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The world and the Middle East
By Alan Caruba
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I did not wake up and go to sleep every day hearing, seeing, and reading about the Middle East. For much of my life it was little more than a setting for the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" and, earlier, movies about Sinbad. I vaguely understood it to be a very backward place consisting mostly of sand.
There isn't much good to be said of the Middle East. After World War I Great Britain and France divided it between each other. World War II made it necessary for the US to ally with Saudi Arabia to insure a steady supply of oil. Mostly though, it has been lurking around our consciousness since the founding of Israel in 1948. That initiated what would turn out to be more than fifty years of unrelenting Islamic hostility to a nation about the size of New Jersey.
Israel's only real ally would be America. It is the only real democracy in the Middle East. It has been through an endless series of wars and other events that have required some of our attention, but not much while the Cold War continued. When the Soviet Union came to an end, every nation was thrust into a new world and one very much in need of a new set of rules with which to relate to one another.
A book by Thomas P. M. Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map ($24.95, G.P. Putnam's Sons) looks at "War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century." Barnett, a futurist and analyst for the Pentagon, spells out a new set of "rules" which the world is now fashioning.
At the heart of those rules is "globalization", the way one part of the world is "connected" by economic and other treaties, the magic of modern communications, and how another part, the Middle East, is seeking to remain "unconnected" from the West, presumably to protect Islam and the sources of power that permit despots to continue ruling over the lives of billions of its people.
The Middle East is in the grip of a first class lunatic called Osama bin Laden who, on 9-11, got the world's attention. His goal is to disconnect the Middle East from the rest of the world and, if that means killing a lot of infidels and a lot of Muslims, so be it. Israel, always the background music to everything else in the Middle East, has a problem called Yasser Arafat. Until he dies, there isn't a hope of peace with the so-called Palestinians.
"The grand historical arc of our relationship with Islam is clearly peaking with the Bush Administration's decision to topple Saddam Hussein's regime and rehabilitate Baathist Iraq, much as we did with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan following WW II," writes Barnett. "Over the long run, the real danger we face in this era is more than just the attempts by terrorists to drive the US out of the Middle East; rather, it is their increasingly desperate attempts to drive the Middle East out of the world."
Barnett's book is devoted to the concept of how some nations, mostly the West as well as some in the East, have become "connected" through the ways modern communications and transportation has facilitated greater trade and prosperity, while those in the Middle East deliberately have not. "To be disconnected in this world," he writes, "is to be kept isolated, deprived, repressed, and uneducated, "adding, "For young men, it means being kept ignorant and bored and malleable."
What seems perfectly normal to us is the opposite of what those in Middle Eastern nations have never known. "We are the only country in the world," writes Barnett, "purposefully built around the ideas that animate globalization's advance: freedom of choice, freedom of movement, (and) freedom of expression. We are connectivity personified."
"If, in waging war against the forces of disconnectiveness, the United States ends up dividing the West, or the heart of the Core (group of nations who subscribe to globalization), then our cure ends up being worse than the disease." This is the problem we are encountering with Europe. With the exception of those nations still supporting our war in Iraq, others have shown a reluctance to support our effort, i.e., Spain, France, Germany, and the Russian Republic. There are other nations that fear or hate us enough who also would not mind seeing us fail.
Barnett correctly identifies the biggest problem facing us. "As America is learning in this global war on terrorism, it is one thing to topple the Taliban or Saddam Hussein with our highly-lethal, highly-maneuverable force, but quite another to actually transform those battered societies into something bigger—to reconnect them to the larger, globalizing world outside."
A longtime, highly respected Pentagon analyst, Barnett has been arguing inside that vast institution that we need to transform it to deal with a new era. "In the post-Cold War era the US tends to send its military to where the wild things are, to the places and situations where the normal rules about not resorting to violence and warfare simply do not seem to hold." This explains why we have lost more military personnel since the capture of Baghdad than in the campaign to take the city and the nation. We don't fight wars like our enemy.
We don't send airplanes loaded with innocent passengers into buildings filled with more innocent people. Having liberated the Iraqis, we don't understand why they won't or can't embrace it. The simple answer is that they have no real experience with freedom and will have to learn how to be a democracy. If, in fact, they want to be one. It is, however, vitally necessary to our future and the future of the world that they become a viable democracy. That will take time and patience.
Right now, one of the problems Americans face is the failure of the Bush Administration to effectively explain why we are in Iraq and Afghanistan. "In short," says Barnett, "the Bush Administration needs to level with the American public as to where this whole thing—this global war on terrorism and the preemption strategy—is really going. And if these policy makers themselves are unclear as to these strategies' ultimate course heading, then they better let the rest of the citizenry in on the inside debates that apparently continue to rage between Colin Powell's State Department and Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Department."
To me, that is the most chilling aspect of the war on terrorism to which the President has committed the United States. He is not much of an orator. He has been talking about freedom and its spread around the world, but offering little more by way of explaining why this is so important. Barnett says, "We will need many presidents—Democrat and Republican—over the coming decades who will keep our political system, our public, and the rest of the Core focused on the prize we seek—making globalization truly global, and shrinking the Gap" (between the Core Western nations and the Gap represented by all those now controlled by Islamic and other oppressive societies.)
In the last great, worldwide war, we fought nation-states that threatened to enslave the world. We defeated and transformed them. In this new asymmetrical war, we are faced by Islamists who fear that globalization will undermine their religion and their way of life. They are prepared to destroy the United States as the world's beacon of freedom. The question is, are we prepared to take the time, the resources, and the power necessary to defeat them? The answer is that we must.
Alan Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs", posted on the website of The National Anxiety Center, www.anxietycenter.com. © Alan Caruba 2004
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In case you haven't heard, it's calendar time again! Time to enter your rescued basset hound into the 2016 CBHR calendar contest. Give us your best shots, we're planning a great calendar. As in previous years, voters will select their top 10 choices from selected submissions.
We've worked to make this year's calendar format more accommodating. We can use both vertical and horizontal photos AND we should be able to use many of your photos that weren't quite hi-res enough to print at the size we've used in the past.
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At his blog Book Shelf, Alexander Atkins earlier this month posted a short list – and definitions – of words related to books – in particular, related to the love of books.
Who knew there is a word designating a person who likes to read in bed?
Check out Alexander's list here.
Found via a comment of Alexander's at Stephanie Hollmichel's blog So Many Books


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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Back in 1969, the first astronauts on the moon made history. They also brought home about 47 pounds of lunar soil.
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The moon is about 4.5 billion years old and on Wednesday, the Minnesota National Guard gave little bits of the moon to the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Korean RRA Certification for Sony M-Series
Although Sony Europe has not officially released the M-Series, it is already present and ready to pre-order on the various EU Sony sites. I have checked other Sony websites around the world and found nothing yet but the Korean RRA have certified the M-Series.
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I am a little late with this news, since the certification is from July 25th but still best to post it.
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Centerstone, a not-for-profit organization and one of the nation's largest behavioral healthcare providers, has named Beth Hail, Matt Hardy and Ken Stewart to regional vice president positions overseeing its mental illness and addiction treatment operations across Tennessee.
Centerstone has more than 50 facilities and 160 partnership locations across the state and offers psychiatric, crisis, intervention, family, school-based and foster care services to all ages.
"With the increasing size and scope of Centerstone's service lines in each region, Beth, Matt and Ken are similarly expanding beyond their previous work as regional directors," said Ben Middleton, chief operations officer at Centerstone. "We now treat more than 50,000 people in Tennessee each year and their new roles align with the exciting changes happening across our organization."
Hail serves as regional vice president of the central region, which encompasses Davidson, Wilson, Williamson and Rutherford Counties. Previously director of Centerstone's school-based services as well as child and adolescent services, she's a 23-year veteran of the organization. Hail holds a master's degree in social work administration from the University of Louisville and is a licensed clinical social worker.
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Ken Stewart serves as regional vice president for Hamilton, Franklin, Coffee, Moore, Bedford, Lincoln, Maury, Lewis, Giles, Lawrence, Marshall, Perry, Hickman and Wayne counties—all of which form Centerstone's southern region. He joined Centerstone 28 years ago, holds a master's degree in Psychology from East Tennessee State University, and is licensed as a senior psychological examiner.
"Parts of the population in the southern region continue to wrestle with high rates of substance abuse, and Centerstone is here to help," said Stewart. "We've seen real success, for example, in our ten-year involvement with the 12th Judicial District Drug Court."


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Take a look at some pictures submitted by bingo fans around the world via the photo sharing Playing Bingo group on Flickr. We want to share everything from the ornate grandeur of bingo halls to works outings and details of fittings on Flickr as well as at this site.
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Take a moment to reflect on how beautiful you are! List the positives!
If you aren't doing everything you can to be the best you can- make changes today!!! Set a goal list!! Dream BIG!
My goals are:…
1. Start a charity to help those with mental illnesses have better accessibility to fitness facilities and or programs. Exercise and nutrition plays a huge part in being mentally healthy. It isn't a cure, is it just another method that really works! Sometimes the only good part of my day is when I walk into that gym and go for it!
2. Do as many 5ks as I possibly can this year. I also want to set up a booth at everyone and help raise funds/awareness for mental illnesses. I want to play my part in breaking then stigma.
3. Get a good job and work hard. Save up money, and reward myself with a vacation.
4. Do a bikini competition. This is my goal I have set for myself, so hopefully in a year I will!!
5. Focus on myself. I need to take care of me for a while. Take the time I need to accomplish my goals.
6. Last but not least! I hope I can inspire and help people in being a Beachbody coach. It's a great company! I love it so far. .
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Apple's iPad3 is right around the corner. In fact, the latest rumors suggest Apple will be holding a special event unveiling its next slate in early March, and the device could launch soon after the official unveiling. In addition, those rumors say Apple's iPad 3 could come in a few different screen sizes, include 4G connectivity and deliver a bit more storage than its predecessor. In many ways, the iPad 3 could become the device consumers had hoped to find with the iPad 2.
Given that, it's quite likely that the iPad 3 will be a huge success. Like its predecessors, it'll likely get off to an exceedingly strong start, and continue to sell well until its replaced by the iPad 4. What we don't know now, however, is to what degree the iPad 3 will be successful. Will it set new sales records like the iPad 2 did, or will it be only a mediocre success that forces Apple to rethink its strategy?
If Apple wants strong iPad3 sales, it'll need to make several right decisions, and capitalize on market factors that could either help the tablet's adoption or hurt it. To understand this, here's a look at 10 specific trends that could impact sales of the iPad 3.
1. 4G or no?
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The future of mobile connectivity is in 4G. And there is rampant speculation that the iPad 3 will support 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) technology. If it does, expect Apple's next tablet to be a success. However, if it lacks 4G and it becomes something consumers are really looking for, iPad 3 sales could be hurt.
2. Is the design different enough?
Apple is expected to deliver an impressive new design in the iPad3. In fact, all the hype surrounding the device centers on a unique new look that consumers are going to love. But what if Apple ditches those plans and offers up something we've seen before? There's a chance iPad 3 sales will suffer.
3. What's the selling point?
In many cases, Apple doesn't need to make such a convincing argument to make people buy its products. At this point, if an Apple logo is affixed to a device, it'll be popular. But with so many people buying the iPad 2 last year, getting them to spend an additional $500 or more won't be so easy. Apple will have to make a strong selling point with the iPad 3, or watch it lose some steam.
4. China
China has quickly become a key battleground for Apple. The country, with a population exceeding 1 billion people, has become the company's second-largest market. Soon, if Apple can ink an iPhone deal with China Mobile, China could become its largest market. As long as the iPad 3 gets to China and consumers like it, there's a good chance we'll see record-breaking sales of the device, no matter what Apple delivers.


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Wednesday, 5 February 2014
A little Inspiration....
16 comments:
This is just awesome news! You Rock! I love this art piece that you created! Those little guys do look to be best friends! I love all the extra goodies that you added and your stitching is wonderful! Have a fabulous week! Hugs!!!ReplyDelete
Kaz! Congrats! :DReplyDelete
I just adore this creative piece Kaz, lots of fabulous detail and interest xxReplyDelete
Congratulations Kaz, love this piece and I spot new dies. Wonderful image showcased beautifully. Lovely vintage piece. Tracy xReplyDelete
Sooooooo happy that you are "officially" part of the family!!! You know how much we adore you!!! xoxo!ReplyDelete
Lovely vintage piece! and congratulations on the DT!ReplyDelete
Huge congrats - fantastic inky background and brilliant showcasing of those yummy new bits!ReplyDelete
Alison x
So happy for you ... love seeing your work... this is "fabtabulous" ... love ALL these cool details and all that Idealogy goodness !! Welcome to their Team :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous05 February, 2014
As always Kaz, your projects are works of art. Congrats on your new DT position.ReplyDelete
Kaz...congratulations on being selected to be a part of the Inspiration Emporium family. They are great people and have a fabulous DT. :) Your vintage piece for them is really a wonderful piece of art! Way to go! <3 CandyReplyDelete
- Heather06 February, 2014
So excited that you said yes! The biggest welcome to our great little team that creates huge art.ReplyDelete
Jaw droppingly gorgeous!!! I so love this ... SuzanneReplyDelete
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Magnifique!!! Every bit!ReplyDelete
Hi Kaz, saw this over at IE - had to pop by to say how amazinly brilliant this is. Congrats on being part of their DT - I can see why you were selected. Looking forward to seeing more from you... Nicola xReplyDelete
Saw this over at IE blog Kaz - its truly fabulous. Congrats on being part of the IE DT - can see how you were selected. Looking forward to seeing more.... Nicola xReplyDelete


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Yes, this is the true story of the day I met Satoru Iwata and made a complete fool of myself in the process.
I don't remember much of GDC 2006 beyond this incident, and seeing Eugene Jarvis play saxaphone in the Marriott lobby, and it's safe to say that I really had no real business being at the Game Developer's Conference because I was just a shmuck who just drank his way through the week instead of learning how to be a better game developer.
Videogames are going to miss Iwata. When you consider how many big wigs in the games business have very little love for video games, and what they could be, you realize what a damn shame he is no longer with us.
Bonus trivia fact! Iwata started off as an intern programmer for HAL Laboratories, which was started to make games for Commodore Japan. His first games were for the Vic-20! I think that's just freaking awesome!


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Now that the ceiling in the bedroom is fantastically smooth and the walls are painted, it's time to move on to the window and door trim. Like most of the other finishes in this house, the original trim was inexpensive, badly installed, and paint spattered. With the new paint on the walls (BM Edgecombe Grey), there was no way the trim could stay any longer. The strange window trim was the first to go.
Each side of the casing was made up of two pieces of wood, offset from each other, and angled in towards the window. With that angle, any moisture would collect against the window instead of away from it. I'd love to know the reason - it was obviously intentional as all of the windows in the house are done this way.
It took some elbow grease and finally the Dremel Multi-Max to remove it. It was glued and screwed in place, as well as every seam being caulked. In fact, Tom worked away on it that entire first day that I attempted to scrape the popcorn ceiling.
The door trim was easier to remove - the pieces were barely attached to the wall, so they came off with no damage. Look at those paint splatters! I can't tell how old the paint is - maybe they were in a hurry to get it done before listing? There are also paint drips on the baseboards and carpet.
When we started looking for door and window trim, I couldn't really find anything that spoke to me. and I looked, a lot. At one point I even picked out some ready-made trim and had it in my cart at the store, but something deep down was telling me I wouldn't be happy with it. I did some more searching on the internet (right there in the lumber aisle) and was drawn over and over again to a simple, stacked Craftsman look.
My favourite style of house/architecture, hands-down, is Craftsman. I love the wide, yet streamlined, door and window casings, built-in bookcases, natural wood tones...and I'd give just about anything to have a large front porch with stone and wood columns.
So everything in my cart went back on the shelf and I started again. We decided on a 1" x 4" top, side, and apron (below the window sill) casing, with a 3/4" x 1 1/4" casing cap and 1/2" x 1 1/4" fillet. The stool, i.e. the bottom sill, is 1" x 10". Yes, I even learned the terminology.
Those seem like some crazy measurements, but all we had to do was buy 1x4s and 1x2s, then plane them down as needed. (Keep in mind that 1 inch boards are really only 3/4 of an inch thick.)
Installing the trim was a simple matter of attaching each piece one at a time to build the pattern that we wanted.
The door frames begin with a simple rectangular plinth block at the bottom, then the 1x4 side trim, followed by the stacked header trim.
Each of the thin header pieces are nailed into the board below (or above) rather than into the wall. I'm still wavering on whether or not to build up the top with some decorative molding, but we're planning on adding crown molding at the ceiling so it might be overkill. It's always something that can be added in the future though.
The window sill is all one piece, 10 inches deep, with a 2" overhang at the front and a 1" overhang on each side beyond the side trim. That piece went in first, and then we built up and down from there. The window header pattern matches the door headers exactly.
We put them in place with just a few finishing nails to make sure we liked the look. Once everything was in place and the proportions were right, we took it all down (mark your boards!) and gave them a couple of coats of primer. The trim is so much easier to paint when you can lay it all out like an assembly line.
Then it went back up on the walls. Once everything was in place, I caulked all of the seams - between boards and between the casing and the wall. I love a seamless look. I also puttied and sanded the nail holes to prepare for painting. All of the trim was painted in a bright untinted white, Behr's Premium Plus Paint & Primer, in semi-gloss.
We still need to put in the base trim - which we've already designed - but we want to wait until the carpet is replaced as it will all have to be removed anyway. I also didn't caulk the plinth blocks so that they could also be removed for carpet installation. But that can't be done until we finish the basement so that there's a place to put everything while the carpet is installed. One project always leads to another.
But for now we're really happy getting the trim up. It lightens up the room so much, and the Craftsman style fits us so well. We're planning on replacing all of the doors and door frames, as well as widening the closet entry, so this was kind of our practice run at custom trimwork. We know part or all of it will have to be removed but I couldn't bear to have the room look half-finished forever.
I'm really looking forward to new carpet and a renovated closet. We've sourced Craftsman-style interior doors as well, so as soon as we're ready we can get those in too. One step closer every day!


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Anyway, hi and welcome to my last Saturday post in March, it's been a wonderful Birthday month and as you can see I've been a very busy girl! So, today I'm going to share a few little ditties that I offered for free in the Issue #7 of the Whimsy Stamps Magazine. These Shape EZ box templates are simple and perfect for the gift cards, coupons, even stickers or a few of my favorite embellishments like The Paper Studio pearl stickers for a great and crafty friend! I should get a few of these out as thank you gifts!
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Spelt (Triticum
spelta) was an important wheat species in Europe from
the Bronze Age to Roman times. It now survives as a
relict crop in Central Europe, but has found a new
market as a health food. Spelt is sometimes considered a
subspecies of the closely related species common wheat
(T. aestivum), in which case its botanical name is
considered to be Triticum aestivum subsp.
Spelt has a complex
history. It is a hexaploid wheat species known from
genetic evidence to be a hybrid of a domesticated
tetraploid wheat such as emmer wheat and the wild
goat-grass Aegilops tauschii. This hybridization must
have taken place in the Near East because this is where
Ae. tauschii grows, and it must have taken place prior
to the appearance of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, a
hexaploid derivative of spelt) in the archaeological
record c. 8000 years ago. However, spelt is notably
absent from the archaeological record of the Near East,
and the limited area of current cultivation in Iran
appears to be of recent origin. References to the
cultivation of spelt wheat in Biblical times (see matzo)
or in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia are incorrect, and
result from confusion with emmer wheat.
Spelt may have originated in the Near
East and then spread, north of the Black Sea (hence its
absence from the Near East), arriving in Europe c. 2000
BC. However, the quality of archaeological evidence for
spelt north of the Black Sea is poor. It is also
possible that spelt originated in the Near East, the
mutation to bread wheat occurred, and spelt then
disappeared, perhaps displaced by bread
Genetic evidence shows that the result of
hybridization of bread wheat and emmer wheat is spelt
wheat. The much later appearance of spelt in Europe
might be the result of a later, second, hybridization
event. Recent DNA evidence supports an independent
origin for European spelt, through this
Later History
In the
Middle Ages, spelt was cultivated in parts of
Switzerland, Tyrol and Germany. Spelt was introduced to
the United States in the 1890s. In the 20th century,
spelt was virtually replaced by wheat, which produces
higher yields. However, since spelt is rather more hardy
than wheat and does not require fertilizers, the organic
farming movement made it more popular again towards the
end of the century.
Although "spelt" is sometimes
mentioned in connection with Greek and Roman cultures,
such references are almost always mistranslations of
terms for emmer and
Spelt contains about
62 percent carbohydrates, 8.8 percent fiber, 12 percent
protein and 2.7 percent fat, as well as dietary minerals
and vitamins, including silica. As it contains a
moderate amount of gluten, it is suitable for baking. In
Germany, the unripe spelt grains are dried and eaten as
Grunkern, which literally means "green
Spelt is closely related to common wheat,
and is not a suitable substitute for people with celiac
disease and wheat allergy. However, spelt is sometimes
promoted as an alternative grain for sufferers from mild
wheat intolerance.
The name of
Spelt in German is Dinkel, and the hull which covers the
seed is called Spelz. The grains which don't thresh
freely like modern wheat were identified by this quality
and the name probably wandered into the English language
and changed its function.
The Luxembourger
surname Speltz is derived from this grain. In Italy both
emmer wheat and spelt are known as farro, although emmer
is more common in Italy. In France spelt is known as
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Teaching Tampa Bay self-defense
For 18 years, Garret Brumfield prepared himself to fight off an attacker. Now, at Tampa Martial Arts and Self-Defense, he's training others to stay safe.
His gym is located at the corner of Nebraska Avenue and Bougainvillea Avenue. He specializes in Wing Chun, a form of kung fu that focuses on redirecting an attacker's aggression. This practice of countering and redirection allows anyone to learn it: men, women and children alike.
Brumfield began studying the style in 2008 under his sifu, or teacher, Justin Och. Now, he can add instructor to his repertoire, which hasn't been the easiest of transitions.
"It's tough, because like my sifu I have to make sure I'm showing them how to defend themselves," Brumfield said. "There's different personalities in the school, so I have to adjust to everybody's personality to make sure that what I'm teaching them is correct and that everybody is satisfied as well."
Unlike larger martial arts schools, Brumfield's courses are smaller in size, allowing him to give more hands-on training and tips to his students. As a result, Brumfield has formed friendships with his students. Yan Gusinsky, who has been attending classes for over a year, built strong relationships with his peers.
"We're definitely like a family," Gusinsky said. "We do a lot of things outside of just the classroom atmosphere. We train together, encourage each other and push each other to be the best we can be."
Friendships aside, students say they're getting their money's worth. They've not only seen improvements in their self-defense skills, but also in other aspects of life. Ruben Felix started three weeks ago and already has a different outlook on the challenges ahead of him.
"Life-changing, totally life-changing," Felix said. "I'm more motivated to achieve anything in life. I feel like Wing Chun gave me a core to actually want to achieve all things in life. Aside from self-defense, I'm keeping fit, and I'm all around a more driven person because of it."
According to Brumfield, Wing Chun is simplistic in style, so it is a great form to learn for beginners. For advanced students, Tampa Martial Arts provides an excellent environment to perfect techniques. USF student Ivan Koveni practiced the style for two years, but never competed in a tournament until joining Brumfield's class.
"As a fighter, I've become a little more technical, a little more confident," Koveni said. "Especially because last year we had to go to a tournament. It was my first one. I thought I would never be able to do one, and with the training, I've been able to get here, I had to transfer and muster my strengths and the qualities I needed to be able to get into that tournament."
Learning a martial art is no easy feat, but Brumfield promises to deliver quality instruction that is applicable to the real world.
"The real nitty-gritty stuff is what you learn here in the gym. We do a lot of sparring, a lot of realistic self-defense here. You're not going to learn it overnight, but it's rewarding to learn Wing Chun."
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News and views from the classical music announcers at WTJU, 91.1 FM, Charlottesville, Virginia
Friday, May 3, 2013
Steffani Cantatas -- Handel's inspiration?
Quadro Asolano
Agostino Steffani (1650-1723) was a master of Baroque vocal chamber music. This Italian composer spent most of his professional career in Germany, first in Munich then at the court of Hanover. He composed exclusively for the voice; sacred works, secular cantatas and operas. This recording features two of the solo cantatas and four of the vocal dues he wrote.
Steffani's lyrical counterpoint was closely studied by a young Georg Frederick Handel. And that influence is easy to hear in these examples. Steffani's melodies have the same, straight-forward simplicity of Handel's. And the polyphonic passages are also a model of clarity. There's nothing fussy about Steffani's counterpoint, rather, it's all elegantly constructed.
Based on the quality of Steffani's music, it's surprising he isn't more frequently performed or recorded. So Newton's release does a real service with these world premier recordings. The performances by the Quadro Asolano are generally good, although sometimes the soprano voices are a little weak.
My only complaint is that Newton's program notes don't provide the libretti for the works. Steffani's music often illustrates or takes its character from the text its supporting. Without the libretti (or a fluency in Italian), Steffani's subtle gestures are lost on the listener.
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Gone were the days when all you needed was a resume and references to get a job. Nowadays, HR managers, employers, and potential clients are looking into social media to help them find the right candidate.
So, what does this mean for the work-at-home parent? How can you leverage social media to help you find a job or more clients for your business?
First and foremost, you have to have a social media account, whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler or LinkedIn. For a lot of employers and clients, having an online presence increases your credibility and, at the very least, confirms your identity.
Secondly, keep your accounts family friendly. Don't post or share anything you would hesitate sharing with a stranger. Think like a celebrity when you're online, protect your reputation and enhance it with relevant posts and information.
Lastly, create a online portfolio of what you can do and market yourself. Catch their attention by showing your best work. Encourage your friends, family and acquaintances to spread the word on what you can do. Remember, it's not bragging if it's true and if you're really good, your portfolio would be more than enough to get you the job.
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Editors' Picks: Our Favorite Things From the Week of May 20by IMDb-Editors | last updated - 8 months ago
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Trending Superhero Fiancée of the Week
Morena Baccarin is no stranger to the top of STARmeter, having reached the No. 1 spot twice in her career: Once in late 2009, when she starred in ABC sci-fi reboot "V," and again in 2016, for the R-rated juggernaut Deadpool. So, it should come as no surprise that we see the IMDb fan favorite at No. 5 this week, shortly after the debut Deadpool 2, where she returns as Vanessa, the love interest of the Merc With the Mouth. The movie has been a success with diehards and critics, and has packed in plenty of surprises (the likes of which we won't disclose here).
Watch our interview with the stars of Deadpool 2
Droid of the Week
There's plenty in Solo: A Star Wars Story to surprise and delight, including a charming turn by Donald Glover as a younger, less sure Lando Calrissian. But the movie's real scene-stealer is a droid unlike any we've seen in the Star Wars universe. L3-37, played with relish by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The talented actress and writer herself says the character has a bit of a "bad attitude." But we don't mind, and we're sure you won't either. L3 is the sort of forward-thinking, take-no-s--- female droid we've been looking for.
Watch the Solo stars describe what they love about their characters
Hunchback of the Week
Idris Elba is set to direct, star in, and produce a new version of Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" for Netflix. No word yet on which role he'll be assuming, but we can't help but wonder if he'll be joining Lon Chaney, Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, Mandy Patinkin, and Tom Hulce (among others) in portraying the lovelorn Quasimodo.
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Super Casting Rumor of the Week
After Michael Keaton elevated the villainous role of Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, fellow Oscar-nominee Jake Gyllenhaal looks to take on the webslinger in the upcoming sequel. Gyllenhaal is rumored to be circling the role of Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio, a special-effects wizard and stuntman in Hollywood who uses his expertise to villainous ends. It would mark the first comic-book role for the Nightcrawler star, who also played Detective Loki in Prisoners. With credits like those, it sounds like Marvel finally took the hint.
Meet Mysterio: what you need to know about the Spider-Man villain
Wild Trailer of the Week
We've finally been given our first look at Mowgli, an edgier take on "The Jungle Book," directed by motion-capture master Andy Serkis. In the first trailer, we hear Christian Bale and Benedict Cumberbatch as Bagheera and Shere Khan respectively, and see how their faces have been morphed with that of the iconic panther and tiger. Serkis, famous for his roles as Gollum and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movies, takes on Baloo. But rather than singing the "Bare Necessities," Serkis tells us the bear is more like a military drill sergeant who is extremely hard on Mowgli to help him survive in the jungle. We may have to wait until the movie's October release to find out more.
Watch the trailer with commentary from Andy Serkis
We-Should-Be-So-Lucky Moment of the Week
The Australian comedy Swinging Safari (aka Flammable Children) had a swinging time on the Riviera this year, with Cannes hookups with the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the Middle East, and Russia. Directed by Stephan Elliott (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), the film stars Guy Pierce and Kylie Minogue as the swinging parents of a teenager navigating life in a 1970s beach town in Australia with his crush. Here's hoping we're lucky enough to get to see it!
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Series Renewal of the Week
It's been a rollercoaster of emotions this week for fans of the beloved Syfy series "The Expanse" as we were keeping our fingers crossed for a happy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"-style ending. After Syfy decided not to renew "The Expanse" for a fourth season, a wave of fan-driven campaigns to save the show followed including a plane with a banner reading #SAVETHEEXPANSE flying over the Amazon Studios offices. The campaign seems to have gained some traction: It was announced that the series will be heading to Amazon for Season 4. Read on to learn the fates of your favorite shows
Wedding We Are Still Not Over of the Week
We were completely swept up in the royal wedding fever this weekend and loved every moment of it! We got up early and enjoyed the 5+ hours of network commentary, celebrity spotting, incredible hat and dress admiring, and may or may not have cried a little during the newlywed couple's first kiss on the stairs of St. George's Chapel. Congratulations to the happy couple!
Check out some of our favorite photos from the royal wedding
Poster of the Week
The publicity machine behind Hotel Artemis released a fantastic series of Los Angeles music & literary homage posters this week, including this tribute to Morrison Hotel, a back-to-basics record for the rock group after Jim Morrison's behavior began to sour popular opinion of the band.
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Speedy TV Return of the Week
While we're still not sure if "food and wine expert" Antoni Porowski knows how to do much more than make grilled cheese sandwiches and budget margaritas, we were pleasantly surprised to hear this week that "Queer Eye" will return to Netflix for its second season on June 15. Really we love any and every opportunity to spend time with the fabulously engaging breakout star Jonathan Van Ness.
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Rick Corrales, a former Los Angeles Times photographer who helped win the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for public service with his photos of the Southern California Latino community, died Monday. He was 48.
Corrales, who also invented and manufactured the 360-degree Spinshot camera and was an innovator in 3-D animation software, died of stomach cancer at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower.
A Times staff photographer from 1981 to 1995, Corrales held patents on his panoramic camera and two special handles he invented to support it.
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A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968
By Paul Berman
(Norton; 339 pages; $24)
In a logical world, the number of books written about a political movement would have some rough connection with its ultimate importance. The noisy crusades that became historical footnotes would all be literary footnotes as well.
But we are living in a different sort of world, one in which it is possible, for example, to fill up the better part of a library with volumes written by, and about, the leftists in Manhattan in the 1930s. Anything you want to know about the sectarian ideological warfare of these quarrelsome people–Socialists, Stalinists, Trotskyites, Schactmanites, Lovestonites–you can find in masochistic detail.
That's not because their arcane disputes held any fascination for most Americans at the time. Nor is it because of their impact on the decades that followed. I have never heard anyone suggest that the key to understanding American postwar politics lay in the arguments among the competing factions at CCNY in 1937 or their subsequent recreations on Riverside Drive. The truth is that 1930s leftism became a literary genre because those who indulged in it enjoyed writing books, and were also willing to buy them.
It would be a mistake to conclude that, as those leftists depart from the scene, the tradition of political verbosity will die out. Rather, a new generation of aging leftists–the campus radicals of 1968–is emerging, and off to an appropriately windy start. If you happen to be interested in the internal factionalism of SDS in 1965 or Tom Hayden's Port Huron statement of 1962, a large collection of books is available to help you. Or you can purchase a two-volume account of the Sorbonne uprising in Paris, compressed into a tidy 1,311 pages.
Now there is another book, A Tale of Two Utopias, by Paul Berman, a veteran of the 1960s leftist wars who writes for The New Yorker, the NewRepublic, and other organs of the nonmilitant journalistic mainstream. The difference between Berman's volume and most others I have seen on the subject is that his is an entertaining book, readable and unpretentious, a little softhearted toward his old comrades, but more than willing to take them to task for their absurdities.
O >f all those absurdities, one stands out in high relief, and also links the leftists of the 1960s to those of the Depression years. It is their consistent overestimation of their own significance. That the student activists of Berman's generation believed a political revolution to be within their grasp may seem a little puzzling from the vantage point of 30 years, but is perhaps understandable as a product of youthful exuberance: Berman himself lapses into a romantic nostalgia when he describes what it felt like to be in the vanguard of something new and magnificent–in politics, in culture, in the way human beings treat each other.
"A utopian exhilaration swept across the student universe," he writes on the first page. "Almost everyone in my own circle of friends and classmates was caught up in it. … Partly it was a belief, hard to remember today, that a superior new society was already coming into existence. And it was the belief that we ourselves–the teenage revolutionaries, freaks, hippies and students–stood at the heart of a new society."
This was, as Berman readily concedes, an illusion. But what can it claim for its legacy, a generation later? A Tale of Two Utopias is a lucid, three-pronged attempt to answer that question.
The first of Berman's quests for a larger meaning–in the experiences of the Americans who led the Students for a Democratic Society and the other leftist political organizations of 1968–is not a pretty one. By the end of 1969, the idealism of the SDS had degenerated into personal bickering and a flirtation with Maoist terrorism that could be written off as mere goofiness had it not resulted in the loss of innocent lives on both sides of the Atlantic.
That the radical enthusiasms of 1968 left no permanent political imprint upon the Western democracies is a conclusion that a simple electoral history of the ensuing decades, the decades of Reagan, Thatcher, and Kohl, would seem sufficient to prove. Berman sadly acknowledges it. But the politics of the 1960s were a challenge to culture as well as politics. Berman locates his second search for meaning in the "gay awakening" that had its symbolic start in the 1969 protest at the Stonewall bar in Manhattan. The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed "it is forbidden to forbid" had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory. "There is reason to think that on the matter of homosexuality," he writes, "some small but important aspect of human personality has begun to change."
That may be true, but the connection between the gay awakening and the student rebellion of 1968 is an oblique one. Gay liberation, like feminism, is central to the whole individualist ethos of the last two decades. But it doesn't exactly count as a trophy from the barricades. The world would have conceded the claims of both gays and women without the student occupation of a single lecture hall anywhere in the world.
T >here is one more search for meaning, and it takes Berman across the ocean. Adam Michnik was arrested in a demonstration in Warsaw in February of 1968, went on to become the leading theorist of the Solidarity protest movement of the 1980s, and survived to take up a role as middle-aged statesman in the Polish political world that succeeded the collapse of communism in 1989. Václav Havel was in New York in the spring of 1968, participated in the student strike at Columbia, joined Alexander Dubcek in the short-lived liberal uprising in Prague that summer, and became the president of Czechoslovakia in 1990. Shortly after taking office, he entertained Frank Zappa on a state visit.
Perhaps, Berman speculates, Havel and Michnik represent the true legacy of the worldwide revolutionary sprouting of 1968. Unlike the students of Columbia or the Sorbonne, they persevered, and they won–something. But what?
The peaceful revolutions in eastern Europe in 1989 were indeed a defeat for the forces of illegitimate authority. That they were the incarnation of the dreams of 1968 seems a stretch, to say the least, even if some of the important players came out of the original cast. In the end, Berman does not make such a claim. He ponders the hopeful predictions of Francis Fukuyama that Western civilization is moving gradually, if fitfully, toward greater individual freedom. But he closes with the darker speculations of Andre Glucksmann, a leader of the Sorbonne rebels of 1968 and a later convert to conservatism, that the utopian enthusiasm of those years simply did not take sufficient account of the fundamental reality of evil in the human psyche.
And so, at the end of his odyssey, Berman finds a bit of meaning, but little reassurance. How does the world feel as the 20th century comes to a close? "The world feels this," Berman declares: "humble, skeptical, anxious, afraid, shaken."
Maybe so. On the other hand, it is an oddly grandiose conclusion to an appealingly modest book. Berman presents almost no evidence about the way the world is feeling. What he tells us is how the student rebels of his own generation are feeling, and that they are not feeling very well. In magnifying the global significance of their discontents, Berman ultimately succeeds in reinstating his lifetime membership in the class of 1968.


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OGGCAMP (I have returned)
I'm back from Oggcamp. I drank much, I went to talks, I ate food. IN THAT ORDER.
I haven't found a comprehensive list of all the talks for the weekend, so there's probably a really good talk that I saw and completely forgot about. However, there is one talk that stuck out (probably because I'd just eaten lunch)
freakyclown's talk
The talk was basically about stalking people with photos taken on their iPhones and crazy things you can do with cropped jpegs. freakyclown showed us how he had tracked down the house of Jamie Hyneman (of MythBusters fame) just using photos posted on Jamie's Twitter account. He'd written a script to extract the coordinates from the EXIF data of the photos (put there by an iPhone) and put this data into Google Earth. Simple, but quite impressive.
Another thing that interested me in this talk was about jpegs themselves. Apparently cropped jpegs contain enough data to create a low quality version of the original image. This has some quite interesting implication for pictures where something compromising has been cut out…
And then there were the nipples. I didn't really find this bit interesting, but it was a bit of a laugh :)
Social stuff
Unlike the first Oggcamp/last LugRadio Live (I missed Oggcamp10), I found this year to be a lot more social. I guess the lack of karaoke at the Saturday night party helped that. (It's just easier to talk over a drunk Wayne Myers.) I guess knowing the pub that everyone was meeting up at on the Friday night was helpful as well.
I think I'll be going back for more next year :)


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Oliver Lee's Dog Canyon Ranch and House Tour
Presented By: New Mexico State Parks
Dates: March 30, 2019
Location: New Mexico State Parks
Address: 409 Dog Canyon Rd., Alamogordo, NM 87045
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Price: $5 per car load
In the early 19th century, Oliver Lee was a prominent rancher and politician: serving as a senator and state representative. The reconstructed house, originally built in 1893, features furnishings and displays that provide a window into the history or early ranching in the Tularosa Basin. Take a self-guided tour through the house and walk part of the ranch. A volunteer is on site to answer questions.
Oliver Lee's Dog Canyon Ranch and House Tour
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attended the meeting with Business Leaders from Gulf Cooperation Council countries in Dubai. PM Modi painted the vision of a new India and shared the ease of doing business in India with the business leaders.
The meeting was held on the sidelines of World Government Summit of which India is a guest country. He spoke at length about the economic opportunities in India and the series of reforms undertaken in the last 3.5 years with GCC business leaders.
A total of $10 billion worth of investments was announced in port, industrial corridor, airport, retail, food processing, etc, during the meeting.
Among those who attended the meeting were Sultan Al Manaouri, UAE Economy Minister, Sultan Bin Sulayem, Chairman DP World, Mohamed Shehi, Undersecretary, Economic Dept, Ramesh Abhishek, Invest India CEO, Majid Saif Ahmed Al Ghurair, Yusuff Ali MA, etc. — SG


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The Rock Reef Pass (Elevation 3 Feet) road sign in Everglades National Park is the subject of numerous witty Internet postings. Here's one that does a pretty good job of explaining the sign's significance. Florida is a limestone plateau, and South Florida is practically dead flat with the exception of bridges and other man-made structures. Thus, in the Everglades, minuscule elevation differentials, on the order of inches, control the flow of vast quantities of fresh water. Three feet is actually a significant height in the Everglades ecosystem.
I'm sure the Swiss are laughing at us but we have them beat in the large reptile department, so perhaps the joke is on them.


text: Hi, I decided to share this little personal project I did for our wedding invitations. It's a stylised landscape of the place where we'll actually have the wedding in one of the beautiful mountain regions of Romania. It's for the first time when I'm having a play with lowpoly style modelling so I thought it's fun to render it as if it would be made of actual paper and cardboard. Rendered with Corona, post with magic bullet. Thanks for viewing!


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Australian Community Philanthropy has mapped community foundations across the country. The map below shows the location of each community foundation – click on the pins to see a snapshot and link to their website.
This project has been generously supported by the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation.


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Google Analytics is a free web based analisys tool that can help you measuring the effectiveness of your email campaigns.
To start using Google Analytics you need a Google account first. You can sign up here.
Then, a few javascript code lines are necessary in order to make Analytics work.
This block of code is unique for each website and is provided by Google. It's necessary in order to generate statistics on the page containing it.
A landing page is simply a specific webpage that a visitor views after clicking on a link on your email.
Take a look at the picture below: it is the SendBlaster URL builder:
These are the main variables you have to set:
- Linked text: it's the link text that the recipient of your email will see.
- Linked Url: it's the URL of the landing page your recipient visits when he clicks on the Linked text described above.
- Campaign source: this variable allows you to separate out different types of email campaigns. We used the word "SendBlaster" so that when you examine statistics, you will see only SendBlaster email campaigns related data.
- Campaign medium: it's the advertising medium. Email is the delivery vehicle you're using, so we suggest to leave the word "email" untouched.
- Campaign name: this parameter allows to identify a specific product promotion or email marketing campaign.
Once your URL builder setup is complete, you will simply see a link into the message you're going to send.
When your recipients click on the link "Travel to the beaches of Seychelles", their browser will open the landing page you specified in the configuration explained above.
Every visit is recognized by Google Analytics, because you inserted the Javascript code into the HTML code of the landing page. This allows Analytics to generate lot of detailed statistics about that page.
But what's most interesting to you is to separate out the email generated visits on the overall visitors of that page.
Viewing statistics
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Castelo de Medina Rueda Verdejo 2015 (750ml/12)
About Castelo de Medina
Bodegas Castelo de Medina was founded by three wine lovers in 1996 in the heart of the Rueda Designation of Origin, in a small town called Villaverde de Medina.
The winemakers at Castelo de Medina grow, harvest, produce and bottle the wine on the estate. Year after year the superb quality of their wines make Castelo de Medina one of the most highly renowned wineries in Rueda.
The winery, which features traditional Castilian architecture (face brick, stone, wrought iron and wood), ...New York, New Jersey, California
Tasting Notes
Straw yellow in color with golden tones. Aromas of fresh-cut grass,
anise, fennel, hay and hints of apple precede a flavor-rich, fresh and
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Verizon Wireless has been leading the U.S. mobile carrier race for several years, with 108.2 mobile customers in its last quarterly financial report. AT&T is in second, with 86.2 million mobile customers.
But here's the rub—those totals only are right if you look at Verizon's and AT&T's postpaid (contract) and prepaid customers. Those are the only customers Verizon reports on each quarter.
AT&T, on the other hand, also reports its postpaid and prepaid customers, but it combines those with what it calls M2M and virtual network subscribers, which are "machine to machine" business subscribers who use the AT&T network for things like point of sale terminals and similar devices.
With those figures combined, AT&T says it has 121.8 million mobile customers.
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Since Verizon doesn't include M2M and other subscribers in its figures, comparing the actual totals is difficult.
Meanwhile, Sprint and T-Mobile follow behind with 57.1 million and 56.8 million customers, respectively.
So what's it all mean?
For the carriers, it is likely all about bragging rights for which can one can say they have the most users. For users like you and me, it likely doesn't matter which mobile carrier is No. 1.
Chetan Sharma, a mobility management consultant, told eWEEK that the actual rankings are "a matter of interpretation on how you look at the data." The difference in the figures from AT&T and Verizon reflects that, he said. And to make things more confusing, one can look at the mobile carrier subscriber numbers for all of North America, which would give the lead to AT&T, since it recently acquired a Mexican mobile company, adding to its North American user totals, he said.
Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, said AT&T wants to include its M2M and other users because the company dominates that market.
"AT&T looks far larger overall but still trails Verizon pretty substantially, in the reports I've seen, purely in terms of prepaid and postpaid customers," said King. "Some folks also point out that the relative value of wholesale wireless services in terms of driving monthly revenues is minuscule in comparison to prepaid/postpaid services, like Internet access and SMS. So AT&T's decision to include those customers in its count is little more than a PR exercise."
Another analyst, Rob Enderle of Enderle Group, said he's doesn't think that the whole race for supremacy in the mobile carrier wars makes one iota of difference to end users. More than anything, it exists only for bragging rights by the carriers, he said.
"What you want to measure is the quality and breadth of coverage, not the number of folks on the network, at least as a positive," he said. "I think we should ignore customer base unless we are investors. The stats we should focus on are value, customer satisfaction, network coverage and network load."
I agree. I don't care if my mobile carrier is the biggest or the smallest. I just want the phone to work when I make a call. Don't we all?


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January 15, 2015: Live chat on freenode network. I'll be waiting for you there! Check "About" page for more details.
November 25, 2014: Fixed multiple firing of
scrollstop in Safari iOS.
January 15, 2015: Live chat on freenode network. I'll be waiting for you there! Check "About" page for more details.
November 25, 2014: Fixed multiple firing of
scrollstop in Safari iOS.
Assuming that you want to redirect user to a certain page on start-up based on a condition. If a user navigates directly to a page which has no access to, or without verifying "Login Credentials". Using
mobileinit event, you can manipulate DOM or redirect user by changing URL
When jQuery Mobile's framework is initialized, it looks for first div with
data-role="page" in
body and makes it the homepage. If there is no div with that attribute, it wraps
body's content in
data-role="page" div. Therefore, before user is redirected, jQuery Mobile's framework auto-initializing should be disabled
Yet another use of
pagecontainerbeforechange; it is
hashchange and
popstate all in one event! Whether browser's back button or
$.mobile.back() is used,
pagecontainerbeforechange is what you need.
If you prefer a cross-browser and responsive CSS solution to fill available height of page, here are some tips.
Note: use this solution for specific pages, otherwise, scrolling will malfunction if content's height is greater than viewport's height. Because the solution sets page height to 100% which stop page from scrolling.
There are three different solutions; full-screen, non-fixed toolbars and fixed toolbars. Each solution utilizes different CSS property(s).
The filterable widget provided by jQuery Mobile (jQM) allows the user to filter child elements by typing search text into a text box. The built-in behavior is to see if the search text is contained in any of the children elements' text or a special data attribute called data-filtertext. But what if you want the filter to only show elements that start with the typed in search text?
To accomplish this, we can override the default filtering by assigning the filterCalback property to a function. This function is then called for each child element with an index parameter and a second parameter for the search text the user typed. Within this function we can perform our own filter matching and return true if the child element should be filtered (hidden). So, lets build our Starts With Filter. Continue reading
Update: Thanks to Brian for reporting an issue of multiple firing in Safari iOS. I have fixed this by removing the
scrollstop listener when page bottom is reached and re-attaching it after loading more elements.
There are many handy third party plugins to handle infinite scrolling. They are meant to make your webapp lighter as not to load all contents at once. However, loading extra JavaScript libraries would affect the performance of a webapp negatively. Not to mention the bugs you might encounter or poor documentation. I never thought of creating such a tutorial of how to create your own infinite scroll until I found this post. I would like to also thank Mark for recommending my solution to be included in jQuery Mobile demo section.
I have to admit that I just figured out the proper way to use
pagecontainerbeforechange; previously known as
pagebeforechange. Before I explain how to utilize this event, let me tell why it is important and handy.


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La Cage Aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985)
Directed by Georges LautnerGenres - Comedy | Sub-Genres - Farce, Gay & Lesbian Films | Release Date - Feb 14, 1986 (USA) | Run Time - 88 min. | Countries - France, Italy | MPAA Rating - PG13
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Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault go through their well-worn passes in this third sequel to their international hit La Cage aux Folles. In La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding the element of Woman is introduced to the carefree world of the middle-aged gay couple of Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault). In this effort, Albin stands to inherit a large part of his Aunt Emma's money (and a large chunk of Scotland) on the condition that he marry a woman and father a child. Albin doesn't want to satisfy his Aunt Emma's will because he is what he is, but Renato needs the money to save his St. Tropez nightclub. So Albin grudgingly consults marriage broker Stephane Audran and tries to act like a conservative heterosexual. Albin runs the gamut in trying to conform, from considering going to Lourdes, to suicide. When all hope appears to be lost, the gay duo finally latch onto a pregnant girl, Cindy (Antonella Interlenghi), who decides that marrying Albin is a shade better than trying to kill herself.
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The method I'm using right now on my iBook is from this blog post. I'm using Debian Linux, FEH, and a shared folder. On my PC, I have mapped the iBook's shared folder to a drive letter and I simply drop the desired images.
FEH is pretty basic and easy to use – important for me since I have little Linux experience. It does stop when it finds random Picasa files that copied over by accident but that's my fault. FEH does have some display options as well as some, well, I guess they're called plugins, like unclutter – which removes the mouse from your screen.
Installing Linux can be a bit of a pain, but once it's working – it really is fire and forget. Occasional software updates aside, you will almost never have to break the slideshow (using a shared folder and uploading via Wi-Fi), ever.
Using Linux and FEH is probably the best way to show images in a local environment. Don't have wireless? Just upload via USB and you're good to go.
In my research, I did find other scripts that allow you to get real fancy. Like overlay an RSS feed on top of your images. Or auto rotate images from those pesky orientation sensing cameras. I'll pull them in as I find them.
I'll go into Linux some more later, but if you're already on it, give FEH a go. If anything, it will be your default image slideshow app while you find something that works better for you.


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Robert Jeffress – tone-deaf homophobe for Jesus?
We all know what the religious right and those who are anti-gay say about the lgbt community. We all know the lies and the distortions they stoop to in order to demonize us. But what if, just what if, they were challenged on these distortions with the facts? Would they attempt to refute with other facts? Would they agree that they were wrong? Or would they stick to their guns under the mistaken idea that being "Christ-like" is refusing to admit you are wrong even in the fact of being pointed out that you are wrong. Robert Jeffress, who has been in the news lately because of the Tim Tebow controversy, is the test subject to my question. Watch what he does when he is presented facts about the lgbt community which refutes his conjecture:
Where to start? First of all, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973, not 1976. And research was involved thanks to folks like the late Evelyn Hooker who was a pioneer in the study of homosexuality.
The basic point is that Jeffress is a sad man. He reminds me of the pharisees and the Sanhedrin council who spoke out against Jesus and plotted his death. He wraps himself so hard in the phony guise of being a steadfast warrior for good that he has abandoned all humility and common sense.
He thinks he is so close to God that he has become interchangeable to God. Jeffres forgets that he is just a man and as such is subject to mistakes in thought and actions. And when confronted with these mistakes, he refuses to yield just a little. He refuses to say "maybe I should take a look at this" or "perhaps I am wrong." He holds firm to his beliefs, which can be at times can be an admirable quality.
However, in this juncture, it's not so admirable. In fact it demonstrates a prime reason why so many are leaving the Christian religion. Jesus called men to preach the gospel, not be stubborn jackasses.
Too many "Christian" pastors have mistaken one for the other.


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Indeed, I felt so bad about being so snarky, let me point out the positives in Strittmatter's opinion article in the Gazette. Strittmatter is a new teacher and probably a fresh college grad who is in a tiny town near the DMZ. I first planned to write about her naivete, but really, it is a tough time to be a newby in Korea and having military tanks frequently driving through town. She does pass on the important message that most 'old Korea hands' share:
Although I awake daily to emails from uneasy family and friends, the South Koreans are unintimidated by the North Korean nuclear threats. Even in this small town, the residents carry on with their daily lives despite the escalation of threats from the North. Korean families have not stockpiled bottled water, rice, or kimchee (a Korean food staple often made by fermenting cabbage underground for several weeks). Farmers continue to tend their crops, shops stay open until dark, and children still practice taekwondo after school.I guess I feel her naivete most shines through in the way she describes her Korean friends optimism for reunification. This is a popular line, and relatively easy to explain in a second language, but the less palatable truth is that reunification, even peacefully arranged, will be hugely costly and few South Koreans are eager to consider it.
Now that I have just remarked on how most Koreans are unconcerned about North Korea's bluster, let me offer the contrast of a Chosun Ilbo account on the lack of emergency shelters in Gangwondo.
South Korea started building evacuation shelters in 1975, but the project was virtually suspended in the late 1990s since rapid urbanization and industrialization meant many buildings had their own underground facilities.Indeed, CNN knows about the Parking Garage- Bomb Shelters.
Instead, the government designated underground car parks, basements of apartment buildings and subway stations as evacuation points.
But critics say even purpose-built shelters cannot guarantee the people's safety since they cannot be perfectly sealed against chemical attacks and lack gas masks.
Finally, my son loves the big cats, especially cheetahs. This story doesn't feature cheetahs but it does feature leopards. The Hankyoreh reports that there may still be some in Gangwon Province. The evidence, as supplied by the article, seems pretty weak to me but I can still hope it is true. To my Minjok Sagwan friends, be careful!


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Are you just sick of it all already?
Maybe you are just sick of it all and, well, I apologize. 'Cause I'm not sick of it yet. It's been 8 long years, baby, eight years of nothing but bad news getting worse. Eight years of torture, war, mass extinction, melting glaciers and despair. And the end of those eight years of hell is close, hope is near, change is comin', the dark days are numbered and life will begin again … Do you feel me? You've got to feel me.
It's a crazy beautiful fall day here, sky crisp and bright blue. Leaves – oh, the fall colors of the leaves! Growing up in SoCal, I never really believed those lovely Little Golden Books, the ones with daffodils and tulips for spring, flaming gold and scarlet trees in autumn, drifting snowflakes and cheery sleds for winter. We got Santa Ana winds and wildfires changing to rain that oil-slicked roads and caused massive pileups, and then what ho! It was smog-alert season again, and there goes a child's year of seasons. Not so in P-town, baby. Here, we get the best of them all: crocuses and tulips, summer thundershowers, drifting technicolor leaves, frosty mornings and enough snow most years for at least a petite snowman. And I loves it.
Domestic day ahead for me — a 4th birthday party to attend, a costume to make, some sewing to do. And, I hope, some writing time. I've got some ideas percolating …


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