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View to University o fMoscow, a postcard of the city. place whre any tourist Russian or foreigner) should visit, near the olimpic stadium. Better go by car, not realy near the metro. Nice view to Moscow river
View to University o fMoscow, a postcard of the city. place whre any tourist Russian or foreigner) should visit, near the olimpic stadium. Better go by car, not realy near the metro. Nice view to Moscow river
Not easy to get here if you don't have a car, but it opens a great view on Moscow and the Moscow river, located right across Moscow State University, a beautiful scene too. Needless to say its where many newlyweds stop for traditional pictures. Although I wouldn't recommend going there if its foggy, you won't see much anyways and its... More
Moscow is pretty flat so this is a great place to see over Moscow. It's quite far from the nearest metro stations, either Universitet or Leninskie Gory. If you get off at the former, you need to walk up the steep hill through a nature reserve which is pleasant. Or the walk is flat via the university if coming from... More
We went on a tour early in the morning. Our panoramic view was not very clear due to fog. I did enjoy seeing the architecture of the University, the Seven Sisters design.
Went there at night for the view but do noted that to reach this spot,you need to exit the metro while having the luzhniki stadium facing your back to prevent you taking the wrong exit. After you exit the metro, walk straight and turn left to go uphill and exit the park. On ur right there should be a bus... More
While Sparrow Hills overlook offers a panoramic view of central Moscow, there's not much that really stands out. We went there both in the daytime and at night, with the day visit being probably the most time-worthy. Visiting at night, it seems this is a popular spot for young Muscovites to hangout with friends.
the only metro station on an actual bridge with a 6-lane highway above you. Gateway to a very busy and popular open space and wilderness area beloved of Moscovites with cycle tracks, well signposted walks and picnic/BBQ areas. Moscow State University dominates the area on the plateau above
Best views in town. You will be surprised at the massive Moscow State University! Lots of locals there too.
Good view of Moscow city and the developing new commercial area, Luzhniki Olympic Stadium, Moscow State University and Trinity Church. But the souvenir stall (temporary and mobile) up there were selling over-priced products.
Moscw city can be seen from the topmost point.its beutifull to see and going along the road is also worth seeing.I could see statue of great mahatma Gandhiji -on the way.Moscow state university is another nearby attraction .I visited it also.
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(Jason Howerton) Conservative icon, rocker and passionate gun rights advocate Ted Nugent says that he killed 455 hogs with a machine gun from a helicopter in Texas last weekend for "Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there," according to RumorFix.
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"I took my machine gun in the helicopter — in the Texas hill country – me and my buddy 'Pigman' … his name is 'Pigman' – I'm the swine czar. I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun. I did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there," Nugent said.
Nugent, of course, didn't let all that pork go to waste. He said they "distributed tons of the most delicious pork to the soup kitchens and the homeless shelters of this state (Texas)."
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Training a New Parrot!
Breeding is encouraged so that this flock is robust should that day come. However sometimes parrot parents don't do their jobs. And unfortunately Blu Lu was a bit neglected by her parents. This meant hand raising her. Because of this her inclination to be around humans would make her a less than ideal candidate for the Bird Endowment flock. I was approached to see if might like to take Blu Lu under my wing and train her to be a spokes bird for her species. I said "yes" under one condition….Wendy Craig of Wendy's Parrots would have to finish her hand raising. That is because besides being a caring, responsible and knowledgeable breeder; Wendy knows how to train with positive reinforcement. This meant from the time she arrived at Wendy's she was already learning how to step up, step onto scale, recall, etc voluntarily via positive reinforcement. During that phase of development parrots are sponges and it means there is an important opportunity to shape behaviors that are important for a parrot's life in a home. Check out my article called "A Good Start to a Good Bird" in the Fall 2010 issue of Good Bird Magazine for more about this.
Blu Lu's name came from famous blues singer Blu Lu Barker .The Bird Endowment has a tradition of naming the birds after famous blues artists. I felt it fitting to follow suit. As a music fan myself, many of the other animals in my home are named after musicians (Waylon, Delbert, Joe Cockertiel)
Blu Lu has just arrived. In the blogs to follow I will update everyone on her training and progress. So far she is just adjusting to her new environment and getting to know new people. She is already great at stepping up and stepping onto a scale thanks to Wendy. Here is a video clip of the night she arrived. (Please excuse all the boxes in the background. I was temporarily storing some items at my house) It was a long day of driving and we arrived after dark. I gave Blu Lu some time to look around and get some treats from inside the travel cage before she came out. As you will see she adjusted rather quickly thanks to her previous training at Wendy's. More videos and blogs on her progress to come. Check back soon!
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- Anonymous said...
Really beautiful video Barbara! It's so great to see you so skillfully and easily employ all of your positive reinforcement methods in the mundane things: getting Blu out of the cage, stepping up, offering treats. It's so easy when you have the training you offer on your DVDs.
Thanks so much for video-blogging this process with BluLu. I'm looking forward to it!
-Patricia - December 11, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Beautiful and thank you for sharing your latest with us! I look forward to all your future videos I already distribute your info to educate every parrot person I know because your techniques are scientifically based and really work! So positive and encouraging to our parrots AND us! Thank you for all your help!
Sue Bendheim
Lily Sanctuary Adoption Coordinator - December 11, 2010 at 7:57 PM
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So you have your very own Blue-throat now? Whoopiee! Congrats on the new flock member!
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- Caitlin is how You spell it said...
So you have your very own Blue-throat now? Whoopiee! Congrats on the new flock member!
- December 14, 2010 at 11:40 PM
I am excite to follow your progress with Blu Lu. I am curious as to her hatch date so we know how old she is. Thanks for doing this.
Richard - December 19, 2010 at 9:50 PM
- Barbara Heidenreich said...
Great question! Her hatch date was 5/28/2010.And she is a DNA sexed female.
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LOVE the idea of a fashion show for our new shop products. I would TOTALLY link up! THANKS! SO EXCITED!
I'll definitely link up for the spring party. I don't have an etsy shop (yet) so I can't participate in that but I do think it's a great idea.
OOOOOOH! How much fun. I can't wait to be inspired by all the creative ideas!
Thanks for hosting!
Yvonne -
So fun! I love both ideas. Can't wait for the party!!
Jen -
Well, I know my first post will be a new spring product but my next post will be a recipe. So I think either is a wonderful idea! Can't wait to see all the happy spring colors and ideas!
Oh I need to come up with something for the Spring Fling … I have no DIY right now, um, or pretty much ever, but that is going to change. Maybe I can get it going before Wednesday.
I'm excited for all the link ups!!
Yay! I love (internet) window shopping. =]
=) you have just made my day!
I have my project for Spring fling in the works even with my flu grossness, because you know it is the coolest place to be. I am so excited for Spring and to be inspired by what everyone is doing. I could also get very excited about doing some window shopping all at once, so I think a shop link up is a pretty cool idea. But of course it is because it was yours,haha. I am thinking with all this beautiful Spring weather on the way my girls and I are going to need to drive up and play with you guys one day soon, a trip to that super cool park might need to happen.
Can't wait for Wednesday,
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Ahhh, finally spring! Loving it. Let's link it up and love every minute of it! Thanks for hosting.
I like both ideas, the more the merrier! Looking forward to March 2nd.
Yay! I am excited…for both ideas! I put the button on my sidebar:)
LOVE both ideas! I've already planned all of my Spring Fling projects and may have some weeks when I post two. Yippee!
I love the etsy spring highlights too. Can't wait to see what you've done. That bicycle picture is awesome. Lisa~
Am sort of new to blogs and some of the lingo that comes with them…not so sure what "linking up" really means! I really enjoy your blog so I will check back to find out…how's that for an answer? Not sure I helped a bit!!! Seems like everyone else is really familiar with all this…just want you to know you have a reader who is clueless but thinks your blog is great!!!
I love the idea…I think it would be great fun and a wonderful way to share spring projects. I am just CRAVING spring!!
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HI…think I fixed my profile so that you can reply to me now…thanks so much!
Can't wait! I plan on entering my Antique silverware mold knockoffs from the Ballard Spring catalog.
I am uploading my post as we speak! So I'll be there….
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Flooding has killed 55 people and forced more than a million to flee their homes across a stretch of southwestern China, including the earthquake-ravaged Sichuan province, state media reported Sunday.
A huge volume of water Tuesday surged from a lake created by China's massive earthquake, safely plunging downstream through an area where hundreds of thousands had been braced for disaster, officials said.
China has declared victory in the effort to drain a lake formed by last month's earthquake. ITN's Lindsey Hilsum reports.
Tearful researchers at the world's most famous panda reserve in China on Tuesday buried one of their animals killed by the massive earthquake that hit the country last month.
ITN's John Ray reports China's pandas and their keepers are still feeling the trauma from the earthquake.
Fears were mounting Monday for the safety of more than a million people downstream from a "quake lake" in China as waters threatening to burst a dam of landslide rubble were rising faster than engineers could drain them.
A 5.3 magnitude aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor
After tolerating protests against shoddy building construction following the Sichuan quake, the police crack down
CNN's Wilf Dinnick takes us on a treacherous journey to China's quake lakes.
CNN's Wilf Dinnick reports from a forward operating base for engineers and military personnel trying to prevent flooding.
A national holiday meant for kids brings only anger to parents whose children were killed in quake-hit "tofu schools"
Earthquake survivors in China dig through debris looking for material to sell so they can buy food and other necessities.
An unstable lake created by a landslide is China's "most urgent task" in the aftermath of this month's massive earthquake, Vice Premier Hui Liangyu said, according to state-run media.
CNN's Hugh Riminton walks us through his personal experiences in earthquake ravaged China.
Analysis: The Hollywood star's "karma" remark was a gaffe, but perhaps revealing: Why has the world's aid flowed more freely toward the victims of Burma's cyclone than China's earthquake?
A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington said Friday that a devastating earthquake in southwest China destroyed or heavily damaged 436,000 properties leading to 4.8 million homeless, according to official figures.
Refugees from China's massive earthquake wait for news of missing family members. CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
ITN's Paul Davies reports on rescue and aid efforts in China.
Two additional aftershocks struck quake-ravaged China on Tuesday, injuring at least 63 people and causing the collapse of more than 420,000 homes, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.
Chinese military engineers are prepared to dynamite a potentially dangerous "quake lake" created when landslides dammed a river after this month's earthquake in which more than 65,000 people were killed, state-run media reported.
CNN's Hugh Riminton explains how quake lakes were formed and the threat they pose.
A powerful 6.0-magnitude aftershock hit China's Sichuan province Sunday, reportedly destroyed more than 70,000 homes in the region where at least 60,000 people were killed by a powerful earthquake on May 12.
Doctors are examining Wang Youqun on Wednesday. Youqun was trapped for 195 hours from the quake.
A woman who survived nine days trapped in debris Wednesday became the latest in a series of against-the-odds rescues in China, where the official death toll from last week's massive earthquake has risen to 41,353.
A woman who survived on rainwater has been freed after being trapped in rubble for 195 hours in the aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, which has now killed more than 41,000. The 60-year-old woman escaped with just facial bruises and a minor fracture during her eight-day ordeal.
Half the residents of Yingxiu were killed by the May 12 earthquake, but the fight to rescue survivors goes on
Chinese open their hearts and wallets to help earthquake survivors. CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports.
One of the most destructive moments in Chinese history is bringing together -- at least temporarily -- this vast nation of more than a billion people, made up of disparate ethnic groups stretching across five time zones.
The death toll from last week's devastating earthquake in south-west China has risen to 40,075, senior government officials have said
A man was rescued after being trapped for nearly 179 hours in a collapsed building near the epicenter of the May 12 earthquake that struck China's Sichuan province, the country's state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
ITN's Lindsay Hilsum reports from one Chinese village devastated by the massive earthquake.
China on Monday began three days of national mourning as the death toll from last week's devastating earthquake mounted and rescue workers continued to search for survivors among the rubble.
Chinese rescue workers face danger from powerful aftershocks. ITN's Bill Neely reports on the recovery efforts.
A strong aftershock early Sunday rattled areas still reeling from last week's massive earthquake in China, shaking frayed nerves of survivors and slowing rescue and relief efforts.
Covered bodies are lined up as family and friends come to identify them in Beichuan, China.
Parents are waiting at schools destroyed by the devastating Chinese earthquake hoping their children will be pulled from the debris but hope is fading.
Rainy weather and poor logistics thwarted efforts by relief troops who walked for hours over rock, debris and mud on Tuesday in hopes of reaching the worst-hit area of an earthquake that killed nearly 10,000 in central China, state-run media reported.
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocks China Monday Morning. CNN's John Vause has the latest from Chongqing
Chinese authorities say nearly 400 dams were damaged by Monday's massive earthquake, according to media reports, as efforts to relieve the pressure at a dam near one quake-hit city continue.
China's death toll from a massive earthquake soared by thousands Wednesday as troops rushed to a dam feared critically damaged.
A massive rescue effort is under way to free tens of thousands of people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings
The official death toll from the China earthquake stood at 12,012 on Wednesday afternoon, but it is expected to rise as soldiers and rescue crews pull more bodies from crumbled buildings at the epicenter in Sichuan province.
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Animal handlers in China have developed a "sexercise" program to try to encourage extinction-threatened pandas to overcome their notoriously low sex drives.
Tibet's spiritual leader Thursday said he was powerless to stop anti-Chinese violence as authorities in Beijing acknowledged for the first time that unrest had spread into neighboring Chinese provinces.
In Litang, in the west of Sichuan province, Tibetans have not joined the protests elsewhere. Still, they fear Beijing's fist
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Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 161 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert.
Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
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American Idol took a trip back home to Los Angeles, California to see what talent lurked in Hollywood. The show started with Ryan Seacrest high atop a building in downtown Los Angeles. As the cameras circled him from above, he had his own little urban "Sound of Music" moment.
For the first time in Idol history, eligible folks could audition on MySpace. The exceptional singers from MySpace, out of a total of 16,000, joined up with the LA auditioners to sing in front of the judges face-to-face. The first contestant was confident. Victoria Garrett can already visualize standing on the finale stage and enduring a long, dramatic Ryan Seacrest pause before finding out she's the American Idol. She entered the sky-high audition room and began singing something that was so high-pitched it hurt. Steven Tyler wasn't sending her to Hollywood, he sent her to "Siberia." A golden ticket to Russian Idol? After Victoria exited the room, Jennifer compared her performance to nails on a chalkboard.
Tim Halperin "had" a crush on Jennifer Lopez. He claims it was back when he was in elementary school, but it seemed like he still has some feelings for her and stated, "My Love Don't Cost A Thing." I was hoping Tim would audition with that popular Jennifer Lopez song, but he went with Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," which he sang right to Jennifer. When she asked Tim how old he is, he then asked her how old she is...he clearly hasn't been in Southern California long enough! Jennifer's response? "I'm young enough for you, don't worry." Where's Marc Anthony this time? Although Randy gave Tim a no, the other two judges gave out the first ticket of the day.
Justin Carter was one of the good singers in LA, and a fired up Jennifer replied, "It lacked (bleep) underneath it," and she added a charade. There must be something in the LA air (pollution) because Jennifer and Randy were bleeped this episode but not Steven! I guess he took his Austin episode "warning" to heart. Justin's voice was good enough--he's going all the way down the street to Hollywood.
Friends Daniel Gomez and Isaac Rodriguez were excited to audition for the judges. Isaac even dropped out of school to be on American Idol, so he must be really confident. He didn't tell his mom that he dropped out, and she even interviewed that she's so proud of her boy for juggling school with American Idol auditions. Uh oh. This is going to make for an awkward conversation once she sees the show. Daniel said that Isaac is a better singer, and Daniel sang first for the judges. After hearing his "I'll Be," I believe him that Isaac won't be worse. Jennifer found something positive to tell him--"You have a nice smile." Next was Isaac, and he sang "Build Me Up Buttercup." His occupation came up on the screen as "College Student?" Unfortunately for Isaac, he's not a very good singer. I hope there are still some spots left in his classes so he can return. Although he quit school, he's not going to quit singing, regardless of what the judges told him. The moral of this story: Stay in school, kids!
Karen Rodriguez is from New York and auditioned for American Idol on MySpace. She hit the high notes of her song with a lot of control, and Jennifer thought it was hot. Steven said she has the confidence, the spit, and the fire. I'm not sure what he means by having "the spit," but I think it's a good thing. Karen said Jennifer inspires her and she tried to keep from crying. Apparently, Karen sang to Jennifer on TRL many years ago, and Jennifer said she had a beautiful voice then. Jennifer is still a Karen fan, as was Steven and Randy--she's going to Hollywood! Karen stated that she hopes to be the first Latina American Idol winner.
Tynicha Roches brought her own microphone to her audition where contestants sing six feet from the judges. She also did the splits in her short, tight dress. She talked about "artises" and that she has an album ready to be composed. When Tynicha stepped into her audition she performed a Frank Sinatra tribute, and refused to stop singing when the judges asked her to. Randy got up to leave and Tynicha chased him in a circle around the set singing and making up lyrics about the judges. Steven, in all seriousness, tried to talk some sense into her. Nothing worked, so a security guard was summonsed in to escort Tynicha out of the room. In her exit interview, Tynicha continued to speak into her microphone, as Randy commented, "This is the freakiest show ever." Hey, at least there hasn't been a 7 foot armadillo today.
Belly dancer Heidi Khzam swiveled her hips to Steven's vocal percussions, and Randy and Steven were ready to send her through to Hollywood. After singing Alicia Keys' "Superwoman," Randy sends her straight to Hollywood without any discussion. Khzam!
Matthew Scott Frankel, aka "Big Stats," was all business as he discussed his job as a record producer and CEO. He claims he produces for millions of artists, but then retracted that and went with "a bunch," including Chaka Khan. After introducing himself with a long spiel to the judges, Big Stats mentioned it was time for him to formally introduce himself via rap. The rap didn't go over well, so he sang Jennifer's "Jenny From The Block." His "homie" Jeremy couldn't look more uncomfortable and unenthused to be at auditions to support his friend. When the judges turned Big Stats away, he said they "be beefin'."
William Roberts, Jeannette Manning, and Daniel Hall continued the streak of bad contestants, and Anthony Granger was "Pants on the Ground 2.0." Arista Pemberton screeched her song and put her finger in her ear. I put two fingers in each of my ears. Hoping to make the audition a 2-for-1, she danced and dove into the splits, but she won't be on American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance. Can you believe the judges have to share a city with these people all season long?!
At the end of day two in Los Angeles we met cute brothers Mark and Aaron Gutierrez. The brothers playfully introduced each other to America and said that the judges won't expect the voices that are going to come out of these "scrawny kids." They went into their audition together and sang a duet to "Lean On Me." They harmonized really well and they got the three judges to clap along. Jennifer thought it was a beautiful performance and Steven called it "God-like." Steven and Jennifer gave yeses, and Randy didn't say anything. Mark lifted his slightly younger, slightly smaller brother into the air and celebrated. Finally, sitting through all of those wacky auditions paid off!
The night didn't end there. We met one more Hollywood hopeful. Cooper Robinson is from Arkansas and claimed he's here to take over California. He went off on a tangent about how he's from way deep in the woods. Jennifer asked the question we all wanted to have answered--"How old are you?!" He thinks he's 59, but he's not sure; whatever age he is it's too old for Idol. Cooper impersonated James Brown and spazzed out all over the stage. As he stood there sweaty and panting in front of the speechless judges, he got their cue and walked out of the room. Jennifer snuck by him, with a security guard in tow, as he talked about how he's better looking than any animal ever.
I'm spent! As an LA native and resident, I'm starting to question my town...which is where talented people come to make their dreams come true.
Next week we're heading up the coast to San Francisco, where supposedly the show is saving the best for last! Can't wait!


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One the days or sessions that it happens it consistently slow.
MacBook Pro 2.8 GB, 8 GB RAM SATA 500 GB Hard Drive 3 MB DSL Connection
SeaMonkey 2.0.14 or 2.7.1a , FireFox 3.6.23, FireFox 8.0, Opera 11, Safari 5.1, iCab 5.0, OmniWeb 5.5, Chrome 14.0.835.202 Makes no difference what browsers are used same problem.
I think there are multiple things happening here...
I believe I sense, in various folks' comments, that the percentage of time this forum provides acceptable performance for any one person varies pretty widely.
For example, the great majority of the time I'm here I find it to work fine, with only rare cases where clicking on something yields a noticeable delay or failure. If I had to quantify, I'd say it is acceptable 98% of the time for me.
Perhaps it would be helpful if you folks would try to quantify the amount of time you feel it performs acceptably well for you.
Well, I guess that it was inevitable. I bragged about how much quicker things were, just yesterday (10/11/2011), and then today, real lags.
Some other anomalies have been:
Teach me to brag...
Yesterday (10/11/2011), I would have given the forums a 100.
Today, I am going to give it a 70, though my complaint Reply, above in Flattened View, was very quick, with "Please Wait" showing for only about 5 sec.. Yesterday, it was so quick, that I hardly had time to even see that little message. OTOH, I have had to wait up to 5 mins. today, for a Reply to post - long time watching Please Wait, with the little "gas gauge."
Yes, it varies by the time of day, the day of the week, the individual user, and maybe the phases of the Moon?
If you can identify which node you are hitting it would help. Sorry, I don't know how to do that in IE or Safari. I gave the Firefox instructions earlier in the thread.
In Chrome you can go to Preferences > Under the Hood > Privacy > All Cookies and Site Data > forums.adobe.com > jive.server.info and look for adobe-vm-wa0X where the 0X is the node name.
It sometimes helps to just open a different browser as you will often connect to a different node. Restarting the same browser will not usually jump nodes. But in Chrome you can try a new "incognito window" to see if it gets you to a different node. If you have two browsers on two nodes you can see if there is a marked difference between them.
Perhaps Jive runs on a couple of Blackberry? [Is the official plural of those smart-phones Blackberries (like the fruit), or Blackberrys?]
Well, maybe it is not just Jive?
Google.com is not coming up often.
FoxNews Network is having real problems with their feeds.
Replies are starting to time-out on the Adobe forums.
Experiencing this on Chrome, PC, at ~ 11:00AM PDT on 10/12/2001 for the Web-based stuff, and on my COX Cable TV feed.
Bill, I saw a tutorial on troubleshooting Blackberry problems the other day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNaZmvlRNg
Seriously, sounds like you may be having local network problems.
Seems to me someone needs to invent a diagnostic app that would drill down into the nitty gritty of what's wrong between a user and a site then present the results in simple terms.
Would I necessarily be "hitting" the same node in Firefox? I have Firefox on hand for testing web work...
This is what's in the Firefox cookie for me: "serverName=forums.adobe.com:serverPort=80:contextPath=:localName=ado be-vm-wa05.sgvm2hosted.jiveland.com:localPort=9200:localAddr=127.0.0.1"
Just being clear, this one has been pretty consistently fast for me over the past couple of days.
Out of curiosity, is the server run from a virtual machine (noting the adobe-vm- prefix)? I can imagine that could yield yet another whole level of inconsistency, as other VMs might be doing resource-intensive things.
Would I necessarily be "hitting" the same node in Firefox? I have Firefox on hand for testing web work...
You would definitely not be necessarily hitting the same node as in Firefox. If you do get the same node, it would be via random chance. Since there are only four servers (last I checked), 1/4 isn't that hard to do, of course.


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I would like to personally apologize to Mr. Estrin ["Art = Life = Politics," Letters, September 26] [1] for flag waving and handing out leaflets. I would also like to apologize to Mrs. Parris for using Nazi-like tactics. I would like to apologize to Mr. Greene for being a motherfucker. I would also like to apologize to Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (VTJP) for giving the other perspective of the Rachel Corrie accident. To the members of the VTJP, I am sorry I showed up at Peter Schumann's exhibit.
I am, however, quite confused about the Nazi statement. I am a member of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND). Does that seem quite hypocritical, or is that just my view?
It appears to me that VTJP would like to have only their points of view heard in Vermont. I am sorry, but I have an issue with this. If VTJP really wants peace, they need to be willing to hear what members of the whole Vermont Jewish community and pro-Israel community have to say — not just the Jewish members of VTJP.
I still feel that VTJP is missing the point of what upset many people in Vermont's Jewish and pro-Israel community. The Art Hop was not the appropriate venue for Mr. Kovel to be speaking. That is very clear in my mind because both sides of this debate are quite upset about what happened. Maybe VTJP will one day understand what was so upsetting about this speaker. L'shalom.
Josh Neirman
Neirman was a protestor at Peter Schumann's Art Hop exhibit.
The Art Hop issue ["Peter Schumann's Art Hop Exhibit Sparks Controversy," September 12] [2] is not about censorship. Art Hop should show any art offered to it. The more practical question: Should the Art Hop schedule purely political events? I think not.
If the Art Hop becomes a platform for political lectures, some people will then choose to distance themselves from this event. Next year, do we get an anti-abortion lecture and film? How about the political candidates running in November? Should they be scheduled for campaign speeches?
The Art Hop administrators have shown themselves to be competent event administrators, but they have also showed themselves to be not competent enough to organize fair political events. In the show that caused all the uproar, there was no attempt to present a balance of views. I made a disturbing piece of art that responded to what I believed the outcome would be of enacting an "Overcoming Zionism" policy. This piece was not included in the show because I "submitted after the entry due date."
I think that there are many people in this community who have criticisms of Israel and concerns for the tragedy in Palestine/Israel. But linking these criticisms with the desire for the destruction of the Jewish state (the overt point to the Art Hop lecture) overwhelms any creative discussion.
David Sokol
In light of the incident at the 2007 South End Art Hop as reported in Seven Days ["Peter Schumann's Art Hop Exhibit Sparks Controversy," September 12] [2], I would like to clarify the Peace & Justice Center's role in providing fiscal sponsorship to various community groups.
The Peace & Justice Center (PJC) is a 28-year-old, statewide nonprofit organization that works on the interconnected issues of economic and racial justice, peace and human rights through education, training, advocacy, nonviolent activism and community organizing. For more than 20 years, the PJC has provided fiscal sponsorship to community groups and projects whose work fits within the scope of our mission. Current fiscal sponsors include: American Machine, Big Heavy World, Inter-American Center for the Arts, Sustainability and Action (CASA), Circles for Peace, VT Committee on South Africa, Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, VT Peace Train, VT Pride, VT Says No to War Coalition and Vets for Peace. These community organizations and projects are all committed to grassroots organizing and civic engagement. With fiscal sponsorship, the PJC provides a way for groups to receive grants or other donations that need nonprofit status. The PJC does control how the money in our account is spent — it must follow Internal Revenue Service guidelines — but the PJC does not monitor or control the day-to-day work or actions of these groups. The PJC had no part in planning or implementing the Bread and Puppet exhibit at the Art Hop. The PJC supports free speech and the right of people to express themselves artistically. Simultaneously, we acknowledge the extent to which the events at Art Hop exacerbated an extremely tenuous situation. The Peace & Justice Center is reaching out to all parties involved in this local conflict in hopes of supporting dialogue and action that moves in the direction of peace and justice.
Serena Chaudhry
Chaudhry is the executive director at the Peace & Justice Center.
In response to the letter from the Winooski man complaining that the police are abusing their power ["Power-Hungry Police," Letters, September 12] [3], I have to disagree. In fact, we're talking about a police force that is being outwitted by gangs of elementary school kids.
When my bike was stolen from my front door in broad daylight, I went to the police. The apathy I encountered let me know there was no hope of ever seeing my bike again. "We'll let you know if we see it," I was told.
Word on the street is that there are well-known "chop shops" that run steady businesses. Word from a local bike repair guru is that there are "notorious" gangs of elementary school kids stealing bikes. Notorious. Kids? Yikes. I was robbed. This was my only transportation. That bike is irreplaceable to me.
When I was listening to Mr. Bush's recent speech about his commitment of resources to the safety of the people of Iraq, I couldn't help but feel a little selfish. What about my own feeling of safety in my home state of Vermont? We have opened our doors to people from around the world. To the chronically homeless from across the country, Burlington is "the best place to be in the summer." To parolees up and down the East Coast, Burlington is the place to go for "leniency." Seems like this is a demand for more resources.
The image of Burlington, Vermont, with its sailboats and fine dining, is in stark contrast to what is happening on the street, where syringes line sidewalks and people can't feel safe from elementary school kids. Big-city crime has become a reality in towns throughout Vermont. And yet, funding for the police charged with maintaining public safety has not grown with the increase in population.
If the police are helpless, where does that leave citizens? Does it lead us to the "I Spy" from the man whose fixie was stolen from his porch on Willard? Does it lead us to complacency? What is the plan for the future? What is the notorious elementary school kid going to be when he grows up?
Stephanie Potter
This week's strip by Ted Rall ["Modern Civil Rights: Which One is Worth Marching For?" September 26] portrays incredible ignorance, and through that, perpetuates the racism I assume he disavows.
The "Jena Six" symbolize how racist U.S. society continues to be. Simplifying the situation in Jena to a bunch of black students beating up a white kid is a twisting of the truth worthy of Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. When black students in Jena decided to sit under the "white" tree for lunch, nooses were strung up the next day. Those responsible were dismissed as "pranksters," but when black students protested, the Louisiana District Attorney threatened to "ruin their lives" with a stroke of his pen. That weekend, a young black man gets beat up at a party by white students. Next, a white man threatens black students with his gun, and was never held responsible. Instead, the black man who wrestled the gun away in self-defense was charged with theft. How does it reason that young black men (tired of being pushed around) who beat up a white student are charged, not with assault or battery, but with conspiracy and attempted second-degree manslaughter? On top of this, the trials are being held by all-white juries selected from all-white jury pools. This is no justice but Jim Crow justice.
Of course Seven Days has every right to print this comic, but if they truly want to be an alternative news source, they should read up on the issues before printing thoughtless articles, editorials or cartoons.
Nicholas Parrish
MoveOn.org's ad "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" accuses the general of "Cooking the Books for the Whitehouse" and claims that he is "a military man constantly at war with the facts."
Predictably, the White House and right-wing Bush supporters are feigning outrage. "Like the men he commands, (Petraeus) is risking his life to protect our freedoms here at home," Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote on the National Review blog, "The Corner." While it's true that our soldiers are risking their lives in Iraq, they are not fighting for "our freedoms here at home."
The tragic fact is that the men and women who joined the U.S. military with the honorable intention of defending American freedom are being misled by a dishonorable commander in chief who is actively engaged in the destruction of our civil liberties.
Our soldiers are fighting and dying for a president whose attacks on our freedom since 9/11 include illegal surveillance conducted inside the U.S. by the Pentagon, illegal wiretappings, and FBI agents engaging in illegal call-tracking efforts that violated the privacy of millions of Americans. They're fighting and dying for a president who has eliminated the writ of habeas corpus, which is the main protection against an abusive government.
Our soldiers are fighting and dying for a president whose only goal is to keep them fighting and dying until he can toss the remains of his ignoble war into the lap of his successor.
Has the general betrayed us? "Ask the infantry and ask the dead."
Walter F. Wouk
• In a story that ran in last week's issue ["Hawks and Doves Flock Together at Norwich Peace Conference," September 26] [4], Seven Days incorrectly spelled Norwich University President Dr. Richard W. Schneider's last name. Also, the university is not the oldest military academy in the country. It is the oldest private military college.
• In a recent "Inside Track" column ["The Pollina Possibility," September 19] [5] Seven Days incorrectly identified Gen. David Petraeus. He is commander of the multinational forces in Iraq.
[1] http://www.7dvt.com/2007letters-editor-11
[2] http://www.7dvt.com/2007/peter-schumann-s-art-hop-exhibit-sparks-controversy
[3] http://www.7dvt.com/2007letters-editor-13
[4] http://www.7dvt.com/2007/hawks-and-doves-flock-together-norwich-peace-conference
[5] http://www.7dvt.com/2007/pollina-possibility


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Fact: As of 4:46pm on January 14, there are 7,767 February Lady Sweater project pages on Ravelry and many more unRaveled FLSs roaming free out in the world (eep!).
Fact: As I've said before, that pattern has plenty of flaws. It was my first real try at sizing a sweater. I wrote it up quickly (and, stupidly, without the expert help of any editors or designers with more knowledge and experience than I have). It's no gem, but folks have used it as a launching pad and worked with it to make many pretty things.
Every one of those thousands of people who have knit a February Lady Sweater has experience with and insight into modifying the original pattern to make it what they wanted to knit and wear. Increases have been altered! Sleeves have been narrowed! Yokes have been tweaked! Unfortunately, that knowledge is spread out over countless online forums and knitting groups and classes and yarn shops and individual knitter brains.
So let's gather it up!
I'm issuing a call for anyone who's made the February Lady Sweater (and I mean anyone, whether it was your first sweater project or you used it to teach your hundredth knitting class) to share their expertise. What modifications did you make? What issues/problems did you encounter, and how did you fix them? Let's talk fit, obviously, but also design, technique, yarn choice, whatever. In a month or so, I'll go through the comments here, gather up all the input, synthesize the information, and barf it out into some kind of organized clearinghouse of tips and tricks as a resource for future FLS knitters.
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Aldiss, Brian (Vol. 14)
Aldiss, Brian 1925–
Aldiss is a British science fiction writer, novelist, critic, short story writer, essayist, and editor. His Billion Year Spree, a critical history of science fiction, confirmed his continuing efforts to present science fiction as a serious literary genre. He received the Hugo Award in 1962 for Hothouse and a Nebula in 1966 for The Saliva Tree. A non-science fiction portrayal of English middle-class life is presented in the first two novels of a planned series: The Hand-Reared Boy and A Soldier Erect. (See also CLC, Vol. 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
Damon Knight
The failure of most recent s.f. novels to say anything new and important, or even very interesting, makes a novel like Brian W. Aldiss's Vanguard from Alpha, flawed as it is, worthy of note.
Aldiss writes pointed, dry, highly stylized short stories that pack a great deal into a small space. His novels, those we have seen so far, are pot-boilers. (p. 243)
But even in his comic-book writing, Aldiss is more perceptive than most. The final solution of his puzzle is ingenious and reasonably satisfying; his future world has at least touches of reality, because it's as idiotically patched-together and complicated as our own….
If this writer ever does a novel with his right hand, it will be something worth waiting for. (p. 244)
Damon Knight, "Decadent," in his In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction (copyright © 1956, 1967, by Damon Knight; reprinted by courtesy of Advent: Publishers, Inc.), revised edition, Advent, 1967, pp. 241-47.∗
(The entire section is 154 words.)
Richard Mathews
[Aldiss] finds the boundaries of simple popularity a limitation, and clearly wishes to venture beyond these limits into the uncharted waters of the experimental and esoteric. Like any prophet, or any writer, he is concerned with the language he uses to communicate—with words that shift and play games, with words that challenge and reveal. Committed to growth and change, he also steadfastly and painfully insists on examining his own nature, his moral stature, and his place in the universe. (p. 4)
[In his remarkable first collection of short stories, Space, Time and Nathaniel (1957),] we recognize the unique and challenging imagination which unwinds through countless Aldiss plots. Space and time are of paramount concern. He begins with the abstract theoretical foundations which are the assumptions behind our perceptions of reality. Added to this conceptual frame of reference is the individual perspective which gives it meaning—Nathaniel. Aldiss's world constantly stresses the limits and implications of relativity. The individual is more clearly revealed when set against the boundless perspectives of space. Science fiction was the ideal form for Aldiss, who later observes in the same introduction, "The corsets of conformity pinch on all sides." Aldiss needs the infinite space that science fiction allows him, and yet he continually brings us back to ponder the dignity and worthiness of a single human being.
(The entire section is 4882 words.)
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Enemies of the System is essentially derivative, almost a lash-up of elements from Huxley, Wells, Orwell, anthropological accounts of cargo cults and so on. It does not further either the analysis or the resolution of the problem of what happens to an advanced but stagnant culture when it meets a primitive but vital and evolving one. Indeed, Mr Aldiss weakens his central antithesis by revealing that his Utopia includes 'the dreaded reason police.' The System must therefore be in a state of internal revolt, but the matter is never developed. Mr Aldiss seems to have found difficulty in resisting the allure of any theme that has proved its worth in other books, whether relevant to his own or not.
Possibly as a further consequence of the basic lack of purpose, the text is full of inconsistencies. All right, the culture is stagnant but, after a million years which has seen the introduction of interstellar travel, would holiday-makers still drive about in coaches with tyres and squealing brakes? Towards the end of the book it is revealed that much more sophisticated transport systems are available. The coach is thus unmasked as merely a literary device to enable contact with the primitives to be established. Even more unconvincing is the mode of expression of the Biocom citizens. They continually regale each other with rustic saws such as: 'As the teat grows thinner, the kid sucks with greater vehemence'. Hardly what one expects from...
(The entire section is 291 words.)
Jeremy Treglown
Enemies of the System has all the easy interest of any cleanly-imagined futurist novel, and effectively juxtaposes its hyper-evolved Biocom tourists with the kangaroo-like, regressed but sporadically dignified human species on the remote planet the tourists visit. Given all this, it's mostly a simple exercise in transposition. Statute-books become computerised statute-banks; fathers are replaced by directors of crèches. All amusing enough, except that the characterisation is rudimentary, the narrative linear, and the dialogue either crudely ideological or absurdly expository…. (p. 748)
Jeremy Treglown, "Drunk Dreams," in New Statesman (© 1978 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 95, No. 2463, June 2, 1978, pp. 747-48.∗
(The entire section is 100 words.)
Lorna Sage
Brian Aldiss is astonishingly prolific, and surprisingly humane and solid. The first characteristic he shares with other science fiction writers …, but the other qualities are much more rare….
[New Arrivals, Old Encounters and This World and Nearer Ones] are very humanly likeable. They are, in other words, without the excesses of mutual abuse and mutual parody SF writers increasingly seem to go in for—the unsavoury consequences of having only partially emerged from their despised but profitable ghetto, their 'small cemeteries on the fringes of a book page' as Mr. Aldiss phrases it. He himself is doing his level best to still the internecine feuds, and to emphasize the creative connections between SF and the ordinary novel.
Of course for him the ordinary novel is a rather tired affair. The stories in New Arrivals, Old Encounters with their pared down, if not actually cloned characters, and their plots casually based on superputers and time-defeating communications, make that very clear. From his point of view fictional realism is bound to look like a shortsighted episode between worlds based on total religion or total science….
[The] recurrent theme is the spring-cleaning of men's atavistic fears and hates, and the transformation of metaphysics into a science. The culminating piece, 'Difference,' imagines that process as nearly complete, and injects a further...
(The entire section is 512 words.)
Jeremy Tambling
[New Arrivals, Old Encounters] will appeal to those who like their fantasies given a dressing of Arnoldian high seriousness. My loss, no doubt, but I am left a little cold by such solemnities as 'the universe has a dark corner, the human soul, which is its reflection'—the winning contribution of a five-year-old to a galaxy-wide competition. A bureaucratic nirvana is nicely described in one short story, 'A Spot of Konfrontation': another, 'One Blink of the Moon' is effectively phantasmagoric and spooky; but too often the entertainment is overlaid with vague gestures towards presumed significance. (p. 313)
Jeremy Tambling, "Caged," in New Statesman (© 1979 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 98, No. 2527, August 31, 1979, pp. 312-13.
(The entire section is 114 words.)
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1980 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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MARQUETTE, MI -- Gwinn High School basketball fans were spoiled the last four years watching Kyle Aho pour in point after point for the Modeltowners--in fact a school record 1,669 points, good for the most all time in school history.
Monday, he began his college career by picking a school to attend next fall. Monday afternoon on ESPN 970's Sportspen radio show in Marquette, Aho chose Alma College just outside Mount Pleasant. The Scots compete in Division III basketball. The Upper Peninsula Dream Teamer and Class C First Team selection had plenty of other opportunities to play elsewhere, including at Lake Superior State University, but he says the decision came down to the books and playing minutes.
"I based it on academics first and also the opportunity to play--come in as a freshman and have the opportunity to make an impact. That is pretty intriguing to me. It can't be done in alot of programs," said Aho. "I chased that...the opportunity to play right away." Aho was also glad to see the recruiting process come to an end as well.
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