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Labour criticises Buhari government over failure to revive industry, economy
Labour leaders and textiles workers have criticised the administration of Muhammadu Buhari over its failure to revive collapsed textiles industry and Nigerian economy two years after.
This was stated during the Minister of State(Industry, Trade and Investment) Hajiya Aisha Abubakar's tour of the ailing factories in Kaduna yesterday with labour officials.
Led by the Textiles Workers Union Secretary General and member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) National Executive Council (NEC), Issa Aremu, the workers pointed out that three years in Buhari's government, the textiles industries in the major cities in the country have remained closed against the pledge by the President in 2015 that the factories would come back to life.
Aremu said, while fielding questions from journalists after hosting the Minister, that, "We must believe in our government; not only about what they say, it is about what we want them to do. Even the fact that they have moved around the factories and President said he is committed to the revival of textiles, it is because we are putting pressure."
According to him: "There is no future for Nigeria without industrialisation. And why should the industry collapse? We commend them for the commitment to the revival of textiles, but they must work the talk to make this a reality.
"Why will state emergency agencies go and buy tapoline and blankets in the open market that is full of smuggled goods. And at times they even go to China buy, while the ones produced by local industries are abandoned.
"And the Federal Government should also direct the Army, Customs, Police and other paramilitary institutions to buy made in
Nigeria goods."
Stressing that labour and textiles workers would not allow ineffective leadership in the country any longer, Aremu said: "All stakeholders in the industry and labour have resolved that in 2019 only those who are committed to moving this country forward, industrially, will get the votes of workers. Only those who are committed to the revival of industry, employment of workers and adequate pay for them will get their votes.
"If they don't do so we won't vote for them."
In the same vein, President of the Textiles Workers Union, John Adaji, while reinforcing the position of Aremu, remarked: "Let me not fail to acknowledge the efforts of the minister to move Nigerian industries out of the woods.
"But as per result, if you ask me it is work in progress and below expectation.
"This is because, my expectation is such that after three years of this administration, at least by now I should be counting additional membership in the industries. And that can be a result of reviving the closed textiles factories or establishing new ones.
"But, up till just December last year we are still losing membership, so, there are lots of talks, a lot of policies but less result."
The minister, in her remarks solicited for the support and understanding of the textiles workers, saying that the government is working to ensure its campaign promises to revive Nigerian industry.
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"Yeah," they said, squirming beneath the comforter.
"Alright." The room was gray, illuminated by a solitary lamp. "This might be scary."
"We're never scared," the elder said.
I twined my fingers behind my head and started: "Once upon a time—"
"Once upon a time," the younger parroted.
"If I tell a story, you have to listen. Understand? No more interrupting."
They nodded.
"Good." I shifted into storytelling mode. "Once upon a time, there lived two girls."
"Regan and Ellis," the elder shouted.
"That's right," I said. "One day, while playing in the backyard—"
"Dragon," the younger said.
"No, not a dragon. Don't interrupt. One day, while playing in the backyard, they found something, something special. Do you know what it was?"
They shook their heads.
"A box," I said.
The younger scrunched her eyebrows. Confused by the path on which this story was hurtling.
"But not any box," I said, before she could voice her objections. "It was a magical box."
"What was in it?" the elder asked.
"Why don't you stop talking and let me tell you."
"Alright then." I composed myself. "It was dark and glowing—"
"Scary," the younger said.
"Seriously, let me get through this."
They blinked.
"It was dark and glowing. Both were scared. Regan, however, knew that if a magical box appeared in their backyard, then they simply couldn't ignore it. For, obviously, it was a receptacle of great significance, carved with all kinds looping and pagan symbols."
"Uh…I mean, pretty."
"Regan, then, reached out with great care and slowly pried back the lid."
"What was in it?" the elder asked with wide, glowing eyes.
"A key, ornate and wooden."
"What's 'ornate?'" the elder asked.
"Never mind that. It was special…special and wooden. But it wasn't alone. Tucked beneath the key was a note, handwritten."
"What did it say?"
"It read: Dear Girls, If you are reading this, then I'm already dead."
"Benjamin!" my wife roared from the living room.
"Alright, alright," I yelled back before starting again. "If you are reading this, then the Rainbow of All Encompassing Blackness has already spread throughout our land. We tried to stop it, but we failed. We, the Butterflies of Butterland, need you. We have given you the key. Find the Tree Beneath the Sun for it will lead you to the Stairwell of the Red-Red Phoenix. Fit the key and enter."
"Did they?" the elder asked.
"Yes, yes they did. And the key was true. Actually, it was Ellis who slid the key into the tree's lock, turned it, and watched as the bark door creaked open. Inside, silver and overgrown, were shimmering spider webs—"
"Scary," the younger interjected.
"Inside," I corrected, "a golden light was streaming upon a stairway leading towards the sky. It was the Stairwell of the Red-Red Phoenix as once recounted in, The Grim and the Bold, written by the Grand Marquess of Nim."
"The Grand Marquess of Nim," I said.
"Oh," the elder said. "What happened next?"
"Well…for that, you'll have to wait. For all adventurers, and eyes, must rest. It's time for bed."
"But I don't want to sleep. I want to know about the Stairwell of the Red-Red Phoenix."
"Fine," the elder yawned.
I stood up, kissed both girls on the forehead, and flipped off the light. As I shut the door, I heard the hum of a whisper: "Scary."

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While her aunt and grandmother were shopping in their local Dollar Store, a 2 year-old girl in California was sexually assaulted by Eugene Ramos, a registered sex offender, just an aisle away.
Having wandered off briefly, the girl encountered Ramos who, in less than one minute, removed her diaper and attempted to rape or sodomize her.
Right there, in the middle of the afternoon, in a crowded store full of shoppers.
Her grandmother found her and started screaming, and some other shoppers tackled Ramos and prevented him from leaving the store until police arrived.
Shocking. Horrifying. Unimaginable.
But almost as unforgivable is the fact that it could have been prevented.
Because this wasn't his first offense. In 2003, he molested a 7-year-old and only served four years for that.
There was a chance to keep him off the streets then, but he was released.
For this most recent act, Ramos has been charged with three counts: Forcible lewd act on a child under 14, assault with intent to commit a sex crime, and attempt to commit intercourse of sodomy on a child under 10.
He's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow and is expected to enter a plea deal. If convicted on all counts, he could face up to 21 years in prison.
That's it.
Clearly he is sick -- in more than one sense of the word -- but that doesn't mean he should be treated any less harshly. The damage done to these children isn't lessened because he's mentally unstable.
Anyone who sexually assaults a child in such a predatory, vicious manner shouldn't be allowed to walk freely among children. Ever. I don't care about rehabilitation or reform or time off for good behavior or them being registered.
Castrate him. Send him to an island to live with all the other sex offenders. Something, anything.
I think of my sweet, trusting toddler daughter, and I shake with rage and fear that people like Ramos are walking around -- people who could have been stopped.
Our system isn't working, and cases like this make it clear that something has to change.
I hope when Ramos goes before the judge tomorrow, he gets a punishment that matches the magnitude of actions -- but it's not going to happen, because there's really nothing that would ever be enough.
What punishment do you think should be given to child sex predators?
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- ohnatto
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: August 2014
Hi everyone,
As I've mentioned before, I have been online shopping for a simple, low-key-ish wedding dress for awhile now. These are my two favorites and I CANNOT choose between them. Every time I put one on, I think, 'this one is so pretty, I'll definitely choose this one'. Then I try the other one on before I put it back in the return box and think, 'wait, this one is so much prettier, maybe I should choose this one?!' They are both about the same price, $260ish, and fit me about the same (not PERFECT, but close, and would need to be hemmed).
Here is the first dress, the strapless opaque silk dress: PROS: the silk material is soooo smooth and soft and the pearly white color looks so pretty next to turquoise, which I think would be a nice style for a wedding. CONS: the elastic ruching on the back isn't the nicest, the vertical bar on the front of the bodice looks too architectural. Pics from front, back and sides:
Now the second dress, the spaghetti strip georgette wrap dress: PROS: it is pretty, swishy, and comfortable CONS: the wrap aspect of it is a little hard to put on and annoying to keep from loosening. Pics from front, back and sides:
Please forgive my unsightly black shoes (only heels I have to try on dresses with at the mo) and unsightly hair and facial expressions.


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Probably something unusual here: topic about randomness, but not the RNG rant. Well, there are two types of randomness in this game. First is the pure one that you find in boxes and enemy drops, deciding on your loot and being hated by pretty everyone. Other randomness is the one creating the worlds we explore. The latter will be a topic of this discussion.
Process of creating game content with algorithms (optionally) based on randomness is called procedural generation. The most important thing is that you just don't throw in some random numbers and expect it to work, because it won't. NEVER use pure randomness to decide on the shape of your content, because it has only chance to work when there's tons of stuff to choose from. Unless you put restrictions on how things can be generated, simple RNG is not a reliable tool to create something, because it can easily generate something boring and repetitive.
You might remember my topic about how I hate lavafall arena and how it should be banned from this game. What made me create this topic here is that this particular arena is found in this week's rotation 4 times. I have no idea how it works, that there are dungeons absent for few rotations, and this one, which is the worst possible, can appear multiple times. Last week was the first one in few months when this arena didn't appear.
Now, what I mean, is that algorithm choosing dungeons for Shadow Tower should be reworked. Right now, it's completely random (some arenas might have greater chance to appear, but I'd like to believe that we just all have bad luck for these). Sometimes there are couple same dungeons in a row, some of dungeons are rarely seen. The thing is, it's boring. There are so many dungeons designed, but that potential is wasted because of pure randomness.
My proposition is that dungeons in Shadow Tower should only appear up to once each week. When you find one arena/dungeon on some floor, it cannot appear on any other floor. I mean, if e.g. spike shadow arena appears on Spike Walker floor 2, no further floors will have this arena, so it appears solely there. This eliminates situations like this lavafall cancer appearing multiple times per full run. To improve it further, when some dungeon/arena appeared last week, it has half the chance to be chosen for current rotation. So if all arenas/dungeons in Shadow Tower have weighted probability to appear equal 100, the ones from last week have only 50. 25 if they appear twice in a row, but resets if they are absent. Thanks to this, Shadow Tower would be much more diverse and we wouldn't be in a situation when some dungeons don't appear for months.
Aside from Shadow Tower, something similar could be done about regular worlds. Sometimes there are few same dungeons next to each other (I encountered up to 3). Even if there were twice more dungeons than now, there's still possibility for repetitions. As mentioned in the beginning, sheer randomness doesn't produce interesting results. So it would be better if e.g. when a dungeon appears, no same dungeon has chance to appear in a certain radius. More complex would be banning same dungeons next to each other, forcing different one in between them. E.g. when we have dungeons A, B and C, where A and B are mushroom dungeon and C is castle dungeon, and they are lined up in a world, this combination is allowed: A C B, but this not: A B C, because we have two dungeons of the same design neighboring (could be also A C D B, so with 2 dungeons in between, for even better diversity). Radius-based solution is simpler to achieve though and would be enough. Still better than now.
Well, that's what I wanted to say. Anyone else have something to add? Discuss.
Also, pls don't bring subjects like gems, loot boxes or MF, because this is not a thread for this. It's about content generation, not loot tables and stuff.


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From the Farm: Recipes
Black Bean and Quinoa Stuffed Peppers
FOUND IN: Entree on October 28, 2012
Yield: 6 - 8 portions
I used Giant Marconi peppers for this dish. They were beautiful and sweet and I love the whimsical shapes. Because they are long, narrow peppers I took a thin slice off, lengthwise, to open them up. Use a sharp paring knife or a teaspoon to remove the seeds and pulp. Here's the recipe:
6 - 8 large peppers, cut open, seeded and ready to fill
1 cup quinoa, cooked (may substitute rice)
1/2 large onion, diced finely
1 stalk celery, diced
1 Tbsp garlic, minced
1 medium tomato, diced
2 Tbs olive oil
1 can black beans, drained
1 cup corn, cut from the cob (optional)
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
fresh parsley or cilantro, minced
Preheat oven to 325. Place prepared peppers in an oblong baking dish. In a saute pan, heat olive oil and add onions, celery, and garlic. Cook until onions are transparent. Add tomatoes and corn (if using). Let this mixture cook until tomatoes are soft. Add black beans and quinoa and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add parsley or cilantro and 2/3 of the crumbled feta. Toss lightly and spoon into peppers. Dress the top with the rest of the feta. Add about 1/4 cup water to the bottom of the baking dish. Cover the dish with foil. Cook for 20 minutes and then uncover and cook until brown (another 5 - 10 minutes). You don't want to cook so long that the peppers collapse.
Options: add some cured or smoked sausage or ham to the mixture. I have used chicken chorizo, which was delicious and savory. For a spicier filling, add some diced hot peppers to the filling.
Note: quinoa is prepared like rice. It needs to be soaked for about 5 minutes, rinsed and drained before cooking. Use 1 1/2 cups liquid to 1 cup quinoa. Cook about 15 minutes and then let sit for 5 minutes.


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16 Mar 2008
Richard Niessen & Esther de Vries
A spread out of the book Lepidoptera Domestica. The work consists a large number of domestic objects serving as a starting point for a butterfly collection.
The weddingcake of Esther de Vries and Richard Niessen.
Poster Kopperprent 2004, Unfortunately sold out!
Richard Niessen & Esther de Vries are both designers and work together since 2005. They use a lot of different layers in one work, as you can see. I love it!
2 comments:
- Kate said...
ooh I love this kind of work! Thanks for sharing it :)
- 17 March 2008 at 16:13
- Mhari said...
really nice work...
- 17 March 2008 at 20:32
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Opera House, Sydney, Australia!!!
"The Secret Garden"
The Secret Garden, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is a charming illustrated book about a girl named Mary Lennox. She is a spoiled and sickly child who lives in India. When her parents die because of a cholera epidemic, she moves to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her rich uncle in England. Things are a definite change for her. She meets all sorts of people like Martha, Dickon, and Colin. Martha is a maid on the grounds who have taken a fancy to Mary, and Dickon is her brother. It is a story about a secret garden which holds many secrets inside it! In the secret garden is where magical things take place!
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Dolphins have invented a new way of hunting fish!
Dolphins Call Each Other By Name
Bottlenose dolphins call out the specific names of loved ones when they become separated, a study finds.
Other than humans, the dolphins are the only animals known to do this, according to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The big difference with bottlenose dolphins is that these communications consist of whistles, not words.
Earlier research found that bottlenose dolphins name themselves, with dolphins having a "signature whistle" that encodes other information. It would be somewhat like a human shouting, "Hey everybody! I'm an adult healthy male named George, and I mean you no harm!"
Video: Shark Cage Diving!
I can hardly believe that it's already been over a year since one of the most thrilling experiences of my life: shark cage diving! While I'm still awaiting those pictures from Gita and Sunil (hint, hint!), I did find this funny video I made a while back, using footage from our diving trip off the coast of Gaansbai, South Africa, AKA Shark Alley. As you can see, we had a blast!
Would you ever go shark cage diving? Tell me, what's the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
Deep thoughts, by Chick & the 'Bug
Life is a little crazy these days with our miniature human arriving any day now. Granted, the boys' perspective is that life is ALWAYS a little crazy thanks to them.
Anyhow, with life being double-crazy and concentration being hard to come by, we're going to leave it to the dogs to do all of the deep thinkings for the next couple of weeks. So in lieu of your regular programming, you can look forward to Monday-Wednesday-Friday "Deep Thoughts" by Chick and Doodlebug for a little while.
We'll be back with regular blogging as soon as we can, and in the meantime, enjoy!


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I know, the title is pretty cheeky but it is hilarious!
I have to admit I borrowed it from a boy (friend) as I`m sure some of you will agree only a boy could come up with it! I thought it was hilarious when I heard it, such a great British sense of humour…
I couldn`t help posting this, it is too funny.
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The fiance just reminded me that I designed two patterns recently that I'm going to be publishing FOR FREE on here once they're tested. Remember when I promised a free pattern back in October? Remember when that was delayed by many months? Remember how I wrote two to make up for it? Does it make up for it? One is an impossibly cute baby blanket, and the other is a cabled cowl made of Malabrigo Rios. STICK AROUND FOLKS!


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Papuan man says he witnessed the slaughter of 40 people
A Papuan man who says he witnessed the massacre of 40 people in a remote province describes his experience and says he is still hiding from the military.
A man in Indonesia's Papua province says he is currently on the run from the military after witnessing a massacre of Papuans reported last month.
Several reports emerged in May of a slaughter of 40 people in the remote area of Tingginambut, close to the Puncak Jaya mountain, but so far very little evidence has emerged.
The witness says he hid up in the mountain for weeks after seeing the military kill people in villages in anger after not being able to find a wanted Papuan activist.
He says police know about the incident but haven't taken any action.
He spoke to Alex Perrottet.
MAN: The people were killed, about 40 people, 40 people killed. And we found them in different places.
ALEX PERROTTET: And have you yourself seen the bodies, have you?
MAN: Yeah we found the bodies. Some of them under the bridge, they kill and then they throw next to the bridge, and then some of them under the rock. And we found in different places.
AP: What did you do with the bodies when you found them?
MAN: We tried to, want to burn them, but army, heavy army, they tried looking for us and now we are hide in the jungle.
AP: And do you know the victims, the people who were killed, do you know some of them personally?
MAN: Yes and I have their names and also their picture.
AP: And is anyone going to go back and try to get the bodies or not?
MAN: Yes, but for today no.
AP: Have you told the police?
MAN: Yeah, but I can't go to the city. In Wamena it's OK, but here it's a little bit... They are looking for us and they already know us and I try to kind of hiding.
AP: Do you know whether any police know about this?
MAN: Yeah, police knows. Police know about this, but they just leave.
AP: How do you know that the military killed the 40 people? Did you see them do it?
MAN: Yeah. We were together, the victims we were together. And then they just go and then kill the people, they murdered them. And then we ran and climbed and went up to the mountain.
AP: You were hiding and watching, were you?
MAN: Yeah, I was hiding and watching them and I took some photos and also some video.
AP: And how did you feel?
MAN: I almost died, because I feel scared and because my friends, some they killed. We were together, we eat food together and they were killed by the military. And now I'm very upset and I'm trying to get free, free to live, but I am hiding in the jungle and I am not free.
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Discuss: Jake's Take on the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival at the Halfway Mark
Jake Smith shares brief thoughts on the films he has seen so far at the 2016 Wisconsin Film Festival.
My festival experience thus far has been unusual. Unlike previous years, where I have done a fairly good job of mixing it up in terms of the types of films I've taken in, this time around I have focused far more exclusively on the restorations and revivals, particularly the "One and Done" screenings. My post here, then, ends up echoing Jim Healy's sentiments in the introduction he gave to The Well, taking the form of a kind of retroactive advocacy. My writing below is mostly composed of reactions to the films; plot summaries can be found by clicking on the titles of each program.
As always, before I get started here, allow me to thank all of you who help bring the Festival to us. Be you on the front lines or behind the scenes, it's hard work. Thank you for it.
With that, here we go:
The Well
Leo Popkin & Russell Rouse | USA | 1951| 86 min
In Jim Healy's introduction to this film, he talked about the screening itself as an act of advocacy. It was not only about exposing people to the film; it was also about getting people talking about it, because it's a film that's in need of saving. From the quality of the digital print that we saw, it's certainly in need of restoration. But is this one-off worth the effort to do so? On no uncertain terms, yes. On a stylistic level, it's a fascinating exercise in how information is conveyed both to audience and characters alike. There is also a very definite and very effective editorial rhythm on display, particularly in the montage sequences, that is as compelling as the film's subject matter. On a narrative level, there are moments in the story that after these many years will still stop your breath or drop your jaw. Harry Morgan, in particular, was flat-out amazing. It carries some of the hysterically quick plotting that many social problem films of the time seem to have, but the urgency of the missing child and the racial tensions that so quickly rise to the surface remain emotionally believable. My colleague James Kreul reviewed the film in greater depth here. I hope that whatever rights issues can be squared away soon and proper restoration work can begin. The Well is a film that needs saving, a film that needs seeing.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Tom Schiller | USA | 1984 | 82 min
Yep. That's a bus on its way to the moon in that poster to the right. I would think that a movie with a poster image that absurd would be quite promising. After watching Nothing Lasts Forever, despite the excitement that comes with viewing something so rare, I find myself agreeing with my colleague Taylor Hanley (check out her review here). A little of Nothing Lasts Forever goes a long way. On the one hand, the film does quite well in generating a retro-futuristic atmosphere, and I found its eventual narrative symmetry both unexpected and bizarrely rewarding. On the other, I felt like the comedy in the film was more in the concept than in the execution. That said, "Schiller's Reel," the collection of shorts that preceded the feature, was nothing short of brilliant, and not just because that collection included the melancholy joy of seeing John Belushi dance atop the snowy graves of his SNL co-stars. The number of great ideas on display in such a few short films was truly staggering. Seeing the shorts before the feature probably impacted my opinion of the feature far more than they should have. I tend to prize narrative economy, so when I compared the number of brilliant ideas in such a short space of time to the feature's fewer-but-equally-brilliant ideas stretched to their limit across 82 minutes, I suppose I was bound to enjoy the shorts more. Still, it's great to have the opportunity to see both the shorts and the feature, particularly with a crowd—something I find increasingly crucial for comedies. I wish I had had time to stick around for the Q&A, as I'm sure Tom Schiller had some great stories. As with any festival, though, sacrifices must be made. In my case, I had to get to my next film.
Remember My Name
Alan Rudolph | USA | 1978 | 96 min
Of the films I haven't seen in this festival, this one is far and away my favorite. No one does jazz, neon, and foibles like Alan Rudolph. Like Nothing Lasts Forever, this is a film where everything changes for its characters, and yet it still ends where it begins. As Rudolph films often are, Remember My Name is alternately harrowing and humorous in its intensely watchable depiction of some intensely flawed human beings. The film is packed with distinctive little touches that make already memorable performances even more so (my favorite being Geraldine Chaplin's penchant for putting out her cigarettes with her thumb). If I have a complaint about this movie at all, it's that there wasn't nearly enough Tim Thomerson. Back to the theme of retroactive advocacy, it's a genuine shame that this film is so hard to see. Aside from the film's many merits, at multiple points I couldn't help but think how interesting it would be to put this film side-by-side with another 1978 picture about an ex-con rejoining society: Straight Time. Straight Time may be better known, but Remember My Name may be the better film.
True Stories
David Byrne | USA | 1986 | 115 min
In the spirit of full disclosure, I am a native Texan, so I may view this film a little differently than most of those in the audience. After all, I have driven down many of the same roads on which you see David Byrne's crazily-yet-impeccably dressed narrator driving, and I have memories of being in or around some of the film's locations. Thus, on one level, I take a very personal pleasure out of this film. I get to see a Texas sky captured like it should be, with grandeur and a dash of oddity waiting below. On another level, I was struck by how sophisticated the satire is, and how well it holds up. It is simultaneously dated and prescient, making it play as inexplicably timeless. It is also a film that manages to satirize without biting, to ridicule without denigrating. The film is bankrupt of snark, which is a quality all too rare in contemporary satire. I have always enjoyed this film, but after seeing it on 35mm, I am reminded that it is truly one of the best films of the 1980s, and certainly one of the most distinctive. While Remember My Name may be my favorite of those films I hadn't seen previously, seeing True Stories on the big screen, on film, has been my greatest joy of the festival thus far. I feel lucky I got to see the film this way.
Tim Horton's Head Meets the Killer: Wisconsin's Own Experimental Shorts
During the Q&A session for this program, director Bill Bedford (who made two of the shorts in the program) turned the spotlight on the audience and asked it a question: why do you think the programmers grouped these films together? It took a minute for people to answer, but it generated some good discussion. Ultimately, that's why I feel the programmers grouped these films together: to generate a discussion within your own mind. The way that ideas ricochet across different films in experimental programs is but one of the intellectual and emotional joys that they provide. Programs like are often a mixed bag. This one was no different, though as Bedford mentioned (and I agree), all of the directors here brought a consummate attention to their craft. None of them seemed like projects; regardless of their formats, they were all films. The two that stood out for me were Scott Stark's Traces/Legacy—whose jarring abstract patterns proved fascinating in their intersections of the audio and the visual—and John Powers' The House You Were Born In (pictured here), whose overlapping narration and poetic visual command of the frame combine to form an extraordinarily evocative exploration of memory and the powerful concept of home. The one surprise was the Guy Maddin film, Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, and not in a good way. All of the work that preceded it felt more vibrant than Maddin's piece, which was more of an exercise than an enjoyment.
I'll have more on the second half of my festival experience in a few days. In the meantime, feel free to share your thoughts on these films or any of the others that you've seen in the comments below!


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linguine provides the best sauce to pasta ratio. The flat linguine provides the right amount of surface area to which the right amount of sauce can stick. Spaghettini (thin spaghetti) is also comparable in its noodle mass to surface area ratio.
Regular round spaghetti has less surface area for a given mass of noodles, and so not enough sauce is able to stick to the noodles, giving it a slightly doughy flavor. Other pastas susceptible to this are fettuccine, penne, and rigatoni. The exception would be when making a baked casserole, where the sauce and flavor would have an opportunity to be baked into the pasta, thus overcoming the smaller outer surface area. Undercooking the pasta and then sautéing it briefly with sauce also help the sauce cling to the pasta (sautéing with a bit of water used to boil the pasta helps too). Pastas such as angel hair and capellini have too much surface area, and are overpowered when using thicker sauces, but do better with lighter sauces.
The linguini that I like best is DeBoles Linguini, which is made of durum semolina and Jerusalem artichoke flour.


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"Every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and development, whatever their age, ability and circumstances." (Learning Outside The Classroom Manifesto 2006)
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One of my next door neighbours is away on holiday, so I took the opportunity to set the moth trap in the more open area of the garden last night. I usually avoid this as the light would shine right into my neighbours bedroom window. As with other recent sessions, there were plenty of new moths and some real crackers amongst them. So straight down to business.
I am a sucker for a good looking tortrix, and this Aethes cnicana was just the ticket. One of the Tortricinae, this is a species that uses thistles (Cirsium).
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There was a Barred Yellow Cidaria fulvata, a species that I have been hoping for in the garde,n but as it is only locally distributed I thought I may have to wait a while. This moth decided not to pose nicely, so an 'in-the-pot' picture will have to do.
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Another new micromoth was Phycitodes binaevella, and I was pleased to find three of these in the trap. They were also pleased to find each other, as the below picture shows. The Phycitinae is a new family for me, and this is another thistle feeder with larvae using Spear Thistle Cirsium vukgare
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The absolute star of the show was this cracking little moth Sophronia semicostella. I was delighted to see this. This is one of the Gelechids, identifed through the furry palps, white costal streak and banded cilia. It is thought to use Sweet Vernal Grass Anthoxanthum odoratum, which grows plentifully in my garden and on the Long Mynd. In Shropshire this species has never been recorded away from the three locations, and on only one occasion since 1987 when 14 came to light at Prees Heath.
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- take a pair of good fitting jeans and do the exact same, lay them flat right on top of the thrifted pair.
- starting in the crotch in your OM pants and this will be your guide for sewing, continue on both sides as you go down, this will insure that your seam is even and now one leg is bigger than the other. After you've finished your inseam ( I didn't have to go too far because I'm short!) you'll go back up to your waist band and start on your side seams, follow the seam of your good fitting jeans.
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Annette Bening and Jamie Bell break down this amazing disco scene in 'Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool' (exclusive)
Disco is not dead.
Two years after making a (very brief) comeback in The Martian, disco is having another moment in the new drama Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool. Set in the late '70s and early '80s, the film traces the real-life relationship between fading black-and-white film star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) and much younger British actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell).
In their music-fueled meet-cute, Grahame invites Turner into her apartment and the pair immediately bond — and boogie down — to the sounds of a Taste of Honey's 1978 disco hit "Boogie Oogie Oogie." (Watch the clip exclusively above.)
Bening and Bell told Yahoo Entertainment that while they were offered the services of a choreographer, they decided to take a more freestyle approach to the scene.
"We had somebody that could've helped us, and we were just like, 'No, let's do it with our cameraman,'" Bening said. "[A dance expert did] show us a few moves, like, 'You might wanna try that or that.' And that was helpful. But we basically just kind of winged it, and it was so fun."
As Bell explained, "Annette thought it was more important that there's an awkwardness about it and it's not polished and it's people trying to impress other people."
Bell, who got his big-screen start busting entirely different types of moves in 2000's Billy Elliott, found some last-minute inspiration from another cinematic disco sensation. He watched John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever in his trailer right before they filmed the sequence. "I suddenly realized, 'S***, I don't know how to disco-dance. I've never disco-danced in my life. I love disco music, but f***, I've never done anything like that before. So I was very desperately doing stuff in the mirror and desperately trying."
The pair did only three takes of the scene — and both agreed it was welcome respite from some of the film's heavier subject matter. "I circled that scene in the schedule, and I was like, if we can just get to the disco dancing, we'll be able to get to the other side," Bell said. "It was so nice to just have a scene where the music is going and the crew were all laughing and clapping."
Said Bening: "I could've kept doing it all day. Then we can avoid those tougher scenes. But it was fun. … I would've liked to have done it more."
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Why this one's not included in his poem list?
Go all the way - Charles Bukowski
"If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. I
t could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery- isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is."
Nick Kler
@Georgios Venetopoulos
Poetry is beyond any religion or a language. It has no language or boundaries, yet, it speaks to your soul. Intoxication or sobriety are just your current state of mind. Poetry comes from some far and forgotten land. I just never could understand those that love to criticize, just for the sake of it. Something in his writings pulled you here, made you stay, had you spend time writing No matter how positive or negative because that don't matter. The fact is that he pulled you towards himself, had you spend time, reading him and writing about him. He succeeded in his quest....
Alix Mangerian
The criticism of Bukowski made me laugh. It rather reminded me of Samuel Johnson criticizing the metaphysical poets: Make sense, dammit!
Thanks for brightening my day!
Georgios Venetopoulos
Bukowski is not a poet. He composes under the influence (intoxicated actually) and his writes are illogical and hellish, byproducts of his besotted thinking. Then, his devotees spend millions of minutes to exalt and explain his grandness in arbitrary compositions of ideas which follow the philosophy of whatever. Bukowski does not comprehend what 'verse means', his knowledge of the English language is elementary, his grammar is faulty but overall he manages to create an army of admirers who drink like him, compose like him and spit at the world like him.
Is It Poetry James Mclain
Dirty Dog - Poem by Is It Poetry
His dirty dog kept
moving on.
Pissing on what he liked,
but never owned.
He knows they won't
like it either.
So they throw it out.
A dog, 'Bukowski' owned.
Is It Poetry
John Davis
I love Bukowski. The nearest poet I've found to his style is a guy called Jim Sparx. He has a website called bullet2theskull.
Thomas Case
a genius and a fantastic poet. He takes the mundane and makes it a dark thrill ride.
R G Fritz
It is strange, Bukowski swears by his alcohol to create his art. He NEVER wrote without it. Dylan Thomas, however, never drank when he worked. I suppose everybody's creative process is different. I chain smoke when I write. I wonder if anyone else does...
Denis Mair
Does anyone know where to find Bukowski's poem about watching a bullfight on television in a bar? An ordinary barroom afternoon, desultory conversation, desultory TV gazing, and then suddenly he is gripped and gut-wrenched by this ritual of death.
Li Po
Today I was reading Bukowski poems. As the sparrow, My first affair with that older women, Death wants more death, Something for the touts, nuns, the grocery clerks and you, Freedom. Some say that sparrow it's all about life and death circle - like a fucking lion king.It's not! It's about yours miserable lives, lives without any purpose, life where all you want to be is young - because you don't want to fight with yourself. You want to postponed life like some post it on the fridge that lies there forever.You can't do that.It gets you.eventually.it causes mutilated people.Dear HUMANITY I did nothing. I just watched you and wrote what you've done yourself.And I? I was old when it would have taken less courage to be young, I cried when it would have taken less courage to laugh (a smile to remember - remember that smile how NOT to smile ever!) and I hated you ONLY when it would have taken less courage to love.I can not love you if you are harming yourself; that means that I approve. That I approve you shitting your life with anger, bitterness, despair. IT TAKES LESS COURAGE TO LOVE HUMANITY AS IT IS THAN TO HATE. Freedom is not about SEX it is about LOVE! . It's easier to live life without emotions.You need to have BALLS to love fully someone like I did Jane. I knew she was weak but I loved her anyway.I drank alone for two years after she died. You? You don't even remember why did you marry her/him.
Can't you see. you are not able to love. you think you do but you don't. You don't let love kill you. You worship yourself on selfish level. You don't let anybody hurt you. Noooo..you are too important to be killed by love, you know better! ..(..You know shit) . so.... you know better and you let yourself to be killed by money, million likes, million followers, fashion, luxury, hollywood, fame. everybodyisenvyatmesickness. I know some man who resent me for buying 2 bmw cars. stupid fucks. what do you think is changed? Are you worried about my soul? You think I've sold out? What's the difference? One who does NOT have soul, it is going to give away to luxuries, one who HAS a soul it is going to continue. You can't be sold out if you have soul. it is so easy to fail. My luck is that it happened too much too late. I was smart enough don't worry about my soul.worry about yours bringing up the family as the victory soul.worry about your false revolutionary soul, worry about the life you give away, don't worry about my soul.you don't believe me? Read some of my poems...but with heart this time.
A Smile To Remember
we had goldfish and they circled around and around
in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting us all
to be happy, told me, 'be happy Henry!'
and she was right: it's better to be happy if you
but my father continued to beat her and me several times a week while
raging inside his 6-foot-two frame because he couldn't
understand what was attacking him from within.
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: 'Henry, ...
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was that he cut away from
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Three teams of San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department narcotics officers fanned out Wednesday for a county-wide law enforcement education lesson to some smoke shops and convenience marts that they believe have been selling illegal synthetic drugs.
The visitation by plainclothes officers included two smoke shops in Highland and other vendors in Grand Terrace, Bloomington, Barstow, Hinkley, Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree, sheriff's department officials said.
"Some business owners may not understand exactly what they are selling," said Sheriff John McMahon, in a prepared statement. "We want to educate them on the law and the dangers of synthetic drugs so they do not put the residents of this county — or their business — in jeopardy."
The illegal items fall into two broad categories, "spice" and "bath salts," which collectively are often called "designer drugs."


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I began work on a new abstract painting today, continuing with my experimental approach. First I made broad sweeps with a palette knife using titanium white, parchment, and burnt umber. Then, while the paint was still wet, I drew lines in white and pthalo blue.
Next, after cleaning my palette knife thoroughly, I used cadmium orange to make several sweeping marks on top of the paint already there. This took a bit of delicacy in order not to make total mush. I did the same with aqua, after again cleaning the knife.
I drew more lines with the white and blue. Then I used the edge of my palette knife to scrape off sections of paint, which revealed the colors underneath, blending them as I scraped. In my last step, I emphasized some of these shapes with white and blue lines.
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I haven't bought a sewing book in quite a while but it's always refreshing to run across what seems to be a good one. I like to stay pretty up to date with the sewing references. Today while persuing Amazon.com I ran across a new book on Pattern/Muslin Fitting entitled "The Complete Photo Guide to Perfect Fitting" by Sarah Veblen. I did a "sneak peak" into the book and there seems to be extensinve information on how to adjust patterns and tweaking muslins. And better yet, it's chalked full of photos. For a visual learner such as myself, this is extremely helpful. I'm getting so giddy just thinking about. I strongly believe achieveing great fit is a science!
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Top dollar for bargain health care in Canada
NationalPost.com – FullComment
13/05/13. Nadeem Esmail
Canadians, having just paid their taxes, may take some solace that some of that money goes to funding a world-class healthcare system. Unfortunately, Canadians are not receiving the same sort of value that their counterparts in other nations are when it comes to universally accessible health care. This despite the fact some 68% of personal income taxes paid in aggregate are required to cover the cost of health care in this country. Canadians spend much more for their health care, and receive lower quality care than other countries with universal-access systems.
First, the cost: Canadians fund the developed world's most expensive universal-access health-insurance system. On an age-adjusted basis (older people require more care) in the most recent year for which comparable data are available, no nation spent more than Canada as a share of GDP on a similar system. The average comparable nation spent 21% less than we did on health care. Japan, the lowest spender, spent 46% less.
Now, performance. With that level of expenditure, you might expect that Canadians receive world-class access to health care. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Jeffrey Simpson: The real problem with Canadian health care
Conrad Black: How the Canadian health system saved my left eye
National Post editorial board: Canada must abandon its health-care monopoly
Consider waiting lists. In 2012, the median wait time for treatment by a specialist was 17.7 weeks in Canada. Despite substantial spending increases over the past 15 or so years, that wait time was 49% longer than the overall median wait time of 11.9 weeks back in 1997. It was 91% longer than the overall median wait time of 9.3 weeks back in 1993.
Canada's waiting lists are also, according to the available evidence, among the longest in the developed world. For example, a 2010 Commonwealth Fund survey of individuals in 11 nations, 10 of whom maintain universal programs, found that Canadians were most likely to wait four months or more for elective surgery; were most likely to wait two months or more for a specialist appointment; were most likely to wait six days or more for access to a doctor or nurse when sick or needing care; and were most likely to wait four hours or more in the emergency room.
Among 27 developed nations who maintain universal systems, Canada ranked 23rd in the age-adjusted number of physicians per thousand population
Meanwhile, several developed nations including Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland maintain universal systems that deliver access to health care in which wait times for care are not a problem.
Access to medical technologies is also relatively poor in Canada. In a comparison of age-adjusted inventories of medical technologies undertaken for international health system comparisons, Canada ranked 15th of 24 nations for whom data was available in MRI machines per million population, and 16th of 25 nations in CT scanners per million population.
Governmental restrictions on medical training, along with a number of other policies affecting the practices of medical practitioners, have also taken their toll on Canadians' access to care. Among 27 developed nations who maintain universal systems, Canada ranked 23rd in the age-adjusted number of physicians per thousand population.
While our taxes can and do pay for important and valuable services for all Canadians, we need to critically assess whether we are receiving full value for the dollars we are spending. In the case of health care, Canadians are paying for a world-class system but are not receiving one. Canadians must carefully consider the need for substantial reforms.
Nadeem Esmail is director of health policy research at the Fraser Institute.
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One of the early design decisions behind prettymaps was: No moving pieces. Which really meant: No tile servers.
Tile servers are yet-another point of failure and unlike most other special-case servers are usually meant to be exposed directly to the public. Stamen hadn't yet decided to tackle the tile serving problem in earnest as they have now with maps.stamen.com so we had the enforced luxury of choosing not to serve street level tiles for the entire world.
prettymaps has global coverage from zoom levels two through ten and then goes down to zoom level 15 for something like two dozen individual cities. Which is still a lot of map tiles. Lots and lots of tiles. Gigabytes and gigabytes of tiny little files. But we pre-rendered them all and put them on an EBS volume that was attached to an EC2 server and told the world about the project and things seemed to work out okay.
Eventually the site was moved from EC2 to a very big S3
bucket. There is a lot
to like about S3 but one of the things I like best is the
ability to serve an entire website from a bucket. You are
still stuck serving your website from an ugly-ass AWS domain name
but you can get around that with CNAMEs. For example:
$> dig prettymaps.stamen.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> prettymaps.stamen.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44584 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;prettymaps.stamen.com.IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: prettymaps.stamen.com. 1023 IN CNAME prettymaps.stamen.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. prettymaps.stamen.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 60 IN CNAME s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 23 IN A 18.104.22.168 ;; Query time: 126 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.1.1#53(10.0.1.1) ;; WHEN: Sat Mar 2 08:13:35 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 136
From an operational point of view we were able to more or less remove (or more accurately delegate) all the moving pieces in one fell swoop. It's a little more complicated than that, but not really, and overall it has proven to be a nice and elegant solution to the problem of how you keep an historical project like this running without it interrupting the day-to-day needs of the present and in particular a busy client-services company.
The Internet Archive should really make this possible for their S3-style buckets as well. It's actual work to to enable but I reckon that if there was both a way to store things in the Archive and still keep them running on the internet people would start uploading stuff with tears of joy in their eyes.
Fast-forward to a couple months ago when the Raspberry Pi I ordered
finally arrived. If you haven't heard about the Raspberry Pi yet
it's a credit-card sized Linux computer that costs about 35$ and
uses an SD card as its
hard drive. That's about it on the surface but
it is the room for experimentation and the low cost of failure
made possible by the availability of a real and proper computer at
such a low price that is novel and exciting.
It makes it possible to think about setting up silly projects like Loopr without also having to think about spending non-silly amounts of money on the hardware necessary to run them.
Almost all the documentation makes it
clear that you don't need anything bigger than a 4GB SD card to get
started. After going through all the usual wax on wax
off exercises to get a basic system up and running I started
wondering what you could do with a big honking SD card. You can
get a 256GB card for about four hundred dollars so the Pi is still
not quite the mythical
OpenStreetMap in a box that
everyone dreams of. It's both too expensive and too small to
manage the raw XML data dump. Maybe the work to transition the
data exports to use Google's Protocol Buffer format would make
it possible? It's been a while since I've looked at that
Still, you can get a 64GB SD card for about fifty bucks these days. So I did.
I haven't done a lot of load testing on the Raspberry Pi. You
could probably deploy one for a low-to-medium traffic website
without worrying too much but I doubt I would use one to run a
public map-tile server even if I still think about
it every few days. I don't know how well PostGIS performs on a Pi but I know
for a fact that TileStache
and gunicorn both work like a charm
libgevent isn't very happy and needs to
replaced with
Eventually I started to think that maybe the most exciting part of the Pi, right now, wasn't running it in public but being able to use it as an archiving tool. Not a suspend-it-in-amber kind of archive but something like, or a variation on, the kind of living breathing shadow copy that things like parallel-flickr or privatesquare try to be. Could I do that for prettymaps?
And I totally can, it turns out. There's not a lot to show for that statement, though. The only thing to show really is this:
I am not running a second instance of prettymaps on the internet because that would be dumb. prettymaps.stamen.com is still happily chugging away which is awesome and I don't imagine that will change any time soon. Maybe our confidence in Amazon's services and its longevity, not to mention benevolence, as a company is just a kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome but, well... here we are.
But that SD card has a working clone of prettymaps on it,
complete with all the browser-crushing interactive bits and all
the software needed to run it. I can simply plug it in to a
Raspberry Pi and point a web browser at
http://prettymaps.local and there it is. Which is
kind of exciting.
It's not a silver bullet. From an archival perspective lots of weak links remain. You still need the physical Raspberry Pi hardware. You still need ensure the physical integrity of the SD card itself (which is fancy talk for keeping multiple copies of it). You still need to ensure that the code itself will continue to run on contemporary web browsers. The Pi has a built-in web browser when you run it in GUI mode but I have not tested to see whether prettymaps makes it cry yet. If it does work then it more or less solves the viewing problem since all the software comes pre-baked with the archive itself. Oh, and also electricity. That, at least, is not a problem I am going to solve in the same margins of the day that I used to work on this project.
But a thing that can be put to sleep and then asked to spring back to life — preserving its functionality — simply by plugging it in, at a cost of less than a hundred dollars feels like progress to me. And probably even less that that if you assume that any one Raspberry Pi can service multiple projects.
I have not tried to get parallel-flickr to run on a Raspberry Pi but that seems like an obvious next step. It is interesting to consider a pre-baked disk image that could be written on to a self-addressed and stamped SD card, so to speak, with a friendly web-based UI for people who aren't interested in sweating the technical sausage. There's nothing about the bare bones version of parallel-flickr that should be a problem so that's encouraging. The fancy parts of the parallel-flickr rely on the Java-based Solr project which I have not tested yet. I know that Java will run on the Pi but it is also brutally slow. Maybe that is acceptable for the purpuses of a shallow-breathing but still living archive?
Like I said, it feels like forward motion which is a nice way to start a Saturday morning. Especially when you're hungover.
Some technical notes, for those of you who are in to that sort of thing:
- Given that prettymaps is a web application it's just being served up by Apache. It could probably be done as easily and with a little less overhead by using nginx but I am not really worried about that.
- Unlike the S3-backed scenario described above the archive is not serving up map tiles from a humongous bag of static files. One thing the Pi does not do is optimize the file system for use with something like the volume of files that prettymaps has. In other words you run out of inodes long before you've stored all your data on disk. I spent a little bit of time thinking about this and all the solutions involved a lot of low-level steps building and re-building the operating system from scratch and I did not have the stamina for that. Which means:
- The archive is running a tile server. Specifically it is
running TileStache (behind gunicorn which is in turn proxied
through Apache) and serving tiles that have been squirted in
to a
collection of MBTiles databases. Rather than write a custom
TileStache provider to account for the fact that prettymaps
requests tiles using static
safe disk cacheURLs instead of standard
zoom/x/ytile server URLs I just added a flag to the site Javascript to do the right thing. Which means:
- I've probably broken some cardinal rule of archiving by changing the code but I also signed and numbered — with a Mission Integer of course — my own 20x200 prettymaps print of San Francisco so I can claim precedence for this kind of bad behaviour. Or something like that.
- I've always thought MBTiles was kind of a weird bird but it has proven to be lovely and wonderful for this project. The 3.8 million remaining inodes on my SD card send their thanks.
- The
.localpart in the prettymaps.local name is a function of running the avahi daemon for doing zeroconf broadcasting. I don't really know if that's the best solution but it was easy and enforces a degree of consistency in naming conventions.
- I would love to get David Blackman's twofishes geocoder running locally as a way to
preserve the geocoding functionality. That looks like it might
be a pretty involved process, though. Aside from the question
of whether or not the Pi has enough
ooomphto both load all the data and serve requests the build process itself requires installing a custom version of mongodb. I had hopes that I might be able to get it all set up in the time it took to write this blog post but after reading that last link, it's a thing that will need to be saved for another day.
Onwards. In my case, towards a sink full of dirty dishes.
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Shining Hope for Communities has developed an innovative, community-driven model to combat inter-generational cycles of poverty and gender inequality in Nairobi's Kibera slum.
We link free schools for girls to accessible social services for all.
In August 2009, we founded The Kibera School for Girls, the first entirely free school for girls in Kibera.
The second step of our model provides the community-at-large with tangible benefits through a community center adjacent to the school.
The unique services we offer include sanitary eco-toilets, a library and cyber café, gender violence support, microenterprise for HIV positive women, a youth center, access to water, business and literacy training, and hundreds of jobs.
We also operate the Johanna Justin-Jinich Community Clinic, which specializes in primary care and maternal health.
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|23 May 2012
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Computer won't go to sleep by itself
Have a Win7 computer running well for 2 months or so, but suddenly, it won't make itself sleep, but has no problem going to sleep with the start menu button. After a lot of Googling, I used "powercfg -requests" in Command Prompt (Admin Mode) and got SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] \FileSystem\srvnet
An active remote client has recently sent requests to this machine.
So I Googled and overrid \FileSystem\srvnet with "powercfg -requestsoverride driver srvnet system" and "powercfg -requestsoverride driver \FileSystem\srvnet system" (don't know which one worked) but autosleep worked again.
The new problem is that the connection will drop while I'm network sharing, which is what the override's supposed to do, right? Is there a better way to fix the insomnia problem?
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I'd like to bump this, as I have the same question. Seems you have to prevent the system from sleeping when streaming media is enabled (to avoid losing connection obviously), but then it also prevents the system from going to sleep on its own. That's quite the pickle eh?
I just noticed this problem when trying to figure out why my shared 'recorded tv' wasn't showing up in WMC from one pc to the next. I'd have to set the sharing folders every time I wanted to find the recordings, after which I could stream. Only thing I could find was that 'media streaming' was not enabled on the pc that I mostly stream FROM. After I enabled the option, a quick test showed the shared media, but the pc would no longer go into sleep state on its own. I guess I can live with manually forcing sleep state when needed.
I intend to check the media streaming option on my other pc that gets WMC use, but I suspect media streaming is not enable. He does all the heavy lifting as a dvr, and he has very healthy sleep habits. :)
|My System Specs
|14 Oct 2012
How I CURED my PC's Insomnia
Here is what finally fixed this issue for me, and now everything works as designed (well, so far at least). It didn't make sense to me that you have to allow Windows to sleep even while in the middle of a remote session. So I didn't want to hack the register to allow that.
I went through all the tips and ended up with the dreaded DRIVER \filesystem\srvnet being the culprit like so many others have experienced. I had to find out why this driver kept making the request to prevent sleep. Oh, and I'm a 'find the cure' kinda guy, not a 'put a band-aid on it'. The override worked for me, so I could use that as a last resort if needed.
I finally came across a post that lead me to fsmgmt.msc that clearly showed that the insomniac clearly thought there was an open file sharing session. This was even with all other homegroup pc's in standby or off, didn't matter. I could manually close the session, but it would reappear within minutes.
Turns out for me, the solution was quite simple. I guess I violated some rules when I set my homegroup (don't know if they're written anywhere). I stumbled across some info that suggested file sharing was automatically handled between homegroup pc's by the user account and passwords information. That made me wonder if the code was written expecting all homegroup pc's to expect exact same user names and passwords. I use a couple of usernames, and my password is different based on my moods. Lol! Believe it or not, as soon as I matched this info, my problem cleared up! May be a bug, but that's what it took for my insomniac pc to finally close the sharing session which was created when I shared my MC content. Now, all is fine and my insomniac is finally getting some well-deserved rest. NOTE: in my case, the insomniac was sharing to my main HTPC, which had the same username, but different password.
Maybe this info can help others. OH! I also corrected my extender setup with my XBox 360, so maybe that was the culprit. It's hard to tell because the funny thing is that the open session info never listed client info. I think my extender setup broke when I replaced my router, but I found the way to reset all that on this forum.
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text: BUCHANAN Being able to say "Jesus te ama" or "Jesus loves you" to children in the Dominican Republic meant the world to Esther Jones. Jones, a Niles resident, is the Michiana regional coordinator for Operation Christmas Child. She was invited by the national organization to travel to the Caribbean country to deliver gift-filled boxes to children there. Operation Christmas Child is the international charity run by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse ministry. Since 1993, more than 60 million boxes have been collected and distributed. This is Jones' 12th year working with the charity. "In mid-December, they offered me the chance to go to the Dominican Republic," she said. "There were 80 of us who were area coordinators who went. This is the first year I've been an area coordinator and my first trip to deliver boxes." She left here Feb. 9 and returned Feb. 14. During her time in the Dominican Republic, she went out twice a day with other volunteers from the Midwest to deliver gift boxes. "The trip involved about every emotion you can think of," she said. "I enjoyed the beauty of the scenery and the happy faces of the children, but I also saw so much sadness and despair. "We saw the extremes from dumps to palaces." Many images have stayed with her, from the sight of a man flattening out tin cans to repair his metal roof to seeing the efforts of pastors to educate the children in the poorest neighborhoods. "Coming into the city, you'd see little skinny horses pulling carts filled with produce," she said. "You'd also see so many dogs who were mangy and sick. "The need is so great, we couldn't show up and just hand out the boxes. We had to do it by appointment with the children having to have an invitation to be able to come. "There are 3 million children who live in the Dominican Republic and we could have taken nearly all the boxes collected in the U.S. and given them out. "We had a small program beforehand telling the story of Jesus and then we said we had gifts for them," she said. "A total of 208,000 boxes were delivered to the country to be handed out." "When we went to deliver the gift boxes, it was an awesome experience to see the impact the boxes have," she said. "One day we ran out of boxes and it was heartbreaking ... The hardest part was to look on and see those who didn't get a box." Helping out with the distribution of the boxes was made even more special for Jones as she was able to give away the 100,000th box that was collected here last fall with the Operation Christmas Child effort. "The girl, Judelka, was from a very poor community," she said. "She was very happy to get the box ... When we asked another little girl what her favorite thing in the box was, she said Jesus. "One little boy gave me candy from his box." Jones kept a journal during her trip. One day she remarked on how people constructing houses with cement blocks, tin cans and saplings. Another day she wrote about the children's reaction to getting a box. "They couldn't believe it was all for them," she said. She also witnessed some amazing happenings during her trip. Another volunteer from Ohio thought she recognized one of the boxes being distributed and later confirmed that it was a box her mother had put together. Another time, their bus got stuck in the mud during a rainstorm. "We wondered what we were going to do and a man on a horse came by and helped pull us out," she said. "Then he disappeared before we could thank him." Jones said the boxes not only provide the children with toys, books and supplies, they also provide a way for the kids to learn more about the Bible as each recipient is also invited to take Bible classes. Jones plans to share her experiences with area churches in coming days and week. She will be speaking Saturday at the Niles Westside Seventh-day Adventist Church. For her, Operation Christmas Child is a year-round activity. She collects supplies for the boxes throughout the year and is especially on the lookout for Beanie Babies and model cars. People interested in becoming involved with Operation Christmas Child in this area can contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com. The Michiana region she's in charge of covers 13 relay centers in southwest Michigan and northern Indiana.


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Danbury man found dead
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. - A Danbury man found dead in his car on the side of Interstate 684 in North Salem apparently died from a cocaine overdose, police said.
Tanvir Kahn, 47, was found slumped over the front seat of his car at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday. New York State Police say cocaine was found in the car and it was apparent that Kahn took the drug. The car was running with the radio and heat on when Kahn was found, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.


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Display an out door Christmas Tree and honor someone currently serving or a veteran.
The tree should be a plastic coated metal tree with white lights. Attach a 50 ft. outdoor cord with your name and phone number and bring your tree to the baseball field nearest the pool area, Saturday, November 18th 10am-2pm. Any questions can be emailed to: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Wages of Labour
Profit of Capital
Rent of Land
are determined by the fierce struggle between capitalist
and worker. The capitalist inevitably wins. The capitalist can live longer
without the worker than the worker can live without him. Combination among
capitalists is habitual and effective, while combination among the workers
is forbidden and has painful consequences for them. In addition to that,
the landowner and the capitalist can increase their revenues with the
profits of industry, while the worker can supplement his income from industry
with neither ground rent nor interest on capital. This is the reason for
the intensity of competition among the workers. It is, therefore, only
for the worker that the separation of capital, landed property, and labour,
is a necessary, essential, and pernicious separation. Capital and landed
property need not remain constant in this abstraction, as must the labour
of the workers.
1. Capital
3.] Landlords'
right has its origins in robbery. [Say, I, p. 136,
n.2] Landowners, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed,
and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the land. [Smith, I,
p. 44]
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