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The worst part of being dead is that theresnothing left to live for. No more kisses. Nomore secrets. No more gossip. Its enoughto kill a girl all over again. But Im about toget something no one else does—an encoreperformance, thanks to Emma, the long-losttwin sister I never even got to meet.
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When Shepard was young, the things she wanted to be when she grew up were a soap opera star, a designer for LEGO, a Claymation artist, a geneticist, a fashion magazine editor, and, most of all, a writer. She grew up in Pennyslvania, on Philadelphia's Main Line, and went to college at New York University in 1995, the height of the club kid era. While in college, she bought many pairs of purple vinyl pants, loud leather jackets, brightly colored club kid sneakers, and even a Day-Glo pacifier. After recovering from that unfortunate but short-lived phase, she had a series of jobs interning at Elle magazine, filing important documents at J.P. Morgan, and writing and editing at Time Inc. At each of these jobs, she kept a separate folder on her computer of stories she wrote when she had free time. Eventually, she got an MFA at Brooklyn College, started receiving evil text messages from someone only known as A, nearly got run over by her best friend's SUV, and kept thinking she saw dead people everywhere.
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Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#8381 closed defect (fixed)
Failure to verify valid passwords after migration Windows => FreeBSD
Reported by: | Steffen Hoffmann | Owned by: | Steffen Hoffmann |
Priority: | normal | Component: | AccountManagerPlugin |
Severity: | critical | Keywords: | htpasswd file linebreak style |
Cc: | Trac Release: | 0.11 |
As I've been informed by Honza Rameš lately, there is potential portability issue in the current htfile.py code for 0.10
and 0.11
It arises from improper handling (.strip()) of lines read for password matching due to different EOL style in Windows and BSD (and of course other systems too).
The trunk
branch is no affected, since this issue has been prevented by opening the password store file in unified mode since [9272].
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Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
Status: | new → assigned |
Summary: | Unable to correctly verify valid passwords after migration Windows => FreeBSD → Failure to verify valid passwords after migration Windows => FreeBSD |
As the aforementioned code is still not part of any stable release, I'll go and apply the suggested fix to still get some improvement for stable releases NOW.
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
Resolution: | → fixed |
Status: | assigned → closed |
(In [9749]) AccountManagerPlugin: Prevent password matching failure for PasswordFileStores, closes #8381.
This is a reported portability issue, but the code change here is meant
as an interim/maintenance revision, before the issue with different
EOL styles across different OS platforms is addressed more general
by merging [9272] from trunk
into the other branches.
Changed 6 years ago by
Attachment: | htfile.patch added |
Original patch I submitted to Steffen during my research of the issue

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thank god i know someone who works at gamestop.getting this game 2nite at 9 pm.sorry everyone else who has to wait.but it will be worth the wait
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I like this in-you-face shot!
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I did this on the Droid Forum with our Moto Droids and it was a HUGE success, so I thought I'd try it here. A lot of the threads you see are like "name the best" etc. And sometimes just seeing a list of ALL sparks people's memory. If it's not obvious or a common app like Weatherbug or Urbanspoon, list what it does. Apps: Jailbroken with Cydia and Rock...Cydia/Rock has some apps that iTunes does not have...like SNES4iPhone with WiiMote support. Full Force (must have a jailbroken iPad. This forces some iPhone apps into iPad mode...not 2x mode but a high-res iPad mode) AppAdvice (some decent articles about new apps for the iPad/iPhone - you can go into settings to have it only show iPad apps) Early Edition (organizing RSS feeds into a newspaper like format) iBooks (this is obvious...but it should be mentioned that you could use Calibre a free program to convert some books to ePub and just drag and drop them into your library and they'll show up so long as they aren't DRM protected) Goodreader (allows you to view just about any file on your iPad, and if you go to Apps then Goodreader in iTunes you can import them on your computer...I have all of my military awards and necessary manuals etc for easy access) Lose It (this is an iPhone app that I use to keep track of calories and food and exercise from each day...does not work with full force) iWorks Suite (basically a light version of Excel, Word, and Powerpoint...all of which you can add documents like Goodreader, through iTunes) Print Central (not the most amazing app, but it does allow you to print from your iPad via their mail, browser, and file program with software installed on your desktop) Weatherbug (this was the best weather app that I found, it's probably all a matter of preference) Todo (simple to do list) Facebook (it's the iPhone Facebook app which works GREAT with Full Force) IM+ (integrate all your IM clients into one, including Facebook chat. I bought this for when I go overseas, I can still chat with my wife) textPlus (allows me to text so long as my WiFi connection is active) Whistle (allows me to call over VOIP with WiFi...must listen to a 10 second ad at the beginning of the call before it connects. The number given to you when you sign up can also be called if your app is open) CyDelete (Must be jailbroken. Allows you to uninstall apps the same way you would as if they were purchased from iTunes with the little wiggle/x) SBSettings (Must be jailbroken...swipe the status bar to quickly turn off/on wifi, BT, etc) iWikiHD IMDb Dictionary Jumbo Calculator SpringJumps (allows you to jump directly to a certain page in one click, MUST be jailbroken) eBay PayPal (the iPhone app, but only half works with Full Force) USAA (the iPhone app, does NOT work with Full Force) Google Earth (works completely with Full Force) WebMD Pandora Kayak (search for flights) Touchboard (like a dry erase board, I use it when I am trying to explain something, like a layout of a house or something) Fandango (works with Full Force) Urbanspoon Photobucket Tips and Tricks HD for iPad - AWESOME app...for 99 cents you might learn how to do some stuff with your iPad...like holding down the period key brings up .com, .net, etc Springback (must be jailbroken, backs up your springboard so when iTunes screws up your app order you can just restore instead of moving everything) Categories (must be jailbroken, allows you to put your apps into folders, but unfortunately the folders only pop up in portrait and don't scale even with Full Force. It also allows you to hide icons on the springboard, like iTunes etc) iFile (Must be jailbroken, allows you to manage your iPad files) Games: Crosswords (somewhat expensive for an app at 10 bucks, but you get free crosswords from a million different newspapers forever...and great interface) Angry Birds Pinball HD Final Fantasy 1&2 (iPhone app that works on iPad) Broken Sword HD (point and click adventure) 10 Pin Shuffle (bowling and shuffleboard, can be played wirelessly or pass n play) Scrabble (can play over the network or pass n play) SNES4iPhone (Works with the WiiMote if you are jailbroken, does not work with Full Force) Plants vs. Zombies HD Tower Madness HD (tower defense game) Bebbled (one of those games where you eliminate the little bubble things by matching colors) Cogs HD (sort of reminds me of the Incredible Machine, only with just cogs and steam pipes and whatnot) Pirate Bay HD (line drawing game where you have to move the ships to take out the enemy trying to attack your fort) Game of Life (iPhone app) Flight Control HD (land planes in line drawing fashion) Harbor Havoc 3D (iPhone app, does not work with Full Force...another line drawing game) iSpadez Befuddled HD (make words to eliminate tiles...sort of like Bebbled vs. Scrabble) Dungeon HD (Diablo for the iPad) Asphalt 5 (racing game) Let's Golf HD
I just don't have the time or energy to do this.... But I will have the time and energy to see what everyone else has
You say Dungeon HD... I assume you mean Dungeon Hunter (which I have) because if it as any of the Diablo clones I have to have it... on that subject, do you have Underworlds? A pretty good Diablo clone... but I can't beat it because of a bug in a quest.... makes me scream in the night....
My list isn't very big so far but here it is: Apps: iBooks (Apple's eBook store and reader. I like it) Free Comics (by Comixology, its a comic book store and reader and its fully awesome) Free Marvel Comics (Comic book store and reader) Free IMDB (Movie database) Free Kindle (Amazon's Kindle app which allows you to buy and read kindle ebooks on the iPad. It works really good and its easy, and Amazon has a lot more books then the Apple store and there cheaper. I like the "feel" of the iBooks app better tho) Free Dragon Dictation (This is so cool u just talk and it turns whatever you say into text and then you can copy and paste it into email or whatever) Free Surf Report (This is an iPhone App. It gives an up to date report on surfing conditions at tons of places and this is a fully awesome app) Free Weather HD (Shows what the weather is in tons of different cities around the world. It gives a 3 hour forecast or a 7 day forecast and it has a nice HD graphic of what the weather is) Free Pocket Pond (This is a kinda cool app that is like having a little fishing pond on your iPad. It has like pond sounds and you can touch the water and make it ripple and stuff like that) Free Skateboard Tricktionary (A big dictionary of skateboarding tricks) Free BBC News (Well its BBC world news with radio and articles) Free Pages (This is a word processor from Apple. Its kinda expensive and kinda basic but it works good for writing notes and papers or working on homework or whatever.) $9.99 Jumbo Calculator (Just a big calculator for iPad) Free Sketchbook Pro (This is an awesome app to make art with) $7.99 iWax Surfboards (This is a really simple app for like if you cant go surfing and ur stuck somewhere u can wax your digital surfboard and stay stoked) $.99 Games: (None yet! How lame is that? LOL) Anyway so far that's basically it. I've been having so much fun watchin videos and reading comics and stuff that I haven't put a lot of apps or games on my iPad yet.
Yeah that's what I meant, I never remember what it's actually called. I definitely don't want to download a game I can't beat.
@Krew - Comixology yes... even reads comics from....err........well from the dark side.... The Marvel app is $1.99 a comic.... insane..... You need some games... what kind of games do you like on PC/Mac or console? I bet we can help you pick out a few iPad games you would like.....
Hmm. I dont know where the dark side is. lol. I like RPGs and strategy games. Well and MMORPGs. Right now I've been playing Dragon Age a lot on the PC. Have you ever played it? It is soooooooo amazingly good. HOURS of fun. and they keep expanding it.
I have an iPhone so I have a ton of apps for it, but I'll spare that list. I am waiting on my iPad right now, but I've already gotten a few apps from iTunes and they are waiting on my computer. -LogMeIn Ignition (Pricey, but a great virtual desktop app, use it on my iPhone but it will be much better on the iPad) -Pandora (Is there a Last.fm app for iPad yet?) -ABC Player -Adobe Ideas -AP News -Godfinger -GoodReader -Keynote -Netflix (the app I'm most excited about) -NPR -Numbers -New York Times -Pages -Time -Tweetdeck -Wikipanion I know I'll have much, much more when I actually get it.
I have: Category: Productivity, News and Other AirVideo (Watch and convert videos on your PC or Mac) $2.99 BlueCam for iPad (Share iPhone camera on iPad) $1 Google Mobile iTeleport (Remote access to your PC or Mac) $24.99 Marvel Comics (comics) Free NewsRack (RSS News and Twitter Reader) $4.99 Toodledoo (Todo list, syncs remotely) $2.99 Trails (GPS for Hikers, Snow sports) $3.99 20 Minuten Blick (Swiss News Magazine) $Free Big Calculator (Calculator) Free iBooks (obvious) Free GoodReader (lots of file formats reader and downloader) $1 iSigns HD (signs) Free NPR for iPad (News) Free Todo for iPad (better than Toodledoo, but syncs with it) $4.99 NYT Editor's Choice (News) Free PaperDesk (i forget, haven't really tried it out, hehe) $1.99 USA Today (News) Free Weatherbug Elite (Weather) Free Pocket Pond HD (Fish pond) Free Wired Magazine (Magazine) $tupidly Expensive Wall Street Journal (News) Free Art and Music Adobe Ideas (Quick Sketches) Free ArtStudio (Drawing) $2.99 AutoDesk Sketchbook Pro (Excellent Art/Drawing Program) $7.99 GrooveMaker Free for iPad (DJ/Music Looping) Free GrooveMaker House for iPad (DJ/Music Looping) $9.99 KORG iELECTRIBE (Electronic Music Looping) $9.99 Games Underworld Ultimate (Diablo Clone) $1.99 X-Plane for iPad (Flight Simulator) $9.99 BioDefense HD (Game) $1 iPhone Apps that I can't live without Yahoo! Music N.O.V.A (FPS Game) $4.99 iGo Navigation (Navigational System) $94.99 Highlighted in bold are my absolute favorites.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
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Today we're hopping with IO again showcasing the fun and fabulous Dies
For my card I used Egg Set...Loveee these cute little chicks!
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I agree that the little chicks are just too cute. Love how you blinged the fencing to look like hardware/hinges/nails...cute idea. Jan Douglas, Florida
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How fun and how sweet! I love the background and that tree! Then the cuties! It is all in the details and you sure nailed them with this card! Love it!
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Combinatorial prediction games
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Given Gore's enormous level of eco-hypocrisy, it's possible he's only opposed because the proposed pipeline wouldn't run straight to his mansions, limos and private jets.
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Former Vice President Al Gore called on President Obama late Wednesday to reject a pending permit application for a controversial pipeline project, calling the oil that it would carry "the dirtiest fuel on the planet."
"The answer to our climate, energy and economic challenges does not lie in burning more dirty fossil fuels —instead, we must continue to press for much more rapid development of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and cuts in the pollution that causes global warming," Gore, a vocal climate activist, wrote on his blog Wednesday night.
The State Department is just months away from a decision on the proposed TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry Canadian oil sands from Alberta to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast.
Gore also praised the those who protested the pipeline in front of the White House the other day. During that protest, actress Daryl Hannah was arrested for A) Refusing to comply with US Park Police; B) Failure to pay back taxes; or C) Taking part in the remake of Attack of the 50ft Woman (the answer is "A"…I think).
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I have a exspensive Moen shower valve , the kind that stops sudden water temperature changes, Worked jolly well for years then a leak appeared on one of the copper pipes leading to it ( about 2 inches away from the actual valve. I removed all the innerds out of the valve before soldering. When I soldered i wrapped cold asbestos cloth around the main valve so wouldn't over heat it. Finished the job, reassembled the valves, turned the water on and all I can get out of it is a tiny trickle of hot water. Sure would be thankful for a tip on this or do I have to go buy a new valve ? Thanks.
No announcement yet.
Shower valve Driving me nuts
Re: Shower valve Driving me nuts
After turning the water back on, debris could have clogged the cartridge or balancing spool.
After re-inserting the cartridge, the rubber gasket could have hung up on the port.
Does the shower valve have screwdriver stops? I've seen situations where the bibb washer from the hot side broke off due to being brittle and clogged the passage way.
I would start off by removing all of the components, closing the shower curtain/door, then turn the water on full blast to make sure none of the ports are plugged.
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emerge gentoo-sources stalling i686 machine at applying 4400
"Applying 4400_alpha-sysct1-uac.patch (-po+ ) ...". how long should I let this run? I let it run for about 4 hours last night, then forced shutdown ( forgot there was a proper way of doing this). Might this take two days or more..I have an athlon 1.2 gig and and Dsl connection. Frank
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Tasks 62 total, 2 running none stopped. dont know if that helps troubleshooting.Last edited by frank56; 11-08-2009 at 08:21 PM. Reason: new info
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What I would do is remove the sources from /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/src, and remerge the package. That will make sure you get a good download and unpack, and it will be fresh. If that doesn't work, you probably have a more serious issue.
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The very last asteric * after src, I enter that or an actual file? Frank
rm /usr/portage/distfiles/portage-20091030.tar.bz2
I get" cannot remove, no such file or directory", even though I just ls from this directory and see it above my command line .
I didnt go on to rm -rf /usr/src/* didnt know if step one had to be completed before step 2 Frank
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The steps are independent of each other. The asterisk (*) just means "all" in that directory.
You want to remove the kernel sources from /usr/portage/distfiles. That is the directory that gentoo downloads it's package files to extract and install.
So just do this and it will work:
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It feels good I made some progress, I removed /usr/src/* but still getting same no such file on first rm command. I feel confident I am in the right directory to issue the command being the second command worked.
I had doubt because I remember seeing /mnt/gentoo at the command prompt when I downloaded Stage3 and portage. Now when I issue command to cc
/mnt/gentoo I get livecd gentoo#
I am very greatfull for your help. I hope i am doing my part on this end. Frank
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The commands I gave you were meant to be administered in the chroot. If you are in the livecd environment, then the emerge command won't be for the chroot install.
Make sure you are chroot'd into your install before administering the commands.
If it says "#livecd gentoo", you are not in the chroot environment. You cannot install gentoo without chrooting into your environment.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish authorities found signs of horse DNA in beef stored at three storage facilities after several countries pointed to Poland as one of the sources of tainted meat that has shaken up the European food industry.
Officials in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic have reported that products such as burgers and lasagne contained horsemeat that originated from facilities in Poland.
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Polish officials had previously said they found no signs of horse meat at all abattoirs tested.
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No, that is really nice of you.
I went back to that area and it's still going on.
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The Manchester City defender was dismissed for a tackle on Jack Wilshere in the second half but will not face a ban following a successful appeal by the Premier League champions
The Belgian center back was sent off by match official Mike Dean for a tackle on Jack Wilshere in the second half at the Emirates Stadium.
"An Independent Regulatory Commission has today upheld a claim of wrongful dismissal regarding Manchester City's Vincent Kompany," read an FA statement released on Tuesday.
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Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini had indicated after the game that the club would protest the decision before an appeal was officially lodged on Monday.
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Couple more weeks and the playoffs are here.Who do you think will be in the bowl.Im going with the Saints over the Chargers.
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Chargers over the Vikings. Saints a close second.
Dec 28, 2009, 07:28 PM #3
Colts over Saints, aka a game I'll have to bet on to have any interest in.
Here's the NFL thread...
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I kinda get it... it was mentioned several times about New Englands perfect season and how it meant nothing without the SB rock on the finger at the end. They have one focus, and that's to win the big prize. If that's how they feel that they have the best way to acheive that goal would be to rest for the last two games and then have the bye, then that's what they gotta do. However... I think it's way too early to rest players to keep them fresh for the big game.
Man, your donkeys have a very uphill battle to get in the mix now. Who does the number one and number two play? Does the number two play the number four seed? Hmmm....
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here is the wild card afc breakdown.
if the ravens win, they r in. because they have the tie breaker over denver and every other team in the afc besdies the jets. if the jets win then they r in too.
so the ravens would play new england because new england is the top wild card week seed and the jets have the tie breaker over the ravens.
and cinci would play the jets again in the first round.
if the jets lose, then denver or pittsburg could make it. if the ravens lose, that opens it up for thw whole group.
so right now.
baltimore at new england and then the jets at cinci.
its a mind fu**.
the ravens should beat oakland. but who knows about the jets bengals. the bengels may pull palmer half wa thru and open the door for the jets too win. but I give cinci a slight advantage


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What is Silicon Valley food? New Orleans has its gumbo, Chicago's got its hot dogs and Texas is known for its chili and barbecue. And here in Silicon Valley? We've got squat.
As one of the largest and most diverse metropolitan areas in the country, Silicon Valley needs a dish to call its own. Before housing subdivisions and corporate office parks paved over Santa Clara Valley, the area was affectionately known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. The name harkens back to the fruit orchards that thrived in the region's fertile soil and world-class climate. I have a friend from Sunnyvale who still gets a faraway look in his eyes when he remembers the cherry orchards of his youth. You'd think this agricultural heritage and the now defunct canneries that went along with it would have spawned a beloved local specialty. Cherry pie? Plum tart? Fruit leather? Nope. Nothing.
I say it's time to put a dish on Silicon Valley's culinary map. There are three criteria needed to establish a dish as a regional specialty. First, and most obviously, it has to have started locally. San Jose may be a good burrito town but it's never going to claim title as the burrito capital of the world because we didn't invent them here or make them best (San Francisco lays claim to that honor). Second, the dish has to have wide appeal. Fremont's Afghan restaurants may do a great job with sautéed lamb's brain but its appeal is rather limited. And third, a local specialty must be popular and not a throwback dish that no one eats anymore. Hardtack and salt pork were haute cuisine during the westward expansion but the attraction of those frontier victuals has faded.
With that in mind, I nominate pho as Silicon Valley's specialty of the house. If you think there's another local specialty that better represents us, Live Feed wants to hear it.
The arrival of Vietnamese immigrants here in the 1970s and the subsequent proliferation of Vietnamese restaurants introduced us to this wonderful, aromatic beef noodle soup. Now you can get a bowl of pho, pronounced "fuh," far and wide but Silicon Valley, and San Jose in particular, is where it's made best and where it was made first in the United States. (OK, Orange County has a large Vietnamese community too, but the OC is already known for Disneyland and as the birthplace of Richard Nixon).
Silicon Valley is home to dozens of pho restaurants. In San Jose, PHO HOA has grown from a one-restaurant operation into a chain that's taken the exotically spiced soup worldwide. Others are following suit. Restaurant chains like El Cerrito-based ZAO NOODLE BAR, ASIA FRESH of Minneapolis and Atlanta's DOC CHEY'S NOODLE HOUSE all serve versions of the soup.
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Dissent is a dangerous undertaking in Sri Lanka. Following the end of the armed conflict new forms of political and social activism are beginning to emerge but intolerance of criticism is still very much the modus operandi of Sri Lankan government officials. Mounting evidence that violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, in some instances amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, were committed by parties to Sri Lanka's protracted armed conflict has fuelled both domestic and international criticism of Sri Lanka's human rights record and calls for accountability. Sri Lankan officials and those working at their behest assault, jail, abduct and even kill those who challenge their authority; to avoid the legal and political consequences of their war-time actions, they attempt to silence those who could expose the truth.
During the armed conflict between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) gross and large-scale violations of international human rights and humanitarian law were committed by both sides with impunity. In the final years of the conflict, which ended in May 2009 with Sri Lankan forces defeating the LTTE, there were credible allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity having been committed by government forces and the LTTE. During the conflict both sides also used threats and violence to silence detractors. Thousands of Tamils were denied rations, services, or the permission to leave LTTE territory, charged fines, detained and killed by the LTTE as "traitors" for acts of perceived disloyalty. For many years, government repression of dissent in Sri Lanka focused on silencing those who opposed the way the war was fought, particularly those who were critical of violations of international humanitarian law by the Sri Lankan forces. Members of the security forces and government-allied paramilitaries have arrested, threatened and killed critical journalists, and used intimidation and violence to silence witnesses to government violations.
One of the holdovers from Sri Lanka's armed conflict is a security regime that criminalizes freedom of expression, and an official attitude that equates dissent with treason. Sri Lankan officials and state-owned media employ the term "traitor" with alarming frequency against detractors, often threatening death or injury to the person accused. Threats and vicious smear campaigns have featured in state-owned media and media sympathetic to the government in advance of important international meetings where Sri Lanka's human rights record has been discussed, and state intelligence services have increased scrutiny of local activists, attacking what it calls the "internationalization" of post war accountability, by which it means discussion and debate of Sri Lanka's human rights record at the UN and in other international meetings and calls for an independent international investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka.
If anything, Sri Lankan officials are now intensifying their efforts to eradicate dissent, striking out against prominent national institutions, including the judiciary, and public figures who express opposition to government policies and practices. In January 2013, after months of increasing tension between the executive and the judiciary which had made a number of rulings in favour of victims of human rights violations and against pet projects of the government, the Chief Justice was impeached and removed from office sparking widespread protests by lawyers (see section III). There has been deepening surveillance and intimidation of dissenting lawyers and a broad range of lesser-known community-level activists, and the blocking of websites and discouragement of public discussion of issues the authorities view as "controversial."


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The Blackwell Deception PC
- Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2011
- Also On: iPhone/iPad
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Oct 28, 2011It's seriously one of the best adventure games I've played in years that has words in it (I'm looking at you, Machinarium). It doesn't just tell a good story, it's tightly plotted too.
Nov 2, 2011With its great characters, solid plot, well written dialogues and interesting puzzles, Deception is probably one of the best point and click adventures of the year. Maybe the only real complaint is the lack of graphics coherence.
Oct 19, 2011The Blackwell Deception presents a solid and satisfying mystery to solve, enjoyable and logical puzzles and loads of well-written, believable characters. The result is one of the best adventure games of recent years.
Oct 5, 2011If gamers want a new point-and-click adventure to sink their teeth into, Blackwell Deception gives all the features that they are most likely looking for.
CD-ActionDec 27, 2011A textbook example of a 2D point'n'click adventure game. Probably just a handful of players will decide to give it a chance but they will be rewarded with a good story served with 'early SCUMM' visuals. [January 2012, p.73]
Dec 4, 2011Blackwell Deception proves that adventure gaming is far from giving up the ghost. [Christmas 2011, p.70]
Oct 12, 2011Blackwell Deception has some good ideas and it's refreshing for a game to deal with ghosts and psychics in a way that's not entirely shallow. The script is at its best when it's disarmingly sincere, as the attempts at humor are hit and miss. It's just a shame then that the story is as old-hat as Joey's fedora.
Oct 12, 2011With a little more challenge and visual polish, this could have been a truly great adventure, but instead settles for being another solid supernatural mystery.
Mar 13, 2012Weak intrigue is a traditional soft spot of the Blackwell adventure games. The investigation is predictable, and all of our burning questions are answered in such a dull, ridiculous manner that all build up flies out the window.
Oct 18, 2011Blackwell Deception will appeal to point'n click lovers: the puzzles are solid without being frustrating, the characters duo and story are nice. If you didn't know about the game, don't hesitate to start from the beginning of the series. The only shortcoming: it lacks a good artistic direction and some ambition to give it a real touch.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Edited by: Prof. Nick Crofts, Dr Timothy John Moore, Ms Brigitte Tenni, Dr Nick Thomson
This issue presents reports from a program of research carried out in the Mekong region countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam into the relationship of policing and harm reduction in those countries - countries at different stages of evolution of the HIV epidemic, but where injecting drug use is either now or potentially a major driver of the national epidemic. The genesis of the research was in the realisation that while much is known about the impact of policing practice on the creation or aggravation of risk environments for HIV transmission among drug users, much less is know about the impact of harm reduction programs and policies on police approaches to drug use and drug users - knowledge essential for successful advocacy and program design. In this issue is an overview from a regional harm reduction program, and three country reports by local and collaborating researchers illustrated by a number of case studies. We hope this work contributes substantially to the better development of the police partnership in the fight against HIV in the South East Asian region. Sponsorship for these manuscripts was received from AUSAid.
Collection published: 9 July 2012
Afterword: Police, policing, and HIV: new partnerships and paradigms
Chris Beyrer Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:32 (9 July 2012)
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Case study
The village/commune safety policy and HIV prevention efforts among key affected populations in Cambodia: finding a balance
Nick Thomson, Supheap Leang, Kannarath Chheng, Amy Weissman, Graham Shaw, Nick Crofts Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:31 (9 July 2012)
Harm reduction in Cambodia: a disconnect between policy and practice
Kannarath Chheng, Supheap Leang, Nick Thomson, Timothy Moore, Nick Crofts Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:30 (9 July 2012)
Laos case study
Brigitte Tenni, Vanphanom Sychareun Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:29 (9 July 2012)
Defining and redefining harm reduction in the Lao context
Vanphanom Sychareun, Visanou Hansana, Sysavanh Phommachanh, Vathsana Somphet, Phouthong Phommavongsa, Brigitte Tenni, Timothy Moore, Nick Crofts Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:28 (9 July 2012)
Harm reduction and law enforcement in Vietnam: influences on street policing
Melissa Jardine, Nick Crofts, Geoff Monaghan, Martha Morrow Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:27 (9 July 2012)
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Case study: Methadone maintenance treatment in Hanoi, Vietnam
Melissa Jardine, Van Anh Thi Nguyen, Thu Khuat Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:26 (9 July 2012)
Harm reduction and "Clean" community: can Viet Nam have both?
Thu Khuat, Van Anh Nguyen, Melissa Jardine, Timothy Moore, Thu Bui, Nick Crofts Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:25 (9 July 2012)
Partnering with law enforcement to deliver good public health: the experience of the HIV/AIDS Asia regional program
Mukta Sharma, Anindya Chatterjee Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:24 (9 July 2012)
Assessing the impact of harm reduction programs on law enforcement in Southeast Asia: a description of a regional research methodology
Nick Thomson, Tim Moore, Nick Crofts Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:23 (9 July 2012)
Foreword: Public health, public policy, politics and policing
Daniel Tarantola Harm Reduction Journal 2012, 9:22 (9 July 2012)
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Split California into six states? VC Draper plans ballot initiative
Venture capitalist-scion Tim Draper, whose investment wins include Skype and Overture, says he plans a ballot initiative to split California into six states.
"Why?" You might ask. Is it a gag? Is it secessionist fever dreaming? Is it a well-played PR stunt? Are the Drapers drumming up attention for a reality series? Is Tim Draper thinking four steps ahead of us and is the Six Californias scheme just an opening gambit? All of the above?
Draper gave TechCrunch five reasons for his proposal: 1) He wants California's population to have a better Senator-per-person count in Washington; 2) Increased competition between new states will lower costs for services; 3) A fresh start for each mini-state; 4) Improved local decision making; 5) Individuals "can move between states more freely."
TechCrunch didn't bother to critique that reasoning, and it may be an incomplete rendering of Drapers's idea, but we're happy to dig in. And don't take this critique as discounting Draper's ability to pull off something astounding. He has the dough and an unequaled network.
But the first reason seems based on a misunderstanding of the Senate's role in our democracy. It's the House of Representatives that takes care of proportional representation. The second reason is arguable, so we'll grant Draper that one out of pure indulgence. The third reason seems a tad conclusory. A few of the new states won't really want a fresh start, because without the subsidies from the others, they'll be starting with precious little. The fourth is a winner, and we'll concede it. The fifth seems kookiest — of course it's easier to move between states that are physically smaller. What's the punchline on this one?
Draper recently announced plans to step down from his investment firm and has been spending more time on educational initiatives.
And if the Six Californias initiative isn't a practical joke, it appears to be another symptom of the secessionist/isolationist strain that has developed among some in Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch calls some of their proposals "hyper ambitious" (See, eg. Peter Thiel's proposed floating, sovereign libertarian utopia; Balaji S. Srinavasan's opt-in territory for radical experimentation and Larry Page's hints at techno utopian islands.)
But it's just as easy to call the ideas "hyper regressive," wherein a class of people who benefited from a business culture and ecosystem seeks to take their winnings and open their own casino. And radical ideas usually sprout from, or end being a bargaining chip for, some other agenda.
It's too early to say which basket Draper's latest proposal falls into, but here's the full text of the Six Californias initiative measure that was posted on Scribd and embedded on TechCrunch. Someone should sift it to search for embedded messages...
A. California is the nation's most populous state, nearly six times larger than the average population of the fifty states. However, much of the state's population is concentrated in certain urban and coastal areas, particularly in Southern California.
B. California is the nation's third largest state by geography, over two times larger than the average of the fifty states, with enormous and diverse economies, including agriculture, energy, technology, and entertainment.
C. As a consequence of these and other socio-economic factors, political representation of California's diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable. Additionally, vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government dominated by a large number of elected representatives from a small part of our state, both geographically and economically.
D. It is not surprising that efforts to divide the state have been part of its history for over one hundred years. In fact, voters overwhelmingly approved the splitting of California into two states in 1859, but Congress never acted on that request due to the Civil War.
E. The citizens of the whole state would be better served by six smaller state governments while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities, and towns.
F. Moreover, the voters in any given county should be permitted to choose a different state then assigned by this law, thereby creating competition in proposed governance which will lead to better and more responsive governance.
G. The legal processes for division of the State will take time. In the interim, we the people desire to empower local governments and lessen the role of Sacramento over every aspect of our lives, to encourage regional cooperation, and to begin the process of new state identification.
A. The people, acting as the legislative body of the State pursuant to their reserved legislative power provided by the California Constitution, hereby:
(1) Establish new boundaries for six new states within the boundaries of the State of California;
1(2) Establish a procedure for county voters to choose to associate with a different state than assigned by this law prior to each State's formation;
(3) Establish a procedure for the transformation of the single State of California into six new states;
(4) Provide the legislative consent for the formation of six new states to Congress as required by the United States Constitution; and
(5) Provide interim relief to the people by empowering local government and promoting regional cooperation in recognition of the new states proposed herein.
Section 2 of Article III of the California Constitution is amended to read:
Sec. 2. The boundaries of the State are those stated in the Constitution of 1849 as modified pursuant to statute changing said boundaries or providing legislative authorization to divide the State into two or more new states and providing for such transformation. Sacramento is the capital of California.
Article 3.1 of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 173) of the Government Code is added to read:
§ 173(a) Upon enactment of this section, the legislative consent required by Section 3 of Article IV of the United States Constitution for the creation of six (6) states within the current boundaries of the State of California, established pursuant to Article 3 of this Code, is given by the people.
(b) The boundaries of the six (6) new states shall be as follows:
(1) A new state, named Jefferson, including the territory represented by the boundaries of the following counties: Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity.
(2) A new state, named North California, including the territory represented by the following counties:, Amador, El Dorado, Marin, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba.
(3) A new state, named Central California, including the territory represented by the boundaries of the following counties: Alpine, Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne.
(4) A new state, named Silicon Valley, including the territory represented by the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey.
(5) A new state, named West California, including the territory represented by the following counties: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and Ventura.
(6) A new state, named South California, including the territory of Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
(c) On or before November 15, 2017, the voters of any county, pursuant to the initiative power or upon action of the Board of Supervisors placing a measure on the ballot, may enact an ordinance to become part of a contiguous state other than the state assigned pursuant to this section. Within thirty (30) days after certification of the vote approving the ordinance, the Boards of Supervisors in the state to which the county seeks to be re-assigned shall vote to approve the reassignment, and if a majority of those county Boards approve, the reassignment shall become effective and the Registrar of Voters shall transmit the certification and ordinance to the Governor.
(d) On January 1, 2018, the Governor shall transmit a copy of the certified election results enacting this Article, including the results of any subsequent county election to associate with a different state than assigned by this section, and a copy of this Article to Congress, with a request that Congress act upon the consent of the people as soon as practicable.
§ 174(a) Upon enactment of this section, there shall be a Board of Commissioners established with the authority to provide for the division and transformation of California. Not less than 180 days after Congress acts to approve the creation of six (6) states from within the boundaries of the state of California, established pursuant to section 173, the Legislature shall appoint twelve (12) Commissioners, six (6) by the Assembly and six (6) by the Senate to serve on a Board of Commissioners for a term not to exceed two (2) years.
(b) The Board of Supervisors of each county within a newly created state shall convene and collectively appoint two Commissioners to represent that new state on the Board of Commissioners for a term not to exceed two (2) years.
(c) The twenty-four (24) member Board of Commissioners shall, settle and adjust the property and financial affairs between the State of California and the newly created states. In the event the Commissioners fail to reach resolution of such matters before the end of their terms, the debts of the State of California shall be distributed among the newly created states based on the population of the new states proportionately to the whole population of California, as reported in the last census of the United States, and the assets within the boundaries of each newly created state shall become the assets of that state.
(d) The Legislature shall provide the financial and staff resources needed for the Board of Commissioners to conduct its business.
(e) Except as provided in section 4.5 of Article XI, the legal relationship between the counties and the State of California shall continue until the organization and establishment of a separate government in a newly created state, including the adoption of a Constitution by convention or popular vote within each newly created state.
Article XI of the California Constitution is amended to add section 4.5 to read:
Sec. 4.5(a) Upon enactment of this section, it shall be competent in any county charter to provide that the county governed thereunder may make and enforce all ordinances and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to restrictions and limitations provided in their several charters and in respect to other matters they shall be subject to general laws. County charters adopted pursuant to this Constitution shall supersede any existing charter, and with respect to municipal affairs shall supersede all laws inconsistent therewith.
(b) A county charter may provide for the delegation of authority in respect to municipal affairs, by way of compact, or other agreement, to a regional association of counties, consisting of the other counties within the boundaries of the new states provided for in section 2.5 of Article II, during the interim period of time before Congressional approval of the new states.
(c) For purposes of this section, any law intended by the Legislature to be a general law or matter of statewide concern that supersedes the authority of a county over its municipal affairs and also requires an annual subvention of funds to reimburse the county for the costs of the program or service pursuant to section 6 of Article XIIIB, shall require an annual transfer of funds from the state treasury to a county treasury, as needed, and in the absence of such reimbursement, the county shall have no obligation to enforce the law. The state shall have no power to incur debt owed to a county pursuant to this subdivision.
(a) If any provision of this Act, or part thereof, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions shall not be affected, but shall remain in full force and effect, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
(b) This Act is intended to be comprehensive. It is the intent of the People that in the event this Act or measures relating to the same subject shall appear on the same statewide election ballot, the provisions of the other measure or measures shall be deemed to be in conflict with this Act. In the event that this Act receives a greater number of affirmative votes, the provisions of this Act shall prevail in their entirety, and all provisions of the other measure or measures shall be null and void.
(c) In recognition of his personal and financial stake in the enforcement, implementation, and defense of the initiative, the official proponent of the initiative is hereby appointed "agent of the State of California" for purposes of defending the initiative against any legal challenge. In that capacity, he will supervise the legal defense provided by the Attorney General. If, in his sole determination, the Attorney General is not providing an adequate defense, the proponent shall be authorized to retain outside counsel to be compensated from the budget of the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General shall appoint such counsel as "Special Deputy Attorney General of the State of California" for the limited purpose of defending the initiative against any and all legal challenges, both at trial and on any appeal, including appeal by way of petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States.


text: Windows Vista Tip: Take screenshots with the Snipping ToolGina Trapani1/16/07 6:30pmFiled to: Windows VistaScreenshotsTopVista502EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Screenshot-happy tech writers and bug reporters rejoice! One of the nicer utilities built into Windows Vista is the Snipping Tool, a screengrab application that blows the doors off Windows XP's measly Alt-PrintScreen and Mac OS X's Grab. Advertisement The Snipping Tool can take full-screen, particular window, any rectangle or free-form "snips" of your screen and open it in an editor. There you can highlight parts of the screenshot and draw on it with a free form pen of different colors, thickness and tip styles. For a quick look at the Snipping Tool, see some screenshots of taking screenshots (recursion!) after the jump.Snipping Tool's default interface: Choose your snip type: Taking a free-form snip: The results of that snip in the editor: More editing and the options dialog: While the Snipping Tool is a huge improvement over XP's built-in screenshot capabilities, for avid screengrabbers, it's still lacking a few key options that our favorite, TechSmith's SnagIt (a not-free app) does include, like timed captures and image resizing and cropping. But once you've got Vista installed, the price of all the new features the Snipping Tool offers is right - especially for the occasional screengrabber. Reply50 repliesLeave a reply


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There was much murmuring in Westminster's undergrowth yesterday at the government's decision to send in the Economic Secretary of the Treasury, Chloe Smith, to sum up at the end of the debate on fuel prices.
Some MPs are now saying that pump prices are the biggest single source of complaints they are hearing from their constituents. The motion to hold down fuel prices was signed by 83 Tory MPs and five Liberal Democrats. They believed that they should be hearing from George Osborne rather than the most junior of the five ministers on the Commons treasury team.
This is not good for 'cold Chloe', as she is known to her growing number of enemies on the Tory side. Having secured a government post at the age of 29, after just two years in the Commons, she has drawn the resentful envy of older, longer serving colleagues. She also arrived ten minutes late for yesterday's debate. By the end of the day she was a living example of that line from an 18th century poem written by Thomas Gray – "A favourite has no friend!"
Lemmy sees a blight on Old Blighty
Lemmy, the front man for Motorhead, was never the sort of role model any parent would want for their child. "I was a hellraiser, but... I'm sixty fucking six at Christmas. How much more hellraising have I got left to do? I did most of it already – twice," he has told the December edition of Classic Rock magazine.
Now, in his mellow years, he has cast a disapproving glance over today's youth. "I won't be coming back to England," he said. "I'm proud to be English, but the England I'm proud of has gone. The riots were a symptom of that. Kids just need an excuse and they're gonna be out on the street, waving things about." Our loss entirely.
A let-off for Letwin
After being photographed strolling through St James's Park at the crack of dawn, reading confidential papers and disposing of them in public litter bins, the Cabinet Minister Oliver Letwin has signed a promise that he will not do it again, the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, announced yesterday.
"It is fortunate that most of the information he discarded was not of a particularly sensitive nature and was therefore unlikely to cause substantial distress to his constituents," Mr Graham said. He could have added in Mr Letwin's defence that at least he read the documents before he threw them away. There are ministers who would not have bothered.
Bush and Blair – the unlikely trial
Those who have been calling for years for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to be put on trial for war crimes will be heartened by the news from Malaysia where the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes tribunal will begin a four day hearing on Saturday which could – indeed probably will – result in their names being entered in a symbolic 'Register of War Criminals'.
The tribunal is the initiative of Mahathir Mohamad, the 86-year-old retired politician who ruled Malaysia with an iron hand for 22 years, had his deputy and heir apparent jailed for sodomy, and in 2003 denounced Anglo-Saxon Europeans as "proponents of war, sodomy and genocide."
The prosecution team will include Francis Boyle, Professor of Law at Illinois University, who has described Israel as a "Bantustan for Jews" destined to "collapse of its own racist and genocidal weight". On the judges' panel there will be another American, Albert L. Webre. He is billed as a "peace activist", but he is so much more.
He is one of the world's leading authorities on the Andromeda Council, a benevolent coalition of advanced beings from outer space who are watching over Earth. Last year, he uncovered a fact that has gone widely unreported – that Barack Obama went to Mars as a young man.
The organisers have informed Bush and Blair about the upcoming tribunal. Inexplicably, neither man has replied.
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i love this teapot so much.
amongst the piles and piles of abandoned junk left in the cupboards of my new kitchen, there was this beautiful teapot. a little beacon of awesome.
i think we're the same age, me and this teapot. in any case, it looks like my childhood.
when i take off the lid and look inside, i see it has the marks of time on its surface. like us, it bears the stretch marks of scalding and cooling: the thread-like roads that mark the lasting costs of change.
you know, at the time, all that heat seems worth the risk of breaking. and it sometimes is. there are experiences in which cooling is all the mending you need. when, after an ending, balance is restored with the gesture of distance.
but, no matter the details of a given story, there's always a price to be paid for the vessel. love and lust are like that, i think. we pay for the heat we hold. even if it's just for a brief moment. the risks of love and the enduring need for it cause the yearning for expansion, contraction, expansion, contraction. this cycle of dissolving and reforming bonds – seemingly at a cellular level.
we all warp and wear sometimes...feel askew or too heavy from the weight and heat inside us. when it comes down to it, a temperature difference is all it takes for cracks to form: tepid vs boiling, cool vs frozen.
like me, this teapot has learned the difference between worn, used and broken. they're nothing alike. each of the three is a separate reality to grasp. or maybe a decision to make at the meeting point of possibility?
i see worn as a state that results from an agreement to be an unflinching part of life, whatever the cost. scraping your knees as you tumble down, laughing. in this case, damage is incidental rather than inflicted. i.e.: to brew tea, you need a pot; teapots chip and crack and wear with use, but isn't the tea worth it?
i see used as a feeling that results from actions that are charged with a negative intent. actions that result in a feeling of betrayal after an expectation or set of expectations isn't fulfilled. it's the damage caused by (a) an actual betrayal or (b) a schism in reality that feels like one. i.e.: i thought you'd want to fill my teapot again tonight! don't you like my tea?
mind you, of use is different. i see that as an eyes-wide-open decision to give something of yourself, no matter the cost. i.e.: i have a great love of you, and you have a great love of tea. i will be the vessel to bring you said tea, even if it burns me. there's power and transparency behind it.
i see brokenness as resulting from a careless collision of borders. it happens when one thing or person is so hard as to break another. i.e.: using a hammer to drain the tea from the pot instead of attempting to pour it.
it seems like we take turns on these different roads throughout our lives. if we're lucky, they meet, and we get to remind ourselves of options.
i remember, years ago, learning the origin of the word trivia: it comes from tri, meaning three, and via, meaning road, referring to the place where three roads meet. this was the place where travelers used to gather and exchange knowledge.
to me, that's the essence of the whole thing: life, love, living, loving. we're these travelers on these different roads. on occasion, we stumble upon a meeting place where we have a moment to sit and breathe, listen and speak. and remember.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
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The first apartment I moved into on my one had a whole set of dishes and bowls in the cupboard, and now they're my favourite. Funnily enough, when I moved out, a bunch of my baking sheets and cake pans got left behind by accident, so it's like I traded with the apartment and whoever moved in next will maybe leave behind their own wee momento.
ReplyDeleteWhen I moved into my first house, there was an empty sugar bowl - probably a similar vintage to your tea pot - hiding in the cupboard. It has acorns and oak leaves printed on it.
Sometimes I wonder whether it was left behind by accident or on purpose. Either way, it felt like the house was saying "Hi - You're welcome here" to me.
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