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Junot Diaz writes about MFA vs. POC. It's an important topic; usually I emphasize music and race on DTM, but once in a while I consider literature too, most notably in my interview with Gerald Early and "Reading the Black Jazz Writers." (Also, I loved Diaz's sci-fi horror story "Monstro" in the New Yorker a few years ago.)
In related news, Ted Gioia alerted me to a Consequence of Sound poll, "Who's the Greatest Drummer of All Time?" OK; this is dumb, right? No need for me to get upset...
...Too late. The one jazz drummer in with all the white rockers is Buddy Rich. Ironically I have ended up defending Rich against some who rail against him: Sure, he's no Max Roach, but he doesn't ruin the Bird-Diz-Monk date, at least to my ears. Also the trio date with Prez and Nat Cole is killing.
However, when there's not one black drummer on a list and somehow Buddy Rich makes the cut? That is straight-up racism.
If you are part of a drum culture that doesn't appreciate jazz, don't try to honor it with a token Buddy Rich. (Or Gene Krupa, or Joe Morello.)
There's Philip Marlowe in the air, thanks to The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new book by Benjamin Black. Sarah Weinman's detective work in "The Brand is My Business" is stunning; a kinder view is taken by professional crime author Dick Lochte in "No Big Sleep for Raymond Chandler." (I enjoyed Lochte's Sleeping Dogs when I read it years ago.)
Forced to choose between Hammett and Chandler, it's an easy call: I'm for Hammett. I've been looking at both again recently and Hammett makes the reader reach in to complete the circuit. Chandler serves it up on a plate.
Vince Keenan told me about what James Ellroy brilliantly said about the pair:
Chandler wrote the kind of guy that he wanted to be, Hammett wrote the kind of guy that he was afraid he was. Chandler's books are incoherent. Hammett's are coherent. Chandler is all about the wisecracks, the similes, the constant satire, the construction of the knight. Hammett writes about the all-male world of mendacity and greed.
Back to PC and POC: When Hammett is off-handedly homophobic and racist, it's in a context where there are no real heroes. But Chandler has his knight spout homophobic and racist stuff in a way that invites the reader to be homophobic and racist as well.
Chandler is, "Us vs. them." Hammett is, "We are all tainted." It's easy to see why Chandler's work remains more popular than Hammett's. I'm not going to read The Black-Eyed Blonde.
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Feel free to post any of your own affirmations !!!
There are specific scientificaly proven guidelines to affirmations and the mere reading of them doesn't help but try to FEEL the truth of what you are affirming to yourself and imagine it already has come to pass, even if it is not so now !
When you read an affirmation, get yourself relaxed as possible, both body and mind, and read it aloud or in your mind, imagine it and charge it with the feelings you would have as if it was true now! First believe you already have what you are praying for and then you will get it !
The best times to do an affirmation is just before you go to sleep and just after you wake up. At those times your subconscious is very open to suggestions because your mind is very relaxed and in a receptive state. Do your affirmation for about 10 - 15 minutes two or three times a day or whenever you feel to but don't overdo it and after you did your affirmation just forget about it and go on with what you were doing and have faith and trust that it will come to pass !!!
Don't bother how or in what way it will happen, just trust the Universe to make this come true.Remember we're dealing with Law here. The Laws of the Universe always work the same and we can always rely on them!
Whenever you get negative suggestions, feelings or thoughts during the day, just reject them and focus on your goal. You can write your affirmation on a little card and carry it with you wherever you go, and when you feel down, just go somewhere where you can be alone and read your affirmation a few times to keep your mind focused.
If you do this with discipline every day untill you see results, you will know that it works!
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Focus on what you want and not on what you do not want. Choose one thing at the time and don't do to people the things you don't want them to do to you. Love is freedom and when you do things to hurt somebody it will for sure come right back at you !!
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What's the Purpose of Affirmations?
Your Subconscious mind wants to give you what you want. Trouble is you have thousands of thoughts a day and most (almost 95% it is estimated) are negative or self defeating. Is it little wonder when you tell yourself 95% of the time what you don't want to be like or what you don't want to happen that we could use some direction in our sub conscious programming.Most people focus on what they don't want and don't no this will grow bigger and bigger.
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An Affirmation is simply a statement of intent given in present time. That means you word your affirmation to reflect how you want to be as if you already are that way. Often when first using affirmations people sometimes feel this is a fake statement because they are not what they are saying they are. However since you are always telling your sub conscious mind how you want to be, (or more usually how you don't want to be - which it then creates) it makes sense to tell yourself exactly what you want and by stating it in such a way that it is already happening, your mind knows it needs to create this change NOW and not Later on.
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2) State it in present time - Use "I am" or I do" rather than "I should" or "I want"
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The Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT) isn't one to be outdone, and according to media reports they're on the brink of launching "Apologies Thailand".
Catchy? We don't think so either.
Aside from the fact that it is grammatically incorrect and really doesn't make any sense at all, if they wanted to apologise for the slight inconvenience of having two of the country's international airports overrun by a mob for seven days in peak tourist season, then perhaps something like "Thailand: Take the bus" may have been more appropriate.
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You've still got a couple of days to vote in the first round of Tap Milwaukee's Christmas Classics tournament, with all (or almost all, judging from some of the comments on Facebook) of your holiday TV favorites battle it out, NCAA brackets-style, to be No. 1.
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That is another point, it changes the rating more than anything in between 1 or 5. I don't think I am contributing anything to other people, as in, telling them how the game is, if I barely change the rating. I think it does sort games from being better than another, Devlini. It actually does this much better, and efficiently.
1. There is a suggestion thread.
2. I don't ever vote 2, 3, or 4. I don't ever go in the middle, it's black and white, I either do or don't like the game.
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Good god that is awesome. He looks a bit like the lead singer of Clutch. Who also has an amazing beard. God I love beards. Give him a high five for me, or give me a link to more pictures.
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This is called trolling you guys. You have all been trolled.
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"The Torture Game"
The game is very sadistic, and "messed up". However, you can't censor everything. You shouldn't censor anything. If you want this removed, then why don't we automatically censor every swear word on the forums and in chat. And while we're at it, we should remove all games that have a bad word in them. When I was 13 my mom didn't want me hearing bad words, or reading bad words, but there are still games with bad words on Kong. So, we can't save every 13 year old from the things their parents don't want them seeing. Censorship is stupid anyway. The only thing that should be censored here, are porn games. Those have their own places, and people don't derive pleasure from them in the same way they do with other games here. If you catch my drift.
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Well, a few things. I don't think they're still in the infatuation phase, because people after 2 years don't stay in that phase. I think they just love each other. I am a cynical man myself, so before my relationship, I believed that people having relationships on the internet were lame, but now that I see how things go, I don't think that anymore. I don't have a ton of friends, and of the ones I've told, there is a lot of teasing, but I have a much better thing with her, so the teasing is worth it.
My family ALSO teases me a lot about it, but I don't care, it all seems pretty light hearted, and in the grand scheme of things, if it works out like I know it will between Brianna and I, then they'll be the ones with egg on their faces. It doesn't really matter at all. As long as you are happy. But, it is hard when people you care about, don't support you. My immediate family is very supportive, and like her. But, my non immediate family has no first hand experience and is telling my parents to make me break it off, that it's un healthy, for multiple reasons. But they just don't understand what it's like, my parents were skeptical at first as well, but when they witness how we interact with each other, it is all gone. So, the best way to deal with people being nay sayers, is to show them.
Also, I don't like IRL, either. The internet is real, but if you think about it, it is hard to think of another term to say that. The internet obviously is real, because it let both of us meet awesome people and be very happy. And the first time Brianna and I met up, it was awkward for 15 minutes, and then we were all over each other. So, it's all good in that area.
Also, I realize your realism, 2032, but I think that internet relationships/long distance relationships have a higher chance of succeeding, because people know each other more, and don't go for the physical things first. But, another factor contributing to the longevity of relationships like these is the fact that this is sort of training to deal with hard things. in around 2 years Brianna and I hope to live together. After the last 3 years, when we live together, we can't possibly be sad! Nothing is going to be worse for us than what we're going through right now, and it isn't that bad, routine visits and we talk on skype all day, every day.
What? Can you go into more detail?
I concur. But I think what is the norm are websites specifically for online dating. But meeting over an MMO, or some other game is what is taboo. I can think of multiple people who have used online dating. Eharmony, OKCupid, Match.com… Those websites are making a killing. Even Jdate! But, what is odd to older generations (Including the people I know who use dating websites) is when youngsters such as myself meet up with people on some arbitrary website.
That definitely counts. For your post count, I mean.
We are. But, can I request your serious opinion? Because, this will get locked unless you start talking some serious S, dawg.
The legality of doing those things has prevented me from giving her what you could. So, it was expected… Or, none of that happened, and we can wait.
Why!?! WHY!?! You have to do something sexual first, anyway. And since that hasn't happened… You can't do anything. Do you have her IP address!? You must now everything about her as well!
That's not how that works, bro.
I met my girlfriend, Brianna, on the internet. We started talking, and it is better, because we fell in love before we even saw each other. I was more reluctant to show her myself than she was, but that was okay, I think. I knew I wanted to be with her, and it was an added bonus that she is incredibly attractive. We only live 300 miles apart, so we don't have much on you guys, and we just saw each other for the first time in May, and then June she came, and she's coming July 23rd. We've been together almost 7 months, which is quite a long time, not as long as you guys, again, but still. Considering that we see each other a bit more often, and waited less time to see each other, I think it is good because you get all aspects of a relationship, and not the perfect (except for not being close) relationship that you get online.
I am 15 and she is X [Jesus, you guys.], a lot of people say that it isn't good, but we're fine. We don't do anything illegal or stupid, and we most certainly defy what other people think of us, including parts of my extended family. The hardest part is when people presume, mainly on our age, and secondarily on the way we met. What people don't know is that getting to know someone before you drool over their beauty is quite important. It is harder to get something meaningful in a bar or somewhere else. It also has the advantage of not having a first date, awkward as balls. But the first skype call is also awkward, lots of nervous laughter.
We primarily use Skype to talk, but we do have each others phone numbers for when we're not home. We also use letters, as a fun alternative, but not for vital communication. I am not ashamed to admit that the skype call I am on right now is at 20:8:45. 20 Hours, 8 minutes, and 45 seconds. We fall asleep together. We watch shows together (3… 2… 1… Go! To synch them) on hulu and when we download things. We send each other flash drives of music and shows/movies we want to watch. We also just talk, and play games. I love talking to her, and I love seeing her. She's even more beautiful in person, but skype suffices for the times when we're not together.
Leaving is also very very hard. I cried for a long time, and the train ride (Cheapest mode of transportation) is almost 16 hours.
One thing I can do without is dropped calls and crappy internet. Most of the time the video/audio are high quality. I think we're going to last for a long time. We've never argues or gotten upset with each other, which is almost miraculous. We're living proof that internet relationships do work, and thrive. I'd never be able to find a woman in real life anyway, too ugly/timid.
Originally posted by tetrismaster:Originally posted by Henry:Really? Wowzer! I didn't know people could meet in real life TOO! My girlfriend has an account too, she's one of my friends, but I have so gosh darn many, you won't be able to figure it out!
Originally posted by Henry:Really? Wowzer! I didn't know people could meet in real life TOO! My girlfriend has an account too, she's one of my friends, but I have so gosh darn many, you won't be able to figure it out!
Really? Wowzer! I didn't know people could meet in real life TOO! My girlfriend has an account too, she's one of my friends, but I have so gosh darn many, you won't be able to figure it out!
So, Yottabyte, for some clarification, you two are together? Did you meet on Kong? And, as we're all asking ourselves, "Are you hitting that?"
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Amish people have beards under the mouth. They never go over the mouth, and also, you look more jewish than amish. Get your "-ish"es right.
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I love being really vague! Can you just tell me, is it that chick you totally want to nail?
Also, post count is very insignificant, I think 2000 posts is a lot, and I know like 500 of it is spam, or inane, I can only imagine the amount for 10,000 posts.
How is his career brilliant? And also, I still don't get why I should check it, I have, and I notice nothing but a sweet ass pyro sculpture.
Oh shoot! Sorry! I did not notice, I haven't checked my email either. 2 things though,
1) What am I supposed to notice?
2) The thing that is wrong with seeking attention is that it also comes with a lot of other bad characteristics, such as narcissism. And it is also really annoying when people blatantly ask people to tell them how cool they are for some achievement, or in this case, perceived achievement.
You don't want the thread to get attention, you want attention for yourself. You wouldn't make a thread all about yourself if you didn't want people to say nice things to you and tell you lots of ego stroking things.
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|Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:29
Jefferson City, Mo. — The Duck Room is a basement nightclub at Blueberry Hill restaurant in the Delmar Loop area of St. Louis. But one night each month, it becomes a living history museum with a performance by rock music pioneer Chuck Berry.
"He's by far our most famous citizen," says Joe Edwards, owner of the restaurant and music club that anchors the six-block entertainment and shopping district. "He was the first poet laureate of rock 'n' roll. Not only did he write his own songs, but he was a heckuva guitar player. Still is."
February marks Black History Month, and Missouri has its share of important figures, from Dred Scott and George Washington Carver to jazz and ragtime musicians and Negro League baseball players. Their museums create an interesting itinerary for observing the special month. But you might also consider a stop at the Duck Room.
At age 86, Berry still performs his signature hits, and does the impromptu duck walk across the stage. His daughter, Ingrid, and son, Charles Berry Jr., perform in the band and help out when Dad sometimes misses a lick. The adoring audience doesn't mind, greeting those senior moments with shouts of "We love you Chuck!"
While music critics disagree on the first rock 'n' roll record, Berry gets unanimous credit for being the entertainer who took the music worldwide, starting with "Maybellene," his first single released in 1955. Berry was the first inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, and recently received its American Music Masters Award at a tribute concert.
"He not only changed music, he helped change culture," said Edwards, Berry's long-time friend and part-time manager. "His music reached across the dividing line between blacks and whites. It also helped bring down the Iron Curtain. The Hungarian ambassador visited Blueberry Hill and said eastern and western Europeans listened to Chuck on their transistor radios. It did more to bring them together than any military threat."
Scientist Carl Sagan paid homage to Berry in the late 1970s, when he chose the recorded sounds that would be aboard the Voyager space probes headed outside the solar system. "He included samplings of some of the best of what was on Earth," Edwards said. "There were sounds of Brazilian jungles, some classical music and, for the 20th century, it was 'Johnny B. Goode' by Chuck Berry."
Admission to the Berry concerts at Blueberry Hill is $35. Visit BlueberryHill.com for a schedule.
While a trip to Blueberry Hill to see Chuck Berry represents a pop-culture focused experience, there are plenty of sites in Missouri for more traditional exploration during Black History month (and year-round, for that matter). Here's a quick sampling:
George Washington Carver National Monument, in Diamond: Tucked away in the southwest corner of the state, the national monument is at the site of the Moses Carver farm, where George Washington Carver was born to a slave girl in 1864. As an infant, he and his mother were kidnapped by Civil War guerillas. George was returned; his mother was never found.
The monument includes a state-of-the-art visitors center that tells the inspirational story of Carver's arduous struggle to rise from his humble beginnings to become an artist, scientist, educator and humanitarian. His research showed that rotating crops of peanuts and soybeans with cotton could revive Southern soil. To encourage the practice, he developed more than 300 uses for peanuts.
The 240-acre site includes a short walk through woods near a spring-fed stream where young George discovered his love for botany. Later, George wrote of the experience: "Day after day, I spent in the woods alone in order to collect my floral beauties and put them in my little garden I had hidden in the brush not far from the house, as it was considered foolishness in that neighborhood to waste time on flowers."
George Washington Carver National Monument is the first national monument to mark the birthplace of anyone other than a U.S. president, and the first to honor an African American. For details, visit www.nps.gov/gwca.
Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site, near Butler: Dedicated in October 2012, the plot of rolling prairie near the Kansas border is Missouri's newest state historic site. It honors the African-American soldiers who fought a small but important Civil War battle.
The 240 soldiers, many of them escaped slaves, were members of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. In October 1862, they won a battle against a larger force of Confederate guerillas, marking the first time black troops were used in Civil War combat.
At the time, there was a national discussion about whether black soldiers would fight against whites. This skirmish, known as the Battle of Island Mound, answered that question, and made headlines as far away as New York City.
A white officer assigned to the unit wrote: "We have demonstrated that the Negro is anxious to serve his country, himself and race."
The state historic site, south of Butler, has a circular gravel path that leads around some 40 acres of reclaimed prairie. Interpretative panels along the way explain what happened, and the significance of those events. Visit MoStateParks.com for more information.
The 18th and Vine Historic District, in Kansas City: A magical musical trip across Missouri could start at the Duck Room, in St. Louis, and end at the Blue Room, in Kansas City.
The 18th and Vine area was the center for black culture and life in Kansas City from the late 1800s to the 1960s. The Negro National League was founded near the district in 1920.
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened in the early 1990s, and the complex was expanded in 1997 with the addition of the American Jazz Museum, which showcases the city's musical heritage. The two first-class museums contain hundreds of photographs, artifacts and film exhibits that tell their stories.
The baseball museum profiles the league's great players, including Satchel Paige, Buck O'Neil and Jackie Robinson, who played for the Kansas City Monarchs and was recruited in 1945 by the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American in the modern era to play in the major leagues.
The jazz museum describes the careers of such artists as Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald. But the museum doesn't stop at past greats. The Blue Room is an adjoining jazz club that showcases the best local and national jazz talent, in an intimate setting.
Visit AmericanJazzMuseum.com and NLBM.com for schedules and more information.
Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, in St. Louis: Like jazz, gospel, blues and rock, African Americans played a dominant role in creating yet another genre of music. Scott Joplin combined the structure of classical music with the free-flowing expression in jazz and gave the world the tinkling sounds of ragtime.
Born in Texas, Joplin took formal music classes in Sedalia, where he wrote "Maple Leaf Rag," earning him the title of "King of Ragtime."
He moved to St. Louis in the spring of 1900 to become a teacher and composer. His time in the city was his most productive and successful period. He wrote his first opera, "A Guest of Honor," and "The Entertainer," which was used as the theme song for the 1973 movie, "The Sting." The classic piano rag is still played on ice-cream trucks throughout the area.
Joplin later moved to New York, where a string of personal disappointments took its toll. He died April 1, 1917. He was 49.
The second-story flat in a large brick house at 2658A Delmar Blvd., where Joplin lived in St. Louis, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 1984, the house and adjacent row buildings were acquired by the Department of Natural Resources and underwent an extensive restoration to become the first state historic site dedicated to an African American.
The second floor has been furnished with the décor and artifacts of Joplin's era. Exhibits on the first floor interpret his life and work and include a music room where ragtime is played on a player piano. For more information, visit MoStateParks.com.
The Old Courthouse, in St. Louis: Now part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial that includes the Gateway Arch, the majestic Old Courthouse has a 150-year history, highlighted by the landmark Dred Scott case.
The courthouse was the site of the first two trials of the pivotal case in 1847 and 1850. Scott and his wife, Harriett, were slaves who sued for their freedom, arguing that they had lived in free territory with their owners.
The Scotts won in St. Louis, but their owner, Irene Harrison, appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, which overturned the lower-court decision. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed Scott and his family should remain in slavery. Although the Scotts later were freed, the decision hastened the divided country into the Civil War.
"The Legacy of Courage: Dred Scott & the Quest for Freedom" is a display in the courthouse on the first floor in the area where the original cases were heard. A bronze statute outside depicts Dred and Harriett Scott. Dred Scott's grave is in Calvary Cemetery, in north St. Louis. For more information, visit nps.gov/jeff.
If you're ready for a history-themed road trip, VisitMO has plotted your course, with the multi-day Trip Idea found here.
Tom Uhlenbrock is a staff writer for the Division of Tourism.
About the Missouri Division of Tourism
The Missouri Division of Tourism (MDT) is the official tourism office for the state of Missouri dedicated to marketing Missouri as a premier travel destination. Established in 1967, the Missouri Division of Tourism has worked hard to develop the tourism industry in Missouri to what it is today, an $11.2 billion industry supporting more than 279,000 jobs and generating $627 million in state taxes in Fiscal Year 2011. For every dollar spent on marketing Missouri as a travel destination in FY11, $57.76 was returned in visitor expenditures. For more information on Missouri tourism, go to http://www.visitmo.com/.
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In Cabot's (the Princess Diaries) first foray into novels for kids who are still in single digits, her trademark frank humor makes for compulsive reading--as always. The first installment of a new series presents a nine-year-old girl attempting to impose rules for living on her increasingly complex world. Allie is funny, believable and plucky (of course; all girls are plucky, at least in books), but most of all, and most interestingly, Allie is ambivalent.
As the book starts, Allie learns that her family is moving across town. It is a mark of Cabot's insight to understand that, to a nine-year-old, a car ride's separation from the world she has known makes that distance as vast as the universe. Allie will be enrolled in a different elementary school, and will therefore be that most hideous thing: the new kid. To make matters worse, the Finkle family will be moving to a dark, old, creaky Victorian, which, Allie becomes convinced, has a zombie hand in the attic. Moving will mean leaving behind not only her geode collection but also her best friend. And here is where the story deepens. Allie's best friend is difficult. She cries easily and always insists on getting her own way. To keep the peace, Allie makes rules for herself, often after the fact, to teach herself such important friendship truisms as Don't Shove a Spatula Down Your Best Friend's Throat.
Mary Kate is the kind of best friend anybody would want to shove a spatula down the throat of, is the thing.
As Allie marshals her energies to fight the move in increasingly desperate ways, sophisticated readers may well conclude ahead of Allie that the friends she is meeting at the new school are more fun and better for her than spoiled Mary Kate and the cat-torturer, Brittany Hauser. Coming to this realization on their own, however, is part of the empowering fun. Told from the distinctive perspective of a good-hearted, impulsive, morally centered kid, this is a story that captures the conflicted feelings with which so many seemingly strong nine-year-olds struggle.
Ambivalence is uncomfortable. It is also a sign of growing up.
Early elementary school is all about primary colors, where rules, imposed by adults, are clear guidelines to good behavior and getting along. The more complex hues of the second half of elementary school, when complicated friendship dynamics begin to outpace the adult-imposed rules of home and school, leave many kids floundering and confused. In the character Allie Finkle, Cabot captures this moment of transition and makes it feel not just real, but also fun, and funny.
Rachel Vail's forthcoming novel, Lucky (HarperTeen, May), is the start of a trilogy about three sisters.[Page 154]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
Gr 3-5-- At first, nine-year-old Allie Finkle seems rather unlikable. She's hard on her best friend (who is very quick to tears) and acts bratty when her parents tell her the family will be moving. And even though she's promised a kitten, and prefers her new school and the more engaging friend she'll have next door once they move, she's determined to sabotage the event. However, the girl's worries are nuanced and age-appropriate. By the book's end Allie does show a more caring side, even though her methods are not always appreciated by the adults around her. Chapters all begin with one of Allie's rules ("Don't Stick a Spatula Down Your Best Friend's Throat," or "When You Finally Figure Out What the Right Thing to Do Is, You Have to Do It, Even If You Don't Want To") that, while amusing, may quickly become tiresome for some readers. With good intentions and reckless results, Allie will appeal to children who enjoyed reading about Ramona, Amber Brown, Junie B., and the other feisty girls found in beginning chapter books. This novel proves that the master of young adult popular fare is able to adapt her breezy style for a younger audience.--Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA[Page 98]. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.


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Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
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Scarlett started to play StarCraft II in April 2011. She made her first steps in the competitive scene by participating in an online female-only tournament, the NESL Iron Lady, becoming champion of those cups twice in a row in autumn of 2011.
In March 2012, she won the Playhem "Sponsor Me!" Tournament, an online event reserved for amateur players without a team or a sponsor. Winning that tournament awarded her a sponsored trip and attendance to the IGN ProLeague Season 4 in Las Vegas.
The IPL 4 Open Bracket was Scarlett's debut in a live premier event, and she delivered by pulling big upsets against such notable players as Terius and DdoRo in the first rounds. She lost 1-2 to Oz in the third round of the winner's bracket. Dropping down to the loser's bracket, Scarlett once again pulled off an impressive victory by defeating DeMusliM 2-0 and knocking him out of the tournament. Her run at the IPL 4 was finally ended by Golden in the round immediately following, where she was defeated 0-2.
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Previously in FartVertising: • Ford uses mini-cow farts to sell eco car • farting pelican sells spicy sardines • farting tuna sells tuna + beans dish • farting bathtub man sells gas drug • visualized farts sell Chinese air freshener • farting Marilyn Monroe impersonator sells anti-gas drug • beano ad proves women fart • Related: excellent beano jingle that I wrote.


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Hello! My name is Kylie. And I love food. Just like you and the rest of the world. But I enjoy food so much more if it is providing me with some sort of health benefit (given that sometimes that health benefit is simply happiness). This is a blog where I share the recipes that are currently keeping me excited about eating healthy. I post two new recipes a week, one on Monday and the other on Friday.
A little more about me…
- I'm a 22 year old with a Biomedical Sciences Degree. What do you do with that degree you ask? Your options include vet school, med school, or go back to school and get your nutrition degree so you can become an Registered Dietitian. I'm currently doing the last option.
I live 710 miles from my nearest Trader Joes. That's 12 hours and 24 minutes of driving.YAY!
- Once upon a time, I ran a marathon. I hated it.
- I've run several half-marathons. I don't hate them…as much.
- Healthy is about body composition, not just being skinny. Fill your body with real, wholesome foods that make you feel great.
- I believe in consuming everything in moderation, including moderation.
- I think if something in the grocery store claims to be healthy, it's probably not. Stick with modest foods. Fruits and veggies that aren't boasting about their added fiber. A fiber added Oreo is still an Oreo.
- I can't do a single pull-up.
- I like to take really small bites.
- I don't think that the word 'natural' is synonymous with healthy. Some of the most deadly toxins on earth are 'natural.'
- When I'm at the gym, it drives me nuts when someone gets on the treadmill right next to me when there are 18 other empty treadmills. I'm a friendly person…but seriously?! I'm likely sweating buckets. You don't want to be near that…it's not cute.
- In January 2012, I decide to go gluten free to see if I could fix a thyroid/migraine/GI/foggy brain issue. While it fixed the foggy brain, I don't think it's specifically gluten that causes my problems. I think I'm just sensitive to carbohydrates in general. I don't use wheat, barley or rye in my kitchen but I'm not on a strict gluten free diet. I'll still eat sauces, marinades, dressing, etc that contain gluten. Also, when I'm eating out, I avoid bread/pasta and other obvious sources of gluten but I'm not restrictive to the point where I won't eat soy sauce because it has gluten.
- I hated being gluten free. Not so much because it affects my lifestyle (not being able to go to restaurants, stressing over what I'm going to eat, not eating real bread, feeling like an inconvenience to others) but because I felt like I'm jumping on something that is very trendy. I hate when I tell people I'm gluten free and I feel like they are viewing me as an uneducated, fad diet chaser. Because honestly, when I first heard about gluten free diets, it seemed like just that, another silly fad diet. Regardless of how trendy it has become, I feel better when I'm not eating gluten. Like worlds better. I still don't think gluten free diets are necessarily healthier than diets containing gluten. Gluten free products are typically higher in fat, sugar, and calories in general. If you don't have to be gluten free, then don't be. Like any other approach to nutrition, the gluten free diet is not just a diet, it is a lifestyle. Like any other lifestyle (vegetarian, vegan, raw) it can be healthy or unhealthy depending on how you approach it. Calling yourself a vegetarian doesn't make you healthy if you're eating deep fried tofu.
- While I say I hated being gluten free, there were some definite benefits to the 6 months I spent avoiding the protein. Mainly, a gluten free diet was the only thing that truly made me aware of exactly what I was eating. While I had to deal with the stress/anxiety of not being able to eat certain things, I learned a lot about my body during those 6 months and was able to change my outlook on food for the better. It's funny, but by cutting out gluten, I actually became less restrictive with my diet.
- I like cookies.
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I myself have not played around with a RAID setup as I've never had more than 1 of the same hard drive kicking around to try it out. I have seen RAID in action and some of my buddies love to have RAID setups, but I've never really looked into it until now.
When asked what I wanted to look at next in terms of product reviews, I wanted to look at a storage system with redundant capabilities. In my head I thought some sort of RAID system. Bob got back to me and asked if I wanted to look at a RAID enclosure made by a company called Axus. I got to choose between a 3-disk setup and a 5-disk setup, naturally I choose the 5-disk setup known as the FiT 500.
Special thanks to Axus for providing us with the FiT RAID 500 Storage Device to review.
For those wondering what a RAID system is, well it's fairly straight forward. RAID allows you to group multiple hard drives (preferably of the same size, make, and model) for either creating one larger storage disk or a redundant storage system that will help keep your data safe from failure.
Check out Wikipedia's definition of what a RAID is for a more in-depth explanation.
Who is Axus?
Axus or AXUS Microsystems Inc. is a manufacturer of professional grade storage products based out of Taiwan. They produce high reliability RAID storage solutions that are affordable to you, the consumer. They also back up their products with superior customer service and great technical support. http://axus.com.tw/
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|Event Notification
|Buzzer, LCD, GUI
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|Disk Interface
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|Up to 7.5 TB
|RAID Management
|GUI/LCD/Rotary Switch
|Operating System
|Windows/Linux/MAC OS (OS independent and transparent)
|Power Supply
|AC Voltage 100~220 VAC / AC frequency 50~60 Hz
|Operating temperature 5~35 ℃, None-Operating temperature : -40 ~60 ℃
|Relative Humidity
|20% ~ 80% non-condensing
|Dimensions (mm) W x D x H
|140 x 242 x 208
|Weight (kg)
Features of the FiT 500 RAID Enclosure
It is a pretty expansive list of features for a RAID enclosure, or at least I think so in my opinion. A couple of features off the bat that got me giddy were the Hot Swappable Trays, Noise-Free Fan module and its size.
I wonder how setting up my first RAID system will go and if the Axus FiT500 will make it as easy as it might sound.
First Impressions
I had to go down to the local DHL location to pick up what I found out to be a pretty massive brown box. I was worried it might not fit into the car to get it home but it easily fit in the back seat.
When I arrived home and opened up the brown shipping box, inside there was a smaller black box surrounded in lots of shipping foam. The actual box for the Axus Fit500 was at least half the size of the box that they had shipped it in.
When I opened up the box, inside the trays were padded with foam, with 2 trays to a layer. This definitely would help against any bumps and bangs the box might receive in shipping.
When I got down to the actually enclosure itself I was surprised at how small it was. It doesn't sit much higher than one of my flat-panel Monsoon speakers didn't look like it would take up much desk space either.
What Comes Inside The Box?
Even though it is not mentioned in the contents list, you do get supplied a bag of small screws, which are used to mount the hard drives to the trays. You do get plenty of screws in case you lose one or two.
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The Hebrew name Elisheva, appears in the Old Testament where Elisheva is the wife of Aaron. The name Elizabeth appears in the New Testament where Elizabeth is the mother of John the Baptist.
Elizabeth was also the name of a 12th-century saint, two ruling queens of England (the 16th-century Elizabeth I, and the current ruling queen, Queen Elizabeth II), and by a Russian empress.
The name has been very popular in England since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th century.
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Variants of the name Elizabeth include Alisabeth, Alizabeth, Bessie, Bessy, Betina, Betty, Bettye, Elease, Elezebath, Elissa, Elisse, Elizbeth, Elizebeth, Elizebethe, Elsabeth, Elyzabeth.
The names Alzbeta, Beta, Bethan, Betje, Ealasaid, Ealisaid, Eilis, Eilish, Ela, Eliisa, Eliisabet, Elika, Elikapeka, Elisabet, Elisabeta, Elisabete, Elisabeth, Elisabetta, Elisavet, Elisaveta, Elise, Elishia, Elisiana, Eliska, Elita, Elixabete, Eliza, Elizabeta, Elizabete, Elizaveta, Elka, Elsa, Elsbeth, Elzbieta, Elze, Elzira, Elzo, Emmaleth, Erssike, Erzsebet, Gerlisa, Helsa, Isabel, Isabella, Isabelle, Lieselotte, Lijsbeth, Lisabet, Lisabeth, Lisabette, Lisavet, Lisbet, Lisbeth, Liselot, Liselotte, Lisette, Lissette, Lizabeth, Lizaveta, Lizbet, Lizbeth, Lizeth, Lizette, Lizina, Orzsebet, Sibeal, Yelizaveta, Yelysaveta, Zanaide are all forms of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth has the diminutives (nicknames) Bess, Bet, Beth, Betsy, Betsye, Bette, Betti, Bettie, Buffey, Buffi, Buffy, Elisa, Elise, Elsa, Else, Elsie, Elspeth, Elyza, Elze, Ilsa, Ilse, Libby, Lili, Lis, Lisa, Lise, Litzy, Liz, Liza, Lizzie, Lyza, Lyzbeth, Tetty.
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Elizabeth falls into the name categories classic, easy nickname.
Some famous bearers of this name include: Elizabeth Queen, Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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Local language versions of biblical names of Hebrew origin such as Hannah and David are still widely internationally popular today.
Modern Hebrew names are often derived from Hebrew vocabulary, for example Aviva (spring) and Dov (bear).
Children of Jewish heritage are usually given a Hebrew name for religious purposes and are sometimes also given a local language version of that name for secular purposes.
By custom, Ashkenazi Jews (Jews of German or Eastern European descent) name their children after deceased relatives. This is in order to honor the deceased relative, keep their name and memory alive, and to form a bond between the soul of the baby and the deceased relative so that they can live on within the newer generation.
Sephardic Jews (Jews of Spain, Portugal and the Middle East) in contrast, name their children after living relatives or deceased relatives. The father's parents names are generally used first and then the mother's parents names.
Neither Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jews will name a baby after one of the parents.
After a child is born, the father is given an aliyah (religious honor to bless the reading of the Torah). After this a blessing is said for the health of the mother and child. If the baby is a girl, she is named at this time. If the baby is a boy, he will be named during his brit milah (ritual circumcision) generally eight days after birth.


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I'm surprised to find artifacts in the normal maps created by this plugin. As no one has reported this before, I assumed it was something unique to my system or I was doing something wrong. I tried it on a different system, but got similar results. One is a Dell laptop with an integrated GPU, the other is a Falcon NW with a discrete nVidia card. The laptop is running Windows XP Professional, SP3. The desktop is running Windows XP Home, SP3.
Although the artifacts appear to be present most of the time, they are most obvious when derived from artificial displacement maps with steep contours.
The following picture shows the displacement map on the bottom, an artifact free normal map created from it in the middle, and one showing the artifacts at the top.
I also created a normal map while zoomed in near the center at 800%. The resulting map is show below zoomed at 200% so you can see the artifacts more clearly. Note that the portion that was visible on the screen does not have the artifacts.
The issue seems to be associated in some way with the aspect of the image and the zoom level when it is made. I tried with and without antialiasing, and with both normal blending and overwrite. I tried with the dimensions in pixels equal to powers of two and not. These seem to have no affect. I also tried NormalMapPlus in a new installation of Paint.Net (3.5.10) with no other .dlls in the Effects folder.
If I have missed something obvious, I apologize. I understand that you converted this from someone else's work and may not be able to fix this. I would like to know if others can reproduce my results.
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(1922-2010), founder and first president of the Fondation Napoléon
Napoléon Gourgaud du Taillis was born in Paris on 27 Feburary, 1922, and he was to leave his inimitable stamp upon the Napoleonic world. Descended directly on the one hand from General Baron Gourgaud, the emperor's First Officier d'ordonnance (a specially created title) and companion in the emperor's exile on St Helena, and from General Comte du Taillis on the other, comte d'Empire and notable military figure of the First Empire, Napoléon Gourgaud du Taillis was a Napoleonist right from the very start, a man of great culture, intellectual curiosity and esprit.
After spending many years in the offices of the Souvenir Napoléonien, at the request of the Prince Napoléon, he was elected president of that institution from 1983 to 1997. And it was during his mandate that this association experienced the expansion which makes it today the world's premier Napoleonic entity, with circa 3,500 members. Following on from Doctor Godlewski, who died suddenly, it fell to the Baron Gourgaud to manage the dossier which ensued from the remarkable bequest given by Martial Lapeyre to the Napoleonic world. Negotiations held with French government administrators led to the creation, in November 1987, of the Fondation Napoléon. The Baron Gourgaud was its first president, from 1987 to 2005, the date when he felt it right to step aside. At that date, the Board of Trustees voted that he should be succeeded by a younger man, namely Victor-André Masséna, Prince d'Essling, and that the Baron Gourgaud should become honorary president of the institution. Over his twenty years in office, the Baron Gourgaud brought the Fondation Napoléon not only a higher profile but also respect, both in France and abroad, turning its activities towards the development of Napoleonic history, in all shapes and sizes and for all audiences, and towards the preservation of Napoleonic heritage. Of the hundreds of initiatives taken during the Baron's period of office, we would highlight the following: the creation of important web sites (from 1995-), the opening of a public library, the organisation of several high level conferences, funding the publication of several important professional and general public books, funding of the restoration of many Napoleonic monuments, notably the Arc de Triomphe and the French domains on St Helena, sponsorship of Napoleonic exhibitions, etc. In 2001, the president of the Fondation Napoléon launched the grand project for the publication of the complete correspondence of Napoleon, an editorial epic comprising 40,000 letters collected throughout the world, one hundred and thirty people on the project, and fourteen volumes planned to be published by Fayard. Furthermore, since 2003, the Fondation Napoléon's collection, the kernel of which was formed by the Lapeyre bequest, has been exhibited worldwide: Sao Paulo, Paris, Minden, Wesel, Rome, Monterrey, Elba, etc..At the same time, even though in 1997 he was no longer president, the Baron Gourgaud continued to support the activities of the Souvenir Napoléonien, within the framework of the Lapeyre bequest, completely financing the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, and outside that framework, granting that association large sums to aid with general running costs. The Baron Gourgaud was not only a militant Bonapartist pre-war but also a companion of the Prince Napoléon in the French resistance during the Second World War. Refusing to submit to the STO (Obligatory Work Service) he went into hiding. Signing up as a volunteer for the duration of the war in March 1945, he was detailed to the Deuxième Bataillon de Choc. He was demobilised in February 1946.He also had a long and fruitful professional life. After an arts baccalauréat at high school (finished at La Rochelle - on the west coast far from Paris - since the Parisian high schools had been evacuated there) and after having been forced to abandon his university studies in law (1943), he worked for a while in the Société française industrielle des pétroles and then, after the war, he was for many years manager in the Singer company (industrial client relations), before becoming an estates manager and director of companies. The Baron Gourgaud was promoted from Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur to Officier of the Order in 2008.
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Keep your dog in an enclosed area with his favorite blanket, toys and other favorite objects to help provide some measure of security. Avoid putting a frightened dog in an area with a large window. A fearful dog might try to crash through the window to escape the noise.
After the workers leave for the day, dogs (like children) still need supervision and protection, as there may be sharp tools, paint, mineral spirits, paint remover, wood preservatives and other harmful items present.
Scrapings or dust from the removal of lead-based paint present another potential danger. The Centers for Disease Control has estimated that 80 percent of the private housing units built before 1980 contain some lead-based paint. Prevention is the best protection against lead poisoning. If feasible, have lead-based paint professionally removed and keep your dog away from the area. Be certain flaking paint or paint dust is promptly removed.
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If it is a one-day job, take your dog to the groomer, a kennel that offers "doggie day care", or to visit a pet-loving friend.
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23 May 2011
MOSCOW: Online adspend in Russia could rise by 30% each year for the next four years if investment in network infrastructure is maintained.
A report from Boston Consulting Group and Google suggests that the contribution of the internet sector as a whole to Russia's GDP could rise from 1.6% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2015.
But the report's optimistic forecasts largely depend on similarly rapid growth of online penetration rates - which have lagged behind Russia's European and emerging Asian rivals over recent years.
cited by the Moscow Times
suggest that around half of Moscow and St Petersburg residents are currently connected to the web. This total drops to 20% outside these urban centres.
But Vladimir Dolgov, head of Google Russia, said that network infrastructure was likely to improve markedly over the next few years.
"While Internet penetration will never reach 100 percent, as there will always be babies and elderly people who just don't want to use it, we can easily reach 80 percent by 2015," he told the newspaper.
Anna Lepetukhina, an analyst at Troika Dialog, was similarly upbeat about the online advertising sector.
"The Internet advertising market will also continue to expand, and we will see the growth in transparency of [ad] placement," she said.
Latest Warc forecasts back up the report's findings, and suggest that Russian online adspend will grow by 32.9% this year and by a further 27.1% in 2012.
Skolkovo, the Russian government's planned high-tech innovation centre - which aims to attract companies specialising in energy efficiency initiatives, nuclear technology, space technology, medical technology and IT to a district near Moscow - went unmentioned in the report.
But Dolgov suggested that the centre would play a "serious role" in online expansion in Russia.
"I cannot say that it will be key to the increase of the Internet economy's share of GDP, but you have to keep in mind that Skolkovo has five areas of focus and IT is only one of them," he said.
Data sourced from Moscow Times/Warc; additional content by Warc staff
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