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In today's primaries, the Democratic Party must begin to decide if it wants to be ruled by grown-ups or by self-absorbed Lefties so out-of-touch with mainstream America that you wonder if they ever talk to someone standing next to them at the check-out counter or the gas station. A blistering, front page Politico.com article announces "Left to Obama: We're Not Happy!" I hope the President issues a reply: "Obama to Left: You're Ridiculous!"
Many people placed many hopes on candidate Obama during the 2008 election. Moderate centrists saw him as the champion of a new style of post-partisan politics and Obama fed that narrative. It has not come to pass although I think the historical verdict is out on whether the lack of bipartisanship in Washington the past year has more to do with Obama or with the GOP members of Congress. The Left saw Obama as a true-believing champion, as opposed to the more established and moderate Clintons, and rallied to his flag, although that caricatures of the Clintons as only power-hungry and of Obama as ideologically pure were both untrue. Now, alas, it is Obama who must pay the price of that unfairness which propelled him to the nomination.
Today, in Arkansas, two capable Democrats are battling for the nomination to run for the Senate. The incumbent, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, is a true moderate, but she waffled on health care and opposed making it easier for unions to organize through a card check system. This earned her the enmity of the Left, who found Lt. Gov. Bill Halter to challenge her for the Democratic nomination. Now, health care reform has been a singular objective of the Democratic Party for so long, that any waffling may be grounds for dismissal. And, card check would help workers register their true opinions without fear of intimidation by their employers, which intimidation still frustrates the desires of hundreds of thousands of workers nationwide who want nothing more that to achieve what the Church teaches is their right to organize. Still, I hesitate to throw Sen. Lincoln overboard, in part because she is the kind of moderate Democrat who can win in Arkansas, in part because she has served here state's interests and met the needs of her constituents admirably, and in part because the anti-incumbent fever is a shallow and often misplaced anger.
Most of all I worry that a Washington that has no room for Sen. Lincoln will also be a Washington that has no room for Sen. Olympia Snowe. I worry that the partisan divides, enforced on the Left by MoveOn.org and on the Right by the Tea Party, will become so entrenched that compromise will become not only a dirty word, which it is already to the enforcers of partisan orthodoxy, but a thing that is extinct, the political equivalent of a dinosaur. A politics with no room for compromise is a politics that can achieve nothing, which may suit the conservative agenda but it should repel liberals. It is ironic, and in some sense a measure of the poor quality of education in civics we give our children, that the MoveOn.org crowd is unaware of the way paralysis tilts against them.
So, as much as I find Halter an appealing candidate, and think he is likely to win tonight, I am pulling for Sen. Lincoln. Washington needs centrists from both parties to put the breaks on partisanship now and then. Besides, as Mayor Ed Koch used to say, "If you agree with me eighty percent of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me one hundred percent of the time, go see your shrink."
For many of us here - whether we're "juvenile" Democrats who need to grow up, who are out of touch with "real" Americans who buy gas - Ms. Lincoln's shortcomings go way beyond her centrism or her failure to do the right thing by the health care debate.
Our concerns have a lot to do with the huge sums of money that big business has plunked down to assure her re-election. Whereas a much higher proportion of Halter's support comes from individuals.
The money tells the story. Blanche is in the pocket of huge economic players, who call the shots for her - and for us as a state, a poor, struggling, marginal state with low educational levels, where adequate health care for all citizens is an imperative need. And who call the shots for the nation as a whole, since every senator's vote counts in national-level deliberations.
I must confess that I grow a bit weary these days of the supercilious adult-child metaphor, which seems to have sprouted all over various blogs in recent weeks. Amost always to marginalize the viewpoints of those who don't toe the party line - who dare to believe that we can be something better, as a nation (and a church) than the centrists have told us we dare seek to be.
Today's juvenile often turns out to be tomorrow's taken-for-granted moral consensus, an insight so significant to the moral consensus of society that we can't imagine living without it. Or why the powerbrokers of the old order declared this particular insight, and those promoting it, juvenile.
We'll see what the election results demonstrate. Polls aren't running in Ms. Lincoln's favor, from what I'm hearing. Of course, when the (centrist) Democratic machine shuts down 38 out of 40 early voting sites in one of our most populous counties, which went heavily against Ms. Lincoln in the first round of voting, who knows how much we can trust the results once the votes have been counted, anyway?
I do have to agree with the spirit of Mr. Lindsey's comments about the problems of looking at some of these movements through DC lens. I am NOT a member of the Tea Party, but I have been to a few meetings & they are NOTHING like what you hear portrayed. Anything outside DC is always viewed derisively & with suspicion.
I find it interesting that the so called moderate or liberal Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have held the line with the Republicans all these months. They easily could have been the 60th vote after Scott Brown was elected if they were disposed not just on health care but on all the other issues.
The Republicans have had several positions on health care that were never considered. If anyone is interested in an analysis of the health care issue from a Republican point of view, they should read Sally Pipes book which is available on the internet in a pdf format. It was issued during the 2008 campaign so the claim that the Republicans were just negative is not so. Sally Pipes is coming out with another book this summer on the specific bill and how it should be changed to address all the real issues around health care. Here is the link to Sally Pipes book from 2008. Mr. Winters should read it to see if he can really make the claim that the Republicans were just saying ''N0.''
I find it hard to understand how an open ballot is better than a secret ballot in getting at one's true feelings. That is why the Card Check systems seems so reprehensible to me.
By the way, my compliments to both MSW (for a thought-provoking article) and to some of his frequent sparring partners, for spirited but civilized responses.
Michael certainly has me pegged, with his sketch of one of the atypical (and perhaps not numerically significant) "leftie" Democratic voters of Arkansas. And I do live in what's widely regarded as perhaps the most left-leaning neighborhood in the state, and I vote at a precinct that has come to be called the "mother church of liberalism" in the state.
So I can hardly claim to represent "the" outlook of Arkansas Democratic voters in this election. Even so, I hear quite a bit of discontent from many quarters about how Ms. Lincoln sold out the Democratic values we assumed she had when we sent her to D.C., following Obama's election.
And so this primary is, in some key respects, definitely a referendum about whether local Democrats want to continue the centrist route of first Bill Clinton and then Barack Obama, or to try something new, in the face of Ms. Lincoln's blue-dog style that has resisted even that centrism. (I see Halter as primarily a centrist, and for that reason, I'm not wild about him even as I cast my vote for him.)
One thing about Arkansas voters: we're an ornery and unpredictable lot. While we were returning the notorious racist governor Faubus to the state governor's seat, we kept electing one of the most liberal senators in the South, Fulbright. And as our brother and sister states of the Old South were making a hard right turn, we were electing Dale Bumpers to the Senate.
Tell us what we should think and how we should vote, and we're likely to do the opposite. But most of all, give us the sense that you don't care a great deal about the many significant needs of our people, while you're pocketing money hand over fist from big corporations and economic players from outside the state, and you're liable to set a strong reaction in motion, when people become aware of the real game you're playing.
Surprisingly strong union oppositon was not enough to stop her.
Big Labor did not like Lincoln's succeddful opposition along with the Republican party in the Senate of the the union catd check proposal where a secret bollot would be bypassed if a union could colledct one at a time enough cards from employess saying they favored having union to represent them. An employee's privacy of choice for or against a union would be effectively lost. The union would systematically know everyone for or against unionizing a workplace. With this knowledge anyone opposed to unionizing could be put under every kind of pressure and imntimidation to change his or her mind on unionizing and be without effective recourse to resist unionizing. Card check would legalize union intimidation of individula employees. Amazingly even in a Democratic primary wher Big Labor is at its strongest a opponenbt to card check won.
This indeed does show show how very far left classic element of the Democratic party such as Big Labor are where even fellow Democrates reject their heavy-handed assult on individual employee;s right of self-determination of whether or not to unionize a worlplace. Even Democrats would not go along with favoring the collective power over the fair rights and importance of individual employees. This was a great victory for all emplyees for the Democrats to reject the unchecked raw political power of Big Labor. Good for Balanche Lincoln for sticking to principle against the odds of oppossing Big Labor political machine and winning anyhow.
Perhaps. But there were tons of money spent on both sides, so the attempt of the incumbent (and her extremely powerful supporters in the Democratic party and outside it) to portray her win as a "home-grown" victory is ludicrous.
Millions of dollars were poured into this race on both sides, from outside the state. If Mr. Halter received huge infusions of funding from labor, the amount of money given to Ms. Lincoln by corporations and big economic interest groups outside Arkansas was also astonishing. And the focus on labor's clout in our little state is ludicrously misplaced.
Unions are practically non-existent here. They have no power at all here. We are a right-to-work state with almost no legal protection at all for workers. When the agrarian-populist movement tried to organize both white and black farm workers at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century, landowners in Ms. Lincoln's southeastern part of the state (where my roots lie, too), ruthlessly suppressed that movement by violence and sought to set the two groups against each other racially. It has long been clear to most of us in this state that the tiny handful of very wealthy families who run things have make-or-break power over everyone else's lives.
If this race is seen as some kind of national referendum about the direction of the Democratic party, then those crowing about Ms. Lincoln's victory may want to take another look at the fairly sizable vote for her opponent, in a pretty conservative state that would normally not be well-disposed to Mr. Halter's more liberal politics.
It's dangerous, it seems to me, for the party as a whole, when beltway talking heads and those who echo them pontificate about what we "lefties" in the heartland should think or do. It begins to appear to many of us that it's in the self-interest of centrists to massage very conservative Democratic groups outside the center of power, to assure a "balance" in the party which moves in the direction of the center.
To assure that the self-interest of those at the center is maintained, in other words. That they can continue to call the shots for everyone else in the party, tisk-tisking about powerless leftie Democrats and claiming a support for human rights (e.g., the rights of workers, who are, I believe, human beings?), while belying that support through their collusion with conservative Democrats who don't share this support.
I often wish that those centrist Democrats who natter on about the solid traditional values of Democrats of the heartland would actually come among us and live with the effects of their conservative versions of politics for an extended period of time. It's one thing to praise the solid faith and pro-life values of people in the heartland at a distance. It might be altogether different, though, to live right there among those whose solid faith and pro-life values you're praising. If you're a worker, say, whose job is suddenly ended and you have no recourse to challenge your unujust dismissal, and meager unemployment benefits to fall back on.
The center has held for now in this race so significant to people outside our little state. But the price of holding the center is increasingly high, as more and more people who want a new and different kind of politics in the Democratic party are told they're simply unrealistic dreamers and immature lefties who need to grow up.
I tend to think that the ultimate outcome of this constant denigration of the left wing of the Democratic party by its right-leaning ("centrist") members will be to bring a really conservative version of the Republican party back into power. And maybe that's what "centrist" Democratics really want to happen, because they may well be more at home with their ideological bedfellows of the right than they are with those on the left.
This is re-writing the script pure and simple. Up to the moment Halter lost, this race was trumpeted as a huge win for Big Labor. Labor Unions have lost their grip and the power as market-driven reforms (mostly led by Republican free-marketers) have improved the lot of workers & the nature of the economy has shifted away from blue collar jobs.
And the Catholic "mysticism" about Big Labor reminds me of the Catholic "love" for the Kennedys - a misplaced and unfortunate vestige of history whose time has come for re-examination. Liberal Catholicism's fetishness over Big Labor is one of many reasons most economists dismiss what the Church has to say about economics. And after the Auto "Bailouts", which were precipitated by the Unions' "Cadillac" benefits plans, most Americans are likely to come to the same conclusion.
Are you serious? How?
Virtually every objective statistic shows that working class (and even middle class) people have lost ground over the last 40 years. They have a smaller share of the national income, their jobs are less secure.
Even a conservative observer, Victor Davis Hanson, marveled a few years ago about how quiescent America's working class has been in the face of its undeniably declining fortunes. Hanson concluded that perhaps their ability to acquire more "stuff" like electronic gear, kept them pacified.
I agree with the editor of the journal Arkansas Times, who wrote this morning on his blog the following statement:
"Sen. Blanche Lincoln's victory spurs much analysis, dominated by horse laughs at organized labor for the failure of its mobilization and expenditures. (Has it occurred to no one that corporate interests spent a comparable amount to produce this?)"
In my view, the magical-mystical view that the trickle-down economic theory of "Republican free-marketers" has translated into a better life for most workers is just that: magical-mystical. It's belied by the facts.
We just have to look around us to see the many unemployed walking wounded that the Republican free-marketers have given us as their great gift to our society.
"All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty-Dumpty back together again."
The shifts in the economy from primarily blue-collar, manufacturing based to a knowledge-based jobs accounts for this, not the greed, pilfering and supposed rape of the pure middle class worker by Big Business. And while it is true that incomes have declined for some workers, they have also seen their 401K plans and other pension plans soar, not to mention the cushy Cadillac plans their union bosses have saddled most of America's businesses with.
Excuse me, but we have a Democrat-controlled House, Senate & White House & unemployment has either increased or remained steady. How are Republicans to blame for this?
1. I used the phrase "Republican free-marketers" because you used it. In my view, though Reganomics brought us this magical-mystical phrase, the Democratic party has been complicit in fostering (or not addressing) the problems it brought us. The victory of Ms. Lincoln underscorse how the Democratic establishment, the beltway "centrists," are part of the problem and not part of the solution.
2. The seemingly intractable problems with which the current administration is dealing predate this administration, and they won't be solved quickly, precisely because their roots are deep. The downturn began, let's not forget, under the "Republican free-market" president who held office before this one. And I would argue, as an immuature leftie Democrat who doesn't buy gas often enough, that the way in which our current "centrist" Democratic administration has addressed these problems doesn't go nearly far enough towards a real solution to them.
Liberals use this term as a bogey-man for everything. In my own understanding, I don't think that the corporatist-based policies of the Clinton/Bush/Obama administrations automatically equates with policies that foster less economic regulation and great de-centralization. If you ignored the gauzy "Hopey-Changey" blather of the last presidential campaign & actually looked at some of Sen. McCain's economic proposals, you would see a "Reaganomics" focused on strengthening America's entrepreneurial/small business sector, which has been the real strength of America's economy. This should be the focus of the economic recovery.
Unfortunately, the liberal response to the economic crisis is the same old policies of increasing the size and cost of centralized government. One day, liberals might wake up and see that this Big Government actually fosters Big Business because it raises the costs of doing business in this country so high that it forces out small business. This is PRECISELY why you see so many Wall Street types giving so much money to DEMOCRATS.
With the percentage of employees represented by unions having steadily declined for 50 years, how can "union bosses" have "saddled most of America's businesses" with anything?
As for 401 K plans, they are a riskier substitute for pensions, which fewer and fewer workers get.
I agree with your point that both the Republicans and the Democrats have bought into corporatist mentality that hasn't helped us resolve our economic crisis. That's why I stated in my first response to you that, though the problem began with Reagan (in my view), what centrist Democratic administrations from Clinton to Obama have done to address the problem haven't been sufficient.
I don't agree, however, with your conclusion that "[t]his [i.e., strengthennig small business] should be the focus of the economic recovery."
From the standpoint of Catholic social teaching and its stress on both solidarity and the preferential option for the poor (two stresses very imperfectly represented in both Republican and Democratic politics in the U.S., because both are versions of liberalism), I think our focus first and foremost has to be on the victims of our current socioeconomic system.
They continue to proliferate, and putting ideological considerations of either party ahead of them as human beings - and their needs as persons - seems immoral to me, as a Catholic.
This is precisely the tragedy. Unions have negotiated immensely expensive benefit plans (lots of them pensions) all the while their membership rolls have shrunk, thus making them bark louder about the need for "employee free choice", which really means an end to the secret ballot & they can pressure people to join (only in their tortured world does a secret ballot equate to business pressure not to unionize). The costs of these cushy benefits plans was well-documented during the auto bailouts. What we're going to see next is the cushy benefits the public sector employees unions have wrangled out of the taxpayers begin to crush local, state and national budgets. The costs of these big cushy benefit plans gets passed on to you and me as consumers and taxpayers. This is why I get so incensed when a Catholic tropes out the tired trollops of Big Labor, as if this were still the 1920s.
As far as your comment about pensions vs. 401Ks, pensions are shrinking because they are economically unviable. And yes, 401Ks are "riskier", but what investment in life isn't?
This topic has been bandied about for sometime already on here, going back to the health care debate. Suffice it to say that I do not disagree with the stated goal, but rather with the means. "Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime" should be our motto. A functioning economy creating jobs is the best path out of poverty.
Again, I must respectfully disagree about the first principles that should guide our thinking here.
In my view, this discussion has to begin with and be framed by the call of Jesus to us, "Whatsoever you do to the least among us, that you do to me." Our first and foremost obligation is not to shore up any particular business structure, and certainly not to endorse a particular partisan ideological perspective.
It's to care for those who are most in need, and to build a social and economic order normed by that goal.
I would really like to ask the money boys how much it would take to buy our country and politicians back. Can we get a deal on ebay? Senator, slightly used but reliable. Responsive to steering.
As for fishing, hope the fishing trainee has good luck catching those tarbabies in the Gulf of Mexico.
Still, I think of this contest the way Adele Stan does in a posting at Alternet today: she points out that the challenge puts ''centrist'' Democratic incumbents on notice that they'll be challenged by the progressive wing of the Democratic party, if they sell out core Democratic principles. By us tired old lefties with little power, or us juvenile ones who don't buy gas - I can't keep up with the latest taxonomy of centrist slurs of progressives anymore, so I don't know if the problem is that I'm old and tired or young and callow.
Plus, the challenge has forced Lincoln already to tack back to the real center of Democratic principles, with her new-found support for economic reform principles.
I look at it this way, though the mainstream media and its centrist powerbrokers want to spin the results as a decisive defeat for progressives: in a relatively conservative small Southern state's Democratic primary, 48 per cent of Democratic voters chose the progressive candidate over the powerful centrist incumbent. That's nearly half of all Democrats in the state.
And those data make it incomprensible to me that this centrist Democratic administration now wants to poke a stick into the eye of progressives yet again, with taunts about big labor flushing millions down the toilet in a useless challenge to an incumbent. Or that power-brokering journalists allied with the administration in this spin campaign keep characterizing progressives as juvenile lefties.
Keep up with the taunts, the slap-downs, and the attempt to render progressive voices meaningless, and you may well end up getting a reaction on your hands.
"Our first and foremost obligation is not to shore up any particular business structure, and certainly not to endorse a particular partisan ideological perspective."
And while I AGREE that the Gospel does not and should not be translated into a programmatic or political agenda, you seem to read the Gospel as requiring a vote for Bill Halter and liberal Democrats, so exactly how are you NOT doing what you castigate me for doing? I mean if the Gospel call to charity & justice shouldn't "shore up" any particular ideology, then how do you justify saying the Gospel requires a vote for Bill Halter, which you do seem to arguing.
I think you've misunderstood me fairly thoroughly. I'm sorry not to have made myself clear.
I can't see anyplace that I've claimed the gospels mandate that I cast a vote for Mr. Halter, or anyone else, for that matter. I wouldn't make such a claim.
What the gospels do, I would maintain, is frame our thinking about political matters, in which we always have to make prudential judgments that are not and cannot be perfect judgments. Ideology, on the other hand, deprives us of the freedom to make such prudential judgments, because it predetermines our conclusions from the outset.
I'm maintaining that, as we examine social, economic, and political life, our first principle has to be, always, what effect our decisions will have on the least among us. Nothing more. Nothing less.


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Microsoft has fixed the issue of endless reboots that some customers had while installing the Servicing Stack Update that contains the installation program for Windows Vista SP1.
That issue led Microsoft to suspend the automatic distribution of the SSU pending an investigation into the problem.
"Over the past few weeks, we've learned a lot more about the problem and have taken steps to address the issue. Today, we'd like to let you know that we are resuming automatic distribution of the SSU tomorrow and provide more clarity on what happened," said an April 7 post on the Microsoft Update Product Team blog.
The team also stressed that, for those who have already successfully installed the update, there are no problems with the files that make up the SSU, as the problem was with the installation process for the update. "If you already have the update installed, you do not need to uninstall it or install the rereleased version of the update," the blog post said.
Troubled SSU code
As to the cause of the problem, that lay with the special SSU code that checked to see if there were any pending reboots or other updates to install. If it found either of these, the installation could not start, the team said in its post.
"There were also a few unknown and rare events that occurred during the middle of the installation of the update that could cause the update to think it needed a reboot to complete the installation. If this happened, the system entered a repeating reboot loop," the post said.
Microsoft will introduce a fix for this April 8 that will install before the SP1 Servicing Stack Update does, and which works to prevent the system from rebooting during the SP1 SSU installation. Again, this will apply only to those customers who have not already installed the SSU.
"We also made additional changes to the SSU installer code, so that it checks for and requires the pre-SSU before it will install. These two updates should now install seamlessly through Windows Update, in the proper order," the team said.
Customers who get their updates installed automatically through Windows Update and who have not yet installed the SSU are not required to take any corrective action, while the stand-alone download of SP1 has not been affected by the SSU issues, the blog post noted.

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basic formula for EOQ
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Demand for a popular athletic shoe is nearly constant at 800 pairs per week for a regional division of a national retailer. The cost per pair is $54. It costs $72 to place an order, and annual holding costs are charged at 22% of the cost per unit. The lead time is two weeks.
a. What is the EOQ?
b. What is the reorder point?
c. What is the cycle time?
d. What is the total annual cost?
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a. Q* = 710.1
b. r = 1600
c. T = 710.1/800 ...
Solution Summary
The basic formula for EOQ is applied to this case.


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I haven't seen another movie since Jaws, that was made about sharks and people dying. Thanks to Beatbuster, I was able to watch Open Water.
I'm all for independent movie making, when its good, but when its not, I kind of stay away for awhile. This film, to get to the point, stunk.
The premise: A couple goes on a scuba diving expedition when on vacation, but they accidentally get left behind to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters.
Basically the premise is the entire movie, and its pretty darn slow and boring all throughout. I was not scared by this movie at all, and I was also dissapointed on how crappy the acting is. The nudity in the beginning was the films only high point, Blanchard Ryan (the girl that is in Starship Poopers is the chick in this film: . )
The acting wasnt the greatest, and neither was the nausiating DV like filming.
The film did have a few highlights though, one being the nudity. The other was that I give the producers credit for at least trying to make a halfway decent movie. Maybe if they had put a little more effort into it, this could have been a good movie.
Maybe next time invest in better cameras and a steadycam if the budget allows. Also, a crew might help. Lions Gate Films would take care of that. Polish the script and it would be a whole lot better and easier.
From the DVD special features, the movie sounds like it was hard to make, which is why I give the producers credit for trying, but they didn't try hard enough to please Freddie Farz Jr.
Viewed by FFJ on 4/13/05 thanks to Beatbuster online rentals.
P.S. Mean Creek came, but the DVD didnt work so I will get a new one soon.


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city surprisingly harmonious, warm, lots of cathedrals, ploschadey.Progulyavshis through the main streets of Vilnius, walking up to the restaurants and cafes were Oh! as pleasantly surprised price in restaurants. $ 30-40 for a candlelight dinner, you will agree, a great result. This is despite the fact that and snacks (oh, what their cheeses!) And hot (ah, what portions!), And dessert. It immediately became clear to go celebrate the New Year - Lithuania, Vilnius and excursions! That it happened!
Hello! This Summer 2013) Behind my back are located the Gate of Dawn. Gate of Dawn - a three-storey building of the Renaissance, one of the major attractions in Vilnius. This is the only surviving of the 10 gates of stone ramparts that once surrounded the Vilnius.
This is a remarkable and original workshop of wood carving. You can buy great things, I advise everyone!
This is Lietuvos nacionalinė filharmonija! The main and the biggest concert organization of Lithuania. In July 1998, the Philharmonic is assigned the status of national cultural institutions
Lithuanian bit dark alleys in the daytime)
This place should not be forgotten, there are obtained the original photo!
When it was time to come back, we remembered the Beatles. This is dedicated to our frame!


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Just an update... I'm still around, and I have not regained any substantial amount of weight. Many bloggers also stop posting when things in life get tough or busy, and that's happened to me.
Health issues related to my kidneys, and a few other issues have plagued me since my last post. Add in dealing with depression. Life has been rough, but I'm getting through it with professional help and support from loved ones. Still quietly reading blogs from time to time, and it's really nice to see a lot of bloggers making progress. I'm still swinging back and forth in the 160 to 170 lbs range, and today I'm at 165.5 lbs.
Here's to blue skies ahead, rather than dark clouds.


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I took this picture of the sun yesterday.
Look at the way the rays of the sun beam out... they shine so far even on a cloudy day. According to Wikipedia, the Earth is about 93 million miles from the Sun. It's a well known fact that no one can touch/go/see up close the sun because they would die. In thinking of that... and the beauty and light that something 93 million miles away can bestow on me, sitting on a porch in South Mississippi... I began to think about God... who is also unseeable and untouchable in these two stories in the bible.
Moses:Exodus 3: 1-5
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!"
And Moses said, "Here I am."
5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
God revealed himself to Moses through fire
(... last time I checked, the sun was a big ball of fire.)
Saul --> Paul: Acts 9:1-16
1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. 3 As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. 4 He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
5 "Who are you, Lord?" Saul asked.
"I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," he replied. 6 "Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do."
7 The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. 8 Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. 9 For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.
10 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, "Ananias!"
"Yes, Lord," he answered.
11 The Lord told him, "Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. 12 In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight."
13 "Lord," Ananias answered, "I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. 14 And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name."
15 But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. 16 I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."
A light from Heaven shown on Saul and though he was not like Moses and was afraid to look, God blinded Saul so he could not look.
Both of these men overcame great odds and the doubt of many (including themselves) to follow God's Will for their lives and as a result their stories became pivotal example of the transformation God can bring in ones life. Moses, by all accounts, had some sort of speech impediment... yet he is the one cried out to Pharaoh, "Let My People Go!" (And Pharaoh did...) Saul, the King who persecuted so many Christians only God himself knows the number became one of the most respected teachers and preachers of his day. I believe, that the impact of those transformations are made more evident through the physical light that was shown on these men.
The light of the sun will blind you if you are too close...
God who in three persons is the also the Son was not able to be seen either...
{Ironic?? }
I don't think God does coincidence... everything is a lesson with Him. So... I'm trying to figure out what my lesson was yesterday. I think I may understand it... but am waiting for confirmation. Ultimately, whenever we have those sun/Son light moments... it's what I do with that lesson that matters.
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12
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The John Paul II Flower Sale is dedicated to Michelle (Stueve) Smith, a teacher at our school from 1979-1995. Her love of flowers, the QHR community, Catholic education, and especially JPII led her to establish the first flower sale in 1996.
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Having previously enjoyed meals from Giant Fish & Chips on E. 18th, I expected at least an averagely good lunch. Our salmon, however, was sliced so thin that the corn-meal breading was actually thicker than the fish, and the result was serious over-cooking, with dried-out, tasteless fish. Hushpuppies were similarly overcooked, almost black, with all the corn flavor lost. I ended up concentrating on the cole slaw, as the most edible portion of my lunch; it wasn't bad, just not good. My companion's fries, Texas-cut, were probably the best item, crispy outside and mealy inside, not greasy.
Life's too short--I won't return. Instead, swing around the other side of the Lake to London Fish & Chips on Grand, for some real good stuff. See previous posting.
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12:21 PMKobe = All-Star Starter, Again
That Kobe Bryant will be elected as an All-Star starter for the 13th consecutive season was a foregone conclusion, particularly after the NBA announced that he led all players with 1,757,216 votes after the fourth round of ballot returns.
During Thursday night's special All-Star Selection Show on TNT, it was announced that Bryant will indeed start at guard for the Western Conference, where he'll represent the Lakers in front of a hometown crowd for the second time in his career (2004).
Bryant finished with 2,380,016 votes, and with his 13th straight selection, is only one behind record holders Jerry West, Karl Malone and Shaquille O'Neal, earning 14 consecutive nods apiece.
It will be the 12th A.S. game in which Bryant plays, as he missed last year's contest due to a sprained left ankle. To account for the other two seasons in his career: he didn't make it as a rookie, and there was no All-Star game in 1999. Bryant made his debut in 1998 as the youngest All-Star in NBA history, and last led all vote-getters in 2003.
This marks the fourth straight season in which Bryant led the Western Conference in All-Star balloting. Last season, he Bryant received 2,456,224 votes, finishing second overall to Cleveland's LeBron James (2,549,693). In 2008-09, his number was punched 2,805,397 times, placing him third in overall balloting behind Dwight Howard (3,150,181) and James (2,940,823). Back in 2007-08, Bryant garnered 2,004,940 votes to finish fourth in overall voting behind Kevin Garnett (2,399,148), James (2,108,831) and Howard (2,066,991).
Bryant has won All-Star MVP honors three times, first in 2002 (Philadelphia), then in 2007 (Las Vegas) and finally in 2009 (Phoenix), when he shared the trophy with Shaquille O'Neal.
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Nicki Minaj is invading earth! The curvacious and colorful rapper has just released the video for "Starships," the latest single off her Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded album. Shot in Hawaii, Nicki sports some sexy bathing suits and shows off her amazing body on camera. Take a look at the Anthony Mandler-directed clip for the Red One produced track below:


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Parts of the fresh plant are placed in an airtight container and covered with almond oil or other base oils for 30 days
After this period the oil is filtered and transferred into another container and skips to the pressing plant mixed with oil that contains most of the functional substances in the plant itself. Two more days of resting, then a second screening and other purifying processes occur before the oil, filtered and pure, is ready for distillation.
Essential oils are obtained by steam distillation. The pressurized steam is introduced into the lower part of the distiller and passes through the plant parts or oil to vaporize the volatile oils contained in them. It is a method that applies to most of the aromatic plants and exploits the physical properties of essences, in particular their volatility.It is to separate the essential oil from the plant origin using a jet of water vapor, which invests plant tissues and "carries" the essence. From the process you get two final products: the distillate and the aromatic water. This is the water that comes from the condensation of the same steam, scented by a small fraction of essence dissolved in it.
The techniques of preparation of scented oils by maceration of flowers, herbs and spices in vegetable oils has remained largely the same over the centuries, until the development of the process of distilling the essence which allowed to replace at least part of the long process of maceration, giving also aromatic
oils therapeutic efficacy and safety of use unknown before.
The therapeutic properties of the essential oils in pharmacology are also the foundation of their special and profound action in dermo-cosmetics.
That branch of aromatherapy known as aroma cosmetic uses the power of penetration through the tissues of the essences to establish beauty treatments that are not limited to the surface of the skin, but to be correct in a stable cells renewal process.
The antiseptic power of the essences is active, not only for lesions, wounds and sores, even for a general time-disinfectant action to rid the skin of microinfection that cause pimples, eczema, rashes, etc..
Essential oils perform the function of stimulating the exhausted tissues, promote cell renewal and maintain constant the level of purification.
The best results are obtained with blends of essential oils that work in synergy with oils or creams or emulsions.
The most recent research has developed dermo-cosmetic functional products based on specific essences for various treatments that integrate the therapeutic aspect-base with the aesthetic.
More practically, the plants can be considered as a laboratory containing many chemicals, extractable in different ways depending on the method used. From each of these methods it is possible to obtain a final product with specific requirements and characteristics, with specific therapeutic indications. The extractive techniques applied to material of vegetable nature, are employed as well as for obtaining the pure active principle, removing unwanted components from the plants.
Aromacosmetics are based on the therapeutic action of extracted herbs and flowers and essentials oils.
The sources and quality of the row natural ingredients play a primary role, harvest must occur in season and in the (balsamic time) when the plants offer the most of their therapeutic properties
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My company just gave me an ip for a website building with XAMPP, with another MS IIS run at the same time.
IIS server site A: 126.96.36.199:80
IIS server site B: 188.8.131.52:80
Part of my httpd.conf:
servername www.example.com
Listen 220.127.116.11:80 #this is the IP that was given for XAMPP
<virtualHost 220.127.116.11:80>
serveradmin <email-address>
documentroot "c:/xampp/htdocs/mambo"
servername www.example.com
The problem is, when I use xampp-start.exe, it prompt error:
<OS 10013> <something like:>Refuse to connect to port, permission denied: make_sock:could not bind to address 18.104.22.168:80
However, when I change the port listen from 188.8.131.52:80 to 220.127.116.11:8080, IT WORKS FINE, BOTH APACHE AND IIS!!!
So, can anybody please help? I cannot use port 8080 but I have also no idea doing search in google....
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One of the best ways to cool off during the summer is with delicious ice cream. Whether they're covered with sprinkles or eaten plain, ice cream always tends to put smiles on children's faces. There are many ice cream shops on Long Island, and we've highlighted some of our favorites for July's National Ice Cream Month.
Coyle's Homemade Ice Cream
Just like its name implies, Coyle's is known for its homemade ice cream. It's set in a charming, 50's style sweet shop with booths and a counter top with stool seating. It's good for groups and kids and offers outdoor seating.
Where: 75 Howells Rd., Bay Shore, NY
Store Type: Restaurant
Hours: 7 days, 12 pm – 10 pm
Contact Info: (631) 666-2229
Coyle's Homemade Ice Cream Facebook Page
International Delight Café
International Delight Café offers one of the best gelatos and other sweets on Long Island. The café serves dinner as well, but life is short. Eat dessert first.
Where: 322 Bedford Ave., Bellmore, NY and 241 Sunrise Hwy., Rockville Centre, NY
Store Type: Restaurant
Hours: Mon-Thu 11 am – 10:30 pm, Fri 11 am – 12 am, Sat 11 am – 12:30 am, Sun 11 am – 10 pm
Contact Info: Bellmore (516) 409-5772 and Rockville Centre (516) 766-7557
International Delight Café Facebook Page
Krisch's Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlour
Located behind a bridal salon, potential brides should do dress fittings before a visit to this parlor because it offers so many yummy decadent sweets. Krisch's serves a diner-style menu and an ice cream list longer than most children's books.
Where: 11 Central Ave., Massapequa, NY
Store Type: Restaurant
Hours: Mon-Sun 7:30 am – 12 am
Contact Info: (516) 797-3149
Marvel Dairy Whip
Visit Marvel Dairy Whip for a sweet way to end a day at the beach. Try the peanut butter ice cream. Trust us.
Where: 258 Lido Blvd., Lido Beach, NY
Store Type: Storefront
Hours: Seasonal, Mon-Sun 12 pm – 11 pm
Contact Info: (516) 889-4232
Marvel Dairy Whip Facebook Page
The Port Jefferson Frigate
A local favorite, The Port Jefferson Frigate serves all kinds of delicious ice cream and other tasty treats. One of its newest offerings include authentic French Macarons in unique flavors such as Raspberry Lychee and Salted Caramel.
Where: 99 Main St., Port Jefferson, NY
Store Type: Storefront
Hours: Mon-Thu 10 am – 9 pm, Fri-Sat 10 am – 10 pm
Contact Info: (631) 474-8888
The Spoon House Coffee & Eatery
The Spoon House Coffee & Eatery is known for not only its amazing pizza and delicious coffees, but also their scrumptious desserts including mouth-watering ice cream.
Where: 125A Wellwood Ave., Lindenhurst, NY
Store Type: Restaurant
Hours: Tue-Thu 11 am – 9 pm, Fri-Sat 12 pm – 10:30 pm
Contact Info: (631) 957-7666
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Sweet Sensations
No matter what dietary restrictions one may have, there's probably something fine to eat here. Sweet Sensations offers lots of sugar-free and dairy-free options and fun flavors such as coconut milk ice cream.
Where: 36 E Main Street, Babylon, NY
Store Type: Storefront
Hours: 7 days, 11 am – 11 pm
Contact Info: (631) 893-0350
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Dakota Fanning Attached To Star in 'Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness'
Dakota Fanning enjoys the sunny weather with boyfriend model Jamie Strachan while out in SoHo, New York City on Sunday afternoon (May 18).
The two were spotted out and about just a few days before.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Dakota Fanning
According to Deadline, Dakota is attached to star in "Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness", which is based on the memoir of the same name by Susannah Cahalan.
The book chronicles the author's struggle with a rare disease — one day, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Her medical records�from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory�showed psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks earlier she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four year old, six months into her first serious relationship and a sparkling career as a cub reporter.
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How has it come about so quickly? I am so sad! I have had such a wonderful six months and am just begining to feel like I have great friends and a real life here - not the life of an expat. And now I have to leave! I have had so much to blog about and have so missed updating this blog but to be honest I was just too busy having fun and milking my last few weeks in this fabulous city.
I don't know where to start, so this will probably come in a few instalments! Please bear with me!
Firstly, this last week has been so touching - everyone has made me feel so special and appreciated. I was invited out for lunch at the wine museum, which was fabulous. My colleagues surprised me on Monday with a goodbye party. Normally when people leave the company orders hors d'oeuves from outside and gets champagne. But for me, as a thank you for all my baking, people made things at home and brought them in! I was so so moved! It was a surprise because my last day was Wednesday (unfortunately I therefore didn't have my camera). I received lots of cool corporate gifts: a lovely backback, swiss knife and stuff and - most exciting of all - aircraft and satellite models! I'm such a geek but I love them!
Of course, I had to do something bakeworthy to thank them all (and an early party is just an excuse for more cake later on). I made batches of biscuits in the following flavours: peanut butter, chocolate, raspberry and almond and nut and wrapped them up in little bags to give to everyone. I have to say that these were really good - I ate too many! I also made this cake, which has the company's corporate logo on it. Instead of the company's name, I wrote 'merci' on it! It was a moist carrot cake and it seemed to go down well even though I couldn't find baking soda in France and the cake didn't rise correctly (hence 3 layers!).
This was very first time decorating a cake and because the frosting was cream cheese, it was really hard going! I'm going to have to improve.
Then my lovely and gallant male officemates suprised me by ordering flowers to be delivered to the office! So so sweet!
We then all went out for a lovely meal in one of my favourite French restaurants.
I love these people. I love Paris, I really do. I'm going to post about the wonderful chocolate shops I've visited, on the patisseries I have eaten, the wondrous shops I've discovered, the views, the monuments... that's all to come. I was sad to leave Paris when I lived here before, and when I left I remember thinking of all those who love and have loved this great city. But what I will miss even more, the thing that differentiates this experience from the last, are the amazing people I have met, the truly great friends I have made.
Tomorrow I am lucky enough to be going on a pastry course! Please keep reading for some decadent Parisian adventures to come!


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First of all go http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php and head down to the Development Library Win32 section and download the zip package for Visual C++.
Extract the zip package anywhere in your desktop. Now this is important. Some people like to configure visual c++ by including directories from other paths. We will not do this. We will do things manually and later one we will only have to include those files without configuring paths and other stuff.
So first of all go to the extracted folder and copy all content from includes folder. Now go to
C->Program Files->Microsoft SDKs->Windows->v7.0A->Include and create a folder here named sdl. As you can see there is a folder called gl wich holds all the opengl library and you should create a folder sdl which will hold all your sdl library. After creating the folder paste the copied files inside this folder.
Now head back to where you extracted the SDL library and go to lib folder and inside you will find two folders x64 and x86. Depending on what configuration you have you will copy the files inside those folders (eg if you have x86 then copy the files inside x86 folder), without SDL.dll file. This SDL.dll file should be included in your projects when you release them. After copying those files head to
C->Program Files->Microsoft SDKs->Windows->v7.0A->Lib and paste here (without creating special folder as we did earlier). And finally one more thing to do before we test things is to copy the SDL.dll file from the extracted lib folder to C->Windows->System32. The SDL.dll file should sit near the executable file or in system32, for our programs to work. Note that if we copy to system32 we dont have to include the SDL.dll file in our projects. But if we want to distribute our program we will have to include the SDL.dll file near executable file or where our programs executable file is.
After doing all these steps launch Visual Studio and create new Visual C++ Empy Project, and name it whatever you like i named it TestSDL. Before doing anything else itn visual studio go to Project->TestSDL Properties and on the Configurations Dropdown click on All configurations and then expand the Configration Properties tree. Make sure character set is set to Multi-Byte Characer Set.
Expand the Linker tree and click on Input. On the Additional Dependices click on Edit.
A box will appear and inside this box we will link the SDL lib files to our project like this
Click on OK. Now go to System and on the SubSystem drop down choose Windows(/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)
If you have followed all these steps then you are ready to write some code and compile. On the Source Files Folder add new cpp file and name it whatever you like. I named it main.cpp. And inside put this code
#include <sdl/SDL.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
return 0;
If you folowed all the steps correctly your code should now compile successfully and this means you have configured SDL with Visual Studio 2010.


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"First to Fight."
That phrase from a British propaganda poster sums up a lot about Poland's WWII history. Well, at least the beginning.
Cool thing about the Polish, especially at this time in history: really super patriotic. You can hardly blame them, though, because Poland wasn't even a country until the end of WWI; it was a bunch of lands that had been split up by the countries around it (Prussia, Austria, and Russia) about 1795 like chocolate pudding pie at a family gathering. For centuries, all that kept the Polish heritage alive was zealous Poles who resisted being Russified or Germanized by their rulers.
Anyway, after WWI, the Poles had to fight a lot just to keep their borders, and they did so well they even expanded them.
Come 1939, tensions had been brewing between Nazi Germany and Poland for some time.
Back up a second; you all probably know that Germany attacked Poland, and that is was for a totally fake reason. But what was the reason?
There was this place called the Free City of Danzig (which was independent, btw), now called Gdańsk today. Now, Danzig was super important to Poland, because according to WWI treaties and stuff, Danzig was where Poland got a harbor. This was because President Wilson had promised Poland, along with its freedom and independence, free access to the sea.
Now, the thing about Danzig was that the population was mostly German, with some Poles also living there. The Nazi party had its influences there, and soon they were in charge.
Nazi Germany was soon pushing for Danzig to rejoin Germany, and the Germans in Danzig were like 'yeah man, totally.'
But Poland was like 'Hell no!' except a bit more diplomatically than that. Access to the sea meant access to countries outside the countries that surrounded Poland. So, super important, especially in that time because using planes to transport goods just wasn't a thing in Poland.
However, Danzig was not the main focus of Hitler's; while it may have been a focus for the Poles, Hitler's aims were far beyond that. Quote from Hitler: It is not Danzig that is at stake. For us it is a matter of expanding our Lebensraum in the east.
(We're cool on what lebensraum means, right? Lebensraum = land for German people to live in and be super exclusive)
This is where the Gleiwitz Attack comes in. The Germans needed a good reason to go to war with Poland, so a bunch of Nazis pretending to be Poles took over a German radio station. Quite literally, the morning after Nazi Germany attacked Poland on the 1st of September. They attacked Danzig first, and ended up annexing it.
And that is when WWII started.
More to come.


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Figure 2: Human Colorectal Cancer (CRC) tumor organoids, grown from single cells on BME 2,
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Basement membranes are sheets of extracellular matrix that form an interface between endothelial, epithelial, muscle, or neuronal cells and adjacent stroma. Basement membranes are degraded and regenerated during development and
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Soledad O'Brien eviscerates CNN: 'You have normalized' white supremacy with shoddy Trump reporting
by David Edwards of The Raw Story
Former CNN host Soledad O'Brien blasted the cable news business over the weekend for profiting off the hate speech that has fueled Donald Trump's political rise.
According to O'Brien, the media had gone through "contortions to make things seem equal all the time" when comparing Trump to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"If you look at Hillary Clinton's speech where she basically pointed out that what Donald Trump has done — actually quite well — has normalized white supremacy," O'Brien explained to CNN host Brian Stelter on Sunday. "I think she made a very good argument, almost like a lawyer. Here is ways in which he has actually worked to normalize conversations that many people find hateful."
"I've seen on-air, white supremacists being interviewed because they are Trump delegates," she noted. "And they do a five minute segment, the first minute or so talking about what they believe as white supremacists. So you have normalized that."
"And then Donald Trump will say, 'Hillary Clinton, she's a bigot.' And it's covered, the journalist part comes in, 'They trade barbs. He said she's a bigot and she points out that he might be appealing to racists.' It only becomes 'he said, she said.' When in actuality, the fact that Donald Trump said she's a bigot without the long laundry list of evidence, which if you looked at Hillary Clinton's speech, she actually did have a lot of really good factual evidence that we would all agree that are things that have happened and do exist. They are treated as if they are equal."
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Vampire Weekend set for Edinburgh and Glasgow dates
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- 1 February 2010
Upon the release of their eponymous debut album almost exactly two years ago, it seemed possible to bracket Vampire Weekend as a novelty band. They were four preppy middle class New York kids taking the traditional sounds of impoverished African folk music, infusing it with arch, highbrow lyrics (the 'Oxford Comma' was just one unlikely subject matter for a song) and calling their own genre-of-one 'Upper West Side Soweto'. It was either a stroke of genius or a somewhat snooty parody, not helped by the fact that their most obvious predecessor was Paul Simon's Graceland album.
Two years and half a million US sales of the debut album later however, and any question that the quartet (Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio) are anything but supremely talented has been put to bed. They're not a parody, of course, just a group who are adventurous enough to explore sounds from a setting that's about as far from their own collective background as is possible.
The recently-released second album Contra, its title at once a tribute and response to Joe Strummer's Sandanista, hasn't upset the style they've already established, mixing shades of reggae, Bollywood and Teutonic electronica to their already dense world music palette. It's a step on for the band both artistically and commercially, selling 124,000 copies in its first week on sale in America, and reaching the top of the Billboard 200 album chart. Far from deserving any aspersions which might once have been cast upon their relatively privileged upbringing, it seems Vampire Weekend – Batmanglij and Koenig being the children of Iranian and Jewish immigrants, respectively – have expertly fused the sounds of multicultural America in a manner all can relate to.
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a contemporary romance by Eve Summers
Amy doesn't know what it feels like to be in love. Which is pretty sad, when you stop to think about it, and Amy stops to think about it - oh, just about every day. Her fantasies are populated by men who look like movie stars and act like heroes from romance books, while her life is full of men who only think about their careers and who wear stress like a medal for bravery.
Or was, until now. Dan is Amy's scuba diving buddy and the best-looking bloke in the office. Zorro, their Tahitian diving instructor is every woman's secret fantasy, the kind you blush about in the darkness of your bedroom and never ever discuss with your girlfriends.
Amy doesn't know what it feels like to be in love. Will she choose the right man?
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Amy felt her cheeks roast under his gaze. It was one thing to flirt with him back at the village to the rhythm of the wild drums, quite another to flirt when she'd already accepted his invitation to a night of hot sex.
"You look lovely in pink, Goldilocks."
He gestured towards her salmon–rose cocktail dress, but she knew he meant the blush that had now spread all the way to her throat.
She needed a diversion.
"Tell me about the boat's engine." Men could always be distracted with machine talk.
"Are you asking about the size?"
Damn! The cursed blush was back. Don't think about it.
"Why don't you show me the bridge? Or the steering room, whatever it's called."
His face was deadpan. "It's called a cockpit."
It would be.
Zorro kissed her as soon as they reached the cockpit, a perfect mix of urgency and deliberately slow relishing. His tongue tasted of seawater and fire.
Amy felt her nipples strain against the thin material of her dress. She didn't care whether it was love or lust she was feeling, she didn't need labels or perfect definitions of what love was. All she needed was Zorro's body pressed against hers, like this, and his hands in her hair, like they were now, and–
He broke the kiss and Amy opened her eyes.
There, on a side table, in a silver ice bucket, was a bottle of champagne. Zorro's words came back to her: Now that I'm no longer your instructor, how about a bottle of champagne on my boat, followed by a sunset dinner and a night of hot lovemaking?
A bottle of champagne? Check.
Boat? Check.
With a bit of luck, they would skip the sunset dinner and…
"Would you like to drive?" she heard Zorro's whisper, she felt his tickling breath in her ear.
"Huh? Oh, your boat, you mean. Yeah, sure."
All her senses ablaze, she watched as Zorro awakened the purring machine.
"Here, take the wheel. Gentle movements."
She looked at the controls for the first time, expecting something the magnitude of an average car's steering wheel. "Zorro," she exclaimed, "this is enormous."
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Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and much as I love it, I would like to spend a moment dwelling on some of its peculiarities. It is, perhaps, the most completely American holiday, in the true sense of the word. In its oddly ecumenical way, it is truly a "holy day" with prescribed rituals, a sacral meal with defined parts, and myth of foundation.* Yet all of these are grounded in an American mythos, in American history (not quite the same thing) and respond to both American beliefs and American anxieties. The only other holiday which even comes close is July 4.
Where to begin? Let's start (and maybe end) with the Turkey. Turkey almost certainly wasn't the main attraction on the menu in 1621 (or in 1607, if you belong to the Jamestown school of Thanksgiving mythology). Any poultry on those early menus was simply part of a hecatomb of game, in which red meat was probably the star attraction.
And lets face it, Turkey is a weird bird. We are not known, globally, as a nation of great cooks, and yet our national feast requires a main dish that is incredibly difficult to cook well. We insist on making that difficult job even harder through a set of traditions that mandate cooking the largest possible bird (which leads to toughness and dryness) and stuffing it (which makes for tasty stuffing, but an even drier bird). Turkey's flavor takes a little getting used to: I still vividly remember the shock, as a child, of how it looked like a gigantic chicken, but mysteriously failed to taste like one. My favorite part of a chicken, the drumstick, was an almost inedible bundle of desiccated dark meat and mysterious splinters of bone.
The whole Turkey train wreck serves to remind me of how out of touch, as Americans, we really are with good food. Much has been made of how the French, in particular, don't "get" Thanksgiving. I can see how this would be true at every level (I can't think of a nation less likely to fetishize thankfulness than the French), but I suspect it's the gastronomic side of the equation that really kicks it for them. "You have a holiday whose entire celebration is built around the food," says my inner Frenchman (I don't know if everyone has one of these, but I certainly do), "and the food is so… ordinary. Yams? Stale bread? What is wrong with you people?" There is so much fuss made over the preparation of Thanksgiving food, that we tend to forget how economical the whole thing is. Pound for pound, turkey is a very good buy, as are yams, potatoes, squash stuffing, and all the other traditional components of a Thanksgiving meal. Indeed, perhaps that is where and why the holiday begins to make some sense for us. We are not thankful for what we have on Thanksgiving itself, but for what we have everyday. The ordinariness of the meal may be a problem, gastronomically speaking, but ritually it makes perfect sense. What a blessing it is to be allowed to consider our own plentiful lives "ordinary."
*Speaking of ecumenism, nothing irritates me more than being told to have a nice "holiday" when the holiday is Thanksgiving. Who the f*** has a problem with Thanksgiving?


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Every year my husband and I go away for a couple weeks to a health resort to allow my dear significant other to focus on his well-being. We typically go in the winter and I usually look forward to the warm weather and change of scenery, but this year as we left on the first full day of spring I was kind of disappointed to be leaving behind the gardens when all the excitement was just starting. We returned to spring in full bloom and lots of things going on so I thought I would just share some of the random happenings in SJC, starting with this beautiful amaryllis bulb that was kind of just stuck in the ground a couple years ago. You know that one corner of the garden where you put all kinds of odds and ends and just see if they make it? Well, this one did and is blooming proudly. It is precariously close to where the dogs cut through the path so I am tempted to cut it and bring it in, but I kind of like seeing it in the garden bed.
The Anna apples are all ready growing like crazy. I should thin them, but my granddaughters love to pick the fruit every time they come over and they will get thinned by them soon. They were very disappointed this winter when there wasn't much on the fruit trees so I am glad there is at least something for them this time!
I almost missed the first show of roses and I am feeling really guilty because even though I made many trips to the nurseries in the last few months, rose fertilizer never made it home with me so they are not as lush as they could be. I need to make it up to them this week!
The California natives are all still blooming away and will probably be for another month or so. It has taken a few years for these rock rose (cistus) in the Moonlight Garden to get to a good size and covered with blooms, but they are lovely now and actually showing off during this dry weather, which is how they actually like it! I should probably put in some more out in the front street side garden where keeping plants looking good is a challange.
I found the first clematis of the season starting to open.
There were a number of orchids in bloom that had been sunk in the ground in their pots in a planter off to the side yard. Many types grow so easily for us in our mild climate that we take them for granted.
There was actually a large group of dutch iris that was still blooming much to my surprise and delight. I always forget about them, but they just do their own thing. An impulse buy from Costco I believe.
The aloe in the urn by the front door is joining in the show and sending out a bloom for the first time.
The snapdragons that were planted last fall are almost waist high and look more like a field of wild flowers than winter annuals. They must have loved the organic fertilizer that was used when they were planted and the bunnies must not be in the mood for snapdragons for dinner!
I think the overlap of the natives blooming, the winter blooming shrubs, vines and annuals, the spring blooms and the start of the summer annuals make this such a wonderful time in the garden for us here in Southern California. It is almost too much to take in all at once!
This is about life in my gardens. One is an acre on a hillside in Laguna Beach, California and the other is an acre in San Juan Capistrano, California.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
A Few Observations
Posted by Sheila at 8:56 AM
Labels: annuals, Bulbs, Bulbs and Tubers, Combination Plants, Drought tolerant, Fruit, perennials, San Juan Capistrano, Spring, succulents
2 comments:
- Laleh Molander said...
You have such a beautiful garden. I really enjoy your lovely pictures ;-)
- April 8, 2014 at 10:01 AM
- RobinL said...
I enjoyed your this more detailed look at your lovely garden!
- April 20, 2014 at 4:25 PM
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Okay so I'm 16 and my boyfriend is 18... I'm a sophomore and he's a senior who is obviously graduating and going off to college... I really don't want this relationship to end, but I've seen a lot of relationship when their boyfriend goes off to college they break up... How do I prevent a break up from happening?
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1. Switzerland has two processes for obtaining Swiss citizenship. Ordinary (or regular) naturalization is the one most people go through; facilitated (or simplified) naturalization is a shorter and less complicated process usually open to the foreign spouses and children of Swiss citizens, and, since early 2017, third generation foreigners. According to official statistics just under a quarter of the 40,689 naturalizations in 2015 were facilitated.
2. There's more than one set of requirements. To obtain regular naturalization a foreigner must meet the requirements laid out by three levels of government: the commune, the canton and the Confederation. Following changes to the federal foreigners' law that came into effect on January 1st 2018, an applicant must now have lived in Switzerland for ten years (it was previously 12) or less if you spent your adolescence here, and have a C residence permit (before, other permit holders could apply). They must also show they abide by Swiss law and order, pose no threat to the country and (here's where it gets subjective) be well integrated, a broad term that covers your participation in Swiss economic, social and linguistic life. It's usually down to the cantons and communes to tell federal authorities how integrated they think an applicant is, though the new federal law stipulates a number of obligations, including the requirement that you encourage your family members to integrate, too.
3. If you've been on benefits recently, you can't apply. Another change from 2018 is that if you've claimed social welfare assistance in the past three years you can't apply for citizenship, unless you give back the amount you received. Claiming benefits goes against the federal requirement that an applicant must contribute to Switzerland's economy through work or training.
4. How long you've lived in your canton is a big factor. You may have lived ten years in Switzerland but how long have you lived in your current place of residence? Don't expect to move canton (or even commune) and then apply for citizenship – every canton has its own rules on this but all expect you to have lived in the area for a certain length of time. While cantons including Geneva and Bern only require two years' residency, some require much longer, with St Gallen stipulating eight years. (Check your canton's requirements here)
5. You must speak the local language to be in with a chance. Decent language skills have always been necessary for Swiss citizenship but requirements used to vary depending on the canton. But under the 2018 changes, there is now a required minimum level of language proficiency. Candidates must demonstrate A2 level writing ability and B1 spoken skills under the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Cantons are free to set a higher bar if they wish, as Thurgau has done.
6. Cantonal and communal rules vary considerably. Each canton has different requirements (look up yours here), usually centring around how integrated you are in the community you live in. Do you have Swiss friends and work colleagues who deem you part of the community? Do you know a thing or two about the local area? Are you down with Swiss traditions, politics and history?
7. Local residents can have a say. Most cantons and/or communes require you to face an interview to prove your integration and knowledge of Switzerland where you could be quizzed on anything from the number of lakes in your canton to which days are public holidays and the names of local traditions and festivals. In some cases a communal residents' committee gathers to vote on your application, so it pays to keep in with the locals – last year a Dutch woman hit the headlines after she was turned down by her community for campaigning against cowbells (though she later won citizenship on appeal).
8. It takes a while. The length of the process varies depending on where you live, but expect several years. The canton of Vaud has so far quoted up to two and a half years, but says that should be reduced to 18 months for applications after January 2018. And don't think you can move during the process or you may end up having to start all over again.
9. It can be costly. Since there are three levels of authority, there are three different fees to pay. While the Confederation only requires 50-150 francs, costs set out by the cantons and communes can be much higher. Geneva's basic rate for an adult application is 1,250 francs, plus the communes then add an extra 500-1,000 francs. And all this with the chance that you could be turned down, as one long-term American resident was in 2014.
10. Your likelihood of success may depend on where you live. According to the Tages Anzeiger Western Switzerland is more generous with naturalizations than elsewhere. Official statistics show that Zurich naturalized the most people in 2015 (9,607), but it also has the biggest population, of 1.5 million. The canton of Geneva, population nearly half a million, naturalized 6,093 people in 2015, despite having a third of the population of Zurich and half the population of Bern, where only 2,587 people obtained citizenship.


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Cherry Wood Floors Decorating - But indeed, black floor decorating ideas as the interior living space using minimalist style is usually more neat and practical. Reduction in the use of lots of furniture or property would give the impression of a spacious home. If you are still confused to imagine what and style interior design for the living room that uses a minimalist style, why not try a combination of black and white on the interior of your small living room? Read more...
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