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Can Jesus Intervene? GOP Reaches Out To Black People Of Faith
Category: Praise Connect Written by Michael Arceneaux, News One
As Republican Party state officials across the country continue to give restrictive Jim Crow voter ID laws the modern spin, their cohorts on the national level are reportedly reaching out to a certain sect of the Black community. But how do you "reach out" to a community you're purposely trying to keep away from the voting polls? Exactly.
SEE ALSO: Chris Hayes: 'White People Have No Clue How To Solve Problems In White Community' [VIDEO]
- a recent piece for New York magazine, writer Grace Wyler reports on the GOP doing "something historic at an Evangelical confab in Iowa." That would be an organized attempt at drawing the Black Christian vote with the aid of Black church leaders. As pointed out in the report, it's not exactly a brand-new concept. After all, former President George W. Bush made similar attempts during his time in office.
Still, the GOP is taking it one step further — organizing as a party versus just allowing its candidate do the leg work for them.
And yet, it feels even more laughable now than it did then:
Wyler writes:
But in Iowa last Friday, minority church leaders finally got a seat at the table, when a group of about 20 Black and Hispanic pastors joined 400 Iowa evangelicals in Des Moines for a two-day Christian Right confab. The pastors heard speeches from Senate Tea Party darlings Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and sat down with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to discuss how the GOP could better establish relationships with churchgoers in Black and Hispanic communities.
You read that right: The wing of the Republican Party responsible for "Birtherism" is leading the charge on outreach to Black people of faith with the aid of the RNC chair who has enabled them and all of their racist rhetoric. Zoom, look at them go, y'all.
Republican strategists said that Friday's meeting was the first time in recent memory that the Party has made a concerted effort to include Black and Hispanic church leaders in developing the GOP's minority outreach strategy. While individual candidates — most notably former President George W. Bush — have brought on Black Christian leaders to advise their campaign strategies, the party proper has lacked a cohesive plan to build relationships with Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in between election cycles.
Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts has long pushed his party to reach out to minority voters. In the article, Watts laments, "The party has done very little to bring Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in to the fold. If you're going to tell me that's too harsh, then I'll say, Fine. They've not done much. You can probably put in to a thimble what the RNC has done to create any kind of network."
He went on to add, "It's about having relationships, and that covers a multitude of sins. People will extend more grace, they're more willing to listen, if you have a relationship with them … If Evangelicals trust you, then they will give you a little more latitude."
But, but, but, but: What Black person with a clue is going to trust a party that is blatantly trying to keep other Black people from voting? Is that not the beginning, middle, and end of this story?
If not, how about the rampant racism that continues to dominant much of the Republican culture? It was only a few weeks ago that Rand Paul let go of his Abraham Lincoln-hating staffer with a soft spot for seemingly racist views. Plus, Rand Paul will forever be the guy who is on record for being against the Civil Rights Act.
If this is the kind of person that can be a presumed presidential front-runner in your party, what kind of inroads with the Black community can you truly expect the GOP to make?
Are Blacks to magically forget all of that because Rand Paul can whisper sweet nothings about God's glory? I've been taught about Jesus performing miracles, but I doubt the Father, the son, or the holy spirit can help the Black community to vote for them. If you believe otherwise…I'll pray for you.
Michael Arceneaux is a Houston-bred, Howard-educated writer and blogger. You can read more of his work on his site, The Cynical Ones. Follow him on Twitter: @youngsinick
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5 Celebrities in Need of Jesus
Category: Praise Connect Written by Roz Edward, National Content Director
#5 Cornel West
Not sure why Cornell has gone after the president this week.. but BOY OH BOY! Jesus might be able to to tone down the anger. His constant critiquing of the president and everyone else is making people tune out! Some time in the church house might help.
#4 Paula Deen
Poor Paula…. even Jesus had the angels to keep him company. Now comes word that Paula and her husband are divorcing! That's the pits!
#3 Kirk Frost
Fooling around with other women on camera is not a good look. In addition to talking to Jesus, you might want to listen to Benzino and "retink".
#2 Mama Dee
Talking to yourself in the third person and referring to a kingdom and you are not a Windsor screams HELP!
#1 Kanye West
Pretty sure that calling yourself "Yeezus" and a "God" puts you in the blasphemy category. He might want to visit the ten commandment for clarity.
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Author Gloria P. Pruett debuts her first Christian Fiction Novel "You've Got a Man"
Category: Praise Connect Written by Michigan Chronicle Staff
Founder and CEO of Gloria Pruett Ministries debuts her first Christian Fiction Novel
Detroit, MI – June 2013 Within the inner circle, how well do we really know each other? Renowned author, Gloria P. Pruett debuts her first novel, You've Got a Man.
Rooted in biblical principles and scriptures, You've Got a Man will surely have you taking an introspective look at your spiritual walk as a Christian and your level of transparency with close friends and family.
Four friends, who have known each other for over a decade, come to defining moments in their relationships. The common denominator is that they all love the Lord, and they all say they serve the SAME God. You've Got a Man, will have you questioning whether you see all sin as sin. Or has sin fallen into categories – little, big, bigger, and unforgiveable?
"This book allows you to understand Holy Spirit in a very intimate way. It frees you to know Our Father loves and cares for us continuously. I thought I knew Holy Spirit in a very formal way, now I realize He desires us to know Him intimately!" – Marilyn White, Publisher, Precious Times Magazine
About the Author – Gloria P. Pruett is Founder and CEO of Gloria Pruett Ministries and CCKG Creations, a company committed to sharing the Word of God in printed form. Her first published book debuted in November 2005, "Lift Up Your Hands – Raise Your Praise and Get Lost In God", (non-fiction) where she received national acclaim and was featured on The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
A graduate of Word of Faith Bible Training Center (1996) and an ordained cleric, Reverend Pruett travels as an itinerant ministry proclaiming the "good news" of Jesus Christ where she has encouraged educators, at-risk-youth, singles and numerous congregations in various cities across the United States and has undoubtedly left a memorable mark upon their lives.
She is the mother of three and the grandmother of four amazing grandchildren. If you were to ask Rev. Pruett what motivates her, "it's the love of God." Gloria Pruett's Novel, You've Got a Man, is set to touch your life with real, raw and transparent views of four friends trying to find their way. Books are currently availalable on www.gloriapruett.com at a retail price of $14.99.
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T.D. Jakes' Daughter Announces Divorce, Cites 'Multiple Infractions' With NFL Hubby
Category: Praise Connect Written by Roz Edward, National Content Director
Sarah Henson (pictured), the daughter of mega-church Bishop T.D. Jakes, has announced that she is divorcing her linebacker husband, Robert Henson (pictured), after four years of marriage and is asking for prayer on her personal website, reports the Examiner.com.
Henson, who leads the Women's Ministry at the Potter's House in Dallas, was only 19-years-old when she married Robert, who was a linebacker for the Washington Redskins but is now a free agent. The couple had a lavish ceremony that was attended by a celebrity list of who's who, such as Tyler Perry, Emmitt Smith, Tom Joyner, and Dr. Phil McGraw.
The couple went on to have a daughter, with Henson already having a son from a previous relationship. At the time, Henson rocked the Christian world when she became pregnant at 14. Ironically, Bishop Jakes is a staunch proponent of abstinence education.
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Grace College Set to Open Commuter Location in Detroit
Category: Praise Connect Written by Cathy Nedd
Grace College announces the opening of its third commuter location in the city of Detroit this coming August. Grace chose the location in Detroit based on an invitation from Evangel Ministries. Grace College Detroit will offer an A.A. or A.S. in General Studies (Liberal Arts) for traditional students seeking to live at home and save money while completing their first two years of college.
"Grace College Detroit is being established in response to the need for accredited ministry training in Detroit," said Dr. Bill Katip, president of Grace College and Seminary. "There is a large population in the area who are interested in ministry education, so we are partnering with Evangel Ministries and their senior pastor Christopher Brooks to fill that need."
Grace College Detroit will also offer an A.A. or A.S. in Biblical Studies. This is a degree completion program for adult students who have already earned a certificate from Detroit Bible Institute, Ashland Theological Seminary or Moody Bible Institute in Detroit. This A. A. degree program will be offered this year through evening classes for working students who wish to earn an associate degree.
Grace's initial commuter locations and The Henry and Frances Weber School were founded in 2011. Tuition is $3,900 per semester; this is significantly lower than most other Christian residential colleges and comparable to public commuter college tuition. The Grace College Detroit site joins Henry and Frances Weber School sites already established in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis.
Matt Parker, site director, said, "Grace College Detroit provides an opportunity for young people to receive a Christ-centered education that is affordable and accredited. It's also an opportunity for church and ministry leaders to increase their knowledge and leadership skills."
The school administration also has plans to offer a Bachelor of Science in Ministry Studies degree completion program beginning fall 2014. The school has accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association.
Grace College and Seminary is an evangelical Christian community of higher education that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and applies biblical values in strengthening character, sharpening competence and preparing for service. Grace College also offers flexible online graduate degrees, on-campus and online degree completion programs, and highly affordable, easily accessible two-year degree programs in Detroit, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. The 180-acre main campus is located in the historic resort town of Winona Lake, near Warsaw, Indiana.
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Irish immigrants, who fled the famine and arrived on US shores, were exceptional savers, according to the most recent issue of the Journal of American History.
Records from the New York's Emigrant Savings Bank show that nearly 40 percent of Irish immigrants were able to save the equivalent of $10,000 in today's money, often in a decade or less.
Tyler Anbinder's article "Moving beyond "Rags to Riches": New York's Irish Famine Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts" argues that immigrants that fled the famine in the mid-1800s were not a "floating proletariat."
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He argues that some historians have misunderstood immigrant success, as they focused on factors like occupational status and home ownership.
"Immigrants in that era could save because the rapidly expanding American economy presented white Americans, native-born and immigrant alike, with opportunities for economic advancement that are difficult to imagine today," Anbinder, a Professor of History at the George Washington University, said.
The professor has written extensively on Irish history. His most recent book, Five Points, traced the history of nineteenth-century America's most infamous immigrant slum, focusing in particular on tenement life, inter-ethnic relations, and ethnic politics.
He relayed an account of an interview with an Irish immigrant at the time who wrote home saying he was able to afford meat twice a week. When asked if he meant twice a day the emigrant said no one at home would ever believe that level of prosperity.
@RobinForrester: Slight correction in your most recent post, no doubting what you wrote, but as per the phrase "Baum (brown) became Brown," the word/name "baum" actually translates to "tree," not "brown." A way to remember that is the song "O Tannenbaum." In that song "baum" also means "tree."
I personally know a few immigrants who sent substantial amounts home to their families in Ireland in the '60s and '70s. Among these were men in their eary 20s servng in the U.S. military who arranged to have part of their meagre pay send home, and the Army matched this amount in what was called an allotment. Therse dollars not only helped the family of the young soldier, but also the ecomony of the Irish state, whose gov't cared nothing about its ambitious young citizens who were forced to emigrate.
Can I correct a rumour that's been going the rounds for at least 125 years. When passengers arrived at Ellis Island the immigration officers had a copy of the passenger list for each embarking ship in their hands, this list contained the names and former home town address, and country of origin for the arriving passengers, These officials had strict instructions that under no circumstances could they rename passengers, or suggest a better or more upmarket or Americanised name, or ignore what name was listed on the arriving passenger list. If your name was Yablonski, then it remained Yablonski on the entry certificate, but what did happen was, these people called initially 'greeners' by the locals, after a few years in the USA they 'wanted themselves a new name which invariably was a more attractive and often upmarket name. Afterwards, and to avoid being shame-faced they explained this name change to their relations by blaming the USA port officials, who they pretended had misheard them, and / or who couldn't understand the 20 languages he heard each day at the port, so he had (they claimed) shortcut the arrivals paperwork by giving them a sort of quick translation of their old name, hence it was alleged Schwartz (black) became "Black", and Baum (brown) became Brown, My favourite entertainers name Joelson became Jolson.
Among the many emigrants fromn Ireland who held savin accounts in what was the called the Irish Emigrant Bank in the late 1800s was my future maternal grandfather, Knocknagoshel, Kerry, Native Maurice Murphy. About 70 years later, I worked at the Emigrant Bank as a teller when I was discharged from the Marine Corps.
Popular maxim: "The best revenge is to live well." Due to forced early retirement, I don't live quite so well as my trajectory had indicated, but I did okay by timing the real estate market well all my life, and I retired to a tiny midwest town where I bought a huge 100-yr-old fixer house. Then I squeaked along on savings (my favorite word) for almost 4 years until I hit 62. But I'm still way ahead of people living higher on the hog while they carry crushing debt. Personal debt is slavery, plain and simple. Lord help us, my ex is now a Washington lobbyist, on paper worth an astronomical sum - and he'll die in debt up to his eyeballs if he doesn't crash and burn first.
Popular maxim: "The best revenge is to live well." Due to forced early retirement, I don't live quite so well as my trajectory had indicated, but I did okay by timing the real estate market well all my life, and I retired to a tiny midwest town where I bought a huge 100-yr-old fixer house. Then I squeaked along on savings (my favorite word) for almost 4 years until I hit 62. But I'm still way ahead of people living higher on the hog while they carry crushing debt. Personal debt is slavery, plain and simple. Lord help us, my ex is now a Washington lobbyist, on paper worth an astronomical sum - and he'll die in debt up to his eyeballs if he doesn't crash and burn first.
And we did this despite the virulent anti-Irish attitudes in America! "NO IRISH NEED APPLY" Well, as an ethnic group we also happen to have prospered more widely than any others also. All this while many of us still send money back home. Now at least once a year most people want to BE one of us. What a difference a few years make.
What a wonderful story, news which I am certain we are all pleased to hear and, if I could shout back in time 160 years, I'd say well done lads and lasses. I'm going to buy this book and it would be interesting to discover how the other immigrant groups fared, I suspect they all did well and hope that was the case. Even so wasn't it wonderful reading about the black sheep of the family whose humour and happiness and brotherly love for all was also worth it's weight in gold. About 40 years ago I worked in London Airport, and judging by the number of Irish people who worked there it should have been called Dublin Airport, these young staff workers got paid on a Friday, and as soon as they'd been paid they'd rush to the Halifax Savings Bank offices, to pay the giants share in. In Hounslow and Staines that evening you could see them sitting in pubs drinking a lemonade or shandy and quietly studying their savings passbook with an happy, little twinkle in their eyes. So three cheers today for all the Irish Savers who built New York and London and the world beyond.
The Luke Daily of 1862 may have been Daly originally, but the name change wouldn't have happened at Ellis Island, which didn't open until 1892. Suppose the practice of the Anglicizing/Americanizing immigrants' names began early on.
My ancestors came to USA post-Famine, worked on the East Coast for about ten years until they saved enough money to move West and purchase land. This was a common migration pattern. It is refreshing to see Irish immigrants portrayed as proactive individuals with a plan for success in America, rather than simply the victims of the atrocities in Ireland. I think that is what is remarkable about those Irish immigrants - they moved on and built new lives.
@ carrickcourt, it's whatever way the names were written down at Ellis Island is what they were stuck with. Instead of Daly they wrote Daily.
I read this story with much amusement because my grandfather, a child of an Irish immigrant mother, did virtually the same thing. He would not marry my grandmother until he had 10,000 dollars saved up. That is a story that has been passed down now to the great-great grandchildren.
@TisEyerish, it definitely gets more difficult to stay in the workforce, as you get older, even though you might be able. I heard, recently that most people are taking early retirement, and I feel that the main reason is not being able to find another job. It is a shame that people are being penalised hundreds of dollars a month for taking a forced (early) retirement. The prospect looms, not far ahead of me.
No matter how many times Irish publications, writers, TV, radio, etc. talk/write about the "famine" it won't cahange the fact that there never was a famine in Ireland but there was a deliberate starvation Anyone who continues to discuss the " famine" must be willfully ignorant of the facts or is deliberately trying to hide the facts. There is abundant accurate information available to anyone who who to know the truth
Most interesting especially since I have an 8 Dec 1862 receipt from the office of the (New York) Irish Emigrant Society (No. 51 Chambers St) for a deposit by a Luke Daily. I have not been able to figure out how this receipt came down to my non Irish line of my ancestry or have I been able to discover much about this Luke Daily (note the spelling of the surname). I have been looking for anyone who might like to have this receipt.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I was once better than $30,000 in debt and had a checking account balance of -$12.95 for months, after I lost my business. I got a job, paid off all my debt and never again accrued any debt...I would panic if my checking account balance went under $3,000. Unfortunately, the bank disaster robbed me of everything once again...my job and most of the money I had in my 401K plan. Back to square one, only this time, I wasn't able to find another job due to my age (I was 61 at the time). Once my unemployment insurance ran out, I had to file for SS early...and lost about $400 a month, which represents money I would have gotten had I been able to work until age 66. I'm careful...very careful...about spending these days. Sigh.


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I'm as happy with what I didn't get for Christmas as what I did.
I was happy about all these things and happy too that I didn't have to talk myself into wanting a bunch of stuff I never heard of before, like a belt you can wear that gives you periodic electrical shocks to reduce your love handles or some such.
It was almost as good a Christmas as the one when I got that model of the naked lady AND the see-through frog… And really Dave is a pretty good guy. Anyone who reads this blog knows that. Here's a picture of him that I've always really liked. (And now he even has a decent bathrobe )


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Update on Consciousness Research with Christof Koch (BSP 84)
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The scientific study of consciousness was once viewed with skepticism, but this has changed dramatically in recent years. According to pioneering neuroscientist, Christof Koch, "the great thing is we're not condemned to just sort of philosophical speculation, but we can make some predictions, and then go out and measure them. And those are the things I talk about in this book, Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist." In Brain Science Podcast #84, Koch reflects on the progress that has been made since I interviewed him back in 2007 (BSP 22), and he also talks about the latest initiatives at the Allen Institute for Brain Research, where he as recently become the chief science officer.
- Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, by Christof Koch.
- The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, by Christof Koch.
- BSP 22: Interview with Christof Koch.
- BSP 61: Interview with Allan Jones of the Allen Institute for Brain Research.
- Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
- BSP 82: Discussion of Who's in Charge?
- Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, by Terrence W. Deacon.
- Tononi, G. An Information Integration Theory of Consciousness. BMC Neuroscience 2004, 5:42.
- Complete the Brain Science Podcast Audience Survey for a chance to win a free book.
- Next month's podcast will be an interview with Sebastian Seung, author of Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.
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Cultivating Connections: How CFSA Membership Can Benefit Your Farm
by Meredith Mizell, Farm Manager, Red Fern Farm
photos provided by Red Fern Farm
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of posts by current CFSA members during our Winter Membership Drive.
Farming is a great life: you can be your own boss, build community, connect with nature daily, and know that your work is meaningful and important. But small, sustainable farming also presents challenges for both new and experienced growers. When you're growing and guiding your own farm, sometimes you need additional training in aspects of production or marketing. Sometimes you need help finding new markets. Sometimes that big blue sky and those long rows stretching out in front of you get a little lonely and isolated. And sometimes you just need a little reassurance that yes, all that hard work really does mean something!
That's where an organization like the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA) can make a substantial difference in the life of a farmer.
As the manager of a small family farm– Red Fern Farm in Gray Court, SC — I am constantly amazed and encouraged by CFSA's work. My first experience with CFSA was at the 2008 Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Anderson, SC. I was 11 when my family moved to 100 acres south of Greenville in 1996, and throughout my teenage years I was just counting the days until I could leave for college. I graduated with a BFA in graphic design in late 2006, but by 2008 had decided a long-term career in graphic design just wasn't for me. Working in a cubicle farm was hell. But maybe a real farm would be just the thing…
I attended the entire 3-day conference that year armed with pen and paper, determined to absorb as much information as possible. It was a memorable weekend; I enjoyed seeing Joel Salatin deliver the keynote, and I'll never forget going to Tradd Cotter's standing-room-only mushroom workshop on Sunday morning. There was so much to see and do, and so many like-minded people surrounding me. The possibilities were endless! What I learned at my first SAC helped form the foundation of my farming knowledge, and has definitely informed my journey.
Since 2008, I've been involved in a variety of CFSA events as a member–often as an attendee, and occasionally as a host or presenter. One of the most visible ways our farm has been a part of CFSA events is by participating in the Upstate Farm Tour for the past three years. It's a lot of work (I admit that I'm something of a perfectionist leading up to a big event like that) but it's a tremendous opportunity. We average about 300 visitors each year, most of whom are not regular customers. Through their efforts to organize and promote the tour, CFSA puts us in touch with a group that we might not otherwise reach. We get a nice revenue boost during that weekend from on-farm sales, and some of those visitors have become regulars. It's a win for both us, the farmers, and for the consumers as they have a chance to connect one-on-one with local producers. It's especially gratifying seeing parents with their children coming out on the tour, because that's our future!
Speaking of organizing and promoting, I've discovered that CFSA is staffed by a cadre of extremely enthusiastic and very hard-working folks. Diana Vossbrinck, our regional coordinator, is a tireless champion of local farms; I love working with her because it's obvious she cares very much about the people behind the movement. Her many connections–with farmers, chefs, retailers, the media, and consumers–are more than just names and phone numbers, they're real relationships that benefit everyone involved. That kind of authenticity is a rare commodity, and I'm glad that people like her are a part of CFSA.
My CFSA membership not only connects me to educational opportunities, to potential customers, and to supportive staff members, but also to other member farms. The Sustainable Agriculture Conference is an excellent opportunity to meet other Carolina farmers and to exchange ideas and experiences, but even something as simple as the quarterly CFSA newsletter keeps me feeling like part of the community with farm profiles, an "ask the experts" column, interviews, and sustainable agriculture news. The member listserv also plays a vital role in keeping me up-to-date on training and grant opportunities, regional and national news, special events, and more.
These are all concrete benefits of my CFSA membership. But the value I get from my membership is more than the sum of its parts. Being a part of CFSA reminds me that we're all in this together and we're all working towards a better future–for farmers and consumers. Like anyone, I have moments of doubt and worry and insecurity. I get discouraged and wonder if pursuing the life of a farmer and herbalist will pan out for me. But then I remember that I'm not alone in this endeavor. While I cultivate the soil, CFSA is out there working to cultivate a more favorable economic and philosophical environment for small, sustainable farms. Knowing that there is an organization that is advocating on the behalf of farmers, working to help educate consumers, and believing strongly in this movement is reassuring to me.
I'm planning on being a member of CFSA for many years to come, and I'm looking forward to seeing what great things will continue to happen as a result of sustainable agriculture in the Carolinas. I hope you'll consider becoming a member yourself or, if you're already a member, telling your friends, family, and customers about CFSA!
Meredith Mizell is a graphic design artist turned full-time farm manager. While she loves growing and cooking our own produce, her real passion is herbs and she is currently studying to become an herbalist. Find out more about Meredith & Red Fern Farm: www.redfernfarms.com.


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La Fosse (restaurant)
The Hayes, Cardiff
How to get here:
Rail: Cardiff Central Station - Exit the station (north side) and turn right, walking past the car park and the Great Western pub to St. Mary's Street. Cross over and head up Mill Lane, and at the end turn left into the Hayes. La Fosse is at the square on the right, next to Habitat. +
Bus: Cardiff Bus Map - There are no direct buses to the Hayes, but many stop along St. Mary's Street; heading along Wharton Street (by Howell's) will lead to Hayes Island. La Fosse is on the far side, next to Habitat. +
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Inside the restaurant
Filmed: 22 Aug 2004
Filmed: 22 Aug 2004
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Filmed: 22 Aug 2004
Where to walk to next?
Hayes Island (The Christmas Invasion, Love & Monsters, Ghost Machine, End of Days, Something Borrowed, Closing Time). Hayes Island is outside the restaurant.
Additional locations as the crow flies:
Wharton Street (Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The Runaway Bride, A Day in the Death, The Wedding of River Song, The Curse of Clyde Langer): 0.06 miles.
Working Street (Rose, Combat, The Curse of Clyde Langer): 0.08 miles.
Trinity Street (Small Worlds, The Curse of Clyde Langer): 0.09 miles.
Crystal (The Pandorica Opens): 0.09 miles.
Further links about the location:
BBC Wales - La Fosse and its use in Rose.
Related Stories
Rose [22 Aug 2004]: Tizanno's Pizza Restaurant
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At the last PowerSell user group kindly host by Dmity and his colleagues at Quest - Jonathan Medd asked me what we use to record Podcasts - and I raved about the Zoom H2. Jonathan is putting podcasts on his blog and to test the process he record the first one with my H2. He mailed me yesterday to say it is now posted. I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet - I must set it up for the plane ride home. If I sound coherent, that's good editing on his part - and if not ...well it was obviously beyond the help of an editor.
The title says it all ready. Mark Wilson has created a group on Linked in to help get the ball rolling again - he explains why this was needed and what to do on his blog. Please take a look.
My colleague Orlando has a thankless task. We have our big training event this week and Orlando has the job of pulling together the "summit" for evangelists the weekend before the event. Past summits have made it difficult to believe in the value of these events. No one wants to give up family time for an event which turns out to be all fluff. "It was worth giving up a Sunday with my family for that" is a pretty high bar to set. Orlando achieved that level by bringing in Simon Sinek, who was the best external speaker I've heard for ages (I don't like to say "The best I've ever heard", but as I've typed and edited this post I've failed to think of a better one).
Simon talked about the idea that companies talk too much about WHAT our products do, and talk too little about WHY we created those products - the beliefs that underpin them. He did the thing that great teachers often do - taking two things that were already in your head and link them together in a new way. For example companies which have good leaders set an ethos which everyone in the company follows - if you don't believe in the power of software to enable people to do more, for example, you shouldn't be working for Microsoft. Apple has values and beliefs too - which are more about individuality and overturning the established order. If the leadership of the company sets a clear set of values which the whole company follows it buy into, and articulates that it attracts more than just the people who want the product (the what) but people who also share those values and beliefs - who will buy the product if it is more expensive or lacks a feature. It fits quite well with Hugh's "The market for something to believe in is infinite". Simon used the example of an airline who thinks, because he has flown with them several times that he is a loyal customer: he loathes them, yet they spend money wooing him because he is a serial customer. One of the questions that we threw to Simon was would Bill Gates passing the baton on make a difference to Microsoft's standing - and the answer, obviously enough, was only if it results an change of values...
In Monday's key note for the event proper, I saw Ray Ozzie for the first time. His session included some great product stuff which we're not allowed to talk about - announcements will come over the next few months - but he didn't just show the what. He took time to explain who he was and his own personal why. He did a long list of loves and hates, but this list of things the thinks that he put up was more direct.
1. Constraints are empowering
2. Accept threats as resignations
3. Never follow; either leapfrog or stop
4. Diversity means survival
5. Don't tolerate intolerance
6. Strategy and architecture are inseparable
7. Short and direct earns respect
8. Delaying the inevitable inevitably backfires
9. A re-org will never cure what ails you
10. You needn't be an #%@hole to get things done
And I looked at these, and thought, here's a guy who thinks pretty much like I do. And I looked around the room and saw thousands of people who were thinking much the same.
Unless this is the first post you've read here you'll know that I like Windows Vista, not because I work for Microsoft but on it's own merits. (I'm sure I've said before I work for Microsoft because I like the products and the thinking behind them , not the other way round).
You'll also know that I'm convinced that a lot (not all, but a lot) of negative perception about Vista is down to ignorance, and problems of a bad press.
Someone had a bright idea. Lets take people who don't know Vista and ask them about their view of it. Then lets show them Vista and see what they think; but lets not tell them it is Vista. Lets tell them they're looking at a future Microsoft OS codenamed .... Mojave.
You can see the results of this experiment here http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/
CNET had a teaser about this story last week , but the website has only gone live in the last few hours. IT Wire has the story, so does Daily Tech.
As I mentioned in my last post I've made my way to Microsoft HQ with a Visit to Canada on the way; this meant flying out through Heathrow Terminal 5.
T5 got off to a bad start, and we made contingency plans for lost luggage, delays etc. The reality: the easiest taxi drop-off I've seen at a UK airport, very short queues to check in in, lower security hassles than most airports, and as pleasant a place to wait for my flight as I've found; and baggage arrived successfully at the other end. The story is doing the rounds that the initial problems weren't just teething troubles, but were down to BA not training its staff on what was new... I understand that they showed up for work on the morning the terminal opened and had to work out where they were supposed to park and go on from there...
Now one of the things that has come up in the meetings I have been in is that we've done a lot of survey work around Vista. 94% of PCs sold via retail have Vista on them. In our recent financial statements to Wall street we said we'd sold 180 Million licences. Corporate customers are buying Vista licences faster than they are deploying, but the same happened with XP, and the rate of deployment of Vista is about the same as XP was at the same point in its life. But Vista is not getting the good press it deserves.
2 years ago, at every meeting I went to someone would try it plug their laptop into a projector to show their slides. And it wouldn't work "Press Function F5" someone would call out "No, this one's a Dell , F5 is for the HP" another would say. "Oh... try F8" . People would slip out of the room to get a coffee or make a quick call. By the time it had been sorted out 5 minutes had passed. It's a very conservative estimate to say I lost 10 minutes a week this way. Over a year that's a whole working day.
Then Vista came along and it has the Mobility Center. Press [Window key] [X] and up it Pops. Click connect to display and WHOOSH the presentation is on the screen. That's a day saved: and knowing what Microsoft consulting Services used to charge for my time, that's worth more than cost of the upgrade licence, and the deployment cost and so on.
I brought this up in the group meeting this morning when someone said something about "people not being able to use PowerPoint because of Vista".. The betas of Nvidia's Vista driver 6 months before launch didn't work when a monitor was plugged in, but 3 Months before launch that problem went away. I must have sat through upwards of 500 PowerPoint presentations since Vista came out, and I've never seen a problem related to Vista. If the battery fails in someone's slide clicker what I hear is "That's vista for you", if the projector won't focus "It's vista". That's wearing a bit thin. What shocked me was someone at the same table leant over after I'd said all that and asked "What was the key combination for that ?"
Earlier in the session, a senior Microsoft person said she'd really valued the training everyone received on XP, and how she missed that with Vista. Anyone can switch from XP to Vista without re-training. You get security benefits, a better network stack, easier deployment but it takes a little time to show people what can be done. How you get the best out of search, use tagging and previews in explorer, turn off the sound for one irritating application without turning them all off. The list goes on. We didn't teach people those things. And not everything about a brand new OS is positive. Some hardware isn't up to the task - I will tell the story of my Home PC another time, but the short form is it needed me to spend £40 on RAM and the 5 year old graphics card doesn't support Glass; it works better and does more than it did under XP. Some things won't have drivers in the early days. The number of drivers available at launch was a creditable 30,000 but that's increased by over 150% (77,000 at SP1). Some applications don't work on a new service pack never mind a new release: not everyone has got to grips with the Application Compatibility Toolkit which has helped to provide an environment where some real horrors can be persuaded to run. And user account control annoys IT Professionals like the seat-belt alarm in my car annoys drivers. I don't need to be told I'm manoeuvring the car with my belt off. I do want to know if my children undo their belts when we're driving down the motorway. I hope the safety parallel is obvious.
We didn't give our own people the skills to talk about these things. And our own gleaming new state of the art product had a "Terminal 5" experience. SP1 for Vista was a milestone which gave people the feeling they could go back and have another look at Vista (in fact almost all of key changes had happened before SP1). I wonder how long it will be before people stop trying to avoid T5.
Update. Fixed several typos. Jet lag. Grrrr.
I'm in Redmond at the moment, after a quick breather over the border in Canada, I've got over my jet lag and I'm ready for an 8 day stint in darkened rooms with 5 or 6 thousand slides, and catching-up with my Microsoft colleagues from round the world. I've been told two or three interesting things already with a comment "We're expecting to start talking to customers about this at Tech-Ed EMEA" - if you're thinking about going and haven't booked your place yet, what are you waiting for.
When a lot of us get together there are a couple of pairs of questions which come up every time:
These questions come from different parts of the room and it gives us some idea of what the product managers out here have to go through when setting their priorities.
The other question-pair is
People with any length of memory will remember the trouble we got into for leaning on companies not to install Internet Explorer and not Netscape. The EU told us we had to offer Windows without media player to give Real Player a better chance.
The problem this has made for us - and for our customers is that today's PCs are loaded with all kinds of crap. There's even a product the PC DeCrapifier* to get rid of all the junk: it's simpler than my advice to reformat any PC you buy and reinstall a clean version of Windows.
Eileen has a great post "Why does Vista Take so long to Start-up ?" - which should be subtitled "and what can I do about it ?", because she answers that question. If you're running Vista you get to the same functions through defender, but the way Eileen puts forward with MSCONFIG is more direct.
There is another question though ... Why are you restarting Vista ? Vista has really good power management, it will slow the processor when it doesn't need to be running flat out, sleep can be managed by group policy, or you send the machine to sleep at will. If you need to power down completely, then hibernate is still better than shutting down and rebooting every day. If you let the machine sleep it can wake up and run jobs - like making the shadow copy used for previous version - if you boot the machine each morning not only does the OS have to load, repopulate caches, logon , load user settings, and then start the programs Eileen was talking about, but then it needs to run those jobs.
One of the statistics I've seen today is moving 10PCs with CRT Monitors to Vista with Power Management is environmentally equivalent to taking a car of the road. I know this is vague, and since it comes from the US where the average car uses more fuel, it might take more PCs to be upgraded back home to equate to one car. I'm going to try to find where the numbers come from.
* I haven't used it, I just know it's out there. Other products to do this may exist.
Something which has come up more than once with the builds I of my PowerShell Hyper-V library has been that by default PowerShell doesn't ask Windows to elevate it's privileges - which, for example, the Microsoft Management Console does. By default it needs admin rights to see Virtual Machines and people running with an Account in the Administrators Group, but not the built in administrator account default to running non-elevated.
Now I wanted to test to see if an instance of PowerShell was running elevated or not, and I decided to do this by looking at something in the registry which only an privileged process can see; I picked the branch HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20
Initially I wrote it it as
Function test-Admin {$Local:ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue" new-psdrive -name HKUSERS -psp "registry" -root "HKEY_USERS" | out-null dir hkusers:\s-1-5-20 | out-null ($error[0].exception -notmatch 'registry access') Remove-PSDrive hkusers | out-null }
Many Powershell users know that there is a variable ErrorActionPreference , but not all of them realise that it can be scoped Just to a function. The next line Maps a "drive name" to the "HKey_Users" branch of the registry , the function then tests to see if it is visible.
Now you may have noticed if you a DIR (or LS or get-child-item) that PowerShell shows what your looking at in the form Provider::Path so I was able to dispense with Add- and Remove- -psdrive and simply test as follows
Function test-Admin { $Local:ErrorActionPreference = "SilentlyContinue" dir Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\Registry::HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20 | out-null ($error[0].exception -notmatch 'registry access') }
It seems PowerShell will accept paths in this form anywhere , which is useful if you don't want to create or rely on a drive.
In a few minutes I will be heading off to a Microsoft event in Seattle, and on the way I will be taking in some diving just the other side of the Canadian border. I already know that the hotel chain I'm staying with in Canada has complimentary Internet access, and the one booked for me in Seattle charges 4 times as much for the room and then wants to charge for Internet Access on top. Is it really asking too much for major business hotels to include Internet Access in the room rate ?
One of my American colleagues introduced me to a term for this practice "Nickel and diming" , which doesn't really translate to British coinage. But over the week end I came across a worse example. I've decided to take my family to the Red Bull Air Race in London. And went to their web site to order tickets.
Now, when I take my daughter to watch the British Touring cars as an under 16 she gets in free. As sports with engines go this is a pretty good deal. Red Bull want 80% of the ticket price for the over 6's. Grrrr. When I book concert tickets I expect an agent to take a cut and increasingly they add a handling fee, postage etc. I don't expect that from the venue. I can't help feel that the principle what you see is What you pay should apply, but I've grown used to this.
What annoys me with Red Bull is that not only do they charge me a £3.50 processing fee , but they charge me an extra £1.20 to print my tickets myself, and then on top of those charges they charge an extra 3.5% for me to pay by credit card (which I think is outlawed by both Visa and Mastercard). When the only way to buy the tickets is with a credit card it seems a bit much to charge for it.
Making the cost up to £77 this way makes me feel like I've been cheated. But with WYSIWYP charges of £30 for adult tickets and children at £20, I doubt that I would have grumbled at paying £80.
A couple of Stories have been doing the rounds on our internal Virtualization discussions. One was headed "HOLY COW HYPER-V VIRTUALIZING MICROSOFT.COM!!!!!!" (and before anyone wonders if this is breaking something internal to the world, it's already been described in detail on by Rob Emanuel on the Windows Server blog ). The MS.COM operations team have also produced an article on how they virtualized Technet and MSDN
Now... Microsoft.com is not your average home page. The statistics are staggering: 1.2 Billion hits per month, on average that's over 4,000 every second, but at busy times it peaks at 4 times that. Its 7 million pages take up 300GB of space. It used to need 80 servers to deliver it, but the Ops team migrated it to Server 2008 and newer hardware and saw the opportunity to reduce the number of servers. What became apparent with modern CPUs and RAM sizes, the servers were disk bound Simply throwing more CPU cores and more RAM at the servers wasn't going to reduce the number of boxes needed. Redesigning the site so it used more disk spindles would help - but the quickest win would be to take bigger servers and use Hyper-V to partition them, with each Virtual Machine getting it's own disks that would double the the number of disk IOs available without breaking the site into parts on different disks. But could they use virtualization with out Hyper-V itself becoming the bottleneck. Deploying new servers into the array is involves sync'ing 7 million pages: would virtualizing the servers - even if they ran one VM per box - help deployment ? Even if Hyper-V could scale and wasn't a drag on management and deployment , would it be reliable ? And would running one Mega site on Hyper-V give the Microsoft.Com folks confidence to consolidate some of the smaller machines they mange. ... incidentally Blogs.technet.com where this page is hosted is run for us by a third party.
If you read the post you find the detail behind why the answers to all these questions turns out to be yes.
I think (at least in the short term) most of the deployments of Hyper-V will be consolidating 5-20 servers into a single box. It's perfectly capable of running many more VMs than that - indeed we demonstrated hundreds of VMs on the old Virtual Server product - (more than VMware will support) but my own view is that the typical VM requirement, and the typical hardware capacity leads to a typical ratio of 10:1 (it could be 8, or 12 but I'm using rough orders of magnitude here) and the greatest most deployments will fall within half and double that. That's not scientific, but that's how I get to my own "gut-feel". I say servers, because I'm not a great believer in virtualizing the desktop OS - a thin client with a fatter server running your desktop as a VM doesn't reduce hardware costs compared with, rich client and skinnier server architecture. It doesn't reduce power consumption (in fact it probably increases power and A/C costs) and delivers an inferior service; don't try video conferencing company events, or deploying a Voice technology from the the PC. Don't try working off line either. Yet it has the management and licensing overhead of having many machines. If there isn't really a requirement for a PC , just one or two PC applications, then a terminal Service way of working is usually better.
So, I see Hyper-V most running servers and this case of running a single workload on under Hyper-V - even running multiple identical instances of the same workload is unusual. But if anyone tries to tell you Hyper-V doesn't scale to take on the biggest workloads... well you know different.
In the same vein, QLogic announced Hyper-V can do 180,000 IOPs. That's not a typo. It's vast number of I/O operations per second. In fact some people find it unbelievable, Chris Wolf posted a critique of the test on his blog , the comments are interesting and I felt the need to join in. Chris actually sent me a nice mail afterwards, so I'll repost what I said on in my comment.
The purpose of this benchmark is to prove - if it can be proved - that Hyper-V is not an I/O bottle neck. I read the numbers and said "What the hell kind of system can do 200,000 IOPs per second" it was plainly not the kind of system which is going be installed in many environments. It allows Microsoft people to shout "B.S." at the top of their lungs if anyone from VMware claims to have drivers which are much better than Windows ones. It also kills any suggestion that Hyper-v and Windows drivers are OK in small systems but don't scale. You're right that if a Microsoft benchmark says "runs at 90% of the speed of RAW hardware" the intelligent question to ask is "is that better, worse or about the same as the competition". Is it "Faster than any previous benchmark on virtulization" because it got a better percentage of the hardware or because it kept on scaling when the hardware improved ? Either would be a win for Microsoft. Just saying "ya boo sucks ... we're faster than you " isn't.
The purpose of this benchmark is to prove - if it can be proved - that Hyper-V is not an I/O bottle neck. I read the numbers and said "What the hell kind of system can do 200,000 IOPs per second" it was plainly not the kind of system which is going be installed in many environments. It allows Microsoft people to shout "B.S." at the top of their lungs if anyone from VMware claims to have drivers which are much better than Windows ones. It also kills any suggestion that Hyper-v and Windows drivers are OK in small systems but don't scale.
You're right that if a Microsoft benchmark says "runs at 90% of the speed of RAW hardware" the intelligent question to ask is "is that better, worse or about the same as the competition". Is it "Faster than any previous benchmark on virtulization" because it got a better percentage of the hardware or because it kept on scaling when the hardware improved ? Either would be a win for Microsoft. Just saying "ya boo sucks ... we're faster than you " isn't.
Would VMware spread disinformation ? Sure they would. These are the people who can title a section "VMware ESXi – The Most Advanced Hypervisor" and in the very next sentence say "VMware ESXi 3.5 is the latest generation of the bare-metal x86 hypervisor that VMware pioneered and introduced over seven years ago.". So a design that's more than 7 years old and wasn't designed to exploit the latest Intel and AMD technology is also the most advanced ? These are the people who can claim "Many VMware ESX customers have achieved uptimes of more than 1,000 days without reboots." which is pretty remarkable when you look at impendent analysis of VMware's patch history. (follow the link and you'll find a quoted interval of every 19 days... 50 sets of missed patches ! Don't tell the boss).
The Xen and Microsoft architectures rely on routing all virtual machine I/O to generic drivers installed in the Linux or Windows OS in the hypervisor's management partition. These generic drivers can be overtaxed easily by the activity of multiple virtual machines
When I challenged VMware to find a customer who was in production with the over-commit ratios they claimed, they could only produce one who was thinking about it. So I think I don't think I'm being unfair in calling it BS. Interestingly the post I linked to above repeats that claim. So I really don't feel bad calling their pronouncement on drivers BS. (I'll wait to see if someone from VMware comes up with a reason why the sum of activity many small VMs is different from one big one. )
When you wake up with Powershell in your head for things which are not scripting tasks, as I did this morning, you being to thing I need a holiday, or perhaps "Get-Vacation -days 7"
It stated with the thought that Waiting for Godot could be one line of PowerShell
$characters=get-tramps -count 2 ; while ($characters -notContains "Godot") { Start-sleep 1000}
Which is all very well. But it's gone too far when you find you can do MacBeth in one screen of PowerShell
$Sisters = Get-Witch $Duncan = Get-King $Macbeth = Get-Noble | where{$_.titles -contains "Thane of Glamis"} $Banquo = $Macbeth.Friends[0] $Battle1 = New-Rebellion -leader (get-noble | where{$_.name -eq "MacDonwald"}) $Battle1.add $Macbeth, $Banquo $Battle1.Leader | kill $Macbeth.Kills ++ $Battle1 | stop-process -passthru | out-King $Battle2 = new-rebellion -leader (get-noble | where{$_.titles -contains "Thane of Cawdor"} ) $Battle2.add $Macbeth, $Banquo $Battle2 | stop-process -passthru | out-King Get-Noble | where {$_.titles -contains "Thane of Cawdor"} | Kill Set-location heath: $sisters | forEach {$MacBeth.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() } $sisters | forEach {$Banquo.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() } $Macbeth.Titles += "Thane of Cawdor" $Macbeth.State = "Amazed" Set-location Hill:Dunsinane\Castle $MacBeth.FutureStates | out-Hostess $Macbeth.Wife.CreatePlot $Duncan $MacBeth [Weapon]"Dagger" Hill:Dunsinane\Castle\BedChamber $MacDuff = Get-nobles where {$_.titles -contains "Thane of Fife"} $Malcolm = $Duncan.Sons[0] $Malcolm.Titles += "Price of Cumberland" $Duncan.State = "Sleeping" $Duncan | kill Move $MacDuff Hill:Dunsinane\Castle\BedChamber $Duncan.state | out-hostess $MacBeth.wife.state = "Fainted" $Duncan.sons | foreach {$_.visible = $false } $MacDuff.Visible = $false New-King $MacBeth $Assassins = Get-Murderer $Assassins.targets += $Banquo $Assassins.targets += $Banquo.sons $Banquo | kill -passthru $Banquo.sons[0].visible = $false $Banquo.visible = $True $MacBeth.State = "Terrified" $Banquo.visible = $False $Sisters | forEach {$MacBeth.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() } $MacDuff.Wife | kill $MacDuff.sons | foreach {kill $_} $MacDuff.daughters | foreach {kill $_} $MacBeth.wife.State = "Mad" $MacBeth.wife.terminate Move-item Wood:Birnam -Destination Hill:Dunsinane $MacDuff.Visible = $True $Battle3 = New-Rebellion -leader $MacDuff,$Malcolm $MacDuff.NaturalChildBirth = $False $MacBeth | Kill New-king $Malcolm
$Sisters = Get-Witch
$Duncan = Get-King
$Macbeth = Get-Noble | where{$_.titles -contains "Thane of Glamis"}
$Banquo = $Macbeth.Friends[0]
$Battle1 = New-Rebellion -leader (get-noble | where{$_.name -eq "MacDonwald"})
$Battle1.add $Macbeth, $Banquo
$Battle1.Leader | kill
$Macbeth.Kills ++
$Battle1 | stop-process -passthru | out-King
$Battle2 = new-rebellion -leader (get-noble | where{$_.titles -contains "Thane of Cawdor"} )
$Battle2.add $Macbeth, $Banquo
$Battle2 | stop-process -passthru | out-King
Get-Noble | where {$_.titles -contains "Thane of Cawdor"} | Kill
Set-location heath:
$sisters | forEach {$MacBeth.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() }
$sisters | forEach {$Banquo.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() }
$Macbeth.Titles += "Thane of Cawdor"
$Macbeth.State = "Amazed"
Set-location Hill:Dunsinane\Castle
$MacBeth.FutureStates | out-Hostess
$Macbeth.Wife.CreatePlot $Duncan $MacBeth [Weapon]"Dagger" Hill:Dunsinane\Castle\BedChamber
$MacDuff = Get-nobles where {$_.titles -contains "Thane of Fife"}
$Malcolm = $Duncan.Sons[0]
$Malcolm.Titles += "Price of Cumberland"
$Duncan.State = "Sleeping"
$Duncan | kill
Move $MacDuff Hill:Dunsinane\Castle\BedChamber
$Duncan.state | out-hostess
$MacBeth.wife.state = "Fainted"
$Duncan.sons | foreach {$_.visible = $false }
$MacDuff.Visible = $false
New-King $MacBeth
$Assassins = Get-Murderer
$Assassins.targets += $Banquo
$Assassins.targets += $Banquo.sons
$Banquo | kill -passthru
$Banquo.sons[0].visible = $false
$Banquo.visible = $True
$MacBeth.State = "Terrified"
$Banquo.visible = $False
$Sisters | forEach {$MacBeth.FutureStates += $_.prophecy() }
$MacDuff.Wife | kill
$MacDuff.sons | foreach {kill $_}
$MacDuff.daughters | foreach {kill $_}
$MacBeth.wife.State = "Mad"
Move-item Wood:Birnam -Destination Hill:Dunsinane
$MacDuff.Visible = $True
$Battle3 = New-Rebellion -leader $MacDuff,$Malcolm
$MacDuff.NaturalChildBirth = $False
$MacBeth | Kill
New-king $Malcolm
Richard, Jonathan, Jeffrey, Dmitry what else can you come up with ? Actually I'll offer a "Heroes Happen Here" book* to anyone who doesn't have one who can post a decent stab at this - doesn't have to be Shakespeare (War and Peace might be a bit much)
What next Oscar Wilde in Perl ? Star-Wars in VBscript ?
(*While Stocks last. One Per house hold. Void where prohibitted. May contain nuts).
Eileen posted a link to a great YouTube video a few days back (words here - compare with Desiderata.) This post has been brewing for a few days - it started as one about stuff I find poignant or funny. In funny I had 2 more bits from you-tube
The whale. I first heard someone tell the story in 1991 or 92, and eventually tracked the video down. But it's what You tube was invented for. I know it by heart now, and it still makes me cry with laughter. The death Star canteen. Eddie Izzard. Need I say more ? Apart from the issuing a language warning perhaps.
The whale. I first heard someone tell the story in 1991 or 92, and eventually tracked the video down. But it's what You tube was invented for. I know it by heart now, and it still makes me cry with laughter.
The death Star canteen. Eddie Izzard. Need I say more ? Apart from the issuing a language warning perhaps.
But since I started that my view of You tube has changed. And it's because of a worry I have had for some time about their owners (Google) : what happens to the information they gather ?
Now, since Google is a competitor of ours I should say that I think it is naïve to automatically trust any large organization with your information. There might be a paranoid streak to this* but it is no more than the data protection principles on which the Data Protection Act is based; these say that personal data should be gathered for a purpose (not speculatively), the details gathered should not be excessive in relation to that purpose, and the data should not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose. So in any transaction with Microsoft, Google, Tesco, the Government etc I think people should ask:
When you fill a form in it should be possible to know what the organization concerned will do with the data.Inside Microsoft "only doing what we said we'd do" is stuck to pretty rigorously, so I can't e-mail everyone who came to a presentation because they didn't consent to that when they signed up for. That can be a pain for us at times. If is collected by logging what you've bought, or where you have gone in the physical or on-line world things get harder. I don't advocate the use of Passport Windows-Live ID: a single sign-on for Microsoft Services is all well and good: but I hate the idea of one system knowing every web site I log on to. That's why I find an idea like Phorm insidious: it tracks every site used, whether the reader logs on not.
Speculative collection of personal data gets my paranoia going. I've yet to see a justification for Government to put every citizen into a facial recognition database (part the of ID card scheme). In a country where we have 1 CCTV camera for every 14 people, adding facial recognition to say exactly who has been where, and when seems a step too far down the primrose path. And whilst that hasn't come to pass (yet) our cars are routinely identified by Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. ANPR is finding a lot of uses, including the "Specs" average speed camera system. I'm all for Specs if it saves lives of Road maintenance workers (the evidence isn't conclusive). But it shouldn't erode civil liberties in the process. Passing through a set of "Specs" speed cameras last week, I remarked to my passenger that vehicle details go into a database but ordinary citizens have no idea who keeps the data, for how long, and how it can be used - if we are aware that data on what we do is being collected at all**.
Which brings me back to YouTube. Informed users know their PC has an address, and that servers keep logs. It's fine for Google (or anyone else) to use anonymous data from these logs for statistical purposes - you'd expect them to know most popular search terms, broken down every which way or to know the most popular videos on YouTube - but they have faced some justifiable criticism for keeping the data personal. It gets unsettling if they show everything you ever searched for. And if they hand over everything you ever watched to a third party that's just plain wrong.
Now... the copy of Baz Luhrmann's video that Eileen linked to is not the only one on YouTube. I've no idea if it was uploaded with the consent of Baz Luhrmann or if it is flagrant breach of copyright. The copy at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI was obviously recorded from VH1 - one of the stations owned by Viacom (who own Paramount, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and are best known for MTV). Viacom, not surprisingly, isn't too happy that people have been recording stuff from its stations and posting it on youTube; where Google, not Viacom gets the advertising money from, say, South park. So Viacom responded the American way: they sued. And won. And the judge ruled that Google must hand over the entire log. Just hang on a minute... that's exactly what I described as "Just plain wrong". They get the log of what every member has uploaded or watched while signed in. And to tell what has been watched from any given IP address. Even if the uploader and viewer were located outside the jurisdiction of the court, and even if the content has nothing to do with Viacom. If you follow the link to the story you can see that Google say they are "disappointed the court granted Viacom's over-reaching demand for viewing history." But who kept the history ?
* You know what happens to paranoid people ? They survive !. (See Andy Grove)
** This Document from the Association of Chief Police Officers covers the data protection act and Human rights act aspects of ANPR, and says signs should be posted saying who is operating cameras and why. Every seen one ? Me neither.


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Can you say Petrus Romanus? Click Here if you Like this Comment
Alzheimer´s ? Pope Paul was really frail too but stayed put. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Does this also mean Pope Benedict XVI´s official Pontifical Adviser on all matters pertaining to the faith, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi from Mexifornia´s 8th District, will no longer be on The Vatican payroll after February 28th? Click Here if you Like this Comment
I think the next pope will take the name "John Paul III." Just a guess, but we´ll see. Click Here if you Like this Comment
That was just plain stupid, #4. Click Here if you Like this Comment
We will be praying for a good conservative pope, so there will be no schism in the Church if a new pope resides on the Left. Click Here if you Like this Comment
High time we had an Irish Pope! Click Here if you Like this Comment
I have said for the past year that in today´s times, we need a young strong Pope.There IS a very conservative black Cardinal from Africa in the running.One that will stridently lead Catholics to keep strong faith against the evil being done to Christians worldwide.One who reminds us all to obey the Laws of the Church in our faith and champion the unborn.I have a feeling Pelosi and other Catholic in name only politicians are going to be feeling a lot of heat soon. Disobedience and hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated. Click Here if you Like this Comment
NY crowd is pushing for Dolan.Great bit of scandalous church history in this article.It´s like a second Super Bowl for those who enjoy Catholic Politics.The Sanctified Soap Opera. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Absolutely #9. I have long believed that our next Pope will be African. I wish Cardinal Dolan was in the running, though I know that´s pretty much impossible. God will guide them to His choice. Click Here if you Like this Comment
hold on fellow posters..first..look at the original article..this is NOT written by CATHOLICS or from a CATHOLIC source..it is from a secular COMMUNIST source designed to overthrow the Catholic Church.. look at their postings/writers/advocates..they are touted by Kardinal Dell of Australia.. an Obama supporter..second.. from now until the election of the new Pope the MSM, Hollywood and the communists are gonna be pounding the table for a new "progressive" pope more in tune with a secular New World Order..third..the Church has finally started to revert back to its conservative history and the REAL Catholics have stopped LEAVING the Church and are now RETURNING.. the "progessive" Katholik churches are dying out..fourth.. look at what changing has done to the GIRL scouts of Amerika vs keeping the BOY Scouts as the have been..come on Hollywood/MSM - we´re ready Click Here if you Like this Comment
#4 I get that. Pelosi talks like she´s Pope. When Church teaching is contrary to Democrat politics (often) she starts quoting Augustine and telling Catholic voters to ignore that guy in Rome. She probably tells some staffer to google it. It´s actually very serious. There´s a word for deliberately misleading the faithful, but I forget what it is. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I pray God will guide the vatican to select a true Christian but fear the progressive demons have infiltrated the highest ranks of the church.The next pope will speak volumes as to our future as a human race. Pray for God´s guidance & intervention. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Pope Benedict is stepping aside, in part, to fulfill the destiny of Cardinal Arinze, who´s already 80 years old but will become Pope Pius XIII.Liberal cardinals will vote for him cuz he´s black and from Africa; conservative cardinals will vote for him because he´s a conservative who will be a champion of the Catholic faith and will drive out the heretics and CINOs. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#15 - I doubt it´ll be Arinze. At age 80, he won´t even be at the conclave. All Cardinal Electors must be under the age of 80. If the Cardinals wish to elect a conservative African, they´ll vote for Peter Turkson from Ghana. He´s a good man and might make a fine Pope.Ultimately, it´s God´s choice. I am not worried. Click Here if you Like this Comment
True, at 80 he can´t vote, but he can still be elected. But Turkson would be good . . . I just wonder if he´s too young (64) for the club who probably don´t want another young pope like JPII hanging around for twenty+ years.Exciting stuff though. AMDG Click Here if you Like this Comment
I suspect the Pope has serious medical issues and wishes to fade away rather than take the Catholic Church through much turmoil. A true man of God! Click Here if you Like this Comment
#13, I would go with deceiving or deluding. When it comes to Pelosi I think we must also include apostacy, though not exactly what you were referring to.God bless and keep Pope John Paul and God bless and keep the Catholic Church. May He provide the leader you need for the coming times. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The timing is intriguing in terms of the liturgical year. Benedict´s last public ministry will be Ash Wednesday and the push will be on to have a new Pope in place for Holy Week, which begins on March 24. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Saint Malachy´s 12th century prophecy says the next and LAST Pope will be Peter the Roman. If this is true, get ready for the final ride, people."In the final persecution of the Holy Roman Church there will reign Peter the Roman, who will feed his flock amid many tribulations, after which the seven-hilled city will be destroyed and the dreadful Judge will judge the people. The End." Click Here if you Like this Comment
B16 was always supposed to be a "placeholder", a short pontificate to finish out the things JP2 started. Then another younger Pope could be elected and set the tone for a generation of Catholics. Click Here if you Like this Comment
An Open Letter To All Members of Congress:May the Holy Father be an example unto you. Too many of you stay on long past the point of effectiveness. Have the wisdom to know when it´s time to go so that others more capable than you may replace you.BeatleJeff Click Here if you Like this Comment
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