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Waiting for Virgil
That title got me to thinking, how would Beckett write about this heat? How would Rimbaud? Today, here in Gotham, the weather babes are all with raised high eyebrows but still managing to smile warning us dumbass Citizens of New York City that by this afternoon, say three, the predicted temperature is 99, but given most of New York City that is exposed to the direct meanness of our true God--yes, God the Father, God the Sun, and God the Vulcan--is asphalt, black in color, a sun-absorbing color, that 99 is going to feel like 110.
Here I sit at 4 in the morning--during heat waves I sleep all day and work all night. Right now according to my computer it's 85, which is pretty damn hot for 4 am but still my fans are blowing cool air. The air is already thick though. The humidity is the killer in this, not our God. The humidity is already causing me to sweat around the outer edges of my hair--a tickly sweat.
I'm so stuck to my routine, like the postman hidebound to making his deliveries no matter the weather, I'm already anticipating getting my morning coffee and chocolate croissant from the Aghan-American young man who's had my morning coffee ready for me by 5:30 every weekday morning for 4 years now.
The record for this day in NYC is 101 back in 1957. However, since I've lived in NYC, for yeah these many moons now, I've seen 100 before; I've seen 103...and in 2003, I survived a black out with temps up in the high 90s...and that is my biggest anxiety, Con-Ed blowing up; the power grid failing again--it is run by Brits.
Tonight is going to be brutal. The temp is not expected to fall much below 80 tonight--oh but I complaineth too much...but I don't complain because I love heat, I was born in heat, and why not die in heat...then sobeit. If my apartment gets too ovenish, then I'll wander out and go across the street and sit in front of one of the store doors where the cold air comes out through the cracks.
thegrowlingwolf at 5:10 am; the temperature is 85 degrees. I see the sun a'risin'.
9:33 am: I'm telling myself it's not so bad. I hear a siren in the distance. It's a fire engine. You live in New York City long enough you recognize sirens. Somewhere down below me I hear lumber being dropped or thrown about. Poor slobs having to work in this heat. It's 94 already--here's what we're facing here for today and tomorrow:
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Right now it's stuffy, yes, but it's bearable. Amy Goodman is railing on NYC's Pacifica station, WBAI-FM (they are perpetually begging for money) about President Obama, a Democrat, joining hands with John Bonehead, the Repugnican, to show his belief in Reaganomics--President Obama the Wall Street Democrat. President Obama believes in the trickle-down theory--Milton Friedman economics. Amy can't believe it, but I can--I've said all along Obama's admitted many times over that Reagan was his hero and his other heroes are Wall Street investors (GAMBLERS). I sit here comfortable in what is perhaps going to be a record-breaking day in NYC weather history. Tomorrow looks to be more of the same. And tomorrow looks so bleak and backwards in both weather and politics. Obama is an idiot. John Bonehead is an idiot. We the People are being ruled by small-populated-state States Rights racist far-right nutjobs. HOWEVER, the truth is, the American voters put these Teabagger nutjobs into office, didn't they? Correct me if I'm scalded out of my skull by this intense God who is ruling down with a vengeance on me today. They voted for the Teabagger governors of Wisconsin and Michigan. Wisconsin voters obviously are idiots. Michigan voters have always been idiots. The political reality is off on a fantasy trip. The weather reality is sitting fucking down on top of all us fools all across the country--global warming!! It's not global warning--it's God punishing us for same-sex marriage and allowing Gays and Lesbians in God's almighty US Armed Forces. I can't believe the politics; I can believe the weather.
11:52 am: Don't get me wrong, it's hotter than Holy Satanic Hell outside, but me, I'm cool as the proverbial cucumber, though I must admit I can feel an encroaching stale air that is very hard to breathe. According to the weather babes on teevee, the heat index is already at 104. I was out; went to the Korean bank, the Woori Bank--yes, Koreans don't put their money in US banks--then check out how it is revealed that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve printed up 16 trillion dollars worth of good old worthless US bucks in order to further bail out not only American banks but foreign banks as well. My question is, why can't Good Old Busholite Bernanke print up 16 trillion bucks and shovel it into Medicare and Social Security thereby saving them from extinction. I can't believe these assholes are finally getting their way on destroying Social Security. Their plan is to eventually privatize it and throw its pool of trillions into the stock market, give the stock market a huge burst of rallies and bull(shit) sessions and make stockholders even richer than they already are. And We the People elected this Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton because he said he was going to Change things, "Yes, We Can," he ballyhooed in his best Ivy-League accent. I mean this man filled, what was it, Soldier Field in Chicago, filled it for a campaign rally--remember? The stands packed with smiling excited and proud Blacks and eager-faced-believing young White folks...why even some WASPs among those crowds...people surprised by the charm and intelligence of this Black man. And every where he went these crowds packed around him and he stood in front of them sternly, seriously, and he shoveled out some of the most hopeful...I started to say "promises"--like guaranteeing us he would not touch Social Security or Medicare--but, no, I'm sorry to say, it was hopeful BULLSHIT! "YES WE CAN!" Turned out to be BULLSHIT. This heat stirs me up as a writer. It always has. Some of my best writing has been done in heat. A great short story I wrote on the roof of the Hotel Sevilla on Calle Serapio Rendon in Mexico City, me, like sitting out in the middle of Mexico City when it was an island in the middle of a huge ancient lake--high atop that hotel--I exaggerate, the Hotel Sevilla was a 6-story building--but it was high enough that from the roof you could look off west directly down at the Angel area, Zona Rosa, and the Hotel Maria Isabel--where if I get to reminiscing I get to remembering being in the Maria Isabel lounge and hearing Trios Los Panchos...and when it was hot in the afternoons in Mexico City, you were always assured that around 4:30 some rains would come washing down off the mountains to pour across the city and cool it down right at tiempo siesta,,,you didn't go out to dinner in those days until 9.
1:12 PM: According to the Weather Underground, it's now 99.4 degrees in my Zip Code. I think we're gonna break the record! Heat index is 106 degrees now. Hot damn. I'm still feeling cool as hot ice. I remember as a kid being fascinated by a Fats Navarro recording called "Red Ice." I don't expect anybody to remember Fat Girl. Remember, I'm obsolete. Oh, of course, several of my close friends, my musician friends certainly, will know who Fat Girl was. I can feel this heat heating up now. The Sun is a high sun. It is just now High Noon on the Urban Range. "Do not forsake me, oh my darlin'/On this our wedding day---ehhh/" That's Tex Ritter singing the theme song to the Gary Cooper movie High Noon. The hottest temperature I was ever in was the first day I drove off the plateau on which sits Mesa, Arizona, and boogied down into the valley in which sits Phoenix. It was around the first of July way back yonder when--I'd just graduated from college and I and my college roommate (by then a successful dime-novel writer) decided we were going to L.A. and see what we could see and feel out the situation out there. We drove into Phoenix both us and the car panting for a cool breath of air and I looked up at a Valley National Bank's digital read out of time and temperature and the time was 1:45 pm and the temperature was 118 degrees. We pulled my smoking Chevy into a cool-looking building housing the New Yorker Bar. It must have been on Van Buren since we came into Phoenix from the east via Apache Junction and Superstition Mountain. And inside the New Yorker it was refrigerated cool and the locals told us it could get to 120 but that not to worry, the temp would quickly drop at nightfall down into the 50s and 60s. I wrote my girlfriend back in my hometown a poem on a New Yorker Bar napkin--a silly poem about how much I was wishing she were with me so we could make mad love in the heat. This is right before when later we were in Los Angeles, out in Anaheim in the Disneyland parking lot, and after finding out we didn't have enough scratch to get in the Disneyland gates, I spotted a new Chevrolet with Texas license plates now parked right next to my Chevy with Texas license plates--and for some strange reason I felt compelled to wait and see who would finally come to get in this car. My roommate said I was nuts, but he also was curious--I mean come on, how coincidental is it for two Chevys with Texas license plates to be parked by each other in the Disneyland parking lot? And sure enough it wasn't but about 15 minutes and two cold Burgermeisters later when sure enough here came two hot babes toward the new Chevy, one a tall rather skinny girl with short black hair and the other a shorter exotically beautiful young woman with a dark brown complexion and long raven black hair, so round and so firm and so fully packed, too; and soon my roommate and I were jiving with these certified Texas girls, trying to get them to go out with us, but they said they had to get back to Anaheim where the tall skinny one was staying with the short raven-haired exotic one and where they were expected for a special dinner at her father's Baptist church muy pronto. I gave the short exotic girl my phone number back in Dallas and she said she was moving back to Texas soon, to Grand Prairie, the first turnpike city you came to leaving Dallas and going west toward Fort Worth on the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike. Two years later, back in Dallas, I came home early from work one afternoon to find my roommate (not the dime-novel writer but an old hometown buddy I'd gone to college with, too) sitting and talking to this absolutely marvelous looking very light-White-complected short raven-haired exotic beauty--"Hey, Wolfie, I want you to meet Tipton's girlfriend from North Texas..."--Tipton was a rancher's son who was in my roommate's fraternity at NT and was staying with us for that summer--"Wolfie, this is Jacqueline Maria...." Howdy-do, cheerio and a pip-pip and all that--and I lit up my pipe and was prancing around my living room puffing and pompously posing for this absolutely fantastic woman. I was so taken with her, when she left, I had my roomy get her phone number by hook or crook from Tipton--which Jimbo got me, and a few nights later I called her and she was surprised to hear from me, yes, she remembered me, and, yes, she was going to be in Dallas for the summer and, yes, she had just moved back to Grand Prairie from Anaheim, California. And you can figure the rest of this story out...anyway, it turns out, yes, this Jacqueline Maria was the short exotic girl with the long raven-black hair I'd hit on two years earlier in that Disneyland parking lot--the girl I would a year later marry.
Ah, the heat takes me back...and now, though I'm breathing heavy hot air, I'm still cool, my fans working fine--in fact, it's 2:01 pm now--it's getting close to my bed time.
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I'm just back from a trip across my street to the post office. Oh my Gott in Himmel, folks, it was so hot standing on the sidewalk in front of the post office I could feel my face blistering. Unbelievably it is cooler in my apartment than it is on the street. One nice thing is, there is a young illegal immigrant worker dismantling the scaffolding that has hidden the oldest building still standing on Broadway for the past 10 years--I can't imagine how this poor slob is surviving working in such heat and handling hot pieces of iron, too--but the top part of the old building that has been restored to its original state is now showing and it's as one of my fellow tenants said, "It's one of the most beautiful buildings in the city!" It is a beautiful building and the restoration work looks like real stonework except it's molded iron. I'm going to take a shower and go up in my loft and see if I can sleep off the rest of the afternoon--wake up around 7:30 and venture out for grub.
5:21 pm: They say it got up to 104, though currently it's 102.5 and the Sun is melting off the edge of the earth going looping west, sailing out way past New Jersey and on over Pennsylvania and beyond...while here now the worst is over. I slept about an hour...my loft bed fan was blowing solid boiling air, like when an automobile's radiator boils over, that hot radiator water spewing up to steam the air and make it hard to breathe. A bottle of cold water I drank from before falling asleep, when I woke up and took a drink was like sweet hot like the water that comes from the hot water tap. But the heat is relaxing. The temperature is sliding creepingly down, though they're predicting it won't fall to much lower than 82 tonight--which may be worse in terms of sleeping or staying awake than it was at the height of the heat today.
The Daily Growler "Sun Day 1" EditionOur next checking in on the Wolf Man's trip through an Hadean New York City will be who knows when--only God knows--though keep checking in for spontaneous reports--unless the Sun doth slay the wolf.


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A classic from the Exile Bibliophile Archives in honor of Memorial Day. This Memorial Day I'll be participating in a ceremony at our Union Veterans Cemetery here in Oklahoma City. The public is welcome to attend. It will begin at 10:30 am Monday. The Union Cemetery is at NW 36th and MLK, close to the 45th Infantry Division Museum.
Memorial Day was typically a fun holiday for me and mine. It usually meant cookouts and warm weather. These don't always go together in Nebraska where I grew up. Every few years it would mean a sojourn out to the family cemetery to lay flowers on graves, mostly for people I never knew. I enjoyed the quiet graveyard by the little abandoned church and read the familiar names- names I had only heard in foggy stories. I liked trying to find the oldest markers, trying to decipher the military markers, and always stopping to admire the stone featuring a detailed drawing and patent number awarded to my kin for some kind of stump grinding devise.
What does Memorial Day have to do with books? Henry Carter Welles was a hyphen bookseller. Not another Barber, but a more common Druggist-Bookseller. Welles, born in 1821, was too old to serve during the Civil War. Sure, there are many, many recorded volunteers who were in their 40s, and beyond, but it was not the norm. However, Mr. Welles, like the rest of the nation, was certainly thinking about the war and how many boys from home never returned.
At a social gathering in the summer of 1865, Welles suggested that a day should be set aside to honor the dead of the Civil War. The next year, he repeated his suggestion to General John B. Murray. The two men and a group of local citizens gained the support of the village, and on May 5, 1866, the first complete observance of Memorial Day took place in Waterloo, NY.
On that day, civic societies joined the procession led by veterans marching to martial music to the three existing cemeteries. At each cemetery there were impressive and lengthy services including speeches by General Murray and a local clergyman. The ceremonies were repeated on May 5, 1867.
Henry C. Welles died in July 1868, but had lived long enough to see Memorial Day nationally proclaimed by General John Logan, first commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. The GAR was the veteran's organization for Union vets of the Civil War. This was General Order No. 11 establishing "Decoration Day" as it was then known. The date of the order was May 5, 1868, exactly two years after Waterloo's first observance. That year Waterloo joined other communities in the nation by having their ceremony on May 30.
The Centennial Committee, formed in Waterloo, New York for the 100th observance in 1966, found old newspapers from the 1860s honoring Henry C. Welles, crediting him for suggesting the first Memorial Day. Until that time it was believed that General Murray started Decoration Day.
So, we have one more to remember this Memorial Day. Henry C. Welles, the bookman who helped organize recognition for those who preserved our Union.
Pictured above is what coin collectors refer to as a store card. It's a token advertising a particular establishment, Mr. Welles in this case around 1861, minted these tokens. Tokens were widely used as small change, usually pennies during the Civil War since there was a shortage of official minted money. This was back when our change actually had intrinsic value, unlike today. So, merchants of all sorts saw an opportunity to spread the word about their particular business. However, the story goes, one saloon keeper in New York City took it too far and minted as many as one million tokens with his name and "Remit for 1 Cent". When the NYC streetcar company tried to remit the hundreds of thousands they'd received for fares, he told them to jump in a lake. They went to Congress, which created stricter laws about private citizens minting US currency.


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I am seeing a pattern with the girls emerge. My girls get feisty EARLY. I remember Maya throwing a full on tantrum at 18 months because I made her get out of the bathtub. Now she is very sweet and almost never throws them.
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they are a cross between a boot sale and an antique flea market, and the one we visited last Saturday was very good with lots of goodies.
My first find was this french wire basket another lovely addition to my dresser.
I also found this lovely vintage vanity case, a little tired, but still in very good condition especially the inside. Very in vogue will I sell I think not.
Picnic on Exmoor on Sunday, loved these sheep who seemed to have escaped from the field,
great pub, and pretty cottages,
Suddenly had the urge to make these lovely coffee cakes (at the request of Alex my son)
I think in this world there are people who cook without mess or ones that don't and I am afraid I am the later. If anyone wants the recipe just let me know.
Planted more winter vegetables in the garden, and it will be a battle between me and the slugs and caterpillars, picked runner beans now every day, the OH wonders if there
are any different kind of vegetable we could eat but what is wrong with runner beans I ask.
Well this weekend we are off to Seville for a short City break and no doubt you will hear more. So I hope all my fellow bloggers have a lovely weekend and that next week doesn't seem too quite when all the little ones go back to school!! Thank you everyone for all the lovely comments we had about out anniversary they were all lovely. To end this post some flowers for you all.


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I've always been one to fall in love with things, especially animals, that most people may think are ugly or bad. Hyenas, vultures and Sphynx cats (I swear I will own one some day!) are just a few that are on that list. Somehow hearing and seeing people recoil in regards to a certain critter makes me like them even more. Go figure.
I was happy to find out that a friend of mine also has a huge love for hyenas! There are some very neat facts about hyenas, plus they can be absolutely adorable. I personally am a bit on the fence as to which species I like best, as I love the facial features of Spotted Hyenas (like seen in this blog post), but love the coat pattern of Striped Hyenas.
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Academic English2 Presentation
1. Class #87 ,Group #1
2. Glossary
(1) ferment
: If food or drink ferments, or if you ferment it, the sugar in it changes into alcohol because of a chemical process.[1]
(2) inquire
: to ask someone for information about something.[2]
(3) slogan
: a short phrase that is easy to remember and is used to make people notice something.[3]
(4) volume
: the amount of space inside an object.[4]
(5) bitter
: having a strong, sour, usually unpleasant taste.[5]
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Our presentation is about 'World-Alcohol'.
First, There are many kinds of world beer.
We will introduce 'Heineken' first. It is from the Netherlands and is prefered by European. It has fresh and special bitter taste, so sometimes people feel good and bad. Second, we will introduce 'Asahi'. It is from Japan. Because its carbonic acid is not strong, it is soft and easy to drink. Finally, we will introduce 'Bud Weiser'. It is from the USA. Because its carbonic acid is strong, when drinking a Budweiser, it is cool.[6]
Second, Let's know the alcohol games.
First of all, Let's inquire into the "barney barney" game. The slogan of the "barney barney" is the world which rabbit come down from heaven. Then One person says the slogan the "barney barney" to any person. The person points and cries out "barney barney". Simultaneously, the people on both sides of the person cry out "carrot carrot."[7]
Secondly, Let's find out about apartment game. The participants of the apartment game raise both of their hands as they please. So, the person proposing a game calls a number. After calling a number, the person withdraw their hand. The hand at the botton is raised to the top. People call numbers as their hands change position. The person with their hand on top when the number is called is the winner.[8]
Third, There are many kinds of Korean alcohol.
First, we will introduce 'Soju' that is a favorite with Koreans. Soju is about 18~21% alcohol by volume, it has different names in different regions. For example, Jeolla-do calls its soju "Ipsaeju" and Gyeongsang-do calls its soju is "good day". [9] Second, we will introduce makgeolli, which is one of best korean fermentation alcohol. It is the oldest alcohol in Korea and has an off-white and milky color. And it is made from rice, barley, wheat, etc. [10] Third, we will introduce korean beer. There are kinds of Korean beer such as Cass, Max, Hite, etc and they are about 4.5% alcohol by volume.
4. References
[1] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/ferment_1
[2] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/inquire
[3] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/slogan
[4] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/volume
[5] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/bitter_1
[6] http://blog.naver.com/pu47zuertn/220151226694
[7] http://blog.naver.com/tellmestyle/60211072762
[8] http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=mcjang85&logNo=10160701620
[9] http://blog.naver.com/garysbar/70185371537
[10] http://cafe.naver.com/cookinformation/89
5. Discussion Questions
(1) Do you like Makgeolli? Why or Why not?
(2) What's your favorite 'World beer'? Why?
(3) What's your favorite 'Alcohol Game'?
(4) What's the limit of your drinking capacity?
(5) What's your favorite food when you drink? Why?


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I always liked Vera Lynn, even though her songs were before my time. It was back when singers were famous for the quality of their voice rather than their dancing ability!
I was thinking of her yesterday whilst watching the news items in Bayeux on the 65th anniversary of the first D-Day liberation there. Sarkozy not only forgot to send the Queen an invitation, but also Dame Vera - both, in my view, instrumental in the allies' success, Vera winning over hearts and minds with her optimistic songs.
Surprisingly, Vera never came to France during the war to entertain the troops, although she gained her famous title 'The Forces' Sweetheart' from the British Expeditionary Forces in France. That was the result of a ballot run by the Daily Express for their favourite singer. Her programmes were heard all over Europe, people listening in cellars, haystacks, anywhere they were hiding.
She corrected her absence by buying a home in Golfe Juan in the Alpes-Maritimes, where for the past 30 years she and her husband Harry spend much of their time. At 92 she still has glowing skin and sparkling blue eyes - healthy like her French neighbours. She always felt that she would have been successful in France during the war years as "they sang my sort of song" - with a story to tell.
But We'll Meet Again is more than just a melody - it's the story of hope and courage of a whole generation, never to be forgotten.
7th June 2009
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The opinion of the court was delivered by: Kugler, United States District Judge:
NOT FOR PUBLICATION (Doc. No. 25, 26)
This matter arises out of alleged employment discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, and disability by T.D. Bank, N.A. ("TD Bank"). During the pendency of litigation, the parties conducted extensive negotiations and reached an agreement. After the parties executed the settlement agreement, the Court dismissed the matter. Presently before the Court is the motion by Plaintiff Brian J. Shine to reopen the matter and to appoint pro bono counsel, (Doc. No. 25), and the motion to seal filed by Defendants, (Doc. No. 26). For the following reasons, Plaintiff's motions are DENIED, and Defendants' motion to seal is DENIED.
The background facts of this case are outlined in the Court's Opinion dated July 12, 2010. Therefore, the Court will provide additional facts as necessary to decide the pending motion.
On August 29, 2009, Plaintiff filed the Amended Complaint. The Amended Complaint includes ten causes of action: (1) "Equal Rights under the law (42 U.S.C. § 1981)"; (2) "Civil Action for deprivation of Rights (42 U.S.C. § 1983)"; (3) "Conspiracy to interfere with and failure to prevent violations against the Civil Rights of Mr. Shine[,] 42 U.S.C. § 1985 and 1986"; (4) "Damages for the intentional discrimination in employment of Mr. Shine[,] 42 U.S.C. § 1981a"; (5) "Civil Action for Deprivation of Civil Rights (42 U.S.C. § 1983)"; (6) "Unlawful Employment Practices and Intentional Discrimination (42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2, 2000e-3)"; (7) "Violations of Immigration law and discrimination of Mr. Shine on the basis of National Origin[,] 8 U.S.C. § 1324 et seq.[,] Unlawful Participation in Violation of Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act[,] 18 U.S.C. § 1961-1968"; (8) "Violation of the Equal Pay Act of 1963"; (9) Violation of Title I and Title VI of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990"; and (10) "Retaliation and Wrongful Termination by Defendants." (Am. Compl. ¶¶ 234-74).
On January 29, 2010, Defendants moved to dismiss the Amended Complaint. On July 12, 2010, the Court entered an Order: (1) granting Defendants' motion to dismiss Counts Two, Three, Five, Seven, and Eight in their entirety; (2) granting Plaintiff summary judgment regarding Counts Six and Nine against the individual Defendants; and (3) granting Plaintiff summary judgment regarding the portions of Count Ten alleging unlawful retaliation. (Doc. No. 14, at 20). In the same Order, the Court denied Defendants' motion to dismiss Counts One and Four in their entirety, and the portions of Count Ten alleging wrongful discharge. (Doc. No. 15).
Subsequently, the parties conducted extensive negotiations. On October 7, 2010, by telephone, Plaintiff asked defense counsel, Christine O'Hearn, to discuss a potential settlement. (O'Hearn Decl. ¶ 3; Ex. A). On October 8, 2010 at 9:18 a.m., O'Hearn replied via email, informing Plaintiff that Defendants rejected his prior settlement offer, but that if he wanted to make a new settlement offer, she would relay the message to TD Bank. (Id. ¶ 4). On October 8, 2010 at 1:01 p.m., Plaintiff sent O'Hearn an email demanding "payment of $50,000.00," and reiterating that he was "interested in settlement." (Id. ¶ 5; Ex. B). On October 11, 2010, O'Hearn sent an email to Plaintiff rejecting his $50,000.00 offer and making a counteroffer of $2,500.00 in exchange for execution of a settlement agreement and release. (Id. ¶ 6; Ex. C).
On October 12, 2010, Plaintiff sent an email to O'Hearn rejecting the $2,500.00 offer and making a counteroffer of $5,000.00. Specifically, Plaintiff's email states "if [TD Bank] is willing to double the offer to $5,000.00 and refrain from pursuing legal fees and/or expenses we have a deal." (Id. ¶ 7; Ex. D). The same day, O'Hearn accepted Plaintiff's counteroffer via email, and sent Plaintiff the settlement agreement and release. Paragraph 9 of the settlement agreement states:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Shine acknowledges that he has read all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and that he has had an opportunity to discuss it with an attorney of his choosing prior to signing if he so desires. Shine understands that by signing this Agreement and accepting the terms set forth above, he is receiving benefits to which he otherwise [sic] not be entitled.
Shine understands that he is receiving such benefits as a result of entering into and complying with the terms and provisions of this Agreement. Shine acknowledges that he is signing this Agreement voluntarily and knowingly in exchange for the Settlement Payment described herein, which she [sic] acknowledges is adequate and satisfactory. (Id. ¶ 10; Ex. E). O'Hearn also advised Plaintiff to review the agreement and contact her with any questions or concerns. (Id. ¶ 8).
Plaintiff executed the agreement on October 13, 2010. (O'Hearn Decl. Ex. G). O'Hearn received a copy of the executed settlement agreement from Plaintiff via regular mail on October 14, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. (O'Hearn Decl. ¶ 12). After receiving the executed settlement agreement, O'Hearn forwarded the agreement to TD Bank for execution. (Id. ¶ 14).
On October 15, 2010, O'Hearn received the following email that Plaintiff sent on October 14:
I changed my mind Christine . . . I'm not being bullied into silence.
I'm fighting your clients for the unadultered Hell they put me through even after I requested numerous transfers.
Again, where are all the cell records? Where are all the "dates and times of flatulence?"
I'm not accepting this offer Christine.
Where [sic] on a first name basis seeing that you had nothing to do with the horrible acts of your clients against me.
Again, $50,000.00 and this whole matter is settled. Firm offer.
Your clients have nothing to go after even if this or any other court beyond the American Rule.
This communication I will also be sending to the judge. I'm worth far more than $5,000.00[.] Your clients put me through Hell and in the interests of Justice I hereby repeal my agreement to your client's gross and repugnant offer. (Id. ¶ 15; Ex. I). Plaintiff sent the email on October 14 at 11:28 p.m. On October 15, 2010, O'Hearn ...
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Medical sector flexes muscles as St. Anthony's expands
ST. PETERSBURG — St. Anthony's Hospital expects to begin construction in mid-to-late November on a $28 million medical office complex and parking garage.
The three-story, 105,000-square-foot building will provide offices for 45 physicians in Suncoast Medical Clinic, a multispecialty physician practice acquired by St. Anthony's in July, and will house BayCare Laboratories and BayCare Outpatient Imaging. A six-story, 800-car parking garage will connect to the hospital and new building and serve the entire east end of the St. Anthony's campus, said William Ulbricht, the hospital's president.
The new project will break ground shortly before the scheduled completion of a $50 million, four-story, 100,000-square-foot emergency center and patient care tower at St. Anthony's.
Combined, the projects comprise the biggest construction effort under way in the city, said Dave Goodwin, St. Petersburg's director of planning and economic development.
The St. Anthony's projects are an indication of the strength of medical technologies and health care services businesses in St. Petersburg, Goodwin said. Health care is a major economic cluster and a growing sector, attracting companies such as IRX Therapeutics Inc., a firm developing cancer therapies that announced Oct. 20 it would move to St. Petersburg from New York City, and Johns Hopkins Health System, which affiliated with All Children's Hospital in April.
"We think the synergies are there. The size of that sector has reached a point where it's very substantial and big enough to attract folks of international reputation to the community," Goodwin said.
Employment base
Health care provides a core of stable employment as well, Goodwin said. Medical technologies and health care services employed 18,778 people in St. Petersburg in 2010, more than any other industry sector.
Health care construction also provides jobs for builders and architects, professions that have suffered during the economic downturn. Barton Malow is the contractor for the St. Anthony's projects, Mason Blau and Associates Inc. is the architect for the medical office building, and Harvard Jolly Architecture designed the garage. Bidding opportunities will be available at each phase of construction.
The presence of lab and imaging facilities in the new building will give patients the option to move quickly and seamlessly from one doctor to another. "They can get a diagnosis and provide treatment without having to make a referral outside the organization," Ulbricht said.
St. Anthony's, a 395-bed hospital that is part of BayCare Health System, will fund the project from operations. "Being part of BayCare gives us access to capital, but we wouldn't be in that position if St. Anthony's wasn't successful," Ulbricht said.
The hospital had $171.1 million in revenue and an excess of revenue over expenses of $11.2 million in 2010, according to a report from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
St. Anthony's new ER is scheduled to open in early 2012. The new medical office building and garage are projected to open by the end of 2012 with physicians moving in early in 2013.
For some of the Suncoast physicians, the move to the St. Anthony's campus will be a homecoming. The practice was established in 1997 when Suncoast Medical Clinic and St. Petersburg Medical Clinic merged; St. Petersburg Medical Clinic was located on the St. Anthony's campus at the time.
Suncoast Medical Clinical currently is headquartered in a building adjacent to Bayfront Medical Center. Bayfront does not own the building but is working with its management company on potential opportunities, a spokeswoman for Bayfront said.
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System has put out requests for qualifications for two construction projects.
The hospital will build a $4.75 million hybrid operating room-cardiac catheterization lab, designed to allow surgeons and physicians to streamline care for cardiac patients who need multiple procedures or require simultaneous catheterization and surgery. The Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc. provided a $2.5 million grant to match the hospital's investment.
Also planned is a $2.6 million urgent care center at University Parkway. The new center will be 6,000 square feet, about 50 percent larger than the existing facility at the site, and will have 12 rooms, five more than are in the current center.
Both projects will go through the public procurement process to select the architect/engineering firm and general contractor.
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(a brief note on) "What Color the Dawn: Breaking Silence on the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot"
Last night (well it was "last night" when I started to write this) I went to see the Opening of What Color the Dawn, the art show curated by Kevin Sipp with Louise E. Shaw, commemorating the Atlanta Race Riot. The exhibition will be at Eyedrum August 19-September 30, 2006, and is sponsored by the Arts and Remembrance committee of the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, a Truth and Reconciliation project in the city. According to the Coalition website: "During the summer of 1906, white fears of African Americans' increasing economic and social power, sensationalized rhetoric from white politicians, and unsubstantiated news stories about a black crime wave created a powder keg of racial tension in Atlanta. The powder keg exploded on the night of September 22nd in what became known as the Atlanta Race Riot. By the time the riot ended on September 25th, at least 25 blacks and two whites lay dead." Additionally many were injured and "hundreds fled."
I came late, but artist Toni Bingham, an animated storyteller whose work I hadn't previously seen, and artist/curator Kevin Sipp (whose work is not in the show) were still there. Sipps looked energetic as usual, despite it being towards the end of the four hour reception.
Interestingly photography figured heavily in the work, both documentary photography reconfigured as installation as with Karen Tauches' Disappeared Houses which featured photos on resin with backgrounds of wallpaper designs familiar to many a black southern home, and in the collage work of art historian and artist Michael Harris who included mug shots of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks among what looked like blood stains applied to a large scale reproduction of an ad illustration for confederate leaders circa the 1880s.
Bingham's work included photos and pages he found found "fluttering" among the remains of an African American church which was burnt down in 2005. The second part of the work was an installation of memorial posts with burlap, stones, and earth.
Hermina Glass-Avery had multiple installations in the rear exhibition room, including a bottle tree whose containers hold photographs, and a "memory house" at least that's what comes mind. The lighting for Glass-Avery's work was a complementary rust-ochre: simultaneously warm, harrowing, and earth-bound.
Public Domain (Chea Prince/Robert Cheatham), an Atlanta -based non-profit arts collective "which explores the connections between technology, art, theory, and writing" had a single-channel projected video in the exhibition, The Final Race, dealing with the riots and included investigations of UFOs and memory. The video also screened independently the following Sunday evening.
On my way home I stood on a Marta escalator behind a white couple who both wore t-shirts on the back of her's was printed "Redneck Girl" on the back his appeared a confederate flag with the text "It's A Southern thing...Y'All Wouldn't Understand." I wish I had a picture, oh wait, here's one:
On the front it has a small image of the Confederate states with a Confederate stars and bars across it. With text underneath reading "Dixie Forever"
on the Accuracy in Media (AIM) web site that sells this shirt the ad copy reads:
"Save the battle flag from extinction. Show your Southern pride."
Such wording begs the question: whose southern pride? And whose South (i.e.:"Dixie") are we talking about? I never had a question about whether or not this show was necessary, and similar to Cinqué Hicks (who also has some photos from the show) I felt this exhibit worked beyond a simple polemic in addressing a hot button issue. Nevertheless it only took 30 minutes of travel on a relatively deserted MARTA to witness this ubiquitous walking-popular-culture-commentary and the need for various explorations of power, history, and citizenship in the South.


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Someway, somehow I have become one of those people who can't seem to change their style. I am a product of the '80's and I guess I'm stuck there!!!!!
It's not on purpose and I don't even like it but for some reason...well...here let me show you.
Here's the story about the Hair.
I am in the middle of the worst haircut ever!!!! I know, I say that every time I go to a salon, but this time it's truer than usual. The first visit, cut was crooked...I then ran into a friend who cuts hair and asked her to fix it....ooops! note to self : Don't do that again. She fixed it by making it into a helmet cut on the top and didn't fix the uneven part I asked for. At my next chance to fix it, I was desperate...so the morning of my brother's funeral I went to the only open and available, close to the hotel place, which was a Great Clips. UGGGHHHHH!!!!!! She cut it shorter and still uneven...and to top it off...they called in the teasing expert to tease. And I quote, "You have the Kewaskum Hair! Don't worry, it will settle down by this evening!!!"!!!!!!!!UUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
I'm so glad no one was fixated on my hair last Saturday (Annette)! I should have just gotten a scissors from the Walmart like I was debating.
I will quote myself by saying, "the only person who can cut my hair right is ME!".
I just should have......so today I did!!!!! and now look!!!! Just like I used to do it in the 80"s!!!!!! What is wrong with me?????? I'm stuck in time!!!! I always giggle at people who are stuck in time!
And don't even get me started on my peasant dresses and jean jackets and black turtle necks!!!!
HELP! I need a make-over!!!!!!!!!!!


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Turning a little problem into a big problem.
I use this phrase at least a dozen times a week, most recently this morning as I debated whether to carry a screaming 5-year old out of the gymnasium or to let him just run out of steam on his tantrum. Kids really get this phrase--more so than any of the other behavioral jargon we throw at them in the course of the day--I think they like the symmetry of the phrase...little problem on one end, big problem on the other, and only them in the middle holding it together. It usually deescalates the situation nicely, and since the states passed those silly laws forbidding us from brutally beating your children, it's pretty much one of the best options we have left.
I realized today that over the past week I've been turning little problems into much bigger problems than they deserve. I took little tiny bits of loneliness and ennui and irritation that the scales weren't moving fast enough and I turned them into an all out celebration of sturm und drang filled with no exercise and a little overeating.
The good news is, I realized after updating my little weigh-in counter that my body calendar is ready for another periods, which means I've been busy turning into a hormonal wildebeest who cries at American Idol episodes and stares, wild-eyed at the sugar cookies in the Wal-Mart bakery because she believes her cats told her to go eat all the yellow ones with confetti sprinkles.
Anyway, since I'm in the process of trying to turn dark, twisty Erin back into bright, shiny Erin, I thought I'd list some things that have made me happy today and excited for my focus regaining in the morning.
1)No more muffin top
I pulled a pair of jeans out of the dryer today that usually require me to engage in strange, East German calisthenics to loosen around the thighs and middle. Even so, I still had stomach fat splooging over the waistband of my jeans and had to spend most of my days with strategically placed legal pads or coast in front of my midsection. I sort of looked like Debra Messing when they tried to hide her pregnancy on Will and Grace, except I couldn't have pulled off those muu-muus. Now, though, the jeans just slide right on and button and I can breathe and walk and they actually feel like JEANS and not strange, PVC bondage leggings I bought from some S&M store in downtown KC. Not that I've ever been to those stores. I thought a leather store meant handbags, I swear.
2) I'm riiiiiiich!
Okay, not rich, but I have money. Some money. More money than I had, say, in October. The Husband left me with a ginormous financial debt that I managed to pay off very quickly over the course of the summer, but when the dust finally settled I realized I was still going to live paycheck to paycheck on my current salary. When I started thinking more about my food choices in January, I realized a whole lot of my money was being sucked away by fast food, or restaurant meals, or impulse shopping at the grocery store. Making a food budget and cooking at home has been the best thing I could've done for my pocketbook, and now it leaves a little cash free for those weight loss rewards on the left of my page, or for whatever I want. I like that feeling very much.
3) I've regained perspective.
I snuck out of my lunchtime to watch a fourth grade spelling bee today, and I left after ten minutes because I couldn't stop giggling at the gravitas imposed on the situation. Three members of our school adminstration volunteered to judge for the bee, and as each kid spelled a word they flashed little green or red cards on popsicle sticks based on their answer. When there was a disagreement, hushed and spirited debates would break out at their table as the kid stood trembling at the microphone, awaiting his or her fate. I was so proud of the kids, but as I stood there observing, all I could think was "This is a frigging spelling bee. In a school gym. With the smell of fish sticks and ketchup wafting in through the air ducts." Then I realized I had been doing the same thing all week long. The week or so since my last weigh-in the scale's been a little high, and I've let that get to me. Intellectually, I know there's no way that I've gained those pounds and that it's just a result of PMS and salty foods and not moving around so much, but still the stupid numbers on the scale really bothered me. As I leaned there against the gym wall, though, I started thinking about all the other crap in the world that could be happening to me right now. Rape...violence...horrible poverty...war...death. None of those has visited my life recently, and I've forgotten that my personal struggle with weight loss doesn't define me or my life. It's just a major priority right now, and even if it's not going perfectly, it doesn't mean my life is over. I'll just have to keep trying again. And again. And again.
Someday it'll all be worth it.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Non-Scale Victories
Turning a little problem into a big problem.
3 comments:
- lisa jane said...
She's baaaackkkkk!!!! ;)
Glad you are feeling better,perspective is a champion.
- February 1, 2007 at 12:05 AM
- Galen said...
So glad you are feeling better.
- February 1, 2007 at 7:30 AM
- BigAssBelle said...
oh perspective is a wonderful thing! i love it. got some to spare?
and this is perfect, darling: turning into a hormonal wildebeest who cries at American Idol episodes and stares, wild-eyed at the sugar cookies in the Wal-Mart bakery because she believes her cats told her to go eat all the yellow ones with confetti sprinkles.
- February 5, 2007 at 11:30 AM


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|Reviews for Human
| missbrewster chapter 1 . 9/1/2012
| fan-of-fans chapter 1 . 4/25/2009
nice story. You should wirte more morgan/prentiss , there's not enough :)
| kingsmeadroad chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
I liked this! It really suited them, when she's trying to aggravate the situation it suits her so well! And Morgan, I can entirely see him thinking those things! Well done! :D
| Arcadya chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
Sad but so true...
they're only human nit wild superheros who never actually get hurt too badly by making mistakes...
| Kitale chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
AH! I LOVED This!
I think you should continue this.
Please? haha I Love prentiss and morgan
| sienna27 chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
Okay so you scared the crap out of me for a second with the sexual sadist thing. But then I'm like, no, she wouldn't send me a chapter with Em as THAT kind of victim. And you didn't let me down!
I like this, and I like that she was pissed at him, not on her own behalf but on the victim's.
Total aside, this reminds me, I still haven't sent you that later chapter I was going to show you. Maybe this weekend. Arc betaed it but I haven't looked through it yet since she sent back her notes.
| Windy City Dreamer chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
Gotta love loopholes.
Great job. I'm quickly discovering that I rather enjoy Morgan-whumpage, so this was treat. I especially loved the scene when they discover the victim. A heavy reminder that they can't win them all.
I'm gonna be good and stop here because anything further would involve the words 'more' and 'please' and probably some attempt at a bribe, lol.
| Kavi Leighanna chapter 1 . 4/22/2009
Generally, I lean towards friendship between Emily and Derek (even though the writers *almost* put a relationship between them into canon), but this had such a nice mix of real friendship and the underlying tension that echoes the show.
Nice work!


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DotNetNuke (DNN) is a good content management system that greatly simplifies the day to day administration and content management of sites. One nice feature is the file management system which allows users to upload files from their local computers to the file system on the DNN Web server portal root. They can then use the DNN GUI to add widgets such as the Documents module that provides a fast and simple way to give site visitors access to these files.
Sometimes, though, users will encounter a seemingly mysterious error message when they are trying to upload files to DotNetNuke such as the message in the image at the start of this article. This message will say that the file they just tried to upload is a restricted file type and that they need to contact a hosting provider.
You and your users will be happy to hear that this warning looks more ominous than it really is. If you are in charge of the DotNetNuke installation then you may have heard of disallowed file type errors before.
When speaking with the user who does not explain the specifics of the error they encountered, there are two possibilities that will immediately spring to mind when hearing about an error with the DotNetNuke file uploader.
You should make sure to check both of these points while talking with the user and make sure that when you enable the file type, that the file size will not exceed that allowed by your installation of DotNetNuke.
Here are the steps to update the list of allowed file types based on a DNN 7 installation that I am working with. Depending on your version of DotNetNuke, the path and procedure to manage the list of file types may differ.
The reason that DotNetNuke restricts file types so carefully and only allows system SuperUsers to manage the list of file types is that some file types are more prone to allowing system compromises than others.
While managing file types, it is important to realize that each new file type that you add can introduce security risks to your site. On a closed Intranet system this is not so much of an issue, but on an Web site that is exposed to the Internet you should carefully evaluate the allowed file types to make sure that you are not exposing your site and users to unnecessary risks.
DotNetNuke is an open source CMS based on Microsoft .Net technology. DotNetNuke can be easily installed and hosted. In general, DotNetNuke framework allows individuals to do whatever they wish with the application framework both commercially and non-commercially, with the simple requirement of giving credit back to the DotNetNuke project community. In this article, I will tell you how to automate the packaging of your DNN Module.
DotNetNuke is a program that runs on Microsoft ASP.NET. It is also a framework, meaning, it is a program that is designed to be extended. One of the ways you extend the framework is to create modules. These modules are installed inside a DotNetNuke installation and when they run in that DotNetNuke installation they extend the framework to create a DotNetNuke website also called a portal.
Here are the steps for automate the packaging of your DNN Module:
PM> Install-Package MSBuildTasks
<PropertyGroup> <Extension>zip</Extension> <DNNFileName>CHANGEME.dnn</DNNFileName> <PackageName>CHANGEME</PackageName> <MSBuildCommunityTasksPath>$(SolutionDir)\Build</MSBuildCommunityTasksPath> </PropertyGroup> <Import Project="BuildScripts\ModulePackage.Targets" /> <Target Name="AfterBuild" DependsOnTargets="PackageModule"> </Target> <Import Project="$(SolutionDir)\.nuget\nuget.targets" />
What I typically do then is install the module to a test DNN install to make sure that everything is working correctly. You'll want to make sure that the ZIP files created contain all the right files, and they get installed correctly, so a test installation is the best way to go through that process.
If something fails, try to track it down, then do another Build in Release mode, rinse and repeat the installation process in your test install until you get everything working properly.
Now going forward, after you do a release, you go into your AssemblyInfo file, change your version number there, and into your .DNN File and change your Version number there. Next time you build in Release mode the module will create a new VERSION number ZIP file, leaving your last version builds there as well.
404 Handling is the process of managing what happens when a visitor comes to your site and enters a Url/follows a link which isn't valid. The correct handling of 404 errors can really mean the different between a professional looking site, and one that still looks like it is in development. The name '404 Error' is used because the web server returns a response code of '404', meaning it couldn't find a matching file/resource for the Url. A well developed 404 strategy will retain users, keep search engines up to date and in general make your site look like a polished and finished effort.
Here is the tips how to fix 404 Handling Error on DotNetNuke 7 :Keep in mind that a prerequisite for this strategy is that you must be using ASP.Net 3.5 SP1 or later. This will not work in earlier .Net Framework versions. Look at the customErrors section below in web.config:
There are a few things to notice here. First, the addition of redirectMode="ResponseRewrite". This enables a rewrite of the error page rather than a redirect. The next thing to notice is the specific instruction on what page handles 404 errors. Rather than 'TheErrorPage.aspx', 404 errors are handled by '404.aspx'.Now we get to some specifics in DNN. In your DNN site create 'TheErrorPage.aspx' and '404.aspx' (or whatever you want to name them) in the root of your website. From my testing this does not work if you were to add this as a page within DNN itself (i.e. via Pages → Add). Instead, manually add these error pages in the root of the site.Lastly add this bit of code to the 404.aspx error page:
This code simply ensures a 404 status is returned when the page loads, which should only be for 404 errors. You could do this in C# as well. You can add any HTML you would like to this page so you can provide a friendly 404 error page.
404 Error on DNN 7 InstallationIf you are encountering an issue with DNN 7 installations that causes most of DNN's URLs to result in 404 errors then please try to following fix.Within your site's web.config file locate the opening tag for the "modules" section of the web.config file which is:"<modules>" (without quaotation marks)Then modify it so that it reads as follows:"<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">" (without quotation marks)Then save the web.config file and restart your site. That should resolve the issue and allow your links and pages of your DNN 7 installation to resolve correctly.Need DotNetNuke hosting? Please visit our site at http://www.asphostportal.com. Just with only $4.00/month to get DotNetNUke hosting. If you have any further questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].ASPHostPortal.com, Microsoft No#1 Recommended Spotlight Hosting Partner, is now providing this FREE DOMAIN and DOUBLE SQL Space promotion link for new clients to enjoy the company's outstanding web hosting service.
In this article, I want to describe about IIS SEO Toolkit and the YSlow plugin for FireFox. The SEO Toolkit is invaluable for finding things like broken links, bad markup, etc, while the YSlow plugin analyzes things from a pure performance perspective. I recommend both highly for fine tuning your DotNetNuke websites.
One of the things that YSlow recommends is to compress the files that are sent from the server to the user's web browser. DotNetNuke provides the option to use GZip compression on the Host Settings page. Turning this feature on is one of the first things I do when I set up a new DotNetNuke installation.
YSlow has the following to say about compression:
"Compression reduces response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today's Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support gzip."
Now, the fact that there so many external files its an altogether different issue that I will side-step for the purpose of this blog post. Of course I would love it if DNN had 1 dynamically created minified JS file and 1 dynamically created CSS file, period. However, that is currently not the case, and even if it was – wouldn't you want to gzip those files as well?
Here is the compression report from a recent version of DotNetNuke that has GZip enabled:
You can see that DotNetNuke does pretty darn well with respect to the YSlow configuration, except where it comes to dealing with external files (this report was run with the "Small Site or Blog" ruleset, for those that are curious). So, how can I improve this section of the YSlow report? By letting IIS gzip the static files, of course!
The report above is from a local environment, but this is exactly how dnnGallery.net behaved prior to implementing some Gzip compression in IIS.
The steps that I used to get IIS to perform GZip compression on all of the static files in my website were as follows: 1. Enable static file compression in IIS 2. Install IIS Resources 3. Add the appropriate file extensions using the IIS Metabase Explorer 4. Restart IIS
So, first I enabled IIS compression of static files. Note that this is a server-wide solution, and will apply to each of your web sites hosted in IIS. Here are the relevant steps from the MSDN documentation:
To enable server-wide HTTP compression
1. In IIS Manager, expand the local computer, right-click the Web Sites folder, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Service tab, and in the HTTP compression section, select the Compress application files check box to enable dynamic compression.
3. Select the Compress static files check box to compress static files.
4. In the Temporary directory box, type the path to a local directory or click Browse to locate a directory. Once a static file is compressed, it is cached in this temporary directory until it expires, or the content changes. The temporary directory must be on a local drive on an NTFS-formatted partition. The directory cannot be compressed, and should not be shared.
5. Under Maximum temporary directory size, click a folder size option. If you click the Limited to (in megabytes) option and enter a number in the text box next to it, IIS automatically cleans up the temporary directory according to a least recently used rule when the set limit is reached.
6. Click Apply, and then click OK.
After I performed this step, only one random .txt file was compressed, how useful! You can check which files are compressed by looking in the temporary folder that was specified in the above steps.
After I installed the resource kit tools, I opened the new Metabase Explorer application from my start menu and performed the following steps: 1. Expanded [Machine Name] –> W3SVC –> Filters –> Compression and selected gzip 2. For the row named "HcFileExtensions" I added "js" and "css" to the "Data" list 3. For the row named "HcScriptFileExtensions" I added "axd" to the "Data" list
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in a house on a hill
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- ▲my• said...
I hate those moments of confusion and indecision. I hope you find your answer soon! It's especially hard when you're getting conflicting advice from friends and family.
A Doctor Who package!?! 0.0
You are the sweetest thing ever! :)
I don't remember whether or not you have my mailing address, so if you don't send me an e-mail and I'll get it to you.
- 5 January 2010 at 14:14
- The Curious Cat said...
Hmm...cryptic...but I know how you feel...you need to think about it long and hard and do some searching inside yourself and then see what your gut instinct is...I'm sure you'll find the answer eventually! xxx
- 5 January 2010 at 14:20
- The Curious Cat said...
PS Sorry I have been away, hope you had a good Christmas and a Happy New Year? xxx
- 5 January 2010 at 14:20
- Kait said...
The title of this post reminds me of a great song "Home" by Vanessa Carlton. It is one of my favorites.
I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes I feel like everyone is viewing me the exact opposite of how I view myself and I get lost in trying to decipher who I really am. One of my new years goals is to get to the heart of my being.
I hope you saw my post about your gift. Just making sure you know how much I loved it<3
- 5 January 2010 at 18:29
- Jane said...
don't worry, things always work themselves out :)
- 6 January 2010 at 03:55
- Bettycake said...
I've given you an award on my blog :) xxx
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Clint Dempsey is a footballer born on March 9, 1983 in Nacogdoches, Texas, the United States. He plays the role of attacking midfielder in the field.
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Clint Dempsey made his international debut for the United States national team at the 2003 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Youth Championship that was held in the United Arab Emirates. He won his first cap in the senior team against Jamaica on November 17, 2004. On May 2, 2006, he was selected to play for the U.S. national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament, which took place in Germany. As of 2008, Clint Dempsey has made 20 senior team appearances scoring a total of 6 goals and two assists including the goal against Poland in a 1-0 win in March 2006. At the 2006 World Cup, He scored a goal against the Ghana national team, which was the only goal by a U.S. player in the tournament. He scored the historic fastest goal at the U.S World Cup Qualifier 2010 with his chest trap and sliding attack in 53 seconds over Barbados. After beating American footballers, Kasey Keller and Brian McBride in a poll of sportswriters, Clint Dempsey received the Honda Player of the Year for 2006, which was considered as United States' men's soccer's highest individual honor.
Clint Dempsey started off his football career with the Dallas Texans youth club. He had an impressive stint with Texans and became the captain of the team and was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the Tampa Bay sun Bowl. He joined the Furman University where he exercised himself to be the key player for Furman. During the tenure at Furman, he made 61 appearances out and has 17 goals to his credit.
In the 2004 Major League Soccer (MLS) SuperDraft, Clint Dempsey was bought by the New England Revolution club. He played extremely well in his first season with Revs gaining the MLS Rookie of the Year title for the 2004-05 season. In 2005, he was chosen as the third best player for netting 10 goals and he assisted in nine goals including 5 goals that led his Revolution team to win the match. In the MLS All-Star Game, Clint Dempsey assisted in scoring the winning goal against the Fulham FC. His crucial goal against Chicago Fire played a major role in leading the Revolution squad into MLS Cup 2005. He was acknowledged MLS Best XI for his extraordinary performances at the league. Clint Dempsey is a talented player who is best known for his diving headers in crowded situations.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
A shot in the arm
I think I need to revisit A Woman After God's Own Heart, which was a book that really helped me understand my role as a wife and mother in setting the atmosphere of our home as one that would not only be pleasing to God, but also help point my kids and husband toward Him. I also know that God is drawing my heart toward a deeper prayer life. I feel like I breathe quick prayers to Him through the day and I stop to seriously pray for needs when they come to my attention, but I don't have much regular time devoted to Him. I have prayer time in my homeschooling schedule, but don't always follow through- hence the need for a shot in the arm to follow my plans! I really want to be a pray-er. Especially as I look forward and see the sleepless nights of tending to an infant in my near future. I don't want to let fatigue make me a grouchy mom! I know the only remedy for that will be time in the presence of the One with true peace, regardless of circumstance.
I know that God has been growing me in the area of diligence. I see how far He's taken me in a few short years. But I think I've grown content with where I am. I want to continue to grow. I want to keep learning to deny flesh. My flesh just wishes it were an easy fix!
When we took our classes for SCUBA certification it was mentally and physically the hardest thing I've done (other than child-birth!) but I worked at it and when it was finished I had the most incredible feeling of accomplishment. I think the hardest part about becoming who God wants me to be is that there is no end. There is no point where I can coast and know I'm done. There is always more to push toward, a higher aim. There are so many times when I am deeply grateful for God's patience with me! I'm so glad His ways are higher than mine.
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- Cheri Bunch said...
It is also a blessing that He invites to come up so that He can share those high places with us. He could just enjoy them all by Himself........but He delights in having us to come and see!
When I was spending a lot of time in my rocker during the night watches, I continually asked the Lord to give me a double portion of sleep.....meaning that when I had the opportunity to sleep my portion of rest would be doubled.....the actual time was often short....it seemed frequent on Saturday nights. I refused to let that hinder my church attendance, most of the time.
Prayer is work! Often times we would much rather coast........but the reward of pressing in is beyond words of description! Praying that He will make that time you set aside for prayer very sweet and satisfying and addicting........drawing you back in for more! More of Him!
Love you, Corrie!!!!!
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I'm sorry, finding every day a struggle and thinking I can't see a future. There's no point in anything I do. I try my best for dd but I do ok for a bit then it all goes wrong. I can't deal with the whinging, maybe she would be ok with someone else.
I was just driving on the motorway, was driving too fast, on verge of tears, and really wishing someone would crash into me. Dd was in the car and I wouldn't want anything to happen to her, but she was asleep and it was like she wasn't there.
Been crying too much recently, getting too fat, being irritable and distant with family, I just don't want to carry on anymore. Going back to work on Monday, the anxiety is making me feel worse, I know tomorrow I'm going to be dreading it so much. Thinking of not going, handing me notice in, not really caring what happens. I can't cope with it.
I don't feel right, I can't think straight. I feel so tense.
Didn't want to leave this unanswered. You sound so much like my friend a few years ago, had the same conversation about a time she was driving on the M6. I would suggest you go and talk to your GP, she did and is now happy...
Oh GracieLoo you don't have to go through this alone. Please go and see your GP.
I have been where you are. I still am to be honest but I can see a light at the end of my tunnel. I find every day a chore and can't see the point in anything.
Mine is because of PTSD and severe anxiety. I am now receiving therapy for the PTSD and I am taking AD's for the anxiety and depression.
One day at a time....baby steps and you will come through it.
Whilst you are in the frame of mind please don't make any rash decisions such as quitting work. If when you are feeling better you still dread going in then look at working elsewhere. I found that my depression makes everything look shit when in reality it was my illness not work.
Please use MN as much as you can. I lurk a lot and it really does help me.
didnt we speak before? So sorry youre still suffering. You must go to your GP and get some help. I agree with bloominmarvellous. Take care Gracie
I'm under a mental health team, on a low dosage ad, as have tried four different ones and none have helped. It was my choice to lower the dose and they agreed, I could increase it but what's the point if they think medication won't help anyway.
I see a sw every week and on the waiting list for group therapy. This is why I can't do this. I'm struggling more and more, repeating myself to the sw each week but there is nothing else that can be done. I get so low, i'm on my own to deal with this. It is starting to affect dd as she's not a baby anymore and is aware, I keep thinking of the tablets in my drawer, of an old washing line I have somewhere. When i'm sobbing I just picture stabbing myself. I'm honest with the sw, but she says to think of my responsibilities. I can't!
What help is there, I know I could call out of hours, but I think I appear calm and wouldn't be taken seriously. I also don't want my family to know, i'm too ashamed. So it's my fault I feel so close to losing it, and I think I could soon, because i'm too scared to ask for help.
you shouldnt feel ashamed. I really urge you to tell your family. Im sure they will help. Also I think you would be taken seriously if you call out of hours, you dont have to sound emotional to be ill. Also why did you ask to lower your dose of ADs? PLEASE ASK FOR HELP GRACIE! For your dds sake if nobody else.
Is your DD with you this weekend?
Yes she is, please don't think badly of me, I already hate myself.
I dont think badly of you.
We have been talking on here for about 6 months now, on and off.
I know you struggle from time to time, and do your best for your DD.
First things first.
Have you taken your medication as prescribed, in the last few days?
We dont think badly of you hun. Were just worried about you!
Nobody thinks badly of you. I used to hope I would get run over on my way to work or break my leg falling down the stairs just to avoid work and the outside world.
I have so many people around me and still feel alone.
Has your GP ever suggested CBT? There will be a waiting list on the NHS but it will give you some coping techniques and will help get to the bottom of why you feel like this.
Also talk to your GP about the anxiety, I take propanalol as well as ADs because the ADs did nothing for the physical feelings of anxiety. It was the feeling sick and the heart palpitations that made things harder to cope with. The propanalol helped massively with this.
I'm so confused by everything, finding simple things too difficult. Will try to answer your questions. I wanted to lower ad's as wasn't feeling much better, and was worried i was putting on weight. I know being bigger is better than feeling suicidal, but I still can't see I should be on them, I want to know what i.m like without them, obviously not great. I am taking them but it is a low dose, and not at the same time every day. Feel i'm risking it purposely and I don't know why! Feel i'm giving up on trying to get better, living, fighting this. I don't know if I can fight this much longer.
Have tried some CBT, and that might be what i'm on the waiting list for as a group? Apparently my problems are deep rooted, my dad killed himself when I was a child. I think i'm the same as him. Sometimes I just want to be with him.
Oh heck Gracie.
I did wonder whether the not taking them properly was on some level deliberate in some way.
Also did think that the death of your dad had to have impacted you in some way.
Which of the people who are helping you, suggested that to you?
Did anyone help you at all, when it happened?
If I am remembering correctly, you were 10 when it happened?
No one is the same as anyone else btw.
Big hugs GracieLoo.
And only talk on here if you want to about it, and when you are ready.
or you can pm me if you wish to.
I don't know how I'm going to cope with getting up early and working for ten hours putting on a front. I haven't got the energy. Been dreading it all day.
Just a thought.
Is this time of year near your dads birthday or when he died?
Hi gracieloo,
My dad killed himself when I was 11. The stance I have taken is that I will not put anyone through that pain. When dd was newborn I suffered with quite severe pnd. Severe enough that I held a knife to my wrist. When it came down to it I just couldn't do it. I couldn't put my dd through what I went through.
Just a thought with the weight. Would it not be a good idea to keep on prescribed dose of ad and then when feeling more in control go on a diet or get some exercise. I had a few months of intensive counselling a few years ago, got myself to a good place and lost four stone, but it was total baby steps, don't try to be all things to all people and do everything all at once.
I did find this which you may find useful?
i suffer long term depression, and i would not be lowering my dose. it's there to help. it can help. really it can. xxxxx
Btw it is coming up to his birthday, but I always tell myself anniversaries don't affect me. I didn't have any professional help when it happened. I know it must be hard to understand how I could think about doing to dd what he did to me, but in a way I understand why he did it, and she is younger. God, I can't believe the thoughts I have! I want to curl up and not face anybody. Dreading walking into work with a smile on my face.
Anniversaries affect everyone GracieLoo.
I think everyone should be offered professional help in these circumstances.
I hope you get the help soon. Hopefully it should help you out a lot.
Meanwhile I should keep to the correct dose to help too.
Sat outside work trying not to cry. Want to turn round and go to the safety of my bed
be strong gracieloo
you will do it, you can.
do it for your dd, there are nice things in life.
if others can do it, of course you can.
Minds racing, hearts racing. Can't concentrate on tv, avoiding talking to anyone this eve. Tried having a bath with lavender, but hasn't really worked. Feel I'm thinking too much and I have imaginary conversations in my head. Think no one likes me, and I'm getting fatter and uglier. I ramble a bit on here as just put whatever is in my head, so sorry. I could take a diazepam for evenings like this, but I would be most eves and they're addictive. Now getting palpatations, ears are buzzing, and I know dd is asleep in her room but it feels like I'm alone, feel so alone in my head and no one understands me or can help me.
When did you last have a diazepam?
Have you had the pills you were supposed to have today?
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In the late 60's, CBS, citing "demographics," began to kill off their rural comedies. Sure, these shows were popular, but CBS didn't want to be known as the old fogey network catering to Middle America. They wanted a cool, urban image, and to get ads aimed at 20-somethings. CBS was even aiming their guns at "Gunsmoke" while greasing the floor under Jack Benny, Red Skelton and the hillbilly sitcoms. Columbia Records and other labels were likewise cleaning house, and ridding themselves of the Patti Page-type artists who were clogging the middle of the road and needing to give way to the fast lane of rock music.
Around this time, and only 55, Homer Haynes dropped dead of a heart attack. Thus, H&J were spared the ignominy of being dropped from their label. The audience for country was narrowing (and already crossover-country was becoming popular) and in the duo's case, trends in music made it more difficult to have hits with song parodies. There weren't that many songs everybody knew, or cared to hear corn-ified. Could Homer and Jethro do versions of "I am the Walrus" and "Stairway to Heaven?" Hmmm….
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