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The things you learn over time, if only we knew them when we were younger! Unfortunately that's not how life works. The lessons come later.
Even so, I've started to pay more attention to the simple truths that life has offered me through my experiences so far. Here are a few of them that will hopefully be useful for you too.
1. There's no right way to do something
It's natural for us to compare ourselves to others, although it's not good for your health. Often when we do this, we get envious and wonder why we aren't achieving at that same level. We're the same age after all (or younger)!
The worse comparison nowadays is probably Mark Zuckerberg, 18 years old is a ridiculously high standard to hold yourself too, but in reality all of these comparisons do more harm then good.
There are a lot of different paths to success, to achieving your goals, and realizing your dreams. Just because one person did it a certain way, doesn't mean that's how you have to do it too. There's no right way to do anything. Everyone's story is a little different, so stop comparing and focus on your own.
2. Strategies and hacks only get you so far
There was a time that I was obsessed with digging up the latest and greatest hack that would solve all my procrastination and productivity problems. What actually happened was I found a handful of methods that were slightly different, but not really moving the needle towards progress.
It can be easy to chase these constantly and forget about what is really important: doing the work.
At some point you have to look yourself in the mirror and realize that it's up to you. Either you do it or you don't. Stop looking for shortcuts and get to it.
3. Everything you make is original
People say everything has been done already. If that were true, the world would be a boring place. Fortunately that idea is far from the truth.
A lot has been done, but not much of it has been done by YOU. This small distinction makes all the difference because when you create something from your own personal perspective, it is original.
Whatever it is, it becomes a part of you, an expression of your self. So when you're not creating because it's already been done, get over yourself and make the things that only you can make.
4. Ignore the haters and the lovers
In the world, you'll always have people who will hate and love your work with a fervor. That's how it goes when you make anything. While ignoring the haters is talked about often, the same should be done with those that are lavish with their praise.
Jeremy Isaacs said, "You're not as good as they say you are, but you're not that bad either." Truer words have never been spoken. It can be easy to get carried away with your own success.
Instead, you should stay humble, keep your head down, and keep making. Don't fall into the trap of fame, just do what you do, and the rest will take care of itself.
5. Most ideas are terrible
I love ideas. I probably have like 10 ideas every day, scribbled in my commonplace book, and in the past I always thought they were all amazing. Age has taught me otherwise. The truth is, most ideas are terrible. You probably shouldn't pursue them, but you shouldn't stop searching for them either.
I write down all my ideas, the good, the bad, and the ugly, because you never know where they may lead you. Often times, a few of those bad ideas put together can make something amazing.
The point is that having ideas is never a bad thing and having great ideas is a numbers game, so don't get too attached to them. Odds are they're not as great as you think they are, but you'll know when you strike gold, then the hard part starts.
These are just a few of the simple truths I've learned over the years, but I'm certain there are many more worth sharing. I'm planning to continue adding to this list over the coming weeks and months and would love your insights as well.
Do you have any simple truths from your own life that you'd like to share? Post them in the comments below.


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Make your next film, play, television show or commercial special with Adam Fellbur, star of stage and screen.
Co-star of Life with Skippy. Fresh off the Chickaroo wave. Also available for corporate events and supermarket openings.
TV "Life With Skippy" Actor Gummy Binkman 1969
Stage "A Salesman's Death" Chili 2000
Commerical Work Chickaroo Chicken 2002
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"Although I had never met the real Buddy Wilson, nor had I ever heard of him, I felt that Adam Fellbur's transformation into Buddy Wilson was pretty good." - Faye Feldstein, Staten Island Advance
Sept. 13, 2004
Hey fans. Sorry to be out of touch. More %!%$ Internet proglems. Here's a link to my official presidential endorsement. Click here.
Feb. 08, 2004
So happy to finally have this website back up and running. What a nightmare it has been. I can tell you Verizon and all the people who work there wouldn't know how to screw in a light bulb if it bit them in the face. You wouldn't believe what happened. Not only did my website go down, I couldn't even get online. I called them up and tried to explain that this page is the only connection to me many of you have, and the devastating implications their company could cause by interrupting my epistles of guidance and hope. There is a little girl with cancer, and I'm sorry I don't remember your name, but if you're reading, you know what your name is, and keep your chin up because I'm sorry to have been "offline" for so long.
My hatred for the people at Verizon was amplified when I finally got through to a supervisor at their call center in Albany after wading through the mindless peon proletariat they call "customer service representatives" (Ricardo I'm talking to you). It was then that my phone went dead, and I found that Verizon had not only interrupted my online service, but my telephone as well. Although I didn't have an immediate way to get to Albany, I marched right down to Verizon's call center on 125th, only to have words with a so-called "foreman." Though I remained VERY calm and retained my composure, the next thing I knew I was being manhandled by their security. Though there were plenty of witnesses to what transpired, when the police arrived, it was amazing to see how they would twist and change the truth because of my celebrity status -- like they just wanted to see me "go down." What's even worse, everyone was pretending to not even know what I was talking about, and in the confusion the police just started shouting things that didn't make any sense like "EDP! Take him out!" It's was a pack of pirahnas at a feeding frenzy. I've been watching the tabloids for two weeks now, praying the whole debacle will have ended when I posted bail.
Still, we'll see. I'm beginning to know what Princess Diana must have gone through.
Jan. 17th, 2004
Wow. Just got back from the Keenerville "Skippy" Con. What else can I say but "it was a blast." Saw many familiar faces, but also a lot of new folks as well. It's so nice to bring so many people, especially the young people, into the fold. There were a few moments there where I had to choke back tears because I was thinking of Buddy. God, he would have loved to be here now. But, I guess if you think about, probably a lot of people who are dead would think the same thing. Bittersweet it is that I must be the flagbearer for "Life With Skippy" so many years now after his death. It's like everybody is gone.
Jan. 11th, 2004
Have a special treat for all you fans out there. A couple of years ago, like sometime in the 1980s before I left LA, I stumbled across a proprietor of high-end vintage collectibles at a Lawndale Flea Market. There, lying on a pancho, were production photos from the first day of shooting "Life With Skippy." I won't tell you how much I had to pay for them, but let's just say it set me back. Not to worry fair readers, I could make a PRETTY penny if I put these in front of Sotheby's or Butterfields. In some respects, I look at these as a sentimental investment for my future.
Anyway, it just so happens my writing partner, Larry Weeks, owns a "scanner." Well, it's not really Larry's, and he doesn't really know how to use a computer yet, but his daughter Alyce (who you may remember from my previous Blog "Wicked Wiitch of the East") wasn't around so it was OK. Regardless, what a scanner does is takes images from photos, or sometimes pieces of paper, and puts them inside the computer. I even "scanned" a tennis ball once that I found on the street, which I believe may have belonged to a member of the canine persuasion. Here it is. It's Buddy Wilson though, not the tennis ball. I think "Little Miss Melts In Water" might have swept that picture with her little computer broom into her little evil computer recycle bin. A "recylce bin" is a place on a computer where you put things you don't want. I don't think they really end up being turned into anything though, like cans are used to make spaceships. I tried though for several hours by opening "documents" and "files" on Alyce's computer to see if I could see my tennis ball, or bits of it, but I couldn't, at least from what I can tell.
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Mick Jagger at 70
He once said, in the heady excess of youth, "I'd rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I'm 45." Today, Mick Jagger is 70 and he's still singing Satisfaction. Of all the odd things Jagger has done over the past seven decades, his playing the title role in Ned Kelly, a 1970 British-Australian film directed by Tony Richardson, has to be among the most extraordinary. In this clip from the movie, he sings "The Wild Colonial Boy", a ballad about a young emigrant who left Kerry in Ireland for Australia in the early 19th century. Jack Donahue/Jack Doolan/Jack Duggan spent his time "robbing from the rich to feed the poor" before he was fatally wounded in an ambush. He didn't make it to 45.Tweet


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ALBANY — New York's highest court ruled on Tuesday that governors and legislators had violated the State Constitution by trying to tie pay raises for state judges to unrelated legislation, including bills to raise lawmakers' own salaries.
In a 5-to-1 decision, the Court of Appeals found that by refusing to consider a judicial pay raise on its own merits, the legislative and executive branches had created a "judicial pay crisis," undermining the independence of the judicial branch and violating the separation of powers doctrine.
"The state defendants assert that it is within their legislative rights to consider judicial compensation not on the merits but relative to unrelated policy initiatives," the court said in its decision, written by Judge Eugene F. Pigott Jr.
"But they overlook the fact that they are treating judicial compensation, which falls within the scope of their constitutional duties, as if it were merely another government program appropriation as opposed to compensation for members of a co-equal branch."
The ruling, which addresses three separate lawsuits filed by current and former state judges, stops short of ordering the Legislature to grant a pay raise to judges, though the opinion did leave open the possibility that the court may attempt to do so in the future.Continue reading the main story
"We do not believe that it is necessary here to order specific injunctive relief," Judge Pigott wrote. "When this court articulates the constitutional standards governing state action, we presume that the state will act accordingly."
In a dissenting opinion, Judge Robert S. Smith argued that the salary logjam had not yet created a crisis for the court system or deprived it of able judges. The court's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, recused himself from deliberations because he was a plaintiff in one of the cases that the ruling addresses. The court's judges themselves would be entitled to any pay raise that lawmakers adopted.
In a video message on Tuesday to judges of the state court system, Judge Lippman said that while the decision did not order a specific salary increase for judges or even lay out a precise time frame for the Legislature to act, lawmakers were under an obligation to act "in good faith and expeditiously" to resolve the conflict.
"I am calling upon the other branches, publicly and privately," he said, "to comply with the court's decision and honor their constitutional obligations and the respective functions of the different branches of government."
But legislative leaders — and the governor — appeared in no hurry to act.
Morgan Hook, a spokesman for Gov. David A. Paterson, said that the governor believed judges had gone too long without raises and that it had "the potential to do great harm to our very accomplished judicial branch."
"Governor Paterson is once again urging the Legislature to enact his proposal to establish a Quadrennial Commission that periodically would review and adjust judicial compensation and make a recommendation to the Legislature to be determined on a nay or yea basis without linkage to any extraneous notions," Mr. Hook said. "The judiciary deserves such a straightforward analytical approach."
But, he added, "a full pay raise at this time would be a large burden as we try and close a $8.2 billion deficit."
In a statement, Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, said that while he believed that judicial salaries should be raised, the Assembly would consider doing so only "when economic conditions improve."
John L. Sampson, the Democratic conference leader in the State Senate, echoed that comment. "Encouraging our best and brightest to become and remain judges in New York is essential to protecting the peoples' right to a sound system of justice," Mr. Sampson said in a statement. "However, during the worst fiscal crisis in decades, it is difficult to justify pay raises for anyone in public service."
The ruling by the Court of Appeals follows years of steadily rising caseloads for the state's 1,300 judges, whose salaries cannot be reduced while they are on the bench but cannot be raised without an act of the Legislature.
Judges' pay was last raised in 1998. Currently, salaries range from $156,000, the annual pay of the Court of Appeals' chief judge, to $5,800, the amount earned for some part-time state judges in cities like Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers.
Since then, the court found, inflation has drained as much as one-third of the value of judges' salaries. During the same period, the court found, the judges' workload had risen to 4.5 million cases each year, from 3.5 million.
Twice in recent years, once under former Gov. George E. Pataki and once under Mr. Paterson, the state budget has included a so-called dry appropriation for judicial pay raises, setting aside money but preventing it from being spent without further legislative authorization.
That authorization never arrived, as legislative pay raises became a classic Albany political football.
For its part, the Legislature has refused to pass legislation increasing judges' salaries unless it will also increase lawmakers' salaries. Members of the Assembly and Senate currently earn a base salary of $79,500, though many earn tens of thousands of dollars more in leadership bonuses known as lulus. Unlike all but the part-time judges, moreover, lawmakers can and usually do hold outside employment.
Governors have played the game, too. When the Senate passed a bill in 2007 that would have created a commission to review salary increases for both the Legislature and the judicial branch, the governor at the time, Eliot Spitzer, refused to agree to a deal unless the bill included ethics and campaign finance measures.Continue reading the main story


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Are you getting enough sleep? Less sleep can actually cause low sperm count. A good night's rest is what you need to secure your future so to speak. According to Danish researchers, not getting enough sleep leads to a man's sperm counts dropping, testicles shrinking, among other health issues. Would you consider changing your sleep habits because of the findings?


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In a dazzling plenty of container styles the classical Greeks told their story, and the contrarian story that emerges from this exhibition is that women, far from being the reduced invisibles of the Attic polis, played a profoundly influential role that reverberates in our own society.
The idea of kylixes and kraters and amphorae and the many other types of containers with their exacting names as symbolic of women is at first trite, but on reflection the idea seems perfect and inevitable. Perfection, of course, was always on the ancient Greek mind. The containment of everything for which a civilization strives and the conveyance of that striving through time suggests a small part of why so many variations of containment and so many painstaking names was so important to the Greeks.
In this light, Alexander of Macedon`s momentous decision to convey Greek ideals to the rest of the world seems a natural outcome. We live in that Alexandrian world, the very world fundamentalist terrorists revile, and the stature of women has very much to do with what they fear and revile.
The manufacture of vessels was Athens` chief industry. Vessels were the computers and cars of their time. Much of the best art and thinking of which Greece was capable appears on those vessels, at first the black-figure vessels and then the more pervasive red-figure vessels.
Amphorae, because of their tapered feet, were ideal for shipping grains and fluids in the rounded holds of galleys. They could be lashed together so as not to break themselves to pieces as the ship rolled. To this day we are learning more about the Greeks from amphorae recovered from ocean wrecks.
But how was it that this society became so obsessed with containing precious materials in the most beautiful and elegant way possible? How was it that the Greeks sought to tell their story on these vessels? Could it be related to an idea of woman as the repository of sacred, secret knowledge? We see female rites on these vessels that we don`t understand, and we`re not sure they were widely understood in their own time. And could this be at the root of oppression of women in today`s anti-Western fundamentalists? Could a Greek notion of the divine destiny and work of women, which was spread throughout what we now call the Hellenic World, a world that encompassed the Middle East, have been perverted over time into fear of women, even hatred? Why would any society go to great lengths to oppress and keep ignorant fully one half of its humanity?
I don`t have answers. I`m not a scholar. But I have visited the Worshiping Women exhibition three times and I keep thinking of the Hindu concept of the zero and how the Arabs realized its potential, giving us modern mathematics in its applied and pure forms. The Arabs had studied and translated Greek geometry and other mathematical disciplines. They saw the potential of the zero to carry mathematics forward. But why should these musings occur to me after visiting this amazing show of Greek vessels and their portrayal of women in Greek society? I think it`s because the zero, in one of its myriad incarnations, is a vessel and also a conveyance. I think the Arabs understood they were as indebted to the Greeks as they were to the Hindus. Moreover, the Arabs themselves, because of their fascination with alchemy and transformative science, were no mean makers of vessels themselves. And they too inscribed their story on these vessels, employing the incomparable calligraphy for which they are justly celebrated. I think, at least at an intuitive if not conscious level, the sensed a connection between the sophisticated Greek idea of vessels not only as conveyors of goods but ideas and the zero which they had recently carried out of India.
I doubt, even if I were scholarly, I could prove this thesis, but I think it might be worth the musing.
Among the many tragedies civilization suffers at the hands of fundamentalists of every stripe is the rejection of all that has been accomplished under their own banners. The Muslim fundamentalists yammer about the restoration of a caliphate, and their know-nothing counterparts in the West yammer about the horror of such an idea, and yet neither recognize that it was under Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs that the Arabs, Turks and Persians translated Greek achievements to the West, deployed the zero to the uses of high mathematics and brought astronomy out of astrology. Few if any of these progressive caliphates would have tolerated the ignorant notions of today`s Muslim fanatics. Indeed the great caliphate at Cordoba was brought down by just such violent dunces.
The very stories conveyed to us on the vessels at the Onassis Cultural Center and in The Metropolitan Museum`s equally marvelous collection of Attic urns were rescued from obscurity by the Arabs. That is why they`re familiar to us.
I`ve strayed from my amateur efforts to connect Greek vessels, worship of women and mathematics, but if one ponders the role of Islamic civilization in developing modern math one can`t help but wonder why Hellenic ideas about women, which have shaped our own, should be so fearfully rejected. It`s one thing, of course, for women to worship, quite another for them to be worshipped as deities. It would be easy to say Islam`s iconoclastic rejection of idolatry "Muslims often think of Christianity with its pantheon of saints as idolatrous "is the cause of this anxiety about women, but I think the fear may have another, less philosophical and more psychological source. The oppression of women is an old and disgraceful story, and the Christian church fathers played as evil a role in it as today`s Taliban. The rise of mariology to some extent redressed this wrong, but women in Western society still suffer the toxins of this churchly poisoning. So we have no moral room in the West to tsk-tsk too noisily about the status of women in Islamic countries.
Greek thought about containment and conveyance is profoundly feminine in shape and genius. Together they are the genius of the Greek household. When wed to the Arab epiphany of the zero, which is in shape and principle feminine, a dynamic continually pulsating between containment on the one hand and infinity on the other and an unremittingly anti-dogmatic force is unleashed upon the world, and it is perhaps this force that terrifies fundamentalists who despise the mysteries that engaged the Greeks and the the Arabs. To drink pure wine was barbaric to the Greeks, and they were assiduous about how they mixed wine with water. The Arabs, proscribed from using alcohol, sophisticated the idea of the vessel as alembic, and in their alembics they sought to transmute baser metals into gold and, by extrapolation, base human instincts into noble ones.
The Taliban and their ilk, cast in this light, are not warriors, certainly not holy warriors, but rather cowards, because real heroism goes hand in hand with intellectual and creative excellence, something the Greeks understood and embodied in their athletics.
Our prevailing notion of heroism is male and intrusive, but true heroism is willing and eager to engage the most dangerous ideas. Indeed it rejects the idea as a danger, knowing that nothing can be prevailed over that is not engaged. What remains unengaged remains a source of fear. If the Arabs, who restored to us the gifts of the Greeks, had thought otherwise we`d still be thinking of stars as sparklers in a confining dome.


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England without Cole and Vunipola for autumn series
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England are set to be without two props for their autumn programme with Mako Vunipola and Dan Cole likely to miss the November Tests.
Cole's last competitive action came in the 2014 Six Nations when disc problems in his neck sidelined him. He was forced to undergo surgery and missed the rest of the season and after undergoing surgery in June, Tigers boss Richard Cockerill says Cole got the all-clear last week.
"That gives him a timescale of 12 weeks to be back playing which is mid-November but we will give him as much time as he needs," Cockerill told the Daily Telegraph. "The disc was replaced. It is a metal disc, with a plate and a ball-and-socket joint inside. Dan needs the bone to graft around that. The disc will be stronger than the one he had there in the first place.
"He has not been able to do anything at all post-surgery for three months. Now he can do some running, some light weights, and gradually build himself back up. Stuart Lancaster has been very sensible about it. We will manage Dan as the medics see fit. What is important is that everything is done right and he is good to go, rather than have him come back early and have issues with it."
The news means David Wilson is favourite to continue at tight-head for England come their opening Test against New Zealand on November 8 with Kieran Brookes and Henry Thomas vying for a spot on the bench.
And at loose-head, Vunipola, who missed England's tour of New Zealand in the summer, is also a doubt for the November Tests. Saracens boss Mark McCall told the Daily Mail: "Mako has an injury from the European final. He'll be out for a while - until November possibly. But he has no chance for the autumn internationals."
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French doors have decorative handles that could interfere with the operation of door blinds or shades, so you'll want to choose a window treatment that is not very deep with an outside mount. If you plan on regularly raising and lowering your shade, go cordless to avoid getting cords tangled up on the door handle while also increasing child and pet safety. If you plan on leaving the shade down, you should select the hold down brackets when customizing your blind. These are installed on the door to keep the bottom of the shade in place.
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I have purchased these shades with many of the lift options (cordless, cordless top down bottom up, continuous cord loop and rechargable motorized lift). I have used these blinds for both residential and commercial installations and keep coming back for more. Make sure you order color samples, as I think they can look different on the computer than in person. Also, measure the actual width of the window within an 1/8th of an inch for a great fit and add an extra inch to the length to make sure it will rest on your sill properly. They are quality shades and are well packed for shipping. You won't be disappointed!View this product
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Here's a great President's Day Sale. Seidio has some great cases out there, and if you've been looking to pick one or two up or more, this might be your chance. From now until February 21st, Seidio is offering 15% off your order. This should give everyone plenty of time to check out their site and see what you want to grab for 15% off, but remember this ends on Thursday night.
Seidio has cases for the Nexus 4, Samsung Stratosphere 2, Motorola Droid Razr M, Droid Razr Maxx HD, Galaxy Note 2, HTC Droid DNA, Galaxy S3, Nexus 7, Droid Incredible 4G LTE, Motorola's Atrix HD, HTC One X, HTC EVO 4G LTE, Galaxy Nexus and a few other devices that we aren't allowed to talk about on this site. Especially since we focus primarily on Android news. I've had the OBEX Case for my Galaxy S3, and I really like it. Some of their cases are a bit expensive, but with a 15% discount and free shipping, it turns out to be a great deal on some quality made cases to protect your phones. Seidio also carries extended and extra batteries. For example they carry the 3500mAh battery for the Samsung Galaxy S3, which is $70. But with the 15% discount that put's it down to about $60. So not to bad for a battery almost twice the size of the original stock battery.
So remember you've got until Thursday, February 21st to get your orders in. Don't forget there's free shipping as well. So they won't be making up their money there. Make sure you use the promo code: FEB2013, so you can be sure and get your 15% off. So you better head over to their website now and start shopping. Check out all their accessories at seidioonline.com
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The Challenge Ahead For The HP WebOS Tablet
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Palm Pre Plus get a bunch of games from Verizon! Most of the games on the list I've never heard of but a few I know like Scrabble, Sudoku, Assassins Creed and Tetris and even Need For Speed. Verizon Wireless…
Palm webOS 1.4: Video capture and more
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The new Palm webOS 1.4 is here with some great new features for you Palm owners out there like recording, editing and sharing video. Software updates send new features to your phone right over the air. The latest release of…
Review of Verizon Wireless Palm Pixi Plus
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Today I've got the first of my Palm cell phone reviews, the Pixi Plus from Verizon Wireless. The Pixi is the svelte little brother to the Pre Plus, it's a candy bar style phone with the keyboard right there for…
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Is there any naive soul out there who believes that Bonds, Sosa, and Clemens did NOT take steroids and other physical enhancement drugs? I know what the courts ruled, but check out how their bodies grew while they broke records. Seeing is believing as my Patron Saint, Thomas, used to say. For me, the decision whether these men should be in baseball's Hall of Fame is simple: You cheat, you don't get in. Period. You never get in. End of story.
As for Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star, who said he's voting for them because, "If Major League Baseball took no action against a player during his career for alleged or suspected steroid/PED use, I'm not going to do so in assessing their career for the Hall of Fame." Interesting argument. Actually a Logical Fallacy. What you're saying Bob, is your going to perpetuate stupidity and culpability by adding to it. MLB was wrong back then, now you're going to be wrong.
Speaking of wrong. Isn't it time for Ndamukong Suh to get anger management counseling?
Hurrah for Rajon Rondo for defending a cheap shot on his teammate Kevin Garnett, although I'm reasonably sure Garnett might have found a way to retaliate had Kim Kardashian's ex-hubby not been ejected. What do you think?
Someone at the Seattle Times calculated what it would cost to take four people to a Dallas Cowboy game with hotdogs, Cokes, parking, and some souvenirs? $634.78. I'm assuming these are decent seats. I'm sure that you can get off cheaper if you're willing to sit in the stratosphere, which can not be better than sitting in a comfortable chair in front of your 50 inch TV with a bottle of brew and guacamole and chips.
Speaking of brew? How is it possible that anyone really buys the swill that the football game beer ads promote? Bud, Coors, Yuk. Boggles the mind and the taste buds. Ah, for a frosty mug of Anchor Steam or Nevada Pale Ale!
Wow, and I'm only on page 2 of today's sport's page.
Any bets that Rolondo McClain's career is over? After football, he might want to open up a gun shop. McClain is a member in good standing of my Knucklehead Club.
Amphetamines? Really? I'm sooo surprised that our boys in the NFL are using them. Now there's talk about Viagra our brave lads are using. You gotta be kidding! The image conjured by a field of football players who've recently swallowedd some erectile dysfunction tabs defies humor. I'd be particularly worried if I were the center, and the quarterback was, how can I say it delicately, "in a state."?
Speaking of quarterbacks, Kaepernick it is, but please don't call him Kap. There is only one Kap in Football - Joe Kapp of the University of California Bears (of The Play fame) and the Minnesota Vikings. This same guy nicknamed "Injun Joe" who said running out of bounds was for "Gringos." And threw 7 touchdown passes in one game., and who was the best street fighter I've ever seen, as some of my St. Mary's buds who tried to crash a frat. party back in 1960 and had to face an angry Kap would confirm.
As quiet as it's kept, the Memphis Grizzlies keep winning. Bravo Coach Leonel Hollins. Watch out for the Minnosota Timberwolves once Rubio is back.
Great Warrior win last night against the Nuggets. I'm completely sold on the Nugget's Faried. What a hustler. Not only does he haul in rebounds, both offensive and defensive, but he disrupts and gets his hands on balls, which often leads to turnovers. Tips that lead to turnovers or offensive/defensive rebounds should be a statistic. I think Dean Smith used to do just that.
As for Bogut. Micro-fracture is a scary word. If I were the Warriors, even as late and as weird as everything has evolved, I would have Bogut's doctor(s) and physical therapist(s) lay out for Golden State fans exactly what is going on - in medical detail, even if it reveals that Bogut will not be able to play for a couple of months. The Bogut deal is still a good one, in my mind. The Warriors are playing well. Lee, Landry, and Ezili are doing yeoman's job on the boards. What a pick up Landry has been Bravo Meyers! Ditto picking up Jack. If ONLY someone, anyone, could teach Beidrens to shoot freethrows????? I'm tossing my name in the hat. Give me one month with the kid. "Listen to your ego," my wife says. "No," I say,"I'm not kidding. I've studied the kid's form. I know exactly what's wrong. It's not psychological, it's physical."
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David Stern is right. People pay good money - in this day and age, with what little entertainment money their budgets can afford - to see great basketball. I think Pop could have supported his argument had he rested only his Big Three, but by adding the young, third year Green kid, it looked more like a mind game he was playing on the Heat players and coaching staff. On the other hand, I don't think any of the fans would argue they didn't see an exciting game. I watched it and loved every minute of it. Right on Patty Mills, Aussie Galloping Gael!
With all the negative stuff happening in professional sports and that includes professional college sports, I've selected a poem about a pure sport: climbing. You hang by your fingers above nothing but death, now that's sport.
The Rock Climbers by Robert Francis
In this soft age, in my soft
middle age, the rock climbers
Who giving all to love
embrace cold cliffs
Or with spread-eagle arms
enact a crucifixion
Hanging between the falling
and the not-attaining
Observed or unobserved
by hawks and vultures-
How vaulting a humility
superb a supererogation
Craggy to break the mind
on and to cool the mind.
What my musings are all about...
Blogging might well be the 21st century's form of journaling. As a writing teacher, I have always advised my students to keep a daily journal as a way of organizing their thoughts for future writing projects, a discipline I have unfortunately never consistently practiced myself. By blogging, I might finally be able to follow my own good advice.
The difference between journaling and blogging is that the blogger opens his or her writing to the public, something journal- writers are usually reluctant to do. I am not so reticent.
The trick for me will be to avoid cluttering the internet with more blather, something none of us need more of. If I stick to subjects I know: sports and literature, I believe I can avoid that pitfall. I can't promise that I'll not stray from time to time to comment on ancillary subjects, but I will make every attempt to be interesting and perhaps even insightful.
Friday, November 30, 2012
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In Part 1, we'd reached Spokane, Washington while pedaling westward from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on the Centennial Trail. The portion of the trail in Washington is called the Spokane Centennial Trail and spans 37.5 miles one way.
Continuing on into the city, the trail passes right by the Gonzaga University Law School. I have never had any idea where Gonzaga is when watching the NCAA mens' basketball tourney -- now I know!
We then crossed a great-looking pedestrian bridge over the Spokane River. The views from the bridge were equally attractive.
On the other side of the bridge is beautiful Riverfront Park. There were plenty of interesting things to see, like some great public art...
...and this beautiful bridge festooned with flowers.
Across the flowered bridge, the park was teeming with people and vehicles. Turns out they were setting up for the annual Hoopfest a couple of days later. Rides for the kids and refreshment stands were being built up, so in places it was hard to get around by bike.
At this point, Barry and I split up. He wanted to ride to the trail's western terminus, and I was ready to turn around and head back towards Coeur d'Alene.
As he was leaving the park, Barry took a few photos of the Upper Falls Power Plant. The power of so much rushing water is impressive indeed.
He got a little lost getting through the city as the trail was not well marked. But he ultimately found his way and forged westward.
He checked out the Fort George Wright cemetery right along the trail.
The westernmost trail segment was very hilly compared to the rest of the trail. According to the trail's website:
"The western most section of the Trail begins at Riverside State Park and ends at Sontag Park in Nine Mile. This is by far the most challenging section of the Trail. Users are rewarded for their exertion with breathtaking views of the river and the wild beauty of Riverside State Park."
In addition to beautiful scenery, wildlife viewing was good.
Barry called me at some point along here and said that he didn't think he was going to make it to the end of the trail. It was getting too late, and the going was slow. But he ended up persevering and getting there after all! No big surprise to me. :-)
He even took a selfie!
While Barry was heading westward and back, I was continuing to enjoy the beautiful views of the Spokane River on the way back to Coeur d'Alene. There were loads of berries growing wild along the riverside, most of which did not appear ripe. I finally took a closer look, and they sure look like blueberries to me! I ate one of the ripe ones, but it didn't have much flavor, much to my surprise.
Eventually I got back to Idaho and even saw the state Welcome sign on the highway from the trail. I was happy to be on my bike instead of in a car! I had about 15 miles to go at this point.
Barry and I both got lost more than once on the way back due to poor signage when the trail detoured onto roads. We both agreed that Idaho did a better job with signage than Washington, though we both got lost in Idaho as well.
Fortunately, we both made it back to the hotel in one piece with plenty of miles under our belt. I ended up with 76 miles, and Barry (the animal), 112 miles. He is amazing, no?
Stay tuned -- we still have to ride over to Lake Coeur d'Alene before we leave this pretty area behind!
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By Christopher Scapelliti
Lemmy Kilmister was told he had between two and six months to live just two days prior to his death on Monday, December 28, his manager has revealed.
In an interview with Sky News, Todd Singerman revealed the final days of the late Motörhead bassist's life, and spoke of Lemmy's reaction upon hearing that he had terminal brain cancer.
The first sign that Lemmy was sick came earlier in December. Lemmy threw a birthday celebration for himself on December 13 at Los Angeles' Whisky A Go Go. Though his birthday is December 24, he threw the bash several days ahead of it.
"Two days later I could tell he wasn't feeling good," Singerman says, "so we took him to the hospital."
Though Lemmy was released with a clean bill of health, doctors continued to test him due as he was suffering from irregular speech patterns.
Doctors believed the bassist had suffered a stroke, but a scan revealed an aggressive cancer in his brain and neck.
"The doctor comes with the result a couple of days later and says… it's terminal," Singerman says.
Lemmy was given two to six months to live.
"He took it [the news] better than all of us," Singerman told Rolling Stone. "His only comment was, 'Oh, only two months, huh?' The doctor goes, 'Yeah, Lem, I don't want to bullshit you. It's bad, and there's nothing anyone can do. I would be lying to you if I told you there was a chance.'"
Though Lemmy had hoped to make the news public, he died before it was possible.
Singerman tells Sky News, "Nobody had any idea, we just learned Saturday, two days ago, that he even had cancer and the doctor told him he had between two to six months to live. He goes [dies] today as I was making calls to [Motörhead bandmates] Phil [Campbell] and Mikkey [Dee] telling them to come on out so they could have a last goodbye while he was still upbeat and everything. He was feeling mighty low... He wasn't expected to die like that…"
Singerman says he was surprised the cancer was not caught earlier, as Lemmy had been dealing with a number of health issues in recent years.
"That caught everyone by surprise," he says. "That [cancer] was the last thing we thought he would ever have. When you think about it, he has been to every doctor and hospital around the world and nobody caught that... That comes as a massive shock."
Lemmy suffered health setbacks during Motörhead's recent summer tour. The group cut short its Salt Lake City gig and canceled a Denver show in August, telling fans that Kilmister was having trouble breathing because of the high Colorado altitude. He abruptly ended the group's subsequent show in Austin after three songs, announcing from the stage, "I can't do it." That episode was attributed to the residual effect of the altitude issues.
Tributes continue to come in from the music community. Queen guitarist Brian May and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett both paid tribute to Lemmy on Tuesday. May hailed him as "the original mold of a hard rock icon," while Hammett said Lemmy helped him realize "it was okay to be an outsider."


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New Mexico offers many recognized and accredited photography schools. Photography classes cover subjects such as digital capture, lighting techniques, exposure, composition, outdoor photography, and many other basic and advanced camera techniques. Being an expert photographer can result in a booming professional career or lifelong hobby.
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Slow Cooker Honey Chipotle Chicken Tacos are slightly sweet and slightly spicy! The slow cooked chicken is fall apart tender, juicy and full of chipotle and honey! Delicious in tacos or over lettuce for a lighter option!
If there is one cuisine that reigns supreme in our house, it is Mexican!
Fajitas, guacamole, tacos and margaritas. Really, what is there not to love about it?!
When in dinner doubt, taco or taco salads it is! It eases my mind when I pour myself my second margarita. Because greens on a plate is a good thing right?
First thing is, how easy peasy (ew, did I really just say that) these honey chipotle chicken tacos are. We start with lean chicken that is thrown into a slow cooker. Which a slow cooker is a busy ladies life savor. Why do I not use it more? I always kick myself for not pulling it out weekly. Mostly because it requires some form of thought process prior to, which currently I have a hard time thinking 5 minutes ahead. Let alone a full day ahead…
Then the good stuff goes in. As in a few spices such as chile powder, chipotle in adobo cumin, paprika, garlic, onion powder, coriander and honey! Oh the honey. I have never added honey to my Mexican food because sweet flavors usually don't come to mind when thinking of tacos but it works. I am telling you. It works as in I couldn't keep my hands out of the slow cooker before dinnertime!
The sweetness of the honey balances out the spicy chipotle making for a party in each taco!
Plus, the fun toppings help too. I chose crisp cabbage, pepperjack cheese, fresh avocado and lime wedges. Making them taste really fresh. But feel free to add your favorite taco toppings! Customize them, please! Sorta like food truck tacos. Or street tacos. Call them what you want. I am addicted.
meal prep tips:
the slow cooker Mexican chicken for this dish is ideal to make and freeze! So double the ingredients for the chicken. Once cooked, let cool, then add to an airtight container or place in a plastic freezer bag, lay flat on a baking sheet in the freezer. (laying on the baking sheet, makes the freezer bag flat and easier to store but it is not necessary if you don't mind it not being flat.) And let freeze. Remove from the freezer the evening before and place in the fridge. This chicken is ideal for not only tacos, but salads, burritos, taquitos, and quesadillas!
since this chicken reheats well, make on a sunday then eat all week long. You can prepare the tacos one evening, taco salads the next. And don't forget lunches! Pack in individual containers to reheat at meal time!
for the fresh ingredients, such as the cabbage, slice ahead of time then you are ready when its meal time. I advise against cutting the avocado ahead of time as it will brown too quickly.
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Slow Cooker Honey Chipotle Chicken Tacos are slightly sweet and slightly spicy! The slow cooked chicken is fall apart tender, juicy and full of chipotle and honey! Delicious in tacos or over lettuce for a lighter option!
15 minPrep Time
3 hr, 30 Cook Time
3 hr, 45 Total Time
- 2 pounds skinless, boneless chicken breasts
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
- 2 teaspoons chipotle in adobo sauce or ( Ground Chipotle Powder if Gluten Free)
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- heaping 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 8 taco sized corn or flour tortillas
- 1/2 cup Pepper Jack cheese, shredded, if desired
- Red Cabbage, diced
- Avocados, sliced thin
- Lime wedges
- Place chicken in the bottom of a slow-cooker.
- Mix together the chicken rub ingredients. Sprinkle evenly over the chicken. Pour honey over top.
- Cover and cook on high for 3 - 3 1/2 hours or low for 5-6 hours or until meat is cooked through and easily falls apart.
- Once the chicken is cooked, remove from the slow cooker and shred with two forks.
- Return the shredded chicken back to the slow cooker to absorb the cooking liquid. Taste and season with salt and pepper, if desired.
- You can either char your tortillas by placing over a gas grill until lightly charred or you can wrap them in a paper towel and microwave for 10 seconds.
- In the center of each tortilla, add the chicken mixture and top with desired garnishes. Serve immediately.
Serving Size is 1 Taco.


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Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test is a type of blood test usually done to check patients for possible bleeding problems and to monitor patients taking anticoaguants. It is also often performed to evaluate patients who are about to have surgery in order to prevent bleeding complications during the operation. Sometimes referred to as activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), this test measures the duration of time for a blood clot to form.
The normal result for partial thromboplastin time test is usually between 30 to 45 seconds. This may sometimes vary among laboratories, depending on the methods they use. Those who are taking anticoagulants often have a longer clotting time, approximately two times longer than those who do not. Other diseases also associated with longer partial thromboplastin time include liver disease, Vitamin K deficiency, and kidney disorders. A longer clotting time is also an indication of clotting factor deficiency.
There are about 13 blood clotting factors, usually referred to as factor 1, factor 2 and so on, and they are mostly made up of proteins acting in a sequential pattern in order to form a clot. Patients with bleeding problems, such as hemophilia and hypofibrinogenemia, commonly have deficiencies or defects in one of their blood clotting factors. Hemophilia is a hereditary disease in which people usually lack either factor 8 or factor 9. Hypofibrinogenemia is another inherited disease caused by a lack of factor 1. In both conditions, there is the tendency for patients to bleed longer and lose large amounts of blood in cases of injury and trauma.
Patients with deep vein thrombosis and myocardial infarction are frequently given anticoagulants for treatment. Deep vein thrombosis is the formation of clots in the blood vessels of the leg, often resulting in pain and swelling of the affected area. Myocardial infarction or heart attack usually occurs when a blood vessel delivering blood to the heart muscles is blocked by a clot. In these patients, partial thromboplastin time tests are usually done regularly to monitor these patients and to check if the dose of medicine given is appropriate.
Another test, called prothrombin time (PT), is also often done together with the partial thromboplastin time test. Both tests are generally done in the laboratory after a technician draws a blood sample from the patient. Risks associated with the process of taking blood samples include infection at the area of injection, slight pain, throbbing, and lightheadedness.
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"The Liebster Award is for bloggers with under 300 followers and the rules of the award is that the nominee must link back to whoever awarded them, write 11 random facts about themselves, answer the 11 questions from the award giver, and then nominate another 11 bloggers and make up 11 questions for them to answer. It's a great way for new and undiscovered bloggers to meet new people, get more followers and find some blogs that they want to follow."
I was very surprised and honoured to receive The Liebster Award from Carrot over at http://bunniesandstripes.blogspot.fr/
So in keeping with the rules, here are 11 random facts about me:
1) I drink an unhealthy amount of tea.
2) I am addicted to mints. I always have them in my bag. In the car. In my desk drawer. The other half gets very annoyed at finding half eaten rolls of polos everywhere.
3) When I was younger I wanted to be an astronaut. My ceiling was covered in glow stars. It was awesome.
4) I collect pine cones from my travels. I have not travelled to many places but when I do I always look for a pine cone to bring home. Not really sure why. Fridge magnets would make more sense.
5) I can't sleep on my back. Ever. It just feels weird.
6) I love watching the Winter Olympics. Especially Ice Skating.
7) Glitter makes me happy. I am not a girly girl by any means but something about glitter makes me very happy.
8) My favourite smell is freshly baked bread.
9) I have never broken a bone in my body. Yet.
10) I hate wearing high heels.
11) My dream house would be the one from the Practical Magic film.
Here are my answers to the 11 questions from Carrot:
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I made very little progress this week. I was only able to get a page or two ahead from last week's progress.
My Obstacles
On November 11, my dog Maggie passed away. After 13 years of friendship, loyalty, and great memories, it was time for her to move on. I am incredibly sad to lose her and I have been in mourning this entire week.
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I have turned to books this week for comfort and to keep my mind active. I studied the craft of each book and analyzed how to apply their successes to my writing project.
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My goal once again is to at least complete chapter 6, and aim at writing 15 pages, especially if that takes me into chapter 7.


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If you like bold and funky jewelry and you're eco-conscious, look no further than Etsy seller ArnyM's shop. She makes much of her jewelry from colorful plastic grocery bags, weaving each one into a geometric shape. She also has a few great Deal or No Deal flower brooches, also made from recycled materials. And if that wasn't enough to send you over, she's having a $5 blowout sale on many of the items in her shop. Head on over and check it out.
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to perfect your work, open the slide options window by double-clicking on an image, then crop, brighten, remove red-eye, adjust motion, and add captions and narration. you can page through the entire slide show here, customizing each image without opening and closing individual windowsa huge time-saver compared with the hoops many other programs force you to jump through.
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Sometimes, things will break. Because Docker makes things a little bit different than what you may be used to, this document intends to acquaint you with what's different in Discourse so that you can troubleshoot to the best of your abilities.
Host vs Container
Discourse runs inside of a Docker container, while Docker is running on the host. When you
ssh into your server, you are presented with a prompt like this:
kane@newlaptop:~$ ssh email@example.com
Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
System information as of Fri May 16 11:01:36 PDT 2014
System load: 0.07 Processes: 139
Usage of /: 81.2% of 29.40GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 47% IP address for eth0: 184.108.40.206
Swap usage: 0% IP address for docker0: 172.17.42.1
Graph this data and manage this system at:
Last login: Fri May 16 11:01:36 2014 from ***
This is the host. The host should have:
Docker installed
Any other services sharing the same machine running. This is your VPS - you can do whatever you want with it.
The container is where Discourse runs. You can get a shell in the container by running
./launcher enter app. When you run that command, you should be presented with a prompt like this:
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher enter app
Welcome to Discourse Docker
Use: rails, rake or discourse to execute commands in production
Last login: Fri May 16 18:01:43 2014 from 172.17.42.1
This is the container. The container has the
/var/www/discourse folder, it runs nginx and thin, as well as PostgreSQL and Redis (unless you have the multi-container setup).
In general, changes you make to the container will NOT survive a rebuild (a destroy/bootstrap cycle). If you want to make a permanent change to the container, you want to place it into the container definition - your app.yml file.
However, changes to the database will survive a rebuild. The database is actually stored on the host, in the
/var/discourse/shared/standalone directory, and symlinked into the container as
/shared. This is defined in the
volumes section of the container definition.
Example: Rebuild the container
Let's run through a task demonstrating the difference between the host and the container.
Rebuilding the container should actually be a moderately routine task. Whenever the container definition changes, you will need to rebuild it. Because we're performing an operating "on" the container - affecting its lifecycle - this is done from the host.
Because it's done so often, there's a command in the
./launcher for it.
root@discourse:/var/discourse# git pull
Already up-to-date.
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild app
(lots of output....)
That's all there is to it. Now let's run through a separation example.
Example: Host/Container separation and sharing
This is an exercise to demonstrate the separation and relationship between the Host and the Container.
Starting from the host, walk through these commands.
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher enter app
root@forum:~# echo "Some content" > /root/my_file
root@forum:~# echo "Different content" > /shared/shared_file
root@forum:~# cat /root/my_file
Some content
root@forum:~# cat /shared/shared_file
Different content
root@forum:~# logout
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ls shared/standalone
backups postgres_data redis_data uploads
log postgres_data_old shared_file vendor_bundle
postgres_backup postgres_run ssl
# ^ see shared_file there?
root@discourse:/var/discourse# cat ./shared/standalone/shared_file
Different content
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher rebuild app
-- omitted --
root@discourse:/var/discourse# cat ./shared/standalone/shared_file
Different content
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher enter app
root@forum:~# cat /root/my_file
cat: /root/my_file: No such file or directory
root@forum:~# cat /shared/shared_file
Different content
root@forum:~# logout
root@discourse:/var/discourse# logout
Note how the file in
/root was apparently "deleted" by the
rebuild, but the file in
shared was both not deleted, and visible on the host!
Example: Delete a corrupted database
Sometimes you screw up the database and need to restore from a backup. However, if the broken database is making the site unusable, you may not be able to get to
/admin/backups to upload and restore the old backup. When this happens, you will want to nuke the database.
From the host:
root@discourse:~# cd /var/discourse
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher destroy app
root@discourse:/var/discourse# echo rm -rv shared/standalone/postgres_*
rm -rv shared/standalone/postgres_backup shared/standalone/postgres_data shared/standalone/postgres_data_old shared/standalone/postgres_run
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher bootstrap app
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher start app
Example: Install a plugin
To install a plugin in Discourse, it needs to be placed in
/var/www/discourse/plugins. However, this is inside the container - and changes to the container are wiped when it is rebuilt! So, the container definition is what needs to be edited.
Remember, the app.yml is a YAML file, so correct spaces are extremely important. If you download the file for editing, try running it through a YAML validator before reuploading the changed file. If you edit the file on the server, keep your finger off the TAB key and line up all your columns.
There's already a template in the app.yml file for installing plugins due to the
docker_manager plugin, so just add your plugin on the end!
- exec:
cd: $home/plugins
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager.git
- git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse-spoiler-alert.git
- git clone https://riking-discourse:firstname.lastname@example.com/riking/some-private-plugin.git
The Rails console
The Rails console is accessible by running
rails c once inside the container. You can use it to query and edit the database directly. Warning: Messing with the database may result in your Discourse installation being broken in strange ways. Make a backup before any manual database operations.
Here, we'll run through a few example maintenance tasks to illustrate the differences between the container and the host.
Example: Query the database
Let's find all of the topics that have exactly 2 posts in them. We'll need to query the database, and this is also something that would be pretty nice to use Rails for.
Let's enter the container and get a rails console:
root@discourse:/var/discourse# ./launcher enter app
root@forum:~# rails c
2014-05-16T18:23:24Z 303 TID-ovzipu9vw INFO: Sidekiq client with redis options {:url=>"redis://localhost:6379/0", :namespace=>"sidekiq"}
Loading production environment (Rails 4.1.1)
[1] pry(main)>
The command we want to execute will look something like
Topic.where(???).count. We need to figure out how to construct the
where query. Let's try looking at all the fields Topic has:
[2] pry(main)> Topic
=> Topic(id: integer, title: string, last_posted_at: datetime, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, views: integer, posts_count: integer, user_id: integer, last_post_user_id: integer, reply_count: integer, featured_user1_id: integer, featured_user2_id: integer, featured_user3_id: integer, avg_time: integer, deleted_at: datetime, highest_post_number: integer, image_url: string, off_topic_count: integer, like_count: integer, incoming_link_count: integer, bookmark_count: integer, star_count: integer, category_id: integer, visible: boolean, moderator_posts_count: integer, closed: boolean, archived: boolean, bumped_at: datetime, has_summary: boolean, vote_count: integer, archetype: string, featured_user4_id: integer, notify_moderators_count: integer, spam_count: integer, illegal_count: integer, inappropriate_count: integer, pinned_at: datetime, score: float, percent_rank: float, notify_user_count: integer, subtype: string, slug: string, auto_close_at: datetime, auto_close_user_id: integer, auto_close_started_at: datetime, deleted_by_id: integer, participant_count: integer, word_count: integer, excerpt: string, pinned_globally: boolean)
Well, that's a lot to look through. But start from the top - right on the second line is
posts_count: integer! That sounds a lot like what we want. But, just to make sure, let's check a topic we know about. To get a specific topic, look in the URL for that topic:
And pull out the first number -
24, then run
Topic.find(24). Our topic has 5 posts, so we want
posts_count to be 5.
[3] pry(main)> Topic.find(24)
=> #<Topic id: 24, title: "This is my example topic", last_posted_at: "2014-05-16 18:28:30", created_at: "2014-04-07 17:16:58", updated_at: "2014-05-16 18:28:32", views: 11, posts_count: 5, user_id: 3, last_post_user_id: 1, reply_count: 2, featured_user1_id: 5, featured_user2_id: nil, featured_user3_id: nil, avg_time: 19, deleted_at: nil, highest_post_number: 5, image_url: nil, off_topic_count: 0, like_count: 0, incoming_link_count: 0, bookmark_count: 0, star_count: 0, category_id: 5, visible: true, moderator_posts_count: 0, closed: false, archived: false, bumped_at: "2014-05-16 18:28:30", has_summary: false, vote_count: 0, archetype: "regular", featured_user4_id: nil, notify_moderators_count: 0, spam_count: 0, illegal_count: 0, inappropriate_count: 0, pinned_at: nil, score: 0.775, percent_rank: 0.419354838709677, notify_user_count: 0, subtype: nil, slug: "this-is-my-example-topic", auto_close_at: nil, auto_close_user_id: nil, auto_close_started_at: nil, deleted_by_id: nil, participant_count: 3, word_count: 29, excerpt: "Foo bar what's up baz", pinned_globally: false>
And, there it is!
posts_count is indeed 5, which is what we wanted. Let's plug that into our query that we wanted to run:
[4] pry(main)> Topic.where(posts_count: 2).count
=> 3
And there we have it! There are 3 topics with 2 posts in them. All done.
You can do some quite complicated queries, and also modify the database with this. If you need intermediate steps, assign your results to a variable, as seen in this example of manually setting an account to be an admin:
[2] pry(main)> u = User.find_by_username("riking")
=> #<User id: 1, username: "riking", .....snip.......>
[3] pry(main)> u.admin = true
=> true
[4] pry(main)> u.save
=> true
[5] pry(main)> exit
However, be careful when modifying the database - it may be possible to make your site unusable, so make a backup in
/admin/backups and download it first!