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Is this for real? No way.
Nov 02, 2005
|OK. I'm not a Linux proponet. I'm still getting SUSE 10 to work so I can write java server pages with Apache and MySQL. I admit, Linux is much better than I thought.
I really get turned off by all this adversarial bullsh*t. This is the more friendlier of the Linux News sites. I typically do not read these kind of articles. So, it's unusual for me to do so.
BUT. Now, I see why Linux people are worried about Microsoft. I didn't pay attention to the trial and all the anti-trust stuff. I just figured it was jealousy. Maybe it is.
This goes a little far.
It's exaggerated, right?
Nov 02, 2005
|So, are you a typical mainstream American? Don't believe what you read?
Give me a break. If anything Stephe soft-peddled the story.
I wouldn't have been so gracious, but then he didn't have the benefit of the trial records. Nor did he know a trial would happen in 1995.
Nov 02, 2005
|I don't believe in MS bashing for the sake of bashing Avenger, but, Microsoft's track record in underhanded business, addressing user concerns, and overall shoddy product quality is very well documented. This is not adversarial, Just factual.
Nov 03, 2005
|avenger: exaggerated? We wish. Just check out http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html. I wish he was exaggerating, but unfortunately he isn't. When you just list together all the sneaky, underhanded business methods Microsoft has used to create and maintain its monopoly, with complete disregard of any laws or ethics, do you find it abnormal that some people feel their blood boil?
In my experience, people usually think, like you, that it's just jealousy, and leave it at that, without going and check the facts. However, I don't know *anyone* who actually checked the facts of Microsoft's history that doesn't end up with at least a profound distrust of the company. Their track record is abysmal, but most people just seem not to be aware of it...
Nov 03, 2005
|What a gem. I applaud whoever dug this up and thank archive.org for saving history like this.
Nov 03, 2005
|I remember the days of this time frame with disgust.
One example, of many; I was an engineer making a living installing CAD/CAM applications on Unix systems (joy). Anyway, the apps all fell to NT over the space of about a year or so, many of the vendors promised to continue support for Unix, only to have those promises fall through.
It was amazing to me, how many vendors did this, until I found out what happened. Basically, Microsoft promised the vendors a toolkit for developing CAD/CAM applications that would include a set of libraries that would make it easily portable to any Unix.
Vendors coding up new CAD products under Unix and then porting them to NT said "Whoa -- we can make one code base, and hit the port button, and have multiple products with less hassle". Made economic sense, as taking Unix CAD products to NT was often painful and required some serious creativity (Bentley, in my not so humble opinion, seemed to do an incredible job of this).
What happened, though? Microsoft bascially waited a year or so, and said "oh, we decided that porting kit didn't make economic sense."
Suddenly, all but a few Unix CAD/CAM products were gone. Great work on the shady side of the fence. Awesome move business wise.
The problem is that this is standard fare -- used to be at least. I seriously have my doubts that Microsoft is done with this kind of "promise now, but only deliver the goods that help us, later" mentality.
Nov 03, 2005
|Paul: are there still people who would actually *believe* Microsoft's promises?
Your story points out another reason why Microsoft pulled it off: managers and directors seem to be so gullible! I mean, who in their right mind would base a decision that completely changes their business on vaporware from a company they have absolutely no control over? I know I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to running a company, but having worked for a year in a very small company (10pp), one thing I've learned is that others have to show you the goods before you can even *consider* basing your business on them. Any other way always leads to catastrophes.
But then I am *really* business illiterate, so I'm probably just missing something ;) .
Nov 03, 2005
|Tsela: You had to be there to seriously appreciate the stupidity of this. Basically, tons of stuff like this was going on, to the point where people were saying things like "It's just like the way Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown" -- every time Charlie goes to kick the ball, whoosh, Lucy would pull it out of the way, each time offering a different excuse as to why.
But on to more fun things...
Nov 03, 2005
|Isn't what PaulFerris describes in the CAD/CAM field what MSFT pulled in the late 80s, early 90s with OS/2? I mean, Lotus and all kinds of companies spent bazillions of dollars, basically betting the farm on OS/2 ports of everything. And then MSFT pulls the OS/2 football out of the way, substituting Windows instead. This is what led to WordPerfect and 123's fall from grace isn't it?
I had wondered about the CAD/CAM thing while it was happening. NT in the early days (92-95) wasn't terrifically well-documented, well-designed or even well-debugged, as we found out later. The CAD/CAM products that moved to NT were often pale shades of the Unix originals, albeit cheaper. I never could figure out the reason for the move - it had to cost the CAD/CAM companies a lot of time and effort to retool for NT, and it was pretty obvious that "You can develop under NT 5 times faster than Unix!" was a flat-out lie.
When managers and directors make the decisions, particularly in large corporations, you have to follow the money. I bet a lot of these decisions get made because of chronic, low- to medium-level corruption. Yes, pay offs. The few times I've heard drunken managers confess to it, the amounts were surprisingly small, easily covered by fake travel expenses.
Nov 03, 2005
|avenger, you would be surprised.
I was just the other day corresponding with Magnus Londén of Hufvudstadsbladet, who had written a column about the corruption of the laptop repairs market. His experience was, that even simple-to-fix laptops were routinely written off by the shops, telling you it's cheaper to buy a new one.
Then he took it to a small repair shop back in Ruskeasuo at the edge of Helsinki, run by a Nigerian (I'm not making this up!) who fixed it for a few tenners. He fixes laptops, videos, cameras, -- even vinyl record players.
As Londén wrote, "This Means War". I reminded him that the war has been on for a while, and the corruption of the Windows world is no secret. He could only agree, but wrote "Unfortunately the point (also of the column) is, that so-called ordinary folks don't grasp/dare to believe that they are being cheated the way they are."
So, avenger, welcome to a bigger, badder world. (And _do_ go prove marxism for me, OK? ;-)
Nov 03, 2005
|phsolide --
Ummm....I think you've got some culprits a little confused, though Microsoft certainly was a bad actor, however, for the OS/2 fiasco...IBM gets to share the blame.
In the early days of OS/2 development, Bill Gates and Microsoft guys were telling developers that the Windows API would be the graphical API for OS/2, and that they should write to it.
IBM, however, chose to use their own GDDM for OS/2, meaning that OS/2 and Windows programs would not be compatible.
Developers had to choose between IBM and OS/2 or Microsoft and Windows.
They chose IBM and OS/2, only to be hobbled by some very bad decisions IBM made -- most specifically that the original OS/2 be able to run on an 80286 -- because IBM had advertised the PS/2 models 50 and 60 as being OS/2 compatible.
OS/2 came out complex to install, resource-hungry, and unable to multi-task DOS programs.
Microsoft brought out Win 3.0, which, for all its problems, took some advantage of the 30386, multi-tasked DOS programs --- better than Windows programs, I might add, as Dos programs were pre-emptively multi-tasked and Windows programs were not -- and much lighter resource requirements. I was able to run win 3.0, for example, acceptably on my 4 mb 80386x.
As you know, the market chose Windows.
Nov 03, 2005
Quoting:As you know, the market chose Windows.
I have to quibble here. Didn't the "guilty" verdict in DoJ vs Microsoft basically mean that no fair market, and maybe no market at all, ever really occurred?
At least since Windows 3.11, I sincerely doubt that a consumer market for PC operating systems has existed. And I mean that in both economist and practical usage.
Nov 03, 2005
|phsolide -
No it doesn't.
It means merely that Microsoft acquired a monopoly and then proceeded to abuse it. Prior to Windows 3.0, Windows was a complete joke, good for very little. Most people presumed that OS/2 was the next step in PC OS's.
IBM screwed the pooch big-time on that one, trying to plant the impression hat OS/2 was tied to the PS/2, trying to maintain premium opn PS/2's and licensing microchannel technology at prices that most makers found easy to resist, esp. since the benefits could be engineered more cheaply.
Nov 03, 2005
|Dino: All agreed except that it was 3.1 that was usable.
Windows 3.0 was so bad that most people forget. I remember it even had trouble not crashing while *idle*. Microsoft implemented per-processor licensing during this timeframe, didn't they?
Nov 03, 2005
|It is funny how IBM is suddenly Our Friend. Today the Evil Empire, tomorrow Our Fuzzy Puppy.
Windows 3.1 and 9x/ME all had an interesting habit of crashing after a couple hours of idling, with no applications running. Good thing DOOM ran under DOS.
Nov 03, 2005
|Paul -
Like many things, YMMV.
Windows 3.0 crashed a lot more than I would have liked, but not so much to keep me from using it. The ability to run multiple DOS Windows was a big boon to me. I was doing C programming under CICS (if you can imagine it), prototyping under QuickC in a DOS Window before I moved stuff up to the mainframe.
Nov 04, 2005
Quoting: The ability to run multiple DOS Windows was a big boon to me.
I hope you've had therapy since then.
Just kidding, it was similar functionality that got me excited about 3.1 for me back then.
Nov 04, 2005
|yeah yeah, while you guys are doddering down memory lane, I'm busily predicting who our next Evil Empire is going to be. Gotta start making preparations. The next ruthless corporate overlord, who is born of humble beginnings, raised in love, and beloved by all, until the fateful day when it turns to the Dark Side and enslaves us all. Red Hat? MySQL? Nessus The Closed-Source Edition?
Who will it be....
Nov 04, 2005
|tuxchick --
It will surprise us all...
Flush with cash after personal health concerns lead to sale of their primary business, Ben and Jerry begin producing Free Spirit software.
Using the clever marketing honed in their former enterprise and buoyed by goodwill instilled in their hordes of happy former customers, their ChunkyMonkeyOS takes the market by storm. Especially popular is their project planning software, "Why Bother, brother?", which replaces milestones with "Let's get stoneds". Nothing gets done, but nobody cares.
The forces of Free Software try to warn the public about this so-alled Free Spirit software, but the public is confused by the difference, and, besides, it's good ol' Ben and Jerry!
The Free Software movement is crushed for good when Free Spirit includes a Cherry Garcia coupon with each purchase of a Free Spirit product.
A few years later, a young woman goes to the office supply closet. While there, she notices an unopened box gathering dust on the floor. She wipes off the dust and is puzzled. Box in hand, she walks back to the office and starts asking around, "Has anybody here heard of Microsoft?"
Nov 04, 2005
|Nah Dino you have been dazzled too much by Vermont hippies or had too many bad nights of ice cream poisoning. Here's the real deal:
It is the year 2030 and newly installed Emperor William the First of Jesusland (via Redmond) has just bulldozed the anachronistic White House and Congress buildings. "I want no reminders of democracy, the future belongs to the magnificient Oligarchs who rule by divine right. (This was later confirmed by 110 year old Pat Robertson the Jesusland spritual leader)" he says cursing as his laptop crashes once again. "Bill is a God, he invented personal computing" says Jesusland Minister of Truth, O'Reilly. "I see nothing wrong with gulags for the likes of Torvalds. Linux nearly destroyed capitalism err oligarchy".
Nov 04, 2005
|tuxchick: How about this one -- In 1994 I purchased OS/2 Warp, and set about for a fourple-boot system on my computer. I install Linux, Install OS/2 -- double-boot just fine. Following the OS/2 dual-boot stuff so I can have DOS, it says to do some commands, and install DOS.
So, I go to install DOS, and it says (paraphrasing here):
"I found a copy of OS/2 -- do you want me to delete it? (y/n) [y]:"
Gotta love those M$ guys. Gutsy.
Nov 04, 2005
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
New Predicaments
I've noticed a couple of other things that are just annoying: my calves are really tight and my ankles have swollen. I saw the doctor about my ankles and she thinks they might have swollen because I'm not used to sitting at a desk for 8 hours anymore and I haven't worn "work" shoes in quite a while. My ankles don't hurt, but they are quite large right now. My calves actually hurt and I'm having trouble walking. I think I just need to keep stretching and get a massage and the pain will go away. I lost a lot of muscle mass over the course of my treatment, so that's most likely the reason why my calves are so tight. I have started to work out with my trainer twice a week. I'm painfully slow and my balance is bad, but my abs are strong! I can see a little improvement in my arms and back because I've added about five pounds in weights in the past month. My recovery is going to be a long and slow process, and I've heard from various sources it can take up to a year to get back to "normal." I'll keep plugging away and working out because my goal is to play volleyball in my league next spring.
We're going away this weekend to our friend's parent's lake house down in Southern Virginia and I can't wait. We are bringing our boat and I'm going to see if I can water ski. I've never managed to actually get up on skis before, but I want to try again. I know my body may not cooperate, but I really have nothing to lose (except maybe a fingernail or two - they're all falling out now too) so I might as well try. Last summer, I tried for over an hour to get up on the darn skis, but my legs kept trying to go in two different directions. I'm eager to get back into life. If I can't do it, I'll swim or watch Mike water ski. I'm going to relax and have as much fun as possible.
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You know Oprah swears by the drugstore brand false eyelashes. She has no natural eyelashes at all. And if you get really good at drawing them in, this could be the opportunity to try different shapes in eyebrows. I like Reese Witherspoon's. Just pencil them in. And if it doesn't work, you can be Angelina tomorrow.
Have fun out on the water!
Julie B.
- September 14, 2007 at 4:45 PM
hey angela,
I lost mine after chemo too. Dirty trick right? I thought what next? But the good news is they grow faster than your hair. I never got the drawing eye brow thing so I just endured the comments like "you look different" Glad to hear that you are doing well. The edema is another dirty trick too. Chemo gets the tumors but also effects your heart. I took dieretics PRN and potassium for the swelling and I am seeing a acupuncturist. It is working. No diuretics in 2 months. I do have some dorsal foot pain but he is working on that as well. Hope everything continues to go well. I think about you often. I used your blogging as an example for one of my patients who was tired of "telling the same old story" he just may do that so thank you.
- September 15, 2007 at 2:27 PM
They shaved off the eyelashes on one of my eyes for the surgery years ago--they grew back pretty quickly (though, of course, I looked so bad at that point that a few missing lashes were the least of my worries).
It just occurred to me--what if they shave off the damn lashes again for the surgery Thursday????? No no no !!!!
Sorry. Just whining. :) If it comes to it, I may just try the fake ones!
I say-go creative--blue eyebrows. Purple eyebrows. What is the point of having cancer if you cannot have some fun with it?
- September 16, 2007 at 8:18 AM
- Blair said...
My vote is to draw the eyebrows every morning with a thick line of grease paint. Then you can tell people that you're Groucho's granddaughter. If you're feeling silly one day, you can even add in the mustache and (of course) a cigar.
Alternatively, you could always get the Groucho glasses with the big bushy eyebrows and mustache (they should be available in the Halloween stores). Probably best to talk that one over with Mike though in case it tickles.
- September 17, 2007 at 12:30 AM
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Introduced by Senator Condos of Chittenden District, Senator Ayer of Addison District, Senator Bartlett of Lamoille District, Senator Campbell of Windsor District, Senator Flanagan of Chittenden District, Senator Giard of Addison District, Senator Kittell of Franklin District, Senator Lyons of Chittenden District, Senator McCormack of Windsor District, Senator Racine of Chittenden District, Senator Shumlin of Windham District and Senator White of Windham District
Subject: Elections; statewide and national offices; instant runoff voting
Statement of purpose: This bill proposes to establish an instant runoff method of casting, sorting, and counting votes to promote the election of statewide offices by a majority of votes. Elections for United States senator and United States representative and electors for United States president would also be conducted and tabulated by the instant runoff method.
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Sec. 1. FINDINGS
(a) The general assembly finds that:
(1) The principle of majority rule is fundamental to the concept of democracy. When possible, election laws should be structured to uphold and facilitate this basic principle.
(2) In a multicandidate race, when no candidate receives a majority, the candidate with the most votes (the plurality) may actually be the candidate most opposed by the majority of voters.
(3) On 22 occasions in Vermont history, the governor was elected by the general assembly rather than by the voters.
(4) In 35 percent of all election years in Vermont, one or more federal or statewide races had a result with no majority.
(5) In one election with no majority winner in the governor's race, the general assembly deadlocked and elected no governor, forcing the lieutenant governor to serve as acting governor.
(6) In another election, with no majority in the treasurer's race, the general assembly elected the candidate who came in third with just three percent of the popular vote, and subsequently refused to serve, leaving the state with no treasurer.
(b) The general assembly further finds that:
(1) The delay from November to the convening of the legislature in January, in determining who will be governor, may be problematic in terms of preparing a proposed budget and finding qualified citizens able to leave their private sector employment for an administration that may never come into being.
(2) It would be desirable, and there is a popular preference, to have a direct popular election of the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, and treasurer, while preserving the majority requirement.
(3) It would be desirable, and there is a popular preference, to have a direct popular election by majority vote in all statewide elections for the offices of secretary of state, attorney general, auditor of accounts, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, and elector for U.S. president and vice president.
(c) The legislature further finds that a voting system known as "preferential voting" in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, and popularly known as "instant runoff voting," which has been used for governmental elections for over 80 years in Australia, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and in England, can fulfill these goals of majority rule, with direct popular election.
Sec. 2. 17 V.S.A. § 2103(43) is added to read:
(43) "Instant runoff method" means a method of casting, sorting, and counting votes as set forth in sections 2473a and 2593 of this title that accomplishes the same effect as all voters participating in a runoff election, whereby only the two candidates with the greatest number of first choices advance to a runoff count in which each ballot counts as a vote for whichever of the final candidates is ranked higher on that ballot.
Sec. 3. 17 V.S.A. § 2473a is added to read:
§ 2473a. INSTANT RUNOFF METHOD; APPLICATION; BALLOTS; RULES
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2472 of this title to the contrary, the instant runoff method shall be used in all general election contests for the following offices: governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state, auditor of accounts, attorney general, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, president, and vice president.
(b) For purposes of subsection (a) of this section, the secretary of state may, by rule:
(1) provide for the use of mechanical, electronic, or other devices for marking, sorting, and counting the ballots and tabulating the results;
(2) modify the form of the ballots and the directions to voters; and
(3) prescribe the details with respect to the method of marking, sorting, counting, invalidating, and the tabulating of votes, provided that no change shall be made which will alter the intent or principles embodied in this chapter.
(c) Ballots approved under this section shall be simple and easy to understand, and shall allow a voter to rank candidates for an office in order of choice. If practical, ballots shall be designed such that voters may mark their first choices in the same manner as that for offices not elected by the instant runoff method. If the secretary determines that the number of candidates for a particular office exceeds the practical space requirements for ranking all candidates on the ballot, the secretary may limit the number of rankings the voter may make. However, if there are three or more candidates for an office, the secretary must provide for ranking at least three choices.
(d) Instructions on the ballot shall include the following statement: "In addition to your first‑choice candidate, you may rank alternate choice candidates if you wish. Marking a second or other choice cannot help defeat your first choice." Sample ballots to illustrate voting procedures, using fictitious names, shall be posted in or near the voting booth and included in the instruction materials for absentee ballots. Prior to each general election, the secretary of state shall conduct a voter education campaign to educate voters on the use and purpose of the instant runoff voting method. The secretary shall use public service announcements, as well as seek other media cooperation to the maximum extent practicable.
(e) Each ballot bears no more than a single vote for each statewide office, which counts as a vote for the candidate for whom the ballot is credited at the end of an instant runoff tabulation.
Sec. 4. 17 V.S.A. § 2493(c) is added to read:
(c) In the case of elections conducted by the instant runoff method, the secretary of state shall adopt rules to ensure that the arrangement of names, offices, and choice on each type of machine conforms as nearly as practical to the ballot design adopted by the secretary under section 2473a of this title.
Sec. 5. 17 V.S.A. § 2587(b) is amended to read:
(b) If the voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, except as provided in section 2473a of this title, or marks contradictory sides on any public question, his or her ballot shall not be counted for that office or public question.
Sec. 6. 17 V.S.A. § 2592 is amended to read:
§ 2592. canvassing committees; canvass of votes in general or special elections
* * *
In the case of candidates other than candidates for the offices of governor,
lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state, auditory of accounts,
attorney general, U.S. senator, U.S. representative, president, and vice
president, the canvassing committee shall declare the person receiving the largest
number of votes for each office to be elected, and it shall issue a certificate
of election, signed by a majority of the canvassing committee, in substantially
the following form:
State of Vermont )
) s.s.
................ County )
At ...................., on the ............ day of .................... 20 .........., a canvassing committee appointed by law completed a canvass of the returns cast at a general election held on the ................ day of ...................., 20 ........ for the office of ..................... The committee hereby certifies that .................... of .................... was duly elected to the office by the voters present and voting.
(2) The committee shall send or deliver the certificate to the candidate elected. In the case of representatives to the general assembly, the committee shall also send or deliver a copy of each certificate to the secretary of state.
* * *
In the case of the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer,
secretary of state, attorney general, and auditor of accounts, the canvassing
committee shall prepare a certificate of election but shall not sign it. The
prepared certificate shall be presented to the official canvassing committee
appointed by the general assembly, pursuant to Chapter II,
section §
47 of the Vermont Constitution of the State of Vermont, for their
its use if they desire it desires.
Sec. 7. 17 V.S.A. § 2593 is added to read:
(a) The provisions of section 2587 of this title shall apply to elections conducted by the instant runoff method unless inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
(b) The following procedures shall be used to determine the winners in elections conducted by the instant runoff method:
(1) Ballots shall be counted initially by the election officials according to the first choice marked on each ballot. If one candidate receives a majority of the votes cast, the canvassing committee for state and national offices shall issue a certificate of election in the manner provided in section 2592 of this title. With respect to the presidential election, the certificates of election shall be issued as provided in sections 2592 and 2731 of this title.
(2) If, at the end of the initial count, no candidate receives a majority of first choices, the canvassing committee established in section 2592 of this title shall forthwith petition the Washington County superior court to determine the candidate who received the major part of the votes by conducting instant runoff recounts in the manner provided in this section. The petition shall be supported by a statement that no candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters. Upon receipt of the petition, the court shall appoint an instant runoff count committee in the manner provided for appointment of a recount committee under subsection 2602(a) of this title, and follow substantially the same procedures provided for recounts under subchapter 9 of chapter 51 of this title.
(3) The instant runoff count committee shall sort and count votes for candidates. If, in the first round, no candidate received a majority of first choices, all candidates shall be eliminated except the two candidates with the greatest number of first choices. Ballots which rank eliminated candidates and which indicate one of the final candidates as an alternate choice shall be counted as votes for whichever of the final candidates is ranked higher for that office on each ballot. In each round, each ballot is counted as one vote for the highest ranked advancing candidate on that ballot.
(4) In the case of the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, secretary of state, attorney general, and auditor of accounts, the court shall prepare a certificate of election but shall not sign it and forward it to the secretary of state and the official canvassing committee appointed by the general assembly, pursuant to Chapter II, § 47 of the Vermont constitution, for its use in declaring the candidate who received the major part of the votes elected. With respect to any other office, the court shall prepare and sign the certificate, and deliver a certified copy to the secretary of state.
(5) If, at the conclusion of the instant runoff tabulation, neither of the last two remaining candidates for the office of governor, lieutenant governor, or treasurer receives a majority of the votes cast, excluding blank and spoiled votes, the court shall prepare a report of no election. The report and the tabulations performed by the committee shall be forwarded to the official canvassing committee appointed by the general assembly, pursuant to Chapter II, § 47 of the Vermont constitution, and to the full general assembly for its use in the election of the governor, lieutenant governor, or treasurer if it desires. The general assembly shall proceed to elect one of the three candidates for whom the greatest number of votes has been returned.
(6) If, at the conclusion of the instant runoff tabulation, neither of the last two remaining candidates in an election for the office of secretary of state, auditor of accounts, attorney general, U.S. senator, or U.S. representative received a majority, the report and the tabulations performed by the instant runoff count committee shall be forwarded to the Washington superior court which shall issue a certificate of election to whichever of the two remaining candidates received the greatest number of votes at the conclusion of the instant runoff tabulation, and send a certified copy of the tabulation and results to the secretary of state.
(c) The following general provisions shall apply whenever the instant runoff method is used:
(1) If after the first choice candidate is eliminated, a ballot does not indicate one of the advancing candidates as an alternate choice, the ballot is exhausted.
(2) The fact that a voter gives more than one ranking to the same candidate shall not invalidate the vote. The highest ranking given a particular candidate shall count as long as the candidate is not eliminated.
(3) If there is a tie between candidates so that two or more candidates have an equal number of first choices and more than two candidates would advance to the final round, the instant runoff method shall be used by eliminating all candidates receiving fewer first choices than the tied candidates, to determine which two candidates shall advance as the two candidates in the final round of counting.
Sec. 8. 17 V.S.A. § 2731 is amended to read:
the canvassing board provided for in section 2592 of this title meets, it shall
issue its certificates of election, with respect to the presidential election,
to the electors nominated by the party whose candidate
for president has
received the greatest number of votes received a majority of the votes
cast. If the board's examination of first choices does not reveal the majority
winner, the certificate shall instead be issued in accordance with the
provisions of section 2593 of this title.
Sec. 9. 17 V.S.A. § 2732 is amended to read:
The electors shall meet
at the state house on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December
next following their election, to vote for president and
vice-president vice
president of the United States, agreeably to the laws of the United States. If there is a vacancy in the electoral college on that day, occasioned by
death, refusal to act, neglect to attend, failure of a person elected to
qualify, or for other cause, the other electors present shall at once fill such
vacancy viva voce and by a plurality of votes. When all the electors appear or
a vacancy therein is filled, the electors shall perform the duties required of
them by the constitution and laws of the United States. If a vacancy occurs
and is filled as aforesaid, the electors shall attach to the certificate of
their votes a statement showing how such a vacancy occurred and their action
thereon. The electors must vote for the candidates for president and vice-president
who received the greatest number of votes at the general election vice
president who were declared the winners in accordance with the provisions of
section 2593 or 2731 of this title.
Sec. 10. 17 V.S.A. § 2473 is amended to read:
When the president and
vice-president vice president are to be
elected, the ballot shall contain the names of all candidates for these
offices, arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the
presidential candidate of each party. The names of the electors shall not be
printed on the ballot. A vote for the presidential and vice-presidential
vice presidential nominees of a party shall constitute a vote for the
electors nominated by that party.
The name and state of residence of the presidential and
vice presidential candidate of each party shall be listed on separate
lines joined together by a bracket, followed by the party designations and a
single square for that pair of candidates. In lieu of the instructions:
"Vote for not more than (the number of candidates to be elected)", the
following instructions shall appear: "Mark ONE square only."
If a candidate for president whose name is not printed on the ballot
the greatest number of votes for president is declared the winner as
provided in section 2593 of this title, the secretary of state shall notify
him that candidate of that fact, and within two weeks thereafter,
the candidate shall file with the secretary of state , a list of freemen
voters equal to the number of electors which the state is entitled to
elect. The list shall be signed by the candidate personally. The persons so
named shall be electors, having the duties prescribed in this title.
Sec. 11. 17 V.S.A. § 2594 is added to read:
The canvassing committee of the general assembly appointed in accordance with Chapter II, § 47 of the Constitution of the State of Vermont shall retain the right to directly sort and count the votes for governor, lieutenant governor, and treasurer using the instant runoff method set forth in section 2593 of this title. The municipal clerks, county clerks, secretary of state, and state police shall provide such assistance and cooperation as may be required if the canvassing committee of the general assembly decides to conduct a direct sorting and counting of the votes as provided in Chapter II, § 47 of the Vermont constitution.
Sec. 12. FINDINGS; INTENT; SEVERABILITY
(a) The general assembly finds that the system of instant runoff voting contained in this act complies with the provisions of § 47 of Chapter II of the Constitution of the State of Vermont.
(b) In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction should find that the instant runoff method of tabulating votes does not comply with the requirements of determining if a candidate has received the major part of the votes as set forth in Chapter II, § 47 of the Vermont constitution, in an election for governor, lieutenant governor, or treasurer, the general assembly intends that the instant runoff voting method, as described in this act, be employed, but that the instant runoff tabulation results, in an election for governor, lieutenant governor, or treasurer, shall be available to the general assembly for its use if it desires in carrying out its task of electing a governor, lieutenant governor, or treasurer from among the three candidates receiving the greatest number of votes.
Sec. 13. EFFECTIVE DATE
This act shall take effect on January 1, 2008 and shall apply to the 2008 general election and subsequent general elections.
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Melanie Hall murder police receive 'significant information'
Police investigating the murder of a woman whose remains were found near the M5 have found a car which they say may be a "significant line of inquiry".
Melanie Hall, 25, from Wiltshire, was working at the Royal United Hospital in Bath when she went missing in 1996.
Four years after her body was found, police said the white Volkswagen Golf they have traced "may be relevant".
Officers also said they have received "significant information" about a blue rope used to tie up her body.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police said "recent intelligence" they received was "significant and very interesting".
'Blue rope'
Det Supt Mike Courtiour said: "Over the past four years we have received information, intelligence and names that we have taken seriously, researched and thoroughly investigated.
"We have recently received information concerning the origin of the blue rope that was used to tie up Melanie's body.
"It is significant information and we are actively working on that line of inquiry.
"We are working with forensic scientists in relation to the rope and the circumstances of where that particular length of rope came from.
"Also, we have recently found and recovered a car that may be relevant to events in 1996 when Melanie disappeared.
"It is a white A-registered Volkswagen Golf GTI cabriolet which is currently being examined by forensic scientists.
"At this stage we do not know if it is connected with the case, but it is a very interesting and possibly significant line of inquiry."
'Positive news'
Ms Hall's father Steve Hall said: "This is very positive news. Gradually the pieces of the jigsaw are being put together to bring Melanie's killer or killers to justice.
"We always knew it would take a long time, but these new developments appear very encouraging.
"It's time for whoever has information about Melanie's murder to come forward and bring this to an end, because it will come to an end eventually.
"The police won't give up until they get a result."
Ms Hall vanished after a night out at Cadillac's nightclub in Bath in June 1996.
A bag containing her bones and skull was found in a black bin liner by a workman clearing vegetation next to a slip-road at junction 14, near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, on 5 October, 2009.
An Avon and Somerset Police police spokesman said six detectives were currently working on the case.


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Admissions under NRI category are done with strict rules and regulations, to get under the NRI category one needs to follow strict rules and regulations and do the necessary paper work, once the initial process is complete, you will be granted admission and one need to pay the fees in respective currency.
Putting forward all your documents required for the processing your application forms. Every colleges has different set of norms so looking completely into the process so that you don't miss out on any opportunity because once a form is rejected you cannot apply again- based upon your preferences.
Once we have shared all the details of the documents with you, thereafter we proceed forward by applying to the desired shortlisted colleges you are looking into. Checking all the documents and then applying the same with all the universities.
Once you have shared all the documents with us we move forward and look into the papers whether all papers are fine or smoothing else needs to be done, as it's the most important part before one fill the application form and counselling. Documentation is most important, if not done properly could lead to cancelation of application form and a missed opportunity
After the completion of all legal formalities, we move ahead with processing of application form and counselling in colleges. Here one needs to physically go to colleges and submit the application form.
The overall information service will be provided to you via E-mail & Phone Call. You will be allocated a dedicated executive along with his/her personal contact number who will be assisting you throughout the admission process from beginning till the end via Phone call. (You can contact the executive anytime between 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. But in case of important notification such as "Spot round information" or any "last minute reminder" the executive can contact you anytime to deliver the information). Also, to meet the assigned executive in person one needs to take prior appointment.
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Refueled pal Jay Carroll has been working on a new project for Levi's titled MADE HERE. The series focuses on crafts people who create beautiful objects with passion, quality, and artisanship. While they all share a love of craftsmanship and a connection to their community, these artisans are as diverse as they are talented.
As part of MADE HERE you will find everything from handmade beaded leather moccasins made in Cave Junction, Oregon, by Carol Lindhorse, who has been perfecting her craft since she made her first pair of moccasins when she was 5, to intricately netted beach stone necklaces made in Stonington, Maine, by Tim Whitten, a trained engineer who turned his love of traditional maritime knot work into art.
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Today is a little turning point for the LOL pages. They are now "Aha's!!!". Laughing Out Loud is not really what happens when one reads the little jokes I put up here. Aha describes the emotion better. Here we go...
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2012: What's the 'real' truth?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:44AM
By Dr. Kevin Barrett
In short, it is clear that since 1963, Israel and its global criminal syndicate has been the single most powerful force determining who will serve as President of the United States of America. But in 2012, Israeli hubris – call it chutzpah if you will – went too far. Netanyahu did everything he could to ensure that Obama would be defeated by Mitt Romney. And he failed."
American political discourse is chilled, if not frozen, by fear of the Israel lobby. Anyone who criticizes the apartheid Zionist entity will be attacked as an anti-Semite. Many Americans have lost their jobs, others have been harassed by the IRS, and some have even had their lives threatened for speaking out against Israel.
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This week the London School of Economics Gender Institute in collaboration with Imkaan and the South Asia Solidarity Group organised an open meeting in solidarity with India's anti-rape protests and to confront gender violence in Britain.
The highlight of the meeting, attended by women's organisations, academics, activists and interested individuals, was the input from Kavita Krishnan of the All India Progressive Women's Association. Kavita joined the meeting from India via Skype and spoke eloquently about the situation in India and how the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old woman on a bus in Delhi has led to protests on an unprecedented scale, and prompted a rare opportunity for debate and discussion about violence against women and girls (VAWG) in India, and all over the world.
Much of the meeting focused on how we challenge a culture of acceptance towards VAWG, both in India and the UK. Kavita…
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2012: What's the 'real' truth?
Source: Veterans Today
By Gilad Atzmon
Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon,wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Israel should "Flatten all of Gaza."
"There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they'd really call for a ceasefire," he wrote. "We need to flatten entire neighbourhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too."
Many Israelis and even some Zionists are 'outraged' but the truth must be told – Sharon's views are fully consistent with Zionism, Israeli thinking and some aspect of Jewish culture.
For example, Sharon's call is fully consistent with some devastating Old Testament's passages:
'You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to…
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November 21, 2012 – AFRICA – As most of the world has been focusing on ongoing conflict in Gaza, a geopolitical crisis of another sort is unfolding in central Africa where the rebel seizure of the substantial Congolese city of Goma could have grave consequences for the troubled region. "It's just the beginning. We don't know what will happen next and it has the potential to destabilize the Eastern Congo and the potential to destabilize the Congolese government depending on what the rebels decide to do next," Severine Autesserre, an assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, told CBC News. The M23 rebels — soldiers who defected from the Congolese army — took control of the provincial capital of Goma and its international airport Tuesday, having met little resistance from government troops or the UN peacekeeping force stationed in the area. Thousands of residents from this part of the…
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November 22, 2012 – CHILE – A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook central Chile on Wednesday, causing office buildings in the capital to sway for almost a minute but authorities said no damage was reported and ruled out the possibility of tsunami along its coast. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was 37 miles (59 kilometers) southwest of the port city of San Antonio, Chile. It struck at 6:36 p.m. local time. The USGS had reported the quake as magnitude 6.1 but revised the strength down to 5.9. Buildings swayed in Santiago and some people fled to the streets in fear. Chile's emergency services office said no damages to infrastructure were immediately reported. The USGS reported two other temblors with magnitudes of 5.1 and 5.2 on Wednesday near San Antonio. Chile is highly earthquake-prone and residents have bad memories of other quakes that have caused widespread destruction…
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November 21, 2012 – NEW ZEALAND – A teacher who was on Mt Tongariro with a group of 90 students has captured the ''absolutely spectacular'' eruption of the volcano on video. GNS Science confirmed the eruption, at the Te Maari crater, happened shortly after 1.20pm. It is the second eruption on the mountain this year; an eruption on August 6 was the first on Tongariro for more than 100 years. Tamatea Intermediate teacher Lomi Schaumkel said they were near the Katetahi hot springs when eruption began. "We were right up there next to it. It was just amazing. It was pretty scary from where we were and it just looked absolutely spectacular, the ash that came out. It really did look like one of those atom bomb explosions, and it made a rumbling sound.'' There were 90 students, six parents and four teachers in the group. ''Some panicked, some didn't…
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I guess we can see why the Left was out to get Coach Ditka…
The former Bears coach has expressed appreciation for my mom:
"She's a great lady, mother and wife, and that's more important than the (expletive) the media spreads about her," he said back in 2011.
Then, recently, Mom defended Mike Ditka from the "politically correct police" in a great Facebook post when he was skewered over comments he made about the Redskins.
It didn't slow him down.
In fact, he just endorsed Illinois Republican Bruce Rauner in this funny video:
Come on, residents of Illinois. You can't cross Ditka!
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Some good news that came out a few weeks ago for anyone who loves great movies, was the announcement that Criterion will be releasing director Otto Preminger's 1960 classic courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Murder with James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara, on blu-ray DVD on Feb. 21.
Not only is the film one of Preminger's best and one of the best (if not the best) legal thrillers ever, it also features one of the great music scores written by Duke Ellington which was, unless I'm mistaken, the first music score for a major Hollywood studio film written by a black composer. And since the sound quality on blu-ray DVDs is far and away superior than on a regular DVDs, viewers will finally have the chance to hear Ellington's score in its full glory.
Ironically Ellington was not nominated for an Oscar for his score, which is an unforgivable shame. However, he was nominated the very next year in 1961 for his work on the Sidney Poitier/Paul Newman film Paris Blues (which one assumes was to make up for not getting a nomination for Murder).
The picture above, taken during production of the film, shows the Vienna born director (or dictator according to many nortorious stories about him on the set) with Ellington, who has a cameo in the film. The guy with the glasses in the middle is Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's master arranger, creative muse and right-hand man – the man who made Elllington Ellington.
Here's the opening credits sequence for the film:
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The instrument is as tastefully tailored as Waters' own simple-yet-sophisticated bass work, with distinctive features including black-on-black color scheme (black body and single-ply pickguard), Seymour Duncan® Basslines SPB-3 Quarter-Pound split-coil Precision Bass pickup, knurled black control knobs (master volume, master tone), brass nut, black bridge and strap buttons, vintage '70s-style "Fender"-stamped open-gear chrome tuners and gasketed "F"-stamped neck plate. Other features are a maple neck with vintage-style truss rod and slotted truss rod nut, 9.5"-radius maple fingerboard with 20 medium jumbo frets, gloss urethane finish (body and neck) and deluxe gig bag.
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Nick Owen named VP of sales for AKG, Studer, Soundcraft
Harman Pro North America (HPNA) has appointed Nick Owen to the new position of VP of sales, with responsibility for sales of AKG Acoustics, Soundcraft and Studer in North America. In accepting the position, Owen noted that the new products in the portfolios of all three European brands have positioned them for growth across all major pro audio markets.
Owen joined the Harman Group in 2002 as director of sales Europe, Africa and the Middle East for Crown International and was formerly the founder of Soundscape Digital Technology. Owen's new post will be based out of the Harman Pro North America offices in Northridge, CA.
For more information, visit www.akg-acoustics.com, www.soundcraft.com and www.studer.ch.


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BOOK BLURB: The last thing Renay Skovgaard expected was to find herself a victim of a catfisher. No stranger to online dating, Renay didn't see it coming until it was too late, and she'd already lost her heart. Months after the catfisher had faded away, and time had healed the wound, Renay was finally able to grasp the truth behind the encounter. She was in love with the woman in the image she carried around in her back pocket, not the person behind the screen. Her hazel eyes were the same pair she'd seen since childhood, and she was ready to find the woman she knew only as, Susan Walters.
The last thing Olga Weber expected her first night at Oktoberfest was to come-to-face with the woman she couldn't live without. Her kindness, humor, and easy going way of making her feel safe drew her to the woman like a moth to a flame. Olga knew the game she played was dangerous, because a woman like Renay could destroy the make-believe life she's worked for years to build. After one chance meeting she could feel the walls of her closet crumbling around her, and she knew her life was about to change…forever.
Olga and Renay find themselves falling in love; one woman comfortable with her sexuality, the other uncomfortable in her own skin. A bottle of wine and a sweet, languid kiss told Olga the time had come to decide if Renay was worth fighting for, and if true love could conquer all.
"Finding Susan by Katie Mettner is a pleasant read. Insightful, sentimental, yet tangible, it's a fun romantic lesbian fiction tale of a woman's quest to find her one true love despite risks of online dating and severing connections made with community and family. Obstacles are overcome and love prevails!" –Jodi D.
"Wow! I told Katie Mettner I had a little story for her about something that happened to me, and am so blown away how she very creatively wove it all together in such a moving way. What a great job with twists life throws at a person. Catfishing, Coming Out and the Importance of Authenticity and Standing Up for What You Believe in! There's really a lot covered here, and of course Love finding its way to heal things and light the way! Katie Mettner once again hits it out of the ballpark in that special way that she can weave a totally captivating easy to read story with so much conviction and life lessons we all need to learn or remember. Bravo for taking on these important subjects. I think this book could help so many people on so many different levels. It had me bawling at the end, yet reeling with hope for humanity!" –LR Shaw
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Chloe Moretz Covers 'UK InStyle' August 2013
Chloe Moretz looks chic and stylish on the cover of UK InStyle magazine's August 2013 issue, on newsstands now!
Here's what the 16-year-old Kick-Ass 2 star had to share with the mag:
On the prospect of falling in love one day: "You think, 'Who's out to deceive me?' That's hard. Especially growing up and liking guys and, maybe, 'Do you want to be in a relationship? Is this person trying to be in my life because I'm famous?' You can't just like someone. They might be using you. I talk to Julianne [Moore, her co-star in Carrie] about it and she says, 'Look, just be careful. Trust your judgement but don't get in too deep sometimes.' Because, you know, when you're young, you fall in love and don't know it's happening."
On having high-powered meetings in Hollywood: "What have I got to be intimidated about? I talk to Donna [Langley, co-chair of Universal Pictures] or someone like that, and they're like, 'We'd love to do stuff with you. I'll tell you our slate, tell us what you're interested in.'…Sometimes they'll just be, 'It's so weird, you are 16 years old. You don't talk like my kid does.' And I'm like, 'Trust me, when I'm with friends I might.'"
On her mom and dad's break up, and mom's cancer diagnosis: "It made me realise, along with everything that happened with my dad, that your parents aren't these godly figures. They're not chosen by the heavens. They're humans. Their bodies can fail and they can die at any moment. They make mistakes. They cry. They fight. It definitely, from a young age, put everything into perspective for me."
For more from Chloe, visit InStyle.co.uk. Pick up the issue, on sale now!


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I started from http://www.shakuf.org.il . No, I actually started from the latest meeting of the pyweb-il group http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il, where someone mentioned shakuf. Interested, I proceeded to the 7th eye, read Anat Balint's very disturbing essay, and by googling her name found out about another very interesting place and mailing list called the iDC, http://www.collectivate.net/idc/, Institude for Distributed Creativity.
The alpha site of shakuf: http://neu.shakoof.org.il/
One nugget from the iDC mailing list: http://p2pfoundation.net/Sustainability_Building_Block_Package


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I don't know if I ever told you, but the reason that I went back to school is that I got a message in my heart. The message was a response, from a force that answered to "God". It was summer 2008, and every day I was doing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, the Middle Pillar exercise, meditating, plus those 5 Tibetan Rites I posted about. These are energizing practices, practiced and designed to bring one's concentration to a quiet focus. I had the confidence to catalyze growing into my inner life, because I wanted more success in seeking my fortune in this world that felt like cruel and unforgiving. I could see, dimly, that those were both qualities within myself that I expereinced as coming from my environment. But more than from my mind, I also could see that the world can be a tricky place and that I needed some subtle power to penetrate and unlock the precise reality for which I feel seeded to blossom with. So using these techniques, passed on from sibs of the blossoming tree/rosy cross, I hacked out a free space for standing and channeling light.
It was spiritual calisthenics. Every day. Going to a forest clearing at the pinnacle of Enright ridgeline, to bellow the sacerdotal words of some barbarous semitic language. It was psychological isometrics in the basement of my girlfriend's apartment during the coldest months of winter. Bringing illumination into arenas of my being that I would no longer tolerate being isolated. I would stand in the snow by a frozen creek and guide LVX to stream up through my feet, all the way out the top of my skull. These exercises provided an opening for novel decisiveness to my yinned-out, self-critical personality.
excerpt from my journal, Thursday April 17th (2008)
"...God spoke to me today. I came through to him at the end of the Middle Pillar. My question: What to do with my life? Horticulturalist and shaman. Do the Work of Creation- express the Divine ideal by bringing forth permaculture lifeforms. This with the alchemical quintessence so well expressed that just being in the garden will resonate with our desire to pierce the veil. Awestruck by the Fathomless Beauty that'll be expressed at the scene, people will be be freer to transform themselves and manifest thier best in brightest in the vocation that speaks to them..."
It felt right to proceed farther, sometime around my birthday (5/13), with an experiment. I would address the source of my shift, which may have simply been the soothing seepage from my light-sensing pineal gland, as if it were a discrete, though completely interdependent, being of omnisentient benevolence. The question: WHAT I should be doing with my life to characterize its next phasze?! Cuz I had no fucking idea how to more fully manifest the Mars Silvanus, Greenman energy in my sphere of sensation. On the field of endeavor, I was feeling impatient and exhausted at what felt like a mighty effort and what looked like lolly-gagging on my destiny. I agreed that I would sincerely and fully explore whatever God told me directly was best for me to do, and that if the question needed further qualification, unforseen nuances and details could sort themselves out.
This is the stage that was known as Neophyte in the Golden Dawn. Probationary, testing you out to see what you're made of and whether you wanted to go on with more rigorous training. That's what being a Neophyte is about.
Eventually I was ready for the big mojo. In an epic session out by the overlook, beyond my momma's Eco-Village, did I span the inner space. Pentagrams on the pinnacle. "God, I've reprogrammed myself to believe that you, as a diffused benevolence that created the Universe and continues to act as the Prime Mover, truly enough exist to give me an answer. The ground of my being is enflamed with prayer, and the question is sincere. So even if it were only that part of my psyche which has the characteristics that I ascribe to you, I would still listen to you, because you have access to knowledge that normally now I can only dream of. So please tell me, what am I to do with my life at this stage so that I may fulfill my mission on Earth and enjoy myself to the fullest? I'm ready to execute whatever plan it is, and I'm ready to adhere to your version of it."
The answer was immediate, and very simple. "Go back to college."
Whatever, I should have known that was coming. On some level I did, and it was unavoidable. I needed credibility, training, social skills wisdom experience. Connections and knowledge.
College. Getting there was Neophyte. That fall, I stood on Bong Hill, overlooking Athens and wondered what further progress was going to look like. Would I became a minor adept by the time I graduated? What would that feel like? What would that look like, and what would I be doing from an exhaulted station where the energy of the Sun could heat me and ray out of my heart to illuminate the world? I felt that it would happen. Then I plunged into a dark night of the soul, as I came to terms with the fact that I could not contain a successful student life in the container of poetic madness.
Fast forward through my life chapters that were shaped mainly by academics, qigong and N*. We may peer into my recent journal to read why now, I am calling myself Zelator, the task of whom is to zealously gain control of the foundations of one's being.
This is a journal entry that has been groomed for public consumption:
I experienced a kundalini awakening last night, at J!'s place. He is a recipe master of the sweat lodge.
There were 4 gates, corresponding with the four directions. We stripped off our outer garments and prayed by a blazing fire. Following that, we then went inside the towel-covered frame of woven boughs. We sat in a circle, our butts resting on boards over a sand floor. Sunken into the middle of the place was a brick invagination, where J! would lay down red glowing stones, saying "Welcome, all my relations" in Lakota/Sioux.
"Find your prayer", and "let the steam and the stones help you carry it up". These were my instructions… Opening to the possibility of transformation, I asked spirit to guide me and I vowed to follow its lead. The need to heal my Martian spirit, the body god of the heart, occurred to me. I saw that I had allowed my wholistic sense of self to be warped as I sacrificed balance to continue Beyond Coal battling through the Spring quarter, especially. I asked that my inner warrior be equilibritated with my ideally balanced and masculine self, so that I may laugh and feel the simple joy of living without feeling a constant desire to vault through life, driven always and solely by the battle daemon of Mars and instead welcoming in the equilibrating influence of, who would it be, Khamael according to the Big Tree Chart. I could feel this happening, as I experienced the thought in its fullness. Later, when the steam was burning my face and sweat poured from my chin, I began offering a verbalized prayer. J! opened the door to the lodge as I began, and I paused. A! sat to my left, and urged me to finish. Thank you, A!. It was my truth in the moment, and was an admirable declaration. When we emerged from the womb, there was lightening flashing in the sky and it continued for the rest of our time. Mars had heard me and showed his response with the flashing bolts of Thor. We talked about stars outside for a bit, me mentioning Astraea to the Scorpio and Libra audience. A! informed us about a cluster of guardians who live out by Titan, saying that a "mothership" is out that way also which can be seen with the naked eye.
I decided to do a ritual whereby I would fill myself with the pure planetary energies to experience them, and then wash myself clean with Lux. I had already gotten this experience with Mars, who is very close to home and responded with a happy, care-free side of me that I had not thought before as being the same part of me that can deal with conflict…. pause to read and rest…
God I have a killer stomach ache! I feel like a different person than whose consciousness was merged with such larger patterns last night. However, I know that the pain is something I need to work through... By recording this story, faithfully detailing the evidence of this truth that is no longer in the forefront of my thinking, it can find a home by integrating it into my habitual self. That will make the surface of this pond as good as clarified, because I know what lurks beneath and what is reflected from above (the daemonic and the angelic). The mead of inspiration hath ceased flowing, but fills my cup.
I'm indebted to Alan Chapman (page 25 Advanced Magick for Beginners) for elucidating this for me. I'm used to thinking of doing what has to be done in the ephemerally appropriate now as a chore, but the small haze of pain won't keep me from harmonizing with the Dao. Doing so is easy and more richly gratifying than I previously realized.
Lodge. Returning, I filled myself with Venus, which I pictured as emerald plumes of color descending throughout my pa hui/jew cap area of the dome, and expanding into my whole body. Self-induced experience, the energy I was picturing introducing seemed to respond (remember to keep an objective tone, it will help you maintain an objective outlook) to my invitation as I felt: 1) a sentimental love, 2) generalized erotic loving for my self and 3)other, as if I and all were one unit of pleasing flesh. Truly a yummy feeling! I remember feeling this before, looking at myself in the mirror after a shower last week or the week before, and exclaiming that "Nobody's got curves like this!" in affection for the way my lower back transitions down. Then I purged the eroticism of Venus with white light followed. It took more work of will than flushing out Mars, and it seemed that I was aware of some other part of me that was there without filling with Venus energy, like part of the hardware of my physical makeup is governed by Venus and that I had stayed tuned into it after being completely awash. As I would write in my journal if I didn't have the focus to be scientific, "But the excess energy did dissolve, overpowered by the Ain Soph."
Next was a non-aroused Jupiter energy. It is happy, mild, not a boundary setter, but an affirmer. I felt myself bestowing a personal blessing on my experience as a whole; it was of the blue sphere based on the Kaballistic imprint. I did not feel uplifted by Jupiter, which surprised me at the time. I had expected to feel Jovial Green Dragon I've felt in my liver before, but did not. Silent mirth, happy in solitude, an inner chuckle is the kind of happiness if I had to personify the satisfaction. At this stage, J! began talking, and I had to interrupt my focus to pay attention to him, and when I focused again it was to do Mercury.
Mercury is the Magician archetype, by my reckoning: able to make connections before they are fully felt by communicating between disparate parts. I felt an orange energy down through my crown, the color I've seen in pictures of the planet's surface. The intellect. I felt more at peace with the Mercurial energy than I had during my first year at OU, because I am more fully developed and thinking is better complimented by emotional and social activity. Nonetheless, the 3 sisters project and the bioremediation I am thankful for, and I recall as I write this another experienced truth of appreciating this function earlier this year, which was a milestone I suppose- hopefully I wrote it down at the time and can transcribe it an put it on a timeline- spiraled on the wheel of the year?!!! See what I mean! While Jupiter's humor was slow and subtle, and Venus's was like a ink spreading blue dye from the chemistry lab spreading through a solute, Mercury I felt as the energy around my spinal column. THat seems to correspond with the central nervous system…
The steam got really intense after Mercury, and I realized that the Moon would be next, because there was just a full moon lunar eclipse on Saturday morning. It was so hot, my nostrils felt like they were burning, and so did my nipples.
I came outside and thought about the Moon- and suddenly it was connected to my sexuality! I did not continue the formula of inviting it in and then purging it, there was a truth happening in me of its own accord. In "The Mystical Kabbalah", Dion Fortune says something about how all the other energies are reposted in the Moon's, which brings it down to Malkuth, the Earth, the 4 directions that Amerindians use as a soul compass technology. I imagined different colored beams of light, the green, orange, blue and red that I had seen, entering into the Moon in a rainbow, that arced down into the sphere of my lower belly. Then yellow light appeared as the pre-eminent light, and the blue faded, and it was strengthened. The rainbow covenant was renewed, I realized: I do not need to hurt and strangle my body or emotions to grow and evolve them, and I vowed upon seeing the Rainbow that I was too beautiful to extinguish, ever.
I feel less certain of the chronology of the following events, but I will record them from memory as faithfully as possible, and perhaps return to offer elaborations and corrections later. Inside the tent for the third portal, the East, Rosco tells us that this is the place of beginnings, this is the direction which we evolutionarily are coming out of Dark Age in the heated South and getting more enlightened, so that space alien gods will return to conscious communication with our society and help us clean up the ecological messes we've made. I remember offering a homily to the Moon. I offered thanks to the Moon for her gifts of shaking and strengthening our imagination, so that we as earth poets could connect with the other energies too and figure out the work we need to do, and be the Gods who don't have to destroy everything to create anew! We remember, it is renewed, the Rainbow Covenant, I said. It was powerful, and I did not falter. A! offered a prayer to our DNA and ancestors and teachers before that; M! or Stephan-Eye offered something brief after. J! thanked us and said we should go into spontaneous singing. I began "Humble myself to the light of the Moon", but he overpowered me and the others with his voice, and asked us to "get low" as he dumped a ton of water on the rocks. I felt intensely angry, but then did not allow myself to retain the anger. This was a very important part of the process. I let anger pass through me, and out again like a barnacle goose's acorn sinking through an uncovered well, and being carried out to sea on an underground river. Bending my forehead to the ground, the cord from base chakra to top chakra that my pal Farinacci suggested becoming aware of, became an upwards flowing motion. I could feel it move through me from base to top as I bent over and it flowed from I don't know where, it felt like, into the Earth, like I was a hose which somebody had dunked in water and then sucked on for some siphoning action. I was totally bent over my crossed legs. I stumbled out, my conscious mind a total annihilated blank.
J! and his interruption, what a coyote, setting me up to realize my higher need of allowing anger to pass through and back out again instead of into my sword arm.
After that third portal, I just lay in the grass. I could barely move. I was nauseous, feeling like the heat had done me in. I did facial massage but without the heat. A! came over and I took a hit of some smoke, which seemed super appropriate. I administered a resuscitating nose bridge rub. My fingers that meandered over to the left brow ridge, below my off-center third eye. I felt it quiver, and I blasted off!
This was the weirdest and most intense of the experience.
There was all this exchange between above and below energies, via the heart, and SOOO much imagery. I remember being reborn as a lux shen baby and being rocked by the virgin mother; I remember burning to a cinder and rising as a phoenix from heart to throat. I thought, "I should read Chuang Tze to see about his thinking on this. I remember INRI, strangely enough, and YHVH, and I felt the fire of creation sweep from letter to letter left to right. There were three consecutive serpents that took three paths from root to crown, each with fierce different face and temperament. One was definitely an asp or some venomous looking green snake with maroon banding, another was grayish. The first two I could feel as blazing verically, the green one kind of meandered. It got overwhelming after a while. I realized on the comedown, as others came out and started adjusting from their forth portal, that I loved this Gnosis and that I was salty to have to ever move again, because I could not express what I felt to the others and that living into it would be difficult to achieve and even more difficult to understand. Perhaps with further study, these super-dense experiences can reveal further meaning. That's a definite possibility! Anywho, when it got overwhelming, I said "These evolutions are what have happened to the World as a Whole, and I would be deluding myself if I was to view these events as my exclusive domain. The visions were of monumental, transpersonal transformation and I will learn and grow from integrating them into what I am, but on a human scale. I can't get shredded by all this God energy."
I was rather discombobulated and couldn't communicate what happened to me to those around me, so much, but it was good. The next morning, this Monday morning, I cried after a belly rub, both for how intensely good it had been, and the great disconnect I felt between the mundane and the journey I had just come back from. I offered thanks, and remembered the Rainbow Covenant and the peaceable Martian were there supporting me.
On my way to 8 am Spanish class the morning after voyaging, I found my red bike, which had been stolen. Lavishing it with maintenance and riding it hard, I exercised the newly integrated pieces of my philosophy. I am feeling fucking amazed, enlivened and invigorated by it all."
That bike will never have a rusty chain again. I am taking care of it from then on out, and moving straight from a stilled point, amidst the powerful fluctuations of the Lunar Flame, is what constitutes gaining control of your being. Here's to
This is what my old teacher C Duke said upon hearing my newly adopted title
"You are *not* a Zelator - you are always and only ever were *Ipsissimus*...
Enlightened and *Self-Initiated*
*Everything else is just someone else's hierarchy.*"
Next I'll talk about the Solar achievement. After all this heavy duty focus on me, the next posts will be about girls and beer and la vida dulce.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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NCC Construction Denmark has been commissioned to build a new shopping center in Hellerup, Denmark. The order was placed by Carlsberg Ejendomme A/S and Braatens + Pedersen and is worth SEK 424 million (approx. €45m). The assignment will be registered among orders received during the fourth quarter of 2005.
The approximately 16,000 square meters shopping center, which will be called Waterfront, is being developed by Carlsberg Ejendomme A/S and Braatens + Pedersen and will be built by NCC Construction Denmark. The order also includes a two-story parking garage.
Waterfront will be built in the Tuborg Syd area of Hellerup and is scheduled to be opened in October 2007.
The assignment was secured as a result of the excellent cooperation between NCC and Carlsberg Ejendomme that arose when the two companies developed the Tuborg Harbor industrial area into a new residential and office block.
About 200 employees will be involved in the work on the shopping center.
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Jason Davis • July 18, 2012
I guest hosted this week's Cosmoquest Science Hangout for Emily Lakdawalla. My special guest was space industry analyst Jeff Foust, editor of The Space Review. Jeff is a prolific commercial space blogger; you can also find his work at NewSpace Journal and SpacePolitics.com.
Jeff and I had a great chat about commercial spaceflight, covering Virgin Galactic's new air-lauch system, the latest from NASA's commercial crew partners, and we even managed to touch on the Space Launch System.
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I guess Rob and I were both dragging our feet about starting Evan on Vigabatrin. It arrived 10 days ago and we finally gave Evan his first dose. The package sat unopened on the kitchen counter for days and yesterday we took the plunge. We wanted to wait until the craziness of the holiday died down a bit because when Evan gets excited it sometimes triggers seizures. So, now that things are closer to calm, I guess we're out of excuses.
Yesterday morning we gave him the Vigabatrin and he only had one small seizure that evening. This makes us hopeful, but it's too soon to say anything about it's effectiveness yet.
So, keep your fingers crossed!
December 28, 2006
We started Vigabatrin
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In its continued support of Breast Health International (BHI) for seven consecutive years, Tommy Hilfiger group reunites supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for the launch of a new limited edition handbag. Proceeds of the bag's sale will be donated to BHI international, a leading non-profit foundation that works to advance Breast Cancer research and treatment.
Premiering once a year, the iconic limited edition handbag takes on different forms and shapes and has been modeled by various celebrity ambassadors including singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, photographed by Drew Barrymore; Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger; France's former First Lady Carla Bruni; international supermodel-turned-acclaimed-photographer Helena Christensen; supermodel and actress Milla Jovovich; and Italian actresses Claudia Gerini and Cristiana Capotondi. Reuniting both Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, Tommy Hilfiger believes that these annual collaborations allows the brand to spread awareness in a powerful way, and effectively raising significant funds for the BHI organization. The global BHI initiative provides assistance to women with Breast Cancer and their families, by covering costs or addressing unique problems associated with their care that may not be covered by health insurance programs.
"Being able to play a part in this admirable campaign means a lot to me," said Naomi Campbell. "As my own mother has suffered from Breast Cancer, and I've seen first-hand the hardships and challenges the illness can cause. I'm a passionate supporter of breast health education, and I'm honored to be able to contribute to BHI's amazing work." Also commenting on her participation, Claudia Schiffer states, "I'm very pleased to partner with Tommy, Naomi and Patrick to raise awareness and support for such a wonderful organization; I hope with this campaign we can increase early awareness for early detection, and help support women and families in need."
In tune with the ongoing satchel-tote trend for 2013, the special edition midsize bag works as a satchel-tote crossover design, with a midnight blue core and cherry red side panels. Made of Italian pebbled leather, the bag embraces Tommy Hilfiger's classic, American, cool aesthetic. A white hangtag accent and white interior zipper toggles are nautically-inspired. Additional features include a large exterior side pocket with magnetic closure, interior central divider with zipper, mobile phone pocket and brass accents.
The Limited Edition Handbag is priced at KD 195, where KD 39 will go to BHI. The bag will be available at the Tommy Hilfiger Boutique at The Avenues this October.


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November 10-12, 2011
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Ohio-- The 2011 OHSAA State Volleyball Tournament will be held
this weekend at the Ervin J. Nutter Center at Wright State University in
Dayton. Semifinal matchups in Divisions III and II will be held Thursday
Nov. 10, while Division I and IV semifinals will take place Friday Nov.
11. Championship matches for all divisions will be played consecutively
Saturday Nov. 12, beginning with the Division III final at 11 a.m.,
followed by Division II, I and IV. Matches will not begin before 1 p.m.,
3 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively.
Division I semifinal bracket pits 15th-ranked, first time state
qualifier Findlay (22-5) against second-ranked Cincinnati Mount Notre
Dame (22-5). Mount Notre Dame has won five state titles (06, 00, 99, 98,
95) and brought home runner-up trophies in 1990 and 2007. The second
semifinal game has top-ranked defending state champion Toledo St. Ursula
Academy (27-0) against 13th-ranked Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit (20-7).
St. Ursula Academy is the only returning state champion from the 2010
tournament while Walsh Jesuit will be making its third state appearance
and first since 2006.
Division II semifinals include sixth-ranked Columbus Bishop Hartley
(22-5) taking on unranked, 18-9 Cleveland Heights Beaumont School.
Bishop Hartley is back in the state tournament after consecutive state
appearances in 2007, 2008 and 2009 whereas Cleveland Heights Beaumont
School will be making its first state appearance after beating
14th-ranked Mentor Lake Catholic
27-25, 25-20, 25-27, 25-18 in the regional finals. The second semifinal
game has
semifinalist and 12th-ranked Kettering Archbishop Alter (18-9) facing
off against second-ranked Mansfield Madison (26-2). Madison defeated
fifth-ranked Columbus St. Francis DeSales
25-22, 25-22, 18-25, 26-24 in the regional finals. The Knights of Alter
will be making their sixth state appearance and third in the last five
The first
semifinal match of Division III features 2010 state semifinalist and
fifth-ranked Gates Milles Gilmour Academy (25-2) against eighth-ranked
Columbus Bishop Ready (22-5). Gilmour Academy is making its fourth state
appearance whereas Bishop Ready is making its first. The matchup on the
other side of the bracket has fourth-ranked Frankfort Adena (24-3)
against the top ranked team in the state, Casstown Miami East (27-1).
Adena took home the runner-up trophy in 2009 whereas Miami East is
making its first appearance.
IV semifinal matchups will have 2010 semifinalist and 16th-ranked New
Philadelphia Tuscarawas Central Catholic (23-4) against sixth-ranked
Reedsville Eastern (27-0). Reedsville Eastern is one of two undefeated
team in this year's state tournament (Toledo St. Ursula Academy). The second semifinal match has
14th-ranked Sycamore Mohawk (25-2) against top-ranked St. Henry (26-1).
This will be St. Henry's 13th state appearance as they attempt to go for
the school's seventh state title (04, 95, 94, 90, 87, 85). Mohawk is
making its first appearance.
Kristin Daugherty, OHSAA Sports Information Intern,


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Green is the big thing now in the design world and the house plans business. I recently ran across these images of Icelandic houses that definitely take green to the next level of meaning. Check them out below.
|I love the repeating simple gable roof forms.
|Grass grows nicely in Iceland. Remember Iceland is green and Greenland is white.
|The details exhibit a strong Scandinavian design influence.


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Rating: 6/10
Label: Playground 2012
Review by Kimmo Toivonen
After a few years away from the scene, Finnish metal band Lullacry has returned with a new album under their collective belt. Just like on their previous albums, the band still plays melodic metal with female vocals, combining elements of 80'ies metal to a more modern soundscape. And just like their previous albums, I kinda like their music yet it's the kind of stuff that won't get too many spins after this review is done, save for a song or two.
The album is well produced by Mikko Herranen, who also sings a duet with the band's vocalist Tanja Lainio on the album. The balladic "Feel My Revenge" is one of the better tracks of the album. It might even bring some unexpected rewards for the band, as Herranen is currently successfully competing in the popular "Voice Of Finland" TV show. Other highlights of the album include "Still An Angel", "Thousand Suns" and "Where Angels Fear", all relatively catchy tracks with big hooks. Quite why the band chose "Bad Blood" as the first single and video I don't know, as it's one of the album's more average tracks. Some of Tanja's vocal lines are like fingernails on a chalkboard - I hardly doubt that it's the effect they were after.


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The AFL squared the Super Bowl at two games apiece with the NFL, building a 16-0 halftime lead behind Len Dawson's superb quarterbacking and a powerful defense.
Dawson, the fourth consecutive quarterback to be chosen the Super Bowl's top player, called an almost flawless game, completing 12 of 17 passes and hitting Otis Taylor on a 46-yard play for the final Chiefs touchdown.
The Kansas City defense limited Minnesota's strong rushing game to 67 yards and had three interceptions and two fumble recoveries.
The crowd of 80,562 set a Super Bowl record, as did the gross receipts of $3,817,872.69.


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The 1959 Cuban Revolution represented a great divide in Latin America. But the grave contradictions in its aftermath leave a dual heritage that must be comprehended and overcome if we are to work out a truly emancipatory future for Latin America.
Ché Guevara
Youth in Action, November-December 2014November 25, 2014
Newark high school protests; Egypt bans student movements; students and teachers defy Colorado school board brainwashing; Yemen youths' political graffiti; Philadelphia high school students strike to support teachers.
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ISIPE; Ché Café; Lindsey Stocker; Australian students protest fee increases.


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MUFC Design
Art Direction
A self-initiated project I began in 2013. My aim was to create more impactful and visual work to Manchester United fans using social media as my platform.
Daily designs includes matchday artwork, full-time, news, record graphics, creative artwork and illustration. Amit Patel
The fixture graphics will be display Manchester United fixtures for the month, which will be posted on the first day of the month across my two social media pages.
The head-to-head graphics will be showcased for key games this season, such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham, as well as important cup games such as semi-finals and finals of major competitions.
I will be showcasing three graphics for every Manchester United matchday for the 2017/2018 season. Graphics will include a creative versus match day, starting eleven and full-time graphic.
The full-time graphics work alongside my matchday graphics with the torn collage effect. It showcases full-time score, matchday photos, and a short headline from the game.
I have this project on two social media platforms, Tumblr and Instagram with a global fanbase of over 17 thousand across both networks. Having a strong social media presence has enabled me to gain a worldwide audience and fanbase of my work. Amit Patel
Press Conference
A weekly press conference graphic showcasing Jose Mourinho's key points.
My two news graphics will showcase Manchester United news from online media such as Sky Sports, Manchester Evening News, Daily Mail, The Independent and many more.
Club quotes from manager, staff and past and present players.
Mobile Wallpapers
Manchester United squad player mobile wallpapers available to download for free. Download here
With my work having a strong social media presence it has lead to media attention, this project was nominated at the Football Blog Awards as the best football design blog. It has also lead to commercial opportunities working with UK and US design studios. Amit Patel
Social Media
Manchester United players social media tweets and post's
Table & Cup Draw
Premier League and Champions League table graphics will be posted every other matchday. Manchester United cup draw graphic showcases who United draw when cup draw is announced.
Stats & Player Of The Month Award
Stats and the Manchester United's Player Of The Month award will be showcased in this graphic style.
Premier League Awards
An individual artwork series for the Premier League Player Of The Month and Goal Of The Month award, any Manchester United player that wins the official Premier League awards will be showcased in this graphic style.
This was a self-initiated project that started out as a fun creative project in 2013. By having a strong social media presence of my work I have been able to gain a global following of my work which has resulted in freelance and commercial opportunities in the sport design industry. Amit Patel
Matchday Illustration
A matchday jersey illustration series that I have done for a selected number of Manchester United games.
Creative Artwork
A creative artwork series where I will be showcasing more of my creative side on my page. Creative artworks will include digital artwork, digital collage and illustration.
MUFC Design
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To view more of my MUFC Design work please visit my Tumblr page.


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Does your firefox take 10-30seconds to startup, even on an SSD? If you disconnect the internet, does it startup in a couple of seconds?
I've been trying to resolve this issue for a while and came across the answer. I thought I'd share with you guys, in the event that some of you are also having this issue.
The problem is resolved if you edit your /etc/host file and add:
127.0.0.2 %your hostname%
If you don't know what your host name is, you can get it by putting the following command in the prompt:
Here's an example:
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.2 unidentifiedFLYINGcarrots
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost