revenue during good times. It got me thinking about something I've heard fairly regularly over the years, namely that SOA often sounds like something out of an infomercial.
You mean SOA slices, dices, chops, cooks things to perfection, cleans up easily, prepares healthier food and has zero environmental impact? You almost expect Ron Popeil to pop out from around the corner and announce that, "But wait, there's more."
Let's face it, SOA sometimes sounds too good to be true. It also leads one of the great misconceptions about SOA, that it's a tidy thing you can buy. People want SOA to be tangible. They want to be able to point to it and say, "There's my SOA." It's why so many glommed onto the enterprise service bus concept. The ESB is a piece of integration middleware that follows certain service-oriented principles, but many made the mistake of thinking that buying an ESB gave you a de facto SOA. It's a natural reaction. When something new and compelling comes along, you want it in your hands, preferably now.
Yet SOA isn't some secret spice that comes in its own box, something you can add liberally to every project. SOA is a consistent and sensible approach to architecting your business. It's rigor and diligence more than technology.
This week we'll get deeper into that issue with a podcast with esteemed IT analyst and co-author of "Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies" Judith Hurwitz, in which she directly addresses the whole faulty concept of "SOA in a box."
That brings me back to the (fair) complaint that SOA sounds too good to be true. Critics are correct that no one thing will solve all your app dev problems. That said, rigor and diligence in building a modular, adaptable architecture is exactly the sort of thing that can help you in mulitple, often diametrically opposed, situations. When the bad times hit, it can help you with cost containment. When the good times hit, it can help you seize opportunities. That's what an adaptable infrastructure does.
Just last week, we had a story that noted an SOA infrastructure had helped Sprint/Nextel speed up integration with new trading partners twentyfold. That's a case of saving you money and making you money in one fell swoop. Doing things in a service-oriented manner creates business agility, which is the real goal.
Building a more agile business isn't something that sounds too good to be true. Large numbers of companies are doing it right now and they are reaping the benefits. It may be hard work, it may require creative approaches to change the corporate culture, but it is not a flimflam promise. SOA is an approach to technology, which opens up a greater number of business possibilities. It can promise more because flexibility is at its very core.
Podcast: SOA, composite applications and data integration
Web services and composite applications, like traditional monolithic apps, rely on data. Without the right data at the right time, the service/application has nothing to execute. In this podcast, Nexaweb Inc. COO David McFarlane talks about how composite applications involve much more than just some slick tools that make eye-popping front ends. He touts data integration as a key element in composite application development and the creation of dynamic user interfaces.
Among the topics covered are:
- The semantic technical challenges involved with data integration
- The organizational governance needed to facilitate data integration
- The creation of real-time, event-driven UIs
- Event-level integration in mashup services
- The role of business intelligence in composite development and service agility
- What constitutes a true rich user interface
10 ways SOA is like a Thanksgiving meal
It's that time of year where people dust off old chestnuts, revive traditions and take a wistful look back. This is something we ran in 2005 as part of a newsletter, but it never had an official home in cyberspace. It only seems fitting that we rectify that situation.
Information technology is a serious business, certainly it's one we take seriously. Even with a major national holiday looming this Thursday we'll keep bringing you the latest in SOA, Web services and integration news.
Yet, let's face it, you probably aren't going to be making that enterprise-altering decision this week or going live with your latest architectural achievement. Too many people will be skipping out early and trying to beat the traffic, with gravy-covered visions dancing in their heads.
We at SearchSOA.com recognize that. This isn't the week you're going to change the world. Rather it's a week to reflect on what you've been doing and what projects will soon be on your plate. With that in mind, here's our top 10 reasons why service-oriented architecture is like a Thanksgiving meal:
- Like a Thanksgiving meal, it takes a lot of work to put together an SOA … and no one wants to clean up the associated mess that comes with it.
- Reuse, the next round of Web services you build are the IT equivalent of next week's turkey sandwiches and soups. You should be getting a lot of meals out of this feast.
- Unless you find a way to spice it up or make it savory, SOA can be dry and a lot of people around the table may quickly lose interest. Also, like a big turkey meal, too much SOA can put you to sleep.
- An SOA project can bring together a lot of people you rarely see. In fact, you probably aren't sure you want to see some of them.
- SOA can give rise to lots of interesting combinations, kind of like turducken (a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey).
- Everyone offers up advice on how to cook up an SOA, but they always leave you with the distinct feeling that they aren't so sure these tips actually work.
- Standards, on Thanksgiving the standards are turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and cranberry sauce. In SOA it's WS-* specifications and communication protocols.
- You can undertake lots of small projects while you've got your SOA bird in the oven
- It takes a solid network and good communication to move all the food around a Thanksgiving table so that everyone gets to pick exactly what they want. In many ways, it's a service-oriented meal dependent on a loosely-coupled infrastructure.
- Screw up your SOA and you'll never hear the end of it.
SOA bloggers wanted
We at SearchSOA.com are looking for the next generation of leaders in the app dev space.
You see, we've got this new blogs section (you're reading it right now) and we know we've got some budding stars out there. We offer a heck of a nice platform with nearly 500,000 site members. It offers the chance to establish yourself as a thought leader in an arena that has become critical to the enterprise.
So who are we looking for?
First, we're interested in end users and integrators. Nothing against vendors, but they already do a fine job of getting out the word on their particular slant on things. What we want is the people who are trying to make service-oriented architecture work, the folks who've had to roll up their sleeves to tackle the untamed world of service orientation. Make no mistake about it, the best resource in this industry is the user community. It's where the best, most incisive information can be found. We've got the platform from which you can be heard, all we need is folks who have something to say.
Second, have a focus. SOA is a broad topic and a good blog will find a solid niche inside of it. It could be data integration or architectural design or runtime management or REST or composite applications or WS-* standards or BPM/event handling or security or network issues. It really depends on where your expertise lies. We're open to suggestion. What we want is smart, articulate people who want to interact with the larger SOA community. Pick your topic and let us know what issues inside of that topic you plan to cover.
Third, send us a sample. It doesn't have to be "War and Peace". In fact, since it's a blog we're talking about, "War and Peace" would be overkill, but we will need to see a sample of your writing to get an idea of what to expect from you. This is going to be a blog, so you're going to have a lot of freedom. We won't be editing your stuff for spelling and grammar. As such, we need to make sure we've got bloggers who are capable and confident writers.
Fourth, remember this is a blog and not a weekly column. A good blog is a busy blog. It's great if you want to make a regular column-style entry part of the blog, but remember to punctuate it with quick insights and links to what you think is valuable other content. A good idea can take you a long way. If it's a good idea that can be summed up in three paragraphs, that's fine.
If you're interested, send your writing sample, a quick explanation of the topic you'd like to cover and a short bio to email@example.com. If we like it, you're on the blog roster. It's that easy. You can be impressing colleagues, friends, family and would be (or ongoing) love interests in no time. Part of our site relaunch effort is to give our community more of a voice and this is a major initiative for us. Users never have needed sober advice from their peers more than they do right now. Can you be one of the people who steps up to provide it?
And don't forget about our current reader contest. Maybe you've got a lesson learned to share with the community, but you want us to write it up for you (because we've got professionals who are paid to do that sort of thing). Well, this contest would be right up your alley in that case. Winners will receive a copy of Thomas Erl's new book, "SOA: Principles of Service Design" as a thanks for their participation.


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The rev had a good article about a white man who worked for the civil rights movements. I didnt want to hijack his thread so Im making a new one. Sorry Rev.
I have alot of issues with the after effects of the civil rights movement as many of its tools have done nothing to serve the blacks of the country and infact condemn them to a life of poverty, misery and slothery. However, no one can argue that there wasnt a time for change and purging the national sin of institutionalized racism. People should however get over 40 acres and a mule and move on. The most successful blacks I know are the ones who pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make their own way in the world without exception to their race or the past.
You can throw as much money and goverment cheese at a problem you want but if the recipients dont want to change then its all for naught. I wonder what these guys and Martin Luther King would say of how the african american community has squandared their new won rights ? There are still black leaders who hang their hat on Mr. King and it disgusts me. Man must move beyond hatred of the imaginary oppressor and quit screwing up their own lives. The main issue in the community is the problem with manhood. Until Black men start taking care of their families, committing to one woman once they are married they are doomed. Just as white trash is doomed to do the same. It isnt the white mans governments fault that large amounts of young black men do what they do.
I sit next to a pretty cool black gal at work. We have developed a relationship where we discuss things withing tastefulness about race. She has told me the things she despises about white culture but she is married with a husband who has a great job, two kids and they are moving on. I've never heard her say, the govt is keeping me down from being promoted because Im black. There are other little nepotism thins that go on and she knows that rather than blaming it on her race. Its very refreshing. Unfortunately , its rare to find this type of thing. A stable black family who are educated, taking care of their kids and trying to take advantage of the things life offers without excuses.
There are more and more black leaders that are recognizing this and moving onward and upward but the easier route is to sit and complain, file lawsuits, etc. Its like the victimization mentality is bred into their minds from birth. For all of us, it gets us nowhere quick.
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First off there are black leaders confronting some of these issues
Two the absence of black men is not just an issue of choice but also systemic injustice. Why is the punishment for a $20 crack rock ten times as severe as $200 of coke? Why are sentences for black men routinely longer than white men for the same crime? Can people really get a good education when they are terrorized by violence on the way, in and on the way home from school? Why does every 12 year old know where to get drugs and guns but the cops can't figure it out? How come ghetto neighborhoods have very few supermarkets? Why does the government give people more money if they are not married and cut their welfare when they do?
Three the difficulty in moving out of the ghetto into a mixed neighborhood
And finally we have a culture of labor that says it is better to make no money than make some. I know this personally as I was denied health care because I made too much including my wife and two adult daughters incomes even though they were saving for school
The civil rights movement got corrupted by power like all institutions of power but to blame all of the problems of the ghetto on the people in the ghetto is in my mind simplistic ayn randianism
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Master Spotlight – Egon Schiele
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Egon Schiele was an important figurative painter from Austria. His paintings of people are known for their contorted, expressive poses. The most famous ones include Seated Woman with a Bent Knee and any of the many self-portraits that he created.
Schiele's teachers recognized his talent at an early age. His uncle, who cared for Egon, sent him to Kunstgewerbeschule, the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, where Gustav Klimt studied art. Within a year, Egon's teachers sent him to the more rigorous Akademie der Bildenden Kunste. He studied painting and drawing there, but was frustrated by the school's old-fashioned approach.
Gustav Klimt took a special interest in Egon. The older artist mentored Schiele, bought his drawings, and introduced him to models and patrons. With his help, Egon had his first art shows. At the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, he discovered and was inspired by the paintings of Edvward Munch and Vincent Van Gogh.
He left school that year to found the Neukunstgruppe, the New Art Group, with some other dissatisfied classmates. Free to pursue their own interests, Egon painted landscapes, still-lifes, and "tributes to Van Gogh's Sunflowers." But he was best know for his studies of the human form. His paintings of people focused on sexuality, death, and self-discovery.
Critics called Schiele's artwork grotesque, pornographic, and disturbing. To escape the "claustrophobic Viennese milieu," Egon moved to Krumau, a small town in southern Bohemia. The residents disapproved of Schiele's life style though, and they ran him out of town for hiring teenage girls to model for his paintings.
Schiele moved next to Neulengbach. His studio became a gathering place for delinquent children. His neighbors were angered by his way of life. They accused him of kidnapping and he was arrested for seducing a young girl. A judge dropped those charges, but he found the artist guilty of "exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children." In court, the judge burned one of Egon's drawings over a candle flame. While in jail, Schiele created 12 paintings depicting the discomfort of a prison.
Soon after, Egon moved to the Viennese suburb where he met his future wife, Edith. Three days after their wedding, he was drafted into World War I. The officers respected his artistic talent. He never saw any fighting, and he was allowed to paint and draw while guarding prisoners of war.
When he returned from war, Schiele's work "reflected the maturity of an artist in full command of his talents." Fifty of his pieces were accepted for the Secession's 49th exhibition in Vienna. He designed a poster for the show, and was offered his own exhibitions in Zurich, Prague, and Dresden. Thanks to their success, the price for Egon's work increased and he received many requests for portraits.
Later that year though, the Spanish flu reached Vienna. It killed Edith Schiele when she was six months pregnant. Egon died three days later. His final works were sketches of his wife.
The Egon Schiele Museum is located in Tulln, Austria where Schiele was born. A more complete collection of his paintings can be seen in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. There is even a Schiele museum in Krumau, the small Bohemian city where Egon was run out of town. You can see his work and learn more about him at egon-schiele.net.
I saved this master of the month for summer time because I don't think he'd pass muster with my K-8 school's administration. In college though, Egon Schiele was a formative inspiration to me and my classmates. In my freshman sketchbooks, you can find pages and pages of pulled faces, contortionist poses, and Schiele-style self-portraits. Even now as a college visitor, I can't count how many art students adopt Schiele's style for a semester or more. His work is perfectly suited to the figure studies and exploration that go hand-in-hand in art school.
Portrait of Egon Schiele drawn by yours truly, Rama Hughes.
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Reita Jeanne Hardin, 74, of Poteau died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Poteau.
Reita was born April 6, 1937, in Fanshawe to T. Clyde and Lucille (Kellum) Hardin. She was a homemaker. Reita was a member of the Community of Christ Church in Fanshawe. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Survivors include her sister and brother-in-law, Betty Ann and James Bennett of Independence, Mo.; brother and sister-in-law, Thomas B. and Sandra Hardin of Sherman, Texas; nieces and nephews, Karen and Jeff Brown of Blue Springs, Mo., Lori Hardin of Paris, Texas, Melissa and Mark Hale of Trenton, Texas, Alan and Jennifer Bennett of Independence, David and Melissa Bennett of Shawnee, Kan., Thomas B. Hardin Jr. of Sherman; eight great-nieces and nephews.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at Evans Chapel of Memories, Poteau, with Greg McGowen and Jim Bennett officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Poteau
You may leave an online message at evansandmillerfuneralhomes.com.
Arrangements are under the direction of Evans and Miller Funeral Home, Poteau.
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Dan Wolken: Tigers search for right fit
Pastner's 2nd recruit class about quality not quantity
Nobody expected Josh Pastner to do what he did last summer on the recruiting trail, locking up three top-15 prospects in the early signing period. But anybody now looking for the University of Memphis to pull off a second straight coup like that is missing the mark.
The 2011 recruiting class is going to be different for the Tigers, starting with the fact that Pastner (thankfully, from his perspective) won't have to bring in seven freshmen this time around. In fact, if every current underclassman on the Memphis roster came back in 2011-12, Pastner would have just two scholarships to give this year.
The more likely scenario is that a player or two turns pro early, giving the Tigers four slots to work with. With most of the roster projected to return in 2011-12, finding players who fit will be the biggest task for Pastner and his staff during the July evaluation period, which takes place in two 10-day blocks (the 6th-15th and 22nd-31st).
Though in many cases coaches already know who they want to recruit -- such was the case last year with Joe Jackson and Tarik Black, for instance -- it can be a make-or-break month for many players. Memphis was not sure whether it would offer a scholarship to Chris Crawford last July. By the end of the month, his performance had put him squarely on the radar screen.
It's also a time where players can emerge out of nowhere. Pastner saw Hippolyte Tsafack last July while recruiting another player off his AAU team; Tsafack then became a target and eventually signed with the Tigers last fall.
Aside from Melrose wing Adonis Thomas -- a consensus top-20 player and the Tigers' No. 1 priority -- there will be some tough choices and important evaluations for the Memphis staff. If they can get Thomas, the Tigers would probably need only one more perimeter player in this class and then look to add two in the frontcourt.
Prioritizing those players is an ongoing process, especially this year. The 2011 class nationally does not look to be particularly deep, and many of the players who were highly-ranked as ninth- and 10th-graders have seen their peers catch up or pass them over the last year.
This is far from a comprehensive list of players Memphis will monitor in July, but it's a starting point for some of the 2011 names you might hear again:
Adonis Thomas (6-6, G/F, Memphis): In Germany right now competing for the U.S. under-17 team, Thomas is a super athlete and defender who won't play college basketball for very long if he refines his skill set. Lots of elite schools are recruiting Thomas, including Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky.
Cedrick McAfee (6-3, G, Memphis): How deep was Melrose last season? McAfee, ranked as the No. 56 player nationally by Rivals.com, played a limited role off the bench for Jermaine Johnson's state title team after transferring from Craigmont. McAfee is a big-time athlete with an improving stroke from the outside. Arkansas, Auburn and Cincinnati are among the schools involved.
Nino Johnson (6-7, F, Memphis): This is a huge month for Johnson, who has gotten positive reviews at camps and AAU events this summer after looking like more of a project at White Station last season. The quality of his offers will depend on how he plays in July. Regional schools, as well as Pittsburgh and Wake Forest, have shown interest recently.
Andre Hollins (6-2, G, Memphis): The Tigers have been there all along with Hollins, ranked 150th by Rivals. We'll see how hard Memphis pushes if the White Station guard makes a big splash this month. He could very well end up at Stanford, where he recently took a visit, though Ole Miss has been in hot pursuit as well.
Bobby Parks Jr. (6-4, G, Memphis): Son of the former Tiger great, Parks has reportedly had a nice spring. He seemed to have a difficult time finding a role at Melrose last season, so this month is crucial to get a good read on him. Virginia could be a factor here.
Octavious Ellis (6-8, F, Memphis): He's talented enough for Rivals to rank him 138th, but some questions remain about his ability to manage his emotions. A big summer could propel the Whitehaven High product into the conversation for Memphis and other top schools, though Auburn, Mississippi State and UTEP are interested.
Trevor Lacey (6-3, G, Huntsville, Ala.): One of the visitors for last year's Memphis Madness, Lacey has made several subsequent trips to campus and remains high on the Tigers' wish list. Rivals recently ranked him 39th overall. Auburn, Alabama and Tennessee have recruited Lacey hard; Kentucky could also make a push.
Ky Madden (6-4, G, Lepanto, Ark.): The 19th-ranked player according to Rivals, Madden could be special if he can refine his point guard skills. The fact that he lives within an hour of the Memphis campus puts the Tigers squarely in the mix. Others include Ole Miss, Arkansas, Baylor and Marquette.
Kedren Johnson (6-4, G, Lewisburg, Tenn.): A big-bodied, physical point, he recently narrowed his list to Memphis, Vanderbilt, Florida and Alabama. Johnson checks in at No. 79 on Rivals' rankings.
David Gardner (6-6, F, Okolona, Miss.): Not many people knew about him last summer, but the Tigers' coaching staff did. Gardner is a big-time shooter who is now up to No. 61 on the Rivals rankings, and the Tigers are in pursuit as well as the Mississippi schools, South Carolina and others. His hometown is just outside of Tupelo.
D'Angelo Harrison (6-3, G, Fort Bend, Texas): The Tigers probably won't make a huge splash in Texas until the 2012 class, but Harrison is one they have their eyes on. As with any player from that area, expect much of the Big 12 and perhaps some SEC schools to be involved.
Johnny O'Bryant (6-9, F, Cleveland, Miss.): It's hard to know where the Tigers stand, as O'Bryant still has a long list of schools that seems to change constantly. But he's a big, talented player who is worth the pursuit.
LaQuinton Ross (6-8, F, Jackson, Miss.): He was once regarded as the top player in this class, but injuries and other issues derailed him a bit. Rivals now ranks him 60th, but there's no denying his talent. Mississippi State, Syracuse, Baylor and others will figure prominently in the mix.
Wayne Martin (6-7, F, Jacksonville, Fla.): The Tigers' staff watched a lot of Martin last summer when he played with a Memphis AAU team. This three-star prospect is the son of former Arkansas and NFL player Wayne Martin.
Otto Porter (6-8, F, Sikeston, Mo.): Porter emerged last winter during the high school season, posting massive scoring and rebounding numbers, albeit against weak competition. He's slightly built, but his play landed him at the No. 93 spot on Rivals' list. Missouri, Iowa and others are in on Porter.
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- Make your own sugar or salt scrub by combining cane sugar or Epsom salts with olive, safflower, or sweet almond oil. Add 5 to 20 drops of essential oil like lemon, lavender, rose or any combination of oils you enjoy. Mix in a bowl, apply and enjoy baby soft skin.
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Yes I do, I work with 2 year olds 6 days a week, I can't rest unless I have noise. I put on Nick at night, and watch/ sleep to old sit coms. For some reason quietness makes me nervous.
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BIO/ID/ and/or adult swim , we houldn't it keeps me awake & i have bad dreams that overlaps & interferes w/my conscience of light la<x>yered sleep patterns…. I am a lighted meditated rem state etc...I hate when that happens! lol...u know we shouldn't! Once when that happened I woke up lightly in the last la<x>yer of rem sleep just b4 waking up, I heard the most beautiful song & singing voice i have ever heard in plain outer life ever! It sounded like if one could actually hear an angel sing & hear heavenly music (not churchy) that was it! But it's rare & few btw~
Have to have the TV off. I like a quiet room.
reality shows like american idol, x factor, etc
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yesterday i recieve message from Nvidia about my problem. I check it and reveal that i don`t have nvidia in my /dev/.
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Does lsmod show NVdriver?
If so, then you've got issues with something deleting your devices. Try something like this (as root):
for i in 0 1 2 3 ; do
You can edit /etc/modules.conf to make the driver load automatically on every boot, if that was the problem (the line is either alias char-major-195 NVdriver or alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver, depending on whether or not you use devfs).
I have this alais in my modules.conf but NVdriver doesn`t loaded automaticaly maybe because of i am loading in init:3
Which alias line?
If you have the char-major one, then you still need the devices to exist before the module will load. If you use the /dev/nvidia* line, then the module will load when X needs it, and you'll also get the devices at that time (however, this only works if you're running devfs and devfsd). ps -C devfsd should show devfsd running (if you are in fact using it); if it is running, you need the /dev/nvidia* alias.
I have now /dev/nvidia*.
What about command `ldconfig` need i use it ? If i do then how ?
You might need to ldconfig, and if you do it, it won't hurt anything else. Become root, then just ldconfig, that should be all there is to it.
Now that the alias is there (and you'll probably want to depmod -a as root also, to update the dependencies and the alias cache), do you see any files when you ls /dev/nvidia0?
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