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Welcome to the new Friday feature--Fill-Me-In Friday where I share some of the best links I've come across during the week.
On the web...
Sherrilyn Kenyon's keynote speech from RWA - Totally made me cry when I heard it in person. If you ever want to get whiny about writing, go read this and kick your own ass.
A Social Media Marketing Success Story via Anne R. Allen and the post she's talking about: An Unfinished Book Hits Number One
Things Learned at RWA 11 via Dear Author - I linked to it on Wednesday, but if you didn't check it out, go now. :)
Romances Don't Have Enough Condoms and Have Too Much Fantasy - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books take on the latest study blaming all of life's woes on romance novels. All of the stuff that is blamed on romance novels makes me tired. Really, really tired. (And for the record, I would say 99% of romance novels I read tackle the issue of protection. The only ones who don't are historical novels where birth control methods weren't exactly available.)
Forget Everyone Else by Jessica Faust - On writing the story you want to write.
There's going to be a Q & A with author Maya Banks on Dear Author on Sunday- Everything you were afraid to ask about publishing. Maya is both e-pubbed and traditionally pubbed and is now venturing into self-pubbing. You can go submit questions still and she said not to hold back! :)
Kristen Lamb is giving her intitial thoughts on Google+ and is generously going to test it out for those of us who are wary of entering yet another social media zone.
What Separates Man From Penmonkey by Chuck Wendig - Warning: If you haven't read Chuck before, his posts are hilarious and insightful, but rated R. There, you've been warned. :) Now go read it.
What You Missed on my Author Blog:
And if you missed Monday's post, I'm still looking for people willing to host me for a spot on my blog tour for CRASH INTO YOU. If you're interested, please sign up here.
And last bit of personal pimping--I've been interviewed for the Writer's Knowledge Base newsletter. Check it out here! And if you haven't already, subscribe to this super helpful free newsletter. Lots of good info each month.
Hope everyone has a great weekend! What was your favorite link of the week? Have you read any of the ones above yet?
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- Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has created a scenario in which President Uhuru Kenyatta can beat Opposition leader Raila Odinga by mid day
- According to Ngunyi, Uhuru can change the structure of the government and offer Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka a powerful position
Political Scientist Mutahi Ngunyi has developed a hypothesis that if President Uhuru Kenyatta picks, he will beat rival Raila Odinga by 12 pm on the election day.
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Ngunyi explains that Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto will be at a better potion to win the elections if they quickly offered the positions of Prime Minister and two deputies.
"If Uhuru offers the position of Prime Minister to Kalonzo today, Kalonzo will abandon Raila with speed and they will win this election by mid day. Kalonzo must also be reminded that if he had supported Kibaki in 2007, the post election violence would not have happened. Like in 2007, Kalonzo holds the key to a peaceful election," he said.
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On the controversial election laws, Ngunyi thinks that Uhuru is setting up Raila so the latter appears like a war monger especially now that the Opposition leader has called for mass action against the passed laws.
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If the mass demonstrations set to begin on January 4 turn violent, Raila could lose votes as his image would have been tainted.
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Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.
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Date of Post : 20 July, 2017
In order to make available potable RO processed drinking water easily available at affordable prices, Western Railway has installed 161 Water Vending Machines (WVMs) at stations on all six divisions under its jurisdiction. Out of these 20 such WVMs are installed over the Mumbai Suburban section from Marine Lines to Dahanu Road. The good news is that 37 more such machines will be installed soon on various suburban stations.
In a Press Release issued by Shri Ravinder Bhakar, Chief Public Relations Officer, Western Railway, it is stated that in pursuit of the Railway Board policy guidelines, these Water Vending Machines are being installed by IRCTC. 321 machines have been sanctioned for W.Rly, out of which 166 have been received and till date, 161 machines have been commissioned for the convenience of passengers. In the Mumbai Suburban section one each Water Vending Machine has been installed at Borivali, Dahisar, Mahim, Elphinstone Road, Mahalaxmi, Naigaon, Dahanu Road, Matunga Road, Saphale and Kelve Road stations and two each at Charni Road, Khar Road, Lower Parel, Palghar and Marine Lines stations. 37 more such machines are planned to be installed at Mahim, Naigaon, Saphale, Vangaon, Kelve, Vaitarna, Andheri, Dadar, Virar, Nalasopara, Bhayander, Vasai Road, Malad, Kandivali, Goregaon, Churchgate, Bandra, Mira Road, Santacruz, Jogeshwari, Vile Parle, Grant Road and Boisar stations. Drinking water from these Vending Machines can be availed as 'refill' or can be purchased 'with containers' also, in different quantities, the rates which are tabulated as under:
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GOP presidential candidates join Twitter debate
WASHINGTON – You think presidential debates are challenging? Try limiting your answers to 140 characters.
Six Republican presidential hopefuls traded tweets in the first presidential debate conducted through Twitter on Wednesday, outlining their agendas across the popular social media service.
In brief responses that buzzed across cyberspace, the GOP field challenged President Barack Obama's approaches to the ongoing debate over the debt ceiling, job creation and the U.S. involvement in Libya. Republican candidates criticized Obama's handling of the economy and efforts to reform health care, while using the medium to share links to introductory videos and websites.
"Obama failed. With ur help we can return the people's voice to the WH, restore fiscal sanity & make Obama a 1 term president," said Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, reflecting the clipped jargon commonly found on Twitter.
Obama held a town hall forum through Twitter earlier this month, answering questions from followers and promoting his agenda. Politicians and campaigns have taken to the social media service because it has become increasingly popular with voters and gives lawmakers the chance to connect directly with their constituents.
While televised debates can lead to longwinded answers, the Twitter forum places a premium on being terse. Asked whether a president can create jobs without expanding the role of the federal government, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum tweeted: "The federal govt kills jobs!" Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, responding to a question on whether the U.S. should have gone into Libya, tweeted: "Absolutely not" and then followed up: "Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya - Get out now!"
Addressing the economy, Georgia businessman Herman Cain told followers: "Government doesn't create jobs. Businesses create jobs. Government needs to get out the way."
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., offered a punchy economic plan: "Control spending. Put Americans back to work. Get back to a balanced budget as we did when I was Speaker." Gingrich was one of several candidates to post a link to his introductory video and later invited followers with more questions to go to his Google+ Hangout on Wednesday evening.
Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who recently entered the Republican field, answered several questions through multiple tweets. Asked about the role of the tea party in next year's election, McCotter said its role "remains 2 be determined - not by its members - but by the GOP's actions."
The 90-minute debate was sponsored by TheTeaParty.net and allowed people to submit questions through Twitter. Each candidate gave opening and closing statements and answered questions posed by conservative commentator S.E. Cupp along with individual questions asked by people on the social media service. Shortly after the final tweet, Cupp said the forum averaged 180 tweets per minute and more than 4,500 responses were retweeted.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Texas Rep. Ron Paul declined to participate.
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Mobile phone users 'set to use VoIP increasingly'
With the number of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) minutes consumed by mobile phone customers set to rise significantly, trading in an old handset may be the best way to keep up with technology.
Users could find selling their existing handset and investing in one of the latest models will help them be part of the expected surge.
Juniper Research has found the number of VoIP minutes will double each year until 2015, meaning the current total of 15 billion will end up at 470.6 billion.
"There are several flavours of mobile VoIP. WiFi mobile VoIP is potentially the most damaging of all VoIP traffic as it bypasses the mobile networks altogether," explains Anthony Cox, senior analyst at the organisation.
The study by Juniper Research also suggests mobile operators will join forces with VoIP specialists, which could result in an improved service being offered to customers.
Earlier this year, Nokia users were offered the chance to access Skype and make free calls – something that may also have persuaded people to trade in their old phone and upgrade.
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series I am already reading or by an author that I love, I don't always succeed there though. So given how much I love books it probably wouldn't surprise you to hear me say I work in a library, but my love of books is not the reason I work at a library though it certainly factored in to why I thought I would be a good fit in libraries when I chose the industry. The way I channel my love of books, aside from chatting about books with my coworkers and patrons, is that I [attempt to] blog about books and reading. I say attempt to because I've never been very good at keeping up a solo blog. I can manage to post regularly for awhile and then life happens or I just get bored or what have you and then after that it's near next to impossible to get back in the groove. My most recent attempt was also probably my most successful, but even then I haven't posted since sometime in mid 2015, it is/was a blog called Novel Concepts. Which brings me to the final thing I wanted to talk about in this post, blogs...
BlogsAngie will admit that she has the same problem I do with solo blogging. So we were chatting the other day and she suggested the idea of a joint blog between herself and me, and well, since you're presumably reading this entry, you'll see that I thought it was a fantastic idea because now it exists. Two Birds One Blog is going to be our joint blogging venture and I am super excited about it. The original idea for a joint venture between us came up in 2014 during my last visit to see her in the UK; we had discussed maybe doing a joint Vlog channel on YouTube similar to Hank and John Green's vlogbrothers, but it never came to fruition mostly because of my camera shyness and the problems I have had with learning how to use video editing software. But writing is something both she and I enjoy, so I am looking forward to working on this blog with her. What will we post about on here? Basically whatever inspires us/whatever we want to. With me you can probably expect a lot of stuff on books, libraries, movies, and the like. We're both on a weight loss journey so you can probably expect to see content related to that floating about. Really it'll just be whatever we want in the moment and I am thrilled about that.
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Venture back in time in true Yorkshire style!
It's the return of the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival, a celebration of silent film across the region, including much loved classics and hidden gems alike.
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Prepare for AISSCE (CBSE Class XII) Chemistry through selected Long ANswer Type Questions – Unit 1 – The Solid State
Chapterwise long answer type questions for AISSCE (CBSE Class XII) Chemistry
Unit 1 – The Solid State
- Describe the following
- Hexagonal close packing
- Cubic close packing
- Body centred cubic packing
- What are the seven types of crystal systems? Give their unit cell dimensions. Draw structures of different types of unit cells which are possible for cubic crystal system.
- What do you mean by stoichiometric point defects? Describe briefly the various types of stoichiometric point defects.
- Explain the following.
- Schottky defect
- Frenkel defect
- F – centres
- Explain the conduction behaviour of metals, semiconductors and insulators on the basis of band theory of solids. What is the effect of increase of temperature on electrical conductivity of metals, semiconductors and insulators.
- Explain the following with suitable examples
- Paramagnetic substances
- ferrimagnetic substances
- Ferromagnetic substances
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1. Name the catalyst used in the Ostwald process for the manufacture of nitric acid .
2. What happens when a colloidal sol of Fe(OH)3 is mixed with that of As2S3 ?
3. How does alum helps in the purification of water with suspended impurities ?
4. Define gold number .
5. Why sky appears blue in the colour ?
6. Write down the difference between sols and emulsions.
7. What does activity and selectivity of catalyst means ? Explain.
8. What is CMC and Kraft temperature with respect to Micelles formation?
9. What is the difference between adsorption isotherm and adsorption isobar ?
10.In which of the following does adsorption takes place
(i) Silica gel placed in the atmosphere containing water .
(ii) Anhydrous CaCl2 placed in the atmosphere containing water .
11.Differentiate between multimolecular, macromolecular and associated colloids ?
12.Write short note on (a) Electrophoresis (b) Peptization .
13.Differentiate between (a) Physical and chemical adsorption (b) Lyophillic and Lyophobic colloids .
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Brendan Coyle has spoken to Digital Spy about progress on the fourth series of Downton Abbey, billing it as the show's best yet.
Coyle, who plays Lord Grantham's valet John Bates, said that he is very grateful to writer Julian Fellowes for the storylines he has been given in the upcoming run of the period drama.
"I'm going to stick my neck out and say it's our best series ever. It's certainly my best series ever," said Coyle.
"I'm really, really grateful for Julian for that. My storylines are phenomenal... And I'm not going to die in a car crash!"
Coyle also spoke about his close friendship with US co-star Shirley MacLaine, joking that the pair are to marry.
"We're in love and we're moving to Santa Fe. She's invited me to her ranch. I love Shirley MacLaine," he said.
"I met Shirley for lunch and I very rarely get starstruck by actors - footballers yes, but rarely actors - but I think I spent most of that lunch saying, 'It's Shirley MacLaine! It's Shirley MacLaine'.
"I met her again for some promotion work when we were over in LA and we got on like a house on fire. She's just great. The cast adore her and she got stuck in.
"She had to adjust to the way we film over here. She was like, 'It's pissing down and you're still filming?' But she adjusted to it beautifully. She's a great crack.
"She's great and she's seen it all. There's no airs and graces or front. She's able to laugh off the things written about her. When she's asked about the things said about her and Maggie Smith, she says, 'Well we were lovers in a previous life'. She's canny."
Downton Abbey returns to ITV in the autumn. It will air in the US on PBS in the New Year.
Coyle returns to screens this month on Sky1 with the second series of comedy drama Starlings alongside Lesley Sharp.
The show's second run features guest appearances from Una Stubbs, Cherie Lunghi and Vincent Regan.
Starlings returns to Sky 1 on Tuesday, July 2 at 9pm.
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
8" Fairy
4 comments:
- Ilona said...
Hi Christel! Your fairy is such a delicate beauty and she looks so life-like (I guess I always say this about your dolls....but they are ;o)! It seems if she just sits there and waits for something, perhaps a beautiful butterfly, or so....
Her beauty is absolutely breath taking!
If she want to, she can take place in my pollarded willow for a while ;O!
I want to thank you for your sweet comment. I was so surprised to read it from such a great artist as you are, thank you very much :D!
Wishing you a nice weekend.
Warm hug, Ilona
- March 6, 2015 at 2:12 AM
- Angelsdoor * Penny said...
Hello dear friend...
You just amaze me, Christel.. Your knowledge of the human form is executed so very well. She is just beautiful!!!!!
Wishing you the best with her auction.
Love and blessings,
- March 6, 2015 at 9:58 AM
- The Old Maid said...
I just love her face! Prett work Christel!
- March 6, 2015 at 12:23 PM
- Christel said...
Dear Ilona, what a wonderful compliment! I am in awe of your realistic miniatures, and hope to someday own some of your creations! Thank you so much for your comment.
Dearest Ewa, your miniature expertise blows me away as well, and I would be proud to have some of your lovely pieces! I appreciate each visit from you as well.
Penny, the sweetest of my dear friends, your art shows how very kind and full of love your heart is! I am very proud to have two of your sweet mice, and want more! Xoxo Christel
- March 6, 2015 at 9:52 PM


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RedFork Main Street Vice President Phil Garland, principal of Webster High School, has won the 2008 MetLife Foundation Ambassadors In Education Award.
The national award honors Garland with a crystal apple and a $5,000 grant for his school.
According to a media release, "the national award program recognizes the most collaborative public school principals in 25 cities, including Tulsa."
All middle- and high-school principals in the Tulsa Public School District were eligible for the award. Several of Garland's colleagues and community members nominated him for the award last month.
"Mr. Garland has transformed our school and the community surrounding it," Gary Percefull, president of the Tulsa Board of Education, said in a media release. "Mr. Garland has helped sustain a collaborative effort with Webster and the six feeder schools that it serves. His outreach efforts also include the neighborhood and business community. He exemplifies the characteristics of a leader in the school and within the community."
According to the news release, the program honors exemplary school principals who build partnerships with community organizations, parents, and guardians; resolve conflicts and promote safety in the school and community; or promote civic engagement and community service.


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The HDC Galaxy Note 3 N9000 is finally out and ready for orders! If you are looking for a real Note 3 copy, then this is your best choice. The HDC Galaxy Note 3 N9000 is a 5.7 inches phablet with MTK6589 quad core processor, and it runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean out of the box.
It is one of the first HDC product to have this new feature called: Smart Scroll. Basically its a pretty smart feature that lets you scroll the screen of your phone without even doing hand gestures or swiping. It just senses your eye movement and scrolls the page for your reading convenience.
The HDC Galaxy Note 3 N9000 has the same TouchWiz UI as the original Galaxy Note 3. It also have these cool features of a real Galaxy flagship which are: Air Command, Air View, Gesture Control, Smart Scroll and Multi Task. It also have the same dimensions as the real Note 3 so you can use the same accessories with this perfect clone.
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Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
Reissue of the heavy rock master's fifth album, originally released in 1970. A step forward into a more psychedelic sound. Akarma release. Deluxe gatefold digipack. 2001.
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Reissue of the heavy rock master's fifth album, originally released in 1970. A step forward into a more psychedelic sound. Akarma release. Deluxe gatefold digipack. 2001.
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This is a Fantastic Outing!!
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"Blue Cheer exploded upon the scene with absolutely no apologies, covering Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" from the vital initial "Vincebus Eruptum" . This pivotal and groundbreaking album forged new territory in San Francisco Bay Area rock which introduced heavy metal and experimental guitar sound that was the blueprint for its entire genre. The "power trio" of Dickie Peterson, Leigh Stephens and Paul Whaley founded a style of experimentation that ushered in daring and HEAVY SOUNDS for decades to come.Enter, on "The Original Human Being", guitarist Gary Yoder -bringing his creative genius from the excellent groups Oxford Circle and KAK - to the forefront of Blue Cheer. Forging ahead with totally new musical design on every album they created, Blue Cheer never needed to repeat themselves musically!Gary Yoder so well understood the psychedelic scene that he was able to compose an entirely innovative dimension to Cheer with founding member Dickie Peterson; in addition, utilizing the talents of Norman Mayell and Ralph Burns Kellogg who contributed so much instrumentally and composition-wise, i.e. "Babaji - Twilight Raga" (a gorgeous sitar rock number that is amazing indeed). This is at once a hard rocking, sensual, melodious, funky, & well executed record that deserves serious study.This well crafted and representative project displays an epitome of San Francisco psychedelia. Blue Cheer is best understood by appreciatang each respective album viewed as its own entity, and appreciated as music that ranks among the most innovative of every style presented.Dynamic!!!!!!"
'Babaji' is transcendent & maybe the best ever raga rock fus
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"'Babaji' is transcendent & maybe the best ever example raga rock fusion. I love indian music and sing some everyday. Back in the 70's I bought this album and wore out the Babaji track which morphs from the preceding track which ends with feedback ....... its devotional its sincere and sadly it only lasts some 3 minutes! However of its type you may never hear better. Where did this piece come from? The album is still musical enough but mostly heavyish (for the time, pre Black Sabbath etc) then all of a sudden this emerges and takes one someone else, whoever composed, envisioned it knew the genre well and like the rest of the album they play with conviction. One of my favourite ever tracks. Thanks Blue Cheer for helping me become an Original Human Being.


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Eleven Madison Park - My Orgasmic Fine Dining Experience (Review)
Eleven Madison Park is a "New French" restaurant located in Manhattan's Flatiron district, considered as one of the best restaurants in the world. The culinary mastermind behind Eleven Madison Park is Daniel Humm, known for his classical but contemporary gastronomic style. The restaurant achieved three Michelin stars and is one of the toughest places to get a reservation to. If you plan ahead as I did and don't give up, you may have a shot.
I'd like to believe that my experience is unique than most because I was a solo diner. I was on a business trip and Patrick couldn't take the time off work to join me. While I have dined solo at casual restaurants, this is my first time dining solo at an extravagant restaurant. I was nervous and unsure of what I would do for three hours of my time alone but to my surprise it was quite nice and casual. I felt completely comfortable; watching the theatrics of the service roles was more than enough to occupy me, in addition to people watching and playing with my iPhone every so often.
I was a blown away completely by the entire three hour dining experience of 16 courses. It is one of the finest restaurants that I've ever been to with such amazing levels of execution from the superb and personable service to the mind-blowing orgasmic food. The details of every little thing from the in-between meals table setup to the handcrafted plates by Jono Pandolfi to the plating details of the food was hands down excellent.
Each course that came out was a surprise - I didn't get my menu until after the dinner. Of all the spectacular 16 dishes I had, my absolute favorite was the 140 day aged rib eye. Next to that would be the foie gras with seared sunchokes, dates, and water chestnut. Then my third favorite is the poached lobster with rutabaga, pear, and lovage bisque. I am salivating as I write this!
Dining at Eleven Madison Park was an experience of a lifetime. It is one of the priciest dinners I've ever had with a tag of $350 for one person (no wine pairing but includes two glasses of wine). I would highly recommend it for a romantic evening, business, or a special occasion. I only wish I was able to share this moment with Patrick and not just solo; hopefully one day in the future we can revisit this fine restaurant again together.
Here are the iPhone photos of most of the items on the menu, along with the descriptions, in order of when it was served. Because the restaurant uses natural lighting, the photos towards the end of the meal taken were dim. Some items not pictured but were also delicious is the savory black and white cheddar cookies, egg cream and take-home granola in a mason jar.
For those interested in creating these dishes at home, you can get the Eleven Madison Park Cookbook.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Oracle Streams problems ... Check the Alert Log first!
Whatever I tried to do, I couldn't achieve it. But, fortunately it is only one day and not whole day :-).
I was investigating Oracle Streams whole month. I got good results and everything seemed to be going so well until, I decide to add new destination site in my Oracle Streams environment.
I was wondering why all those people on forums have issues with Oracle Streams, it is much better than Advanced Replication, and with Oracle 10g R2 you can use OEM to monitor your Streams environment.
One thing what bothered me, while I was learning and investigating streams, was lack of resources and practice examples how to setup streams environment. There is only one book about Oracle Streams available "Oracle Streams - High Speed Replication and Data Sharing" by Madhu Tumma., and off course I bought it. I found some good information there, but most of the scripts what I found inside were not so helpful, because the information what I got from them can be found very easy using some dictionary views.
Also, there is no chapter about how the existing Oracle Streams environment can be extended with new destination database.
No, don't get me wrong, I don't like to criticize this book, it is quite good for a beginner to understand Oracle Streams.
So, I continued to find the way to add another database to my destination databases set.
I created new propagation process in the source database.
I crated streams administrator in the destination database, instantiated all tables, created apply handlers and apply process.
But, when I started the apply process, the changes from the source database were not being applied to the target tables.
The first thing what I got in mind was to check whether some errors occurred in some of the processes (capture, propagation, apply). But, I didn't find any errors there. I thought, here comes the difficult part.
I checked the propagation jobs aq$_schedules. I notice that all propagation jobs have LAST_RUN value, except the propagation job for the new database. Oh, there you go, I said, there my problem is.
I checked everything related to the propagation process, I was dropping and re-creating it several times. Nothing happened…still nothing.
I was searching on the net, trying to find something related to the problem I have, but unfortunately except many old posts (most of them related to Oracle Streams for Oracle 9i) I didn't find anything useful.
I open the OEM, and tried to monitor the Streams process from there. I notice that the propagation process is propagating messages. Then I decide to check and monitor Apply process. I saw messages are arriving, but nothing being applied.
This is good, this is progress, I thought and continued to check all components of the apply process (queue, queue tables, handlers, etc).
I spent almost whole day checking, researching, investigating, and trying to figure out what is the reason for my issue. During that time, I notice many OEM "bugs" related to Streams monitoring features: if one propagation process is disabled, there is no way to enable it again if it is not first listed in the web page :-); you can not create propagation rule if some of the global names are longer than 30 characters :-):-) .
Finally, I decide to check the alert log of the destination database, and I found this:
knllgobjinfo: MISSING Streams multi-version data dictionary!!!
I found that I that the tables at the source database are not instantiated.
I did it using DBMS_CAPTURE_ADM.PREPARE_TABLE_INSTANTIATION, after that re-instantiated the tables in the destination database, and that was it … It worked.
Check your alert log first, anytime when you have a problem with your Oracle Streams environment, and that problem is not a recognized error stored in DBA_CAPTURE, DBA_PROPAGATION or DBA_APPLY_ERROR views.
However, these are the steps what should be taken if you want to add new destination site in your Oracle Streams environment:
1. Stop Capture Process
2. Create Propagation Process, add propagation rules for all tables which are going to be replicated.
3. Create Streams Queue for receiving changes from source queue
4. Create AQ Agent and enable its privileges on STREAM ADMINISTRATOR
5. Add the AQ Agent as subscriber to Streams Queue
6. Create a dml handler procedure for DML statements issued on the tables
7. Set the DML Handlers for each table in the environment
8. Create apply process for the destination database
9. Set instantiation SCN for tables at the source database
10. Set instantiation SCN for tables at the destination database
11. Run apply process
12. Run capture process
For the end, I must say that from my perspective Oracle Streams are much better and easier to work with than Materialized Views (Advanced Replication).
But, nothing is perfect …
Mihajlo Tekic
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OS: Windows XP
Database: 10.2.0.1.0
Database 1: DB1
Database 2: DB2
I have configured bi-directional replication using Oracle Streams. It works fine from DB1 to DB2. But from DB2 to DB1 only the DDL's are replicated but not the DML's.
When I query dba_apply_errors on DB1, following is the output
SQL> select error_number, error_message from dba_apply_error;
ERROR_NUMBER Error Message
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942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
942 ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
9 rows selected.
Could anybody please put some light on this.
Thanks for taking time to share your experience.
hey ,,im so impressed with your article.can u also help on on how views participate in oracle streams. I am going to use oracle streams in my database in order to make replica of the database .
pls help me on that i will be very thankful to u .


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How to solve Euler-Bernoulli beam for point load?
I am student and learning beam theory. I am trying to solve Euler-Bernoulli 4th order differential equation to find the deflection of a beam. The equation is
EI v''''(x) = w
where v is the transverse deflection and w is the distributed uniform load on the beam.
But how would you solve the above if the beam is fixed on both ends, and instead of w, I have a point load P at say distance 'a' from the left end? For a beam fixed on both ends, I use the following boundary conditions
v'(0)=0; v(0)=0; v'(L)=0; v(L)=0; assuming the beam has length L.
But the problem for me, is that the above equation is meant to be used when the load is distributed over the beam. So, when the load is only a point load, what should I do? The wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Bernoulli_beam_theory here seems to talk a little about this, but I could not understand it. I am only a first year student.
Any one can explain in simple terms what I need to do for point load? (assuming there is no w, just a point load somewhere on the beam, both ends fixed). Sorry that my question is very basic for this advanced forum, but I did not know where else to ask this.
A couple of ideas
1) You showed the wikipedia article, start with the bending moment equation M=EIv". I assume you can do statics, sums of forces and moments. First solve the static equations for forces and moments at the two end points. Then cut the beam in two places, one side of the point where point load is applied, write the static equilibrium using assumed internal moment and internal shear force--you will get an equation for "M" as a function of "x", the distance along the beam. Do the same for a cut of the beam on the other side of the load application point. I think you have everything you need.
2) for a more general approach, visualize the point load "P" as a load distributed over a very small area, width "epsilon", but the distributed load has magnitude of P/epsilon. Now you can start to do a straight integration of the original differential equation: EIv''''(x)=w. If you integrate the right hand side, "w", remember that "w" is zero everywhere except that small width "epsilon" so the integral of "w" has limits only for that small epsilon. Finish the integrations, enforce the boundary conditions, I think then you can make "epsilon" go to zero. I did this procedure (what I remember of it) a long time ago, but I think the principle is as I have remembered it. There might be some integration tricks I am forgetting, but I think that generally this is how it can be done.


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Sword of the Stars Born of Blood Review
|Kerberos Productions
|Lighthouse Interactive
|4X turn based strategy
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|July 20th, 2007 (UK)
|Mike Jennings
Ask anyone who does regular exercise - so, that's not me then - and they'll tell you that you need to work at it for a long time before you see results. You'll only be rewarded with a few lost pounds (or, if you're really unlucky, mere ounces) if you put in the effort over a long period of time. Of course, when you reach the hallowed goal, I'm sure it's worth it - after all, I wouldn't know. The only thing I have to compare it to is playing through Born of Blood, the first expansion pack to well-received space strategy title Sword of the Stars, from Kerberos Productions.
It is, to put it lightly, one hell of a slog. But, as regular exercisers know; there's ways to make your ritual workouts more entertaining. Gyms have televisions hanging off the ceilings, and many body-worshippers slip an mp3 player into the mix, too. This approach also makes me think of Born of Blood - because it's also what Kerberos Productions have done with their game.
It's a turn-based strategy title set in the near future - 2045, to be accurate - where humans have recently begun to properly explore space. And, coincidentally, so have a whole raft of other folk - just a lot better than we have been. Space is populated by several other races, like the bug-resembling Hivers, reptilian Tarkas, and the aquatic Liir. New for the Born of Blood expansion are the fearsome, enigmatic Zuul, known throughout the galaxy as being purveyors of the finest, ferocious attacks on other races and for keeping lots and lots of slaves. They sound pretty bad - until you realise that they're a race of space-hopping Marsupials. Evil Kangaroos. It's at this point that you realise Born of Blood and, in fact, parent game Sword of the Stars shouldn't be taken entirely seriously.
I began this review by outlining how Kerberos's latest is merely an endless slog through space, and I suppose I should qualify that by explaining some of the gameplay. Typically, you'll begin a scenario in charge of one or a cluster of planets and, depending on your race, a variety of options open to you. The crux of the game, at least initially, is exploration. You can design and construct a range of ships with which to launch out into space, and each has their purpose - colonisers to explore and inhabit other planets, armour ships to defend your fledgling empire, tankers to refuel and extended range vessels to reach the furthest areas of the galaxy. In short, it's a relatively simple process: explore and colonise other planets with your ships. Research better technology. Build more ships. Colonise more planets. Meet the enemy. Beat the enemy. Humans (or whoever else you've chosen to be) FTW!
But that's not all. The beauty of Born of Blood's relentless slog is in how it's disguised, and the beauty of that is in the vast amount of customisation options you're presented with throughout the game. I'm sure you're used to both turn-based and real-time strategy games presenting the well-worn idea of a tech tree to the player - a structure whereby you research all the available technologies and advancements available to your particular faction in order to make your units and buildings stronger and more efficient. This familiar system has been implemented, again, here, but with a difference: it's flexible. The unique conditions of whatever scenario you're presented with - whether it's one of the creative pre-built levels or a random map game - alters the options you're presented with. Different races of aliens will, obviously, limit what you're able to research, but so will your home planet and its environmental and economic conditions, the other planets in your young empire, the other players in your game, and what you've already discovered and researched yourself. This provides you with an interesting and new experience every time you play Born of Blood, because the tech tree impacts on every other facet of the title. There's also a wealth of different parts to use to build your star-crossing spaceships, so none of them will ever look the same. And, of course, everything costs a different amount - financial considerations are important. When you're really into the meat of the game, there's so much going on across the breadth of your empire that you're almost diverted from the endless slog for territory that the game has become. Almost.
Of course, occasionally, you'll run into other players competing for the same planets - and, thereby, resources and technology - as you are. This allows Born in Blood to showcase its graphical muscle with 3-D, real-time battles that are, as you'd expect, very attractive. You're able to control your various ships on-the-fly, allowing your fine tactical nous - or not, in my case - to win or lose the battle. You're also able to let the game's AI handle the combat turns if you'd like, but that takes some of the fun out of it. There's no satisfaction in taking credit for someone else's victory, and even less when it's a computer your cheating out of a free drink down at the interstellar tavern.
Born of Blood is, of course, an add-on pack first and foremost, meant for the players who have already exhausted the extensive options that were served up with the original Sword of the Stars - so what new features does it bring to the table? There's the aforementioned new race, the Zuul - evil, slave-keeping Marsupial creatures who the late, great Steve Irwin might even have had problems with - who bring with them eighty new ship sections to play with and 40 new weapons and technologies. Then there's new diplomacy and communications systems, more intelligence technologies to let you spy on your enemies even quieter than before, as well as a deepened trade route system for economic gain, detailed combat graphs to let you analyse your performance, and a host of features that are sure to please fans of Sword of the Stars multiplayer - more tactical combat options, scenarios, galaxy types, and further enhancements. As you can tell by now, it's quite a mouthful and relatively good value. You may scoff at the seemingly paltry 2 scenarios - especially when other strategy games offer whole new campaigns for expansion packs - but this is a game where every scenario is different, right down to the mechanics of what makes it tick - and so offers replay-ability like none other. The absorbing nature of the game isn't down to how many scripted events are packed into a pre-written campaign - it's about writing a new space opera every time your fleet blasts off into space from your innocent little planet, hoping to conquer everything before it.
Talking of space, it's a very empty place. The graphics of Born of Blood do little to help, because they're something of a hit-and-miss affair. You'll spend most of your time in the strategy screen, plotting your next move between planets, and it can get quite depressing. Planets look like marbles, only more lifeless, and blur with dodgy textures if you zoom in far enough. Your ships take on the single colour of your faction during this screen, and there's not much else to speak of. The camera's also annoying, not allowing you to move freely. You have to click on either a planet or a fleet and manipulate the 3-D world around that instead - which can be quite infuriating if you're just trying to find your next destination and are trying to position the camera just so it can be seen over the shoulder of your home-world. Because that's the only place it can be seen from. It's a fully 3-D game, so it's disappointing that the camera has been so hamstrung like this. That's the miss, then, I was talking about. What about the hits? The real-time combat section of the game is exciting; full of lasers and explosions, and the whole game is lathered with a cartoon graphical style that lends a whimsical sense of humour to the game, taking it about as seriously as the original Star Trek television series is taken today. Talking of Shatner et al, the in-game menus draw obvious inspiration from Roddenberry's sci-fi classic, as does the voice acting, which is excellent. Scottish engineers? Very original.
I recently reviewed Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation, and it's easy to draw a couple of comparisons despite the obvious differences between the two games. Born of Blood, like its predecessor, requires commitment to get the most of it. It's not too much fun at the beginning when you're colonising planets and researching new technologies in a treadmill of progress that's showing few results. But when you get deeper into the game, encounter enemies, and start to interact with other races of the universe (who've all been furnished with lovingly crafted back stories, as the manual and appendix included on the disc will testify), when the game begins to entertain. It's how I imagine Space: Total War will eventually turn out like with its tongue firmly in its cheek: tactical, intriguing and absorbing - when you're a while into the game, but lacking a little polish. It's at its best when you've got a burgeoning empire and there are rebellions and trade federations to deal with at every end of it, rather than dealing with franchising out onto unknown planets in your first few turns. Born of Blood just needs a bit of investment before you start to see some results. But, like that six-pack you're hoping for, it'll be worth it in the end, right?
Born of Blood is an expansion pack to sci-fi turn-based strategy title Sword of the Stars and introduces a new race as well as a raft of new technology and weapons into the malleable tech tree. It requires a lot of time to get the best of it, but it's entertaining enough - no game will ever be the same thanks to the ever-changing nature of its customisable content - and the graphics and sound are entertaining in a gently humorous kind of way. Just be prepared to sit down and wade through a bit of boredom before you really start to see results from your empire.
6.0 / 10
Good stuff
- Customisable ships and research
- Exciting real-time battles
- Rewarding in the long-term
- The thinking man's multiplayer
Not so good stuff
- Horrific camera control
- Takes an age to get going
- Portrays the vacuum of space really well
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Plan to Preserve: Budget Tips for Making a Big Grocery Investment
Summertime is the season to do all kinds of fun food things, like throw a big party, can batches of preserves and pickles, and stock the freezer for the fall. This growing season produces all kinds of opportunities for buying ahead, cooking ahead, and celebrating.
But what if there really isn't room in the budget to buy 40 pounds of pickling cucumbers, as perfect as they look? What if you just can't foot the bill for a month's worth of meals? What if throwing a party seems just more than your bank account can manage?
Years ago, I would have simply charged the expense on my credit card and worried about it later. In retrospect, this seems a little counter-intuitive, since canning and freezer cooking are supposed to save me money.
What's the smart shopper's alternative? Plan ahead for that big grocery expense.
There are several simple ways in which you can make room in the budget for the party or the preserving. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? I'll bet each of us is able to make it happen with a little creative thinking. Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing:
Take Inventory
If you are someone who has more fun in the grocery store than the department store (waves hand wildly), you may have some goodies lurking in the cupboard that will suit your project perfectly. Time to take inventory!
I know there are boxes of canning supplies in the garage; I really don't need to buy another box of lids — at least not until I check out what I have. I could make a party menu out of what's already in the freezer; I just might need to do some baking and buy an item or two.
Check the fridge, freezer, and pantry — chances are, you've got a good start on supplies. Determine what you have so you won't buy more than you truly need.
Do a Pantry Challenge
If you've got a regular grocery budget, then you already know what funds you have for a given week or month. But what about what's already in your cupboard or freezer?
While it might not be party fare, it may be more than adequate for your weeknight dinners. What simple, low-budget meals can you make based on what you already have? Your inventory will come in handy not only for your big project, but also for tomorrow's dinner. Eating down the freezer can save you money — by doing a pantry challenge and using up what you have for regular meals, you can divert the funds to your bigger expense.
Stockpile in Advance
If you've got time between now and when you need to can/freeze/party, take advantage of the age-old stockpile method. Look for sales and coupons and check the clearance rack for items that suit your needs. A purchase here and there shouldn't break the budget, but it should allow you to slowly stock up.
Decide on Your Must-Haves
I tend to bite off more than I can chew. In order to keep my spending in check, I have to ask myself which items I really need and which I can pass over. Focusing on the most important purchases and supplementing with less expensive secondary purchases can be a great way to have the best of both worlds.
I might not have an unlimited grocery budget, but I do have a lot of creative options to explore. I'd love to know what tricks you use for making a big grocery expense happen!


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Now, for a little sneak peek into Christmas at my house. I should begin by saying that Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year and if it wasn't frowned upon, I would begin decorating at the end of September. But, since it IS frowned upon, I waited until the middle of November, instead. So, this past weekend I put up my Christmas tree. (Since Thanksgiving in Canada is in October, I guess we get into the Christmas spirit a bit earlier.) Anyway, my Christmas tree is filled with tons of different snowmen because snowmen are my absolute favorite thing to collect over the holidays.
PS - Sorry for the strangely yellow pictures. Allan used the camera for some bike pictures over the weekend and I have NO idea how to change the settings......boooo.


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The base outside the capital Bishkek has become a vital cog in Nato's supply chain to its forces in Afghanistan.
The news will heighten concern in the West that Almazbek Atambayev's election victory means Kyrgyzstan will drift further under the Kremlin's patronage.
Although the fee that the US pays Kyrgyzstan for the lease of the airbase is one of the former Soviet state's main incomes, Mr Atambayev said that the chance of a revenge attack by one of the US's enemies was a risk he did not want to take.
"We know that the United States is often engaged in conflict. First in Iraq, then in Afghanistan, and now relations are tense with Iran," he said.
"I would not want for one of these countries to launch a retaliatory strike on the military base."
Nato has said it wants to pull out most of its forces from Afghanistan by 2014.
The US airbase in Kyrgyzstan has always been controversial. Locals have complained about alleged environmental damage and politicians have said in the past that it should close but Atambayev's statement is the most explicit.
To the irritation of Russia, the US has leased the airbase for a decade to support Nato operations in Afghanistan. The Kremlin considers Central Asia part of its special sphere of influence.
Most Kyrgyz consider Russia a key ally and Mr Atambayev was careful to stress his pro-Russia credentials during the recent election campaign. This tactic appears to have paid off as he won 63 per cent in the election on Sunday, a far bigger proportion of the vote than analysts had expected.


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I am proud to announce that I actually have some new, exciting posts thought up in my head. The problem...so many pictures, so little patience. I promise I will be sharing this next week! (if I don't get sidetracked by the company that will be here for the next 3 weeks, which is even more exciting for me!)
Just a little preview: a new tutorial for a beautiful, headband, flower, accessory thingy, (did you get that?) a great Snickerdoodle recipe and a clever, little game my 7 year old and his friend made up to entertain themselves. What's better than two 7 year olds entertaining themselves rather than relying on me to do it? Nothing! I can't wait!
AND...the most exciting news! Heidi will be home! Yay! I bet you've missed her. I know I sure have!
And there you have it! Man, that's a lot of exclamation points and parenthesis. That reminds me, do you remember that song back in the 90's about punctuation? The words went something like this. "I love you period. Do you love me question mark? Please, please exclamation point! I want to hold you in parenthesis." Random, but do you? It was strange but very catchy! If you want to read the remaining lyrics find them here.


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Well Hello There Family!
It is of course a pleasure to be in your presence again. I know there's a litany of activities and transitions occurring now that the sun and the heat have arrived. This is all the more reason why I'd like to take the opportunity to reflect on a very important topic. Let's contemplate, just for a minute, the importance of our foundation, our families. For me and most, family is the cornerstone, foundation, support and Saving Grace, if we are fortunate.
So, while we immerse ourselves in summer festivities, travels, dreams and plans… consider your impact on and within your family. Consider if you have given enough, given graciously, given genuinely, given fairly and/or given too much. Think more about the important, memorable and positive and comforting gifts that we have the ability to offer each other as family. However I urge you to proceed honestly and openly for this is no small feat. How we give and receive within our families is pivotal to our health and well-being. Our ability to give and receive with love of and for life should always be honored. The considerations below may help to encourage, inspire and support your family as we all experience change, growth during moments of uncertainty!
First, Second and Last Family Commandments
• Be concerned about the existence and safety of your family members.
• Speak and guide them with truth and compassion and try to do no harm.
• Understand that none of us are perfect; we are all human and subject to err.
• Treat family as humans, it's the only true form of equality regardless of hierarchy or status.
• Try not to use superiority as a means to preserve yourself or your motives.
• Be and do your very best; it makes it so much easier for the rest.
• Try to be honest about pains, challenges, disappointments, etc., it only festers and eats away at your foundation. Seek resolution and progression through these incidents otherwise it's futile.
• Don't stifle yours or any other family members' successes, achievements, interests and empowerment.
• Don't unnecessarily use or take from your family; do as much as you can to meet your own need.
• Be not afraid of challenges, successes and even revolts; these all denote the need for change.
• Use your positive and negative experiences to teach, uplift, guide and sustain your family.
• Invest in your family, with time, love, care, positive energy and positive people. This does not always require money or materials.
Times are very harsh for a lot of us. They require us to be versatile, flexible and as such, as original as possible. So use resources that are available to help your families. Ask for help to avoid suffering, bitterness and feeling disempowered. Be realistic about your knowledge, awareness and contributions to the welfare of your family. Supervise and protect your families the best ways that you can and if you are uncertain of what family safety is…ask someone. Share your knowledge, understanding and patience. If these are not the important things to you and your family then what are? Our lives are being intricately woven into stories that reflect us as a family whether it be in our homes, at our jobs or in society and I for one am intent on positively contributing to my family and having my say.
To you, I say this in Love of Life.
"If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired." ~ Erik H. Erikson


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Their credibility and capacity is being questioned, donors are being contacted and told that UNDP's own EO has "issues" and that the leadership will try to deal with them "expeditiously".
All this transpired after Fox News reported on a recent Evaluation of UNDP's own Poverty Programmes. The Evaluation Office, after scrutinizing 10 years worth of $8 Billion in financing aimed at poverty eradication, found: NO TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE PROGRAMMES.
Reportedly the Office of Administrator was furious with the findings and the way they published it without first "clearing it with competent authorities"...
What a shame...
Let's hope that Indran Naidoo will retain his work ethics and continue on the path of independently evaluating UNDP's work.
That's what ultimately donors want...that's what tax payers want from them.
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Decoding the cultural landscape: a structural analysis of the University of Alberta
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University of Alberta.
Bilash, O.
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Department: Department of Geography
Date accepted: 1984
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Degree: Master of Arts
Degree level: Master's
Language: English
DOI: doi:10.7939-R3V40K89Z
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Paul Giamatti to Star as Rap Group Manager in STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Biopic
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Giamatti will star in Universal's biopic STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON as Jerry Heller, the manager of the rap group N.W.A. F. Gary Gray directs. The film is scheduled to hit the big screen next August.
Read the original story here.
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON "chronicles how five young men channeled their experiences growing up in Compton into brutally honest music".
Before he became involved with N.W.A., Heller had worked with artists from Journey to REO Speedwagon, plus Elton John and Pink Floyd on tour. He co-founded Ruthless Records with Easy-E in 1986, soon signing N.W.A. He came under fire for mishandling funds in promoting the group, thus resulting (in some people's opinion) in N.W.A.'s break-up after Ice Cube and Dr. Dre severed ties.
Among the producers are N.W.A.'s Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, alongside Matt Alvarez and Tomica Woods-Wright. Will Packer and Scott Bernstein are executive producers.
Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. is playing his father; Jason Mitchell will portray Easy-E, and Corey Hawkins will take on the role of Dr. Dre.
Among Giamatti's upcoming big screen projects are Love & Mercy, Madame Bovary, The Little Prince and The Phenom. His recent film credits include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, River of Fundament, Saving Mr. Banks, Romeo & Juliet, 12 Years a Slave, Rock of Ages, and more. The actor last appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh, for which he won a Drama Desk Award in 1999, The Three Sisters, Racing Demon, and Arcadia.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Alright, I know this is late in the game for this topic, but a few comments have urged me on to post more so here it goes.
The Indy tire debacle. What a mess for NASCAR, the track, and the fans. Tony George has been blamed. Goodyear has been blamed and of course NASCAR has been blamed. So who's fault was it?
Tony George laser ground the track two years ago. That made it more abrasive. Why, thats it of course. We have our fall guy. But wait, we have raced there twice without near the tire issues exhibited this year. Why now? Maybe he's not or fall guy.
Goodyear had a tire test at Indy with three cars. The compound they brought to the test proved to be pretty durable, but the driver's felt they were to unstable. Now what? Bring the same compound to Indy that was used last year. They had some tire issues last year but nothing horrible. A reasonable decision one would think.
NASCAR did not hold a mass testing at Indy to run in race conditions. A mistake? Probably.
So, the big question here is what was different this year than the last two year's? The track? no.
The tire? No. The car? Whoops.
The car. The COT. You know, the one that the teams have to use the tires as the suspension so it will turn. The car that is notoriously hard on right side ties. The car that appeared for the first time at Indy this year. The only variable was the car.
Now, I'm not a COT basher. It's just not there yet and they need to keep working on it. Had NASCAR run a full three day testing session at Indy this year, would we have seen what we did during the race. I doubt it. While it's true that with Indy booked up in May for obvious reason's, the test would have been held in April under quite different weather condition's than it was on race day, I think that a tire not lasting more than ten lap's would have reared it's ugly head.
So there you have it. Not enough testing of the new car on a track it's never seen before. Was the track a factor? Sure. Was the tire a factor? sure. But I don't think they would have been had they done a full test.
As far as how NASCAR dealt with it on race day, there didn't seem to be much of an option. Do they pack it up Saturday night and go home? Yeah right. You think people were upset with the way it went, you would've had to evacuate the folks from the infield in helicopters under heavy guard.
Some people were upset that NASCAR didn't leave it up to the teams as to when to pit for new tires. I was listening to several driver's radio's. Most could not wait for that ten lap competition caution. They kept asking "how many more laps till we pit. I've got cording, Ive got a vibration".
That would indicate to me that a lot of the teams would have done what NASCAR did anyway.
Other teams would try to push it. Thats what racer's do. They don't like to pit. Some would think that if they could just stay out for fifteen to twenty laps, they could get an edge. Based on what I saw, that would have been an accident waiting to happen.
So when it is all said and done, NASCAR did the only thing they could do. As a side note, I saw some pretty good racing during those ten lap sprints.
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2. I refer to tv shows and cartoons that my younger cousins have never heard of and love the confused and surprised faces when I know all about a new movie that was based on an old show.
3. I can no longer do hand stands.
4. For some reason I can't dance until sunrise and still be fresh and rested after only 2 hours of sleep. What's even more amazing is that I really don't care.
5. Gravity is becoming harder to fight, and I was never great at physics anyway.
6. I can say "Oh I used to wear those when I was younger" when a 'new' fashion trend emerges.
7. I'm a decade closer to life beginning at 40.
8. These new fangled rap stars do not have a clue what real rap or hip hop is about.
9. Beetles weren't Bugs and Minis weren't Coopers.
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I put together this year's "Boo" baskets for the annual "Ghosting" of my grandson and son this past week.
"Ghosting"(aka "You've Been Ghosted" or "You've Been Boo'ed") is our annual tradition that I learned of in my neighborhood when we first moved in. Now the ghost has moved on to my son's neighborhood. I have seen the tell-tale paper ghost taped to peoples windows in my neighborhood indicating they have already been ghosted though, so maybe it's still alive here as well.
My Ghosting Procedures are as follows: ( Procedures may vary according to your "Ghosting" ability)
1.) Ghost creates basket with instruction sheet on how to pay it forward;
2.) Ghost has a couple mixed drinks while waiting for darkness;
3.) Ghost walks the basket(s) of creepiness and goodies to the door of the person to be ghosted while trying not to trip over bicycles and other objects in the yard, because the ghost's son didn't turn on the outside light;
4.) Ghost rings the doorbell realizing he's just walked into a spider web on the porch prompting rapid flailing of arms and hands after baskets are set at the door;
5.) Ghost runs for parked vehicle, while passing neighbors look on in bewildered amusement at old guy pretending to run while flailing arms.
6.) Ghost trips over yard object anyways, smashing shin, and screaming string of expletives;
7.) Ghost goes home to tend wounds;
8.) Grandson opens door and is delighted.
This year Grandpa paid a visit during the annual night time pumpkin carving at my son and daughter in law's home. My Grandson was fully immersed in pulling the seeds from the pumpkin for some sort of family pumpkin seed recipe. Six "almost seven" is such a cool age for Halloween. Everything is still magic.
Wouldn't you know it, ten minutes after Grandpa left, they got ghosted!


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I'm a huge fan of Lauryn Hill, and have been since I heard her sing as a High School Student.
It was Lauryn Hill who gave me the courage to rock my natural hair at the tender age of 17…
It was Lauryn Hill whose album title forced me to go read Dr. Carton G. Woodson's The Miseducation of the Negro
It was Lauryn Hill who spoke the language of my innocent and unwavering teenage love with lyrics like… "I get mad when you walk away / so I tell you leave when I mean stay…" and "These buildings could drift out to sea / some natural catastrophe / still there's no place I'd rather be…."
I'll go to my grave saying "And while you imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone / and defecating on your microphone" is the best line in rap EVER.
But the point of this post is to let you know that Lauryn Hill is currently incarcerated for the next 3 months due to tax evasion. This hit close to home not only because I'm a fan, but because my mother was incarcerated when I was little girl . Lauryn Hill has six children – the youngest is 1 years old and the oldest is 16 and incarceration is difficult for any family.
One thing that is really important to those who are incarcerated is mail, so let's overwhelm our sister with our love, our words of encouragement and our prayers. You can send mail here:Lauryn Hill #64600-050 FCI Danbury Federal Correction Institution Route 37 Danbury, CT 06811
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Ernst was born in Ceres in the Western Cape in 1973 with congenital absence of both legs. Despite this Ernst demonstrated an affinity for all sports codes from an early age and was encouraged by his parents to participate in various activities – from gymnastics to swimming and even table tennis.
At the age of 17 Ernst had earned his national colours for swimming and went on to compete in the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics. He took fifth place in the pool, but it was reaching the semifinals in the wheelchair events that changed his career to the track events.
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Creepy Democrat Bob Filner Pleads Guilty to Three Charges
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x-Mayor Bob Filner, who left office in a scandal over allegations of sexual harassment of women, Tuesday pleaded guilty to one felony count of false imprisonment and two misdemeanor counts of battery.
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A crown of dragons / Chris d'Lacey.
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From the NYT bestselling author Chris d'Lacey comes the final installment in this action-packed paranormal adventure series full of mystery, alternate realities, thrills and chills. Although Michael Malone has completed two missions for the secretive UNICORNE agency, he is still far from finding his missing father. But when he is asked to investigate a scale of a dragon - the very same artifact his father researched before he disappeared - Michael realizes he's closer than ever to unlocking the truth. Soon, he learns that his father is lost in an alternate reality, and Michael is the only one with the power to save him. The deeper Michael ventures into his father's past, however, the harder it becomes to distinguish ally from enemy. Now, Michael must embark on his most dangerous mission yet. What deadly trials will he face in his attempt to rescue his father? And worse, does his father even want to be found?
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PySpades Map EditorBy: Sandcrawler
2. Creating a New Map with PySpades Map Editor
3. Play the map
1. I just generated a new terrain using the Bitmap Converter, but while looking it over in Voxed I noticed that some of the blocks are the wrong color, or in some cases the blocks were missing.
You could fix this using Voxed, but it would take time, as its all over the map. You could also get rid of some of the errors while creating the bitmaps. But one of the easiest ways to fix it will be PySpades Map editor. So go ahead and get it started up, then go to File > Load and browse to the location of your map. Then open it and you will see your bottom water layer:
The colored parts of the map are a visible parts, the black parts of the map are solid covered blocks. You can zoom in and out with a Mouse Wheel, and you have one lonely tool on the right hand side...a brush for drawing with. Below the Toolbox, you have four other buttons you can push, Current Z is what block height you are currently editing, or creating. The Brush Size is just as it sound, the size of the brush, Toggle freeze I'm not sure what it does, and the last button is to select a color. Ok Well we just want to fix the water layer right now, so go back to the Bitmap you used while generating the map, copy the contents of the water layer, and then Paste them into PySpades.Now you should have your water layer:
Next go up to Current Z 1 to check for anything you need to fix, it should have a transparent background. You can change Current Z by click on the arrow, or by pushing the Q or the A key.
Now just fix it, there is no way to select a color from your image, so I just used the Set Color menu and pick a color that was close. When they are all viewed together it will be hard to tell what you fixed. Remember that any blue pixels on the images now are the first layer of blocks. You left click to place the color, right click to remove all color. Now my Islands look like this:
Now you may want to check over the rest of the Z Layers, then just save the map using Ctrl + S, or File > Save. Now you can open the map in Voxed and place your Prefabbed trees, buildings, or anything else you'd like.
2. Now lets make a brand new map using the PySpades Map Editor. So grab the brush tool, and pick a color you want to put down, make sure you are on the intended Z Layer, and go crazy (Or Not):
I created a few layers of craziness with a section of landmass. You could create something as detailed as you want, or something with very few details. you can also create buildings with PySpades Map Editor. Now save the map, and load it up in Voxed to see a preview. You can also have the program open voxed with the map for you by pushing F5 or going to File > Open in Voxed. It will first have you save the map, then pick the location of Voxed to open the map.
3. Now lets play the new map we made:
This concludes the current series of tutorials covering the basics of creating a map. I may continue this series, going into some of the move advanced features of Voxed, and a more in depth tutorial for heightmap creation.
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Alia Sahar
After six years belly dancing, I finally decided to take an artistic name. The name I chosen is Alia Sahar, which means Beautiful Desert. I identify myself with the desert, the nomadic life, to be like the wind, and finding beauty in much unexpected places. … Read More