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by Marcus Aurelius [Penguin Great Ideas Edition translated by Maxwell Stanisforth]
Book One
01.01. Courtesy and serenity of temper I first learnt to know from my grandfather Verus.
01.02. Manliness without ostentation I learnt from what I have heard and remember of my father.
01.03. My mother set me an example of piety and generosity, avoidance of all uncharitableness–not in actions only, but in thought as well–and a simplicity of life quite unlike the usual habits of the rich.
01.04. To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead–and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.
01.05. it was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue [The colours of the rival charioteers in the Circus. Roman enthusiasm for these races was unbounded; successful drivers earned large fortunes and became popular idols.] or Light of Heavy in the ring [In one form of gladiatorial combat (the 'Thracian') the opponents were armed with light round buckerls; in another (the 'Samnite') they carried heavy oblong shields.] ; and encouraged me not to be afraid of work, to be sparing in my wants, attend to my own needs, mind my own business, and never listen to gossip.
01.06. Thanks to Diognetus, I learnt not to be absorbed in trivial pursuits; to be sceptical of wizards and wonder-workers with their tales of spells, exorcisms, and the like; to eschew cockfighting and other such distractions; not to resent outspokenness; to familiarize myself with philosophy, beginning with Bacchus and going on to Tandasis and Marcian; to write compositions in my early years; and to be ardent for the plank and skin pallet and other rigours of the Greek discipline.
01.07. From Rusticus I derived the notion that my character needed training and care, and that I must not allow myself to be led astray into a sophist's enthusiasm for concocting speculative treatises, edifying homilies, or imaginary sketches of The Ascetic or The Altruist. He also taught me to avoid rhetoric, poetry, and verbal conceits, affectations of dress at home, and other such lapses of taste… Also I was to be accurate in my reading, and not content with a mere general idea of the meaning; and not to let myself be too quickly convinced by a glib tongue. Through him, too, I came to know Epictetus' Dissertations , of which he gave me a copy from his library.
01.08. Apollonius impressed on me the need to make decisions for myself instead of depending on the hazards of chance, and never for a moment to leave reason out of sight.
01.09. His manner, too, of determining and systemizing the essential rules of life was as comprehensive as it was methodical. Never displaying a sign of anger nor any kind of emotion, he was at once entirely imperturbable and yet full of kindly affection. His approval was always quietly and undemonstratively expressed, and he never paraded his encyclopaedic learning.
01.10. It was the critic Alexander who put me on my guard against unnecessary fault-finding. People should not be sharply corrected for bad grammar, provincialisms or mispronunciation; it is better to suggest the proper expression by tactfully introducing it oneself in, say, one's reply to a question or one's acquiescence in their sentiments, or into a friendly discussion of the topic itself (not of the diction), or by some other suitable form of reminder.
01.16. The qualities I admired in my father [Not his natural father Annius Verus, but the emperor Antoninus Pius, his adoptive father] were his lenience, his firm refusal to be diverted from any decision he had deliberately reached, his complete indifference to meretricious honours his industry, perseverance, and willingness to listen to any project for the common good; the unvarying insistence that rewards must depend on merit; the expert's sense of when to tighten the reins and when to relax them…
He was aware the social life must have its claims: his friends were under no obligation to join him at his table or attend his progresses, and when they were detained by other engagements it made no difference to him. Every question that came before him in council was painstakingly and patiently examined; he was never content to dismiss it on a cursory first impression… Before his gods he was not superstitious; before his fellow-men he never stooped to bid for popularity or woo the masses, but pursued his own calm and steady way… He accepted without either complacency or compunction such material comforts as fortune had put at his disposal; when they were to hand he would avail himself of them frankly, but when they were not he had no regrets.
…all men recognized in him a mature and finished personality, that was impervious to flattery and entirely capable of ruling both himself and others. Moreover, he had a high respect for all genuine philosophers; and though refraining from criticism of the rest, he preferred to dispense with their guidance. … No hint of jealousy showed in his prompt recognition of outstanding abilities, whether in public speaking, law, ethics, or any other department, and he took pains to give each man the chance of earning a reputation in his own field. … Again, he disliked restlessness and change, and had a rooted preference for the same places and the same pursuits. … he was quite uncritical of the food he ate, of the cut and colour of the garments he wore, or of the personableness of those around him. … he never grew heated, as the saying is, to sweating-point; it was his habit to analyse and weigh every incident, taking his time about it calmly, methodically, decisively, and consistently. … To be thus strong enough to refrain or consent at will argues a consummate and indomitable soul…
Book Two
02.01. Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness—all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part, I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason…); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading…
02.04. Think of your many years of procrastination, how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time…to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.
02.05. Hour by hour resolve firmly, like a Roman and a man, to do what comes to hand with correct and natural dignity, and with humanity, independence, and justice. Allow your mind freedom from all other considerations. This you can do, if you will approach each action as though it were your last, dismissing the wayward thought, the emotional recoil from the commands of reason, the desire to create and impression, the admiration of self, the discontent with your lot. See how little a man needs to master, for his days to flow on in quietness and piety: he has but to observe these few counsels, and the gods will ask nothing more.
02.06. Wrong, wrong thou art doing to thyself, O my soul; and all too soon thou shalt have no more time to do thyself right. Man has but one life; already thine is nearing its close, yet still hast though no eye to thine own honour, but are staking thy happiness on the souls of other men. [That is, on whether others decide to approve or censure your actions.]
02.07. Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
02.12. Our mental powers should enable us to perceive the swiftness with which all things vanish away; their bodies in the world of space, and their remembrance in the world of time. We should also observe the nature of all objects of sense—particularly such as allure us with pleasure, or affright us with pain, or are clamorously urged upon us by the voice of self-conceit—the cheapness and contemptibility of them, how sordid they are, and how quickly fading and dead. We should discern the true worth of those whose word and opinion confer reputations. We should apprehend, too, the nature of death; and that if only it be steadily contemplated, and the fancies we associate with it mentally dissected, it will soon come to be thought of as no more than a process of nature (and only children are scared by a natural process) –or rather, something more than a mere process…
02.13. Nothing is more melancholy than to compass the whole creation, 'probing into the deeps of earth', as the poet says, and peering curiously into the secrets of others' souls, without once understanding that to hold fat to the divine spirit within, and serve it loyally, is all that is needful. Such service involves keeping it pure from passion, and from aimlessness, and from discontent with the works of gods or men; for the former of these works deserve our reverence, for their excellence; the later our goodwill, for fraternity's sake, and at times perhaps our pity too, because of men's ignorance of good and evil—an infirmity as crippling as the inability to distinguish black from white.
02.14. Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment' and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses. This means that the longest life and the shortest amount to the same thing. For the passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours. Our loss, therefore, is limited to that one fleeting instant, since no one can lose what is already past, not yet what he does not possess? So two things should be borne in mind. First, that all the cycles of creation since the beginning of time exhibit the same recurring pattern, so that it can make no difference whether you watch the identical spectacle for a hundred years, or for two hundred, or for ever. Secondly, that when the longest- and the shortest-lived of us to come to die, their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
02.16. For a human soul, the greatest of self-inflicted wrongs … is to surrender to pleasure or pain. A fourth, to dissemble and show insincerity or falsity in word or deed. A fifth, for the soul to direct its acts and endeavours to no particular object, and waste its energies purposelessly and without due thought; for even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view…
Book Three
03.02 Thus to a man of sensitiveness and sufficiently deep insight into the workings of the universe, almost everything, even if it be no more than a by-product of something else, seems to add its meed of extra pleasure. Such a man will view the grinning jaws of real lions and tigers as admiringly as he would an artists' or sculptor's imitation of them; and the eye of discretion will enable him to see the mature charm that belongs to men and women in old age, as well as the seductive bloom that is youth's. Things of this sort will not appeal to everyone, he alone who has cultivated a real intimacy with Nature and her works will be struck by them.
03.04. Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming—in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the Ruler within you – means a loss of opportunity for some other task. See then that the flow of your thoughts is kept free from idle or random fancies, particularly those of an inquisitive or uncharitable nature. A man should habituate himself to such a way of thinking that if suddenly asked, 'What is in your mind at this minute?' he could respond frankly and without hesitation; thus proving that all this thoughts were simple and kindly, as becomes a social being with no taste for the pleasures of sensual imaginings, jealousies, envies, suspicions, or any other sentiments that he would blush to acknowledge in himself. Such a man, determined here and now to aspire to the heights, is indeed a priest and minister of the gods; for he is making full use of that indwelling power which can keep a man unsullied by pleasures, proof against pain, untouched by insult, and impervious to evil. He is a competitor in the greatest of all contests, the struggle against passion's mastery; he is imbued through and through with uprightness, welcoming whole-heartedly whatever falls to his lot and rarely asking himself what others may be saying or doing or thinking except when the public interest requires it. He confines his operations to his own concerns, having his attention fixed on his own particular thread of the universal web; seeing to it that his actions or honourable, and convinced that what befalls him must be for the best – for his own directing fate is itself under a higher direction. He does not forget the brotherhood of all rational beings, nor that a concern for every man is proper to humanity; and he knows that it is not the world's opinions he should follow, but only those of men whose lives confessedly accord with Nature. As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad , and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.
03.07. Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained. One whose chief regard is for his own mind… will strike no poses, utter no complaints… Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoidings. He does not care whether his soul in its moral frame shall be his to possess for a long or a shorter term of years; this very moment, if it be the hour for his departure, he will step forth as readily as he performs any other act that can be done in self-respecting and orderly fashion. No other care has he in life but to keep his mind from straying into the paths incompatible with those of an intelligent and social being.
03.10. Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal like is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth: and little, too, is the longest fame to come—dependent as it is on a succession of fast perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, mush less of one long dead and gone.


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A parasite, a fungus and schools named after Obama. Dems pick Corroon as new chair. Mia Love nabs nomination.
Happy Monday. "Obama is a parasite. He's also a fungus, a spider and an extinct lizard," The Washington Post's Colby Itkowitz notes, adding quickly that apparently it is a good thing to have unappealing species named after you. President Barack Obama has roads, schools and even a mountain named after him while he's still in office. His hometown of Chicago is also building the Barack Obama Preparatory High School. [
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A complaint of misconduct against former AG Mark Shurtleff has been in the Utah State Bar's hands for months. [
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-> Here's a look at who has given the most to Utah campaigns so far. [
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-> Great Salt Lake Audubon Society criticized Salt Lake City's plan to restore Miller Park along Red Butte Creek this spring. [

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Lately I've heard a lot of odd noise from tech-industry analysts. Not the kind you tell with one hand hiding your mouth, in the bar after the conference, to strangers you trust completely (worse luck).
The kind that involve normally well-involved, almost too-enthusiastic former engineers and tech marketing people asking why putting a hypervisor designed for a server into a desktop operating system would make any sense at all – let alone make enough sense to someone that Microsoft is pitching it as one of the big selling points for Windows 8.
You don't virtualize desktop or laptop machines, much. You could do it so you could recover your data if you somehow, against all the odds, did something innocuous that caused all your applications to crash every couple of minutes, not usually losing data, but costing you a few minutes of cursing-and-restarting time several times a day.
It turns out, from my own hands-on research, that the best reason to put a hypervisor in Windows 8 is that you could use it to create your "home" PC account a virtual machine.
Then, when, inevitably, a series of routine updates from Microsoft, a couple of patches that fix security holes or improve interoperability within the middleware give all your applications narcolepsy, so they drop off one at a time – so you can't deal with them all at once like when a mob descends in person on the help desk rather than phoning in and waiting their turn – you can beat your laptop to death, then move the "computer" to a different machine, relaunch it, and beat it to death all over again.
I've never been violent toward anyone or anything that didn't try crawl up my leg and bite me (and even those, when they were vaguely human and mostly babies I just picked off like burrs and returned to their cages), but I regularly get almost uncontrollable urges to express my opinion of Microsoft's modular, multilayered operating system and applications – with their maddeningly almost-helpful troubleshooting tools, knowledgebase advice and dismissively banal how-to-fix-an-obvious-user-error advice – with a baseball bat and the remains of hardware I paid for myself.
Normally I wouldn't bother you with my idiot PC problems. You almost certainly have to deal with more than enough of those from your own end users, relatives, friends and (if you play around with as much software and odd experiments as I do to research something you're looking into) your own personal machine.
Routine updates break Win7 middleware connections in ways that are hard to identify
For the last few weeks, my version of Outlook 2007, which was remarkably stable and no more irritating than it ever is for six months or more, started crashing unpredictably, throwing off error messages that said only that it had crashed (thanks!) and that the problem was that it couldn't talk to the module NTDLL.DLL or, sometimes the .NET Framework.
Well, NTDLL.DLL is one of, if not the only, mechanism apps can use to send commands and requests to the core part of the operating system itself. It's the gatekeeper that makes Windows 7 more stable than previous versions of Windows because it rejects obviously stupid requests from applications rather than taking them to heart and suffering itself, rather than letting the apps suffer on their own (Mark that as a life lesson, by the way. As soon as I can get a binary readout of the NTDLL.DLL's version of "talk to the hand" I'm putting it on a T-shirt and wearing it every day. Or maybe a tattoo.")
The reason I thought this was worth bringing up is that Microsoft has been answering questions about this particularly problem – which has affected, variously, Outlook, SQL Server, connections to Exchange servers and various other applications – since 2007.
The good thing about dealing with the same problem for four years without fixing it is that you build up a good case file of solutions.
Earlier answers were just advice on reconfiguring Outlook or Windows to avoid the conflict – though the ones users reported had actually worked were things like turning off the "Ding" sound on reminders about appointments, or telling versions of Outlook that didn't connect to Exchange servers to not automatically try to generate views that are specific to Exchange.
If it were rocket science we'd never have gotten to the moon
There was a solid period through late '07 and '08 when the advice was to uninstall everything, one at a time, starting with add-ins before moving on to Office, the .NET Framework, Windows modules and all the recent updates, using a special tool built for the purpose, then, eventually, your clothing and sanity.
Lots of these things worked for some people on the forums(except the clothing; if you work in IT, look around you and imagine how badly you'd want that not to happen in your office). None worked consistently.
Except, rather than wait for Windows Update, which often wasn't working, the advice was to manually download everything from .NET (versions 1, 1.1, 1.1 SP1, 2.0, 2.0 SP2, 3.0, 3.5, 3.5 SP1 and 4 – be sure you get the right version of each, x86 or 64-bit and whether it's the standalone or Web installer) a new version of the Windows Installation Service and anything else remotely involved with making one bit of Windows talk to another.
The Microsoft FixIT Solutions Center, which I've praised in earlier posts, stood ready to help. Standing was about all it did, though. Lots of scripts seemed perfect for the problems I saw; most said they completed successfully, but didn't make any difference – a very Microsoft result.
Eventually Microsoft apparently figured out that there was a consistent set of errors and put together some automated scripts to deal with them, which it put in its FixIT Center Online.
Theoretically you could download the FixIt appropriate to your machine, run it, and Bob's your uncle (or Bill, or Steve, depending on who was CEO at the time and if Microsoft was still addled enough to name an operating system Bob).
(Ever since I heard it in the very few bits of "comedy" on the late, lamented Benny Hill show, the phrase "Bob's your uncle" never made sense to me, which is why I figured it was appropriate in this description.)
The errors, by the way, showed up under Event IDs 1000, 7000, 7003, 7013 and 643, nearly all of which had to do with starting Microsoft system services that refused to do what they were supposed to when they were supposed to, even when they said they were doing it. They were mainly the services you wouldn't think were that important – TrustedInstaller, Security, Windows Messaging Subsystem, Windows Update – that kind of thing.
Windows isn't a traffic cop for your PC; it's a mob, with communication problems
The problem (as far as I can tell; it's still not clear) turned out to be backward compatibility.
Windows isn't a single operating system any more, it's a series of modules all designed to do different things.
Underlying all or most of them is the .NET Framework, an object-oriented middleware that separates the application layer from the operating system layer.
The increasingly important role of .NET and Metro as middleware were part of my reason for theorizing that, a couple of OS generations from now, Microsoft will be selling an "operating system" that goes with you to whatever machine you're using and is almost completely separated from the portion that actually has to talk to the hardware.
I got part of that theory working; most of the parts of the OS and apps I used were completely separated from the hardware, but not in a useful way.
.NET comes in several layers, all of which are critical to some things, none of which are all coordinated or integrated clearly so that when you have a problem with one version you can identify it quickly and get the rest of the framework to help fix it.
Versions 1 and 1.1 aren't used by Win7 at all. Versions 3 and 3.5 still have some use, but not much and even those don't get along well with the most recent versions.
.NET Framework 4 is the newest, most powerful version, and the one you'd expect to integrate, control or rude herd on the others by making sure they're updated and that the updates don't break anything.
Unfortunately, .NET 4 is a little standoffish toward its more primitive relatives, so Microsoft still updates them (mostly) one at a time and both the code and the updates often conflict, leading to special installation procedures if you're replacing them (in order: 4, 3.5 SP1, 1.1, unless you need version 1.0, in which case you have to go 3.5 SP1, 1.1, 1.0 and then 4. The amount of pain, trial-and-error and persistence needed to figure out and confirm all this are beyond my ken, but apparently are within that of actual Microsoft employee Aaron Stebner, who filed some of the more comprehensive advice, but not all the non-standard solutions that seemed to work for a lot of people.)
Most of the advice had more to do with running Outlook in Safe mode or cleaning out corrupted Views or Rules, which were perfectly valid, but rarely worked for others and certainly didn't for me.
Configuration errors or corrupt files on personal computers weren't causing most of the problems anyway; most appeared to come from conflicts among existing versions of .NET, or updates to one version or another that the rest didn't like.
That's apparently what happened to me.
Simple, comprehensive solutions that make the problem worse
Since it was an update that the OS identifies separately enough that it can be uninstalled later rather than mushing it all into the same code base, the problems should have been fixable by reinstalling a newer version of the framework or uninstalling an update.
Microsoft's advice was all over the place, however, making it hard to identify the problem, find the scripts that should have automated the fixes and, when I did find and run the right FixIt modules, they often refused to believe they were running on the right version of the operating system, or just launched, made their changes, expressed satisfaction at the result, then crashed, leaving me with more of a mess than I started with.
At various times, and through varying eras of advice on how to fix the problems, I reinstalled Office, reinstalled the Windows Installer, reinstalled .NET 4, systematically and singly, with reboots between each, uninstalled and cleaned the registry of .NET 4, 3.5, 3.0, 1.1 and 1.
I also ran chkdsk, sft scannow, replaced the registry Microsoft's troubleshooters said was corrupted by the last clean install of Office with the backup of a directory from before the problem started (which should have fixed everything, but had no effect) uninstalled and reinstalled half a dozen other services, every add-in for any Windows app whether I was using it or not, all the security software, did a repair re-install of Windows itself, reinstalled all the other apps, Windows modules, coffee machines, electric griddles and every other damn thing the laptop had ever run or come in contact with.
I used backups I real-time sync'd onto another partition, onto an external drive and backed up using Acronis backup software with a feature that would launch after the BIOS and before the OS, so you could recover your operating system before it launched with its errors intact to annoy me again.
By late last night, my laptop was a brick.
Acronis mostly did what it was supposed to, but helped brick my laptop by keeping me from booting from the Windows 7 disk, scrubbing the partition and starting over. I had to use a Linux Mint distro I keep on a USB drive to help fix other people's machines without having to learn all the junk that's on them – like opening a bathroom stall by sliding under the door and unlocking it from the inside, rather than trying to pick the lock.
Eventually I did a system restore and a Registry restore separately to get the thing working to the same dysfunctional level it had been before my marathon effort at repairs.
I may beat it to death over the weekend, in which case my blog entries on Monday will be harder to read because they'll be in pencil, scrawled by hand on your monitor screen.


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NYC SwapMeet & LFS tour: Sept 9th [group photo added]
There were several others that temporarily left to meet gtu2004 while the photo was taken. We all had great fun. Looking forward to the next one.
We're on for Sept 9th, rain or shine.
2:00pm Meet up at Pacific Aquarium (46 Delancy Street, New york, ny)
2:30pm Find a bar/restaurant/coffee shop a block away. plenty to choose from to share/trade/sell
3:00pm Walk to 4 other shops: 123/WIN/Aquastar/38 Aquarium
Google map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...07392,0.007821
4:00pm go home and put the plants, shrimp and fish into our tanks!
The F train stops at Delancy st, J/M/Z trains at Essex st.
Free street parking on Sundays otherwise there's public parking lot on Essex Street (north of Delancy).
To those starting a new tank or in need of anything, please speak up. The same for those excess w/accessories to clear out.
Come out to make friends, learn and trade stuff. It should be a blast!
I'm up for either location. However, if you need a place to sit in the LES, there's a public park across from Pacific. Other than that, it's kinda hard finding a place to sit and relax that isn't a restaurant.
Why not some where in Mid town?
Why Flushing/China town or LES?
Reason why I asked 2nd Question: See I'm at Sunnyside..for me it takes 45 mins to get to Flushing in #7 train, to LES/china town 1 hour 15-20 minutes...changing 2 train...either from Queensboro plaza or Grand central. Now Do I want to waste 1+ hour just in transit to meet fellow hobbyist?? To Swap some Weeds, shrimps etc.
Say some 1 is coming from the Bronx, Brooklyn, SI...he has to take a(x)train to Manhattan then transfer to another(Y) train for either location mentioned. Now from Brooklyn to Manhattan say 45 mintues in a(X) train then another 1 hour in (Y) train to get to Flushing or other location or VV minute wise...So why not some where in the middle? It will be fair for all...Say somewhere in Bryant park(Time Square) area. This way all will rid only 1 train...#7 from sunnyside to Grand central...or #6 from Harlem to Grand central etc...If not all most train stops at Times Square or nearby station.
I may come I might not...this is only my opinion...One of the local member here long time back wanted to do same thing what you are planning to do but didn't worked out...
I like the idea of LES because we can all meet up at or near Pacific, talk/trade/hug or whatever, then walk and visit 4 nearby shops together which i think is pretty cool... Great opportunity for those outside of manhattan who haven't been to Pacific/123/WIN/aquastar to score some deals.
Bryant park is cool to meet but subject to the weather and there's not much to do around there. There's Cafe o' on 42nd and Duke Cafe on the next street that can host our meet indoors there.
14th street union square is cool because there's usually a street fair on sundays and there's the flagship petco to checkout afterwards.
Our last meet was at fishtown u.s.a / Oasis Cafe so i know that's definitely doable for some queens/long island folks.
In flushing, there's Northern aquarium/petland discounts. if we can arrange rides, we could extend it to hole in the wall shops:Kissena aquarium (discus/koi/ reasonably sized fresh and salt water stock) and rainbow aquarium (carrying discus/cichlid/CRS/food/supplements).
i think the meeting place is probably more important to narrow down first as the rest can be sorted out soon after. im sure if we needed to invade a whole foods or starbucks nearby, its all doable.
This meetup should be worthwhile and fun for everyone. Not to mention we haven't collected a list of stuff people are bringing or offering. definitely some goodie bag stuff going around for the community :)
Oh yeah, we arent going to people's houses in astoria so please don't ask :p
Again, posing ideas.
I didn't vote, because I think I could do either.
If we go to Flushing I'm in other peoples hands - I don't know the neighborhood at all and I have no idea where we should go, but it would all be new to me, which is a plus.
If we do the LES, well I sorta know the area and I've been to all those stores, but not lately, and they are great stores. Plus, there are plenty of bars where we could grab a few tables and some grub.
Is anyone who is thinking of coming under 21? That limits our easy seating options, but it's still doable.
May i ask everyone to vote for either or both locations so we get an idea of who can make it to which place.
Its not a firm commitment by any means but gives everyone an idea of who's interested in the meet and which place is more convenient.
If anyone's barely legal and too shy to say, just pm me ;)
I voted for both, is that ok?
EDIT: Saw your post, guess it is ok. LOL
Of all days, you pick the one where I'll be away on vacation ;) Depending on how many people go, it might be kinda awkward trying to fit into Win or Aquastar hahahahahaha.
Instead of complaining I just voted. I don't mind where we meet I think this will be fun either way.
Yeah... WIN might be passable but aquastar, hmm that's the proverbial hole in the wall. There might not be enough oxygen in that place for all of us and cat, birds... However i always find hidden gems there. For example, they had bamboo and vampires the other week, where no other places had them.
From time to time, they also sell decent quality cherries for $2.
It take 35 minutes from LIC (Hunters Point stop) to get to Flushing, and only about 40 minutes to get to Chinatown...via the 7 to Grand Central and then the 6.
Anyway, Times Square/Bryant Park would be convenient to get to for everyone, but what's the point in that? There's nothing there and after meeting up, everyone would still have to travel to Flushing or Chinatown for the shops.
WOW! Really..MTA must have Super train for YOU on Weekends...How about the waiting time to get B train from A train...Walking time to climb up to Grand Central to Get #6 train...
2) Or take the escalator since you can't handle the walk? Oh wait, the downdraft of the wind might increase your travel time as well.
3) And also, a map would help greatly if you find yourself taking a B to an A. Before you make another excuse...oops, I mean...sure they may be out of maps, then download an app onto your phone to have a map accessible.
4) 7 train to the 6 is all you need...but somehow I think you already know this......ergo this conversation is pointless to continue.
Best thing for you is probably not to attend, we wouldn't want you to " go out of your way" and travel over an hour just to meet people here to exchange ideas/items and have a good time.
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/13/review_apple_ipod_classic/
Apple iPod Classic
In a metal mood
Posted in Personal Tech, 13th September 2007 07:24 GMT
Review The iPod Classic marks the most widespread update Apple has ever made to the 'standard' hard drive-based iPod range. The name's been tweaked, the user interface given a radical overhaul, and while the new model may look like the previous version, it's actually quite different.
Apple's iPod Classic: black metal
The iPod Classic has a metal face, not a plastic one. The shiny, curved chrome-like backplate is still there, but now it's attached to an anodised aluminium sheet that curves gently forward before forming a flat space in which the display and clickwheel are mounted.
The casing - its the same material used in last year's iPod Nano update - is tactile and has a satin sheen quite unlike the patent gloss of old. That's good for the black Classic, which is now far more resistant to fingerprints than its predecessor was and probably more resistant to scratches, though only time will tell for sure. The back of the player however, is just as susceptible to scrapes and scratches as it always was, as we discovered when we were a little reckless in docking the device.
What was once the white model is now one Apple calls 'silver' - but in reality it's more of a kind of dull, pale grey. It's not as metallic looking as last year's Nanos and Shuffles, and it's hard to see consumers falling for it. We'd hazard a guess that the black model will sell significantly better this coming Christmas.
The metal front makes for an iPod that feels less like two halves fitted together and more like a single, solid unit. The screen and the clickwheel are slotted into holes cut in the face, and while the clickwheel has an almost perfect fit, there's a tiny groove running around the perimeter of the screen. While it's barely noticeable in the hand, it won't be long before it picks up dust and pocket fluff.
As before the bottom of the player is home to the dock connector, with the earphone socket and 'hold' switch up on top. All three are surrounded by a thin lip of colour-coded plastic to match the hue of the faceplate.
Apple's iPod Classic: top and bottom
The new model is much the same size as its predecessor - it's actually fractionally thinner, but not so as you'd notice. Similarly, it's very slightly heavier, but again you won't be able to tell when you're carrying this player around.
What is noticeable is how much thicker the 160GB Classic is than the 80GB model. The latter's a svelte 1.1cm at its thickest point, and less at the edges, where the curves make it seem thinner. The 160GB Classic is only 0.3cm thicker, according to Apple's numbers, but it looks much more than that. It isn't, but at a glance you'd swear it was twice the thickness of the 80GB model.
Apple's iPod Classic: still shiny, still thin
The Classic's screen size - 2.5in across and 320 x 240 pixels in resolution - is the same as last year's 5G iPod and again backlit by LED to help conserve battery power. Apple's newest earphones are included, along with a USB 2.0 cable - this time with a slightly more compact dock connector, not that that matters much - and an adaptor for Apple's universal dock system. Once again, there's no iTunes CD, but the software's just a download away.
Turning the Classic on really rings in the changes. Fresh from the iPhone, Apple has re-purposed its graphic designers' work for the new iPods. The updated iPod user interface doesn't simply borrow the iPhone's visual style, it clearly works the same way, albeit through the clickwheel rather than a touch-sensitive display.
Click on a displayed world clock face, for instance, and up pops a slider with 'Add' at one end and 'Delete' at the other. Sliding your thumb on the clickwheel moves the selector back and forth between these two choices, but what you really want to do is move it the selector by sliding your finger on the screen.
Powered on, the standard iPod colour menu now fills just the left half the screen, with the right-hand side devoted to graphics. The text is again rendered in smooth, bold lettering, while the images are given that grey gradient background tint and vaguely glassy looking iconography familiar to anyone who's seen a Steve Jobs keynote speech. Interestingly, the menu bar casts a drop-shadow onto the image space, clearly implying a visual hierarchy between the two.
Apple's iPod Classic UI: iPhones affectations
The pictures the iPods displays are context sensitive - move the cursor down the list and the images change. Top of the menu is the 'Music' sub-menu, initially showing a bold 'No Music' icon and message, but quickly replaced with a dynamic slideshow of album art once you copy over some tracks.
Album art is pervasive, appearing in thumbnail form in subsidiary menus, such as the Albums listing. Here, each entry is presented with the thumbnail, the album's title in bold above the artist's name in plain grey text. Likewise, other listings are presented with this kind of subsidiary information. Select Genre, and each entry has the number of relevant artists and albums presented below it. Only the Composers and Artists menus don't follow the pattern. Why not? We can't think of a good reason.
Apple's iPod Classic UI: now with iTunes' Cover Flow and reflection effects
Since Apple introduced accelerated scrolling in the 5G iPod, all these extra lines of information don't slow you down if you have to dash to the end of the list to find the track, album or artist you want. Once again, scrolling quickly pops up the initial letter of the album, artist or song the cursor's passing over, making it easy to find, say, albums beginning with S and then slow down to narrow the search to Springsteen.
And there's a Search entry that pops up a text-entry field and, to the right of it, the alphabet. Select the letter you want using the clickwheel, then press the centre button to 'type' it into the field. As you type, the iPod searches, narrowing down the list of results as you enter more characters. The Rewind button works like a backspace key.
Album art really comes into its own in the Music menu's Cover Flow option. The fact it is optional tells you immediately it's not ready for primetime. Yes, you get the same 3D cover-by-cover album display that was first introduced by iTunes, though Apple did itself a disservice by setting it here against a white background, which shows up the jagged edges that might have been obscured by a black background.
Apple's iPod Classic UI: photo slideshows and a revamped calendar
Selecting a cover brings up its track listing just as it does on the iPhone - select a specific song or press Play to hear them all. Pressing Menu takes you back to the Cover Flow screen. The screen certainly populates quickly enough, but moving along the line doesn't feel as smooth as it does in iTunes. Maybe it'll look a lot better on the bigger, 3.5in screen of the iPod Touch, but here Cover Flow feels crammed in.
Part of the problem is the Classic's processor isn't quite up to it - there are a fair few brief but noticeable pauses, not only when we were using Cover Flow but also when transitioning between other menus and sub-menus too. We've experienced this before with the first-generation Nano, for example, but that's two years old and we'd have hoped Apple might have beefed up the iPod's specs to a point where it can handle the demands of the UI. Our time with the Classic suggests it hasn't.
This is a shame because - Cover Flow aside - it remains a good UI, and most of the changes are improvements. The album cover slideshow on the main menu is a gimmick, but the use of icons is smart. Visit the Settings menu, for example, and as you scroll down through the options, the graphic changes to give a handy visual read-out of the setting so you can immediately see what the setting is without having to go a further step into the menu structure.
Apple's iPod Classic UI: CoverFlow aside, it's a good interface
The EQ setting image, for example, show you exactly where the sliders have been set. Move through the EQ sub-menu and you'll see precisely how they'll be changed if you apply a given pre-set. We also liked the new storage status screen, which takes the capacity read-out from iTunes and displays it on the iPod, with coloured blocks on a white bar showing you how much of your player's hard drive is loaded with audio, video, photo and other files. Press the centre button and all this slides off to the left, replaced by a list of the number of songs, videos, photos, contacts and so on that you've stored on your iPod. Click again to show the iPod's serial number.
Expect this to come into its own on the iPod Touch when you're going to need to know how much free space you have before downloading content over its Wi-Fi connection direct to your player.
Not that you really need it here, when you've a choice of 80GB or 160GB of storage. These capacities are a real boon. The Classic supports all the formats the previous generation of iPod could handle, but now there's space to start using the compressed but full quality, lossless formats. Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, for example, lasts almost 49 minutes and in 128KBps MP3 takes up 45.5MB. Using the Apple Lossless format, the album takes up 233.8MB - room enough for five copies of the MP3 version.
There was a time was when storage limitations meant that the trade off between capacity and sound fidelity would have favoured MP3, but since the 160GB Classic can hold around 650 Lossless albums, now you can take your collection with you and have it delivered in true CD quality.
Apple's iPod Classic UI: sub-menus slide in
Or you can store 200 hours of H.264-encoded video at 640 x 480 - more if you encode at 320 x 240, the Classic's actual screen size. Even the 80GB model can hold 100 hours of 640 x 480 video or 330-odd Lossless albums. Video playback is smooth, and the picture crisp and bright on the Classic's nice display. For video, we'd prefer a bigger screen - enter, again, the iPod Touch - but this one's not bad for occasional viewing.
Incidentally, the 160BG is the better value product: you pay £1.43/$2.18 for each gigabyte, whereas the 80GB model charges you £1.99/$3.11 per gig.
The Classic's sound quality is equal to past iPods, so we've no complaints there. It has been said that the player won't send video content to a TV unless it's connected to a new, Apple-authorised dock or video cable, and while we don't have suitable add-ons to confirm this, we couldn't change the Classic's TV output settings, which default to off. Other reviewers are finding that there is an issue here, so if you've made a big investment in iPod peripherals it may well be worth waiting for Apple to clarify the situation before upgrading to a Classic.
Apple's iPod Classic: shiny white, not flat grey, please
Likewise folk who bought games for the previous iPod. The ones sold on iTunes aren't compatible with the new players. Apple says new versions of three titles - Ms Pac-Man, Tetris and Sudoku - are on their way "soon".
Apple claims the 80GB iPod's battery life comes in at up to 30 hours' music playback and five hours' video. The 160GB - presumably thanks to a bigger battery - scores 40 hours and seven hours' respectively. The company's managed to meet or even exceed its claims in past iPod generations and we experienced nothing to suggest it hasn't this time round.
As the latest hard drive iPod, the Classic - with its extra capacity and metal casing - is a good extension to the series. Yes, the silver model falls flat, but the black version is spot on.
We'd say the same about the revamped user interface if it wasn't for its inconsistencies. Some backgrounds are white, others black. Some screens have iPhone-style widgets, others are more like the old-style iPod UI. Buyers will benefit from many of the improvements - the search, the extra info, the new-style Settings menu - but others, like Cover Flow, will fall by the wayside. It'll be great on the iPod Touch, but not here.


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DHL Global Forwarding announced this week that it has rolled out a new Less-than-Container-Load (LCL) Expedited services which will connect 19 European origins to the United States.
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And she added that the recent volcano in Iceland and the resulting air freight back-up made the need more apparent and also noted that the product has been in development for approximately six months.
With this new service, LCL Expedited shipments will arrive in New York from all major ports in Eastern and Western Europe, according to DHL Global Forwarding. And upon arrival and availability, freight is then expedited in exclusive trucks direct to the customer's door within three to four business days depending upon destination. They added that while traditional LCL ocean services could take anywhere from 5 to over 16 days longer, to destinations within the United States upon arrival in New York.
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This is not DHL Global Forwarding's first foray into LCL service. In 2007, it rolled out an LCL expedited service from Asia—in Hong Kong and Shanghai. This service now covers all major Asian ports and two India-based ports.
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Getting ready to host a two night premiere of "Dancing With The Stars" on September 24th, Brooke Burke showed off her ageless body on the October 2012 cover of Shape magazine.
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Looking for "adventure ... and maybe a man," the young nurse soon found herself in hospitals at Camp Edwards and Fort Dix, where she worked as a general duty nurse for 16 months. Afer her stateside stint, she served for 14 months in a general hospital unit in England at the height of the war. Stationed near the staging point of the Normandy invasion, Stevens tended to countless broken bodies and minds.
"I wasn't nervous about it," recalled Stevens, 95. "I was young and stupid then, I guess."
Ever humble about her role in American history, she added, "I was just a nurse. I felt I could offer whatever I had. It was difficult to see the boys suffer, but it was rewarding to nurse the guys who needed help."
During her career in the military, Stevens earned both American Theater and European Theater ribbons, received a signed letter of thanks from President Harry Truman and worked her way up the ranks in the Army Reserves. After 34 years of service, she retired as a Lt. Colonel.
As a young women serving overseas, things weren't always easy for her. "There were very few of us," Stevens said. "But (the women) did all the work."
She also remembered Army nurses were supposed to pause and salute American soldiers whenever they'd pass: something Stevens always took issue with.
"I didn't like it," she said. "So I'd cross the street: that way I wouldn't have to salute them."
After the war ended, Stevens found herself back in the United States and spent most of her adult life in Florida and New Hampshire. In 1953 she married fellow serviceman John McNeice, but was widowed a year later. Following the death of her second husband, James Stevens in 1999, she returned to the Granite State, settling in Londonderry.
Asked for the secret to living a long and productive life, Newcomb said her aunt's philosophy has always been to keep her focus on the good.
"She keeps a positive attitude and she enjoys sunshine," Newcomb said. "And, she's never met a dessert that she doesn't like."
As another Veterans Day approaches, Stevens, who doesn't see or hear well these days, but retains her sharp wit, said, "it's always good to remember."
"There seems to be fewer girls interested in becoming nurses today," she added. "But I would tell them to definitely think about it."
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When asked what his primary motivation was for running Mike said, "Riverton has been my family's home and our place of business for almost 5 decades. Thanks to the support of Fremont County, Bailey Enterprises has successfully moved into communities across Wyoming. With voter's permission I hope to instill the business knowledge and leadership I've garnered throughout my career towards assisting Riverton with not only fiscal efficiency and responsibility, but also creating an environment that is attractive to businesses and individuals to live here."
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A dedicated father of nine, Mike is married to June (Osborne) Bailey. They live in Riverton and are both lifelong residents of Fremont County and Wyoming. Mike said candidly, "Our youngest son just graduated from Riverton High School & our daughter just graduated from UW. I'm not sure empty nesting suits me, so now I have the time to get more involved with helping to improve our Riverton Community."
Mike's community involvement is extensive. He is an avid supporter of Community Entry Services & Child Development Services. Mike was a key player in a Wyoming state grant awarded to IDEA Inc. for the construction of the Smart Start child care center in Riverton. He is currently the Chairman of the Riverton Police Foundation, Vice Chairman of the City of Riverton Planning Commission and is a Precinct Committeeman in the Fremont County Republican Party. Mike has also served as Past President of the Leadership Fremont County Board, Past President of the Riverton Business Leadership Network, Past President of the Sertoma Club (now REACH), and Past President of the Riverton Kiwanis Club.
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Not surprised that a ventriloquist's dummy might be wrong. Probably wrong a lot of the time.
This is a discussion on Joe and Dianne--Don't Like The Truth? Make Some Up within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; No surprise, but nice to see it published in quasi-mainstream media: Biden Wrong on Police Deaths - Yahoo! News...
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"I'm set up to play a game right now. However, I doubt most people would want to get into a gun fight with me."
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Not surprised that a ventriloquist's dummy might be wrong. Probably wrong a lot of the time.
Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men.
That is a refreshing thing to see in the media. Now to inform the masses...
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I'm just so angry with all this crap. The media (except Fox) won't challenge the president on ANYTHING. They go along with this bull crap notion that somehow banning AR-15's will instantly make the world a safer place. Then the other side is saying "but pistols kill more people than assault rifles" and I am thinking "great, give em more ideas".
The parents of the Sandy Hook tragedy are as divided on the issue as the House and some say we need more gun control and others say we don't. All the while people are crying out "oh, but the children, the children". I agree, what happened to those kids is just plain awful. I can't even imagine the pain. But to use it as a spring board for political changes and laws is a testament to how disgusting our politics have become. Sometimes you can't stop bad things, you just can't. And you can't regulate madness!!
Even if no guns are available people who are hell bent on killing can just as easy make a pipe bomb. What next, outlaw pipe? There will ALWAYS be another "Sandy Hook" because when you have 300 million people living together you simply cannot avoid death and evil. It is a fallen society and nobody wants to be "parents" anymore. Let us not forget, the unibomber, David Karesh, VA Tech shooter, Sandy Hook killer, Aurora, CO massacre guy, they weren't BORN killers. Something happened. What? Lack of parenting. Look at the number of convicted murderers in prisons. I bet you my annual salary more than half of them didn't have fathers and the mothers just let them run crazy. That is a failure of parenting. What we should do is ban having children until you can prove you are fit parent and can afford to pay for them. If not, sorry, no kids for you.
People are to dang selfish to teach a child the ways in which to live and grow. Until we fix THAT problem we will never stop violence. And I got news for the bleeding heart liberals, even THEN you won't have peace on earth. It just won't happen. And I have to sit here night after night listening to the Demos and Repubs go back and forth. Nobody can agree on the FACTS, hell, we don't even HAVE the facts. Either we ARE going down the toilet or we aren't. Either we spend more than we take in as a nation or we don't. It is JUST THAT FREAKING SIMPLE SO WHY DO THEY HAVE TO CONFUSE THE ISSUE?
I am a simple man. I have a wife, 4 children, 1 dog and 1 income. We scrape by, but still do better than most. We just want to live our lives, pay our bills, and be able to protect ourselves when and if the wolf growls at the door. Can you not just leave me alone Mr. Government and let me do that? The American Dream is the OPPORTUNITY to have a home, a job, money, and chance. You are NOT NOR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUARANTEED THOSE THINGS! BUT I DO HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFEND MY LIFE, PERIOD!
It just isn't that hard. I am incensed, I am outraged, I am livid, I am beyond consolation. I want this crap to be OVER. I am sick of it. I find myself just watching Cosby Show Re-runs and dreaming of a simpler time when all that bothered us was if Theo got a passing math grade or not. I never thought I'd live in such a time, and I don't want to anymore.
Sick of it all in Bama!
As Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin? He replied: A republic, if you can keep it.
Whats considered a assault weapon now?
Guns don't kill people, Guns save Lives.
If you want peace, prepare for war
It amazes me who some people vote for and how high in our goverment people who can not read a chart correctaly get. It does not matter how many people are killed, they refuse to admit that more people are killed with bats and knifes each year then firearms. All that they are doin by reducing magazine capacity is making people aim first. The belltower snier at Texas Tech did not need a high-cap mag.
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I've been looking for a good shoulder rig for a long time now and I finally decided on one today - Matt Del Fatti's "SR" horizontal rig for my Combat Commander. I emailed Matt yesterday evening and had a response this morning from his daughter Gina. I called to give my CC and shipping info and to discuss a few options. Both Matt and Gina were great to deal with, as are ALL of our leather experts here. Delivery will be roughly one year with no billing until the work is started - that's perfectly fine with me since I know that on the front end. Besides, I don't even have the gun yet:frown:. Shortly after placing my order I got a confirmation email from Gina in a downloadable PDF format - nice idea!
The link shows what mine will look like except it'll have a thumb break (for C&L carry) and the harness will be a closer match to the holster. The leather shown is undyed horse hide (but with a cow hide harness) - LOVE THAT COLOR!!!
If you can stand the wait for delivery, they're great folks to do business with.
I'll also be calling Gary & Remy after Wednesday to place my order for a SG Def-Con. Just have to decide if I want it for my Mil-Spec, Commander or J-frame.... Oy the confusion!
Lastly, I'm expecting a full rig for my J-frame from Eric any day now as well. That one's gonna be a beauty too with its "Distressed Brown" finish, it should look like a well worn bomber's jacket.
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Exactly, you wouldn't understand. [ sips pbr and adjusts too-tight jeans ]
Oh yay, the Harford Hackerspace won! Miles will be really happy to hear about this. His fingers looked sore that night. Any chance we can see the other participant's photos? :)
Is this a speed-only competition, or does quality count too? It would be neat to break it up into two brackets even.
I picked up this book a few years ago and found it to be an enjoyable and informative read. It is unique in that it is completely hand written and drawn too (don't worry, it's legible).
For those that have it already, don't the electrons in the book remind you of the zoloft drug avatar? :D
This person identified 10% of all stackoverflow email addresses in one hour via the emails md5sums:
So… I wouldn't call that impossible.
Just think of what you could do by taking advantage of a service like amazon's ec2.
Thanks for switching this to opt-in. :)
This should have been an opt-in feature. :(
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I never thought I would say this, I mean would you? Seriously! Oh, wait…you don't know what I'm talking about. As I was saying, I never thought I would say this but I really, and I mean really, should have listened to Rose. She is, after all, Aunt 'Mione's daughter, she was bound to be right and I really should have listened. If I had, none of this would have happened; I wouldn't have caused panic, I wouldn't have been arrested (yes, arrested), Dad wouldn't have had to come bail me out and I wouldn't be an embarrassment.
And. It's. All. James'. Fault.
You still don't know what I'm talking about, do you?
Let me start from the beginning…
"No!" Rose yelled, jumping off the bed to stand over Albus. "No. No. No. No. No."
James sniggered from behind her, "know any other words there, Red?"
Rose spun around and glared at her older cousin, "you shut it; I'll get to you in a minute!" She turned back to Albus, "don't you dare listen to him!" She pointed at James.
"The whole point is that it is a dare," Scorpius interrupted. "He has to do it."
"That's a stupid and childish game and he doesn't have to. Only an idiot would do what James just said. Don't do it, Al."
Albus looked unsure but shook his head adamantly, "I have to; a dare's a dare, Rose. Do you know what James will do if I don't?"
"Do you know how much trouble you'll be in if you do?" Rose asked. "You know you shouldn't do it."
Albus pushed Rose back slowly and stood up, he gave her a hug and she visibly relaxed, thinking he was finally listening to her. She was wrong. He moved back and stepped around her, facing James. "Do it."
James jumped up and punched the air with his fist. "Yes!"
"No!" Rose shouted at the same time. James smirked at her before leaving and Scorpius starting laughing.
"You're helping me, Scor."
Scorpius stopped abruptly and stared at Albus. "What?"
"You heard."
"I can't help you! You know my family. I can't put them through that," Scorpius tried to plead with his friend.
But Albus just shook his head, "I'm not doing this alone. If I have to do this, my best friend is helping me."
Scorpius stuttered before sighing, "fine." Albus clapped him on the back and pushed him into the direction of the door, out of his room and to James'.
Rose ran a hand through her hair. "I can't believe you are doing this," she moaned, following them into the hall. "It is not a good idea to sell "Team-You-Know-Who" t-shirts!"
It was the night of the celebration party the Ministry held every year, the mark the end of the war and to honour those who lost their lives fighting. Albus and Scorpius peered through the doors, both wearing identical expressions of worry.
"Are you sure about this?" Scorpius asked. He backed away from the door when he saw his Father coming their way.
"Don't worry," Albus told him after a minute. "He turned left and he's talking to my Dad."
Albus shrugged, "probably asking where you are." He shut the door again and stood in front of Scorpius. They had snuck out of the party half an hour ago with James to get changed and ready for what they were about to do. Instead of dress robes, they were now wearing jeans and had zipped up their jackets to cover the t-shirts James had given them. Rose was furious at them for taking James up on this dare and had ignored them for the entire week, only talking to them when completely necessary.
"No," he finally answered his friend's question. "I'm not sure. But we don't have a choice, Scor. You know what he'll do if we back out, especially now. We can do this."
Scorpius shook his head, "our parents are going to kill us! Are you really going to risk what our parents will do just to prove to James that you can?"
"Hey! You were the one who said a dare is a dare and that I had to," Albus argued.
Scorpius lowered his gaze to the floor. "Well, that was before you dragged me into it," he muttered.
Albus glared at him but said nothing more. When they heard the door open, turned and saw James walking in, carrying a cardboard box. He put it down at Scorpius' feet with the other one he had brought in before. "That's the last one. Are you ready?"
"No," the friends spoke simultaneously, which only made James smirk.
Scorpius knelt down and opened one of the boxes, reading what was written on the t-shirts. "Go Team Voldemort. Join the Snakes. Come to the Dark Side. I heart Death Eaters. Who needs friends when you can have world domination?" He looked up to James, "these are terrible; the worst things I've ever heard."
James rolled his eyes, "they're supposed to be. They're just for the dare. I'm not going to be selling them on the streets when this is over, am I?"
"That's because the Ministry will have confiscated them," Albus countered.
"Yeah, otherwise we wouldn't put it past you," Scorpius agreed.
James shook his head and clapped his hands together. "Right, let's get this show on the road." He waited for them to grab the boxes, and then opened the door. "Go," he whispered and we walked over to where his and Scorpius' fathers were.
Albus and Scorpius watched the small number of people watching them and gulped, knowing the crowd was about to get a whole lot bigger. They opened the boxes and took off their jackets, revealing their t-shirts. The people closest to them, who could read the writing, all gasped and stared, disgusted.
We are in so much trouble for this, Albus thought before picking up a t-shirt. Not caring to hide how much he hated this, he started to shout to the crowd. Scorpius copied.
"Here you have a once in a life time opportunity ,ladies and gentlemen, to get your very own, limited edition Team Voldemort t-shirt!"
"You don't want to miss out on having yourself a t-shirt like this." Scorpius pointed to his own shirt. "Seriously, guys, you would be Crazy t –"
He was stopped mid sentence to security, who had removed the t-shirt from his hands and restrained him. He turned to see Albus handcuffed as well. "Oh, come on! We weren't hurting anybody!"
"You weren't hurting anybody?" Rose shrieked. "Look around. You've got everybody worried. They're all panicking that he's somehow come back!"
Albus looked up to his Dad with pleading eyes. "Dad, please. Don't do this!"
Harry turned to Draco, who nodded once, then spoke to the Auror restraining Albus. "Put them in a holding cell, I'll be there for them in an hour."
Scorpius narrowed his eyes, "do you still think what James would've done would be worse?"
Albus turned to his brother as he was being escorted out, "I'm going to kill you, James!" From the corner of his eye, he saw his Dad face James. His brother was in trouble too; that was the only small amount of satisfaction he was going to get.
Okay, so maybe I could have prevented it all if I had said no but James never should have suggested it then Scorpius and I wouldn't have been coerced into accepting his dare…okay, maybe we weren't coerced…
But something good came out of this story; a moral. If you want to survive? Always listen to Rose!
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My one-year-old has a tummy ache, or at least he did in the middle of last night. After an hour of cooperative efforts to quell his angst and crying, I decided to spare my wife some of the noise and walk around with him for a bit.
With lights dimmed, we walked from room to room around our house. The amber glow of the lights in an otherwise dark room clearly sparked a certain wonder in his eyes as he perked up out of his semi-conscious state and began a constant stream of baby chatter while his eyes moved from light to light.
As we settled on the living room sofa, I became fascinated in his amazement. He was visibly processing new information, discovering lights that have always been there, but are now seen in a new and different way. I know those young eyes will be discovering new and amazing things for many more years and indeed I hope it never ends.
My time at The Collins Group has given me far more than what is expected from a job: it's provided me a constant stream of personal amazement and inspiration. During my tenure, I've had the opportunity to sit around the table with or stand before dedicated nonprofit leaders, selfless volunteers, and some of the smartest, kindest, and best-looking colleagues one could ever hope for.
As I prepare to move on to lead the Bainbridge Community Foundation, I can think of a number of lessons that I've learned from the amazing people who have surrounded me. I will carry them forever in my personal and professional life and offer them here for your own consideration. (It should be pointed out that Stuart Grover, chairman emeritus of The Collins Group, is celebrated for his ability to summarize broad and complex concepts into three easy points. I have five. I guess I still have more learning to do.)
In no particular order (in fact, if I could present them in a circle, I would):
- Be honest: Honesty is the root of good communication and communication is the foundation of understanding
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- Foster innovation: Fostering innovation and creativity encourages us to challenge old concepts, deconstruct them, and build new strategies with a much deeper understanding of how it can be successful.
- Laugh: You know it's important, so do it more often, eh? It is a magic cure for the blues, a great reliever of stress and perhaps the strongest thread in our social fabric
- Help others (to do the above): Humans are social animals. We're not built for going it alone. We owe it to each other to help one another out.
So, thank you all so very much – to my clients who have all become friends, to my colleagues who always have been, and to those of you who I haven't met but will no doubt learn something from in the future. Thanks also on behalf of my little one-year-old who is fascinated by an evolving world around him, made better, by you.
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