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(WOMENSENEWS)--Most women in Amatlan consider themselves, their neighbors and their friends to be good mothers.
Almost all the women in the community labor in the domestic sphere--they cook the food, wash the clothes and generally look after the house and children. Making lonches -- lunches for the men in the fields and for the school-age children -- is an integral part of their mothering. A good mother frets about what she is feeding her children. Though the terms the women use to talk about each other's mothering are similar to the good-bad dichotomy used by the mainstream, their interpretations and the reasons behind their interpretations are more nuanced.
For the state, good mothers follow the rules, have few children and invest in them emotionally; they are also expected to live in a nuclear family. For the women I met, good motherhood entailed a significant amount of investment, but also drawing from one's extended-kin network to achieve a child's success; abuelas and ahuis (grandmothers and aunts) were frequently key to the socialization process of any child . . .
Not Suffering in Silence
In Amatlan, many mothers suffer alongside, or because of, their children. While marianismo - -the all-suffering, passive motherhood epitomized in the Virgin Mary -- is very present in many corners of Latin America, it is not much in evidence in this region. The mothers who do struggle with their children neither view themselves as martyrs nor do they suffer in silence.
Esperanza often despaired at the laziness of her son Adrian, one day exclaiming, "He is no use to me here. He should go away to work but he doesn't want to. I don't know what to do with him." I suggested, "You should stop feeding him." She replied, laughing, "That's true, then he'll go away. . . . [If he is here] I worry when he doesn't get back [or] whether he has been beaten or something. But when he is far away I don't worry. My head can rest."
All the mothers I spoke with worried about their children's future. Emma said, regarding one of her sons who was attending university in the city of Morelia, "A student is a lot of money. My son always asks me for money, 70 pesos, or 50, and it is a lot of money. As he doesn't work. . . . And when there is money we can [help] but often there is none. I tell [my husband] to go to Mexico and to work in a house, or as a bricklayer, to make some money." She added with a smile, "But he says he is too old."
Women in Amatlan were the primary caregivers to children, whether their own or their extended kin; their main duties were domestic. Emma's eldest daughter, Cristina, irritably pointed out that mothers, and women, had to do everything with never any rest.
Exhausting Anxieties
She constantly worried about her children and hoped that they would be able to make something of their lives. But her anxiety was exhausting, as she said, extending her emotion to all aspects of motherhood:
"It's just that as women we have to do everything, get pregnant and be nauseated for the first few months and when everything makes you feel sick. And [cleaning] the pigsty made me feel so sick. And then in the last [months] it is difficult to stand up and do everything. It is so much trouble. And then the pain of the birth, and to breastfeed, and to get up to change the baby in the middle of the night. Your husband is happily asleep but not you. And then to have to control yourself so you don't get pregnant. We [women] have to do everything. There is only the condom and the vasectomy for men, but they don't want them. We have to do it if we don't want to get pregnant. And well, one has to satisfy the husband and also not have so many children."
This centrality of women as caregivers and men as providers is echoed in the structure of Oportunidades, a federal social assistance program in Mexico. When some of the men of the village on occasion asked to receive the money alongside the women, they were scolded by the authorities and told that it was only for the women. They were told that they should work, not be lazy and support their families. This response somehow implied that women's natural job at the home could be rewarded and encouraged with money, but men needed to be out in the public sphere without complaint.
Excerpted from the new book, "Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico," by Vania Smith-Oka, published by Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. Reprinted with permission. For more information: www.VanderbiltUniversityPress.com.
Vania Smith-Oka is a assistant professor of anthropology and a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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A DVD made with Blu-ray DVD Ripper that comes with lots of great examples of Free Culture which plays in your DVD player, with even more examples when you put it in your computer – including a GNU/Linux Live CD. The idea is simple: help to get the word out about Free Culture, including Free Software, by showing off what's already been achieved; the thing is, we need your help!
Before we get started on the rest of this article I would like to make it clear that the term "Free Culture" as used here refers to my own belief that many different elements - i.e. software, literature, music, photos, videos, creative commons, GNU etc - are all part of a greater whole. Some things that I might have included under the term "Free Culture", others might not have: the best I can do here is to point you in the direction of the sites of other organisations to get a feel for what they feel constitutes Free Culture. I'm very aware that I might step on a few toes here, so if you think I am stepping on your toes please send some feedback and we'll see if we can work around it.
Back to the project! Through the first few months of this year I'd been doing a lot of reading, mostly of books and essays like Free Software, Free Society by RMS and Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig: I was so inspired by these texts, and so concerned about some of the issues they presented, I wanted to let my MP know about them. Initially I was just going to forward him a copy of the texts, as is permitted by their licenses, but then I remembered a campaign I'd heard about quite a while ago called "iPods for Senators" where they'd sent iPods full of less restrictively licensed material (i.e. Creative Commons, Public Domain etc) to help raise awareness of the issues surrounding digital technology and copyright law.
I knew I didn't have the money to send out iPods but I thought I could put together a DVD, which would even allow me to include a GNU/Linux Live CD! This is exactly what I've done. The DVD has a range of video content – including movies like Elephants Dream and the animated short Trusted Computing – which will play in your DVD player; a whole load of Creative Commons licensed music and photos which you can enjoy from your computer; books that are now in the public domain (including some real classics) and books which are released under some sort of permissive license, i.e. Verbatim or CC; the icing on the cake, in my opinion, is the inclusion of Knoppix with all of the media on the desktop for you to enjoy!
I plan to send this disc out to M.Ps, relevant journalists and friends at university; hopefully the content will be varied and interesting enough to grab their attention and lead them on to find out more about Free Culture. Thanks to Benjamin Stephan and Christoph Haag from Lafkon (Trusted Computing animation) the packaging will be so attractive it will grab people's attention before they've even put the disc in the drive!
Where I need your help is the website: we've put a URL on the case for people to visit and find out more information – more of a stepping stone than anything else: I've put up some basic information on the site to get people started and loads of links to other organisations and sources of content. We really want the information on the site to be as clear and informative as possible, hopefully this will help us make a really good impression on people who come across the disc, and as part of this I'd like to invite people to visit the site and critique it!
The target audience is obviously people new to the idea of Free Culture, but who are likely from a wide range of backgrounds (as shown by M.Ps, journalists and students!). The range of the content on the site already reflects the topics I'd like it to cover but I believe it needs editing and refining, probably more links adding etc. Also, we're looking for some hosting so that we can make the disc available for download: my current host doesn't have nearly enough bandwidth for a DVD and my ISP throttles bit torrent – any offers of help in this department would be welcome too (I'm thinking about submitting it to Ibililio or the Internet Archive) :D
I'm aware that in the EU we're pretty well off with respect to copyright and patent laws, certainly compared the USA, but I'd like to help keep it that way! Even here in Europe people are being sued for file sharing; neither are we safe from the threat of software patents (yes, that subject has come up again in the EU) so I feel these issues are definitely just as important here; I will be including a cover letter with the disc to M.Ps and journalists to explain how these issues apply to us. I'd also like to encourage more people to get involved with Free Culture, or even just raise people's awareness of the subject, and I hope that this disc might have some success with this.
I should point out that although I'm targeting the UK and Europe there's no reason why people from all around the world can't ask me to send them discs to help raise awareness all over!
Please keep your criticisms constructive and hopefully we'll make this as good as we can!
a broader movement
Great idea! I feel very much the same as you about 'Free Culture'. It really is a broader movement, but sadly most of the participants don't know what all the rest is doing and thinking. e.g. CreativeCommons not using free software... or Free Software advocats not valuing OpenAccess...
Actually, I'm writing on a smaller project which's aim it is to give a good and simple overlook over this movement, especially suited for newcomers. If it turns out well, I'm going to publish it on the 'Net and possibly set up a wiki, so participants from all over the movement can bring in their knowledge, change the text and maybe form also a parallel, more comphrehensive version.
An Interesting Idea
This sounds like an interesting idea. I would like to say a great idea, but the fact is that I am ignorant enough of the broader free culture scene that I wouldn't be able to say that until I actually see the DVD. Which I would like to. Since you wish to be paid for cost of postage, perhaps on your web site you could list estimates of what this would be for various areas. (Perhaps some ranges for each broad geographical region.) I live in the U.S.A. and I have no idea what postage might be. I would imagine there would be others over here who would also be interested in your DVD. You also might publish on your site acceptable payment methods. (Not everybody has Paypal or credit card.) I would think posting this info might cut down on the amount of email you would need to handle.
The other thing I would like to see addressed is the legality of duplicating and giving away copies of this DVD. I am guessing everything on it has no issues with noncomercial redistribution. But my impression (which may be wrong) is that just because all of the content may be redistributed, that does not necessarily hold for the DVD as a whole. (This may also vary by country.) If you wish to grant the right to duplicate and distribute, publishing it on your web site as well as having a file on the DVD stating this would be great.
Good luck with this project.
Thanks for the replies :D
I'll be sure to add something to the DVD and website stating that you can freely redistribute the disc as a whole :D I'll also look in to adding a page with rough guidelines on how much it will cost to ship though I'll have to wait 'till I know how much the disc will finally cost to produce...
Also, thanks to Mauro's comments and good luck with your project! if you get a website together send me a link? because it sounds interesting and I'd like to have a look at it!
Sure I'll send you a link! :D I hope I'll progress quickly...
Some stuff on there is non-Free...
First: Good idea.
Second: I just went and looked. Some of the stuff is not Free. If it has the NC restriction, it is not Free. This may not be a popular position, but I think it is correct.
If you really want to promote Free Culture, I suggest you don't taint it with the non-Free stuff. Your message will be fuzzy instead of loud and clear.
all the best,
Noncommercial is not free as in freedom
I completely agree that anything which doesn't allow commercial use isn't free as in freedom. However, I don't agree that that's an unpopular position. I know that Lawrence Lessig says a work which bans commercial use is free, but I don't think the majority of people in the free culture and free software movements agree with him. I definitely hope they don't. I also don't think that any work which doesn't allow derivative works is free.
The Definition of Free Cultural Works (http://www.freedomdefined.org) is more or less identical to the free software definition, and it seems to be becoming the most popular of that type of definition. Richard Stallman has even added a link to it on the free software definition page.
I think that including partially free stuff in this DVD is OK (as long as it at least allows noncommercial distribution) if you think it's useful to do so, as long you make it completely clear which works are completely free and which works aren't, and you include a definition of what you think constitutes a free cultural work (whatever that may be).
GNU - free as in freedom
derivative works
I also don't think that any work which doesn't allow derivative works is free.
It's probably not. But even Richard Stallman argues that derivative works aren't always a good thing. He devides works into functional ones, works of personal opinion and creative works. Many of his texts representing his personal opinion aren't under a derivatives-allowing license, but only verbatim copying is permitted. I think this does make some sense: he doesn't want his text completeley changed and still be made responsible for its content.
I agree that they can be justified
I agree that banning derivative works can be justified, my point is purely that I don't think they should be referred to as being completely free (as in freedom).
GNU - free as in freedom
DraftNonCommercial Guidelines
You might want to check that link to get an idea of what all you can and cannot do if you include CC NC works.
all the best,
I looked over that wiki page
I looked over that wiki page and I think from my intentions that I should be OK including NC stuff from the point of view of legal issues.
The moral issue however is trickier.
I recognised this problem when I started and gave it some thought; the conclusion I came to was to include the NC licensed materials because I believe they add genuine value to the DVD and to our culture as a whole - but I felt it was important to let people know that other people have different views of what constitutes a Free work, hence I've added a paragraph on the welcome page dedicated to this point and recommending that people look around the sites I've linked to, including Free Software Foundation and Freedom Defined.
The reason I feel these works add value is because even when licensed non-commercially they facilitate a massive expansion of what is available for the public to access: they allow people to learn from them, they allow people to be creative, to create derivative works, and they allow for a true historical record of our society as it is now and what it will develop in to. The other point is that even NC licensed material, from looking over that wiki page, allows you to charge for the costs of distribution under certain conditions and so doesn't restrict people's access to this.
This is at least my take - I hope I've expressed myself clearly but I doubt it!! Feel free to e-mail me or keep posting replies, discussion like this is good I think :D

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Lieber and Eyre Rehabbin' at Fitch
Jon Lieber and Scott Eyre threw in rehab outings with the AZL Cubs at Fitch Park Field #3 this morning, as Larry Rothschild, Lester Strode, and Carlos Zambrano (who was visiting buddy Angel Guzman) watched from the bench, and a gaggle of Cubs brass watched from the observation tower.
And the AZL Cubs took advantage of having a couple of big leaguers throw shutout ball for the first four innings of the game, as they whitewashed the AZL Mariners 7-0.
Lieber got the start and threw three innings, and it was typical Lieber (33 pitches - 24 strikes, no runs on four hits, no walks, one strikeout, one GIDP, 5/2 GO/FO).
Then Eyre threw one inning (14 pitches - 8 strikes, no runs, no hits, one walk, no strikeouts, and one GIDP), although he did throw an additional 10 or 15 pitches in the bullpen after his one inning of work, possibly to tinker with his slider (otherwise he just could have thrown a second inning).
Neither Lieber (on the DL with a sore foot) nor Eyre (on the DL with a strained groin) showed any outward physical indication of injury, and both appear about ready to return to full-activity and game action.
Lieber looked like Lieber ("pitching to contact" on every hitter), but Eyre was a bit spotty with his control and had trouble commanding his slider, although he did throw with decent velocity. I would think Eyre would benefit from one or two outings at AAA, perhaps with the Iowa Cubs while they are in Tucson (they'll be there starting tonight through Friday night).
There was no sign of Alfonso Soriano at Fitch Park today, meaning he'll either go on a one or two game rehab with the Iowa Cubs in Tucson starting tonight, or I guess it's possible that he could be reactivated for tonight's Cubs-Diamondbacks game at Chase Field (or probably more-likely tomorrow night's game, when lefty Doug Davis gets the start for the D'backs)..
Soriano put on quite a power display in pre-game BP before last night's Cubs-D'backs at Chase Field, attacking the ball with relish, hitting line-drive ropes and towering long flies all over the yard. But his timing looked to be slightly off when he was the DH for the AZL Cubs at Peoria yesterday morning, so he might benefit from a few more minor league ABs at AAA game-speed before he faces an MLB pitcher throwing in anger.
Today's game marked the professional debut of the Cubs 2008 21st round draft pick, 17-year old SS Logan Watkins (Goddard HS - Goddard, KS), and their 37th round pick, 21-year old RHP Erik Hamren.
The left-handed hitting Watkins PH in the bottom of the 8th inning, and proceeded to slam a single into RF. The kid was a star baseball and football player in HS, and and had already accepted a full-ride scholarship to Wichita State when the Cubs drafted him last month. But he somewhat unexpectedly gave up his chance to attend WSU when the Cubs threw "3rd round money" at him (a reported $500K plus another $100K in college tuition).
As for Hamren, he had transferred to Saddleback CC for his sophormore year, after attending the University of the Pacific as a freshman. He was going to enroll at UC - Irvine for his junior year (2008-09 school year), before deciding to sign with the Cubs.
Hamren hasn't pitched much over the last couple of years, so the Cubs did not make an offer until they had a chance to follow his progress with Mankato in the Northwoods League (a summer "wood bat" college league), where he was the MoonDogs closer. I guess the Cubs liked what they saw. And he looked pretty good today at Fitch Park, too, throwing a shutout inning (with one hit allowed and one K) in his pro debut.
The Cubs have now signed 32 of their first 38 picks from this year's Rule 4 Draft, including 26 of their first 27. The "Big Fish" unsigned pick still out there is 10th rounder RHP Alex Wilson (Texas A&M). Wilson had Tommy Johnn surgery after injuring his elbow while pitching in the Cape Cod League (the premiere "wood bat" collegiate summer league) in the Summer of 2007, and he missed the entire 2008 college baseball season. But he is currently back pitching with Falmouth (the same place he was last year when he got hurt), and it's possible that the Cubs will offer him 1st or 2nd round money (that's what it will probably take to sign him) if they feel he's back 100% from the TJS.
Although the Cubs drafted him out of Texas A&M, Wilson last pitched at Winthrop, where he was (pre-TJS) a very highly-regarded prospect, projected as a possible 1st or 2nd round pick.
What the Cubs did with Erik Hamren and are now presently doing with Alex Wilson (and a few other draft picks from the lower rounds) is the new version of "Drafdt & Follow." It used to be that clubs could draft a player in June (especially JC players, or HS players who were going to go to a JC) , and then be able to sign him all the way up until a week before the next year's draft. Such players signed just before the deadline the following year were known as "DNFs" (or Draft & Follows"). Now the "DNF" period lasts only two months, until the new August 15th signing deadline. So following unsigned draft picks while they play in summer collegiate leagues or with post-HS traveling all-star teams has become very important.
BTW, Carlos Zambrano drove one of the Fitch Park golf carts around the place like it was a go-cart. It's lucky he didn't kill somebody (like maybe himself).
And RHP Dae-Eun Rhee has arrived at Fitch Park to begin his long rehab from Tommy John Surgery. So far he's wearing one of those custom TJS splints on his elbow, and a khaki-colored "We're Broke" t-shirt (with the picture of a bear with it's leg in a sling on the back) that the rehab guys receive when they arrive. (I'd like to get me one of those).
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Classic Z.
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Great to hear from you again Az. Always look forward to your reports. I was wondering if you had thoughts about the cubs farm system now that they traded a few of their top guys to Oakland. Hopefully some of the "new guys" from the 08 draft can step up and fill in the gaps left by Donaldson, E-patt and gallagher. Any thoughts on Smardzija's improvements, Ceda's change to the bullpen and Vitters rejuvination at the plate would be appreciated.
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Sori not in the Cubs' lineup, so I'm guessing he's not being activated today.
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Carlos Zambrano sprung for tickets to tonight's Cubs-Diamondbacks game for the AZL Cubs.That's great letting these players get out of Mesa for an evening of inspiration !
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Good thinking by Z. Too bad the MLB Cubs play wasn't that inspiring.
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I'm guessing it's very inspiring to Minor Leaguers when their big league counterparts play like shit.
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.Top Draft Pick Performances to Date:
> a.. Josh Harrison (6th round)-hitting .356 for Boise with a .455 OBP and 11 stolen bases.
> b.. Jay Jackson (9th round)-2.38 ERA, 1-0 record, 16 K's in 11 and 1/3 innings since being promoted to Peoria.
> c.. Dan McDaniel (14th round)-No earned runs in 9 and 1/3 innings pitched, WHIP of 0.86, 16 K's at Boise.
> d.. Ryan Keedy (16th round)-hitting .304 for Boise with a .419 OBP. 18 RBI's in 32 games.
> e.. Jericho Jones (20th round)-hitting .448 with 4 HR's and 17 RBI's in 15 games for the Arizona Cubs. His OPS is 1.293.
> f.. Rebel Ridling (25th round)-hitting .333 between Boise and Peoria, with 6 HR's and 32 RBI's in 30 games.
> g.. Sean Hoorelbeke (33rd round)-hitting .390 with 17 RBI's and 17 runs in 17 games for the Arizona Cubs.
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Casey Coleman has also been pretty good excluding tonight. Chris Carpenter had a great outing tonight at Boise and Matt Cerda has been fantastic and hit his first pro HR in Mesa today.
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Noticed that Billy Petrick is now listed as suspended. Any idea what happened?
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Thanks for the fine response to my question about Petrick. I've tried Googling, but have been unable to fine out any specific reason for his placement on the suspended list. Hopefully any insubordination can be mutually resolved and he can remain with the organization.
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Yeah... that was some very athletic stuff from Willson in the 9th. Impressive.
I think Chapman and Wood both need 2 days off -- rosters expand, bring 'em up!
Cubs now 41-15 in August in the Maddon era. That'll do. That will effing do.
31 pitches, 2 hits, 1 walk, and 3 wild pitches later...the cubs win by 1.
contreras snagged some other potential wild pitches in this chapman appearance.
22 wins in august. woo.
c'mon chapman.
Down on the farm:
"Dealin'" Cease with another good outing for Eugene. Last 4 outings: 16IP, 1ER 29K. But, 10BB. Throw strikes, kid.
Candelario is killing it at Iowa after struggling at AA: .320/.406/.941 in 241AB. At age 22. Where the heck to put him next year?
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Happ and Jiminez to play in the AFL. Baseball is the best.
You magnificent Bastardo!
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My guy Addy
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very boring numbers for a guy with his experience in indie ball, though not bad numbers...probably not enough to get him a minor league deal at his age (33)
there goes heyward's gold glove win. bench him and bring up matt murton.
felt like 36 for sure....
Didn't LaHair hit 36 before the All Star Break? Then none after.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Martinson of McPherson are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Christina Jo Martinson, on Sept. 21, 2013, at McPherson Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
Maternal grandparents are Nate and Charlene Reynolds of Haven.
Paternal grandparents are Glenn and Pam Martinson of McPherson.
Maternal great-grandparents are Judge and Mrs. George S. Reynolds of Kansas.
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Savor the flavors of everyday real food, fresh from the garden or stored on your pantry shelves.
By Sue Van Slooten
King Arthur Flour, Callebaut, Sue Van Slooten, Vt. Fresh Pasta, Norwich Vt., baking, , Sue Van Slooten
I recently took a trip to Norwich, Vermont to visit King Arthur Flour for the grand opening of their Baking Education Center. And what a trip it was. First, I made the mistake of using Google Maps and Directions. Don't do that. It's far better to use something made out of paper, if you can find them. Gas stations don't seem to have them anymore. Things started to go astray, and we then searched the car for the NUVI, as we call her. She was Missing, Not in Action. OK, then to the iPhone. That at least worked. Until we hit seriously rural NY state. After suffering through much construction and a few wrong turns, 7 ½ hours later, we made it to KAF. Mind you, Google said it should be 6. On which road? Not any I know about.
That evening, we went over to view the new facility and start the heady, but wonderful process, of being submerged in everything baking. I had previously arranged to meet up with Allison, who works for KAF. We found each other eventually (pretty good, considering we had no idea what we looked like). She had her adorable daughter in tow, I had the hubby. Wasn't long before we were into serious baking discussions, the topic being brownies. Cake vs. fudgy? For me, definitely fudgy. Allison goes between the two. Both hubby and daughter started to look bored.
The next morning, I was back. There were two things on my agenda that day: chocolate and pasta. Vt. Fresh Pasta was there, and I got to ask some important pasta questions. Like when I dry my pasta, it becomes so brittle. Answer: So does theirs. Apparently you need a whole special drying process, like the commercial producers use. Hence why they only do fresh pasta. Their ravioli was to die for.
From there, it was on to chocolate, my middle name. I've also been known to answer to the word chocolate, mistakenly thinking someone was calling me. The chocolate in question was Barry Callebaut, which I see in Canada as "Callebaut." Apparently the Callebaut sans "Barry" is made in Belgium, I believe. It is excellent chocolate, the demo being a taste comparison between various of their products. (It was at this important juncture that the diet flew to the wind, as they started passing out samples: giant, 6 inch, ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookies. Still warm. One could have swooned.) I sampled all the chocolates of course, loved all of them, but went comparatively nutty over the white chocolate. White chocolate technically isn't chocolate, but this stuff was delicious. That's really saying something, because normally I'm not that interested in it. That's for the hubby. I'm a dark person, myself.
Shopping was high on my agenda: You only get these opportunities very rarely. It had been 4 years since I had last been to KAF. The guys went and sat in the car that time. My prime directive was that as long as I was in New England, KAF was on the radar. This time, I almost didn't recognize parts of the store. Some was the same, but the rest was quite different. I hot-footed around the store, perusing mixes (these are mixes I don't feel guilty about using), equipment, supplies, goodies, it was really mind boggling. Other shoppers weren't holding back: carts filled, some walking out with five and six large shopping bags each. One man rushed past with about a dozen boxes of his favorite mix (he went by so fast, it was impossible tell which one). The excellent staff was making sure all shelves stayed full. I was worried about them running out of my favorite things, but I needn't have fretted. I walked out with two large bags, but this was only the beginning. I would be back.
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The Office of Public School Construction/State Allocation Board will conduct a hearing on the Sierra Sands Unified School District's geographic-index appeal in February 2013.
At stake is millions of dollars in reimbursement money for construction projects performed during the past four years.
Reporting to the Superintendent's Council Wednesday, Construction Management Consultant Bruce Auld said he delivered the district's appeal documentation to Sacramento last week.
He said the district gets a 5-percent bump up in funding for construction costs over areas such as Bakersfield, but the actual costs far exceed the 5-percent bump.
"We know it's more like 30 to 35 percent," Auld said. "We have an official appeal before the State Allocation Board in February. Now we're starting to lobby the members of the board. We're asking for a 30-percent bump up."
During his presentation, he said the district paid approximately $52,000 in hotel bills for contractors during the Las Flores Elementary School modernization project.
Auld also showed council members a map showing the location of the district and the locations of the contractors used for modernization projects.
"The preponderance of the contractors for all of our projects come from the south with a little bit from Bakersfield and a little bit from Lancaster," he said. "You can commute from Lancaster or Palmdale fairly well. Once you get into Bakersfield and the Inland Empire, you get a big drop in productivity if you're commuting. What we're trying to do is make policy from common sense. Our experience is that it is not easily done."
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A North Dakota University System employee has accused Chancellor Hamid Shirvani of giving state lawmakers misleading information to make two college presidents look bad. Shirvani denies the allegation and says he is fed up with relentless attacks on his character.
Linda Porter, whose title is interim system office liaison officer for reporting and information, told lawmakers Wednesday that Shirvani purposely compared the University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University to larger schools when providing data such as graduation rates to a House appropriations subcommittee earlier this month.
"When I was asked to provide the information, this was to make (UND and NDSU) look bad," Porter told the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. "I have witnessed and heard (Shirvani's) mission is to get rid of the presidents."
Porter wants the House Appropriations Committee to investigate whether Shirvani violated any state policies or laws.
Shirvani said the information was not misleading.
"We just put the data into a different context — instead of peer schools, compared (UND and NDSU) to aspiring schools," he said. "Nothing else was changed.
"It was not to put down an institution or to say we are bad," Shirvani said. "It was saying, this is where we are, and what I like to do as a chancellor is take us to those higher horizons."
Shirvani said the allegations "are another part of relentless tactics of assassination over fear of governance."
The chancellor has come under repeated fire for what his critics describe as a heavy-handed leadership style. Shirvani says he was given a mandate by the state Board of Higher Education to overhaul North Dakota's education system and fix its problems, including low graduation rates.
Some lawmakers have sought to oust Shirvani, and several groups including the North Dakota Student Association, have approved votes of no confidence in the chancellor. The Board of Higher Education, which oversees the state's 11 public colleges and universities, recently passed a resolution of support for Shirvani, who has been on the job for less than a year.
Porter said university system employees fear for their jobs. Shirvani said "there is no retaliation or intimidation whatsoever."
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Until relatively recently, developing hybrid simulation models using more than one simulation paradigm was a challenging task which required a degree of ingenuity on behalf of the modeler. Generally speaking, such hybrid models either had to be coded from scratch in a programming language, or developed using two (or more) different off-the-shelf software tools which had to communicate with each other through a user-written interface. Nowadays a number of simulation tools are available which aim to make this task easier. This paper does not set out to be a formal review of such software, but it discusses the increasing popularity of hybrid simulation and the rapidly developing market in hybrid modeling tools, focusing specifically on applications in health and social care and using experience from the Care Life Cycle project and elsewhere.» 続きを読む
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Disaster, whether manmade or natural, can have a catastrophic impact on a populated area. Sometimes, the disaster is so devastating that it requires a large-scale evacuation. As a result, evacuation plans have become a necessity. One such evacuation plan is the regional hub reception center (RHRC), which will help evacuate the careless population when an evacuation is needed. Using AnyLogic as a simulation modeling software, an RHRC model was developed to test the efficiency of the proposed plan.» 続きを読む
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Developing countries are faced with finding novel and humane ways to permanently reduce and control their dog population. Agent-based models developed to describe dog populations represent a unique, platform for using computer based simulation to identify control strategies with the greatest potential for success, aid in the design of more effective control measures, and provide a means to evaluate the success of different interventions.» 続きを読む
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Na Hopes Special Olympics Change Views on Disabled
Former two-term lawmaker Na Kyung-won has temporarily suspended her political career, but she remains one of South Korea's busiest public figures as she tries to change her country in a different way.
Ms. Na, chairwoman of the organizing committee for the Special Olympics World Winter Games that open in the city of Pyeongchang next week, hopes the event will help change the way her society sees the disabled.
The high-profile former judge and lawmaker lost an election for Seoul mayor in 2011, and declared early last year that she was taking a break from politics.
"I was at a dead run, kicking into high gear to do my job over the past 10 years, but didn't take time to have a rest and recharge myself," she said. Her involvement with the games is part of her effort to unwind, she added .
Ms. Na, who has a daughter with Down syndrome, submitted dozens of bills to the legislature in the hopes of improving conditions for disabled people and successfully initiated several laws that boosted their access to education. She said that when she began her political life in 2004, intellectually challenged children faced serious obstacles in gaining entry to ordinary schools. Her daughter was one such student, but she is now studying music at a women's university in Seoul–her way partially paved by her mother's legislative work.
Still, Ms. Na said she believes there is a lot of room for improvement. She said the government's budget for programs to help the disabled is one of smallest among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The education and employment rates for such people are insufficient, she added.
"Poverty rates among the intellectually challenged are too high in Korea, and they are more emotionally depressed than [non-disabled] low-income earners," she said.
But Ms. Na said: "The door of change is about to open," and she hopes the Special Olympics will give it a firm nudge. As head of the organizing committee, she has been scrambling to raise awareness of the eight-day event–and her countrymen's pride at hosting it. She has also introduced several new programs aimed at garnering more attention–one of which invited seven countries, including Mongolia, Nepal and Thailand, to participate in the games for the first time, with financial support from South Korea.
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Defense Department officials say that No Easy Day, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette's book about the secret mission to kill Osama bin Laden, includes classified information that may harm U.S. military operations. The book went on sale yesterday despite the Pentagon's warnings of possible legal action last week.
Referring to the book, which was written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, Pentagon press secretary George Little today called it "the height of irresponsibility not to have this kind of material checked for the possible disclosure of classified information."
Speaking with reporters, Little called it "a no-brainer" that a book about a clandestine operation like the one that killed bin Laden would need to be reviewed by the Pentagon. He later added that Defense officials "are very concerned that — that classified information may be contained in this book."
Asked repeatedly for clarification, Little went a bit further, saying that "sensitive and classified information is contained in the book."
But Little also said that the Pentagon would not attempt to block the sale of the book, either to the American public or on the bookshelves of military exchanges.
The discussion came a day after the leader of the Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Adm. Sean Pybus wrote a letter telling the service members in his group that "hawking details about a mission" and other details about SEAL activities could put them all at risk.
"For an elite force that should be humble and disciplined for life, we are certainly not appearing to be so," Pybus wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the Associated Press. "We owe our chain of command much better than this."
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WaPo: Whites' deaths outnumber births for first time
More white people died in the United States last year than were born, a surprising slump coming more than a decade before the Census Bureau says that the ranks of white Americans will likely drop with every passing year.
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Jefferson City police are investigating two armed robberies early Saturday morning.
According to a news release, officers first got a call at 12:28 a.m. from a man who said three armed, masked men assaulted and robbed him in the 1000 block of Elizabeth Street.
Four minutes later, officers were called to the McDonalds at 1918 Jefferson Street for an armed robbery. Employees said two masked men with handguns got away with a some money from the restaurant.
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Wasabi Sesame Drizzling Oil (I know, it's weird)
ANYWAYYYAH.... back to this quick blog post. And this one is all for my hubby. I promise you that it will relate to only .00062% of the rest of you, and in the time-honored fashion of rounding off numbers, we'll just give it an even zero. I'm merely posting this so I'll remember how I made this recipe a year from now when I run out again.
See that stuff? It is called wasabi sesame drizzling sauce and I found it last year at Trader Joe's. Had I known that it would eventually become hubby's closest and most coveted condiment, I would have bought more than one bottle. But as common sense usually dictates in such incidences, I tend to buy only one of something until I know whether or not I like it. We loved it (of course) and the next time I went back to Trader Joe's and tried to purchase another bottle, I was told that it was discontinued (of course.) Just like when Mary Kay discontinued the jade eye pencil and pink eyecicles that made me look like a cover girl. (Some things a girl just never gets over.)
Hubby puts this stuff on his grilled fish, especially tuna, mahi mahi and salmon. HE LOVES IT!! When I read the list of ingredients, I figured out that I could come pretty close to whipping up something comparable. And I did! Twenty seconds in the blender (not me.... the ingredients) and I was back on the computer licking my "Wars With Friends" wounds. (That's what I call it now.)
Wasabi Sesame Drizzling Sauce
1 1/2 ounces prepared wasabi paste (that's the entire tube)
1 1/2 ounces soy sauce (I used reduced-sodium)
2 ounces sesame oil
3 ounces canola oil
Put all ingredients in blender and process for 15-20 seconds. Pour into jar. Cover and store in fridge.
8 comments:
- The Mom Chef said...
That stuff's gotta pack some heat. Hubby would love it. I have so far stayed far, far away from Words with Friends on facebook. I'd never sleep. Or get work done, or eat. No, I'd eat.
- February 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- Abby said...
Yum!!! This sounds absolutely delightful....although I waffle between loving wasabi and having to drink a gallon of water to calm my burning mouth. :) Glad to "see" you here again! :)
- February 8, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- June said...
Yum! Looks so darn tasty I'm gonna' have to try it - do you think it'll give the Sriracha a run for its money?
- February 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM
- Lea M. Callais said...
This sauce sound delish!
- February 9, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Julie said...
Don't you love it when you can do your own version of something?
WWF, not for me. Requires way too much thinking. I am way more an Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja person. Mindless entertainment ;)
- February 10, 2012 at 5:58 AM
- Shelby said...
Well, I'm thinking love it here but I'm a heat freak anyway...and anything with wasabi is going to grab my attention. Grumpy wouldn't touch it though. Of course, he's a wuss and I AIN'T afraid to tell him. ;)
- February 12, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- airbrush said...
Thanks for posting this. I just had the same experience myself. I hate it when TJ's discontinues things I love. I will try this recipe tonight.
- December 24, 2012 at 11:36 AM
So glad you made a receipe..my daughter( age 5) and I loved that dressing and had same experience of "been discontinued"....we'll try it!
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SAN JOSE -- The Sharks have a goalie decision to make. It shouldn't be a tough one.
Alex Stalock, come on down.
There was no official word Sunday that Stalock will indeed be replacing Antti Niemi in net for Monday night's Game 6 against the Los Angeles Kings. But anyone with two eyes who has watched Niemi struggle in the last two games would surely reach that conclusion.
Todd McLellan has two eyes.
"We've got to think about that and decide," the Sharks coach said Sunday, insisting he hasn't yet made up his mind.
The Sharks practiced for about 30 minutes before flying south. You had to figure McLellan would tell the two goalies of his decision somewhere over Paso Robles. If he hadn't done so already.
On the surface, it might seem like a gutsy move to replace Niemi, who won a Stanley Cup as the Chicago Blackhawks' goalie in 2010 and has 59 more games of NHL playoff experience than Stalock. But after Niemi was pulled out of the past two games against the Kings for uneven performance ... well, there's only one next logical step.
Consider: Of the goalies still donning masks in the playoffs, Niemi has the worst save percentage (.882), falling even lower than the Kings' Jonathan Quick (.893), who began the series by allowing 12 goals in the first two games.
Meanwhile, even though the 26-year-old Stalock has never started an NHL playoff game, he has stopped all 26 shots he's seen in his two relief appearances. In Game 4, one puck did get past Stalock -- but the goal was disallowed because of an L.A. penalty committed in front of him before the shot.
The biggest mistake for the Sharks, however, would be if the other players see the change to Stalock and figure their problems of the past two games have been solved. That's far from the truth.
McLellan and his staff watched video of Saturday's egg-laying performance by the Sharks in their 3-0 loss. And as an old football coach once said the video looked suspiciously like the game itself. The Sharks were sloppy and slow and just not very good through long stretches.
"At the end of the day, we weren't good enough," said Joe Pavelski, declining to dissect it much further.
Dan Boyle, the defenseman, pointed out a few more specific elements that caused the ugliness -- passing that wasn't crisp, playing too much in the Kings' end of the ice, etc. -- but sometimes the most basic numbers on the stat sheet tell the most important story.
Such as? Saturday, the Sharks' best shooters were hardly shooters at all. And that can't continue. In the series' first four games, nine of the Sharks' goals were scored by Pavelski, Patrick Marleau, Tomas Hertl and Matt Nieto. But in Game 5, that foursome was credited with just three total shots.
Most alarming: Marleau, the Sharks' leading scorer in the series, didn't put a single puck on net. The stat sheet credited him with five "missed" shots. Marleau is one of the most accurate snipers on the team. So either the Kings were forcing him to take aim from spots he doesn't favor, or they were crowding him as he took the shots to throw off his timing. Or his release was lousy. Or he simply had a bad game.
Some of the problem may have been all the time and energy spent by Marleau's line -- with Nieto and Logan Couture -- trying to play defense against the Kings' Anze Kopitar line. That matchup was won by the Kopitar line all evening. And the Marleau-Couture-Nieto line wasn't the only Sharks line that spent too much time playing defense instead of offense.
"We'd like to get ahead of the curve instead of chasing it," McLellan said.
Should the Sharks still be favored to win the series, given their 3-2 lead? Of course. But they need to clean up their slapdash errors of the past two games.
Remember, odds remain heavily in their favor. In the history of NHL playoffs, there have been 175 series that started out 3-0. Only three of those teams that built a 3-0 lead have blown it by losing four straight -- the 1942 Detroit Red Wings (to Toronto), the 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins (to the New York Islanders) and the 2010 Boston Bruins (to the Philadelphia Flyers). Five other teams have started a series 3-0 and was extended to a seventh game before clinching, including the Sharks in 2011 against Detroit.
"We like where we're at," McLellan said, taking the optimistic approach. "We're still in the driver's seat."
It's just time for a new goalie back there in the rear.
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The tasteful gray cloth binding and foil stamping of the set and its "extremely conventional" design, as Sahre puts it ("maybe 'comfortable' would be a better way to describe it," he adds) makes me think of famous children's literature collections, like The Chronicles of Narnia. "This 'traditional/comfortable' design allowed for the drawings Brian was doing to venture off into the abstract and unconventional place they ended up," Sahre continues. "More importantly, the quiet design allowed the text and the drawings room to interact and to breathe. I hope the reader doesn't notice the design of the book at all."
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE -Live music and aprs-ski go hand in hand. Most aprs-ski music seems to involve a guitar and some vocals, with maybe a bass or other instrument thrown in. But from 4 to 7 five nights a week at the 8K Restaurant at Viceroy Snowmass, guests can hear some jazz, a little blues - even some bossa nova. Local music coordinator Tom Hills has teamed up with 8K manager Emily Albers and food and beverage director David Bodette to develop an entertainment schedule centered around jazz and jazz-influenced genres. Calling it the "Five Shades of Jazz," Hills has enlisted Vid Weatherwax, of Detroit, to play keyboard and arrange music for the venue on Wednesdays through Sundays. "It takes a combined effort to make entertainment more than just a corporate gesture of necessity," Hills said. "Music should complement a venue like a perfect glass of wine would a meal." The team agreed they wanted both consistency and variety in the 8K's entertainment, which is why guest artists will pair up with Vid Weatherwax on certain nights. "This provided variety along with the consistency of Vid's full yet controlled sound," Hills said. The music sticks within that sound, although its influences come from all over. "Since the term 'jazz' can mean many things to many people, we were careful not to stick to a strict style, such as traditional jazz," Hills said. "Instead, we sought to bring the most accessible styles of jazz and jazz-influenced genres, such as contemporary and New Orleans-style jazz. Along with that, we decided to bring R&B and blues to the mix, being that they are not only highly influenced by jazz but also complement it seamlessly."Weatherwax also said that the music doesn't all fit under jazz, even though the name of the gig implies that. "You'll hear a big variety. ... You look at the list of influential music in Detroit, and it's the longest" in the country, said Weatherwax, who performed music in the city for many years before making the move here in June. Weatherwax said the music is more for adult taste and that he tries to keep it at a volume people can listen to or talk over. But he does encourage people to listen. "We put a lot into the details of the arrangements," he said. "We're not just killing time."That doesn't mean their set list is inflexible. Weatherwax works hard to have music in all the varieties ready, so if someone requests bossa nova, they can play it. Multi-instrumentalist and longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident Chris Bank joins Weatherwax on saxophone and bass on Friday nights. Both men do some singing, too. Roberta Lewis joins the scene on Saturday nights. Bank, like a lot of Roaring Fork Valley locals, moved to Old Snowmass right after college. Weatherwax has arrived later in life but used to play music with Hills in Detroit. Hills invited him to play out here, and after experiencing the music in the area, including Wednesday night concerts in Glenwood Springs, he decided he wanted to be here. "I realized I could do OK out here but be around the mountains and the rivers," he said. Although the team might add more guest musicians eventually, Weatherwax said they're still "feeling it out" as it is right now. Hills hopes "Five Shades of Jazz" will translate into returning customers for the restaurant and hotel. When music complements a venue, guests "remember their hotel stay as an ensemble of satisfaction," he said. email@example.com
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I've been programming in Perl for years - over ten now in fact - and I've written numerous books and articles on Perl and Perl programming. I've also worked with Python and written books and articles on Python programming, including a guide to migrating Perl applications to the Python language. For a while I really saw Python as an alternative to Perl, but after so many years and experience with Perl and what was possible with the language it is difficult to move on from the 'Perl comfort zone'.
That's not to say I haven't tried alternatives; the march of free software has lead to a huge number of alternatives coming on to the market that are adopted, enhanced and extended. Ruby is a good example of a language that has, almost, appeared out of nowhere and captured the imagination of a huge number of people, particularly due to the Ruby on Rails framework.
I spent years working with Rebol, and I tried Ruby years before it became as popular as it is now (both languages featured in my XML Processing with Perl, Python and PHP title, published back at the end of 2001).
I still like all of these languages, and I'm loving Ruby on Rails at the moment, but 99% of the time, if I need to do something, I do it in Perl.
Is this a bad thing? Shouldn't I have moved on from the comfort of 10 years of Perl programming to one of the newer, flashier, alternatives?
Well, Perl isn't a bad language. There's an interesting piece at O'Reilly: How does a programming language stagnate?, which uses Perl as a base for the discussion, largely because of the perceived issues with the 'ever imminent' release of Perl 6.
I don't think Perl has stagnated; the power of Perl is in the fact that it is (a) free software, and (b) that it is extensible. I use modules from CPAN, I write my own, but never, ever, do I feel in any way restricted or limited in what I do. Sure, there are things that could be improved about the language, but nothing that really stops you from doing what you want.
So if there is nothing wrong with Perl (and even if it has stagnated), why should I move on to something that is, by others, perceived as better?
Let's think about some reasons why you might change language:
- Support for new features or technology - well, Perl is supported on just about every platform I know, and in terms of features and functionality, there's nothing that cannot be accessed through or from Perl with a suitable module.
- Lack of support - this seems unlikely to happen any time soon, given the existing user base.
- Lack of development - Perl is still actively maintained, and, as a free software product, I could pick up and fix bugs any time I liked if I needed to.
I know these rules apply to other languages too, and again, one of the key elements about most of the languages making the news at the moment is that the element making the news is just an extension or adaptation of the original core principles.
Perl may be my comfort zone, but it works, it's stable, and I know how to do everything I need to (often in both efficient and inefficient ways) and I see no reason in moving off any time soon, no matter how convincing the argument. Of course, this is in some ways the complete opposite of my thoughts on GNU/Linux.
Of course, if somebody has some convincing arguments one way or another, I'm open to suggestion; I just can't make any guarantees to actually convert!
Perl kinks
Hey, I like Perl as well. If I need to get a job done quickly there, Perl is. However, for larger code bases I find it difficult to maintain readable code. Java is more verbose and to some less lovable but the responsibilities in a team of coders is easier to divide. I suppose managers feel safer with Java. So how do you remove the readability kink in Perl and leave the rest?
Learned python first, can't stand Perl (or Lisp, or Java)
Well, I definitely relate to the "comfort language" concept. I think that unless you are a professional programmer, the effort to remember more than two or three key languages is just too much trouble for most people.
Knowing that about myself, I decided Python was a nice place to be. I was able to learn it really fast, and more importantly, I find that I can easily pick up tasks I was working on "a month or two ago" (usually means "9 months to 2-1/2 years" when I actually check the calendar).
I tried to learn Perl a few times, then finally took a course in it at work. I didn't see much of anything I couldn't do more easily and more readably in Python.
I felt like I might've appreciated the course except that Python had spoiled me -- I couldn't help thinking that Perl was actively designed to be obtuse and difficult on things that in Python are easy like breathing.
I actually did learn some nice tricks with Perl on the command line, but the truth is, the overhead in remembering yet another language versus just doing the same thing in Python wasn't worth the difference.
So I'm not really surprised that people can get stuff done in Perl, but I feel it takes a bigger learning commitment than Python (don't know about Ruby).
Likewise, though, I didn't find much in Java or Lisp to draw me.
My only complaint about Python is that the range of libraries is not as great as for Perl or Java.
The bottom line is, though, I'm just not going to spend the time learning those languages. Python's easy for me, so I'm going to stick to it. If I were a professional programmer, I might take a different attitude, but as an amateur, I don't really feel the need.
I'll probably occasionally dabble with alternatives as exploratory play. But Python has replaced C as my most useful tool, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon (not for me, anyway). I still hold out hope that I'll find something for which C leaps out as the best solution, but I just don't seem to be doing any of that kind of stuff anymore. And I think I'll politely avoid the subjects of Fortran and BASIC, though I wrote quite a bit of those once upon a time, too.
So on the one hand, I don't agree with your choice of language, but I understand your attitude about it very well.
Still can't change
A "comfort language" is a great description for Perl. It gives me the feeling I can accomplish things even though there are many people that are superior to me.
I have considered Python, Ruby, PHP and VBscript. Have books on them on my shelf but really haven't made the effort to learn them. Perl does just about anything for my needs and it's safer to use what you know versus what you could know.
There is the fact that I have to use what the others could support. They don't understand the other languages and could hack there way into fixing a Perl script.
Perl replaced shell scripts for me. I used to write for the shells but not anymore. Perl is far more comfortable.
I guess I will have to motivate ( more like kick ) myself into playing with Python and PHP.
Okay I confess - I'm a "perl guy"
A colleague consistently refers to me as a "Perl guy" even though I regularly code in other languages and have never really espoused the view that Perl is the *only* way to go. I think it's because he has a dislike of/limited patience with Perl and I don't. It used to bug me but on reading this I realised that Perl is my "comfort language".
I find myself turning to Perl before other languages and the times when I've written in other ones are times when I've considered Perl first and eventually settled on the other language. When I have a task to be done, some code to be written, perl is always on my list of languages to write it in. Even when considering scripts for sysadmin work (backup scripts etc.), perl is always considered and often used.
Why Perl - first bit of real-world coding I did I guess and I suppose it stuck. And now I am stuck. Although other languages may be better suited to the task, I can write much quicker in Perl than other languages. This is probably because I am familiar with it but you know what? I like writing in Perl and "comfort" exactly sums up how I feel when I am.


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Last September, Texas State Climatologist Dr. John Nielson-Gammon said that Texas as a whole could be in store for a 10 to 15 year drought. After soaking Winter rains, is that forecast still valid?
Dr. Nielson-Gammon, back in September 2011 said, "patterns don't tend to change very rapidly, so we may be in this pattern the next five to fifteen years. That could mean a series of droughts or potentially one long drought."
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So, if we are sitting just under 10 inches above normal for yearly rainfall, why are we headed back into a drought? Drought is something that has to be looked at on the large scale. While conditions were beneficial at the beginning of the year, the area wasn't that far removed from dangerously dry conditions. With the hot and dry summer months on the way, many fear that the entire area will slip back into at least a Moderate if not Severe Drought yet again.
Dr. Doug Welsh, with Texas Agrilife Extension, put it best when it comes to Texas by saying, "We don't know what is going to happen again this summer...because we know we are always seven days away from drought, and we are going there again."
The good news is that La Nina, cooler waters in the Pacific that caused the weather pattern over Texas to run dry, has officially left as of April. The summer pattern is expected to be neutral but then possible shift into an El Nino type set-up by Winter. That means a cooler and possibly wet outlook for the later part of 2012 could be in store.
Will the area go back into an "Exceptional Drought" -- the worst classification of drought -- anytime soon? That will be left for the summer to tell. While the outlook for this winter is an optimistic one, there is still speculation that we could easily go right back into a similar drought, as that of 2011, by 2013 or 2014 -- meaning that five to fifteen year outlook wouldn't be too far off the mark.
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Me-TV (Memorable Entertainment Television), the new digital classic television network from Weigel Broadcasting Co. and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is launching in the Triad on August 6th, 2012. Me-TV will be on WXII 12's secondary channel, WXII 12 Plus!
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