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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Eleanor Catton, Prize-Winning Author of The Luminaries: What an Inspiration
However, I am thoroughly impressed by the Kiwi author, the youngest ever to win the Man Booker: 28 year old Eleanor Catton. Why, you ask?
Ms. Catton has decided to take the money from her latest awards and set up a grant that will enable writers "the time to read."
Let me repeat that: "the time to read"!
How awesome is that? We all know that the best writers are READERS. But really, you should read this article from The Guardian to learn Ms. Catton's reasons for her generosity. In a world that lately seems to have gone stark raving mad, it is absolutely heart-warming and inspiring to witness such a move.
Click here for the article and enjoy!
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As if Harry Kane's excellence needed statistical validation – as if it needed a single number to communicate just how all-encompassing and consistent it has been – Kane tallied three goals on Tuesday against Southampton to eclipse two separate goalscoring marks that are equally astounding.
Kane's first goal, a point-blank header off a Christian Eriksen free kick, etched his name in the Premier League record books. It took him to 37 Premier League goals for the calendar year, one above Alan Shearer's 1995 tally, the most in the league's 25-year history.
But perhaps more impressively, the second goal of a 5-2 rout, a tap-in of a Heung-Min Son cross, put Kane one ahead of Lionel Messi in 2017, and at least one ahead of any other top-flight player in Europe.
It was Kane's 55th of 2017, including all club competitions, and including international goals for England. That's more than Messi (54). It's more than Cristiano Ronaldo (53), Edinson Cavani (53) and Robert Lewandowski (53).
It is, in a way, a meaningless and arbitrary record. But placed in proper context, it is a remarkable one that validates Kane's rise into world football's elite. No player had scored more goals than both Ronaldo and Messi in a calendar year since David Villa and Edin Dzeko in 2009.
After 7 years of Messi & Ronaldo:
✔2009 D. Villa 43
✔2010 L. Messi 60
✔2011 C. Ronaldo 60
✔2012 L. Messi 91
✔2013 C. Ronaldo 69
✔2014 C. Ronaldo 61
✔2015 C. Ronaldo 57
✔2016 L. Messi 59
✅ 2017 H. Kane 55 pic.twitter.com/Q8Lm6KYT3p
— Kristof Terreur (@HLNinEngeland) December 26, 2017
No Premier League player has come all that close. Nonetheless, in arguably the toughest league in the world, Kane managed to outscore world-class talents who regularly face more inferior competition. If this isn't proof that Kane himself is one of those world-class talents as well, nothing will ever be.
Kane's 18th multi-goal game of 2017 had Spurs up 2-0 at halftime in their final match of the year. Dele Alli and Son added to the lead in the second half, and Kane, on a hat trick, fizzed a volley inches wide of the far post.
Sofiane Boufal pulled a goal back for Southampton, but Kane then polished off his eighth hat trick of the year with a clever left-footed finish:
Kane had tied Shearer's record, and drawn to within touching distance of Messi, with a hat trick against Burnley three days earlier. His second in four days, in his final match of 2017, will ensure he ends the calendar year with 39 Premier League goals, and 56 in all competitions.
Kane isn't Messi, and nobody will ever mistake him for the diminutive Argentine, who remains the world's best. But the numbers aren't misleading. They aren't flukes.
There's a tendency to assume they are, for a few reasons. It's easy to pigeonhole Kane as a classic British No. 9, a goalscorer with little else in his locker. And because he lacks awe-inspiring physical prowess, it's natural to think he's overachieving. And to a small degree, he probably is. Fifty-six goals in a calendar year is likely a high-end outlier.
But Kane is so much more than a poacher. And with every year, he outdoes himself. It's about time his year-over-year improvement comes to be seen as a development arc rather than overachievement. Perhaps the No. 39, or the No. 56, will help change the narrative.

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OK I have review I have been putting off writing so TODAY I am going to get them done and participate in a Twitter chat!! I love talking to book friends!
Here are the review I need to get done today!
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Now I won't bombard you with all of these wonderful reviews at once but I will get the all written and scheduled to post today. It's going to be great to get caught up and hopefully I can stay ahead of the game for a little while! Wish me luck!!!
It's time to do a little cleaning! The Clean Out Your E-reader Challenge starts tomorrow and as always I have a looooong list of books to choose from. I am shooting to read 5 books that have been collecting dust on my e-reader.
Here's my list:
- Ember
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- Cornerstone
- Hidden
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If I can I will at a few more to the list but we will have to see what I have time for! I hope you join in the challenge, it's a wonderful reason to read some of those free Kindle books that have been sitting around just waiting for you to read them! The banner will take you to the sign up page and the official rules.
And there's one more! This challenge overlaps with the yearlong challenge that I am doing and with the CONYER challenge as well so yay!! Challenges Galore this month!!! I am getting the pep back in my reading step this month…. Plus spring is coming and I won't be able to go out of the house without itching and/or having an asthma attack so I might as well get some good reading time in right?!
Each button is the linked a challenge so please feel free to join in on the reading madness! All of these challenges are great ways to encourage you along your reading goals!
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Under the PACE program, which has been advocated by the Obama Administration in a move towards greener housing, property owners can borrow money from their local government to pay for cost-effective energy retrofits such as solar panels, LED light bulbs or "Cash for Caulkers."
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Optisort figures out dead batteries, sorts them accordingly
Getting rid of old and exhausted batteries is definitely an issue in the modern world, where more and more folks are able to afford pieces of consumer electronics such as toys and devices that run on, well, batteries. There is a proper way to get rid of old and unwanted batteries, as just simply throwing it into the landfill is not going to bode well for our earth in the long run, considering the kind of toxic material that one would find in the battery itself. Obviously, trying to sort out all of the different types of batteries which arrive at a recycling depot would definitely be an extremely tedious experience. Humans would find it tedious, robots, well, robots don't have any feelings, and it would just be "another day at work" for them. The Optisort is such a robot, where it is capable of recognizing approximately 2,000 kinds of batteries, and currently sees action in sorting out around 33% of batteries recycled in the UK.
You know how it is – if there is a problem that is in your way, finding a working solution would be best, and the machine proved that saying right after being the brainchild of Claes Strannegård, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher with Sweden's University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. He was going through his own garbage and must have felt bummed to do all the sorting, where he then contacted Swedish recycling company Renova. With the universities and Renova working together, the Optisort was 'born'.
Batteries go through the Optisort via a conveyor belt, where each one will be shot by the machine's camera, compared to an existing database of different batteries until a match is made. Depending on the battery's chemical content, a jet of compressed air will then come into play, directing the battery into a designated bin. It can process up to ten batteries per second, and as the Optisort's AI system lets it learn from what it "sees," it is even capable of recognizing damaged or dirty batteries. Never send a human to do a machine's job, right?


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The Food Network premiered its latest reality food show competition Sunday night with the second season of "Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-off." The network's version of "Dancing With the Stars" -- they even got an ex-contestant to compete -- is gearing up for a season full of bloated celebrity egos and mishaps in the kitchen.
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For their first challenge, the celebrities were tasked with putting on their own dinner theaters with a three-minute skit and four tastings on a plate for 100 guests. Some had serious cooking chops: Chilli gave Team Guy the win with her tilapia tostada she named "Chil-apia;" McDermott did a skirt steak with jalapeño polenta; and Ward made his mom's recipe for Asian-style chicken wings. While Gottfried embarrassingly admitted the only thing he knows how to make is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Ray's suggestion? Sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on the sandwiches to make them competition worthy. Hmm, yeah, that'll do the trick.


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I'll be back Monday with some sewing. Maybe in the meantime I'll post some of the one gazillion photos I've taken of redbud trees. Happy Spring!
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So sweet!
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I love this photo, Hillary! Just the perfect moment with the sway of her arm holding the bubble wand and her toe about to hit the asphalt and the shadow. Perfect ! Oh and the tutu just makes it. Love love love!
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A surprise cancer diagnosis would shake up anyone's world. But for Lynda Nijensohn, that shakeup has been reason to change life in positive ways, too.
Nijensohn admits she was shocked when she learned, as a 34-year-old mother, that she had cancer, but her battle against the disease soon turned into something more. She took the recovery as an opportunity to start running, which has now become a way to raise money to help others fight back.
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When Miriam Moeller slipped a dollar and forty cents into an envelope in her fourth grade Catholic school classroom during a "Pagan Baby Campaign",she fully expected to get a pagan baby in return. She dutifully kept vigil by her mailbox for days. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months.
"You grow up and you learn that these kinds of things are just silly. Nobody is going to send you a baby just because you spent your allowance on them.",Mrs. Moeller said before she was informed that her "Pagan Baby" was indeed on it's way last week.
This past Tuesday, Miriam, now grown with children of her own, was presented with a fully grown "Pagan Baby". No, he didn't spend all this time in some jungle in asia but rather the sorting room of the Manhattan post office. There he learned to sort mail, eventually learned the alphabet and simple math, and went on to become a highly respected mailman.
The Pagan Baby, Morrock Mobama, began his long journey to become Mrs. Moeller's when he was scooped up by missionaries during a "baby safari" in the remote jungles of Kenya. He spent ten harrowing days at sea packed in a small crate, in a shipping container full of fellow "Pagan Babies", followed by a week going through customs before he was shipped off to New York City in accordance with the instructions on the label of his crate.
Somewhere between the customs office and the sorting office, that label was lost. Despite several attempts to contact the shipper, the post office received no response. Young Morrock, who only learned his original name after Mrs. Moeller brought him home, grew up as Phil Cosby.
Robert Fish, the postal inspector whose efforts lead to the closure of Mr. Crosby's case was somewhat circumspect about the outcome. "In some ways I'm happy for them, and the case file is finally closed, which is always good. On the other hand, we are losing one fine employee."


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Happy World Radio Day
February 13 is World Radio Day; despite the internet and streaming, nothing beats radio for capturing your audience, especially in the car. Recently, I was an invited guest on WPKN radio playing many vintage spots; click here to enjoy.
They brought to radio the newspaper practice of daily serial installments: new segments of a long-running show. There was Just Plain Bill, the barber who had married out of his social class. Ma Perkins was Just Plain Bill with skirts. Jack Armstrong, the All-American boy, hocked Wheaties to kids.
BSH hired writers to churn out soap opera scripts. They paid $25/script and often sequestered writers in hotel rooms until the work was done. At their height, they had 14 writers penning 50 scripts a week. Hummert paid himself well, too. His $132,000 salary, plus bonuses and a share of the soaps, made him the best-paid man in advertising.
Brands generally produced and sponsored the radio shows directly. The A&P Gypsies, Fleischmann Yeast Hour (with Rudy Vallee) and Kraft Music Hall are just three examples. They were the show sponsors. This branding is more powerful than just buying ad time.
The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra was popular and their advertising effective. The tagline Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco evolved into LS/MFT. The acronym was well leveraged, especially as a radio pneumonic. The catch phrase was so widely known that it entered the public lexicon, which is a brand's often dreamt but rarely achieved goal.


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"I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost."
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost."
In Blue Nights, Joan Didion writes about the long and blue twilights, during summer, just before it gets engulfed by the inky blackness of the night as an analogy for how 'ordinary and expected blessings' like good health, finding love, marriage, bringing up a child, travels, new beginnings can be wiped away by sudden and unexpected catastrophes, uprooting the very foundation of a life that one had carefully built over the years. She has a career as a successful novelist and memoirist; a wonderful family; travels around the world; fame and money; and then came the irreparable and sudden loss of her husband and only daughter within a span of less than two years. The anxiety, sense of foreboding, grief and the subdued nihilism in her words made me realize how flippant most of us are towards the "ordinary blessings".
I have everything I need; a late-blooming yet deep and strong bond with my parents, a sibling who knows me inside out and loves me despite it, seven 'soul sisters' who creates unmeasured joy and camaraderie, a job that enables me to pay my bills comfortably and brings in a sense of making a direct and real difference in the lives of others (in whatever small way), a cosy home resounding with love and laughter; good health of my near ones, and here I use the term loosely to denote just the absence of any major illnesses; a sense of wanderlust, wonder and stubborn hope that (now) fails to get marred even by the dreariest of circumstances; stacks and stacks of books overspilling from every shelf in my room; and an (almost) six feet love trapped in the six inches of my heart for as long as I remember.
Yet, not so long ago, I was drowning in the dark and turbulent waters of mourning about what I want and didn't (yet) get. I am a doctor, a career lakhs of students aspire for and only a couple of thousand gets chosen every year. Yet, I didn't consider myself lucky; because I was an 'ordinary' MBBS and had failed to secure a post-graduate subject of my choice in my first attempt. And no one wants to be ordinary. The hopelessness that stems from the knowledge that one has not yet achieved the universally accepted cornerstones of 'success' in their specific profession, negates every little achievement and joy that were present at the beginning of the career. Tangled in self-doubt and an unfulfilled and misplaced sense of entitlement, the thought of settling for less pained me to the very core. My parents are quite supportive and happy with the very fact that I am the first and only doctor in the entire extended family including the past generations. But it meant nothing to me, because I had failed my own expectations. Anxiety didn't help as much as ruined my confidence every passing moment. My whole worth as a person began to be centred around my academic performance. Nothing else mattered.
Yesterday my little cousin asked me the reason behind the recent suicide of a movie starlet and I replied that it was allegedly due to depression over a stagnant career. My cousin failed to understand why an actress who had surpassed thousands of people struggling to get just a minute role in a movie and had attained country-wide fame and recognition (at least so many people knew who she was!) had killed herself. How was she a 'failure'? I struggled to explain to my cousin that success is a subjective term, rooted deeply in comparison to others, and that happiness and well-being is centred around it to varying degrees.
Today I have reached a point in my life where I am thankful for every blessing I had been given unasked for; but I know the helplessness that the starlet might have due to failed expectations and the vicious thoughts it spurs about the absence of any way out, the complete oblivion of hope, the negligible sense of self-worth and the highly exaggerated delusion of what others will say. I had been trapped in that web of negativity and depression a few years ago for long enough to toy with the idea of embracing death in a bid to escape living. It was the result of a cumulative despair, feeding on certain untoward incidents in my life, that tipped me over the edge when I was challenged with a a period of stagnancy in my career.
While I was battling such negativity, a childhood friend passed away due to post-operative complications following a minor surgery. The day after she died the sun shone brightly in a brilliant blue sky, the bougainvillea was a riot of colour, my mother prepared my favourite dish, my father broke through my wall of gloom with his booming laughter; my sister kicked me in the butt and grinned impishly when I wanted to borrow something from her wardrobe; the television blared upcoming movie trailers, a few friends sent me a postcard from a holiday in Ladakh (because they knew how much I loved the mountains); I read an Alice Munro story; and I had an overwhelming realization that my friend will never experience these ordinary and mundane blessings again. The world will go on, will bring in the new and hold on to the nostalgia of the past, and she won't be there to know any of it. Happiness is being alive. That's it. Everything else is a bonus. And I had let the fleeting thoughts of ending it all creep in to my mind; I don't regret those thoughts, nor am I ashamed. I am immensely relieved to pry myself away from the clutches of such hopelessness and despair. Even now, my life is devoid of the 'certain things that I want', but I am ready to work for them, strive towards them, wait for them. I realize that I will never have all the things I want; but I have everything I need, a wider focus of what this world has to offer and yes, I am alive to enjoy it all.


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Yesterday was one for the books ...
I was in a meeting with a sales manager at a car dealership, which was almost coming to a close when someone from the lobby alerted the manager that someone had driven up on the lot. From the look on his face, I could tell that whoever this person was - was not exactly welcome.
He promptly apologized and excused himself so that he could deal with the person we'll call 'Dude'. Within seconds I heard Dude and could tell that he was high maintenance from the commotion in the lobby. He had not only shown up in a test drive truck but had a ton of his belongings inside and a trailer hitched to the back.
Patiently, I waited inside hoping that whatever went down wouldn't be a 'situation' as the energy felt in the dealership was a bit heightened.
A few minutes later, the manager returned to process a paperwork for Dude when Dude stepped into the inner office for a quick question. I smelled him before I saw him as smoke rolled in like waves.
When he saw me sitting inside, it was like I was the flame to his inner-moth and Dude went from drama-dude to offer your rocker crazy. Dude proceeded to dump all his belongings in my lap and said, "Hold this sweetheart."
I stared at the prison orange stained sweatshirt and some personal papers in my lap with shock as he proceeded to empty his pockets to drop his keys there too. My first instinct was to dump them onto the floor but this was a business environment and I didn't want to make it hard for the general manager across from me, who was trying to process paperwork faster than I'd ever seen anyone in my life. I could tell he wanted this guy to leave more than I did.
Just when I thought I'd seen it all, DUDE slipped a small tube of lotion from a pocket, opened up his shirt, and exposed his chest. Then, he lowered himself so he was only inches from my face so he could rub lotion on a tattoo, saying, "Do you see my tattoo?"
Imagine me - blinking - and trying not to either punch this guy in the throat or knee him in the groin as I search for the exit, which he was promptly blocking. I had no way out and I was trapped in a chair sitting beneath DUDE and his ginormous and crazy ego.
I thought that would be the end of it, but I guess he didn't get the response he wanted from me as I thoroughly ignored him. Because he then took off his ball cap and leaned over to rub his almost bald head in my face, saying, "See my prison haircut? You like it?"
I responded with, "That's a high and tight, sir."
"Oh, it's a prison cut."
I'm thinking to myself - and you probably know first hand.
DUDE proceeds to start digging in his pants, saying, "You want to see something?"
And all I can think of is - Dear God, please don't let him expose himself any further.
Relief washes over me as he pulls out his driver's license saying, "I just got this cut two days ago. Look what I used to look like here!" He points to the picture of him with a heavy beard and shaggy hair.
I narrow my eyes at the picture and glance to his face, saying, "Your eyes are the same and I'd be able to recognize you anywhere."
My intent was - I could pick you out of a line-up, Dude. So back off!!!
However, subtle flys right over DUDE's head.
He leans in once more and talks about what a warm heart I must have, to which I respond, "No, not all the time."
While my responses were limited and not at all inviting - Dude goes further and begins to tell me his life story. All I can think about is getting this lotion-rubbing, exposed guy away from me.
Finally, the manager handed Dude some extra paperwork and gave him a polite send off just before turning to me with an apology and a bottle of sanitizer, which I generously slathered on my hands.
All this being said - why does a man think a lady needs to see any of that?
Needless to say - I made sure he was long gone before I walked to my car and drove away.
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Okay so that may be a bit farfetched. But I ask you, what good could possibly be attained by the bad habit of scratching your ears with your keys? Like your doctor is going to look in them and say "Gee, Louie, them are some clean ears! Say, what do you do to keep them canals so vacant? Car keys, eh? You'll have to show me how to do that!"
My burglar biter doesn't seem quite as stupid now, does it? The way I see it, there are a lot worse things I could be doing habitually. Like being one of those people who leaves about a twelfth of a serving left in the bottom of the juice box or milk carton.
One that gets me every time is perfectly capable people who intentionally walk with a limp disguised as a swagger in an attempt to look cool. I'm not sure if this walk is a byproduct of having their pants around their knees or if their AF1's or Nike's are contoured to give them that shuffle. Whenever I see my neighbor walk out of his house with his "Wounded in the War" strut my brain just starts chanting "Oontz Oontz!" over and over. Y'know, the sound that bass makes when it's cranked up too loud?


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The Indianapolis arts community has been stunned by resignations at the top of three local arts organizations announced within the past few days.
Two of these have been on the administrative side, one on the artistic.
What follows is a purely hypothetical list, not to be connected with the departures of Kirk Trevor from the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Steven Stolen from Indiana Repertory Theatre, or John Pickett from Indianapolis Opera. (Although the list focuses on the woes of running an arts organization [I use "Administrator" as a generic job title], some items on this Letterman-style list potentially have lots to do with resignations on the artistic side as well.)
10. To save money, the board eliminates one or more staff positions and expects Administrator to carry out those duties, too.
9. Board blames Administrator for failure to secure major grants.
8. Some of the blame in #9 is generated by annoyance at Administrator for seeming to expect board members to contribute more.
7. Board divides into factions and Administrator must attempt to please two or more cabals.
6. Administrator chooses the wrong side in such a struggle, usually (understandably) the one more loyal to him/her.
5. Administrator and artistic director get into irreconcilable conflict, and board decides one of them has to go.
4. Administrator and artistic director get along too well, so board faults Administrator for not vetoing more of the artistic director's ideas, which are generally assumed to be less practical.
3. "Mission drift" on board leads to pressure on Administrator always to go with the most popular programming, regardless of how much or little it fulfills the organization's mission.
2. Snobs gain control of board and resist Administrator's efforts at outreach and broadening the fan base.
1. Stress caused by any combination of the above is so aggravating that even if Administrator is managing conflicts and contradictions pretty well, burnout results.


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Listen to Rainy Night In GA, the latest track from Rocko. The cut dropped on Saturday, April 10th, 2010. Rocko's future brightens with every new release, and Rainy Night In GA certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue that Rocko has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're excited to hear more.
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Samsung has just teased a trailer for its much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S8. And while the video was more than usually cryptic, one thing's for certain: we will know all come 29th March.
Over the past few weeks, there have been rumours circulating that Samsung will launch its 2017 flagship at its own event in New York.
Want more news on this Galaxy S8? We've collated all the rumours in our one-stop round-up
That's now certain, following the tantalising trailer that has left smartphone fans eager for next month's official launch.
Leaked images of the Samsung Galaxy S8 appear to show that the device will come in two sizes, each with a large, curved edge-to-edge display, improved camera and a rear fingerprint scanner.
It's also said to come with its own voice assistant to rival Siri and Google Assistant.
Named Bixby, the virtual assistant on the Galaxy S8 is rumoured to support eight languages from the start, three more than Google Assistant.
Samsung adds AKG audio tech to Galaxy tablets and smartphones
Starting with the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Tab S3.
Samsung Galaxy S8 to shrug off Note 7 battery woes, but Note range looks doomed
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Everyone please extend a warm welcome to our newest contributor(s), Juan and Ken Ahonen-Jover. While we already have two couples on the blog that post separately (Jerame and I as well as Andrea and Nadine), this is the first couple to share one account.
Juan and Ken are the co-founders of eQualityGiving.org - the online community dedicated to achieve LGBTQ legal equality. The couple is focused on which organizations, elected officials, and strategies can lead to legal equality faster. Their philanthropic experience includes donating to politicians, organizations and universities, as well as serving on national and local boards, and participating in endorsement panels, political task forces, and donor conferences. Combining this experience with backgrounds in technology and research, they have developed an approach to giving strategically using the internet.


text: Hey all. Well, I've been at it again with the RoseArt Metallic markers. This time I decided to brighten up some VvV Snake Eyes figures! I've been buying these guys at discount stores to make a Ninja troop, but I hated the fact that there was absolutely no color on the figures or accessories. I used blue for my first figure because that's the color that was on the package art. I tried the orange out just to see what I thought of it and I actually kind of like it! All I did was color the areas that I felt would add the right amount without going too far and then wait about 15 minutes and wipe them off to make a more worn look. I'll probably do this with all of the VvV Snake Eyes figures that I've purchased (about 15 at this point) and I'll update this thread with pics as I've completed them!


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And if Bob Wenzel agrees, it's a near certainty.
Bob Murphy first quotes Krugman's Japan paper (motivated by what he read of Scott's - brought to his attention by Wenzel) and then writes his own thoughts:
"The point here is that the end of the Depression – which is the usual, indeed perhaps the sole, motivating example for the view that a one-time fiscal stimulus can produce sustained recovery, does not actually appear to fit the story line too well; much though by no means all of the recovery from that particular liquidity trap seems to have depended on inflation expectations that made real interest rates substantially negative.Does everyone see the absolute stunning beauty here? Christmas is early this year. Back in 1998, Krugman referred to a "Krugman solution" as being: You get your economy out of a liquidity trap by relying exclusively on monetary policy, not at all on fiscal policy."
If temporary fiscal stimulus does not jolt the economy out of its doldrums on a sustained basis, however, then a recovery strategy based on fiscal expansion would have to continue the stimulus over an extended period of time. The question then becomes how much stimulus is needed, for how long – and whether the consequences of that stimulus for government debt are acceptable. …
The political point is that Japan – like, we might note, the United States during the New Deal – appears to have great difficulty working up its political nerve for a fiscal package anywhere close to what would be required to close the output gap. Exactly why is an interesting question, beyond this paper's scope.
Does this mean that fiscal policy should be ignored as part of the policy mix? Surely not. On the general Brainard principle – when uncertain about the right model, throw a bit of everything at the problem – one would want to apply fiscal stimulus. (Even I wouldn't trust myself enough to go for a purely "Krugman" solution). However, it seems unlikely that a mainly fiscal solution will be enough. [Bold added.]
[Slightly amended - I lifted a lot of this from a comment on Bob's blog. Bob is more savvy about the Japan paper than the guy I was responding to, so I'm changing this a little. For my original response click the link and find the comment. What Bob misses is that he seems to think Krugman in 1998 was substantially different than Krugman today] Some people think the Japan paper was about how Japan ought to do a lot of fiscal policy because monetary policy wouldn't work. The Japan paper actually said that the solution to the liquidity trap is monetary policy that credibly commits to irresponsibility. The point was only that traditional monetary policy, working through Taylor-rule type interest rate channels - would not work at the zero lower bound. You needed to act on expectations.
That was the headline message. That was what the paper was so famous for saying. The last time anyone talked about a liquidity trap there were no New Keynesians around. Old Keynesians cared about expectations of course, but they never really did a very good job modeling it formally. Nobody did a good job modeling it formally until the rational expectations revolution followed up on the inroads made by Phelps and Friedman w.r.t. expectations and the Phillips Curve. So the Old Keynesians always used to highlight how monetary policy would not work in a liquidity trap.
Krugman, a New Keynesian, sees a liquidity trap in Japan and is able to think about the role of expectations in more formal terms, and says "look we always thought monetary policy was useless in these cases but it's really not".
His solution was the credible commitment to irresponsibility.
Liquidity traps are bad news. Fiscal policy can help monetary policy out. You can get this result in a lot of models. Krugman said that too.
As far as I know this was Krugman's view in 1998 and this is Krugman's view today. This is only "devastating" if you think Krugman in 1998 was not advocating fiscal policy (he was, because traditional monetary policy was off the table and unconventional monetary policy relied on a commitment to doing things the central bank had a reputation for not doing) or if you really live under a rock and think that the Japan paper was about how monetary policy doesn't work in a liquidity trap.
To be blunt, if you thought the Japan paper was principally about how fiscal policy is the way you fight liquidity traps, you don't understand the Japan paper.


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Rachael was the first model I photographed in 2015, and also now in 2016.
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Rachael was the first model I photographed in 2015, and also now in 2016.
All Images © Daniel Klaas
While a lot of my shoots are with agency models, many people don't realise that many of them are not. Working with non-models can be more challenging, but in many ways, it is highly rewarding. One of the challenges of portrait photography is helping the subject to relax and be comfortable in front of the lens so that their natural look can be conveyed.
My second shoot of the year was with Eleanor Green, a Melbourne based stylist who understands this well and it was an enjoyable experience working and creating this series together.
Eleanor was relaxed, charming and very comfortable in front of the camera and I would not hesitate to work with her again.
Model: Eleanor Green
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I was contacted by American model Kyotocat to photograph her while she was travelling through Melbourne. These are just some of the results.
Hopefully we'll get a chance to work together again in the future.
All images © Daniel Klaas
I've worked with Melbourne based musician and good friend Maxi on a number of occasions for her promotional work (some of which are scattered throughout this site), however for this shoot we decided to create a much more intimate and person style, using a mix of film and digital cameras.
All images © Daniel Klaas
Mad Dame and I have been working together for almost 4 years, and during this time she has become one of my favourite models.
In 2013 we were fortunate enough to be one of the featured photographer/models in the book: The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography - Vol 4.
Below are some of my personal favourites from our large portfolio of work over the years.
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The TV show Queens of Drama is a relatively new one. It first aired on April 26, 2015 and is still running. The genre of the show is a soap opera mixed in with a documentary reality. The show has several stars. Their names are: Lindsay Hartley, Crystal Hunt, Vanessa Marcil, Chrystee Pharris, Hunter Tylo , and Donna Mills. The show is produced in the United States and everything is in English. The main executive producer of the show is Leslie Greif who works for the company Thinkfactory Media Each episode runs for about 30 minutes and they are up to ten episodes on their first season. The show airs on the network POP.
The scripted reality TV show follows a group of former soap opera actresses who work together both behind and in front of the scenes to develop, pitch, and produce a new series. Their goal is to land a pilot deal by the end of the season.
Crystal Hunt is one of the starring roles in the show. She works with her group to pitch an idea for a new show. She has been on the show since it started. She portrays herself on the show as it is a reality show, and she posts cool behind the scenes footage on her Instagram.
Crystal was born on February 5, 1985 in Clearwater, Florida. The 31-year-old has been in the film and TV industry her whole life. Before she became famous she appeared in an advertisement for NSYNC at a young age. The producer and actress is best known for playing Lizzie Spaulding on the show Guiding Light. She played a troubled daughter of a long-suffering couple. The show aired on CBS from 200 to 2006. She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2005 for Outstanding Younger Actress in Drama Series fro the role. Crystal appeared in a film called The Derby Stallion in 2005. Some other works she has appeared in include the 2007 Universal Pictures film Sydney White and a show called One Life to Live in February, 2009 to February 2010. She played Dementria "Dinky" Rosemead Hodgekiss in Sydney White and on ABC's show she played Stacy Morasco. She left One Life to Live, but came back in March 2010. She also appeared in Clint Buchanan's version of Hell in January 2012. Hunt has also had other ventures. She owned My Pets Dream Boutique which was a high-end pet boutique in her hometown and in 2014 she produced her first feature film. The film was called "Talkbot County and included her longtime friend and fellow actress Dania Ramirez.


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Writer-director Deepa Mehta's Earth takes place in India in 1947, when the British withdrawal from that country allowed the long-brewing animosity between the Hindus and the Muslims to boil over into a bloody religious war.
Careful not to take sides (and how could it with so much mutual bloodshed?), the film is both overly schematic in its presentation of points of view – Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians all get a turn at bat – and shamelessly reductive, using, in the manner of David Lean's Dr. Zhivago, a seismic and complex historical upheaval as a backdrop to a more easily comprehended, traditionally romantic one.
The central character is Shanta (Nandita Das), a Hindu nanny for a Parsi family whose charge is a young crippled girl with the somewhat disconcerting nickname of "Lenny Baby." Shanta, young and beauteous, and Lenny, sweet and cloying, hang out at a local park where a group of young men from diverse religious backdrops meet to discuss the issues of the day, when not displaying their essential commonality by flirting with Shanta. Two men in particular, both Muslims, are drawn to the nanny and it soon becomes apparent that no matter which of the Romeos ends up with this Juliet, it's all going to come to a bad end.
Mehta's film is at times ambitious, grim and sensual, and tainted by obvious symbolism and sentimentality. But if her love story and her awful Lenny Baby, representing the hobbled future of the partitioned country, border on the hackneyed, when crunch time comes she doesn't flinch from the bloody horror (or the bloody pointlessness) of religious conflict.
Mehta at this point seems a more compelling director than writer, her easy handling of mob scenes undercut by her melodramatic narrative. She has all the earmarks of a classic director of epics – mainly a good eye and a basic mistrust of the viewer's intelligence.
Richard C. Walls writes about the arts for the Metro Times. E-mail him at email@example.com.


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December 2 and people are talking about this year's shots. Some municipalities had free flu shot clinics in Ontario and some doctors provided the same clinics to their patients.
I spotted this article about people leery of this year's shot and seeking alternatives.
Canadians turn to natural supplements instead of flu shots
December 2, 2010
Elizabeth Haggarty
It's that time of year again, when anyone coughing in the subway sparks a round of dirty looks. As Canadians get ready to fight the cold and flu season, more people are turning to vitamins and minerals, instead of flu shots, to banish a runny nose.
In fact, two thirds of us are taking natural supplements, while only 12 per cent opt for the jab, according to an Ipsos Reid poll.
Natural supplements are a $3.5 billion industry in Canada, with some natural health retailers reporting spikes of 25 per cent in supplement sales when the cold weather hits. http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/swineflu/article/900399--canadians-turn-to-natural-supplements-instead-of-flu-shots
I'd like to see Mayor Ford expedite his subway plans, so that there will be more subway room on the rails especially during cold and flu season.


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As the time to touch the road draws nearer, Cayman's bands have announced the creation of a first-of-its-kind Cayman Islands Masquerade Bands Association.
Twelve bands elected fresh carnival band leader Olujimi La Pierre to be a liaison between the Batabano committee and the mas bands.
"Cimba" held a band launch over the weekend. The Batabano carnival is on its 34 season and those involved say the association will help enhance the product.
"We know now what a great product we have, I mean we always did, but even more now, we're ready for the true development and the vision and taking carnival, where it should go in the Cayman islands," said Donna Myrie-Stephen.


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Just ignore the snow for now :P.
This is the most generic word for "tree", but it's also rarely used on its own, being found mostly in compounds and expressions (Mountain Folk rarely refer to trees without talking about what kind of tree it is). In the sense of "wood" as a material, though, it is quite common.
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I have recently been turning to yoga in times of stress these past few months. Either I am overwhelmed with school work, or I just need to escape the craziness of my life every once in a while. I have done yoga a bit in the past, and I enjoyed it alot!
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HOUSTON - Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star, the largest Big Brothers Big Sisters agency in the world, has purchased a 23,505-sf high-profile site near downtown at 1003 Washington Ave. for its new headquarters building.
"We first considered buying an existing building, then considered a renovation project, and finally identified the ideal site at Washington and Franklin," said Randy Hopper, senior vice president with the Houston office of The Weitzman Group. "The site has an existing building which will be demolished for this new headquarters project."
Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star currently operates out of a building in the Sharpstown area. They serve more than 9,500 children in 100 counties in Texas. Their existing building already has been sold to a neighboring building for expansion.
Working with parents and guardians, schools, corporations and others in the community, Big Brothers Big Sisters carefully pairs children ("Littles") with screened volunteer mentors ("Bigs") and monitors and supports these one-to-one mentoring matches.
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How can life with children be anything other than just brilliant? Stupid assertion that really, but I hope you know what I mean. The eleven year old daughter is practising a song for an audition. I have to make an effort to take an interest - but I'm so glad I did - the joy she's getting from the feedback and the anticipation is heart warming.
The six year old has quite suddenly latched on to writing (barely comprehensible) stories - removing sheets of paper to scribble on from the printer at a rate of about one every five minutes. She's gets rather fixated by such enthusiams (just like Dad) and quite happily writes while the breakfast "spoil" seeps up through the paper.
That's getting your priorities right. (comment from Ali (wife) - you rotten liar, it drives you up the wall really) Ok I'm torn.
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Bomb scare on bus
* About 30 high-school students were evacuated from a Gaylord Community Schools Bus Thursday morning while enroute to school after a female student yelled out that she had an explosive device in her book bag.
It turned out to be hoax, but because Thursday marked the second anniversary of the Columbine school killings, any threat of violence is taken very seriously by police, according to State Police Sgt. J. Gorno.
"You just can't make statements like that in today's climate," Gorno said.
He said the incident occurred around 7:30 a.m. as the bus was traveling on Hayes Tower Road near Manuka Lake Road in Hayes Township.


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Let's talk about dog beds. Let's talk about how booooooring some dog beds are. Solid-colored, stuffing-filled lumps. Or even worse…. plaid. Come on, now. That's not you. You have style. You have panache. You've got a dog who needs a snazzy dog bed.
San Francisco-based P.L.A.Y. (Pet Lifestyle and You) is here to help. Their modern dog beds, many featuring sophisticated but fun designs by artist David Collins, offer a bold answer to boring dog beds.
Pretty cool, right? Not boring at all. Plus, what's even cooler – P.L.A.Y. beds are filled with stuffing made from recycled plastic bottles, with a large round bed containing as many as 92 recycled plastic bottles. PLUS, if you've already got a bed that's perfectly good, if only a little booooooring, P.L.A.Y. offers their awesome designs in covers alone. Brilliant!
You can see all the designs and fetch non-boring beds at P.L.A.Y.
(OK, OK, kidding about the plaid thing. Sort of.)
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Unfortunately, my duo destroy any bed we have gotten them. I think we been through about 6 each in the last year
Oh man, I LOVE the black and grey chandelier bed. That's cute enough to go on the couch, nevermind being a dog bed!
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I have an integer array list. It will always contain 5 integers. Now suppose it contains the numbers 10031. Now I want to do this calculation in the elements.
Add the numbers within this number, until you are left with a 1 or 2 digit number.
...........4....10 (When this occurs, separate into 1 + 0)
..............5..1 = 51. Result is 51.
I want the result when it is a double digit number. Please help.


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On the ninth day of the Pea Shooter Campaign, a pea-tack spotter, who has moved to the rear bumper of the truck in order to watch for tacks on the ground, spots Frank the Flower shooting his peashooter at passing trucks. The pea-tack spotter immediately finds a cop and tells him what he saw. The cop interviews Frank and nearly lets him go until he sees pea-pins stuck in Frank's hatband. At police headquarters, the commissioner asks Frank how many trucks he has shot. Frank says either seventeen or eighteen. He is not really sure since he thought he got one truck, but it moved away before he could be sure. The commissioner tells him they have a count of eighteen thousand nine hundred ninety-one. Frank takes credit for every one of them. Frank thinks that since he is being arrested anyway, he...
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09_Hopeless Valentine
translated by Eduipe
The faltering light says to me,
"I will make you forget all"
The stare that aches with me beckons me,
"I will hide you within here"
Hopeless Valentine
The hand left with nothing but scars caresses me,
"I will console your solitude"
The meaningless lips are quite busy,
"I will sing for you"
I couldn't say anything
There was no one, there.
There was no miracle
When there is always someone who needs someone.
My beloved valentine
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Domestic and industrial surfaces may frequently be the same in standard it is good to say that the industrial floor can experience larger'traffic'while it is also prone to have heavy things, such as for example furniture and gear, that may trigger injury and limit the potency of common cleaning. A commercial floor can represent a large investment therefore it is crucial to appear after it effectively and to help keep it as clean as possible.
It is important to see that the word'industrial'is notably unclear as it might vary from a tiny company or place store to a sizable industrial factory – with the decision of flooring varying as a result. To help keep it simple, however, we shall look at a standard office environment and give attention to normal ways of looking after your floor.
Maintaining any floor clear is always difficult, but the key is based on preventing the ground from getting filthy or ruined in the first position, so there are certain factors to keep in mind.
In nearly all cases, a commercial environment could have more people coming and going than just about any domestic environment. If it be personnel, clients or readers, delivery men an such like, most of these persons will bring dirt and resolution in on their shoes. Persons also frequently keep an office for meal breaks and smoke breaks and this risk is improved actually more. The determination and dirt contaminants went in on the feet of sneakers is one of the principal dangers for surfaces such as for instance clay, plastic and timber as it can cause floor damaging allowing soil and germs to produce and spot the floor over time. Placing and using doormats at entrances should help reduce this somewhat, as well as regular sweeping.
This is a particular issue in a professional environment as personnel won't take the exact same care at the floor restoration oxford which they do within their homes. Folks are less inclined to wipe their feet, take their sneakers up as well as cleanup tea and espresso leaks – factors which are almost a given in many domestic locations. That insufficient attention can cause long term difficulties with keeping a floor seeking good.
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Solar Chargers 15000mAh, GRDE Portable Dual USB Solar Battery Charger
Solar Chargers 15000mAh, GRDE Portable Dual USB Solar Battery Charger External Battery Pack Phone Charger Power Bank with Flashlight for Smartphones Tablet Camera (Blue).
You get two charging options on this power bank one is a micro USB cable and the other is solar.
Solar is awesome for that camping or hiking trip. I can't tell you how many times I have forgotten to charge my power banks so I could charge my phone. I would always be some place that had no power to charge anything.
Another reason this power bank is great for outdoors activity is because it is also is a flashlight!
This power bank is high-capacity, built-in 15000mAh battery. This is awesome for you iPhone people because it can charge your phone 5-6 times!
Power bank allows you to charge 2 devices at once. This is really fast when charging phones.
This power bank comes with a very durable hook so you can hook it on your pant loop, backpack, or other items. When you use this hook your power bank will get sun and charge.
This would be a great Christmas gift for anyone that is an outdoors person or for the on the go kinda person.
You can purchase this power bank on Amazon for $21.99. This will make a great stocking stuffer or an under the tree gift.
Disclosure: The author of this blog received compensation in the form of free product in exchange for a fair and unbiased review. All opinions are 100% that of the author's.


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Well, it's that time of the year again. The time when powerhouse Wine Spectator teases us with its "Top 100 Wines of the Year" list. This week, it has counted down wines 10 through 2 and today revealed its "Wine of the Year": Kosta Browne's 2009 Sonoma Coast Pinot.
As uneasy as I am about this list, I am like a driver passing a wreck: I scan the list each year and see how many of the choices are in my cellar. And, as uneasy as I am about WS's relationship to the food and wine industry, its ability to make or break small winemakers and boost the already inflated egos of famous chefs, I have been a subscriber for many years.
I happen to think that this year's #1 choice is a darn good choice. Here's a great wine with a great heritage. It is priced within the reach of most wine buyers who buy an occasional special-occasion bottle and it is plentiful. Of course, the retail industry gets a copy of the top 100 before the public and this $54 bottle is now listed online for more than $100.
What do you think of WS's top 100 this year and in general? Any comments on individual selections, including #1?
Before you get typing, here's a link to a blogger who has some particularly keen insights into the WS top 100 phenomenon in general:


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Rick Springfield has revealed that he tried to kill himself when he was a teenager.
In his new autobiography Late, Late at Night, the 'Jesse's Girl' hitmaker details a failed suicide attempt.
The '80s popstar wrote that he tried to hang himself at the age of 17 because he felt he was "as ugly as the ass end of a female baboon at mating season".
Springfield claims that he hung for about 20 seconds from a ceiling beam, but the noose undid itself.
"From this point on, music will become my salvation and save me from most serious self-inflicted harm," he wrote.
The book is out now from Simon & Schuster.


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Since the site exists on user contributions, though, folks have continued to digitize FSI course materials in the meantime.
But being unable to upload the new stuff to the original site, a spinoff site with a slightly different look and a larger collection of digitized language materials has opened its doors:
Note that the address is .org -- the new site includes all the materials from the original one, plus all the new material digitized since that site stopped updating. This includes all the new materials for Southeast Asian languages that I wrote about in November. (Some of the links in that post are now defunct.)
Finally, a word to the wise: Since FSI materials are in the public domain, third parties are free to repackage and resell them, usually at absurd prices. Prior to the internet, this was actually a useful service, since FSI courses can sometimes be hard to track down.
Nowadays distribution is no problem, and the number of opportunistic sites selling FSI materials has increased. This is still legal, but I think it's distasteful. And the worst part is that in all likelihood they're just selling you a CD with the pdf and mp3 files taken from these free sites, which are quite good quality. Be warned.


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Aug 17
Server on fire
Note: I'm in the midst of a web developer bootcamp. I feel like writing this up to help others, but I'm going to show the sausage getting made, because (1) I'm not sure I'd cover everything, and having all the details might help others in this position, and (2) I don't have the time to make it more concise.
As background: I run a few websites, some for myself, and some for other people. When the sites for other people break, I pay more attention. And when I check the traffic to see what's being requested, and the most frequent is a page for suicide and depression prevention resources, right after Robin Williams' taking his own life, when the resources could be timely and helpful, well, that really lit a fire under me. Some sysadmin geekery ensued…No comments
May 7
Arcanum's Sidhe-Gaelic language
Arcanum's a new webcomic (over at Thrillbent) written by John Rogers, of Leverage (from TV) and Blue Beetle (from comic books, and previously touched on here) fame. Arcanum's sort of "24," fighting the sinister and secret return of magic to the world. There's "an alien language" called "Sidhe-Gaelic" therein, which is basically a dingbats font, which can be easily decoded, given enough text. Today's issue 6 offered enough text to decode, so I took a shot at it.
What was encoded? Spoilers follow.1 comment
Feb 18
Ebook Index of Free Ebooks for the Kindle
Here's the backstory: My parents got a Kindle for Christmas, and I've looked into ways for them to read public domain books on it, and the interfaces for browsing for books and transferring them are non-optimal. First, I tried emailing books to the Kindle, which worked for me, but it was too complicated for my parents.
Then I found the Magic Catalog, an ebook index of Project Gutenberg books, linked up so that you can immediately download books and add them to your Kindle, without using a computer or Amazon. It's in a useless order, though – it's not sorted by the book title, or by author.
So I thought I'd fix that. Here's the prototype, sorted by the author's last name!
This is my first ebook, so please forgive the rough edges.
Update, 2013-02-20: I made major revisions, to the formatting and to the data. The authors' names were mangled in spots.
Update, 2013-03-07:
- New list: Popular ebook downloads from the past month.
- Titles are sorted properly, ignoring stop words like a, an, and the.
- I removed most long subtitles. This removed about a third of the pagecount.
- There's cover art again.
- Renamed the local file, removing a problematic apostrophe.
Update, 2013-03-13:
- adding navigation help – by the first two letters of authors' last names, and for unspecified authors, the first letter of the book title
- added the latest books from Project Gutenberg
- I made an EPUB version, for readers without Kindles
- some fixes – some special characters, and some missing "illustrated version" labels
Update, 2013-03-18 – Fixed the EPUB version.4 comments
Jun 11
Afro Circus
So there's a moment in the Madagascar 3 trailer that Marty the Zebra, voiced by Chris Rock, breaks into a hilarious and catchy song, about an Afro circus and polka dots, and someone was kind enough to loop it, for 10 minutes. I noticed a slight pause in the loop, which quickly drove me nuts! Here's my attempt, as an mp3 and an iPhone ringtone.
Let's try looping this:
Edit: It works! The ringtone works fine – though my roommate hates it – and the loop has a pause but it's otherwise good.
Another edit: For more details, see Know Your Meme.2 comments
Oct 23
Server push animation
This came up because of Jason Scott's posting hundreds of "Under Construction" animated gifs (warning! that can crash your browser!), derived from Archiveteam's attempt to backup Geocities before it closes.
Seeing that page led twoleftfeet on Metafilter to reminisce about creating the first "Under Construction" animated gifs, mentioning the earlier, clunkier "server push animations."
A thread on Hacker News centered on that story. Scriptor asked "server push animations? How were those done?" And I dug up some information – including an implementation – & posted it there.
I've been curious about what it would do on current browsers, so. I took the Perl script, hit the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for some canonical test images, & put them together to make:
This is a server push animation. It surprised me that it worked in Firefox & Mobile Safari.
I can't say that this is terribly useful, except for historical interest. Each frame of animation is sent as a separate picture, so, for example, a loop would require an ongoing connection.1 comment
Jun 8
Reconstituting the Metaweb
Bringing a wiki back to life reminds me that I've wanted to reconstitute the Metaweb, the wiki covering Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Of course, I had the database for hbmobile, which made that easy; I didn't get it for the Metaweb, due to apparently bad timing. It got bogged down by spammers, there was an inability to upgrade the software, & it wasn't golden, but still…
I read about the Nielsen Haydens' work to reconstitute from caches & whatnot after a server died, & it sounds familiar.
archive.org covered the Metaweb, & so did I. It sorta looked like I'd have to set up a wikibot to read the archive & push it back out to another wiki, possibly having to massage the input for formatting (no, you can't log in!) & massage the output to preserve timestamps. Now it looks plausible to feed the html into something that spits out an sql dump.
This also got nudged a bit by finding out that Stephenson's got a book, Anathem, coming out late this year. Aaand now I see a name I remember from the Metaweb asking about it. So I'm going to go ask if he got a copy of the database.
Updates (8/17): Since writing this, I've been in touch with Metaweb collaborators Jeremy Bornstein (who gave me an Anathem copy), Alan Sinder, & Patrick Tufts (due to a question I asked on Metafilter). There's a small (four meg), corrupted, empty copy of the database at hand, & a larger (forty meg) copy hiding somewhere.
He's doing a tour of readings; he'll be in San Francisco for its release party September 9th, with Anathem-inspired music & Q&A.
A friend from hbmobile has offered the use of cryptonomicon.net, which I'm considering.
Update (12/10): There's an Anathem Wiki. the database hasn't made an appearance, & computer problems have provided another obstacle. I'll note any progress here.1 comment
May 18
iPod recording device compatibility
I've been recording audio for fun using a 2nd generation ipod nano & a couple of accessories, the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo & the xtrememac MicroMemo. (I switched from using the MicroMemo to the TuneTalk because the latter works much better with my microphones – the autogain balances out for phantom power or bias power, I forget.) Out of curiosity, I checked to see how well they work with various ipods:
MicroMemo TuneTalk ipod - 4th gen no no ipod - 5th gen untested works nano - 2nd gen works works nano - 3rd gen works works nano - 4th gen works ipod classic works works iphone no no iphone 3G no ipod touch no no touch - 2nd gen no response
There are other accessories that allow you to record – the ivoice (for touch & iphone, apparently) & the Griffin italk pro, at least – but I own neither, so haven't tested those broadly. The italk pro worked well in a brief test with the nano 2nd gen & my microphones, at least.
Update (12/10): Tried the TuneTalk on a newer generation of ipods.No comments
Apr 21
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The comic book Blue Beetle (Wikipedia, DC Database) includes alien technology speaking in an alien language. Eventually, I realized I could decode it. Then that I could make a font out of it.
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Apr 21
This is sort of a catchall compared to my list of recordings. That has a focus; this will cover random noodling around.No comments


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BMX racers return to Louisville for Derby City Nationals
BMX racers return to Louisville for Derby City Nationals
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
BMX racers from across the country came to Louisville for the Derby City Nationals.
Hundreds competed at the E.P. Tom Sawyer Park in eastern Jefferson County, and they came in all shapes and sizes.
Some of the racers had more sponsors than a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.
Competitor Casey Minthorn believes the key to success is to start at a very young age.
"I started when I was three years old, and ever since been riding and never stop. Just got better and better. I'm here trying to do my best here," said Minthorn.
Of course, the idea is to stay fast and stay out of trouble.
There was a 2-year-old division and a 61 and older division at the races.
About 5,000 spectators were expected for the three-day event.


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How was CBSE Chemistry Exam 2016?
How was the CBSE Chemistry exam 2016?
It was reported by various agencies that this year's (2016) exam was the toughest compared to last 5 years question paper. Is it true? Was the question paper really a hard nut?
How much do you expect in CBSE Chemistry theory paper?
Categories: AISSCE CHEMISTRY Tags: aissce, cbse, chemistry, Exam
Advantages of synthetic detergents over soaps
Synthetic detergents have several advantages over soaps.
- Synthetic detergents can be used even in hard water whereas some of the soap gets wasted if the water is hard.
- Synthetic detergents can be used even in acidic medium as they are the salts of strong acids and are not decomposed in acidic medium.
- Synthetic detergents have a stronger cleansing action than soaps.
- Synthetic detergents are more soluble in water than soaps.
- Synthetic detergents are prepared from the hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum. This saves vegetable oils which are otherwise used for making soaps
Categories: AISSCE CHEMISTRY, CBSE Chemistry, CHEMISTRY IN EVERYDAY LIFE Tags: aissce, cbse, chemistry, detergents, soaps
Memorise Periodic Table using Mnemonics
Group 1>H(Hydrogen)ele(Lithium)n(Sodium) K(Potassium)abr(Rubidium) Se(Cesium)faraar(Francium)
= Helen kabr se faraar
Group 2>Be(Beryllium)ta mange(Magnesium) Car(Calcium) scooter(Strontium) Baap(Barium)Roye(Rubidium)
=Beta maange car scooter , baap roye
Group 13>B(Boron)al(Aluminium) Ga(Gallium)ngadhar In(Indium)dian Ti(Thallium)lak
==Bal Gangadhar Indian Tilak
Group 14>C(Carbon)ollege student(Silicon) ge(Germanium)t some(Sn=Tin) prob(Pb=Lead)lem
==College student get some problem
Group 15>N(Nitrogen)ews p(Phosphorus)aper Aaj (Arsenic) sab(Sb=Antimony) bi(Bismuth)kega
===News paper aaj sab bikega
Group 16>O(Oxygen)s(Suplhur) se(Selenium) te(Tellurium)po(Polonium) ( Os = Uss , Tepo is a word meaning to press)
===Os se tepo
Group 17>F(Flourine)ir Kal(Chlorine) bahar(Bromium) aayi(I = Iodine)
====Fir kal bahar aayi
Group 18>Hai (Helium) Na(Neon)na Aaj(Argon) Ka (Krypton) Zinda(Xenon) Raja(Radium)
====Hai Nana aaj ka Zinda raja
The Hydrogen group
Hi Lila Ne Kiya Rab se fariyaad
Hydrogen(H), Lithium(Li), Sodium(Na), Pottassium(K), Rubidium(Rb), Cesium(Cs), Francium(Fr)
Categories: CBSE Chemistry Tags: Aluminium, chemistry, Francium, Krypton, Polonium, Rubidium, Thallium, Zinda
CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Sample Paper – HALOALKANES AND HALOARENES
1. Give IUPAC names of the following compounds:
(a) CH2=CH-CH – C=CH2
C2H5 Cl
(b) CH3-CH2-CH-C6H5Br
2. Write the structure of the following organic halogen compounds :
(a) 4-tert-butyl-3-iodoheptane
(b) 2-(2-chlorophenyl)-1-iodooctane
3. Explain the following reaction:
(a) Friedel craft alkylation reaction.
(b) Wurtz reaction
(c) Sandmeyer's reaction
(d) Finkelstein reaction
4. Convert the following:
(a) Ethane to bromoethene
(b) But-1-ene to but-2-ene
(c) Propene to propyne
(d) Benzyl alcohol to 2-phenylethanoic acid
(e) Aniline to chlorobenzene
5. Explain Markownikoff's rule with example.
6. Explain the following
(a) Vinyl chloride is hydrolysed more slowly than ethyl chloride
(b) The treatment of alkyl chloride with aqueous KOH leads to the formation of alcohols but in the presence of alcoholic KOH , alkenes are the major products.
7. Distinguish between C2H5Br and C6H5Br through chemical test .
8. What are Enantiomers and Racemic mixtures ?
9. Predict the order of reactivity of the following compounds in SN1 reaction C6H5CH2Br , C6H5CH(C6H5)Br , C6H5CH(CH3)Br , C6H5C(CH3)(C6H5)Br
10. What is chemical name of D.D.T ? How it is prepared ?
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Categories: AISSCE CHEMISTRY, CBSE Chemistry, Chemistry Model Papers Tags: Business, Central Board of Secondary Education, chemistry, Double-slit experiment, Inorganic, Mathematics, Standard Hindi, Wurtz reaction
CBSE Class 12 Chemistry Test – Organic Compunds containing Nitrogen
MM : 25 TIME : 45min.
1. Write a chemical equation each to illustrate the following reaction:
(a) Carbylamine reaction
(b) Hofmann – bromamide reaction
(c) Gabriel phthalimide synthesis
(d) Balz – Schiemann reaction
(e) Diazotisation reaction
2. Separate primary secondary and tertiary amines on the basis of Hinsberg's method.
3. Convert the following :
(a) Aniline into fluorobenzene
(b) Toluene into p-toluic acid.
(c) Aniline to sulphanilic acid .
4. Why are amines are less acidic than alcohols of comparable molecular masses?
5. How is basic strength of aromatic amines affected by the presence of electron releasing group on the benzene ring?
6. Explain why Amino group in ethylamine is basic but not in acetamide ?
7. Out of aliphatic and aromatic amines which one is soluble in water and why?
8. Give one chemical test to distinguish between benzyl amine and anilne.
9. What happens when ethylamine is treated with CHCl3 in the presence of ethanolic KOH.
10. Discuss the importance of pH in coupling reaction.
Categories: AISSCE CHEMISTRY, CBSE Chemistry Tags: Amine, Aniline, Basic Chemicals, Business, Central Board of Secondary Education, Chemicals, chemistry, Gabriel