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September 13, 2005
Another eventful elevator ride
My friend who was in the elevator with me was a big guy, not the type of guy you would want to mess around with. The White Anglo looked at his position in the elevator, and muttered to himself, "Looks like I'm a f**king minority in here."
"Where are you boys from?" he asked me. I casually replied that I was from Ottawa, which he could not quite swallow. "No f**king way you're from Ottawa. I'm from Ottawa." I was born in Montreal, I told him. That seemed to annoy him even more, so I told him that I'm historically from India. To this, he muttered a lot of expletives, but I don't think he felt safe attacking me directly with the other Muslims in the elevator. In particular, he probably felt threatened by the bigger guy, who I had engaged in small talk with as he started swearing at us. The two other Muslims got off before me, so it was just the white anglo, the Chinese woman, and myself left.
Then he launched his verbal assault, blabbering on about Jesus and Muhammad not existing, and how we've all been deceived, and that's what is causing war, us "f**king towelheads and Christians." The Chinese woman looked visibly upset, though said nothing. We reached her floor, and she got off. The white anglo then unleashed a barrage of ignorance regarding China and Chinese people. I told him to keep his opinions to himself.
He was to get off at the fifteenth floor. On reaching his floor, however, he had started saying terrible things regarding the Prophets of Allah, and how we were to blame for all that was wrong in the world. He told me that everything I believed in was bullplop, though his choice of vocabulary was less polite. He held the elevator door open and did not leave, only so he could belittle everything I hold to heart with his mindless nonsense.
"Religion is to blame for all the f**king nonsense going on right now." I replied that it was not religion in particular, it was intolerance. He asked me what I believed; I told him that I'll keep my beliefs to myself if he keeps his beliefs to himself.
"Have you heard of Nostradamus?"
"I believe you've already asked me that," I replied.
"Yeah? And what did you say?" I didn't say much last time, but by this point I was quite annoyed, and wanted him to get out and let me get back to my apartment. I quietly supplicated that Allah SWT take care of this situation for me before things got out of hand.
Then the elevator door started closing on him, and he got stuck in the middle. He tried pushing it back open, but could not; the elevator kept closing in on him. I replied to his Nostradamus question, telling him that I never heard Nostradamus say it was a good idea to get stuck in elevator doors. He started cursing, so I pressed the button to open the door. The door opened, and he clenched his arm in pain. He looked at me with malice, and turned towards the hallway.
I called out, as I did before, "Have a nice night!" He did not swear at me this time, but instead muttered incoherently. I was alone in the elevator now; the door closed, and I proceeded up towards my floor.
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May Allah reward you for your patience with this idiot.ReplyDelete
Salam alaikum!ReplyDelete
Whatever this Anglo-Fascist is like at the peak of his anti-Muslim or anti-religion feelings, I do not know. However, think of the rewards of bringing such a person to guidance!
If you think there is the slightest chance, you should try to show him the Truth. On the other hand, it couldn't get an worse, could it?
Nice job, Faraz. I like your witty responses to this idiot... I probably wouldn't have had the patience to deal with him and would probably have punched him out though that would obviously escalate the problem further.ReplyDelete
Either way, keep up the good work in dealing with these morons.
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2005 1:51 pm
What you did was admiriably brave.However you should have tried to make him understand your point more clearly but then he was an obstinate idiot as the blog tells.ReplyDelete
- FarzeenJuly 28, 2006 10:37 pm
Assalaamu'alaykum wa rahmatu AllahReplyDelete
I'm obviously spending much of my recently freed up time purusing your blog. So excuse me if my comments pile up..they can be easily ignored :).
But that was too funny... subhan'Allah. That's a takbeer moment I tell ya.
Sometimes people aren't ready to hear the message of Islam. This brings to mind Surah Al Kafiroon, which tells the Prophet (peace be upon him) exactly how to address those who are intolerant. Anyway, it doesn't benefit much to swear at him (so it's just as well you didn't)... perhaps one day Allah will guide him. Allah is great.
Wa'alaykum assalam,ReplyDelete
I very much appreciate your comments; you can be certain that they won't be ignored. Keep reading and writing!
I've run into that same guy on a couple of occasions since; every time I see him, he'll start ranting about something or other. Poor guy, he's clearly leading a very angry and unhappy life. It's amazing how bitter some people can be when their life is devoid of spirituality. Alhamdolillah for all the favours and peace of mind I have been blessed with.


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So Please comment and tell me WHAT blog design you like better! Like readers choice kinda thing!!
Thanks, If I make more designs I will tell you! I like making them but I can't pick! Oh, give me the reason why you choose what one!!
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Awww, I am sorry you may have wasted your money. But this one you have right now is way way better. Easy on the eyes, simple, does not take away from the actual posts, which you don't want. you don't want the background killing your posts.ReplyDelete
I guess i'm the odd ball but I like the red&white checkered one better. Since your blog has the name "snack bar" in it then the second one just looks more geared to that name.ReplyDelete
Anyhow, that's my 2 cents :)
I agree with Snoopy... I like the lady bug one.ReplyDelete
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Sportsmen: Fracking rule shows commitment to water, public lands and wildlife
BLM Director Neil Kornze defends new rule to Senate subpanel
Sportsmen see the new federal fracking rule as a step forward in safeguarding public lands, fish and wildlife. Image: Judith Kohler
WASHINGTON -- With the support of sportsmen and women, the Bureau of Land Management is defending the new hydraulic fracturing rule today in front of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining.
"There have been many concerns when it comes to hydraulic fracturing on our public lands, and we think the Bureau of Land Management has taken a much-needed step in the right direction in addressing this issue," said Ed Arnett, senior scientist with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. "We are pleased to see the agency focus on practices, both above and below ground, that minimize risks to fish and wildlife habitat. Standards for proper well construction and requiring best practices, like tanks for storing recovered fluids instead of pits that are prone to leaking, are common-sense measures that we support."
The rule requires disclosure of chemicals to the industry-based group FracFocus and establishes new standards for drilling operations and well construction. It would ban pits at well sites and require that wastewater be stored in metal tanks.
The panel was led by Sen. John Barasso from Wyoming, a fairly forward-thinking state when it comes to rules on hydraulic fracturing. The same cannot be said for many other states: The BLM estimates that 90 percent of wells drilled on public lands are hydraulically fractured, and only half the states with drilling on public lands have fracking regulations in place.
"These rules ensure uniform management across the board for fracking operations on public lands, instead of a hodgepodge of regulations. All public land uses and users deserve to have consistent expectations for how our lands are to be managed," said Corey Fisher, energy team lead for Trout Unlimited. "Many states have an adequate framework for managing fracking, but others do not. The BLM's updated rules provide certainty that potential risks to public-land trout streams are being minimized, wherever those streams happen to be located."
The regulations and oversight haven't kept pace with the spread of oil and gas exploration and production, said Kate Zimmerman, the National Wildlife Federation's public lands policy director.
"The Bureau of Land Management's new fracking rule is a modest update of regulations that haven't been revised in three decades. Meanwhile, the technology of hydraulic fracturing has increased dramatically in scope and sophistication in the last ten years alone,'' Zimmerman added. "The rule establishes baseline standards for drilling on public lands, which belong to all Americans. The rule also provides that states can choose to regulate fracking on those public lands, so long as the states' rules meet or exceed the baseline. It's hard to understand all the sound and fury coming from some quarters."
"These rules aren't perfect," Fisher said, "but they will help ensure that public lands remain a great place to hunt and fish long into the future."
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4:47 am | Sunday, August 19th, 2012
Suddenly, she can practically afford everything but a good sleep.
Such was the case of a 38-year-old housewife from Isabela province who won the jackpot in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) 6/42 lotto draw on Aug. 11.
Upon learning that she hit the winning combination 38-10-23-15-19-42, the farmer's wife had been having "sleepless nights" thinking what to do next, according to PCSO General Manager Ferdinand Rojas II.
Lest she arouse suspicion about her overnight riches, the mother of three was also hesitant to ask neighbors how to get to the PCSO office in Pasay City, Rojas said after meeting the winner and her husband on Friday when the couple collected the P3-million prize.
The woman, who had been betting on the lottery for four years, paid only P20 for the lucky ticket. She based her picks on the birthdays and ages of her family members, Rojas added.
In the Aug. 16 Superlotto 6/49 draw, five bettors hit the winning combination 7-30-20-12-5-8.
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It is said that without duty, the world would be a verydark place. There are those who are run by passion, and there are those who run in subordination below others. Both have duties but both have different plights. Which are you?
I had fallen into contentful submission against a higher power. My plight and motive were synonomous and fall into one of the five basic human emotions. I didn't get to where I stand by obeying all five. Methodically utilizing several at a time and sparringly omitting others.
The big question, or I should say statement is; it being human means there's always chance of errors. Too much or too little passion injected into these five curses will always result in unsavory situations. Getting out of that funnel, more often than not requires something as simple as hope. However, hope, walks hand in hand with despair as a consequence. In theory, walking with hope and your head held high in anticipation means despair is your companion.
Sometimes I wish my mind was as dull as a spoon, but intellect is a companion of doubt. Knowing everything allows you to know and acknowledge the bad as well. Ignorance, however, is a companion of bliss, and makes me wish I was as dull as a spoon.
But without our sense of duty in living the way we do with what we've been given, means a heavy disservice to our existence. You've been dealt these specific cards, now play the game, and play to win. But remember, everyone loses.


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I used the lore as a jumping point as the myths we have are old, hundreds of years old. So my world of Annwyn is more like a where are they now, than a retelling o the myths. Arwan the old hunter was removed long ago, Gwyn is no longer king (his son is).
The other thing I like to do with paranormal romance is to tie it to our world. So all those plagues through out human history...yeah the fairies caused them. This did lead to an awkward moment when To Love a King was released as I had written in an out break of Ebola (I had written and turned in the book 18m before release date...), of course Ebola was hitting the headlines.
The Darkling Lord is out next week, and I promise there is no more plagues :)
If you haven't checked out the Court of Annwyn Series The Darkling Lord is a good place to start as it is the first book in a new story arc, Court of the Banished. This time instead of looking at the trouble in Annwyn I'm firmly in out world and we get to see how the banished fairies, or Greys, live.
The heroine is an Annwyn spy (you might remember her from Lord of the Hunt and that nasty business about being a shadow servant for a year and a day). She really wants to get home and doesn't like the mortal world.
The hero is a darkling, he has no soul of his own so he has to take one every year on his birthday or die.
At the same time our world is trying to recover from the above mentioned plagues. What I love about this story (and all my fairy stories) is the scheming and game playing. Nothing with a fairy is ever simple.
Do you have a favourite fairy myth or tale?
~~~A darkling with a lust for power…
Henry Saint shouldn't exist. Every year on his birthday, he kills someone and takes their soul so that he may live another year. He is a darkling, not fairy… but not human either. Yet he is bound by the laws of both worlds. With a new King on the throne of Annwyn and the mortal world trying to rebuild after plagues killed so many, Henry seizes the opportunity to carve out a place of his own. He wants Detroit.
A spy without a soul…
Darah was Felan's spy before he became King of Annwyn. Now he has one last mission for her. He wants her to join the darkling's Court and discover what Henry's endgame is. No one trusts the Banished when they gather in great numbers. As Darah gets drawn into Henry's world she realizes he can give her the one thing she could never find in Annwyn—love. But is love worth betraying her King?
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This is long overdue...I've been meaning to post about my wonderful Shop Friends and neighbors, Cherries Flowers for quite some time but every time I go in there to take pictures I end up talking and laughing with them instead! They are truly talented and their shop shows their love for floral design...tumblers filled with pheasant feathers, loose vases overflowing with orchids or hydrangeas and glittery paintings by local artists on the wall (I promise to take pictures of their shop and post them!).
They have an impeccable eye and I highly recommend them for your special event. If you are lucky to live in the San Francisco, they are also great for putting together the perfect bouquet...I was introduced to a flower that smells like chocolate and have been graced by "mini" arrangements tied in bows for our own shop.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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May Day, May Day! Part 3
May events part 3
Sascha got to lead his pack in the flag ceremony at pack meeting.
Sarah's school project: IOG (Image of Greatness)
This is a big project involving lots of research and writing up reports, followed by several oral presentations to fellow classmates, students from other classes and finally, parents. They even got to dress as the character they chose and brought in a favorite food of that character for a grand feast. It was a huge deal and all the kids were glad when it was over. Presentations lasted a week long. Sarah chose a famous artist. I can't think of her name.
I got to help out with setting up the food in the library. Mostly desserts as you can imagine. I didn't mind ;-) Especially since we go to eat as well.
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A picture I took before going in for the presentations to the parents.
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text: Technorati Tags: The Alta Heiser Collection Index Vol. 6,Jan. 5,1956 & Dec. 31,1959. William Bigham and Robert Irwin bought from Joel Williams in 1797,a large tract of land. The land extended from above the eastward loop then in the river to present Dayton St. The mill was built at the far eastern end of the loop. The sight was later known to be on the Canal Rd. near the Big Reservoir. In a suit which two of the Bighams brought against John Caldwell,an interesting description is given of the river,a stream which "so winds and descends and naturally fall as to form and make,and has ever formed and made,a good seat for mills and waterworks". At an early date,the Bighams built a sawmill "for sawing boards,plank,scantling and other stuff". They claimed that Mr. Caldwell,evidently resenting a rival mill,built a dam which obstructed their mill wheels and overflowed the land,causing an unhealthy condition. This was a case that caused much excitement for several years. It finally was allowed to "liabate" after John Caldwell died.


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It is hard to believe four years have passed since I first brought the Silver Eagle Experiment to my church. It is hard to believe that during that time I have written over 350 articles for this blog. I hope you have benefitted from all that I have learned over those years. I am a Christian. I believe God answers prayer and watches over his children. On the other hand, for over 27 years I worked as a research engineer. In this capacity I lived in a world of probabilities. I can not state with certainty that your carefully selected, well diversified portfolio won't go belly up tomorrow. I can not state with certainty that if your retirement savings plan consist of lottery tickets you won't hit the jackpot allowing you the option of retirement in Hawaii. I wish I had easy answers for the personal finance crisis that has overwhelmed so many of my brothers and my sisters. There are two sides to the money equation. ∫ (Money In) d/dt = ∫ (Money Stored + Money Spent) d/dt
(This equation is integrated over your lifetime)
It is kind of hard to store much money if there is no money coming into the system. Unemployment, long term illness, and accidents do happen to good people trying hard to do the right things for the right reasons.
Matthew 10: (NIV)
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.
30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Still the sparrows fell to the ground along with a considerable amount of my hair. Yet we are told, "Fear not."
Lately I have been studying motivational speakers. I want to become more skillful at helping my readers take those first uncomfortable steps towards improving their situation, whatever it may be. Remember, I am one of my own most frequent readers. There are times when I am giving myself a kick in the backside. I also read the critics in an effort to avoid some of the excesses and questionable content found in the teachings of some notable personal financial gurus. Recently one woman has written a book attacking some of the better know names in this field. She is gaining some traction in the commercial financial press both print and television. Actually, she questions some of the same issues I have questioned in this blog. However, I must ask the question, "What is she doing to help people improve their condition in this material world?" Unfortunately the answer is absolutely nothing.
So what can I offer my readers or even myself in a world where there are no certain answers and no easy answers? Old truths, like deferred gratification and the Protestant work ethic. They don't provide guarantees but when applied properly and consistently offer a high probability of improving your financial situation.
First of all accept that success is possible. Somewhere there is someone who is like you who is succeeding with problems that are just as bad as your problems.
Become a master learner. Study your models of success. Breakdown what those people are doing and then apply the lessons to your own life. The best way to learn what they are doing? Ask them. Not only will you learn but you might add an important node to your network.
Bruce Lee observed, "Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own." You don't need to become someone else. If some person you do not respect even has one grain of truth is his life that could benefit you, jump on it.
Clean the garbage out of your mind. That would include things like the seven deadly sins. If you are having money problems some mix of envy and pride is going to be a temptation. If you are spending time reading something like this, I doubt that you have a problem with sloth.
Christians are not alone in stressing the importance of the interior life. "According to Buddhist psychology, major depression is itself not regarded as a "mental affliction" (kilesa) per se but is rather a symptom of the underlying afflictions of craving, hostility and delusion."
Face the truth. Hiding your head like an ostrich will not make your troubles go away. Bruce Lee again, "What is" is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'."
Look for one easy win. This is why Dave Ramsey recommends that his students work their way out of debt starting with the smallest debt, no matter what the interest rate. That quick win will build confidence. Bruce Lee taught, "Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success."
Then take the next step. There is always a next step. Along the road you will make mistakes but one last time from Bruce Lee, "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
Now let me finish where I began. I am a Christian. I believe God answers prayer. Even if you don't believe, will saying a prayer hurt?
Philippians 4: (NIV)
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
As you walk the path towards both your short and long term goals with faith, gratitude, and generosity, I believe that the God who owns all the silver and all the gold hidden in a thousand hills will share some of it with you, no matter who you are or how desperate your circumstances.
Isaiah 45:
I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Four Years With The Silver Eagle: A Meditation
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"Lord, grant me the desires of my heart."By this I don't mean that I be given what I want. Rather, I'm asking that the desires themselves be given to me.
I want to have right desires. Then, I believe, results will actualize and, if not, the desire itself will still be fruitful -- not merely painful because of lack of being able to realize its fulfillment.


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I've been doing some editing and design work on my campaign world of Thandor, and was looking at different details on my in-game religions. When I first developed my game world many years ago, I was certainly inspired by numerous historical religions in the process. For gaming purposes, however, I thought it best to avoid adopting real-world, historical religions--at least entirely in whole-cloth, so to speak. One concern, of course, was the ever-present concern and consciousness of religious sensibilities of various players.
However, I've never been overly concerned with that, because all of my players are also good friends of mine, so there is never any kind of negative assumptions, or assuming the worst possible motives for much of anything. Rather, there is always an attitude of charity, acceptance, and good faith. Not that even that was needed--and certainly not relied upon, because it was not necessary. My friends--my players--all generally agree with myself and each other on religious matters, and what is not always agreed upon is simply gracefully accepted as being uniquely different and worthy of respect, because of who we are. No one gets all worked up about some wierd point of difference in some obscure theological matter, or even broad concepts and beliefs.
My friends and players first and foremost embrace attitudes of general good faith and acceptance of what others believe, blended with healthy doses of skepticism towards the claims of any religion in regards to absolute certainty, absolute primacy and superiority over any other religion. That central doctrine--primarily held by and esconced within Christianity, Judaism and Islam--is probably a central reason why none of my friends are what the religious fundamentalists of any stripe would consider to be "religiously pure" "devout" or "walking with the Lord" sufficiently. It does, however, make them far better and easier to get along with, and socialize together in mixed racial, cultural, and religious circles where many such ideas would easily clash and cause division with others.
To my friends, religion seems too abstract too hate people over. They are all well-read and highly educated, and are familiar with the evidenciary, anthropological, and philosophical problems and doctrinal contradictions within almost any religion that tends to make such claims of primacy. There's so many convoluted problems and contradictions that stack up the evidence that there's something wrong with religious fundamentalist that make such claims. From this, then, if such claims are genuinely saddled with so many evidenciary, philosophical, and logical problems, it casts serious doubt on any such claims of primacy and absolute truth. That then opens the door to easily being more open-minded and accepting of other people, other religions, other points of view. Even if one finds deeper disagreement with someone else's beliefs--it still remains far easier to maintain a foundation of respect and acceptance for them. I have found embracing such attitudes of respect and acceptance to be very positive and enriching, regardless of the details of particular beliefs.
Having said that, then, philosophically, it is much easier to explore, question, and confront whatever ideas, cherished "truths" and sacred cows in any manner of organized religions without offending each other. With such a foundation then, certainly in game terms, my friends hold to few "sacred cows" concerning religion--and th more theologically obscure, the less likely they are to give such ideas a great deal of respect. They certainly are not going to be offended by some twisting, reshaping, or tweaking of ideas in dealing with religions in a role-playing game--even if doing so holds echoes of historical religious practices, beliefs or doctrines. They have no problems making distinctions between what people consider to be the "real world"--and the "Fanasy world".
So, it is good to be inspired by historical religions. I enjoy studying them, and embracing different ideas, philosophies, and art, concepts and visuals in my own games. It is very fun, fascinating, and doing so opens eyes and brings genuine enlightenment and knowledge about all kinds of ideas and philosophies, from throughout history, from all over the world.
However, while I have always wanted to avoid offending anyone's religious sensibilities purposefully--especially my friends--it has not as I mentioned ever really been an issue. Thus, I have not had to deal with that burden, either in play at the table, or in designing customs, religions and so on for the game campaign.
The second consideration though, as to why I have not been terribly enthused about using historical religions whole cloth has been a sort of "restricted" feeling, both in play and design-wise, that I just do not enjoy. There are the concerns of not knowing enough, for example, or precision, to capably and faithfully reflect concepts accurately and so on. That also disrupts the game play and suspension of disbelief and all that artistic stuff if you can avoid all the "wait..they don't really believe THAT! or "No, that's not how it's done" and so on. Whatever it is, such kinds of real-world details brought into the game front and center seem ripe for just technical arguments alone, quite apart from heated philosophical or religious arguments.
The deeper, central advantage with creating and using mostly fantastical religions--that may, to one degree or another--be inspired by real-world, hsitorical religions is that there seems to be far more acceptance and comfort with I suppose I would call it, "artistic license". If a game religion is mostly fantastical, then you can freely change and mutate whatever you want, and it just is what it is. There is far less room for someone to get all bent out of shape over some fictitious artistic detail of a fantasy-based religion in a game. Thus, I've preferred making and using fantasy-based, somewhat original game religions, infused with historical inspirations, rather than real-world religions in their entirety. I have devloped these preferences based then on a philosphical point, and an artistic, or authorial point. Plus, it's great fun to get all creative and such, in blending historical ideas and concepts, with the crazy, fantastic game stuff we have in the game books and resources.
That's how I deal with real-world religions in the game--they don't get to be there to begin with, and certainly not to any philosophical level that someone could realistically develop a huge passionate argument about. I think such people inclined to do that have one central failure--they have developed little ability to comprehend the difference between whatever it is they believe and see and feel in the "real world"--and what goes on in, and what is believed and practiced in a fantasy world.
Semper Fidelis,
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Twitter users are increasing day by day and now everybody is twetting on it . I have seen few small children as well as some grandmothers also . Everybody wants to stay contected with their loved ones and so they keep updating their latest status also . I am in bathroom to I am sleeping etc . But what to do if you have long message but twitter is not allowing you to post more than 140 characters in single tweet . If you are using firefox browser than you can solve this problem easily by using Twitzer Firefox extension .
Twitzer is a small Firefox extension by which you can post more than 140 characters in your messages on Twitter.com . In twitter when we post any link from browser tools or others tools than they get converted into TinyURL and many users stay away from such links . Best part of this Firefox extension is that with this tool you can convert TinyURL.com links to actual links and we don't have to waste time by visiting same site or spam links . If you want to download this extension and want for information how this tool works than go here – Twitter long text v1.3


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Well its not summer officially yet! But I'm more than eager to start wearing some gorgeous and comfy flat sandals. The ones picture below are Ancient Greek Sandals which I'm absolutely obsessed with. Here are my top favourite sandal must haves for this summer.
Clockwise from Top: Senso Flat Sandals via Asos $392.37 // Ancient Greek Sandals via Forward bye Elyse Walker $240.00 // Stuart Weitzman via Shop Bop $465.00 // Matisse Isla Sandal via Revolve $109.43 // Balenciaga Giant Studded Sandals via My Theresa $865.00


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The "Jackass" daredevil flashes a half-smile.
It was the shart heard 'round the world. When Al Roker admitted to pooping his pants at the White House in a recent interview, no one could believe the s*** that came out his...
mouth. Even "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville, who's participated in a repulsive prank or two five-thousand, had a laugh when TMZ told him the crappy news. (Aren't poop jokes the best?)
In the video below, Knoxville cannot believe the "Today Show" weatherman would admit to such a party foul. "No he didn't," he tells the paparazzo, adding, "that makes my day. Whoops!" The cameraman then mentions how Al's No. 2 mishap would have made a great addition to any "Jackass" flick. "If Al Roker ever wants to shart in 'Jackass,' then he's more than invited," Johnny responds.
Whaddya say, weatherman? Got some time to moonlight as a "Jackass" stuntman and dish out some more potty humor?
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Note: one of the advantages of a blog is the need to confirm things before actually putting them out there. "I'm Back in the Saddle Again", redundant as that is, is the correct title.)... and yes, I'm back in the workroom again. One guerrilla project completely ready to go.
Another one in the works.
And next week holds haircut day. What great timing. *smile*
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us... Ephesians 5:1,2


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Finally if you do 'hop' over to Alexa's today you might see someone you recognise
Friday, 24 September 2010
Bee creative on 4 on a Friday
Finally if you do 'hop' over to Alexa's today you might see someone you recognise
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- Julie Kirk said...
Good for you on trying something new - and on such a pretty photo too.
As for blaming me... if it turns out I *need* a new bag to match the bag charm you made me ... don't think I won't expect you to take some responsibility! ;-)
- 24 September 2010 at 15:40
- Wrightboysmum said...
Love the photo and looking forward to seeing the additions to it.
- 25 September 2010 at 01:18
- alexa said...
Amanda, these are lovely! The bee photo is stunning and fits beautifully into your frame - a perfect 4 on Friday± If you have time, I'd love to know further what you did with the beeswax - did you use it to adhere the papers/napkins/fabric? Brush it over the top? I remember reading that beeswax gives a lovely soft sheen ...
- 25 September 2010 at 12:23
- Sandra said...
Fabulous ... just fabulous.
- 26 September 2010 at 22:35
- Winnie said...
Well done on doing up the photo in the frame. Sometimes I wonder whether digi-scrapping is worth the trouble, but the sense of achievement you get when you do things like this is probably more than worth it!! Love the little piece you made.
- 27 September 2010 at 07:14


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But, please!!!
Stop haunting me!!!
U keep calling n msg me . . .
Something wrong with ya!!
I've never happy with u, dude!
And, now u keep saying dat u miss me!
Aku xnak jadik kejam. . .
Tolong la. . .
When u don't wanna to move on,
u're actually hurting urself n ME!
Let me have my own happy life now. . .
I'm not for u n
U're not for me. . .
Accept da fact. . .
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–This is the English translation of the second-grade level German entry from above.–
We have one more week, well, four days, before we fly home. For three weeks, I've been learning German at the Goethe Institut. Most of the time, I've been remembering German words because I didn't take a German class last semester. I think that I'm speaking better German, and when other people speak German, I'm understanding better as well. The language is beautiful here, and there is a sense of happiness when I can understand it.
In this last week, I feel we have so much to do. Four days is not much time, and it's like we have only done a little during our trip. In general, I can't wait to fly home. I miss my family, but I also know that when I do get home, I'll want to go back to Germany.
I can't believe that we only have four more days in Dresden. Hopefully, we can do more before we have to fly home.


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3 tablespoons all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper
4 (4 oz each) thin boneless skinless chicken breast cutlets (1 lb total) – you can also get two 8 oz breasts, cut them and pound them ¼ – 1/2" thin
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon light butter
½ cup low sodium fat free chicken broth
3 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced
¼ cup capers, drained and rinsed
fresh parsley, chopped, for garnish (not pictured)
Combine the flour, salt and pepper into a large Ziploc bag and shake to mix. Add the chicken, seal the bag and shake until the breasts are thoroughly coated.
Heat the butter and oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken breasts in a single layer and cook for 3 minutes or until the bottoms are golden. Flip the chicken breasts over and cook for an additional 3-4 minutes until the underside is golden and the chicken is cooked through.
Remove chicken to a separate plate and cover in foil to keep warm.
Pour the chicken broth into the same pan and stir to scrape up any browned bits from the chicken and flour. Add the lemon juice, garlic and capers and cook for another 4-5 minutes while sauce reduces. Pour sauce over chicken and garnish with chopped parsley if desired.
Weight Watchers SmartPoints:
4 per serving (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Weight Watchers Points Plus:
5 per serving (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Nutrition Information:
188 calories, 6 g carbs, 0 g sugar, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 27 g protein, 0 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)


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Jerry Kostro AK6QJ presented results from the 2m SSB Voice and Data tests. Winlink preformed very well, even in cases where a voice link could not be made.
Andre Hansen K6AH presented results from a Winlink test on Palomar Mountain, where a changed protocol dramatically reduced message latency.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
7 April 2008 RACES Program
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Breakfast menu:
Fresh OJ. Champagne. Choco bread. Raisin bread. Cheese from Ciney. Cheese with nuts. Brie. Bacon. Eggs. Moroccan Herbs Tea
My thought --> who needs a boyfriend when you have friends that make this for you?!
Lunch menu:
Knien de Meestreechse weis, met appelmoos en friete --> Which is Limburgs for Konijn à la Maastricht --> Wich is Dutch for Rabbit the Maastricht way --> which is English for Conejo a la manera de Maastricht.
My thought--> God bless Limburg!Dinner menu:
Ride back home eating M&M's and sweet corn.
My thought--> How come I didn't get any flower today?
Opened the door. Checked my mailbox and found this:
I didn't think. I just smiled.
Then I went to my email inbox and found this:
"Los que padecéis porque amáis: amad más todavía; morir de amor es vivir" --> which is Spanish for "Those who are suffering because you love: love more. To die for love is life" - Victor Hugo
My thought --> Happy Valentine's Day.


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The uninitiated might ask; why trade derivatives and futures in general out of Belize? Mostly because of the climate. It is comfortable all year around. Most of the country is tranquil and peaceful. Infra-structure is slowly coming along. You can get electricity, water and garbage pickup, in most towns and villages of any size. The roads and streets are rough though.
The internet is probably the only drawback. Unless you are in one of the towns, it is difficult to get reliable and fast internet required of the modern communications era. Still, there are moves afoot by a growing competition of internet providers to bring internet and better bandwidth and speeds. You can work with the slow dial up for instance that I'm using. Not for everything, but mostly you can, in a rough sort of way.
Why trade derivatives at all out of Belize? Well it is the game itself that is the challenge. A person with $10,000 usa, trading derivatives, can earn as much as a person with a $1 1/2 million in the bank on CD interest rates these days. It takes a year of two of learning to do it properly. Nowadays there are all kinds of web based brokerage training free money trading services to practice on. Not like 20 years ago. The miracle that was SINGAPORE as a trading center hasn't quite reached Belize yet, but it sure is coming. There are all kinds of niche markets to speculate in. My own is the CASH INDICES using options. But there are many, many choices. Too many sometimes, it leaves your head spinning.
Yep, Ray, I'd say the slow and expensive internet connections in Belize are a real disadvantage to Belize becoming a trading center!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The AVERAGE download speed in Singapore is over 7 Mb/s, maybe 20 times faster than Belize. Singapore is among the top five countries in the world in broadband penetration, whereas Belize is near the bottom. And broadband internet starts at under US$20 a month.
--Lan Sluder
Hmmmmmnnn! I was more thinking in terms of ability to move currency in different types of foreign exchange. Though most brokerages would be located outside of Belize, but still the business would offer job employment and if traders lived here, they would be bringing some money back to this country of Belize to invest and just spend?
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Posted by A Professional BEACH BUM retires in Belize! at 8:19 AM
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The Olympics have come to the house of Pook and Bug. I remember this from four years ago. The hearth has become a ski jump, pillows become moguls, and the "Happy Lap" around den, kitchen, dining room and living room has become the short track for speed skating (aka "speed slippering"). For the record, Bug can finish 13.5 laps faster than Apolo Ohno can finish his 13.5. He has not yet requested a gold tipped glove yet, but the request may yet come. We're huge TiVo people here, and we're watching everything a day late. We cruise through (most) commercials, get bored with a sport and bypass it, and best, we decided to check out the speed skaters on fast forward. They can move!
With no school tomorrow for President's Day (we had Friday off too for a teacher workday), I was thinking of taking the boys on some sort of field trip. I had the art museum in mind, but a search earlier shows them to be closed on Mondays (how dare they?) so I had to look for other options. Indoors because I'm a weenie in the cold. No zoo. No science museum because I gave my parents a grandparent's membership to it for Christmas and I don't want to ruin it for them. To get your money's worth you need to visit about three times and I'd rather not take the boys there just a few weeks before my parents move here. So, I was open to ideas when I heard a neighbor mention taking his son ice skating. Hmmm.
I never did much athletic activity as a kid, but I did figure skate for several years. We had a great, casual program with lessons at twelve levels. Whenever you felt competent at a level you could go to the end of the rink and take the test over it. If you passed, you joined the next group up. When you finished all twelve, you could help teach the first few classes. I've never taught a beginner to skate, but I have taught many people to skate backwards, including my 6'2" father. Why not the kids?
It will be a challenge to teach them both at the same time. I'll have to leave one on the wall while I work with the other. Pook had an "unpleasant" experience with his first and only chance to roller skate, so I'll need to be careful to keep them trying at something that may not come easily. I will report back with results for Team Pook and Bug in speed and figure skating competitions!
That was fun! We had two hours of falling on fannies, but they were doing great! Our minister (from Vancouver via Texas) is an ice dancer and figure skater and he showed up just as we'd finished. We bought a couple of drinks and two gum pops and watched him a while. I want to take the kids back relatively soon so the skills they gained today can continue. It was fun introducing them to an activity I'd liked as a kid. I only wish my good skates still fit; my feet got bigger with pregnancies so I had to wear rentals.


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From Today's BayWindows editorial entitled "Barney Frank is Right"
"LGBT organizations from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network are demanding that either a trans-inclusive ENDA be put forward or none at all.She goes on to defend HRC's relative neutrality, and insinuate that anyone fighting for one ENDA is divisive. Wake up Susan! HRC has a long history of shaky relations with the trans community. And the fact that in 2007 they have lost their first and only trans board member speaks for itself! As the editor of an LGBT newspaper you should be better informed about how gender identity and expression protections are the most important for all of us.
This is madness."
So far, over 150 of the leading LGBT organizations have signed the letter of opposition to any ENDA that does not include trans people. The inspiring story here, is that the vast majority of our community is united in support of one, trans-inclusive ENDA!
William Henderson, the editor of InNewsWeekly had a different take than Ryan-Vollmar. This is one of several recent pro-trans rights articles Henderson has written for the paper.
"The freedom to express ourselves and be ourselves is at stake when any one of us is punished and persecuted for stepping outside the rigid rules of gender conformity. Lesbians, gay men and bisexual people historically engage a whole range of dress and behaviors that challenge the traditional gender code."


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The fate of a Wal-mart employee, trambled by shoppers the day after Thanksgiving, is now being used to bolster the personal agendas of various interests.
Parade magazine blamed "shopoholics." As if it some type of illness that bears no responsibility.
A column in The New York Post blamed "anxiety about the economy." Again, not the shopper's fault.
The New York Times, consistent idiots that they are, blamed President Bush for encouraging people to continue bolstering the economy after 9/11.
Some people blame the Nassau police. Admittedly, people would probably behave differently if a police car was parked near the entrance and a couple of uniforms stood on the sidewalk. But are the police supposed to man every store that opens early after Thanksgiving, and is it their job to do so?
Fox News contributor, Judith Miller, wrote, "Attorney Hecht, targeting Wal-Mart and other companies, was quick to absolve shoppers of blame. "They are not responsible."
Miller went on, "Perhaps greed is not criminal and behaving like a crazed animal is understandable in light of tough economic times. But I think many Americans would disagree, even avid shoppers like me. Blaming "capitalism" for such conduct, or diluting Wal-Mart's responsibility through psycho-babble about the addiction of shopping only underscores the injustice of Mr. Damour's fate."
Wal-mart DOES bear responsibility for crowd control. One method used by some stores in the past was to hand out tickets in the waiting crowd - 100 tickets for the 100 low-priced TV's, 75 tickets for that microwave. That way, the 101st person waiting for the TV and 76th person waiting for the microwave could go home. Without a ticket, there's no need to rush. However, that wouldn't get serve the purpose of having "door busters" in the first place - which is to get as many people in the door as possible in the hope that they will purchase regularily priced merchandise as well.
Still, crowd control is the responsibility of Wal-mart and other stores, and if police can't be there, then the stores need to hire a trained, private security firm. Their employees are not crowd control specialists and shouldn't be put in the position to be so. I have a son and a son-in law working at Wal-mart, and although those two guys are pretty big, I wouldn't want either of them to be standing in front of a rampaging crowd.
Finally, YES, some, but not all, within the crowd itself DO bear responsibility. Specifically, those that sat in their cars waiting for the doors to open, and then rushed the front of the line. My daughter stood in the cold in a line in North Dakota, only to have a crowd of people rush the line at opening there, as well. She said anger surged through the front line as those waiting patiently were pushed aside by line jumpers. She thought a fight was going to break out and felt fear at the pushing.
Jerks. Selfish, greedy, horrible people. Yes, they ARE totally responsible for their behavior, and if there is any way to discover who they are, a way should be found to punish them - perhaps something to do with behavior that incites a riot and results in injury or death.
The shoppers that stood properly in line waiting for the doors to open, but were pushed through the doors by the horrible greedy people that rushed the line, were victims along with Mr. Damour. While there were people in the crowd that couldn't care less about Mr. Damour, most people in America do have a conscience. Some of them are going to live the rest of their lives with the guilt of having seen Mr. Damour fall. They might have even felt themselves stumble over him, but under the crush of the crowd were unable to stop or do anything about it. Fearful of admitting they were among those that were pushed across Mr. Damour, they will always feel that guilt and will always wonder what, if anything, they could have or should have done differently.
If there is anyway to tell who waited in the cars and then rushed the front of the line, these are the people to prosecute.


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Friday, April 20, 2012
Anti-Hitler but not Anti-Totalitarian!
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- Stormydepth said...
I always found the 1960s and 1970s attack on the Bauhaus to be ill-informed. The simplistic mindset of equating structure with tyranny is not a very sophisticated perspective. Bauhaus made sense in its own Zeitgeist. It is a product of the modern. In as far that everything modern (including science) is now seen as an oppressive legacy, the argument has devolved into a unanimous criticism of structure. In its day Bauhaus did much to advance architecture and like any other dominant idea created its own anti-thesis in a healthy dynamic.
- Tameshk said...
Dearest StormyDepth,
Thanks for your comment! As you rightly mentioned there is no denial of Bauhaus's impact on all areas of art and its achievements especially in design and architectural structure. Bauhaus was indeed a necessity for our modern conditions. The citation above is out of a sensibility that was dominant towards the end of 50s and mid 60s on the death of painting. This sensibility was in connection with Minimalism. In this particular quote Bauhaus is not being criticized for being backwards with no impact on our lives and arts. In fact Cohen is trying to make the point that it had too much impact that it became a totalitarian voice in the art world. Again I agree with you that all these statements should be read within their historical context.


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lundi 15 décembre 2014
Spinning Show
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I've always wanted to learn how to spin, I hope to someday, and I really wish you good luck! I also hope you get better soon, colds are awful stuff...RépondreSupprimer
This seems to be a beautifull market, especially the working around spinnig look intersting. I hope to get such combs this year for our white lock-sheep. And the shawl with the nice boder you´re going to knit looks nice.RépondreSupprimer
Have a good time, Birgit
samedi pluvieux: j'ai compris l'intérêt d'une cape en laine tissée bien couvrante ; dimanche ensoleillé: j'ai aimé l'ambiance médiévale et festive. tout comme toi, j'ai adoré les démonstrations de filage tout le weekend.RépondreSupprimer
je savais bien que je trouverais des brebis et une bergère un jour ;-) très jolies photos comme toujours.
Très beau reportage! Un dépaysement total!!! Des costumes, des bergères, de la laine à filer, un rouet ...mais ça ressemble à un conte de fées!!! Y avait il un Prince Charmant aussi? :) Moi aussi je rêve de filer la laine, enfin d'essayer en tout cas !;)RépondreSupprimer
Superbe reportage médiévial !!! Et le châle va être beau et chaud !!!RépondreSupprimer
Bisous et bonne semaine !
Wow your post is so interesting and what a cool place to live! Your pictures are always so beautiful ! I hope you are feeling better, this time of year we can get run down. Spinning looks like a lot of fun, I have resisted too as I have so much yarn already but..,, haha!! Keep well this week!RépondreSupprimer
Wow, I think it is a brilliant idea to learn to spin. Last year I decided to learn to weave and i have loved it. I can't wait to travel along your spinning journey with you.RépondreSupprimer
Interesting story, great pictures!!!RépondreSupprimer
Happy week.:*
Thanks for sharing this :) Hope you feel better soon!RépondreSupprimer
How lovely to live in such an historic town!RépondreSupprimer
Good luck with your spinning and I hope you feel much better soon.
V x
I'm sorry you've been unwell. It seems to be the time of year for illness. Have fun at the free spinning lessons. It can take a bit of time to catch on to how to make it work, but once you do it is so much fun!RépondreSupprimer
I'm just getting over a rotten cold too. No fun, but at least we'll both be feeling better on Christmas. The spinning looks like fun, but I don't think I would have the patience for it. The free lessons sound like fun, and I hope you DO become a spinning addict ;) Enjoy your week! Wendy xRépondreSupprimer
Hi Geraldine, how fun to have a medieval show in your city. I live in the USA but my city in Brazil is also 550 years old and recognized by unesco and preserved for humanity like yours. It must be so fun to live there. I also would love to learn to spin. I hope you have fun learning and I can't wait to see the finish shawl. How nice of you to help your friend.RépondreSupprimer
Great photos. Love the medieval show! The knitting looks fab. XRépondreSupprimer
My son would have LOVED that fair!!!!RépondreSupprimer
Congrats on spinning .....I can't wait to see what you spin up!
Lovely photos!! A medieval fair sounds so much fun!! :-) I love your yarn and the shawl is coming out very well!! :-) such a soothing shade you have chosen. I love steel knitting needles. :-)RépondreSupprimer
Jolie balade dans cette ville médiéval !! je ne connaissais pas ce pub à Paris pour le filage de la laineRépondreSupprimer


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See it's just darling!
No we didn't buy acres of property, but we did buy on the very edge of a subdivision and there is nothing between us and the coastal range.
We have a postage stamp size backyard, but that didn't stop me from taking advantage of the offer of a free "jump-o-line". I made it fit!
I lost the screws for the boys bunk bed in the move and it took me 2 weeks to find them! I shouldn't have even wasted the time searching, the boys are still sneaking into our bed... And with Micah traveling I like to have all my little chicks in arms reach!
The boys favorite part of our home is the 3 bathrooms, in fact when ever someone comes over or asks about our new home that is the first thing they talk about.
We now have room for all our friends to visit and to throw some really kick-A parties (well as kick-a as parents of 3 kids can get).


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Essential Guide
The complete Apple iOS guide for IT administrators
Apple iOS has become a legitimate enterprise option. IT admins must know about its security capabilities and how to manage devices. Developers should also learn the ins and outs of iOS app development.
As Apple shifts its focus toward the enterprise, with better security features and simpler mobile device management, it's high time for IT departments to learn about the operating system.
The company has made a concerted effort to appeal to enterprise customers recently, including releasing the iPhone SE, which is the size of the iPhone 5 with the power of an iPhone 6. The smaller phone is cheaper and more portable, which Apple hopes will appeal to businesses.
In this Apple iOS guide, find out what else the company is doing to make an enterprise name for itself, including the business potential of the Apple Watch, how iOS app development works and more.
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An inside look at Apple's iPad Pro
The iPad Pro, with its large display and powerful processor, may appeal to enterprise users, but it comes with some cons -- no USB input or SD card slot. Continue Reading
Smaller could be better for Apple in the enterprise
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Apple Watch
The Apple Watch may not have been the first smartwatch on the market, but it certainly made the biggest splash. That doesn't mean it has a place in the business world, though. At this point it is essentially a sidekick to an iPhone or iPad, but with a litany of native apps and third parties scrambling to build apps for it, the wearable device could make a name for itself in the enterprise before long.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 530162
CVE-2009-0689 (rejected CVE-2009-1563) Firefox heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion
Last modified: 2016-03-04 07:40:34 EST
Security researcher Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research reported a heap-based
buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion
routines. Using this vulnerability an attacker could craft some malicious
JavaScript code containing a very long string to be converted to a floating
point number which would result in improper memory allocation and the
execution of an arbitrary memory location. This vulnerability could thus be
leveraged by the attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer.
This issue has been addressed in following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Via RHSA-2009:1530 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1530.html
This issue has been addressed in following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Via RHSA-2009:1531 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1531.html
blam-1.8.5-15.fc11, chmsee-1.0.1-12.fc11, epiphany-2.26.3-5.fc11, epiphany-extensions-2.26.1-7.fc11, evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc11, firefox-3.5.4-1.fc11, galeon-2.0.7-17.fc11, gnome-python2-extras-2.25.3-8.fc11, gnome-web-photo-0.7-7.fc11, google-gadgets-0.11.1-2.fc11, hulahop-0.4.9-9.fc11, kazehakase-0.5.8-2.fc11.1, Miro-2.5.2-5.fc11, monodevelop-2.0-6.fc11, mozvoikko-0.9.7-0.8.rc1.fc11, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-9.fc11, ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc11, seahorse-plugins-2.26.2-7.fc11, xulrunner-184.108.40.206-1.fc11, yelp-2.26.0-8.fc11, eclipse-3.4.2-17.fc11, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc11.6 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
blam-1.8.5-15.fc10, epiphany-2.24.3-11.fc10, epiphany-extensions-2.24.3-6.fc10, evolution-rss-0.1.4-5.fc10, firefox-3.0.15-1.fc10, galeon-2.0.7-15.fc10, gecko-sharp2-0.13-13.fc10, gnome-python2-extras-2.19.1-35.fc10, gnome-web-photo-0.3-23.fc10, google-gadgets-0.10.5-11.fc10, kazehakase-0.5.6-4.fc10.7, Miro-2.0.5-5.fc10, mozvoikko-0.9.5-15.fc10, mugshot-1.2.2-14.fc10, pcmanx-gtk2-0.3.8-14.fc10, perl-Gtk2-MozEmbed-0.08-6.fc10.6, ruby-gnome2-0.19.3-3.fc10, xulrunner-188.8.131.52-1.fc10, yelp-2.24.0-14.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Note that Mitre will reject CVE-2009-1563 and mark it a duplicate of CVE-2009-0689.
CVE-2009-1563 has been rejected:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1563
Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2009-0689 instead of this candidate.
This issue has been addressed in following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Via RHSA-2010:0153 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0153.html
This issue has been addressed in following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Via RHSA-2010:0154 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0154.html
This CVE entry is a duplicate of CVE-2009-0689 and has been rejected; please refer to that CVE entry for additional product fixes and information.
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David Bentley Hart recently made waves with his essay on Mammon, where he claims capitalism and Christianity simply don't mix, here's some choice excerpts :
The history of capitalism and the history of secularism are not two accidentally contemporaneous tales, after all; they are the same story told from different vantages. Any dominant material economy is complicit with, and in fact demands, a particular anthropology, ethics, and social vision. And a late capitalist culture, being intrinsically a consumerist economy, of necessity promotes a voluntarist under- standing of individual freedom and a purely negative understanding of social and political liberty. The en- tire system depends not merely on supplying needs and satisfying natural longings, but on the ceaseless invention of ever newer desires, ever more choices. It is also a system inevitably corrosive of as many prohibitions of desire and inhibitions of the will as possible, and therefore of all those customs and institutions—religious, cultural, social—that tend to restrain or even forbid so many acquisitive longings and individual choices.
This is what Marx genuinely admired about capitalism: its power to dissolve all the immemorial associations of family, tradition, faith, and affinity, the irresistible dynamism of its dissolution of ancient values, its (to borrow a loathsome phrase) "gales of creative destruction." The secular world—our world, our age—is one from which as many mediating and subsidiary powers have been purged as possible, precisely to make room for the adventures of the will. It is a reality in which all social, political, and economic associations have been reduced to a bare tension between the individual and the state, each of which secures the other against the intrusions and encroachments of other claims to authority, other demands upon desire, other narratives of the human. Secularization is simply developed capitalism in its ineluctable cultural manifestation.
capitalism—as a general rule, the source of income does not belong at all to those who make it operative by their labor. If that is too vague, we can say it is the set of economic conventions that succeeded those of the "mercantilism" of the previous era, with its tariff regimes and nationalist policies of trade regulation, and that took shape in the age of industrialization. Historically, this meant a shift in economic eminence from the merchant class—purveyors of goods contracted from and produced by independent artisanal labor or subsidiary estates or small local markets—to the capitalist investor who is at once producer and seller of goods, and who is able to generate immense capital at the secondary level of investment speculation: a purely financial market where wealth is generated and enjoyed by those who produce nothing except an incessant circulation of investment and divestment.
Along with this came a new labor system: the end of most of the contractual power of free skilled labor, the death of the artisanal guilds, and the genesis of a mass wage system; one, that is, in which labor became a commodity, different markets could compete against one another for the cheapest, most desperate laborers, and (as the old Marxist plaint has it) both the means of production and the fruit of labor belonged not to the workers but only to the investors. Hence the accusation of early generations of socialists, like William Morris and John Ruskin, that capitalism was to be eschewed not because it was a free-market system, but because it destroyed the true freedom of the market economies that had begun to appear at the end of the Middle Ages, and concentrated all real economic and contractual liberty in the hands of a very few.
And it is a system that inevitably eventuates not only in economic, but cultural, "consumerism," because it can continue to create wealth sufficient to sustain the investment system only by a social habit of consumption extravagantly in excess of mere natural need or even (arguably) natural want. Thus it must dedicate itself not only to fulfilling desire, but to fabricating new desires, prompted by fashion, or by seductive appeals to what 1 John calls "the lust of the eyes"—the high art which we call "advertising."
As a cultural reality, late capitalism is not merely a regulatory regime for markets, but also a positive system of values, necessarily at odds with other orders of desire, especially those that seek to limit acquisition or inhibit expressions of the will. We may think we are free to believe as we wish
while our ancestors inhabited a world full of gods or saints, ours is one in which they have all been chased away by advertising, into the hidden world of personal devotion or private fixation. Public life is a realm of pure elective spontaneity, in every sphere, and that power of choice must be ceaselessly directed toward an interminable diversity of consumer goods, and encouraged to expand into ever more regions of fiscal, moral, and spiritual life. We are shaped by what we desire, and what we desire is shaped by the material culture that surrounds us, and by the ideologies and imaginative possibilities that it embodies and sustains."
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I'm getting to the stage where my skin needs a bit of love. The cheaper cleansing products that I've resorted to since being at uni and not having the luxury of mummy helping me to pay for them are fine but I can tell that as my skin begins to get older (I know 23 isn't old but being told by the woman on the Clinique counter that I should have been using an eye cream for a couple of years already does make it hit home!!) I'm going to need to give the products I'm using a bit more thought.
So, I decided, no more baby wipes for cleansing (unless very drunk/hungover/travelling). I was recently given a couple of pots of Emma Hardie cleaning balm at a launch party and they've been sitting on my dressing table ever since. But the more that the bloggers raved about it, the more I decided that I really should give it a try! My mum has the best skin and in her 60 odd years swears she's never put water on her face - she believes that's the secret! - so I've always been a little reluctant. But I braved the fact that she's just got good genes and am crossing my fingers that the come to me as well and started using the cleaner a couple of months ago, combined with an eye make up remover, followed by a good toner and moisturiser.
I use the cleanser in the shower every day and have been following this routine for the last month. My skin feels obviously smoother and dry patches (winter skin is awful!) are a lot less frequent. The cleanser is on the more pricey side at £34 for 100ml but I really do think its worth it and will look to repurchase if its still working for me in the same way when I reach the end of the pot.
Emma Hardie also suggests that it can double as a soothing and hydrating mask if left on the skin for 10 minutes which I will definitely be giving a try! Have you tried the cleansing balm? Or any of the other Emma Hardie products yet?


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We are still putting the finishing details on our home after several months of renovating.
One of the rooms that still needs some touches is the kitchen which we were on a very tight budget for, so instead of a traditional fitted style we have gone for Ikea free-standing units which I think have worked really well. The previous owners left a large range cooker which has been very useful so we are still to do tiling behind the units, shelving, and fit the extractor fan.
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From time to time I will repost articles that have been previously posted to "Render Unto Christ". This is one of them.
I thank God He made me at least to partially understand some of the laws of higher mathematics and some of its constructs. Revelations! One is the construct of infinity. Infinity is a construct--that is, something derived by man to explain things man can't explain otherwise because in reality they don't exist apart from man's so-called understanding. Infinity relates to the topic of Bible study because probably 99.999% of Bible-believing Christians believe in eternity, which is the analogous time-element to infinity, the mathematical construct which in higher math is the equivalent to division by zero or the tangent of a 90 degree angle (where tangent of an angle = opposite/adjacent in a right triangle...remember high school trigonometry?). Thus, eternity is like infinity, which is division by zero. Remember high school algebra? Division by zero is "undefined"; for instance, 0/3 = 0 because 3 x 0 = 0. In fact, any number x 0 = 0.But what is 3/0? Since no number times 0 yields 3, then simply put, you can't divide by zero. And anyway, who ever heard of dividing by "nothing" (which is what the number zero, invented as a place holder, really is...nothing!)?
Now, as to the tangent of a 90 degree angle being "infinity"(which is enumerated by thesideways 8), this can be shown on a piece of graph paper using some very simple calculus,using what is called "limits". Remember that the "x axis" on a graph is the horizontal line going across and the "y axis" is the vertical line up and down. Suppose you are graphing a point with a positive magnitude (upward side of a "right triangle") of 6 and a positive direction(horizontal distance of a "right triangle") of 3. So what is the angle that is made by these line 6 up and 3 to the right? The opposite side is 6 and the adjacent side is 3. Since tangent of an angle is opposite/adjacent, the tangent is 6/3 = 2. Now take out your "values of trigonometric
functions" if you have one, and look under the "tan" column for tangent, and find what angle corresponds to "tan = 2" and you approximate an angle of about 63.5 degrees. Okay, now let us decrease the value of the x-direction to 1. Then you get tangent of the angle = 6/1 = 6. Looking up an angle whose tan = 6 we get to 80.6 degrees. Now let us cut the x-direction into half so that we are now dividing 6 by 1/2. We now get 12, because 6 divided by 1/2 is really 6 x 2 (remember when you divide by a fraction you "flip over" the fraction and multiply?). Since the tangent is now 12, the angle is now 85.3.
You get the picture yet? As the distance in the x-direction gets closer and closer to 0, with the magnitude in the y-direction remaining 6(or any number), the angle increases along with the tangent of that angle. What if the angle was 89.9 degrees? The tangent is then measured to be 572.9571! What if the angle was 89.999? The tangent would be 572,957.7951! What if the angle was 89.9999999? The tangent would be 572 million, 957 thousand, 795.1! What if the angle is 89.99999999999? Well, my calculator doesn't go that high in digits! But if it did, the tangent would probably be 5.729571 times 10 to the 150th power or something! You know, a very large number! Larger than a google!
A google is another construct because we never see or experience a number this large in reality with our naked eyes...1 x 10 to the 100th power! This is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes! To make matters ever crazier, mathematicians devised the "googleplex" to denote 1 x 10 to a google of zeroes! That is, the number "googleplex" is so large that to write such a number it wouldn't even fit into the known universe!!!
Okay, the calculus: As "x", that is, the adjacent side of this right triangle, gets smaller and smaller, as "x approaches 0" defined mathematically, the tangent of an angle formed gets larger and larger until, given enough "9s" after the 89.9, the tangent approaches "infinity" so that the tangent of a 90 degree angle, where x = 0, is "defined" as "infinity" which is NOT A NUMBER OR QUANTITY, but simply man's "enumeration" of something impossible. Something that "does not exist." In short, "infinity does not compute"!
Take the construct out of the field of mathematics and put it into the dimension of time and you go from infinity to eternity. Now factor in the concept that God is "the beginning" or "alpha" and "the end" or "omega" and that He "always was, is, and always will be". Everything God created including time (interestingly enough, since God created time, then time came AFTER God, then God must have existed BEFORE time, thus God stands outside of the dimension of time!) is constrained by some limit which, to human understanding--including writers of the Bible--must mean everything God created is constrained by a limit in time, but not God Himself! Since "eternity" also stands outside of time (just as "infinity" stands outside
numeration and quantity), ONLY GOD IS ETERNAL because "eternity" in human
understanding means "timeless"! Since God also created "hell/hades/sheol/lake of fire", then all of these definitions used by Christianity for pain, torment, death etc., must stand within some boundary of time and thus ARE NOT ETERNAL! ONLY GOD IS ETERNAL!
So then, since man applies God's eternity to mean "eternal damnation in hell/hades/lake of fire" in so many Bible translations when there was no meaning of eternity in any of the original documents. In fact, the notion of eternity came from Byzantine Emperor Justinan in the 600s and it was done precisely to convey reward for believers and punishment for non-believers as well as force his subjects into compliance with church hierarchies. Scroll down about a quarter of the way in the article to check this out .
Thus, to conclude, I have shown mathematically that "eternal" torment in "hell" is a MYTH that is NOT supported either in a true translation of Greek scriptures that form the New Testament of the Bible (which I will present in a later post). Those who must be thrown into the "lake of fire" (as per Revelation 20) in the "second death" are there only for a certain period of time until God whips them into shape spiritually so that on the last day of what we would call "time", ALL HUMANITY will reside with Christ!
Yes, Messrs. Falwell, Hagee, Lindsay, Robertson, LeHaye and the rest, Christ really does SAVE ALL MANKIND, just like "it says in the Bible" (1 Timothy 2:3-4)!
Ah, the power of God and His ultimate language--mathematics!
Deborah Lagarde
Saturday, February 10, 2007
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Here's our first cover video - an acoustic version of The Killers' "Human"
We have another video that just needs to be edited - it's an old spiritual song called "Goin' Up A Yonder". And we'll be shooting our first music video for our original song World of Ashes this Saturday in an abandoned factory in Idaho. We have to get a lot of videos online before February - as that's when we'll air on BBC One as part of the series on Kevin Bridges.
Other than playing guitar for Wood, I've been writing my final for my Numerical Methods I class, preparing for my PhD classes, and gearing up for Christmas and New Years. We're playing a full-band show for New Years in a local pub. The goal of that show is to come away with some sweet footage of the full band so we can create an introductory DVD in the form of a press kit.
I'll keep you posted on the band and the rest of my life here, and if you want more blogging details of the band, feel free to follow the blog I created for it on our website.


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Feature Story: Registration Opens March 15 for the 2017 Your Weight Matters National Convention!
As plans for the OAC's 6th Annual Your Weight Matters National Convention continue to develop, we are pleased to announce that Event Registration will officially open on Wednesday, March 15!
The 2017 Convention will take place August 10-13 in New Orleans at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, where individuals from across the country with an interest in weight and health-related topics will join together for unparalleled education, resources and tools to take home with them. With more than 50+ educational topics presented by the Nation's leading experts on weight and health, the Convention is dedicated to presenting evidence-based information that individuals can trust – all while in a supportive, community-centered environment.
As part of the OAC's Early-bird savings period, we will be offering discounted rates to early registrants of the 2017 Convention. These special rates include:
- Single-day Registrations starting at just $40/day – grants access to education sessions, the Your Weight Matters Healthy Living EXPO and group exercise classes
- Full Convention Registration at $95 – grants access to main education sessions, the Your Weight Matters Healthy Living EXPO, group exercises classes, evening social events and much more
In addition to these benefits, the National Convention will once again offer CE (Continuing Education) credits for nurses and some health professionals. These credits are also eligible for our special Early-bird rates, so we encourage interested health professionals to take advantage of this limited-time discount registration period.
For more information on the opening of Event Registration, as well as Convention registration pricing, please CLICK HERE.
You can also sign-up for Convention E-news alerts and be the first to know any new updates and information regarding the 2017 Convention by CLICKING HERE.
Details on the OAC's Convention Scholarship Program Now Available
With the release date for the opening of Convention Registration, we are also pleased to share that the application process for the OAC's Convention Scholarship Program opens on April 17. Individuals who are unable to afford the cost of registration and/or travel are able to apply for a full or partial scholarship to help make attending YWM2017 possible! Key dates in the application process may be found below:
- Application Process Opens: Monday, April 17
- Application Deadline: Friday, May 19
- Application Third-party Review: Begins the Week of May 22
- Application Status/Award Notifications Sent: June 2
The OAC's Convention Scholarship Program was created in 2014, with the goal to help bring quality education and a supportive community to individuals who may not be able to attend the cost of attending the National Convention. Unfortunately, funds are limited each year and we are unable to afford monies to all who apply. In 2017, however, the OAC aims to give any individual with an interest in attending the Convention with an opportunity to do so – but to achieve this goal, we are currently seeking the generous support of individuals to step forward and make a donation to the OAC' Convention Scholarship Fund.
YOU can help us achieve this goal by giving the gift of education! Your support, no matter what dollar amount you are able to give, impacts the lives of individuals seeking quality education for their journey with weight and makes it possible for them to attend the 2017 Your Weight Matters National Convention.
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New Advocacy Opportunity: Urge Congress to Support the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act!
The OAC is anticipating the reintroduction of the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (TROA) in the near future. TROA will provide Medicare beneficiaries and their healthcare providers with meaningful tools to reduce obesity by improving access to weight-loss counseling and new prescription medications for chronic weight management.
Although this legislation is focused on improving access to obesity treatments for Medicare beneficiaries, TROA is important to ALL Americans because private and employer-based insurance plans oftentimes base their coverage on matching Medicare coverage.
That's why the OAC is asking all of our advocates to join us as we urge Congress to support the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act. The voices of our members, supporters and followers are powerful, and together, we can work to advance the cause of better obesity care.
How can you help? Urge your legislators to cosponsor and support the final passage of TROA by contacting them through the OAC's Legislative Action Center! The OAC makes it easy. Simply use our Legislative Action Center to write to your elected officials, share our own personal story and help your legislators better understand the need for expanding access to these critical obesity treatment tools.
To visit the OAC's Legislative Action Center and to learn more about TROA, please CLICK HERE.
OAC and YMCA of Central Florida Team-up to Educate Healthcare Professionals about Weight Bias
Last month, OAC V.P. of Marketing and Communications, James Zervios, joined the YMCA of Central Florida in educating healthcare professionals at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla. about weight bias and stigma. Presented during the Nemours grand rounds, the OAC and YMCA presented on the topic of weight bias and the many ways in which bias is present in the healthcare system. From the lack of People First Language for Obesity to the use of headless imagery, the OAC illustrated the many ways that patients with obesity often face stigma when working with their healthcare provider or navigating the healthcare setting.
"The Nemours staff was extremely receptive to our presentation on weight bias. The simple fact that they took the initiative to invite the OAC and YMCA to their hospital in order to educate their employees on weight bias speaks volumes for their dedication to maintaining a bias-free facility. The Q&A after the presentation was very insightful and also helps us, the OAC, recognize even more ways that we can work with healthcare providers to eradicate weight bias," said James Zervios.
The OAC and YMCA of Central Florida are longtime partners and work together on many initiatives from the Your Weight Matters Campaign to combatting weight bias. "We truly value our relationship with the YMCA of Central Florida, as it provides the OAC with an opportunity to partner with an incredible organization and fulfill our goal of eradicating bias," said Joe Nadglowski, OAC President and CEO.
To learn more about weight bias in the healthcare setting, please CLICK HERE.
You can also learn more about the ways the OAC is reducing weight bias by visiting one of our most popular resources – the OAC Image Gallery. By refocusing the perception of obesity and offering a gallery of bias-free, respectful photos as an alternative to stigmatizing imagery, the OAC aims to change the way others view this chronic disease. To visit the OAC Image Gallery, please CLICK HERE.
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The OAC is the voice for 93 million Americans affected by obesity, and only with the strong support of our membership are we able to make an impact. There is strength in numbers, and by adding your voice to the OAC, you are making a difference to advance the cause of obesity!
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