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July 26, 2010
Magical Monday - PCC Image & Dog Days Of Summer
The following cards are cards I made for some of the main challenges over at CDAC. They supply a free image that you need to use with their challenge. Heck, can't beat cute free images! Since I am taking them I kind of feel obligated to do the challenge, just a way to show some appreciation I think. After all I KNOW how much time and effort goes into one of these images, so I truly do appreciate them. Plus it is nice to be on the receiving end and I personally always love to see what people do with mine and I also love it when they leave a little post of thanks.
This first one was for Sew Many Cards which was a to use this cute image Eris and make a Christmas card. I kind of went non-traditional in color and then I made him pink! LOL.. but I think it turned out cute. Plus, all the following cards I made from my scraps, which I just love doing!
This next image was for the challenge from Shelly's Images which was a sketch challenge and of course her lovely free image. This image kind of reminded me of a vintage type image so I wanted to lean my card towards that and also masculine so I colored it with my Bic Mark-its and then rubbed some brown ink over the whole image to tone it down and give it a more vintage look. Then I went with browns, blues and black to lean it towards a masculine card.
This cute freebie was from Robyn's Fetish called "Katie Kitty" and it was a color challenge "Pink". I seen a card that opened like this somewhere, but it did not explain how to make it. So I spent some time doing my own thing, but keeping with what I had seen. So, I think this works good and I will be doing a tutorial on it within the week; (I hope) so check back because I took pictures while I made this and I also had to come up with templates so I will have that for you as well as soon as I sit down and make the time to write it all out by steps. So, check back here like I said in about a week and hopefully it will be posted in a new posting. The top picture is the card closed up and the bottom picture opened. The card stock has embossed dots, but you really can't see that. I think this one is way more cute in real life.
This is a card that is a straight lift from another card. I tend to save cards I like so I can later look back. This lift really caught my eye. I actually just drew all the doodles, but I copied what was on her card. Think the stamps are actually SU images, but like I said, I drew my own there. Than I just used my Bic Mark-its to color everything. I punched white flowers and then just doodled them as well. Thought it turned out super cute. It was a bridal shower card for my nephews bride to be. Kind of non-traditional, but I walk to a different beat sometimes and thought it was hip, cute and fun.
WOW, now that was a loooong posting. I spent one day last week making these. I certainly needed a fun day. Now this week I have a few layouts I want to get done for my group over at SB.com. So, have a great day and be inspired and inspire others!
6 comments:
- Dru said...
They're all great Nina! I love what you did with Ronan and Izzy - the fun summer DP and the way you made the image POP! Thank you for letting me be part of your DT - I'm loving working with your images and the rest of the team!
- July 26, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- Gloria Westerman said...
Wow you have very busy.....I love all of them....and I really do love the shape card....look forward to seeing your tutorial.....you are such an inspiration....
- July 26, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Amber (bambi64) said...
Love your card! The glitter on the beach ball is too cute and your coloring on Ronan is awesome. I love Eris, looks great in pink! Love the long vintage card and what a neat shaped card. You are so talented in card making and digi drawing. So glad to be a part of your team.
- July 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- The Other Patti Sue said...
OMGosh Nina, you've been one busy lady! All of your creations are a work of art!
- July 26, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Nilla said...
Wow, you have been busy! Love all the cards you made! Fabulous!! Hugs Nilla
- July 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM
- Toni said...
You sure have been busy. Where do you find all that time? Cards are soooooooooo cute! Yet you found some more time to be here for most of the day.
- July 29, 2010 at 8:30 PM


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Their primary targets are the IPCC and UNFCCC, key programs designed to educate policymakers about climate science and slow warming worldwide
WASHINGTON—House Republicans are applying a search and destroy tactic to international funding for global warming this budget season. It goes like this: Ax any line items with the words "climate change."
Their primary targets are a pair of crucial United Nations initiatives designed to slow warming worldwide and educate policymakers about the evolving science of climate change.
On the chopping block for 2012 are millions in funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's leading scientific advisory body on global warming. The IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Al Gore in 2007, and governments often use its periodic reviews of climate risks to set targets for reducing carbon emissions.
The GOP-led effort would also cut all U.S. funding for the 19-year-old U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the main forum for the global effort to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases. UNFCCC climate treaty talks are mired in longstanding rich-poor rifts and mistrust of the United States for its refusal to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and accept binding emissions limits.
Those who support the cutbacks say they are a sign of severe belt-tightening times. But critics say Republicans are using the budget crisis to hide their loathing of any kind of climate initiative.
Even though eliminating funding for IPCC and UNFCCC has little chance of gaining traction in the Democrat-majority Senate, some worry that the negative messages these efforts are sending will reverberate around the globe and neuter this nation's ability to lead on the climate front.
"We cannot disengage from the world," said Jake Schmidt, who directs international climate policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy organization. "Yes, these are tough fiscal times but zeroing out these funds is not going to put us back in the black."
But Nicolas Loris, an environmental policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said scaling back funds for global warming is a fiscal necessity.
"When we're trillions upon trillions of dollars in debt, it's necessary to consolidate and prioritize where we're getting our biggest bang for the buck," Loris said. "If the IPCC has the clout people say it does," perhaps countries in Europe or elsewhere could pick up the funding. "I don't think the IPCC is going to disappear."
He added that the financial squeeze shouldn't jeopardize this country's status as a leader on climate change.
Jim DiPeso, policy director for the nonprofit Republicans for Environmental Protection, said it's absurd that Congress is contemplating shutting off dollars to such landmark initiatives as IPCC and UNFCCC. An already-tense atmosphere on Capitol Hill becomes hyper-taut when politicians hide behind supposed deficit-hawk credentials to justify shrinking the budget to match their ideology, he added.
"It's clear that budget issues and debt issues have taken all the oxygen out of the room," he said. "Any issue that has been over-politicized is just going to be a sitting duck. Both parties are looking to slice unpopular programs. And for the Republicans, climate change has a big target on its back."
One-Two Punch
The strategy to gut U.S. international global warming funding progressed from talk to action in the form of a one-two July legislative punch before Congress left town for its August recess.
The first punch, which could very well pass the full House, is the appropriations bill passed by the subcommittee responsible for funding the State Department and foreign operations. The second punch came from Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.). He attached an amendment to a separate House authorization bill that would restrict funding to mitigate the impact of global warming overseas. Mack serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and chairs its Western Hemisphere subpanel. His amendment, more symbolic than realistic, is considered less likely to pass.
The appropriations bill, which a subcommittee approved July 27, specifically prohibits any funding for the IPCC and UNFCCC. President Obama had requested close to $13.5 million for the two organizations in 2011 and again in 2012. Funding for this year was lopped to about $10 million after Congress scrambled to avoid a government shutdown earlier this year.
Funding sent overseas to reduce pollution from heat-trapping gases and to help poorer countries adjust to the impacts of climate change currently represents about 0.04 percent of the total U.S. budget. This year, that amounts to between $750 million and $950 million.
IPCC 'Very Good Deal'
The U.N. Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization founded the IPCC in 1988. The 2,000-plus scientists and reviewers affiliated with the panel largely donate their time to the cause but receive logistical support from 15 full-time employees at IPPC headquarters in Geneva. Another couple dozen salaried staff members assist the panel's four working groups.
Last year, the IPCC's operating budget was $5.4 million Swiss francs, which is $6.8 million in today's dollars. The United States contributed nearly 40 percent of that total, which goes into a trust fund that enables scientists from developing countries to travel for face-to-face collaboration with colleagues.
The panel's latest assessment—a seminal report issued in 2007—concluded for the first time that the Earth is warming and that human activities are very likely to blame. Climate skeptics in Congress continue to question that conclusion. The panel's next report is due in 2013-2014.
"IPCC is a very good deal for the United States and the world," IPCC scientist Christopher Field said. "It would be very difficult for the IPCC to continue in its current form" if the House budget cuts squeaked through.
"Without these scientists' participation, the IPCC wouldn't be a true worldwide effort to do real assessments," said Field, who directs the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science. "We couldn't have an IPCC if we didn't have the trust fund."
Field, who receives no salary from the panel or the U.S. government, co-chairs one of the four working groups within IPCC. His group is responsible for the section of the assessment focused on vulnerability and adaptation.
Energy and climate experts agree that U.S. scientific expertise, not just funding, is critical to the entire IPCC enterprise.
Elliot Diringer is the executive vice president for international strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization.
"The United States is the leader on climate science," he said. "To eliminate funding for these efforts is further abdication of U.S. leadership on an issue where the rest of the world so desperately wants it. Whatever the flaws are in the IPCC process, you don't fix them by walking away."
U.S. Role Critical
The UNFCCC has evolved in fits and starts, but it remains the linchpin of a global response to climate change. Since it was adopted in 1992, 194 nations have signed on to the voluntary pact designed to stabilize planet-heating gases.
The proposed budget for 2012 and 2013 is roughly $35 million each year, which is expected to be approved at the Nov. 28-Dec. 9 climate summit in Durban, South Africa. The United States had indicated it would contribute about $4.8 million, or about 14 percent of that total.
U.S. negotiators are largely responsible for the emergence of a more realistic and balanced approach in the international climate negotiations arena, Diringer said. Refusing to fund such efforts not only sends an unfortunate signal, he added, it also could compromise this country's broader foreign policy agenda.
"If other countries are questioning our level of commitment on climate negotiations, it makes it that much tougher to win international support for other efforts that we deem vital," he said, adding that lack of cooperation could diminish "our ability to persuade other nations to collaborate."
Jennifer Morgan, who heads the World Resources Institute's climate and energy program, said some of the world's poorest nations are baffled by the U.S. pullback on support for climate action. They expect leadership from the U.S., one of the world's top carbon emitters, so that UNFCCC climate treaty discussions can advance, she noted.
"The history of the United States is marked by amazing scientific and technological accomplishments: developing cures for disease, creating world-class computers and exploring outer space," Morgan said via e-mail. "Given the growing threats from climate change and the opportunities of clean energy, we cannot afford to sit on the sidelines or cut funding for this issue."
Inside the Appropriations Bill
After Congress finally crashed to a clunky conclusion on the debt-ceiling debate, the House Appropriations Committee postponed its planned Aug. 3 mark-up of the 2012 budget bill that the State, Foreign Operations and Related Matters Subcommittee had passed the week before.
Environmentalists find it ironic that a House loaded with climate deniers is intent on defunding a panel that is tasked with painstakingly reviewing scientific literature to convey the latest global warming realities to a lay audience.
"We call this the 'bury our heads in the sand'" bill, NRDC's Schmidt, explained. "It's a bit weird that the reason we can't move forward with climate is because politicians say we need a global solution. And here we are cutting funding to the body that is trying to do just that."
Besides strangling funding for IPCC and UNFCCC, the appropriations bill also would choke off the flow of dollars this country has traditionally designated to help people in less-fortunate countries prepare for the potentially crippling blows global warming will have on their livelihoods. These include:
- Climate Investment Funds: The bill would eliminate money for this "family" of World Bank-managed funds that allow developing countries to invest in clean technology; scale up projects deploying solar, wind and other renewables; prevent deforestation, and develop resilience strategies.
President George W. Bush created this program as a long-term way for the United States to contribute $2 billion toward a $6.5 global project. Funding for this year stands at $375 million; President Obama has requested $590 million for 2012.
- Economic Support Fund/Development Assistance Account: At the behest of the Obama administration, climate change components are built into the pots of money that the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development use to assist poor countries with clean energy, adaptation, clean water, food security, education, agriculture, micro-financing and forest preservation.
For example, in drought-stricken regions, government authorities could help communities design water storage facilities or choose seed stock for crops that can handle dryer conditions.
Combined, Obama requested more than $10 billion for both accounts in 2012; the House wants to trim that by $2.7 billion.
- Global Environmental Facility: Industrialized nations created the GEF 20 years ago—when George H.W. Bush was president—to help poor countries with conservation-oriented projects. The bill would more than halve Obama's 2012 funding request from $143.7 million to $70 million. GEF operates global warming projects and the United States is already in arrears on its annual payments.
Before the subcommittee passed the appropriations bill, Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-Texas) referred to it as a refocused way of investing American money around the world. She didn't mention the climate change initiatives specifically, but said "this bill will assess our foreign aid based on what works and our ability to measure our success."
In an interview, Granger's spokesman Matt Leffingwell said the committee made plenty of enemies in adhering to a House leadership directive to slice 18 percent of funding across the board.
"Our first priority was national security," Leffingwell said. "With few exceptions, all accounts were victims of the current budget environment. The climate change account suffered cuts as did every other account in the bill."
Future of Mack's Amendment Unclear
While Granger's committee was slicing funding for international climate projects, Mack was trying to make even deeper cuts. The Florida representative tried to zero out the entire $1.3 billion the president requested for international climate efforts in the 2012 budget. But because his committee didn't have jurisdiction over the entire amount, he settled for chopping $650 million in funding that his committee does control.
Mack's amendment said any funds for "Global Climate Change Initiative" activities should be cut, even though no line item in the federal budget uses that specific language. Instead, those dollars are a mix of funding that the State Department, Treasury Department, GEF and World Bank direct toward climate adaptation, clean energy programs and protecting tropical forests in developing nations.
The Foreign Affairs Committee passed Mack's amendment to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act July 21 on a 23 to 20 vote. Republicans supported it and Democrats did not.
"With American businesses saddled with environmental protections already," Mack said in a post-vote news release, "other countries should do their part to improve the global climate, not just the U.S."
Senators to the Rescue?
Most of these international climate cuts are a rerun of a bill the House floated much earlier this year as Congress struggled to fund the government through September—the end of fiscal year 2011—and avoid a shutdown.
The Senate rejected the proposals then, and it's expected to reject them again.
In an email to SolveClimate News, Democratic Senator Pat Leahy of Vermont said he will continue to champion international climate initiatives.
"Some in the House seem unconcerned about" the dramatic effects of climate change, said Leahy, who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds the State Department and foreign operations. "That is not the case in the Senate, and we will do our best, constrained by a limited budget, to act on these efforts, taking seriously our responsibility to address climate change."
In an Aug. 3 Washington Post opinion piece, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts emphasized that integrating climate change into international policy is a core U.S. strategy.
"We are leading the fight against global challenges, like nuclear proliferation and climate change," said Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee wrote in the piece with the headline, Amid Budget Crisis, A Defense of Foreign Aid. "And in countless communities around the world we are providing essential humanitarian assistance.
"Why do we do this? Because it's who we are. It's in America's DNA."
While the lower and higher congressional chambers parse all of this out, DiPeso, of Republicans for Environmental Protection, reminds politicians that carbon pollutants are immune to their chatter.
"We can avert out eyes, but with climate change whatever is going to happen in the atmosphere is going to happen," he lamented. "The laws of physics don't take any notice of what is going in Congress. They're not subject to repeal or amendment."
SolveClimate News reporters Lisa Song and Stacy Feldman contributed to this report

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The iPhone Perv App Wars of 2010 is over, with Apple firing the one and only round, killing off 5,000 tata apps. But, what do you, as a consumer, feel about it?
There are two sides to the argument. You've got your one hand, which holds the fact that the market should police itself, and if people want boobies in their apps, they should go ahead and get boobies in their apps. This hand is sticky. If it turns out that people don't want it, sales will tank and developers will stay away from making so many of these. Obviously sales have been decent, if there were 5000 of these apps. And, nobody likes having a nanny tell them what they can and can't see.
But on the other hand, Apple wants to make some kind of statement here, keeping their App Store (it is their App Store, after all) clean of a certain type of sexuality. You can go to the Android Marketplace (or open up Safari) if you want the privilege of squinting at nipples, but there's none of that going on here. Having 5,000 fewer apps to sort through means getting where you're going is slightly faster, even though it's not a majority of the store or anything.
So how do you feel about this?


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(CNN) -- "The Sound of Music Live!" has become the new definition of "hate-watching."
Anyone with a Twitter account has noticed the tidal wave of tweets about NBC's TV event, which aired for three hours on Thursday night, but that can't exactly be taken as a good sign. (You know a TV show isn't going well when live tweets from DiGiorno Pizza are considered one of the best parts.)
From the moment NBC announced its live TV version of the Broadway classic, a number of "Sound of Music" fans responded with a resounding "why?!" So when the network unveiled its one-take-only "Sound of Music" on Thursday -- starring Carrie Underwood and Stephen Moyer in the untouchable roles of Maria and Captain Von Trapp -- it seems viewers were primed to tear the production to shreds from its opening note.
And shred it they did.
I admire their ambition for putting on a musical live on television, but this is a bit of a train wreck. #TheSoundOfMusicLive— Kelly Clinger (@kellyclinger) December 6, 2013
The hills are apparently NOT alive with the sound of acting lessons. #TheSoundOfMusicLive— Ash Greyson (@AshGreyson) December 6, 2013
I'm glad NBC is doing this #TheSoundOfMusicLive rehearsal. Once they get the audio levels sorted out, it'll be GREAT.— Steve Hayman (@shayman) December 6, 2013
FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY is looking better all the time. #TheSoundOfMusicLive— Alonso Duralde (@ADuralde) December 6, 2013
Folks saying the cast should get props simply bc it's live....have you never been to the theater???? #thesoundofmusiclive — LC (@LynnieKae) December 6, 2013
I cant wait til Vampire Bill gets tired of the children singing and rips one of their heads off to teach them a lesson. #TheSoundOfMusicLive— Scarlett Bordeaux (@Lady_Scarlett13) December 6, 2013
Found this on Facebook, Grumpy Cat and #thesoundofmusiclive ha! ha! pic.twitter.com/vzQJYrOKeO— mwarner95 (@mwarner95) December 6, 2013
I keep waiting for someone to say "Live from New York, it's Saturday night!" #TheSoundofMusicLive— Kevin (@itskevin) December 6, 2013
Critics have commended country star Underwood for attempting live theater without acting experience, but they haven't been able to ignore the result.
"As her multiple Grammys and her legion of country music fans will attest, the quality of Underwood's singing voice is not the problem," said USA Today's TV critic Robert Bianco. "It's that she doesn't know how to use that voice to sing in character, or what to do with her face when she's trying."
Even though it's been repeated that NBC was re-creating the stage version of "Sound of Music," rather than the beloved 1965 film starring Julie Andrews, the comparisons between the TV musical and the movie were inevitable. At one point, Underwood had to go on the record to tell her critics that she's completely aware she is not Andrews. "I would never pretend that I was," the "American Idol" champ recently told Entertainment Weekly. "I know my place."
Yet that place may not have been in such an iconic role. There are some things that are so revered in pop culture it's nearly criminal to try to re-introduce them (see: the widely reviled plan to create a sequel to "It's A Wonderful Life").
Underwood is an undeniable talent, but the singer is now facing complaints for even attempting to portray the young nun.
"When Carrie Underwood stepped out on the (wooded, not grassy) hills and started singing, I wished the hills were alive with the sound of hungry mountain lions," said Time magazine in a review. "Why wasn't she Julie Andrews? Is being Julie Andrews so much to ask for? No chic pixie cut either. Heidi braids."
The Hollywood Reporter wondered if it was "perhaps unfair to ask so much of Underwood, to have to make Maria's journey in three scant hours." And, to make matters worse, "True Blood's" Moyer -- so familiar to audiences as vampire Bill that some viewers found it difficult to see the actor as anyone else -- didn't live up to expectations, either.
"Moyer is a better singer than Russell Crowe," said THR. "But he's no Hugh Jackman. Or Neil Patrick Harris. Or Taye Diggs. Or even Nathan Fillion. His attempt at conveying an emotional hollowness just reads as mildly constipated, his furrowed eyes and pursed lips doing all the work. He doesn't look stoic, he just looks clenched."
So it wasn't a home run. But that's not to say that there weren't highlights, with Audra McDonald's spectacular performance being chief among them.
Some have emerged has defenders of the show -- the first attempt at a live TV musical production in almost 50 years -- while a few more have tweeted their hope that the intense criticism of the production won't stop NBC or other major broadcast networks from giving live theater in primetime another try.
dear @nbc please keep playing live musicals on TV we snark because we love (though next time choose real B'way actors) #TheSoundOfMusicLive— Jennifer Martin (@j3nnb0) December 6, 2013
As for Underwood, it sounds like she slept well after going off the air Thursday.
"Glory to God tonight...I couldn't be more proud," she tweeted. "What a tough thing to pull off and we did it! I am so blessed!!!"


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This week, the GeekMoms are busy being on panels, visiting geeky toy paradises, traveling to Los Angeles, talking Downton Abbey, looking forward to the end of snow days, running marathons, and writing books!
Cathe will be joining GeekDad writers on the GeekDad/GeekMom panel at the Portland Comic Con this weekend. Otherwise, Cathe is working on a couple of really geeky scarf projects and getting ready for a magical Harry Potter party.
Kris spent a couple of hours with her son in Geek paradise. That is, a warehouse full of vintage toys assembled and organized by an avid collector. Star Wars and Star Trek action figures from the 1970s; large scale comic book heroes; tin toys; train sets; and vintage Lego. Ultraman, Ironman, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Godzilla. My favorite? The box of tissue-wrapped "sales models" of Lego pieces that sales representatives carried to stores in the early days of Lego – when people didn't exactly understand the concept of a toy that came in pieces.
Ruth will be spending the weekend in LA starting with a trip to the FIDM Art of Motion Picture Costume Design exhibit, but really for the Southern California Linux Expo, including giving a talk about Raspberry Pi. If she doesn't make it to the talk, it's because she was slaughtered in the Weakest Geek game.
Amy is nearly caught up from Toy Fair, and she is giving away the Toy Fair-exclusive Skylander, Chop Chop, on her blog. Stop by to win!
Rachel has enjoyed spending an extended vacation with her son, but two weeks off from school in the middle of February is just too much. Even he's looking forward to going back next week. Unfortunately, those plans may be thwarted by yet another New England storm. Yikes!
Ariane bought her tickets to San Diego Comic-Con! That's one positive thing in a week otherwise filled with viruses and endless stacks of tissues. See you soon, San Diego!
Melissa spent her week discussing Downton Abbey and decorating the walls of her house with poems.
This weekend Patricia and her family are once again heading down to Walt Disney World for the 5th Annual Disney Princess Half Marathon! Her husband has just been cleared to run again after nearly a year of medical restrictions, so the family is looking forward to running the Royal Family 5K together, their first race all together! They also look forward to seeing their friends from the east coast of Florida, fellow Star Wars fans who first introduced her to the GeekMom blog 2 1/2 years ago. In other news, baseball has started for her sons, so she must now be a taxi – a red clay dirt-filled taxi – for 5-6 days a week to the local ball fields. It was nice knowing you.
Laura is finishing a book proposal, tending a spouse who's recovering from surgery, and mulling over a pink hair decision. But her main focus is getting tickets to Book of Mormon which is heading her way this summer.
Corrina has been working on her next fiction book, entertaining the youngest daughter who is on winter break from school, and busy promoting her first published novel, Dinah of Seneca, as the ebook price just dropped to $2.99. Next up: birthday cake baking for the husband.
Natania isn't 100% sure what month, day, year, or week it is. Things have been that hectic. First she got stuck in New York during Nemo. Add to that a puppy (who's adorable, but a handful–or three), a sick baby, a husband who threw out his back (picking up said puppy), an impending move, and job transitions... she's doing quite the balancing act. But she did find time to "reward" the GeekMoms this week with a serenade on the ukulele. Y'know. Priorities. Oh, and she's hitting the home stretch on her novel. So there is that, too!


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Evictions are rippling through San Francisco. Tensions are high. Tech workers with gobs of cash are driving up the rental market in what may be the newest tech bubble — or the city's new reality. Protesters took to the street earlier this week, blocking a Google bus to draw attention to gentrification, and our video of a union organizer posing as a Google employee shouting down those protesters lit up the Internet.
In the wake of that national spotlight on San Francisco's outrage, the Bay Guardian decided to talk to the bus-riding techies themselves and ask how they felt about the new tech revolution. Are they at fault for displacing long time San Franciscans? What did they make of Monday's outrage?
We returned to the scene of the protest, 24th and Valencia streets, where workers from Yahoo, Genentech, Google, and others line up at Muni stops to be whisked away in mammoth private buses. Most had hands in their pockets, turning away when asked questions. Others decided to talk, but none would go on the record with their names.
"We're very aware of the sentiment in the city against us," one tech worker with grey hair and glasses told us. "But hopefully this (protest) leads to a positive conversation."
He said that the envy was understandable. Public transit in the city "isn't the best," he said, but pointing to any one company to be at fault isn't productive.
"Our economy lacks upward mobility, and the haves and have-nots are divided all over the country," he said, not just in San Francisco.
But some of the techies themselves are "have nots," as one tech worker, a middle-aged Java programmer sitting in Muddy Waters cafe, could attest to. As we watched the tech buses ride by, he told the Guardian he's been out of work for a few months now. He used to work for a computer sketch software company called Balsamiq.
He's lived in the city for 22 years. When he first moved into town, he lucked into renting a room for $175 a month. Now his rent is much, much higher, though he wouldn't say by how much.
This is not the viral video of the staged argument, but from the same day. A protester enters the Google bus, and a bus rider shouts her out.
"I'm sympathetic," he said, of the discord on rising rents. "But getting rid of tech isn't the solution." He pointed to a need for more affordable housing.
A blonde haired Apple employee told us that although he makes more money than the average San Franciscan, he can't afford to buy a home here. He's lived in the city three years, and worked at Apple for four. He took a balanced view of the protest, saying the stunt started a national look at inequality.
"It's keeping (the conversation) at the front and center. You could argue it's not fair to target one company, but I see both sides," he said.
Tech should do its part to pay its fair share, the 19-year cafe owner of Muddy Waters said. Hisham Massarweh said he likes the tech folk, who are great for business. But the transit issue needs to be worked out, he said. He once got a $250 ticket for parking in the same bus stop outside his store that the tech buses park in every day — ticket and permit free.
Across the street, Jordan Reznick, a PhD student and teacher at California College of the Arts, said she's seen many of her friends displaced. "I feel a lot of animosity towards Google and Google workers," she said, as we sat just behind a line of Google employees waiting for their bus.
"I live in a small place with a family of four," she told us, as it's the best she could find in this market.
As she ran off to catch her ride to work, the Guardian approached a man who sat waiting for the same Google bus that was protested earlier in the week.
"San Francisco doesn't have its shit together," he said. The protest was about housing, but San Francisco needs to address that fast. And as for the Google buses, there's no framework for Google to pay the city, yet. "If they could (pay) they would, going forward I'm sure they will."
We asked him point blank if he felt guilty watching longtime San Franciscans lose their homes.
He took a drag of his cigarette, looked me in the eye, and said, "Every day. I love San Francisco with all my heart, and I feel tremendously guilty. Every day."
As the bus pulled up he hopped on and headed to Mountain View.


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The Other Crucial Civil Rights Case the Supreme Court Will Be Ruling on
The Other Crucial Civil Rights Case the Supreme Court Will Be Ruling on - ProPublica
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples.
But it's not the only significant civil rights case the Court has decided to take up this term.
Last month, the Supreme Court said it will consider the constitutionality of a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the hallmark legislation from the Civil Rights era that has come under increased challenge.
The cornerstone provision is known as Section 5, which holds some states accountable to get federal clearance before making any changes to their voting laws.
Many think the Court's decision to hear the case, announced just three days after the election, spells doom for the cornerstone provision. But whatever the justices' decision, the case may end up, as the influential SCOTUSBlog put it, "as one of the most significant rulings of the current Term."
Oral arguments in the case, Shelby County v. Holder, are set for next year, with a decision expected by June. Let's take a step back and see why this case is so consequential:
What's Section 5 again?
As we've explained before, Section 5 requires nine mostly Southern states — Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alaska, Virginia, Texas and Arizona — and areas of seven others to preclear any change to a voting law or procedure with the federal government.
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Discussion in 'Electric Instruments' started by MojoPin, Oct 3, 2012.
Very cool, congrats abw1987
Thank you sir. Yes, I find the finish to be quite gorgeous.
I plugged in my Mesa Boogie F-50 today and gave the guitar a whirl. Overall it sounds pretty good. Definitely night as bright/crisp as the USA Tremonti pickups that I put in my original Tremonti SE, but it sounds fairly clean, warm and well-rounded. My amp might need new tubes though... hahaha.
Isn't apartment living great for us guitar players? Haha. Actually, I just hadn't plugged the amps in out of laziness and lack of power outlets in the room. I can't wait to buy a house with a basement though.
Glad it sounds great!
No guitar, dealer has a call or email into PRS.
Got mine in today guys, check out my NGD post. CoreyT, thought it was interesting that mine shipped with a hole in the cardboard box like something had punctured it. Luckily the guitar was fine though.
Nice Bret, just posted.
Glad only your box got punctured.
My dealer just called me, and something is up once again.
We were told my third guitar shipped on Monday the 12th, but he just got the invoice in the mail today that was dated the 19th, and the invoices usually go out the day the guitars are shipped.
So if my guitar did not ship on the 12th, and shipped this past Monday, now we are looking at not getting it in until Wednesday of next week or so on account of the holiday.
If it does not land this Friday, then he is right about it not shipping until the 19th.
This is getting so frustrating, and he requested if they could ship this third one by air too since I have been waiting since the 5th of October for mine.
No one got back to him today either, and he has a few emails in trying to track this down.
Needless to say, this is my last PRS guitar I am going to buy that has to be shipped.
So I hope he gets some nice maple top 408s in later, as I cannot go through this bad shipping ordeal crap again.
It is either a 408, or a new Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus that is coming in 2013.
Grover tuners, split coil/phase inversion pull taps on the volume tone controls, slim/thin 60s profile neck like I have on my 2012 '61 SG Reissue.
Very nice Les Paul.
Sweetwater has no info on them yet for 2013, but the good chaps in the UK from Andertons has them up on their website.
I would go for the tea burst color.
Ordering from Sweetwater on a Monday would guarantee I would have it by Friday or Saturday.
Oh man Corey, that really sucks. Really frustrating. Hopefully the wait won't be too much longer now, since it has officially shipped.
I would be going crazy Corey. I sure hope this one shows up next week and unscathed.
Thanks guy's.
My dealer already offered a discount off of it too since it is taking so long.
Not sure why his rep has not got back to him on this yet.
It is very frustrating for him too since he has no idea where it is without being able to track it.
Same boat. My dealer hasn't heard back from his rep either, so...hopefully next week. Sucks because I have mine en route to my job that I just put my two weeks in at. So...here's hoping.
Here is hoping yours come in very soon.
I think my dealer was right, they never shipped mine on the 12th like his rep lady told him it did.
It shipped more than likely this past Monday on the 19th, the day the bill for him was created and mailed out.
If that is the case, it should land mid week here.
If Amy said it shipped...It shipped. The invoice date and the guitar ship date are way different....I've seen guitars show and the invoice not show for a month...and I've seen the exact oposite.
Something is off then.
The second one was shipped on the 31st of October, and it arrived (broken by UPS though) 8 days later on November the 8th.
If my third one was sent on Monday November the 12th, it has been 12 days now.
Surely it should have shown yesterday on a shipping day of 11 days.
The only way to know for sure when it was shipped is if my dealer had the tracking number which he is not privy to.
Sounds like you work in the shipping department there.
No I don't, but I know Amy and she's a friend and has been a HUGE help for me. She's a straight shooter and if she could do anything to help she would. There are lots of things that factor in...It takes 8+ days for a guitar to get from Stevensville to WA. State. I'd like to know what dealer you're working with....
I will PM you the info.
I think maybe the shipping department had an off week, myself. My dealer ordered a replacement for me on 11/9/12. He's in Boston, I'm in Northern Virginia. 2 days transit between each stop. So, even if it took a few days to process the order and ship, he'd have it two days later (I know from experience, this isn't my first order ).
Well, as of yesterday, still no SE Tremonti Custom. Also, no reply to him or his store from their PRS rep. So...either PRS ran out of guitars (which, maybe that's the case, if so it sucks) or there was a glitch in the shipping department. My dealer had expected the replacement within a week, and two weeks later no luck. I'm patient to a degree, it's just that the guitar is shipping to my work and I just handed in my two week's notice...so I don't want it arriving there after I'm gone.
If mine does not show up this week my patience will be at and end, and it will be time for a refund.
There are other guitars out there.
So I've been playing this guitar for about a week now, and I'm discovering that the tuning is quite unstable. As with any new set of strings, I would expect it to take a little while before the strings stretch out and settle into their tuning. But it's been a week, and whenever I so much as touch the whammy bar, the strings go out of tune.
Is it possible that I've set something up incorrectly? Or is this just the nature of tremolo systems on relatively inexpensive guitars? I know you can't really ensure tuning stability unless you go with a full Floyd Rose system, but I had no idea it would be this bad.
Other than that I'm very happy with the guitar. The neck plays really well, it looks beautiful, and it just feels much higher quality than any other SE I've used.
It sounds like the strings are pinching in the nut. Without detuning the guitar, pull each string up and out of the nut slot. The string should exit the slot smoothly without binding or pinching. Widening the slots with nut slot files, exacto or sand paper should solve the problem and will need to be done especially if the string gauge has been changed.
If you're local to your dealer, they may be able to assist you. If not, we can alsways arrange to have teh guitar sent back to the factory for a full evaluation.
Thanks for the response! I'll have to check on that when I get home on Thursday.
I was researching the possibility of swapping in a bone nut, and saw your post here that mentions SE nuts being set up for 9-42s. I use 10-52s, so it sounds like I will likely need to widen the slots.
Keep in mind that even "pre-cut" nuts are not drop in replacements, they will all need to be fine tuned to fit your guitar and set up. It's a lot easier to just work with what you have , then it is to replace the entire nut and start from scratch.


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Vector-borne diseases (primarily carried by arthropod or small mammal "vectors") and waterborne diarrheal diseases represent a large proportion of infectious diseases, which are the world's leading cause of fatalities. Projected changes in climate almost certainly would make conditions less suitable for the transmission of several vector-borne diseases (e.g., plague and some forms of encephalomyelitis) in much of their current North American range. Other diseases (e.g., Saint Louis encephalitis and western equine encephalomyelitis) might extend their range northward or exhibit more frequent outbreaks. The crucial factor is the availability of appropriate habitats for vectors and (in the case of zoonotic diseases) vertebrate "maintenance" hosts. Although projected changes in climate might provide opportunities for diseases to extend their range, the North American health infrastructure may prevent a large increase in disease cases; providing this protection, however, could increase the demands on and costs of the current public health system.
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Malaria: Climatic factors, which increase the inoculation rate of Plasmodium pathogens and the breeding activity of Anopheles mosquitoes, are considered the most important factors contributing to epidemic outbreaks of malaria in nonendemic areas. A temperature relationship for sporadic autochthonous malaria transmission in the temperate United States has been observed in New York and New Jersey during the 1990s (Layton et al., 1995; Zucker, 1996). Common to these two outbreaks was exceptionally hot and humid weather, which reduced the development time of malaria sporozoites enough to render these northern anopheline mosquitoes infectious. Such temperature sensitivity of parasite development also has been observed in the laboratory (Noden et al., 1995).
Martens et al. (1995) estimated that an increase in global mean temperature of several degrees by the year 2100 would increase the vectorial capacity of mosquito populations 100-fold in temperate countries. In these countries, however, continued and increased application of control measures-such as disease surveillance and prompt treatment of cases-probably would counteract any increase in vectorial capacity. Similarly, Duncan (1996) showed that projected increases in mean daily temperatures may allow for the development of malaria in Toronto. It was not suggested, however, that climate alone would permit the spread of malaria because many other factors must be considered.
Malaria once prevailed throughout the American colonies and southern Canada (Russell, 1968; Bruce-Chwatt, 1988). By the middle of the 19th century, malaria extended as far north as 50�N latitude. In Canada, malaria disappeared at the end of the 19th century (Bruce-Chwatt, 1988; Haworth, 1988). Serious malaria control measures were first undertaken in the southern United States in 1912 (Bruce-Chwatt, 1988). By 1930, malaria had disappeared from the northern and western United States and generally caused fewer than 25 deaths per 100,000 people in the South (Meade et al., 1988). In 1970, the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Malaria recommended that the United States be included in the WHO official register of areas where malaria had been eradicated. The history of malaria in North America reinforces the suggestion that although increased temperatures may lead to conditions suitable for the reintroduction of malaria to North America, socioeconomic factors such as public health facilities will play a large role in determining the existence or extent of such infections.
Arboviruses: Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) periodically have occurred in Texas, following outbreaks in Mexico, during the past two decades (Gubler and Trent, 1994; PAHO, 1994). Because of the sensitivity of dengue to climate, especially ambient temperature, it has been suggested that this disease may increase in the United States if a sustained warming trend occurs. However, due to high living standards, this disease is not likely to increase in incidence or geographic distribution in the United States, even if there is a sustained warming trend. Dengue viruses occur predominantly in the tropics, between 30�N and 20�S latitude (Trent et al., 1983); freezing kills the eggs, larvae, and adults of Aedis aegypte, the most important vector (Chandler, 1945; Shope, 1991). It should be noted, however, that the eggs of Ac. Alhopictus, also a vector, are not killed by freezing.
Jetten and Focks (1997) analyzed the impact of a 2�C and a 4�C temperature
rise on the epidemic potential for dengue, including the impacts for cities
in temperate areas (Figure 8-11). Their analysis shows
that areas adjacent in latitude or elevation to current endemic zones may become
more receptive to viral introductions and enhanced transmission. Furthermore,
their study shows that the proportion of the year when transmission can occur
in North America could significantly increase under warming scenarios.
|Figure 8-11: Weeks of potential dengue transmission under current temperature and 2�C and 4�C warming (adapted from Focks et al., 1995; Jetten and Focks, 1997). Presence of dengue virus, mosquito vector, and exposed human populations are required for disease transmission.
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The Mering Stream, or Glanhír in Sindarin, was the border river between Rohan and Gondor.
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The Mering Stream formed the border between the realms of Gondor and Rohan, together with the White Mountains and the Mouths of the Entwash.[1] West of the Mering Stream lay the Eastfold, and to its east lay Anórien. The Mering Stream flowed through Firienholt, which grew about the mountain Halifirien, last of the Warning beacons of Gondor.[2]
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- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 773
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", note 46
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Talk:ACPI Wakeup
Does this only work on x86_64?
Works fine on X86_32 for me --Benjsc 12:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
It works on 32 bit as well. If you miss /proc/acpi/alarm then it seems that this dissapears if you run smp.
Does anyone have experience with the Via EPIA boards? I'm not able to get it working and thus still use nvram-wakeup...
How do I use ACPI wakeups with MythWelcome? The instructions for it are all for using it with nvram-wakeup. --Turpie 11:09, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2838 Looks like capability for ACPI with MythWelcome is coming. Hopefully we'll see an update to the WIKI once 0.21 comes out or sooner if someone with svn version gets ambitious.
2.6.22 Kernels
I just updated my fedora 7 kernel and apparently the 2.6.22 linux kernel removes the /proc/acpi/alarm feature, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/22/320 does anyone know the new method for these new kernels? --Vossman 06:18, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
There is no documentation, only some hidden description in the git commit that introduced this feature. So I wrote some short documentation, but it isn't included in the source tree yet, AFAIK.
It can be found here:
There is also a message in the mythtv mailing list here:
I found a note here that says: "Also it seems, that /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm only accepts times more than 2h in the future." If you are having problems this might be it.
--Vossman 07:25, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I am having the same issue as this guy here [1] I have no trouble getting the value into the /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm that is all fine and dandy. But my machine does not wake up when I set this value. I use Fedora 7 and /proc/acpi/alarm worked great before. I am thinking of reporting this to bugzilla.kernel.org and bugzilla.redhat.com if other people are experiencing this post a comment. --Vossman 16:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I finally got wakeup working with the 2.6.26 kernel after applying the patch found here. Steps to test:
# echo "+300" > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm # cat /proc/driver/rtc
The output should look like this:
rtc_time : 18:14:34 rtc_date : 2009-02-22 alrm_time : 18:19:32 alrm_date : 2009-02-22 alarm_IRQ : yes alrm_pending : no 24hr : yes periodic_IRQ : no update_IRQ : no HPET_emulated : no DST_enable : no periodic_freq : 1024 batt_status : okay
Make sure that alrm_IRQ is set to yes. After that, turn off your computer. It should come back on in about 5 mins (300 seconds).
I'm using an Intel D865PERL motherboard.
--Kroylar 02:16, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Fedora Core 6 kernel 22.214.171.124 vs kernel 188.8.131.52
I have a backend running FC6 (kernel 184.108.40.206-49.fc6) that shuts down and wakes up just fine using the script mentioned in the article. However, after upgrading to kernel 22.214.171.124-61.fc6, it no longer works. I figured out (thanks to the comment in the article) that a new wakeup mechanism is in place for the new kernel, namely /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup. I tried using that, but all I get when I try to echo anything into it (as root) is "invalid argument". Even resetting fails (echo 0 > /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup). As of writing, this article is the *only* place that mentions this path in google's index. I've reverted to the 188.8.131.52 kernel which still works great, using mythtv-0.20.2-167.fc6. Judaz 19:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
This is in response to Judaz's post above. /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm has NOT been moved to /sys/class/misc/rtc/power/wakeup. The documentation provided with the kernel source explains that the wakeup file is a way to query/set whether a device in the system can wakeup. Here's an excerpt from the 18.104.22.168 kernel source documentation that describes the power/wakeup files in sysfs (found in Documentation/power/devices.txt):
/sys/devices/.../power/wakeup files ----------------------------------- All devices in the driver model have two flags to control handling of wakeup events, which are hardware signals that can force the device and/or system out of a low power state. These are initialized by bus or device driver code using device_init_wakeup(dev,can_wakeup). The "can_wakeup" flag just records whether the device (and its driver) can physically support wakeup events. When that flag is clear, the sysfs "wakeup" file is empty, and device_may_wakeup() returns false. For devices that can issue wakeup events, a separate flag controls whether that device should try to use its wakeup mechanism. The initial value of device_may_wakeup() will be true, so that the device's "wakeup" file holds the value "enabled". Userspace can change that to "disabled" so that device_may_wakeup() returns false; or change it back to "enabled" (so that it returns true again).
The wakealarm file should still reside in /sys/class/rtc/rtcN. If that directory does not exist on your system, it means the kernel was compiled without support for /sys/class/rtc/rtcN. If you're building your own kernel, you can enable it in "make menuconfig" via the following:
Device Drivers -> Real Time Clock -> /sys/class/rtc/rtcN (sysfs)
If you're using prebuilt kernel packages and /sys/class/rtc doesn't exist, complain to your distro maintainer. Hope this saves someone else the headache it's put me through! --Ebenblues 22:19, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
strage stript for the wakealarm feature in new kernels
The script is somewhat strange in some parts.
#!/bin/sh # $1 is the --settime switch that nvram-wakeup normally expects # $2 is the date/time in seconds since 1970 DATE=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%F %H:%M:%S" -u` SECS=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%s" -u`
Why is the argument $2, which is seconds since epoch, converted into seconds since epoch? I think that part can be scratched. Just echo $2 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm should do fine (at least it does for me)
# Save the wakeup time echo "$*" > /myth.wakeup.args echo $DATE > /myth.wakeup.time echo $SECS > /myth.wakeup.secs
Why are files written into the root directory? Just scratching the "> /myth.wakeup.args" should be fine, as the echo output can be seen in the backend log then.
I got this to work in 2.6.24
I'm running Fedora 8, kernel 18.104.22.168-92, and this works. Note that I had to first use the FC6 fix located on this page.
If I run these commands, my pc will wake up in 5 minutes.
su chmod ugo+rwx /proc/acpi/alarm echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm halt -p
Note that if I use shutdown -h now, or /etc/init.d/halt start, or something else, it DOES NOT work. Only halt -p!
Also, I did not have a /sys/class/rtc folder, but I did have a /proc/rtc file. No /proc/rtc0 either.
Rlbond86 23:14, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Disable or Enable in BIOS?
The page says wake from RTC alarm (or the like) should be disabled. This seems wrong, and on my motherboard at least I had to enable the setting.
Shane kerr 19:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- On most motherboards, you need to disable it in BIOS, because you want to program the RTC from the OS. There used to be notes about almost all motherboards needing to disable it. But if your motherboard is an exception, you should probably add a note to the wiki about some motherboards needing it enabled. BTW, have you tried disabling it to make sure you need it enabled? --Per Olofsson 20:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I would like to split ACPI Wakeup into two different pages
Hi -- I'm a newb to editing the MythTV Wiki. I would like to split the "ACPI Wakeup" page into two pages: one for /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm (kernel 2.6.22 and later) and one for /proc/acpi/alarm (kernel 2.6.21 and earlier). I found the two different methods on the same page to be somewhat confusing.
Any comments and/or suggestions for what to name the pages? I'm thinking I would keep the "ACPI Wakeup" name for /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm and maybe "ACPI Wakeup (kernel 2.6.21 and earlier)" for the /proc/acpi/alarm page?
--- I think it would be better to keep them together as the differences aren't that big. It would be better to reorganise the info to combine the settings where they are the same and only keep the differences in the separate sections. I agree that the sections could be more clearly separated but you don't want to have to maintain two pages, especially when there are so many similarities.--Turpie 01:49, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


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