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Secluded AND Accessible
Our location saves you hours of travel time so you can begin relaxing on "island time" as soon as possible—and at no additional charge!
St. George's Caye is located just 7 miles off the coast of Belize City, making it the closest and most easily accessible island resort from the international airport. There are no additional flights or transportation costs—all ground and boat transfers are included in the nightly rate. Our friendly staff greets you at the airport (or another Belize City location, if you're exploring other parts of the country before joining us) and escorts you on a 20-minute van ride to the marina followed by a 20-minute boat ride to our secluded island paradise.
Best of Both Worlds: Island & Jungle
Our unique location is convenient for guests wanting to explore mainland Belize during their stay. You can do island and water activities and spend time in the jungle exploring Mayan ruins, ziplining, or cave tubing—without spending a lot of time getting back and forth. Learn more about our guided tours for Belize Adventures.
Paradise Is Closer Than You Think!
Belize is located in Central America, between Mexico and Guatemala, on the turquoise Caribbean Sea. Many travelers visit because of the friendly Belizean people and vast natural beauty – from the Belize Barrier Reef to the dense rainforest jungle – and because it is the only English-speaking country in Central America (another bonus: you can pay for everything in US dollars).
Forever Summer
The Truth about the Weather
Is There A "Rainy" Season?
You may have heard the terms "rainy season" and "dry season" for Belize. This is a myth we want to put to rest. Yes, there is more total rainfall in the country between June and November than there is during the other six months. However, it does not rain most of the time in those months, and in fact, most weeks are sunny and beautiful. It rains lots, lots more in the mountains and jungle than it does over the sea level cayes. A majority of the storms we get pass over quickly and come at night more often than not.
What about the Weather Reports?
Many guests write to us a week or two before arriving worried that the weather forecast shows rain every day. Not to worry, we tell them – for two reasons:
- First, "rain every day" means there is likely to be some precipitation most days, but "some" can mean a light mist mid-day or a passing storm – so "rain every day" in the forecast is unlikely to affect your enjoyment of Belize.
- Second, the only forecast you will likely get internationally is for Belize City – and it rains much more often on the mainland than it does over the cayes, including St. George's Caye. So the forecast doesn't even apply to us!
When Is The Best Time to Visit?
We've been asked this question hundreds of times, and it's just what we would want to know before scheduling a vacation in paradise. So here we'll share our decades of experience with the climate, month by month -- and then invite you down at a time that suits you best!
January & February: Wonderful mix of hottish and cool breezes. Daytime temps mid 70s to mid 80s. Water temp about 78.
March & April: Winds pick up as the weather prepares to shift. Daytime temps usually high 70s to low 80s. Water temp about 78 or 79. Underwater visibility excellent.
May: Transition from moderate to hot weather. Daytime temps increase to 90s by last part of May. Water temp rising to over 80. Visibility excellent.
June: Usually sunny and nice, but some storms will pass over. Daytime stays pretty warm, mid 80s to mid 90s. Water temp up to 84. Visibility still very good.
July, August, September, & October: Hot days with some very calm seas. Daytime temps mid 80s to high 90s. Water temp 84. Visibility drops as summer goes on, but still good almost every day. (This is when you will find the best deals of the year in Belize.)
November: Transitions from hot summer to moderate winter. Quite pleasant air temps. Water still very warm from summer sun. Underwater visibility increasing.
December: Can be cold for Belize (but not for North Americans!). Daytime temps low 70s to mid 80s. Water temp moving from over 80 to under 80. Visibility generally very good.


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A penalty during the swim will be given at transition swim/bike.
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All penalties at the bike course can only be sit out in the Penalty Tent.
A yellow card penalty is 30 secondes; the blue card is 5 minutes and a red card means disqualification (the athlete can go on with the race, but will not be in the result list).
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StoryCorps Gets to the Core of American Families
The formula is simple: two people who care about each other, asking honest and sometimes difficult questions–with a microphone in front of them to record their responses for posterity.
StoryCorps began recording and archiving stories of the American experience in 2003. The group has collected more than 30,000 interviews from more than 60,000 participants, preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
The interviews probe deeply into the questions that matter in an honest exploration of intimacy, identity, and what it means to live in relationship with one another.
A mother-daughter interview about one family's immigration to the United States.
A 12-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome interviews his mother about the challenges–and joys–of raising him.
- More photos, videos, and stories from , the Winter 2011 issue of YES! Magazine
9 progressive policies to support our families.
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A photographic celebration of friendship, family, love, and laughter.


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A Romantic, Industrial Wedding at the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls in Beacon, New York
Kate Thomas (27 and a writer) and Jordan Friedson's (27 and a personal trainer) spring wedding was a fusion of industrial and timeless styles with a palette of soft pink pastels and sleek metallics. "We wanted to accentuate the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley in the springtime," Kate says. "Similarly, we latched onto industrial, elegant, romantic and vintage-inspired things to help thread our vision together and set the overall tone."
The day started with an intimate ceremony in the manicured gardens of the Roundhouse at Beacon Falls in Beacon, New York, overlooking waterfalls nearby. Fleurs NYC created a stunning cherry blossom, rose, peony, grapevine and birch wedding arch for the occasion. After saying their "I dos," the newlyweds ushered their guests into the Roundhouse's Waterfall Room for a night of dinner, dancing and lots of celebrating.
With the help of Bellafare and Fleurs NYC, the couple transformed the former textile factory into a romantic scene with a mix of full, garden-inspired arrangements of roses, peonies and cherry blossoms, shimmery mercury glass, brightly lit lanterns and stately candelabras. They also made sure to include details that spoke to their roots and their history. Guests signed vintage postcards from Kate and Jordan's home states, New York pretzels were served as a late-night snack, and the pair paid tribute to their pets with a signature cocktail named after their cat, Walter, and a groom's cake fashioned in the likeness of their dog, Greta.
A tip from Kate and Jordan: "Be present. Don't sweat the small stuff the day of, and be as 'in your body' as possible; you will want to try and savor every detail you can, since it goes by so fast. Oh, and dance! Dance a ton." —Libby MacCarthy


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And now dear friends, I bring you the last post of the year. Don't be sad -- we'll be back after all the booze has burned off, but I need a break (ok, I need a chance to get some projects done). Besides, you really won't care what I have to write after you see this incredible house tour, brought to you by Graham & Co bloggers (and generally cool people) Jeff Madalena, owner of fashion label/boutique Oak, and Jason Gnewikow, creative director at NY Design Studio Athletics. Jeff happened to leave a comment on my terrifying fireplace post, suggesting I take a page from his book and go clean and minimal a la his house. I think I cried a little after I followed the flickr link to his gallery, both because I was
a smidge insanely jealous, but also because my faith in humanity has been restored. It is possible to finish things! Your house can look amazing!
Just check out that before and after! My fireplace is weeping tears of joy at the possibilities.
So without further ado, I bring you a Chriswanzmukkuh gift for the ages. From tiling to flooring, a ton of this was DIY. You (and more importantly I) can make things pretty, too. Let's do this!
Location: The Catskills, NY
Size: 2100 sq ft.
J&J: We found the home more or less by accident in early 2008 while visiting friends for a weekend in the Catskills. It had not been inhabited for quite some time and had been on the market for about 18 months. The house itself was not much to look at and was in need of a full gut renovation, but what really drew us to it was the sweeping views of the mountains. The renovation was done in three stages. We started by reconfiguring what was a kitchen, bathroom and sunporch into two bedrooms and a new bathroom. The second stage was incorporating the kitchen into the great-room to create an open concept kitchen/dining/living room. In the great room we raised the ceiling and clad them in pickled-pine wood planks. We also boxed in the original brick fireplace and had it refaced with concrete. The third stage was converting the old garage into a master bedroom with full a bath. We brought in reclaimed, unfinished barnwood floors and replaced the garage door with a floor to ceiling picture window and additional door to the patio outside.
The great room is definitely where we spend the most time. Lighting is a cluster of classic Nelson pendants, the sofa is the Long Life by Ihreborn from Scandinavian Grace. The big picture window in the background we designed to echo the shape of the adjacent hallway.
The refaced concrete fireplace.
This is our Philodendron who is easy like Sunday morning. He doesn't need a whole lot of attention, just a front row seat at the window and a bit of water here and there. In the background is an odd chair we found at a garage sale that is sort of a mid century style love seat. We stripped it, pickled it and reupholstered the cushions in a geometric black and white Anni Albers print.
This old chair has been dragged from apartment to apartment and here's the truth kids, she's from Macy's....yep,we said it..Macy's. We're not hating, she's cute.
The kitchen is positioned at one end of the great room. We do a lot of entertaining in the Summer so this makes it easy for everyone to be in the same place and also provides easy access to the outdoors where we eat a lot. We used simple Ikea cabinets.
Between the two of us and adobe illustrator, we were able to visualize most everything for our contractors. We didn't actually do anything too crazy -- really just moving walls here and there, so we spent a good bit of time figuring out what would work for us and then did very detailed (to scale) aerial drawings of the floor plans.
The table here is a 10 foot long farm table. We found the top at a barn sale and constructed the base out of reclaimed 4x4's. A host of bits and bobs live in frequent rotation at the end of the table.
This was our main bedroom before completing work on the downstairs master. The bedrooms are all pretty modest in size. We embrace the low to high -- simple white bed linens and pillows from Ikea, throw pillows are Belgian linen Libeco from High Falls Mercantile, the wall hanging is actually a hammock we bought in Tulum, Mexico, and the print next to the bed is a Cy Twombly we bought in Paris.
The closet door in the second bedroom actually took us forever to find since we had to source the door after we had the framing done; we finally found it at a barn sale in Stone Ridge, NY. Light fixture is an industrial table lamp we found at the Brooklyn Flea Market. Bed linens and pillows again with the Ikea, the throws are the same Libeco Belgian linen from HFC. The print is a Joseph Albers from the 1972 Munich Olympics.
This is the hall that connects the upstairs bedrooms and bath to the great room. We installed and finished a lot of the flooring and then stained the upstairs floors black using india ink for a true black. It's actually pretty simple -- india ink is super black, relatively cheap and surprisingly only needs to go on very thin. The only wrinkle we ran into was that we first tried to finish it with pure tung oil which didn't really work so we ended up using waterlox to finish it because we wanted a really matte finish. That stuff was kind of nasty odor wise. I think we're going to use osmocoat next time, which is supposed to be pretty odorless. Windows in the hall and one wall of the living room were rehabbed factory windows.
The upstairs bathroom is a bit tricky to photograph. On the opposite side of the vanity wall is a open shower. The pillar wall shares all the plumbing for both the sink and shower. Sink basin is Duravit, fixture is an industrial wall mount from Chicago Faucets and the cabinet is from Robern.
We had to build up these downstairs floors as they had previously been a garage. We used reclaimed barnwood for the floors throughout. We did a lot of heavy black and white down here. The doors are some old store doors we found somewhere and painted black, of course. The photos in the background are by NYC artist Ellen Frances and were made for an Oak Gallery event.
The master bathroom houses a black bottomed clawfoot tub. A lot of the fixtures in this room were sourced from really random places. The tub fill is a brass spigot originally used for a laundry basin found on ebay. Subway tile on the walls and Carrara mosaic tile for the floors.
The master we converted from the garage is a pretty straight-forward minimal bedroom. We replaced what was originally a garage door with a floor to ceiling picture window. The throw is a charcoal grey, wool army blanket. Linens are Ikea.
This was our first renovation so the biggest challenge was bringing what we saw in our heads into reality, and communicating with contractors to bring that vision to life. The details are always the tricky things -- seeing how a window finishes against a wall or where moldings come together are the things you never really think about until you have to make a decision. The other big challenge is also the fun part -- sourcing and buying all the fixtures and furnishings. The style of the house is a mix of Scandinavian modern with touches of vintage industrial pieces, like steel factory windows sourced from a local architectural salvage yard. We are fortunate to have a handful of really talented NYC ex-pats that have established great interiors shops here in the Catskills, like Scandinavian Grace and High Falls Mercantile, so that makes shopping locally a bit easier. Renovating the house was a labor of love and and a real learning experience. Now that we're just about to embark on a new project in Brooklyn we're glad to have somewhere escape to on the weekends.
Thanks so much to Jeff and Jason for allowing us to scrutinize their beautiful home via the wonder of the internet! Rest assured I will be stalking this post during the holidays to read all your comments. I hope you enjoyed this tour as much as I did.
Happy Everything, homies! See you in 2012!


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Redesign Technical NotesMay 30, 2004
Next in the series of follow-ups to this past week's redesign is a look at some of the technical changes for the new mezzoblue.
Meta Data
Meta data is now showing up in the right-hand sidebar on pages where it feels appropriate. Each individual article has a special yellow "Context" box that informs the reader of what they're looking at in plain English. These auto-generated pseudo-summaries are mainly for the sake of those coming in off Google, but I'll be interested in seeing how valuable I find them myself when I hunt back through the archives for older entries. (I have to use this site too, after all).
The extended-sidebar concept is continued on monthly archive pages, where the space is used to host the calendar, entry list, and previous month listing. The old structure saw them cramped into the content area as a kludge and left unresolved for entirely too long. Problem now solved, and the new category archives continue the paradigm. I've been diligently categorizing each article for a year and a half; finally there's a front end for viewing past articles this way.
Of course we've been over the new comment highlighting system which has seen some tweaking, and will no doubt continue to improve. The other change to comments on this site involved moving them away from the main article onto their own page. There are still a few technical issues to figure out to make this system work properly; at the moment posting a new comment dumps you back onto the article page and not the comments page as you'd expect, and I'm still working out how to use my standard templating given Movable Type's reliance on .cgi pages for previewing and comment errors. (Shaun Inman and "M. Perakis" have suggested solutions which may lend themselves to this problem.)
But these are details, and this isn't an experiment — I'm choosing to keep a degree of separation between the original article and the comments that go along with it. This is no bandwidth issue, it's about perception and managability. Though I'm not opposed to a gentle shift off-topic provided there's value in the discussion, when a web standards primer aiming to wean absolute beginners off of tables starts bandying about the phrase 'MIME type', we have a problem; one example, but more exist.
This is my way of allowing myself to care less, which means ultimately I'm placing more responsibility in your hands to keep the discussions relevant. If the comment pages become a typical message forum wasteland of inanity they will just go away.
Browser Compatibility
I'll go into the CSS changes in the next article but there are a couple of browser support issues to highlight here. While I tested widely, the fringe cases popped up anyway. Win/IE5.5 renders properly, Win/IE5.0 is a mess. My testing in Opera 7.x checked out, but the menus didn't function. This is an acceptable degradation, but some have pointed out they do work though not as expected. I don't know why I continue to write code that Opera interprets differently than everything else, including IE6, but this is my curse. There should be a solution (indeed, one has been suggested) so a bit more testing should resolve this issue.
And then there are the IE6 problems. The first reared its head after commenters pasted long URIs into their comments. It has since been fixed.
overflow: hidden isn't an ideal solution, but it's effective. The second came as a result of my effort to allow the top menu
:hovers to function in IE. Since I didn't need the whole IE7 suite for this I grabbed Peter Nederlof's whatever:hover hack and after tying it into the style sheet, didn't need to do anything else to get them working. But it seems the hack needs to parse the entire style sheet on each page load. Given my large CSS files the slowdown is unacceptable so we're back to square one. No menus for IE users.
Content Management
The site is still running Movable Type and I've even upgraded to 3.0. During the redesign process (well before the MT fallout [large page load, may crash browser]) I began a conversion to WordPress. It's way easier to say "me too" after the fact, but the more I use open source the more I want to use open source. (Not to mention the convenience of having the lead developer on my iChat list)
Figuring out my new templates and learning a new templating system at the same time proved to be too much of an uphill battle, so it fell by the wayside. Something has to be done sooner or later though, all's not well. I'm unable to re-build archives past a certain point due to errors, and going back too far in the archives leads to breakage in both Radar and Proton thanks to an inability to propogate the new structure.
Whether this is a template error, a Movable Type error, a server error, or whatever else, I simply don't know. Either I figure it out, I pay someone to figure it out, or I switch tools. Purely circumstantial: our intranet runs on MySQL (which is fast, I'm told), and the main weblog has upwards of 1100 posts. Posting a new comment takes 30 seconds to a minute, but other weblogs run by the same installation of MT are far quicker. It appears MT has growth issues, perhaps the 330 posts and 4750+ comments on this site are causing it to choke. Perhaps not. I simply don't know.
Next up: CSS features, functionality, and tweaks.
Reader Comments
What happens to all the old comment "permalinks"?
It's a shame you have only optimized the new design for Mozilla before publishing it. It's a shame you don't support well enough Opera at least. It's a shame!
By the way, the old design is also not very well optimized for Opera (the top menu for instance). And the problem is not in Opera for sure as it supports everything you need.
And the color scheme, as some noticed before, is very bad to say the least.
DS: read the post you're commenting on one more time, please.
Lud Oligofren: Gee, why so chirpy? Did you win the lottery today? Please do continue to share your opinion, but keep in mind that it's only your _opinion_, so have some humility about it.
I, for one, think the color scheme _rocks_, much better than the old design. In fact, this design is making my inspirational juices boil, I'm going to have to restrain myself to not steal some of this shit.
I also find Opera to choke easily on code that works fine everywhere else. It is a frustrating browser.
As for the :hover in IE6, I've found a way to fudge it using javascript, and adding functions to the onmouseover and onmouseout events - you need a script to parse the page looking for the elements you want affected. Then just add the right CSS rule manually in a function, like
el.onmouseover = function() { this.className = 'submitbuttonover'; };
or whatever. It works great for rollover "effects" on buttons, for me, and should work for your menus. But looking at your code, couldn't you use the :hover for your link to open the menu? Or an "onclick" for IE?
Isn't this crazy electronic world so much fun, though?
Hi Dave,
> overflow: hidden isn't an ideal solution, but it's effective.
I don't know much about MT but why don't you use a tiny serverside script for cutting to long URLs in the comments? I use preg_replace in this case.
FYI: currently, IE7 also parses all the style sheets in a page (i'll make this configurable later) so it will have the same affect on load time as whatever:hover. I recently posted on an old blog of yours about caching on IE (specifically images). In researching this I am led to believe that CSS files are not cached by default (like images). Read this post for more info:
configuring your server to instruct IE to (correctly) cache common resources might lead to better performance of soultions like whatever:hover and IE7.
I've got a sample apache configuration here:
ps. cool new look! tres slick. and some subtle gui enhancements…
Aaron: I was able to get plenty done hacking only the main .php file and the style sheet, but it was just happening too slowly. I really do like the way Movable Type handles templates, it makes plenty of sense to me. But I am for more familiar with it, so that must influence my preference.
Chris: That was my immediate thought too. I've had a few back and forths with Peter-Paul Koch, and with our very minimal testing it appears it works as we'd expect only when the CSS file is linked separately from the HTML, not @imported from the CSS. Which is a small problem for my style switching, but perhaps not insurmountable.
Matt: yeah. They break. Can you check the referral URL for an anchor using PHP?
Lud: Read the post you're commenting on again, please.
Tomas: thanks!
Chris: whatever:hover does similar to that, which was the incentive for using it.
Jenna: got a link for that? My PHP is pretty basic.
Dean: I get the feeling the problem isn't caching, rather that the HTC files are executed client-side. Which means every new page load results in the script executing again, so no amount of caching would fix it. I could be wrong, but I doubt it in this case.
Although I read everything you put up one here, these walk throughs are far and away my favorite reads. I consider myself a "budding" web designer - with just a few corporate sites under my belt - and really appreciate these explanations/discussions of what you go through when designing and building a new design.
I have resisted commenting on the design until now as I wanted to familiarise myself with its nuances before posting…
First of all, I'd like to congratulate you Dave on the beautiful new template. Having got over the initial shock of the redesign, I am beginning to really appreciate the subtlety of the colour-scheme and the direction the design has taken. Your use of whitespace and black text/white background also appeals to me.
Meta Data
The clear and concise metadata is good. It's very user-friendly and, thankfully, lacking in the (dare I say it?) clutter of its predecessor. However, I miss having all that functionality to hand (yes, I know I can use the style-switcher) and have been considering possible alternatives.
I would prefer a dynamic sidebar with a selection of panels that could be switched between visible and hidden as required. Dunstan's blog includes a good example of this in action (ref: http://www.1976design.com/blog/ ).
I would also question the utility (but not the implementation) of the "pseudo-summaries". Surely a simple breadcrumb-trail would offer the same information in a format that is widely-understood and something of a standard these days? The "pseudo-summaries" lack the visualisation-of-structure that a breadcrumb trail offers in my opinion.
You'll probably be relieved to learn that I have no opinion on your comment highlighting. I appreciate that it is useful to both yourself and a portion of your readership. It doesn't affect me, one way or another.
I applaud your decision to move comments on to their own pages. I have never felt comfortable with presenting article and comments together. These are related items of content, but they are also distinct from each other. It is generally the case, in my experience, that both can be digested independently.
For example: I often visit this site (and many others) and just read the articles. However, sometimes I will visit just to participate in a particular comment thread, which I can do without even a cursory glance at the parent article.
Content Management
Your informant is correct. MySQL is one the fastest RDBMS' out there, even usurping Oracle in the performance stakes (ref: http://tinyurl.com/27efd )!
MySQL scales extremely well and the database you are describing is small-fry for such a heavy lifter. So the problem is unlikely to be there.
As you probably know, MT is written in Perl. Perl is an interpreted language and has very high overheads.
Looking at your hosting platform on Netcraft, I immediately noticed that you don't appear to using mod_perl (ref: http://perl.apache.org/ ). If you're not, then you should be. The difference between Perl (launching afresh with each request) and mod_perl (memory-resident) is truly amazing. I adopted it a couple of years ago and saw request-service times drop from tens-of-seconds into the enviable sub-second zone.
mod_perl is used to power high-volume websites like IMDB, /., Wired, CMPNet, Macromedia, Adobe, ValueClick… do you need any further convincing?
If you are already using mod_perl (NetCraft can't "see" it if it's behind a proxy or load-balancer, etc), then I suggest you look at the hardware: Check that your disk sub-system is not choking and that you have sufficient RAM in your server for the volume of traffic you service.
Your print stylesheet could use a revision or two. There is far too much cruft on the print output including:
1.5 pages of a textual version of your "about", "weblog" and "contact" menus
1 page of "About this Entry"
I might be wrong, but I feel that neither of these are required or appropriate for the printed page.
I can't imagine that it is mySQL that is the problem with the performance. The mySQL database might not be perfect, however it does perform amazingly well in my opinion.
A forum I read daily (*cough* half hourly *cough*) takes a 700-1000 user load every day. Content is pulled from the one machine (ie the db isn't split over multiple servers) and powered by a single box running IIS/Coldfusion and just eats it up.
More likely, you'd think that the problem is the structure of the database than the db server itself. I haven't personally, however have you looked into the strucutre of the database which MT uses? It could be quite poor and not lend itself to high performance. I guess it could also be the physical machine that your site is hosted on, shared hosting environment and taking a lot of load maybe?
>Dean: I get the feeling the problem isn't caching, rather that the HTC files are executed client-side.
believe me. the main overhead on these kind of scripts is loading the external data. sure, there is an overhead for the script executing but sending http requests for five or six style sheets is also an overhead. i'm looking into this right now and well, i'm not sure either. but when testing IE7, i notice slow connections rather than slow machines..
perhaps a kindly server/comms expert could shed some light on this?
Re: Server performance.
This is speculative: Are you using ".htaccess" files in your web directories (root or otherwise)?
If so, are they complicated (rewrites, etc)?
If you are, you should consider moving their directives into "httpd.conf" or loading the files with "httpd.conf" (via the "Include" directive).
The "httpd.conf" file (and any includes) are processed once, at server start-up. Whereas ".htaccess" files are processed with EACH REQUEST and sap performance considerably, especially if they contain rewrite directives (regardless of whether you're using mod_perl or not)!
I use Wordpress in at my site currently, and i've hacked every file in the distribution to get my site to look like I want it. I was wondering if you ran into similar problems during your exploratory conversion to Wordpress, and if you think a better templating solution for Wordpress would really solve the problem.
To fix the problem with IE6/IE7 load time, you might try loading the hover effects CSS off onto its own file. I haven't used IE7 yet, so I don't know how that would work.
Dave, is this a part of page itself, using MT template tags to generate it, or do you write it to a separate file and include the data when the page is requested?
@import and styleswitcher:
What I often do (and something I've learned from looking at the code of some webpage Douglas Bowman made) is refering to a stylesheet using an ordinary 'link' tag, and on the stylesheet I use @import directives to import other stylesheets.
This way I have the benefit of both alternative sheets and the @import hack. Would this be an option to solve the described problem?
thank you for sharing with us. I do not use neither MT, nor WP, but I found your explanation quite interesting and I am awaiting what's coming next (CSS features, functionality…).
And BTW: The new design was shock, but very pleasant one I like the top menus, very cute.
PS: Comment previewing is now without CSS styles applied?
The metadata sidebar is a great idea for a large blog on a site with a lot of information. I'm used to using "breadcrumbs" and headers for context, but this takes it a step further. Something to think about on future sites for certain.
I'm conflicted about the redesign of the blue bar across the top. I like the functionality of the rollovers (puts the comment form on every page, essentially), but I get the sense that my monitor is too large for the background image to look right.
o__0 your design reminds me of a hybrid cross between mondrain and the smurfs… or maybe a mondrain smurf? mondrain smurf high on crack? ;)
"Figuring out my new templates and learning a new templating system at the same time proved to be too much of an uphill battle, so it fell by the wayside."
I don't get it. The first line of the Wordpress stylesheet says "Default WordPress by Dave Shea || http://mezzoblue.com". I would think designing the stylesheet for Wordpress would be a pretty good learning excercise.
BTW, on an unrelated note, whenever I fill in a text box on your site (such as my name/email/url) using Firefox, the drop-down box that shows remembered values is out of place. Check out the pic here:
I have to say, I love what you've done to this place. :) The design is beautiful and professional. Love it!
Also, I've been using b2 (pre-wordpress) ever since Michel started scripting it. Wordpress has come a long way, and I'm glad more users are able to enjoy and appreciate it. :)
Hej from Germany.
It is only a very little and simple funktion, see http://jeenaparadies.de/test/click_uri.html
The new coding is inspiring and brilliant, but I just can't dig the design. I, for one, loved your old blue layout. I'm sure you can do better. The crossed out comments are a bit rude. Making them a slightly transparent color does the trick without dismissing what the person has to say.
Still, I love this site! Keep up the great work.
As for the :hover issue, I think this script may be more of a solution you are looking for. It appears to me that rather than load the entire css file, this script just listens for events and then adds a classname during these specific events (hover and active). I may be looking at it wrong, but it looks like something you may be interested in Dave:
"It appears MT has growth issues, perhaps the 330 posts and 4750+ comments on this site are causing it to choke. Perhaps not. I simply don't know."
I doubt that's the cause of the problem… MT's running sites like About.com that have hundreds of weblogs, each the size of yours. The most common cause of problems with posting or slowdowns are either not using a database (using BerkeleyDB, for example, instead of PostgreSQL or MySQL) or having template tags that are doing intensive loops on posting.
"MySQL scales extremely well and the database you are describing is small-fry for such a heavy lifter. So the problem is unlikely to be there."
Agreed. And static pages will always scale better than dynamic ones, so it seems to indicate some configuration or setting tweaks are in order.
"As you probably know, MT is written in Perl. Perl is an interpreted language and has very high overheads."
Yep, Perl is interpreted. As is PHP, or virtually any other scripting language that blog tools are written in. mod_perl will certainly make a big performance improvement, and MT runs just fine under it.
It seems most likely that there's some parts of the page (like the metadata) that are more compute-intensive to generate, or that you're rebuilding more pages than you need to at post time. (Though MT3 is a lot smarter about what it chooses to rebuild) It's still better than forcing a dynamic build for each person that visits your site, better you once than each of your readers once, but I bet it could be optimized a lot.
Small typo - I believe it's "manageability." ;)
Understanding IE's lack of :hover support, it would still be nice to be able to see those spiffy drop-down menus in that browser. Arguably, having to script in support for a "crappy" browser isn't fun - but when it's the vast majority of the market, the support thing is a consideration.
Not meaning to respark the comment sorting debate. But I think manual highlighting as you have resorted to doing atm is going to be a rather time consuming approach.
What about some type of meta-moderation system ala slashdot/slashcode. That way we can rate responses as a democracy. A simple 3 radio button selector per comment should provide enough granularity.
I must admit the first time I saw this new design it did strike me as sub-par. I thought you could do much better, and that it appeared to be something you threw together in an hour. After allowing it to sit for a number of days, I now have to say that I rather like the new design. There is beauty in its simplicity. Although it is not nearly 'friendly' to IE, that it something that we must live with. A number of the above fixes seem to have merit, and I'm going to try them out myself to see if I make hacking for IE a bit easier.
I must admit the first time I saw this new design it did strike me as sub-par. I thought you could do much better, and that it appeared to be something you threw together in an hour. After allowing it to sit for a number of days, I now have to say that I rather like the new design. There is beauty in its simplicity. Although it is not nearly 'friendly' to IE, that it something that we must live with. A number of the above fixes seem to have merit, and I'm going to try them out myself to see if I make hacking for IE a bit easier.
For replacing links, the PHP you require is below. This little function will replace http://hugelonglinks with (www) - you could alter the script to set it to only do that for links that are longer than x characters (or cut them in the middle http://huge…links like so). If you're unsure how to do this - drop me a line, I'd be glad to help =)
Sorry about the lump of code here, I figure it's quick and useful for everyone, so sorry if I scare any web beginners off (as noted in your post) =/
function displayAutoLinks($input) {
$input = str_replace("http://www.","http://",$input);
$input = str_replace("www.","http://",$input);
$input = ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","(link)", $input);
$input = ereg_replace('[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+' . '(.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*' . '\@' . '[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+' . '(.[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+)*' . '(.[a-zA-Z]{1,5})+',"(email)", $input);
return $input;
As for your problems with templates and what-not, sorry about the self-plug, but take a look at my site engine, Lamina - http://seuj.com. As you can see it's still a long way from finished and in development, but it's built from the ground up with standards in mind, and all the backend templates for the pages are pure XML. Maybe you'd find that a lot easier to understand given your background in web design. As before, drop me a line if you're interested.
FYI, your site does not work on Opera 7.50 windows XP. a very standards compliant browser…
Dave, absolutely love the new layout. It looks great in Konqueror 3.2.1 too. I did not have to tweak the font, thank you. I think that it is because sans-serif is the first font in the list so it displays properly due to the fact the sans-serif on my Gentoo system is Luxi Sans. Awesome work!


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Airhart, a 5-foot-11, 215 pound senior linebacker posted seven total tackles (five solo) in the 27-16 Eastern Oregon win over Rocky Mountain (Mont.) on Nov. 12. He also recorded 2.0 tackles-for-loss for two yards. In the third quarter, Airhart scooped up a fumble and ran it back for a 50-yard touchdown. The native of Renton, Wash., helped limit the Bears to 157 yards of total offense. He ranks 21st in the NAIA in tackles per game (9.2).
Coleman, a 5-foot-8, 180 pound junior wide receiver tied the NAIA single-season record for kick-off return touchdowns in the 59-20 victory over NCAA Division II Central State (Ohio). His record-tying fourth return of the season occurred in the second quarter and sparked a 49-0 scoring run for the Cougars. That play was his fifth career kick-off touchdown return, which tied a Mid-States Football Association career mark. The native of Fort Wayne, Ind., averages 47.5 yards per return, which leads all levels of college football.
Hollingsworth, a 6-foot, 210 pound sophomore quarterback from Hamilton, Ala., set two individual NAIA single-game passing records in the 95-89 triple overtime win against Union (Ky.). Overall, he passed for a national-record 637 yards and his total offense yardage amount (661) also set a national standard. Hollingsworth went 48-for-63 passing with seven touchdowns against one interception. The Hamilton, Ala., native caught one touchdown pass for 13 yards and rushed five times for 11 yards. He entered his name in the Faulkner record books for passing yards, passing scores, attempts and completions. He was part of two national team records for most passing yards gained (650) and combined points scored (184).
In national rankings this season, he ranks first in passing yards per game (390.3) and total offense (420.0).
Offensive Nominees: Cameron Fore, Benedictine (Kan.); Garen Demery, St. Francis (Ill.); Jimmy Coy, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Brady Wardlaw, Southern Nazarene (Okla.); Robert Adan, Menlo (Calif.); Mike Keese, Saint Mary (Kan.); Drew Kier, Ave Maria (Fla.); Pat Hansen, Montana Tech ; Brandon Smith, Northwestern (Iowa); Chris Hart, Webber International (Fla.).
Defensive Nominees: James Bowman, St. Francis (Ill.); Johnathan Jenkins-Dill, Southern Nazarene (Okla.); Ricky Wadlington, Belhaven (Miss.); Chris Tosello, Menlo (Calif.); Trevion Sims, Saint Mary (Kan.); Joey Oxley, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Garrett Wheeler, Taylor (Ind.); Jeff Maassen, Dakota Wesleyan (S.D); Kurt Joseph, Ave Maria (Fla.); Nate Keller, Webber International (Fla.).
Special Teams Nominees: Joshua Howells, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Will Bothwell, Friends (Kan.); Tyson Buresh, Hastings (Neb.); Jared Cobb, Kentucky Christian ; Cody Morrow, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Sean Blomquist, Carroll (Mont.); Hunter Ovens, Webber International (Fla.).
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Week 2: Chris Ware, Eastern Oregon; Vincent Aguilar, Trinity International (Ill.); Levi Cockle, Peru State (Neb.)
Week 3: Josh Hollingsworth, Faulkner (Ala.); Ross Bauman, Saint Francis (Ind.); Terry Stecker, Kansas Wesleyan
Week 4: Trevor Hoskins, Pikeville (Ky.); Demitri Travis, Pikeville (Ky.); Alex Fambrough, Bethany (Kan.)
Week 5: Jimmy Coy, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Nate Collier, Graceland (Iowa); Tom Lynch, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 6: E.J. White, St. Francis (Ill.); Eric Sheppard, Marian (Ind.); James McClain, Cumberland (Tenn.)
Week 7: Cameron Fore, Benedictine (Kan.); Mike Siegersma, Carroll (Mont.); Aukkarapong Sribenjakul, Montana Western
Week 8: E.J. White, St. Francis (Ill.); Dantren Anderson, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Tom Lynch, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Week 9: John van den Raadt, Azusa Pacific (Calif.); Cris Basch, Saint Mary (Kan.); Treyton Buresh, Midland (Neb.)
Week 10: Brett Giesen, Kansas Wesleyan; Dustin Craig, Marian (Ind.); Sean Murray, St. Francis (Ill.)
Week 11: Josh Hollingsworth, Faulkner (Ala.); Marc-Avery Airhart, Eastern Oregon; Austin Coleman, Saint Francis (Ind.)


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Mike Jeffries, Abercrombie & Fitch CEO: NO FAT CHICKS!by Free Britney at . Updated at .
Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries has raised eyebrows by allegedly saying that his popular clothing brand, essentially, does not cater to fat people.
Speaking with Business Insider, Robin Lewis, co-author of The New Rules of Retail, claimed that Jeffries "doesn't want larger people shopping in his store."
"He only wants thin and beautiful people," he said. He doesn't want his core customers to see people who aren't as hot as them wearing his clothing."
"People who wear his clothing should feel like they're one of the 'cool kids.'"
A rep for the company did not immediately respond for comment, but Lewis' supposed interpretation of the A&F philosophy has gotten a lot of pick-up.
What "cool kids" might Lewis be referring to? Not fat kids, that's for sure.
Business Insider pointed to a previous interview Jeffries gave to Salon.
"In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids," the clothing CEO explained.
"We go after the attractive all-American kid with a great attitude and a lot of friends. A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong."
"Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. The companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla."
"You don't alienate anybody, but you don't excite anybody, either."
Jeffries' quotes certainly shed light on Abercrombie & Fitch ads, which are frequently risque and tend to feature extremely thin, attractive models.
Yet it's not clear how much Lewis' comments reflect his own interpretation of A&F and how much they accurately reflected the brand's actual approach.
It that is any sort of official company position, though, it's clearly going to alienate a lot of people in the U.S. ... but then again, does he really care?
The cool kids will probably still shop there.


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Tunisian Gateway
Fly into Enfidha's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali International Airport and you're far likelier to be en route to the fabulous coastal resorts of Hammamet, Sousse, Skanes, Port El Kantaoui and Monastir, rather than this bustling town of 10,000. With fine sandy beaches and plentiful watersports, there's no shortage of reasons to come, stay and explore the whole area around Cap Bon and beyond.
Copper and brassware, hand-painted ceramic tiles, leather goods and traditional Berber textiles are just some of Tunisia's handicrafts you can take home. The best place to look for locally made goods is Sousse's medina (Old Town). Hemmed in by whitewashed houses, these labyrinthine alleyways are the most atmospheric place to shop. If bargaining isn't your thing, try the Soula Shopping Centre (Place des Martyrs) at the medina entrance. Here you'll find fixed-price, high-quality crafts from across the country. If you're staying in Hammamet, be aware that prices in shops within the Yasmine Zone Touristique are hugely inflated. It's worth your while to take a day trip to Sousse to shop.
Food & Drink
Tunisian cuisine is a blend of sunny Mediterranean dishes, rich with lashings of olive oil, and spicy North African flavours spiked by generous spoonfuls of hot harissa paste. Sousse's top dining is at Restaurant Marmite (8 rue Remada) where the seafood is the best in town. Cheaper meals are best searched out in the medina. Inside the swirl of alleyways, Cafe Seles (42 rue Abou Nawas) serves up rustic Tunisian treats and is a local favourite. For special-occasion dining in Hammamet, Le Barberousse (Ville Arabe de Hammamet) and Chez Achour (Rue Ali Belouare) serve up seafood dishes packed with tasty flair.
Yasmine Hammamet Festival
Run in conjunction with the International Festival of Hammamet, this little festival celebrates tourism with a series of events staged in Hammamet's Zone Touristique.
Festival International de Hammamet
A crammed programme of music concerts featuring Tunisian artists in a variety of genres, including pop, rock and jazz, plus theatre events by leading local and French acting troupes buzzes through Hammamet for six weeks.
Festival International de Sousse
This six-week extravaganza's main event is the Sousse Carnival which features the largest float parade in Africa. There's also a host of art exhibitions and concerts run over the weeks leading up to the parade.
The ninth month of the Islamic calendar is a time of fasting during the day and feasting at night. Both Sousse and Hammamet are quiet during daylight but after dusk people flock to the streets to socialise. It's a wonderful time to experience Tunisian culture.
Olive Tree Festival
The town of Kalaa Debira celebrates its olive trees with folk dancing and music, olive oil tastings and stalls selling souvenirs of olive tree wood for this event.
Enfidha is the jumping-off point to the Mediterranean resorts of Hammamet and Sousse. Cosseted by miles of white-sand beach, these Tunisian seaside towns offer sun-filled fun with a healthy dollop of history and culture thrown in. In Hammamet, the Yasmine Zone Touristique is where to search for luxury accommodation. Hasdrubal Thalassa & Spa (4 Zone Touristique) has rooms kitted out with sumptuous Moorish-inspired d�cor. If you're looking for a bargain, Sousse has more mid-range and budget choices with both Marhaba Beach Sousse (Boulevard 7 Novembre) and El Hana Palace Caruso Hotel (Boulevard 14 Janvier) offering smart deals for families looking for a holiday that won't break the bank.


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Mexican wedding cookies. Of all the requests people had for gluten-free holiday cookies, I think this was the most requested. Finely ground nuts, butter and shortening, gluten-free flours, and powdered sugar. It isn't much more complicated than that. All that deliciousness and it's easy too? Sign me up.
Now this cookie, with tiny variations of shape and technique from kitchen to kitchen, can also be Russian Tea Cakes, Viennese Crescents, Snowballs, and even Moldy Mice. (Check out my friend Jessie's excellent post on the slight differences among them all.)
Still, it's Mexican wedding cookies that call my name. I love the idea of a wedding celebrated with these float-on-air, light and lovely, sweet-but-not-too-much-so cookies. And if it's a wedding, there have to be a few nuts, too.
There are a hundred dozen recipes for Mexican wedding cookies out there, including one on the back of the powdered sugar bag. However, if you're making a delicacy of Mexico, why not go to someone who knows the foods of Mexico with her heart?
Pati Jinich is a wonder. I know here from Twitter (of course), where she dispenses recipes, cooking ideas, and funny stories about her boys. Raised in Mexico in a family filled with people passionate about food, she became a political analyst in the United States, with a master's degree from Georgetown. However, she kept gravitating back to food, around the edges of her intellectual job. (Hm, this sounds familiar to me.) Urged by her husband, she leapt. She's now the chef and cooking instructor at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.
One of my goals for 2011 is to finally meet her. Look at the food on her website, Pati's Mexican Table, and you'll want to be her friend as well.
Last week, she told me she was working on her recipe for Mexican wedding cakes. I waited, patiently. And then I made these.
Now you can too.
Gracias, Pati. Feliz Navidad.
GLUTEN-FREE MEXICAN WEDDING COOKIES, adapted from Pati Jinich of Pati's Mexican Table
The real name of these is polvorones, and according to Pati, they are available at nearly every bakery and grocery store in Mexico. "Mexican wedding cakes" is the American version. Still, that's how we know them here, so I'm calling them that so you can find them.
But let's say it together, shall we? Polvorones. Or, in other words: a super-flaky cookie that almost disappears as soon as it hits the tongue, lightly sweet with powdered sugar and air pockets that seem impossible in something gluten-free. You'll be hard pressed to eat just one. These cookies are meant to be a celebration. Go ahead and have another.
1/2 cup pecans
3/4 cup powdered sugar, plus more for dusting the cookies
280 grams gluten-free all-purpose flour mix
1/2 teaspoon psyllium husks
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1/2 cup cold vegetable shortening
1 large egg, at room temperature
Preparing to bake. Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat.
Put the pecans in a food processor (or mortar and pestle, if you want to be authentic) and whirl them up until they are ground fine. Add the powdered sugar and pulse the food processor until the pecans and sugar are combined. Set aside.
Cutting the fats into the flour. Put the flour, psyllium husks, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the chunks of cold butter and vegetable shortening and begin working them into the flour immediately, quickly. We used a pastry cutter, but you could easily use your hands. Work the fats into the flour until you have a coarse, crumbly dough.
Finishing the dough. Add the pecan and sugar mixture to the dough. Work it in with your hands. Crack the egg into the bowl and combine everything together, thoroughly, using your hands. (And be sure to work quickly. You don't want that butter and shortening to warm up too much.) Work the dough until it comes together as one ball of dough.
Baking the cookies. Make a ball of dough about 1-inch wide. Pat down the dough ball just a bit with your fingertips. Leaving about 1 inch of space between all the dough balls, fill the cookie sheet. Slide the baking sheet into the oven and bake the cookies until they have a golden-brown color, about 12 to 15 minutes.
Pull the baking sheet out of the oven and immediately dust the cookies with powdered sugar. Allow them to cool for 10 minutes, then carefully transfer them to a cooling rack. Eat when there is not a hint of warmth to the cookies.
(I know. Good luck.)
Makes about 30 cookies.


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By Phil Olsen
In this comedy with a heart, Mom has been dead for 11 months and shows up at her husband's birthday party as a ghost with a mission. Like Clarence in "It's A Wonderful Life," she has to accomplish a task to earn her wings. Only what the task actually is, is amystery. There are so many things to fix. The problem is complicated by the fact that the only person who can hear or see Mom is her daughter who has been ordered by the court to spend Dad's birthday with him as part of her Anger Management Program. One by one the family's secrets are peeled away revealing a shocking truth that surprises even our ghost.
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An online poster claiming to be responsible for a massacre threat at Montgomery High School has written a long apology on The Gazette website - describing their actions as "incredibly stupid."
The internet user, under the name 'The Real John Smith', posted an apparent confession on The Gazette website on the day more than 1,000 pupils stayed away from the Bispham school.
A threat to 'massacre' students was made over the weekend, although police later dismissed the claims as 'non-credible'.
Police stood guard at the school this week as just 268 children turned up on Monday, despite reassurances from police and headteacher Tony Nicholson.
Lancashire Police has confirmed it is now investigating the below 'confession' as it pursues a "number of lines of enquiry"
The message read as follows:
PLEASE just forget about the threats. I am a bullied student at Montgomery, I did start the threats but they are NOT genuine; I simply wanted to shock the school into handling the bullies.
It was the stupidest decision I've ever made, I've wasted time, money, and panicked people for no reason. I'll always regret this and now I genuinely feel like I'm worse than the bullies. I've been having such a tough time with the school ignoring me when I tell them I'm being bullied, especially considering it first started about 2 years ago and I've been reporting it around once a month since.
I only wanted to scare the bullies, and make the teachers wake up. I did NOT want attention, I did NOT want news coverage. This whole thing was a gigantic mistake and I'm incredibly sorry for my actions.
The bullies have honestly made me consider suicide in the past, but I'm hanging on for now. I really feel like this could push me over the edge if I have to do police interviews and get plastered over the news as a terrorist and potentially get arrested. I seriously can't handle that so please just consider this from a 15 year olds point of view that's getting bullied. I know that's no excuse, but it's too late to undo the damage.
I consider myself as above average intelligence, but my actions over the past week are the least intelligent actions I've committed or even seen for a long time. I know I broke the law and caused a lot of trouble, but I really can't handle the consequences. I know I should've thought about that before I made the threats, but I was just so angry and frustrated that I'd have to start a new year in the same school full of bullying and torment; just the thought of myself going through that again for another year was terrifying and I just had to do something. Unfortunately I decided to do something incredibly stupid.
I'm SO sorry, and I really wish people will forgive me for my actions. I just wanted to do something about the bullies because all other channels of communication were ignored. I thought scaring the bullies and the teachers would simply sort out the bullying problem and then everyone would just move on; I was incredibly wrong.
I'm sorry.
There's no need to worry about me or Monty.
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Et Après, asks Daduk. He gives an answer with his piano. An answer made of touching melodies and heartfelt themes that will take you instantly somewhere in Russia or Poland. Wherever it is, you will need something after listening to his music: listening to it again.
Daduk is a French artist who mainly composes romantic piano themes. He began learning classical piano at the age of 12, and immediately started developing a passion for the instrument. Thank to his exceptional teacher, Daduk developed the confidence and technique needed to perform some of the most beautiful pieces of for piano. He started composing at the age of 16 the piece "Et Après", which became 16 years later the soundtrack of "Blueberry Garden", winner of the Independent Game Festival - equivalent of the Sundance film festival in the world of video games. Daduk is strongly influenced by classical romantic piano composers, such as Chopin, whom he admires for his technique and endless creativity. He also seeks inspiration from Vladimir Cosma, Hans Zimmer or Yann Tiersen soothing soundtracks. To date, Daduk has released two albums "Et Après" and "Rue Portobello" and is working on the following.
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Today's prompt song is "Cupid Carries A Gun" by Marilyn Manson.
"Cupid Carries A Gun" – Marilyn Manson
Witch drums pounding
Witch drums, I'll escape your hell
Hell is the death in your eyes
Hell is the blankness in your stare
Stare at today, world has changed
Stare at today, yet we're all here afraid
Afraid of your spiders
Afraid of your mangled crowns
Crowns are for glory
Crowns aren't for the gory
Gory I predict your future will be
Gory I predict as your trigger finger pulls
Pulls into hate
Pulls us into helplessness
Helplessness, you say hold your hand
Helplesssness, if I give in, I am damned
Damned by your words
Damned by your voice
Voice of sultry sin
Voice of evil intent
Intent of voice to charm
Intent of voice to bring pain and shoot
Shoot your arrow through the hope in me
Shoot your arrow through the hope in this world
World you've with your private hell
World is not yet without hallejeuhs
Hallejeuhs set me free
Hallejeuhs have more power
Power greater than the wretched Cupid you've become
Power greater than your hand scrunching tight my own
My own prison in your grasp
My own hell is you, on earth
Earth which you blacken
Earth which you pollute
Pollute our minds with lies
Pollute our minds with lyrics
Lyrics sung, no love song, you're no Cupid
Lyrics screamed, you're the pitch of dark
Dark of night without hope
Dark of night unfolds its wrath
Wrath so great, I hold my Halo
Wrath so great I stutter my prayers
Prayers so intent, my Halo is safe
Prayers so intent, your tar-black is smothered by light
Light washes away your petrude charade
Light shines upon your malicious deeds
Deeds should be done to bring light, not frighten
Deeds should be done to bring light, not frighten
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Vice President Annette Lu (
Citing a passage from the UN Charter which said "All people have the right to self-determination" and the ROC Constitution which stipulates that the power of the nation resides in its people, Lu said, "No one should ever need to doubt the legitimacy of the government's ability to hold a referendum" as opposed to the legislature's recent failure to pass a referendum bill in the last legislative session.
Despite the setback of the referendum-bill failure in the legislature, the Cabinet still insists on holding an advisory referendum, which could go ahead even without the passing of the referendum bill.
However, the opposition camps, which withdrew their support from the referendum legislation in the legislature's special session in early July, opposed the idea of an advisory referendum, saying it is illegal.
Lu made the comments yesterday at the second anniversary party of the Northern Taiwan Society, a group advocating Taiwan's independence.
Yesterday's celebration also saw Latvian critic Valdis Berzins, a foreign news editor from Latvia's Lauku Avize Weekly, invited to deliver a speech on the Baltic nation's journey to independence.
"Latvia had a lot of similar experiences to Taiwan in its fight for independence. We held a referendum in 1991 to strongly express the Latvian people's will for independence," Berzin said.
Citing Latvia's success in gaining independence through a strong consolidation of the people's will, Lu said, "That's solid proof that as long as our people are determined, we can make it happen in Taiwan."
"Latvia's referendum showed that 91 percent of its public supported independence -- solid proof of the Latvian people's self-determination which prompted the UN to invite Latvia to join the international organization at a time when very few countries in the world supported Latvia's independence," Lu said.
"That's the charisma of a referendum," the vice president said.
In yesterday's event ,the Northern Taiwan Society, along with 140 other private groups, pledged to demand the government push for a referendum.
Amid the controversial referendum bill which was killed in the last legislative session due to opposition from the pan-blue camp, the groups yesterday urged the legislature to prioritize the bill in the next legislative session.
Northern Taiwan Society, which initiated the campaign, said "The power of the powerless [the people] is the right to vote in common elections and referendums. We demand the government give Taiwanese people this direct power -- the referendum power guaranteed by the Constitution -- so that the people can express their opinions about the public policing directly through referendums."
The Northern Taiwan Society was founded in 2001 as a member of the four Taiwan Societies: Southern, based in Kaohsiung, Central in Taichung, Northern in Taipei and Eastern in Hualien.
The common ideal of the four groups is working toward an independent, just and progressive Taiwan.
Members of the four groups are mostly doctors, academics, lawyers and professionals from cultural and business sectors. Former president Lee Teng-hui (


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This section of EISIL highlights important instruments and web resources for researching various topics within human rights as well as the different regional systems. See also the International Criminal Law and the Individuals & Groups sections of EISIL.
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It's hard to imagine Alicia Gonzalez doing anything in slow motion.
"I do enjoy yoga, believe it or not," says Gonzalez, executive director of Chicago Run, a nonprofit organization that works with Chicago public schools to help fight childhood obesity through running and other exercise. About one in three children nationwide is considered overweight or obese and, she adds, "in Englewood, Pilsen or Little Village, the statistics are 60 percent. The inability to have physical fitness is one of the great social injustices of our time, and we want kids to enjoy the benefits of running."
The programs are designed specifically for the Chicago public school system and take place either during or after classes, depending on the needs of the schools and community.
Gonzalez grew up in Pilsen and Little Italy but also spent some time in Mexico as a child. "My mom is Irish and my dad is Mexican, but I stopped going to Mexico when I hit the fourth grade," she says.
After she graduated high school from Francis W. Parker in 1996, Gonzalez went on to Brown University in Providence, R.I. She worked as a program director for youth at the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation in Boston after graduation. In 2002 she returned to Chicago, where she organized community programs in the Logan Square and Little Village neighborhoods. She became the executive director of Chicago Run in 2008.
She started running after college and has run seven marathons since 2004 in Chicago, New York and Boston. She will run the Chicago Marathon again in October.
"The thing that has been constant in my life has been my physical activity," says Gonzalez, now 35 and living in Logan Square.
The following is an edited version of our conversation.
Q: Did you always have the desire to help others?
A: My father (Jose Gonzalez) was an artist and my mother (Mary Kay Vaughan) was an activist and an academic at UIC campus. Both my parents were very big political activists, so I've been around community activism and social justice all my life. My whole dream (as) a kid was to build athletic centers because we didn't have one in Pilsen.
Q: What motivated you to get involved with Chicago Run?
A: I was on a board for a Latina all-girls high school in Little Village and I was mentoring them and I saw that all they wanted to do was be on the phone with their boyfriends. So I would get them to run around the block and I thought, "This is what I want to do."
So I started Googling everything I could on childhood obesity and running, and I heard there was a local family foundation (The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation, started by Bryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker) that wanted to start a running organization. So we launched a pilot program ... to get kids running for 15 minutes a day three to five days a week, and they would receive incentives for every mile they ran. This was in March of 2008.
When they first hired me, Penny asked me, "What is your goal?" and I said, "I want all 12 schools that are in our pilot program to say they want the program next year." Now, five years later, we have a wait list, and word of mouth has spread so fast that we've never needed a marketing program. We have 55 schools involved and over 16,000 students in our programs.
Q: Have you had times when the kids' enthusiasm surprised you?
A: So many! I came to practice one day and (one boy) wasn't there. His teacher said his brother had been killed two days before and his house had burned down! This was a Wednesday, his brother was killed on Monday, and his house burned down on Tuesday. On Thursday, he was there. He said, "This is the only thing that keeps my mind from exploding," and I was literally holding back tears.
But it's so true. I always say there isn't a problem that I can't take with me on a run. I might not be able to solve it but I feel a lot better when I get back from that run. At the end of that practice, he said, "I'm going to run (the Shamrock Shuffle 8K) in two weeks for my brother and I'm going to make him proud because he knows I'm safe here." And he did. The shuffle was 5 miles and ... he ran strong. The joy in his eyes when he crossed that finish line — you just can't even put words to it. That is when I started to see the impact that this had, not only on their physical health but also on their mental health and well-being.
Q: What has the feedback been from the teachers?
A: We hear from teachers all the time that they would rather take their kids out for a 15-minute run in the middle of the school day than sit and tell their students to be quiet for 15 minutes. The self-esteem issue is a big deal too. Children are receiving incentives with each mile they run as a classroom, so it's about building camaraderie and decreasing competitiveness. They achieve their goals together.
Q: When you run, do you have a route you enjoy?
A: My route takes me every morning through Logan Square, Humboldt Park and through Garfield Park. Sometimes I go as far south as North Lawndale.
Q: What's the best advice your parents have given you?
A: My parents really taught me about values and community. Every Sunday we would go to church ... and we would pass the same homeless men on the street. ... My dad would give a few dollars to these guys. I would ask, "Why did you do that?" and he would say, "Because they don't have a home and we're going back to our apartment. We need to always give back." For him it was about (how to) empower our community so we are self-sustaining and growing leaders within our communities.
Q: What's your dream for Chicago Run?
A: To build athletic centers that would be ... close enough to schools so kids could walk safely to (them). Right now we are renting out spaces from other places.
We also have a vision to get every child in a Chicago public school up and running. A little over a year after we started, I walked outside of my apartment and saw two Latina children running with their Chicago Run water bottles and their Chicago Run backpacks and they were running with their parents. ... This wasn't during school time — they didn't have to be running, and they got their parents to run with them ... so it was just this moment where I realized my dream was really coming true.
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I have been working on South Carolina Percivals. To be specific, those residing in Charleston and descended from John and Susan Fuller Percival. I've had quite a bit of luck with them. Found their marriage record in North Carolina, found their death records in South Carolina, census, etc.
Then I found their son John D. married to a Jessie Percival. Now, sometimes John D is referred to as J.D., not to be confused with Jessie D. Percival who married Carrie Rose in another South Carolina county. But I hadn't found Jessie's maiden name, nor a marriage record.
Since I had her birthdate from her headstone of March 12, 1861, I thought I would check for "Jessie" born in 1861 +1/-1 on the 1870 census. I found two Jessies born in 1861, both living in an Orphan Home for children in Charleston. One was Jessie Fasch and the other was Jessie Broughton.
Due to my OCFRD* I took up the gauntlet and searched for Jessie Broughton in South Carolina. And there she was paired up with John D. Percival on Delayed Birth Certificates for Charleston.
Ever find one of those records that you have no idea why they filed it? Case in point, Florence Emily Percival, daughter of John D. and Jessie Percival, born Feb 23 1882 in Charleston, South Carolina. Yes, this is the Birth Return. Even if you click on my
enhanced version of it, you can't read a darn thing. I was discouraged.
There were three things I did that help when searching for maiden names.
1. I searched by first name only and a birth year of 1861 give or take a year.
2. I gambled and searched for Jessie Broughton. Let me state here that when I searched for the father, John Percival, it gave the mother's name as Jessie Percival on the index.
3. I looked at the whole image! This was the key.
Happy Hunting!
OCFRD* - Obsessive Compulsive Family Research Disorder.
Copyright 2010, ACK for Gene Notes
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Hey there! My Gr Grandmother was Elizabeth Percival, and my Mom says she is descended from a Capt. Fuller or a Mayflower FULLER, but i can find nothing of this. Do you know Susan Fuller's parents names? I googled, and came up with your site only.ReplyDelete
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Gravestones chronicle changing Annapolis
A friend of mine was fond of saying that cemeteries were pleasant places to walk. They're also great places to reflect on local history and, especially this time of year, to feel the spirits of the past.
The cemeteries of St Anne's Church and the old City Cemetery near the heart of Annapolis are a pair of open spaces wedged between busy Rowe Boulevard and West Street.
Historic St. Anne Church, rebuilt three times on Annapolis' second-highest hill, is surrounded by a courtyard holding the graves of the city's early colonial leaders. Benjamin Tasker Jr. and Sr., men involved in the government of the colony and the city for 40 years, and wealthy Amos Garrett, the city's first mayor, are buried here. So are Maryland's first and last colonial governors. The first, Nicholas Greenbury, died in1697; buried beside him is his wife Anne, who died in 1698. The last, Sir Robert Eden, died in 1784.
Here, too, is the grave of Jeremiah Tournley Chase, chief judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals, born May 23, 1748; died 1828. Here is the Rev. Southgate, St. Anne's pastor for 35 years. Laid here in 1910 was Dennis Claude, mayor of Annapolis. Nicholas Carroll, born in 1750 of a Catholic family, was buried here in 1812; no gravestone engraving describes him. Thomas Bell, president of St. John's College, joined them in 1923. James W. Burch, architect, followed in 1954.
Add in the Brices, Ridouts, Ogles, Sands, Duvalls, Claudes, and you have a virtual Who's Who of the ancient city's Episcopal elite.
Sometimes bones of those whose names are now lost are found during road repairs on Church Circle. Volunteers digging to plant a tree discovered the Stephen Bordley family's unmarked vault.
St. Anne's Cemetery was established in 1692 just beyond the City Gate, following the ancient Roman rule of burial outside of city limits. In Rome, mausoleums bearing the names and history of the deceased lined the famous Apian Way, the first military highway, started in 321bc. Much as I imagine they were along the Apian Way, side-by-side crypts line the path through St. Anne's.
The road loops around the bottom of the hill of monuments almost to College Creek before returning to Northwest Street at the caretaker's house. Gravedigger Joe Morgue, deceased in 1836, frightened young boys by his aged, shriveled look, his grim nature and his voice that hissed Some day I will have you! So the story goes.
On the south side of Northwest Street, your Halloween walk takes you to the old City Cemetery, founded in 1896 and later renamed Cedar Bluff Cemetery. Here are fewer crypts and monuments. Graves are covered by dirt mounds in the Roman tradition brought to England in 43ad, adopted by the Britains and passed on to Americans centuries later. Occasionally a gravestone adorned with a little lamb or angel catches the eye. The terrain is hilly, with views of College Creek making it indeed pleasant to walk among the dead.
Bisecting the cemetery, a long drive leads to a distant tall statue. The monument is an elk, dedicated by the local chapter of the BPOE. Erected in 1909, it carries the names of deceased members through 2000 and is a "tribute, symbolic of our teachings, dedicated to perpetuate the memory of our brothers."
In ancient Rome, membership in funery clubs guaranteed burial among people of shared beliefs. Over the centuries, members of families were also buried near one another, continuing the memories of their relationship through time.
Walking north on Clay Street to Taylor Avenue and south to West Street, you pass rows of white markers. Designated a National Historic Place in 1996, the cemetery is one of 14 established by President Lincoln in 1862. Each stone marks the grave of Union and some Confederate veterans. A monument honors the memory of the Unknown Veterans, those cremated, buried at sea or lost in other ways. A monument recognizing the French soldiers who gave their lives supporting the American Revolution is located on St John's campus.
Judge Nicholas Brewer, a Union sympathizer, gave the land for the veterans cemetery. Next to it, separated by a creek on the judge's farm, is Brewers Hill Cemetery, where African Americans are laid to rest.
Two memorials there mark our tragic past. A tribute to Henry Davis marks the last lynching, on Dec. 21, 1906, of an African American in Maryland. Nearby is the grave of John Snowden, executed by hanging on Feb. 27, 1919. His last words — proclaiming his innocence and blessing his supporters — mark his memorial.
Mary Naylor spoke similar words in 1861, before she was hanged for a crime she proclaimed she did not commit. At the time, Annapolis was a major Civil War training and recruiting center, bustling with northern troops who often protected runaway slaves. But her life was not saved. Mary Naylor is buried in Brewers Hill in an unmarked grave.
Despite the busy traffic these cemeteries, with St. Mary's Cemetery across the street, are quiet places signifying healing and hope.


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Psychogenic seizures are seizures that do not have a physical cause.
They can be caused by stress, injury, emotional trauma, or mental illness.
Psychogenic seizures are a type of nonepileptic seizure. This means they are not caused by
epilepsy. But people with epilepsy may have
psychogenic seizures. Psychogenic seizures are sometimes called pseudoseizures.
It is important to distinguish psychogenic seizures from epilepsy,
because the risks may outweigh any benefit of treating psychogenic seizures
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