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The Harder They Come [Mango, 1973]
The soundtrack to the greatest rock and roll movie this side of The TAMI Show is the greatest rock and roll compilation this side of 18 King Size Rhythm and Blues Hits. Only it's better, because directory Perry Henzell had five years of reggae to choose from, with no real label restrictions. Reggae isn't straight rock and roll, of course--its syncopation was a response to the rock that replaced shuffle r&b on U.S. radio in the early '60s. But the interplay of amped-up bass, heartbeat drums, and scratch guitar is as good a rhythm as anyone else's out right now, and though there are only two million Jamaicans, at least 50,000 of them want to be reggae stars. Among the eight who make it here are movie hero Jimmy Cliff (defiant, plaintive, inspirational) and prime minister of soul Toots Hibbert (exuberant, pressured, amused), but wonderful minor artists like the Slickers (whose "Johnny Too Bad" is a rough draft of the movie) and Scotty (whose song is a chant) are just as representative of this thriving, disorganized scene. Docked a notch for repeating two Cliff songs. A

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We are excited about bringing our U.S.-market-leading optical turnstiles and other security solutions to Mexico.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 30, 2014
Smarter Security, Inc., provider of premium, innovative entrance control and outdoor security solutions, today announced it has formally entered the Mexico market and will offer its physical security solutions to organizations south of the border. Engagements with Mexican companies have demonstrated that the country is a prime market for the company to grow its sales and serve more customers. Smarter Security is aggressively seeking partners to help develop its business within Class A buildings, large corporations, government agencies, and other institutions.
"We are excited about bringing our U.S.-market-leading optical turnstiles and other security solutions to Mexico," said Jeff Brown, CEO of Smarter Security. "Crime, vandalism, and unrest are hurting organizations throughout the country. Our Fastlane® products offer a premium aesthetic appeal, while our Door Detective® units offer an additional layer of security once inside a building. Our technology detects many kinds of unauthorized entry attempts including social engineering, one of the most dangerous. The Mexican market appears to value the premium aesthetics of Fastlane designs and will appreciate the other compelling advantages of our security solutions. In addition to internal security, Smarter Security provides a unique product set for securing outdoor assets."
Smarter Security has an employee living in Mexico City short-term to assist in accelerating the development of the company's business in the capital city and throughout the country. The company has a strong sales partner and is earnestly seeking additional partners who can help supplement the sales and support services Smarter Security will bring to the geography. The company has easy access to the country as its headquarters in Austin, Texas is closer to Mexico City than to Washington D.C. and all of the top three metro markets in the United States.
Smarter Security offers Fastlane optical turnstiles, and with thirteen models of barrier and non-barrier units, has the broadest selection in the industry. For the last five years, Fastlane has led the market in North America, per IHS Research. Smarter Security also provides Door Detective, a solution to better secure access controlled doors with tailgate detection, direction control, and anti-passback support. Perimeter security offerings from Smarter Security in Mexico include SmarterFence™, a fiber optic, fence-mounted intrusion detection system and SmarterBeam™, a passive infrared outdoor motion detector. Documents in Spanish that describe all of these solutions can be found on the company's web site at http://www.smartersecurity.com/product-resources/documentation.
About Smarter Security, Inc.
Smarter Security provides premium and innovative entrance control and outdoor security solutions to help organizations protect their people and assets in a world of ever-present threats. Since 1992, Smarter Security has offered Fastlane turnstiles, the most elegant and intelligent optical turnstiles available, which protect thousands of commercial and governmental lobbies on six continents. Smarter Security also offers perimeter intrusion detection systems, including SmarterFence, a fiber optic fence-mounted sensor. For more information, please visit http://www.smartersecurity.com.
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Rogers, Kim Lacy.
Righteous lives : narratives of the New Orleans civil rights movement /
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While black and white liberal groups within the city protested the raids on SCEF, that organization's left-wing reputation was reinforced by the latest round of official red-baiting. SCEF remained an outsider to most civil rights groups within New Orleans, as it did to the national organizations of the NAACP and CORE. Local activists found the "Communist" smear simply too controversial to contest.
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It's time for a SPECIALTY CHALLENGE #7 at Picture Perfect Creations...crafty challenges!!! What do you see in this photo?? The colors, flowers, teapot, teacup?? Let us know by showing us what you can create!!
Whether it be a paper or non-paper project... come on over and join us!! Would love to see what you all come up with!! The Design Team has some very fun creative things to share with you as well!!
I used an older sketch from Inkspirations 65 - Where you can see my matching "Thanks a Latte" card HERE.
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Hey Guys,
For this shoot I headed to the park. Another beautiful day deserved another shoot outside. Since it was still pretty hot I picked out a denim mini skirt. I went with this one because it has this really pretty yellow and blue stitching all around the bottom. It kinda reminds me of a New Mexico western type theme with the way the stitching is and the color combo of the thread. Next I picked the grey shirt. The small puffed upped shoulders are so fun and of the moment. I really love the puffed shoulder trend but since it was day time I had to keep the poufiness to a minimum. The back has this really amazing cut out detail that gives a nice little surprise when I turn around. Love! I paired a yellow tank top under the grey shirt to play off the yellow stitching in the skirt.
Then I paired this multi colored chain necklace to really stand out. Normally I don't like to do big necklaces like this during the day but the color paired up so nicely I had to try it out. I'm glad I did cuz I think big necklaces and day time go really well together when paired with the right outfit. This is one of my fav necklaces I love whenever I get a chance to wear it. I added some big ol gold hoop earrings, some metallic beaded sandals and I was good to go.
Thanks to Iiona for the pics!
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On New Year's Day 1990, the young men of the USC football team won the biggest game of their lives.
Led by first-year quarterback Todd Marinovich, the Trojans fought their way past the University of Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl. The score had been tied until the final two minutes, when Ricky Ervins, the diminutive tailback from Pasadena, ran in the final touchdown for a 17-10 victory and was named the Rose Bowl's most valuable player in his hometown.
After the victory, senior cornerback Ernest Spears reflected to a Times reporter on what the game might mean for the players.
"A game like this gives you confidence to go out into the world," said Spears, who made four tackles in the game. "You go out a winner, and hopefully you will be a winner in life."


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There comes a time in every sysadmin's life when you realize that as long as you have your job, you're never going to
- have a life
- have friends
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- have a break from all the madness
When you fix server A, server B breaks. When you patch exploit 1, exploit 2 strikes threefold. And to top it off, our customers are still using passwords like 123456. Luckily, there's someone out there that appears to be seeing things at my level.
We started using Ksplice back in September 2010 when one infamous kernel exploit started it all. We used to only have to do kernel updates a few times a year. Now the RHEL guys decided to start compiling their kernels from sad pandas and french fries, backporting and reintroducing a string of security holes that hackers have been sitting until the opportune moment. When you're working for one of the best hosts in the industry and basically guaranteeing 99.9% uptime, you try rebooting a dump truck full of servers five or six times a month just to avoid some asshat defacing all the index pages on your server with pictures of babies and swastikas.
I mean, unless you're into that kind of thing.
During these unsexy times there's one thing I've been continually grateful for – and that's the fact that the developers of Ksplice apparently have no lives, girlfriends, or any other dreams in life other than to make all our jobs easier. Here at IMH, we were all slightly depressed when we found out that we couldn't have reboot parties anymore. The Ksplice guys usually have new vendor-released kernel patches available within a day and we can easily and instantly run kernel updates on our entire fleet of servers without having to reboot a single one. With that, we don't have to wait until the middle of the night over the span of several days to fix critical security problems, and customers don't have to complain about downtime. This lets us focus on what's important: drinking, karaoke, and nude ice fishing keeping people happy. If that's not worth the $2.95 a month, I don't know what is.


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In this post today, we will have a look at the multi-page Jquery mobile architecture. We have discussed the single page architecture in detail in the previous post. In case you have missed it, I recommend you to have a look at it first, before you proceed to the Jquery Mobile Multi-page architecture.
Jquery multi-page architecture is nothing but a collection of DIVs stacked together in a single HTML page linked to each other using the div IDs. Let's take a look at the example below and then discuss it in detail. The example shows a three "page" site built with 3 jQuery Mobile divs navigated by linking to an id placed on each page wrapper. Note that the id's on the page wrappers are only needed to support the internal page linking, and are optional if each page is a separate HTML document. Here is what three pages look inside the
body element.
You must have observed that each of the page div has an attribute data-role="page" and an id associated with it. Each page is required to have a unique id which is used to link these pages together. When a link is clicked, the Jquery Mobile framework will look for an internal page with that id and transition the page into view. Another thing to remember is that the id attribute of all your elements must be not only unique on a given page, but also unique across the pages in a site. This is because jQuery Mobile's single-page navigation model allows many different "pages" to be present in the DOM at the same time. This also applies when using the multi-page template, since all the "pages" on the template are loaded at the same time.
UPDATE: The following example makes use of the next stable version of Jquery Mobile 1.3.1
UPDATE: The following example makes use of the next stable version of Jquery Mobile 1.3.1
Hope the single page and multi-page jQuery mobile structures are clear. However, there is a small problem with the multi-page structure approach that you might face while implementing it. How to have a different page title for all the pages that are stacked in one single HTML? There is a simple solution to this which JQuery Mobile has provided us with and we will discuss it in the next post.
Hope you followed this post and it has helped you. Stay tuned for more such code samples and snippets.


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Light heavyweight champion Jon Jones will put his UFC title up for grabs in less than two weeks when he faces Dan Henderson in the main event at UFC 151. If "Bones" gets by the always-game Henderson he will find himself in an interesting position where the division's remaining contenders involve opponents he's already beaten soundly or rising stars who haven't quite achieved the level of success necessary to be seen as a legitimate challenger.
However, in Jones' eyes there are still plenty of tough tests left for him at 205 pounds even if no one individual has emerged as a clear cut threat to his reign at the top.
"Phil Davis lost to Rashad (Evans), and I beat Rashad, but that doesn't mean Phil Davis won't give me the fight of my life. Or (Alexander) Gustafsson. He's tall, I'm tall, and he's got long arms. Maybe that would be interesting to see. Or Glover Teixiera. He hits hard. Maybe that would be interesting," admitted Jones in an interview with MMAJunkie. "Styles make match-ups. There (are) guys in my gym right now that aren't in the UFC that make me sweat and bleed. So you can't say I've cleaned out the division because I haven't. I simply haven't."
While the 25-year old may be open to a number of options for fights in the immediate future, one opponent he has no interest in facing at the moment is Chael Sonnen. Sonnen recently announced his decision to move up to light heavyweight for a meeting with Forrest Griffin and has been actively calling Jones out ever since.
"That guy is a joke," stated Jones blankly. "It's what he wants, but I'm not going to allow him to get a title fight from talking. It's not going to happen. Chael Sonnen will not get a title fight from using his mouth."
"I will make it very clear to everyone that there (are) people who are way more deserving of a shot," he continued. "If he wants to come into the division, I'd consider him Top 15 among light heavyweights. Let's see what he'll do against a wrestler like Phil Davis. Let's see what he'd do against a wrestler like Rashad or a striker like Lyoto Machida….The light-heavyweight division is a completely different beast. I won't allow him to just jump the rankings with his mouth. It's not going to happen."


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How do I get to know Ta-Q-Bin in the first place? My wife watch Japan animation movie 魔女の宅急便 few years back ago, one day, she saw a courier delivery van with Ta-Q-Bin logo on the road, she excitedly point me on the van and talk about it, only than I know that Ta-Q-Bin is stand for 宅急便.
A little about Ta-Q-Bin on their website,
TA-Q-BIN which means "personal express delivery" in Japanese, is Japan's leading logistics specialist, covering an array of transport services under the Yamato Group. Originally formed as Yamato Transport in 1919, TA-Q-BIN has become an important social infrastructure by creating more convenient lifestyles through innovative logistics systems.
Formerly known as 'Takkyubin' in Japan, the company made a decision to re-establish itself as 'TA-Q-BIN' to fulfil a more global presence.
There are some speciality on Ta-Q-Bin service compare to other courier service, as they accept things like foods, vege or fruit to be sent by their service in some extend or term and condition, so it is quite fun for me to see Ta-Q-Bin help desk in the AEON supermarket (Formerly Jusco in Malaysia) during festive season, like Chinese New Year, to provide service of sending mandarin orange for your love one for you.
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Little by little we can "perfect" the genome
Braininvat » Thu Feb 16, 2017 4:40 pm wrote:It's funny, I've never found the line that hard to draw. If it fixes a debilitating condition, then it's just good medicine. If you could spare your child Huntington's disease or Celiac disease or spina bifida or cleft palate or cystic fibrosis, etc. wouldn't you want to make that "edit" ? I think most agree that making "supermen" is neither feasible or ethical. But there's always suffering in life and I don't see any need to add to that suffering by deciding that children having severe genetic diseases is some sort of lofty philosophic goal.
Editing like this is also a path to far more affordable healthcare. Compare the costs of treating a lifelong chronic condition compared with editing the condition out at the start of life. Which seems the more humane and elegant solution to a medical problem?
"Any gene that associates with poor quality of life or diminished lifespan?" So there are about 300+ genes in Gene age that are associated with longevity. Many that are a simple SNP that in some cases confer an extra 5 years of lifespan - would this be ok to fix?
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God has been doing some amazing things in our family lately and I wanted to share them with you.
First, and most exciting, Connie is pregnant. We thought it would be fun to announce it today on Facebook to create a little stir. But rest assured, faithful reader, that Connie is indeed pregnant! In fact, she's already started showing a little bit; it's incredibly cute! The photo we used to announce it is too fun not to share here:
Please pray for Connie & baby's health. She's due early November, so it would be fun if baby and I shared birthday dates.
Another big announcement is that I'm going to stop attending seminary for a season. I originally began seminary pursuing a Masters of Divinity and have recently realized that it's probably not the degree I need for the specific ministry role to which God is directing me. Rather than being the preacher on the stage, I feel like God is pushing me to be the man behind the scenes making sure that all the volunteers have what they need, that the electric bill has been paid, etc.
With that in mind, I recently began the application process for an MBA program at George Fox University. Truth be told, I would study theology whether I got a seminary degree in it or not, but I would probably not study corporate finance or organizational development unless I forced myself to do so. This is why I think the MBA program will equip me with a skill-set that I wouldn't get elsewhere but will serve the Church well. Please pray for that process and ask God to grant me wisdom as I move forward.
Finally, this week I start a new job installing hardwood floors! As I transition from full- to part-time school with another child on the way, God has provided a job that will pay the exact dollar amount necessary for us to meet our needs. This is an answer to our family's recurring prayer that God give us neither poverty not riches (Pr. 30:7-9). Another bonus is that Connie will be able to stay home with our children indefinitely, which is very important to us. Also, this job will help me accomplish one of my long-term goals: learn a trade!
Connie & I are excited about all these changes and look forward to watching God at work during this new season of life. God is good and has recently reminded me that He will provide for His children.


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|Captain Lock freezing his *** off in northern BC
Yeah, I know – fishing, no big deal – but this was different. I was with a great bunch of guys in northern British Columbia at the top of the Haida Gwaii (former Queen Charlotte Islands) within view of the Alaska panhandle.
|Charter plane then a helicopter ride to the fishing camp
Getting there was no mean feat, involving a charter plane from Vancouver to Masset BC, and then a helicopter ride to the camp.
The West Coast Fishing Club is a floating fish camp that could put any five-star resort to shame with amazing service, and gourmet meals. For three days we fished for salmon and halibut in a pristine wilderness surrounded by humpback whales, sea lions and bald eagles.
|Lots of Humpback Whales playing around the boat
The fishing camp operates on a catch and release program using simple fish hooks, no barbs allowed. It makes for exciting times as salmon are fighters and frequently a big one will shake the hook loose just as it arrives at the boat! But usually the guides quickly net the fish, lift them slightly out of the water for weighing, snap a souvenir photo and then release the fish back to the freedom of the ocean.
|Lawrie - Salmon was shipped to his son in Vancouver
For anyone who wishes to keep their catch, the strict limit is two salmon and one halibut per day. The accepted practice is that all large fish are immediately returned to the ocean, as soon as they have been weighed. One of the newest guides, fishing during his free time, caught an eighty-pound salmon that had to be released. The guides are not allowed to keep anything they catch, plus the fish was so big it was considered too important to remove from the gene-pool. The West Coast Fishing Camp takes a very responsible view of sustainability. Every year since they opened they have returned more hatchlings to the area than fish that have been caught.
|Richard Lock very good friend of Ron Brown
But here's the best part about the experience! This fishing tournament is in honour of Ron Brown a former Isla Mujeres resident. He and his wife Gwen contributed to a number of charities on the island. Still in his prime, Ron passed away in 2009. The event was created in celebration of Ron's life.
The Reeling for Ronnie Fishing Tournament raises funds to pay for tuition and expenses for a select number of female students on Isla Mujeres who wish to attend university or college. Ron's memory is also preserved in the minds of these young ladies. It just doesn't get any better.
The only downside to participating in the event is I live in the tropics twelve months a year. My blood has thinned out – or whatever. Cold! Wow, I don't think I have ever been this cold. The average daytime temperature was around 12C, (53F) dropping down further at night. I'm just not used to that anymore.
|The biggest fish for the day .....
Everyone was supplied a survival suits by the fishing camp operators. We had to wear them when we were out in the boats, because the ocean temperature is so chilly the risk of hyperthermia was pretty high if we had experienced an unscheduled dunking. I had three layers of clothes on under my survival suit and my teeth were clacking together. I guess this means I won't be moving back to Canada anytime soon.
Oh well, I will just have to tough it out in Paradise!
Thanks again guys, for the great time during the Reeling for Ronnie Fishing Tournament.
|Nice warm sunrise on Isla Mujeres June 2013
Hasta Luego
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That's a long time between journal posts. And Christ, that last one is some weepy shit. No wonder my cousin's been tactfully asking me about my suicidal ideation.
So, it's November. I got older and almost no one noticed. Ingrid has decided that I am too hard to please and has stopped trying to do anything to acknowledge my birthday. I had a job for about a week, and a couple weeks of being a bum before that. Before that, I had about three months of overtime work and good paychecks.
On the subject of overtime work and good paychecks:
I have been supremely responsible with my income this year. Every time I get a chance at some extra hours, I take it. Every time I get a fat paycheck, I put some of it in a fund. Every time -- okay, three times -- that fund got big enough, I took the money out and gave it to Sallie Mae. Doing this has paid off three of my fourteen(ish?) loans, and eliminated about $12,000 in debt. This is on top of the usual monthly payments, which, aggravatingly have not gone down that much regardless of me knocking out loans.
I feel pretty good about this. It's what grownups do, or some other self-actualizing shit, I don't know.
So, anyway, this morning I get an email from Sallie Mae telling me my income-based repayment plan has come in and I'll have to make $X in payments each month. For those who don't know, the IBR plan is a federal measure that's supposed to take the heat off by only asking for some small percentage of your monthly income.
Here's the kicker: the amount they want is more per month than what I qualified for last year. I either made more money last tax year (that's what they base the decision on) or paying off the three loans this year makes them believe I have more discretionary income to apply to the remaining ones, or they just felt like assholes and decided to twist my balls for kicks. I worked overtime for months to pay these loans down, and my reward is paying more per month.
This is happening irrespective of my private loans, mind you. Those all saw 1-1.5% interest rate increases over the course of the year, aren't subject to IBR or any other federal help, and ask for higher monthly payments and sport higher interest rates. Never borrow privately for education, kids. They'll fuck you well after you accept that your additional degree doesn't actually qualify you for more jobs.
I've been paying student loans for twenty-one years, and paying obscene student loans for eleven years. I am scheduled to be paying them for another ten years. I do not qualify for any forgiveness or reduction from either federal or private lenders. I believe I will die before this debt does.
I wish I had a lesson at the end of this bitch session, a moral to the story. It mostly resolves to "everything is terrible, and the reward for being good is additional terrible".
Time off of work is time spent sitting and thinking about such things. The lack of updates is probably a direct result of having steady work for most of the last five months.
--5:06 PM, EST, November 20, 2018, now's about the time I gotta get up outta here, fuck this shit I'm out
I'm working, but the work came at the cost of a bunch of drama.
I don't have insurance.
I don't really have time to play games on my flashy new computer, and the game that really has me right now (Cultist Simulator) is playable on my POS laptop.
We only play D&D about once every four or six weeks now. I say "we" - Marty and Andy are playing with strangers online, so they have three or four games a week to the rest of our once a month if we're lucky.
Trump is going to get a second Supreme Court nomination. They're imprisoning babies at the border. People get shot to death on a daily basis, and a mass of people gets shot on a weekly basis.
I have no job opportunities, no career, no chance for advancement. I'm middle-aged and overweight. I have nothing to say and no way to say it, and I only speak one language.
I stopped drinking soda all the time and now I just drink it once or twice a week. I don't feel any better. I haven't lost any weight. It's as though I stopped doing something that made me feel good for no fucking reason.
It's just soda, though. It didn't make me feel that good.
Nothing does.
--1:09 PM, Philadelphia, PA, EDT, July 1, 2018, this shit's in full LiveJournal mode
Sunday was Mother's Day. My mother was in town. My sister convinced everyone that everyone wanted to go to the Phillies game. This is obviously something my sister wants to do, and no one else. However, my brother and I were told that this was what my mom wanted, and it wasn't until far too late that we all discovered we were lied to.
Family context: my sister is a pathological liar, and this entirely on us for believing her.
So we went to the Phillies. On a rainy Sunday less than 24 hours after the Saturday night game was rained out. I am the only family member who lives in the city, so I took SEPTA. My suburban family feels like this is dangerous or repugnant in some way. I consider it a lovely time to myself, for reading or playing games on my phone or just sitting in peace.
While trying to enter the subway, I used my new SEPTA Key card. This is the technology they are introducing to remove tokens, cash, and other 20th century means of payment. Sadly, it did not work. While I was trying to get my subway paid for, I saw that $2 was missing from my Key card, which is impossible, as I have not used this new card ever. This distracted me from getting onto the subway as quickly as possible, which was fine, because there was no subway for fifteen minutes.
SEPTA context: there is a subway arriving every eight minutes at City Hall. Maybe at every station. I'm not sure; I don't use the subway much.
This meant that in addition to having to pay extra to use cash, I was also late. This was also fine, because the game wasn't starting on time, due to the rain. I arrived in South Philly to light rain, in which I had to walk from the subway station to the ballpark, and then to the football stadium parking across the way. My sister was tailgating, which in this case meant pounding beers and eating pretzels in a parking lot.
I had to walk around either in the rain or through inch deep puddles in the parking lots to find them. Between SEPTA, rain, and the general reason I was there in the first place (lies, see above), I was in a foul mood. My sister, on seeing my face, laughed at me and tried to take my picture. I flicked my cane up at her to try to ruin her shot, and instead whacked her in the gut.
Cane context: I have recurrent back problems, and spasms that sometimes rob me of my ability to stand unaided. When this seems possible, I walk with a cane.
My sister will use any opportunity to play the victim, the affronted, the good girl done wrong. This was her opportunity. She milked it for about ten minutes before accusing me of battering her with a stick. She would later upgrade this to "stabbing" her with it.
Am I the asshole here? Of course I am, I whacked her with a cane. But there are limits to what you can bitch about. You have to have perspective.
So, after she calms down a little and tries to simultaneously be the poor bullied sister AND the too cool to be bothered tough girl, we go into the stadium. Well, they go into the stadium. I get held up at the metal detectors because I have a pocket knife on my keys.
"That's a WEAPON!" says the south Philly guido who is determined not to allow another 9/11, not at his ballpark, not on his watch.
"It's... a Swiss army knife." I reply, a little bewildered.
"It's got a BLADE, don't it?!" Chachi says.
"Of course it does, it's a Swiss army knife."
"It's naht comin' in here, pal. Go complain to the manager, you don' like it!"
"Okay, can I have my stuff back please?" This seems a little confounding to him, as though he assumed I would throw my knife in the trash in order to watch a baseball game. He hands me back my cane, my bag, and my phone.
I walk over to the ticket window and talk to the lady at the Complimentary Tickets desk. I explain that I took the subway to get here, and I can't bring my keys into the stadium, but I have nowhere to put them since I don't have a car here. She immediately figures out a solution, takes my keys and knife and puts them in an envelope to be picked up after the game. So simple, so helpful. I make a mental note to praise her to Phillies park management later.
I go back to security, same line, same belligerent chach. I hand him all my stuff and he eyes me suspiciously. "Did you hide your knife somewhere in here?" he demands.
I smile big back at him and truthfully say, "Golly, I didn't hide my knife anywhere."
He turns red and barks at the bag-searching guy, "RIP HIS BAG APART!!!"
(This is the only part of our exchange that I regret, but I said it and I should cop to it.) I answer him, "Wow. So little power, and so quick to abuse it."
The bag searching guy goes over my stuff, doesn't find anything, tells the prick I'm clean. The prick is about to say something else, so I preempt him with, "Are you sure? Do you want to spend some more time searching it? I know it's full of pockets."
They angrily tell me to get out of there, and I walk to the game with my heart full.
--May 15, 2018, 12:55 PM EDT, living on reds vitamin C and cocaine
Last week our project ended after a couple of months. I don't remember how long - maybe November to first week in February? I may be aggregating projects - and we spent the last month trying to convince these assholes they should probably terminate the project, but nooooo.
This was pretty good timing. Nothing was scheduled to start this week, so I could relax and do anything or nothing. Ingrid has work, and is set to leave town for a week to go to New Mexico. This means I get the house to myself for a week while she's at work, and the I get the house entirely to myself for a week. So relaxing!
Sure, this means I am the sole responsible party for Lennie the Hand-Biting Jerk Dog, but it's fine. A small price to pay.
Except, the placement agency called me about a new project. I must have been a little frustrated about them jamming up my laziness plans, because I sorta kinda responded to their offer letter with an honest and forthright appraisal of their abilities as work-finders and representatives. This normally would be the kind of thing that gets me blacklisted from that agency for a while, but they must be hard up for temps because I got a sickly-sweet conciliatory reply.
They had 110 seats to fill with butts, and I think they could only manage 60, so keeping me happy was suddenly important. Work starts next Monday, and I was able to wring a few more bucks per hour out of them. That's great, but still bad for my laziness plan.
And then Ingrid got sick.
I (and she!) don't know what she has. Aches, suggesting flu, but no fever. Cold symptoms. Her teeth hurt. She didn't eat for three days, then threw up the one thing she ate, then went another day before she could keep anything down.
The entire week. And while she's been sick, I haven't had any of the freedom of sloth I expected this week. I have been sitting in an adjacent room, faithfully waiting to see if she needs anything. That's my choice, I understand that, I coulda ditched her and gone to Bojangles or some shit. But it's just another hit against my... oh, shit, I just realized, I was anticipating a "stay-cation." Ugh. I am officially the worst.
And naturally, having missed a week of work and feeling frail after all this sickness, she's cancelling her trip to New Mexico. I don't blame her: travel sucks, and she has a weird reaction to traveling to 7000 feet elevation where she gets sick every single time she goes. So, it's double bad for her. Triple bad when you factor in the "having been sick" thing.
Let me establish that I am complaining about the woman I love and having work. The baseline here is that my basic needs are all being met. I am still a miserable bastard but that is just my irrationality. I should shut up and smile. But I was really planning on being left alone for a while and the opposite of that is now happening.
Postscript: I paid off one of my Sallie Mae loans using my federal tax refund and money I'd been saving. It was $4500 and change, at the highest interest rate I pay (6.8%) and should represent a good chunk of... oh, it was only 6% of my total student loan debt. Fuck.
--10:47 AM, EST, 2/9/2018, Philadelphia, PA, no one likes us, we don't care
It was my birthday on Friday. I'm super old.
It's a weekday, and I'm currently employed, so there was nothing unusual there. I got up, went to work, came home from work. I received some cards in the mail, sent thank-yous to the senders, and got some texts wishing me a happy birthday.
I didn't get anyone wishing me such on Facebook. This is by design, though, as I instruct Facebook not to share that information with anyone. I do it because I would like it if people remembered my birthday because they like me and are thinking of me. I am less touched by a gesture prompted by Facebook, which last year included "click here to send Matthew a gift" and this year includes "click here to donate to a cause rather than selfishly sending Matthew a gift".
Yes, this is unreasonable and fails to accept how things are today. Facebook is omnipresent, and like phone numbers in our contacts list, we have subcontracted the work of remembering birthdays to a machine. By not cooperating, it's my own fault if no one wishes me a happy birthday.
I'm going to keep doing it.
I went through the Obamacare process and learned my insurance bill is going up. I don't know by how much yet, but I'm going to price out how much going without insurance will be. If I die before I can post here again, sorry everyone. The GOP killed me with capitalized healthcare.
I received no gifts, two checks, and a friend paid me back some money she owed me by PayPal. I will probably spend some money on some things, so I can say I got something for my birthday, because I am very shallow. The idea that your birthday should stop mattering about the time you get a driver's license is a good one. It is just a pain to the people around you.
Since my birthday fell on a Friday, Ingrid and I usually go to a Mexican place. We call it 'tex-mex Friday' because we are fucking unoriginal. I skipped lunch so I wouldn't be half-full when it was Burrito o'clock. Ingrid came home, declared she wasn't very hungry, and asked if we could go to dinner later. I said that was fine. She smoked up, turned on a Miss Marple flick, and fell asleep on the couch.
Again, like the Facebook thing, I don't blame her. She worked all week, including writing up her 90 day self-evaluation at her new job. Last week she did her job, a colleague's job, and served five days of jury duty. I get it.
But, uh, it did mean that I didn't eat on my birthday. Like, I had some Pringles. And a couple of bagels at work. Not bagel sandwiches, not bagels with anything, just bagels. But no meals.
The following day, our friend Andy had a surprise party. We went to Qdoba (at no time, I'm proud to report, calling it 'tex-mex Saturday'), bought a birthday card for Andy, and went to his parents' house. When we arrived, we didn't really know anyone. When people arrived who we did know, most of them blew me off. Including Marty, which was unpleasant. When it got loud and crowded, I found an empty room and played with my phone. The only person who talked to me (despite many people coming into the room to get beer) was David, who I thought was angry at me over some fantasy football shit.
Eventually Andy arrived, was surprised, and we agreed this day would have been better spent playing D&D. I got him an RPG he had his eye on, but I didn't get to "give" it to him because I wanted to get the hell out of there before the designated gift-giving portion of the evening occurred. I hope he likes it. See above, "I'm very shallow", I would have liked to see him receive it to see if he really liked it or if he was just being polite.
Marty didn't talk to me the whole time we were trying to leave. I spent about five minutes sitting in a room with just him, Sarah and Ingrid. I have no idea what he's mad about. I didn't forget his birthday (it's the 13th) and I got him a RWBY board game for it. I could hear him talking about work inside the party. I can't envision wanting to talk about work while not currently being paid to do so.
Ingrid just thought I was being needlessly grumpy and oversensitive. She went to bed without saying 'good night'. And she's right. I'm terrible. But I guess I thought I could get a little leeway for a special occasion.
The upshot here is that my birthday isn't a special occasion. I got it.
There needs to be some aphorism akin to "you're not paranoid if they're really out to get you" to apply to being a dour cynic when things really don't go your way. But the prevailing wisdom is "you decide if you're happy or not". I've never been any good at that.
This is the part where I ordinarily hit 'delete' on a social media post. Because it's entirely self-involved, talks shit about people, and is generally mopey. But this isn't social media. There's like three people reading this, and you're all in different states, and none of them is here. I don't have a therapist, so maybe this is a replacement.
I woke up, took my blood pressure medication, and wrote this down. Let's see if I feel any better.
--7:35 AM EST, November 5, 2017, Philadelphia PA, maybe it's less than three
There was a squeaking noise in the apartment today.
I told Ingrid I thought it might be a mouse. (Our apartment is shitty with mice and possibly some kind of biting insect? I don't know, there was a lot of "not our fault" clauses in the lease about bedbugs; I was assured those are a mere formality in Philadelphia.) She scoffed and suggested it was coming from outside. Perhaps someone was test driving cat toys.
The noise continued, periodically attracting the attention of Lennie, the dog who is only a dog when it suits her. She was jamming her nose in the crack under the dishwasher, but that didn't seem likely. We had a previous incident where a mouse crawled under our refrigerator and died. We discovered this after the stench of soaked (by condensation) and cooked (by the heat of the fridge compressor) mouse filled the apartment. Not just the kitchen, mind you. The whole apartment.
The noise continued. I was not getting used to it, as I had hoped might happen, and then later on I would pull the fridge out and check for mouse carcasses before they became mouse air fresheners. I was feeling bad for the mouse. It wasn't his fault there's an old, shittily maintained apartment building full of food and crevices to hide in. He's just playing the hand he's dealt. So, I decide to do something about it.
I move the fridge out of its space between the counter and the wall. They made the space X inches wide to accommodate the X-0.01 inch fridge. It screams and scrapes every time you move it, and can only move an inch or two before it jams in its space. It's a pain in the dick to deal with, but the squeaking continues even as I'm wiggling this damn appliance out of the way.
Once the fridge is moved, you need to remove a back panel. I have not brought any tools, so I have to ask Ingrid for them. The dog is real fucking interested in what's going on now: her food and water are over there, and the squeaking continues, and if she can be a pain in the ass in any given situation, she's right there. I get the back panel removed and try to get my head craned into the now-empty space so I can see back behind there.
It's empty.
The squeaking is not coming from the base of the fridge, as I suspected. It's coming from beneath the counter, immediately to the left of the fridge... under the dishwasher, like Lennie thought. Well, fuck, this was a lot of work for no goddamn reason. Let me just put the fridge back where it goes and then pull out the dishwasher.
While I'm putting the fridge back, there's a burst of sparks from underneath it and the lights go out.
I think I killed the refrigerator. At 11:15 PM on the Saturday of a Jewish holiday weekend (the landlords are Jewish). While it is full of frozen goods. After a week when we found out my job is not going to last nearly as long as promised.
And that squeaking is still going.
--11:38 PM, EDT, 9/30/17, Philadelphia, PA, sometimes you the Louisville Slugger / sometimes you the ball
We'll see if I can remember how to ftp to Icculus and put something other than text on this page. Smart money's on "not any time soon."
--August 21 (Eclipse Day), 2017, Philadelphia, PA, apparently the robot needed caffeine
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We did character creation for Unknown Armies, fulfilling a dream I've had for over ten years. A Fool, a Masterless Man, a Necessary Servant, and a hacktivist will be investigating the disappearance of a girl at a club they all frequent.
I broke a tooth last week, and went back to the dentist I used to go to when I lived further north. It's a pain in the ass to drive all that way from our new place, but I know that guy has my dental records. Also, I asked him to recommend a more convenient dentist last time, and he got all pissy about it.
So the dentist repairs my tooth, but reminds me that last time I was supposed to think ahead and plan on getting it capped or crowned or some dental nonsense. I reminded him I have no insurance, and he said "Not my problem", but more politely and responsibly.
The upshot is, I'm supposed to get some minor oral surgery to make my tooth crownable, and then get the crown. I don't know how much the surgery costs, but the crown is between two and three thousand dollars.
But then I remember - I bought an insurance plan while my last work project was ending because Obamacare. And I think there is a dental plan on it. So I go to pay for my tooth fix, and I give the receptionist my insurance card. "This is an HMO," she says to me. "Okay," I respond, not sure what that has to do with anything. "Also, this is for pediatric dental care." I nod and pay out of pocket for the work, still not sure why the insurance didn't pay for everything. Anything? What does insurance do?
Not sure what all this means, I go home and do some research. Both the things the lady at the dentist's office told me were true! First, I do not have insurance, I have a list of doctors who will charge part of my bill to Independence Blue Cross. Not all of it, just some of it. And I have pediatric dental care, also through an HMO. I am not a pede, though, so I can't use it. And, presumably, I can't stop paying for it either because I am not in an "open enrollment period". Question mark.
I went from being glad that I had thought ahead and was a responsible adult to feeling like a stupid ass for falling for this responsible adult bullshit. I would go and look for jobs that offer insurance but HA HA HA HA HA oh my sides.
The new apartment is nice. The streets are loud sometimes, but that is what Lincoln Drive is like. It's pretty here, and the dog still has beds to lie in all over the house, so I'm sure she doesn't think it's any smaller than our last house.
I worked eight hours last week, and made so little money that I still qualified for unemployment. I need some kind of hustle where I can make part of my income regardless of circumstance. At this moment, our entire household income is my unemployment check.
The placement agencies swear more work is coming. They swear.
--12:21 PM, EDT, Philadelphia, PA, and so Sally can wait
Moving is the worst. Next time I have to move I'm just going to kill whoever it is that is making me move, and then kill the next person, and the next. It will be easier in the long run.
A recurring theme of this move has been asking Ingrid if she is throwing away old clothes, old books, old papers; the punchline is when she says no, she might need them. We have lived together for five years and she has not seen any of these items since we moved in, in 2012. 2011? It's been a while.
I'm just as bad, but in a lesser magnitude. I have a lot of "but I received this as a gift from Respected Friend!" reasons for keeping shit. I also have a full set of Happy Meal toys from the Legion of Super-Heroes cartoon, so don't let my bullshit fool you.
(There's also the legitimate fear that Relative X will find out you donated or threw away something they gave you, and be hurt by that. Look, I had to accept that they're all just possessions, please don't fuck up my progress.)
Yesterday I worked eight hours and my project ended. Today, I had to go back to the old house, have an existential shock about how much shit there still was to move / donate / throw away, then move said shit for four hours. Afterward, we drove it back to the new apartment, hauled it up two flights of stairs, and put it away. I collapsed in Ingrid's IKEA chair, my legs flung across the matching footrest. I tried to get my shoes off, but I was tired, and I mostly just let them fall off my limp feet. One of the shoes hit a long (five feet?) cardboard box, which began toppling toward me. I leaned forward to catch it, which put my center of gravity too far forward for Swedish seat technology to adapt. The entire chair rolled forward, dropping me on my ass on the floor and the back of the chair banging me on the the head while my legs batted the footrest across the room and the cardboard box fell on me anyway.
I sat on the floor, screaming profanity, until Ingrid came in and demanded to know what I had done. I informed her that her Nordic devil chair had attacked me, which she took as some kind of slight.
I did the next drive to the old house alone. I feel sure that my cause is just.
--1:27 AM EST, West Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, what difference does it make?
I woke up before Ingrid, after being sick overnight (good sausage and peppers, bad digestion). The dog only wants affection from her and not me, but we'd slept in late and she badly wanted a walk. I took her out in 40 degree weather and howling winds wearing only a t-shirt, because I'm an idiot.
After I got her back in the house, I fed her, which now involves throwing her food across the house so she can chase it, and/or putting food into toys that she can play with. She actually sits and complains if the food is just sitting there in her bowl.
Then I cleaned up all the dishes from role-playing. There are a lot, because at least one of our players simply doesn't worry about cleaning up after himself. He lives with his parents, always has, and is about 40 years old. I emptied the dishwasher and put away the dishes, then reloaded all the dirty dishes from yesterday. I also threw away the food that the non-cleaning guy left, took out the super-full bin of recyclables, put away teacups that Ingrid lets get all tannined and have to be washed by hand. I had already washed those by hand before Ingrid came home on Tuesday, and they say out until this morning.
Remember when I said it was howling winds this morning? That probably means the recyclable bin is less full now and our alley is littered as fuck.
I made Ingrid a cup of tea and took it to her in bed.
The dog got ahold of some little gravel and was chewing it. She's done this at least once before, and it worries me. I don't want to have to deal with her skittishness if she breaks a tooth and bleeds all over the place, so I thought I'd try and get the gravel away from her. But she sees it as food, and so she bit me.
--2:37 PM, EST, November 20, 2016, Philadelphia, PA, gimme big mac / gimme fries to go
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As noun
an opening, as in a wall, serving as an outlet for air, smoke, fumes, or the like
an opening at the earth's surface from which volcanic material, as lava, steam, or gas, is emitted
the anal or excretory opening of animals, especially of those below mammals, as birds and reptiles
the small opening at the breech of a gun by which fire is communicated to the charge
a means of exit or escape; an outlet, as from confinement
expression; utterance; release:to give vent to one's emotions
the act or fact of venting; emission or discharge
As verb (used with object)
to give free play or expression to (an emotion, passion, etc
):to vent rage
to give public utterance to:to vent one's opinions
to relieve by giving expression to something:He vented his disappointment by criticizing his successor
to release or discharge (liquid, smoke, etc
to furnish or provide with a vent or vents
As verb (used without object)
to be relieved of pressure or discharged by means of a vent
(of an otter or other animal) to rise to the surface of the water to breathe
As noun, plural A's or As, a's or as
the first letter of the English alphabet, a vowel
any spoken sound represented by the letter A or a, as in bake, hat, father, or small
something having the shape of an A
a written or printed representation of the letter A or a
a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter A or a
As Idioms
from A to Z, from beginning to end; thoroughly; completely:He knows the Bible from A to Z
not know from A to B, to know nothing; be ignoranta
As noun
a room equipped for taking a bath or shower
toilet (def )
As Idioms
go to / use the bathroom, to use the toilet; urinate or defecate
As noun
any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces
an implement of feathers, leaves, paper, cloth, etc
, often in the shape of a long triangle or of a semicircle, for waving lightly in the hand to create a cooling current of air about a person:We sat on the veranda, cooling ourselves with palm-leaf fans
anything resembling such an implement, as the tail of a bird
any of various devices consisting essentially of a series of radiating vanes or blades attached to and revolving with a central hublike portion to produce a current of air:ceiling fan; wall fan
a series of revolving blades supplying air for winnowing or cleaning grain
fly (def )
a semicircular decoration of bunting
Physical Geography
an alluvial fan
As verb (used with object), fanned, fanning
to move or agitate (the air) with or as if with a fan
to cause air to blow upon, as from a fan; cool or refresh with or as if with a fan:He fanned his face with a newspaper
to stir to activity with or as if with a fan:to fan a flame; to fan emotions
(of a breeze, current of air, etc
) to blow upon, as if driven by a fan:A cool breeze fanned the shore
to spread out like a fan:The dealer fanned the cards
to move (oneself) quickly:You'll fan your tail out of here if you know what's good for you
to winnow, especially by an artificial current of air
(of a pitcher) to strike out (a batter)
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U
to punish by spanking; spank:Your mother will fan you good if you break that dish
As verb (used without object), fanned, fanning
to strike, swing, or brush lightly at something
Western U
(chiefly cowboy use)
to slap the flanks of (a horse or other animal) repeatedly with a hat to get it to move or move faster
to spread out like a fan (often followed by out):The forest fire fanned out in all directions
(of a batter) to strike out, usually by swinging at and missing the pitch charged as the third strike
As Idioms
hit the fan, Slang
to become suddenly more awkward, embarrassing, or troublesome:When news of the incident was leaked to the press, everything hit the fan at once
As preposition
in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other:to pass through a tunnel; We drove through Denver without stopping
Sun came through the window
past; beyond:to go through a stop sign without stopping
from one to the other of; between or among the individual members or parts of:to swing through the trees; This book has passed through many hands
over the surface of, by way of, or within the limits or medium of:to travel through a country; to fly through the air
during the whole period of; throughout:They worked through the night
having reached the end of; done with:to be through one's work
to and including:from through
by the means or instrumentality of; by the way or agency of:It was through him they found out
by reason of or in consequence of:to run away through fear
in at the first step of a process, treatment, or method of handling, passing through subsequent steps or stages in order, and finished, accepted, or out of the last step or stage:The body of a car passes through stages on the production line
The new tax bill finally got through Congress
As adverb
in at one end, side, or surface and out at the other:to push a needle through; just passing through
all the way; along the whole distance:This train goes through to Boston
throughout:soaking wet through
from the beginning to the end:to read a letter through
to the end:to carry a matter through
to a favorable or successful conclusion:He barely managed to pull through
As adjective
having completed an action, process, etc
; finished:Please be still until I'm through
When will you be through with school?
at the end of all relations or dealings:My sister insists she's through with selfish friends
passing or extending from one end, side, or surface to the other:a through wound coming left to right and out the other side
traveling or moving to a destination without changing of trains, planes, etc
:a through flight
(of a road, route, way, course, etc
, or of a ticket, routing order, etc
) admitting continuous or direct passage; having no interruption, obstruction, or hindrance:a through highway; through ticket
(of a bridge truss) having a deck or decks within the depth of the structure
Compare deck (def )
of no further use or value; washed-up:Critics say he's through as a writer
As Idioms
through and through, through the whole extent of; thoroughly: cold through and through
from beginning to end; in all respects: an aristocrat through and through
As definite article
(used, especially before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an):the book you gave me; Come into the house
(used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique):the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West
(used with or as part of a title):the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith
(used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc
):the skiing center of the U
; If you're going to work hard, now is the time
(used to mark a noun as being used generically):The dog is a quadruped
(used in place of a possessive pronoun, to note a part of the body or a personal belonging):He won't be able to play football until the leg mends
(used before adjectives that are used substantively, to note an individual, a class or number of individuals, or an abstract idea):to visit the sick; from the sublime to the ridiculous
(used before a modifying adjective to specify or limit its modifying effect):He took the wrong road and drove miles out of his way
(used to indicate one particular decade of a lifetime or of a century):the sixties; the Gay Nineties
(one of many of a class or type, as of a manufactured item, as opposed to an individual one):Did you listen to the radio last night?
enough:He saved until he had the money for a new car
She didn't have the courage to leave
(used distributively, to note any one separately) for, to, or in each; a or an:at one dollar the pound
As noun
any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc
: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc
Usually, walls
a rampart raised for defensive purposes
an immaterial or intangible barrier, obstruction, etc
, suggesting a wall:a wall of prejudice
a wall-like, enclosing part, thing, mass, etc
:a wall of fire; a wall of troops
an embankment to prevent flooding, as a levee or sea wall
the outermost film or layer of structural material protecting, surrounding, and defining the physical limits of an object:the wall of a blood cell
a line of defenders standing shoulder to shoulder in an attempt to block a free kick with their bodies
the side of a level or drift
the overhanging or underlying side of a vein; a hanging wall or footwall
As adjective
of or relating to a wall:wall space
growing against or on a wall:wall plants; wall cress
situated, placed, or installed in or on a wall:wall oven; a wall safe
As verb (used with object)
to enclose, shut off, divide, protect, border, etc
, with or as if with a wall (often followed by in or off):to wall the yard; to wall in the play area; He is walled in by lack of opportunity
to seal or fill (a doorway or other opening) with a wall:to wall an unused entrance
to seal or entomb (something or someone) within a wall (usually followed by up):The workmen had walled up the cat quite by mistake
As Idioms
climb (the) walls, Slang
to become tense or frantic:climbing the walls with boredom
drive / push to the wall, to force into a desperate situation; humiliate or ruin completely:Not content with merely winning the match, they used every opportunity to push the inferior team to the wall
go over the wall, Slang
to break out of prison:Roadblocks have been set up in an effort to capture several convicts who went over the wall
go to the wall, to be defeated in a conflict or competition; yield
to fail in business, especially to become bankrupt
to be put aside or forgotten
to take an extreme and determined position or measure: I'd go to the wall to stop him from resigning
hit the wall, (of long-distance runners) to reach a point in a race, usually after miles, when the body's fuels are virtually depleted and willpower becomes crucial to be able to finish
off the wall, Slang
beyond the realm of acceptability or reasonableness: The figure you quoted for doing the work is off the wall
markedly out of the ordinary; eccentric; bizarre: Some of the clothes in the fashion show were too off the wall for the average customer
up against the wall, placed against a wall to be executed by a firing squad
in a crucial or critical position, especially one in which defeat or failure seems imminent: Unless sales improve next month, the company will be up against the wall
up the wall, Slang
into an acutely frantic, frustrated, or irritated state:The constant tension in the office is driving everyone up the wall
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Extra host Mario Lopez has been talking up healthy eating and fitness pretty big as the buff 36-year-old tours around promoting his new cookbook, Extra Lean.
But he's so excited about becoming a father that he told Hollywood Life his next project is a book for first-time fathers like himself. He and girlfriend since 2008, Broadway dancer Courtney Laine Mazza, are expecting a baby at the end of this year.
"There's no blueprint or manual for that," he said.
Well, he's not exactly right. True, there's no universal plan for every father. But there are already a number of pregnancy and fatherhood books out there for first-time dads.
Here are just a few of them:
The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year
The Daddy Guide: Real Life Advice From 250 Dads
What to Expect When Your Wife Is Expanding
I'm sure his book would be unique in the way that the experience is different for every father. He said that he doesn't want to find out the sex of the child because he wants to be surprised, and that he plans to take baby prep courses and be very hands-on, doing lots of diapering and feeding.
That's a good start, Mario. I might suggest getting a jump on the book now, however, because in another half a year, he'll discover that all those projects take a lot longer to complete.


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About Smart and Final
Smart and Final is a warehouse food and supply store. Smart and Final was founded as Hellman-Haas Grocery in 1871 in Los Angeles, California. (It adopted its current name in 1912.) Today, it has over 250 stores across six US states and Mexico. Need to pick up some food or other supplies, and wonder what time does Smart and Final close? Read about Smart and Final hours below.
Smart and Final opens early in the morning and closes a couple of hours before midnight. This is wonderful if you're an early bird or prefer to shop later in the evening. (Unfortunately, the store chains are located in only six US states and Mexico, meaning that most people wouldn't be able to shop there unless they move.) Smart and Final is a membership store that has a smorgasbord of bulk items: groceries, cleaning products, packaging material, and more! Stock up on what you need today. Find out what time does Smart and Final open and what time does Smart and Final close here on operating-hours.com.
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What were you doing when you were fourteen? Most of us were holed up in our rooms, listening to angst music and complaining about how unfair our parents were in our diaries. Hamad Al-Barrak, however, is an exception to that rule, and spends his free time building something great for a community of individuals who face endless stigmas in today's society. How does he do it? Golf.
Inspired by a school project, the non-profit SWING club specializes in teaching children ages 6-12 years old with exceptionalities such as autism and Down's Syndrome the togetherness of community via playing golf as an outlet. Hamad states that he never thought he would start a non-profit, let alone one focused on special needs. However, when his Honors English teacher Mr. Alzaid assigned a large project to be conducted throughout the entire school year, and meant to occupy 20% of the student's time, the answer of "what to do" came to Hamad through interest and compassion. "It took me about 2 weeks to finally decide on starting SWING, because I knew that whatever I did, I wanted to enjoy it, and also wanted it to have a good cause." And being part of Kuwait's national golf team made choosing his passion as a basis to start from an easy choice.
Through research, Hamad learned that golf was also an ideal activity for those with exceptionalities. "Many people aren't aware of the benefits of golfing for autism, as it is more common to engage [the kids] in swimming and horseback riding." But Hamad's discovery opened up a whole new possibility for Kuwait's autistic community. "Golf happens to be one of the best sports for them, simply for its individual and non-competitive nature. It's not stressful for the kids because they don't need to read social cues from teammates, and the game's relaxed pace is suited for their needs."
SWING can serve as a catalyst to offer more sports or activities available towards children with special needs. Coupled with its main objective, motivating children with exceptionalities to go out and enjoy the fresh air while having fun, SWING increases the happiness levels and positive behaviors brought on by physical exercise and socializing. Parents noticed behavioral changes with their children's improving sociability, and have also mentioned that the children were happier in the days leading up to SWING meets, which in turn would positively affect everyone around them. "It's a ripple effect that leaves behind happy kids, happy parents, and also very happy and content volunteers who feel they made a difference in that hour."
But like anything else that's making a positive change, serious efforts are needed to sustain it. In addition to the obvious outlier in playing outdoors year-round, being Kuwait's weather, having an apt number of volunteers to run operations has proven difficult. "We enjoy having a 2:1 volunteer to student ratio, but on some days its 1:1." However, they're always accepting more volunteers to help out! Their only requirements? "Be committed, and be great around children. If that's you, we will gladly have you join the SWING family."
Despite any concerns, Hamad has high hopes for SWING, and is eternally grateful for everybody involved in its process. From the generosity of Sahara Golf Club's opening up its grounds to the initiative, to having full support of head coach Edward who created the training program and took it upon himself to coach along side co-coaches Cameron and Xu and all the volunteers. Hamad believes that SWING could turn into something even greater than what it already is. "Everyone invested immense time and effort into SWING and without their determination and dedication I don't think this program would have been possible. When they say 'it takes a village', well, it surely does!"
With all this support, Hamad hopes to continue SWING and expand the amount of students and volunteers over the following years. "It would be a great loss if we don't. At the end of it all, if our young golfers are excited and happy to golf, learn and advance, make new friends and improve their social skills, then we have definitely accomplished something very special and worth being proud of."
SWING can be found at the Sahara Golf Resort, off of 6th Ring Road. Follow SWING on Instagram: @swingkuwait. Interested in becoming a part of the SWING family? Email them at [email protected] to volunteer or to sign up your child.


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The New York Times' John Burns: "The Possibility Of As Many As A Million Iraqis Dying."
The transcript of my interview with the New York Times' John Burns is here. (I taped it Friday.) The audio for the two-hour broadcast will be here later. Some key excerpts:
HH: One of the arguments for those favoring a timeline for withdrawal that's written in stone is that it will oblige the Iraqi political class to get serious about such things as the oil revenue division. Do you believe that's an accurate argument?
JB: Well, you would think it would be so, wouldn't you, that the threat of withdrawal of American troops, and the risk of a slide into catastrophic levels of violence, much higher than we've already seen, would impel the Iraqi leadership to move forward. But there's a conundrum here. There's a paradox. That's to say the more that the Democrats in the Congress lead the push for an early withdrawal, the more Iraqi political leaders, particularly the Shiite political leaders, but the Sunnis as well, and the Kurds, are inclined to think that this is going to be settled, eventually, in an outright civil war, in consequence of which they are very, very unlikely or reluctant, at present, to make major concessions. They're much more inclined to kind of hunker down. So in effect, the threats from Washington about a withdrawal, which we might have hoped would have brought about greater political cooperation in face of the threat that would ensue from that to the entire political establishment here, has had, as best we can gauge it, much more the opposite effect, of an effect that persuading people well, if the Americans are going, there's absolutely no…and we're going to have to settle this by a civil war, why should we make concessions on that matter right now?[# More #] For example, to give you only one isolated exception, why should the Shiite leadership, in their view, make major concessions about widening the entry point for former Baathists into the government, into the senior levels of the military leadership, that's to say bringing in high ranking Sunnis into the government and the army and the police, who themselves, the Sunnis, are in the main former stalwarts of Saddam's regime. Why would the Shiites do that if they believe that in the end, they're going to have to fight a civil war? This is not to reprove people in the Congress who think that the United States has spent enough blood and treasure here. It's just a reality that that's the way this debate seems to be being read by many Iraqi politicians.
HH: Would a, John Burns, a contrary approach yield the also counterintuitive result that if Congress and the United States said we're there for two or three more years at this level, would that assist the political settlement, in your view, coming about?
JB: Unfortunately, I think the answer to that is probably not, and that's something that General Casey and General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker now, General Petraeus' partner, if you will, are very wary of. They understand that there has to be something of a fire lit under the feet of the Iraqi leaders. It's a paradox, it's a conundrum, which is almost impossible to resolve. Now I think the last thing that you need is an Iraqi leadership which is already inclined to passivity on the matters, the questions that seem to matter most in terms of a national reconciliation here, the last thing they need is to be told, in effect, the deadline has been moved back three years. I would guess the way, if you will, to vector all of this would be to find some sort of solution, indeed it was the benchmark solution, which would say to them if you come together and you work on these benchmarks, then you will continue to have our support. But it seems to me that the mood in Congress has moved beyond that. The mood in Congress, as I read it from here, at least those who are leading the push for the withdrawal, are not much interested anymore in incremental progress by the Iraqi government. They've come to the conclusion that this war is lost, that no foreseeable movement by the Iraqi leaders will be enough to justify the continued investment of lives and dollars here by the United States, and that it's time to pull out. And of course, you can make a strong argument to that effect.
HH: Now you've reported some very tough places, Sarajevo, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and after the liberation from the Taliban, and you've won Pulitzers for that. When you say cataclysmic civil war, what do you mean in terms of what you've seen before? What kind of violence do you imagine would break out after precipitous withdrawal?
JB: Well, let's look at what's happened already as a benchmark. Nobody really knows how many people have died here, but I would guess that in terms of the civilian population, it's probably not less than 100-150,000, and it could be higher than that. I don't think it's as high as the 700,000 that some estimates have suggested, but I think it's, and I know for a fact, that the sort of figures that were being discussed amongst senior American officials here, as a potential, should there be an early withdrawal and a progress to an all-out civil war, they're talking about the possibility of as many as a million Iraqis dying. Now of course, that is suppositional. It's entirely hypothetical. How could we possibly know? But I think you couldn't rule out that possibility. And the question then arises, catastrophic as the effect on Iraq and the region would be, you know, what would be the effect on American credibility in the world, American power in the world, and America's sense of itself? These are extremely difficult issues to resolve, and I can't say, sitting here in Baghdad, that I have any particular wisdom about what the right course would be. And fortunately, as a reporter, I'm not paid money to offer that kind of wisdom, only to observe what I see. And there are days when I thank God that I'm not sitting in the United States Senate or the United States House of Representatives, with the responsibility of putting the ballot in the box on this.
HH: No, I was asking when al Qaeda was in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, they obviously developed potential and capabilities and operational abilities that resulted in 9/11. If they anchored themselves in a lawless Iraq, would their lethality towards the United States be even greater or lesser than it was when they were in Taliban Afghanistan?
JB: I would say it would probably be greater, and for these reasons. Let's remember that the Afghanistan, that was a sanctuary for al Qaeda and bin Laden, is a very, very underdeveloped, I dare say primitive country. Iraq is not. Iraq is a country that had and potentially still has a major industrial base, it has among Middle Eastern countries one of the most highly educated corps of scientists and engineers, people who were on their way, certainly in the early 1990's, to developing nuclear weapons, even if that program, as we now know, fell by the wayside after the first Gulf War. Many of these people have left, but would some of them come back? You would then have to add to that the fact that this is an oil country, which even in the situation of a civil war, is exporting billions of dollars of oil to the world, and could potentially export much more. So I would say add to that the question of geography. We're a thousand miles closer here in Baghdad to Western Europe and the United States than Mr. bin Laden and his followers were when they were in Afghanistan. So I think yes, it could be a serious problem. Whether that problem can be overcome in any foreseeable or acceptable period of time here, I don't know. If we knew the answer to that, we'd be well on our way to deciding whether or not it's worth staying here. But I think to deny that there is such a problem, or even simply to blame it on the Bush administration…[call dropped and resumed ona different question]
The combination of Burns' assessments, and those of Michael O'Hanlon, Ken Pollack and many other fair observers of the war completely undercuts the demands by the anti-war hysterics for a timetable for withdrawal. The prospect of a genocide with a million Iraqis dead and a secure base for an even more lethal al Qaeda should be enough to end the debate until such time as General Petraeus reports, and if he sees progress, until such time as he concludes there is no way to avoid the genocide. Abandoning Iraq to the butchers of al Qaeda or the fanatics of Iran and the radical Shia militias would be unconscionable, especially given the solid indications of momentum on behalf of the Coaltion and Iraqi government forces..