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When I was studying to be a writer, I remember a professor saying, "If the funny parts don't make you laugh, and the sad parts don't make you cry, and the provocative parts don't make you think, then you have work to do."
Since then, I have learned that the best of the aforementioned experiences come from real life. The antics of people from dayto day are often much funnier than anything a writer could create. And nothing is sadder than events that we all have to live through as we complete our life cycle.
Without a doubt, the funniest of the funny comes from kids doing their best to survive the trials and tribulations of childhood. Sometimes the funny things children do and say are not only priceless; they are precious.
Although no sane adult would ever do anything to hurt a child's feelings, once in a while they are so funny that we can't help but bust out laughing and hope for the best.
Children learning to communicate create an endless supply of material for columnists, comedians, and anyone who makes a living recounting the neverending human comedy.
When they have not yet learned to read and write and their vocabulary is hopefully improving on a day-to-day basis, children's efforts to master communicative skills can sometimes be downright hilarious.
For instance, I remember my son was visibly upset because he thought he was growing up to be a "bean." He didn't understand the word "being," so when someone told him he was a "wonderful human being," he equated "being" to the closest word that sounded similar, which was "bean."
As far as he was concerned, he was a "wonderful human bean," and that did not set well with him at all. I believe he was not quite four when he came up with that gem.
The little ones have yet to learn that "write," "right," and "rite" have completely different meanings. When I stop to think about it, I know adults who do not have a complete understanding of that example. Maybe something simpler would be better.
Children have no idea that "two," "too," and "to" are three completely different words. In a child's mind, it makes perfect sense that they are all the same word because they sound the same. Examples like that make me have a deeper compassion for anyone trying to learn English as a second language. The complexities are mind-boggling.
I remember a childhood friend wanting to know why every story his mother ever read to him started out with "Once a pony time." He didn't understand, "Once upon a time," and he wanted to know what horses had to do with the story.
Not too long ago I heard a conversation between two school-age boys who were trying to sort out the meaning of a "tropical depression." They knew it had something to do with the weather.
"I know that a tropical depression brings rain," said one.
"Yeah, and that's depressing," said the other. "Makes sense. Depressing is sad. I'm always sad when it rains. My mom says that when it rains, the angels are crying."
"Do you believe that?" asked the other.
"What, that there are angels, or that they cry?"
"Well . . . both," he replied.
"I guess I believe in angels. But I don't think they cry."
How can anyone compete with logic like that? It makes more sense than paying for car insurance that will be cancelled the first time you make a claim.
Growing up is an endless journey of lessons that are confusing, and sometimes painful. When I was 12 or 13 years old, a farmer overheard a conversation I was having with my friend Brian while we were on summer vacation. We were complaining about school and discussing what we would do if we could quit.
"You boys don't look too busy," the farmer said. "You want to give me a hand and make a few bucks?" We eagerly said "yes."
We worked for half a day for that farmer. We tossed hay bales onto a wagon, cleaned out a shed, slopped pigs, and shoveled manure. By the time we were finished, we hardly had the strength to get on our bicycles.
"That's every day life if you quit school," the farmer said smiling.
We then realized — you can't beat a system you can't understand.


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STMicroelectronics Completes IP and Talent Acquisition from bTendo, a Projection-Technology Innovator
Brings pioneering spirit to pico-projector technology for smart consumer devices
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world's top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer1, today announced that it has taken an important additional step in its positioning in the emerging video-sharing market for smartphones and other portable consumer devices. Following a successful joint development effort with start-up bTendo, ST has acquired the intellectual property and has hired most of the staff of the Israeli company to accelerate the propagation of the technology.
The development effort, which has been aimed at combining bTendo's innovative Scanning Laser Projection engine with ST's leading MEMS expertise, video processing know-how and semiconductor process technology, has produced evaluation samples ideally suited, because of their tiny size and low power consumption, for integration into next-generation smartphones, digital cameras and laptops. These samples are now in the hands of potential customers.
The Scanning Laser Projection engine produces a focus-free high-resolution output that will allow users to display their video, pictures and presentations virtually anywhere. The bTendo innovative solution provides the smallest foot print available in the market with the best efficiency and meets the toughest mobile-makers design requirements. In particular, in a module smaller than 1.7cm3 and less than 5mm high, the projection engine is ideally suited for integration in even the sleekest smartphones and other portable devices.
"As a pioneer and the industry's leading innovator in MEMS, we're making pico-projectors small, power-friendly, and convenient enough to suit smart phones, digital cameras and laptops," said Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President and General Manager of ST's Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group. "Combining ST's IP and technical expertise with bTendo's Scanning Laser Projection engine is enabling us to meet the demands of the emerging market of embedded projectors in next-generation portable consumer devices while preparing to simultaneously open up new markets."
Underscoring ST's efforts in this area, Pacific Media Associates, a leading projector-market research firm, forecasts the market for pico-projectors to expand to 58 million units in 2015, up from about 3 million units shipped in 20112, a compound annual growth rate of more than 80%. ST's acquisition of bTendo's IP and expertise leverages the strong progress of the companies' existing joint-development efforts and positions ST to fully benefit from this significant market growth.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power technologies and multimedia convergence applications. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2011, the Company's net revenues were $9.73 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
1 IHS iSuppli: MEMS Competitive Analysis 2012
2 Pacific Media Associates annual survey of manufacturers of projectors, optical engines, and components 2012


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About Glenn Sorensen
Glenn Sorensen paints still lifes with remarkable consistency, both in style and content. Focusing on objects from his surroundings—most often flowers, though sometimes quirkier objects like cigarettes or a small Buddha figurine—Sorensen casts his subjects in light hues against dark, inky backgrounds. His compositions are often more noteworthy for what they do not include than what they do: flowers hover without their stalks, and when people do appear they are often nearly washed out beyond recognition. "A large part of [my] process is the correction of errors and the removal of anything that may be unnecessary," Sorensen has said. "I find that this reduction, or simplification, lends to an intensity of intention." His recent ventures into sculpture, such as the glossy black explosion of leaves in Pair (2011), suggest a departure from this reductive approach despite the identical subject matter.
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Security Slideshow: Mass Data Transfers: Security, Compliance Risks
We're betting that you see managed file transfer (MFT) simply as a management tool. It's certainly a reliable way to ensure and control mass data transfers. However, as the September 2010 eWEEK Executive Strategy Planner shows, security risks are very real when it comes to mass data transfers -- and such activity does not have the same risk profile as E-mail does. MFT is an effective solution to resolve security and compliance issues for many organizations, according to the eWeek report. And, by integrating these risk-management features at the source, MFT provides the benefits of security and compliance solutions without the unwanted byproducts of standalone security solutions, which can sometimes hamper employee communications or hurt productivity. eWEEK's Executive Strategy Planner, 'Managed File Transfer: The Unsung Security and Compliance Solution,' is based on a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Research. The study features the results of a survey, fielded in June and July 2010. The survey had 516 respondents involved in file-transfer systems at organizations of all sizes.


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A huge lens like that always remind me of the journalists who got shot while on their jobs. That's why the subject of war come up... LoLx
Sorry for getting sidetrack...
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Oh ok, i was just wondering if you knew something that i didnt know lol.
And plus the journalists probably got shot from having that lens because the bad guys thought it was a rocket lol
Originally Posted by Switchblade906
And plus the journalists probably got shot from having that lens because the bad guys thought it was a rocket lol
The few journalists who are shot are usually killed by the American military and their "kill everybody you see" policy.
Most journalists who are killed happen to be in the wrong place when a bomb lands.
Yeah well id rather you not disrespect the best military in the world since we obviously didnt kill everyone we saw because they wouldnt have a country left as it should be.
We only hear about American soldiers shot and killed journalists maybe because they operate under a relatively transparent system comparing to some. Many armies would quickly order a cover up.
All soldiers, regardless of what flag they fight for, operate under extreme pressure and don't have time to scan the enemies at leisure as they themselves can get return fires at any given time. It's really the journalists themselves who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Well, Afghanistan is miles and miles of debris, rubble and fields of poppies, looking for some drug-addled market to cough up revenues.
I was considering the 200-500mm f/2.8 for an Olympic event or trials. Last time I checked, they were not shooting back ... but, times are changing, I suppose.
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So did you ever decide if you are going to get this lens?
It is a best lens available of sigma in market. It has 18 Elements in 16 Groups. it's minimun focusing distance is 150-250 cm. It's filter size is 105mm. It's weight is 2600g. So it is light weight. It has 9 Number of Diaphragm Blades. It's Maximum Magnifications 1:8.6 . So i think this is the best lens of sigma in market.
I have to wait for it to arrive, 'Switch.' SIGMA has not physically delivered it to the marketplace, yet.
It's a chunk of change, to be sure, but you cannot rent SONY-mount gear like this. No one is providing that kind of support, yet. There were a few that tried, but SONY keeps dragging its feet with the release of the new semi-pro and pro models ... so there is not too many hobbyists that will cough up this kind of change with not much new to put it one.
Don't get me wrong. A lens like this is almost the be all, end all, for a telephoto photographer. Aperture, useful focal length, relatively light and stabilized. It's got the package. I wants one.
Originally Posted by tim11
So expensive at such limited range.. I'd see more value if it's 70-300 or 80-400...
Really? You do realize this is an f/2.8 lens? This is probably the great sports zoom lens, they have now made it even better with OS.
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Cor triatriatum is an extremely rare congenital (present at birth) heart defect. Normally, the human heart has four chambers of which two are the atria. These two are separated from each other by a partition (septum) called the atrial septum. The other two chambers, known as ventricles, are also separated by a septum. In cor triatriatum there is a small extra chamber above the left atrium of the heart. The pulmonary veins, returning blood from the lungs, drain into this extra "third atrium." The passage of blood from the lungs into the heart (left atrium and ventricle) is slowed by this extra chamber. Cor triatriatum may eventually lead to features of congestive heart failure and obstruction over time.
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OK, After lots of bitching and complaining, I finally got my XO!!! I love it. It is funny though--after many, many calls and lots of assorted excusses, I called yet again. Got the line about, "it will ship in mid February or March." Told the operator that I had made a complaint to my Attorney General's office. Well, 2 days later, by priority mail, low and behold my XO arrived. Coincidence? I don't think so. It took a week for the e-mail notice and T-Mobile info to come after we got the actual XO.
But, anyway, back to topic. I love my XO. I am still figuring some things out. It is really amazing. It is suposed to be mine. I wanted it so that I could keep in touch with the world by my on-line journal during a month-long bicycle tour this summer. But my husband has been using it more than me! He figured out that he can put his forest service maps on it and refer to them out in the field when hiking. Likes that. I've already been downloading some free e-books and reading them. Used it for some stuff at work also. The students in my classroom were fascinated by it. It's been a hot topic of discussion at my school, where I am the only kid to have one. (Some of the teachers are asking how they can get one. Had to tell them it's too late, at least for now. G1G1 is over.) Having lots of fun driving around and looking for wireless hotspots. It's fun to watch the little colored dots pop up on the screen when we find a new hotspot. We've been doing a lot of parking lately. But it is to play with the computer whenever we find a patch of good hotspots. We're moving to a new city soon and we discovered that they have free wireless hotspots around the city, provided by the city. That's cool. We just have to find out where all the hotspots are.
I'm not much of a computer geek, so I am having some trouble figuring out some of the things since there are no instructions. I have been looking at the stuff on line and wading through that to help me figure things out. It is a lot of experimentation and trial and error. I guess that is the way that kids would use it, though.
I still think this is a great concept and I hope it gets into US schools soon. I also hope that in the future OLPC takes a more serious look at shipping issues before they try this again.


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As a fellow Windsor Terrace homeowner, I have to say-- our neighborhood is MUCH hipper and cooler!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Don't get me wrong - I love the friendly vibe our nabe has so I wouldn't trade it - but I don't think we get many hip points. I've been here for nearly my entire life and Windsor Terrace has stayed pretty much the same. Sure we have a few more hipster touches now but I don't really want it to get too cool - I like it the way it is.
I actually agree. While it doesn't feel undiscovered, it also doesn't feel trendy. And it is a small town! For example, I often get off the same F train as you, but don't want to be stalker-y by telling you I love your blog- so you can be famous and have your privacy! :)Delete
I have to note that the chairs at the table in the first pic would be so uncomfortable that it would more likely hurt my hip rather than be hip. Otherwise beautiful spaces.ReplyDeleteReplies
Those stools are one of the few things I don't like about the design choices here but nothing is ever perfect I guess :)Delete
I like your house better. You kitchen is so beautiful.ReplyDelete
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I like the book because talent shows are creative and I never would of thought of writing about a talent show. It is a really good book and there are lots of different animals. I like that there were lots of good people performing, but when Piper gets up everyone laughs because Bruna forgets lots of tricks and Piper is scared that she is going to lose.
I recommend this book to people who like pets and pet shows. This book is the second book in the Piper Reed series. I promise you that you will never be able to put this book down until you are finished.


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Navigational ability is a critical component of an animal's spatial ecology and may influence the invasive potential of species. Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) are apex predators invasive to South Florida. We tracked the movements of 12 adult Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park, six of which were translocated 21–36 km from their capture locations. Translocated snakes oriented movement homeward relative to the capture location, and five of six snakes returned to within 5 km of the original capture location. Translocated snakes moved straighter and faster than control snakes and displayed movement path structure indicative of oriented movement. This study provides evidence that Burmese pythons have navigational map and compass senses and has implications for predictions of spatial spread and impacts as well as our understanding of reptile cognitive abilities.
1. Introduction
Navigation is the process by which animals decide when and where to move and plays an important role in species' spatial dynamics [1]. The navigational capacity of an animal is often quantified using translocation experiments that measure the ability of animals released in an unfamiliar location to orient home. The ability to home after translocation involves two senses: a map sense (determination of position in relation to a goal) and the compass sense (access to a reliable compass to maintain orientation towards the goal) [2]. This process has been studied extensively in a number of species, notably in pigeons and sea turtles [2], but has not been documented extensively in snakes.
Few studies have explicitly tested the navigational capacity of snakes [3–5], despite recent evidence that squamates have sophisticated spatial memory [6,7]. Translocation experiments have shown that many snake species display a lack of ability to home and often exhibit suboptimal movement behaviour typified by high movement rates and circular search behaviour that increase the likelihood of crossing a previously visited path [8,9]. These translocation studies have focused primarily on terrestrial species of conservation concern (e.g. rattlesnakes, hognose snakes), and few have investigated the homing abilities of large constrictors.
Understanding navigational capacity is necessary to develop a mechanistic understanding of species' spatial dynamics [10] and is critical in the context of range expansion by invasive species [11]. Navigational capacity may allow animals to exploit resources that are widely spaced or seasonally varying and reduces risk associated with searching potentially hostile or unfamiliar areas. Few studies have investigated navigation in invasive species, despite implications for movement behaviour and resource use. Invasive snakes have the ability to severely disrupt native ecosystems. Several large snakes have become established outside their native ranges, including Burmese pythons (Python molurus bivittatus), African pythons (Python sebae) and boa constrictors (Boa constrictor), and knowledge of their movement abilities could greatly inform management and control efforts [12].
The Burmese python is native to southern Asia and is one of the world's largest snakes [12]. This species is established over several 1000 km2 of southern Florida, including most of Everglades National Park (ENP) and Big Cypress National Preserve [12]. The number of pythons found has increased substantially since the year 2000, and the population appears to have spread northward from ENP and southward into the Florida Keys. Severe declines of several once-common mammal species appear to be the result of python predation and are a testament to their ability to impact food chains [13].
To understand the spatial ecology of invasive Burmese pythons, we used radiotelemetry in 2006–2007 to study the movements and activity patterns of pythons in South Florida. As part of that study, we translocated six individuals from their original capture locations. Herein, we report and discuss the implications of the movement and homing capabilities of these translocated pythons.
2. Material and methods
We conducted radiotracking between August 2006 and September 2007 within and around ENP (figure 1; [14]). Python capture and radiotransmitter implantation followed Mazzotti et al. [14]. We released six pythons in the translocated treatment 21–36 km from capture locations to areas with suitable habitat (evidenced by the presence of pythons). We released six pythons at the location where they were originally captured (control). The translocated and control individuals were treated equally in terms of handling and holding time. All animals were placed in sealed, opaque plastic containers and were transported by vehicle to release locations (paths taken by researchers were not direct—figure 1). Snakes were anaesthetized during implantation surgeries, which occurred at the Daniel Beard Center. We radiotracked each python one to three times per week and recorded locations using a GPS from a fixed-wing aircraft (Cessna 182), flying 100–140 km h−1 (altitudes 152–610 m) and periodically performed walk-ins to their locations.
We compared overall speed (total distance moved/number of days tracked) and maximum speed (maximum net distance moved/day) of translocated and control snakes using Wilcoxon rank sum tests. We used Rayleigh's test to determine whether translocated pythons significantly oriented movement according to the bearing of capture locations [15]. Net orientations were calculated after 170 (±2) days for snakes released during May and after 253 (±2) days for snakes released in November. We standardized net orientations so that 0° corresponded to the bearing of the capture location, and we considered the net bearing of each translocated python as a replicate.
For each python movement path, we determined the orientation efficiency to the capture location following Bodin et al. [16], where positive values of orientation efficiency indicate oriented movement. We calculated the fractal dimension (FD) of all movement paths (smaller FD values signify straighter movement) using Fractal 5.0 (V. O. Nams, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada). We compared orientation efficiencies and FDs of translocated and control snakes using Wilcoxon rank sum tests.
To test movement path structure for oriented movement, we used the scaling test for orientation following Nams [17], which tests paths for deviations from correlated random walks (CRWs) at different spatial scales. If CRWdiff > 0, the animal moved straighter than predicted by a CRW and therefore employed oriented movement, whereas if CRWdiff < 0, the animal moved more tortuously than a CRW. We performed the scaling test for orientation at the group level (translocated or control) where errors are based on among-path variation. We investigated spatial scales ranging from 1 to 5000 m.
3. Results
All translocated pythons oriented movement bearings homeward relative to their release point, and snake bearings were within ±22° of the homeward bearing (figure 1; n = 6, Rayleigh's test, p < 0.001). Five of the six translocated pythons returned to within 5 km of their capture location; the sixth moved in the direction of the capture location (electronic supplementary material, table S1). Translocated pythons differed in orientation efficiency to capture locations compared with control pythons (table 1, Wilcoxon rank sum test, p = 0.002). Translocated pythons also displayed lower FDs of movement paths than control pythons (table 1, Wilcoxon rank sum test, p = 0.002). Translocated pythons had higher mean movement rates (table 1, Wilcoxon rank sum test, p = 0.002) and maximum speeds (table 1, Wilcoxon rank sum test, p = 0.004) than control pythons. The scaling test for orientation showed that translocated pythons moved distances greater than predicted by CRW at scales approximately 10–3000 m (electronic supplementary material, figure S1), whereas control pythons showed no difference from CRW at any spatial scale (electronic supplementary material, figure S2).
4. Discussion
This study provides evidence that Burmese pythons are capable of homing after displacement at a scale previously undocumented for any snake species. Contrary to our expectation that pythons would exhibit random wandering movement similar to other snake species displaced similar distances, the pythons in this study oriented towards their capture locations. Because snakes successfully determined the bearing towards their capture locations and maintained those bearings, this study provides evidence that Burmese pythons have navigational map and compass senses. In addition, snakes maintained oriented movement over relatively long time scales (94–296 days), demonstrating the maintenance of long-term movement goals and high motivation to reach home locations. These factors have important consequences for the spatial dynamics of the species, with implications for management.
The map sense involves either path integration using the memory of an outward path or sampling local environmental cues to determine position relative to a goal location [2]. The pythons in our study showed significant orientation towards the home locations without the memory of an outward path and therefore likely used local cues at the release site to determine their position relative to home [18]. Python homing movement paths in our study were significantly different than CRW, supporting the assertion that the snakes used compass cues to maintain bearings over long distances (compass step) [17]. Potential cues underlying the map sense in pythons may include olfactory and magnetic cues that change predictably through space [3]. The compass step could be accomplished through the use of magnetic, celestial, olfactory or polarized light cues, all of which can generate reliable compasses in reptiles [4]. Future studies focused on determining the sensory systems underlying the map and compass steps of navigation in pythons would be valuable [19,20].
Understanding navigation in invading species improves the ability to control populations and prevent expansion. For example, dispersal behaviour significantly affects the dynamics of invasion fronts [11]. High navigational capacity effectively lowers risk to dispersing individuals (the subadult life stage in Burmese pythons) and may increase the incidence of exploratory movements and the survival of dispersers. The presence of map and compass sense in pythons therefore may influence the survival and behaviour of dispersing subadult pythons, impacting spread dynamics. Navigational ability also affects population dynamics by enabling individuals to exist at high densities even when resources are scarce [21,22]. The combination of density-dependent dispersal and high survival of dispersers may lead to fat-tailed dispersal kernels and accelerating invasion fronts [23].
Snakes have proven to be devastating invaders, and Burmese pythons are high-impact apex predators capable of disrupting food webs where invasive. This study suggests that this species has navigational map and compass senses, a novel finding for a snake species and a potentially crucial component to the invasion dynamics of Burmese pythons and similar species. Future research is warranted into the dynamics of snake invasions that place an emphasis on understanding sensory and navigational capacity to best inform conservation efforts.
Research was permitted under University of Florida animal care protocols F162 and 009–08-FTL, Florida FWC Commission permit ESC 08–02, and NPS permits EVER-2007-SCI-001 and EVER-2009-SCI-001.
Data accessibility
Data reported are available online in the electronic supplementary material. Data deposited in dryad: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pm136.
Funding statement
Support provided by USGS Ecosystems Program, USGS Priority Ecosystem Science Program, the US National Park Service (NPS), Davidson College, University of Florida, Duke Energy and the J.E. and Marjorie B. Pittman Foundation, Inc.
We thank M. Rochford, A. Wolf, T. Walters, T. Kieckhefer, T. Hill, M. Brien, J. Carrigan, M. Parry, B. Jeffery and B. Greeves for field assistance. P. Zollner, J.D. Willson, B. Ousterhout, G. Connette, L. Harden, M. Kern and R. Semlitsch commented on the manuscript. Any use of trade, product or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government.
- Received January 15, 2014.
- Accepted February 21, 2014.
- © 2014 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved.


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It occurs to me that to really provide some constructive input to this so-called "discussion" group, I need to speak the right language. I need to rant usefully.
Maybe what I would like to contribute does not comport, or else it is simply too "neutral". So, I'll modify my language a bit in the hopes that some of my arguments may be absorbed. Kind of like a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down, only in this case the sugar is the ranting and the medicine is the logical, but distasteful argument behind the ranting.
For example:
Distasteful argument: President Obama is on the left but he is not a Marxist.
Logical reasoning in neutral language:
The United States experiment is an uphill struggle. People are not wont to take the bull by the horns and make their lives the fullest they can be. They like to watch football on Sunday, not go to church, fix the porch, or work on that great idea in the garage (a la Hewlitt and Packard). Politicians, on the other hand are indeed wont to take the bull by the horns and make their lives the fullest they can be. People want comfort. Politicians want votes. Ergo – politicians provide comfort and people provide votes.
However, real comfort comes from unimpeded personal diligence.
The left believes you should be able to have my cake and eat it, too. After all, cake is made to be eaten and it isn't usually made in single serving sizes. So gimme some! This isn't really wrong-headed thinking in fact since it is more efficient to make things in bulk anyway, and not to waste it (do you realize how much food is thrown out in a typical restaurant?). The point is we do provide comfort, and cake, to each other. The left just thinks it is an obligation, a "natural right".
Karl Marx was not a politician, he was a radical intellectual. He wanted his ideas to be "proven", just like all good intellectuals do, especially radicals who would otherwise end up in the dustbin of history. He believed that the proletariat had to defeat the bourgeousie in order for this to happen. Thus, ultimate control by the proletariat was required.
Barak Obama believes everyone has a right to be comfortable. A "right" to be comfortable. However, if Karl Marx were alive today and he were president, and were asked if he wanted to "run a car company", he would say "absolutely!" Obama has said "no". I believe him. Therein lies the difference.
However, Obama's naivete is that he thinks comfort and liberty are mutually compatible. They are not. Karl Marx knew they were not – it wasn't his goal anyway.
Logical reasoning in rant language:
Pigs love gravy. People on the left love gravy. Barak Obama is on the left. Therefore, Barak Obama is a gravy-sucking pig. Gravy is easy to make. Just take the drippings of the roast (beef, chicken, duck, etc.), add some flower and water, stir with a whisk while cooking and voila, gravy. It is also cheap to make gravy. So in large part, the answer to our woes is to take drippings and maybe some scraps, make gravy and feed it to everyone.
The meat itself will of course need to be consumed by the gravy-sucking pigs higher up in the echelon, like Barak Obama, since they are doing the lions share of the work making all that gravy. They need the protein, after all; they are the ones putting forth the effort.
Karl Marx didn't like gravy. He was a vegetarian. He had a thesis. He felt that the the gravy-sucking pigs would live longer if they became vegetarians. For their own good, he penned in those big fat pigs, and changed their diet completely. Never mind that pigs hate vegetables. Marx didn't care, though. He just wanted to be proven right about his thesis. That makes him a pig-headed moron, but not a gravy-sucking pig.
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Now, if you want to direct people to a signup page that MailChimp hosts for you for free, this is it. Except right now it's ugly and grey.
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Now, if you want to change any of the writing on the page, like "Subscribe to list" click on Translate it, and update the default text (not many people know to do this, so congrats on that!). Here's what my own extremely crappy list signup page looks like.
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If you want to add a download, like a PDF or audio file, to the final welcome email, then click the content box (outlined in red dashes) to edit the content, then highlight the words you want to link to (in the case above, it was "bonus PDF") then click the link icon, which looks like a chain. Change the Link to dropdown from Web address to File and you'll be taken to MailChimp's uploader. Drag whatever file you want to link to onto the screen and boom, it'll put in the URL to the file into the link box for you and you're done.
Now the necessities of your mailing list are setup: you've set the options up, you've styled the form to match your brand and maybe you've even added in a little bonus for subscribers. Go you!
A good thing about MailChimp is that there are so many ways to put a signup form onto your website. Let's cover a few of the main and best ways to do it, although with WordPress the sky is the limit since there are infinite plugins.
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Dow Jones Industrial futures are up 131 points at 15,374. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 futures are up 16 points at 1,665. Nasdaq futures are up 27 points at 3,024.
Bernanke said Wednesday that the U.S. needs low interest rates and other economic support "for the foreseeable future." That reassured investors dismayed by Bernanke's comments last month that the Fed would likely slow its bond purchases this year.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Flipping through a stack of color images he shot during a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., photographer Bob Adelman is casual about the history they represent.
He pauses at the image of a group of people with clasped hands raised in victory at a Montgomery, Ala., cab stand, where people had gathered during the city's long bus boycott a decade earlier, and calls them "real King fans." Pointing to the second floor of the Alabama Capitol, behind a line of green-helmeted troops, he chuckles as he remembers, "Gov. Wallace was hiding behind the curtains up there."
Then there's the man with his fist raised in mid-speech, whom he calls "Doc" -- better known as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Now they seem like momentous events. At the time, they were covered in the back pages of newspapers, for the most part. The only time blacks appeared in newspapers at that time was when there was violence," Adelman said.
The images are among roughly 150 assembled at Nova Southeastern University's Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale for an exhibit marking the half-century since the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
Adelman volunteered his services as a photographer to the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He went on to shoot the covers of national magazines and the front pages of national newspapers, but he always considered himself an activist.
"Unlike photojournalists trying to get the shot, this is somebody that is part of the circle really recognizing the role he can play in bringing about change through his images," museum director Bonnie Clearwater said.
The exhibit is titled "The Movement," referring to both the efforts to end segregation in America and Adelman's aesthetic as a photographer, Clearwater said.
Adelman wanted to capture the spirit of the demonstrations on film, but frame after frame focuses on bodies — how the people in the movement physically moved.
Another image from the march to Montgomery shows King and his wife at the front of a crowd that seems endless behind them, in spite of the rain that has dampened their clothes. The descendants of enslaved people who had no rights to their own bodies were marching en masse across a landscape in which signs and white people told black people where they could and could not go.
"I told my friends, 'This is history,' even though it was not apparent to many people," Adelman said. "I thought this using your body to try to change things, whether you tried to vote or went to the bathroom or you were trying to go into a movie theater or whatever — that was inescapable and it was I guess very, very provocative and confrontational."
In his Miami Beach home, above a fireplace filled with dozens of the books he has published, hangs Adelman's iconic image of King delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, raising his right hand over his head as he crescendos with the words of an old spiritual, "Free at last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
The contact sheet with that image has been enlarged for the exhibit. The frame is in the center of a row of negatives and has a crack through its center. It was reprinted so many times that the negative tore.
"I've spent 50 years wondering, with all these photographers there, why I took the definitive picture," said Adelman, 83. "I only came there because I knew that Doc was the most extraordinary speaker I ever heard and he would speak in an unforgettable way."
Another contact sheet enlarged for the exhibit shows several frames of demonstrators being sprayed with fire hoses in Birmingham, Ala. Adelman remembers the force of the water peeling bark off a tree, but the demonstrators in the photo huddle together, refusing to scatter. The last image of the sequence shows a small group of young black people struggling to stand under a blast of white water.
"That became, I guess, a symbol of resistance, that this white water and this white terror would be opposed by people who were not going to be intimidated anymore. Inside the movement, that became the image of what was really going on," Adelman said.
Adelman's standing within the movement allowed him to get closer to King than many other photographers. Other leaders of the era recognized him, too. Malcolm X once struck up a conversation with him about camera settings.
Adelman went on to cover the war on poverty, the women's movement, the gay rights movement and public health issues. He also amassed an archive featuring the icons of pop art — Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Roy Lichtenstein.
His parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but Adelman wanted to have more of an impact on changing the law.
That's the relevance of these images a half-century later, he said. People are still fighting poverty and inequality, but Adelman thinks recent protests have lacked the focus of the civil rights era.
"The (Occupy) Wall Street people — I think the whole country was outraged at Wall Street's behavior, but they didn't have a plan. It was more emotional, it had no stated goals other than protest," Adelman said. "The movement had very definite goals. The first was end segregation."
"The Movement: Bob Adelman and Civil Rights Era Photography" opened Sunday and runs through May 17.
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"Xandros is based, like Ubuntu, on Debian GNU/Linux, the ultimate community distribution of Linux, but lives by a very different ethos. Xandros has moved at its own pace, offering solutions from desktop to server, with the objective of 'selling Linux into a Windows world'. The latest release of the Xandros Linux desktop edition was in June 2006, which is several lifetimes in the history of Linux. Is this the end of the line for the Xandros desktop?" Hey, we even have a Xandros database category. Darn, we're awesome.
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One time I had to go to the hospital was when I unfortunately had an Asthma attack when I was 8 or so I believe. Apparently I was out for the whole night.
And I suppose this counts but I got some work experience from a hospital as well!
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Went once when I dislocated my knee the first time, and because they insisted on drugging me up it was miserable. Not that having a kneecap totally out of socket was bad enough, but I'm waiting on the doc and the nurse asks me if I want any painkillers.
I've never relied on medicine, whether it be Tylenol or anything of the sort, I normally just ride it out. So I refuse, and she returns to ask again. I refuse again, and am getting annoyed with her continuing to ask. She comes around a 3rd time and finally I get frustrated and just tell her to do it. Believe it or not the dislocation doesn't hurt all that much, it just always looks worse than it is. I figure this is because you loose feeling once the dislocation occurs and the shock the body goes through kicks in, but I digress.
So anyways, she injects something in me, I don't even know what it is. And I get extremely drowsy and very irritated, probably because I can't sleep like I want to but can't fight it. Eventually I got to the point of hallucinating, but because I had to use crutches things got worse. Having to operate crutches with my body ready to pass out was also bad. I did finally get home and slept for like 14 hours, but it was miserable all around.
I remember my mother being really pissed at me too. Apparently ambulance rides are pricey, and as they normally did, my parents always put money over concern for my and my siblings well being. But I haven't been to a hospital since.
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I'm not a fan. They feel depressing to me, and that sterile smell is bad.
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ummm well if we are talking full admission to a hospital like over night stay then i think 5 times. if not then maybe 7?
1 i broke my wrist when i was 6
2 i fell on glass when i was 8 and needed 13 stitches in me knee
3 mental health (age 12)
4 mental health (age 13)
5 OD on sleeping pills and had to have my stomach pumped (age 14)
6 gave birth to first child (age 19)
7 gave birth to second child (age 26)
8 had tubal ligation (age 26)
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I spend two days in the hospital for vertigo last year.
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I assume we're all relating overnight or more type stays, because I've been in the hospital a bajillion times over my lifetime...or maybe some other more realistic number.
age 19 - overnight for bleeding
age 19 - 3 nights - 1st birth
age 20 - 2 nights - 2nd birth
age 20 - overnight for illness
age 21 - 3 nights - 3rd birth
age 21 - in-and-out - tubal ligation
age 25 - 4 nights - 4th birth
Haven't been in for myself in 2 years, of course there's been plenty of trips for reasons like asthma, allergies, kids (even overnight trips there) so I've been in quite a few times.
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Last year I broke the most important part of the bone in my ankle.
The doctors kept saying it was just sprained.
They took an x-ray and sent me home.
They called the next day and said I needed to come back into the hospital, when we checked in, EVERY doctor and nurse knew my name. An hour after we got there, my doctor said I needed a very complicated surgery to fix my ankle, but then he changed his mind and just put it in a cast.
3/4 months later I was given the all clear to walk again, two weeks later I was allowed to run, and 1 week after that, I won my school Athletics Competition, so I guess it worked out perfectly :D
But one thing I learned is that hospitals smell awful!
i work at a huge hospital so i go there almost every effing day -_- lawl
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I actually quite like hospitals, there's so much going on I love to just observe, it's an interesting place.
I tried to google polish doctor jokes, but there's weren't any good ones. haha
I've been to hospital a few time for a collapsed lung, a knife wound, broken bones...
I'm assuming not for visiting or misc purposes, but for medical problems.
I've been to the ER 7 times?
one of these accidents was an infected dog bite, white required me to visit the hospital for wound cleaning everday for 2months, the every other day for 2weeks.
1 (isolated) ICU stay for 3 nights.
1 4night stay for broken foot.
I had went once for a full cardio/respiratory test/checkup thingy.
and no i don't mind them too much... i get a bit bored of it on the 2nd night, and it's kinda tough to watch some nurses treat the older patients rather poorly... actually.. i think i don't like them
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Well the last time I was in hospital was when I was 7 years old (that would make 11 years from now) and never went again. I'm quite healthy. Only occasional cold in the winter. some people claim that I'm just lucky but I guess it's thanks to my parents that accustomed me to healthy and nutritious food and to exercise a lot.
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HIV Viral Load Suppression Less Likely Among Women Than Men; Menopause May Impact CD4 Response
July 30, 2012
Hooray for two posters at AIDS 2012 that looked at how men and women respond to antiretroviral treatment. Why hooray? Helena Kwakwa, the primary investigator of one of the studies, said it best right in her abstract: "Despite the changing epidemiology of HIV among women, they are often underrepresented in clinical trials evaluating antiretroviral therapy (ART)." Women comprise more than half of HIV infections worldwide but remain systematically under-represented and under-analyzed in research trials.
These two posters, at least, bucked the trend. Kwakwa et al's study assessed gender differences in response to antiretroviral therapy, while a study presented by Guilherme Calvet compared pre-menopausal to post-menopausal women in Brazil.
Women Less Likely Than Men to Suppress Viral Load on ART
Of all the randomized, controlled antiretroviral clinical trials and meta-analyses published from 1996 to January 2012, Kwakwa and her colleagues were able to identify only 13 that included viral suppression and failure rates for both men and women on antiretroviral treatment. The total number of people in all published trials was 11,856 (2,981 women, 8,875 men). The investigators also included unpublished gender data from two additional studies in their final analysis, which brought the total to 14,030 (10,605 men, 3,425 women).
Kwakwa and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of seven trials in which people started antiretroviral treatment for the first time and for which 96 weeks of data were reported on virologic suppression stratified by sex. They found that women were 28% less likely to get to a suppressed viral load than men. The analysis did not explore the reasons for this significant difference.
CD4 Response Differs Between Pre- and Post-Menopausal Women
Calvet and colleagues from the Instituto de Pesquisa Clinica Evandro Chagas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, looked at 383 HIV-infected women who were starting their first antiretroviral regimen between January 2000 and December 2009 to see if their menopausal status made a difference in how they responded to treatment. Most of the women (85%) were pre-menopausal, but there were enough post-menopausal women (15%) to make the comparison scientifically meaningful. Of the 383 women, 164 were white and 219 were non-white.
Before starting treatment, the two groups had statistically similar viral loads and CD4+ cell counts, though the CD4+ cell counts of the pre-menopausal women were slightly higher (231 cells/mm3 vs. 208 cells/mm3, respectively). After starting treatment, the viral loads and CD4+ cell counts of the two groups were compared at three points: 6, 12 and 24 months. At the end of two years, 63.7% of all participants were virologically suppressed, with no difference seen between the two groups along the way.
By the same note, at six and 12 months, the CD4 counts and viral loads in the two groups were very similar. However, at 24 months, the change in CD4 counts among women in the post-menopausal group was significantly lower than those in the pre-menopausal group (+184 cells/mm3 versus +273 cells/mm3, respectively).
Many Questions Linger
Pieces of data like these beg the larger questions. Why didn't more women get to a virologically suppressed state? Did the specific antiretroviral drugs -- or classes of drugs -- they took make a difference? Did they get side effects that caused them to stop treatment? Why is the CD4 change so much lower in a group of post-menopausal women on treatment in Brazil -- is it related to hormone levels, or aging in general, or something else entirely?
If the history of a lack of female representation in HIV clinical trial research holds, the answers to these questions -- and many others -- will be slow in coming.
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MADISON, Wis.—More time is needed to study options about whether it makes sense to shift state employees from health maintenance organizations to a state self-insured program, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday.
Walker discussed the idea with representatives of heath care providers and insurers at a Tuesday meeting. A committee of the state's Group Insurance Board, which oversees state employee health benefits, was set to discuss it further on Oct. 11.
At least 20 states have self-insurance programs for their employees. Under that approach, employers carry the risk for losses and pay benefits directly to employees, instead of buying insurance from the private market. In Wisconsin, the state contracts with 18 HMOs to cover its 236,000 employees and family members.
Until more information about the pros and cons of the idea are gathered, no decisions will be made, Walker said in response to questions asked after an event at the World Dairy Expo.
"We have not proposed a plan," Walker said. "We may find after all that we're going to stay with the status quo. We may find that we're going to change. We may find some sort of a hybrid. But there have been no conclusions made in that regard."
A report by Deloitte consultants said the state could save 4 percent to 5 percent a year by becoming self-insured, with savings mainly coming from taxes and fees imposed for fully-insured programs under the federal health care law.
The imposition of those taxes and fees led to the consideration of the self-insurance approach, Walker said.
"When we make this decision, we're going to want as much information as possible and not just to get out from having to pay some of the taxes and fees under the Affordable Care Act," Walker said. That consideration will include what impact any change would have on everyone, including small businesses, farmers and employees who don't work for the state, he said.
"We don't want to do anything that would have a negative impact on the economy by negatively impacting markets, which is why I'm asking for as much information as possible," Walker said.
The Deloitte report said any move to a self-insured system "needs to proceed with caution," with particular attention paid to the state's liability to pay claims.
"The short term 'quick wins' of a self-insured arrangement need to be balanced against the potential long term risks," the report said. The soonest such a change could be effective would be 2015, the report said.
Marty Beil, executive director of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, called Walker's consideration of the idea a "bizarre flip flop" from a governor who rejected federal funding for Medicaid and has fought the federal health care law.
"Now he wants to make state employees dependent on government-run health care system," Beil said in a statement. "He wants to blow up a system that has consistently used market forces to contain costs and replace it with a government-run system."
Beil, who served 32 years on the Group Insurance Board, said moving to a self-insured system would disrupt the patient-doctor relationship and reduce choices for state employees.
A spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he had no comment on the idea because he didn't know enough about it. A spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos also said he needed to know more about the idea before commenting.


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Bearing messages ranging from the inspiring to the insipid, "love locks" can be found clamped onto bridges in major cities around the world. But no place has it worse than Paris, where the padlocks cover old bridges in a kind of urban barnacle, climbing up every free surface.
Take the Pont des Arts, Paris' most famous footbridge across the Seine river. Hundreds of thousands of padlocks cover its old iron railings; the light of day barely passes through them.
Lisa Taylor Huff, an American living in Paris, has seen enough. She says Paris is not just for tourists but also for Parisians. And two months ago, she started a campaign to take back the city's structures.
"These are historic monuments, these bridges, and they're being completely desecrated by this so-called tradition," says Huff, who notes that the practice is no way a Parisian or even a French tradition.
That she and her partner in the anti-love-lock campaign are American has only brought the online campaign more publicity, says Huff — who adds that she has dual nationality but is Parisian through and through.
But what about "the city of love," I ask her?
Shooting right back, she says, "What about love for Paris?"
Tourists have a responsibility to be respectful of places they're visiting, Huff points out.
"There's that adage," she says. "Tread lightly, take only photographs, leave only footprints."
Huff calls the locks "heavy footprints." She says they threaten architecture and cost Paris taxpayers. City officials, she says, have taken a laissez-faire attitude because they don't want to dampen Paris' romantic reputation. Huff hopes her petition, which has already garnered thousands of signatures, will force the city to consider banning the locks.
No one from city hall wants to speak on the record. They say only that the city regularly replaces overburdened railings on the bridges.
On a recent day, standing in the middle of the Pont des Arts, with a perfect view of Ile de la Cite, Austrian tourists Isabella Schauffler, 19, and Fabien Hampel, 21, throw the key to their newly clamped lock into the Seine.
"I think it's a great idea," says Schauffler.
"To show our love together," adds Hampel.
Schauffler says she hopes they will stay together for a long time: "As long as the lock remains," she says.
The love lock trend took off in the late 1990s. Paris is hardly the only city dealing with the problem, but as the world capital of romance, it takes the brunt of it. Le Monde newspaper estimated in February that there were as many as 700,000 locks on the Pont des Arts alone.
And the practice has spread beyond traditional romance. Now you can find friend and family locks on the bridge.
The Ericson family is looking for a place for its pink padlock. Tim and Sonia's 5-year-old daughter, Eva, has written her parents' initials on one side and her grandmother's on the other — she's back home in Seattle and not in good health.
Tim and Sonia say it's a way for their daughter to think about her grandmother and wish her good health.
The Ericsons hope to be back in a few years and find the lock they've left that day.
Not surprisingly, there are plenty of people ready to cash in on all the love lock enthusiasm — like Arman, from India, who doesn't want to give his last name because it's illegal to sell padlocks on the bridge.
Arman glances left and right as he talks. He says the money's good, especially on weekends, but he has to keep a constant watch for cops. He shows me a segment of bridge grillwork that was recently replaced: It's already filled up with padlocks again.
So just how long do these eternal love locks actually last?
The lock could last years, he says, or it could last only a week. It all depends on how long the railing holds up.
Love locks are padlocks that couples attach to structures. The key is thrown away in a romantic gesture. They can be found in cities all over the world, but they're starting to cause headaches in Paris. Some people there say love locks are anything but loving to the city's architecture.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley sends this report on a new campaign to ban them.
ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Well, I'm on the Pont Des Arts, which is one of the most famous bridges in Paris. It's a little, picturesque footbridge. And the old iron railings of this bridge are just covered in padlocks. There's hundreds of thousands of padlocks on this bridge. The light of day barely passes through them.
LISA TAYLOR HUFF: These are historic monuments, these bridges. And they're being completely desecrated by this so-called tradition, which isn't even a French tradition or a Parisian tradition in any way.
BEARDSLEY: That's Lisa Taylor Huff, who launched an online campaign to get rid of the locks two months ago. If you thought you detected an American accent, you did. But Huff has dual nationality, and considers herself a Parisian through and through. The anti-love-lock campaign's American roots has gotten it a lot of publicity. Huff's webpage went viral on social networks. Now, her petition has thousands of signatures.
OK, but what about Paris love?
HUFF: Well, you know, what about love for Paris? (Laughter) This is the city of love. But we believe that when you're a tourist, when you're traveling, you have a responsibility to be respectful of the places you're visiting. And there's that adage: Tread lightly, take only photographs, leave only footprints.
BEARDSLEY: Huff says the locks threaten architecture and cost taxpayers. She says city officials have taken a laissez-faire attitude because they don't want to dampen Paris' romantic reputation. But the city regularly replaces overburdened railings on the bridges.
BEARDSLEY: Some of the padlocks are huge. One says in marker: Because life without you just isn't life, Henry and Christina, Paris 2013. It has smaller padlocks attached to it.
Austrian tourists 19-year-old Isabella Shauflah and 21-year-old Fabien Humpel are throwing the key to their lock into the Seine River.
ISABELLA SHAUFLAH: I think it's a great idea, to...
FABIEN HUMPEL: To show our love together.
SHAUFLAH: And maybe that we stay together for a long time, as the lock stays here for a long time.
BEARDSLEY: Paris isn't the only city in the world with a love lock problem, but few cities have it so bad. And the practice has spread beyond traditional romance.
TIM ERICSON: She wrote our initials - her mother and father - and her initials; and on the other side her grandmother, who's sick back home.
BEARDSLEY: That's the Ericson family from Seattle: Sonia, Tim and 5-year-old Eva, looking hard for a free space to hang their love lock.
ERICSON: All right, all right. And whenever we see Paris, we'll remember the lock on the bridge, won't we?
BEARDSLEY: Not surprisingly, there are those here to cash in on all the love lock enthusiasm.
BEARDSLEY: Arman is selling padlocks on the bridge - which is illegal, so he doesn't want to give his last name. He says the money's good, especially on weekends. But you have to keep a constant watch for cops. He shows me a segment of bridge grill work that was recently replaced.
ARMAN: 'Cause the last time it was - become heavy, and it was - broked.
BEARDSLEY: It's already filled up with padlocks again. So just how long do these eternal love locks actually last out here? I ask him. It could be years, he says, or it could be a week. It all depends on how long the railing holds up.
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
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The Rudd government could be thrown a lifeline as it tries to solve its border protection woes, with reports Indonesia plans to clamp down on Iranians entering the country.
Indonesia's justice minister has reportedly signed a letter that will stop people from Iran receiving a visa on arrival in the South-East Asian nation, the ABC reports.
A spokeswoman for the prime minister's office told AAP that Mr Rudd raised this issue directly with Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during recently bilateral talks in Jakarta.
It's not clear however whether Mr Rudd has seen the letter, or is even aware of it yet.
It comes as the government is expected to announce a new asylum seeker strategy, centred on national, regional and global policies, in coming days.
Iranians, like visitors from a number of countries, can currently pay to receive a visa upon arriving in Indonesia.
But the Australian government has raised concerns there were more economic migrants, particularly from Iran, coming to Australia on boats provided by people smugglers in Indonesia.
If enacted, this ruling could have significant ramifications for the federal government as it tries to curb boat arrivals and address its biggest policy weakness.
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison on Thursday said Iranians were the dominant group arriving by boats from Indonesia at the moment.
"The fact that they can get visas on arrival in Indonesia is an issue," he told ABC's 7.30 Report earlier on Thursday.
"But that's a sovereign decision of the Indonesian government, just as we have sovereign decisions on ours.
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Ayesha Jatoi's text-based works draw on the tradition of Persian miniature painting to explore themes of nostalgia, memory, and desire. In her recent work, Jatoi siphons scenes from classical miniatures into minimalistic compositions of line and text. By translating once-elaborate paintings into terse phrases, Jatoi layers ancient narratives with contemporary language, giving it an anachronistic twist. Her source material is further obscured by the viewer's impressions of each text; the sentence "A lady awaiting her lover in a forest" might conjure personal references that differ from the intent of the original painting. In this way, Jatoi engages questions surrounding historical accuracy, memory, and the nature of artistic inspiration.