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SeniorNet helps over-50 adults learn tech
In a small, boxy classroom, 13 students split up into two groups, each of which is huddled around a laptop at opposite ends of the space in Huntington.
Instructor Jeri Usbay, who was teaching a class on using the social networking site Facebook, asked for their patience as she fiddled with the settings of one laptop. Suddenly, a xylophone-like melody filled the room.
After the group on the other side of the room hit a button on their screen that said "answer call," the students broke into smiles as they saw their counterparts through the screen. For many in the group of over-50 adults in the room, it was their first experience with video chatting.
One man moved his face closer to the screen and waved at it, commenting that he could use it to talk to his granddaughter.
Usbay, 59, said moments like those are one of the reasons she loves teaching seniors how to use Facebook.
"The smiles I see when someone discovers an old friend or finds new pictures of grandchildren is priceless," she said.
Usbay's Facebook classes are just one set of options for students at SeniorNet, a national nonprofit with a branch run in the Family Service League building in Huntington. The organization also offers classes in computer basics, word processing, photo editing, Microsoft Excel and more. To participate, seniors pay $40 a year to become members and $10 per course, each of which typically meets once a week for four to eight weeks.
SeniorNet also offers free seminars at libraries in Babylon, Greenlawn, Hauppauge, Holbrook and Northport, and brings its mobile learning center to Paumanok Village affordable senior housing in Greenlawn and the Northport VA Medical Center.
Teaching the courses is a dedicated group of volunteers: instructors who lead the classes and coaches who sit in on each class to help students who might fall behind.
Behind the scenes are others: an executive committee that includes directors Slava Vero and Bill Baker, plus other volunteers who keep the books, schedule the classes, register participants and help publicize the organization.
"Everyone here is a volunteer, so everyone wants to be here," said Vero, 79, of Northport. "We are like a family."
Learning about computers
In March 1999, a group of volunteers at the Family Service League identified the need for technology education for seniors. Through research, they discovered SeniorNet and decided to sponsor a branch. Vero and 39 other volunteers got the organization off the ground and opened the SeniorNet classroom that August.
At the time, society was quickly coming to rely on computers, Vero said. Participants were eager to learn the basics, including how to turn on the device.
"In the '90s, people would be so excited about email because they could email their children," Vero added.
The organization has evolved with the times. Basic classes are still offered, but the course selection has grown to include not only Facebook but lessons in using Skype and digital cameras.
SeniorNet is still entirely run by volunteers, which now total more than 140, including high school students in the summer. Classes for SeniorNet members are offered at the Huntington classroom, and the organization also runs a remote learning program with technology that allows instructors to access students' computers from home, and also teaches classes at an East Yaphank annex.
There is another SeniorNet operation based in Hempstead that is part of the national organization but is not affiliated with the Family Service League.
SeniorNet at Family Service League has received support from Suffolk County and the Town of Huntington and has been awarded numerous national grants. Through a joint venture with National Grid Foundation, SeniorNet volunteers also refurbish computers to distribute to the needy.
Over the years, the support has enabled SeniorNet to teach about 11,000 students in its classroom alone.
"Our mission is to teach seniors computer skills and bring them into the 21st century," Vero said. "Our world is no longer you write a letter or a note; you have to know these things."
Helps with healing
Nina Saporito, 64, of Huntington, thinks it was divine intervention that brought her and SeniorNet together in 2007.
She received the group's brochure in the mail shortly after her husband had died unexpectedly from a heart attack. Though she was still grieving, Saporito thought it would be good to get out, so she signed up for four courses at once, bringing her to the center four days a week for the next eight weeks.
After completing courses in word processing, graphics, Internet and Excel, Saporito decided to become a coach and eventually advanced to become an instructor, teaching Basic Introduction to Computers 1. She also attends trade shows to spread information about SeniorNet.
As a student, Saporito said she was able to learn the skills necessary to move on with her life as a widow. Her husband, Eugene, who owned a data processing company and a rental business, had handled the bills and kept the files. After SeniorNet, Saporito was able to maintain the rental business on her own; she sold the data processing company.
On a personal level, the SeniorNet network and the feeling of accomplishment she felt as she became an instructor helped lift her out of her grief, she said.
"It's very good for my self-esteem," Saporito said. "When you're dealing with grief and everything else around you stops, you do kind of feel a little bit useless. It gave me a venue to stay in the outside world rather than secluding myself, and it was a wonderful, wonderful venue for me."
Satisfaction in teaching
Usbay, of Huntington, started volunteering for SeniorNet about three years ago after retiring from a 25-year career in the IT business. When she discovered SeniorNet, she said she felt like she was coming back home.
"Technology is there to enrich your life and make your life better," Usbay said. "But it really confuses a lot of people. I get a lot of satisfaction out of showing people how to use new technology or Facebook, just to make their lives a little better."
Technology gave Jim Brick a new lease on life.
The Huntington resident had a stroke in 2004 that left his right side paralyzed. The former theater professor, flutist, actor, poet, sculptor and printmaker had never thought much of computers, but suddenly, with half of his body "like wood," he said he found himself capable of engaging in few of the things he used to enjoy.
A couple of years into a slow recovery, Brick, 67, became acquainted with SeniorNet volunteer Mike Early. Through the group, Early was able to get Brick a refurbished computer and began teaching him some computer basics. Eventually, Brick signed up for SeniorNet's remote learning program, through which he has been able to advance his computer skills without leaving his home.
He compared learning the language of computers with traveling to a place where English is not spoken.
"Being able to navigate through that land, it's that critical," he said. "I had no knowledge to any of the things which now are central to the way we live."
He now uses the computer for personal research, email and to listen to hard-to-find Indian music, his favorite. He said SeniorNet has drastically changed his quality of life.
"I can't tell you what kind of relief it was to have something to concentrate on besides a book," Brick said.
After years of therapy, he has slowly recovered some use of his right side but still uses a wheelchair to get around.
"I have a second language that I now can speak," he added. "The fact that SeniorNet exists and that it continues to expand is great."
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Volunteers are needed in the Huntington and East Yaphank centers to serve as coaches and teachers, offer technical support and to work on various committees. A volunteer application and job descriptions can be found at seniornetli.org.
Contact: SeniorNet at Family Service League, 631-427-3700 ext. 268 or ext. 235.
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Missy Elliot, the hip hop performer and producer behind such hits as "Get Ur Freak On" and "Pass That Dutch," has just revealed that she has been battling a rare disease for the past three years.
Three years ago, according to an interview she gave with People magazine, Elliot was diagnosed with Graves' Disease, an auto-immune disorder that leads to over-activity of the thyroid gland. The thyroid controls the body's metabolism, and Graves' Disease can be debilitating.
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It is hard to understand many of the events of past centuries relating to the accounts of witchcraft, although academics propose various theories. Some believe the phenomena were delusions; some that the phenomena really occurred; some that the persecutions arose from social tensions and that people used witchcraft as an excuse to rid their communities of unwanted individuals.
What is known is that there are very strange accounts of events that members of that society took seriously, seriously enough to shed blood regardless of actual proof for the alleged crimes.
According to many records, very few, either among Christian believers or natural philosophers, spoke out against or tried to curb the hysteria and enthusiasm of those who made accusations. In some ways, the treatment of alleged witchcraft seems to be an almost unifying theme between believers and non-believers, Protestants and Roman Catholics. All believed in its existence, and all believed it should be rooted out.
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Anton Praetorius studied theology. One of his early jobs was as the principal of a Latin school in Westphalia (Germany). He married a woman named Maria, who bore him one son, Johannes. Maria died of the plague shortly after their marriage. Praetorius' next position was in Dittelsheim, where he bore the distinction of being the first Calvinist pastor to that parish. In 1597 he received the prestigious appointment of pastor to Wolfgang Ernst, the Earl of Ysenburg, Budingen and Birstein.
During his time as pastor for the Earl in his castle at Birstein, Praetorius witnessed the torture of four women accused of witchcraft. This event greatly impressed itself upon him and affected his future work.
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A court record states, "As the pastor has violently protested against the torture of women, it has therefore been stopped at this time."
But by the time the torture had been stopped, only one of the women survived. Praetorius' interference incurred the wrath of the Earl, who dismissed him from his post as pastor within a year of his arrival.
Records that exist show the brutality often used during these trials. It is hard to imagine witnessing such events. Imprisonment and torture could last for days, and it is no wonder Praetorius was moved by the condition of the women.
In the case of one mayor of the city of Bamberg, there exists both the record of his torture and confession and of a letter he wrote to his daughter explaining that his confession was falsified. He bribed one of the jailors to smuggle out the letter to his daughter. In heart wrenching language, he tells her that regardless of his protestations, his accusers will not relent in their torture. He tried to bear the torture as long as possible. When he chose to confess in hopes of ending the ordeal, they continued to torture him until they convinced him to accuse other townspeople of witchcraft as well.
After his dismissal by the Earl, Praetorius moved to a parish in Laudenbach, which was near Heidelberg. Here he wrote his book "Thorough Report about Witchcraft and Witches." When he first published the book in 1598, he wrote under the name Johannes Schulze, but when he republished it in 1602, he published it under his own name. It was published again in 1613 and posthumously in 1629. In it, he denounced the use of torture to extract confessions.
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He wrote, "In God's Word one does not find anything from torture, embarrassing cross-examines [or] confession by force and pain."
Praetorius clearly condemned witchcraft as a practice, but he was wary of the mania of witchcraft accusations. He was not driven by the hysteria surrounding him, the hysteria that had been going on and off since the early 15th century, where neighbors were quick to attribute any personal trouble or calamity to the alleged witches around them.
The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, the criminal law decreed by Charles V in 1530, was the law the courts were required to follow. Article 109 of the code stated that only witches who used magic to cause harm could be burnt, and witches who did not cause harm could not be punished by death but could be punished with other penalties. While the article limited the amount of torture that could be used in a trial, it did not do away with it. The laws were often ignored, however, in much of Germany, particularly the smaller territories. More witch hunts, persecutions and executions took place in Germany than in any other European country.
Anton thought the appropriate response to witchcraft was preaching, exhortation and prayer. He believed in the punishment of crimes, but not if those crimes could not be proven. He objected to the disparity that often occurred in the treatment of men and women when it came to punishment for witchcraft crimes. And, above all, he thought that the administration of justice should never be based on torture or hearsay. For these beliefs, he was willing to risk his worldly good and renown.
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Coffee Tree to Cup in Brazil: Part 3, The Processing
Author's note: In early June, I attended the coffee harvest in Pedregulho, Brazil, with leading specialty coffee producer Octavio Café and Dallis Coffee, the highly respected New York coffee roaster Octavio recently acquired. Down at Octavio's Nossa Senhora Aparecida farm, I leaned how coffee goes from the plant to your French press—as millions of coffee trees are picked, sifted, seeded, dried, roasted, and brewed into the coffee that wakes you up every morning. Here's Phase 3: turning the fruit into beans. —CJ
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Step out of a car at Octavio's processing plant and you're instantly hit with the smell: toasty, warm, nutty, like a peach pit drying in the Georgia sun.
It's the smell of coffee beans—themselves, of course, fruit seeds, spread by lot in long, even rows.
But in order to get there from here...
... there's an awful lot that has to be done.
Here's Octavio's processing plant, where all the magic happens. On one end? Those dump trucks unload their mountains of rainbow-hued coffee fruit. On the other: dried black fruits, naked coffee beans, and immature green fruit, all separated out and sent in different directions.
As we saw in our look at handpicking, getting coffee cherries off the trees inevitably brings some sort of debris along for the ride; the relatively imprecise machines, of course, rip off even more unwanted material. The first step is to separate the cherries from the twigs, leaves, and dirt you don't want. The cherries are funneled onto a continually bouncing platform with holes just large enough for them to slip through; with enough jostling, they all find their way into a stream of water that carries them forward.
Next step? Separating the "mature" fruit (just ripe, and here yellow in color) from the "naturals" (black in color, already drying on the vine.) Since the black ones have already lost a good deal of moisture, they're less dense than water, and will float; the denser yellows and greens will sink. Density allows for a simple, low-tech way to separate them.
Once the naturals are separated out, the yellow and green guys go into the smasher. Think of the coffee cherries as bananas. Yellow and yellow-black fruits, softer and riper, yield to pressure far more easily than the still-hard greens; this resistence differential gives you another way to tease them apart.
After a run in the calibrated smasher, the yellow cherries are de-fruited—the extra fruit, shown above, ends up as fertilizer. Only the green-ish husked seeds remain.
The green fruits, or "immatures," are re-routed for processing, but the beans don't go into Octavio's premium coffees; they're sold off for that lower-end stuff we've already called "bus station coffee."
Only then are they spread out to dry in the winter sun of Alta Mogiana, where the daytime temperatures climb up to the seventies and rain is rare. "Pulped naturals," the seed of the yellow fruit with some residual pulp clinging to the seed, are spread in the pale rows; the "naturals," all their fruit still attached, the dark.
Here they sit for days, gradually drying in the sun; they're raked around so that moisture can't form in any one area of beans, in what Dallis VP John Moore calls "a constant battle against ferment." Spontaneous fermentation will alter the flavor of the finished coffee in a way that would render the entire lot unfit for Octavio's "specialty coffee" status.
Those few days of sunbathing? Another reason the climate of this region of Brazil is so critical to the success of each coffee harvest. If you couldn't count on daily sunshine, you couldn't use the sun's natural energy to dry out the beans.
After a tumble through these wood-fired dryers (burning 70% local eucalyptus) the coffee beans get down to about 11% moisture; they're then transfered to enormous silos in which they're held to rest for two to three months.
Finally, the coffee beans are milled to strip off an outer layer of bean skin, or "parchment"; cleaned, before they get too much closer to your coffee pot; and sorted.
The sorting is where Octavio really gets out the shiny machinery. "We've got all the toys," laughs John Moore. First, the coffee beans are sorted by size to a level of extreme precision—a uniform roast demands uniformly sized beans, so that nothing burns and nothing under-browns. But more impressive is the density table, a precisely inclined plane that isolates the high-quality hard, dense beans from any lighter defects that may have made it through.
And finally? Color is a good indicator of defective beans—if they're anything other than a pale green, something didn't go quite right. But short of picking out the bad guys by hand (and once you stare down into a 30-foot tall coffee slio you understand how impossible that would be), how do you separate by color? Infared technology. An infared sensor can identify the defects by color and pop them right out of the coffee bean stream. Yeah. Pretty cool.
Density tables? Three-day bean-raking? Infared? It may all sound like a bit much. But when you consider that all the beans in a single sack are ultimately ground in with each other, and that one bad bean could ruin a whole lot's worth of coffee—or, as we'll see later on, a producer's reputation—every wonky gadget seems worth it.
"Aren't coffee beans dark brown?" some of you may have wondered. That's only once they're roasted. Tune in tomorrow for Part IV: the roasting.


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The Co-operative has given so-called lads' mags six weeks to cover up their front pages with sealed "modesty bags" or be taken off sale in its stores.
The 4,000-outlet retailer said it was responding to concerns by its members, customers and colleagues about images of scantily-clad women on covers.
Titles such as Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo have been given a deadline of 9 September by the Co-op.
An industry body said the titles showed the "diverse interests of young men".
The Co-op, which is owned and run by its more than seven million members, introduced opaque screens for lads' magazines on some shelves earlier this month.
Steve Murrells, retail chief executive for the Co-operative Group, said: "As a community-based retailer, we have listened to the concerns of our customers and members, many of whom say they object to their children being able to see overt sexual images in our stores.
"Whilst we have tried to mitigate the likelihood of young children seeing the images with a number of measures in store, the most effective way of doing this is for these magazines to be put in individual, sealed modesty bags."
Cathryn Higgs, a policy manager at the Co-op, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the group was currently "in dialogue" with the magazine publishers.
"I've got every hope they will take what we believe is the responsible approach and put them in a bag," she said.
She added that the Co-op believed it was the first retailer in the UK to take this step but other supermarkets were probably having "similar conversations with their customers".
The Daily Sport newspaper has already agreed to comply with the Co-operative's new policy.
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Women and Equalities Minister Jo Swinson said the Co-op's move was "very welcome".
"Many parents aren't comfortable with the way sexualised imagery has become like wallpaper - everywhere from the bus stop to the corner shop," she said.
"Adults should be left to make their own decisions about what legal sexual images they look at, but the place for these is not next to the sweets at children's eye-level. I hope other retailers will follow the Co-operative's lead."
But campaign group Lose the Lads' Mags said the Co-op was not going far enough.
Spokeswoman Sophie Bennett said: "The so-called 'modesty bags' they are demanding from publishers are designed to allow the Co-operative to continue profiting from sexist, harmful lads' mags - but just a bit more discreetly."
Fellow campaigner Kat Banyard added: "Lads' mags are deeply harmful.
"By portraying women as dehumanised sex objects, they send out the message that it's normal and acceptable to treat women this way, and we know from extensive evidence that lads' mags like Nuts and Zoo fuel sexist attitudes; attitudes that underpin violence against women."
The campaign group said it had also been targeting Tesco, with one female shareholder raising the subject during the retailer's recent annual general meeting.
The Professional Publishers Association, which represents some magazine publishers, said: "Men's lifestyle magazines are mainstream titles enjoyed by a readership of millions and feature content to reflect the diverse interests of the nation's young men.
"Publishers support the guidelines on the appropriate display of men's lifestyle magazines, which have been drawn up with the National Federation of Retail Newsagents and endorsed by the Home Office."
A former editor of Front magazine, Piers Hernu, said the Co-op's decision was "very dangerous" and amounted to "censorship".
The firm had "caved in" to a "vociferous campaign from some fanatical feminists", showing itself to be "weak-willed and spineless", he argued on BBC Radio 5 live.
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The results of this study have practical implications relating to auditor defense strategies. Results indicate that when negligence is alleged on high-importance clients, audit firms should be cautious about using remedial tactics to avoid inadvertently increasing juror negligence assessments by calling attention to the firm's incentives to appease management (e.g., high audit fees). Rather, for high-importance clients, audit firms would likely benefit from procuring external firms or expert witnesses who may be perceived as more credible. Conversely, when negligence is alleged on low-importance clients, audit firms likely can reduce negligence assessments by utilizing various remedial tactics (e.g., preemptively denying prior knowledge of an undetected fraud). Lastly, results indicate that, if possible, audit firms should implement remedial tactics at the national, as opposed to local, office level.
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The findings of this study should be of interest to regulators, audit standard-setters, accounting firms, and investors because they provide a method to infer the overall quality of an auditor office location though the use of easily obtainable and publicly available information on restatements. This information can be used to identify offices where audits are more likely to be of lower quality, and to develop standards that emphasize the potential for quality-control problems in the offices of multi-location audit firms. Investors may be able to use it as one piece of additional information with which to infer something about the earnings quality of a particular company based on the history of the auditor office that performs the audit.
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How To Create A Secure Password For Your PeopleFinders Account
We've all received emails and seen Facebook posts that came from a friend's account, but were obviously sent by spammers. Password hijacking and identity theft are among the most common crimes these days
Criminals use several dirty tricks to steal your identity, and one of their favorites is to decipher passwords. Then they can log in as you, send spam, and steal your personal information.
Consumer Reports recently posted three ideas on developing secure passwords. We thought we'd pass them on to help you create hacker-proof passwords at PeopleFinders.com (or anywhere else).
Acronym Password
Using an acronym enables you to create a long password that's easy to remember, but difficult for hackers to decode. Start by making a sentence that is meaningful to you, and then take the first letter from each word. When appropriate, capitalize some letters and substitute numbers for others.
For example, we might make the sentence: PeopleFinders is home to the People Search experts. If we take the appropriate letters, our password starts off as PFihttPSe. Then we could change the letter "I" to the number "1" and the letter "e" to the number "3" and end up with PF1httPS3. That gives us a strong password … but now that we posted it here we won't actually use it.
Perfect Your PeopleFinders Pass Phrase
A pass phrase is a mixture of words, numbers and punctuation symbols. You can use this method to create passwords with complete words and enhance them with other characters. For example, you could create something like ethyl7!dog5bounce^.
Stay away from words that could be easily associated with you. If you're a well-known birdwatcher, then bird-watcher1 would not be an ideal password.
Password In A Haystack
The final tip for creating secure passwords borrows from the idea that it is impossible to find a needle in a haystack. Your goal here is to simply expand your password. After all, a larger haystack makes better cover for a needle.
Build a password in a haystack by inserting characters or numbers into the middle of a word, like p(e(o(p(l(e1s)e)a)r)c)h). The longer and more varied your characters are, the better your password strength will be.
Remembering Your PeopleFinders Password
Building an impenetrable password won't do much good if you can't remember it. Try to come up with something that you can recall easily, but others won't be able to figure out. Keep these concepts in mind when you're creating passwords for any account. They will help you stop spammers from using your name to send junk mail, and prevent criminals from stealing your identity.
If you do forget your PeopleFinders password, we are always happy to help. Send us a password request, and we'll send your password to the email address you used to create your account.
If Your Password Is Hacked
Criminals can be very sophisticated. Despite your best efforts, there is no 100% guarantee that someone won't hack into your account. If at some point you believe your PeopleFinders account was used without permission, we can help. Contact the PeopleFinders Customer Care team and give them all the information you can. We'll work with you to resolve the problem quickly.
Do you have any other tips on creating secure passwords? Leave a comment below to share your thoughts, and thank you for reading the PeopleFinders people search blog.Tags: Find People, Identity Theft, Online Safety, PeopleFinders
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Thomas Merton, original name of Father M. Louis, (born Jan. 31, 1915, Prades, France--died Dec. 10, 1968, Bangkok, Thai.), Roman Catholic monk, poet, and prolific writer on spiritual and social themes, one of the most important American Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.
Merton's early education was in England and France; after a year at the University of Cambridge, he entered Columbia University, New York City, where he earned B.A. (1938) and M.A. (1939) degrees. After teaching English at Columbia (1938-39) and at St. Bonaventure University (1939-41) near Olean, New York, he entered the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani near Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained priest in 1949.
Merton's first published works were collections of poems--Thirty Poems (1944), A Man in the Divided Sea (1946), and Figures for an Apocalypse (1948). With the publication of the autobiographical Seven Storey Mountain (1948), he gained an international reputation. His early works are strictly spiritual, but his writings of the early 1960s tend toward social criticism, and many of his later works reveal an insight into Oriental philosophy and mysticism unusual in a Westerner. He was electrocuted by a faulty wire during an international monastic convention in Thailand.
Merton's only novel, My Argument with the Gestapo, written in 1941, was published posthumously in 1969. His other writings include The Waters of Siloe (1949), a history of the Trappists; Seeds of Contemplation (1949); The Living Bread (1956), a meditation on the Eucharist; and further posthumous publications, including the collection of essays entitled Contemplation in a World of Action (1971) and The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton (1973). Seven volumes of his private journals and several volumes of his correspondence have been published.
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Hello Good People who read this blog
I am recovering from my evening out at the Forum last night in Kentish Town ( in London for anyone who might be reading this in Estonia) to see Steve Hillage and Gong.
Our little troupe of Hillage/Gong fans started our journey to the gig after lots of cups of tea and a supper of winter foods including of course our green vegetables. We trailed up the road happily like well-fed hobbits, ready to face the bright lights and commuters, but had to make a detour after a rather alarming encounter with Orcs dressed in blue accompanied by their hounds of hell.
By the time we got to The Forum , The Steve Hillage Band was already on stage, playing "Love Guitar" ,one of my favourite soppy songs. The audience didn't seem quite warmed up at that point and so we reckon we must have arrived pretty much close to the start of the proceedings.
(double-click on the photos to see them in full-screen)
Left to right
Miquette Giraudy Keyboards-Synth-Backing -Vocals-Air Guitar and fun
Steve Hillage –Genius Electric Guitarist, Vocals.
Chris Taylor (I think! at least it's him on the 2032 new album by Gong) – Drums with a zillion tempo changes
Mike Howlett-Bass-player extra-ordinaire
I know that Steve Hillage and Gong have played The Forum before in 2008, and that they have toured quite a bit in the past 18 months or so,but this is the first time I have seen the "Steve Hillage Band". The last time I saw Steve Hillage playing live in a "rock" band,must have been around 1979 or 1980 at The Hammersmith Odeon. Also to my embarrassment, I had never seen Gong live until last night. Although I know their early albums and the fantastic Japanese import "Gong Live etc." (Virgin,1977 ) back to front. If you do not have this double album, try to get one.I got mine on vinyl as a Japanese import around twenty-nine years ago now, but still love it.
Steve Hillage and Gong fans are very difficult to get rid of, as we could tell from the average age of the audience, although there was a minority of teenagers looking blissful while cuddling with their significant others.
We didn't go there to take photos or film, but we took a few pictures and short clips,like the two above . We went to have a good time in the audience, not to film, and we did have a great time, my sore feet, sore neck and sore throat (from singing and dancing along) are testimony to this, so I'll stop writing now and put up some photos and clips enshrined in a couple of comments.
After the first couple of songs, the audience were warmed up and the crowd had swelled, in fact the place was packed out. They had made an early start and this had obviously caught some by surprise. Steve Hillage and his band were on form. Occasionally Hillage seemed to lose confidence with his vocals, as many singers do as they get older, especially if they have not been singing for a decade or two. If you listen to Joni Mitchell in the sixties and now in her sixties, her voice is totally different but it's good, she has had to change her singing range and vocal style to keep it up.
In terms of guitar playing and performing, Steve Hillage is still at the top of his league. As the evening wore on, he just got better and better ( and better) playing complicated solos, with key changes, tempo changes, etc..
Here is a short clip Intro to Hurdy-Gurdy Man
He played some fast and furious guitar too and the band were great, but we were too busy dancing to film it! No doubt more footage will appear on youtube. Also Mike Howlett's excellent bass playing was mixed in a way that was not beefy enough , we wanted to hear it louder,and yet it obliterated a bit of the rest of the band's sound, not sure how! I guess that's what live music is about, it depends where you stand (and the taste and/or ability of the engineer).
The set was amazing and the crowd were ecstatic, a great lightshow too with inventive animations adding to the whole performance.
My only complaint about The Steve Hillage Band was that their set was so short. I would have been happy to see them play their first five albums from start to end and would have not got bored for a second or judged them if they had missed a few bits and improvised instead.
Personally I would have been happier to see the evening split equally between Gong and Steve Hillage.
An Interval of Rainbow Dome Musick , while we got our "healing" beer would have been ideal! ( I am joking…kind of)
However,when we saw the long set that Gong played with the same instrumentalists , we realised perhaps why Steve Hillage's set was short but quality rather than quantity. When we arrived at 7.45 pm, The Steve Hillage Band was already playing and by the time Gong had left the stage it was past 11 pm.
Miquette and Steve ( Forum 27/11/2009)
There was a long break for drinks, just as well as it seemed impossible to get served ( hence the request for Rainbow Dome Musick at this point to keep us all calm). Only two bars on the ground floor, for thousands of people, the bar we queued up at only had one person serving, although after half an hour or so ,he was joined by two others.
The mood was jolly, lots of blokes, average age 50, many still with long hair or bald.But there were also a few women of all ages and also there were young, some very young ,teenage boys occasionally with young,very young,girlfriends in tow.
There is always a new crop of hippies germinating from any background. They emerge at around the age of 13 and by 16 they are either in a band or leading some form of alternative lifestyle with individual image to boot.These budding hippies who appear from nowhere decade after decade, will always gravitate towards the music of Gong and Steve Hillage.
Gong appeared on stage at around 9.15pm. They consisted of the members of The Steve Hillage Band , plus Daevid Allen ( vocals and guitar, and much leaping around), Gilli Smyth ( Vocals, "Space Whispers", Goddess/Witch) and Theo Travis ( playing some rather excellent flute and sax).
Gong at The Forum 27/11/2009 ( minus Miquette)
We couldn't help but notice that Gilli seemed older than the kind of woman you'd expect onstage with a rock band.We have been conditioned to expect only young people onstage doing weird rock music, especially when it comes to women in a non-acoustic band.We are super-conditioned that only certain types of sexualised young women or alternatively young teenage rebel girls who shave their heads or dye it some extreme colour, will be there. But I believe in breaking boundaries, most of the best classic bands are older, too old to rock and roll and too young to die? No! Get on stage, I say!
According to Wikipedia, Gilli Smyth, is 76 years old and used to be in academia, lecturing at the Sorbonne before deciding to do something all the more intellectual by forming Gong with her partner Daevid Allen.
Here is Gilli being a Witch on stage along to a free-form jazz jam from other members of Gong.
The Witch's Song Performed at The Forum 27/11/2009 originally released 1973 on "Radio Gnome Invisible.Part One"
Daevid Allen is 71. But he bounces around the stage like a kangaroo on acid (and speed). Daevid has such a stage presence that I can't help but wonder what on earth he would do if he didn't go on stage and dispel that energy. He is a jester with apparently boundless tigger-like energy. He definitely needs a stage to bounce on!
Gong- You Can't Kill Me
Unfortunately the camera ran out of memory before being able to film Daevid in his special silver-white silk catsuit, embellished by CDs, or his "No one Knows I'm a Lesbian" T-Shirt, or when he chased Miquette around the stage, or was she chasing him, either way his energy was impressive.
Daevid Allen at The Forum 27/11/2009
There were times when Gong shouted and repeated the same line over like a cross between a sergeant major barking orders and the rat-rat-rat of a self-loading machine gun, which reminded me of war , riots and abrupt change. At other times, Gong intoned half-sung and half-spoken poems with themes of the collective unconscious and mythical archetypes in a free-from jazz jam, then planting a strong melodic chorus , wherever and whenever it seemed the least expected. There were times when the music became ultra-psychedelic, the same repeated riff and beat, getting faster and louder with glissando guitars and excessive strobes, it went on in a cyclic fashion until it induced the brain into resistance or acceptance. I could not help but close my eyes to take it in. I felt like I was at some spiritual ceremony and that certain harmonious energies were being purposefully raised. I was pelted with rays of white light and the sound of repeated musical mantras ,until I felt transported from the middle of winter, to a bright dance tent at some summer festival. People didn't dance as much as they would in a dance tent though, but then we are older and we were tired by the end of the evening.
However there seemed to be some incredibly strong positive force present within the music. ..and I couldn't help but notice that at the end of the evening, after a long encore and a very long gig, Daevid Allen seemed to do a little ceremony to seal off each one of his chakra points, starting at his head and working his way down before leaving the stage.
Aha! I thought to myself , that's where Daevid gets his energy from: rituals and chakras!
I am somewhat cynical about anything too religious, but they must be getting their energy from somewhere!
Love and Peace ( off to do yoga,meditation and find my chakras now!)
p.s. for more of a spiritual explanation click on Pete's comment on the upper part of the left hand column of this blog or follow this link to hear Daevid Allen's spiritual vision for Gong( thanks again Pete).
new readers to this blog might be interested in this entry as well…
Steve Hillage always looking to the future: Part one from Hyde Park to Solfest


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5/4/09 - 5/9/09
* Met with Doub Obletz regarding Rose Quarter proposals
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* Reception for Archbishop Desmond Tutu at University of Portland, where I chatted with various co-attended. The Archbishop didn't come to the event, but he spoke at the lecture following on Reconciliation, and it was an experience I shall never forget. A truly great and blessed man.
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* Monthly lunch with bureau directors
* Meeting with Portland's representatives on the Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission
* Meeting with representatives of Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Dr. Michael Gaeta, Anne Naito-Campbell, Judy Carroll
* Meeting with City of Portland employees Working Mothers group
* Visited with East Portland Neighborhoods district leaders in Hazelwood
* Meeting with BES Watershed Services Group
* Returned phone call from Beth Slovic, Willamette Week
* City Council sessions Wednesday morning
* Met with Mark Bello, President of City Of Portland Professional Employees Association (COPPEA), and with Matt Farley, City Attorney's office. Resolved union grievance filed last June, before arbitration hearing that had been scheduled for Friday, to the satisfaction of Anna Kanwit, Deputy Director of Human Resources.
* Called legislators (left message for House Speaker Mary Nolan, spoke with Representatives Jules Kopel-Bailey and Mitch Greenlick), regarding funding health care insurance per the Healthy Kids initiative. Still working on it.
* Attended last half hour of Human Rights Commission meeting, to celebrate the Mayors Proposed Budget and invite participation in discussions of Street Access For All/Sidewalk Obstructions process.
* Spoke with Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff Cogan regarding kids health care and rental car taxes. Commissioner Cogan chairs the Human Rights Commission.
* Spoke with Martin Gonzales, Portland Public Schools Board Director, after the Human Rights Commission, regarding us both being newly-serving in our roles.
* Met with David Olson and Mary-Beth Henry regarding Wireless Facilities in the Right-of-way upcoming hearing, fees, and upcoming audit report publication.
* Dress for Success Auction, spoke with Ray Miles regarding Private for Hire transportaton proposals (she works for Broadway Cab and happened to attend the event)
* Marched in St Johns Parade, spoke with Metro Councilor Rex Burkholder regarding their Solid Waste Neighborhood Cleanup program.
* Cut the ribbon at SCRAP's Grand Opening Gala (School and Community Reuse Action Project).
* Rose Haven women's shelter fundraiser
I was out of town on Friday, helping my daughter decide where she wants to go to college in the fall.
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Or is it the dorkiest? However you want to label it, the ability to play Infocom text adventures like Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with a typewriter is without a doubt neat.
This is Automatypewriter, a "new way to experience interactive fiction," according to its creator Jonathan M. Guberman. Built with custom software designed by Guberman's collaborator Jim Munroe, Automatypewriter turns an old Smith Corona electric typewriter into a game terminal, outputting text by typing automatically and interpreting text typed by players.
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Great Lakes residents clash over water levels
Brian Ramler longs for the days when his marina on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay could handle 50 boats - before water levels began dropping steadily more than a decade ago. He can accommodate fewer than half as many now and wants the government to help bring the water back.
Forget it, says Philip Lunsford, who lives on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. He recalls beach homes being washed away by high water during the mid-1980s and fears it could happen again if authorities boost the level of Lake Huron, which is connected to Lake Michigan by a 5-mile-wide straits area.
"It would be a disastrous situation," Lunsford said. "They need to keep their hands off."
In a scenario that might baffle onlookers from arid regions, people around the Great Lakes - the world's most abundant freshwater system - are fighting over water. Complaints that levels are too high or too low are longstanding, but the debate is growing louder as a warming climate raises the specter of more dramatic changes.
Now, U.S. and Canadian officials are considering an audacious and costly effort to control the freshwater seas' ups and downs in a way they never have before. A panel of scientists and engineers will release Wednesday a five-year study of options ranging from minor tinkering to a massive, $8 billion engineering project that would invite comparisons to the Panama Canal or the Hoover Dam.
The latter alternative would involve using dams or other structures to regulate flows between all five Great Lakes. It's a long shot with few supporters but by including it in their report, the experts acknowledge it could gain traction if future water fluctuations become extreme.
"In modern times, there's not been an attempt to regulate all the lakes," said John Nevin, spokesman for the study group. "This would be unprecedented."
Even a halfway measure such as slowing the flow from Lake Huron as demanded by Ramler and others on Georgian Bay would involve a swirl of technical and political challenges. The stakes are high because variations of mere inches can have big implications for the environment, tourism and shipping.
Regardless of what the governments do, rainfall, runoff from winter snowpacks and evaporation will remain the biggest influences over water levels.
"There's always expectations that artificial structures can protect you from everything," said Ted Yuzyk, Canadian chairman of the International Upper Great Lakes Study. "It's a huge lake system and ... regulation can only take you so far. It's not like turning the tap on and off whenever you want."
Still, the system isn't entirely natural. Lake Ontario's levels have been regulated for more than 50 years by the Moses-Saunders Power Dam on the St. Lawrence River.
Hydropower turbines and gates at the border town of Sault Ste. Marie control outflows from Lake Superior, which feeds Lake Huron and eventually the other Great Lakes. Adjusting the flow makes only a slight difference, but "I get calls all the time from people wanting us to do something about water levels," said Steve Rose, operations chief for the local Army Corps of Engineers office.
People clamoring for relief from low water in sprawling Georgian Bay contend the shortage results largely from dredging by the Army corps to enlarge the shipping channel in the St. Clair River, the outlet at the south end of Lake Huron. So a man-made solution is justified, they say.
"If somebody has the ability to keep the water at a decent level by putting a dam in the river or doing something else to restrict the flow, I think they should do it," said Ramler, 53, who inherited Twin Bridges Marina from his dad and has worked there from childhood.
Lake Huron presently is about a foot below its March average, said Keith Kompoltowicz, an Army corps meteorologist in Detroit. But the situation has long been worse on Georgian Bay, said Bob Duncanson, executive director of a waterfront homeowners group.
The bay, largest in the Great Lakes, has shorelines dotted with cottages and marinas, many accessible only by water. One-time bottomlands have turned into mud flats and boats have sustained propeller damage from striking barely submerged boulders. Fish have lost spawning areas.
"Many people have had to relocate docks and boathouses," Duncanson said. "Some of the channels haven't been usable for 10 years."
The study team says putting "sills" resembling underwater speed bumps in the river could help raise lake levels, but could cost up to $200 million. Environmental groups say there are cheaper options, such as removing seawalls.
But a property owners group on southern Lake Michigan sponsored a letter-writing campaign saying higher Lake Huron water levels would bring erosion and flooding in their area. An attorney threatened legal action.
"I feel some sympathy for the people in Georgian Bay, but not enough to want to raise water levels," said Marcia Wineberg, who says mid-1980s high water washed away 100 feet of shoreline between Lake Michigan and her house near St. Joseph.
Activists briefed on the new report say it makes no significant recommendations about the St. Clair River, likely meaning nothing will be decided soon.
Yuzyk, the study co-leader, said property owners and user groups should accept that fluctuating levels are nature's way and learn to deal with them.
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The Transportation Security Administration sent a letter Nov. 9 to the parent company of Rapiscan, the maker of backscatter machines, requesting information about the testing of the software to determine if there was malfeasance.
The machines use backscatter radiation to detect objects concealed beneath clothes. But after complaints from privacy groups and others that the machines produce graphic images of passenger's bodies, the government ordered the machines be outfitted with privacy software by June to replace the invasive images with more generic ones that simply show a chalk-like outline of a body.
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Rockland Ford has a wide variety of new and pre-owned Ford models for sale at our New England Ford dealership in Thomaston, ME. Visit our lot, and we'll put you in a brand-new 2020 Ford Explorer, 2019 Ford Escape, Ford Ranger, Ford Edge, EcoSport, SUV, Mustang, F-150, or any other of our reputable Ford models in stock. Once we find you a new car that has the style and quality you're looking for, we'll have you take your new or used vehicle out for a spin! If you're looking for something specific, we suggest you call before visiting our New England Ford dealership, so we can provide you with an updated list of the new cars we have in stock.
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If you're looking for a new car, truck, or SUV, why not buy a Ford? Our lot is stocked with the finest selection of Ford models, and we can't wait to get you behind the wheel of your dream car. When you visit Thomaston's Rockland Ford, our enthusiastic sales team will work with you to help meet all of your car-buying needs. We are well-versed on all different types of makes and models and are eager to show you our available options.
If you're in the market for something rough and tough, we may recommend taking a look at our fine selection of Ford F-150s. With class-leading capabilities, this F-Series has been the best-selling truck for 41 years running. The line features six different engine options and has set the standard for towing and payload capabilities. We would be happy to tell you all about our XL, XLT, STX, Lariat, or Raptor 2019 F-150 models.
We also offer Ford models for customers looking for something more compact, like a 2019 Ford Fusion, or EcoSport. These options come fully-equipped with the latest infotainment system, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality, and other tech-friendly innovations. These smaller options offer more cargo and storage space than previous models, making them perfect for any family.
Want something a little flashier? No problem! Our 2019 Ford Mustangs are the epitome of style, sport, and class. With excellent gas mileage compared to other sports cars, you can really have it all with this Ford model.
If that wasn't enough, we even carry the 2019 and 2020 Ford Explorer. Just when we thought the model couldn't get any more elite, Ford introduced the new 2020 Ford Explorer. Keep reading to learn all about this new souped-up SUV.
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Rockland Ford is proud to announce that the brand-new 2020 Ford Explorer has just pulled onto the lot! As the SUV that started it all, this model has been completely redesigned from the inside-out. Did we mention the revamp that has taken place under the hood? The Explorer totes an athletic look that's complemented by an unrivaled 400-horsepower engine, 415 lb.-ft. of torque and an average top speed of 143 mph. In addition, it now has the largest-ever twin-panel moonroof, an available 10.1-inch capacitive portrait touchscreen for hands-free driving, a 12.3-inch digital instrument customizable panel cluster, the B&O 14-speaker available sound system, maximum seating/cargo space, and more! This model is also fully equipped with confidence-driving technology called Co-Pilot360™, creating a safer drive for everyone. This feature comes standard with:
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The Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) supports the teaching, research, and community-building missions of Tulane University by collecting, preserving, and making easily accessible library and archival resources relating to the study of Louisiana.
Did you know that the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC) preserves the papers of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg letters, George Washington's letter appointing John Jay as first Chief Justice of the United State Supreme Court, and William C.C. Claiborne's commission as first territorial governor of Louisiana?
Learn about these and more LaRC holdings by visiting the online exhibit "The Treasures of Tulane: Rarities and Wonders from the Louisiana Research Collection."
On May 3, 1889, Mrs. L. Dolhonde presented to the Charles T. Howard Memorial Library a letter from Thomas Jefferson. In the more than 125 years since that initial donation, the Louisiana Research Collection has grown to encompass almost four linear miles of archival documents, books, maps, and other resources central to the study of our state. We hope this exhibit will introduce viewers to the depth of our holdings while revealing some possibly surprising international cultural treasures.
Our exhibit begins with Colonial documents from William Penn, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others. We then highlight our renowned Civil War collection, followed by Louisiana arts and literature featuring materials from Mark Twain, John Kennedy Toole, and William Faulkner. The exhibit then moves on to showcase original designs from LaRC's celebrated Carnival Collection, followed by women and gender, religion, and finally Louisiana's rich vivid political heritage.
The Louisiana Research Collection depends on financial donations to help fund special services or purchase acquisitions it could not otherwise afford. You may make a donation by credit card online or by sending it to the Head of the Louisiana Research Collection.
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A warm welcome awaits you at the Old Railway Yard Bed & Breakfast, winner of AA Friendliest B&B of the Year 2015–2016. We are located in the heart of the West Country on the site of a small coal yard which once served Cornwall's mining heritage.
The village of Lanner is close by and we are approximately 25 miles from Land's End, 10 miles from Truro and 8 miles from Falmouth. The North and South coasts of Cornwall are both visible from the house, and the popular seaside town of St Ives is less than half an hour away.
Many attractions are within easy reach, including the world-renowned Eden Project – save 10% when you book through us! Also the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Tate St Ives, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, the National Seal Sanctuary, the Blue Reef Aquarium, Bodmin Moor and, with an early start, Dartmoor.
We offer a variety of rooms with sea and countryside views and en-suite facilities. We cater for groups or individuals and long or short stays, and are open all year round.
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Open.PS - The Open Professional School Open.PS, the Open Professional School, exclusively offers professional-oriented distance-learning courses, which enable students to determine the focus of their studies from among a wide range of subjects.
Teaching and learning take place via distance- and online studies, guided by tutorials (open-/distance-learning). You can study from home, from the office or in the library, so students can save precious working, travel and leisure time (as well as secondary study and opportunity costs). Personal meetings take place in virtual seminar rooms (online conferences).
With its distance/online study courses and the associated flexibility and mobility as well as fair course fees, Open.PS aims to contribute to equality of opportunities in further education. We see ourselves as an open and independent academic community.
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THE ATTRIBUTES OF GODBy Arthur W. Pink
1. The Solitariness of God - PinkAttributes1 2. The Decrees of God - PinkAttributes2 3. The Knowledge of God - PinkAttributes3 4. The Foreknowledge of God - PinkAttributes4 5. The Supremacy of God - PinkAttributes5 6. The Sovereignty of God - PinkAttributes6 7. The Immutability of God - PinkAttributes7 8. The Holiness of God - PinkAttributes8 9. The Power of God - PinkAttributes9 10. The Faithfulness of God - PinkAttributes10 11. The Goodness of God - PinkAttributes11 12. The Patience of God - PinkAttributes12 13. The Grace of God - PinkAttributes13 14. The Mercy of God - PinkAttributes14 15. The Love of God - PinkAttributes15 16. The Wrath of God - PinkAttributes16 17. The Contemplation of God - PinkAttributes17
"Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee" kjv@Job:22:21). "Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord" kjv@Jeremiah:9:23-24). A spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature.
The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension of His perfections as revealed in Holy Scripture. An unknown God can neither be trusted, served, nor worshipped. In this booklet an effort has been made to set forth some of the principal perfections of the Divine character. If the reader is to truly profit from his perusal of the pages that follow, he needs to definitely and earnestly beseech God to bless them to him, to apply His Truth to the conscience and heart, so that his life will be transformed thereby.
Something more than a theoretical knowledge of God is needed by us. God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments. "Then shall we know, if we follow on (in the path of obedience) to know the Lord" kjv@Hosea:6:3). "If any man will do His will, he shall know" kjv@John:7:17). "The people that do know their God shall be strong" kjv@Daniel:11:32).
The papers which follow appeared first in the authors monthly magazine "Studies in the Scriptures," which is devoted entirely to the expounding of Gods Word and a seeking to provide spiritual food for hungry souls. Free sample copy gladly sent on application. (Not today). These articles have been reissued in their present form through the generosity of a Christian friend who has defrayed the entire cost of their publication. Proceeds from the sale of this booklet will be used, D. V., to issue others of a similar nature. May the blessing of God rest upon it. - ARTHUR W. PINK.
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I use two little programs to augment my BW work. I'm not talking about other Bible or database programs, but little things.
1) Dropbox- All of my usernotes, custom versions, etc. go in Dropbox, which backs them up online AND syncs them between my desktop and my laptop. It's still in beta, so whatever you want synced either has to be in the Dropbox folder or else be virtually there via symlinks or whatnot. Eventually, I'll just have it "watch" certain BW folders. I know there are other similar services out there, but Dropbox wins for ease of use, cross-platform interoperability (PC, Mac, AND Linux), and efficiency. 2 Gig accounts free. Watch the demo video here.
2) Autohotkey- This is one of those little services that monitors your typing. When it detects certain keystrokes, it replaces those letters with other text. (It can also launch macros or programs, but I don't use it that way.)
I use this extensively in writing in the notes and editor to expand commonly written phrases, replace common typos (like of/of and the/the) and add the date to every note I write. It's small and easy to use.
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And yet it is. This video by Michael Shanks (the same man behind that great Box-Art Brawl video from last week) depicts the high's and lows, mostly lows, of Mr. Max Payne's day-to-day life.
Yes, it's a joke that's been done before. Perhaps too many times. And yet the execution here is pretty damned funny.
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A man accused of stealing about $45 in cash from a donation jar belonging to Girl Scouts selling cookies outside a grocery store was arrested Thursday, officials confirmed.
David Betancort, 21, is suspected in the petty theft that turned a day of selling sweet treats into a sour situation for a couple of Girl Scouts from Troop #2034 on Saturday.
Police said Betancort – who was known to have warrants issued for his arrest on unrelated cases -- was located by detectives and U.S. Marshals inside an Escondido residence. Once officials made contact with Betancort, he fled the home and led officials on a short foot pursuit. Shortly thereafter, he was taken into custody for the arrest warrants.
Police said the investigation into the Girl Scouts theft will now be passed along to the San Diego District Attorney's office with a recommendation that he be charged with petty theft.
On Saturday, Girl Scouts Zoe and Gracie Fullerton, under their mother's supervision, were selling cookies outside the Albertson's grocery store located at 1570 W. Valley Pkwy. in Escondido.
The girls had set up a table outside the store and were going about their business when, suddenly, Betancort ran out of the store.
As he ran past the girls, he allegedly stole money from a tip jar on their table that was set up to collect donations for something called "Operation Thin Mint," a program that originated in San Diego County designed to provide cookies and support to U.S. troops deployed overseas.
After nabbing the cash, the suspect jumped into a getaway car and fled the scene.
A troop leader and other witnesses memorized the license plate of the fleeing vehicle and notified police, who were able to trace that information to Betancort, eventually leading to his arrest.
The incident left the Girl Scouts and their mother with a very bad taste in their mouths.
"Not only did they rob the Girl Scouts, they robbed the soldiers, too," the girls' mother, Erin, told NBC 7 in an interview Saturday.
During the incident witnesses banded together to try to stop the suspect.
Employees inside the grocery store also rallied behind the Girl Scouts, collecting donations to replace the money that was stolen.
"A lot of people really restored our faith in humanity," Erin said.
Betancort is being housed at the Vista Detention Facility and scheduled to appear in court Friday for other charges stemming from his warrants.
Following word of the alleged thief's arrest, Mary Doyle, director of communications for Girl Scouts San Diego, released this statement Thursday evening:
"Girl Scouts do so much good in the community, and it's unfortunate that they were targeted by a thief. Congratulations and thank you to the police for their diligence in apprehending the suspect.
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It was heartwarming that so many people rallied to support the girls and our Operation Thin Mint program. Thank you to all San Diegans who participate in our cookie program that teaches girls valuable skills, keeps Girl Scouting available and affordable for 30,000 local girls, and sends "a taste of home" to military troops far from home."