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1993 Toyota Celica Question: How to adjust idling
My 1993 toyota celica is only idling at 200 rpm and when you ranit at mosy it reads about 300 rpm. -
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Sounds like your rpm gauge or tachometer may not be reading correctly, your car would not run at 200, it would die, the starter alone will spin it at about 350 rpm. -
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Dan is right. If the engine idled that slow it would stall and cut out. DO you mean it idles at 2000RPM that would be way too fast. If the idle is too low look at the air boot from the air filter housing to the manifold make sure it is in tact, (no rips) , and no other vacuum leaks around the intake manifold, clean the throttle butterfly by removing the air boot, open the butterfly by hand and using an old tooth brush and Chemtool remove carbon black deposits from the butterfly area. The 2.2L and 2.0L turbo electronically adjust the idle speed, the 1.6 L you can adjust the idle speed by turning the idle speed screw at the forward top side of the manifold but need to follow specific instructions. Autozone have some popular workshop manuals for free on line once you register (for free) on their website http://bit.ly/autozone_repair_info. There is also a company that independent auto repair shops buy their information from that the same information inexpensively to do it yourselfers. The information is year make and model specific repair procedures, service bulletins, component locations, wiring diagrams ect.... Alldata is very easy to navigate http://bit.ly/AllData_Repair_Manuals_Online My girlfriend is originally from Ocalla, it's a beautiful part of the country. -
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2005 Saab 9-5 Question: there's a common problem with headlamps going out what would i need to do to fix
fixing for a friend ,work as an advisor with saab lights are being replaced often ,headlamp has film noticed splash shield under bumper missing and did read of a leaking headlamp washer leak but is not equipped stated left one was flashing often and only one working is left high beams -
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I Like His Music, Respect His Independence of Thought
Who? Elton John, of course:
Elton John didn't mince words in slamming his fellow musicians for boycotting Arizona over the controversial SB 1070 immigration law. From the stage at his sold-out Tucson Arena concert Thursday night, John savored a few choice, not-so-family-friendly words:
"We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won't come here. They are (expletive)wits! Let's face it: I still play in California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights whatsoever. So what's the (expletive) with these people?"
John has never been one to cave into political pressure from his musical colleagues. He ignored an artist boycott of Israel in June over the flotilla fiasco and played a show in Tel Aviv. He also played Rush Limbaugh's latest wedding reception in early June, which drew the ire of gays and lesbians. Limbaugh is vehemently anti-gay marriage; John is married to his longtime partner David Furnish.
I don't understand his comment about having no rights in California as a gay man. Elton himself is against gay marriage, and while California doesn't recognize gay marriage, we have one of the strongest domestic partnership laws that can exist:
California Family Code Section 297.5. (a) Registered domestic partners shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, whether they derive from statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, government policies, common law, or any other provisions or sources of law, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses.
Still, I regret not getting to see his show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
Anonymous said...
Why don't you just admit you are gay?
Darren said...
Why don't you just admit how much you want me?
Anonymous said...
I'm still waiting for San Francisco to call for a boycott of California because of our no-Gay-Marriage constitutional amendment.
-Mark Roulo
maxutils said...
How can one be opposed to gay marriage, while at the same time being IN a gay marriage?
Darren said...
I don't know, ask Elton. And I don't think gay marriage is yet legal in Britain. He's IN a gay relationship.
maxutils said...
I ask, because the story you quoted said "John is married to his long time partner, David Furnish."
Darren said...
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0.022985 | <urn:uuid:b4dcf692-80a0-452a-b829-6fc7e081caaa> | en | 0.947051 | Fact Checking False Claim Obama Budget Plan ‘Reduces Deficit by $5.3 Trillion in a Decade’
New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes recently made the outlandish claim that the President’s budget will reduce the deficit by $5.3 trillion over a ten-year period. But a closer look at this claim proves that it just isn’t true.
Firstly, Obama and his surrogates don’t even claim a savings of $5.3 trillion, so it is a mystery where Calmes got this number. At the late Democrat convention, for instance, Bill Clinton claimed that Obama’s plan would save $4 trillion, not $5.3. But even Clinton’s mythical savings was deemed untrue by the Washington Post’s fact checker.
Worse, all those supposed savings in the Obama proposal is from tax hikes, not any actual cuts in spending. On top of that, most of the supposed savings are mere accounting gimmicks, not true savings.
The other false characterization of Obama’s spending proposal is that he means to “pay down out debt.” To pay down something, of course, that means to pay off or reduce that something. Obama’s plan also does not do this.
The truth is, Obama’s latest budget proposal, which calls for $1.8 trillion in new taxes, calls for $1.5 trillion in new spending! That means that Obama’s massive tax hike proposal doesn’t go to pay down the deficit but to fund new government spending.
Far from spending the deficit down, the president’s last budget plan from July makes it clear that in ten years our national debt will increase by $10.6 trillion.
But despite all the evidence proving the lie to Obama’s budget — a budget that garnered not one vote from either party in the House or Senate — his campaign has repeatedly made the false claim that he’d save $4 trillion over ten years and now The New York Times has inexplicably upped that fantasy savings to $5.3 trillion.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R, AL) has already called on the Obama campaign to pull these misleading ads. The Romney campaign should too.
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Is there a limit on the size of the result set of an Execute SQL task. If yes, then how does one deal with the excess portion of result set ?
Why am I asking this ? I intend to get 4-5 GB sized record set into memory via Execute SQL task (PREFERRED), use it to generate sql statements. These sql statements will then be used to load data into my destination table.
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Available memory and disk space are your only limits. Oh, and Time. That's likely to be the one that you run out of first for this approach. – RBarryYoung Nov 1 '13 at 23:26
@RBarryYoung - How do I find the exact memory and disk space limits? How do I change them if need be ? – Steam Nov 2 '13 at 15:41
There are not any exact limits. There only availability limits. You are limited to what's available, just as any process is. – RBarryYoung Nov 2 '13 at 22:48
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As @RBarry Young states, your Execute SQL Task dumping results back is only going to be limited by the amount of memory on the machine/available to SSIS.
What happens when you run out of memory in a data flow, is that SSIS is going to use the location specified in BufferTempStoragePath to write data to disk and your performance tanks. What is the actual use of buffer temp and blob temp in ssis
I don't see an analog in the Control Flow, which makes sense since generally it's not the memory intensive section of code. Test it and find out. If you run out of memory and SSIS goes belly up, then you'll probably need to move your logic into an Script Task and then try to manage your memory for effectively than holding the whole set at once.
That said, I would almost think you're going about it the hard way building out your own insert statements. That'd be akin to writing your own data flow but probably not as efficiently as what the SSIS has done.
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Thanks for all your points. I am almost 100% certain that I have no other alternative. My ETL is not straightforward. The source to target mapping is not fixed and can only be decided by querying a mapping table. There are other complexities too. Thats why I have to use mostly scripts. – Steam Nov 3 '13 at 6:31
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I just installed magento on wampserver, and I can create categories and add products, but whenever I try to upload an image for a product, it seems that the "upload files" button doesn't work. Here is a screenshot .
Can anyone please help me out??
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maybe update flash. This button uses Flash. Or check that the permissions are correctly set: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/1_-_installation_and_configuration/magento_filesystem_permissions
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Q. Why do woodpeckers like to hammer on houses? And what can I do about it?
A. Woodpeckers usually hammer on houses for one of four reasons:
1. Because it makes a satisfyingly loud noise that proclaims the bird's territory and attracts a mate. If the birds are drumming for these reasons, they will most likely stop once breeding has begun in the spring (they don't drum when looking for food).
2. Because the bird wants to excavate a nest or roost hole. If the woodpeckers are creating a nest cavity, the hole will be round and large. Nesting holes are usually built in the beginning of the breeding season between late April and May. If you need to evict woodpeckers from your home, aim to do so either before or after the nesting season.
3. Because it is feeding on insects living in the siding. If the birds are looking for insects, the holes will be small and irregular. You may have to call an exterminator to get rid of the underlying insect problem. Woodpeckers are particularly fond of the larvae of carpenter bees, leafcutter bees, and grass bagworms. To help you identify what insects might be involved in a particular woodpecker problem, we have some photos of specific kinds of woodpecker damage.
4. Because they are storing food. If you are located in the West, Acorn Woodpeckers peck dozens or hundreds of acorn-sized holes into large trees or houses, and stash a single fresh acorn into each one.
How can I get woodpeckers to leave my house alone? Once you know why woodpeckers are hammering on your house, you can develop strategies for stopping them. Take a look at our blog post Can Woodpecker Deterrents Safeguard My House? for ideas on how to deal with troublesome woodpeckers. The Cornell Lab's archived website Woodpeckers: Damage, Prevention, and Control also has information on woodpecker damage, clearing out problem insects to deter woodpeckers, and protecting your home.
Researchers at the Lab of Ornithology have performed studies relating nuisance woodpeckers. One study, External characteristics of houses prone to woodpecker damage, found that lighter colored aluminum and vinyl sidings are less likely to be damaged by woodpeckers. Another paper, Assessment of Management Techniques to Reduce Woodpecker Damage to Homes, tested six common long-term woodpecker deterrents: life-sized plastic owls with paper wings, reflective streamers, plastic eyes strung on fishing line, roost boxes, suet feeders, and a sound system which broadcasts woodpecker distress calls followed by the call of a hawk. Researchers found that nothing deterred woodpeckers all the time, and only the streamers worked with any consistency.
Homeowners have reported some success deterring woodpeckers with windsocks, pinwheels, helium balloons (shiny, bright Mylar balloons are especially effective), strips of aluminum foil, or reflective tape. Other people keep woodpeckers away by covering an affected area with burlap or attaching bird netting (the kind designed for gardens and fruit trees) from overhanging eaves to the siding. If you use netting, make sure it is taut and set at least 3 inches from the siding to avoid birds pecking through it. Close off openings on the sides to prevent birds from becoming trapped between the netting and the house.
You may also want to plug the holes with wood putty to discourage further activity. If a woodpecker has dug a roost hole into your house, make sure there are no birds inside before sealing it up.
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The Bible and Homosexuality
Leviticus Chapters 18 & 20
Most Christians do not apply commands in Leviticus to their lives. They believe these laws are not binding on Christians. They do not believe they are under obligation to perform ritual hand washing, to refrain from eating pork or to abstain from sex during a woman’s period.
Christian churches do not make much of an attempt to apply the commands in Leviticus to corporate life. The requirements in Leviticus was that no priest serve the Lord, unless he was physically perfect. That is no longer the case. Pastors and priests are not required to marry virgins, as commanded in Leviticus 21:13. Churches do not check potential pastors for blemishes, eye defects, physical disabilities and inspect a potential pastor's testicles to ensure they are perfect before the pastor is hired (requirement in Leviticus 21:16 to 21). For Christians who feel Calvary wipes away the need to keep the laws in Leviticus, enforcing Levitical laws on homosexuals is grossly inconsistent theology. Those Christians who wish to enforce the laws of Leviticus upon gay people need to admit their theology is very inconsistent and is potentially flawed.
One question that comes to mind regarding Leviticus relates to the word abomination. Leviticus 11:7 talks about pork as being unclean meat. Most Christians do not take the numerous texts in Leviticus seriously where the word abomination is used. Leviticus 11:10 is one of a passages where unclean food is called an abmomination. Christians generally do not consider eating pork an abomination, but Leviticus (11:11) considers even the carcases of unclean animals to be an abomination. Clean and unclean meat laws are not something most Christians feel any obligation to keep, yet many Christians insist that being gay is an abomination, when eating they feel eating pork is not an abomination.
Leviticus 18:21 -22 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD. Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
According to the respected Keil and Delitzsch Biblical commentary, Moloch was a Canaanite idol. These commentators believe going through the fire was a ceremony in which children were dedicated to the god Moloch. Immediately after a prohibition has been given to worshipping a pagan idol, by dedicating children to a pagan god, we see the what appears to be a prohibition of men having sexual intercourse with other men. The immediate context of this verse is worshipping other gods. Because the immediate context is worshipping pagan gods, one cannot be sure if this is a prohibition against gay relationships. This could be a prohibition against having sex with a man as a form of worshipping another god.
R.K. Harrison, author of the Leviticus volume of the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, indicates homosexual relationships played a role in cultic worship rituals. Harrison states there may have been homosexual activities as part of the worship rituals to the goddess Ishtar.
The context of this verse is very much like the context of Leviticus Chapter 18. The context of this verse can be seen in the early verses in Leviticus Chapter 20. Verse 2 of Chapter 20 sets the tone and the context. Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
The authors of the New Jerome Biblical Commentary point out that Chapter 20 outlines the sanctions placed on people who violated the commands in Leviticus Chapter 18. That means the sanctions listed in Chapter 20 against same-gender sexual relationships are about sanctions placed on those who worship other gods.
We are not sure how much of an issue sex between men was at this time. The Jewish commentator Bamberger, in his commentary on Leviticus, mentions that there is no record of the death sentence being carried out by Jewish people for violating this prohibition.
This text speaks to gay people. God is calling gay people to stop the self-destructive sin of worshipping other gods. This sin robs gay people of life, of the joy of living. Homosexuals can heal and become healing agents when they refuse to worship pagan gods. Those pagan gods include the god of public opinion - doing what society expects, the god of family approval - doing what one's family wants, the god of church blessing - acting exactly how the church demands and the god of following abusive or deceived pastors - attending the churches of abusive pastors and supporting their ministry with offerings. When gay people turn away from these harmful gods, they can serve the True God and humanity with liberty. | http://www.createdgay.com/lev | dclm-gs1-287250001 | false | false | {
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A major requirement of the Affordable Care Act is that everybody, especially young people, buys health insurance, and a big argument against it is that the so-called "young invincibles" won't sign up.
They don't feel all that invincible, according to U. S. News and World Report, which reports studies and polls showing that young people understand the importance of health insurance and will sign up for insurance if it's affordable. For them it hinges on the ACA tax credits offered to lower-income people. Young people are now the targets of pro and con forces, plus the insurance industry. They've never been so loved.
Still, when ACA opens shop on Oct. 1, nobody knows exactly how it's all going to work. Which is why, with all the hysteria and venom out there, I keep returning to healthcare providers. They don't have the luxury of political speculation.
ACA will go forward, predicted Clay Holderman, chief operating officer of Presbyterian Healthcare Services' central delivery system. "It will be imperfect, and some pieces will be delayed, but it will roll forward."
Holderman was on a panel of healthcare providers last week speaking to real estate developers and their fellow travelers who wanted to know if there were business opportunities in Obamacare. It turns out there are, and their opportunities offer something for the rest of us.
With roughly 200,000 New Mexicans entering the system and ACA's emphasis on cost reductions, the big systems must shift care from the emergency room to primary care, which they all agreed is a welcome change. The ER is the most expensive place to treat people. So are hospitals. So they also see a de-emphasis on hospitals and movement toward beefed up primary care in your neighborhood shopping center.
Primary care used to be a doctor, a nurse and support staff. The new primary care center will look more like a team with behavioral health counselors, pharmacists and other disciplines. And instead of a doctor talking to you about how to manage your diabetes, you will probably attend a group session with other diabetes patients.
"Regardless of ACA or other legislation, we've seen a sea change in how healthcare is demanded and delivered, especially with the recession," said Stephen Forney, vice president and chief financial officer at Lovelace Health Systems. He predicts small hospitals in rural areas will go out of business. "Not every community needs a hospital - they need other kinds of care - more physician practices, more surgical centers, a higher utilization of technology."
Technology comes in two varieties. One is the electronic record keeping required by ACA. Holder said Presbyterian has spent more on electronic records than it did to build the big, new Rust Medical Center in Sandoval County. The other kind is technology used in healthcare delivery.
"Today, we're monitoring Española ICU patients from Rust Hospital," he said. He sees entire divisions dedicated to telemedicine.
Technology isn't always the answer, said Martin Hickey, CEO of New Mexico Health Connections. Modern pharmaceuticals can do great things, but they only work if you take them. An emerging care giver is the community health worker who will help high-risk patients maintain a program and stay on their meds. "That's where the huge change is," he said, and the community health worker needs only a high school diploma.
Hickey is also becoming the voice of reality in the ongoing, politically driven arguments. Reminding this crowd of employers that returning to the status quo isn't an option, he said, "Spending 18 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) on healthcare will ruin this country. Your costs need to come down."
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Satori 07-21-2010 12:24 PM
Rerouting 6" Flex - quick question
Hi all,
I need to reroute a piece of 6" flex in my basement around a wall to remove the need for building around it when I finish the basement. To do this, I need to add a 3' or 6' piece of flex on the end of it and attach the new end to the boot. What I need to know is this: what is the standard practice for adding an extension onto an existing piece of flex?
I'm guessing that it's just zip ties on the inside with a metal connector between each section and the metal tape on the outside, just as though it were connected to a boot. Is there anything else I need to do?
I realize that this will antagonize airflow for this vent slightly since I'm lengthening the flex and adding a couple of bends.... but it's a bathroom vent that isn't used now anyway and doesn't have a problem with airflow besides....
thanks! :)
beenthere 07-21-2010 06:31 PM
Yep. Just use a piece of 6" pipe.
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Pucker up, Proncess
Matthew Hoffman
Stories come with morals attached, right? But if you catch The Princess and the Frog, both the Disney movie based on E.D. Baker’s 2002 novel The Frog Princess, and Lloyd J. Schwartz, Hope Juber and Lawrence Juber’s children’s musical, based on the Grimm Brothers’ fairy taleThe Frog Prince,”you get quite a different picture.
Both renditions in current release (the musical on Saturday afternoons at Theatre West) come saturated in nostalgia, and are somewhat faithful in spirit to their sources, but the sources tell contrary stories.
Baker’s novel, and Disney’s movie, has the princess turn into a frog, joining the prince in the lower depths. Maybe this is an attempt by Disney to speculate, like the producers of Wicked, on the Power of Green. My eyes hit the ceiling with the moral that love is more important than money — that takes some nerve, cramming that into a Disney flick.
In the Grimm Brothers version, there is no kissing, no lips touching slime. The princess is actually a rotten, spoiled personality who attempts to deceive the frog in order to retrieve a golden ball that she accidentally let drop into a well. (Disney’s black princess, by contrast, is virtuous and hard-working, dreaming of opening a restaurant in 1920s New Orleans.) From the watery depths, the frog offers to toss the ball back in her land-bound direction on the condition that he be allowed to spend three nights sleeping in her bed. It’s a deal she agrees to.
But once the horrible child has her golden ball back in hand, she attempts to deceive the frog by giving him the royal brush off. Now that she has what she wanted, he can go play by himself, or with himself, or whatever.
Back at the castle, there’s a knock at the door, and ribbit. The horrid princess acts all scared — there was no fear when she had something to gain from Mr. Green, but now she’s suddenly frog-a-phobic. It’s her father who intervenes and sets the story’s moral compass. You made a deal, you keep it, he tells her. She has no choice but to obey. He’s the king.
(The musical’s closing number is a little ditty nicely sung by Anthony Gruppuso, called “Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep.”)
In the story, after the third night, sans kiss, he transforms into a prince, thereby breaking an unpleasant spell. Judge not by appearances, seems to the be the moral most tethered to the plot. Princely qualities may reside beneath a froggy veneer. Keep your heart more open than your eyes.
The kiss got added later as part of the deal — and is part of this musical — probably because it seems so disgusting. It also viscerally cements the theme of loving someone, warts and all, for who the entirety of who they are. This might seem at odds with the expression, “You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince,” which, per the Grimm Brothers, implies that the kiss has nothing to do with any kind of transformation. Rather, it’s just part of an endurance test.
Authors Schwartz and Huber turn the saga into a kind of medieval Morality Play, with a fairy named Hyacinth (Mary Garripoli) who croons about “Doin’ Good” — as in collecting canned goods for the poor – versus the vain prince’s (understudy Ian Gray) narcissistic song, “Lookin’ Good.” He even gets kids in the audience to help him hold hand mirrors so he can get a better look at himself.
The production, directed by Barbara Mallory Schwartz, is big on audience interaction, dragging as many little kiddies into the spotlight for cameo appearances as there were little kiddies in the house. The place was packed with them for the show I saw, and they appeared delighted when they weren’t squirming. There’s no middle ground for an audience under 10 years old. It’s either rapt attention or dismissive contempt.
The hand-drawn animation in the movie is a loving throwback to early Disney technique. The film is languorously seductive, with Randy Newman’s wry songs of the South. (It’s the first Disney flick featuring black characters since “Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah.”) Nor is there an attempt to bombard the audience with fake action for the sake of action. Yet box office receipts have been less than stellar.
The stage musical, too, plays at a pace and a tone that recalls theater of yore, disconnected from iPhones and YouTube and text messages, while reaching out to an audience that’s being weaned on such devices. After intermission, the King read from a scroll the names of kids who were summoned to participate in Act 2, but he was caught off guard when he had to acknowledge that his wards had fled during intermission. He sings a song called “Even a King Gets Lonely.” Especially in a era when nostalgia just feels old.
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0.379125 | <urn:uuid:aca07c81-3541-4c40-badd-7b7767e698f6> | en | 0.938141 | Three tips from a Flint astronomer on watching the rare total lunar eclipse
Blake Thorne | By Blake Thorne | The Flint Journal
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on April 10, 2014 at 11:30 AM, updated April 10, 2014 at 12:52 PM
FLINT, MI -- We're in for a rare show April 15.
But you have to be willing to get up very early or stay up late to see it.
A total lunar eclipse will be visible from North America, meaning the earth is directly between the sun and the moon.
"At 3:06 a.m. EDT, the eclipse will reach totality, but sunlight bent by our atmosphere around the curvature of the Earth should produce a coppery glow on the moon. At this time, the moon, if viewed with binoculars or a small telescope, will present the illusion of seemingly glowing from within by its own light," according to
If the skies are clear, people in Genesee County should be able to see the eclipse, said Richard Walker, astronomer at Longway Planetarium in Flint.
Walker offered three tips to watch the celestial event.
1. Go outside and start looking about 10 minutes before 2 a.m. This is about when the moon will begin its journey into earth's shadow.
2. When a shadow is cast on the moon, see if you can notice the shape of the shadow. If should be curved. This is because the earth is curved, what you're seeing is the curvature of the earth.
3. Once the moon is all the way into the earth's shadow, "look at the moon and see what color it's turned," Walker said. It should be a reddish color. This is because red light is the only light capable of bending around the earth and lighting the moon. The other colors of the light spectrum are being blocked by the earth. This is similar to what happens during a sunset, when the sun appears more red as it gets further around the curve of the earth.
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Between the andouille sausage and the cayenne, this is one spicy dish. With plenty of rice, vegetables, and chicken in the pot, it's also a satisfying dinner. If you can't find andouille and need to substitute a milder sausage, increase the cayenne to one-half teaspoon.
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1 tablespoon cooking oil
1/2 pound andouille or hot link sausages
1 large onion, chopped
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 green bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 1/2 cups long-grain rice
3 cups canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 bay leaves
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 3 in all), cut into 1-inch pieces
1. In a large saucepan, heat the oil over moderate heat. Add the sausages and cook, turning, until browned, 5 to 10 minutes in all. Remove. When the sausages are cool enough to handle, cut them into 1/4-inch slices. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat from the pan.
2. Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic to the pan and cook, covered, over moderately low heat until the vegetables start to soften, about 5 minutes. Add the rice, broth, sausage, cayenne, bay leaves, and salt and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes.
3. Stir in the chicken and simmer, covered, until the chicken is just done and the rice and the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes longer. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for about 2 minutes.
Wine Recommendation: The somewhat vegetal flavors of the sauvignon blanc grape will be right at home here. Try one from the United States (sometimes called Fumé Blanc). It will have enough richness to stand up to the sausage.
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Why is 2009 H1N1 virus sometimes called “swine flu”?
Is 2009 H1N1 virus contagious? CDC has determined that 2009 H1N1 virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human.
How does 2009 H1N1 virus spread? Spread of 2009 H1N1 virus is thought to occur in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing by people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something – such as a surface or object – with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.
What are the signs and symptoms of this virus in people? The symptoms of 2009 H1N1 flu virus in people include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea. People may be infected with the flu, including 2009 H1N1 and have respiratory symptoms without a fever. Severe illnesses and death has occurred as a result of illness associated with this virus.
How severe is illness associated with 2009 H1N1 flu virus?
One thing that appears to be different from seasonal influenza is that adults older than 64 years do not yet appear to be at increased risk of 2009 H1N1-related complications thus far. CDC laboratory studies have shown that no children and very few adults younger than 60 years old have existing antibody to 2009 H1N1 flu virus; however, about one-third of adults older than 60 may have antibodies against this virus. It is unknown how much, if any, protection may be afforded against 2009 H1N1 flu by any existing antibody.
How long can an infected person spread this virus to others?
What can I do to protect myself from getting sick? There is no vaccine available right now to protect against 2009 H1N1 virus. However, a 2009 H1N1 vaccine is currently in production and may be ready for the public in the fall. As always, a vaccine will be available to protect against seasonal influenza
Employees who are well but who have an ill family member at home with 2009 H1N1 flu can go to work as usual. These employees should monitor their health every day, and take everyday precautions including washing their hands often with soap and water, especially after they cough or sneeze. If soap and water are not available, they should use an alcohol-based hand rub.* If they become ill, they should notify their supervisor and stay home. Employees who have an underlying medical condition or who are pregnant should call their health care provider for advice, because they might need to receive influenza antiviral drugs to prevent illness. For more information please see General Business and Workplace Guidance for the Prevention of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Flu in Workers.
What should I do if I get sick? If you live in areas where people have been identified with 2009 H1N1 flu and become ill with influenza-like symptoms, including fever, body aches, runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people. CDC recommends that you stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine.) Stay away from others as much as possible to keep from making others sick.Staying at home means that you should not leave your home except to seek medical care. This means avoiding normal activities, including work, school, travel, shopping, social events, and public gatherings.
Fast breathing or trouble breathing
Bluish or gray skin color
Not drinking enough fluids
Severe or persistent vomiting
Not waking up or not interacting
Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
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Severe or persistent vomiting
Are there medicines to treat 2009 H1N1 infection? Yes. CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with 2009 H1N1 flu virus. Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaled powder) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. During the current pandemic, the priority use for influenza antiviral drugs is to treat severe influenza illness (for example hospitalized patients) and people who are sick who have a condition that places them at high risk for serious flu-related complications.
What is CDC’s recommendation regarding "swine flu parties"?
How long can influenza virus remain viable on objects (such as books and doorknobs)? Studies have shown that influenza virus can survive on environmental surfaces and can infect a person for 2 to 8 hours after being deposited on the surface.
What kills influenza virus?
Can I get infected with 2009 H1N1 virus from eating or preparing pork? No. 2009 H1N1 viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get infected with novel HIN1 virus from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork products is safe.
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From zombie caterpillars to basking sharks at sea
Basking sharks can be found in coastal waters and feed on plankton. (Corbis)
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The strange thing about a Brazilian wasp isn't that it injects its eggs into a caterpillar, where they turn into larvae, feed on the host's bodily fluids and hatch through its skin. A lot of parasites do that. What's unique, according to a study from the Netherlands, is that the larvae compel the dying caterpillar to swing its head violently after they emerge, possibly scaring predatory bugs away.
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Even if it's cold or hot outside, it's just right inside leaves. A University of Pennsylvania study of oxygen atoms in 39 tree species, growing from northern Canada to Puerto Rico, suggests that leaves have an internal thermostat set at 70.5 degrees Fahrenheit. They may alter evaporation rates or their angle to the sun to stay near this temperature, which is ideal for photosynthesis.
Name: Arthroleptidae, a family of frogs living in sub-Saharan Africa.
At Rest: These frogs have smooth and shiny hind feet.
In Distress: They sprout claws from beneath the skin on their toes.
Under Scrutiny: No other vertebrate has claws like these, according to a new study from Harvard. They are composed not of keratin, the stuff of fingernails, but of bone. And they have to pierce their owner's skin before they can pierce anything else. The researchers figured out the anatomy that allows the claws to spring forth, but they could only speculate about how the claws retract—and how this frog's skin heals after it uses its claws.
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Basking sharks are typically found in coastal waters, where they meander so slowly with their mouths agape feeding on plankton that they appear to be just basking in the sun. But scientists who tagged two sharks near the Isle of Man found that one swam to Newfoundland, traveling almost 6,000 miles and diving deeper than 4,000 feet. The shark may have been seeking food. So much for being aimless.
Why Pterosaurs are not like Sea Gulls
How did a giant pterosaur called an azhdarchid capture prey? Not while flying, according to a University of Portsmouth, England, analysis of fossils and tracks. Azhdarchid's padded feet, short wings and stiff neck indicate it didn't feed aloft as today's seabirds do. It may have walked, balanced on bent wings, to pursue small animals (not including the bearded guy at left, who's just for scale).
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0.271472 | <urn:uuid:2d1bd9f7-b6b5-44af-99b3-66d188a6b938> | en | 0.954813 | A long history of cheese love
Last updated 11:59 13/12/2012
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Scientists have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated just like modern cheese strainers.
Milk production and dairy processing allowed early farmers to produce food without slaughtering precious livestock, and making cheese turned milk into a less perishable food that was more digestible for a population who at the time would have been intolerant to the lactose contained in milk.
Researchers from the University of Bristol in Britain, with colleagues in the United States and Poland, analysed fatty acids embedded in prehistoric pottery from the Polish region of Kuyavia, and found they had been used to separate milk into fat-rich curds for cheese and lactose-containing whey.
"The presence of milk residues in sieves ... constitutes the earliest direct evidence for cheese-making," said Mélanie Salque from Bristol, one of the authors of the research, which was published in the journal Nature.
Peter Bogucki, another researcher involved in the work, said: "Making cheese allowed them to reduce the lactose content of milk, and we know that, at that time, most of the humans were not tolerant to lactose."
Milk residues have been found at ancient sites up to 8,000 years old in Turkey and Libya, but there was no evidence that the milk had been processed into cheese.
Until now, the earliest evidence of cheese-making came from depictions of milk processing in murals several thousand years younger than the pottery fragments.
The researchers believe other vessels found in the same region were used for other specific purposes. Jars lined with beeswax were probably for storing water, and pottery containing the remnants of carcass fats was probably used for cooking meat.
"It is truly remarkable, the depth of insights into ancient human diet and food processing technologies these ancient fats preserved in archaeological ceramics are now providing us with," said Richard Evershed, who heads the Bristol team.
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0.033252 | <urn:uuid:292d7064-a0e8-448d-b2ea-4fb872a15803> | en | 0.951614 | Nine killed in Pakistani train bomb
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An explosion derails a passenger train in southern Pakistan, killing at least five passengers, including children. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
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A bomb derailed a train in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing nine people, police said.
Four of the dead were children and another 20 people were wounded by the blast in Kashmor district, which caused several train cars to run off the track, said police official Mohammad Azeem.
Kashmor is in Sindh province but adjoins insurgency-hit Baluchistan. No one has claimed responsibility, but suspicion likely to fall on ethnic Baluch separatists operating in resource-rich province.
Al-Qaida-linked militants also have a presence there.
One of the separatist groups last week blew up three gas pipelines, suspending supplies to millions of household for two days.
The group said it bombed the pipelines to avenge several Baluch whose bodies had been found in the Khuzdar district in the region.
Meanwhile, a roadside bomb killed a policeman guarding a polio vaccination drive team in the outskirts of northwestern city of Peshawar.
Police official Ibrahim Khan said another officer was wounded in the attack during the weekly anti-polio campaign in the Budhni area.
Khan said the two officers were patrolling a road leading to the suburban neighbourhood where anti-polio teams were vaccinating children.
Anti-polio teams or their guards have been frequently targeted in Pakistan by Islamic militants, who say the campaigns are a tool for spying and claim the vaccine makes boys sterile.
Pakistan is one of the few remaining countries where polio persists and most cases found in its northwest, where militants make it difficult to reach children for vaccination.
No one has claimed responsibility for this incident either.
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The Night I got Wesley to be quiet when company was there...
I promised I'd explain how I got Wesley to be quiet when Cait and Richard and I turned up at our (me and Wesley's) apartment in the middle of the night.
As I mentioned in another blog, Wesley had a nanny by this time, who would come over every day if I was away for a weekend, and read to him, spend time talking to him, feed him, and sometimes spend the night there so he'd have company. Yes he was spoiled!
I sometimes spent the night up in L.A. at Cait and Richard's house, hence the nanny.
On one such weekend, we were having a lovely time eating at our favorite Italian restaurant, closing the place down, when I inexplicably started to have a sort of anxiety attack over Wesley's well being. The nanny wasn't available that night so I couldn't just call her and ask her to check on him.
L.A. was a SERIOUS distance from La Costa! But here I was having a visible anxiety attack, horrified that I was acting like this - near tears, worrying about Wesley, unable to snap out of it. AND to make matters worse, I hadn't yet told Cait and Richard about Wesley so I said I was worrying about the hamsters!
Cait and Richard didn't even question it. They got in the car and drove me all the way to La Costa at 2 in the morning! I estimate it's a 2 hour drive one way. We got to my apartment and I sent them off to sleep in the guest bedroom and raced into the room I shared with Wesley. Of course he was fine.
I don't know what came over me that night - why I was so freaked out.
And now I had another issue - here we all were in my fairly small apartment and Wesley was usually VERY vocal, particularly when I got back from being out, so how would I get him to be nearly silent the whole time Cait and Richard were there?
I decided to use my body language to indicate to him that Cait and Richard made me nervous, so they should make him nervous, too. If he felt that there was some concern about having them there, he might go silent like wild animals do when they don't want to be discovered.
So I went into the room and acted nervous about Cait and Richard, looking at the door nervously and doing an owl body language that means, absolutely, that the owl is concerned. Not terrified or threatening the person, but definitely concerned.
I didn't mention this trait in the book but what they do is they flatten their wings very tightly to their body and stand very straight, then twist from side to side rapidly. I don't mean the swaying or rocking from foot to foot that they do when threatening. It's like doing the twist, but with your arms tight to your side and your body rigid. You face your body to the left then to the right and back and forth without moving your feet, very fast.
I did that and Wesley immediately looked worried. Then I hissed at the door - something I had learned from HIM! When he had had a person come in to feed him during the day, he would let me know about it LATER when he was recapping his day to me by looking at the door and hissing under his breath. It told me that someone else had been there, which concerned him, but that they were not really a threat (else he would have shown more than just concern).
So I looked over at the door and hissed several times throughout the rest of the night when we were awake and Wesley remained silent for the rest of the night and the next morning.
That morning we had breakfast and I had had a long cuddle with Wesley, and Cait and Richard drove me all the way back up to their house!
Bizarre incident.
Sometimes I just worried, like a mother would, I guess. I think if I had had human children I would have been terrified much of the time. I don't know how people do it - let go and let their children take all the risks that kids take. I know you HAVE to let them be kids and have freedom and try things, but it must be downright terrifying. If you think about it too much you'd make yourself crazy.
That's the only time it was that bad, though. And Cait and Richard thought it was about the hamsters all that time. Suffice it to say that they are very empathetic and nonjudgemental friends! They didn't tell me I was nuts or act like I was out of line at all. They didn't question my anxiety over the "hamsters" but just took it at face value and said, "Let's go! We're going to your house to check them, then, if you're worried." Just like that.
I'm lucky to have such great friends, and I was lucky to have such a perceptive owl! Wesley clued in immediately to what I was trying to tell him - that he needed to not reveal himself. And he didn't!
Very soon after that I did tell Cait and Richard about Wesley and that whole night's episode made more sense to them.
They knew I was a bit of a nut when it comes to animals anyway. At one of my first fiddle lessons with Cait (this is how I met her), I had stayed for dinner and we had all talked until about 11pm. I finally left and only got a block away when I saw a possum "dead" on the road.
When I see a "dead" animal on the road I never assume it's dead. I stopped my brand new vehicle and got out to have a look. I touched the possum w/ my toe. It didn't move. It wasn't breathing. I watched it for awhile to see if it would breathe and it didn't. So I turned to walk away and heard it take a deep breathe.
Duh! It had been "playing possum"! They do pretend to be dead when threatened!
He was profoundly injured though, so I got a funnel cone out of the car and a blanket and a board (DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED TO WORK WITH WILD ANIMALS!) and slipped the cone over his nose so he wouldn't be as able to bit me, and slid the board under him, put the blanket over him and carried him into my brand new car.
Then I drove back to Cait's and knocked on the door. They were obviously already in bed but they got up and I breathlessly explained that I had an injured possum in the car and asked if I could use their phone and could we try to find an all night emergency animal clinic nearby?
They leapt into action and found a 24 hour clinic. We called and told them I was coming w/ this possum and they said they'd take him. Meanwhile I was praying the possum hadn't come to and destroyed the interior of the car while we were doing this!
When I got back in the car, he was awake but lying quietly under the blanket. I got him to the clinic and carried him in. He ended up being treated and spending some time in intensive care, then in wildlife rehab, but was finally released back into the wild in a safer place.
That incident was my first clue that Cait and Richard were kindred spirits when it came to animals!
Cait helped w/ the editing of the book and Richard is my lawyer now, for all things literary and for trademarking and all that stuff.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
HAMSTERS, of all creatures.
Here's how it happened.
Wesley and I were living alone in my apartment in La Costa, near Carlsbad, CA., which is in the North County part of San Diego, which is 35 miles north of the city itself.
Wesley was a middle aged owl, now, and had learned that I was always coming back, so he was not distressed by my going off to visit people like he had been when he was much younger. Also, we had an owl nanny. Yes! This is the woman I referred to in the book who used to sit at the doorway to "his" room and read out loud to him. She really spent a lot of time with him and could even occasionally sidle up and touch him if he were busy eating a mouse or something. Of course he knew she was doing this and allowed it.
He was quite comfortable with her and I paid her extremely well per visit - sometimes 50 dollars a visit. This is back when I was healthy and had punched my way up the corporate ladder and was doing very well in my career.
I was developing this brain tumor but didn't know it at the time.
Cait and her husband Richard and I were becoming ever closer friends, and I often stayed at their house over the weekend, with this woman being Wesley's nanny. I hadn't told Cait or Richard yet about Wesley yet, but I had started the "vetting" process with Cait, asking her endless questions about her philosophical position on issues such as keeping an unreleasable wild animal in a captive situation and making him as comfortable as possible - or should he have just been put to sleep, etc... all this theoretical animal stuff.
She patiently answered all my questions without asking me WHY I was asking them, because Cait is not a prying person and she accepts you at face value and is extremely patient.
"I am a Buddhist." She would say, "I think all animals should be kept in a loving environment and cared for as part of our sacred duty, as stewards of all living things. An animal incapable of living in the wild should be kept in an alternate, captive environment and the keeper should seek to meet all his needs."
Me: But are you against people keeping animals in captivity?
Her: (ever patient) "No, I have cats, don't I."
...and on and on. It took me a long time to decide to reveal my precious Wesley to anyone.
Cait noticed that whenever I talked about animals my entire being would light up and she began worrying about me not living with animals and urged me to get some small creatures to live with (not knowing about Wesley yet).
In spite of the fact that I had Wesley, I irrationally rationalized to myself that I did indeed NEED some MORE animals! Silly, but there you have it. Any excuse, in other words.
So, after she said this I pulled into the nearest pet store, literally, and went in to see what there was to see. And I've always thought that Teddy Bear Hamsters were the CUTEST little things on earth! However every time I'd asked about them I'd been told they were vicious biters. I had been bitten by a gerbil when I took it home for the weekend as part of my 3rd grade class' pet gerbil project and it HURT. Bad! So I was afraid of them!
But now, after Wesley and other owls, and having been bitten by just about everything, including that Benthic Worm, I decided I would tolerate the biting and hope that the hamster would become gentle. So I asked to handle them.
These particular hamsters were completely tame and mild! I was smitten and took one home.
But alas, he was young and very upset to be separated from his littermates and clawed at the glass aquarium all night long. That morning I rushed back and bought his two littermates and thus began the long saga of Hamster Haven.
You do eventually have to separate Syrian hamsters, as they will fight and eventually kill each other if you continue to keep them together as adults. People don't realize this.
I recently took in two young adult hamsters that were being kept in an aquarium (I now use the wire cages because the aquariums can become too hot, etc). I told the guy that they were probably fighting and he INSISTED they were not. Fine. I took them home and examined them and they were covered from head to toe with deep bites from each other! Just hidden under the fur so you couldn't see them - but horrible! Nasty! They were BOTH missing parts of their tender ears!
Needless to say, they are now separated and happy.
After my introduction to Barn Owls, and actually, really, even before that, I had begun being more and more attracted to animals who were solitary in nature, meaning that they were not flocking, packing, or herding animals, but solitary in the wild with the possible exception of a mate.
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to the solitary wild soul, but I am.
Syrian Hamsters (Teddy Bear Hamsters) are completely solitary in the wilds of Syria, where they dig down 8 feet before constructing their complicated homes, with separate rooms for food storage, peeing (yes, they make a bathroom for themselves!), sleeping, nesting w/ babies, grooming, etc.
They only meet up for mating, and then just briefly.
I think I like the challenge of winning their trust and becoming their friend, of gaining their affection in an unconditional way, without social manipulation that would work w/ a packing or flocking animal. I don't know.
But I do find the wild, solitary soul of an animal to be beautiful, complex, and fascinating.
And my hamsters are a continual, surprising source of inspiration and fun!
In the next post I'll tell you about the time I was staying at Cait's and started panicking, irrationally, about Wesley's well being (he WAS being cared for by his "nanny"), and Richard and Cait driving me all the way to La Costa and staying the night, never knowing that Wesley was in a room right next to them!
How did I keep the extremely verbal and irascible Wesley quiet for two days? Tune in next time! ;-)
Wesley Collectible - progress report
We just heard today from the manufacturer that they have bumped us up to where the collectible will NOT be available in time for Christmas! I am very upset about this, as we had planned to have it in some of the Independent bookstores for the Christmas season. We are talking with the manufacturer to try to resolve the problem...
Answering Questions
When I do a reading/signing/event, I try to leave plenty of time for questions. This is especially true if I discern that most of the people at the event have already read, or are reading, the book. Then, instead of reading from the book, which is traditional, I leave more time for questions. I have encountered the most delightful people at these events!
At Book Passages in the San Francisco area, a woman came in who had read the book several times and had some questions all ready to go. She had to leave early and it was a shame I didn't get to meet her because I found her absolutely delightful in her directness and frankness. She asked me if it bothered me that I wasn't using my expertise in Barn Owls more (I'm disabled and spend most of my time in bed still), after all those years of study.
Here's the answer:
I feel like it was more important to me to explain Barn Owls through Wesley to regular people than it could ever be for me to write up scientific papers for journals that most people will never read. Those scientific papers are tough reading, plus they're waaay too expensive to subscibe to unless it's your profession to do so. This is not to say that it's not important to publish scientific papers, or that they go to waste, because they don't go to waste. The scientific community gathers the research and it ends up in the right hands doing great things, ultimately, but it can take decades for the information to reach people who have not made it their life calling to read biology journals, etc.
To me, I am using my expertise in barn owls! I'm letting people know what I found to be true, directly, through the book. I think it's more important for us as a civilization to understand that the wild animals around us are thinking, feeling, complicated, playful, loving, anxious, joyful, sorrowful...that they have real emotion and real intelligence. The other details about a particular species are important too, but only in the context of understanding the animal himself (or herself).
It's AMAZING to me to see the myriad ways in which animals are perfectly adapted to their habitat, as long as that habitat isn't messed with by human interference. But it's even more amazing to me that they have individual personalities and proclivities, opinions, scruples, thoughts, problem solving skills, ideas!
So that's my answer. I am doing exactly what I think I should be doing with the knowledge I've gained through Wesley and his Tyto Alba brethren!
If I were to have to list a book...ok make that two books...that have altered my life since childhood, they would have to be In the Shadow of Man (NUMBER ONE BOOK!) by Jane Goodall, and Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat. I have returned to those two books like they were old friends, year after year. I learned more from Jane Goodall's book about animals and the way they ARE than from all the studies I had in biology, chemistry, math, physics, philosophy, etc. It's not that I don't highly value those studies, but their END, to me, should be a deeper understanding. That's what I've been pursuing all this time - a deeper understanding. And that's what those two books helped me to find, which is why I wanted to write about Wesley and his barn owl wild compatriots, for regular people to read and understand. Of course scientists have read it too, and I've had lovely discussions w/ scientists like Dr. Don Kroodsma and Dr. Marc Bekoff about animal sentience, too.
At some point maybe I will have the opportunity to do a further study with another Barn Owl, especially in regard to his ability to process symbolic language, and perhaps even to publish in a scientific journal.
But in the meantime, if people are discussing the emotional lives of animals (which is actually another of my favorite titles, by Marc Bekoff - The Emotional Lives of Animals) then I'm a happy camper!
I sense that there is a wave of new understanding happening all over about animals and just who they really are. A groundswell of realization. And I'm very happy to be a small part of that! I'm in awe to be a small part of that!
Every one of us who has had a deep relationship with any animal, domestic or wild, is a part of that deeper understanding!
Monday, October 27, 2008
Kindred Spirits
I've met so many amazing people when I've gone out to do events from readings to talks to events with unreleasable owls! I guess that people who would gravitate toward an animal book would, of course, be kindred spirits, but I wasn't prepared for the kindness and sharing that people offer via letters, emails, and personal encounters!
I've also discovered that it's impossible to respond to everyone, which is why my publisher suggested I start the blog - that way I can voice my thoughts and hear from you. It's wonderful! Thank you all so much for the many comments and kind words, and for sharing your own experiences w/ your animal companions.
One person asked me if I've read Merle's Door and indeed I have! I cried my eyes out on that one, knowing full well that I probably would. I was very impressed at how he treated "his" dog as an equal being with an equal right to make his own decisions. If you haven't read it, you ought to. It's a great book about two people, one of whom is a dog, who find love and companionship with each other.
We don't have a word in the English language for "personhood" or "personality" in animals. So, rather than try to make up some awkward phrase, I find myself using the word personality. Then I think about what we mean when we say, "person" and I think, "well in that sense, then, animals are people. No they're not at all human but they do have sentience, personality, emotion, intelligence, and their own kind of ethic, depending on the species." So, yes, personhood in a sense.
I have always marveled at the way a human being can bring together the most unlikely of animals who will become friend with EACH OTHER in the presence of a benign and loving human. A goat and a cat, a dog and a bird, etc. That amazes me. What is it about human affection that allows these other animals to bond with EACH OTHER?
But then I had this thought the other day, humans also bond with each other in the presence of a benign and loving ANIMAL! How many of us have bonded over the way we both loved our animals, the way I love(d) Wesley bonds me to other people who have deeply loved their animal, and we feel that we somehow know each other, that there is a kindred spirit between us - an understanding of some of the deepest feelings humans can have? Many people have found friendship with other humans because of their ANIMALS!
So it goes both ways. The animals bring us together, and we bring together unlikely species of animals to be friends.
It's all a wonderful mystery!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wesley The Owl (tm) Collectible
We are ready to manufacture our first edition of 500 Wesley collectibles! Here is what he looks like. If you would like to purchase one of them in advance, send $26 plus $6 domestic ground shipping, or $10 Priority shipping, or $18 overseas shipping by Paypal to If you don't have Paypal, visit You can pre-order Wesley by credit card there.
We will ship your your Wesley when he comes in, which should be in early to mid - December.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Thank you to those of you who have sent comments!
Hi Everybody who has sent comments! Thank you SO MUCH! It's so encouraging to hear from you! I mean, I'm sitting in my little office at home, and I rarely get out, except for when I go out for events and booksignings, so it's hard to believe people are actually reading the blog and are actually reading the book and that you "get it" about how WONDERFUL Wesley was! I'm amazed that Liz in Boston got so interested that she's actually getting involved in going out and banding Saw Whet owls! That is going to be an amazing experience! Those little owls are passionate, opinionated, feisty, cute as all heck, just amazing animals. Owls have been so overlooked, I think, and they are just spectacular in their feathering, their intelligence, and their personalities! Thank you for recommending the book to people, too! Wow!
I'm very touched by those of you who felt touched by the book. It's an awesome thing when people can bond over time and space through a book. I write what's in my heart and mind, and then at some other time, you read it and experience it as if you were there with me while I was writing it. This mysterious interaction between readers and writers has always fascinated me. And even though we haven't met, there is a bond formed there! Wow. Thank you so much for your lovely comments! You have no idea how much it really does mean to me!
Grieving for an animal friend
I've noticed that a lot of people are finding that the part in the book about Wesley dying and the grief that I went through sparks in them the opening of the floodgate of grief that they themselves have for their own animal. It's amazing that this is happening, because the book did the same thing for me!
When Wesley died, I went into a sort of shock, and didn't sleep much for about 3 weeks. During that time, though, I sat at the computer and just poured out the whole story into 400 pages that became the rough draft of the book. Then I put that rough draft into chapters.
A few months later a friend of mine, Cait Reed, insisted I come to her writers' group and read my chapters there for critique. I went, but when I actually started to read, I would burst into tears at the slightest thing, like if I said, "Wesley was always gentle with me"...I'd burst into tears.
I'm not the "bursting into tears" type, so I was horrified! Week after week I couldn't get through the reading of the chapters!
I got better at it with practice, but then when I got to the end, I couldn't read at all. I just started crying. I handed the chapter to the person next to me and asked them to read it. They started to read, then they started to cry. We passed the chapter around the table and everyone was crying! even the men! And we started talking about our pets who had passed away.
I thought that was the end of it when I had gotten through that. I mean, of course I did a lot of crying at home finally, after months of being pent up inside. I left his perch up for a full year, and put flowers on it every week. After a year I took it down, but I still don't sleep in that room anymore. I still think of it as "his". And I haven't changed the room.
But then, when it came time to seriously edit the book, after I had signed with Simon and Schuster's Free Press, when I got to the chapter about Wesley starting to get old and decline, I took to my bed completely unable to write. I slept for a couple of weeks. Now, I'm disabled anyway and sleep an insane amount of time because of the brain tumor and its effect on my body and neurological system, but this was more than that. This was being totally unable to even turn on the computer and look at the chapters.
I thought I had writers' block and was kicking myself, feeling guilty, telling myself off, giving myself pep talks and then, Cait, who has a wisdom that seems to always nail the situation on the head perfectly, said, "You can't write because you're emotionally blocked because you have not finished grieving over Wesley." I started crying and couldn't stop. I cried for days. She was right as usual!
So I finally knew what the inability to edit the chapters was about, so I was able to face them. But still, I barely was able to look at them. So I asked Wendy to do the lion's share of editing, Actually, to take them and just do what she could with them herself without me even there. But she had a terrible, terrible time emotionally, and only edited them basically.
We never did spend the time on them that we had on the other chapters. I asked my agent to give it a try but it was just so hard to face and she did a cursory edit.
bottom line is that we never really gave it a deep edit, but I don't think it needed it either. I had said exactly what happened and we just left it at that.
The book, the writing of it and sharing of it, helped me process my grief over Wesley. There are still times where I just lose it. And I still think I hear the "ping" of him landing on his perch's platform and have to remind myself that he's gone.
Other owls still visit me, which is magical. They will screech as they pass over, or I'll just see them - I'm talking about Barn Owls. That helps.
It also helps to interact w/ other barn owls when I do events where there is a barn owl brought to the event by one of the local rehabilitation centers. I have two barn owl friends with whom I do events: Valentino and his human, Nancy Connie from Skyhunters, and Miss Luna, whose human is Christina Jones from South Bay Raptor Rehab.
It really helps me a lot to talk with and pet and look into the eyes of both Miss Luna and Valentino. Wesley's middle name was Valentine because I got him on Valentine's day AND because his face would one day be shaped like a white heart. I imagine that's why Valentino has that name, although in public Nancy does not admit to any name and just says, "He's a Barn Owl." It is against her personal credo to give them names in public, because she doesn't want people to think of them as potential pets, and wants them to remember the Barn Owl species rather than the name of the individual bird. I respect that. But one cannot stay immune to the power of those eyes, to the intensity of the devotion of one's owl, so one ends up naming him anyway, right? Right. ;-)
I am hoping with all my heart that I will be able to get another permit (Wesley's was only for him, and didn't extend to other owls, so no, I don't have another owl yet), and take in another unreleasable barn owl. I want to see if another owl would use his massive auditory cortex to learn human language just like Wesley did, and if he'd make up his own language - make that huge logical leap to understanding the concept of symbolic vocal language, and create his own, like Wesley did. In other words, was Wesley the Einstein of Barn owls or was he right in there with other Barn Owls in his capabilities? I suspect the latter but I'd like to prove it. And this time I would give much more attention to proving and documenting everything w/ video.
I do have hours of video of us together. I need to digitize it all to make it accessible. I have his sounds, too, of course, and how those vocalizations went with his certain behaviors. All that remains to be gone through and verified and written up. Whew!
But the main thing I'm writing about here is that we do have the right to grieve over the loss of our amazing animals and the profound way they affect us. I am glad that we outlive them in one way, because we can make sure they have a full and comfortable life, and that they don't end up in abusive situations. We can make sure they are comfortable in their old age and have a dignified and peaceful end (we can't control everything, but at least we know they were with us and we were with them, hopefully. Again, we can't control all circumstances, I realize that).
But by outliving our dear animal friends, we are doomed to grieve.
I have hamsters, as you know if you read the book. Hamsters only live 2-4 years (I have Syrian hamsters - teddy bear hamsters). I am ALWAYS grieving over a hamster and my friends say, "Why do you do this to yourself? Why don't you pick a species that lives longer?" Well, I don't feel like I "picked" this species for one thing. I feel like this species picked me and drove their little selves deep into my heart and they will always charm me and I will never be able to resist them.
Every single hamster has his own personality. And for years I averaged 56 hamsters at a time because I had a hamster rescue center called Hamster Haven. So I've had hundreds of hamsters in my days, and I can tell you that I have never seen a single hamster set up his cage exactly like all the other hamsters! They have their own, individual ideas about how it should be done!
One hamster will take to a certain toy or feature, and another will ignore it completely. Examples?
Some of my hamsters prefer to lounge in these ferret or rat hammocks that are sold in pet stores. I put them up in a few cages to see what would happen and I have hamster who spend the majority of their time in their hammock, above the rest of the cage! Others ignore it completely or chew it, take it down, and drag it into their nest as a blanket.
Another "toy" is also for ferrets - it's a fuzzy ball that's about the size of a Syrian Hamster, and it has a little bell deep inside it. Some hamsters (I can hear one doing it right now) wrestle with that ball as if it's a littermate, rolling all over the cage with it, with the hamster spread eagle wrapped around the ball, rolling and biting and then jumping off and pushing the ball all over with their nose. That ball is a huge source of entertainment for them. Other hamsters shove it into a corner and completely ignore it, never finding any pleasure, curiosity, or interest in it.
And on it goes.
If I put a kleenex box in there (after removing the bits of plastic lining), some will chew it, some will make it into their "bathroom", others will take bedding in there and move into it as their sleeping quarters, and some will let it sit there and take up space, completely ignoring it until I take it out.
Anyway, it's worth the grief of their short lives, because there is always another one coming up and becoming an amazing little affectionate friend. It's not that I forget the ones that die, but that I don't let it keep me from enjoying the ones I have that are alive still. And yes, it's totally worth it to me! I can't imagine the sterility of living without the hustle and bustle of these very busy and intensely focused little creatures around me all night! I can't imagine not cuddling with them and having them sleep in my hand while I breathe in their sweet smell (kind of like 'Nilla Wafers) and stroke their silky fur. They nudge my nose with theirs and lick my lips as a way of kissing or showing affection. They're amazing and fun!
So, yes, I want to take in another Barn Owl and am exploring getting a permit to do so, and finding the owl that needs a place. And yes, it's worth the grief. And yes, the book helped me grieve Wesley, and now it's like keeping him alive, sort of, when I get to talk about him and tell people about his ways and antics and compare barn owl stories with other people who are caring for unreleasable owls. The book has been a huge blessing to me in that way! And it's been amazing to share with other people and have them share with me, their love for their animals! It's a profound love that's hard to explain and certainly cannot be measured!
Friday, October 24, 2008
Organizations to which one can donate:
That's a great idea - to let you guys know what organizations I've found to be the best for owls/wildlife.
I donate to Defenders of Wildlife first and foremost because they actually watch what's going on in Washington and lobby for the defense and protection of wildlife, which is always under siege by big businesses and other groups wanting to wipe them out. The delisting of the wolves is a perfect example. The Bush administration delisted the wolves from the endangered list just in time to have them gotten rid of when/if anyoe decided to drill in any areas where there might be wolves. Now, I don't get into politics too much, myself, but I am aware that very soon (or was it last week?) is the time when the ban on drilling comes up for reconsideration. And one of the problems for the companies who want to drill is that they have to deal with environmental concerns, such as endangered species living in the ares. I know from all the magazines I get like Audubon, Scientific American, Smithsonian, all the Birding magazines, Defender's of Wildlife, National Wildlife Foundation, etc... that they can still drill in areas where there are endangered species, such as the sage grouse, but they have to make certain provisions. I don't know for sure if the delisting of the wolf packs had anything to do with the timing of this though.
What happened after the delisting was like some kind of nightmare. There was, and is, a mass slaughter of the wolf packs that were so carefully re-instated in places like Yellowstone. Using the very radio collars that biologists had put on the wolves to track them in order to monitor their health, hunters tracked them down by plane, then chased them from the air until they fell to the ground exhausted. Then they machine gunned them down. Not once. It's been going on for months. It's a bloodbath.
Being a behavioral biologist type, I've always been fascinated by the dynamics in wolf packs. It takes forever for a wolf pack to recover from the loss of one alpha wolf because only the alpha pair breeds in a given wolf pack! I think that's ASTOUNDING. Only the alpha pair breeds and the other all control themselves and help with the babies of the alpha pair. It's a kind of altruism that works for them if they're not being slaughtered, that is. But if they ARE being slaughtered, they just cannot recover quickly enough to continue to breed.
If an alpha wolf is killed, the whole pack has to reorganize their heirarchy through a very elaborate series of mock battles where the next in line for the throne is decided. Wolves do NOT fight to the death! They "fight" to figure out who is strongest but they do NOT inflict serious damage on each other, unlike humans. After all this elaborate stuff, the next alpha male or female is decided. Also, there is a mourning period! The wolves howl and grieve the one lost, alpha or not. If there are puppies, they feel the loss terribly even if it's just an "uncle" because all the other wolves are their caretakers too, like wolf nannies or extended family members. I think even, that the other females in the pack will lactate to share in the nursing of the babies, but I'd have to check my facts on that since I'm not a wolf expert.
Because of massive pressure from Defenders of Wildlife and some other groups, a federal judge finally stepped forward to stop the slaughter in the lower 48 states, but in Alaska it continues unabated. Anyone in a helicopter can chase down and slaughter as many wolves as they want - in FACT, the Alaskan government has been offering $150 per wolf paw for several months. I only hope they do kill the wolves before taking their paws. Why is Alaska doing this? The wolves are NOT causing serious, unsolveable problems. They are not decimating the cariboue as they live almost entirely on mice during the majority of the year and only go after caribou once or twice a year, when the caribou do their migration.
If you want to know more about how the wolves actually live, there is no better and no more entertaining a book than "Never Cry Wolf" by Farley Mowat. It's hilarious, believe it or not, as well as very informative. The guy went out to prove that the wolves were decimating the caribou herds, to justify hunting the wolves from the air, for trophy hunters, it turned out. This is in, what, the late 1930s? Ok. So he goes out there and lives among the wolves - literally pitches his tent on one of the paths the wolves had created right in the middle of their territory, and he pee's a circle around his tent, which the wolves honored, surprisingly!
Even more surprising was his discovery that the wolves were living almost entirely on mice! That was unprecedented at the time, so to prove that a large mammal could actually live solely on mice, he did the only thing he could do. You guessed it, he used himself as the guinea pig and lived on a diet of just mice for a year. He even publishes his recipes in the book! I never tried the recipes or mice in any other form, so I can't vouch for them, but he managed! There were hundreds of mice per square foot in the Alaskan tundra.
So, why are we back in the 1930s again? Could it be that the Alaskan government wants to wipe out the wolf packs completely before they go to drill. Then when they do go to drill they can say, "Wolf packs? What wolf packs? There are no wolves where we want to drill!", thereby avoiding any environmental considerations? The question must be asked, "WHY?"
The logic of some of these people is that if there is an environmental concern, get RID of it. THEN go in and drill. They've learned to do that so that there is no challenge to them poisoning an area or impacting it harmfully. Clever, eh? Also so sick that it's hard to believe we are in the 21st century. One likes to think that we've become more civilized, more circumspect in our decisionmaking. Not when there's a lot of money to be made!
No, we are still as capable of bloodthirsty behavior now as the buffalo hunters were in the 1800s. When it was not enough to kill, oh, let's say half of the buffalo. No, they had to try to kill every last friggin buffalo. I've read that they were killing off the buffalo, from trains, to starve out the Indians. Maybe that was the reason. I don't know, I wasn't there. But if it is, then that's greed for ya. That's humanity at its worst - we are capable of massive slaughter of animals and, at times even, people.
Organizations like Defenders of Wildlife and the National Wildlife Foundation are doing something about this kind of behavior, and they need all the help they can get, because it's an uphill battle. We do need resources for our country, but we can get them without destroying everything in our path. It might cost a little more to be thoughful and careful, but in the end it's better for us all if we do things the right way.
Defenders of Wildlife is an amazing organization and I donate to them. I am giving 5% of my royalties from the book to wildlife organizations, and 5% to human organizations like Compassion International and World Vision, both of which I've vetted very carefully in regard to how they use their money - where the money goes and what is done with it.
I also donate to local wildlife and raptor rehabilitation centers. You could, find out where your local raptor rehabilitation center is and donate to them. These places operate on a shoestring and most of the people who work there are volunteers, spending their own personal money on mice and other food and supplies for the birds of prey (owls included). They not only rehabilitate birds of prey that have been injured so that they can be released into the wild again, but they also take excellent care of birds who can never again be released. They give them a good life.
I also donate to the National Wildlife Foundation, Audubon, ASPCA, Jane Goodall Institute, Sierra Club.
The Jane Goodall Institute has a program for kids called "Roots and Shoots". Each Roots and Shoots club comes up with their own project to help the environment or to help wildlife. It's neat because it can be tailored to the local issues in any place. These clubs exist everywhere from Orange County and San Diego to Tanzania to almost anywhere in the world. It's a great idea for home schooled kids to get involved with this, or for school clubs or any other group - scouts... It proves that even little kids can make a difference and it's very empowering.
If you donate to National Wildlife Foundation, you can sponsor an owl family if you want to. I have sponsored a family of Snowy Owls.
There's a Barn Owl specific organization that I think is doing great work, and that is Hungry Owl in San Francisco. They are convincing people to stop using rodenticides to get rid of their rodent problem, and instead are putting up Owl Boxes, which are like HUGE Birdhouses for owls, in areas overrun with rodents. An owl family will move in and just clean the place right up. The rodents provide food for the owls, and the owls do a wonderful service by keeping the rodent population from getting out of hand. After all, a family of barn owls needs about 35 mice per night while raising the babies. That's a lot of mice!
I intend to link to them "real soon now", but in the meantime, they are at
Also, I really like
which is a rehab organization in San Diego. Near Los Angeles there is South Bay Raptor Rehab, which is also excellent.
There are a lot more, of course, and there is a rehab center near you, I can almost guarantee it.
Great subject! Great question! Thanks for the suggestion!
Pictures aren't showing up after I've put them in
I put the pictures into the blog, no problem. Then, after I sign out and come back in, the pictures no longer show up. How can that be? It's so frustrating! I'm a newbie at this whole blogging thing and can't seem to figure out how to make the pictures STAY put.
Does anyone know how to do this?
I'm sorry the pics can't be seen. I'm going to ask Wendy to put them into the blogs where they're supposed to be.
Thanks for your patience!
Me and Wesley kissing
Wesley and I used to snuggle for hours at a time. Often I would recline and he would be on my chest with his wings up around my shoulders and I'd be rubbing him under the wings or on his nose or neck. Other times I'd balance him in the palm of one hand, and he'd pull up his feet. I'd hold him so his head was snuggled under my chin and with the other hand I'd groom him and rub the bridge of his nose or the back of his neck or top of his head.
In this picture, we had been snuggling like that when he woke up and wanted to groom me on the face and kiss me on the nose. So I'm kissing him back.
The only way I could get a picture of this was by putting a video camera on a table and sitting in front of it within the frame that I saw through the lens. Wesley would never relax enough to do this kind of thing in front of people - well almost never - and so it was nearly impossible for someone else to take a picture of us snuggling.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Arleta's Behavioral Experiment and the Laws of Physics
(Warning: Do not try either of these experiments without help from a professional.)
I have a number of long term friends with whom I've been close since pre-school, first grade, or 7th grade. Then there are a few "newer" friends with whom I've been close for a mere 10, 20 years or so. In the book, I talk about Wendy quite a bit, and Cait, so you have sort of "met" them. But Arleta is another very close friend who had always had great influence in my life. I blogged about how she and I worked together to stop the tormenting/bullying of the mentally retarded kids on the playground when we were in the first grade. And, yes, that's what they were called by the teachers and staff!
We were part of an experiment where everyone's IQ was rigorously tested (Not just a written test, but a whole board of people w/ notebooks and cameras asking you to do all kinds of things and many different types of tasks). The results of these IQ tests were not kept secret from the kids AT ALL! We knew who was "genius", who was "mentally gifted" and who was "not technically mentally gifted, but still an overachiever". Why did we have to know these labels about each other? What could it possibly have accomplished? I don't know.
But I can say without a doubt that Arleta was one of the "high genius" kids and it showed. Her creativity of thought confounded our teachers all the way through school.
I talked with her last night and she told me about a little "science experiment" she did in behavioral psychology that was brilliant, and funny, I think.
For some reason, there was a cluster of us kids growing up together who were fascinated by science AND behavior - human and animal. We were also all musicians, I think. How odd. So we were friends all the way through life.
Arleta had a 7th grade science teacher, Mr. Elseworth, whose class failed to grab her imagination. It wasn't the teacher so much as it was the class. Upstairs, though, she also had a Psychology course taught by Ms. Compton, which she found fascinating. The two classes converged in the most interesting way, as things tend to do with Arleta.
Mr. Elseworth assigned a tedious project where each kid had to write down a minute by minute description of every activity they did, every day, and how much time they spent doing it. For a MONTH! Arleta could see the month stretching before her with having to write down everything and she thought to herself, "I'm not doing this stupid project. I don't CARE what percentage of time I spend brushing my teeth, for instance. I am NOT doing this project."
Having decided that, she had to come up w/ a plan. Upstairs in Psychology, Ms. Compton was describing the power of suggestion and the idea of false memory. AHA! Arleta would do an experiment in false memory and write her psych paper on that, and if it worked, she could avoid doing the "write down everything you do for a month" project.
She had to plant a false memory in Mr. Elseworth. She first chose a number that people naturally remember. She decided to use 98.6, which is the normal temperature of the human body. Now all she had to do is convince Mr. Elseworth that she had received from him a 98.6 on her project. She had to get him to associate the number 98.6 with "Arleta". So she waited until kids started turning in their projects a month later. Mr. Elseworth taught 6 science classes and a lot of them were doing this project, so when there were enough papers to be confusing, she started going up to Mr. Elseworth and saying things like, "I was only able to track 98.6 % of my time, so I got a 98.6. Is that ok? I mean, I somehow didn't record 100% of everything!" He'd reassure her that this was ok.
For the next month (he gave the kids a month to compile their data after the month of recording was finished) she would approach him in the halls and at lunch and during random times and say, "Is the 98.6 going to be enough? I mean, my other work wasn't that highly scored, so I hope the 98.6 is enough." and he'd say, "I think that's enough."
So it went until the end of the semester. Arleta got her report card and it said, "Incomlete". She went in to Mr. Elseworth and said, "Why do I have an incomplete? What's going on?" He said he had never received her paper. "Oh yes you did, Mr. Elseworth! Remember? I got a 98.6 on it!" He did remember. He said he remembered SEEING the paper even, and apologized profusely to Arleta, shuffling through the papers. "Oh dear, I don't know where it is. I'm so sorry. I must have misplaced it! I do remember seeing it though - and you did get a 98.6."
Finally, he just couldn't find it and apologized again for all the trouble he had caused her. Since he clearly remembered seeing the paper and giving it a 98.6, he gave her a 98.6 on the project, which was 80% of that semester's grade, so she got an A or B in the class.
She had never done the project.
Meanwhile, she wrote up her experiment in her psychology paper and turned it in to Ms. Compton saying, "This cannot go outside the walls of this room." Ms. Compton asked, "Why? Did you do anything illegal? Could it get you in trouble?"
"Well," said Arleta, "It could get both you and me in trouble."
"ME?" Asked the teacher.
"Yes, you. After all, you're the one who taught me exactly how to do this, and I tried it, and it worked!" Arleta said.
When she got the paper back from Ms. Compton it just said, "Hmmm" across the top. She got an A. Ms. Compton never told on her. The creation of a false memory had worked.
Only Arleta would have had the guts to apply her education so directly in such a scary way, but that's Arleta. Her enthusiasm for knowledge and experimentation exceeds her need to be perfectly safe and secure. She would go out on a limb in her thirst for understanding, because of her scientific curiosity.
And that's the hallmark of a scientist, I think. Curiosity. Wanting to TRY IT. Wanting to SEE IT work.
I was in freshman physics in college and we had a professor from a foreign country where the culture views women as weak and vulnerable. There were also some big, macho Arab guys in the class. This professor would rant and rave, yelling, "Do you BELIEVE in the LAWS OF PHYSICS? They are ABSOLUTE! You cannot VIOLATE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!" and on and on.
One day he brought in the classic bed of nails and laid it in front of the class like a gauntlet. "OK!" he challenged. "Who here believes in the laws of physics!?" I raised my hand. I always sat in the front of the room because it kept me involved. He tried to ignore me but I wouldn't let him. "Anyone else?" Nope.
"If you TRULY BELIEVE in the LAWS OF PHYSICS, you will lay down on this bed of nails AND I will put a board on you and two of our biggest men will stand on you!" he shouted. "So let's see who really understands and believes in the LAWS OF PHYSICS!!!"
I was waving my hand frantically and he was studiously ignoring me. Finally I stood up and said, "You are ignoring me because I am small and female. That makes me wonder if YOU believe in the Laws of Physics! If YOU believe in the Laws of Physics you'll let me try out the bed of nails!
He turned pale and sweaty. This was not what he had had in mind. Yes, it's true that when you distribute your weight across many different points, no one point bears very much weight, so the touch of the nails is very small - very little pressure per nail because the pressure is so well distributed. Same goes for adding a board and putting some men on it. The board, across your body, distributes the weight of the men so that there is no one place on your body that is taking a lot of pressure. So it's safe.
The trick is to get onto the bed of nails without putting too much pressure on any one part of your body as you lower yourself onto it.
So I went over and carefully lowered myself onto the bed of nails. So far so good. Two big Arab guys stood up and got the board and laid it over me, then climbed up onto it. The room was tense and quiet and the professor was sweating profusely. I smiled. "Yep, it works! The Laws of Physics still work!"
He was very anxious to end the experiment though, and so we ended it. I felt no discomfort whatsoever, and I"m glad I got to try it! It was fun! And it was really fun to challenge the professor about HIS faith in the Laws of Physics that day! Hee hee. I think I had been influenced by Arleta all those years!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wesley The Owl Plushie (Baby Wesley)
This is the prototype for the Baby Wesley the Owl (TM) Plushie that we are going to probably have out before Christmas. We may yet take off the extra feathering around the beak (it makes him look like Einstein!), and we'll definitely make the beak smaller, but what do you think? Do you like it? It does reflect Wesley at a certain time in his life. I'd like to hear what people think of it. Would you want to buy one? Would you want to carry it in your store? I'm terribly biased, you see, because I want my very own little Wesley to remember my real Wesley by. But that's me. What about you?
THANK YOU SO MUCH! + Favorite Books
Thank you so much to those of you who have commented and said such kind things! It means a lot to me to hear from you and know that there are kindred spirits out there with whom I'm connecting via the book. It's a fantastic, mysterious process when a writer writes in one space and time, and the reader experiences what was in the writer's heart and mind in a different space and time, yet there is this connection through the pages. I've always been fascinated with that. I always used to say, when I was a kid, that you can go almost anywhere and 'experience' almost anything through books. And you can get inside another person's head through a book more than through any other vehicle. While you're reading, you're totally absorbed in the same thoughts that absorbed the write while she was writing.
Steven King writes about this in his book, "On Writing", which is one of the best books about the process of writing a book that I've ever come across. I use his "method" when I write. I mean, hey, this guy has sold some 96MILLION books so he's doing something right, right? I'd say!
All that to say, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the kind words you've written to me - both through the blog and those of you who have written to my publisher (yes, they forwarded your letters!).
Here is a list of some of my all time, life time favorite books and book series: First of all, the books listed on MY book are all great, which is why we went to those specific authors asking for their opinion on Wesley the Owl! So I HIGHLY recommend all of those books!
In the Shadow of Man - Jane Goodall (Plus every other book she's written, of course)
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
Mind of the Raven - Berndt Heinrich
James Herriott's books (All Creatures Great and Small, etc.)
All 9 of Laura Ingalls Wilders' books. Read as an adult and you'll see them in a whole new (scary!) light as a parent taking kids through such dangerous conditions! Wow!
The Number One Ladies Detective Agency series
An American Homeplace, and other books by Donald McCaig (Eminent Dogs, Dangerous Men)
The Good, Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
Grayson, and Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox (wow, she really did those swims!)
Redmond O'Hanlon's book about Borneo
Running the Amazon - Joe Kane
Hawk Hill - Suzie Gilbert
Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds - Sam Keen
Into Thin Air - Krakauer
Deep Survival - Lawrence Gonzales
How Dogs Think - Stanley Coren
The Gift of Fear - Gavin de Becker
The Singing Life of Birds - Dr. Don Kroodsma
The Emotional Lives of Animals - Marc Bekoff
Flyaway - Suzie Gilbert (soon to be released)
All of the Ann of Green Gables books
Little Women
The Big Year - Mark Obmascik
Fish that Fake Orgasms - Matt Walker (full of stuff I learned in Biology - wierd facts about animal behavior)
Pride and Prejudice
Merle's Door - Ted Karasote
That Quail, Robert -
Kingbird Highway and Flights Against Sunset - Kenn Kaufman (also I like his field guide the best. It's easiest to use and the pictures are ACCURATE!)
Rascal - Sterling
Nobody's Horses - Don Hoglund
the books by Tory Hayden (about working w/ special needs kids)
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Miracle Dog - Randy Grim
From Baghdad with Love - Jay Kopelman
An Beal Beacht - (The Poor Mouth in English) by Flann O'Brien HILARIOUS!
I love Garrison Keillor and his sharp understanding of human nature. His newest book, Pontoon, is indeed Kafka'esque-ish dark humor. I laughed until my abs hurt.
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy (he wrote it while working in a slow post office desk job, spending his nights doing research. wow! How inspiring!)
Pools of Bright Water
Hmm. I'll poke around my bookcases and get the authors on the ones where I didn't list them. Some of these books I've bought in stacks because I give them away so often. The ones I buy in stacks and give to people are:
An Beal Beacht/The Poor Mouth
In the Shadow of Man
Never Cry Wolf
The Gift of Fear
Deep Survival
That Quail, Robert
and I give the Laura Ingalls Wilder books to the kids I know.
The Good, Good Pig
The Emotional Lives of Animals
I don't loan out books. I buy and give them away and replace them for myself. If it's that great, I figure, the author deserves my buying them!
Man, there are so many books. The ones I keep in my permanent library cover the walls in most rooms almost to the ceiling.
In fact, when I was a kid, I was almost killed/injured by books during the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. We were located almost on the faultline. The house next door split right in half!
We were naive about the severity of earthquakes and I had books all the way up to the wall w/ my bed shoved against that. The bookcases were made of bricks and board. Our family could never keep up with the flow of books. I also had stacks of books on the floor, so when the earthquake hit, my mattress started sliding across the stacks of books as if I was riding the whitewater on a river on my mattress. In slow motion I remember looking up and seeing the wall of books coming down on top of me, but at the exact same time a strong arm shot into my room and pulled me out the door before the books and bricks landed on the bed. It was my Dad grabbing me just in time. My Mom had run in and grabbed my sister and we all crawled (you couldn't walk w/ the earth jumping around) to a point in the house that my Uncle Warren O'Brien (who became the head of civil engineering for all of L.A. County) had deemed the strongest point. The point most likely to remain standing in an earthquake. Whew! Close call!
So now I keep my bed away from the towering bookcases but they remain a steadfast part of my life.
How does one even begin to list their favorite books? I just tried but that doesn't even scratch the surface of old favorites. Maybe it'd be better to do it by author?
Things I Tell Myself when I'm not feeling productive
I've been looking at my very marked up computer monitor and thinking about when and why I wrote all these encouraging little slogans on it. While writing the book, there were times when I was bogged down, didn't know if it was really any good, or just sick/tired and felt unable to force myself to sit up and write. In fact, there were times when I fell asleep while writing and woke up with keyboard imprints all over my face and a file full of one or two letters. haha.
So I started writing little notes to myself in the monitor itself. The first one was
"Be more courageous. Fearless, like Wendy! Powerful!"
Wendy seems to me to be absolutely fearless in just wading into the fray and doing whatever her heart desires without the usual "gee do you really think it'll work? Can I really do it?" kinds of self talk. If she wants to sell her art, she just does. Record an album? She just does it. Start a new business? Goes for it and succeeds beyond anyones' wildest dreams. Over and over and over again. In fact, everything she touches turns to gold. She rolls out of bed in the morning and thinks to herself, "hmm, what do I feel like doing today?" and she generally does just EXACTLY what she FEELS LIKE DOING. And you know what? no matter what she does, it turns to pure gold.
If she plays w/ her kittens, she's socializing them for when she places them in homes. Yes, she gets up to $2,000.00 for one of her kittens so playing w/ her kittens is just good business sense. If she wants to horse around w/ her herd of horses, GREAT! She is becoming even more in tune w/ her champion stallion and the herd dynamics and is becoming an even more amazing horse whisperer. The stallion considers her to be the lead mare and the horses consider her to be part of the herd, because she has learned the body language of horses and is able to communicate w/ them in the most amazing way I've ever seen. She'll tell me how she taught a horse something and then "he chewed at me!", meaning he is saying he gets it. Sheesh!
But what if she just wants to lie around and play with bits of wool? No problem! She drags out some wool and starts messing around w/ it, gets a barbed pin and starts poking the wool, and an hour later she has the most exquisite miniature animal made of felted wool that you've ever seen.
I collect dollhouses and miniatures and I can tell you that there is no other artisan out there making such realistic miniature animals! Then she puts it on ebay and watches people bid like mad for it. Some of her animals sell for around 400 or 500 bucks. Great!
Or her photography. Maybe she'll mess around w/ that today. Or her many websites. Or the 3 amazing and varied books she's writing, all of which are hot hot hot.....
So, yeah. She's fearless and everything she does ends up being the right thing and ends up helping her to make a living. I don't know anyone else quite like her.
Another time, I was feeling fearful about whether or not I was making the right decisions about the book - what to keep in, what to throw out, how I was editing it. So I wrote:
"It's just behavioral - if you act like a writer, you are a writer. Wesley, not fear, is my motivator!"
Another time I was thinking "how can I do this w/ the limited energy I have?" I had a rule while I was writing this book, which was: If I'm awake, I should be writing. Of course one has to eat and things like that, but no other energy draining activities were allowed. I didn't even read while I was in the process of writing, other than books ABOUT writing and the publishing world. After all, I had to learn a whole new industry if I was going to have a new career as a writer! So I wrote:
"Work with what you've got. It has to be enough."
For bottom line procrastinating I wrote: "DO IT FOR WESLEY!"
After all, Wesley was worth telling the world about, don't you think? I sure do!
It's not as if I needed all these little slogans very often. Most of the time I was passionate about working on the book. But there were times when I wasn't feeling well, or was discouraged, or didn't believe in myself. After all, when you haven't tested your writing out there in the world, how do you really know if people are going to enjoy the way you write or not? I went to a great writers' group that was honest and professional, which helped a lot. And I had some wonderful people in my life who knew what they were doing, who said they really liked it. But still, doubts sometimes clouded my mind.
And then, one of the most wonderful pieces of music ever written, The Messiah by Handel (did you know he wrote the entire thing in 30 days? He didn't come out of his room for meals, even. He had the meals brought to the door. He barely slept. The whole thing came to him almost at once and he couldn't write fast enough to keep up so he didn't dare stop), has some great lines in it. I was listening to it one day while writing and these words popped out, so I wrote them on the computer monitor as well:
"Every valley shall be exalted, and the rough places made plain. Every mountain shall be made low and the crooked, straight."
Man, if that doesn't define our lives, I don't know what does. ESPECIALLY if you're a writer. All the rough times in your life are great fodder for your writing! Cait jokes that if you're a writer, you'll be saying, as you die, "Wait! This is great material! Get me a pen!" haha. It's true though.
And finally, I taped the following fortune cookie fortune to the monitor:
"Take no risks with your reputation."
To me, honesty and integrity in my writing is foremost. I don't make up things to enhance the "scene". This is nonfiction! Besides, who could make this stuff up? I've had such an amazing run with the animals I've known and the people I've known that I'll probably never have to make anything up! I might write fiction one day, but even that will probably be based on real situations and people. I suspect that a lot of "fiction" is stuff that the writer didn't dare write as nonfiction because of the people involved, so they made the people into "characters" and told the story in a way that wasn't recognizable by the people they were talking about. Haha. I KNOW for a FACT that writers have done that, actually. Hee hee hee!
When I'm upset about a situation, it's fun to imagine writing it as a fictionalized scene. I have written some small stories based on real people that are sort of farcical, just to get it off my chest. I'm sure a lot of people do that...
So those are the inane ramblings of one writer when she needs encouragement. Maybe not very profound, but they are good reminders at 3am when I'm trying to push through the blahs.
Do any of you have little sayings that motivate you and get you going? I'd love to hear about them in the comments section!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Coping with Financial Loss
I've been thinking a lot about how people are losing money, these days. I'm a few years ahead of you, in that I lost everything several years ago. I lost my very well and carefully tended 401K in its entirety due to extreme medical bills above and way beyond my coverage. I had to cash it out to pay them and to pay for medicine. Then I lost my home. Of course, before all that happened, I lost my health, my way of life, and my career, due to my extreme disability. I lost my ability, even, to control consciousness. Now THAT is a loss of control - not knowing from one moment to the next if I'm going to slip into a coma and wake up 3 days later on the hall floor. Yep, it happened something like 130 times. Once I was pulled out of my truck, unconscious, and packed off to a hospital. I had known I was going into a "phase" and had pulled into a supermarket.
The only thing I had control of was that I did know when I was going into a "phase" because about 1/2 hour before it happened, I would get blue sparkly spots in front of my eyes. It didn't mean I was necessarily going to go unconscious, but it meant I needed to get somewhere safe. It took me awhile to figure this out, of course.
Those of you who've read the book know all about this part of my life.
The thing is, though, that I lost all that and I'm still here. My mom stepped in and let me AND WESLEY move in with her (which was not easy for her. It was terrible for her). But we made do and I did find doctors, after a long and difficult search, who could figure out how to manage some of my symptoms to the point where I haven't had a coma for quite some time now, and I've learned to pad every event with days of sleep. I do mean DAYS of sleep. My publisher is careful to schedule any event so that I have tons of time to sleep before and after. Sometimes I have to hire a driver, but that's ok!
And I have to take a lot of medication to get through any event, and then cut back on my meds and sleep when I'm not doing an event.
In order to write the book, I had a rule: If I was able to get out of bed for any length of time, I had to write. Just write! And I did, sometimes for only 15 minutes before going back to bed. But little by little, the book took its form.
So why am I reiterating all this? Because it's not the end of the world when you lose everything you've worked for all your life. Really. I'm not joking. I thought it was the end of the world when it happened. I thought, and was even told, that there was absolutely no light at the end of this horrible, painful, dark tunnel. And I was in excruciating pain most of the time (still am, but have meds that keep it to a dull roar).
What it comes down to is that you can lose everything and still not lose EVERYTHING. You can lose the ground you had thought you'd covered, the progress you thought you'd made, the level of professional success you thought you had achieved. I labored hard to punch my way up the corporate ladder, to get to the point where I was very high up in my field. But then I lost it all.
But if you're not dead, and if you're not literally permanently homeless, you really have not lost it all. You may have lost what you thought was your identity, but it's not all it was cracked up to be. Trust me on this.
I thought my accomplishments, my way of life, my careful savings, all that, even my level of physical fitness, for pete's sake, was part of my identity. When I lost all that (geez, I even lost my looks. The meds all say "weight gain" as their number one side effect and they are not kidding!), I finally realized that my worth as a human being was none of all of that. My worth as a human being is my ability to love and be loved. And if it came down to it, really, it's my ability to love that makes me worth having in this world. That's it!
Now, I realize I was lucky to have a place to land. But it's not what I had in mind for my life! Living in my mother's house? No! I was on my own by age 16, in college, going strong, financially on my own, even, because of growing up in show business and making my own nest egg. I paid for my own education and housing, food and clothing, cars, etc. My parents never had to pony up for the expenses that most parents take for granted such as college and clothing and books and cars. Nope, not me! My sister and I took our MOM to Mazatlan when I was 16, rather than being taken there by our parents.
So I took "pride" even in that. Now here I was, waaay too old to be living with my mommy, totally stuck and dependent. Oh sure, I had the golden parachute but the big long term disability policy? They defaulted on millions of people, including me. And I did not have the strength for a lawsuit - and they knew that.
I'm saying that we/you will survive this financial crisis. People will regroup, People will have to consolidate and possibly even live together when that's the last thing they ever thought they'd have to do. They'll have to learn to put up with each other, be less stuck in their ways, compromise, let go of that house in the Hamptons (as IF we all had THAT!), pool their resources w/ family and friends possibly even for food.
We need to think that way now. But it's not a nuclear bomb, after all. Yes it's a terrible loss. People very close to me have lost their homes in a very unfair situation. And no, they were not "unqualified in the first place". Shit happens to good people.
I'm hoping that people will realize, though, that they can survive this. It's not something to commit suicide over. People who went through the depression, for example, went on to live very fulfilling lives. My grandparents on both sides have thrived and lived very exciting, meaningful lives, in spite of the depression.
If people pull together and are willing to compromise, we can all get through this. It just requires a return to the basic values that we perhaps knew about when we were much younger and much less invested in the career paths, the financial portfolios, the luxuries, the things we take for granted that we can no longer take for granted.
Most of us, though, are still not living on the level of, say, a child born in the worst slum of India to parents who have leprosy and no hope of anything, sold into prostitution at age 5 so that the parents can eat. Think I'm being ridiculous?
I sponsor kids all over the world through Compassion International and have been doing so for about 25 years. I tell you, those kids keep me humble and keep my perspective. A little girl in Bolivia who, when they got to her, was barely alive. Her father and all the animals had already died of starvation and she was nearly dead from starvation. But they did get to her and she did get an education and is now a math whiz and a teacher in La Paz. She's done extremely well! I've sponsored so many of these kids and their letters are inevitably cheerful and upbeat. They are so grateful for an education, nutritious food, medical care, clothing, even though they live in the worst slums in the world.
I have spoken to many of them. What I do is arrange to be able to call the project out of which the services are rendered, then they run down the "street" (really these are not streets. They are piles of shacks, some made of cardboard, with effluent running down the center of the dirt tracks between shacks), and the kid comes to the phone and we talk. And talk. And TALK!
I speak Portuguese (N. Brazilian) and Spanish, which of course makes this possible.
But if they can manage to be happy, to get up every morning and see opportunity, then so can we. Seriously!
Wesley Makes the Front Page of the OC Register!
I got my Orange County Register today, hoping that there would be an article about Wesley the Owl in there, since I had done an interview last week for it. I wasn't absolutely sure when it was going to run, and I assumed it would be buried in the Lifetime section or something like that. NOT SO! It was on the FRONT PAGE! WOWEEE! I wish Wesley was alive and would have understood that his precious baby face was on the front page of the OC Register! It was one of his baby pictures, when he was at his cutest. WOW!
I guess that there are now a lot of online archives of radio shows I've been doing, and I probably need Wendy to link to them from the home page so that you can listen, if you want. I was on NPR's "Living With Animals" and on quite a few other shows around the country. It's always interesting to me to interact with different talk show hosts and get their particular take on the book. Some will emphasize the owl behavior part, others want to talk about my illness and how animals can help people heal and help a person through depression, as Wesley certainly did for me. Some are interested in the lifestyle aspect of the book - how crazy and different my lifestyle was and how people responded to it - particularly boyfriends! And along with that, the really eccentric lives of my fellow biologists, some of whom lived much wierder lives than I could even dream of. I put that chapter in partly because I couldn't resist telling a bit about these amazing folks, and partly to put my own nutty life in some kind of perspective. ;-)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
A Barn Owl Question: Will they kill rats?
When I was in San Francisco I was talking w/ the people from the Hungry Owl project. They install owl boxes in areas that have rodent infestations all over San Francisco and the owls clean up the rodents. It's brilliant and avoids the needless use of poisons that can end up in the bodies of cats and dogs, not just rats and mice. It could even end up killing children. The owl boxes are working.
However, they claim that Barn Owls will kill and eat rats. I've NEVER heard of such a thing in all my years nor have I ever observed it - not once in the wild. But they say that the female, who is 1/3 larger, will go after rats, and that one reason there's such a disparity in the size between the male and female bird of prey in general, but owls especially, is so that there's a broader range of possible prey. In my world, all barn owls, male or female, eat mice and voles, not rats. Has anyone else heard of barn owls killing live rats in the wild? I hope they are not just very anxious for it to be true, so that barn owls can solve rat problems as well as mouse problems. If they don't, they don't.
But they did relate a story of a wild female barn owl choking on a rat skull, which interested me, because we had seen that in a situation where rat carcasses were being fed to barn owls (a LONG time ago). So the female barn owl had to have gotten that rat from somewhere. It's a mystery!
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Human Nature
I think this is probably true of most animal behavioral biologists - I find human nature to be as fascinating as animal nature, of course. After all, it follows that we are an extension of them so we must be at least as fascinating, yes? Last night I read Garrison Keillor's new book, Pontoon, and laughed so hard my stomach muscles are still aching. I also cried. The book is a brilliant portrayal of human nature. That guy really understands his people - Norwegian, Lutheran, Midwesterners. And I grew up with a bunch of Scandinavians and, of course, much of the way they are wired is the same for all of us. So I may be Irish, Mohawk Indian, Swedish, and Latvian, and from California, but the book hit home just the same.
One of my best friends growing up was Arleta. I wish she would write a book and just spew into the book, do not edit, and just put it out. She's absolutely hilarious in her outlook on life and the way she handles things. Yes, she's a little prone to violence but it's more exaggerated than one would think. Examples? Oh yea I got examples:
First day of first grade:
(Yes, I know I should be writing about wildlife, but if you don't think first grade on the playground is wildlife, think again)>
The first thing I noticed on my very first first grade recess (haha I used the word first way too many times) is that kids were clumped in a circle chanting. I went over to investigate and so did Arleta. We hadn't properly met yet but we were about to forge a bond that lasts to this day. The circle of kids was surrounding a much older mentally retarded girl named Martha, chanting horrible things using her name. Martha was sobbing helplessly in the middle with no way to get out. I was appalled. In my short life I had never witnessed anything so violent, so mean, or so crass in my life (no I was no allowed to watch television unless it was a strictly supervised educational childrens' show. Thank God.).
I ran to the teacher who was supervising the playground and urgently told her what was happening. She looked over my short head like I wasn't even there and said, "Nothin' I can do about it." Arleta ran over and tried to get the teacher to stop these savages and the teacher said the same thing. Arleta and I stared into each others' eyes in horror. Hadn't ANY of these kids been taught how to treat another human being?
That whole day took on a grayish film of horror over everything. A dark, slimy gloom penetrated everything we did from then on. I raced home from school and told my mom, who was horrified and called the principal. "Nothing we can do." he said. Arleta ran home and told her mom who called the principal, "Nothing we can do." he intoned. Arleta was standing there and asked her mom, "Why can't they do anything?" Carol, her mom, asked the principal who said, "Because there's been no violence." When Arleta heard that, she thought, "NOW I can do something about this! They need violence? Oh they'll get their violence!!"
Next day at school our eyes met across the classroom. We were going to stop this thing. I went the diplomatic route and approached every child who I thought looked like they might have half a conscience and had them in tears describing how they would feel if they had some kind of accident and ended up being tortured on the playground for the rest of their lives through no fault of their own. They pledged to reach out and become friends with the "retards" (A TERM THAT WE LEARNED FROM THE ADULTS!!!!!).
Arleta took a more direct route. She waded into the crowd of bullies and took them out one by one. I mean she clocked them. Arleta was far far far bigger than any of the other kids. She grew up early and I was far far smaller than any of the other kids. We made an excellent team between my ability to articulate the pain of others to those who would listen, and her ability to inflict the pain of others onto the noses of those who understood only the language of violence. Between us, the teasing of the "retards" ground to a halt. She had given them their violence! "NOW," Arleta said, "They HAVE to pay attention to the problem. Sheesh! And if the kids are being tormented, why are they putting them out on the playground to be eaten alive by the other kids? Why not stagger the recesses?
Why? The teachers wanted to hang out in the teacher's lounge all at the same time, that's why.
Arleta has been singlehandedly battling stupidity every since. I adore her and her sense of justice and we deeply agree on so many things. We were great friends from then on and still are.
That's the lesson they should have been teaching, but weren't, in the schools when I was a kid. The lesson of standing up to evil when you see it in your corner. We can all do that. It may seem like a little thing but it's not a little thing to the people who benefit from it. I'll never know how she knew, but Martha knew that I had helped stop the kids from teasing her, and whenever she saw me in the community she would grab her parents' arms and say in a whisper, "That's my friend! That's my friend."
I'm not tooting my own horn. I'm saying that even if you're the smallest kid in class, you can make a difference just by talking sense and changing the angle of the peer pressure that's around you. That peer pressure doesn't go away when you leave high school. One has to figure out what's important and fight for it in the way that one can, all throughout life. And others will follow, or take up the fight themselves. It's great!
Well if this seemed preachy, well ok then. So what? It surprised me how little it took to put a stop to a "tradition" that had apparently been accepted at that school for decades. It only took a few days to put an end to it. It CAN be done!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
picture of nearly grown baby barn owls from
Family of barn owls
Oh aren't they beautiful, even at this awkward stage? I love the middle one. You can see his tongue sticking out. That's hard to get in a picture, but when they clack their beaks to threaten the photographer, they first stick out their tongues! "Tongue stickout, CLACK, tongue stick out, CLACK!" That's one of the classic ways Barn Owls make their feelings about the situation quite clear. And this photographer caught it! Good Job!
Back from Seattle and San Francisco
Hi! I'm finally back and recovered from my wonderful trip to Elliot Bay Books in Lovely Seattle, and Book Passage in Vibrant San Francisco. There is SOO MUCH I want to share about so many different things that I'm going to have to spread it out over a few days or you'll feel like you're reading a book.
Simon and Schuster's Free Press sent me on a last minute jaunt to these two lovely cities on the Pacific and I'm sure glad they did. It was my first experience really being on a book tour in the way that most authors do it. I mean, yes, I did do a tour in Colorado but it was my own setup and my Mom helped pay for everything, and I also visited friends (Wendy & Don Francisco, and Cait Reed and Richard Gee).
This time it was the way I've read about, with a driver picking me up - no, not just a driver, a MEDIA ESCORT! In Seattle it was a wonderful woman named Susan who picked me up and drove me around the city to meet with booksellers at bookstores and sign the books they had in stock (this is called a "drive by signing"). Susan had arranged these meetings ahead of time, and she said that every bookstore she called responded with, "Wesley the OWL! YES! We can't keep that on the shelves! We LOVE that book!" She said this was an unusual response, so I was greatly heartened. After all, I'm a first time author and had no idea how well the book would be received!
Helpful people in my life had said things like, "Why would anybody want to read about an OWL for heaven's sake?" So I was nervous. Well, apparently a LOT of people want to read about the life, heart, soul, mind, and spirit of a magnificent, playful, passionate, opinionated barn owl! I feel like the world is full of kindred spirits now.
Seattle is the most gorgeous city! The intensity of the green and the gold and pink and other colors surprised me. The colors are so deeply saturated that the trees seem to vibrate color. The ground is covered with ferns and rich velvet grass. Puget Sound is amazing. The foliage and big trees pressed in and overhead and I felt like I was in a deep jungle, not a city!
As soon as we landed, I realized I didn't have any footwear that was at all waterproof, so I stopped in at an airport store and bought some Croc boots, with the plastic base (no holes of course) and a sheepskin-like boot. They were perfect. Light, yet waterproof, yet not bulky for packing. I have never seen Croc boots in California.
One fun thing about travelling is that in each city you find very different items for sale that you've never seen in your own city. I'd be in big trouble if I had serious spending money!
After all, I had just come from hot, dry, BROWN Southern California and sported a sunburn from doing an event outside at Wild Birds Unlimited in Huntington Beach, and the next day having an interview w/ the Orange County Register outside at Bolsa Chica Wetlands Reserve. People in S. Calif are so sick of the heat and lack of moisture that they are getting grumpy. And now we have the irritating Santa Ana winds kicking up heat and dust and static electricity from the desert and pushing the Ocean winds away, making it hotter than ever. When is fall going to come? It's October, right?
So Seattle was as refreshing as diving into a deep, snow fed pool in a High Sierra creek. Mmmmmm.
It was about 40 some degrees. I run about 30 degrees too hot, meaning that 40 degrees is perfect for me. Yes, I'm the person you see walking around in shorts and a tank top in the snow while everyone else is wearing parkas and scarves.
Because of the cold and rain, apparently, and the last minute-ness of the trip, there wasn't very much turnout at Elliot Bay Books BUT the people who came were hard core fans of barn owls and so we sat in a group and just had the most wonderful discussion!
The hotel was awesome and I would like to LIVE there.
Then it was on to San Francisco. San Francisco was vibrant with tourists and good cheer and people shopping and buying tons and tons of non-essentials, taking rides on the trolley, eating in the restaurants. Financial crisis? What financial crisis? In the west, we just don't see the down in the mouth, panicked attitude that is being reported on CNN. People are very cheerful.
On the plane people were comparing notes - but cheerfully! "I lost 97,000 dollars so far, how about you?" "Oh, I think about 60,000, BUT..." And here is the BUT:
BUT: The dollar is getting stronger, so the money I have left can buy more than the money I had last week, houses are WAAAAAAY cheaper so even if I did lose X amount of money, I can also buy a house MUCH more easily and will have a place to live. And the word was:
Don't PANIC! The people who are selling are just panicking and they're going to regret it! The people who are smart are the ones who are buying! Buy LOW, sell HIGH. So hold on and ride it out and your money will be ok if you just don't panic and sell! Just hold on and ride!
This is what people were saying. And then they were going on with their lives, standing in line to buy books, handbags, sundries, art, and were having fun trips to fun cities and were crowding onto planes to go visit their grandchildren or their relatives in Japan or whatever.
It was great to get out and talk w/ people. The streets were full in San Francisco (not in Seattle because of the weather - the first big cold snap of the season, and rain. I loved it but I guess people who lived there chose to stay in that day).
My media escort in San Francisco was a guy named Brian who used to be an editor at the Chronicle. He had a lot of interesting stories about life at the Chronicle, and he knew the city very well. We ate at a lovely Irish pub and listened to traditional Irish music, which always stirs my heart and brings me a sense of peace. After the event that night I wanted (BADLY) to go see the historic Plow and Stars, where Cait Reed and many other top Irish musicians have played. It's the real deal. But I was waaaay tooo tired. There was just no way, even though I was only a few miles from it. ARG!
I took a nap in the afternoon and no sooner had I fallen asleep than I heard military jets screaming overhead. Overhead? More like up the streets and between the buildings! I thought, "now we've done it. We've managed to work this financial crisis into a war with someone. Sheesh." I didn't panic, though. I called downstairs and they said, "Oh no, that's just the Blue Angels. They do this every year during Columbus Day weekend right over the city, between the buildings, up the streets...etc. Isn't it exciting?" Yes it was very exciting. I fell back to sleep and slept through the entire thing.
When I got up and met my driver outside there was a marching band playing. "Do you always arrange for authors to get a marching band to welcome them when they wake up from their nap?" I asked him. haha.
This hotel was amazing, too. Each room was designed specially by an interior designer/artist, and on each floor was an alcove in the wall with a quote from a famous author written in it. Downstairs was a library with books from all the authors who had stayed there before. It was the Hotel Rex on Sutton street. Staff members (the guy at the desk, the concierge, etc.) were actually reading my book! I was impressed by that, needless to say. That is definitely "going the extra mile for the customer"!
The event in San Francisco at Book Passage was well attended and most everyone there had not only already bought the book, but had read it. One woman had read it 4 times through and had her questions pre-prepared! So I skipped the reading and just talked about what I had learned and experienced with Wesley. The people from Hungry Owl were there. They have a webcam in an owl box and they provide owl box plans for people all over the country. They have barn owl boxes all over the city and we compared stories, so the talk became more of a round table discussion toward the end.
They had seen the same phenomenon of a barn owl choking on a rat skull that I talked about in the book. This was a wild barn owl but they had a webcam on her and they started getting emails that she hadn't moved in several hours. So one of their climbers went up and found the mother dead. They took the babies and rehabbed them for the wild. The necropsy on the mother revealed a rat skull embedded in her esophagus. Even though they have a separate tube for breathing, the owl stresses out and drools and tries and tries to get at the skull and aspirates the drool and finally dies of stress.
I contended that barn owls don't hunt rats, which is what brought this story up. She must have hunted a rat to have one in her esophagus! They posited that perhaps because the female is so much bigger, she is able to hunt rats. I have never seen such a thing and no one else I know has seen this. Barn owls hunt mice and voles, with occasional small birds in the mix. Rats? I don't know how they could kill one. Maybe they will eat a dead rat, but they don't usually eat carrion.
It's a mystery all right!
So much to say but I have to spread it out so more tomorrow! I apologize for how long it's taken for me to get my blogging together but I will really really try to blog every day from now on!
I simply must write more about the goings on at Book Passage because there were some fascinating discussions. Oh well, I'll write it now:
I met a tiny little girl, barely 4 years old, who had a stuffed owl collection from Steiff. She told me she calls herself Miss Bee, and considers herself to be most like the burrowing owl. She wants to become a vet and work with owls. I told her about Jane Goodall, who knew from the time she was in the crib that she wanted to live in a jungle in Africa and work with apes and that's exactly what she ended up doing. She still carries the stuffed chimpanzee that she had in the crib! This little girl's parents were so supportive and took her seriously, as they should. She could read already, of course. I wasn't surprised. If you're slanted that way, you will learn to read early! My sis and I learned to read when we were 2 years old, because we were already passionate about books from watching our parents read and from them reading to us constantly. It really made me feel good to see a child so young who was already so passionate and interested in learning. They are, you know. All one has to do is take them seriously and encourage them and pay attention! Don't set them up in front of the TV for your own convenience, in other words.
And then after everyone left, Hannah at Book Passage gave me a very thoughtful gift of personally embossed stationery, AND Mary (I think it was Mary) gave me a cardboard standup drawing of Wesley signing his name in a book. It was such an accurate portrayal of Wesley's look and attitude that I could hardly believe it! This woman has TALENT!
The Book Passage people were just so amazing. They are even excited about the Baby Wesley the Owl stuffed animal that will be available before Christmas. It's designed by Wendy Francisco and based on Wesley at the age he was on the cover of the book - the cutest age for a barn owl, I think.
Whew! When I got back, everyone said I was glowing. Well no wonder!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
New York Times Best Seller!!
This is Wendy Francisco - Stacey is zooming off to an interview and wanted me to tell you she INTENDS to keep the blog up from now on...but things have been crazy. So, many apologies. Wesley The Owl entered the New York Times Best Seller list last week at #13! It fell to #26 when booksellers ran out of books. But it's back in the stores!
People Magazine did publish a review in September. They gave the book 4 stars and said it was "irresistible".
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Remember that fat is not as important as calories for controlling weight. To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you consume.[2] It’s as simple as that. The reason we’re taught to be wary of fatty foods is that they tend to have high calories; however, this often causes us to eliminate healthy fatty foods, like avocados, oils, and salmon,[3] from our diet unnecessarily. Just make sure you’re eating healthy monounsaturated and poly-unsaturated fats instead of saturated and trans fat.[2]
• If you’re on a 2000-calorie-per-day diet, don’t eat more than 20 grams of saturated fat per day.[4]
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Strength train. This means lifting weights at home or in the gym for at least 30 minutes at a time twice a week. Muscle helps speed your metabolism, as the bodies of muscular people burn more calories even while they’re at rest.[5]
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Carefully consider eating more frequently. Instead of having 3 square meals a day, many go for 6 micro meals to sustain their energy and steady their blood-sugar levels[7] while on a low-calorie diet. There is, however, a tendency for people to justify turning “micro meals” into junk food sessions; research has indicated that people often consume not just more calories, but emptier ones when taking the snacking approach.[8] Know yourself well enough to make this choice.
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The "skip domains" list reset all my custom entries when an update changed the defaults. Luckily I read the changelog before updating and anticipated that would happen so no harm done (I'm that good :) but next time you alter any of the default values in an update, you should make sure you are appending the update; not erasing user settings.
Also, facebook is in the skip domains list by default. Facebook is literally the biggest offender of url redirecting I have ever encountered and it should ABSOLUTELY NOT be excluded! Perhaps if there's some element of facebook that cleanlinks breaks, you should hardcode a specific rule for that element.
I also use the addon pure-url- I am fairly certain clean links does all pure url does and more. I think clean link's "remove from url" option is exactly what pure-url does, correct? The only issue is clean links uses regex, and well, you know the saying, "and now you have two problems". I'd love to consolidate the number of addons I have by removing pure-url, but pure-url has a nice coma separated list that I can actually use without fear of breaking an entire regex expression and losing all related protection/functionality.
I've just read up on regex and I think I've translated all of pure-url's defaults into clean links (also needed to enable the http observer option to clean links on refresh like pure-url does). The only two differences I know of between what pure-url can do and what clean links does: pure-url also cleans the URL that is shown when you hover the cursor over the URL without clicking, and pure-url can create site specific rules ( to remove the ?src= only on I don't know if the first difference is important (as long as the url is changed before the first server connection is made), but that second feature might be worth implementing.
Clean Links KO with Firefox 36 Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
I'm missing this most valuable add-on now that I've just installed Firefox 36.
We had been warned that some add-ons could be broken with new FF 36; unfortunately Clean Links is of the lot : toolbar icon disappeared, add-on is ineffective.
Please, please & please (3 please, please) do update beloved#2 Clean Links to be compatible with beloved#1 (Firefox, who else?!)
Great add-on.
EDIT - Clean Links 2.7 is OK with Firefox 36!
Thanks (only one thanks but extra big) to the developer for his excellent add-on and for his outstanding reaction speed to update 'Clean Link'. All is for the best.
I did say thanks did I?
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Hi FoxTail, So many "pleases" needed a fast response, hence version 2.7 have been just released which fixes the problems with Fx 36 :) Cheers!
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working ok on palemoon 25.2.0, 1 note: icon must be put on taskbar or in the menu for it to work. icon wasn't shown and it wasn't working. as soon as i put it in the taskbar it worked.
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Way to go! Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
great addon!!
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No effict in Assegnate 4 su 5 stelle
No effict in
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Cool Addons Assegnate 4 su 5 stelle
I love this addons
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Good In Theory, Great In Practice Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
Great addon and yes, contrary to some idgits "analysis", it does have to be turned off for some sites (or better yet, white-listed... a great option that few, if any, offer with their link cleaners/redirect removers)... but, it does what it's suppose to and it does it well. Koodos! Just one issue... the icon disappears in Palemoon (Firefox 24.9) from time to time (usually, after installing/removing other addons). This is a common problem with Palemoon, but it would be great, if you could add an icon retrieval or some type of recovery in the options, like other addons have started doing. Help us fix it a bit quicker, than having to reload this site, find your addon, then reinstall. Thanks!
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Good In Theory, Failure In Practice Assegnate 1 su 5 stelle
This add-on, while good in theory, prevents basic internet functionality that is required for my internet usage. A few basic examples include logging into bank accounts (Chase Bank, First Citizens, etc) and even clicking the simple Log In section of NewEgg all are prevented by this add-on. I had to debug the issue by disabling 35 add-ons and going through them until I found a few suspect ones that were disabled that fixed my issues. I enabled them one at a time and restarted Firefox each time. It was Clean Links that was the only add-on that had to be left disabled for me to log in to NewEgg or a bank account. So with this type of issue present with the add-on I can not rate it well based not only on this problem, but the amount of time it required to debug this issue.
Updated 11/16:
Yes I tried your whitelist option (just like I do on NoScript and Disconnect) and while I whitelisted bank account sites and NewEgg the add-on still prevented them from opening. Maybe your extension is clashing with another I have running, but I feel if I can handle NoScript and configuring it, this add-on should be a piece of cake considering the number of scripts you have to sort through for NoScript (but that is worth the time due to how many scripts are forced on you today). This should be a basic whitelist click and sorry to tell you that isn't working for everyone. I can tell you why a simple whitelist does not work, it is because your add-on is not taking for example in the Whitelist to include the subdomain links associated with NewEgg. You would need to Whitelist every single site link you access on sites that clash with the add-on. In the end the basic added security this offers is just not worth the trouble with your Whitelist setup.
I figured I would get a review above mine telling me how I'm too novice to understand how to configure an addon, lol. Can you tell me how to configure IBM Blade servers using Putty or SecureNetTerm? I work in back end network support for a large corporate company and when I come home to use the internet I shouldn't be spending over 15 minutes trying to debug a single add-on that is clashing with everything else running perfectly together. Why did I install this add-on? Are you joking? Read your own description of your own add-on, that is why.
I can happily say after removing your add-on that AdBlock (and the add-ons to it), BetterPrivacy, Disconnect, DoNotTrackMe, MaskMe, NoScript, Perspectives, ShareMeNot and WOT all work perfectly together again. So I am sorry if I chose to uninstall your add-on to have all of the above working together again (which wasn't true with your add-on installed even with your Whitelist enabled). When you add an option to enable subdomain links with the primary whitelist link let me know and I'll reinstall plus I'll update this review. If I overlooked subdomains in your whitelist, tell me where it is I'll change this review now.
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Hi ZoSo,
Can i ask why did you choose to install Clean Links? Sorry, but reading your concerns looks like you didn't take a couple of minutes to properly read and understand the add-on description and how it works/what it does, so just wondering.
Clean Links is highly configurable to prevent any such side-effects from a link filtering/cleaning algorithm, but certainly it isn't suitable for most novice users if the default settings doesn't meet their internet surfing needs. One feature to make such users happy was implementing easy-whileteling through the toolbar button, right-click it and you'll be presented with a list of cleaned links, if any of them caused some side-effect you just have to select it and click on "Whitelist" and the problem will go away.
Hope that brings you some light.
Best regards.
Firefox 28.0 Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
Google search results links fixed. Thanks!
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GREAT ADD-ON! Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
This addon does exactly what you want! Is there a feature that allows the cleaned links to open in another tab?
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Creating havoc with Disqus since their overhaul! Assegnate 5 su 5 stelle
Great add on for Fx and I've been very happy with it thus far. I particularly like the configurability part of it to be able to remove affiliate/tracking tags from URLs, but I had to disable it after it started playing havoc with Disqus links after their recent overhaul.
Was using 2.6.0 with Fx 28 (cannot be bothered with Australis) on Windows 8.1 x64. Updated to 2.6.1. Same issue persists. Obviously didn't expect anything to change seeing as nothing was mentioned specifically about Disqus in the changelog, but updated anyways.
Clicking on Disqus links (your username, comment links etc.) just happens to reload the page rather than showing expected behavior. I haven't disabled every other add on to see if it's just "Clean Links" that's causing the problem, or a combination of some other(s) along with this one, but just disabling this one gets me back my expected functionality.
I don't know whether Fx 29+ also has these issues, but hopefully this will be tended to sooner than later.
P.S. - I'm rating it 4 stars for now because it's generally been stellar, but once the issue is resolved, I'll upgrade it to 5. Cheers.
EDIT: - Hi Diego, thanks for your reply. I actually never had to whitelist Disqus originally, as it didn't have any issues with Disqus out the box. But this problem cropped up *not* after the 'Clean Links' update, but after Disqus changed things at their end a few days back.
But whitelisting Disqus (dot) com does work and that's how I've been working, but before their changes, Clean Links just didn't have issues with Disqus. Cheers.
EDIT 2: - Thanks Diego for clearing that up for me. Pretty sure that must indeed be the case. Upgraded to 5*. Cheers. :-D
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Have you tried whitelisting the Disqus domain? that's all you need to do if you want Clean Links to stop cleaning links for certain sites. That can be easily achieved by right-clicking the toolbar button.
Hm, perhaps you had it whitelisted already and the new version somehow overwrote your list? That's the only reason i can think of atm as to why that happened to you with the new version, since as you pointed and shown on the changelog we changed nothing about that.
Thanks for your review, in any case.
Edit: I see. If they changed their "URL/Link format" to include for example a nested URL then it's for sure CleanLinks will try to clear the url using just the nested link instead, that's the main purpose of the add-on and therefore there's no issue to fix here :-) | https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/clean-links/reviews/ | dclm-gs1-288950001 | false | false | {
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aNi-N-gin widget
This widget gives to the user who inputs his MyAnimeList.net nickname a list of recommended anime to watch considering the anime he already watched.
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0.022546 | <urn:uuid:176ff8a6-bbaf-49b0-a5e2-ca341e20f933> | en | 0.934463 | Summer Tours We'd Like To See: Bring Back Texxas Jam!
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Reminder: Tickets for Lady Gaga's Toyota Center show next year go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Summer concert season doesn't last as long as hurricane season, and leaves somewhat less damage in its aftermath, but at least it gives us something to look forward to during those long, hot months. This year, Houstonians will be treated to concert appearances by Lady Gaga (July 25-26), Iron Maiden (June 11), Hole (July 6), the reconstituted Lilith Fair (August 15), and the Dave Matthews Band (September 10). And those are just a few of the bigger names.
And yet, Rocks Off is nothing is not greedy. Aren't we looking forward to Chicago and the Doobie Brothers? Who isn't? But summer always gets us thinking about the ones that got away, so here are a few summer tours we would have liked to see this year.
Texxas Jam 2010: The time is now. This decade has already seen the resurrection of Lilith Fair and Lollapalooza, but why should fans of nurturing female folk music and corporate alterna-rock be the only ones to have any fun? It's been 20 years since the demise of hair metal, and Houston is a great friend to the genre (certainly moreso than Dallas, where most of the original shows were held). Call up Don Dokken, David Coverdale, and those crazy Van Halen brothers and make this thing happen.
The Gibberish Festival: The premise is purest simplicity, yet difficult in execution. First, you get bands with nonsensical names like Lady Gaga, Kajagoogoo, Chumbawumba or the Goo Goo Dolls on the bill, use a 12-month old toddler to make the introductions (most of what they'd say would be a close enough approximation to the actual band names), then sit back and sell t-shirts. As a bonus, all the bands could come for a spirited encore consisting of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" and "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo."
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Feb 9, 2008 05:27 AM
Buffet-MGM Detroit-excellent!
Had lunch at the MGM buffet Tuesday, fantastic(even better that it came from winnings)! By far the best lunch buffet I've ever had! Everything I had was good. I had Mongolian barbeque-shrimp and veggies, asian sauce. Very good, shrimp done just right. Lamb chops were also done perfectly, not overdone like many expensive buffets do. Even mac n cheese was wonderful, very creamy and good! The selections of Chinese food were all top notch, as good as anything I've ordered in a Chinese restaurant, kept at right temps and not sitting for long. Scallops in black bean sauce was great! Large, tender scallops. Even salads were great, which I usually avoid in buffets. Frisee salad had this wonderful crispy proscuitto on top, like the crispiest, yummiest bacon! Mozarella and tomato salad also excellent, and they had selections of artisan cheeses and charcuterie(sp) meats, it was gourmet all the way, and the desserts! WOW! First time I even remember thinking "mmmmmmmm" at a buffet. Best gelato I've ever had, little Key Lime tart had flaky, buttery crust, chocolate mousse was very chocolatey and rich, it was all good, I would definitely go back for dinner if lunch was this good. On par if not better than the buffet at the Bellagio.
I wasn't able to get away at dinnertime, so Saltwater or Bourbon Steak will have to wait until next month. But they are two of the most gorgeous restaurants I have ever seen! As nice as anything I have seen in Vegas or New York. Puck's grille was also beautiful.
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1. i went to the new mgm while i was home in detroit for the holidays and wow...this place is totally amazing! a really beautiful establishment and there is a WORLD of difference between this casino and the older detroit/windsor casinos - clean clean clean, fresh, trendy, inviting, beautifully designed. it's well worth a drive in from the suburbs - pop in for dinner or a drink before a show!
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1. re: pastrylady
I hear ya...the one time I went to the Motor City Casino, it was dirty. Dirty carpets. Nowhere to eat cept the buffet. I see no reason to ever go there again. MGM Detroit made me feel like I was in Vegas! Cannot wait to try Saltwater and Bourbon Steak!
2. Wow glad you had a nice meal. So far I have been completly underwhelmed with the MGM. So not like Vegas or the Bellagio. One big open stark room full of penny and two cent slots. Nice for Detroit but certainly not Vegas.
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1. re: Docsknotinn
It kinda tides me over till I can get back to Vegas. It's not like Mandalay or the Paris, but it's pretty good. Mina's restaurants are spectacular looking, imho they look as good as anything in Vegas.
1. re: Docsknotinn
I have to agree with you. Definitely NOT Las Vegas. However, we did have a terrific meal at the MGM buffet, overall. There were pockets of "meh", such as the desserts. Beautiful to look at, underwhelming (canned? boxed?) taste. The real negative for us was the service. Every time we got up to try another food station, the waiters and bussers removed everything from our table, including silverware and napkins. We would return to our table to find nothing to eat the food with and by the time we flagged someone down, the food was cold. Very annoying.
2. So what's the price on the buffet?
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1. re: berkleybabe
Wow, my sister (not a chowhound type but likes good food) went to the buffet a couple weeks ago and said it was terrible (no details). She said she'd never go back and that it was standard 9.99 buffet food. I have no idea what time she went but I believe it was during dinner. Strange...
1. re: kellycolorado
Buffet is really hit or way miss. Been there six times; four good experiences, two terrible. Asian is always on point, the other stations were iffy. The "Southern-style" hasn't ever been good. Salads sometimes good, sometimes barren. Seafood? Just by looking you can tell whether or not to chance it. Advice? I dont have any. You really are going to take a chance. | http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/487858 | dclm-gs1-289430001 | false | false | {
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Deinopis subrufa
Deinopis subrufa female.jpg
Females are light reddish brown.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Deinopidae
Genus: Deinopis
Species: D. subrufa
Binomial name
Deinopis subrufa
L. Koch, 1879
Deinopis subrufa (also called Rufous Net-casting Spider) is a species of net-casting spiders. It occurs in eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is a nocturnal hunter, having excellent eyesight, and hunts using a silken net to capture its prey. They feed on a variety of insects - ants, beetles, crickets and other spiders. They can vary in color from fawn to pinkish brown or chocolate brown. Females are about 25mm in body length, males about 22mm. They are not dangerous to humans.
This species is often found on a few strands of web in forest, woodland and heathland, or on flat surfaces, for example on the outside of houses.
Males will usually shed their last skin and then seek a suitable female to mate with. They will rest on the outer skirts of the female's web, and will gently pluck the web to show her that they are interested. Once the male has mated with the female, he dies. The female then constructs a globular egg sac, approximately 10-12mm in diameter. It is generally a light brown or fawn color with black specks on it and contains anywhere from 100-200 eggs. It is usually disguised and protected by a leaf. Once the female has constructed the egg sac and laid the eggs, she will usually leave it to its own protection. After around 3 weeks, the young hatch; like most spiders, they eat the egg sac for nutrients.
The generic name is derived from deinos Greek for "fearful" and opis is Greek for "appearance", hence the common name of "Ogre-faced spiders". The species name subrufa is Latin for "slightly reddish".
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Things are moving and shaking over at Skype. It seems that since their acquisition by eBay, there will be a shuffling of management between various units. We're not sure exactly why this is happening but perhaps putting execs in different units will stimulate synergy. Here's the rundown of who's going where to do what:
Via: InfoWorld
Tags: eBay, Men, Shuffle, bay, management, gem, AG, eme
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I'm trying to create a simple rails 3.2 app.
To keep it simple, the app has two models: Product and Image
The Product should have many Images, so here are my models:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :images, :class_name => 'Image'
class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :product
has_attached_file :image, :styles => { :normal => "300x300", :small => "70x70" }
I'm using active_admin and here is my form to create a product:
<%= semantic_form_for [:admin, @product], :html => {:multipart => true} do |f| %>
<%= f.inputs :title, :description, :price %>
<%= f.semantic_fields_for :images do |f2| %>
<%= f2.file_field :image %>
<% end %>
<%= f.buttons :commit %>
<% end %>
When I submit the form, I get the following exception:
Image(#70365286921100) expected, got Array(#70365535770260)
"images"=>{"image"=>#<ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile:0x007ffe63d19e58 @original_filename="IMG_0097.JPG",
@headers="Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"product[images][image]\"; filename=\"IMG_0097.JPG\"\r\nContent-Type: image/jpeg\r\n",
"commit"=>"Create Product"}
Why is it happening? Can anyone please help me out?
Thanks in advance!
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I believe you need accepts_nested_attributes_for :images in your Product model. The Product model should look like:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :images, :class_name => 'Image'
accepts_nested_attributes_for :images
If you look at your params hash, you see:
"images"=>{"image"=> ...
What accepts_nested_attributes_for does is to change the structure of your params to accommodate the one-to-many relationship specified by the has_many :images association.
Supposing you have more than one image in the form, your params hash would contain:
"images_attributes"=>{"0"=>{"image"=> ... }, "1"=>{"image" => ... }, ...}
Also, make sure you call @product.images.build somewhere before you reach the view if the @product is new.
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I am trying to set up a devfreq driver for a peripheral on Linux. My init method for the driver looks as follows:
static struct platform_driver zynq_csortfreq_driver = {
.probe = zynq_csortfreq_probe,
.driver = {
.name = "ZYNQ_CSORT_DEVFREQ",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
static int __init zynq_csortfreq_init(void)
return platform_driver_register(&zynq_csortfreq_driver);
However, the probe function (zynq_csortfreq_probe) in my driver never seems to get called. I've read that in order for the probe call to work correctly, the .name value of the driver must match the name of the device - where can I find the name of the device?
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In order for the probe function to be called, you must add a device from a machine file or via the device tree. This is typically done with platform_device_register() or platform_add_devices() in machine files. Alternatively, of_platform_populate() is used for the device tree model, but code does not use this directly. The platform device documentation has information for your Linux kernel version. It seems that your Linux uses the device tree model. The documentation in the cpufree devicetree will have some helpful information on activating your driver for this board with device trees.
The dtsi file needs something like,
soc {
zyncfreq@addr {
/* Other platform data */
Which will define the device for your machine. I would suggest that first you modify your machine files init_machine entry and use platform_device_register() to associate your driver with a device. Then you can later attempt to get the device tree mechanism working if you wish.
If you can view this closed question, my answer might be helpful if the Linux device-model documentation is not completely clear. However, I think for your case the Linux docs are sufficient.
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hey, I'm trying to programming a crossword creator. using a given dictionary txt file and a given pattern txt file. The basic idea is using DFS algorithm. the problem begin when the dictionary file is v-e-r-y big (about 50000 words). then i recive the :
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
i know that there is a part in my program that wastes memory, but i don't know where it is, how to find it and how to fix it
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marked as duplicate by ThiefMaster Mar 18 '13 at 23:11
"How to find" is covered by this related question: stackoverflow.com/questions/2840421/… – meriton Jun 6 '10 at 21:26
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Does it really waste memory ? If you're loading a sizeable dictionary, then you may simply want to increase the JVM memory settings (the JVM has a maximum memory allocation - dependent on your platform, and configurable).
$ java -Xmx512m ....
would increase the maximum memory allocation of the JVM to 512m.
If you think you have a memory leak (garbage collection not kicking in due to references not being released) then a profiler such as YourKit may be of use. Note that this isn't free, but the trial version may help you solve your problem.
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hey, i already tried to increase the JVM memory.. Do you have maybe another advise? – or.nomore Jun 6 '10 at 17:48
Have you tried profiling it ? – Brian Agnew Jun 6 '10 at 17:54
sorry for my ignorance, what is profiling? – or.nomore Jun 6 '10 at 18:18
Running the program with some sort of tool (e.g. YourKit) and getting statistics/metrics out such that you can determine where the bottlenecks (e.g. memory consumption) are. – Brian Agnew Jun 6 '10 at 18:28
To solve this problem ( in linux based os ) do following
1) increase memory (so that this problem don't come frequently ) by configuring "domain.xml" in
search for
set it to higher value eg- 198m or 256m
2) kill the glassfish process to free the port on which it was running ( in my case it was 8686) open terminal (in linux based os) and type -
sudo netstat -npl | grep 8686
this will result in something like..
tcp6 0 0 :::8686 :::* LISTEN 3452/java
next use
kill -9 3452 to kill that process ( 3452 in this case )
Now try to start glassfish, it should start.
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Some Times, I have seen people initialize variables in loop like
String s="tttt";
This should be avoided as it waste lot of memory.
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It doesn't necessarily waste memory (and your example definitely doesn't, as string literals are pooled). It can even help as garbage collection of young objects is cheaper than collecting old objects. – gustafc Jun 6 '10 at 18:35
Thanks a lot..this is something i wasn't not knowing.It really makes my day. – Shashank T Jun 6 '10 at 18:49
This is a tricky problem. I've run into it once or twice, and increasing heap size doesn't help. Solving it with VM settings - you may even want to decrease the heap size (it once worked for me). You may also want to test different garbage collectors, I've had success using the G1 collector.
General advice on how to avoid this error is also hard (or so it seemed to me when I researched this matter to solve my own problems). High infant mortality is probably good, since young objects are cheaper to collect than old ones.
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large dictionary...mmm.. is there an absolute requirement of storing that directly in the memory of the jvm?
A lazy chap like myself would store this in a database (in-memory even perhaps? - hypersonic for example), transfer the responsibility of searching through a list to the database while my program worked on creating interesting symmetric black and white square combinations :)
Just a thought though.
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I have a concrete class A that extends BaseA and implements InterfaceA. I want to loop through a list of A using either the base class or interface as the looping variable. Trying something like this:
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gives me an error "Could not find a coercion from type A to BaseA". The same thing happens when I set value to a property of type InterfaceA. I can get the loop to work if I use Object as the looping variable type, but then I can't access any of the fields on the concrete class or the interface.
It seems like Tapestry should know how to coerce from an object to an interface it implements, but I also tried contributing a coercion from A to BaseA/InterfaceA and it still gave me that error, even though it actually showed the coercion in the list.
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The interface will work if it is not in a package that Tapestry manages. And I now know that the 'base' package is one that Tapestry manages in addition to pages and components. I had put my base class and interface in that package thinking they would be safe from Tapestry's classloader voodoo. After moving them out, I still needed to contribute a coercion for the base class, but not for the interface.
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Medieval Machinery
Buttons, switches, and even proximity sensors in a medieval setting.
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You've seen them and not given them a second thought, they're so ubiquitous. But think: Buttons and pressure plates, commonly used for traps or alarms in medieval settings, don't do much of anything without electricity. If you mechanically connected them to what they're supposed to operate, you'd either have to press them in several feet or push with the force of a truck! And don't even get me started on fires that start or spikes that come out of the ground when you get near them.
Sometimes there are even doors that slide up into the ceiling at the press of a button, and slide back down when it's pressed again. True, a mechanism to do that is possible. But it'd likely be larger than the building it's used in!
Admittedly, counterweights would work for the levers and buttons at least, but they'd be difficult to maintain, to say the least. And certainly not work after centuries or millenia of abandonment.
Plus, occasionally a switch somehow manages to mechanically transmit a force across half a continent! There are so many failure points in a system that long it'd probably break before they were done building it, and that's not an exaggeration.
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For whatever reason, vacuum cleaners (or similar mechanisms) in fiction tend to have their skill in sucking objects exaggerated. Among the many ways (but not limited to) a vacuum cleaner can do in fiction is sucking a person's facial features, rendering anything colorless, sucking people, objects or entire locations much bigger than the object itself, stealing Life Energy, harvest human souls and capture intangible burps.
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FRIDAY, October 20
Swollen Members at El Rey Theater
You can blame Canada for this shape-shifting hip-hop threesome that exists in two distinctly different worlds. Formed in the land of liberal weed laws and rampant movie production (Ill take Vancouver for $200, Alex), Swollen Members a.k.a. rappers Madchild and Prevail alongside producer Rob the Viking are pop stars in the Great White North, touring with Black Eyed Peas and selling records in the millions. In America, theyre soldiers in the indie underground, rolling with Dilated Peoples and Planet Asia. Beloved by backpackers for their grimier, battle-ready beats, they bummed a bunch of them out with the decidedly poppy 2004 album ironically titled Heavy. Theyre back on track with the recently released Black Magic, boasting cameos from Ghostface and Alchemist. Theyre known for bringing it live, so expect more ladies than at your average rap show. (Scott T. Sterling)
The Detroit Cobras at the Key Club
In this stultifying era of tribute groups, unimaginative rock & roll revivals and endless oldies weekends, what makes the Detroit Cobras more than just another cover band is that they bring something of their own to the table: fire. Guitarist Mary Ramirez keeps things down to earth with her chopped-up, rootsy garage-rock riffing, and singer Rachael Nagy is such a radiantly powerful, distinctively soulful stylist that the Cobras remakes of obscure R&B gems are often more memorable than the originals. (And thats really saying something when you consider that theyre redoing tunes by the legendary likes of Otis Redding, Bobby Womack, and Jackie DeShannon, who was so pleased by their version of He Did It on 2001s Life, Love and Leaving that shes now one of bands biggest fans.) Like the Rolling Stones, who also started out as a cover band, the Detroit Cobras are finally writing original songs such as Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat), from their 2005 CD, Baby, that approach the intensity of those divinely, deliciously incendiary remakes. (Falling James)
From song titles like Please Visit Your National Parks to the suburban-leisure album-cover art, Oxford Collapses Williamsburgian irony belies their gently rocking loveliness. The Brooklyn trios earlier releases had a tendency to ape their New York brethrens dance-punk sensibilities, but their brand-new Sub Pop release, Remember the Night Parties a lo-fi nimbus of chiming guitars and shimmering distortion would float away if it werent anchored by drummer Dan Fetherstons meaty fills and Adam Rizers funk-inflected bass lines. Portland warmer-uppers the Joggers, former Oxford tour partners, have a similarly shambolic thing going on, but their deliberately muddy execution cant obscure their ditties melodic centers. Phillys the Capitol Years funnel late-80s Amer-indie through the onstage histrionics of yesteryears arena rockers. (Andrew Lentz)
UK Subs at the Key Club
While a rather dismal package of past-it acts, Fiend Fest does include one particularly notable aspect the presence of ferociously intransigent, intemperate punk rocker Charlie Harper. The Cockney-Chicano shouter has been driving his UK Subs (as in subversives, kiddies) for nigh on 30 nonstop years, and while the bands recorded output and lineups have been wildly inconsistent, Harpers cheerily rabid presentation remains as powerful as ever. The consummate misfit (his father was a U.S. serviceman from Arizona, a heritage frostily received by the bulldogs of postwar London), Harper early on sought refuge in the big beat, but it wasnt until punks 1976 outbreak that he found a home and a sound the Subs excelled in. Tireless, trashy and thoroughly charming, Charlie Harper ably perhaps even nobly represents punk rocks finest. (Jonny Whiteside)
MONDAY, October 23No Means No at the Knitting Factory
Originally from Victoria, British Columbia, No Means No have since way back in the 80s been not just a standard-bearer but a highly influential (Fugazi, among a million obscure others) trio whose freewheelin forays across the hinterlands of post-punk hash up heady swirls of avant-jazz, twisted funk, nonmacho metal and out-n-out noise. While few NMN songs come without the de rigueur clever-dick sarcasto verbal spew, neither do they skimp on the extremely hot-shit spazzy time signatures, laid down by the genres best-ever rhythm section of co-leaders Rob (bass, guitar, vocals) and bro John Wright (drums, keyboards, singing). The brothers have a just-plain-excellent new album out, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt, on AntAcidAudio/Ipecac, which, along with tonights most-likely-explosive performance, will only confirm how criminally overlooked theyve been. Take heed! (John Payne)
THURSDAY, October 26
Matt Pond PA, Micah P. Hinson at Spaceland
The Brooklyn-based indie-pop ensemble Matt Pond PA is led by a former Philadelphian named Matt Pond, a guy whose talent for sweet-and-sour acoustic balladry far exceeds his ability to name bands with anything approaching a creative flourish. The group has had some success outside (whats left of) the college-radio ghetto: Last year, its cover of Oasis Champagne Supernova made it onto one of The OC mixtapes, which these days probably delivers more exposure than airplay on commercial radio. But Ponds music is exceedingly gentle stuff, better suited to a world of library boys than hollaback girls. Opener Micah P. Hinson, from Texas, plays pretty but depressive folk-blues laments for people who wish Bright Eyes would get a little trippy sometimes. (Mikael Wood)
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"We are demanding an immediate stop to the vote counting and an independent probe into the allegations," Dahal said, adding his party could boycott the Constituent Assembly if its demands are not addressed.
Dahal lost by a huge margin in Katmandu's No. 10 constituency but he is also contesting from Siraha in southern Nepal where he appear to be strong contender. It is not against the rules and common for top politicians to contest in two seats to boost their chances of winning.
The Constituent Assembly, which was set up as part of the peace process, was first elected in 2008 but failed to complete the task of writing a new constitution. Tuesday's election was to elect a new assembly to attempt again at writing a constitution.
More than 70 percent of the 12 million eligible voters cast their votes during Tuesday's election to choose the 601-member Constituent Assembly that would double as the parliament.
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At 10 years old, Emily Rosa may be one of the youngest people to submit a paper for publication in a scientific journal. After repeating her experiment to investigate Therapeutic Touch, Emily answered questions from the Frontiers audience.
Q Dear Emily, I am very impressed with your science project, because when I was in 6th grade (currently 9th) my science project was nothing as marvelous as yours. To the subject: I am very curious how you became interested in this subject. Sincerely, Tracie.
Dear Tracie, I became interested in testing Therapeutic Touch because I really didn't know if nurses who do Therapeutic Touch were telling the truth about their ability to feel the "human energy field." One day, my mother, who is a nurse, was watching a video on nurses who practice Therapeutic Touch, and I wanted to find out for myself if they could really do it. The Scientific American Frontiers show said that I had gotten the idea from my parents. This is not true. I thought of the idea myself. At the time, I also needed to think of an experiment for my science fair at school, and this was it. Thank you for your question. Emily
Q Our class would like to know what your favorite science subject is and if you plan to be a scientist when you grow up.
Dear Class, Hmmm, I think I want to be a scientist when I grow up, unless I find something else better to do. I liked doing my experiment on Therapeutic Touch. It would be fun doing scientific experiments and getting paid for it. My favorite field of science is chemistry. I love explosions and things happening that aren't supposed to. I also like hearing about pseudoscience. There are lots of pseudosciences that aren't tested, because maybe real scientists don't have the time. Kids could test them when they are practicing how to do science in school and make a big contribution. Everybody would be interested in their results. I hope this answers your question. Emily
QGreat work Emily! Did your research get published yet? If so we would like to know where so we can read more about it. Thanks.
No, my research hasn't been published yet. It has gone through three rounds of peer review at one journal and may be accepted there. If this journal doesn't publish it, another wants to. Scientific American Frontiers will tell you where to find it when it does get printed. Thank you for compliment. Emily
QThe people we saw on the show practicing TT seem to really believe in what they're doing and can describe physical sensations pretty clearly. Do you really think that these people might have certain "powers"? or are they all just faking it?
I think that they were probably sincere about being able to feel something, but my experiment did not show evidence that the "human energy field" exists. When I was doing my test, I got the feeling that they were having a hard time feeling anything when they couldn't see my hand and were just guessing. To really know if they can feel something there, I need other people to repeat my experiment. If the results of their test come out the same, we will know that there is no such thing as a human energy field and these people are imagining or pretending. In Pennsylvania, there is a girl, 9-years-old, who is going to replicate my test. I do not believe that these people are feeling something. After you pretend for a while, you starting believing there is something there. Nurses are told by their instructors that there is good research (not so) for Therapeutic Touch, and they want to help their patients, so they want to believe TT is real. Dolores Krieger, the founder of TT, was in Denver recently, and I asked her for ten minutes of her time to take my test. She was a big "scaredy-nurse" and sent me a message that she didn't have time. Thank you for your question, Emily
QDo you plan to follow up on your studies of Healing Touch with any more tests or research?
Yes. I'm going to send a small letter to famous TT practitioners to ask them to take my test. I am also going to think of a test for something Scientologists think is true -- that all people have thousands of aliens in them. If they can tell me how they know this, then maybe I will have something to test. I also think it might be fun to test phony psychics.
QHas anyone else done studies on Therapeutic Touch, or just you so far?
Just me so far in testing the main aspect of TT -- about if there's a "human energy field," or can TT practitioners really feel something there. But there have been other people who have done small studies on other aspects of TT -- to see if TT heals wounds, helps for relaxation and pain. I really appreciate the people for making the studies, but I don't think they are that good.
QThrough meeting and talking to people who practice TT, did you get any insights into why so many people believe that therapeutic touch can heal them or that it really works?
I think that people can be pretty gullible sometimes. They might believe it because it might help relax them, and when you feel relaxed you always feel better. Or it could be by coincidence that sometimes people get better on their own and think it's because of TT. My mother says a lot of people don't think scientifically.
QWhat did you think about therapeutic touch before you conducted this experiment, compared to what you think about it now? I am curious how the experiment changed your opinions.
Before I didn't know what to think, but now, after my test, I think that it should not be practiced for money until it's tested thoroughly. If somebody replicated my test -- which would be good -- if they got the same results, then I would feel even more certain about there being no human energy field. Sometimes the nurses would tell me that the memory of my hand over one of their hands was so hot that they weren't sure where my hand was then, so they said they were just going to take an educated guess.
QWhat was the percent of the accurate and inaccurate responses in your experiment?
On Scientific American Frontiers, I said that the average of correct answers was 4.1 out of 10 tries for each subject. Those were the results for that day. When I tested the Therapeutic Touch practitioners for my 4th grade experiment, I got an average of 4.7 correct answers. If you put these two groups together -- 28 trials total -- the average number of accurate responses was 4.5 out of 10 tries, or 45% correct answers.
Q Do you think that the people who participated in your experiment were just guessing?
Yes, I think they were guessing, because my test had evidence that there isn't a "human energy field," but you shouldn't take just my word for it (or any one researcher's evidence). I hope other people replicate my test to see if they find the same thing I found. You can't read peoples' minds. That's why I did this test.
Q When you put your hands under the healers' hands, did you feel a "pull," or energy or other sensations coming from the other person?
No, absolutely not. I never have felt anything like what they say they do with the "human energy field." (Just body heat if I get really close.) That's why I got the idea for this test. I was so curious that they felt something I didn't. They say that anyone can feel the field, so why don't people feel it all the time when they bump into each other? I think they are imagining things.
QThe Instant Poll question on this Frontiers website asks whether therapeutic touch should be used in hospitals since its healing benefits haven't been proven. How would you vote on this question -- yes or no?
No. Maybe it could cost lots of money, and people could be wasting their money if it hasn't been proven yet. If it hasn't been proven, then people who are dying from things like cancer would waste their time on Therapeutic Touch instead of things that have been proven to help. Also, it could get more people believing in something that isn't there or true, just because their nurses believe it. Maybe if they believe in this weird stuff, they'll believe in other weird stuff.
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Pres. Obama:
Wow! What a profound grasp of the glaringly obvious.
American politics can be acrimonious? Who knew?
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Re: "hit the nail right on the head."
Pres. Obama, Feb, 5, 2008:
Better be funding for gulags and re-education camps.
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So you're a Repub with Repub ideas. I disagree.
So the antithesis of this statement would be:
And no Dems supported the above?
Pot, kettle, black.
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Shouldn't your name be Dr. MisInformation?
That's what I call him , Miss Information.
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I'll go with: "seriously missing some essential necessities upstairs" for the win!
And now it is the republicans who want to embrace and go back to the Jim crow laws. The dems decided to change in order to survive. Many left the dems because they were going away from this belief. Now it is repub who embrace the same beliefs they keep trying to blame dems for. If Martin was alive I'm sure he would not be a repub.
Please provide links and/or other references that prove there's a movement of one or more Republicans in Congress lobbying for Jim Crow laws. I won't hold my breath...
Are you turning blue yet Sam?
I haven't heard of anything on this, either, Sam. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if any one of a number of rightwing groups (TeaParty, NRA) lobbied for this. Practically every day, someone from one of those groups says something that 80% of Americans thinks is reprehensible or unbelievable.
Have to agree. There is absolutely no way that MLK would be any but a Democrat if he were alive today. Republicans, by definition, are against civil rights/equal rights of all shapes and sizes. From race, to sexual orientation, to income inequality, and a host of other issues, they are always found on the team fighting implementation of equal rights. So, it's hard to imagine MLK being on their team.
In the mid-19th century, Democrats were the conservatives. In other words, today's Republicans would have been Democrats. Bigotry didn't change from one party to the other. It stayed with whichever party was more conservative.
YELLOW JOURNALISM is why the public votes the way it does! So typical for the liberal press to blame the public which acts upon the reports from the news agencies who deliberately manipulate the news, usually by not reporting ALL the facts but only those that shore up their personal political positions.
Google YELLOW JOURNALISM or go to the link and learn how the press has and continues to manipulate society with their distortions, lies, loaded forms of questions that can’t be answered honestly.
Newspaper titan Hurst stated that 'if you give me the pictures ( of the sunken USS Maine) I'll give you the war!" Spain never attacked us but the newspapers influence caused us to go to war and over 58,000 people died because of the NEWSPAPERS LIES, and PEOPLE STILL BOUGHT and continue to by his papers~!
Hurst was directly connected to the Democratic party through Pulitzer. So if someone needs to look in the mirror I would start with them! Its obvious they STILL refuse to print everything necessary to establish a position on Obama and the people who are ignorant will continue to read and believe those who historically have caused the murders of 10’s of thousands and call the ones who know better names.
Award winning publicist Seymour Hersh, when speaking about many in his reporting professions stated: “It’s pathetic, they are more than obsequious… we lie about everything. Lying has become the staple."
We all learned in high school social science that oligarchies control populations with three key areas:
1. Government in order to manage laws and enforcement.
2. Creating what is used for money for their own riches and to pay minions.
3. Media propaganda to “cover” these crimes.
"YELLOW JOURNALISM is why the public votes the way it does!"
The corporate owned news media doesn't report the news. They "create" the news by holding back (hiding) the truth and reporting on hearsay. You can use the corporate news as a guide but research and find the truth on alternative news online sites. I use wikipedia as a guide and research the topic in more detail on the internet.
The corporate owned news media helps start wars based on lies (false flags). They also pick the candidates for you to vote into office. The news media will not give any exposure to more honest and qualified candidates.
The corporate owned news media ignored Dennis Kucinich and made him appear like a fool. When Kucinch was mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, he refused to give business to the mobsters. Do you ever wonder why politicians become rich once they are in office?
Like him or hate him, Kucinich will not take money for special favors.
Estimated wealth $33,504 in 2010
Met worth Rank: 429th in House
Kucinich: American Wealth Stolen - Political Theater Diverts Attention
Kucinich: Obama Admin Transferring Wealth to the Few
why repeat what the definition of Yellow Journalism is.
And no one needs to make Kucinich look like a fool, he bankrupted Cleveland! I detest Kucinich, hes a Socialist and 30% of his votes came from Socialists, being an American who believes in freedom I consider Kucinich and his followers treasonous.
In most polls that I've read over the yrs. regarding Congressional members, one conclusion has tended to be a constant:
Throw out all those "bums," but I like my representative.
I've got a suspicion that it's much the same now and would be confirmatory of this article.
It is great that he said this because it shows the hypocrisy of the admin and those in charge, Let alone those who flip flop to support the admin.
BTW The Debt is now at 17 trillion, That's 8 trillion more than when Bush left.
Was Senator Barack Obama right? It pains me to admit he's ever been right about ANYthing, but yes. He was dead right.
Is President Barack Obama a blatant hypocrite: Oh, yeah...and to an extent that defies adjectives.
How can you progressives castigate Bush (and I'm not going to argue with you there) and PRAISE Obama? Everything Bush did Obama has done an order of magnitude bigger and badder. Are you prepared to admit you're as much a hypocrite as your idol-in-chief? Or are you too racist yourselves to admit that criticism isn't racist when it's well deserved?
Sam. Really? Has Uneployment grown under Obama? No, it's gotten smaller. Has the deficit grown under Obama? No, it's gotten smaller. Has a new recession occurred under Obama, one that is worse than the one we experience under Bush. No. I'll take a slowly improving economy over the train wreck Bush gave us.
What color is the sky in on the planet where you live?
How about some truthful internet links to back up your comments? Internet links give comments more credence. Otherwise, comments are only opinions not based on truthful facts.
To much TV if its on the internet it has to be true.
Re: "Has Uneployment (sp) grown under Obama?"
Re: "Has the deficit grown under Obama?"
Sequestration - At which he "kicked and screamed" and the Dems want re-funded.
Re: "Has a new recession occurred under Obama,one that is worse than the one we experience under Bush"
Rhetorical question. However, the economy is sluggish and ONLY with the help of the Fed. Resv. is it limping along.
Fed. Chair Greenspan in an interview for his new book states that NO ONE, not even the Fed with it's economic tools saw the coming of the financial crisis.
Even then Fed Chair Bernanke said that sub-prime could be contained.
To "pin it" solely on Pres. Bush is nonsensical.
You continue to spew Progressive talking points without documentation.
Pterocarya frax...
Bulloney! Even I saw it coming. If you didn't see it coming, you are a moron.
Re: "If you didn't see it coming, you are a moron."
So when's the next one Carnac?
BTW, Thursday, 17 May 2007:
"Mortgage defaults unlikely to hurt economy, Bernanke says"
Pterocarya frax...
I prefer to follow the prognostications of Krugman, not Carnac, since a study a couple years ago showed Krugman to be the most accurate prognosticator.
But while we are at it, here are a few economists that saw the crash coming:
Nouriel Roubini, Robert Schiller, Peter Schiff, Kenneth Rogoff, Meredith Whitney, Stephen Roach, and let us not forget the 8 senators that voted against repealing Glass Steagal, since that was a major factor leading to the collapse. Those 8 (7 are democrats) were Byron Dorgan, Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski, Richard Shelby, Tom Harkin, Richard Bryan, and Russ Feingold.
SO many mkt. "geniuses" in retrospect.
"repealing Glass Steagal (sp)"
Can't spell "Glass-Steagall" but YOU knew the month, day and the nature of the financial crisis. LOL.
BTW, "St. Paul" asked for a housing bubble.
Mr. Krugman: "And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."
Answer the question:
So when's the next one Carnac?
Pterocarya frax...
Well thank goodness that one keystroke you saved by abbreviating market gave you enough time to spell check my posting, and prove your great intellectual superiority over all liberals. Just think how many keystrokes you would have saved if you had used the historically more accurate plural of genius.
Sorry, no Carnac's here...just an honest, hard working American that believes in the role of government to help create an even playing field for everyone. But my prediction for the next crash is soon after Americans are stupid enough to elect Republicans into majority rule of the executive branch, House, and Senate for 6 years running, just like the last time around.
Re: "But my prediction for the next crash"
Too vague like ALL Mkt. timing know-it-alls and therefore USELESS.
If you KNEW the causes and the timing of the last one, how is that you don't know the hows, whys and whens of the next one Carnac?
BTW: The tech wreck which Lord Krugman was writing about began in Mar. 2000. Who was POTUS Carnac?
@ contango
This is what your posts sound like.
Darwin's choice
Still polishing turds, eh troll? I'd like to see some backup to your statements also........good luck!
Dr. Information
Might as well start printing those 1 trillion dollar platinum coins. What a joke of an idea.
You have fallen hook line and sinker coaster. The deficit has actually increased under the Obama administration. Fool's I say.
What's up with you and this racist garbage. The only people anyone calls racist is the ones who have no problem calling Obama a monkey, animal, tries to call him a food stamp president etc. You make good points but this false news rush Limbaugh talking point is getting outrageous.
Dr. Information
food stamp president is now racist? that's assuming that most people getting food stamps are black.
Food stamps have more than doubled under the Obama administration. The same can be said for those receiving SSI.
To call Obama the "food stamp president" is wrong. He should be called the "entitlement president" as he has increased ALL entitlement funding. Obama is setting up the dems nicely by making those who recieve entitlements "slaves" to him and his party.
That may be ending, Contango. An article in today'sToledo newspaper quotes a number of Bowling Green businessmen. These are people who, in the past, were vehemence Bob Latta supporters. After Latta and Jordan voted with the TeaParty minority during the final shutdown vote, every one of the businessmen were asked for their comments on Latta's vote. To a man, they all replied "No comment".
Many conservatives are starting to realize the the conservative media provides a biased picture. Fox and others cited supposed pre-election bias in the "liberal media" with Obama-Romney polls, and the polls proved to be exactly right. The Fox/Rove coverage on election night were also telling.
The Republican Party is defined most by their inability to perceive what is actually happening, and the comments by conservatives here are certainly indicative of that. Life inside the bubble...
@ coasterfan:
In political terms, Nov. 2014 is an eternity away and for most, this "dust up" will be history.
You mean the "beatdown" the Cons took?
The Repugnants are going to get more beatdowns.
Just this week the headlines on Drudgereport.com
"U.S. debt jumps a record $328 billion — tops $17 trillion for first time"
The Democrats stated that legislation needs to be 'clean', that is with NO STRINGS ATTACHED> How many banks would make loans with that mentality? No wonder we're in trouble, we have a bunch of libtards who can't understand simple math. Maybe next year Obama will follow Oprah and give EVERYONE a new car with no strings attached, or to use the words of the Democrats, keep the car give away 'clean'
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Only thing left would be car-bon credits LOL : )
Ah yes, the Drudge Report... Bringing you "news" from inside the conservative bubble...
Re: "Ah yes, the Drudge Report..."
And THIS from someone who listens to Bill Maher and the Comedy Channel.
The "source" doesn't change the FACTS.
The Big Dog's back
The source doesn't changed the facts? You actually said that? ROFLMFAO!
Re: "The source doesn't changed the facts?"
So the fed debt would be less than $17T if Bill Maher said it?
Dr. Information
Big Dog wouldn't know a fact if it crawled into his mouth and came out in his poop.
"Are you a Sheeple? Take the Sheeple Quiz and find out"
Become an informed voter. Research the candidates who you send to Congress.
Is there a quiz to find out if I'm a conspiracy therorist ?
Darwin's choice
Sorry,no. But you do win the eternal azzhat award....goes without saying!
I have martial arts training too ,Centuri , LOTS .
In Huron County only 15% of voting populace exercised their right to vote. If other counties in America are similar, this is why we got the government we deserve.
Dr. Information
That is because 50% are either tied up in the court system for drugs and the remaining 35% just don't care because they are getting handouts.
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Section I.
No person may serve more than twelve years as a member of Congress, whether such service is exclusively in the House or the Senate, or combined in both houses.
Section II.
Upon ratification of this article, any incumbent member of Congress whose term exceeds the twelve year limit shall complete the current term but thereafter shall be ineligible for further service as a member of Congress.
Simple. Efficient. Non-partisan. Ensures better representation of all the people no matter where they live or which party affiliation (if any) to which they subscribe. It will allow more thoughts, ideas, and passions to enter the legislative arena instead of having it being a festering cyst of pet projects, long-term grudges, and GOBs.
For more on this, here's a ten minute video that does a good job of explaining even further.
I like it! Added bonus: When most in Congress have to actually go back to the REAL world and have REAL jobs after their term, the laws they pass will apply to them and theirs. And THAT means we'll see a little more reason and a little less authoritarianism coming out of the Capitol Building for a change. How refreshing would THAT be?
Could we also make it impossible for former Congressmen to be lobbyists, or work for companies that lobby Congress? Might just as well get ahead of the curve on the stampede that will happen if that Amendment ever gets passed. It would make many current, former Congressmen unemployed, as that seems to be the favored job after retiring or getting voted out.
I don't care which of the dumb and/or dumber party they "belong" to. I do realize that politicians "belong" to someone, at least the national politicians, either in office or as former congressmen.
Darwin's choice
For all the democrat turd polishers...you know who you are!
Great Orators of the Democrat Party, recently...
"It depends what your definition of 'Sex' is?'' ~ President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton
"That Obama “ I would like to cut his nuts off." ~ Jesse Jackson, Sr.
"I invented the Internet." ~ Al Gore
"The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass." ~ Joe Biden
"I have campaigned in all 57 states." ~ Barack Obama (Quoted 200
"Paying taxes is voluntary." ~ Sen. Harry Reid
"Bill is the greatest husband and father I know.
No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he is." ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton (Quoted 199
And the most ridiculous gem of wisdom, from the "Mother Moron Superior:"
~ Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)
"She's not young or pretty enough to be the wife of a president, besides that she has cancer." Newt Gingrich on why he was divorcing his wife.
Don't forget the repub think tank false news after all there was never a major terrorist attack under bush. I guess that happened under Obama. After all Obama was the reason bush didn't respond to Katrina in a appropriate time manner. But we all can't have time to read all the magazines out there. I wonder when the new superman comes out maybe I should ask Sarah play-em.
Darwin's choice
Here's another one for you to ponder...Obamacare-fail! Not false news, just failure!
The one thing I ponder is : Who dresses you in the morning ?
Darwin's choice
When you're polishing those turds, which end do you hold on to?
The ends that you bit off.
(_*_) <4shizzle
AJ Oliver
Ahem, quite a bit of thread drift here . .
The original article was an Associated Press bit about Congress.
Please treat AP stories with suspicion, not just this bogus article, but how they regularly bend the news to favor the right wing.
Want proof? They just put out an utterly phony story on the Virginia governor's race. But for a change, this time they got caught! Huzzah!
A statement I think we all can pretty much agree on. Out of 250+ million people how are these the best options that we have?
Being President is kinda like being a teacher. You'll have way way more training, intelligence and expertise in your field than the vast majority of the people who complain about you. It's a thankless, underpaid job that most of the few who ARE qualified would not want.
Would you want a job in which millions of less intelligent people complained about you, no matter what you do, and in which radio hosts from the opposing party spend 8 years riling up their listeners with hate-filled rants, in a vain attempt to delegitimize your presidency?
You're right.
The ignorant rails against the expert.
Re: "Being President,"
Nah. It generally comes down to which of the candidates can fool the most people with their lies, falsehoods and obfuscations.
Not unlike "so-called" teachers who are mostly "experts" in the art of bull sh*ting which is WHY they're in the public and not in the private sector.
I had one prof I truly respected, who would go on sabbaticals and test out her industrial psych theories in corps.
Exhibit A just showed up.
Pres. Obama is the incarnate of H.L. Mencken's cynical prediction.
- H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Enjoyed his ACA infomercial in the Rose Garden the other day.
There's a future for him after the presidency hawking steak knives in the AM hours on cable TV.
Dr. Information
To sum up most democrats, I can give you two scenario's with different results. Take your local school system. We all know most are hurting, and most people believe schools need to make due with what they have….aka staying within budget, making necessary cuts and NO NEW TAXES. When asked for more money….aka new taxes…..these same democrats say NO and say NO very loudly. I do not want to give more money to a school if they aren't addressing the issues of why they are going over budget, say most democrats.
Our government is no different than a school system. They operate this country on a larger scale, pay, spend and tax, yet you get a different reaction from democrats. They think the country is running fine, that borrowing and printing money that this country doesn't have is ok. They think its fine to keep raising taxes to pay for bills and ignore the real issues that is plaguing this country. We have a national spending problem and our government is bloated.
Again, 2 similar situations yet 2 different mindsets for democrats. Crazy.
Yeah & you miss Jerry Stackhouse.
4shizzle has a prepared speech of a little over 2 minutes.
Give 4shizzle your undivided attention for his factual wisdom.
4shizzle has prerecorded his speech. Go ahead 4shizzle
4shizzle's speaks his factual wisdom.
Thanks Centauri , I loved it !
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6 Jul 2012, 12:56 AM
Hi all,
I'm using a textfield to perform a filtering on a gridstore. The called function is:
init: function(application) {
change: this.filterStore
filterStore: function(textfield, newVal, oldVal, eventOptions) {
console.log('Filtering the list remotely via server (filterValue=' + newVal + ').');
var store = Ext.getCmp('itgeraetelisteGridPanel').store;
Don't care about the "all"-property. The PHP-Script filters over all columns. This works fine as I see in Firebug. The result-JSON is everytime the right one. I don't when this happens (it is not all the time) but sometimes the store shows the unfiltered store. I also don't know from where the store has the data, because as I said the JSON has only the correctly filtered data.
Here is an extract from the returned JSON-data:
({"total":"39", "results":[
Here is the filterparameter given:
Is there a known bug, because it seems to be one. I tried to work around this with store.clearFilter(); and store.removeAll(true); as you see above but this also didn't work.
Thanks for your help,
6 Jul 2012, 1:21 PM
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With most of the nasal bones compacted, brachycephalic dogs tend to have trouble with the way their eyes seat in their heads.
First, recognize the prominence of the eyes on these dogs. The boney eye sockets are very shallow. This means that any blow to the back of the head, even a fairly minor one, can cause an eye to pop from its socket and require surgical replacement. This can happen also with too much pulling against the leash if the pet is wearing a collar. You may wish to consider a harness for your pet.
Sometimes, the eyes are so prominent that the lids cannot close all the way over the eyes. This will lead to irritation and drying of the center of the eye unless surgical correction is performed. If you cannot tell by watching your pet blink, watch as your pet sleeps. Dogs who sleep without closing their eyes all the way could do with surgical correction. Eyelid problems are common in these breeds. Look for persistent wetness around the eyes. In some dogs, the shape of the eyelids prevents normal tear drainage and there is an overflow. This problem cannot be corrected surgically and is not uncomfortable for the pet; however, there is a more serious condition which looks similar. This second condition involves the rolling inward of the eyelids such that the lashes rub on the eye. Surgery may be needed to correct this problem.
Chronic irritation will show as a pigmented area on the eye surface, especially on the side nearest the nose. This is hard to see without a bright light but if it is noted, a search for the cause is warranted. Depending on the location of the pigmentation, surgery may be recommended. | http://www.socalbulldogrescue.org/useful-resources/other-concerns/eye-problems/ | dclm-gs1-291270001 | false | false | {
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During the late 1880s, a fierce debate broke out in the pages of the libertarian periodical Liberty over egoistic versus natural-rights approaches to anarchism. (The various contributions to this debate will eventually be available in the Molinari Institute's online library; in the meantime, for details see Frank H. Brooks' The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology of Liberty (1881-1908) or Wendy McElroy's The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881-1908.) The egoists argued that there could be no rational grounds for any person to recognise any authority above her own reason or to place any goal before her own happiness. Hence they rejected 'morality' as metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, concluding that no one has any reason to accept any principles of conduct, anarchist or otherwise, except insofar as accepting those principles is strategically effective in promoting one's own interests. The consistent anarchist, they insisted, should accept no unchosen constraints, moral or political, on her own sovereign will. The natural-rights proponents argued that respect for the inviolability of other people's rights is a sine qua non of anarchism. Even if the egoist respects anarchist boundaries in practice ' something of which the natural-rightsers felt none too confident ' she must nonetheless reserve in principle an entitlement to impose her will on others should she judge doing so to be in her own interest. Hence the egoist must regard others' freedom as a revocable gift from herself to them, rather than an inherent right; but this is to take the attitude of a ruler to her subjects, not of an anarchist to her peers. The consistent anarchist, the natural-rightsers argued, must reject egoism in favour of a universal and binding moral law. I've long held that Greek philosophy and modern libertarianism are natural allies, tailor-made for each other ' not because they are similar but because through their very differences each can supply the deficiencies of the other. This debate in Liberty is another example. Both sides of this debate shared a common assumption: that respect for others' rights is not itself a component of our self-interest. From this assumption it follows that one must choose between putting one's own interests first and regarding other people's rights as having intrinsic weight. But this is precisely what is challenged by Classical Eudaimonism, the moral theory pioneered by Socrates, developed in different ways by Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, and accepted by nearly every major moral philosopher before the Renaissance, including Cicero and Thomas Aquinas. According to Classical Eudaimonism, self-interest is indeed the ultimate criterion of right action, but our true self-interest is to live a life of objective human flourishing. Acting in accordance with the virtue of justice is not a mere external means to such flourishing, it is part of that flourishing; hence self-interest properly understood requires that we place value ' and not merely strategic value either ' on behaving justly toward others. Hence the Classical Eudaimonist can happily embrace both the egoist's insistence of the paramount supremacy of self-concern and the natural-rightser's insistence on the sacred authority of justice. I may be asked: 'Well, it's nice that Classical Eudaimonism can reconcile the two sides of this debate, but why should we believe that Classical Eudaimonism is true?' My answer is that the fact that Classical Eudaimonism can reconcile the two sides of the Liberty debate is itself an extremely good reason for thinking it's true. (In saying this I'm relying on a Greek-style coherentist moral epistemology that I won't spend time defending here; but see my article The Basis of Natural Law, my book Reason and Value: Aristotle versus Rand, and my review of Leland Yeager's Ethics As Social Science.) Of course, the Classical Eudaimonists' views on the content of justice generally bore little resemblance to individualist anarchism. But that's why the ideas of the Greek philosophers require as much correction from libertarian ideas as libertarian ideas require correction from the Greeks. Symbiosis, man.
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Aug 5 2011: I wish to note however that my work has been focusing on allowing citizens in the Arab world and Iran to access political content blocked by their repressive regimes.
That is the focus of my work and it has been worthwhile because now in Syria, for example, activists are able to post revolution-related videos and stories on social networking websites that would have been inaccessible otherwise
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Aug 5 2011: I'm not sure what I think about it.
I certainly don't think there is any politics-related content that should be censored, as, in my point of view, in a very simplified idea, governments should work for their people and not the other way around.
What could probably be regarded as material that could be censored is related to things that would maybe be considered inappropriate globaly. But I'm not very sure there is such kind of material. Even pedophilia, which is one of the most hideous things a human being is able of doing, might be socially accepted in cultures that are different to mine.
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Aug 5 2011: You are right in that point. That brings us back to square one, which is 'what is that could be censored'. In fact, it takes us to the definition of censorship itself.
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Aug 5 2011: I have looked into some of the studies concerned with censorship in general, and arrived to some important observations. In his book, Anatomy of censorship: why the censors have it wrong, A scholar, Harry White referred to censorship in a 1997 book as
'suppression of certain material'
but he fell short of providing a complete definition of the word. Instead, he pointed to a definition dilemma because what constituted objectionable content in one country or culture may have been perfectly acceptable in another.
He described the problem of definition by noting that judgments to "what constitutes illicit expression vary over time and among jurisdictions" .
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Aug 5 2011: That's an interesting description, indeed.
To use the Wikileaks example, I don't really see hiding someone's name in order to preserve his/her health as censorship, although it could be seen as fitting White's concept.
I think it should be considered as a distinct institution, which is much more similar to not making one's bank details available online. But I might be stretching too much qhat I call "minimum standards of privacyprotection" by thinking the same rule should apply to governmental documents.
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Aug 5 2011: That is something worth examining. Classified government documents across the world are the responsibility of the government institutions themselves. If they do data protection right, there won't need to be a discussion about censorship of such content.
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Aug 5 2011: My concern is not as much, for the censored content, as for the ones who decide what is to be censored and what not.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who shall guard the guards?) When someone has this kind of authority, he/she may take advantage of it according to his/her own beliefs and ideals and decide in our place what is good for us.
This is the main reason I find censorship dangerous in all cases, except maybe for protecting innocent children from harmful material.
I don't have a fixed opinion though. I am open to constructive arguments.
Nice discussing with you Walid.
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Aug 5 2011: Thanks for this contribution Dimitra,
" I find censorship dangerous in all cases, except maybe for protecting innocent children from harmful material"
This is a bold statement but also I like that you are open to constructive arguments. The problem with the censors is that they are humans and while they have biases and beliefs, they are obliged to do some censoring. So it is a dilemma indeed.
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Aug 5 2011: I have worked in the last two years to try to find on what basis do certain regimes censor content. The most common answer I got was simply that they fear having people learn about certain ideas that could undermine their authority or put them in bad light.
That is censorship that I have been actively fighting in Yemen and several Arab countries. It is censorship that is unacceptable in my view.
• Aug 5 2011: So what is acceptable censorship?
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Aug 5 2011: That is a question that could be answered based on the context, culture and time. The bottom line is that sometimes, the harm of letting some information out is much more than suppressing this information. For example, the Rwandan Genocide could have been less bloody if radio programs calling for violence and hatred could have been stopped.
It is never a clear black and white issue.
• Aug 5 2011: That's the true definition of censorship.
Limiting the exposure of unknown information to hinder change.
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Aug 5 2011: Interesting. But then there is one minor problem. How could you know whether the intent of the censor is to hinder change?
• Aug 5 2011: Since this discussion is mainly philosophical, I'd just argue that anything you experience causes change. If it didn't there would be no need for censorship.
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Aug 5 2011: Certainly, Walid, any censorship that serves a political agenda is wrong.
As I said earlier, governments should work for the people, and trying to stop the spreading of ideas amongst the population (the very political censorship you bring to debate) should be treated as a crime against humanity, in my humble opinion.
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Aug 4 2011: Certainly. There is plenty of media which is leaked through the internet every day. (Ever hear of WikiLeaks?)
Believing that Internet censorship can be justified is synonymous with believing that censorship can be justified.
Why should the medium through which censorship is applied make any difference?
• Aug 5 2011: Walid, what is your take on Anonymous?
• Aug 5 2011: I also have to agree with shaun on the wiki-leak type of information available. We are kidding ourselves if we think that, in this world of true and actual war-times and country fighting country, if we think that all of our governments and military actions should be out in the open. You put EVERY body at risk when we start leaking tactics et el....however...that is a close line there, considering our government does so much that should not be hidden; considering that we cannot always believe that everything that we don't know won't hurt us.
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Aug 5 2011: Excellent point.
That is why I think that censorship cannot be discussed without putting it into context. Therefore, I don't agree with the notion that all censorship is bad. Sometimes it is a trade-off, where censorship could end up being the lesser evil.
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Aug 5 2011: Debi, what if governments started referring to other nations in internal "classified" material with the same protocol they do when discussing directly with another nation? I think there wouldn't be any need to have classified material if such happened.
I think classified material is just something that shouts "We lie!" "We" being the government, and the receivers of such lies being their own people and other nations.
It's nothing more than saying lies and deceit are part of the political game, and we not only allow it, we enforce it.
I prefer to believe in a world of true and seriousness.
• Aug 5 2011: Lets say however that instead of targeting governments and corporations, they target individual information, like where your children live, where you hide the extra key to your house or some secret physical vulnerability that could cause you instant death. How is it not the same for our military? There are innocent soldiers that could be harmed by the information leaked, yet they are not the ones responsible for the wrong doings of their superiors.
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Aug 5 2011: I agrre completely, Anthony.
What I find disgusting is that not even the superiors are responsible for their wrong doings. At least, not in a world where classified material is the rule, with public "sensible" information being the exception.
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Aug 5 2011: I think something needs to be brought in this discussion: I've always admired the internet for its capacity to "self-regulate".
Again, the example of child pornography fits here. Of course it can be found online, and it will always be able to find it. But in my opinion, child pornographers stay in the "shadowy alleys" of the internet not only because of the fear for "real life" punishment, but also because the internet community doesn't see it as an acceptable practice.
So is there really any point in putting a lot of effort to stop the spread of child pornography online? What I mean is I don't think it has any real effect. A child abuser or a child pornography appreciator will search for their sexual needs (and will probably find it) with or without the censorship.
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Aug 5 2011: I think I get your point.
In relation to that, I find that users in countries that filter Intenet porn end up finding ways to access it any way. There is a saying in Arabic that goes
الممنوع مرغوب
meaning what is prohibited is always desired.
So I would think that along with the short-term measures of removing such content online, there needs to be a long-term program to fight such phenomena on different levels, e.g., prosecution, rehabilitation, etc. because censorship alone is not enough.
• Aug 5 2011: That is an interesting take. It makes me wonder to what degree an organization like Anonymous is helping or hindering. The online community is technically the world at this point so why should anyone take the regulation of its' practices into their hands?
• Aug 5 2011: yes. i do not think that there is any circumstance under which heavy porn is justified....not only the use of it, but it's easy access to the young. http://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge.html gives just a little bit about the affect on young boys. I'm talking about its affect on all of the young, female, male; this is an animalistic behaviour that brings humans to lower then animal status. I won't even add 'in my opinion' because I have seen its surly work too much first hand, not only in family but in the wider world. It is degrading to not only women but our species in general (not counting the humorous yet not so far fetched idea that we, male/female are like two totally different species)
i would also include this censorship with the extreme violence and gore of murder...it is vile and feeds the lower monsters to easily and, again, lowers us to that of even less then animals.
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Aug 5 2011: Those are quite valid points.
However, there are problems when defining the word 'heavy' and 'extreme' as there is no set standard for that and I bet you will not always find one scale to measure with.
• Aug 5 2011: So Walid, for you, what are some examples of internet censorship being used for "good" or even practical reasons?
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Aug 5 2011: Using software on the home-level to protect your children from accessing pornography is one good use perhaps. Other uses could be preventing content that could identify the addresses or locations of individuals. That is where censorship is useful to protect privacy of individuals.
However, those are always context-based and should not be generalized.
Where do you think censorship could be legitimate?
• Aug 5 2011: I think in the UK there are actually laws forbidding public phone directories of private individuals. Only numbers for companies are available. This of course makes it very hard to track down someone, in case you've lost their number. In Sweden it is the opposite, you have to actively deny access from public phone records. Telemarketing would die as a profession if no public phone records were allowed. Though, I wonder if anyone would miss them. Same with "addressed direct marketing"; if they don't know where you live, they can't send it to you.
• Aug 5 2011: I believe that everyone has the right to express their thoughts and ideas, through every channel of communication, internet, television, radio, press or even at gatherings. What i don't believe is that one has the right to expose another's personal life and no mater your political or theological beliefs you always have keep in mind that exposing certain affairs publicly may create more harm than good. Diplomacy teaches us that there are many ways to state a point, and maybe what some may call censorship others may think its a wiser form of preventing gratter evil.
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Aug 5 2011: Well-said Diogo,
That is where the clash can sometimes happen between advocates of freedom of expression and advocates of privacy. The case of Wikileaks is a good example. Ultimately, even Wikileaks had to practice censorship to its own content.
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Aug 5 2011: Maybe it is the sexual element.
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Aug 5 2011: Interesting. But then again, we need to go back to the context. That is why it is extremely difficult to establish standard guidelines for censorship
• Aug 5 2011: Even outing known, perhaps even convicted pedophiles and murderers is questionable.
People receiving/viewing this information have severe problems knowing what to do with this knowledge. They immediately become victims of their own prejudices.
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Aug 5 2011: That's a legal problem to solve. Indeed, I never thought about it. What if someone mistakenly sends pedophile material to your email or stores it through a virus on your computer? Later on, if your device is discovered with this material, you become a victim and could be prosecuted.
• Aug 5 2011: That is yet another problem with the "burden of evidence".
How can I ever prove that material was not put there by someone else? That is not up to me!
I so enjoyed reading the book "Svenska hackare" by Daniel Goldberg & Linus Larsson. Time and time again they present cases where other people's computer systems are used just as stepping stones onto the next target. Another example would be that Microsoft and the US gov and several other are working extremely hard battling among other things the worm STUXNET, which apparently has infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world.
Can you be sure none of your systems are affected?
In other places, screenshots of someone's IP address were accepted as evidence in some cases of copyright infringement.
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Aug 5 2011: Indeed. Those difficult questions are still on the table with no real answer. Some people have become so paranoid that they are constantly reformatting their hard disks and re-installing their operating systems. It is really not the answer though.
• Aug 5 2011: Well we just recently had the issue of the man who was deemed responsible for finding Osama bin Laden be outed because of Photobucket. I'd say that when someone's personal health is being risked by having information accessible by everyone via the internet that data should be censored in some way. The difficult thing is deciding where that line is drawn. I think it is easy to speak in absolutes in theory but the truth is that some things need to be decided on a case by case basis.
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Aug 5 2011: I believe you are absolutely right Ryan,
There is a problem when dealing with censorship in absolute terms. It is rather impossible to really get an absolute bullet-proof system that would safe-guard freedom and democracy and at the same time protect privacy and other issues. So it is a dilemma!
And the Photobucket case is a good example.
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Aug 5 2011: What I find interesting in your note also is that privacy is a human right just as access to information, and there are occasions where the two might clash.
But the overwhelming cases of Internet censorship are to do with censoring of dissident political content, something practiced widely by China, Iran, Syria and other oppressive regimes.
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Aug 5 2011: One more thing about Wikileaks. Perhaps Wikileaks did censor certain content in their reports, for example, the names of certain CIA agents or collaborators out of fearing for their life. That is a legitimate form of censorship in my view because it may put other people in harm's way. Furthermore, censoring their names is not going to do much damage to the objective of the report itself, unless they are important persons.
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Aug 5 2011: First of all, let me thank TED for this opportunity and to engage with other TEDsters in the hot topic of Internet censorship, or censorship for that matter.
First in response to Sean Miller,
Thanks for the comment.
Let me first say that I agree that censorship in essence is the same in different mediums, but if we look into Internet censorship in particular has its own characteristics as it is much easier to censor and do it without transparency. That is often done in countries ruled by repressive regimes such as China, Syria, etc.
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0.050357 | <urn:uuid:233660ad-f927-4bc7-8308-ac21ae5a0839> | en | 0.944672 | It was a confluence of cultures as eight artists came together to worship Krishna.
Sri Krishna Gana Sabha’s Yagnaraman July Fest 2010, carries a theme of Confluence - 'Jai Bharati', with a wide panorama of six classical dance styles, eight artists and eight saint-poets, with a unified theme of Krishna Bhakthi, was an ideal inaugural.
The dance production, conceptualised by Bharatanatyam dancer Geetha Chandran, turned out to be full of surprises - the biggest being that it was a quiet production. Given the variety of inputs this was unexpected. And though one felt let down by the straight-jacketed choreography, one felt it helped the tone of the production remain muted. If the presentation allowed for quietude, he harmonious musical score (Pt. Madhup Mudgal) and the spectacular backdrop ushered in divinity, so rich in artistry were they.
The other surprise was the use of non-native music and lyrics - like Kathak to a Purandaradasa kriti or Bharatanatyam to a Raskhan love poem. The music was a true confluence of sounds and echoes - as the Pung or the Manipuri mridangam in a Meera bhajan and the Edakkai and Maddalam within Andal’s poetry.
‘Jai Bharati’ opened on a meditative note with the blowing of the conch on a darkened stage with only the dark-hued Krishna statue (replica of Radharaman temple deity) lit on the doorway of the Krishna pavilion. The melodious 'Namo Nalina Nethraya' invocation on the same deity allowed each dancer to pay their obeisance while a sharp spotlight caught their individual prayers. The effect was so artistic, it was a pity there was no more of it.
The dancers presented Krishna compositions as solos or twosomes. Manipuri (Guru Singhajeet Singh and Charu Sija Mathur) with 'Koyi Kahiyo Re' (Yaman, Meerabai) was one of the best. The Sankirtan style of devotional music and dance with the dancers as gopis and gopas, and a delectable Ras-Lila between Radha and Krishna were highlighted. Subdued artistry with wonderful music and accompaniment (Sayeed Zafar Khan - sitar) created visual poetry.
The similarity between the Andal kondai (hair bun) and a Mohiniyattom dancer’s Kalamandalam hairstyle aside, the short excerpts from Nachiar Tirumozhi and Tiruppavai (‘Vaaranam Ayiram,’ ‘Oruthi Maganai’ and the line ‘Vallanai Mayanai’ from ‘Elle Ilankiliye’) were delineated with touching simplicity by Bharati Shivaji. Her closing frieze as Andal, with the knee-length garland and the appropriate Bharatanatyam mudras, won her a special round of applause.
The Kuchipudi duo (Guru Jaya Rama Rao and Vanashree) adopted the Andhra Natya tradition while presenting Jayadeva’s Ashtapadis (‘Yahi Madhava’ and ‘Priye Charusheele’) as a conversation between an angry and hurt Radha (slow tempo) and a repenting and cajoling Krishna (romantc misram). It was a studied and dignified effort.
Raskhan’s poem ‘Prema Yani Sri Radhika’ (Sudh Sarang) and Surdas bhajan, ‘Bin Gopal’ (Basant) were both untouched musically. As the glorious music filled the air, Geetha Chandran (Bharatanatyam) and Madhavi Mudgal (Odissi) brought out the moods of Sringara - in union and in separation. Geetha introduced a sense of a bold Abhisarika nayika who is not afraid to proclaim her love to the world as an aside during the tender scene on the banks of the Yamuna. The mood music for Madhavi enhanced the effect of the piece that was filled with symbolisms of hopelessness and pain of separation like a wilting flower and delusion. Madhavi was one with the yearning soul.
‘Jagadodharana’ (Kapi, Purandaradasa) was the only piece in which the music seemed less than divine. The conversion of a wordy Carnatic piece into an akara and ragam filled avatar did not happen smoothly.
Despite this, Shovana Narayan’s Kathak conveyed its suggestive quality while enacting the Kaliya and Draupadi incidents.
While 'Jai Bharati' was artistically disappointing, it scored as a devotional offering.
Krishna Pavilion
One of the highlights of ‘Jai Bharati’ was the backdrop of a Krishna Pavilion created by Sri Jugal Kishore and team from the Radharaman Temple, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. Using locally procured banana stem,
the seven craftsmen created the many-pillared facade on site taking over two days. Intricate flower motifs decorated the structure with each petal held in place by simple paper pins. And placed on the doorway of this beautiful edifice was the replica of Gopal Bhatt Goswami’s Radharaman idol.
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Gob: Of course, she is. Oh, but I can see where the misunderstanding is. You didn't know. (yelling to Nellie in the background) Maybe we can give him a family discount!
Michael: Family discount is right, Gob. This is the sister I've been talking about.
Gob: Maybe I should have been getting a family rate ... (breaking down) Oh, my God.
Michael: Other than Lindsay, of course.
Gob: Oh! Lindsay!
(as Franklin) Like to see a whore that does that! (as himself) Not the carrying the weight part, but ... on the other hand, if it's free.
Franklin: My name is Judge.
Gob: Whose name is Judge?
Franklin: My name is.
Michael: Okay.
Gob: That's a silly name.
Michael: That's enough.
Franklin: Judge, my name.
Gob: Yes, I am judging your name. It am silly.
Franklin: Is.
Michael: Please stop.
Gob: Oh, now, you're correcting my grammar.
Michael: Hey. What's this?
Gob: Just practicing my testimony. Needed a fake witness box.
Michael: And you couldn't have just taken my stuff off the desk first, or unplugged my computer?
Gob: Justice is swift, Michael.
Gob: The boy who couldn't cry.
Michael: Gob, pal, how about you? Can you find some work?
Gob: Oh, sure, Michael. As what, a waiter? Can I get you something, madam?
Lucille: I will have a vodka, though.
(Lucille and Gob laugh)
Gob: What? Oh.
Michael: You know, if you'd ever accidentally worked a day in your life, you'd know that there's no indignity in it.
Gob: Great. She'll have a vodka.
Gob: If you didn't have adult onset diabetes, I wouldn't mind giving you a little sugar.
Mrs. Van Skoyk: Oh, Gob ... you could charm the black off a telegram boy.
Narrator: Ok, we should tell you right now. She is the one who dies!
Michael: You just thought you'd put the stand right here?
Michael: Don't call it that.
It's okay, son. We'll figure it out. When we do, we'll have the last laugh. We'll be the laughing stock of the boardwalk.
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0.044844 | <urn:uuid:3455f205-0a56-4496-9105-b65d807130cd> | en | 0.984199 | Though Blake Shelton is a known funny man, he’s dealt with his fair share of pain and heartbreak. At the age of 14, Blake lost his then 24-year-old brother Richie Shelton in a tragic car accident.
Richie’s death deeply impacted the singer and his entire family, but after Blake’s father, Rick Shelton, passed away in early 2012, Blake decided to co-write a song with wife Miranda Lambert about the pain of losing his brother.
“Over You” was created one night when Blake and Miranda were flipping through the channels and happened upon his Backstory episode on GAC-TV. After seeing Blake’s father talk about the tragic loss of Richie, the couple turned off the TV and started writing.
“It was really a great moment between us,” Miranda told Taste of Country. “It was like we moved to a deeper level, not just in our relationship, but also, we respect each other as artists, and being able to write something that personal with each other was really cool.”
And though Blake was incredibly proud of the song, he knew he could never record it and perform it multiple times so Miranda did and put it on her album.
In 2012, “Over You” won Song of the Year at the CMA awards, and on Season 3 of The Voice, Blake’s winning contestant Cassadee Pope sang her own rendition, which broke records on iTunes reaching No. 1 and staying there for several weeks.
The song’s resonance is a product of the painful backstory that went into writing it, and Blake calls it one of the “proudest moments of his career.”
Did you know about Blake’s brother Richie or the history behind the song, “Over You”? Tell us below!
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Behavior to avoid to get big ideas off the ground
By Les McKeown | Yahoo Small Business
Feel like nothing ever gets done? Here's how you can figure out what's slowing you down.
Stop and think for a moment.
How many great decisions have you made this year that never got off the ground? Do you feel that you and your team are coming up with smart, competition-beating ideas, but you've lost the ability to execute on those ideas?
If you're missing the sense of achievement that comes from translating ideas into results-delivering reality, then chances are, it's because of one or more of these four reasons:
1. You have no idea how decisions are really made. Whether you manage a business, division, department, project, or team, you have to understand the path of information. How does information arrive into the group, how is it processed, and how is it turned into action? Understanding this process is the single most crucial determinant of your ability to execute.
Once you understand the process, ask yourself: Does the information flow get snarled? Does a decision have to be run by three different people before being approved? Or does your accounting software fail to give you high-quality data in a timely fashion? These examples are gaps in the process--gaps that will come between the ability of your group to make a decision.
You may want to really map out this process. Trace the path of the last two or three decisions your team made that weren't effectively and efficiently executed. Map where the necessary information came from, the main communication lines and key decision points.
When you're done, if you can easily make sense of what you see, all is good. If it looks like a rat's nest of intertwined, overlapping, dead-end-reaching lines, then you need to simplify your group's decision-making process.
2. You're a micromanager (Yes, you!). The ability of a group to execute effectively can be crushed by just one micromanager.
You know the type: The person that insists everything is 'run by them' and then becomes so overwhelmed by the volume of stuff being 'run by them' that they can barely come up for air.
Look around. Can you see the micromanager in your group? They're easy to spot. Find them and make them stop.
But if you can't find one, here's the thing: It's probably you. Micromanaging is so easy to see in others, but is much harder to see in ourselves.
Here's a full-proof test: Pick out the single most productive person in your group. Watch closely at how they get things done. If it includes finding multiple innovative ways to bypass you, then you're the problem.
3. You're rushing the decision. Remember when your business was small and life was simple? When a board meeting was a ride up in the elevator? When you could make three great decisions before breakfast and have them implemented by lunch? When communicating a decision was as simple as saying it out loud, because everyone was within hearing distance?
Now, life isn't that simple. Your business has grown and now has many more moving parts. And, chances are that the growth in complexity happened iteratively, over time, and like the proverbial frog in slowly heated water, you haven't noticed the effect on your decision-making.
Here's the difference: In the smaller, simpler business, you can make a decision fast, and implement it quickly. Now you have a larger, more complex business, making decisions fast actually slows down the implementation process--sometimes crippling it entirely.
Why? Because you made the decision so fast you didn't take into account all the variables (people, customers, systems) involved in your now more complex business.
Once a business has grown beyond infancy, speedy and effective implementation depends on slower decision-making. Not slow--you don't need to descend into to paralysis by analysis--just slower. Take a little longer to make the initial decision, and watch the rate of implementation rise.
4. You've worn everyone out. You're a passionate, engaged leader. You're intellectually curious, innovative, and not afraid of risk. You're full of great ideas and keen to implement them. Your people respect and admire you... and they're exhausted.
Do your team members avoid you on Monday mornings? Do they look apprehensive when you return from a two-week vacation?
If so, it's because they know weekends and holidays are dangerous times because that's when you come back to the office with five brilliant, must-do projects--even though they haven't finished implementing last month's brilliant, must-do projects.
If you suspect this might be you, then do yourself and your team a favor. Keep a list of all current projects. When you have a blinding flash of creativity which produces a new project, instead of simply adding it to the list, make a conscious, explicit decision about which existing project to drop off the list in return.
You'll find that compared with your existing priorities, many of those 'brilliant must-do's' just aren't that important, and those that do make the list will stand much more chance of actually being implemented.
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Looking for CHEAP breakfast around Rosemead at 8am...
I'm looking for some good breakfast around Rosemead, SGV area tommorow at 8am. At school we have a "latestart day" so we go to class tommorow at 9:20am and I would love to grab breakfast beforehand at 8am after my first class.
It would be for a party of 2 or 4. Thanks for any help!
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1. How about breakfast at Shau May, on Garfield and Garvey (in the Garfield Lincoln centre, next to ABC Cafe and down from Quickly)?
Random Chinese food as breakfast!
And HELLA cheap. I'd be shocked to hear that anything on the breakfast menu costs more than about $3.50.
1. What time do they open? I ended up eating at IHOP, >_> poor me.
I'd love to eat at Shau May, I've been by it many times but opted to just eat at ABC.
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1. re: Disturbed_Azn
11 if i recall correctly -- 10 at the earliest.
1. re: ipsedixit
if it's shau may on garfield/valley, they open quite early. i've been there, for my fresh soy milk, as early at 7am.
1. re: henrychan888
I'm a white guy who sometimes works in this area and would love to find a place that serves traditional chinese food items early in the morning. Should I try this place?
1. re: HBfoodie
If you're concerned about the language factor, Shau May might be a good stop. IIRC, it was fairly user friendly.
However, IMHO, there are several places closeby that have much better traditional Taiwanese/No. Chinese-style breakfasts (as opposed to Southern-style dim sum, which is a different beast altogether), but they may not be too convenient if you don't speak/read Chinese. You may want to try this place; it has a bilingual menu and is quite good.
Mei Lin Tou Chiang: 1275 E. Valley Blvd. (New Ave.), Alhambra (626) 284-1868
Decent, hole-in-the-wall joint that’s hidden away in the strip mall with Lee’s Sandwiches. Wide variety of baozi, jiaozi, and zongzi. Baozi are quite good, if unspectacular; flavors a bit more subdued than some of the other places. I quite like the pickled veggie-pork bun (suancai roubao) and chive bun (jiuciabao). Soy milk is also good (though once it tasted a bit “skunky”).
Here's link to a thread on traditional Chinese breakfast items with descriptions and recommendations.
Note: most of these places open very early in the morning (6-7am)
2. yes you should HBfoodie.. shao may specifically has shanghainese style cuisine...
you can also try Macao Street on Garvey in Monterey Park. They have breakfast as cheap as 1.95 with coffee. This is cantonese style.
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Would these places serve their regular menu items or only chinese breakfast meals?
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• texasbroker2000 texasbroker2000 Nov 5, 2010 1:42 PM Flag
If Treasury and Fed work together,
You're right it will work great for the banks...borrow from the window at 0 and buy Treasuries....shore up capital.
I think that they're doing this because there is going to be a big write down on the real estate debt assets banks hold.
The fed is getting ahead of the wave and giving them the ability to raise their required capital now.
To think QE2 is going to spur lending is a misguided message.....I think it's a futile attempt to shore up banks capital reserves once they face the reality and start writing off the debt.
Banks have been holding hoping for the real estate market to recover but that's not happening. With long rates in the 4s,% there should be more demand but there is not.
It's really interesting that the market thinks QE2 is a good thing and not an indication that the economy is on the edge.
If the economy is in recovery why is it necessary?
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V-Day Pileup: On Silence and Violence
The following has been cross-posted at NOLAFemmes.
More and more, I'm finding it cannot be avoided, no matter how hard women try. We are still surrounded by people who would put us in what they think is "our place," a position that tends to be highly restrictive on any and all physical and mental levels.
Tell me I'm crazy. Go on and talk down to me, I dare you.
Events and discussions will occasionally converge that lead me to a boiling point on this subject...
Why it's disgusting and ignorant of you to imply that a woman caught large Mardi Gras beads in a risque manner, for instance. Yeah, it's one of the oldest, sexist, dumbest Carnival tropes, but it does get tiring after a while. I caught huge, LSU-emblazoned beads just from being at the start of the Thoth parade route. Next Carnival season, I'm gonna ask the next guy I see with giant beads on what he flashed for them.
The horrific news about the murder of paraplegic Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, who was an advocate for victims of sexual abuse.
Controversy over the Eve Ensler-organized One Billion Rising Campaign, which I only just heard about today, but I also wonder about its do many other women around the world.:
I had occasion to speak with someone about the recent kidnapping, robbery, beating, and rape of a young woman in the Garden District, and large chunks of the conversation revolved around the same tropes that come up whenever something like this happens to any woman. It all came around to our living in a world where women are taught "not to be raped," and the suspicion that comes up is generally directed first against the woman who is the victim rather than the perpetrators. When a victim's first move is to tell her would-be comforters and shelterers "Don't touch me. I'm evidence," then we know who the burden of proof is on.
This hasn't ended with the capture of the criminals and their upcoming trial. Though a large amount of funds has been raised thus far for the victim's rehabilitation, she will need far more than that - keep contributing here. This friend of a friend of mine will be grateful.
I ask you to also consider that state budget cuts will likely destabilize what structures there are to assist women who have been victims of domestic violence as well - among them New Orleans' own Metropolitan Center for Women and Children. They accept donations of time or money here.
Know of any other needy organizations in the city or state that help female victims of abuse, rape, or violence? Please contribute names and links in the comments. It'll be the best Valentine's Day gift you give. Honest.
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God Delusion author Richard Dawkins was asked this very question a while back:
Dawkins: The philosophical question of determinism is a very difficult question. It's not one I discuss in this book, indeed in any other book that I've ever talked about. Now an extreme determinist, as the questioner says, might say that everything we do, everything we think, everything that we write, has been determined from the beginning of time in which case the very idea of taking credit for anything doesn't seem to make any sense. Now I don't actually know what I actually think about that, I haven't taken up a position about that, it's not part of my remit to talk about the philosophical issue of determinism. What I do know is that what it feels like to me, and I think to all of us, we don't feel determined. We feel like blaming people for what they do or giving people the credit for what they do. We feel like admiring people for what they do. None of us ever actually as a matter of fact says, "Oh well he couldn't help doing it, he was determined by his molecules. Maybe we should… I sometimes… Um… You probably remember many of you would have seen Fawlty Towers. The episode where Basil where his car won't start and he gives it fair warning, counts up to three, and then gets out of the car and picks up a tree branch and thrashes it within an edge of his life. Maybe that's what we all ought to... Maybe the way we laugh at Basil Fawlty, we ought to laugh in the same way at people who blame humans. I mean when we punish people for doing the most horrible murders, maybe the attitude we should take is "Oh they were just determined by their molecules." It's stupid to punish them. What we should do is say "This unit has a faulty motherboard which needs to be replaced." I can't bring myself to do that. I actually do respond in an emotional way and I blame people, I give people credit, or I might be more charitable and say this individual who has committed murders or child abuse of whatever it is was really abused in his own childhood. And so again I might take a …
Dawkins: I sort of do. Yes. But it is an inconsistency that we sort of have to live with otherwise life would be intolerable. But it has nothing to do with my views on religion - it is an entirely separate issue.
Questioner: Thank you.
Indeed, it usually is the guy in the prisoner's dock claiming that he is not responsible for his actions, rather than the guy in the author's booth.
G. K. Chesterton, an early twentieth century Catholic journalist and author, wrote, regarding free will:
It is absurd to say that you are especially advancing freedom when you only use free thought to destroy free will. The determinists come to bind, not to loose. They may call their law the "chain" of causation. It is the worst chain that ever fettered a human being. You may use the language of liberty, if you like, about materialistic teaching, but it is obvious that this is just as inapplicable to it as a whole as the same language when applied to a man locked up in a madhouse. You may say, if you like, that the man is free to think himself a poached egg. But it is surely a more massive and important fact that if he is a poeached egg, he is not free to eat, drink, sleep, walk, or smoke a cigarette. Similarly, you may say, if you like, that the bold determinist speculator is free to disbelieve in the reality of the will. But it is a much more massive and important fact that he is not free to raise, to curse, to thank, to justify, to urge, to punish, to resist temptations, to incite mobs, to make New Year resolutions, to pardon sinners, to rebuke tyrants or even to say "thank you" for the mustard.
and also,
Some Determinists fancy that Christianity invented a dogma like free will for fun -a mere contradiction. This is absurd. You have the contradiction whatever you are. Determinists tell me, with a degree of truth, that Determinism makes no difference to daily life. That means - that although the Determinist knows men have no free will, yet he goes on treating them as if they had.
I like the part about mysticism vs. madness.
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Better gun control wasn't even mentioned
A national U.S. video game registry seems like a reasonable idrea, right? Photo: Screenshot
Published: September 17, 2013, 3:39 pm
Updated: 2 years ago
During a segment focused on discussing Monday’s mass shooting at a Washington Navy Yard, Fox and Friends’ Elisabeth Hasselbeck, suggested perhaps some sort of national violent video game ownership registry should be created.
She also stated “the left” is trying to blame the mass shooting on “gun control” when really, “shooting video games” are to blame.
“You know, certainly, this topic has already taken a turn again, the left’s already making this about gun control,” said Hasselbeck.
The shows co-host Steve Doocy explained the accused shooter, Aaron Alexis, is thought to have taken a shotgun onto the Navy Yard and then could have used it to acquire a handgun and an AR-15 assault rifle from within the military facility.
“Is this about gun control or is this about a guy who has a history of drinking a lot, playing video games a lot and a few shooting incidents?” said co-host Brian Kilmeade.
The show also discussed the fact that the shooter, Alexis, has a friend who’s stated he’s obsessed with video games and that he needed to be fed while playing them, highlighting the severity of his addiction.
The best quote from the show is below though:
“Are more people susceptible to playing video games?” Hasselbeck wondered. “Is there a link between a certain age group or [demographic] in 20- to 34-year-old men, perhaps, that are playing these video games and their violent actions?”
“What about frequency testing? How often has this game been played? I’m not one to get in there and say, monitor everything, but if this, indeed, is a strong link, right, to mass killings then why aren’t we looking at frequency of purchases per person? And also, how often they’re playing and maybe they time out after a certain hour.”
Yes this really happened and yes, someone on television actually suggested the creation of some sort of national violent video game registry. This seems like a completely reasonable idea, right?
While discussing the potential link between violent media, particularly video games and real world violent behaviour is important, suggesting ludicrous ideas like this is laughable.
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An alternate beginning for Jim and Blair's partnership. When Jim responds to assist a crew of EMTs, the patient, in the grip of a bad acid trip, talks to him in Chopec and sees him as a panther.
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Turning Tables by DragonTemple6
Thor drags Loki back home to Asgard, there to be handed a punishment that had never even entered his head as being possible. Forced into a role he despises, and a duty he finds repulsive, can the God of Mischief and Chaos overcome the wants and desires of those around him that only seek to control him? Can he defy fate and the attentions of one he no longer feels anything for, except hate?
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5 days ago
The Quiet Rise by esama
I once planned a more serious story with similar premise - in which Shire grew into a vast Empire that encompassed the entirety of Eriador via the merit of huge hobbit families and highly advanced farming methods and trading - and other things. In the end I never wrote the more serious story, so this is a little less serious take on the history, with no actual real thought put into it aside from "oooh, what if Hobbits had this?"
One day I will write a story where Hobbits have all the advancements in this story - gunpowder, universities, vaccinations, and the lake Evendim is basically a reservoir powering the hobbit pipelines and sewer systems - but Hobbits don't realise that it's in any way special to have these things, and no one else knows they have these things. And then Bilbo goes out and sees the world with the Dwarves and comes back with all these horror tales about how "Most of them don't even know how to read!" and "They don't wash their hands!" and "I swear one healer tried pitch mercury at me as a cure for common cold!" ...and then Hobbits take over the world with vastly superior technology and stuff, to save it from itself. [5238]
Moon's Notes: No plot, this is pure brilliant worldbuilding! How Hobbits created a modern progressive Empire accidentally in order to make their lazy lives easier.
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The Stark Files by saesama
Tony Stark finally meets his match in intelligence, gusto, and metal content.
More a series of drabbles than a single story. Lovely bittersweet futurefic ending!
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Chameleon 14/? by Velvet_Mace
Written for This Prompt: In a world filled with Sentinels with heightened senses, strength and endurance, and Guides, with seductive empathy, who knew that seeming "ordinary" could be John's greatest strength.
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Then Us by skyler_press
In a primal age, a pack of werewolves threatens Chief Stilinski's tribe. Desperate for help, he calls upon an old ally pack, the Hales. The Alpha, Derek Hale, is willing to help protect the Stilinski tribe in exchange for integrating pack and tribe. Chief Stilinski concedes, but at a high cost - his only son and heir.
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21 days ago
It's Insanity, but... by rosepetals42
The doorbell interrupts what had turned out to be quite the epic shoe hunt but, really, he’s grateful for the break. Or at least, he is until he heads down the stairs to grab the door, trips over a stuff animal of some kind, bashes his head on the wall and barely manages to catch himself from falling down the entire flight of stairs. As with all things, Stiles would like to state, for the record, that this is Scott’s fault.
Or: Scott and Stiles are raising seven children. Derek is the entertainer they hire for a birthday party (not a clown though, he's very specific on that fact.)
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Charles is the uke son of the pack's Alpha and is about to enter into his first heat cycle to find a mate. But his father is aging and will not be able to hold his position as Alpha for much longer. To avoid his own death at the feet of a challenger his father offers up Charles in a mating.
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Smoldering by ladydragon76 [Archive of Our Own]
The Plan is put in motion, now all Starscream and Soundwave have to do it hold the course and hope it works. Sequel to Burning.
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Burning by ladydragon76 [Archive of Our Own]
Megatron forced his Second and Third into a spark bond. Starscream’s not pleased, but maybe, just maybe it’s not as bad as he thought it was.
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25 days ago
Option C by Jilly James (Jilly)
Following an energy source, Rodney drifts into a sacred temple he was warned not to enter. There are only three ways out of the situation. Option A – leave Rodney behind. Option B – shoot a bunch of people and hope they all get out alive. Or Option C – get married. At least, that’s what they think Option C is.
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The Nogitsune leaves something behind in Stiles, something that twists him, breaks him, cracks his mind, and turns him not quite human. In order to heal and save him, he needs a strong anchor to the world. A mating bond with a werewolf is the best to way to achieve this and Derek is the only viable option. While both he and Stiles have an unspoken desire for the other, Stiles doesn't want to bond with Derek because he thinks he deserves punishment, not to be given something he wants on a silver platter. Derek just feels guilty as always, more so because he's forcing the bond. Will these two broken young men heal themselves and each other and find their way to a strong and abiding love? Can they control or even get rid of the thing lurking inside of Stiles that wants to hurt everyone he loves? And can Derek ever shake off the past and move forward?
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Perfect Match (if you squint a bit) by elephantfootprints
"Look at us! I'm straight, you keep severed heads in the fridge, it's hardly a match made in heaven."
From the prompt: "In a world where people report being generally unsatisfied with their romantic lives and divorces are at an all time high, the quality of relationships are plummeting. Healthy relationships lead to happy citizens, which ultimately help form a better society and country. So, the British government has decided to take matters into hand by setting up a program to match a person with their best possible romantic partner."
Moon's Notes: Excellent worldbuilding and I am in awe with the amount of actual communication going on, yay! The relationship development felt very organic thanks to the "marriage guidance", with the only exception being -oddly enough - the sex. The sex was both unnecessary and out of a character for them each. Them choosing to have sex under the circumstances felt like giving in to peer pressure. They could have still had a perfectly happy relationship without the 'required' sexual aspect. It would also have leant more weight to the underlying issue and made the ending make better sense. But still, overall, a very satisfying read!
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"Lesson the first, child," he says softly. "Survive."
[The Old Man adopts Loki Silvertongue.]. Series of tightly-connected drabbles which tell a great story.
Moon's Notes: I think I might have some of these bookmarked already from LJ. Check!
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In their defence, the dead man they shot woke up again almost immediately. In their further defence, that didn't normally happen, even in Egypt, so they could be excused some mildly violent curiosity on the subject, couldn't they?
Shortly after the first movie, Rick, Evie and Jonathan meet Methos. It goes surprisingly well, really. After a few hiccups.
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Derek Hale is pretty enough to be mistaken for a test tube creation. X-522 is just looking for a Unit to join far away from Manticore.
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When the FBI's BAU follow a serial killer to Haven, Maine, they find that murder and mystery are a lot more complicated in the unassuming sea-side town. The local cops don't want them there, the crime scenes don't make sense, and it doesn't take long for them to get in over their heads.
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Written for this prompt where, still dealing with Phil's death and Loki's mindcontrol, Clint moves into the tower and, the Avengers come across a series of odd or surprising behaviours. He is perfectly pleasant and fairly normal (for a world class assassin...) for the most part, so none of these oddities are concerning on their own, but slowly lead to the Avengers realising that while Clint basically worshipped the man, Coulson was quite emotionally abusive.
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One Hundred One Night Stands. by Sophia_Bee
Charles has a rule. Never fuck the same guy twice. When he refuses to see Erik again after a one night stand, Erik goes about trying to get Charles to violate that rule using accents and disguises.
fanfic slash fandom:x-men pairing:erik/charles genre:humour genre:romance genre:pwp trope:reincarnation kink:thing!play length:ficlet rating:r author:sophia_bee web:ao3
9 weeks ago
Illegal Alien by TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel
Loki fell from the Bifrost. He landed on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i. He's not the first non-Midgardian to end up there, as it turns out.
fanfic gen fandom:thor fandom:other genre:au genre:crossover genre:kidfic genre:hurt/comfort trope:family trope:outside_pov length:ficlet rating:g author:tardisistheonlywaytotravel web:ao3
11 weeks ago
Package Deal by Aurum
Mike needs a hacker and that's what he gets. He doesn't really need a stalker, but it turns out that they're kind of a package deal.
fanfic pre-slash fandom:suits fandom:leverage genre:crossover genre:humour trope:outside_pov length:ficlet rating:pg13 author:aurum web:ao3
12 weeks ago
Knot Again by prettylittlementirosa
Our friends they don’t know how to knock
But dammit Derek I love your cock
So stick it in
It’s not a sin
To knot me so hard I cannot walk
Or: Five times Derek and Stiles are interrupted while tied together by Derek's knot, and one time they're not.
(I promise this is not actually 5k of knotting limericks. Sorry if that disappoints you.)
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:pwp genre:kink trope:fivethings kink:knotting kink:voyeurism length:short rating:nc17 author:prettylittlemetirosa web:ao3
december 2014
Beginning Again at the End by MK_Yujji [Archive of Our Own]
Logan finds himself returned to a world that is more different from the one he left behind than he could have ever imagined.
fanfic gen slash fandom:x-men trope:timetravel trope:reincarnation genre:au length:short rating:g author:mk_yujji web:ao3 note:bigbang
december 2014
Come with Me and Walk the Longest Mile by DevilDoll
"Stiles shouldn't accept rides from werewolves he meets behind abandoned convenience stores." In which the zombie apocalypse is just one of their worries.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf genre:au genre:adventure genre:dark trope:omegaverse trope:apocalyptic kink:virgin kink:heatcycle length:novel rating:nc17 author:devildoll web:ao3
december 2014
Omegamart by Devil Doll
"I’ll take that one," Derek said. His voice came out hoarse, embarrassingly so. "The one in the middle."
The trader wasn’t impressed with Derek’s choice. “That one is beneath someone of your station,” he said with shocking bluntness, while the omega fluttered his eyelashes at Derek, hips swaying suggestively. “He’s well-bred,” the trader continued, “but his hygiene is poor and he acts the vixen. I cannot guarantee he’s…untouched. The other, on the right—”
"I’ll take the one in the middle," Derek said again, firmly.
Moon's Notes: Sort of slavefic, but Stiles seems to be perfectly happy with being bought so I don't know. No squicks so far.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au trope:omegaverse kink:claiming kink:knotting kink:heatcycle length:short rating:nc17 author:devildoll web:tumblr note:wip
december 2014
Anger Management by knightshade
After threatening Maybourne, Jack gets sent to anger management training. Hammond can order him to go, but he can’t order him to be happy about it.
fanfic gen fandom:sg-1 genre:humour length:ficlet rating:g author:knightshade web:ao3
november 2014
Occam's Razor by MissAnnThropic
When Stiles goes to sleep, he’s a junior in high school. He wakes up in a world where he’s twenty-four and married to Derek Hale. Stiles just can’t seem to catch a break.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:angst genre:futurefic genre:characterstudy trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:reincarnation trope:timetravel length:novel rating:nc17 author:missannthropic web:ao3
november 2014
Issues by so_shhy
In which Steve has a crippling crush on Tony Stark, Tony is oblivious and obnoxious, and Bucky expresses his disapproval via passive-aggressive comics.
fanfic pre-slash het fandom:avengers genre:au genre:humour genre:metafic length:short rating:pg13 author:so_shhy web:ao3
november 2014
Wear My Name by Lunarflare14
Harvey has always put on a good show at work. He has put a lot of effort into the smoke and mirrors act, and it had worked to his advantage- until now. Backed into a corner by a law he can't side-step, he decides Mike is his only way out. They're getting married, and Mike really has no say in it. Alludes to but does not strictly follow the plot of the movie "The Proposal"(2009)
The main plot is complete. Extra futurefic epilogues keep being added.
fanfic slash fandom:suits pairing:harvey/mike genre:romance genre:kidfic genre:fluff trope:family trope:pretending length:novel rating:pg13 author:lunarflare14 web:ao3
november 2014
Werewolf courtship 101 by Arabwel
Step one: Obtain the alpha’s permission.
Step two: Signal your intentions to your intended with a gift of wolfsbane.
Step three: Show your ability to protect your intended
Step three: Prove that you can provide….
Peter’s thoughts crashed into a halt when Stiles’ words impacted him with their full force.
Allison’s dad saved your sorry ass.
Allison Argent’s dad.
The same goddamn Argent who had given Peter the wolfsbane that was the reason Peter had this hangover. The wolfsbane retrieved from a witch’s lair, while hunting said cat-murdering psycho bitch, with the cost of a ruined shirt and blood loss for Argent in lieu of missing internal organs.
Or: When Peter explains to Stiles how to woo Derek properly, Chris Argent's recent actions are seen a new light. But surely the hunter could not be courting a werewolf? No, it must all be a mistake, a coincidence.
Moon's Nots: Fun little courtship fic, featuring good but still sassy Sane!Peter. Mainly Chris/Peter, with side Derek/Stiles. Desperately needs a beta, but readable.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:humour genre:romance trope:family trope:revelation kink:claiming length:novel rating:pg13 author:arabwel web:ao3 note:wip
november 2014
Stilinski & Associates by ebjameston
“You want me to arrange a political marriage for your son?” Stiles repeats dumbly.
“It wouldn’t be the first time you’ve done this,” Talia Hale says, dark eyes twinkling over her impeccable blue pantsuit. “Senator Harvey and Elise’s match worked out perfectly, and they’re actually quite in love, from what I hear.”
“George Harvey was a little-known senatorial candidate from Kansas at the time, Madam President,” Stiles says slowly. “Your son – you, Mr. Hale,” he directs toward the man pacing tiny circles behind the president’s chair, “are the nation’s most eligible bachelor. Literally. I saw it on the cover of People.”
(Stiles is a political fixer. Derek is the president's son. I've been watching too much Scandal.)
Fusion fic, first of a planned series.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:crossover genre:fusion genre:characterstudy trope:family trope:bamfness trope:betrayal length:novel rating:nc17 author:ebjameston web:ao3 note:series
november 2014
Patient Zero by ELG
The ghost of Jean Grey insists that Scott Summers is still alive and Logan should return to Alkali Lake to look for him. Contains physical abuse of a major character (Cyclops) and attempted rape of the same (by Sabretooth). (Basically a movie canon fixit fic.)
Moon's Notes: I like it because even though it's the 2000s Movieverse canon, it still remembers that the original comics canon characterization of Scott was smart, sarcastic, tough little shit who is used to surviving on his own. That's the Scott I grew up knowing, but rarely see anymore in these Wolverine obsessed times.
fanfic gen pre-slash fandom:x-men pairing:scott/logan genre:au genre:adventure genre:hurt/comfort trope:amnesia length:long rating:pg13 author:elg web:ao3
november 2014
and they say romance is dead by challengeaccepted
Fill for this prompt on the kink meme. Heed the warnings in the tags, please.
It starts: With him face down, on a bed that smells faintly of lilacs, going, "No." This he recalls distinctly, having said it more than once. Possibly not loud enough. Definitely not loud enough, and even his own body isn't listening to him, so it's not all that unexpected that Erik doesn't. "No," Charles says again, for good measure, and then Erik shoves in, and Charles screams, and he's not saying no anymore. Not saying much, anymore. Heat, hot and unfettered and loud, like an accident or a gunshot or his blood, thudding through his veins, beat quickening to match Erik's.
fanfic slash fandom:x-men pairing:erik/charles genre:au genre:angst trope:omegaverse trope:mpreg trope:worldbuilding trope:arrangedmarriage kink:claiming kink:knotting kink:heatcycle length:novel rating:r author:challengeaccepted web:ao3 note:kinkmeme note:wip_abandoned warning:rape warning:dub-con
november 2014
The Attempt by Yahtzee
Written for the following prompt: Charles knows everything about Erik, knows how obsessive and self-destructive he is, how Erik would do anything, give anything, in his quest for vengeance against Shaw. But he also knows that Erik loves him in ways that aren't exactly platonic.
I'd like to see a completely straight!Charles, out of pure love and care of Erik, initiate a romantic relationship with him. It can be because he wishes to give Erik something positive in his life or because he thinks it might help change Erik's mind about Shaw, the reason is up to author. Also, while Charles finds intimacy with Erik strange and awkward, he does enjoy the new, non-romantic layers that have developed in their relationship.
fanfic slash fandom:x-men pairing:erik/charles genre:angst genre:romance genre:characterstudy kink:virgin length:long rating:nc17 author:yahtzee web:ao3
october 2014
Cover Up the Sun by Mikkeneko
Sequel to A Villainous State of Mind.
fanfic gen fandom:thor fandom:x-men fandom:avengers genre:crossover genre:adventure genre:hurt/comfort genre:kidfic genre:characterstudy genre:tagfic trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:bamfness length:epic rating:pg13 author:mikkeneko web:ao3 note:sequel
october 2014
Hypnotik by Lyttle_Lark
"That’s right Derek, I needed this when I was the Alpha, and now so do you. This is good, you’re good. You’ll see, everything will be better now."
Derek should know better than to listen to his uncle, especially when it comes to pretty boys who sleep too deeply.
Author's Notes: Oh my gosh like EVERY WARNING IN THE UNIVERSE for this fic! As can be seen in the tags this contains underage RAPE and NON-CONSENSUAL SOMNOPHILIA (at the same time). It also contains EXTREMELY EVIL AND MANIPULATIVE!Peter and Rather-fucked-in-the-head!Derek. There’s an additional warning at the bottom to do with Peter’s manipulation, but it’s a bit spoilery so I didn’t want to add it at the top. BASICALLY PETER IS EVIL and there’s MANY FLAVOURS of non-consent in this fic. There is also creepy dating on false pretences. NOTHING in this fic is okay in real life, other than sassy cake.
Moon's Notes: Tossed in the author's warnings because this is absolutely the wrongest dirty bad touching , yet it is written so good! Heed the warnings! Derek/Stiles, Peter/Stiles/Derek, and Peter/Stiles. Not AU!
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:kink genre:dark trope:family kink:claiming kink:dirtytalk kink:thing!play kink:knotting kink:dom/sub kink:multiplepartners kink:voyeurism warning:rape warning:dub-con length:short rating:nc17 author:lyttle_lark web:ao3 note:▲
october 2014
White Nights by spicedpiano and tahariel
Duke Erik Lehnsherr of Ironhold needs an omega to carry on his line, and Earl Charles Xavier of Westchester needs an alpha to give him the political leverage he needs in order to make his sister Queen. An arranged marriage brings them together, but Erik's lust for war and Charles' hidden agenda threaten to tear them apart. In the frozen Northlands of Ironhold life is hard and cold, and both Charles and Erik must give up their pretense and see each other as they really are: perfect for each other, if only they'll acknowledge it.
Moon's Notes: Nearly 200,000 words. Really great epic, excellent pacing and character development. I have so far only read to chapter 13 out of 18, to when Charles and Erik finally worked things out between themseleves, but I expect the remaining war plot is just as riveting and well written as the rest.
fanfic slash fandom:x-men pairing:erik/charles genre:au genre:adventure genre:angst genre:romance trope:arrangedmarriage trope:worldbuilding trope:mpreg trope:omegaverse kink:virgin length:epic rating:nc17 author:spicedpiano author:tahariel web:ao3
october 2014
Mud Knights by ladyshadowdrake
John had obviously managed to take care of himself just fine before he met me, and he had Cujo the Linebacker to take care of whatever he couldn't himself (though I got the impression that John was perfectly capable of handling most threats). I'd only known the man for a few hours and I'd apparently already dragged him into my friend circle whether he wanted to be there or not – all of that meant that it was my job to keep him safe.
Pre-series AU. What Dresden Files could have been if Marcone hadn't made such a bad first impression.
fanfic pre-slash fandom:dresdenfiles genre:au genre:adventure genre:casefile genre:pre-series length:long rating:pg13 author:ladyshadowdrake web:ao3
october 2014
Midnight Wolf vs Abominable Snowman! by KuriKuri
Derek almost makes the mistake of saying, It’s not fanart, but he manages to catch himself, biting his tongue. This stranger, who’s already identified himself as at least a casual fan of Midnight Wolf, doesn’t need to know that he actually is the artist and author, not just another fan.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:humour genre:romance genre:metafic trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:pretending length:long rating:pg13 author:kurikuri web:ao3
september 2014
Wild Ambition Fortune's Ice Prefers by amberfox17
When Thor went storming into Jotunheim he was looking to start a fight, but accidently winds up a pawn in Odin and Laufey's plans for a permanent peace between the realms; namely, in exchange for the return of the Casket of Ancient Winters, Laufey is offering his firstborn child Loki, the Aesir-sized sorcerer, in marriage to Thor. Such a momentous decision is not to be taken lightly, so Odin sends Thor to live on Jotunheim - without Mjolnir - for a season with Loki, to get to know his prospective consort and to teach the wilful prince some diplomatic sense. Thor is horrified, his parents are insistent and no-one really knows what Loki is thinking, but he hasn't stopped smiling...
Or, a jotun AU arranged marriage worldbuilding fic, featuring a confused Thor, a manipulative bastard Loki, Jotunheim politics, a slow burn developing relationship and a motley arrangement of characters from Marvel and myth.
Moon's Notes: Really fabulous slow build epic. Gorgeous worldbuilding and cultural exploration, or as the author once put it "a love letter to Jotenheimr". I loved the rich history of the jotnar, the language, and the inevitable culture clashes between they and the Aesir because the way one interprets certain things are not the same as the other. Epilogue to come!
fanfic slash fandom:thor pairing:thor/loki genre:au genre:adventure genre:romance genre:characterstudy trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:originalcharacters trope:worldbuilding trope:bamfness trope:betrayal trope:arrangedmarriage kink:claiming length:epic rating:nc17 author:amberfox17 web:ao3 note:♥
september 2014
Cavemen Thor and Loki by Icemaidenstory
Yes, I want a prehistoric AU with those two. I mean living in caves, having a simpler speech, stone tools, fleas, etc.
Thor's tribe destroys another tribe because they couldn't agree about their territories. Loki, a son of the leader of that tribe, survives, but he gets captured and enslaved.
People of Thor's tribe dislike Loki, who's scared and all alone among them; he's an alien to them. But very soon Thor becomes possessive and protective of him (also, he claims him). And those who challenge his choices get roared at and also get a stone hammer to their heads. He's their leader and he won't tolerate his decisions being questioned (I don't mind if Odin is in the story, but he's no longer a leader, because he's too old).
What of the genre... I prefer drama (humour is not my thing). Also, please, sex between Loki and Thor, which at first is, most likely, dub- or non-con, considering the time we are talking about.
+1000 Frigga looks after Loki and takes care of him when Thor is away (hunting, for example), because she knows that Loki is important to her son, and Loki gets attached to both Thor and her.
Moon's Notes: Self-indulgent not-quite crackfic. Not historically accurate, but fun. I like the "language", as it wasn't actually that hard to learn along with Loki. Also, nothing traumatizingly bad occurs. It is not a slavefic, even though Loki is Thor's captive for much of the story.
fanfic slash fandom:thor pairing:thor/loki genre:au genre:adventure genre:kidfic trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:feral kink:claiming length:epic rating:nc17 author:icemaidenstory web:ao3 note:kinkmeme warning:dub-con
september 2014
The Ugly Duckling by Icemaidenstory
Okay, so Loki's got the worst self esteem in history and is convinced he's the ugliest thing ever to walk Asgard. Now he's on Earth and fighting the Avengers.
After yet another attempt to fight them goes badly Loki goes out and gets very drunk at a random bar. He's in the alleyway trying to pee when he hears a voice behind him say:
"Hey Gorgeous, how many drinks I gotta buy you to get up in that sexy ass."
Most of Loki is naturally horrified/disgusted/repulsed but there is one thought that overides everything:
"You think I'm gorgeous?"
So very drunk Loki goes home with very drunk JimBob and winds up in a relationship with him.
Moon's Notes: The OMC, though he may not be the most hygienic of men, is nonetheless very kind and sweet in this own roughneck way. He does indeed treat Loki right, and really cares about him. I love that Loki chooses to stay with JimBob and finds happiness. (The only part of this great unusual fic that I disliked was the pat 'everything is forgiven and forgotten' ending. Neither Loki nor the Asgardians should get off without consequence, Loki for his villainy and Asgard for its cruelty. Coulson the Therapist was a cool idea, though!) It might be a highly unconventional story, but oddly enough I like it!
fanfic slash fandom:thor fandom:avengers genre:au genre:angst genre:romance genre:characterstudy genre:hurt/comfort trope:family trope:originalcharacters kink:virgin length:long rating:nc17 author:icemaidenstory web:ao3 note:kinkmeme
september 2014
Shoveling by PaBurke
A collection of 100 drabbles (100 word each) where Dr. Hawkeye Pierce ends up living next to the Slayer house in Cleveland.
fanfic gen het fandom:buffy fandom:other genre:crossover genre:futurefic genre:hurt/comfort genre:angst trope:outside_pov trope:family length:drabble rating:pg13 author:paburke web:twistingthehellmouth
september 2014
Bridges by Tassos
Complete: Xander's real family challenge: After the collapse of Sunnydale, Jack gets a call about a woman he knew over twenty years ago...and the son he didn't know he had.
fanfic gen fandom:sg-1 fandom:buffy genre:crossover genre:humour genre:futurefic genre:adventure genre:angst trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation length:epic rating:pg13 author:tassos web:twistingthehellmouth
september 2014
an exultation of larks by llassah
All Derek wants is to get through the lambing season with his body and spirit intact. He had thought that the blizzards would be the main danger, not a highborn omega with beautiful eyes and a stubborn streak.
Moon's Notes: Lovely medieval royalty AU. Soft, whimsical writing style. Subtle but excellent. Nice!
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:hurt/comfort genre:characterstudy trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:animals trope:worldbuilding trope:omegaverse kink:claiming kink:knotting kink:heatcycle length:long rating:nc17 author:llassah web:ao3
august 2014
Mail Order Bridegroom by Helenish
Historical AU set in Philadelphia ca. 1850. Stiles answers an advert to cook for wealthy farmer Derek. They exchange letters. Derek mistakenly believes Stiles is female.
Moon's Notes: Excellent. Hope it is continued, but does stand alone.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au trope:epistolary trope:revelation length:ficlet rating:g author:helenish web:tumblr via:doitninetimes
august 2014
Equilibrium by lamardeuse
While Blair is still at the Academy, Jim and Blair investigate a case involving hate crimes that has personal implications for them. Post-TSBS, first time casefic.
fanfic slash fandom:sentinel pairing:jim/blair genre:casefile genre:futurefic genre:tagfic length:epic rating:nc17 author:lamardeuse web:ao3 web:852prospect
august 2014
No Need to Huff and Puff, I’ll Let You Come In by glitterfics
Strange things start happening during a weekend trip to a cabin and Stiles gets a very bad feeling about it all. Throw in a mysterious corporation, secretly watching their every move, and a couple of actual freaking werewolves hunting them and things get so much worse than Stiles ever imagined. (aka the Cabin in the Woods fusion fic)
fanfic het pre-slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:adventure genre:humour genre:crossover genre:fusion trope:pretending kink:virgin length:long rating:r author:glitterfics web:ao3
august 2014
Misfire by mothlights, unpossible
“The debt must be repaid,” she says, and it has the weight of a vow. The words resonate through him, ringing through his ribcage and the bones of his jaw, and Stiles loses his breath and maybe his grip on reality because she draws herself upright and where there had once stood a supermodel-level MILF now there is Galadriel’s much hotter older sister, a Presence of unmistakable power in their ordinary, smells-vaguely-of-Thai-takeout hallway.
“Oh shit,” Stiles says.
Moon's Notes: Time travel AU. Alive!Hales, established Sterek in the original timeline, and the two Stiles' eventually merge memories in the new timeline. I really liked the premise and the way the new timeline's future played out. The ending was discordant to me though. Why would Derek go back after Peter just confirmed his family never forgave him and will always choose Stiles over him? It doesn't make sense, and was never explained despite it being a crucial turning point. Though I did like the fact it at least wasn't an instant Happily Ever After ending.
fanfic slash gen fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:angst genre:futurefic genre:pre-series trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:reincarnation trope:timetravel length:long rating:pg13 author:unpossible web:ao3
august 2014
How Ackward by Felicity
9,500 words | He’s so close. He just needs to stretch that little bit further, strain the tips of his fingers and—
“Shit!” Stiles’ foot slips off the bottom shelf he’d been using for leverage, he grabs for something, catches hold of a packet of Weetabix—shit, the irony that if he’d eaten more as a kid maybe he’d be taller and not have to be reaching in the first place, so funny, universe— and shuts his eyes. He’s hoping the fall doesn’t kill him. It’s Saturday morning, he wants to go to the park later and toss a Frisbee around with Scott, pretend like it’s official exercise; there’s still two episodes of SouthLAnd he has DVR’d that he never got round to; he hasn’t had life altering sex yet; he’s only been in New York four months and he still hasn’t made it to the Statue of Liberty; he needs to meet George Lucas!
To his surprise, his ass never hits the floor. Instead, there’s a pair of hands catching him round the waist, a noise of irritation huffed into his ear, and Stiles’ legs right themselves on the ground.
// Pining, kids, universe trying to set them up... lots of fun.
fanfic pre-slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:humour genre:fluff trope:family length:short rating:pg13 author:felicity web:tumblr
august 2014
Saving the World (Is Totally a Date) by Wordsplat
Tony discovers Stane's betrayal while he's still being held captive. When he escapes, he sets out to ruin Stane as completely and ruthlessly as he can, playing up his PTSD and quitting his job to destroy Stane quietly from the outside. He also picks up a teaching job-all Pepper's fault-and oh, right, becomes a supervillain. Okay, that one was Tony's fault, but it was totally an accident.
In the meantime, a certain Capsicle is defrosted a year early, and is assigned the task of capturing the notorious Iron Man. It's not going particularly well, if the embarrassingly high number of times he's been kidnapped in the past six months is any indication. When SHIELD decides to help him "adjust" by getting him a teaching job, Steve is skeptical; but then there's Tony, and Steve finds he doesn't mind the 21st century so much after all.
fanfic slash fandom:avengers pairing:steve/tony genre:au genre:humour genre:romance trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:pretending length:novel rating:pg13 author:wordsplat web:ao3
august 2014
The One Where They're Forced To Marry In Ye Olden Times by Stoney
Due to the destruction of House Hale and the debts incurred in their survival and search for justice, the King (blah blah, make believe world) arranges a marriage between Derek and Stiles, eliminating all debts the Hales may owe. Derek is very unhappy. Stiles is pretty shocked at who he's being matched with, but he's certainly not unhappy. It's pretty clear from the start Derek doesn't share that feeling.
Stiles passes the time by hunting with his falcon, Derek broods. Until...
Moon's Notes: Surprisingly good angsty fic, despite the crappy title and bodice ripper romance novel trope origins. Little fast though, not what I'd call a slow burn.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:angst genre:romance trope:family trope:arrangedmarriage length:long rating:nc17 author:stoney web:ao3
august 2014
The Pact by exclamation
Years ago, the town of Beacon Hills made a pact with the werewolves. The Hale pack would protect the town from over werewolves and not prey on the townspeople. Except for one full moon a year.
When Stiles is sent out to be a sacrifice for the hunt, he doesn't know if he's going to get eaten, or turned, or something worse.
Moon's Notes: I am kind of iffy about this fic. I read it twice and still can't decide if I like it or not. The premise is good, and so is the writing, but the personal conflict in it seems too serious to have been solved as easily as it was. There is some sense of resolution though, some attempts to talk it out, which is rare enough in stories I appreciate it any time misunderstandings aren't swept away with instant sex. It just still wasn't quite enough for the severity to me. I don't dislike the way it goes, but I'm still left feeling a bit uncomfortable when its over.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:angst genre:adventure trope:worldbuilding kink:virgin length:novel rating:nc17 author:exclamation web:ao3 warning:rape warning:torture warning:dub-con note:▲
august 2014
Learning to See - emeralddawn - Rise of the Guardians (2012) [Archive of Our Own]
There’s nothing that says adults can’t believe, it’s only that most of them don’t. Then again, most of them don’t have a son who’s best friends with Jack Frost.
Moon's Notes: Heartwarming and lovely. Jamie and Sophie's mom adopts Jack as her own. Awww!
fanfic gen fandom:riseoftheguardians genre:fluff genre:hurt/comfort trope:family trope:outside_pov length:long rating:g author:emeralddawn web:ao3
august 2014
The Long Way Round by exclamation
A magical accident sends Stiles back in time. Now he's stuck in New York, living with Derek and Laura, and the only way to get back to his own time is to learn to use magic. Meanwhile, he must figure out how much he can tell them about their future. Can he warn them about the dangers they face? Can he change his own past?
And can he trust the creature known as Bookworm, who seems to know him better than he knows himself?
Moon's Notes: Complete. Series of three novels about Stiles being magic and the effects of time travel, that is both AU and canonical. First story is the actual time travel, second story follows canon events from seasons one through three of the show, third story is the futurefic aftermath.
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:pre-series genre:romance genre:adventure genre:angst genre:futurefic genre:characterstudy genre:deathfic trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation trope:reincarnation trope:originalcharacters trope:bamfness trope:timetravel kink:virgin length:novel rating:nc17 web:ao3 note:series author:exclamation
august 2014
It Came from the Trees by whatshouldntbe
“He’s done it again,” Derek says as he stares at Stiles like he’s accusing him of something. “Peter. He’s been in my room. What did he give you this time?”
“Uh,” is Stiles’s intelligent rebuttal. “A grey wolf? But dude—how many stuffed animals do you have?”
The one where Beacon Hills is a hotspot for the supernatural, Stiles is a Virtue, Derek owns a horde of plushies, and Peter wont stop texting Stiles the :)) face.
Moon's Notes: Ongoing WIP, but each chapter is over 10 000 words long and it is updated every few days. Very (VERY!) slow burn fic, lots of mystery and mysterious people. 80 000 words in, and I still don't have a handle on what's going on. Excellent, if occasionally frustrating, writing!
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august 2014
kyliselle: All the Night's Magic [1/2]
Spock climbed the stairs and joined McCoy on the porch. He paused. "Dr. McCoy - are you aware that you have an animal in your front garden?"
McCoy rolled his eyes. "Oh, him," he said, opening the front door and holding it open for Spock. "Just a local dog."
Spock was not convinced. "I do not believe that was just a dog. It sounded too large, and quite dangerous," he insisted, as he let McCoy take one of his suitcases.
"He likes to think he's my guard dog. Always terrorizing my guests." McCoy's attempt to sound exasperated could not hide his obvious fondness. "But don't you worry none about it. He must like you."
"Vulcans do not worry," Spock said automatically. "And I do not understand how - "
"You still got all your limbs, right?"
"Then trust me. He likes you."
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august 2014
A neutrino walks through a bar by Moku
Stiles had become the most popular matchmaker of Beacon Hills in less than a year.
And he really didn’t know how that had happened.
fanfic pre-slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au genre:humour genre:romance trope:family trope:outside_pov trope:revelation length:novel rating:pg13 author:moku web:ao3
july 2014
slipping through the years by often_adamanta
fanfic gen slash fandom:avengers genre:au genre:pre-series genre:hurt/comfort genre:characterstudy trope:outside_pov trope:reincarnation length:long rating:r author:often_adamanta web:ao3
july 2014
Blah, Blah, Meow, Meow by Zara_Zee
Alec made a low growling noise. “Oh yeah,” he said. “Everything’s just peachy. I have a tail, Logan. I had to tear a hole in my jeans to give it some room! And I’ve got ears like Yoda and an overwhelming desire to scratch Max’s eyes out. And you…don’t smell threatening, so my stupid feline instincts have receded enough for my human brain to pick up the reins,” Alec frowned. “So to speak.”
In which someone messes with Alec's genetic cocktail and the feline DNA is uh... accentuated.
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july 2014
Rattle Loose Your Bones by Sidara
Stiles has to learn to live with his choice. So does everyone else.
Aka the Stiles becomes a magical Warden and moves to New York, when he joins SHIELD as Tony Stark's new assistant fic. Three stories with fluctuating timelines. Series is complete.
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july 2014
My Bitchy Soulmate by tee_tee
Stiles is a grumpy virgin and Derek is Scott's extra broody roommate. They don't really get along (until they do).
fanfic slash fandom:teenwolf pairing:derek/stiles genre:au kink:virgin length:short rating:r author:tee_tee web:ao3
july 2014
How to bag and keep a Vulcan by amerasu1013
At first it was only lust - and maybe jealousy, 'cause watching Spock trying to hook up with all these strangers was awful. Luckily Jim's quite good at cock-blocking.
Then it developed into something more, and now Jim is in a relationship. But that should be no problem, right? Because Jim Kirk is a genius.
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july 2014
Who's Scruffy Looking? by JenTheSweetie
“I don’t know,” Steve said, after Tony finished a six-minute ode to The Dude’s beard. “I mean, I’m not really a fan of beards.”
Tony gave Steve a look of such horror that Steve almost wondered if he’d misspoken and casually mentioned that he’d been tossing puppies off the top floor of Stark Tower.
“You’re not,” he said, “a fan of beards? I mean – but you like my beard.”
Steve tilted his head. “Uh. No, not really a fan of yours, either.”
fanfic pre-slash fandom:avengers pairing:steve/tony genre:humour genre:fluff length:short rating:pg13 author:jenthesweetie web:ao3
july 2014
Daffodil Time by ladyblahblah
Because the kid who’s coming is Vulcan, for heaven’s sake. There’s nothing fun about Vulcans. They’re logical and boring and, if Jim’s being completely honest, just the tiniest bit scary. And this is the boy who will be in his house, sharing his room, sleeping in his brother’s bed. How is he even supposed to start trying to make friends with someone so . . . well, alien?
First story of the Ivy Crown series. Star Trek 2009 AU.
fanfic pre-slash fandom:startrek pairing:kirk/spock genre:au genre:kidfic genre:pre-series genre:fluff trope:family trope:animals trope:worldbuilding trope:arrangedmarriage length:epic rating:r author:ladyblahblah web:ao3 note:series
july 2014
The Sleeping Beau of La Iglesia by howlnatural
1,380 words | Here rests The Sleeping Beau of La Iglesia. He was discovered some weeks after the Great Quake of 09, which leveled the town and exposed the late Aztec architecture which had been concealed by modernization.
The Beau’s identity is unknown, but medical tests show him to be alive and in - apparent - good health. It is unclear why he sleeps, but a legend surrounds this place; that time is relative, and those who are lost can find peace, until it is their hour to be found again. Ancient runes surround his resting place, keeping him safe from interference until his time for slumber has passed.
What will the Beau wake for? Destiny? An end to suffering? True Love? The secret is his own.
Moon's Notes: I got to admit, it was Jerakeen's fabulous comment that really made me read this in first place. Although, crazily enough, I wouldn't actually mind a sequel to this crazy fairytale crackfic. It's oddly compelling!
fanfic gen fandom:teenwolf genre:au genre:crackfic trope:reincarnation length:ficlet rating:pg13 author: web:tumblr
july 2014
Blast Boxers by Allothi
AU, written for a kinkmeme prompt (here): "Eames is a supervillain, and Arthur is the reporter he always kidnaps."
fanfic slash fandom:inception pairing:arthur/eames genre:au genre:humour genre:crackfic trope:revelation length:ficlet rating:pg13 author:allothi web:ao3
july 2014
Crunchyroll - Sailor Moon Crystal
Full episodes of the new 2014 Manga-following anime streaming online for free. First and Third Saturday of each month only.
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july 2014
What I Did On My Summer Vacation by grimm
There's something weird about Beacon Hills that Stiles can't quite put his finger on. The way everyone in town knows his name the day he arrives. The way they insist the melancholic howling that echoes through the forest every night is just a dog. The way his dad denies getting a dog, even though Stiles comes home to find one sprawled across his bed, some big black thing whose eyes gleam red in the right light. The way that massive oak tree out in the woods vibrates under his touch, pulsing with sickly life.
There's something weird going on in this town, and Stiles is determined to get to the bottom of it.
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july 2014
Adopt by greenteeth
Steve's life is the same as usual. He goes to work, fights super villains, banters with other Avengers and goes home to an empty apartment. Until the son of an old friend shows up asking for help, well sex first, then help. Suddenly Steve is married, fighting super villains, worrying what Obadiah Stane and coming home to Tony most nights of the week. (aka the young!Tony age-difference AU)
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july 2014
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In The Phantom Menace Qui-gon and Obi-wan engage in a two-on-one battle against Darth Maul. Together Qui-gon and Obi-wan seem evenly matched to Darth Maul, with both sides getting in an occasional punch or kick against the other party. Darth Maul gains an upper hand by knocking Obi-wan temporarily out of the fight, causing him to fall several levels beneath himself and Qui-gon. Then Darth Maul begins to fight in a more defensive manner, giving ground and luring Qui-gon away from Obi-wan and towards the laser-walls.
It was pretty clear that Darth Maul outclassed both of the Jedi and intended to kill them separately, presumably because it would be easier. Qui-gon seemed happy to oblige Darth Maul's wishes and followed him to his death.
Why didn't Qui-gon stand his ground and wait for Obi-wan to rejoin him? Especially since he already knew from his encounter with Darth Maul on Tatooine that he was not a match against him one-on-one.
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Becasue Lucas is a crappy storyteller. – Jakob Jan 23 '14 at 9:03
Darth Maul did not easily defeat Qui-Gon. The Jedi Master gave him trouble and the expression on Maul's face clearly revealed this. – user18984 Mar 15 at 9:59
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Qui-Gon couldn't stay back because the point of his and Obi-Wan's encounter with Darth Maul was to keep Maul occupied so he could not help defend the Viceroy. Similarly, Maul didn't leave when he had Qui-Gon trapped, because he saw his role as taking the two Jedi out of the battle.
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I thought Maul couldn't leave that chamber because there was no other way out. – Bobby Apr 14 '12 at 20:26
I think it all came down to "lightsaber styles". Qui-Gon was a master of Ataru: it's supposedly a very offensive-minded and acrobatic fighting style.
Wookieepedia has a description on it:
Therefore, the writers may have demonstrated Qui-Gon to be less proficient in defensive strategies, since his style of choice is an aggressive one. Also, the narrow bridges they were fighting on hindered his acrobatic Ataru style against Maul. I'm guessing that he tried doing his best by doing what he does best. It is Maul.
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Pretty sure I have read it favours open or wide spaces, in the ray-shield tunnel area plus the room with the pit, it was less spacious, which worked against Qui-gons form. – Jared Nov 22 '12 at 23:38
By the time it became apparent that Obi-Wan couldn't catch up in time, Maul and Qui-Gon were separated by just one forcefield. Had Qui-Gon not pushed forward into the vent shaft area, he, Maul AND Obi-Wan would probably have ended up trapped within a single cell of that forcefield array.
The question really is, why didn't Obi-Wan use the super-speed he and Qui-Gon displayed at the beginning of the movie when outmatched by the Droid Destroyers? He would have gotten into the shaft with time to spare, and been able to keep Maul from focusing solely on Qui-Gon.
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Here is why Obi-Wan couldn't use super-speed: youtu.be/t3dI-ghYimg – Treborcram Nov 21 '12 at 19:14
I think it's for the story line. Quigon had to die so he could teach obiwan the secret to living as a spirit. You had to die in battle for this. That is why obi let vader strike him down without resistance. He even indicated, "if you strike me down you will make me more powerful than ever before".
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If death in battle is a condition on being able to live as a spirit, how does this explain Yoda (who died in bed) at the and of Return of the Jedi? – bazz Jun 23 '13 at 12:21
@bazz oda was a force ghost the entire time. He was just so freaking powerful that he was able to still use the force to impact the physical world (making luke "feel" his weight while carrying him, lifting the x-wing, etc) – acolyte Jul 17 '13 at 20:49
@acolyte I've never heard that fan theory before. Now try to explain how artoo can suddenly fly... – Richard Jan 28 '14 at 19:50
@Richard he always "could". But keep in mind that R2 is, as of episode 4 a very old droid who has been through a lot of stuff. Perhaps the rockets have broken over the years and were removed at some point. – acolyte Jan 28 '14 at 23:24
Maybe they were made of purest Retconium – Richard Jan 29 '14 at 0:07
In my humble opinion, Maul was trying to take them apart one at a time. The two on one fighting was at first a disadvantage to Maul, that's why he led them to those narrow passages. He was trying to keep them at the length of his lightsabers. And of course, that blow that knocked Obb-wan away, resulted in Qui-gon getting more aggressive. And I think he was trying to draw them apart. Those force fields were a pretty good idea there. Then inside that room, Maul had more room o use his full fighting capability without having to watch his back. You know how that ended for Qui-Gon as Maul was faster, and and even managed to get under Qui-gon's attack. Of course when Obi-wan got back into the fray, he matched Maul's speed, and he used the same pattern of attack multiple times. So Obi-wan used that to cut the lightsaber in half, making Maul have to adapt. That's just my opinion.
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Qui-gon threw the fight, he knew Obi-wan was okay with living in his shadow, he knew the only way Obi-wan would become a master is if he wasn't around
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And what are you basing this on? Nothing in the movie or the novelization support this. – phantom42 Jan 23 '14 at 14:21
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irving47 writes: As more and more server-level systems are coming from overseas, the development teams can't always be expected to know perfect English spellings... Having a Mac or even Windows-like finish to their GUI's seems unreasonable... But at what point does it start to concern you and what are the key indicators that this is a quality problem bound to rear its head in performance issues, not just a few web pages that only you, the sysadmin, are going to see? One example I've seen is Security Camera DVR's I've set up for customers because of the pricing... The interfaces have misspellings on nearly every page, but they work, for the most part.
So, even in higher-end, commercial settings, GUI "mistakes" : Indication of changing times, or a warning sign of equipment that's just too cheap?
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by irving47 (#46347685) Attached to: Augmented Reality Treatment May Alleviate Phantom Limb Pain
Yeah, he had lost the lower half of his arm. House set up a box with a mirror in it that when both arms were inserted, made it look like he had two complete arms/hands.
When House told him to clench as tight as he could, and soon after relax, I guess his brain finally told the bad limb to stop clenching or doing whatever it thought it was supposed to be doing.
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by irving47 (#45225591) Attached to: Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling
Yeah, but a business owner that receives one of those letters is still going to fear going to court... If it were me, I'd fear the size and integrity of the trolls in question. What if the suit takes MANY months or years? I still have to pay lawyers in the meantime... When I DO come out victorious, how long will it be before a patent troll is on the up-and-up and pays the fees in question? Or will they just disappear into the night via some fakey bankruptcy or dissolution by a parent company?
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This is the part I don't get. You're right. Isn't it pretty well spelled out in the EULA's that you're giving away your right to name your first born, let alone any "privacy" in the email? Add to that the fact that the feds recently said, "screw you, you don't have any expectation of privacy on these email accounts because the servers aren't under your direct control." Wiretapping implies surveillance without knowledge... In a lot of states only one party need know their call is being monitored to make it legal.
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www.thereikimuse.com Reiki helps people and animals transition from their bodies with grace and ease. A healer’s work isn’t always about helping someone get better in the physical sense. Sometimes, a healer facilitates the death process.Returning to non-physical is the ultimate healing and part of the soul’s natural progression.
Reiki never interferes with an individual’s life or death choices. It just won’t work to wish someone dead while sending Reiki. Reiki never causes harm. You can send Reiki with the intention to support the dying process. And by no means does it mean you’ve failed when you are Reikiing someone with the intention that they recover and they die anyway.
As always, it is important to release attachment to outcomes when giving Reiki. Reiki always follows God’s will which operates beyond our human egos. Reiki supports divine timing in when someone leaves their physical body.
There have been times I thought a person would die within minutes of sending Reiki and they have lived for months. This gives
www.thereikimuse.comthem time to spend with friends and family. Other times, they pass quickly. When the most benevolent outcome is death of the physical body. Reiki helps those near the end of their life transition with less pain and more inner peace.
It will help create an environment of holiness, even in a hospital.
It will facilitate loved ones being there for final conversations that bring completion and clarity. Reiki helps decrease the side effects of medication and decreases discomfort from medical procedures.
Numerous times I have been asked by concerned family members to Reiki terminally ill patients in person and from a distance. So far only my dog, Lucy, actually left her body while receiving hands-on Reiki from myself, my daughter and a friend. I have yet to experience giving Reiki hands on when a person while they journey into non-physical. I’m sure it would be magical and bittersweet.
And whether you are attuned to Reiki or not, you can provide comfort with your loving presence and healing touch. I didn’t have Reiki when my dad was sick with cancer when I was a teen. I did reflexology on his feet knowing that my healing touch was giving him comfort.
Every time I send Reiki to someone near the end of their life I see a lot of white light and sense the presence of their guardian IMG_3846angels, guides and loved ones from the other side. I work with Archangel Azrael to help the dying feel comfort, love and peace as their time draws near.
Often, there is fear of letting go. Reiki helps with releasing attachment to this lifetime and open to spirit. Reiki helps the dying relax into the unknown surrounded by loving and caring energy.
I feel great happiness when the family member who requested the Reiki is with their loved one at the time of passing. This is such a profoundly sacred moment which usually leaves a lasting impact.
Often the dying choose to leave without the presence of their family members. This happens because the loved ones have a hard time letting go. So it’s just easier for everyone that way.
Archangel Azrael also offers comfort to those who have just lost a loved one as well. Just ask for his support.
If you are attuned to Reiki, give it freely to those you know and love who are in their final stages of life to help them pass with comfort, grace and dignity. It will help you and them let go and be more fully present to the beauty of transition into non-physical.
I look forward to Reiki being a standard practice in end of life care. I am always here to offer my energetic support for you and your loved ones.
In loving Reiki light!
How to Surrender Personal Will to Divine Will with Reiki
I always affirm ‘I’m a clear and open channel and my ego steps aside’ before giving Reiki healing.
For example, I had a dream recently that I’ve been pondering. I dreamt on was on the LA free way. I knew in my heart that Divine will wanted me to move to Los Angelus. This is not an area I’m drawn to. To be clear, I would never want to move there. Yet, I knew in my dream that I would follow my soul level guidance and to move to LA, even though it’s not what my logical self would choose.
You can trust that your soul-level, divine self holds a broader perspective than your ego self. Sometimes, the guidance makes sense to your mind and other times it doesn’t. You can trust the universe to keep you on the best path for you, especially when you stay connected with your own inner stream of well being.
In loving Reiki light,
The Healing Benefits of Going Barefoot With Reiki.
The Earth gives us negative charged electrons which neutralize free radicals in our body. The Earth energy acts like an antioxidant. Being in direct contact with the Earth stimulates the body’s self-repair systems, just like Reflexology and Reiki do. The sun sends charged particles to the Earth and then the Earth shares this beneficial energy with us.
Some of the healing benefits of Earthing are:
• improved circulation
• better sleep
• reduced anxiety
• increased energy and metabolism
• feeling more centered and present (grounded)
• decreased inflammation
• balanced hormones
• calms the nervous system
• improved immunity
Here’s a simple meditation to use Reiki to connect with that loving, nourishing and healing Earth energy. You can try this if the weather is not conducive to walking barefoot or you live in the city. You can do this outside, close to the ground, if you can. It will also work indoors.
• Breathe deeply.
• Send Reiki to the center of the Earth.
Happy Earthing!
Using Reiki To Be Kind and Increase Your Vibration
The Original Reiki Ideals by Mikao Usui
The secret art of inviting happinessThe Reiki Muse
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not be angry
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work and BE KIND to people
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer,
Pray these words to your heart,
And chant these words with your mouth.
I love that the Reiki ideals outright say to be kind. I would like to add the reminder to be kind to all living beings, not just to people.
Why does Reiki remind us to be kind? Kindness raises your vibration and uplifts the world around you. Being kind in thought, word and deed is a powerful choice. You can ask Reiki for help being kind.
What does being kind mean? Being compassionate, big-hearted, gentle, respectful, benevolent, nice, caring and loving. Being kind requires you to connect with the living essence of another living being. How do we connect with another being you may ask? It’s simple. Through your heart. Reiki energy opens our hearts and softens our minds.
Reiki can help you give up the need to be right. Wanting to be right or judge causes us to disconnect from the loving part of ourselves. It’s our ego’s way of saying, “I’m better than you.”
When you connect with your heart space, you’ll find that other people’s way of being or doing is their unique perspective which is no better than our own. Is it really worth losing love by being right? Yes, this means even when you are driving.
And let’s not forget about yourself. Examine your own thinking. Are you being kind to yourself in your thoughts? Notice if you are beating yourself up, judging yourself or berating yourself. If you discover you’re thinking an unkind thought about yourself, pause and take a deep breath. Turn on your Reiki and allow your mind to soften and join up with your loving heart energy.
By being loving and kind to yourself, you’ll find it much easier to treat others with gentle concern. Being kind to yourself is the beginning of adding light to the world around you. Sometimes being kind to yourself or others may mean setting boundaries and saying ‘no’. The Reiki will guide you in this.
If you are saying yes, when you really don’t want to do something, you’re only hurting yourself. Either learn to say no, or ask the Reiki to help you line up your energy with what you’ve agreed to do.
How can you use Reiki to help you be kind to yourself and others? You can Reiki yourself and focus on the word kindness. Just allow the Reiki to flow and notice how you feel. If you are attuned to the distance symbol, you can send Reiki ahead of you on your path for the day while infusing the quality of kindness. You could charge a quartz crystal and place an affirmation under it such as, “I am kind to all living beings, especially myself”.
Just by focusing on kindness, you’ll notice it more. You’ll see your gentle and loving thoughts about yourself being reflected back to you from the world around you. With all that positive caring reinforcement, you’ll find it easier and easier to be kind.
If you come across someone who is just being rude, you’ll know they aren’t feeling those gentle and loving thoughts right now. It’s your choice, what will you mirror back to them? I suggest turning on your Reiki and filling yourself up with it and radiate it out.
Reiki connects us with the power of now and the feeling of ‘all is well’. When we truly remember all is well, kindness comes naturally.
In Loving Reiki Light,
Attracting Your Soul Mate with Reiki
Reiki Rose water
Yes, you can use Reiki to help attract a partner. But like anything else with Reiki, don’t be attached to certain results. Reiki always works in alignment with your most benevolent outcome.
Clearing Out the Old Energy
Appreciating Being Single
Cultivating Patience and Trust
Connecting on the Spiritual Plane
Reiki Soul Mate
Meeting Your Soul Mate
In loving Reiki light!
How to Use Reiki as A Sunscreen and Get More Vitamin D
The Reiki Muse
Reiki can be used to boost your sun protection and vitamin D absorption. Turn the sun into your friend when spending time outdoors with Reiki.
Spending time in the sun without sunscreen is healthy, at least for brief periods of time. That’s how our bodies produce vitamin D. A good time to spend outdoors without using sunblock is before 10 am or late in the day when the suns UV rays are not so strong.
Popular belief holds that the sun’s radiation is harmful. We are encouraged to wear sun block which almost completely turns off our body’s ability to produce vitamin D. Vitamin D is important for calcium absorption and melatonin production. A lack of vitamin D has been linked to depression, certain cancers, diabetes and osteoporosis.
Reiki can be used as a form of sun screen. If you hold the personal belief or experience of the sun’s rays being harmful, you may want to start by working with the Reiki to clear your beliefs.
Once you feel more aligned with spending time in the sun with only Reiki sunscreen, give it a try. Start for short periods of a few minutes.
How to use Reiki as a sunscreen:
Turn on your Reiki and imagine that your aura boundary is charged with golden light. Use the mental/emotional symbol and the power symbol along with the Karuna Reiki ® symbols, if you are attuned to them.
Affirm that your body absorbs only the sun’s healthy energy. Know that you are recharging with uplifting, warm and nourishing sunlight. Feel your body getting enough healthy UV rays to support your body in producing the vitamin D it needs for your overall wellness.
Affirm and trust that your auric field deflects the harmful UV rays. Imagine your the outer layer of your aura is a UV filter. You can set this filter to allow the amount of sunlight that serves you in. Feel yourself glowing from the inside out.
While you’re enjoying your time in the sun, remember to soak up the healing and revitalizing Earth energy too. I think the Earth’s healing energy feels similar to Reiki. Take off your shoes and soak it up into your feet.
If you are spending all day in the sun follow your own guidance and wisdom about using sunscreen. Getting sun burned is no fun either. You may need to build upon how much time you can safely soak up those sun’s rays without sunscreen. Turning on your Reiki sun shield will promote your sun protection.
Distant Reiki
Distant Reiki
I really appreciate that you follow The Reiki Muse!
I’m sending you Distant Reiki all day today.
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love locks
When networks began to expand and people saw the need for secure communication, they designed complex systems based on public key cryptography, that worked more or less. Problem: how do you trust that the key a server sent you is the right one? How can you make sure that it is not somebody else trying to impersonate that website?
Multiple solutions were proposed, and the most promising was a public directory of domain names and associated public keys, maintained by a peer to peer network named KeyCoin. It looked better than so called Web Of Trust solutions, because everybody could agree on what was the correct key for a given domain. As long as nobody hold 51% of the network, no change could happen without being validated by a lot of different peers. The network was maintained by 10000 enthusiast system administrators who took their task very seriously (after all, the security of the whole system depended on their honesty), and nobody had enough computing power to take over the network.
After a while, people began using the system, since it was directly integrated in their browsers, but they did not want to run a node on the network themselves. It was too bothersome, and they could trust the administrators. Also, they had to ask one of them to make a change everytime. The whole process was a bit artisanal.
In the meantime, some people demonstrated the 51% attack on networks of reduced size, and that worried people. They wanted a safe system, one that was not only relying on those sysadmins that could do anything. Who were they anyway? Running that system was still too complex for non technical too run it themselves anyway, so they did not worry enough. But some governments found that rewriting the truth of name/key matching was interesting. Maybe to catch pedophiles, terrorists, criminals. Or maybe to censor websites, I do not know, they told me it was for my own good.
Some smart person found a good solution: if controlling the whole system necessitated owning 51% of the system, the easiest way was to have a lot of machines, enough to counteract the sysadmins. That did not seem risky when people designed the system. Nobody could have enough computing power to take over the whole network, and there would be even more nodes every day.
Yet, that person got enough funding to install tens of thousands of machines and make them join the network. They even provided a nice enough interface for people and businesses to input their domain name and public key, as long as they paid some fees. The sysadmins welcomed him at first, since money coming in the system validated their ideas. Atfer a while, they started worrying, since none of them could keep up with the computing power, but that company asssured them it would never attain 51% of the network.
Other companies jumped on the bandwagon and started to profit from that new business opportunity. Governments started their own server farms to participate too. Problem: now that everybody (except the sysadmins) had a lot of computing power, nobody had enough to control the network entirely.
So they started making alliances. If a few major players work as a team, they can do whatever they want on the network. If one of them decided to try and replace a key on the ledger, others could help it. Of course, once they begun doing that, others wanted to participate. So they created a few rules to join their club. First, you needed to have enough machines. That was a good rule, because that made a big barrier to entry. You could not start as a small player. The other rules? You had to submit to an audit, performed by the other players. Yet another barrier to entry. And once they deemed you acceptable, you had to follow the requests of governments, which were arbitrarily refusing candidates.
Even with the big barriers to entry, a few hundred players came up, often backed by governments. Of course, all ended up in the same team, doing whatever they wanted, as long as nobody was complaining, because anytime one of them had something shady to do, all of them followed automatically.
Since building those big companies required money, they made their clients pay more and more, and to make it easier to accept, provided “premium” options where they show they trust you more, since they took the time to phone your company and ask a few questions.
Some found that big system too centralized, too obedient to states, and decided to fork it. There are separate public ledgers, but they do not come directly embedded in browsers, you need to integrate them yourself, and that’s bothersome. Also, most of those networks have a few hundred nodes at best.
From a nice, decentralized, home made system, we ended up with a centralized system controlled by corporations and governments.
Now let me tell you about that system I designed. It is based on a concept named certificate, a cryptographically signed file that links the public key to a domain name. Now here’s the catch: a certificate represents a key, and is signed by another key, which is represented by another certificate, and so on and so forth until a certificate that signs itself. That system is good, because you just have to embed the root certificate that your friends gives you, and you’ll be able to verify the key of his websites, even if those keys change. And this, without even asking the public ledger, so that is a truly decentralized and more anonymous system! Nothing could go wrong with that, right?
Programming VS Mathematics, and other pointless debates
I do not know who started this argument a few days ago. It feels like something coming from HN. Do you need to know mathematics to be a good programmer?
There is a lot of differing opinions. Maybe programming is a subbranch of mathematics, or programming is using mathematics. Or learning programming is closer to learning a new language. For me, saying that programming is about languages is like saying that literature is about languages. Sure, you need words to indicate concepts, some languages are better suited than others for that, and some concepts are better expressed in other languages. It is more like a hierarchy to me: philosophy formalizes concepts used by authors to write in common languages. Mathematics formalize concepts used by programmers to create code in common languages.
But this is besides the point.
This debate sparks outrage, since it touches a central point of our education, and one that is often not taught very well. “Look, I do not use geometry while writing a loop, so maths are pointless for me”. A lot of developers will never learn basic algebra or logic and will never need it in their day job. And that’s okay.
Programming is not a single profession anymore. Each and every one of us has a different definition. A mechanical engineer working on bridges, another on metallic parts for cars and another one on plastic toys all have different needs, different techniques for their job, although the fundamental basis (evaluating breaking strength, time of assembly, production costs) is the same. That does not make one of these jobs worth more than the other.
The real problem is that we are still fighting among ourselves to define what our job is. The other pointless debate, about software being engineering, science or craft, is evidence of that. And it will stay hard to define for a long time.
We are in a unique position. Usually, when a new field emerges, either tinkerers are launching it and later, good practices are studied to make it engineering, or scientists create it, then means of production become cheaper and crafters take over.
Computers were started by scientists, but the ease of access gave crafters a good opportunity to take over. But that does not mean research stopped when people started coding at home. So now, in a relatively new field (less than a century), while we are still exploring, we have a very large spectrum of jobs and approaches, from the most scientific to the most artistic kind. And that is okay. More world views will help us get better at our respective jobs.
So, while you are arguing that the other side is misguided, irrealistic or unrigorous, take time to consider where they come from. They do not have the same job, and that job can seem pointless to you, but they can be good at it, so there is probably something good you can learn from their approach. The only thing you should not forgive from the other side is the lack of curiosity.
How to choose your secure messaging app
Those are not good enough requirements:
• independent from Facebook
• fast
• multi platforms
• open source
• Why do you need it?
• With whom will you communicate?
• Who is the adversary?
• Does it need to be always available?
• For how long will it be used?
Here are a few examples that you could consider.
The activist in a protest
The employee of a company with confidential projects
The common user
Your use case here
The problem with meritocracy
Everytime people discuss the hacker community and its diversity, I see someone waving the “meritocracy” argument. “It is not our fault those minorities are not well represented, if they knew more stuff or did more stuff, they would have a better status”.
It is easy to see how that argument would be flawed, as meritocracy is a power structure, and whenever a power structure is created, after some time it tends to reinforce its own community. But that is not my point right now.
I realized that the idea of meritocracy is so deeply ingrained in the hacker mindset that we lost sight of what was important. I can see how that idea is appealing. Once you prove you know stuff, people will recognize you, and that will be enough to motivate you to learn. Except it is not. The meritocracy is just another way to exclude people. Once you consider someone’s status by how much you perceive they know, things go downhill.
Some are good at faking knowledge. Some know their craft, but do not talk that well. Some are not experts, but have good ideas. Some would like to learn without being judged. Everytime you dismiss someone’s opinion because of their apparent (lack of) knowledge, everytime you favor someone’s opinion because of their apparent knowledge, you are being unscientific and unwelcoming. You are not a hacker, you are just a jerk.
Somewhere along the way, people got too hung up on meritocracy, and forgot that you hack for knowledge and for fun, not for status. It is all about testing stuff, learning, sharing what you learned, discussing ideas and helping others do the same, whatever their skills or their experience. Status and power structures should have nothing to do with that.
Guess what? I pointed out that bad behaviour, but I am guilty of it too. I have to constantly keep myself in check, to avoid judging people instead of judging ideas. That’s alright. Doing the right thing always requires some effort.
(from their FAQ)
Yup. Very secure, they said it.
So, let’s take a look around.
Available technical information
(Seen on Hacker News)
Network protocol
SafeChat, P2P encrypted messages?
What is SafeChat?
Open source encryption based instant messaging software
Available technical information
Network protocol
Yup, I really feel safe now.
Joke aside, here is what we can guess:
• no rekeying, ie no perfect forward secrecy
• no info on message authentication or integrity verification
Threat model
Attacker types:
• nation state: please, stop joking…
Alternatives to this service:
My ideal job posting
• getting paid to write code
• work on interesting technologies
• a nice workplace atmosphere
• learn
• etc.
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Youthful imagination opens the door to childhood once again
Randy Richardson
As the parent of a 3-year-old, I live in a world that exists somewhere between reality and fantasy.
Parts of that world are not unlike the one I knew before. There are still the evening news reports with nothing but bad news. There's still a job to do so that I can pay the bills. And there's still cooking and cleaning to do. But all of this seem just a little more complicated now that I'm a dad.
The bad news on the evening news programs causes me to fret over the kind of world that my son will grow up in. Getting to work and doing the cooking and cleaning are not as easy as they once were because, well, there's that little gremlin to deal with, always tugging at my legs.
But the other part of the world is full of fairy tales and swashbuckling adventures. It's a pretty cool place filled with all the wide-eyed wonder and innocence that is abundant in childhood, but gets tempered by the knowledge and experience that come with age.
Years ago, I kicked out of my life the likes of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. All because they weren't real. What a terrible thing to do.
Now they're back in full force thanks to The Kid and my world is a better place for it. They're no more real than they were before, but they are real to my son. So, even though I know that they don't exist, I get to act as if they do.
All parents live in this fanta-reality world. Getting to see the world through a child's eyes is perhaps the greatest gift an adult receives with parenthood. It opens the door to a world you once inhabited but whose doors closed long ago. You can once again believe in the unbelievable. The impossible can become possible.
Vacations are drastically different from what they were before I became a parent. Captain Hook is not just a Disney employee in costume but is actually THE Captain Hook. And the tick-tock I hear is not my own alarm clock at the bedside, but comes from inside the belly of an oversized hungry crocodile.
Weekend excursions have changed as well. The knight on horseback at a Renaissance fair is no longer just acting, he is truly jousting for king and country. And when he raises his lance in victory, cheers resound because of the skill and daring he displayed rather than because he followed a staged script. Sure, I know the competition is fixed and the winner predetermined, but I pretend it isn't.
Before I became a parent, Disney cruises and Renaissance fairs were not even on my radar. They are things that I do now, though, because they are part of the world in which my son lives. It is a much better world than the one that I knew before he came along, and I feel fortunate that he reintroduced me to it.
Just a year ago, my son wanted nothing more than to grow up and be a chimney sweep, just like Bert in Mary Poppins. But that life's aspiration recently went up like a puff of smoke. And not just because he figured out that it was a job that required cleaning, a task that falls somewhere between walking and bathing on the disagreeable scale for him.
Instead, what happened was his discovery that his true life's calling is to be a knight in shining armor. He foresees a world where he'll get up in the morning, slip into his armor and go off to work with a sword in his belt and a lance in hand. He dreams of days spent jousting, guarding the castle and protecting his king.
I know that one day, not too far in the distant future, he will wake up with the knowledge that there are very few available jobs for knights in the world today, only ones for actors whose job it is to dress up in a knight costume and put on a good show.
That's part of life, part of growing up.
I wish it didn't have to come to that. The world today could use a few good knights in shining armor.
I'm just thankful that I have a son who lets me live in a world where they still exist.
Randy Richardson and his wife, Mitsuko, live in Evanston with their son Tyler, 3. He is an attorney with the Social Security Administration's disability appeals branch.
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When review copies get messy
1:45 PM on 04.29.2013
Unfortunately, the box also rattled tremendously when shaken, leading me to suspect I was to fish my game out of a load of coffee beans.
Yes. That's what I had to do.
The things I do for love.
How to review Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut
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5. Create Beany Monument.
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Discussion in 'Chevy C/K Truck Forum' started by Indyandy, Apr 13, 2013.
1. Indyandy
Indyandy Member
2000 K2500 454 173k miles
Just need a few more answers on this subject. I've decided to give a cleaning one more try before I have to tear down the engine. So question 1: Should I try Seafoam in the oil or ATF? I am leaning toward Seafoam. How long should I leave it in? 500 miles? Right now I will have to drain some oil out because it is a quart overfull with the other additives that I put in already.
Question 2: Do the lifters need to be replaced or can they be cleaned? What causes them to go bad? Do they get dirty and just stick in the cylinder or is there a seal inside that leaks?
Money is tight, but I need my truck. If I need to replace them I will. Any help is appreciated, Thanks in advance. Andy
2. Chris Miller
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1) Seafoam couldn't hurt. ATF will wash a lot of crud into the oil pump pickup, so I wouldn't recommend it.
2) As for causes, they usually just wear out. If they're stuck, the Seafoam should help. As for replacing them, they're pretty cheap. It's just a little time-consuming. But I'd try cleaning them and adjusting the rocker arms first.
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Introduction to Exception Handling in Java
Exception is an abnormal condition that arises in the program during execution. When such a condition arises in the program, an appropriate code is written so that it can be handled. It is very much similar to the error codes returned by a subroutine in the C language. Whatever value the function returns can be checked, and depending upon the value you can make out whether it is executed successfully or were there any errors. If there is an error then you need to match the error code with the error list and find out what error occurred. Java runtime environment has adopted this feature extensively using object-oriented methodology in the form of exception handling.
By using the exception handling you can prevent your program from abruptly ending, flashing surprising and annoying error messages. On the contrary, if a minor error crops up it can be handled during runtime and your program resumes from there on without crashing down.
All exceptions in Java are subclasses of the built-in-class called Throwable. There are two main subclasses under throwable: Exception and Error.
The Exception class caters to all the problems that should be caught by the user program. Runtime Exception is an important sub class of Exception; exception of these kinds are predefined such as divided by zero etc. the exception that are not expected to be caught by user program and more or less fatal in nature come under the Error subclass, for example stack overflow. These are the catastrophic conditions, which are dealt by the run time environment itself. Apart from the system-generated exception, the user also can explicitly define their own exceptions.
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On Thursday’s Special Report, Charles Krauthammer slammed President Obama for his failure to take meaningful action to resolve the Ukraine crisis. The lack of American leadership in international affairs is responsible for the “general perception that the world is going to hell and the president’s out playing golf” and has registered in recent opinion polls, he said.
Obama likes to use false dichotomies to justify his inaction, Krauthammer said. “And of course when the president is inactive as he is now on this issue, [he] has done nothing of substance, they say ‘Well, what do you want to do? Go to war? Send troops into Ukraine?’” he said. “Whereas as Jonah [Goldberg] indicated, the alternatives, the other policies between nothing and war, there is a huge range of territory.”
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One thing I see right off the bat is your movement. When you move around in the crease you are not shuffling or sliding. Each time you move you're turning your foot to push and glide along your blade. This is a very inefficient movement since each time you reposition yourself, you are also turning your pad surfaces away from the shooter.
In your next practice, or ice session, try to move around while facing a fixed point. Don't turn your legs. Force yourself to slide across your skate blade. This is very difficult, and will not come easily at first, but when you get it down you'll glide around the crease with so much more efficiency and you'll be in the right position faster which will instantly lead to better results.
Try to work on doing "good" bursts of 20-30 seconds, instead of "so-so" ones of 30-60. Its going to burn all along your thighs, and thats the idea. You need to strengthen your legs so they can push against the 'bite' of your blades.
Thanks, I'll work on this. I'm comfortable with shuffling, I'm just not fast with it, so I resort to pushes to relocate instead of shuffles. With practice it should become easier.
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A good drill for this:
Picture a box with 4 points. The two goal posts, and two cones at least 6 feet straight in front of each post. Starting on the left post, t-push out to the top right (as you're looking from the goal line) cone, drop and make a butterfly save, pop up, shuffle across to the top left, butterfly, pop up, skate straight back to the left post, shuffle across to the right post, t-push to the top left cone, butterfly, pop up, shuffle to the top right, butterfly, pop up, skate back to the right post. Thats 1. Rest for 15-30 seconds, then repeat but instead of butterfly's, do a poke check, then rest 30-45 seconds. Repeat, but at each point try to lay flat on your back, then recover (you basically sit, then recline, then instantly recover) rest 45-60 seconds. Repeat last time and at each point do a poke check, then barrel roll. With each of the 'non-saves' you're focusing on two things. First to keep yourself in control and not flail around. Second to recover back to your feet quickly. You are never as well prepared for a shot as you are when one both feet in your stance. From that position you have full range of motion. The faster you can get back to that the better. As your skills evolve (like really far) you can learn to adapt and be mobile from the butterfly as is the new normal in the top level goalies. But you need to crawl before you can run.
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I think this was a pretty good Bene fit:
He'll be trading it all away for lab coats and comfortable shoes pretty soon, anyway.
In this case, the camera angle is as good as you can get. I mean, it's straight ahead.
You might be right about the pants. The jacket has very defined lines, but the pants look loose. But also I think it's the cuff of the jacket, or, the lack of shirt cuff. It looks kind of strange, since the cuffs are short.Now look at Mellow Fellow. He's also wearing a sweater under a jacket, but you can see the shirt cuffs, and it doesn't look as odd.
This guy:
I think it would have to have been Noah. It would explain not showing him in the previous episode, since the audience wouldn't know who he was. And it obviously wouldn't be anyone else, as there would be no reason not to show them.
The game was hard. At least it was on the Playstation. Not impossible, just more of a challenge. Certainly harder than FFVII, whose combat system doesn't require much strategy. I think the game gets bogged down in the job system, a bit.
With Tactics, I found the game started off really hard. Every boss battle I'd win I would barely be clinging to life by the end. I'd spend a lot of time getting into random encounters in order to boost my HP/MP, etc. Because of this, I don't really remember the story all that well, as too much time would pass between chapters. Also, once you reach a certain part of the game, it becomes too easy. The final boss is really lame, and when it tells you "congratulations! This...
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NYC restaurant dishes up silent treatment
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In this frame grab from video, patrons dine at a restaurant called "Eat," on Oct. 6, 2013, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The restaurant in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood is serving up a four-course meal of organic, locally-sourced food, but isn't allowing any chit-chat.
Quiet, please. Your dinner will now be served.
Nicholas Nauman, head chef at Eat in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood, said he was inspired to pitch the tight-lipped consumption sessions after spending time in India, where Buddhist monks take their breakfast without exchanging words.
"It's just an opportunity to enjoy food in a way you might not have otherwise," said the chef, noting that the sounds of forks on dishes and cooks in the kitchen provide some background noise to the experience. "There's such a strong energy in the room."
The silent-dining experience, experts said, seems to fit with other attention-getting shticks that many restaurant owners and chefs often resort to in the notoriously competitive restaurant business.
At Moto, in Chicago, diners can eat the menu. In Paris, London, Barcelona and Moscow, restaurant-goers at Dans le Noir? — French for "In the Dark?" — are served in the pitch-dark. And pop-up restaurants — where one chef takes over another's restaurant for the night — have long been the rage.
"As a mother of two 15-year-old boys it is kind of a fantasy to go do that," Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious.com, said of the silent-dining experience at Eat. "But as someone who pays money to go out, I would feel like I'm in some kind of silent film; it would be incredibly difficult."
At a recent evening at Eat, restaurant-goers didn't seem to mind the silent treatment as they noshed on salads and sipped their soups.
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MM sucking our money. Get out today.
Of course the MM is playing with people... He has to earn a living..
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• I'm going to play a little devil's advocate on both sides here. I think I have done about as well as the best of em in this crash percentage wise. But here's some tidbits people from both sides seem to neglect.
1) When anyone comes on here claiming they no something they know nothing. The smartest guy is the one who knows he knows nothing but does the best with the knowledge he gains.
2) Anyone who comes on here wanting you to buy or sell has his/her own agenda....period. Why would I EVER tell a bunch of people I don't know to buy or sell? In this case, the poster seems to act like he wants to help. Of course, if I sell...someone has to buy my shares and if it tanks, it just means someone else gets screwed. So who has this do gooder really helped? That's right, himself buy getting more shares to drive the price his/her way.
3)That being said. I have been playing the market for the past 8 months pretty heavily. The market has majorly risen and fallen 14 times that I counted by more than 1000 points in a few short days. This last one has been the strangest, I'll admit. But with the basics of the economy (jobs and production and shipping) numbers better believe there will be a 15. and every single one of those 14 times, there are people with all kinds of opinions, but the fundamentals drove the market down and led lots of lambs to slaughter.
4)Don't get greedy. If you don't want to deal with volatility...don't buy individual stocks. This last time around I bought most my picks when the dow was 6500. Watched my portfolio tank when it went to 6000 and just sold them all today. I did not hit the bottom, nor did I hit the top. But I made money. Had I played all 14 bounces perfectly, I'd be retired. But paying off my house will be good enough. Maybe for you buying a new suit is good enough. Don't get greedy.
5) One stock should not be tied to another like they are in todays market. When you stay with one bank because of the success of other banks, you will soon part with your money. Wells Fargo makes a ton of money so all banks go up? That only happens in a panicked market like this one when bets are being hedged. Soon the winners will take over and the losers will crash, as they should, based on their actual performance.
6) It surprises me how much people take long and short positions like it is a religion or political party. Play the way that makes you money period. Let the people who bet the wrong way buy your next car. I will say trying to destroy a company for profit is wrong, but punishing a poorly performing company is necessary. Otherwise, we get stocks that go higher and higher and higher for no real darned reason and then shit hits the fan and we all didn't we?
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You Can Keep Making Halo Videos, You Just Can’t Make Money From Them (Except When You Can)
TotalSynthesisX + 921d ago
So my plans for uploading a playthrough+commentary of Halo 4 when it hits shelves and having it bring in revenue is shot? Well, damn.
I'll still upload it anyway, without the revenue. :P
Septic + 921d ago
Out of curiosity, how do you bring in revenue with that kind of video? I know its loosely based on advertising but I don't know how it operates specifically.
Cheers in advance :)
TotalSynthesisX + 921d ago
YouTube allows users to make a profit off of videos of gameplay only if said gameplay is either instructional or educational--and commentaries do, in fact, fall under those categories. After "monetizing" the video, ads will appear within or around it. It goes a little deeper than that, but that's it in a nutshell. The problem now is that Microsoft doesn't give people permission to make a profit off of those types of gameplay videos (which is news to me), so we're shit out of luck.
xpgINSANITY + 921d ago
That's my plan as well.... along with 1000s of other people. Sucks we can't make any money from it though :(
Straightupbeastly + 921d ago
I'm surprised they give out ad money like they do. I've watched a million YouTube vids and cannot remember one ad, it's because I turn the volume down. How are they ever able to tell people are watching ads? I bet most people pay no attention to them
I honestly think we're starting to see a crackdown once these corps found out youtubers who sit on their ass and upload 2 vids a day make more than the developers. They have every right to be upset and want to put an end to it.
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GroundsKeeperJimbo + 921d ago
View counts are only part of it. You get a quite a bit extra for clicks on the ad.
Oh and do you have a link to your popular youtube channel? You make it sound so easy...
Hufandpuf + 921d ago
I hope this means no more ads from youtube on gaming videos tied to this.
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aviator189 + 921d ago
That'd actually be a relief, imo.
Soldierone + 921d ago
Kinda stupid. Someone goes through the effort, overall ITS ADVERTISING YOUR GAME, and they hate it? Everyone wants their hands in everyones money.
I wrote a comic book, I get people coming up to me all the time "look at my fan art I did for you" I tell them to go ahead and sell it, and some of them sell well. I don't want any part in it, because overall they are telling people "its based on HIS comic"
Honestly, if you said you created the game, then fine thats against the rules, but really this is an issue? It's not like every person making a few dollars (if that) off youtube walk throughs have the ability to contact you and get permission.
AO1JMM + 921d ago
Doesn't Rooster teeth and such make money of of the games?
Summons75 + 920d ago
Rooster Teeth at this point has a partnership with MS and 343I so they would be able to keep making money. I'm sure MS gets a small chuck of what they make.
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In these conversations, there always comes the point when the secular reporter or producer asks some variation of the same question: If the Church is so pro-life and so opposed to gay marriage, so conservative politically, and yet is so relatively progressive on economic and social justice issues, what accounts for this inconsistency? It is my favorite part of these discussions because you get to take a deep breath, audible across the phone lines, and reply, “You presume the inconsistency is in the Church but what if the inconsistency is in our politics?”
Another instance of the way ideological inconsistency works its way into American politics is found in a recent campaign by Republican advocates of immigration reform to point out the anti-life positions of some of the nation’s most vocal and successful anti-immigrant groups. The Washington Post put the story on the front page today, noting, among other evidences, that the co-founder of the anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform, John Tanton, was an early leader in the “zero population growth” movement. Tanton also played a key role in founding other anti-immigrant groups. The Post story quotes Kevin Appleby, the USCCB’s point man on immigration, as saying, “pro-life legislators should think twice about working with these groups, as their underlying goals are inconsistent with a pro-life agenda.”
Why is anyone surprised? If someone denies the fundamental, innate human dignity of the migrant, why should we be surprised that they are not particularly concerned about the dignity of the unborn or the elderly? Why would someone who thinks it is fine to recommend euthanasia as a “solution” for our growing elderly population not think that mass deportation is the most effective means of dealing with migration? Yet, many Republican politicians in the piece do show they are surprised.
Of course, the phenomenon cuts both ways. Liberals must ask themselves why they are so deeply, and rightly, committed to the rights of the undocumented and so deaf to the right-to-life of the unborn? It does not take a lot of research to recognize that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a racist, that she spoke at Ku Klux Klan rallies for a reason or, as I like to say, that she put the “hood” into Planned Parenthood. But, even I was stunned when I researched her writings in the Birth Control Review to discover just how committed she was to eugenics.
Sanger was not alone. In the 1920s, many states in the U.S., adopted eugenic policies, especially towards the mentally disabled. (The memory of those days is why the disabled community is one of the Church’s strongest allies in the fight against euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.) We all recall the justification rendered by the great liberal Supreme Court jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., for his decision in Buck v. Bell that permitted the Commonwealth of Virginia to sterilize a mentally disabled woman, Carrie Buck, against her will: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Such thoughts were quite common in the 1920s and 1930s, before Josef Mengele gave eugenics a bad name.
Eugenics grew out of a very human, and often very commendable, ambition, the itch to improve. But, eugenics also shows the ways that itch can run amok and miscarry in frightful ways. This itch is not limited to manipulation of human genetics. Think of all the “progress” that has resulted in the environment being imperiled, from the dams that have changed delicate eco-systems to the frightening effects of climate change. Think of the way America exports its consumerist-capitalist values abroad, bringing material prosperity to many to be sure, but also introducing a spiritual poverty into traditional cultures.
Those who think the Church is wrong to be so hidebound by tradition, who don’t see the need for the Church to work through complicated issues in the light of its long tradition of reflection and reasoning regarding the human condition, are always chomping at the but for “progress.” I was asked by a television producer the other day if the new Pope would champion progress on the issue of abortion. “Would that be progress?” I asked. “Or would it be decline?”
If you have the itch to improve the human condition, God love you. I am deeply grateful to those medical researchers who came up with ways to treat heart disease, resulting in the fact that my Dad is alive and well today. I am deeply grateful to the person who first had the idea of putting wheels on luggage. I honor the memory of Thomas Edison for coming up with ways to use electricity. But, beware that itch, too. It can run amok in the twinkling of an eye and lead to some very unhumane conclusions.
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Michael L Torrie wrote:
> You've inadvertently confirmed what I am coming to fear. That
> interested to hear of your experiences with this.
My Thinkpad T43, running Gentoo, suspends to RAM within 5 seconds after
I shut the lid. Resuming takes about 10 seconds, I think. Sleeping is
reliable enough that I don't think twice anymore about shutting the lid
and picking up the laptop any time I like. There are rare times when I
can't resume (the screen comes on but nothing happens until I hard
reset), but I think that only happens when the battery jiggles a little
loose during transport.
My wife's laptop also tries to suspend to RAM when she shuts it, but
about half the time it runs into some bug and stays on. However, it
seems to have the same bug in both Windows and Linux. I'm glad we got a
Durabook for her, since it has survived 3 foot falls onto a stone tile
floor with hardly a scratch. However, since it's not a very popular
brand, it's hard to get support for hardware bugs.
> resume. Powering on and off the entire laptop (which is what hibernate
> I've talked to think hibernation is good enough.
How long can a disconnected Mac typically sleep without running its
laptop that could automatically hibernate itself after a few hours of
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0.029651 | <urn:uuid:abfafafe-09c7-4b47-8062-917734f65e45> | en | 0.959758 | More not Always Merrier when Selecting MatesScientists have discovered that the context in which humans meet potential mates has a hidden influence on who they decide to pursue.
Some dating arrangements, such as speed dating, aggregate singles to allow a wide exposure to prospective partners.
In this environment, researchers found that people respond by paying attention to different types of characteristics – discarding attributes such as education, smoking status, and occupation in favor of physical characteristics such as height and weight.
A number of studies in recent years have looked at what happens to humans when faced with extensive choice – too many kinds of chocolate, or too many detergents to choose from at the grocery store.
Under such circumstances, consumer psychologists believe that the brain may become “overwhelmed,” potentially leading to poorer quality choice or choice deferral.
“Is having too many mate options really like having too many jams?” they ask.
To find out how people respond to relatively limited versus extensive mate choice, Lenton and Francesconi analyzed data from 84 speed dating events, which is where people meet with a series of potential dates for three minutes each.
Afterward, the men and women report their choices (a “yes” or “no” for each person).
Women also preferred partners who weren’t too skinny, and men preferred women who weren’t overweight.
At bigger speed dating events, with 24 or more dates, both male and female choosers were more likely to decide based on attributes that could be judged quickly, such as their dates’ height, and whether they were underweight, normal weight, or overweight.
At smaller events, choosers were more likely to make decisions based on attributes that take longer to identify and evaluate, such as their dates’ level of education, their type of job, and whether or not the person smokes.
“Obviously, I think we look for different attributes in partners than what we look for in a chocolate, a jam or a 401(k) plan,” says Lenton.
“But one of the points we’re trying to make in this article is it’s the same brain we’re carrying around. There are constraints on what our brains can do – they’re quite powerful, but they can’t pay attention to everything at once.”
As a result, this previously invisible aspect of the choice environment has the potential to determine one’s romantic fate.
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I am working with a C# on visual studios.
What I would like to know is if it is possible to have a html template loaded from a directory on my computer. Then every time I load up my code it will load up the .html template automatically.
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Do you mean you'd like to create an aspx page? – Jeff Watkins Jun 1 '12 at 21:32
A template .html for your web application projects? if that the case, you need to take a look to master pages: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wtxbf3hh.aspx. And if you need to add an specif html code to all your code you need to see to how to create a project template for visual studio msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6db0hwky(v=vs.80).aspx – Jorge Jun 1 '12 at 21:45
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Yes there is a way, not suggested but exist. You can use this code to include the file, inside your asp.net page.
<!--#include file="template.htm"-->
What is dose is that is load this htm file and show it on the place that you have place this declaration. Also you must know that this file can not contain anything dynamically. This is a command code that comes from the old asp script code, and still work on asp.net
So I can not call it as template. If you wish to make something like a real template you must use a master page. Using a master page is far better, and you just copy paste your htm code inside the master page and there you have it.
relative: http://triaslama.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/how-to-include-file-in-aspnet-pages/
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thanks this actually is the answer I was looking for, is there a way I can call the <!--#include file="template.htm"--> from a web.config so I don't have to put that code into the .aspx page? – timisu Jun 2 '12 at 0:43
@timisu there is one different way to include other configs, on web.config. – Aristos Jun 2 '12 at 7:49
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I am using a LinqDataSource and a FormView with paging enabled on an ASP.NET page. I am trying to access the FormView's DataItem property on PageLoad and I have no trouble on the first page load, but as soon as I use the Next/Prev page button (causing a postback) on the FormView the DataItem property is null, even if there a record showing in the FormView. Any ideas why it works fine on the first page load but not on a postback?
If you're curious what my PageLoad event looks like, here it is:
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
Label lbl = (Label)fvData.FindControl("AREALabel");
if (fvData.DataItem != null && lbl != null)
var area = db.AREAs.SingleOrDefault(q => q.AREA1 == record.AREA);
if (area != null)
lbl.Text = area.AREA_NAME;
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probably you have to rebind your formview in page_index changing event – Waqar Janjua Jul 18 '12 at 17:47
How can you rebind it if it's using data from a LinqDataSource control I dropped on the page? I've called DataBind() on both the FormView and LinqDataSource, but neither seem to work. – Hoff Jul 18 '12 at 18:49
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The object you bind to any data-bound control won't be persisted in the page's ViewState
Therefore, on subsequent posts the DataItem property will be null unless you re-bind the control
This property will contain a reference to the object when the control is bound.
Usually you would need to access this property if you want to do something when the objects is bound, so you need to react to the DataBound event
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Code behind
protected void ds_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
var d = this.fv.DataItem as employee;
this.lbl.Text = d.lname;
<asp:LinqDataSource ID="lds" runat="server"
<asp:FormView runat="server" ID="fv" DataSourceID="lds" AllowPaging="true"
<asp:TextBox Text='<%# Bind("fname") %>' runat="server" ID="txt" />
<br />
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Worked like a charm. Using the DataBound event instead of the PageLoad event did the trick. Thank you! – Hoff Jul 18 '12 at 18:56
Your data will not be preserved on PostBack. You'll need to rebind the FormView in the PageIndexChanging event using something like:
protected void FormView_PageIndexChanging(object sender, FormViewPageEventArgs e)
FormView.PageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
//rebind your data here
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I'm just using the LinqDataSource control dropped on the page, how can I force it to rebind the data? The paging seems to work fine and I've called DataBind() on both the FormView and LinqDataSource, but neither seem to work. – Hoff Jul 18 '12 at 18:19
You'd want to DataBind your FormView. Maybe try 'EnableViewstate="true"' in your FormView? – gws2 Jul 18 '12 at 18:40
EnableViewState is defaulted to true. Very weird behavior because when I page I can clearly see the data in the form view - I just can't access the DataItem :( – Hoff Jul 18 '12 at 18:47
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I have a little Python 3.3 script that successfully sends (SendMessage) a WM_COPYDATA message (inspired from here , works with XYplorer):
import win32api
import win32gui
import struct
import array
def sendScript(window, message):
CopyDataStruct = "IIP"
dwData = 0x00400001 #value required by XYplorer
buffer = array.array("u", message)
cds = struct.pack(CopyDataStruct, dwData, buffer.buffer_info()[1] * 2 + 1, buffer.buffer_info()[0])
win32api.SendMessage(window, 0x004A, 0, cds) #0x004A is the WM_COPYDATA id
message = "helloworld"
sendScript(window, message) #I write manually the hwnd during debug
Now I need to write a receiver script, still in Python. The script in this answer seems to work (after correcting all the print statements in a print() form). Seems because it prints out all properties of the received message (hwnd, wparam, lparam, etc) except the content of the message. I get an error instead, UnicodeEncodeError. More specifically,
Python WNDPROC handler failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python\xxx.py", line 45, in OnCopyData
File "C:\Python\python-3.3.2\lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 19, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 10-13: character maps to <undefined>
I don't know how to fix it, also because I'm not using "fancy" characters in the message so I really can't see why I get this error. I also tried setting a different length of message in print(ctypes.wstring_at(pCDS.contents.lpData)) as well as using simply string_at, but without success (in the latter case I obtain a binary string).
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I'm connected to an open network, I can see the BSSID and the SSID but I don't think DHCP is enabled because I don't get any IP. so is there a way to find out what is it's IP remotely ? and thanks
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What operation system do you use? – Ivo Flipse Jan 23 '11 at 14:07
You are perhaps assuming that the Access Point is also the DHCP server for the network? Do you know that to be the case? – Linker3000 Jan 23 '11 at 15:53
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(Assuming Linux system) Once you have the MAC address of the AP, e.g. via iwconfig:
$ iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"OSU_PUB"
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
The AP has hw addr 00:0D:9D:C6:38:2D so you can use tcpdump to sniff for traffic from that hardware address, which usually will reveal the IP address of it as the source sooner or later:
$ tcpdump -i eth1 -s 0 -v -n ether host 00:0D:9D:C6:38:2D
13:15:49.106475 ARP, Ethernet (len 6), IPv4 (len 4), Request who-has (00:0D:9D:C6:38:2D) tell, length 28
If the AP responds to broadcast pings you could probably send a broadcast ping to its specific MAC address to elicit a reply, but there doesn't seem to be a tool capable of doing that.
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I suppose you can turn on the promiscous mode of your wireless card and start wireshark ( http://www.wireshark.org/ ) That way you will likely be able to discover the subnet of the network.
When you see a TCP packet like this...
0000 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
0010 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx c0 a8 01 01 c0 a8 01
0020 02 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
0030 xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
the c0 a8 01 01 = and the c0 a8 01 02 =
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I started wireshark but where should I find the subnet, in which packet type ? – Peter Jan 23 '11 at 12:30
are there any baseline traffic on the network? – bubu Jan 23 '11 at 12:38
yes lots of traffic – Peter Jan 23 '11 at 12:44
I can only see the Mac addresses and the IPs of the PPPoE connection, because this access point is for internet access using PPPoE – Peter Jan 23 '11 at 12:51
Can you please show us a screenshot? – bubu Jan 23 '11 at 13:00
The simplest way is usually to do netstat -rn and see what the default gateway is set to -- 99.9% of the time, that will be your access point's IP address. And it works on Linux, OS X or Windows.
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99.9% is probably reasonable for a home or small office network where the AP is often in a broadband/cable router, but much less so on a corporate network. – Linker3000 Jan 23 '11 at 15:52
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Hancock back on mound after four-year layoff
When Josh Hamilton overcame drug addiction and returned to major league baseball after four seasons away from the game, not many people disagreed with Peter Gammons' assessment of Hamilton's path. In an ESPN segment, Gammons said, "There will never be another guy to be away from the game for three or more years and make it to the big leagues."
But not many people know Kyle Hancock's story. And unlike Hamilton, who played two minor league seasons, Hancock didn't step between the white lines the last time he put on a baseball uniform. Now, Hancock is trying to prove any doubters wrong, just like Hamilton did, using Gammons' words as his inspiration to make it to the big leagues.
"There's not a day goes by that I don't think about what he said," Hancock said. "That makes me want to work. That makes me want to get to the field early. That's my motivation."
Drugs didn't drive Hancock away from the game like they did Hamilton. He simply walked away before throwing a single pitch. Now, Hancock is trying to get his career back.
"Four years ago, he was a 17-year-old kid, he had a good fastball, or plus-plus, and he had a quality breaking ball at that time and he was very projectable," Rockies scouting director Bill Schmidt said of Hancock, who will turn 22 on Aug. 20. "We thought he was going to go on to play professionally. I don't know if anyone thought any different."
Too Much, Too Soon
Both Hamilton (first overall, 1999, Rays) and Hancock (third round, 2005, Rockies) were selected out of high school. Hamilton was a five-tool outfielder, whereas Hancock was a righthanded starting pitcher with dynamic stuff. Hancock went 12-1, 0.90 for Rowlett (Texas) High during his senior year and was ranked Baseball America's 34th-best prep prospect. After being selected by Colorado, Hancock visited Coors Field on Aug. 1 for a meet-and-greet with the front office as well as a physical.
The next day, Hancock took a flight to Idaho Falls and met up with his Rookie-level Casper teammates on a road trip. Then, Hancock took an eight-hour bus trip to Orem for a three-game series, an experience that didn't sit well with the 17-year-old.
Two days and one bullpen session later, Hancock was on a flight home to suburban Dallas.
"I was on the bus thinking, 'What did I get myself into?'" Hancock said. "I needed to grow up, that's basically what it comes down to. I was ready for it physically, but not mentally . . . Leaving was the hardest thing I ever had to do."
Hancock walked away from a $460,000 signing bonus and an opportunity to pursue his dream. He hoped by not accepting money he would maintain his amateur status and be allowed to play at Arkansas, where he had committed to college. But the NCAA denied his appeal. As difficult as the decision was for Hancock to walk away, it was just as surprising for the Rockies.
"Any time you have a player with the draft and signings, there's so much feelings of anticipation," Rockies assistant general manager Bill Geivett said.
Hancock studied at North Texas during his time away from the game and is two semesters from a degree in business. He pitched in the Dallas Area Baseball Association and served as an instructor for 11-year-olds. During the same time, former Casper teammates, including Eric Young Jr. and Dexter Fowler, made it to the big leagues.
For the last three years, Hancock was forgotten—Geivett said he figured Hancock would never pitch again. Still, the decision to leave and the desire to play baseball never left Hancock.
"There wasn't a day that went by where I thought 'what if I had stuck it out?' or 'what if I went to school?'" Hancock said. "That's what I went to bed with every night. That definitely weighed on my mind, I never thought it would take me this long to get back into baseball."
A Second Chance
That desire is why Hancock started calling Colorado in October of last year, begging for an opportunity to pursue the same dream he passed up three years ago. After a relentless pursuit, including a petition to the commissioner's office and the Rockies removing him from the restricted list, Hancock was cleared to play in February when he reported for spring training.
So the Rockies gave Hancock the same opportunity they gave him four years ago: a chance to pitch for their short-season team in Casper, after he fought through the team's extended spring in Tucson, Ariz.
"Looking back, it wasn't that bad. It's the same bus, it's the same field, it's the same people," Hancock said. "Nothing has changed. It wasn't anything to make you get up and leave your dream."
But clearly something, or someone, has changed. Hancock had three years to be away from the game and mature.
"He showed up and he didn't look intimidated at all, his composure was impressive. He really opened a lot of people's eyes," Casper manager Tony Diaz said. "Just the fact that everybody knew what he had done, to show everybody in the organization what he was capable of doing was quite impressive. Then, in extended spring program he was lights out."
But it wasn't Hancock's stuff, composure or maturity level that impressed the Rockies most. It was his dedication and passion to the game. Now, he was ready for it.
"You can tell that this is a kid who was given a second chance and he's going to fight as much as he can to not let it slip away this time," Diaz said. "Young kids make mistakes—Josh Hamilton made a mistake—but this country is built on second chances anyway."
Hancock has flashed an 88-93 mph fastball that sits at 90-91 and a 12-to-6 curveball in the upper-70s. It's a similar repertoire to what he showed scouts in high school. Through two starts, Hancock was 0-2, 13.50 with six strikeouts and no walks. Though the numbers weren't where Hancock may have hoped, he's shown glimpses of dominance, including a four-inning stretch in his second outing where he did not allow a run on six hits.
All parties said 2009 would be a transition year for Hancock. He has to throw every day, pitch every fifth day and manage the game—a change for any new professional pitcher, but Hancock hasn't been intimidated by it.
"All I wanted was an opportunity to play the game," Hancock said. "I want to pitch until a doctor tells me I can't throw any more or I just find out I'm not good enough."
The challenge Hancock faces is undeniable. Schmidt said that some might identify Hancock as more of a suspect than a prospect now because of his age and experience level. But Hancock has already overcome a different, and possibly bigger, kind of obstacle.
"Every year I went through a battle," he said. "The first year I wanted to go but at the same time I didn't think I was ready. The second year I was heading into school, I had a good job, and maybe I said it was past me. The third year, I said I wanted to do it again and not look back. I didn't want to say I never gave it a shot."
Hancock is giving it a shot, just four years removed from walking away from the game. Geivett said from what he has seen, Hancock has the physical ability, stuff and makeup to make it to the major leagues, just like Hamilton did.
"No matter what we think of what happened at the beginning of it, it's never where you start, it's where you finish," Geivett said. "I think he's going to finish in a good place. At the end of all this, it's going to be a very good story." | http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/minors/classification-reports/short-season/2009/268563.html | dclm-gs1-296150001 | false | false | {
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The problem is, my customers have asthma and they’re concerned about the health effects of fiber insulation. Got any advice?
A.Ted Cushman responds: I called Dr. Harold Friedman, an asthma specialist at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, an Ivy League teaching hospital in Hanover, N.H. Dr. Friedman explained that asthma is caused by an allergic reaction in the airways. A few common allergens are usually to blame: the droppings of cockroaches or microscopic dust mites, and animal dander. In general, Dr. Friedman tells asthmatic patients to avoid carpets and to keep their homes clean and well-ventilated. Pets, unfortunately, have to go. But Dr. Friedman told me that to the best of his knowledge, neither fiberglass nor cellulose should trigger your clients’ asthma unless it’s mixed with something like cat fur or bug feces.
Blown cellulose is usually the best choice for old-house retrofits because it blocks airflow and insulates at the same time. Insulation placed within the walls is unlikely to get into the air in the living space, but while the job’s in progress, things could get dusty, and insulation fibers can irritate your customers’ breathing passages just as they do anyone else’s. Have the homeowners move out while you’re insulating, and hire a professional cleaning crew to vacuum and mop before they move back in. | http://www.jlconline.com/telemedicine/q-a--insulation-won-t-trigger-asthma.aspx?dfpzone=general | dclm-gs1-296580001 | false | false | {
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Virtual hand gets under the skin
These new amazingly realistic animations of the human hand go way beyond the demands of Hollywood (see video, right). They are detailed enough to shed light on the mystery of how the tendons and muscles of the human hand interact when we move, and should help surgeons reconstruct damaged hands more effectively.
Computer animators are adept at making characters that move realistically, largely thanks to advances in motion capture technology that records the way people move.
But even the best motion capture only records the movement of the body's surface. That's fine for a movie, but surgeons are less superficial. They are interested in the movement of muscles and tendons beneath the skin.
Now hand animations that go below the surface (see video, right), have been made, by Shinjiro Sueda, Andrew Kaufman and Dinesh Pai at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Moving muscle
They used anatomical data from medical images to model the 17 bones and 54 tendons and muscles of the hand and forearm.
The team's software can coordinate the contraction and relaxation of muscles, and the way forces are transmitted by tendons to produce any desired hand gesture.
"Motion capture is data driven - you just capture the data and play it back," says Sueda. "Our approach is a simulation in which the starting point is the physics of muscle and tendon movement."
Sueda's team also clothed their virtual muscles and tendons in a layer of skin. Just like real skin its shape depends on the anatomy beneath it.
Helping hand
"The parameters to control the deformation of the skin aren't biomechanical - it's just cosmetic," says Sueda. But because the underlying controlled muscles and tendons are accurately placed, the result is a hand animation that is highly realistic.
When Sueda's team took screen grabs of their animated hands and compared them to photographs of real hands in the same position, the two sets of images match closely.
The model should be a boon to surgeons, says Sueda. "The network of muscles and tendons in the hand is very complicated," he adds. "Even now people don't know how it actually works in detail."
Although the anatomy of the hand was worked out long ago from dissections, the interplay of all the components when in motion has largely remained a mystery. For this reason, the results of hand surgery can be unpredictable.
Adding realism
When a tendon is damaged, the muscle it's attached to no longer functions properly. Surgeons try to restore movement by taking a nearby tendon and re-routing it along the path of the damaged one. But predicting the results of that is difficult.
"Using our technique, you can show what effect rerouting a tendon would have on the hand before you actually do the surgery," says Sueda.
The new technology has also been built as a plug-in for existing graphics software to allow animators to quickly and easily add more realism to their hand animations.
The new hand animation models will be presented at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles on 15 August 2008.
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IMO, programming books aren't worth the money. I learned better by doing and consulting the free resources online via google. Course load wise, as a guy doing a dual BS in CS and game design, it was a split of game courses and cs courses, with the occasional irrelevant-but-still-required course in there (bio 101, etc)
You seem like you want to get into the industry so here's my advice: Just fucking do it. Seriously. Make some games on your own time, apart from classes and such. You want to learn an engine? Google that shit. I've had courses that were specifically geared towards game creation and such, but learned more through experimentation and random internet tutorials. Not to discredit my professors, but ultimately it was what you made it. As one of the few people who did stuff on the side, eventually going on to form an indie studio with some friends, as well as getting a job in the industry upon graduation, I like to think a lot of that was because of the will to do stuff outide of class. I'll answer other quetions you might have if you found that helpful.
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haha a good kick in the ass is always good to get motivated. I appreciate it. I have read a few threads about how everyone would recommend getting a degree because of the "basic" knowledge no one wants to spend the time on learning. So I want to make sure I'm pretty well covered on all fronts. | http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1737y4/a_question_for_college_grads_or_current_students/c81z1nn?context=3 | dclm-gs1-296810001 | false | false | {
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What's it like?
Deep breath - it's likeable: officially Chelsea's last redeeming feature. You can hate everything in it, and The Village outside it, but you can't hate the Bridge itself, partly for everything it used to be, and partly for the way it has been rebuilt: enclosed, authentic and big - the biggest club ground in London pre-Emirates.
And the away end?
Wildly expensive seats in areas of the upper and lower tiers of the Shed end, depending on demand. Decent views, unless you're near the back of the lower tier, where it's like watching through a letterbox. Lively stewards.
To eat
Football's Famous Chicken Balti Pie? Yes, £2.50. Plus variety of others - mixed reviews - and hot dogs. Concourses big.
Where to drink?
£3 bottles of warm pissy Bud inside; outside, avoid pubs round the ground and try central London or even Greenwich before getting the underground. Or the generic McWetherspoons near Hammersmith Tube.
Make a weekend of it
The best local attractions Dinosaurs! Great big boney dinosaurs! The Natural History Museum is two miles away.
Best home fans' chant
The entertainingly camp: 'Didier Drogba, tra lala lala, Didier Drogba, traaa lalalalala, Didier Drogba, tra lala lala, Didier Drogba, traaa lala lala...'
In local pub row, don't insult
Gianfranco Zola. The Italian Kerry Dixon, but even more loveable.
Overall away trip rating: 5
You'll feel dirty for liking it, but it's got a traditional feel, and there aren't many places better if you manage a win. The always-smug home punters - half gentrified, half old-school Burberry monkeys - don't understand defeat any more. But it loses two points purely for the cost of going there.
Last season 2nd
Top scorer Didier Drogba (20)
Player of the season Michael Essien
10 years ago 97-98: 4th, Premiership. Top scorers: Tore Andre Flo, Gianluca Vialli (11)
20 years ago 87-88: 18th, Division One. Top scorer: Gordon Durie (12)
30 years ago 77-78: 16th, Division One, Top scorer: Tommy Langley (11)
Most league apps: 655 - Ron Harris
Most league goals: 164 - Bobby Tambling
Highest attendance: 82,905 v Arsenal, Division One, 12 October 1935
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No one can be good at everything, but you can make it seem this way if you focus on developing only the most vital skills. These skills generally include being smart, good-looking and athletic.
1. 1
Develop good time management and self-discipline. You will need both patience and time as nothing worthwhile comes easy.
2. 2
Hang out with many different types of people. You can learn a lot from just being around someone and you are also expanding your horizons by not only focusing a one specific group of people.
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Do not waste your time. No one cares if you are good at video games so don't sit around watching TV. Instead practice or study, do something worthwhile that will be rewarding.
4. 4
Develop hand-eye coordination. This is the most important skill in nearly all sports. Try throwing and catching a tennis ball off a wall for awhile. This will enhance timing, reaction, and depth perception.
5. 5
Develop a photographic memory. Be very observant when simply walking around or driving in a car. Look at something, look away, and ask yourself questions about it while you picture it. When studying, don't focus so much on the words, but rather on where the words are in your notes. Try taking notes with strict formatting, by choosing indents or dashes or numbers etc. that each have a specific meaning.
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Be nice to everyone and never too arrogant. It is good to be confident but understand when someone is not as good at you at something. If you act modest but then succeed at something, it will only make you look better at it.
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Learn something unique. Learn how to juggle or play an instrument or draw/build certain things. Anyone can do any of these things and when you are smart, athletic, and you can do something else cool on top of all that, people just assume you are good at everything.
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Walking is very good exercise for people of any age. However, for most people, winter poses a challenge for this fantastic form of exercise. Read on to learn how to keep up your walking during the winter months.
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Bundle up and walk outdoors. Most importantly make sure your feet, hands and ears will be warm and protected. After a few minutes of walking, the rest of your body will feel warm due to the energy you're expending. Be sure to take care with icy sidewalks and cold and snowy conditions.
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Park your car away from offices and shops when running errands to force you to walk further.
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Organize or join a mall walk which will provide both exercise and camaraderie. The social angle may keep you motivated to continue your exercises. Or just window shop, and be sure to walk to the mall, if it's not too far from your house.
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Join a gym preferably with an indoor track, but a treadmill will suffice.
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Purchase and use a treadmill at home, if you would rather have one available without having to drive to a gym.
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Walk around your house. For added intensity, walk up and down your stairs, if you have a second story and/or basement.
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Walk up and down school bleachers. Be safe by using the handrail, if one is available.
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