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December 15, 2011
Shared Room Tour: Violet and Lucy
11 comments:
- aPearantly sew said...
Their room is so cute! You did a great job. I love it!
- December 15, 2011 at 8:41 PM
- Piper said...
I wanna live in that room!
- December 15, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Faith said...
So thoughtfully put together! Love it!
- December 15, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- amber perrodin said...
This looks so so great! You've done a wonderful job of piecing their cozy little room together. p.s. Thanks for mentioning my owl pillow and etsy shop. You made maheart skip! :)
- December 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM
- Holly said...
Um yeah, Lucy is so cute! Where did you find that totally awesome rug?!!!!!!! This room totally rocks. I do love the wall color and the chalkboard headboard! So clever.
- December 15, 2011 at 10:12 PM
- Ness said...
it's DARLING! I love the whole thing...especially wee Lucy : )
- December 15, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Sarbear said...
You did a wonderful job putting together such a beautiful creative space for your girls. That lamp, the rug, the little details. It is lovely. :)
- December 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- eef said...
wow! what a gorgeous room! amazing job!
- December 16, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Joy said...
It really is a beautiful room. Any kid would be lucky to have a room like that. Shoot! I would love a room like that lol
- December 16, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- insideoutjill said...
A perfect combination! You did a lovely job!
- December 19, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Angela (Cottage Magpie) said...
Oh, this room looks lovely! I love the mix of things you've found in here. What is the wall color? I just love it and my son really wants green in his room!
Meanwhile, I hope you are healing well from your surgery!!!
- December 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM


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STARLIGHT, PA — Linda Lovstad and her French horn have traveled the world together, performing in symphony and opera orchestras, bands, wind and brass quartets and even Broadway pit ensembles. Now, as one of the "Iron Maidens," the female French horn players of Pennsylvania's Northern Tier Symphony Orchestra (NTSO), she will perform this Saturday, April 6 at the Honesdale High School auditorium, not so far from her weekend and future retirement home in Starlight in northern Wayne County.
This professional musician of four decades admits to being very excited about the concert. "It's not often in a rural area that you have an orchestra at this level to play in," says Lovstad, who is also on the board of directors of the three-year-old organization based in Tunkhannock.
Growing up an only child in a musical family, the first instrument she ever played was the piano; her grandmother gave her lessons starting at age seven. Her grandfather, who played violin, had five of them in the attic, and at age nine, Lovstad took up the violin. And then in the sixth grade in Sparta, NJ, she discovered the French horn. "The school only had a band," she explains—not much opportunity for a girl who played the piano and the violin. "They bought me a brandnew French horn," she recalls, the first French horn ever in the school's band.
"I knew early on I was going to stick with music," she recalls, although her mother wanted her to take up something that would make a little more money. Her grandmother's influence won out, however. "She tried with each child," Lovstad recalls fondly, "but Mother became secretary; my uncle became a bus driver (though he learned to play the piano by ear); and my cousin became a baseball player."
Asked to explain what she loves about the French horn, she responds that it's "the tone quality of the instrument. It has a lot of overtones." It also has a kind of universal range for playing with many other instruments, including the human voice, she adds. Of all the brass instruments, it has the biggest range, covering four-and-a-half to five octaves.
Immediately upon graduation from the Manhattan School of Music, she joined the New Orleans Symphony, where she remained for 16 years. She's also been a principal player in the Corpus Christi Symphony in Texas, the Indiana University Festival Orchestra, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and several pops and summer musical theater orchestras. Touring included most European countries, China and two thirds of the United States. "Music is its own language, understood everywhere," she says.
Back home, she played in the New Jersey Symphony for 18 years. In New York, she put in stints in the pit orchestras of such Broadway shows as "Man of La Mancha" and "Cats." And she's taught her instrument everywhere, from Indiana University, to giving private lessons, to being a substitute music teacher in Wayne County schools.
Born and reared in Sparta, Lovstad still lives in her grandfather's house there. She bought her one-bedroom home on four acres in Starlight, a short walk to the West Branch of the Delaware River, intending to spend her days training her beloved Chesapeake Bay retrievers for dog shows, tending her vegetable garden and keeping bees. But when she heard that Robert Helmacy, a childhood friend and fellow veteran pro, had launched an orchestra, she decided to audition. Helmacy, conductor and founding musical director of NTSO, has drawn in top notch musicians with similar bona fides and blended them with players of varying ages and experience into a 68-member orchestra that has been playing to sold-out houses across the region.
Enthusiastic regional audiences like the one that is expected in Honesdale are especially gratifying to play for, Lovstad says, because they crave good music and have few opportunities to hear a symphony orchestra live. Ray Stendenfeld, who lives in Lake Ariel and is the band director at Western Wayne High school, said "We're so enthused and excited about this concert, we're actually chartering buses for our students."
Lovstad says the Honesdale concert "is a terrific program for first-time concertgoers" because the music is familiar—Aaron Copeland, some Strauss waltzes, Smetana's "The Moldau."
Even so, she says, the old never really gets old. "I'll play the horn," she declares, "until I just can't pick it up anymore."
[The Northern Tier Symphony Orchestra is playing on Saturday, April 6 at Honesdale High School at 8 p.m.]

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This article describes how Web applications can benefit from clustering and presents a clustering solution that we developed for the Jakarta Tomcat Servlet Engine to provide high scalability, load-balancing, and high availability using JavaSpaces technology.
With the increasing use of Web-based applications, scalability and availability are critical for their success. Implementing a clustering solution for the servers hosting the Web applications is a simple, cost-effective solution.
JavaSpaces technology provides a distributed shared memory model that can be used to design a clustering solution. Unlike typical distributed system solutions, which revolve around enabling remote procedure calling or exchanging messages, solutions using this technology revolve around the ability to pass objects around. These objects typically carry all of the information needed to perform a task on a remote system, including even the code as needed, using an associative, shared, distributed memory. JavaSpaces provides a simple set of write, read, and take operations, which allow processes to put an object in the space, get a copy of an object, or take out an object from space.
Figure 1. A distributed system using JavaSpaces (Reprinted with permission from Sun Microsystems)
JavaSpaces is a core Jini technology service. The Jini programming model, with its leasing model and dynamic service discovery, provides the infrastructure needed to create a self-configuring dynamic distributed system. See the resource section for further information on these technologies.
The JavaSpaces technology, combined with the Jini programming model, thus offers high spatial and temporal decoupling, making it possible to design a distributed system that is highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and dynamically configurable. In this article, we will describe a simple clustering solution for the Jakarta Tomcat servlet engine (Catalina 4.x), a popular open source implementation of the Servlet API, using these technologies.
Clustering solutions usually provide:
The key question here is, if it takes time T to fulfill a request, how much time will it take to fulfill N concurrent requests? The goal is to bring that time as close to T as possible by increasing the computing resources as the load increases. Ideally, the solution should allow for scaling both vertically (by increasing computing resources on the server) and horizontally (increasing the number of servers) and the scaling should be linear.
The objective here is to provide failover, so that if one server in the cluster goes down, then other servers in the cluster should be able to take over -- as transparently to the end user as possible.
In the servlet engine case, there are two levels of failover capabilities typically provided by clustering solutions:
Request-level Failover. If one of the servers in the cluster goes down, all subsequent requests should get redirected to the remaining servers in the cluster. In a typical clustering solution, this usually involves using a heartbeat mechanism to keep track of the server status and avoiding sending requests to the servers that are not responding.
Session-level Failover. Since an HTTP client can have a session that is maintained by the HTTP server, in session level failover, if one of the servers in the cluster goes down, then some other server in the cluster should be able to carry on with the sessions that were being handled by it, with minimal loss of continuity. In a typical clustering solution, this involves replicating the session data across the cluster (to one other machine in the cluster, at the least).
The objective here is that the solution should distribute the load among the servers in the cluster to provide the best possible response time to the end user.
In a typical clustering solution, this involves use of a load distribution algorithm, like a simple round robin algorithm or more sophisticated algorithms, that distributes requests to the servers in the cluster by keeping track of the load and available resources on the servers.
Typical clustering solutions use a client-server paradigm to implement a distributed system as a solution, but they have limited scalability.
In the space paradigm that is used here, a request is fulfilled by having an object move from one machine to another, carrying with it the present state of execution and everything else needed, including the (byte)code, if needed, using an associative, distributed, shared memory.
Let us examine how the Jakarta Tomcat Servlet engine works. It uses a connector and a processor to receive and fulfill requests, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Architecture of a Stand-alone Tomcat Servlet Engine
The connectors abstract the details of receiving the request from different sources, while the processor abstracts the details of fulfilling the requests.
Figure 3 below shows the architecture of our proposed clustering solution.
Figure 3. Architecture of the Clustered Tomcat Servlet Engine
The Cluster Server Connector receives the requests from the clients, and the Cluster
Server Processor encapsulates the requests into
RequstEntry objects
and writes them into the JavaSpace. The Cluster Worker Connector then takes these requests from the
JavaSpace and the Cluster Worker Processor then fulfills the request.
There can be multiple instances of these Cluster Servers and Cluster Workers, and they can be distributed across a number of machines.
RequestEntry is defined as follows:
public class RequestEntry extends
net.jini.entry.AbstractEntry {
private static int ID = 0;
public RequestEntry(){
id = String.valueOf(ID++);
public String id;
public RemoteSocketInputStream input;
public RemoteOutputStream output;
id field identifies a request. The input field is an object of type
RemoteSocketInputStream that provides access to the input stream of a socket on a remote machine, and the output field is of type
RemoteOutputStream that provides access to a remote output stream.
When a request is received, the socket's input and output streams are wrapped with the remote stream implementations that make them accessible from a remote machine. A request entry is created with these remote streams and written into the JavaSpace by the Cluster Server Processor as in the code below:
* Process an incoming HTTP request on the Socket that has been assigned
* to this Processor. Any exceptions that occur during processing must be
* swallowed and dealt with.
* @param socket The socket on which we are connected to the client
private void process(Socket socket) {
RemoteSocketInputStream input = null;
RemoteOutputStream output = null;
//had to synchronize because of a threading problem with the TC class loader
input = new RemoteSocketInputStreamImpl(socket, connector.getPort());
output = new RemoteOutputStreamImpl(socket.getOutputStream());
log("socket address = " + input.getSocketAddress() +
", port " + input.getServerPort());
RequestEntry entry = new RequestEntry();
entry.input = input;
entry.output = output;
}catch(Exception ex){
log("parse.request", ex);
The Cluster Worker Connectors/Processors then take these entries and fulfill the requests, as shown in the code below:
public void run() {
//process requests until we receive a shutdown signal
while (!stopped) {
log("waiting for entry in JavaSpace...");
RequestEntry requestEntry = null;
requestEntry = (RequestEntry)requestReader.take();
}catch(Exception ex){
log("internal error while getting request entry from JavaSpace", ex);
log("got an entry " + requestEntry);
// process the request
if (requestEntry != null)
This solution provides high scalability, because as the load increases, the number of Cluster Workers can be increased; also, these Cluster Workers can be distributed across different machines. There can be multiple instances of the JavaSpace Service running on different machines, forming groups, and the Cluster Servers can decide to write to any of them, thus keeping the network traffic that is generated manageable.
The Cluster Servers and Workers use the Jini service discovery mechanism to find these JavaSpaces service implementations, so their locations do not need to be hard-coded. Thus, the solution is dynamically configurable. Use of the Jini leasing model allows additional resources to be added without bringing down the whole system. Similarly, existing resources can be taken down gracefully by not renewing the jini licenses and taking them out after the existing licenses expire.
Since the distribution of requests to the different servers in the cluster is by pull rather than by push, there is no question of requests getting directed to servers that have gone down, thus providing request-level fail-over.
Related Series: Using Tomcat
Embedding Tomcat Into Java Applications -- James Goodwill shows how to create a Java application that manages an embedded version of the Tomcat JSP/servlet container.
Using SOAP with Tomcat -- The Apache SOAP Project is an open source Java implementation of SOAP. This article examines how you can can create and deploy SOAP services with Apache's RPC model.
Using Tomcat 4 Security Realms -- In part 4 of his Using Tomcat series, James Goodwill covers Tomcat 4, focusing on security realms using both memory and JDBC realms (with a MySQL database example).
Deploying Web Applications to Tomcat -- James Goodwill takes us through the web application deployment process for the Apache Tomcat Web server.
Installing and Configuring Tomcat -- James Goodwill covers the installation and configuration for the Tomcat Web Server.
Java Web Applications -- James Goodwill discusses the definition, directory structure, deployment descriptor, and packaging of a Tomcat web application.
In this solution, the session information is placed in the JavaSpaces and retrieved later using the Session ID provided by the HTTP client when needed. Thus, it provides session-level fail-over because even if the server that originally created the session dies, some other server in the cluster can carry on with the session. Since we're using the Jini leasing model, we can set a time after which the session entries in the JavaSpaces expire to the session timeout interval; this takes care of purging expired session data.
Since the distribution of load is based on pull, there is automatic load balancing, as the servers with more free resources are going to pull more work.
This design shifts the responsibilities of maintaining the session data to the JavaSpaces, and since there are different implementations of the JavaSpaces services that can provide persistence and also transactional capabilities, it becomes easier to provide persistent sessions if needed.
Currently, we are using the space as a bag to hold the requests, but it is possible (with minor modification) to make it behave as a channel, as described in the article "Build and use distributed data structures in your JavaSpaces". Similarly, it is possible to implement a filtering service that will filter these requests; it is also possible to implement a service to prioritize these requests thus providing QoS capabilities.
There can be more than one Cluster Server, and it makes no difference to how it all works, but HTTP clients typically use a URL to access Web resources, and the clients need to perceive the cluster as a single machine with one IP address (for server affinity), thus requiring a single Cluster Server. Thus, this can be single point of failure, but this limitation can be overcome by using a hardware load balancer (even then, the load balancer itself is a single point of failure), in which case this solution can be used as the Web server proxy (as described in articles on J2EE Clustering by Abraham Kang), or by using other techniques to let more than one machine serve a single domain name. Another technique is described in the article "ONE-IP: Techniques for Hosting a Service on a Cluster of Machines".
This solution provides high scalability, high availability, and good load balancing capabilities that are comparable with any other software solution. It needs low maintenance because of the dynamic self-configuration capabilities, and has good promise for implementing QoS capabilities.
Download the source code for the solution.
"Load Balancing Web Applications," by Vivek Viswanathan (OnJava.com)
Articles on J2EE Clustering by Abraham Kang (JavaWorld)
"ONE-IP: Techniques for Hosting a Service on a Cluster of Machines," by Damani et. al. (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.)
The "Make Room for JavaSpaces" series by Eric Freeman and Susanne Hupfer (JavaWorld)
Shyam Kumar Doddavula works as a Technical Specialist for Infosys Technologies in SETLabs, the R&D division of the company.
Return to ONJava.com.
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Giving proper coverage to the heartbreaking and tear-jerking scene out of Aleppo, Syria with a bloody and dusty young boy sitting in an ambulance, MSNBC/NBC's Andrea Mitchell devoted a full segment to the matter on Thursday afternoon but of course made no mention of President Barack Obama or his administration's inaction in Syria to dispose of the Assad regime or ISIS in the over five years since the conflict began.
The Affordable Care Act crisis is continuing, but you wouldn't know that if you relied on ABC, CBS or NBC for your news. On July 5, CNBC called Connecticut's state co-op "financially unstable," noting that "HealthyCT is the 14th of 23 original ObamaCare co-ops to fail since they began selling health plans on government-run Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges." A few days later, on July 8, Oregon's co-op became the 15th to fail. Illinois followed on July 12.
Conservatives and other Obama critics are entitled to a big "I told you so," after Obama's stunning admission that he doesn't believe there's that much difference between communism and capitalism.
Are the increasing incidents of terrorist attacks in Europe the "new normal"? Must Europeans and Americans become resigned to the inevitability of regular jihadist assaults? Must we endure more meaningless bromides about not "overreacting" because we might offend the world's 1.6 billion Muslims, playing into the hands of terrorists who promote the notion that the "Christian" West is at war with Islam?
Following the Brussels bombings, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens noted his country has a law banning police raids on private homes between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. This is not a joke.
In what was otherwise a solid interview of President Obama that focused heavily on communist Cuba's horrid human rights record, ABC's World News Tonight anchor David Muir dropped the ball when he wondered if Cuban President Raul Castro is onto something when criticizing the United States for not being an authority on human rights when the U.S. lacks guaranteed rights to food and health care. "But when he says health care, does he have a point?"
Univision is now at the intersection of celebrity and political news.
ObamaCare's individual mandate is adding another headache for taxpayers this year.
Chris Matthews gave guest Harry Reid (D-Nevada) a softball interview tonight wherein the Senate Minority :eader blamed Republicans on a lack of comity in the world's greatest deliberative body and insisted Democrats had always opposed extreme delay-and-deny tactics for presidential judicial nominations. Although this is patently false, Matthews didn't challege his assertions.
If you read The New York Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks, you might better grasp the chasm between true and phony conservatives, between Reagan conservatives and establishment Republicans.
For anyone whose knowledge of history extends beyond the current season of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" or the latest instant replay of an NFL game, the four days of meetings involving Iran's president Hassan Rouhani, European leaders and businesses should remind people we have seen this show before.
This week, as President Obama delivers his final State of the Union address, PBS's panel oozes over his "keen, analytical intelligence," with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin saying Obama's speech "reminded me of George Washington's Farewell Address." Meanwhile, PBS's Tavis Smiley slams GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as a "racial arsonist," CNN's Erin Burnett thinks today's Republicans are so extreme they "would hate" Ronald Reagan, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews slams conservative radio host Mark Levin as "one of the most distasteful human beings out there."
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Some songs are more well known than the artists who made them hits. And sometimes less-talented music listeners mistakenly attribute those songs to the wrong artists. That's the premise of this article. Songs that people think are sung by artists who never sang them. That was also the premise of last week's article. Now I know that sometimes a premise can be hard to understand from only reading the title and list entries (especially when we need that extra to leave lengthy comments about what we haven't read), but that's what I'm writing about here. Not who wrote hit songs or who covered someone else's song and made it a hit. So you won't see "I Will Always Love You" or "All Along the Watchtower" on this list. OK?
This was the best way I could think of to make sure straight men and gay women were paying attention to what my column was about.
A further word on this list: There are two big songs that do fit the premise that I won't be including here: "All the Young Dudes" by Mott the Hoople and "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. Many people think those songs are by David Bowie and the Beatles, respectively. The thing is, Bowie wrote and produced "All the Young Dudes" for Mott, and Paul McCartney wrote and produced "Come and Get It" for Badfinger, so, y'know, it just feels like cheating to include them here. I kind of feel the same way about people mistaking "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel for Bob Dylan. As Cracked has previously explained, the song was a goof, and designed to be a Dylan parody. I think it's just much more fun to write about the mistakes morons make. And with that in mind -- and fully understanding the rules of this game -- let's proceed!
5 "A Horse With No Name" Is Not a Neil Young Song
For a moment in time, the band America was a pretty big deal. For one thing, they were the band that George Martin produced next after the Beatles broke up. For another, they wrote some music that encapsulated the feel of the '70s into four-minute pretty pop songs. If an 8-track, shag-carpeted Frisbee could sing, it would be America. Although "Sister Golden Hair" will always be my favorite, they're probably best known for the enigmatic "A Horse With No Name." A song that does for grammar what Snooki does for ... well, grammar, probably. Check out the fantubulous sentence construction at 1:08: "In the desert, you can remember your name, because there ain't no one for to give you no pain." Trying to figure out what that means is like Michael Swaim trying to achieve orgasm before the ASPCA arrives. Not gonna happen.
But apparently, a whole lotta people think this song is by Neil Young. They're all over the comments of the last article. And apparently even at the time of release, the song was criticized for being a knockoff.
How Did This Happen It's simple. Like most of these entries, a vaguely stylistically similar song has been attributed to a far more famous artist. Neil Young has remained relevant as an artist for 40 years. And like a lot of Young's softer stuff, "Horse" features a driving, but mellow, acoustic guitar and a warbling vocal. And it doesn't hurt that Dewey Bunnell, who wrote the song, admitted that Neil Young inspired it. Also of note, it knocked Young's "Heart of Gold" out of the top spot on the U.S. pop charts.
Perhaps also adding to the confusion is that one of Young's projects through the years has been Crazy Horse. Yeah, that's not a big coincidence, but possibly adds to the problem. After all, as we'll see in the last entry, similar words mean a lot to some people.
4"Cum on Feel the Noize" Is Not a Twisted Sister Classic (Or a Classic)
Some weird things were going on with metal in the '80s, and to some extent, Rob Halford of Judas Priest deserves the credit and/or blame. Y'see, although Rob was not yet out at the time, the only thing gayer than he were his stage costumes.
Mmmmm, gay S&M fashion. Nom.
In any event, all of metal started dressing this way, including Twisted Sister (who also had glam/New York Dolls-type roots), Quiet Riot and even pre-easy listening Michael Bolton.
Just when you were running out of things to tool on him for.
In any event, in 1983, Quiet Riot took their leather and neon and weak-ass glitz metal to the charts with "Cum on Feel the Noize." (The song was a cover of the Slade original, and they never wanted to record it, but that's not the point of this entry.)
No, I said Slade ...
But if you look for the song on YouTube, you might come across this:
Yep, proof that, at the very least, about 400 people are making this mistake. I'm sorry, I only got a B- in verifying mistakes people who don't know stuff make.
How Did This Happen Well, look it at this way. The song is sorta catchy, and kind of rocks, but is hardly badass metal. It's filled with gutsy vocals dripping with pointless, unearned antagonism. And in 20 more years, anyone who cares about the song will be dead. Yeah, that's a pretty good description of Twisted Sister.


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#81398 - 06/28/05 05:51 AM Re: Ah, shucks...
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Of course, by now, everyone has heard of the crows that were being tested for ability to use tools. The humans had made a hook-shaped took for crows to use to get goodies out of a container. The male stole the female's hook. The female found a length of wire and bent it into a hook shape and went right back to pulling the goodies out of the container.
Also, the Japanese crows who routinely place nuts under the wheels of cars stopped at red lights and back off till the light changes; the cars drive over the nuts, cracking the shells and the crows go back to reap the rewards.
#81399 - 06/28/05 11:33 AM Re: Ah, shucks...
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a PBS special on crows/ravens points out that they are the only birds known to fly closer to the sound of a gun shot.
they have learned that human's who are shooting, (and eventually sucessfull) will 'field dress' the game..and leave the liver and other tasty entrails for the crows to feast on.
(not that i am much of crow lover myself. i used to hate them.. but i miss them now. West Nile Virus was very hard on NYC's crow population--other birds didn't seem to suffer as much as the crows did)_________________________
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#81400 - 06/28/05 12:16 PM Re: Ah, shucks...
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Loc: vancouver canada
Ah, tis true, tis true they are very smart! I began doing my morning crow walks ( with my pocket full of peanuts ) when it wasn't getting light until much later than it does now . . . so first I would go to Cuppa Joe's to read the Globe and have my morning cup when it opens at six.
Well of course it wasn't long before my crows were waiting outside my door at the crack of dawn . . . which was earlier and earlier. I pretended not to see them sitting on the wires as I made my way to the coffee shop, which is the opposite direction from the beach, where I feed them.
Guess what? They started dropping pebbles on me to get my attention. It is true, and it was sometime before I could establish some healthy boundries around our whole relationship. Now there are two 'sentinels' posted outside my apartment to watch my comings and goings . . .but no Tom-foolery unless I head for the shore. < : I love them . . .they are smart, funny, quirky . . .and absolutely fascinating.
#81401 - 06/28/05 12:30 PM Re: Ah, shucks...
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Loc: Vermont
what a great story, Linda! thanks for sharing._________________________
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#81402 - 06/29/05 07:05 PM Re: roc of ages...
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Posts: 2154
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
> pair of jays
what's this about, Zed?
The blue jays are recent arrivals. I've never seen them in the neighbourhood before and I enjoyed watching them. But they were really a slim excuse for a sort of in-joke. Linda signed herself "from Vancouver" and Marpole is my neighbourhood in Vancouver.
#81403 - 07/14/05 08:25 AM Re: roc of ages...
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We were graced with a family of six magpies in our garden (US: yard ) recently, parents and four young almost as large as the adults, but scruffy. Funny to see all six in a beak-inward squabbling circle tugging at a piece of rye bread.
Now I'm waiting for the gold to arrive.
#81404 - 07/15/05 03:32 PM Re: roc of ages...
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Loc: British Columbia, Canada
Does anyone know the whole sequence of magpie omens? 6 for gold apparently and ? for luck. I knew it once upon a time.
#81405 - 07/15/05 03:54 PM Re: roc of ages...
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there's a magpie omen sequence?
huh. whadya know.
One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told.
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#81406 - 07/16/05 05:48 PM Re: roc of ages...
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There's a fine congregation of magpies that arise squawking in alarm from my red gooseberry bushes in the morning - I leave at least one bush unpicked to share the bounty, but the clever sods have been raiding *my especially ripe and easier-to-pick ones recently! Crows are also wonderful to watch in their family groupings and tribal gatherings - immensely sociable birds, and extraordinary communicators. Their range of distinct sounds make an obvious sense, and watching mass 'flying school' for the young fledglings is a great experience each year.
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Laurier hosts International Conference on Women in Physics
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Aug 5/14| For Immediate Release
Dr. Shohini Ghose, Associate Professor
Kevin Crowley, Acting Assistant VP
WATERLOO Over 200 women physicists from around the globe will be on Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Waterloo campus from Aug. 5-8 as Laurier becomes the first North American institution to host the International Conference for Women in Physics (ICWIP).
Co-hosted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the Canadian Association of Physicists, and locally organized by Laurier's Centre for Women in Science, the conference will bring together an international mix of women physicists from over 50 countries. The ICWIP provides a unique opportunity for women and men in the global physics community to gather and showcase physics research, promote the exchange of ideas and collaborations, and address gender issues in the field.
The conference is held every three years, with the four previous editions taking place in Paris, France; Rio de Janiero, Brazil; Seoul, South Korea; and Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The ICWIP meetings are like no other conference I have ever been to it is an amazing feeling to be surrounded by women physicists and exchanging ideas, not only about physics, but also about the status of women in the field in different countries, with the goal of building a strong and diverse physics community, said Shohini Ghose, an associate professor of Physics at Laurier and chair of the ICWIP 2014 Local Organizing Committee. I am thrilled that we can host this here in Waterloo and help promote, inspire and connect physicists around the world.
The conference will open with a public lecture Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. by world-famous astronomer Jill Tarter, whose work inspired the novel and film Contact (Jodie Fosters character in the film was largely based on Tarter). Tarters presentation, which is co-hosted by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, will take place in Room BA 201 of Lauriers Bricker Academic Building and is open to media and the public.
Among the other speakers presenting at the conference are: Melissa Franklin, who was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson and is the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard Universitys Physics department; Patience Mthunzi, the first known person in South Africa to qualify for a PhD in biophotonics; and Tsai-Chien Chiang, a male science columnist and lecturer at Taiwan University who authored Madam Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research, the biography of famous experimental physicist Wu Chien-Shiung. This years conference also includes a free panel discussion open to the public called How to Succeed with Physics and features a new initiative called "Share Your Story, which will allow women physicists to share their experiences online in the form of personal stories, longer essays, poems, pictures and videos.
Reza Moridi, Ontarios Minister of Research and Innovation and Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, and Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid will be attending the conferences opening reception on Aug. 5 prior Tarters lecture.
More information, including the schedule and a full speakers list can be found at: http://icwip2014.wlu.ca/index.php.


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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Morality of Geoengineering
All these actions have consquences. Some consquences are positive while others harm groups not directly involved with the plan. As technology advances allowing us to severely impact the world, many are calling for somesort of ethnical/moral discussion about the whats, hows, and whys of our actions. Some see humans playing God with geography is wrong while others think we are unable to fully comphrened the changes we will make with geoengineering.
What do you readers think? Should "what beneifts the most" while hurting a minority be the model of geoengineering or should we take a que from doctors and "do no harm" even though inaction will lead to misery and/or death for some?
3 comments:
As you said it is a complex issue so the answers are complex. What may seem to only negatively affect a minority may actually affect a majority in the long run.
For example, for many years fire suppression was viewed as a good policy. The benefits were a reduction in the loss of life and property. It was thought that no one was affected negatively by it. In the long run we are finding that this policy actually results in larger, more destructive fires.
So my answer is that only God knows the ultimate outcome of our actions. The best that we can do is look to Him for guidance and act on it.
That's probably the most suggestive question I've ever seen for a poll.
- Richard said...
I don't know if there's a straight answer to your question, or rather the answer is: it depends.
You're correct that we need to take more time to talk about ethics in science. I'm not afraid of science like Christians get accused of being, but I think we as a society jump to quickly in some areas and do stuff just because we can without thinking of the ramifications.
Svengali, I fail to see how that question is suggestive. I think it's a legit question.


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Absolut Exposure with Johan Renck
Swedish director Johan Renck has two requirements before taking on a new commission. He has to have a good gut feeling about it. And it has to be fun.
He's come a long way with this attitude – both in terms of reputation and geographically. With an equally large dose of curiosity and restlessness, he explores a variety of creative expressions, always with the same unmistakable hallmark: embracing the less savoury sides of life. Over the years his fashionable, subversive and slightly decadent imagery has been featured in music videos for some of the world's greatest artists, commercials for leading fashion houses, fashion stories in the most prestigious fashion mags and – most recently – in groundbreaking TV series like Breaking Bad and Walking Dead. With 280 travel days a year, there's probably nobody better suited than Johan Renck for Absolut Vodka's Traveller's Exclusive 2013. We gave him a call.
You've directed episodes in every season of the AMC series Breaking Bad. Have you had any contribution in the new eight episodes?
Unfortunately not. I have been in Sweden during the past year directing a drama series for SVT (Swedish national television) that just have been released.
Bummer. How did the collaboration start?
Mark Johnson, who produced my feature film, Downloading Nancy, told me that this guy Vince Gilligan who did X-Files had come up with a new series and Mark thought I should meet him. But I wasn't that interested. If I'm going to do TV, I want to do pilots. Anyway, I watched the first season, which was one of the weirdest I've ever seen. Weird in every way. You never knew what was going to happen. So I met with him and that's how things got started. It's an incredible series and a defining moment in TV drama.
It's filmed in New Mexico, how long does each episode take to film?
Like ten days. We always need to scout new locations and maybe cast a new character. For example, I casted Krysten Ritter who plays Jesse's girlfriend Jane.
Photo: Pierre Björk
Photo: Pierre Björk
There you go. Letting her die must have been tough.
Yep. Not to mention the way she died.
But that wasn't one of your episodes was it?
It's easy to suss out the episodes you direct.
How's that?
It's got something to do with your love for all things dirty and tough going. In one episode in the second season, Walt the main character is throwing up in a toilet, with the camera lingering for quite some time on that scene.
Ha-ha. That's true. Hearing that makes me super happy. Like when friends text me and ask if I'm behind a certain episode of Breaking Bad or Walking Dead. I just don't get how they see it's mine. Personally, I think I'm quite diversified. But there must be something in my brand of darkness. I like when things are down and out – that's when I start feeling something and things start to get interesting.
Why's that?
As long as I can remember, I've always had a thing for music in minor key. I like things that are black and dark. My apartment in New York looks like a vampire cave. I like when things heat up, when things get real. I'm a melodramatic romantic. I like Oscar Wilde and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. People ask me why I don't get anything out of happy stories? Sorry, but Sex and the city just doesn't do it for me.
I follow you on Instagram. Your visual expression is clearly marked by cold colours and dark moods.
I could talk about Instagram for hours. I'd been feeling detached from photography for a long time. Instagram released something in me and professional photography has become easier through taking quick snapshots and publishing them immediately. And then the whole thing is interesting anthologically speaking, scrolling through all the images you've posted, it says something about you.
And everything you publish is taken with your phone?
Of course! When you work as a photographer you learn how to create really cool stuff using a smartphone – simply by choosing where to focus and knowing what's the best filter for the shot.
Speaking of photo technique, how did you relate to the limitations of getting the photo on the bottle when you were doing the Lydia Hearst shoot for Absolut Exposure?
I was surprised when they told me that it hadn't been done before. Images can be printed on anything nowadays – so why not glass? But apparently it hasn't been possible until now, and I quickly realized that it wouldn't be a photo with thousands of DPIs. In other words, it's not a photo that will be evaluated for its photo technical qualities. But it worked out fine. Otherwise, there weren't that many restrictions other than that we weren't to allude to politics, sex and a few other stipulated areas. But doing something subversive was never my intention anyway. Otherwise, that's a reaction I get from quite a few of my commercial clients, "We like it but isn't it a bit dark?"
Was Lydia Hearst a given?
We've known each other for ages and we were in a relationship a few years ago. She was perfect for the project. Her face is immensely interesting and she has a natural ability of taking on several different characters. Nothing was decided beforehand – everything evolved during the two-day shoot in Stockholm last summer. Call it an organic character development.
So how did things go?
We tried to give all the characters lives, a name and a history, a past and a future. Lydia threw herself into the challenge, for example, "it's the 1970s and you live in Miami." She emulated this, immersed herself into the role before the character was terminated and it was time for the next one. Honestly, I still find myself wondering about these characters sometimes and what they're up to today?
Were you given free hands when you were approached for the job?
I started by developing and pitching three or four ideas to the guys at the agency Happy Tear. They developed them further and our discussions became more and more philosophical in nature. If something or someone is to end up on a bottle in the form of a photograph for all eternity, what should it be? I didn't want to shoot an object, let's say a stone, which just am not me. I have to be able to clearly relate to everything I do. So we decided that it had to be a person.
How involved were you in the bottle otherwise?
Completely. Martin Renck, my brother who's a graphic designer helped out. The yellow colour bars are a nod to the early 1980s, as well as my own personal house deities in fashion photography back then – Jean-Baptiste Mondino and Guy Bourdin. It's a flirt with post punk and fashion. No matter what I do, I always seem to come back to the world of fashion and its visual language. On the other hand, I had nothing to do with the flavour. Fruity tastes aren't really my thing. If the decision had been mine it would have been something more like soot and rust.
Absolut Exposure is a "Traveller's Exclusive". How much do you travel yourself?
I can give you a pretty exact answer on that one: between 250 and 280 days a year.
That much.
Yep, George Clooney's character in Up in The Air doesn't come close. I've got a platinum card on every airline you can think of. When I flew home from Paris the other day, the cabin crew were like old friends. My parents moved around a lot when I was little and every since I started touring as an artist in the early 1990s, I've been a nomad. When I'm in Paris, I live the Paris life. When I'm in New York, I live the New York life. It's the complete opposite to being based somewhere.
In the month we've been trying to get this interview together, you've been in Paris, Vancouver and New York. Do you have hard time saying no?
On the contrary, I say no on a daily basis. The last time I had more than one consecutive day off was last Christmas when I was in Mexico for a short vacation. I've been in Ireland, directing the Vikings, working on a film in Vancouver and recently spent a month in Paris. But things may be a bit different in 2013/2014. I'm going to become a dad this summer. However, my girlfriend knows that my life won't be changing that much. I'll always live like this. I love what I do.
How does working in New York compare to Stockholm?
Complaining and whining is very Swedish – maybe even very Stockholm-ish. I just want things to be fun and I need to surround myself with people who are curious and also want things to be fun. In Sweden, it's counterproductive when so much time and energy is spent fending off anxiety. Swedes are extremely fast at adopting trends and quick at applying the latest fad. Something I'm completely uninterested in. I'm not saying I'm some sort of super visionary but that whole problematic doesn't exist in New York. I have to be able to knock my home country a little. Otherwise, I'm the first to tout all the great things about Sweden and social democracy. But in the particular industry I work in – Sweden doesn't have what it takes.
How would you describe your collaboration with Absolut?
A thoroughly positive experience. And I mean what I say. If I don't like something I say so. I don't do that many commercials anymore, maybe a handful every year. And I really only have two requirements for doing commercials – or in fact any project at hand. I have to have a good gut feeling about it. And it has to be fun. This time things worked out – everyone involved was sharp and positive.
This is your first collaboration with Absolut. What's your view of the brand today?
Absolut was light years ahead of everyone else when it came to their communicative expression. What happened over the next thirty years is that a million other brands emerged. Vodka tastes like vodka. The products are almost identical but are differentiated by their packaging, which is what determines what product the consumer chooses. It's an interesting post-modern phenomenon. Absolut will always maintain a high profile and reputation. But they got a bit lost along the way. There was absolutely no reason why they shouldn't have continued on the art initiative path. But you know how things go. New managers want to try new things. I actually got an offer to work for another vodka brand that wanted to make inroads into the whole art thing. There's no patent on that. But I said no.
Your website is divided into four different categories: music, film/TV, photography and advertising. Will anything be added or taken away over the years?
The music part is already gone. At the end of the day, doing something you're not particularly good at is no fun. In terms of my music career, I had to face the fact that it wasn't my thing. An unfulfilled dream of mine is that sometime in the future I'll write something from scratch. Either prose or a screenplay. But that calls for time and focus. A time out is what I need.
Text: Johan Lindberg
Campaign Photos: Johan Renck,
Portrait Photos: Pierre Björk


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White House Blog:President Obama on the Situation in Egypt -- "All Governments Must Maintain Power through Consent, Not Coercion"
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks on the unfolding events in Egypt on January 28, 2011.
Secretary Clinton said, "We continue to monitor the situation very closely. We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against protestors, and we call on the Egyptian Government to do everything in its power to restrain the security forces. At the same time, protesters should also refrain from violence and express themselves peacefully.
"As we have repeatedly said, we support the universal human rights of the Egyptian people, including the right to freedom of expression, of association and of assembly. We urge the Egyptian authorities to allow peaceful protests and to reverse the unprecedented steps it has taken to cut off communications. These protests underscore that there are deep grievances within Egyptian society, and the Egyptian Government needs to understand that violence will not make these grievances go away.""As President Obama said yesterday, reform is absolutely critical to the well being of Egypt. Egypt has long been an important partner of the United States on a range of regional issues. As a partner, we strongly believe that the Egyptian Government needs to engage immediately with the Egyptian people in implementing needed economic, political, and social reforms. We continue to raise with the Egyptian Government, as we do with other governments in the region, the imperative for reform and greater openness and participation to provide a better future for all. We want to partner with the Egyptian people and their government to realize their aspirations to live in a democratic society that respects basic human rights.
"When I was recently in the region, I met with a wide range of civil society groups and I heard from them about ideas they have that would improve their countries. The people of the Middle East, like people everywhere, are seeking a chance to contribute and to have a role in the decisions that will shape their lives. As I said in Doha, leaders need to respond to these aspirations and to help build that better future for all. They need to view civil society as their partner, not as a threat."
You can read the Secretary's complete remarks here.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
The message from the State Dept. is lame and late. Egypt's government is finished.
The question Americans will want to know is, what was our government's role in the fall of Mubarak?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
What's "lame" is that the government of Egypt failed to heed the good advice given to it by the US gov. over the years to enact comprehensive reforms, and so now people have died forcing that government to do so.
I doubt that the American people will have any question that Mubarak brought this upon himself, whatever the outcome may turn out to be as folks support a people in their persuit of liberty and self-determination.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Egypt - Middle East, the new consumption and production, the capital of the country by building in the region a new economic community to create a willing little if you give up not state, and at least the Suez Canal, a simple formula for the assignment may give non-state think . Already, the response to the story, so I sucker There owing simply to exist in my memory like simular to the situation in Korea and, to speak rudely.
That in the past declared that Korea was on the 6-29. For rough -6.29 declared in 1987, shortly after 6 Struggle June 29, 1987, when ruling Democratic Justice Party presidential candidate, Roh Tae Woo, president and constitutional requirements that lead to the acceptance is issued a special declaration.
Through a direct presidential election in February 1988 a peaceful constitutional transfer of power
President of the revised election law to ensure fair competition through
(Kim), the slope of the opposition say the lottery and the City related to the release of the teachers
Respect for human dignity and basic human rights
Fostering freedom of speech
Autonomous local governments and education conducted
Ensure a healthy activity of political parties
Drastic social cleansing actions carried out in
- Was (strong recommendation of the U.S. Embassy?)
Egypt's situation is similar now I think. The current president and the government to hand over power to an opposition that, rather than maintaining the current government, the United States to maintain a constructive relationship with the Egyptian President has authority to transfer some of the people to declare that at the same time, the reform of the way the presidential election and democratic transition of government and opposition presidential candidate of the freedom of thought is important to ensure. And, in addition to women's political and social advancement for the elimination of formal and informal barriers to promotion at the same time you think you will get a significant response. However, local governments are too quick I think. Chest and the economic sector for economic growth means a unified dialogue will be needed.
Nevertheless, everyone knows the story, but The current President of the Egyptian protected, and in order to stabilize the unstable economic situation
Egypt's presidential candidacy method and the method of selecting the reforms and a peaceful and democratic transfer of power that promises dramatic declaration is required, women's political, social, and economic systems, the entry for the tangible and intangible barriers to abolish the policy, promising is thought to be carried out immediately. I have a feeling that the situation of Egyptian citizens to ensure the safety of aid it received his appointment to talk about the future situation, I think.
That is just me talking.
If asylum, the new government in order to unite the people, even Muslims have a lot of self-nationalist forces against the outside of the image to maintain pressure on the government in their hands to think the government should maintain. Or, but .....
Yet people claim that opposition to the people of Egypt, so to keep up with advanced ideas and policies we would not feel personally. Need time to think. Cairo, Egypt, and not all think. Is a personal opinion.
Patrick W. in Maryland writes:
They are a young country and they need time to work on their political freedoms. I feel for the people there, that only what change to happen faster. Sometimes like in America, China and many other countries .Progress in areas like this, seem to take forever, especially for young people. I think, i understand what their going through. This country was the same not to long ago, ask anyone who's older. Egypt is just going through what we did, in our history of progress as a nation.
One day the people of Egypt will look back on this and see they are the same as us all. :)
Change takes time! Ask President Obama or Secretary Hillary Clinton !!!
See Ya, Guys and Women of DipNote. :)
Have a wonderful Weekend !
Hany D. in New York writes:
Please urge the Egyptian gov. to police the streets ne more time, the army is only secyring the vital buildings and critical locations in Cairo, but no body is protecting civilians in the outer neighbourhoods of Cairo, and suburbs. please push them to put police forces back on the streets, to protect the innocent people from robbers and criminal people that have nothing to do with the riot.
the police is pushing some of these criminals (thugs) onto the street to proof that this is not a people revolution, and appear to be the only solution for protection in the country and thet they are the only source of security, so the people won't even dare thinking about another solution or reform.
Please do something if you have any kind of power there.
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
Why is the State Dept. message at this late stage of revolution lame and late?
1. Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Bush Jr. had over 20 years to help liberalize Egypt's government, Obama has had 2 years. So for at least 22 years, plus those billions of dollars we throw at Egypt, their government is still so unsatisfactory to their citizens that the citizens want to burn it down.
2. What stopped Mubarak from giving the citizens the right to vote for a new president?
3. Where did our money go for Egypt?
4. Why do we pay anything to Egypt when their citizens are so unhappy with their government?
5. When is the US government going to stop sending money and arms into the Middle East in order to buy favors?
Here's some advice for our own government:
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance of foreign lands should be curtailed lest the Republic become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.†Marcus Tillius Cicero, 55 BC
Denise S. in Puerto Rico writes:
The US needs to understand that countries in the Middle East (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc) have internet & FB. They see & read about freedom, education & want that for themselves. They travel, visit other countries. Some speak 5 & 6 languages. They want what the West has. So, the US has to change it's support for dictatorships & totalitarian regimes. It's the only way-- they have a right. They want CHANGE. We should practice what we preach: democracy, freedom & the pursuit of happiness.
I believe that if this situation is handled with empathy & we show this to the world, our status as a country will rise & it will be a great opportunity to help our national economy. I also believe that other countries will follow suit. This is only the beginning. A new policy needs to be studied & implemented. Let us look at the situation as a positive step!
Steve A. in Ohio writes:
Madame :
Many would suggest that the official response of the US Government should articulate a stronger support of the right of the Egyptian people to excercise peaceful demonstration and dissent.
Attorney Steve D A.
Ibrahim H. in New Jersey writes:
A question to President Obama: how many more egyptians have to die before we step-in and TELL the dictator Mubark that he has to leave? So far 100 egyptians have shed their blood on the streets of Egypt and the dictator is defaint and it seems that he is relying on the support of this adminstration.
To me the issue is clear: He WILL NOT GO UNLESS President Obama tells him to leave. Please do not support the dictator any more and stop the blood shed on the streets of Egypt.
President Obama and all the adminstration Please do not be afraid of a vacuum of power after Mubark. There will be no vacuum. The extremists WILL NOT ride the wave of the revolution in Egypt and take over. It will not happen. There are honest decent educated public figures in Egypt who could form a transitional government (if they were to be supported by the army and this adminstration) and they would bring about profound changes such as new constitution, respect of human rights, social justice, end of corruption and true democracy.
President Obama the extremists do not have any support among the masses in Egypt. The people in Egypt are peace-loving who just want the basic human rights everywhere the right to free speech, to have a job, to have a place to live, to get married, to live like a human being. These rights have been robbed from them for 30 years now. Under such conditions extremists would have NO support among the youth. In fact, the current conditions of the autocratic regime of Mubark are just the right conditions for breeding extremists simply because the youth see they have no future and hence they could be easily presuaded to support or even be part of extremists groups.
President Obama: Please come down on the right, support CHANGE, support EGYPT NOT the dictator Mubark
Palgye in South Korea writes:
The White House website talked up. but, Difficult negotiations difficult than negotiating for an appointment to be due to the difficulty for the faith. - If the establishment of an independent government, headed by the Arab self-determination of peoples attention is likely to be big. Worry about stupid, but ...
When I called on China to the Beijing Railway Station, all the lights turned much darker because I was driving to visit your factory are very bright, the rich countries of the developed countries or have an important meaning, but citizens of the workspace of how humans think it's important to have friendly . I guess people in developed countries rich countries.
Talk about the status and situation in Egypt that he is not, however, If the government continues to crackdown by the Egyptian and eventually to the development of Africa and the Middle East, political calculations, beyond the economic aspect alone can not be stressed, as huge consumer market and the production is thought to be developed. If they become financially independent region, the reduction of terrorism in the entire consumer market of about 3.4 to 4 percent more than would be achievable in the short term promotion is expected.
However, the suppression by force, this situation in Africa, Egypt, China likely to evolve as a big, tough hagieneun eventually close that nobody could possibly lead to countries that try to exaggerate. - China is to blame, not the people what they want in China, ordinary people what they want, while providing the control and did not lose respect, Egypt, the economy and democracy, is making time to give up. Personal greed - in order to have continuous control by the President MubÄrak landmark declaration on democracy is thought to be released on Monday. And, if successful, a military crackdown, the U.S. will be a burden on the politically significant is expected.
People killed or injured in the protest by saying in the top finish.
PS: Miteoseo two people keep trying to kill people who work, plus eat food that had in mind putting the'm providing. MB, and frequently met ....? I often watch the news I would like to apply for asylum ...
Ashim K.C. in India writes:
The outburst could not have happened without early warnings. Similar situations exist in many developing countries. World ledership must use foresight to anticipate and offer holistic peaceful solutions before situation turns violent. Cumultitive resources in terms of availability of goods and services and technology when used with sensitivity are sufficient to cater to all in an inclusive growth model, which would tacle stagnation in developed economies. Stagnation reflected in slow or no growth on a high base of all round development is ultimately a problem excessive capacities, which can be better shared rather than employed for competition. Competition serves well till saturation is not reached. In conditions of saturation, cooperation and sharing is better always.
Roger in USA writes:
To US President /Mr. Obama
Mubarak will go today or tomorrow this year or next year, Egypt and Egyptians will stay and will never forgive your disappointing speech and shameful situation of US regardless or the freedom blood, human rights & all western values been collapsing in whole Egypt, US complete alignment with the corrupted and dictatorship regime in Cairo is a real SHAME
Ron in New York writes:
US brand tear-gas symbolizes the conflict-of-interest between US/Egypt/Israel alliances and the values of democracy, freedom of assembly, and expression of the people. If we continue with the surrogate model, we will subborn the will of the people to establish their own state.
Miguel V. in Florida writes:
Dear Secretary Of State Clinton,
The people of Egypt has clearly stated their position in regards to the continued leadership under President Hosni Mubarak as completely unacceptable. His continued presence will destroy that beautiful country that Egypt is. The situation in Egypt is clearly out of control, volatile, and will only worsen so long as he tries to remain in power. You have already stated that the United States stands with the people of Egypt. Then let that stand mean more than just words, and urge president Mubarak to step down and save his country from unprecedented turmoil. He has already cost these peaceful people billions of dollars as the result of his actions, and it will only get worse. Reforms will not change what has already been well established over the past thirty years. Only a complete regime change with a new constitution under new leadership can accomplish that. Thirty years of deep corruption under president Mubarak's leadership has stolen the dreams of the Egyptian people and can never be replaced. Stand as you said behind the people of Egypt and urge him to resign.
John P. in Greece writes:
When this happens I hate it. And this time it happens again.
Who told you guys that U.S. is acting like an old-fashioned Empire?
U.S.A. is a Democracy, certainly not a global Junta. U.S.A. offers help in terms of philosophy, ideas, education and financial aid, but cannot create the political, social, economical and cultural results for which natives must fight, decide and accomplish.
95% of the posts suggest that the situation in Egypt is a matter of bad American foreign policy for decades.
This is at least silly!
If this really happened, why didn't you talk for 22something years, but you have the nerve to accuse America today?
Well, the classical assumption and anti-American propaganda tool: When everything is OK, U.S.A. has done nothing for this, but when the going gets tough, we can easily blame the "emperorâ€.
Sure! Except two things…
There is no "Emperor†and some of us don't buy.
I also hate to make my friend Eric in NM feeling like a "copy and paste†(and so special), but what can I do, when he is SO RIGHT?
QUOTE: What's "lame" is that the government of Egypt failed to heed the good advice given to it by the US gov. over the years to enact comprehensive reforms, and so now people have died forcing that government to do so. END OF QUOTE.
And this is also applicable in many other areas in the planet.
So, before you blame U.S.A. just… think!
Nicholas in Georgia writes:
i wish to advise the state department to pick up an english version of the koran and read it the Us is still falling for this trap on all levels the Chinese using north korea and the rusians using Afghanistan, now its egypt they are bent on denouncing the preaching of democracy in egypt this tiem we do not have to remove a dictator the people themselves have and np help coming from america. it break myt heart no one is sitting and watching what is going on. just look at the way the dollar stores are stocked with chinese goods which sell at a dollar , last for less than a month and count the number of dollar stores in america. the chips that are put in all the cell phones computers, home phones tv, radios, car memory chips and as well as nasa computer what if those chips have an expiry date. please sit down and watch where we are going they supply us with video games , fish poultry, and Chinese restaurant has any one found out what the food contains at the restaurants. let forget about egypt and find out something is wrong with our country. how many chinese people do you see at a chinese restaurant? please get some one to pick the koran and read it the war between christains and moslems has been declared long ago in the koran. please get some one to read it please
Pamela G. in West Virginia writes:
Very difficult time, hopefully level heads will prevail
Zharkov in USA writes:
Most Americans, including those working in the State Dept., have little knowledge of how the Iranian people suffered under the Shah. It was the CIA who trained SAVAK and kept the Shah in power all those years.
Shortly after the Khomeini revolution, Dutch television broadcast pictures of a secret SAVAK torture center in Tehran. It was a basement with steel beds that had horizontal wire mesh at different levels. An Iranian explained that coal fires were started under the beds and prisoners were strapped onto the wire mesh and slowly lowered until they were barbequed. At the end of the program, he held up two severed, charred human hands that the torturers had left behind.
That film segment was shown on Dutch televison but never in the U.S. All us ordinary people living in the states continued to believe that Americans working in the embassy were representing America. We had no clue about what our government was doing in Iran.
Egypt is a similar situation from news reports. We "extraordinarily rendered" prisoners there for torture. You might imagine what Egyptian security services did to their own people, but reports include cattle prods, electric shock, mutilation of the most sensitive areas of the human body for the ones who lived through the ordeal.
We had at least 22 years to stop that behavior but we supported it with all kinds of military aid and money. We paid for that. We own that.
We are lucky the Egyptian people are not holding our embassy as hostages but if they get their hands on secret documents in the Egyptian government, their anger will turn on us.
John P. in Greece writes:
@ Zharkov in the U.S.A.
You are an undiscovered source of "shadow diplomacy†and Intel. I was sure that you were about to reach your favorite point: Blame CIA…
If the cable could talk…
For new readers, I feel to let you know that Z has created a magical explanation school for everything happening around the globe:
There is a problem in Pakistan, Iran, Belgium/Dutch &chocolates;, everywhere?
–CIA did it
There is a problem in Egypt?
–CIA did it
There is a problem in the Black Sea due to salt index raise?
-CIA did it
He can't start his car in a cold morning?
-CIA did it
Too much traffic in San Diego "hi†to Mex?
-CIA did it
Who killed Elvis?
-CIA did it
Who build the pyramids?
CIA did it –with aliens from space
and now let's get back to serious…
Z, my dear, you are really amusing. I really mean this. If we did not have to make an exchange of views in a civilized environment (DipNote), I'd really love to keep on listening to your hypothetical, conspiracy and fiction stories for hours. Humor is the best way to live longer. But when we talk in a social net, we have to be responsible.
Let me ask you something,
You write "We are lucky the Egyptian people are not holding our embassy as hostages but if they get their hands on secret documents in the Egyptian government, their anger will turn on us.â€
1. Do you encourage extremist groups to attack the U.S. embassy (I do not mean all the Egyptians as you state it, I mean "terrorist groups"), because this is what you are suggesting. (I thought you love Americans) –thank God, SEALs are there!
2. Do you think that any presented document from any source (like wiki) is appreciated as a trusted source? I think that SD has provided the right answer already- during the "Swedish attemptâ€. As long as a document has left the "buildingâ€, IS NOT something to talk about. Who can trust the source, or what "happened†to the document? So who cares what anyone will attempt to present?
I wish Egyptians the Best! But, it's up to them, whatever their decision is. I don't think that CIA knocked any door to tell them what to do.
Jeff L. in Texas writes:
Because most Americans and our government as well, want freedom and democracy for Egyptian people, I have this following suggestion.
Offer to the Egyptian people an "interim government" staffed by competent administrators from the United Nations. The U.N. could select these qualified individuals, all from different countries perhaps, to staff key parts of the Egyptian governemt for a limited time, say 6-12 months.
This could give the Egyptian citizens time to assemble qualified candidates for the Presidency and other positions of power. Any country going thru a crisis like this would have difficulty assembling candidates on very short notice- 6-12 months would give them reasonable time for key people to emerge and campaign ending with free elections. Real elections not rigged by an autocratic leader this time.
At the end of the interim period, newly elected leaders would replace the "hired administrators" and make a smooth transition. These interim administrators would have no power after that but only the thanks of the Egyptian people for helping their country make the transition from rule by Mubarak to one that the people choose freely.
The other benefit of this idea is that the USA would be "out of the picture" as it should be- this should reassure most cynics that the people are getting a fair deal, with no strings, no corruption, and a good chance to make a good choice for their leadership.
This could be compassionate aid to a country we have supported and one that has done right by us for many, many years.
John P. in Greece writes:
@ Jeff L. in Texas
I think that your suggestion is very sober, clever and "fair and squareâ€.
That's how we should think, especially during crisis. But, is it applicable?
I mean, do you think that this mosaic of people, religions etc. can accept a "foreign gov.†(that's how they will call it and interpret it) right this difficult moment? Even if is just for 6-12 months.
I don't know.
But I like your idea in a theoretical way.
At least it's peaceful!
God bless them in their choices...
Zharkov in the U.S.A. writes:
@ John in Greece - you really need to spend time at the library and do some reading about CIA history.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
@ John P. in Greece,
Z conflates an issue because he can't properly identify why he's angry about a situation, where there is legitimate concern among Americans that the military aid provided to Egypt has been used to suppress demonstrators in the street who are excercising their their right to have a voice in their future.
Unfortunately his comparitive analysis lacks credibility for failing to connect the dots.
The US supports States, not governments. This is an important point in US foreign policy that is often overlooked and under-appreciated.
It means simply that the US works with governments to better the State through aid that may be humanitarian, economic, or military in nature to help the State provide for its citizens.
By the same token the relationship fostered is not just person to person within a government's structure, but also with the people of the State in support of their role as nationbuilders of their own nation.
Just as we may protect the soveregnity of States through treaty of mutual defense, IE NATO.
Which is why when a government is not acting in accordance with the policies laid out to be authorized to recieve aid, then it by our law must come under review.
As stated yesterday by Robert Gibbs (WH spokesman) It is not our place to determine who leads or who doesn't. That is for the people of Egypt to decide.
( paraphrasing accurately the meaning and intent)
Years ago we, along with the Brits prevented the nation of Iran from falling to a Soviet proxi (the Tudeh party) and helped them protect their soveregnity by training up what was designed to be a counter-intelligence org.
Any US involvement with training SAVAK ended in 1959, and had the US had a more "hands-on" approach that org. might not have devolved into an instrument of oppression of the Iranian people over the next 20 years.
I find it interesting that Khomeni after taking power in 79 kept SAVAK pretty much intact ( including personel) for his own purposes and continued the repression of Iranians for the last 31 years using the same methods and oppressive policies of the very government they removed by "revolution".
Z is comparing dog poo and loli-pops, saying in essence that they taste the same.
Sec Gates and Adm. Mullen have been active in their communications with the Egyptian military and that may have helped influence the Egyptian armed forces in their NOT using force on the people, and making that policy public.
Just as the US did not interfere with the people's will in Iran back in '79, nor will US policy try to determine for the Egyptian people what their future should look like.
I think though it is perfectly natural to encorage them not to make the same mistake as the Iranian people did by trusting extremists to determine their future.
The secretary's words above simply illustrate this point.
BTW, Thanks be to the people of Athens for hosting a sudden influx of Americans.
My question is whether the Iranian people will take courage and example from the Tunisian and Egyptian people and put 5 million on the streets of Tehran to force a new revolution in Iran?
One thing is for sure if they do and that is the Iranian government won't refrain from violence to maintain control over them.
Best regards,
John P. in Greece writes:
@ Zharkov in the U.S.A.
If you think that you can find the history of CIA in a library, you're naïve.
The real story is hidden in the hearts, souls and brains of these CIA heroes.
Library volumes, news stories, interviews and autobiographies of "so-called retired†agents that "write" the truth can only give you some dots, always not in the right order and for sure unable to be connected. Regularly full of egoistic prism in terms of how they perceived things. They can not offer a lead paragraph in a CIA history book and of course they can not teach you to think and interpret the scope and facts in their last paragraph.
I've told you before, "Failures are famous, Successes are notâ€!
The only way to understand the CIA history is to believe in!
(just for the history record)


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In 1990 the 850 was developed with some genuine world firsts in a production vehicle like having its gearbox fitted alongside the engine and using a new type of multilink axle called the Delta Link. Naturally there was some new safety tech as well; a side impact protection system SIPS was rolled out and height-adjustable safety belts were also included.
The 850 went on to be more than just a popular family hauler and by 1994 was entered into the British Touring Car Championship in station wagon form. When the rules changed in '95 and '96 the Swedish company reverted to a sedan model and won 13 races and finished third in the championship both years. But it would be the racing wagon or 'flying brick' that has gone on to become a motorsport icon.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Staying the course turned out to be the right move last week, Jim Cramer said on "Mad Money" Thursday. He reminded viewers once again that "no one ever made a dime panicking."
Cramer said it's hard to believe that it was just a week ago, in the middle of the horrible selloff, that he told investors that discipline always trumps conviction and they needed to take a deep breath and wait for a better time to sell if they were so inclined. Flash forward to today, and the markets are up nearly 500 points from that recommendation. Those who panicked last week were just plain wrong.
There were several bright spots in the market today, said Cramer, including ConAgra
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Continuing with his week-long "Invest in America" series, Cramer sat down with Terry Lundgren, chairman, president and CEO of Macy's
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Another initiative is called Omnichannel, in which 500 of Macy's stores now ship items directly to customers instead of using a centralized warehouse. Lundgren said Omnichannel allows Macy's to sell items from slow-selling locations, avoiding having to mark down those items later on. It also helps with weather-related issues because inventory can be moved quickly from where things are not selling to where they are.


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The 3DS will come with a game called Face Raiders installed, in which you take images of your face and add them to a shooting gallery.
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(Bluefield)—Recruiters from 61 employers spoke to 324 current and former students during the 21st annual Spring Job Fair at Bluefield State College, April 8. The event is a collaborative project involving BSC, Concord University, Bluefield College, New River Community and Technical College (NRCTC), Southwest Virginia Community College, and Wytheville Community College. It is designed to provide an opportunity for students, recent graduates, and other individuals pursuing career interests to meet and discuss options with potential future employers.
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this album is just not a 9.4. it's too pop influenced and defenetly not their strongest. it's a good album, though
Written by Mindheist on 25.09.2006 at 22:47
, well i really want to know what's their strongest so, .
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How come this album has a 9.4 with 64 votes and is not in the top 100 album list?
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I'd like to use the word-a-day words when I'm off-line (ie not connected to the internet). Does anyone have a piece of code, link, java script etc that might allow me to download the words to my laptop so I can actually use them when I'm writing and not connected?
If not, is there a downloadable dictionary/thesaurus out there that anyone might recommend?
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Pen and notebook. It's available at brick and mortar stores everywhere.
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Hi, k, and welcome. growf danged unhelpful though not malicious responses argh
I don't know much about technology but if your laptop can get e-mail just open the W's A D on it and they'll be stored there and thus available all the time, won't they?
And, thanks to tsuwm I know about Onelook, which I think is great. I esp. love the reverse look-up option even though my success rate with it is only about ten percent.
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Is this a new word? I have never heard about it before.
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Should've been a real Native to play the role of Tanto... Just saying!
'Lone Ranger' character poster of Johnny Depp as Tonto
'Lone Ranger': New Character Posters Released
ICTMN Staff
This week Disney has been releasing new character posters for this summer's blockbuster The Lone Ranger.
As of today four characters have been posted on the film's official Tumbler page, including the two title characters, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, and two lesser-known characters, Red (played by Helena Bonham Carter) and Rebecca Reid.
The question of whether Johnny Depp is right for the part of Tonto has been a hot topic in Indian country since the announcement last year. However, we have to admit, these new posters look pretty cool.
The action-packed western opens in theaters July 3.
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I can't wait to see Johnny i
I can't wait to see Johnny i this flick!
I'm am glad to know Depp is
I'm am glad to know Depp is od Cherokee descent and has proudly announced it. I wish Angelina Jolie was proud enough if her Iriquois/Metis (Canadian) heritage to be an advocate for her own people.
I take it there were
I take it there were absolutely no Native people available to play Tonto.
will not spend money on it.
will not spend money on it. anti-racist action-cincinnati.
I say that Johnny Depp can
I say that Johnny Depp can pick and chose his parts like no other. And with his history of film is a flick containing footage of Alaskan Natives. All done respectfully. I cant imagine he would do anything that is negative towards Natives. An issue in our world is with mascots being depicted of natives as ugly, chubby, USA unwanted. I dont watch movies on my own much. Yet this one makes me laugh just from the trailers. I will save judgement for the viewing. And I hope I dont leave my sense of humor at home. Now that is truley un native.
Fools, Johnny Depp can play
Fools, Johnny Depp can play any character, in any form. johnny depp is infinite
are there any real natives in
are there any real natives in the cast
With so many qualified Native
With so many qualified Native American Indians Actors, you would think they would choose from here. Johnny Depp's genealogical ancestry proves no Native lineage, research it. When will Hollywood let races play themselves in movie parts; probably never, sadly.
Isn't Johnny Depp part Native
Isn't Johnny Depp part Native?
Hollywood always goes for the
Hollywood always goes for the known face. And now more than ever - I bet there's a handful of people that get all the roles. Beyonce, beyonce, beyonce!


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Everything you thought you learned during the preseason, just throw it out the proverbial window.
For much of the NFL, the status quo seemed to be in play, as the Detroit Lions still made boneheaded mistakes, quarterbacks Tony Romo and Eli Manning both seemed determined to underachieve and the Jacksonville Jaguars looked as offensively inept as Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos looked automatic.
Where the NFL surprised was where things deviated from the norm. The Oakland Raiders looked like they had some life in Week 1. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots looked listless. Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was bottled up for much of his afternoon.
In Week 2, all eyes will be on the NFC West as the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers face off. The Seahawks will look to overcome a slow start on offense, while the 49ers will try to avoid cooling off against their divisional foe.
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