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It is time, the time of season we venture out into the cold, busy ourselves with this and that, while we join with friends, sing songs or listen to them while shopping for our Christmas meal. Looking back over the past few years I'm wondering where the time has gone. Each year seems to come faster and leave just as fast or every bit quicker. This week I took things slow, ok I know it is only Thurday but I slowed down to write a short message into each Christmas Card I mailed. Do you still had write your Christmas Cards?
It was a Kazoozle of baking, treats, cookies and sweets, and you missed it.
Here is a glimpse of our Wednesday night Cookie Exchange.
My treats were Snowmen cookies dipped in white chocolate, with a snowman wooden tag.
The French Gardener provided Candy Can / Almond Bark using salted almonds.
Victoria brought her famous shortbread cookies. Used her new toy cookie shooter she got as a wedding gift.
Margie made some Reindeer Poop and treats to go along with it, smells of decadent,
Janet made Oreo truffles with some dipped in chocolate while others rolled in sugar,
Anneke baked and brought along double chocolate cookies
Mary Lou gifted her famous fudge, double layer,
Aubrey Lee made these decedent peanut butter morels,
Lori, brought us some surprises
We each made a dozen of our favourites and then traded them up for one dozen of each kind. It was a fun evening and we had a chance to sample a few other surprises as well.
"Lord" we set this day aside to gather with friends, we talked about traditions and days gone past, reminisced about families and how the youngest was the one chosen to put baby Jesus in the manger. We are all thankful to have each other and to be together.
I put on tea and coffee however I forgot to turn it on, so this week I'm not having tea with all these cookies but I'm sure you can grab a cookie here and visit with Sandi over at her blog where many will be having tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. These are all very lovely treats and the ladies worked hard to include the recipe with each. I'm sharing my lovely treats and wee little things with Sandi as she blogs about HOME and what it is for each of us.
take care and enjoy your week,
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Girl Goes Viral After Her Dramatic Performance Of ABC
It's the video that's gone viral after this little girl performed what has to be the most dramatic performance of the ABC's yet!
Two-year-old Violet Ogea was captured by her mother, Christina, performing the song with gusto.
Already the video has had over four million views and when you watch it, you'll soon understand why.
With fists clenched, Violet looks every part the opera singer as she belts out each letter.
Already she's gained fans with the likes of Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson sharing the clip.
While we know it's early to call, but we're placing our bets on Violet taking to the stage when she's older.
Opera singer anyone?

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The second trial of 50 of the "Cairo 52" men continued in Cairo today. The 50 defendants include both those who were acquitted as well as those who were convicted in an earlier trial that ended November 14, 2001.
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Women's Action Forum (WAF), Lahore expresses grave concern at the sentence of stoning to death of Zafran Bibi by the Sessions Judge Kohat, Mr. Anwar Ali. Zafran Bibi was sentenced on the basis of her statement before the court that she became pregnant and gave birth as the result of being raped by her husband's brother while the former was in jail. The male accused was acquitted.
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Good OS has unveiled Cloud, a new operating system with only a browser that can be made compatible with any PC.
Cloud integrates the web browser and operating system so that a browser actually becomes the interface for the operating system. Even activities such as connecting to Wi-fi or powering off your computer start happening on web pages empowered by the little operating system behind the browser.
Good OS is an operating system software company based in the Silicon Valley and Taipei focusing on cloud computing operating systems and interfaces for consumers. gOS, the company's Linux distribution, debuted on computers at Wal-Mart stores last year, and have since shipped with PC OEMs on NetBooks, NetTops, and consumer PCs.


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Multiple members of the extended Hope College community have work included in "Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry," an anthology co-edited by Jack Ridl, professor emeritus of English.
The 203-page, hardcover book features work by 90 Michigan poets and 48 works of art by Michigan artists, and includes poems or artwork by several faculty and alumni of the college. Ridl, who taught at Hope from 1971 until retiring in 2006, co-edited the book with award-winning poet Dr. William Olsen, a professor of English at Western Michigan University.
"Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry" was developed as a celebratory anthology that "assembles a geography of verse out of Michigan's ongoing literary riches." The mix of poems provides a range of perspectives on Michigan's varied landscapes, from inland shorelines to cities, towns and countrysides, the lives lived there, and the uncommon diversity of cultures residing in the Great Lakes State.
"I could celebrate every single poem in here—a rare statement to make about any anthology," said award-winning poet Jim Daniels, who teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English. "Leave it to the poets to find the heart of a place. This book will make you fall in love with Michigan all over again, or for the first time."
Current members of the Hope faculty with poetry in the book are David R. James, adjunct associate professor of English, who is a 1976 Hope graduate; Dr. Rhoda Janzen Burton, associate professor of English; Susanna Childress, visiting assistant professor of English; Greg Rappleye, part-time lecturer in English; and Dr. Heather Sellers, professor of English. The book also includes poetry by Jackie Bartley, who retired from the college's English faculty last year, and by Ridl.
In addition to James, alumni with poetry in the anthology (and their class year) include Tom Andrews (1984), Chris Dombrowski (1998), Kathleen McGookey (1989) and Julie (Moulds) Rybicki (1985). The work by Andrews and Rybicki was included posthumously; they died in 2001 and 2008 respectively.
The artists with work in the book include Michelle Calkins (1990).
Many of the poets with work in the anthology have read at Hope through the college's Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series, which Ridl co-founded with his wife, Julie, in 1982.
Ridl is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently "Practicing to Walk Like a Heron" (2013), and has also published more than 300 poems in journals and has work included in numerous anthologies. In addition, he has read his work and led workshops at colleges, universities, art colonies and other venues around the country.
He has received multiple awards for his collections. His 2009 collection "Losing Season" (CavanKerry Press) was named the 2009 "Sports Education Book of the Year" by the Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island. The Society of Midland Authors named "Broken Symmetry" one of the two best volumes of poetry published in 2006. In 2001, his collection "Against Elegies" was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins as the winner of the "Letterpress Chapbook Competition" sponsored by the Center for Book Arts of New York City. Ridl's other volumes include "The Same Ghost," "Between," "After School," "Poems from 'The Same Ghost' and 'Between,'" and "Outside the Center Ring."
In addition to his volumes of poetry, Ridl is co-author, with Hope colleague Peter Schakel, of two textbooks, "Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses" and "Approaching Literature." They also co-edited two anthologies.
Ridl also received recognition both at Hope and beyond as a master teacher. In 1996, he was chosen Michigan's "Professor of the Year" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The college's graduating class presented him with the "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" Award in 1976, and the student body elected him recipient of the "Favorite Faculty/Staff Member" Award in 2003. He was chosen by the graduating seniors to be the Commencement speaker in both 1975 and 1986.
More than 75 of Ridl's students are now published authors themselves.
Copies of "Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry" are available for $40 at the college's Hope-Geneva Bookstore, which is located on the ground level of the DeWitt Center, 141 E. 12th St., and can be called at 800-946-4673 or (616) 395-7833.


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New NEC requirements make it important to understand the difference between surge protectors, surge arresters, and transient voltage surge suppressors
The term "surge protector" can describe any device that protects against surges, which are excess voltages — either impulses or sustained AC overvoltages. If you work in an area that receives a lot of lightning or where electric utility power is unreliable, installing surge protectors will greatly reduce damage to equipment in both commercial and residential buildings. The NEC allows, but doesn't require you to install AC surge protection.
Surge protectors can so effectively limit lightning damage that in certain areas like Orlando, Fla., the local authorities go beyond NEC requirements and require the installation of AC protectors for all new construction. One way to obtain this protection is by using panelboards that incorporate factory-installed surge protectors.
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has two categories for testing and Listing hard-wired AC surge protectors. The older category, surge arrester (SA) (Category OWHX), originally included protectors hard-wired at the service entrance, or at any location downstream from the service disconnect.
The newer category, transient voltage surge suppressor (TVSS), covered in UL 1449 Second Edition, includes both hard-wired, permanently connected protectors and plug-in AC power protectors, which are frequently called surge strips. The hard-wired and plug-in protectors were tested to different standards. Either type can include integrated signal protectors for CATV, phone, or other signal connections. These are frequently called multi-port protectors. Hard-wired SAs and TVSSs can be installed indoors or outdoors, depending on the manufacturer's stated application information supported by UL environmental testing.
The 2002 NEC was changed to restrict the application of these devices. Now only protectors with the SA rating are allowed to be installed before the service disconnect [Art. 280 and 230.82(3)]. Only TVSSs may be installed after the disconnect (Art. 285). Dual-Listed devices, approved under both standards, may be installed in any location. Additionally, 285.6 of the NEC requires TVSSs to be marked with their short-circuit (fault) current rating. The UL TVSS standard has been modified to add this requirement to test procedures and marking, but the SA standard hasn't yet been changed.
Additionally, the UL standard 96A for lightning protection systems requires that an SA be installed at the AC service entrance to protect the wiring and electrical equipment in the building.
The Figure shows possible locations for hard-wired protectors and the corresponding UL and NEC requirements.
Why do the categories overlap? What test standards apply to them? The reasons are, to a great extent, historical. The Table shows the critical withstand tests with the most difficult requirements for the different protector categories. The UL standards include several additional requirements, but those in the Table are key to the damaging conditions surge protectors are not only exposed to in operation, but must also protect against.
The Table shows reasons for some of the restrictions. The harshest environment is at the service equipment. Only an SA must withstand the 10kA test pulse without incurring damage. That's why the SA rating is required at the service entrance.
The hard-wired TVSS is exposed to much smaller lightning surges. It's downstream from the service entrance so a lower surge withstand is required. The plug-in TVSS, protected by a branch circuit breaker and building wiring, has an even lower surge requirement.
All TVSS products may be used in proximity to people inside the building. Experience shows that significant exposure to severe AC overloads can result from power cross brought about by accidental contact between high-voltage and 120V circuits, from utility problems, and when electricians work on live wiring, so all TVSS products must survive or fail safely under severe overload. A special test is available for determining whether TVSS devices will survive or fail safely in the event of an open neutral in split-phase or 3-phase circuits. Such an event could expose the protector to two times or 1.73 times the nominal phase voltage, with limited low or moderate current. Although this might seem unlikely, open neutral problems are the most common cause of power quality events. A low fault current had the potential to cause smoldering without tripping circuit breakers and lead to fires in some situations before the new UL 1449 Standard required TVSS products to be protected against limited-current AC overvoltage.
Finally, SAs may not be installed downstream from the service entrance because they haven't been tested for interrupt rating or other sustained AC overvoltage events.
What protection can you expect from SA and TVSS hard-wired protectors? If properly installed, they'll limit incoming AC surges, even from nearby lightning strikes, to voltages from several hundred volts to about 2,000V, depending on the size of the incoming surge, the protector itself, and the lead length between the panel and the protector. Without the protector, the generally accepted threat levels from incoming lightning strikes are limited by flashover of meter spark gaps at 6kV to 10kV, and breakdown of wiring devices at roughly 6kV for interior wiring.
Not much has been published about the surge voltage withstand of equipment and appliances. For telecom equipment, the former FCC Part 68 required that equipment withstand 2,500V short line-to-neutral impulses.
A study of appliances conducted several years ago by Northeast Utilities showed that none was damaged by 1,000V short line-to-neutral impulses. Recent international standards, including EN 55104, require line-to-neutral surge withstand of 1,000V for the standard "combination wave," which is 50µs long as a voltage testing wave. So it's reasonable to assume that plug-in 120VAC equipment can probably withstand 1,000V impulses, although more delicate equipment may be damaged at this level. A substantial amount is probably safe against 2,000V impulses, but it's tough to say which part.
Comparing these surge withstand levels with the protection levels listed above suggests that a good hard-wired protector, properly installed, should provide good protection for most plug-connected equipment, for small and moderate lightning strikes. Hard-wired protectors should also protect hard-wired HVAC and motor-driven appliances.
Standard hard-wired panel protectors won't provide useful protection for equipment in three situations:
An open neutral conductor or other sustained AC overvoltage.
If the equipment has signal connections (CATV, phone line, data line, or control wiring) in addition to the AC power.
If the equipment is unusually sensitive to AC impulses.
For all these situations, full protection can be provided by proper multi-port plug-in surge protectors, which have lower AC limiting voltage than the hard-wired protectors and have additional protection circuits to limit surges coming in on signal lines.
Cohen is vice president of new technology, Panamax, Petaluma, Calif.


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Uva Ursi: The Natural Antibiotic for UTI.
It is safe to say one of the top complications a person experiences after a spinal cord injury are urinary tract infections(UTI). Specifically, recurrent urinary tract infections. As a result we are continuously prescribed various antibiotics that supposedly kill all the infection related bacteria. The problem I have experienced as well as observed is, when a person starts to show symptoms of a UTI a doctor is quick to prescribe an antibiotic that is used for a broad spectrum of bacteria.
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Is It Difficult being a vegetarian after a spinal cord injury? The answer is ... Yes, and no. It does take some effort. When living with and recovering from paralysis, your food intake is key to your recovery and staying healthy. I'm not going to get all political and preachy on the reasons why I chose vegetarianism, and I am not interested in having any kind of debate on vegetarianism, veganism, or any other ism for that matter. Honestly, the reason I stopped eating meat was mainly for


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By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — For its 14th annual Community Service Award, officials of Vergennes American Legion Post 14 chose a man they said has played a vital role in the rebirth of the city's downtown — real estate appraiser Bill Benton.
Legion communications officer Henry Broughton noted that Benton served many years as the president of the Vergennes Partnership, the organization that oversaw the progress of downtown revitalization and helped obtain the grants that made many Main Street improvements possible.
Broughton said there were many strong candidates, but that Post 14's Community Service Award committee felt strongly about Benton.
"Bill's been the cog in the wheel that's kept it going over the years," he said. "That was the main thing when we sat down with a bunch of candidates and looked at them all. Bill just stood out. We thought he definitely deserved the recognition."
Benton, a 51-year-old Vergennes native and graduate of Vergennes Union High School and the University of Vermont, joins a list of recipients that includes former city managers and mayors, key members of the city's fire department and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad, sparkplugs in the effort to bring life back to the Vergennes Opera House, and volunteers for many good causes. (See related story.)
In an interview Benton said dozens of local residents and officials sparked the revitalization effort.
Off the top of his head he named former Vergennes Area Chamber of Commerce co-presidents Liz Markowski and Patty Paul, Friends of the Vergennes Opera House head Gerianne Smart, partnership director Paul Vachon, and fellow ground-floor partnership members like Terry Weihs, Tim Cowan, Norman Leboeuf and Jeffry Glassberg.
By JOHN S. McCRIGHT
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College has long brought an infusion of art and culture to people living in Addison County, but this week the college arts community has pulled out all the stops to bring a panoply of music, dance, theater and visual arts unrivalled in recent memory.
"There probably hasn't been as much going on since we dedicated the (Center for the Arts) 15 years ago," said Middlebury College Director of the Arts Glenn Andres.
From Thursday through Sunday the college will host a dedication of the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts and celebration of the center's 15-year anniversary. More than 20 events are open to the public — most are free — including lectures, exhibitions, performances, films and a symposium the history of art and architecture.
The centerpiece will be the formal dedication of the Center for the Arts in honor of Mahaney on Saturday at 7 p.m. Luminaria will line the walks to the center and the building will be lit inside and out by search lights. In addition to being open to the public, the college sent out 1,700 invitations to people who have shown an interest in the arts at Middlebury.
Following the dedication at 8 p.m. the center will host three performances: the Dick Forman Jazz Group in the Concert Hall; the Middlebury College Theater Program's cast of alumni and students in "Curtain Up" in the Seeler Studio Theatre; and Leyya Tawil and Dance Elixir contemporary dance in the Dance Theater, for which tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for seniors. The Dance Elixir performance will be repeated at 8 p.m. on Sunday.
By MEGAN JAMES
MIDDLEBURY — Less than a week since the Middlebury Police Department invited the Texas search and rescue squad EquuSearch to join the ground search for missing Middlebury College freshman Nicholas Garza, the effort was called off until the snow pack melts.
In the meantime, Middlebury authorities have expanded the missing person investigation, according to police Chief Tom Hanley, and an outside group is offering a reward for information leading to Garza's discovery.
In an effort to better understand the 19-year-old's frame of mind on Feb. 5 — the night he went missing — the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Behavioral Analysis Unit has joined the investigation. Using information Middlebury investigators gathered from people who knew Garza, the unit will build a psychological profile that could shed light on decisions the student might have made that night.
"With the FBI, we try to get inside Nicholas' head," Hanley said.
Behavioral analyses like this one are usually employed to locate criminals, Hanley said. When investigators understand how a criminal's brain works, they can determine what he might have done or where he might have gone.
Hanley said the FBI showed considerable interest in the Garza case and they believe the process could shed some light on Garza's whereabouts.
The behavioral analysis will come at no cost to the Middlebury Police Department, since the unit uses these cases to validate their data, Hanley said. But the Garza investigation is taking a toll on the department's resources in other ways.
Currently, three Middlebury officers are working on the case, while another is on a Vermont Air Guard deployment.
"That leaves us a grand total of six officers left (to handle other matters)," Hanley said.
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HTML::ListScraper - generic web page scraping support
Version 0.08
use HTML::ListScraper;
$scraper = HTML::ListScraper->new( api_version => 3,
marked_sections => 1 );
# set up $scraper options...
@seq = $scraper->find_sequences;
$seq = shift @seq;
if ($seq) { # is-a HTML::ListScraper::Sequence
foreach $inst ($seq->instances) { # is-a HTML::ListScraper::Instance
foreach $tag ($inst->tags) { # is-a HTML::ListScraper::Tag
print "<", $tag->name, ">\n";
print $tag->text, "\n";
While Perl has good support and is often used for extracting machine-friendly data from HTML pages, most scripts used for that task are ad-hoc, parsing just one site's HTML and depending on superficial, transient details of its structure - and are therefore brittle and labor-intensive to maintain. This module tries to support more generic scraping for a class of pages: those whose most important part is a list of links.
HTML::ListScraper is a subclass of HTML::Parser, building on its ability to convert an octet stream - whether strictly valid HTML or something just vaguely similar to it - to tags and text. HTML parsing works the same as with
HTML::Parser, except you don't need to register your own HTML event handlers.
When the document is parsed, call
find_sequences to find out which tags in the document repeat, one after the other, more than once (attributes, text and comments are ignored for this comparison). Since there'll probably be quite a lot of such sequences,
HTML::ListScraper tries to find the "longest one repeating most often", specifically, it maximizes
log(number of non-overlapping runs)*log(number of tags in the sequence). There can obviously be more than one such sequence, which is why the method returns an array (and the array can also be empty - see below). Your application can then iterate over the returned structure to find items of interest.
This module includes a script,
scrape, displaying the sequences found by
HTML::ListScraper, so that you can see which items your application needs - and if they aren't there, you can try to tweak
HTML::ListScraper's settings with the various
scrape switches to make it find more.
HTML::ListScraper methods are as follows:
HTML::ListScraper's constructor. Passes all its parameters to the superclass and registers
HTML::Parser's event handlers
text and
Numeric threshold for the frequency of found sequences -
get_sequences returns only those which repeat at least
min_count times. Call without arguments to get the current value, with an argument to set it. Default (as well as the minimal allowed value) is 2.
By default,
get_sequences returns only "well-shaped" sequences, whose every opening tag is followed by the appropriate closing tag, with an exception for those tags whose closing tag is optional - i.e.

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 is. Tags which don't need a closing tag are those identified by
is_unclosed_tag. Closing tags are paired with the nearest opening tag with the same name which hasn't been paired yet. A well-shaped sequence is basically an HTML fragment - like a tree, except it doesn't have to have a single root.
Well-shaped sequences should be fine when processing valid HTML, but since this module doesn't restrict itself to valid HTML, that isn't always good enough. Setting
shapeless to a true value removes this filtering and makes all sequences eligible.
Test for tag names with optional closing tag. Takes a tag name, returns true for tags declared in HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD as having either optional or no closing tag. Note that subclassing this method won't change
HTML::ListScraper behavior - it delegates to a real implementation deep in this module's guts, which are not documented here.
Accessor for the document's tag sequence maintained by
HTML::ListScraper, used mainly for debugging. Takes no arguments, returns an array (array reference if called in a scalar context) of HTML::ListScraper::Tag objects.
The core of
HTML::ListScraper. Takes no arguments, returns an array of HTML::ListScraper::Sequence objects. The sequences are sorted by length (shortest first).
"Sequences" with just 1 tag and sequences which don't repeat are never returned; depending on the value of
min_count and
get_sequences may also ignore other ones (see
min_count and
A generalization of
get_sequences. Like
find_sequences takes no arguments and returns an array of HTML::ListScraper::Sequence objects - the same sequences, in fact, as
get_sequences, but with potentially more instances. In addition to the exact matches,
find_sequences tries to find "approximate" instance matches, that is, tag sequences with a non-zero but low edit distance from the exact sequence.
The alignment uses Algorithm::NeedlemanWunsch (q.v.) in its local mode, with fixed scores whose particular values hopefully don't matter much (see the source of
HTML::ListScraper::Sweep if you're really interested in them). Approximate instances are sought between the exact ones, from the most similar to a cut-off point of low similarity.
Found approximate instances are identified by
HTML::ListScraper::Instance::match value
approx. their score is available as the value of
HTML::ListScraper::Instance::score. That value isn't always defined, though: if the
shapeless flag isn't set, approximate tag sequences are made to look like valid HTML fragments by removing unpaired tags. Since that obviously damages the score, no score is returned for such cut-up instances.
When the "longest sequence repeating most often" found by
HTML::ListScraper isn't quite the sought one, you can specify exactly which one you want by calling
get_known_sequence instead of
get_known_sequence takes a list of tag names spelled using the same convention as HTML::ListScraper::Tag, i.e. in lowercase, without angle brackets and with closing tags having '/' as the first character. If the parsed document doesn't contain the specified sequence,
get_known_sequence returns
undef. Otherwise, it returns an instance of HTML::ListScraper::Sequence.
A generalization of
get_known_sequence. Like
find_known_sequence takes a list of tag names and finds both exact and approximate matches for it. If the parsed document doesn't contain at least one at least approximately matching tag sequences,
find_known_sequence returns
undef. Otherwise, it returns an instance of HTML::ListScraper::Sequence.
Attribute start handler. Registered with signature
self, tagname, attr, although the only attribute preserved by
HTML::ListScraper is
href. For ultimate flexibility in preprocessing the input HTML, you can subclass this method, but do call the base version at least conditionally. Note that if you want to just ignore some tags, there are simpler ways, i.e.
Text handler. Registered with signature
self, dtext. For ultimate flexibility in preprocessing the input HTML, you can subclass this method, but do call the base version at least conditionally.
Attribute end handler. Registered with signature
self, tagname. For ultimate flexibility in preprocessing the input HTML, you can subclass this method.
Requires too much configuration.
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The trailers for '300' were simply amazing, perfectly crafted to be full of rousing spectacle and machismo, and the use of 'Just Like You Imagined' by Nine Inch Nails was inspired. It promised an original, visually spectacular, relentless action spectacular - and the final film delivers pretty much as advertised. Based on the comic by Frank Miller, '300' was directed by 'Dawn of the Dead' (2004 remake) helmer Zack Snyder, whose next project is the anticipated / dreaded adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen (haven't read it yet! [bows head in shame]). It is the second ultra stylized film, following 'Sin City', that replicates the visual style of its Frank Miller crafted source material.
The story is based on the historical Battle of Thermopylae that took place in the 5th Century BC between the Greeks led by Spartan King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and the invading Persians led by King Xerxes I (Rodrigo Santoro). The plot is basic - Leonidas is forced to defend Sparta from an invading horde with only a small contingent of his army because the Spartan priests and oracle forbid war during an ongoing sacred festival. The Spartans, together with a few allies, block a narrow mountain pass and battle against the far superior numbers of the Persians, but suffer minimal losses thanks to their superior training and ability. Meanwhile, Leonidas' Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) attempts to convince the Spartan council to send the army to back Leonidas.
It's no surprise how this story ends - it recounts arguably the most famous last stand in history - but the film isn't really too concerned with plot, apart from the stuff involving Queen Gorgo. Instead, its focus is more on theme, style, and visceral impact. The story is told as a flashback narrated by the only Spartan survivor of the battle, Dilios (David Wenham), who was sent away by Leonidas on the last day to spread the word on their heroic defense of Sparta. This narrative device naturally allows the film to take fantastical liberties and to embellish details.
A large part of the film focuses on building up the Spartans as a near mythical fighting force, demonstrating their complete and utter commitment to creating a nation of warriors who embrace combat in every aspect of their lives, both physical and mental. The Spartans are presented as a sort of idealized notion of mankind, being courageous and noble and loving freedom while also embodying physical perfection. The script enhances this mythic effect by having most of their lines be especially grand and stoic.
Once the milieu and characters established, the rest of the film concerns itself with style and action. The visuals are, as I said, highly stylized with a reddish-orange hue to everything and computer generated environments. These elements are very distinctive and memorable, and the film is very visually arresting, like a living painting. These visuals help to create a distorted world featuring fantastical elements - the Persians are depicted as having deformed mutants and massive beasts in their ranks, and Xerxes himself is a veritable giant.
The action on display is stunning and features incredibly violent and dynamic sequences that cut between slow-mo and ultra-fast repeatedly within long continuous takes, stuff that certainly hasn't been seen before. Snyder prevents the action from becoming stale by frequently changing the adversaries that the Persians throw at the embattled Spartans, and although it still does occasionally feel a little repetitive, the brutal impact of the clashes never really diminishes, right up to the Spartans last stand. The secondary story focusing on Gorgo is less gripping and dabbles with a few political elements that attempt to add some substance and weight to the story. These scenes work to give a breather between the battles, but ultimately go nowhere and only serve to send ambiguous political messages.
There's one performance in this film to write home about, and that's Gerard Butler's. His filmography shows nothing impressive before '300' as far as I can tell, so his work in this comes as quite a surprise, though there were certainly signs of a good performance in the trailers. Butler's Leonidas is imposing and commands attention whenever he's on screen, and it's easy to believe that he inspires the devotion of his men. He's fearless, brash and belligerent, but he's also contemplative and burdened by his responsibility to Sparta.
And then there's the physicality. This applies to all of the guys playing the Spartans; their commitment to the roles in terms of their physical appearance is almost worthy of the characters that they're playing. These guys look and move like the greatest warriors on the planet, and are absolutely convincing. David Wenham and Lena Headey are alright in their roles, with Wenham's narration being quite good even if it does intrude on proceedings a little too often. An honourable mention for Rodrigo Santoro, whose Xerxes is menacing and downright creepy.
'300' is a unique cinematic experience, one that probably won't be to everyone's taste thanks to its proclivity for copious bloodletting, nudity, and graphic sex. For those less sensitive souls it represents an entertaining and engrossing action fest, full of visual splendour and thrilling battle sequences (even if they don't always feel as epic as other recent medieval battle scenes). I expected to be entertained, and I was, and doubtless will be again when I revisit the film.


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Last week I started on some alternatives to the expensive software that "everyone" seems to want. I have often wondered why people insist on shelling out big bucks (sometimes upwards of $500!) for software that is so far beyond their needs that they will never use it to its full capability.
My little Cessna is my magic carpet to many places that would otherwise be unavailable by car. An example of that would be the Bahamas Islands. There are no roads to the islands.
I have spent quite a few hours in the Bahamas, mostly metal detecting the beaches and the close-in waters were people swim. And, too, the beaches behind the bars were especially productive. When folks get loose, they easily lose their jewelry. The Bahamas Islands were very good to me and most always paid for my trips.
"After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan." (Matthew 15:39 NIV)
"And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, 'The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.'" (Exodus 34:6 NIV)
Most anyone who uses a computer is aware of the two things required: the hardware and the software. Many computer users, however, never give a thought to the types of software or the various titles available.
Trout season remains closed until March first. Grouper season is closed until March 15. The pelagics are not here yet and likely will not roll into town until the full moon in March (21, first day of spring). The whiting which ARE in season seem to be in hibernation and are mostly unwilling to take any kind of bait, likely due to very cold water temperature. There is a small school of cow-nosed rays between Cedar Key and Wacasassa but they prefer clams over anything in the water and are totally useless in every way (unless you sell clam seed).
This last weekend I took a trip back to another place in time. I metal-detected the beaches of the Cedar Key out Islands hoping to find some coins or perhaps a piece of jewelry or two. Those beaches are popular places for sun worshippers and picnickers. They lose coins and jewelry just like on other beaches.
As usual I found some coins. I even managed to find a little silver earring. The coins like on most beaches were so crusty you could hardly tell what they were. The salt and sand encrusted them with a layer of what looked and felt like sandpaper.
Last week I mentioned WiFi networks and their impact on the traveler's ability to keep in touch. WiFi can do much more than that; it can help you network your entire home.
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Major Section: TUTORIAL5-MISCELLANEOUS-EXAMPLES
This example illustrates the use of ACL2's IO primitives to read the forms in a file. See io.
This example provides a solution to the following problem. Let's
say that you have a file that contains s-expressions. Suppose that
you want to build a list by starting with
nil, and updating it
``appropriately'' upon encountering each successive s-expression in
the file. That is, suppose that you have written a function
update-list such that
(update-list obj current-list) returns
the list obtained by ``updating''
current-list with the next
obj, encountered in the file. The top-level function for
processing such a file, returning the final list, could be defined
as follows. Notice that because it opens a channel to the given
file, this function modifies state and hence must return state.
Thus it actually returns two values: the final list and the new
The function
(defun process-file (filename state) (mv-let (channel state) (open-input-channel filename :object state) (mv-let (result state) (process-file1 nil channel state) ;see below (let ((state (close-input-channel channel state))) (mv result state)))))
process-file1 referred to above takes the currently
constructed list (initially,
nil), together with a channel to the
file being read and the state, and returns the final updated
list. Notice that this function is tail recursive. This is
important because many Lisp compilers will remove tail recursion,
thus avoiding the potential for stack overflows when the file
contains a large number of forms.
(defun process-file1 (current-list channel state) (mv-let (eofp obj state) (read-object channel state) (cond (eofp (mv current-list state)) (t (process-file1 (update-list obj current-list) channel state)))))


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He left in February and by early June, he was dead. June 10, 1965, to be exact. Sometime after midnight Vietnam time, but it seemed to be earlier the next day in Clear Creek when a knock came to the front door of the house out in the country. It wasn't the Army; it was his pregnant wife who I saw from my hiding place behind my Mother's yellow sundress. I never saw my brother's wife cry before, but as she stood framed in the doorway with the bright light of summer behind her, she sobbed.
It was all so confusing for an eight-year old to witness such a thing. Scary too. It was the first time I ever heard such mournful wailing, and when she passed a telegram to my mother it increased two-fold. The telegram stated my brother; a Green Beret was missing in action.
What's that mean, Mom? Is he lost? You know, he was just here a few months ago. He came upstairs Mom, and sat on the edge of each of our beds taking turns telling us to be good kids and to listen to you and Dad. Where's Vietnam, Mom? I thought he was in North Carolina, Mom. Remember for my class project, I chose North Carolina to write to their tourism bureau to find out about their state? Mom? I can only think these words; there is too much commotion now.
The night brings a lot of visitors. I climb up on a chair and watch the television. My Dad watches it too, I like Chiller Theater, but Dad keeps trying to find the news. In this part of Pennsylvania, two stations are the only choices, and I never saw my Dad change the channels back and forth so much. I got to stay up late, and even when I was getting fidgety, they didn't yell at me. My Mom's eyes sure look red. Dad's face looks blank, and empty. There are six other kids in the house, but I don't know where they are, they are so quiet. Things are never quiet around here.
When the last visitor leaves, and the television signs off to nothing, but crackling white specks on blackness, I go upstairs to bed. I can hear my parents in muffled serious voices, but can make out very little. They rarely talk in such quiet tones. So, I lay on my back with my hands folded behind my head and stare up toward the black ceiling. Missing. Action. Vietnam. What does it all mean anyway?
Around here, my brother knew these woods like nobody did, I thought. He probably was camping, or hiding from the other guys. He did that a lot of times with us kids. He was good at it. I wished I could walk as quiet as he did. You couldn't hear his boots in the leaves. He'd jump out and scare his buddies for sure. That's what he did to us, and we'd all let out a startled squeal, and take off running back to the safety of the big yard, or house. But none of us could come close to outrunning him. I doubt anyone could catch him over there either. He'd just run and run, and if he had too, he'd climb right up in a tree too. He wasn't afraid of being in any tall trees; he'd go right to the top. He even jumped out of planes. I don't like being up high.
The covers feel soft, and I pull them over my eyes to make my darkness, even darker. I fall asleep wondering if it is as black there in that place called Vietnam, and if they have katydids. I knew they had monkeys, because awhile back he sent home a picture of him with two of them clutching onto him. He even wrote on the back that they looked like the twins when we were little. Mom laughed, see, I have a twin sister. Good night.
Morning light through the window sure can make a blanket hot. I kick them off, and notice all four beds in the room are empty. I walk on my knees on the soft bed and position myself at the window. It provides a wide view of the front yard and the black road below me, and in front of the place. There are cars parked all along the road outside the house and people milling around, many with their heads bowed down as if they are looking for something in the green grass. A dark olive colored car with a star on the side of it turns around in the middle of the road and I squint from my perch and watch it leave.
We rarely have this much company. That looks like Uncle Paul down there. Hey, there's my older sister and her husband, they live far away, and we don't get to see them much at all. Why are all these people hugging Mom like that? I know, I know, I bet the Army guys brought my brother home.
In memory of Charles Owen Jenkins Jr, who died in Vietnam at the age of 24.
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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Joseph S.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
By: Joseph Salvati
I'll miss the stroke.
Really. Don't get me wrong. Sure it was scary afterwards when I understood what the Hell had occurred. The kids, my family, a presentation to give and tomorrow is trash day! But oh how fascinating it was when my mind was co-opt and somewhere between PS (pre-stroke) and afterwards when the "event" was over. But during the stroke which felt like it lasted about 4 hours. There is one (that I can recall) caveat. While the stroke was occurring, linear time does not occur during a left-hemisphere ischemic stroke. There was no past remember and there was not future to consider/worry/think about. There was only the present. And for the only time in my humble adult life I was aware, living in, thinking in solely in the moment and then the following moment and so on. I couldn't consider the next second let alone tomorrow. And as a result of "Being Present" for those hours I was as content and tranquil as I had ever been. And so now when I say I "miss the stroke" perhaps you'll better understand. Other than stress (and who doesn't have it), I was 38 years old, in the best shape of my life. 9% body fat, 158 cholesterol, BP of 120/70, eating right, working out like a freak. Never smoked, only an occasional drink. So, if that doesn't help, maybe I'll start smoking, ravenously wolf down steaks every night, swill martinis before dinner and gulp Scotch at the end of meals.
At some point, a clot moved to my left hemisphere and caused the stroke. In an ischemic stroke blood supply to part of the brain is decreased, leading to dysfunction of the brain tissue in that area. 87% of all strokes are classified as "ischemic."
Stroke without an obvious explanation is termed "cryptogenic" (of unknown origin); this constitutes 30-40% of all ischemic strokes. And despite the alien abduction like slew of tests and procedures the reason for my stroke is still a mystery.
What Happened: The Rug pulled out from under
Things started innocently enough. We moved to Colorado from Connecticut 8 months earlier and we had the joy of moving 5 places in those 8 months with two under 5 year old kids in tow. But we had finally settled on the house that was going to become our home. A recent home we bought no more than 3 days and I was heading to our rental home 1.5 miles away. All was left to do was for me to meet to a couple to look at and buy a rug from the rental and then I was heading home for the day. The couple seemed nice enough. Rather non-descript late 30ish/early 40ish. Not gregarious but polite. If I were to guess, they were accountants.
Back and forth they wondered whether it would fit in the room they were planning on them. Not really wanting to keep it any longer, nor did I want to get rid of it, I substantially discounted the asking price as to further incite them to purchase it. "You know, I know it is a little larger than the room you have, but I've done the same. Just fold it under the rug where the couch is going to go. Worked great for us." That sold it.
My Silent Movers
So I rolled up the rug and it started relatively well though we clearly knew this was going to be a heavy job. The husband was in front and I was in the back. It was only slight easier to moving a king mattress. After a little of heavy breathing we collected ourselves for the carry up the stairs and turning the first landing. We cleared the landing and were half-way up and took a moment to catch our breath. On this next push up, with me at the bottom and taking the bulk of weight we gave a big (mighty is an adverb more reserved for heroic efforts) shove. And then something happened. Or more accurately, something stopped happening. I stopped speaking out loud but all of my thoughts and words were in my mind. Though I still not felt that there was anything "wrong." I felt a little floating sense in my head but not light-headed or pain. In fact I stopped thinking about anything but moving that rug. But the husband and wife, made a couple of comments and/or asked me. And I said...nothing. I smiled, I think. Not really a smile, but more of a sense of content. I even fooled myself a couple of times into thinking I may have actually spoken. But in fact I had not spoken a single word had been uttered from me approximately starting at 7:35PM. I learned later that Allison, my lovely wife whom I spoke with the couple the next day, thought I had "just been on drugs."
The couple had left in their truck and was started closing up the rental and this is when I started being more aware of something was up. I went into the home to turn off the lights and to be fair, there were a lot of lights indeed. But I couldn't find all of the lights in the house. After walking around for a few minutes, I gave it up and walked into the garage.
Now in the garage I was simply trying to close the garage with a 4 digit number to shut the garage door closer. I knew it by heart. But I didn't. I tried first. No dice. No problem...it happens. Tried again. Wrong again. Now I just walked around the garage for a few minutes. Not why I was doing that....maybe thinking that it would come back. At this point I knew I was feeling "different" but still hadn't connected the dots yet. But there is also a physiology reason why which I'll come back to later. I tried again, now the 3rd time. Still didn't work. Tried 3 more times getting the number wrong and figured somehow I obviously forgotten a number that I've known for 6 months. Time to call my then wife.
The scene on this chilly early spring night transcended from me alone dimly lit from above near the garage and sat still momentarily becoming aware of the occasional neighborhood dog barking. I didn't contemplate, I didn't think at all and that is the secret that I can recognize in retrospect. I was content.
Complete tranquility. Happy. And this didn't change right away. From a sleepy, non-descriptive suburban development, home, driveway and life was grabbed by a lose thread of a life and unraveled it as if it was pulled unexpectedly torn on a rusty nail while brushing by a fence in disrepair. But I didn't see the mess it created. Despite the cacophony around me I absorbed it, one stimuli at a time...conscious, aware and more curious than disconcerted. One ambulance, 4 EMT first responders, two police cruisers and 4 cops.
One of the EMTs kneeled in front of me. He asked me a number of questions:
-"What is your name?" No response from me.
-"Where are you? No response to me.
-"What is your birthday? No response again.
In each case I tried to answer. I really did but the words wouldn't come out. The EMT stood up to speak with Allison and as quickly as he was in front of me, I forgot he ever existed. And then I saw my neighbor, Sven. Sven and his lovely family are from South Africa and we were lucky enough to have their teenage daughters often come to the house to babysit. Sven and his youngest daughter, Kirsty came across the street and passing the tumult that was impossible to avoid in the quiet Wednesday evening. Kirsty followed closely behind Sven to see us while staying out of the way of the team. And while I was watching Sven's face I was conscious of the fact that the only things I was looking at, hearing and understanding was Sven. Not Allison, the cops, the EMTs or even Sven's daughter who stood right next to him, holding his hand. Sven hadn't uttered a word. He stood maybe 25 feet away but it was like I had a camera lens of a movie that zoomed in on Sven's face. His countenance of concerns, his wispy, thinning front hair, the back angling brow and 1 day's worth of stubble. And I was completely present with Sven without a word from either of us. As focused and locked-in as I was with Sven that moment passed fluidly into looking at Kirtsy. Like while looking at Sven and now again with Kirsty, everything else seemed to lose its fidelity; Sounds, depth, smell, touch, texture and peripheral vision. But what was lost in the moment's context of all five senses was made up by making the subject insanely acute. Like looking through a portal using High Definition and headphones with surround sound. But the screen was not huge like an I-Max.... it was small through the looking glass.
The next scene panned to the EMT again and now I was being helped into a stretcher. I was wrapped in blankets and secured before they rose me up on the stretcher. I was aware I was going into an ambulance. Allison looked at me, kissing me and told me she would meet me at the hospital. "They're going to take care of you. "I'll take care of you." And with that I was put into the back of the ambulance. The doors closed behind.
Inside the ambulance everything was heightened. The lights were brilliantly blinding. The open and closing of cabinets were deafening. The ripped sound of a new IV was heard loudly inside my head, not just outside. One tech began the IV while another wearing latex gloves and looked at me closely. "Mr. Salvati, who is the president?" I focused and I looked deep inside the irises of the eyes of the tech and his over gelled hair and I confidently said to him, "Omama." And I heard it myself too. "Omama." "Why did I say that?" I was thinking to myself. He asked me a couple more questions and I couldn't get another word out of my mouth. In my head "Omama" kept echoing inside the cavern of my head, unable to focus on anything else let alone answer to another question. And then I stopped listen to my mind and came back to listening and focusing on what the EMTs were saying and doing despite how loud it all sounded to me. And next what happened was the precise moment that my calmness was abruptly, rudely ended. The EMT's who were speaking to each were as if the three of us weren't in the same room let alone in the back of a moving ambulance. That was rude enough but I never expected to hear one EMT to say out loudly to another, "This guy must have been doing a lot of drugs." I was enraged but couldn't speak a word and with my right hand I made a fist and hit my thigh. I did it again as if to protest the indictment, implication, possibly endangered me and worst of all he shattered the closest I've ever been to complete tranquility.
IV in place? Check. Rock-hard bed and pillows? Check. Blood draw every four hours? Check. Waking me up in the middle of the night to weigh me? Check. Yup, nothing like a hospital stay to rest and recuperate. I'm starting to wonder if it is part of the insurance companies' conspiracy. If patients complain enough; exhaust enough; sick of the food enough; maybe they will beg to leave earlier than you might otherwise.
That first night I was confused, and very tired but as I mentioned even if you doze off they eventually wake you up for one thing or another. I was up early, around 5 AM. The parade of doctors started around 9AM. Internist, Cardiologist, Neurologist, Infectious Specialist and a speech therapist came in one by one wandering in the room. The business person in me wanted an Agenda.
I. Introduction, Status Internist 15 Minutes 9AM-9:15
II. Heart status Cardiologist 30 Minutes 10AM-10:30
III. Lunch Cafeteria Lady 90 Seconds 12PM -12:02
IV. Neurologist Event Post Mortem 30 Minutes 2PM-2:30
V. Speech Therapy Perky Speech Therapist 30 Minutes 3PM-3:30
For the sake of brevity I am not including the blood draws, medications, etc.
So here is what we knew at this point: I had an ischemic stroke affecting the left temporal hemisphere. Behind my left ear was a constant dull headache that wouldn't go away. That, I would learn later, that this is where brain cells died. Medically they call in an insult to part of the brain. How appropriate.
An ischemic stroke results from restricted blood flow to portions of the brain. The majority of strokes (approximately 80 percent) are ischemic, according to the American Stroke Association. Blood flow to the brain may be restricted by a blood clot (thrombus) or by progressive narrowing of the arteries. People with high cholesterol, diabetes, or heart disease are at increased risk of ischemic stroke. (I had none of those medical conditions.) 'Healthy as a horse' the saying goes. Until of course until they break a leg and then need to be shot.
An ischemic stroke develops quickly. Brain cells begin to die within minutes of the interruption of blood flow to the brain. Prompt medical intervention minimizes cell death and may help restore partial function to damaged areas.
A stroke which occurs in the left hemisphere of the brain can produce one, several or all of the following disabilities, to varying degrees of severity:
Paralysis on the right side of the body
Speech and language problems (known as aphasia- see below)
Cautious behavior
Memory loss
Paralysis may be complete, an inability to move the right limbs, wiggle fingers or toes on the right side, or may be less severe. Many left-hemisphere stroke patients recover all or some of their right-side function, so that they may walk and climb stairs without assistance, although they may retain a numbness on the right side of their body.
Because the left side of the brain contains the "speech center" of the brain, individuals with left-side strokes often have difficulty understanding speech and written language following their stroke, a condition referred to as aphasia. Because this is such a common effect of a stroke, a special section on this page has been devoted to aphasia.
Some left-side stroke patients may exhibit a more cautious behavior than before their stroke, although others may find themselves reacting more spontaneously and/or intensely than before to outside stimuli.
Aphasia was the most obvious and immediate effect of the stroke.
Aphasia (sourced from Wikipedia), from the Greek root word "aphatos", meaning speechless, is an acquired language disorder in which there is an impairment of any language modality. This may include difficulty in producing or comprehending spoken or written language.
Traditionally, aphasia suggests the total impairment of language ability, and dysphasia a degree of impairment less than total. However, the term dysphasia is commonly confused with dysphagia, a swallowing disorder, and thus aphasia has come to mean both partial and total language impairment in common use.
Depending on the area and extent of brain damage, someone suffering from aphasia may be able to speak but not write, or vice versa, or display any of a wide variety of other deficiencies in language comprehension and production, such as being able to sing but not speak. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage.
Aphasia can be assessed in a variety of ways, from quick clinical screening at the bedside to several-hour-long batteries of tasks that examine the key components of language and communication. The prognosis of those with aphasia varies widely, and is dependent upon age of the patient, site and size of lesion, and type of aphasia.
Good friends brought me movies, a video player, magazines and books. I also had with me a pad and pen. Unfortunately most if not all of those distractions were not helping. I couldn't read more than a couple of words without getting confused. I was unable to follow the arc of even the most sophomoric sitcoms. Writing was harder than speaking and my speech was significantly compromised. Imagine for a moment that you were working on a file and in haste you saved the file, shut down the computer, went on vacation or on a trip for 3 weeks and then came back. You boot the computer up. And now you try to figure out where you saved that file? Where is it? This is how hard it is for me to find some words. In order to keep a conversation at a reasonable rate I would "dumb" it down rather than looking for the word I wanted or normally would use. This is the same reason which I avoided speaking on the phone.
All of the above was 3 years ago. Today, hours, days, weeks after learning how to speak, read and write (often on the floor with my then 2 year old son) again at the age of 38. After a week in the hospital with resilience and the love of my family and friends, I returned to work. More importantly I have two wonderful boys ages 8 and 5 that will hopefully remember little more than, "Dad had a boo boo on his brain.
Now I say that I had a beautiful stroke.
I had a beautiful stroke 3 years ago. I was blessed to be conscious throughout the entire event (an extreme rarity) from the first moment a clot traveled to my brain. The disorientation was perplexing. The ability to speak escaped me while the arrestment of linear time where both past and future faded but I was oddly at peace. Peace evolved to euphoria of being truly in the moment.
Of course there were obstacles to overcome especially relearning how to speak, reading, writing and not mention following a conversation with others. My first post-hospital grocery trip found me befuddled by the cashier asking me, "Paper or plastic"?
Where is the beauty? It is in the perspective and the gift of my stroke. It was a catalyst for dormant or atrophied priorities and unmasked pretenders.
Thank you to my family and my friends. Today I celebrate my beautiful stroke in your honor.
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In light of the viral video about Gabby Price, our friend Guga points to another tennis prodigy that was crowned 4 years ago: Deiton Baughman.
Here's the promo video on local Fox News affiliate that reminded Guga of the Gabby price vid:
Deiton Baughman Video
Deiton appears to still be playing competitive tennis, but he is not the top dog in 18s. This just shows that the top kids at 9 and 12 years old are not necessarily the top at 18 and much less 24.
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I think he can serve big, but according to dad/coach he only uses when needed.
Yeah, I see his dad's youtube channel. No footage of his serve. Kinda got a touch of the Fed approach on forehand, Djoko approach on the backhand. Pretty interesting.
His backhand seems to stiff to me, like a Roddick backhand. See how Deiton stiff arms it?
Here's the promo video on local Fox News affiliate that reminded Guga of the Gabby price vid:
Deiton Baughman
Family seems a great deal more centered, athough they sold their house and moved into a trailer park.
Trailer parks are not cheap
Cheaper than a house without wheels! No, the park itself is not cheap - a slumlord can make a good living running one of those places. But the trailers? Those are cheap.
Howard Schoenfield! Possibly the greatest player off all time that never happened. If he hadn't had the family/psychiatric/drug problems that he had, Connors, Borg and McEnroe may have won fewer majors than they did win. I have no idea where he is now.
Here's a KnightRidder/Tribune newspaper article on Howard Schoenfield from 1996 entitled: "He was as good as McEnroe, but it didn't help him beat mental illness, drug use." (You have to answer some survey questions to see the full article).
Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Schoenfield lives in what used to be a bed and breakfast in Hialeah. Now it is a halfway house offering supervised living for adults with mental problems. The building has a bright coat of orange paint and an equally optimistic name: Happy Home.
"Doctors have diagnosed Schoenfield as a type one paranoid schizophrenic. ``The most severe kind,'' says Happy Home manager Marco Guim. ``He hears voices. He's delusional. He's paranoid.''
Here's Sports Illistrated article about Howard Schoenfield from 1982:
Reading through the SI article, looks like Schoenfield was approaching burnout at 24. I'd like to see footage of his game.
Schoenfield was diagnosed paranoid-schizophrenic. It was not a matter of burnout. His pro career never had a chance. Did you read the Knight-Ridder newspaper article?
I could only see the part you quoted. The rest is blacked out.
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You bought something - maybe from me, maybe from someone else - and you're not happy with it. How do you get satisfaction?
Conversely: sellers, how do you know when a customer is doing their best to be fair about a transaction they're unhappy with?
And how do you avoid being the Unruly Customer in a seller's blog? This guy made it all but impossible for the seller to help him!
The really short version
1. Check the seller's profile, find out whether they prefer to be contacted by IM, by notecard, by email, or by some other means.
2. Check your mute list. If you've muted the seller (deliberately or by accident), they are completely unable to deliver. The SL server code forbids them from giving you things, or even contacting you to let you know!
If this has happened, send an apology to the seller and ask them if they'd mind re-sending. And correct the mute! The seller can't even reply if you don't.
3. Check your transaction history (www.secondlife.com, log in, select 'My Account', select 'Transaction History'). Find the transaction number and date of the sale.
If you bought from a third party site like OnRez or SLExchange, check their records as well and get the transaction number and date there.
4. Contact the seller by their preferred method. Give them:
* The transaction number and date.
* Your chief complaint in two sentences or less. (EG: "my package didn't get delivered", or "the demo fit my leg but the sale boot doesn't".)
* The correction you would like. (EG: "I would like a redelivery of the package, please", or "I'd like a pair of boots the same size as the demo, please.")
In this contact, be polite. Presume the problem is an accident, or is the fault of a third party. Expect them to be willing to solve the problem.
5. Expect them to do some basic checking to be sure you're not a scammer. Sellers - especially busy sellers - see more scams than buyers do. It's just common sense for them to check the transaction log: and it also gives them information like which vendor the product was supposed to come from, and at what time. They can use that sort of information to try to fix the problem long-term.
6. Expect to do some problem-solving with them. They'll want to figure out what happened, so their other customers don't face the same problem.
6a. If you purchased through a third-party site, such as OnRez or SLExchange, or through a vendor system, the seller may ask you to coordinate with a representative from them to do the problem-solving. This is a quite legitimate step for them to take, though I acknowledge that it can be annoying to have to contact yet another person.
7. A good seller will appreciate the time you've taken, and will attempt to correct your problem.
A really good seller will listen even if it turns out that you misread the sales information, will offer a refund (where a refund is possible: copy/no-trans products are difficult to refund), and will try to figure out a better way to express the sales information. Sure, the improved sales information is no help to you right now, but it's evidence that the seller is constantly trying to improve his or her service.
7a. However, the seller's obligation is to provide you with the product as stated in the sales information. If you failed to read the available before-sale information, or if you simply changed your mind about the purchase, they are under no obligation to do anything. If they do, it's them being generous. Be grateful!
8. If the seller is rude, fails to provide the product as advertised, or takes longer than a few days to get back to you despite you trying IM, Notecard, and any other contact methods in their profile, read the long version.
The really long version
Know your legal rights
First, you need to figure out what your rights are. Linden Lab stays out of inter-resident disputes for the most part, but you have basic legal rights regardless of whether the world you're in is based on binary data or atoms.
Your basic right is to have a product which functions according to the claims made of it by its advertising. If you don't receive the product, or the product doesn't work as advertised, or a piece of clothing doesn't look like the photograph, you have a good reason to complain.
Read the advertising carefully - if you want a product to sort and organise megaprims, but you buy a product designed to organise textures, it's not the seller's fault if it doesn't organise megaprims.
Also, check the local conditions. I bought a gorgeous scripted moving kitten, but it didn't work in the place where I first took it out. However, it wasn't the seller's fault! I was in a location where scripts had been disabled. I moved, and the kitten worked beautifully. (And is still gorgeous.)
The seller's responsibility is to produce a product which can work. The environment is out of the seller's control.
Finally, be sure to read all the documentation available, both before and after sale. Most scripted systems are sold at a price the ordinary Second Life resident is willing to afford - and therefore, you get to configure them yourself. This is perfectly okay, because it's part of the deal that's offered to you before you pay the seller.
On the other hand, if the manual is written in Klingon, or unintelligible gobbledygook, you do have a right to complain about that!
Further Reading
Check the following sites, the sites of member nations or states, or the equivalent site where you are.
Note that international deals are not well handled by the current world legal system. The seller is governed by the laws in the seller's atomic-world location. The purchaser is governed by the laws in the purchaser's atomic-world location. The only binary-world laws that govern the transaction are those of the terms of service of the involved ISPs and Second Life.
Terms of Service
Community Standards
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Canada's Office of Consumer Affairs
The European Union's Consumer Affairs commission
The United States' Federal Trade Commission
Know your moral rights
Legally, you have no recourse if you are offered a plywood box for L$10000, you buy it, and you get a plywood box that's identical to one you could have rezzed yourself for free. You were offered a product, you accepted, you paid, you got the product you were offered.
Morally, of course, that's a rather ridiculous sale.
Talk to your friends about what's morally right, but be aware that your friends will be biased in your favour.
Decide what you want
Think about your legal and moral rights, and decide what correction is satisfactory, and what correction is the absolute best you would ever get. (Try to keep the latter within the bounds of reason!)
Decide what's about halfway between the two. That's what you're going to ask for.
Decide how much effort to go to
It's very easy to get carried away, thinking about 'the principle of the thing', or 'it's only right'. Remember that L$250 to L$280 represents US$1. There's no point in fighting for a whole day over US$1.
Conversely, if you've spent thousands on Linden on a custom product, there's no point in giving up after less than an hour.
Collect supporting information
Store copies of the supporting information not just in-world, but in a document on your hard drive at home.
Record the transaction number and date of each relevant transaction in the Second Life (or OnRez or SLExchange) transaction history.
Keep any notecards that were available before the sale. Photograph the product advertisements, or save image files from web-based stores. This is your record of what you were promised.
If the job is a custom job, keep a record of the specifications, the history of the job as it progressed, and the unsatisfactory delivered product.
Keep a record of the complaint history as it progresses, as well.
Start complaining
Use the process listed at the top of this blog entry (if you haven't already), to make your initial complaint. If referred to another person, repeat your initial complaint to that person - the chances are good that your first contact didn't pass all the information on.
Your initial complaint should be to the seller. If the seller is not the creator, the seller may refer you to them - that's perfectly okay. Go to the creator, then.
If the sale was through a third-party site, the seller or creator may refer you to them. Again, that's perfectly okay, and go to them.
If anyone takes something from you, request a receipt. The receipt (if in-world) should be a copy-okay, trans-okay, no-mod notecard created by that person, containing the date, the item taken, and the purpose for which they took it.
90% of the time you won't need the receipt. But if you do need it and don't have it, it could be difficult proving that you're not trying to scam.
The transaction history will help - but only you, the person who took it, and the Lindens can see that transaction. Third parties can see a copy of a no-mod, copy/trans notecard.
At all times, keep your tone calm and polite. It's fine to be firm, it's fine to say something like 'I'm really frustrated'. It's not okay to insult the other person, or to yell or scream or swear at them.
If you're offered an unsatisfactory solution, let them know it's unsatisfactory and why. Say something like 'according to the terms of service/according to law in my part of the world, I'm entitled to X'; or 'what you are offering is not the same as what you advertised'.
If your first contacts don't resolve things
If the seller was the creator and the transaction was with them directly, go to the next section.
If you have more than one person involved, and the one you were directed to is unable or unwilling to help you, let the others know. Show them the record you've been keeping of your interactions and attempts to solve the problem, and reiterate your request for your desired solution.
If no representative of the seller's side will provide a satisfactory solution
... it's time to consider Abuse Reports, support tickets, or real-world legal action.
Think again about how far you planned to take this. An Abuse Report or support ticket is probably worth doing, if the seller is breaching the Terms of Service or the Community Standards.
Real-world legal action is going to be harder - contact the consumer affairs bureau you researched back in the 'Know your legal rights' section. Discuss it with them, and take their advice.
I'm not a lawyer, so beyond this point, I defer to them.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
How to complain effectively
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Less than two years after joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "Toilet Team" director Frank Rijsberman is taking on a new position as CEO of the CGIAR Consortium. The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) coordinates the work of 15 international centres, including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), where Dr. Rijsberman served as Director General from 2000 to 2007.
Frank Rijsberman joined the Gates Foundation as director of its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene initiative on 11 October 2010. In July 2011, the Foundation launched its "Reinvent the Toilet" strategy, which turned the usual distribution of funding and advocacy for WASH programmes on its head by committing 90% of its WASH funding to sanitation.
Dr Rijsberman will start his new assignment at the CGIAR Consortium Office in Montpellier, France, on 28 May 2012.
Source: CGIAR, 19 March 2012


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Band will play a whopping 35 dates in support of new album 'The Pride'
InMe have announced a massive UK and Ireland tour for February next year.
The band, who are currently putting the finishing touches to their fifth studio album 'The Pride', which is due for release in February 2012, will play a whopping 35 dates in support of their new record.
The tour begins at Sheerness Ivy on February 22 and runs throughout March until the last day of that month when the band play London's O2 Academy Islington.
'The Pride' will be the band's first album since 2009's 'Herald Moth'. Their frontman Dave McPherson released a solo album titled 'The Hardship Diaries' earlier this year.
InMe will play:
Sheerness Ivy (February 22)
Brighton Concorde 2 (23)
Weymouth Ocean Rooms (24)
High Wycombe WAMA (25)
Plymouth White Rabbit (26)
Exeter Cavern (27)
Swansea Sin City (28)
Bristol Fleece & Firkin (29)
Southampton Talking Heads (March 1)
Milton Keynes Crawford Arms (2)
Rushden Attic (3)
Cambridge Junction (5)
Leicester Firebug (6)
Norwich Waterfront (7)
Sheffield Corporation (8)
Liverpool Masque (9)
York Fibbers (10)
Middlesbrough Crown (11)
O2 Academy Newcastle 2 (13)
Aberdeen Tunnels (14)
Dundee Dexters (15)
Glasgow Cathouse (16)
Belfast Spring & Airbrake (17)
Dublin Whelans (18)
Limerick Dolans (19)
Cork Cyprus Avenue (20)
Leeds Joseph's Well (22)
Hull Lamp (23)
Manchester Moho Live (24)
Stoke Sugarmill (26)
Nottingham Rock City (27)
Birmingham HMV Institute (28)
Gloucester Guildhall (29)
Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach (30)
O2 Academy Islington (31)
To check the availability of InMe tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/TICKETS now, or call 0871 230 1094.