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Market Research: Water and Industrial Pumps In Indonesia (2007) part.1
Imports dominate the Indonesian water and industrial pumps market, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total market. Japan, China, Singapore and Germany are the key competitors for U.S. exporters. The total market demand in 2006 for water and industrial pumps was $862 million. If the domestic and export markets remain stable, it is predicted that the growth of total domestic demand will increase by 10 to 15 percent annually over the next five years.
Indonesia's water and industrial pumps market represents growing potential for
U.S. exporters. In 2006, U.S. water and industrial pumps accounted for $159 million, or 18 percent of the market.
U.S. was the main supplier, contributing 18 percent of the country's imports followed by Japan (17 percent), China (10 percent), Singapore (8.5 percent) and Germany (5 percent). U.S. pump companies that are represented in Indonesia include Aurora, Byron Jackson, David Brown, Durco, Fairbank Morse, Goulds, Ingersoll-Dresser, ITT, Milton Roy, Mission, Myers, Peerless, Patterson, Pulsafeeder, Reddy Buffaloes, Ropar, Viking, Warren Rupp, Wilden, and Wortington.
Industry sources believe U.S. products will continue to find a good market in Indonesia. U.S. brands known for their quality and durability have progressively gained market share in the past three years. American water and industrial pumps manufacturers need more exposure to the water and industrial pumps sector in Indonesia.
Indonesia Fact:
Geography Area: 2 million sq. km. (736,000 sq. mi.), about three times the size of Texas; maritime area: 7,900,000 sq. km. Cities: Capital–Jakarta (est. 8.8 million). Other cities–Surabaya 3.0 million, Medan 2.5 million, Bandung 2.5 million plus an additional 3 million in the surrounding area. Terrain: More than 17,000 islands; 6,000 are inhabited; 1,000 of which are permanently settled. Large islands consist of coastal plains with mountainous interiors. Climate: Equatorial but cooler in the highlands.
People Nationality: Noun and adjective–Indonesian(s). Population (July 2006 est.): 245.5 million. Annual population growth rate (2006): 1.3%. Ethnic groups: Javanese 45%, Sundanese 14%, Madurese 7.5%, coastal Malays 7.5%, others 26%. Religions: Muslim 88%, Protestant 5%, Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist and other 1%. Languages: Indonesian (official), local languages, the most prevalent of which is Javanese. Education: Years compulsory–9. Enrollment–94% of eligible primary school-age children. Literacy–90% (2005). Health: Infant mortality rate–28/1,000 (2005). Life expectancy at birth–68 years (2005). Work force: 94.2 million (2005 est.). Agriculture–46.5%, industry–11.8%, services–41.7%.
Economy GDP (2005): $281.3 billion; (2006 est.): $351.9 billion. Annual growth rate (2005): 5.6%; (2006 est.): 5.5%. Inflation (2005): 10.5%; (2006 est.): 6.1%. Per capita income (2005): $3,600 (est., PPP). Natural resources (10.4% of GDP): Oil and gas, bauxite, silver, tin, copper, gold, coal. Agriculture (13.4% of GDP): Products–timber, rubber, rice, palm oil, coffee. Land–17% cultivated. Manufacturing (28.1% of GDP): Garments, footwear, electronic goods, furniture, paper products. Trade: Exports (2005)–$86.2 billion including oil, natural gas, appliances, textiles. Major exporters–Japan, U.S., China, Singapore. Imports (2005)–$63.9 billion including food, chemicals, capital goods, consumer goods. Major importers–Japan, China, Singapore, and Thailand.


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New Markdown tools to streamline and automate blogging with Elements, WriteRoom and Automator
Growing adoption of John Gruber's drafting language Markdown has been changing the way people write. In this post, I'll be sharing how I've simplified my writing work by adopting some of the new text editing tools that have become available in recent months. I'll also show how I've recently managed to streamline the rather complicated sequential process I had been using to draft my blog posts since 2007.
My current system looks like this. The various stages referred to in it are described in greater detail below:
I've been writing my blog posts using Markdown [i] for the past four years. In case you don't know about it already, Markdown is a huge time-saver for anyone posting to a website regularly. As Mr Gruber himself puts it on his website:
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Thus, "Markdown" is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
Why is Markdown the quickest and cleanest tool for drafting anything you write that needs formatting?
The reason Markdown saves time is because instead of having to manually enter HTML code, which is very time-consuming, or rely on rich text WYSIWYG editors that produced bloated, non-compliant code, it allows you to draft a post using any text editor in a format designed to be as intuitive and natural as the format of an email. Once you've finished drafting, you can do one of two things depending on preference: either post your text in Markdown and rely on a plugin to convert it to HTML on the the fly [ii], or convert it using the Perl script and post the resulting HTML to your website.
Until now, I've been using Markdown in a slightly complicated way, involving the use of three different tools:
- Hog Bay Software's WriteRoom to draft the post in a distraction-free environment filling my entire screen;
- Macromates's TextMate, an amazingly powerful text editor for the Mac—that is, however beginning to show its age—to convert the Markdown post into standards-compliant HTML;
- Red Sweater Software's MarsEdit to actually post my work to my blog.
Markdown is much quicker and more intuitive than HTML, especially for inserting links, a process that can be further automated using a text expanding utility: I use Brett Terpstra's TextExpander Tools to automatically create a link for any url I've put into my clipboard.
This is a combination that has served me well for years, but two recent developments have made me decide to change things:
- Markdown, which three years ago was effectively no more than a way of speeding up one's writing, is increasingly supported out of the box by desktop applications, iOS clients and even blogging platforms;
- whereas until this year, using anything other than a Mac was unrealistic for writing, iOS 4.x has made drafting posts on the iPad, and even the iPhone, a realistic proposition.
New applications have been flowing in to provide writers and bloggers with new means of taking advantage of these trends. It would be foolish not to take advantage of them, especially since the current version of iOS has finally enabled users to pair their mobile Apple devices with a bluetooth keyboard.
Elements for iPad and iPhone has just become massively better and now supports Markdown out of the box
I've already blogged about Elements, a new Dropbox-enabled, universal (iPhone and iPad) iOS text editor. It already had more features than any other mobile text editor, but has just become massively better:
- it now supports subfolders: I use this to store both short notes and draft documents, meaning I can keep a distinction between them while accessing them via the same text editor when I'm on the move; this effectively means I can now dispense with Simplenote on my mobile devices;
- both versions of Elements support Markdown documents (effectively, text files saved with extension .md instead of .txt).
Although Elements doesn't yet handle converting Markdown files to HTML, its companion universal app, appropriately called Markdown, does. My only reservation about this is that while I find the combination of a very well designed text editor and of a Markdown conversion tool compelling, I can't actually see the point of offering them as distinct apps: I've pleaded the case for a merger with Second Gear, the editors of the two apps, and they told me they were looking at it. As things stand at present, however, if you want to edit and preview natively in Markdown and export from it, you have to buy both apps. One added bonus of the Markdown iOS app is that if your blogging platform supports posting in Markdown by email (which Tumblr and Posterous both do out of the box), you can actually put your posts online. WordPress hosted blogs can be set up to do this as well, although HTML tags will be stripped out, tags can't be set and automating publication after you've sent the post in is convoluted to say the least [iii].
WordPress for iOS, which was buggy when first launched, now seems to be a reliable way of posting simple, HTML-formatted posts to a WordPress blog from any iOS device. Essentially, if you want to draft blog articles in Markdown and post them in HTML entirely on an iPhone or iPad without compromising on code quality, you can now do so using a combination of Elements for drafting, the Markdown app for conversion to HTML and the WordPress app for posting to your blog.
WriteRoom remains my choice of desktop text editor and has aged remarkably well, but its editor Hog Bay Software really needs to update it
I've been using WriteRoom, the pioneer minimalist text editor from Hog Bay Software, for three years, and have written before about how much I love it . As an earlier reviewer put it:
Green text on a blank, black screen, with a square, blinking cursor. This was how most of us wrote on a computer in the early 1980s, and it's resurfacing a quarter of a century later.
(Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
The green on black, back-to-basics screen was great on the Mac. But it was indispensable on an iPhone: no one even tried fitting in all the features of a fully fledged Microsoft Word-type word processor on the iPhone's tiny screen. To a lesser extent, the same held true of the iPad: Apple, which had a starting advantage in this field, shot itself it the foot by burdening Pages for the iPad, part of its mobile iWorks suite, to export its documents only via iTunes or by email, condemning it to obsolescence before it even began. By the end of this year, a battery of text editors for iOS have appeared: I've reviewed them here earlier, with my current favourite being Elements—whose most innovative feature, built-in Markdown integration, makes writing on mobile devices a much easier experience than with any other app.
Rather surprisingly, however, no one one has developed a companion app integrating Markdown for OS X. The established leader in this field remains the venerable TextMate: you can create and edit documents in Markdown and convert them to superbly-coded HTML at the click of a button (or even to MultiMarkdown, Fletcher Penney's derived, slightly more feature-rich version of the original Markdown). Unfortunately, though, TextMate hasn't been revised at all since February 2009; users have been waiting for three years for version 2, for which the developer announced in January that he had had no fixed release date and closed comments on the post one month later, raising fears that this fantastic, powerful yet lightweight application may be on the road to becoming abandonware.
WriteRoom also hasn't been updated much since it first launched four years ago. Of course, its innate simplicity means it doesn't really need much updating. Yet it would still benefit from the following two adjustments:
- better Markdown integration: at present, it's easy to draft texts in Markdown, and save them, using the .txt extension; this is what I've been doing, copying and pasting the text into TextMate for conversion to HTML, and then to MarsEdit for posting to my blog; but it would be nice if you could preview and save drafts in Markdown format (with the .md extension) and, above all, export them in HTML format to speed up subsequent processing for people who, like me, only use Markdown for drafting them;
- better character encoding: the current version of WriteRoom saves by default in Mac OS Roman; this is rather strange, since ever since the release of Mac OS X, Mac OS Roman and all other "scripts" (as the Mac OS called them) were replaced by UTF-8 as the standard character encoding for the Macintosh operating system, and documents saved in it cause numerous issues including being incompatible with other text editors such as TextEdit; there is a preview release 2.5 of WriteRoom that allows you to set another default for character encoding, but it would actually make more sense save all documents in Unicode UTF-8, which ensures compatibility with all other applications and most languages.
I very much hope Jesse Grosjean, WriteRoom's developer, will bring these two improvements to the next version of his application
MyTexts, a promising new text editor with versions for Mac OS x, iPad and iPhone is definitely a newcomer to watch; it's still buggy, though, and not nearly as polished as Elements on iOS
I was initially relatively excited about MyTexts, a set of minimalist-inspired text editors designed for three different platforms (OSX, iPad, iPhone) and manifestly inspired by WriteRoom. I've tried all three declensions for the past few days—but have decided not to use the desktop version—which, alone of the three, offers MarkDown conversion—as a replacement for WriteRoom. The developer of MyTexts, Michael Göbel, was responsive to my questions about MyTexts (which was featured as a staff pick by Apple), and I'm certain he will be working to improve the application over time. The desktop app boasts, among others, the following features:
- iDisk and Dropbox Support, meaning that you can set MyTexts to store texts, in its own proprietary format, in its own dedicated sandbox folder on Dropbox or iDisk; alternatively, you can store them ;
- snapshots, backups, auto-save and snippets;
- Markdown preview;
- export to PDF, Word, open Office, Text and HTML format.
The application is promising, very thoughtfully and elegantly designed, but MyTexts stores all documents in a proprietary format (you can still open them in another text editor, but they will then be cluttered with metadata, rendering them useless in that format), and I'm really at a loss to understand why a minimalist text editor doesn't at the very least offer its users the option to store their documents by default in text format, and perhaps in Markdown as well: the proprietary MyTexts format is useless to me, and forced me to 'export' my texts to text format every time I wanted to simply save them (MyTexts, again, autosaves in the background to your chosen location, but only in its own format). The complicated setup seems to trigger stability issues, with the application frequently crashing after I exported texts to another format. The desktop version also needs polishing: one indispensable feature of WriteRoom that it lacks, for instance, is the ability to toggle between full-screen and window view on-the-fly [iv], which in MyTexts is treated as a preference setting rather than something you can switch as you draft a text.
I was much less impressed with the iOS versions, however, which I tested on both my iPad and my iPhone. At this point are still very much work in progress: all they offer is the possibility of creating texts in your dedicated MyTexts Dropbox sandbox folder, as well as opening and editing existing ones. You can't export in another format at all. In fact, the whole MyTexts ecosystem will only work well, for this reason, for someone who is content with storing their texts in a format that no other application can use, exporting them only from their Mac desktop. At this point, this simply doesn't make sense for my needs.
Using the Markdown script to automate conversion is the easiest way to simplify this process
So for the time being, I'm sticking with WriteRoom for my desktop editing needs. But I was keen to find a way of automating the Markdown conversion process, so that i don't have to fire up TextMate every time I finish drafting a text in WriteRoom, just for the purpose of converting to MarkDown—which is obviously absurd. I have become increasingly frustrated with the lack of inbuilt Markdown conversion in the two application I use on my desktop to draft (WriteRoom) and publish (MarsEdit) blog posts [v].
After thinking about it, I realised this issue was easily solved by creating a separate automated process to carry out the conversion and making it accessible within the two above applications. To do this, I decided to use Automator [vi]to create an OS X Menu Service that will convert selected text in any application from Fletcher Penney's excellent MultiMarkDown, which is a fork of MarkDown [vii], to HTML and copy the result to the keyboard. This is almost childishly simple. You open Automator and choose the 'Service' template for your workflow:
In the workflow pane, you check the 'Replaces selected text' box and add the conversion script of your choice choosing the 'Run Shell Script' action. You then add the script of your choice, with the path in which you've stored it, to the workflow pane. I also chose to add a command to pass on the resulting HTML to the clipboard:
I can either use this command in my text editor, WriteRoom (or any application), then open MarsEdit and paste the resulting HTML in the editing pane. Or I can paste the MultiMarkDown text into MarsEdit, which has a Markdown preview filter, and convert the text prior to posting it.
As a result of this, I can now dispense with TextMate altogether in the drafting process. this involves just two applications: drafting the post in WriteRoom; posting it in MarsEdit. My draft blog posts are all stored, in Markdown format, in a Dropbox folder, meaning if I want to access or edit them when I'm away from my mac I can do so from an iPhone or iPad. If desired, MarkdownMail and WordPress for iOS mean I can even publish blog posts from my mobile devices in an emergency without compromising code quality._______________
- Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz to help maximum readability and "publishability" of both its input and output forms. The language takes many cues from existing conventions for marking up plain text in email. Markdown converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and replaces left-pointing angle brackets ('<') and ampersands with their corresponding character entity references. Markdown was originally implemented in Perl by Gruber, but has since been re-implemented by others in a variety of programming languages. It is distributed under a BSD-style license and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.
- In WordPress, this can be done using Michel Fortin's excellent plugin; if you blog using Tumblr or, even better, Posterous, you can post in Markdown as this is built in without your having to do anything to your blog's configuration.
- There is a plugin, Postie, for blogging by email, that seems well-maintained and feature-rich; but i haven't tested it; I'm basically put off the idea of sending posts in by email because of the lack of support for HTML.
- In WriteRoom you do this by pressing the ESC key.
- This is not necessary if you installed Michel Fortin's Markdown PHP plugin, or if you are posting to Tumblr or Posterous which support posting in Markdown out of the box.
- An alternative route for people wishing to save the resulting HTML texts as files would be to use a Hazel Preference Pane, running the Markdown script whenever a file containing a text has been updated. Since I use Markdown conversion to HTML solely to post to my website, and prefer storing blog posts
- Fletcher Penney explains the difference between MultiMarkDown and Markdown as follows: 'I wrote MultiMarkdown in order to leverage Markdown's syntax, but to extend it to work with complete documents that could ultimately be converted from text into other formats, including complete XHTML documents, LaTeX, PDF, RTF, or even (shudder) Microsoft Word documents.'


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CHATHAM – Sydney Wilson scored six points, including the game-clinching basket with 20 seconds left, to lead Chatham to a 54-49 girls basketball victory over Bishop Connolly yesterday.
CHATHAM – Sydney Wilson scored six points, including the game-clinching basket with 20 seconds left, to lead Chatham to a 54-49 girls basketball victory over Bishop Connolly yesterday.
Down 26-20 at halftime, the Blue Devils (3-10) buckled down on defense, switching to a half-court press defense that forced turnovers and allowed them to capitalize.
Savannah Chase led all scorers with 18 points while setting up her teammates as point guard. Shannon Davenport had 16 for Chatham.
SOMERSET – The Vineyarders used stifling first-half defense to build a lead and never looked back in an Eastern Athletic Conference win over the Raiders.
Jillian Sedlier led all scorers with 14 points, and Katie Hines and Jen Lindland each scored 12 for MV (7-7, 2-3 EAC), which led 28-12 at halftime. Lindland scored eight of her 12 in the fourth quarter, hitting all four free-throw attempts to help the Vineyarders iced it.
HYANNIS – The Storm exploded offensively in the second half behind Vani Patel's 20 points en a defeat of the Knights.
Patel hit two 3-pointers for Sturgis (5-9). Marley McSweeney added 15 and Kyra Dawaulder had 11 for the Storm, who led 21-15 before turning up the intensity in the second half.
HARWICH – The Crusaders outscored the Cheftains 22-2 in the second half and came away with a Mayflower League victory, improving to 9-8 overall and in league play.
Iesha Askew hustled from whistle to whistle and finished with eight points for Cape Tech. Alyssa Llorentty scored seven in one her best performances of the season and Brianna Thompson chipped in eight points.
Bristol Aggie held a slim 10-9 advantage at the half before the Cape Tech defense took over and dominated in the second.
HYANNIS – The Red Raiders stormed out to a 27-6 lead by the end of the first half and rolled to an Old Colony League win over the Bombardiers.
Rogetta Donaldson led Barnstable (5-8, 3-2 OCL) with 11 points while grabbing seven rebounds. Alex Rurycz had nine points and a team-high nine rebounds, and Olivia Costello had nine points to go along with five rebounds.
Regan Bristol grabbed nine boards and eighth-grader Colleen Kenney made her first varsity appearance for the Raiders and pulled down a rebound.
Costello played well at point guard and controlled the tempo for Barnstable, which blocked 11 Attleboro shots while outrebounding the Bombardiers 42-20.
FALMOUTH – Two late free throws gave the Panthers the edge, helping them remain undefeated in the Atlantic Coast League with an overtime victory over a feisty Clippers squad.
Falmouth's Kailaya Mills hit a jumper with just seconds to play to tie it at 36.
Melissa Rodden opened the overtime with a 3-pointer for Plymouth South, only to be answered by a 3-pointer by Elizabeth Knox. Rodden sank two free throws to seal the victory.
The Clippers (8-7, 6-3 ACL) led 17-16 at the half and 28-22 midway through the second half.
Mills led Falmouth with 16 points and 11 rebounds while Shannon Marcoux added 12 points and Knox finished with eight. Audrey Medeiros led the Panthers with 18 points.
EAST SANDWICH – The Blue Knights battled hard but came up short against a determined Rams squad.
Erin Doherty led Marshfield (13-3) with 19 points while Nicole Beresford added 12. Meg Harden led Sandwich (4-9) with 14 points while Frani Davis added 10 points.
Davis pulled down nine rebounds while Emily Kent chipped in with five points and six rebounds. Blue Knights coach Marty Cosgrove praised the play of Melanie Webb.
SOUTH DENNIS – The Dolphins fought hard and kept the score close, but a strong third quarter by the Eagles seemed to be the difference as Plymouth North emerged victorious in the ACL contest.
Kelsey Lotti led Dennis-Yarmouth (2-14, 0-8 ACL) with 15 points while Kelsey Russell added 10 points.
Alex Gent had a season-high 10 points with nine rebounds and Malika Young netted nine points while making five steals.
The game was tied at halftime 22-22.
WALPOLE – Mikayla Young hit five 3-pointers and finished with 19 points but Upper Cape could not get past a powerful Norfolk Aggie team.
Early pressure by Norfolk Aggie led to costly turnovers by the visiting Rams. A.J. Bracken led Norfolk Aggie with 12 points and Lisa Smith added 11 toward the winning effort.
Kristin Pina added six points for Upper Cape (2-13, 0-6 Mayflower), which will play again on Tuesday against Bristol Aggie.
BRIDGEWATER – The Vikings went on an 11-0 run in the fourth quarter to blow open a tight game against the Falcons.
Mashpee (3-11, 0-11 South Shore League) trailed by just four points with six minutes left. After two quick East Bridgewater 3-pointers and some free throws, the Falcons found themselves down by 15 a minute later.
Johnica Farmer led a balanced Mashpee scoring attack with 11 points, including a 3-pointer.


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- What: Guitar Hero 3
- Where: ShopTo
- Current Price: £7.85
- Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock (Game Only) Xbox 360 Price Comparison
This was the game that initiated me into the Guitar Hero club, and boy did it do that task with style, because once I put it into my Xbox's disc tray I was lost to the world for the rest of the night and consequently the following few weeks. Now whilst this instalment doesn't give you a band experience like most of the music games that are currently hitting the market, it's still my favourite music title to play along to if I'm sitting around by myself with not much to do and I feel like rocking out to some awesome tunes. Thanks to groakybaby @ HUKD.


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|Red Herring
"Red herring" is a preliminary registration submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by the companies intending public offerings of securities. It outlines the important information about the new issue, including proposed price range and balance sheet and other relevant financial information about the company.
Outside the United States, it is sometimes called the "pathfinder prospectus." this preliminary prospectus is referred to as a red herring because it contains the following warning, generally in red ink:
The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. this prospectus is not an of er to sell these securities and we are not soliciting any of er to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.The Securities Act of 1933 makes it illegal in the United States to sell securities to the public without first registering with the SEC. Once the registration statement is filed with SEC, a shorter version of the statement (red herring) is created.
It is a provisional statement that includes all the information about the company apart from the exact offer price and the effective date. Since the registration and marketing process can take several months, providing information on the exact price and effective date is impossible; thus, it generally includes a price range.
Red herring is then sent to potential investors around the country. At this period no written sales literature other than "tombstones ads" and red herring are permitted by SEC. Unlike Europe, in the United States the analyst reports are strictly forbidden before SEC approves the registration.
During the marketing period, investors evaluate the issue. The demand for the offer is estimated and the final issue price is set based on the bids and feedbacks. If this price is not within the preliminary price range in red herring, a revision is made indicating a new price range.
Indeed, since the price range in red herring is prepared prior to getting feedback from potential investors, the i nal price in the United States is ot en outside of the initial price range in the red herring document. Once SEC approves the registration statement, it becomes effective and trading is allowed.


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If Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon proved anything in their respective X-Men runs, it's that a little bit of Wolverine goes a long way. Unfortunately, the character's enduring popularity ensures that Marvel is rarely content to deliver just a little Wolverine. The First X-Men represents Wolverine mania at its most damaging. Its attempts to make Wolverine a more integral part of the formation of the X-Men is misguided. The First X-Men becomes just one more poorly executed X-book that mucks about with an increasingly convoluted franchise continuity.
Where issue #1 busied itself downplaying the role of Xavier in the conception and formation of the X-Men, issue #2 does the same for Magneto. I can't help but resent the implication that Xavier and Magneto only became interested in human/mutant relations because Wolverine scolded them. The same for the notion that a fear of Wolverine was the impetus for both the creation of Weapon X and the Sentinel program. It damages long-standing characters in order to build up another that really needs no more time in the spotlight.
But even ignoring the continuity quagmires this book creates, the characterization in the book is extremely spotty. Sabretooth's presence is downright perplexing, as I can't ever recall a time when the character was so pleasant and accommodating to his fellow mutants. He reads like an entirely different character. If not quite as pronounced, Magneto suffers from the same effect. The new additions to the X-Men franchise, from Holo to Yeti to Adam, are extremely bland and generic, doing little more than filling archetypal X-Men roles. The dialogue is also frequently grating and over-written. I'm not sure how large a role Christos Gage is playing in the scripting process, but the series offers none of the charm of his Avengers Academy and X-Men Legacy work.
Nor does the artwork do anything to help the story. The First X-Men is further proof that Neal Adam's style hasn't aged very well. His once phenomenal sense of perspective is diminished. Characters are extremely stiff and robotic, and most are stuck sporting the same open-mouthed expression of surprise throughout the issue. The inking is also problematic, lending every surface a harsh, jagged edge that is a far cry from Adams' refined line-work of old.
The best that can be said for The First X-Men is that it doesn't simply dump a handful of X-Men: First Class movie elements into the franchise, as many were expecting. Its problems are uniquely its own.
Jesse is a writer for IGN Comics and IGN Movies. He can't wait until he's old enough to feel ways about stuff. Follow Jesse on Twitter, or find him on IGN.


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Celebrity Obsessions
"Ahhhhh!" These sounds are the shrieks of loads of people waiting to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars flesh. The fans faces are as red as a fire hydrant, and some have stinging tears rolling down their swollen faces. And for what? What is the reason for their ear-piercing screams and inflamed faces? Celebrities! What is it about them? What makes them so special? There is nothing special about them. They are no different than you and me. They aren't aliens. They are people. All they do is their job, whether it's singing, acting, or just being a socialite. Why would an individual obsess over one minuscule person in this massive world?
What is so special about celebrities? Is it their shiny silky hair, their designer apparel, or their mile high shoes? They don't make themselves gorgeous, other people do! Shouldn't the stylists and personal shoppers be the ones to be praised for making a "work of art?" With out their entourage, the celebrities would have failed outfits.
The stars are becoming outraged because we thrust paparazzi in their faces. It's not pleasing to have the most hideous face in the most purchased tabloid for the whole world to see. The celebrities are being violated. Some have committed themselves to drugs and alcohol, because they have become shocked with stress and confusion. Some people ask, "Why are celebrities turning to drugs and alcohol?" We really should be asking, "Why are people so interested in celebrities?" I know that regular people would love having the annoying paparazzi crammed in their faces. But after a while don't you think it would become irritating to have camera flashes blinding you and paparazzi crowding you?
If anything is so great about celebrities it should be their ability to do their job. Most of the stars are amazing at what they do, but aren't regular people amazing too? The persons that are on minimum wage and have children to feed, aren't they amazing for the ability to make ends meet? Or maybe it's the person who just went through a nasty divorce and got the children or the pets, but no money to support themselves? These people are struggling and the celebrities are rolling on their 1000-count Egyptian cotton sheets with millions of dollars floating from the high ceilings. The people that are willing to support their families without giving up, should be the people to be admired.
Finally, television stations should have reality shows about regular people, instead of celebrities. They can talk about their hardships with family and work with people who understand. Who should we look up too or admire? Regular people? Or Celebrities? You decide. This I believe.
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This particular story is one that I am particularly proud of – I'm not even going to lie about it.
When my boss asked if I wanted to go to a posh work event with my line manager in her place, I was definitely going to say yes. Particularly if it was an event at one of the most renowned and expensive hotels on London's Park Lane, involved a 3 course dinner, free alcohol, post ball gowns and a dance. It was this type of event.
My line manager (let's call her Lily) and I finished work slightly early so that we could get glammed up and in a taxi in time for the champagne reception. The event itself was being hosted by one of the agencies our organisation works with – because we spend a lot of money with them year-on-year they invite us to sit at their table. It's really a celebration of the work that happens across the country to help young people, but it's nice to get involved as someone in the national office.
This year our new account manager, Andy, extended the invitation to Lily and I. I'd never met Andy before, but he welcomed us with a warm handshake and showed us to our seats. He was a good looking man (can you see where this is going yet – I know, terrible aren't I), slightly older than I would be interested in. And genuinely I wasn't interested until the wine started flowing.
When we arrived at our table, I saw that Lily was seated next to a nice lady from another charity, and I next to Andy. I am not the best at making small talk, and as someone who works in advertising he certainly was. So a few bottles of wine later at the table, some enigmatic conversation about the travesty that is Brexit, I had relaxed a little and was beginning to feel much more comfortable. The topic of cooking came up, and I mentioned that I enjoy it but when you are cooking for one it's not as fun. Subtle hint. To which he replies he knows the feeling, Tupperware dish is a saviour. We are both unattached.
With a slight turn of his chair as the entertainment comes on the stage, I found my leg suddenly no longer alone. He had made a very obvious move, to no one at the table but me, and he wasn't planning on stopping anytime soon. Quite frankly I didn't mind either. Even when I found out he was in his late 40s! The prospect of an older man was one that I suddenly found quite attractive. Never before had I considered venturing past 26, and now I'm flirting with a man 20 years their senior.
Wine after wine gets put on the company expense as our table disbands and moves to the dance floor. Lily is having a great time and dancing with us both, all the while noticing what is happening. As Andy goes to the bar for another round, she tells me to go for it, and shorty after an invitation back to his house is put out there. This is really happening. Man, I really do feel like a woman right now.
So we drink up, get in a taxi and travel 40 minutes to North London. Kissing him in the taxi is surprisingly nice. I'm kissing a man only slightly younger than my parents, and not hating it. (I would also like to point out here, that he is a good looking man for his age. I don't want you getting any wrong ideas here – I still am extremely shallow).
Andy lives in a family home. A real family home, which immediately puts me on edge. Tell me he isn't married. Is he divorced? Am I about to do something soul shatteringly terrible without realising? What can you do in this situation other than confront it?
He promises me he is in fact, no longer married, and no I am not doing anything awful. He promises me 3 times, at my request. I'm drunk. I am miles away from home. No-one else at that table, who all know him, said anything or tried to stop us. This has to be ok right? Don't worry folks, I checked the next day. I didn't wreck any homes – thank the Lord.
So anyway, back to the sex. We move upstairs, into the bedroom and actually it's surprisingly fun. I mean, I do throw us off the bed a couple of times in my drunken state, but he finds me funny and let's face it, we are both winning here. We end up having, not exciting but quite nice, sex twice and he falls asleep. Unable to rest I go downstairs, make myself a cup of tea and watch his TV until the early hours.
In the morning I sneak back into his bed, and we 'wake up together'. Then it hits me. He is old enough to be my father. Made even more visible to me when he rests his spectacles on the end of his nose and opens up the newspaper next to his bed. He genuinely looks his age now, if not more, and I am suddenly aware that I am in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to wear but stilettos and a ball gown, on a Saturday morning. I am doing the walk of shame on a Saturday morning, through central London, with 3 train changes, in a ball gown. Isn't life great.
I don't regret that night one bit. In fact, as I said earlier, I am quite proud of it. I bagged an attractive older man, he bagged a 26 year old and both of us had a great time. We have both won!
Of course, no one can know at work, but hey a cheeky little secret can sometimes be fun.


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Stacey Cole's Nature Talks: Enjoying a nature walk with a nature expertBy STACEY COLE August 10. 2018 10:26PM
Editor's note: The following column was originally published in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Nov. 9, 1974.
On a late October morning I stole an hour to walk with Tudor Richards, executive director of the Audubon Society of New Hampshire.
Tudor had called the day before to tell of seeing a black-backed woodpecker. I had never seen one, but my schedule was so heavy that day I could not possibly break away. To expect such a rare visitor in central New Hampshire to linger for the convenience of an amateur bird watcher was a little much. However, that's what I hoped would happen. But it didn't, I'll quickly add so you won't be left hanging in suspense wondering if I saw the bird. I did not, but I did see many other things that made the purloined hour worth taking.
As we stepped out the back door of Audubon House in Concord to begin our walk, Tudor pointed out a pair of tufted titmice just coming to their feeder. "They have arrived within the past week," he said. "I was surprised to see them. Now I'd really be happy if they would be joined by a cardinal. We haven't had one visit us yet."
Then we set off to find the black-backed woodpecker. Some of you good readers may know this bird by his former name, Arctic three-toed woodpecker. This bird is about 9-10 inches long, has heavily barred sides, a solid black back, with the males sporting a yellow crown patch. It lives basically in the spruce and fir forests of the North and is an infrequent visitor in the Granite State.
Tudor led me along a path near the tree house constructed for youngsters to climb into and peek out at their world. "Must be a popular place," I mused.
We were headed for the area where Tudor had seen the woodpecker the day before. We heard chickadees, a flying goldfinch and the call of a white-throated sparrow. We walked through goldenrod stalks to the edge of Turkey Pond.
In the distance, against the farthest shore, we saw three golden-eye ducks take wing. We were too far away to hear their characteristic whistling wings or see the water drip from their sky-bound bodies, but they were a thing of grace all the same. I always thrill to see ducks rising from a pond.
Then we turned and walked along the shore a way, always watching and listening. We hadn't gone far before Tudor asked, "What's that tree you are standing in front of?" I was looking at the trunk and said I didn't know. "Look slowly up to the leaves and then tell me," he said. I did and I couldn't. I didn't know. "It's a Tupelo or black gum tree," he said. He pointed out that the tree was not too common, as this is about its northernmost limit. The tree grows along the shores of ponds and in swampy woodlands.
Suddenly we heard the gentle tapping of a woodpecker. "Sounds like a downy," Tudor said. "But we had better check it out." Some minutes later we saw it, high in a dead elm, tapping rapidly.
Then Tudor began searching the ground. He was going to show me something special. It was black spruce which was reproducing itself by layering. Most unusual.
Later, he showed me black oak, and farther on, several American chestnuts. These trees do not grow very large, for they still are infected by the Japanese chestnut bark disease which destroyed all the mature trees quite some years ago. Trees get to about 20 feet in height and then the disease catches up with them and they die. Perhaps some day they can outgrow or become immune to the disease and we can once again have chestnut mast for wild turkeys.
All too soon the hour was up and I had to leave. I always appreciate an opportunity to spend a while with Tudor Richards, for his knowledge of natural history is broad.
Learning from a friend is a pleasant experience indeed.
Stacey Cole, Nature Talks columnist for more than 50 years, passed away in 2014. If readers have a favorite column written by Stacey that they would like to see reprinted, please drop a note to Jen Lord at email@example.com.
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Alzheimer`s disease, the brain disorder that robs millions of people of their memories and minds, is beginning to yield secrets at a pace that scientists call dramatic and exciting.
``I think we have moved very rapidly in the last couple of years,`` said Dr. Robert Katzman of the University of California in San Diego.
``Pieces of the puzzle are there,`` said Dr. Peter Davies of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. ``It is a matter of trying to fit them together.``
The advances have been in molecular biology and genetics, deepening the basic knowledge of the disease.
In the past year, a protein named A68 has been found that may offer clues to diagnosis. Scientists have discovered and cloned the gene for another protein, beta amyloid, which is a major component of the plaques that seem to clog the brains of Alzheimer`s patients. Cloning the gene -- reproducing it in the laboratory -- makes possible detailed studies and complete analysis of the protein, possibly revealing its function.
Potentially even more important, scientists have found the approximate location in the human genetic material of a gene that strongly predisposes people in some families to have the brain disorder. A high research priority is discovery of the gene itself. Analysis of the gene usually discloses the identity of the particular substance that cells make in carrying out the gene`s instructions. Identifying such a substance linked to Alzheimer`s disease might help reveal underlying causes.
Some experts now believe they can foresee the day when practical benefits may be gleaned from the scientific advances; that research may show ways in which the inexorable disease might be delayed substantially in at least some patients.
For now, there is no cure and no treatment that can alter the grim downhill course in which the patient first becomes forgetful, then gradually loses all memory and judgment, and may be totally helpless before death.


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They're perennial challengers in the Premier League title race, but Chelsea FC may soon also find themselves near the front of the pack in the world of Formula 1.
The Sauber F1 team have emerged as one of the teams capable of challenging the established front runners in the Formula 1 season, with lead driver Sergio Perez producing some strong points finishes in the early races of the 2012 F1 season.
And the two teams today announced a partnership deal that will see the Chelsea FC logo take its place on the side of the Sauber Ferrari F1 car.
The club's badge will also feature on the branded "interview walls" that act as the backdrop for Sauber's official team interviews.
The deal was announced by Blues CEO Ron Gourlay at Chelsea's Cobham training ground this morning, accompanied by a Sauber F1 car, complete with the Chelsea club badge.
"This is an innovative partnership that will see a football club link up with an F1 team like never before, bringing together two of the world's biggest sports and uniting our fans," he explained.
A statement from Sauber said, "The football club benefits from Formula One's television reach which, compared with the Premier League, is much higher and more international.
"Particularly in Asia, Formula One enjoys enormous TV presence and, not least thanks to Sergio Perez (Sauber's Mexican lead driver), is currently captivating more and more fans in Latin America, as well."
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Astaire and his vet terp aide, Hermes Pan, have devised four corking dance routines which director George Stevens has expertly envisioned and mounted.
Nicely directed but a bit on the twee side with its Wodehouse plot and mock Englishisms, the result would be questionable but for a rich Gershwin score.
Burns and Allen were imported to balance her lack of humor; their presence is certainly welcome, and their work with Astaire is surprisingly effective.
The inspired lunacy of the Wodehouse prose style cannot, however, survive the change of medium, and the director has failed to capture the typical Blandings atmosphere.
Burns and Allen are reliably funny and display more than passing hoofing abilities, and Montague Love and Reginald Gardiner are properly pompous in their aristocratic roles.
An Astaire dancing pic without Rogers is like a ham on rye without mustard.
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Another predictable romance movie! Well, at least it has Burns and Allen to offer some jokes along the way.
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this is such a funny movie! First off Gracie Allen is a hoot! she being that dumb is soo believible! I always love Fred Astaire , his voice and dancing! The whole story line was pretty funny! The scene when george burns cant hold in the Opera and just burst out is soo hillarious!
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OK. Let's start off by saying that I always have trouble practicing what I preach. Love. Grace. Mercy. Hospitality. Confession. Penitence. Humility. Discipleship. (Insert any awesome Christian concept here!) They are ALL problematic in some way. During ordination I may have said before God and everybody that I was on the way to perfection (as we all needed to say) but it's clear to myself and all those who are close to me that I have a long way to go.
But I just want to focus on one aspect of my preaching — participation in the Mission of God towards the goal of God's Kingdom.
I have been knee deep in the missional church discussion for a couple of years now and I've been reading the authors and practitioners who are over their heads in this part of Christian theology. Most of my blog posts on this site have revolved around the notion of the Missio Dei, the Mission of God and how we live into it in our context. I've been preaching it and teaching it and I feel like have more posts and booklets and books to read than I'd have time for even if I quit my job as being pastor…and father…and spouse. There is still not be enough time to get through all that I want to get through. I've been engaged in a two year program called "The Academy for Missional Wisdom" to engage in discussion on these matters and to begin practicing what I preach, starting an actual, functioning missional community. I even started a blog a little over a month ago just to get some of these thoughts down and organized and shared with other people. I thought this would be a way to get some of our lead team folks on board with some of the theology an emphases. But these posts, for the most part, are not even my thoughts. I haven't gotten there yet.
But at this point, I can see I have some problems with this missional church thing. And I probably need to be up front about them. I thought I'd get some of them down here.
- DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE ATTRACTIONAL CHURCH MODEL SCARES ME. And I don't just mean church with traditional music and liturgy. I also mean those services with those hipster praise bands and the informality of a seemingly liturgy-less worship whose sole purpose is to bring more persons through their doors which often means just stealing people from other churches. I was TRAINED for the attractional church and, to this point, the worship I've designed has had an unspoken goal of trying to attract folks (How's that working for me? Gulp!) I have commitments to raise budgets and support a building program. (How's that working? [Crickets]). I may have read a little Lesslie Newbigin in seminary but my education was built for the attractional church. It has been tough work to get me to think about church differently and it's going to be tough work to get a congregation (or two) to think differently–to see this grand narrative of Scripture about God sending persons to be co-missioners in the renewal of all things. It forces all of us to think differently about who we are and what we're about. We can't be looking at the church as consumers…of looking at it to get out of it what we want.
- I'M NOT SURE I WANT TO BE THAT HOSPITABLE. Oh, I think I'm OK being in a group with a diverse group of persons. I do hope we get to the place where we have different socio-economic backgrounds represented, different races, different ages. But I've been reading a lot about opening up your own home to the community; having barbecues, hosting dinners, putting seats out on your front lawn to welcome the neighbors, even putting in a mini-skate park (which either makes your house an attractional nuisance or a place where the whole neighborhood wants to hang out. This is all a matter of welcoming folks in. But, I relish the time I get to spend with my family at home, just being family together. As outgoing as I am in my public persona, I'm partly a homebody. And, I gotta' tell you, our house tends to be pretty cluttered. I know not everyone is going to expect it all to be picked up, but we're a long way from feeling comfortable having folks in. I can't imagine what it might be like to have folks in every week. How about if we're just "hospitable" at someone else's house?
- THIS IS A PRETTY BIG JUMP IN MY THEOLOGY IN A SHORT TIME. This missional discussion has changed my worldview. It really has. And it's changed how I understand the person and work of Christ–moving from a focus on the cross and conversion to the establishment of the Kingdom of God. It's a big shift and I sometimes struggle with how best to describe what is, to me, a pretty new way of understanding what it means to be a follower of Christ in this day and age. I'm no longer a "churchgoer" or "church leader" but a "missionary in Christ's name."
- I LIKE MORE CERTAINTY THAN THIS. I like to know where I'm headed. Roadmaps are good. Plans are good. I want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. But all I can do as we start a missional community is trust that God will lead us to God's preferred future. As our lead group for our missional community met for the first time this past week, it was clear we had a lot of ideas. The discussion was awesome. The prayer was heartfelt. It was great to be with a group of persons who were asking the very basic question of how we can bless our community with the love and grace of Christ. How can we be agents of grace where we are? But there's no map for where we're going. There are no IKEA-like instructions. There can't be because every context is different and it's this particular context we're working with. And that's scary.
- I HAVE A "PRIDE THING". Sure, we all have a "pride thing" in our lives, over one thing or another. But I see more and more in myself that I like to take credit for the good things that are happening. And, for a long time, I've seen the "elder brother" of The Prodigal Son parable in myself–the one who can't stand to see the blessing given to others, particularly those who seemingly don't deserve it. And this makes me a prideful pastor, which is not a good thing. I can have difficulty sharing leadership–which is needed to make "missional" work. And I can have difficulty sharing ministry if that means sharing with persons who are from other churches. Yes I work ecumenically and share ministry all the time. I just think there's a part of me that likes to take credit for those jobs that are done well and doesn't want another church coming onto what I falsely perceive as "my turf." So I think I need to constantly be asking myself if I can celebrate what God is doing, even if it's not in what I have done and even if, missionally speaking, what we do includes the hard work and good ministry of other churches. And (gulp) can I celebrate what God is doing even if God's been working in ways that were not part of my vision.
- UNITED METHODIST PASTORS MOVE. I don't anticipate moving anytime soon. I really don't. But if I stay longer than three years I will have outlasted the last several pastors in this place. If we're truly going to inhabit this place, dwell in it, become inacarnate in it, I (we) am going to have to stay around for a while. I know I talk a lot about the benefits of being in one place for a long time, but there's a safety factor in knowing that you can move when the going gets tough. I don't want that to be an option.
All of this said, I remain excited. I keep reading and reading and posting and posting in the hopes that it can help shape this missional venture into something God-inspired and God-led. But, as excited as I may be, I still have some struggles. I'm sure if I took more time I'd come up with more.


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After the tech crash of 2000-2001, I tried
to pull my thoughts together into a book,
tentively titled What Were We Thinking.
The following would have been the first
chapter. It describes the heady time when
people were just beginning to talk about the
possibilities of the Net, before venture money
began pouring in and before everyone began
to think about "getting big fast." The time
frame is October, 1996...
Driving back to New York from Philadelphia in my '91 Nissan 300ZX, I loved it. I always have, the surge of acceleration, the sticky tires and tuned suspension providing a nearly direct connection to the road. Something about the control and the pure action between my foot and the spring of the pedal. As far as old technology goes, if there's anything better than powerful wheels, two or four, moving smoothly across the face of the planet, I don't know what it is.
I was speeding, and loving it. In the car with me was Christopher Locke -- rambling intensity, endless chain of menthol light cigarettes, a three gallon tank of cappuccino and a raspy, boyish, brick-through-the-window rage.
We were high as kites because we'd just left a conference outside Philadelphia where 50+ of the brightest people around had taken a few wonderfully unstructured days to throw paper airplanes and talk about what they thought and what they wanted to do. And all of it had been so possible, so absolutely open and feasible, that it had been like being present at the discovery of a new world. I'd been running gatherings myself, salons, up at our place in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, but nothing like this.
Maggie and I had taken the house fresh from California and the death of my two-year-old son, after a long illness, and we'd arrived shell-shocked. It wasn't just our grief for Eric, which was an enormous thing -- it was our fear for Ginger, our ten-year-old daughter who'd been locked by the death into a terrible guilt and grief. All the normal resentments she'd felt about a new child in the family, a sick child who'd harvested all of our attention, had come down on her after his death like a dark grey sodden cloud. But we'd been able to find help for her, and a marvelous therapist brought Ginger slowly and beautifully back. It was a relief to watch and the anxiety in Maggie and I gradually began to wane.
The house was beautiful, high on a cliff above a stream, with a wall of windows. So was Croton-on-Hudson.
As we settled in deeper and things got better, every once in a while, on a Sunday morning, I'd get people who were into new stuff, thinking out new possibilities, to come by and eat, and drink wine, and talk.
There were glimmers and waftings of ideas and lively voices. Lots of the New York new media folks would come up and there'd be others who just happened to be in town, who were passing through.
Chuck Martin (The Digital Estate), would be there, IBM-casual gadgets. Jack Rickard, editor of Boardwatch Magazine, fishing vest stuffed with pens, keys, notebooks, and cigars.
Chris Locke, who was living in Stamford. Dread-locked Jonathan Steuer who was working in HotWired and who brought Justin Hall of Justin's Links from the Underground, an expansive, hypertext rendering of his life and mind -- everything from his father's suicide when he was 8 years old to his dating life. Justin's site finally caused me to create my own and begin to deal more openly with the death of my son.
The crowd shifted and blended and shifted again.
So I knew how good semi-random gatherings could be and I was looking forward to the Retreat planned by Jerry Michalski and Esther Dyson in June of '96.
Esther Dyson had been running PC Forum successfully for decades.
In '96, Jerry convinced her that it was time to put a new bunch of people together -- they might be miles apart in terms of disciplines, but each would have said something to Jerry in the past year that had made him say, "Aha."
The invitees became his "Aha people," though since then the group has more often tended to refer to ourselves as "Jerry's Kids."
Whether an individual's interests had been commercial or social or political or spiritual, there had been something there - a sense of things shifting and moving smoothly, like tumblers in a great lock.
None of it was structured or locked or owned or codified. If the general feeling was that IBM could kiss our collective asses, well, there was no reason not to say so. Because of all of the entities going in to the experience, it was explicitly stated and understood that each individual there would be speaking for himself.
So, the conference is in June of 1996 and 54 people attend at Eagle Lodge, northwest of Philadelphia. Jerry and Daphne Kis, Esther Dyson's partner in Edventure Holdings, has selected the conference center -- wonderful tall green trees, stone paths linking the buildings. Best was the amphitheater, perfectly fitted to the size of the crowd -- everyone can see everyone else, and there's enough room to spread out.
Eagle Lodge isn't far from the site of the first Quaker meeting in Pennsylvania, something I didn't know at the time but which was oddly important to Jerry. He'd attended a lot of Quaker sittings and had some notion of a similar structure for the Conference -- an open silence to only be broken if it could be improved. Nice idea, though not all the attendees bought it.
I knew what Jerry was thinking. A few months earlier he'd invited me on one cold, clear, sunny winter Sunday to a Friends meeting in Connecticut, a church in Wilton, beautiful as only New England churches can be -- white with a modest steeple, at the edge of a woods with trees all around, white narrow siding.
There'd been a sanctuary area, a semi-circle of pews facing a big fireplace, and as the Friends moved into it they'd become quiet. No opening hymn, no reading from the Bible. We'd just sat in the stillness and it had been unbelievably peaceful so I could feel myself in a cascade of images and words -- some thought, some felt, and some from another place entirely.
About 40 minutes into the meeting, this utterly peaceful silence, one woman had spoken and briefly offered a thought she'd had earlier in the week, how she'd suddenly seen God's hand in something she'd never noticed before. Everyone had taken it in, but no one had chosen to add anything. 'Speaking only when you can improve the silence" is a high bar.
At the end of an hour, an elder of the church had risen to read a short list of announcements -- a food shelter needed contributions and help, some church members were ill and needed prayers. And with that, we'd filed out.
The atmosphere at Eagle Lodge certainly wasn't as pure or as quiet as the Friends' meeting, but it was wonderful nevertheless, with some of its sense of necessity, and freedom -- that anyone who needed to speak, could speak, whenever the necessity grabbed him. And speak we did, the words and thoughts moving back and forth like a well-played basketball game.
When Chris and I get there after the long drive down from New York, we're immediately pointed to tables and given t-shirts and magic markers so we can write on and decorate them. We also get green and red and yellow paddles for use in the next day's sessions -- a green paddle held up will mean "I agree with you," a yellow paddle, "Hmmm, where are you going with this?" a red paddle, "Bullshit."
The sessions begin the next day with a most welcome edge of childishness. There are scatterings of toys to play with, miniature slinkys, puzzles, silly putty. No agenda --we make up the rules.
Esther Dyson (small, and compact, often wearing several layers of clothing to keep warm, she's open and welcoming though her intellect can intimidate and she's probably more interested in ideas than in people), is there though it's clearly going to be a conference quite unlike her PC Forum events where she functions as the thought leader, taking her audience on wonderful trips through her own interests.
This conference is more Jerry's, and he chooses to give it back to the attendees -- Don Norman, Doc Searls, Arthur Einstein, David Isenberg, Emily Davidow, Jack Henry, Malcom Casselle, Omar Wasow, Udi Shapiro, Yossi Vardi, Judi Clark, Howard Greenstein, Kyle Shannon, Eric Hughes and Nick Givotovsky, among others.
The conversations are incredible, and for the first time in my life I participate in a real dialogue with 50+ people.
Jerry leads the group in making a determination on what we want to talk about, where do we wish to focus our energy and then he moderates. It's a wild group and while I first get the feeling that Jerry's task is somewhat akin to herding cats but after a time he appears more like Coach Pat Riley coaching the Los Angeles Lakers in their prime. Some people go off and prepare, then come back and present to the group, others present with little to no preparation.
Nick Givotovsky squirrels himself away in his room to write us Webmasters -- We Market Mindshare, a well-informed, cautionary and cheerfully vicious poem --
. . . (we'll raise a fire so slowly,There's Eric Hughes, who within a month of the conference co-founds Cypherpunks, a roving band of cryptographers, privacy advocates, and digital anarchists. He presents a session on micro-payments which he begins by handing out pennies to everyone. When he's finished the pennies come back in a copper shower, from every corner of the room.
Nothing compares, though, with Chris' free form rant.
He's been waiting to get on for a while and finally goes on our last full day. He's enraged -- you can see it in him as he walks. I've noticed him seething at our table -- not always -- mostly during the particularly techno-dweeb or business-as-usual ramblings. The amphitheater is terraced and on each level there are tables and all the energy seems to drain down toward the speaker, good or bad.
Chris gets up and "What the fuck," he says, not questioning, more like a statement of fact.
"I've been stuck at IBM for a year with my thumb up my ass and I'm waiting for someone to figure out what the fuck is going on and they've got plans I give them all the time and they file them and say "Yeah, Chris, that's great, then they take me into some fucking egg carton room and tell me what I've got to work with, which is nothing, no money no equipment no staff, and then they give me a check and I fucking go home and sit there, where I've got better tech stuff anyway than IBM where it took me two solid months to get an internet hookup, and this is what they want me to do, see, they want me to do the internet thinking, and get them into it, but the first fucking thing they tell me is you've got no resources and 'Oh, by the way, don't talk to anyone about this stuff without clearing it through channels.' A fucking year. And I sit here and some of what I'm hearing is how to work in the system. Well I say fuck the system -- it's dead it's stupid it's non-responsive it's counter productive it's fucking socially evil and if we put any more of our goddamn time into propping up these dead- ass morons we deserve what we fucking get."
The veins are standing out in his neck.
"Just fuck 'em and move on. I'm sitting around drawing a fat check off these people and it isn't enough. I don't want their money. These are deathly structures with no perceptible pulse except for once in a while you run into somebody lost in the fucking halls and maybe you start to talk about something real and then the guy with the fucking glad-hand comes around and tells you can't do that, you can't talk."
"This is a huge goddamn breakthrough into who knows what and as we sit here IBM is trying to figure out how to put it in a box and make it sit up to beg for airholes and fucking cheese. We're not going to work in the system because THE SYSTEM DOES NOT WANT US."
"Go rageboy, go," Esther yells out.
"THEY DO NOT WANT US AND THEY'RE CRIMINALS by instinct ANYWAY* AND IF WE PUT ONE MORE YEAR INTO FUCKING AROUND WITH THESE DEAD FROM THE FUCKING TOP DOWN PIECES OF MANUAL-BOUND SHIT WE'RE GOING TO MISS THE GODDAMN TRAIN!"
There are whistles and cheers in the crowd. People are standing. One guy is on his table. Paper airplanes and erasers are filling the air.
"Let me tell you -- I'm Program Director for Online Community Development and they're paying me to do nothing and when I say "Hey, I'm getting paid for doing nothing they say, 'As long as you understand the situation.'
I bring in a friend from the press to try and get some coverage and make them move and the management guy who's going to talk to him, and show off, can't get his modem to work and after twenty minutes he realizes it isn't plugged in and says, dig this, 'That goddamn tech guy doesn't know what he's doing.'
Brave new fucking world, huh? These guys are the Emperor's guys. These are fucking a Entropy Brigade and the closer we get to them the more the heat drains out of our systems. If that's what you want, fine, go for it, but don't expect me to sit here and nod my head about how you're gonna use these guys because THERE IS NO USE FOR THESE GUYS. Unless you want to hollow them out and use them for fucking floor lamps."
His rant achieved eloquence, as rants occasionally can. Now, speeding toward home on the unspeakable New Jersey Turnpike, peering red-eyed through the cloud of smoke from the unspeakable Locke's cigarettes, we're turning over a lot of information, twisting and bending it, shooting into the twilight and the greasy salmon-smear that twilight can be around Newark, the refineries, the lights hung on the outsides of the buildings, seemingly, just like always.
How can I tell you about that conversation/monologue? Mix up a vat of hard information, coffee dregs, healthy contempt, real world pragmatism, mashed Toxico cigarette butts, visionary eloquence, trailing-off-in-the-haze 60s enthusiasms, pure rage, a sense of mission, Thirteen Ways of Saying Fuck It, a highly-tuned bullshit detector with wires and lights and everything, democratic zeal, arcane rock and roll, a dollop of Howl, a cloud of menthol smoke and a driver with his head in and out of the window, trying to breathe, at ninety or so, bearing down on the Hanging Gardens of Newark.
"We absolutely have to fucking burn the Fortune 500 down to the water-line. This is a moral obligation, this is an absolute fucking obligation."
Chris waving his left hand in the air, the smoke from his cigarette eddying around in search of free air to poison.
After the conference a lot of things happen.
Don Norman, author of "The Design of Everyday Things," leaves his day job and starts his own consulting group. In 1998 he publishes "The Invisible Computer," which predicts that the complexity of the PC will kill it and it will give way to information appliances.
Doc Searls goes on to co-author The Clue Train Manifesto and edit the Linux Journal, crucial to the growth of the open source initiative.
David Isenberg publishes an essay called Rise of the Stupid Network: Why the Intelligent Network was once a good idea, but isn't anymore. One telephone company nerd's odd perspective on the changing value proposition. In 1998 it's a bombshell inside AT&T but, more interestingly, because he also releases it to the Internet, it finds its way to The Wall Street Journal ("fascinating, scathing"), and David leaves to do his own thing -- Isen.com, his "prosultant" consulting firm.
Emily Davidow continues with Digital Elements, a consulting company for the design and implementation of internet commerce, serves on the board of WWWAC (World Wide Web Artists Consortium), and continues to be the bleeding edge of the leading edge, finding and adopting new technology gizmo's, adapters, browser plug-ins, before any of us.
Jack Henry grows EarthWeb into one of the nations largest ISPs while Kyle Shannon grows Agency.com into one of the largest and most respected new marketing agencies in New York. Malcolm Caselle co-founds NetNoir, a company focused on the vertical community of African-Americans. He remains fanatically involved with the human side of the Net, the communities. Omar Wasow sticks with New York Online.
Udi Shapiro (Ubique), Yossi Vardi (Mirabilis), Zach Rinot (Net Dyanmics): founders of the three leading instant messaging companies were all there. In 1996, IM was just catching on and was the rage. Everyone was fascinated with it but had difficulty figuring out what the value was to the one that owned the software and systems that made it all possible. Yossi's company, Mirabilis, later went on to gather over 40 million users and then have AOL acquire them for $400 million. ICQ introduce the term "viral marketing."
Judi Clark goes on to co-found Bay Area Women in Telecommunications (BAWiT), an organization addressing gender issues and policy in the telecommunications arena, and ManyMedia, a California-based company providing technical and educational support and training to business and education.
Howard Greenstein: a technical evangelist at Microsoft, co-founds the World Wide Web Artists Consortium and currently serves on its board of directors.
You know what it's like when you wake up and you're a kid and it's Saturday and there are no chores and there's nobody in the house and the sun is shining mildly and everything is possible?
Well, surprisingly, in a fast, smoke-filled car full of waving arms, barely visible, outside Newark, in the cruddy smog, that's what it felt like -- that things could be that way, at last.
Chris was working for IBM at the time, a mismatch of epic proportions.
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Congress woman Bachmann desires to be more knowledgeable
The minimum wage law is a way to see that employees get at least bus money to work and back. Some one with two minimum wage jobs is still not making a living wage.
Minimum wage is not an answer to all the problems of business and commerce. The basic idea was to get as fair a deal as could be for employees without looking like the old sweat-shop wages.
There are still people around who are opposed to minimum wage workers. Take for example what a U.S. Congressional Representative from the state of Minnesota said recently on national television:
''If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.''
Michele Bachman, the lady who wants now to be president, shared those words of wisdom. Our country could solve the unemployment problem by doing away with minimum wages. Jobs, at every level, would appear as if by magic. If only she had suggested this to the rest of her congress comrades and made such a law, how wonderful it would be for all those without jobs.
But the lady-politician did not stop there with her problem solving. Back on television again she claimed that the former Fox News educator, Glenn Beck, could solve the national debt crisis. She told a South Carolina audience: "I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]." Here again, why doesn't she get the guys and gals in congress together and turn all these problem-solving statements into action.
I did not make this up. No one, to my knowledge, is putting words into her mouth. She is the one who confused her Concords -- the "shot heard round the world" was in Concord, Mass., not Concord, N.H. as she said in a speech in New Hampshire.
She is the one who said: "The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It's all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax. … There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.''
All we ask of politicians is a little research, a little reading of the history books and newspapers before that share their wisdom. Bachmann has yet to name even one Nobel Prize winning scientist who believes in intelligent design.
Such talk is scary when coming from a U.S. Representative who wants to be president. What edition of history books has she been reading? What research scientist has she been relying upon? While amusing, it is still frightening anyone could take her seriously.
Intelligent design is held by some church-goers to be how the world came into being. In last week's funnies Mr. Stiller, a high school biology teacher, helped his class understand the theory. "It goes like this," he said, "5,700 years ago a male deity created the heavens and earth and all life on it in six days. Unfortunately, He didn't like his own handiwork so God created genocide and drowned everyone on earth except the family of Noah, a 600-year-old man who was charged with saving animals."
A student interrupts, but Mr. Stiller continues, "Almost done. So Noah took two of everything including microbes, but forgot the dinosaurs…" [Borrowed from the July 10 episode of Garry Trudeau's Doonsbury strip. Used here with due respect, but lack of official permission to copy the words. Hope neither side will sue.]
To Bachmann's credit, she is aware of saying strange things, she lamented once: "I have experienced that throughout my political career, being labeled a kook."
Once Bachmann also said, I wish I was more knowledgeable…" to which a friend of mine said, "Lady, we all wish you were more knowledgeable."


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There's a bank of fog on the eastern horizon and some scattered mackeral clouds in the sky, tinted gold against the turquoise blue by the sinking sun to the west. It's been a lovely day, like its predecessors, clear mostly, bright, and a lot warmer than a week ago, so that I can be in light cottons in the daytime and even into the evening. Running in baggy cotton shalwar-type pants (that date from Udaipur and a nice tailor there, in 2003) and a loose light cotton top before eight in the morning I am running with sweat by the time I've done my little two to three mile trot in the morning. The coldest of the cold season seems to be over, is what I'm saying.
Last Friday I headed north in a car with Fern and Noi, who is also from Chiang Mai, and an American friend visiting from Beijing. We stayed two nights at Fern's lovely farm (checking things out before the immersethrough crew arrives) where the bougainvillea is in bloom, and the garden flourishes. We ate Jam's wonderful Shan (Tai Yai) food one night and the second night brought home lots of eats from the Fang market and picknicked on it all, sitting by the fire outside.
Up north at the farm the mountains on the Burmese border are right there, dominating the western horizon and making the air cold, especially at night. It was strange and wonderful when I woke up that first morning to see my breath in great puffs and feel chilly when I ventured out from under the covers. There was dense fog in the morning, frequent in cold season up there. Everything becomes mysterious and dew drips from the trees and bushes. Eventually the sun breaks through and drives the mist away, and the world is transformed. Gone the mystery!
As I was running yesterday morning I was thinking about bad sidewalks and the pleasures of running. What makes it so great? There can be cars and exhaust, and hot or cold weather, and bad sidewalks, and yet it is still such a pleasure to just trot down the street. I guess endorphins truly are an addictive drug, and running is the easiest supplier of the drug, so there we go!
Speaking of pleasures, there's a new Burmese restaurant in town, a place called D-Lo. Went there last Monday with a small crowd, including J and A, who were the ones who told me about the restaurant. By the time we pushed back our chairs, several hours of eating and conversation later, we'd tasted almost every salad on the menu as well as a number of curries. (Burmese salads are just brilliant. Naturally then, the salad chapter of my Burma book (manuscript due in June, book should be out in 2012) threatens to drown the rest. It's a nice problem to have!)
D-Lo is so good that Fern and I think we'll take the immersethrough group there next week for supper. Burmese is another piece of the northern Thai culinary landscape, less embedded than Shan/Tai Yai, but definitely connected. The more I learn here and in Burma, the more I know I don't know, but at least I'm seeing more of the cross-connections, geo-political and cultural and culinary too.
The cross-connections in this complicated endlessly interesting region were the focus of a seminar I went to yesterday at Chiang Mai University. The Social Sciences Faculty is now putting on a series of talks and events relating to Burma, about one every two weeks it seems. The news about the situation in Burma is not common knowledge in Thailand. These seminars are a chance for university students and others to get informed. This one was titled "A Man Made Disaster: Implications for Thailand of Burma's Health Catastrophe."
In Burma the government surplus is in the billions of dollars but government spending on health care is less than one dollar per person per year. Most of that spending these days seems to be on buildings, not on services for patients, and most is in Rangoon and Mandalay. The consequence is that people in eastern Burma on the Thai-Burma border area, and also those in other border regions, have no health care at all. In eastern Burma the infant mortality is staggeringly high (30% death rate for children under five), and one woman in twelve dies in pregnancy or childbirth.
The seminar was concentrated not so much on these distressing statistics as on the fact that because of poor health care and lack of preventative medicine in Burma, and because of the war being waged by the Burmese army against the ethnic minorities in the border areas, diseases that have been all but eliminated in Thailand are endemic in the border regions, diseases like tuberculosis, filariasis (elephantiasis is one version of the disease), and malaria.
There are over two million displaced people from Burma in Thailand, and a constant flow of people fleeing across the border. It's an ongoing humanitarian crisis. But even for those not moved by the plight of others, the situation bears thinking about: like it or not, the dire medical health situation in Burma can and will affect Thailand in a serious way sooner or later.
One group that's working to try to help border populations is the Backpack Health Worker Team. They use volunteers from the communities that are being helped (Karen people in Karen areas, Mon in Mon areas, etc). The volunteers travel into Burma on foot carrying packpacks full of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics, etc. It's been going for nearly fifteen years and now serves hundreds of villages.
All this would not be necessary of course if the govenment of Burma were providing services or at least not waging war on the border populations. It's one thing when there's a natural disaster or endemic poverty; it's another thing when the suffering is largely wilfully caused and avoidable.
How do people deal with their rage and anguish in this situation? Many flee to where the living is easier, and who can blame them? But many others become involved in trying to help, as teachers or community activists or Backpack volunteers or...
It's all another reminder that a lot of the pain in the world is caused by people hurting people intentionally. Those of us not born into that kind of situation cannot imagine it. We can only try to stay aware and find our own individual ways of trying to help.
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A wonderful woman that Michelle works for part time had a antique quilt that had sat in a drawer crying out to be finished.
I am pleased with this beautiful quilt. Double Wedding Ring,
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Baby Quilts
It has been baby season again for me. So many special little spirits coming to this world. The first quilt is for a Mom that doesn't want as much pink and is more of a teal Mom. I had a beautiful minky with teal spots. Add a little purple, brown and white and you have a very feminine baby girl quilt.
|The bubble echo the spots on the back.
|I love bubbles on baby quilts.
The next baby blanket is for a special little guy. The Minky I have is brown with tan animals. I love greens and blues for this minky. I cut 15 in squares and stacked them up. I cut irregular lines vertically, shuffled the fabrics then sewed them back together. After pressing I cut the fabric horizontally, shuffled, then sewed them back together. Here are the results.
|Stack and Whack squares.
|I added the baby's name in the corner
|An elephant with a bird perched on his back.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
QOV's Well done
These QOV tops were probably my top 10 of all time QOV quilt tops. They were a pleasure and an honor to quilt.
|On this quilt I used a Page Turner method of quilting
|The waves meet in the middle
|ON this quilt you can see the the original square from 4 patch to 4 patch but I wanted to emphasis the smaller squares on point.
|I quilted the quilt squares as a Page Turner
|The flying geese have a star treatment but I wanted the seams to reflect the P2P arches in the large squares
|The border is a star and strip treatment.
|This quilt is a piece of art. It reminded me of a Civil War quilt that I had done so I used the clam shells and clam shell with a star to complete the quilting.
|Here you can see the star in the middle of the clam shell.
|Once again the Star. Clam Shells are very traditional in a period quilt.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Charity Quilts for Clark County Quilters
Clark County Quilt Guild is a large Quilt Guild that does a lot of charity activities. These two quilts are probably going to the Share House that serves Homeless Families. They are currently raffling off a quilt that proceeds will go to Clark County K-9 Unit.
I enjoy doing these charity quilts.
I enjoy doing these charity quilts.
|Very eclectic and colorful quilt everything from Betty Boop, rockets, and cats
|I decided to to one of my modern patterns
|Everything from swirls and waves
|To rectangles and more waves
|As you can see the back is very busy
|A cute flannel quilt made of all sorts of baby prints.
|I love quilting circles on baby quilts. When they are washed they are so bumpy.
|The back has the dots and the quilting ties it all together.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Colors and Big Impact
|Some times we forget what colors and print scale can impact in a simple pattern
|quilted with the Wild Rose pano
Thursday, March 21, 2013
3 Quilt of Valors
These are three Quilt of Valors from Southern California. It is unusual to get QOV's that are not red white and blue. Even the Service Women want the US colors. So here they are.
|used the toucan and jungle leaf quilting pattern
|I like the use of half square triangles.
|The toucans in the quilting.
|These are Batik fabrics.
|I love the dark almost black purple in this pattern
|The quilting is called calm waters.
|This quilt almost looked like a Irish Chain. It also looks like a pinwheel in the center of Log Cabin type squares.
|I used yellow thread. There so many reds that the yellow matched many of the pinwheels.
|border treatments
|The back is hard to see in pics but is spectacular in person.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Baby Clothes
|Beautiful full polka dot dress so cute.
|Piles of squares growing
|My 6 in or comparable squares
|Polka Dot dress sewed on after quilting
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