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PETA vs Steve Irwin
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March 11, 2019
PETA, the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, recently commentated on Steve Irwin's legacy on what would have been his 57th birthday. Their tweet stated, "#SteveIrwin was killed while harassing a ray; he dangled his baby while feeding a crocodile & wrestled wild animals who were minding their own business. Today's #GoogleDoodle sends a dangerous, fawning message. Wild animals are entitled to be left alone in their natural habitats." In my opinion, this was absolutely unnecessary and quite unprofessional, especially being said on a social media platform.
This tweet had two other tweet replies from PETA, where they continued to state the irrational and cruel way that Steve Irwin "harassed" exotic animals. The twitter platform blew the tweet up with 80,000 replies, 3,300 retweets, and 15,000 likes. Aside from the numerous amount of interactions, this tweet was a subject of discussion for about a week and a half, which of course in this day and age is a very long period of time.
After the incident, many articles were published stating that the organization is not as innocent as it may appear. They have euthanized 80% of their "rescued animals," and killed over 3,000 in 2014 alone according to the Washington Post. On the opposite hand, Steve Irwin frequently went out of his way to remove nuisance crocodiles at the beginning of his career, where he then went on to host an informative television show.
The duel between the late actor's fan base and PETA did not end there though; there were numerous harsh replies. One reply from award-winning baseball blogger Dan Clark, says, "Steve Irwin saved the lives of countless animals in his sanctuaries. He helped educate millions globally about animals' needs and ways of life. He loved animals and cared for them greatly. You do some good work helping animals PETA, but how about some balance and more respect…"
Overall, PETA was extremely out of place and quite frankly being hypocrites for saying Steve Irwin harassed animals. They should take a look at their own facilities and comply with their mission statement before they comment on anyone else's legacy. Especially since it was, in fact, Steve Irwin's birthday, and he passed away 13 years ago. Finally, the last quote that must be shared was from Irwin himself: "I have no fear of losing my life – if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it."


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9:27am PT by Philiana Ng
TV Ratings: Tony Awards Improves, NBA Finals Dominates Sunday
It was all about the theater -- and basketball -- on Sunday night.
CBS' telecast of the 65th Annual Tony Awards (6.9 million total viewers, 1.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic), hosted by How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris, improved 9 percent compared to last year's Sean Hayes-hosted program. In the 25-54 demo, the Tonys were steady from the previous year.
The Tonys were dominated by The Book of Mormon, which won nine out of 14 awards it was nominated for including best musical, and War Horse, which Steven Spielberg is adapting for the big screen.
On the other end of the spectrum was Game 6 of the NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat on ABC. (The Mavericks were named NBA Champions.) Though final numbers will come in later, it looks as if ABC's telecast -- which rose drastically from last year's comparable game -- topped the night in the adult demo.
CBS' 60 Minutes (9.2 million, 1.1) aired at 7 p.m., along with NBC's Dateline (3.8 million, 0.8).
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Let's face it, clam chowder is really good. Thick, white clam chowder is one of life's greatest guilty pleasures. And, thanks to our friends at Campbell's, the word "guilty" can now be yanked from that sentence. The label doesn't lie when it promises "a rich and creamy clam chowder made with an abundance of potatoes and tender and succulent clams." An entire can (which is supposed to be TWO servings...yeah right!) contains just 200 calories, three grams of fat and 12 grams of protein. Not bad! So to the calorie and fat-conscious we say, "Clam it up!"
Nutritional Info: Serving Size: 1 CanCalories: 200Fat: 3gSodium: 1740mgCarbs: 32gFiber: 4gSugar: 4gProtein: 12g
Hard to believe the very same concerned folks who bring us that heavenly 98% fat free clam chowder are the evil masterminds behind the gloppy, fatty clam goo that inhabits this familiar red can. In any case, we wonder why anyone would choose to ingest a whopping 28 grams of fat when they could get almost the same taste and pleasure out of eating soup that contains just three. Just say NO to this fatty shellfish concoction!


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There is a troubling, counterproductive "solution" that continues to be employed for addressing congested intersections – even in communities that are otherwise progressively promoting transportation choice. The "solution" is to add a second left turn lane to an existing left-turn lane when there is a perception that the number of motorists waiting in the single left-turn lane has grown too large.
Conventional traffic engineering claims that creating a double-left turn lane at an intersection is an "improvement" that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing congestion. And that a double left turn does not conflict with the transportation plan objective of promoting pedestrian trips.
On the contrary, I believe that double-left turn lanes will INCREASE emissions and will REDUCE pedestrian trips.
Double left-turn lanes cause serious problems for scale and safety for bicyclists and pedestrians, but have been shown to be counterproductive even if we are just looking at car capacity at an intersection. Adding a second left turn lane suffers significantly from diminishing returns. That a double-left turn does NOT double the left turn capacity – largely because by significantly increasing the crosswalk distance, the walk cycle must be so long that intersection capacity/efficiency (for cars) is dramatically reduced.
Cities across the nation are facing severe transportation funding shortfalls, yet at the same time, they are often building expensive and counterproductive double-left turn lanes.
Why? Probably because of the absurdity that transportation capital improvement dollars are in a separate silo than maintenance dollars, and that the former dollars are mostly paid by federal and state grants. Of course, double-left turn lanes also destroy human scale and obliterates the ability to create a sense of place, but those are much more difficult arguments to make.
A colleague of mine adds that double-left turn lanes are an abomination. He adds that "they are a sign of failure: failure to provide enough street connectivity, so that when drivers do come to an intersection, it is gigantic, so it can accommodate all the left turns that had not been allowed prior to that point. Many trips on extra wide arterials are very short, and involve three left turns: one left turn onto the arterial and one left turn off the arterial: there trips could and should be made on connected local streets."
How can a city claim it is short on transportation funding when it is building such counterproductive facilities? Double-left turn lanes…
- Increase per capita car travel and reduce bike/pedestrian/transit trips.
- Increase GHG emissions and fuel consumption.
- Induce new car trips that were formerly discouraged (via the "triple convergence").
- Promote sprawling, dispersed development.
- Discourage residential and smaller, locally-owned retail.
Cities need to draw a line in the sand: Place a moratorium on intersection double-left turn lanes and eventually removal of such configurations. Double-lefts are too big for the human habitat. They create a car-only atmosphere.


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- Core Clock: 1026MHz
- Boost Clock: 1114MHz
- Memory: 12288MB 7010MHz GDDR5
- Stream Processors: 3072
- SLI Ready
- VR Ready
- PhysX/CUDA Enabled
- 5 Years Warranty.
Stock Code: GX-088-ZT
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GeForce Titan X "Arctic Storm" 12288MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-90402-10P)Virtual Reality is upon us with the likes of Oculus Rift already available and HTC Vive coming very soon. Valve have released a SteamVR benchmark which will test your system for VR Readiness, we advice customers to run this benchmark as the minimum specification to be VR Ready is a GTX 970 from camp NVIDIA. A GeForce 980Ti scores 10-11 and a TitanX scores 11 in the SteamVR benchmark which is the highest score possible. So if you want the best possible VR performance than GTX 980Ti or Titan X is the answer for truly the best VR gaming experience. VR is a game changer for games such as Elite Dangerous, Portal 3, Flight simulator, Doom, Project cars and who knows the elusive Half Life 3 may make an appearance from Valve as being VR optimised, lets keep our fingers crossed.
ZOTAC is the first manufacturer to offer custom hybrid cooling for TITAN X. In fact, apart from EVGA's GTX TITAN X ACX 2.0 cooler which is sold separately, and GTX TITAN X HydroCooper, this is the only TITAN X sold with custom cooling with no modifications required.
ZOTAC's Arctic Storm is a hybrid cooler is a dual-slot and triple-fan solution with custom water block, which can optionally be used with existing liquid cooling. Cards like these are perfect combination between performance and compatibility with new products. You can stick to the air-cooling, or connect a water loop in case you need more cooling efficiency. Plus you don't have to buy 100 EUR-worth water block.
ZOTAC's GTX TITAN X is factory-overclocked. Card is running at 1026 / 1114 MHz, with memory clock at 7 GHz. Despite no real picture used for the renders, card is likely using reference PCB with two power connectors (6+8pin).
- GeForce Titan X
- GPU: GeForce Titan X
- Core Base Clock: 1026MHz
- Core Boost Clock: 1114MHz
- Memory Clock: 7010MHz
- Memory Size: 12288MB GDDR5
- Bus Type: PCI Express 3.0
- Memory Bus: 384-bit
- CUDA Cores: 3072
- DirectX 12: Yes
- DVI Port: 1x Dual-Link DVI, 3x DisplayPort & 1x HDMI
- DisplayPort: Yes
- HDCP: Yes
- HDMI: Yes
- Power: 1x 6-Pin & 1x 8-Pin
- 600W PSU Required
- Dimensions: L=282mm, W=110mm, H=43mm
- Warranty: 5yr
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Upon arrival at Barry's house, I found Barry's pickup truck parked diagonally across two spaces of his three-car driveway, and the back of his truck filled with a mix of 50% dirt/50% compost to fill up the third planter box that Barry recently built. He had parked the truck diagonally for easier wheelbarrow access. I put Boston in Barry's back yard and went inside to eat a delicious dinner of Pasta-Roni and some side dish that we both seem to have forgotten the precise identity of. We also watched some Battlestar Galactica.
On Saturday morning, Barry made waffles, and then we tied Boston to the roof rack of Barry's truck while we filled up the planter box with the soil mixture from Barry's truck. Barry did all the wheeling of the wheelbarrow over to the planter box and dumping its contents into the planter box; I stayed at the truck, where we had two shovels, and we both shoveled the soil into the wheelbarrow until we got the truck emptied out. When the truck was fully emptied out, the planter box still wasn't as full as I wanted, so I drove to Home Depot and bought a big bag of some more dirt, plus a bag of mulch to spread on top of it, and some plants to put in the new planter. I bought a variety pack of six eggplants, a variety pack of six bell peppers, one prostrate rosemary plant, and two chili peppers. After I got them planted, I showed Barry the labels from the plants. He was freaked out by the ghost pepper and showed me a YouTube video of some guy eating a tiny piece of a ghost pepper and moaning a bunch and then deciding he needed to go to the hospital. I agreed to unplant the ghost pepper. We both were kind of disturbed to discover that Home Depot would sell such things without some sort of biohazard warning label.
I chatted with Mikie for a bit, updating him on my new job, while Mikie was attending the World Pride celebration in Madrid and while I was watching Barry shoot zombies in a PlayStation game called Killing Floor 2. I also set out a loaf of frozen bread dough to thaw and rise.
Then Barry got a call from the Yolo County animal shelter about a new pair of foster kittens, and we went to pick them up together. They are about eight weeks old - old enough to be adopted - but they've contracted the cat flu and need to be in foster care until they recover. One is a medium-haired calico girl, and the other is a short-haired grey tabby boy. We immediately started calling them Fluffy and Not Fluffy, respectively, but it soon became clear that they had such starkly obvious personality differences that it seemed a shame to name them only by their appearances. Fluffy looks far sicker, appearance-wise, because the nictitating membrane on one of her eyes is constantly closed and protruding slightly (which tends to happen in response to any eye injury; it can be the feline equivalent of a black eye). However, she is very active, like any healthy kitten, and she starts purring instantly at the slightest petting. Not Fluffy, on the other hand, looks pretty healthy (he had a visibly runny nose for the first day but looks fine now), but he is the most sedate and immobile kitten I've ever seen; he spends pretty nearly 100% of his time sitting, usually in kitty loaf position, with all four paws hidden underneath him. The only movement I've seen from him has been just walking a few steps between his food dish and his cat bed, not running around pouncing on things like kittens normally do (and like his sister does). Also, we couldn't get any purr out of him for days! It took until Monday (the third day we had him) before I finally managed to coax him into purring. After that I was able to get him to purr fairly reliably; however, it always took several minutes of petting to coax him into purring, whereas his sister would always purr instantly at the first touch. So we decided that Fluffy's full name is Fluffy Active Purr Paws, and Not Fluffy's full name is Not Fluffy Not Active No Purr No Paws (because usually none of his paws are visible). I suggested just calling him Not for short.
Both of them wanted nothing to do with food for the first 24 hours or so. The animal shelter staff had told us that the kittens didn't seem to be eating, and that it might be because their noses were so stuffed up that they probably had trouble smelling the food. Barry gave them a dish full of canned food, a dish full of dry food, and some treats, in hopes that they might find something to their liking.
Here are both of the kittens in the cat bed that Barry set up for them under the sink in his guest bathroom.
This picture of them both on my lap shows Fluffy's damaged eye.
Here they both are on my lap on Saturday, the day we got them. They are in characteristic positions here, with Fluffy standing up and responding to petting, and Not sitting down, largely ignoring his surroundings.
For dinner Saturday night, Barry made cacio e pepe, which he proudly assured me was authentically Italian. It was delightful. We ate it with homemade bread, while we finished watching Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. Barry says there are board games for each season of Battlestar Galactica, and we are now at the right point to play the first of them.
On Sunday morning, we found that the kittens didn't seem to have touched any of their food. Barry placed Fluffy in front of the dish of canned food and managed to induce her to start eating some of it. Not continued to refuse food for a while longer. We had seen Fluffy drinking water even before we coaxed her into eating food, but we weren't certain whether Not had drunk any water. I started to worry that his motionlessness might mean he was more seriously ill than Fluffy and maybe even at risk of dying. I put him on my lap and started petting him, and got him to start leaning his face to one side as I petted his cheek. Then I asked Barry to pass me the water dish, and I held the water dish in front of his face and petted his cheek so that he leaned his face practically right into the water. His whiskers got wet, and then he finally started drinking. Hooray! A little later, I did the same thing with the canned food and got him to eat some of that. After that they both started eating and drinking much more regularly. Here is Not on my lap on Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon, Barry took me out for a hot date at the grand opening of the new makerspace in Barry's local library. I had told him I wanted to do something to celebrate my new job, and my narrow escape from the previously looming threat of unemployment, and we had tentatively settled upon the idea of getting some soft-serve ice cream from a food truck. But we arrived earlier than we probably should have and had time to kill before the makerspace opened, and the food trucks weren't there yet either. And it was hot! It was definitely a hot date, but not entirely the kind of hot that I was hoping for. And when we wandered around looking for somewhere to eat, all the restaurants that were open at all on Sundays had closed before 1:00.
Finally we discovered that Steve's Pizza was still open, so Barry bought us a small pizza there. Then we went on to the makerspace when it opened at 2:00. It has one laser (much smaller than both of Barry's two lasers), a woodshop with a bunch of other wood-cutting tools, some 3D printers, some metal-soldering devices, a button press, an iron-on design maker, a sewing machine, and some knitting/crocheting classes. Barry had brought a flash drive with him on which he'd designed a product in advance that he wanted to print out on one of the 3D printers, but the makerspace requires people to take classes on how to use each type of equipment before being allowed to use the equipment independently, so he just signed up for the 3D printing class. He also used the button press to make a button advertising the makerspace, and then used the sewing machine to sew a design onto a paper card and matching envelope.
Using the makerspace is free, except that people have to pay for the materials they use there. Users must have a library card, and the costs are charged to their library card account.
There was also a garden outside the makerspace, planted with tomatoes, squash, and strawberries. I may have been somewhat more interested in the garden than in the makerspace. But I can imagine that some of the makerspace might eventually be useful to me someday.
We left the library at 3:00, when the food trucks were being set up, but we found out that the food trucks wouldn't actually start serving until 4:00. We didn't want to wait that long, so instead we went to a grocery store and bought a big tub of "double chocolate" frozen yogurt, a big tub of "orange-vanilla swirl" sherbet, a smaller tub of "peanut butter chocolate chip" "healthy" alternative ice cream, a coconut-flavored non-dairy whipped cream, a "healthy" alternative chocolate sauce, and a jar of maraschino cherries. We brought this pile of loot back to Barry's house and assembled a banana split for each of us (using the three flavors we had bought rather than the traditional chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry), with a cherry on top of each. It was fantastic.
Then we took Boston for a walk to a different grocery store, where Barry bought more celebratory foods - this time for dinner rather than for our pre-dinner dessert. I stayed with Boston in the parking lot while Barry went inside and did the shopping. As soon as we finished walking back home, I put on fluorescent yellow and teal running clothes and went out for a run, leaving Boston and Barry behind this time. (Boston would be able to keep up with me, but I didn't want to have to worry about encountering off-leash dogs - although this is significantly less common in Barry's neighborhood than in mine.) I ran in various loops through Barry's neighborhood for 20 minutes; attempts to retrace my route on MapQuest later suggest that I went about two miles.
I came home just as the last of the daylight was fading away, and took a shower, and then Barry started barbecuing steaks and chicken and also pineapple on his back patio. Barry's neighbors kept setting off early fireworks, though, and Boston is terrified of fireworks, so Boston kept trying to shove her way into Barry's house anytime we opened the door a crack. We did not want her in the house, because she is incontinent and because she was dirty from being in the yard and because she is unlikely to get along well with Barry's cats. So I stationed myself in a chair on the inside of the sliding glass door with a book (To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North, the cartoonist of Dinosaur Comics fame) while Barry was outside with the barbecue, and by coordinating, we were able to hand things through the door to one another while keeping a free hand available to wrangle Boston as needed. We made a good team.
Dinner was amazing! And over dinner, we continued our progress through the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 by starting to watch Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II. Also, Barry made a point of congratulating me several times on my new job during our celebratory dinner, and my need for a sense of celebration was fully and properly sated.
Monday was our designated day for staying in and not doing much. I did some gardening, made another loaf of homemade bread, and also made Barry a sandwich with the sandwich materials I had brought from home. We finished watching Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (Internet connection problems had interrupted us halfway through it on Sunday night) and started watching Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Barry made deviled eggs in preparation for the Fourth of July party we were planning to attend the following day, and we ate leftover barbecued amazingness from the day before.
Tuesday was the party! First we stopped in at Barry's parents' house for half an hour and watched an annual hot-dog eating contest with them. Then we went a few blocks away to the house of one of Barry's friends who was throwing a party. The party was not really Fourth of July-themed in anything other than the date it took place. It was really a board-game party, and more specifically, a party for a particular group of friends (including Barry and the host) to play the next couple of installments of their ongoing game of Seafall.
We arrived at the same moment as the car containing all five of the other guests, so we all went to the front door at once. We were greeted by the host cursing and exclaiming that he and his girlfriend were still in their pajamas and had thought they had invited us for four hours later. Uh . . . the Facebook invitation said 10:00 a.m., not 2:00 p.m.? They let us in and quickly changed clothes and scrambled to do the minor grocery shopping and cleanup tasks they had planned to get done before we arrived. The party got started in earnest at about 11:00 a.m. Four of us girlfriends weren't part of the ongoing Seafall legacy game. The host's girlfriend largely vanished and removed herself from the party, but the other three of us - me, my lodger, A, and her co-worker S from the local air force base - gathered at a second table to play board games of our own. (Side note: S also could have become a lodger in my house; when I told A I was scheduled to be laid off at the end of the month, A told me that S was interested in renting another room in my house. It might have been quite financially helpful if I were to be unemployed for a very long time, but I had a feeling I wouldn't be unemployed long enough to suffer any major financial straits, and I plan to continue living in my house myself for a while longer, so I said that I thought having two lodgers at once would make my house feel excessively crowded. To me, anyway! Apparently both of them would have been fine with it. Anyway, it was kind of nice to know I had the option, even though I was also relieved to have the freedom to decline that option.)
Although the host's girlfriend did not join us for board games, she did join us for lunch. Since she hadn't originally planned to join us for that either, the host had gotten it in his head that there were only eight people at the party, rather than nine, and so he only barbecued 8 steaks for lunch at first, rather than 9. Then he discovered his mistake and went back out to barbecue the ninth. He was having a bad day with numbers. It worked out all right, though.
At our table of three, we started off by playing the storytelling game "Once Upon a Time" that Barry bought me in Fort Bragg. I was the only one of us who had played the game before. We played it twice; I won the first game by concluding our collaborative story with my designated sentence, "Although his wound healed, his heart remained broken forever." (The story was about a king who fell in love with a princess and wanted to marry her, but he was caught in a forest fire and unable to escape because of an injury he had received earlier in the story. The king's son heroically rescued the king from the fire, and the princess fell in love with the heroic prince rather than with the king.) S won the second round of "Once Upon a Time," but I don't remember what her ending sentence was. I remember that our collaborative story that time involved a witch queen who had kidnapped the child of a king in a neighboring kingdom, and my designated ending was supposed to be "Her courage had made her rich," but the witch queen's behavior did not lend itself very well to claims of either courage or becoming newly wealthy (she was presumably already wealthy to begin with, being a queen), so I could not gain enough control over the story to direct it toward my ending.
Next we played Five Tribes, which A and S had played before but I hadn't. I found their attempts at explaining the rules to me hopelessly confusing, and no one seemed to want to hand over the rules and just let me read them for myself, so I resigned myself to just trying to learn by observation as we went along. I soon figured it out, and I actually ended up winning the game by a thoroughly decisive margin. I did not like the game, though. I thought the mechanics were boring and stupid. I won it mainly because A and S kept bidding a bunch of money to get to go first in each new round of play, whereas I saved up huge stacks of money just by bidding nothing on every turn except for one single time when I saw an exceptionally good move available and bid quite a lot of money to get the first chance at it. But by simply not spending any money unless I could see a clear, guaranteed profit resulting from my expense, I became vastly wealthier than A and S, and my wealth translated at the end of the game to enough score points that I won the game quite handily.
After that we played Gloom, another storytelling game, one that only A and S had played before. We each got assigned a family of five, with cards describing the five people in the family. Our job was to make our own assigned family members die more miserable deaths than the other two families, by drawing cards describing good and bad events and assigning the bad events to our own assigned family and the good events to the other players' assigned families. I took an early lead by a small margin, but then A and S both ganged up on me and started using all their turns to make my assigned family happy all the time, rather than ever making each other's assigned families happy, and I couldn't fend them both off at once. S kept complaining through much of this game that she thought we were ganging up on her instead and this did cause me to occasionally aim my happiness cards at S rather than at A, and pretty much as a direct result of that, S won this game.
Finally, we played Tokkaido, a game that I had played once before with Barry and his parents. A and S had never played it before. The idea of the game is to compete for who can have the most fun on a vacation in Japan. The primary obstacle to having fun is a shortage of money, and although there are places to earn some money along the way, you can't get a job at those places if someone else has gotten there first and taken the job before you could. I took an early opportunity to earn money that put A at a major disadvantage, because she was particularly in need of money then and had to skip a bunch of fun tourist attractions to find somewhere else to earn money. I'm not as sure how S ended up at any disadvantage, but somehow A and S both finished the game with dramatically fewer points than me.
So in the final count, I won three games that day, and S won two, and A won none at all. (Or at least, that was the final count at the point when I left the party. A and S stayed longer than I did, so hopefully A got a chance to win a game or two at some point.) Before I left, people were joking that I am a board game shark and that being a board game shark is a requirement for dating Barry. Someone asked me whether that was a stated requirement in Barry's OKCupid profile. I said no, and if it had been, I would have assumed I didn't qualify. Someone else said that this is the definition of a shark, that they don't seem like a gaming afficionado but they somehow keep winning even when you didn't expect them to be good at the games.
Barry won the second of the two installments of the ongoing Seafall game that they played that day, and he is now ahead by one point (90 to 89) in the ongoing Seafall campaign. He says he would rather be behind by one point, though, because being behind confers advantages.
Barry and I had agreed in advance that I would leave the party before he did. I left at 5:00 and went back to Barry's house so I could defend Boston from fireworks. Barry stayed until around 8:00 or so, I think, and then went back to his parents' house. He had planned in advance to spend the night at his parents' house and have them drive him home the next morning. Alone at Barry's house, I mostly finished the job of pruning away all the dead brown remains of the spring annuals in Barry's front yard. All my efforts in the past month have left his yard still covered with dry straw, but at least now it's horizontal straw rather than vertical straw, and this makes it easier to see the remaining live green plants that were previously being blocked from view by dead annuals.
I also gave the foster kittens their eye drops and started packing to leave, but then Barry messaged me that his mother was driving him home that night rather than the following morning, so I decided to stick around for an extra half hour or so to see him again. We had some more of those celebratory dessert foods we'd bought at the grocery store two days earlier, and they were fantastic all over again. Then I loaded Boston back into my car and drove her home to Marysville, seeing some fireworks along the way (although not all that many in the middle section of the drive, because not all that many people live in most of the area between Barry's house and mine).
This morning, Barry brought the foster kittens to the animal shelter for a checkup. I was kind of expecting that Not would be put up for adoption immediately, because although he's inactive, he looks very healthy now, visually. I knew Fluffy was not in adoptable shape yet because of her eye, but the vet's diagnosis was much worse than I expected: the vet has scheduled Fluffy to have her eye removed next week. She will be a one-eyed cat forever! Unless her eye unexpectedly recovers somehow within the next week, anyway. We are wishing Fluffy's eye the best possible health outcomes, but apparently the odds are not good for her eye. Anyone within traveling distance of Yolo County, California, want an adorable one-eyed kitten? She is a very high-quality kitten, as fluffy and purry and playful as you could ever wish for. Having only one eye will damage her chances of being adopted. Hopefully she'll be okay. Anyway, she has a week to try for a miraculous recovery, and also her brother Not will remain with her for this week to keep her company.


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The Blind Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors whose responsibility it is to lead the Foundation forward in fulfilling its objectives under the strategic plan.
We hold annual elections for these Directors who each serve a three-year term. Retiring Directors may be nominated and stand again.
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Voting information is available in a range of formats including braille, audio CD, email and large print.
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|Islamic Republic
|Predominant Religion
|Predominant Language
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|Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Djibouti, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Muslim World united against their common enemies in 2134 and took the name of Ummah. This large block of stout religious followers has become a force to be recognized and feared.
Notable Cities
The formerly war-torn Israel is now mostly a living museum. The wall was torn down immediately after the Final Exodus.
- "Safe" Cities
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- Jerusalem, Israel
- Tehran, Iran
- "Locked" Cities
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- Baghdad, Iraq
- Cairo, Egypt
Other Notable Locations
Though the larger metropolis urban areas do house the majority of the population, numerous ventures are handled in the rural regions to prevent interference from gangs and warlords and to facilitate survival should nuclear war erupt.
- Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- The Holy City is the cultural heart and soul of Ummah, and its true seat of power. Tehran may hold the politicians, but the Ayatollah and the mystics reside here, and the people tune their ears towards Mecca.
Current Political Topics
The constant topic of Ummah is the spreading of the one "true" religion and the removal of all heretics.
Culture of Ummah
The culture of Ummah is solely that of Muslim history, ideology, and belief.
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As to our pass situation, we have one IKON passholder (my wife) and she is luke warm about renewing for other reasons. Our local areas are all still in a holding position. As far as I am concerned it is a good thing. We can wait.
This this larger conversation started in the Sugarbush thread and is in other threads as well. I thought it deserves its own discussion!
With all the new options and deadline changes insurance/assurances there is a lot going on!
I do not think that anyone on this forum expects Ikon or Epic or independents owe them anything but t here are those that do, hence the class action suits. As a result, new offerings have been crafted. So people are looking at the choices which differ for everyone.
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As to our pass situation, we have one IKON passholder (my wife) and she is luke warm about renewing for other reasons. Our local areas are all still in a holding position. As far as I am concerned it is a good thing. We can wait.
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And for this I am so glad that I only basically ski at Stowe, with a trip out west each year. The credit, pass insurance and 20% off food and beverage is a nice bonus.
Recently, early March is when the passes are released. There's still 2 months left of the year skiing-wise (normally), and they already want you to start thinking about the next year.
Prior to Epic/Ikon, I don't remember it being this early. It's like stores putting out christmas merchandise right after September ends--kind of unnecessary.
I mean normally it's uncertain what the next year will be like when you purchase in March. You could move. You could break your leg/arm and be unable to ski. This year with COVID-19 it really just highlights how much of a gamble the early purchasing of passes are for the customers.
Book your travel now as you'll never get a cheaper vacation. You can get ski season flights out west for about 1/2 price to 2/3 price, and there are some pretty crazy lodging deals going on now as well.
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1) Coinciding more with "spring pass" sales where they started giving people the option of buying next year's pass and being able to use it from mid/late March through the end of the current season.
2) Competition of various resorts and products trying to outdo others to capture more market-share.
As for the notion that giving resorts money now is pointless, I disagree. Resorts spend a significant amount of money during the summer to prepare for next season. Giving them money now helps ensure they have the money to do that yearly work. Even giving money to a "big" company like Alterra still helps ensure they can filter some of it down to the local level to help out the people working for those resorts in those local communities. (I'm sure someone will argue the resorts could have planned better or had more money in the bank, etc...but at least I have some personal sense that I'm somehow helping the locals at my resort whether it is true or not).
This may also be a bit of an odd reason, but for Ikon at least, buying now has a bit of a benefit from an insurance perspective (if you plan to take the optional insurance). The loss of job clause kicks in 30 days after the effective date. The effective date is when you pay the policy premium (i.e. when you purchase your pass). As long as I have the money now, I'd rather lock that clause in as early as possible just in case something did happen down the road.
I think the early sales often have spring skiing opportunity attached to hook new pass holders and get existing pass holders to bite by offering $50 less if they renew early
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Out here I was stunned in 2011 to see that Alta and Snowbird in particular did not even release pass prices until July or so and the cutoff for early discounts was late August or September. That has inched up pretty much every year although in 2017-2018, a terrible ski season out here, the dates all of the sudden became price release in March, early discount cutoff in early May. A huge change. They stuck with that last year, in part I imagine to compete with IKON/EPIC because honestly some folks won't take a "wait and see" approach and gamble on a higher price. They had started down that same path of pushing passes in early-March but then yanked everything off the market. Snowbird is promising "something" for their (declining) "loyal passholders" to make up for the early closure. We'll see what happens.
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Hum, interesting.
I speculate this all has to do with snowmaking. It seems that historically it was the eastern areas that had early season pass sales. Was this caused by a higher and historical reliance on snowmaking? I would guess that 20-30 years ago, most western areas had very limited snowmaking, and thus little summer maintenance, at least vs eastern areas. Does this hold water?
2019/20 = 23 Cut Short!
2018/19 = 36
2017/18 = 37
2016/17 = 31
2015/16 = Depressing
2014/15 = 28
2013/14 = 27
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Thursday, 13 August 2015 by BizBOXTV
A new study based on feedback from marketers, confirms that video has been found to convert better than other forms of digital content, with 71% saying online video performs better for them than text and images. 86% of those surveyed in the report from Vidyard and Ascend2, "Video Content Marketing: Identifying Metrics and Measuring Impact"
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Sooo...remember in my 2012 goals list I talked about having to force myself to get out from behind my computer to promote my business? Well, one of my sub-goals to do this was to attend a minimum of two networking events per month. I'm already apart of two women's networking groups (one is pretty active and the other isn't so I probably won't renew my membership to that one) but I know that traditional networking groups are the way to go when you're first starting up. The problem is that I'm TERRIFIED to go to a networking breakfast! LOL It's ridiculous and I know, but it freaks me out to be in a room with a lot of more established business owners! It really makes me feel vulnerable. That said, I'm being true to my word and have talked to a woman today about attending a popular networking event next Tuesday morning!
To break through my nervousness I've been reframing how I perceive the event. Instead of thinking that I'm not good enough or I'm too new to be in the presence of more established business owners, I'm working to see it as my opportunity to learn from more experienced business people who will help me to grow my business. Like having a group of mentors rather than a group of people who may be criticizing me.
I think reframing is the best possible thing a person can do when they're faced with a scary situation like this. Obviously the fears that I have are all in my head. I don't know ANYONE in this group yet I immediately assume they're all wildly successful and look down on anyone who's just starting out and/or not willing to help. So instead of assuming the worst, I'm going to reframe it as a great learning experience as well as a great excuse to get my butt out of the house!
So that's networking gig #1 for January. Sadly the other networking event I was actually looking forward to didn't work out as it conflicted with my schedule but I know there's a general networking mingler in February and if this other networking group works out I'll be doing that again next month!
In other news, I've set some fitness and nutrition goals for the next three months. I recently bought a FitBook (a popular food/fitness journal) to see if I want to affiliate with them through my business and I want to try it out before I decide. FitBook is geared towards a system of three month goals which you focus on until you finish the book. So, I've decided that my three goals for the next three months are:
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2. Food: Focus on portion control at dinner
3. Other: Write in FitBook daily
I also have some "stats" goals, these are to lose 20lbs and perform 50 non-modified push-ups.
To hold me accountable, I am blogging about this on my non-SP blog
starting today! I'll do this by blogging about which workout I did that day, posting a photo of what I ate for dinner and doing a push-up fitness test on a weekly basis to see where I'm at.
One incentive for this is getting fitted for my wedding dress. I'm not ordering a dress so I'm not going in right now to look, I'm waiting until about May. If I lose this 20lbs that puts me very close to my ultimate goal so that I wouldn't have much to take in if I drop another 10lbs or so by the wedding.
My big reward for achieving these goals is a new tattoo! I've had a new one in mind for over a year now and haven't gotten it yet so I thought this would be a great reward for all the hard work I'll have to do!
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I, too, took away the idea of reframing thought...something I REALLY need to work on! Hope things are well in your corner of the woods :).
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I love the reframing idea! I tend to get very defensive when I'm criticized (even when it's meant to be helpful) so I am constantly telling myself that people are trying to help me, not knock me down. I wish you the best - sounds like things are going well!
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Everybody had to start somewhere. They all had a beginning. Some may be more advanced in their business and some may not be too far ahead of you. Everybody's there to learn. We all...always...have something to learn. Who knows, you just may teach them a thing or two :)
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Before I even got to you reframing it I was thinking "silly girl - this is a great opportunity to learn from others"...but then I had to change my thinking to "oh see - she's a smarty - she already knows what she needs to do!!!"
You are AMAZING! I am absolutely loving watching you step out of your comfort zone and push to be a success...I need to do the same thing!!!
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I think reframing is a great idea. I have a tendency to make the same assumption, that new peer groups are all wildly successful and I may not measure up. So I tend to resolve to just ask a lot of questions. People love talking about themselves and it takes the pressure of you and gives you more opportunity to learn from them.
Wedding dress incentive is a great incentive! Can't wait till Spring to see what you pick:)
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Girl, this sounds amazing....you can do it, you have come a long way! I've seen the process...you can do it, you have plenty of us rooting for you!
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Great goals and reward!
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Last week, the Forbes Green Tech blog posted an article about Ford's new vehicle and the growing EV marketplace. The post includes a pretty interesting video about Ford's new and expanding fleet of electric vehicles — including the Ford Focus Electric — and highlights the technology and features of the new vehicles.With this transitioning market, it is imperative that emergency responders shift gears and learn about these new vehicles should they ever be involved in an accident.
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Accounting principles demand realization of the expense or, revenue which is related to the current year. It demands the same for the expenses or, revenues which are related to a specific category (i.e.- capital expenditure or, revenue expenditure).
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Fast and Furious Actor Paul Walker's Autopsy Blames Impact & Fire for Walker's Death (VIDEO)
The autopsy completed on actor Paul Walker done by the LA County Coroners office detailed what many of us pretty much figured from the pictures and VIDEO tape following the horrific and tragic car crash. Paul Walker may have survived the initial crash but died moments later due to a combination of injuries from the impact and the resulting fire.
"Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker may have initially survived a horrific car crash but died moments later due to a combination of injuries from the impact and the resulting fire, according to a coroner's report.
The one-page preliminary report released by the Los Angeles County coroner's office Wednesday listed the cause of the actor's death as the "combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries."
An autopsy concluded that Roger Rodas, who was driving the red Porsche Carerra GT, suffered "multiple traumatic injuries," but it was not clear in the report if he was still alive when the car burst into flames soon after the wreck.
It is not known how long each man lived after the crash as the fire began, Winter said. That information may be included when full autopsy reports are released in several weeks, he said.
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Looking ahead to the future of my new garden.
In the front yard of my 1944 bungalow were two Magnolia x soulangiana that were equidistant in the center of the lawn on both sides of the crumbling walkway. They had been pruned horribly and sheared with crowns in the shape of discs. There was really no hope for redemption in their future. In the parking strip (or hell strip- and this surely is because the front yard faces due south) there was a Thuja pruned into an 8' wide and 12' tall shrub. On the far west side of the strip was a well established and 40' dwarf Linden (Tilia sp). I have nothing against Lindens. They have among the most divinely fragrant flowers in the world, but in my opinion they are trees for parks and boulevards not small urban gardens. Against the south wall of the house and obscuring a large picture window was a sprawling ancient Camellia that had been pruned into the shape of a coffin- the top whacked off annually to preserve the view from the window.
I love all sorts of plants - I don't discriminate but there was no getting around it. I had to start from scratch. With the assistance of a friend- who is also a great arborist we eliminated all of the trees and shrubs that I have mentioned. Surprisingly, the logging of this small lot didn't even phase the neighbors. And in fact those behind me and on the west side thanked me for the removal of the Norway Maple. It had shaded both yards which contained ambitious vegetable gardens. I'm not sure how well they yielded produce in the shade of that tree but they were grateful and thanked me after its removal. Several months later I had all of the stumps ground out. I had a blank slate.
This brings me to the current status of my garden. After one year and planting the back
in what is a simple design- two alles of Crape myrtles couch a newly planted rectangular lawn and the west side and the back were left as deep beds. Between the Crape myrtles next to the lawn and alongside my garage I placed a basalt steppingstone walkway- on either side of it are a row of Hebe sutherlandii and dwarf boxwood to present a more linear formal component. I won't go into detail about what else I planted to fill in the gaps but I can say that within months it began to feel like a garden. I still have a lot of work to do- its periphery is surrounded by a hideous and privacy-free chain link fence. That at some point has to go. I've made due by planting 15 vines which I hope will obscure it by this year once growth kicks in. In front of the fence along the side I planted 6 golden Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens 'Swane's Golden'). And 6 more ordinary Italian Cypress directly outside the back patio to obscure an overly intimate view inside my neighbors covered porch.
In the past Italian Cypress had always been my go to plant for a fast screen and a slender vertical element in a garden. In my previous garden they grew insanely fast- up to 3-4' a year. I planted these from one and two gallon containers and expected them to progress. Strangely, they did not. Throughout all of last summer when I expected them to rocket upward they sat there and showed no inclination of vertical growth. They are in full sun, good soil and received plenty of water during the summer. I could have started with larger plants- but I expected instant growth and when they stalled it left me flummoxed. I hope they have grown an extensive root system and this will be the year they begin to fulfill their task.
I have relied heavily on plants for the structure and bones of my garden. I have neither a plan or the money for hardscape at present. When the Italian Cypress stalled and it began to look like a lengthy wait for them to mature it changed the way I think about my garden.
I used to pooh-pooh garden designers and landscape architects that would only intall what I thought were huge specimens for an instant finished look. I thought they lacked patience and many large plants that are installed do not receive adequate care to become established. I still believe that many plants should be planted in smaller sizes so that they establish more completely. But now I am a fan of larger and instant gratification and I see where they are coming from.
In my front garden I realized that I wanted trees to balance the house with the street
and I needed street trees that would provide structure and shade the hot bare parking strip. The choices were huge and I needed a nudge of inspiration to proceed. I didn't want towering shade trees. I wanted to take advantage of the sunny front slope with many plants that I love and thrive in that kind of environment. I couldn't make up my mind.
One day last summer I visited Home Depot for a trellis project. What I found was the
answer to my dilemma. They had 6' tall Albizzia j. 'Summer Chocolate' in 5 gallon
pots for an insanely decent price. We have grown this tree at our nursery- but sold out and the lack of supply and expense has kept us from growing it again. I immediately snagged two and planted them in my parking strip. I liked them so much that I got a third and
they looked wonderful all in a row. The chocolate maroon foliage balanced wonderfully
with the dark trim on my house- an added bonus. It was then that I understood the
allure of instant gratification. I had been converted.
Two months ago I was rummaging through one of our stock greenhouses and I came
across several 8' tall 7 gallon Olea europea 'Frantoio' (Olive). When I pulled them out into
the open I realized they were respectable and handsome specimens. With my new
instant gratification attitude I took them home and planted them in the center of
both sides of my front lawn. They are big, bushy, silver and beautiful. And I don't
have to wait for substance. They will never become shade producers but they perfectly fill the void with which I had been struggling. I've begun to see my entire garden in a different way now. It has solidified a goal I was lacking. A balance between instant gratification and
as well as patience. I needed to think bigger.
At a visit to Gossler Farms I was introduced to a large blooming specimen of Magnolia campbellii var. mallicomata 'Lanarth'. In full bloom its dinner plate sized deep pink flowers were beyond luxuriant- they were decadent. It takes 5-7 years for this fast growing Magnolia to reach blooming size. In an instant I was hooked. Instant gratification had
been balanced with patience and a longer vision for my garden began to take shape.
I could have the decadent luxuriance of this Magnolia in my garden. Its
a step in the direction of a more cohesive plan. Instant gratification is now balanced
with vision. I can have it all- and I can nurture and care for plants that are for
the future and at the same time start with larger plants.
Recently a dear friend and gardener bought a new house with
a completely bare front and backyard. She decided she wasn't going to wait. I was with her when she bought a huge boxed specimen of Cornus controversa 'Variegata'- 10' tall
and already a respectable specimen. Instantly her garden will appear from nowhere
with a bold statement. Now I understand the allure and I'm happy to say that
gardening for me isn't just about patience. I can allow myself some instant gratification
and in that I've grown as a gardener.
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It makes me happy to read I wasn't the only one who fell for that amazing deal on the Albizzia at Home Depot, of course the fact that you actually had a place to plant them makes your purchase slightly more reasonable than mine.ReplyDelete
I hope you've taken pictures of your garden building project thus far, and that you post them someday!
Yes, please share some before and after pics--looking forward to following your process!ReplyDelete
I usually never read massive posts, I'm very visual, but for some reason I was drawn to yours & am so glad I read it, but am now hanging out for visual satisfaction, thanx & don't delay!ReplyDelete
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Our country was in the middle of a terrible Civil War in 1863 which would continue for two more years. 1863 was also the year in which Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a date of national Thanksgiving in November. Side by side, those two facts seem so counter-intuitive and yet they are and will remain etched in our history.
Many of the photographs and ephemera that remain from that era tell brutal truths about the ways of life and death in those harsh days. There is no doubt that 1863 was ripe with hardship, strife. However, somewhere in there also lies many simple truths, ordinary days and feasts with family and friends.
My mind often wanders into a land of daydreams that writes stories for people in pictures, borders on synesthetic mania and "sees" scent and/or color in memories. The faces in old photographs are more than just nameless lost souls. They lived, loved, laughed, cried. They probably meandered about this planet with more mundane thoughts than they did great ones. In those days, like today, many people in love were ripped apart by war, some were reunited, weddings, births, deaths and togetherness.
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- BIZARRE BEAUTY Rushi Kota and Jason Kapoor anchor the superb 'Guards at the Taj.'
There are works of art that are exciting and captivating to experience, but which quickly lose their initial spark of pleasure, diminishing in brightness the more you think of them. Guards at the Taj, by Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), does the exact opposite. It leaves one a bit stunned and baffled, then gradually begins to reveal its own weird wisdom and audacious genius in the hours and days after.
That's the effect that director Jasson Minadakis' bizarre and beautiful new production at Marin Theatre Company had on me, anyway. There will surely be those who have a very different reaction to Joseph's uncomfortably funny, heartbreakingly horrifying, Monty Python–tinged retelling of a certain gruesome ancient folktale about the famous Taj Mahal.
In other words, it's not for everybody. In fact, Guards is as polarizing a piece of stagecraft as I've seen in years.
But for those who, like me, hunger for something different and who don't mind a few hundred gallons of fake blood, then MTC's twisty assault on its viewers' hearts, heads and souls could easily become one of the most memorable and important theatrical experiences of 2017.
There is not much more I can say without spoiling Joseph's carefully crafted storytelling. So if you're already inclined to check the play out, please stop reading and go buy your tickets now. For the rest, allow me to reveal these few details.
The Taj Mahal, built in in India in the mid-1600s, is widely considered the most beautiful palace ever built. In Joseph's inspired takeoff on a (probably) fictional myth, a pair of lowly guards—played brilliantly by Jason Kapoor and Rushi Kota—must stand watch outside the Taj during its construction. The ruling shah has decreed that none may look upon it before completion, on pain of death, and that no other structure shall ever surpass its beauty. In fact, he has devised a brutal plan to assure that none of its builders will ever attempt its equal.
Then things get really messy.
What follows is underscored by a brilliant verbal give and take between our two hapless heroes, delivered with modern, f-bomb-dropping, Cheech-and-Chong-ish parlance that's as refreshingly funny as it is achingly endearing. Guards is a challenging, off-putting and amazing theatrical fable, one that you won't, and shouldn't, soon forget.
Rating (out of 5): ★★★★½
'Guards at the Taj' runs Tuesday–Sunday through May 21 at Marin Theatre Company. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. Times vary. $20–$58. 415.388.5208.


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The Cleveland Cavaliers – the biggest underdogs in the Finals in 30 years – squandered a golden opportunity to steal Game 1 and now must be wondering just what they have to do to win a game against the Golden State Warriors.
In the final minute of regulation, the Cavaliers were victimized by a little-known rule that allowed the officials to change a call and then watched JR Smith dribble out what could have been their only chance at a win.
Smith rebounded a missed George Hill free throw with 4.7 seconds to play in regulation and thinking the Cavs had the lead raced to halfcourt with the ball. The problem was the game was tied and Smith's brain cramp send the game into overtime where the Warriors dominated for a 124-114 win.
Although Smith tried to save himself by saying he knew the game was tied and was trying to find room to get a shot and then thought Cleveland going to call a time out, he clearly believed the Cavs had the lead.
Cavs coach Tryonn Lue confirmed that.
"He thought it was over," Lue said. "He thought we were up one."
The look on LeBron James' face told the story. James finished with 51 points and must have been wondering if his effort was going to go to waste.
It did.
Smith's mental meltdown concluded a bizarre final minute filled with drama and breakdowns that should not happen in the Finals.
It all started with a reversal on a block-charge call with 34.6 seconds to play that had a huge impact on the outcome. Kevin Durant was originally called for an offensive foul but because the officials could review the play to see if James was in the restricted circle, the actual call was also able to be reviewed. It was changed – correctly – to a block on James.
Instead of the Cavs leading 104-102 with the ball, Durant made both free throws and the game was tied.
"For our team to come out and play their hearts out, compete the way we did, it's bad," Lue said about the overturned call.
Fast forward to the final seconds with the Warriors leading 107-106 thanks to a Stephen Curry being basket and free throw. The Warriors fell asleep on the biggest possession of the game and Klay Thompson had to grab Hill, who was cutting to the basket and would have been wide open as James was making the pass. Hill made the first free throw to tie the score and missed the second, setting up Smith's blunder.
All of which must have James wondering: "What more can I do?"
James had the sixth 50-point game in NBA Finals history. He also tied Michael Jordan with his 109 th playoff game with at least 30 points. James shot 19 of 32, had eight rebounds and eight assists and still could not will his team to a win.
In addition, the Cavaliers finished with a 52-38 rebounding advantage and the Warriors were just 8 of 30 on 3-pointers midway through the fourth quarter. They finished 13 of 36/
While Lue said the Cavs were robbed, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said his team was lucky.
"We played as well as we've played all postseason," James said. "We gave ourselves a chance possession after possession after possession. And there were some plays that were kind of taken away from us."
Let's get physical: With the Cavaliers' frustration level already boiling over, tempers flared in the final seconds of overtime and it could impact Sunday's Game 2. After James had words with Curry and Thompson, Cleveland's Tristian Thompson took offense to Shaun Livingston taking a shot with four seconds remaining and threw an elbow at Livingston.
Thompson said the thought Livingston should not have shot the ball and taken the shot clock violation. "That was some bull****," he said.
Livingston, and the rest of the Warriors, disagreed.
"We don't ever take a turnover," Livingston said. "We finish the game out, that's just how we play. That's not disrespect to any team."
Thompson was immediately ejected and as the teams came together Golden State's Draymond Green started talking and waiving goodbye. Thompson shoved the basketball and his hand in Green's face. Green backed off.
The league certainly will take a look at the play today and could fine or even suspend Tristian Thompson for a game.
Warriors let out sigh of relief: As much as we all believe this will be a quick series the first quarter reminded us how quickly things could change.
Everybody connected to the Warriors held their breath when Smith slipped and rolled into Klay Thompson's left knee about six minutes into the game. The Warriors guard went down grimacing and slapped the court, a bad sign. But the news was as good as it could have been as Thompson was diagnosed with a leg contusion and returned at the start of the second quarter. He finished with 24 points.
But the play illustrates why nothing is guaranteed. This could easily have ended differently and suddenly the Warriors are down one of their stars and the series takes on a whole different look.
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I designed these T-shirts for a local business in Ardmore, PA.
It went through many different versions. It had started out as a single pint glass with a nuclear explosion and eventually morphed into this logo. We messed around with tons of color combinations before settling on the shirts you see below.
The Beer Shoppe has an amazing selection of craft beers(and domestic as well). Go check them out and pick up a 6 pack or growler of something they have on tap(I picked up a growler of Bear Republic Racer 5 just yesterday).


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NEW YORK – Here I come. 🙂 This may be my 8th(ish) trip to NY, but this time its different, not a shopping trip, not a sightseeing trip, but this time its for a Marathon Swim!. For me this is just as exciting, I get to mix two things I Love, Swimming and NY 🙂
I spent this weekend, swimming in Irish waters for the last time, Saturday Morning I just had to go back to Myrtleville and swim there in the conditions I prefer, Calm instead of rain (last Monday!).
After an Hour in Myrtleville, I picked up my sister on they way and headed for Sandycove to do one last lap for Liam and I, and to cheer on Rob on reaching a 1000 laps of Sandycove (impressive, and he joins a very unique group!).. Plenty of Craic and food at Sandycove reminds you just what a great group of swimming friends we have all become. Everyone was genuinely cheering Rob to the wall on his 1000th lap, everyone genuinely wishing Liam and I well as we head to off to swim MIMS. Where else would you be? 🙂
If you want to track all the MIMS swimmers, then go to this page next Saturday. If you would like to donate to my charity then I appreciate your donation. Thank You. (50% stays in NY charities, 50% to Down Syndrome Irl).
While away twitter and facebook posts may be limited! (depending on free wi-fi). On the day of the swim, Dad is my crew on the boat, who will be texting my sister Eleanor who will have access to my Twitter and Facebook accounts and will update as best they can!.. a very round about way to get updates I know, but I havn't got Dad on twitter yet!!
So for now, its off to Bed, not sure if I can sleep, But "My bags are packed and I'm ready to go"………. See you soon Lisa and Liam 🙂
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Snapshot (18.104.22.168) more bugfixing
olli last edited by
This week has been a bit emotional for some of us as we learned that the company many of us worked for before, Opera, dismantled its Oslo desktop team and fired some 70 employees around the world. As you can imagine, this is a major move for the company as this is where it all started, with the desktop browser in Oslo.
Many of our good friends around the globe lost their jobs. Our thoughts are with them all. Clearly this makes our task even more important and we will continue to work hard making the best browser available for you, our friends.
neltherion last edited by
Haha ! First !
Now let's head there and check this one out !
I just read the news… and I got even more sorry for Opera's Fate...
I knew I kept calling them ChrOpera over and over... but deep down, I always wished they'd expand and rise rather than fail and wither...
I'm sorry...
Telegram last edited by
Hope some of the fired Opera Desktop employees, especially in Oslo, can now work for Vivaldi.
helsten2 last edited by
The Use Native Window option does not seem to work …
era9 last edited by
Something went terribly wrong there(vista).
Still, opening and changing tabs to the speed dial page is painfully slow. Delay 500+ ms. Since i'm spoiled by the old opera where the UI is butter smooth it leaves a bad impression…
As for the situation in Opera i'm not surprised... It's probably just a matter of time when they decide that there is no money in the desktop market and just dump the desktop browser.
History likes to repeat itself...
Good news about enabling native window decoration in Linux - but how do we do it? Where is the setting?
In Linux Window>Settings does not point to a settings page.
Cqoicebordel Ambassador last edited by
Be careful, you have twice VB-5265 in the changelog (first and last)
I'm really sorry for Opera's employees. But it was sadly predicted.
When all you care about is the money coming in, you don't care about good platforms, good engineers, and globally, what is good in the long term.
I hope they'll find jobs, and some at Vivaldi. The Desktop team was talented, and I always admired its job, even if sometimes I bitched about it. I did because I cared.
Anyway, I wish only the best to all unfortunate Opera employee.
OK, found the setting but "Use Native Window" does not seem to do anything in Linux. What is it supposed to do?
vivaldi team If you were in 3º world you were accustomed to see your friends and you too unemployed, here in Argentina that is very common
What does "VB-5183 - NSL Progress bar on going back to SD" mean?
Cqoicebordel Ambassador last edited by
On native decoration, for the settings at least, it seems you use your decoration system, then destroy it to add the native one (I see a flicker of the black border before the native decoration comes in). It would maybe be better for the perfs if the Vdec wasn't constructed at all.
And native decoration doesn't seems to affect the main window. A new navigator window or settings are natively decorated, but not the first navigator window, windowed or maximized. For that window, there is no decoration at all (I mean, there isn't the three "minimize, maximize, close" buttons).
I have a few errors in the console :
[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
[5179:5214:0424/145022:ERROR:form_field_data.cc(169)] Unknown FormFieldData pickle version 8
[5179:5214:0424/145022:ERROR:native_backend_kwallet_x.cc(98)] Failed to deserialize version 4 KWallet entry (realm: https://ifttt.com/)
The last two are repeating a few times when opening settings.
And when I push CTRL when the adress field is selected, I have
[5179:5179:0424/145208:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(216)] Gdk: gdk_window_set_user_time called on non-toplevel
I don't know if those console errors are useful for you, so don't hesitate to tell me to stop or to continue.
EDIT : I forgot to tell for the native decoration, I'm on Kubuntu 14.10, with OpenBox instead of KWin as window decoration.
Pesala Ambassador last edited by
NSL = Never Stop Loading, SD means Speed Dial.
Pesala Ambassador last edited by
I removed all of my New Opera versions yesterday. I decided that it would never come to anything worthwhile. I hope that Vivaldi''s fate is better, but no one is guaranteed success even if they have a good product
"Opera, dismantled it´s Oslo desktop team and fired some 70 employees around the world"
import from HTML file was not fixed (button should say another thing), and editing details on bookmarks tab (description and nickname) was not fixed, the tipping is very slow, any way see you next week good bye
Thanks! So are we back to Friday snapshots?
jon Vivaldi Team last edited by
Monday snapshots will return, but generally the rule is that we will make snapshots when we can and when it makes most sense overall. This time that means we gave you a Friday snapshot. Enjoy!
Please note that you need to restart Vivaldi to get native look in your first window. I guess we need to make this clearer. We were just eager to show this to you already and get your feedback on this feature.
Have a great weekend!
Thank you for the clarification. Native window look is like normal look but without window controls for me (Windows 8.1).
Well, it works only for the 2nd, 3rd.. window but not for the first window.


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