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Note : Take a look at the WinLibre Google Summer Of Code 2006 Home Page
Student applications will open on May 1st and close on May 8th.
The ideas listed on this page are just that - ideas. They are deliberately somewhat vague, because you are meant to fill in the details. Last year there were too many proposals that were simply cut-n-pasted from our ideas page. Don't do that! If you do, you will be tossed out very early in the application sorting process.
If you (as a student) find an idea you like, we ask that you create a list of deliverables, quantifiable results for the WinLibre project, a detailed description / design document, an approach, an approximate schedule and some kind of background text. In other words - sell yourselves in this Wiki - and link your proposals with the project idea.
Here are a few documents (written by the Drupal team, but applicable to Winlibre) that could help you in writing your application :
Definitely not! These are here to get you started, and because some folks think it'd be great to see them done. If you have your own idea, run with it. We'll judge applications on their strengths, not on who wants the project done or who thought of it.
This section presents ideas related to the "core" of winlibre. That is the "engine" of the distribution : a tool that download, install and manage the application packages chosen by the user.
During last year's summer of code some great work has been done on the winlibre core and internal tools. All these project (winlibre python rewrite, winlibre updater, winlibre control center) have been written in Python/wxPython. You can have a look on last year's winlibre summer of code pages : WinLibre's 2005 initial proposals]], winlibre SoC 2005 main page to have more information on what have been done. It would be great if the next main winlibre release could be based on all this work. But there still is a lot of job to do, so one of our 2006 summer of code proposal is :
Winlibre is currently based on Inno setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) a powerful setup builder with Pascal scripting capabilities, and on a set of .ini files. We've started last year to re-implement winlibre and some helper tools in python but we would like to try also a XUL/XULRunner based implementation of it.
XUL From Wikipedia (abstract) :
XUL (XML User Interface Language) is a user interface markup language developed to support Mozilla applications like Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Like UIML and XIML it is an application of XML that describes user interfaces. The acronym is pronounced zool (it's a Ghostbusters film reference, see below).
While XUL is not a public standard, it reuses many existing standards and technologies, including CSS, JavaScript, DTD and RDF, which makes it relatively easy to learn for people with a background in web programming and design.
The main benefit of XUL is that it provides a simple and portable definition of common widgets. This reduces the software development effort in a way analogous to the savings offered by 4GL tools. Hence our proposal :
If you're a Mac enthusiast, this proposition is for you!
During last year's summer of code, François Perche created the MacLibre project. Its objectives are the same as winlibre but the target platform is Mac OS in state of windows. This year we would like that someone continue and improve the work done on MacLibre, this will include the following tasks (to be continued):
Some applications in the winlibre distribution needs the Sun's JRE (java runtime environment) to be installed. Some open-source implementations of java runtime/virtual machine have reached a fairly usable status. One of them is IKVM but its lacks an installer. We would like you to build an installer containing :
These proposals are not directly linked to the winlibre core. It's proposals for open-source applications that are lacking in the windows environment and would be included in winlibre distribution if they existed.
Note : Winlibre's taget OS is MS Windows but we strongly encourage cross-platform development when applicable.
Write a new, innovative, multiplatform, windows compatible, easy to use desktop application.
If you want to create a brand new, innovative application, write and submit a proposal.
Note : Before submitting your idea(s) please be sure that no other Windows open-source alternative already exist (in terms of functionality, quality, ease of use...). Intensive Google searching will help you at this point.
During last year's summer of code Noemi Tojzan developed Final Touch, an MS Windows image manipulation program (written in Delphi) with innovative and hi quality algorithms. We would like someone to continue this effort and, using what has already been done by Noemi, build a :
Write a graphical application using the "panotools" library to create a free and easy to use panorama creation software for windows users.
panotools is an open-source (sourceforge project page) set of tool to build panoramas from a set of panoramic images (and do some related treatment). A few open-source software using this library already exist (such as hugin) but are far from being user friendly. This point makes it impossible to add them in the winlibre package. We would like you to design a modern, user-friendly/easy to use software that aims to be part of the winlibre distribution. Once the application is validated, it may be integrated in "final touch 2", so the developer who works on this project must keep in mind the idea of this future integration.
Winlibre (and the Windows open-source community) is lacking a gread application : a graphical burning tool. Burning applications are one of the most used kind of desktop software and as you know, there is a lot of freeware/not so freeware/proprietary CD burning applications on the net. The fact that there already exists so much proprietary burning software on the MS Windows platform has discouraged open-source developer from building one; and that is a real pain. The cdrtools library provides all the needed primitives related to CD burning, so what we need you to do is :
Write a GUI to cdrtools to provide a free cd burning solution to Windows users.
Write a RPM or DEB package management system for Windows
Most of free software on Windows should use this.
http://www.winlibre.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?id=256 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=373088&aid=1122361&group_id=22049
Jé: may I recommend looking at http://www.wpkg.org as well as next version of http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net


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Something disturbed them but instead of flying off they simply slipped into the water and soon there was a long line of them stretching across the bay.
A few of them came back onto the island along with quite a large number of Eastern Curlews. These are some of the earliest shorebirds to return from the northern hemisphere but I was not close enough to see the plumage and to see if these were some that had returned early. I have left this photo really large and if you enlarge it you can also see an Osprey resting on the sand a bit back from the Curlews.
Soon after this the boats that had been anchored on the other side of the island set off out to sea.
Meanwhile the barge was waiting for enough vehicles to load to make another trip over to Fraser Island.
This is one of the 4 wheel drive buses that take tourists around the island. It is far enough off the ground that it can go through a bit of water if necessary.
On the walk back to the car park the only birds I saw were hidden among the leaves at the tops of the trees - well out of reach of my camera lens. However, as I was driving off I saw a group of birds swooping around one of the trees right at the end of the parking lot. They kept settling down in the tree and I could see the beautiful red color on top of their heads. I quickly parked again and walked back. They were Rainbow Bee-eaters.
This Leaden Flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula) also came in for a quick look but I almost missed it as I was so focused on the Bee-eaters!
( I am still having injections in both eyes for Macular Degeneration and the specialist is very pleased that he has halted the progression and my eyes have not deteriorated any further - BUT - the eyes are still extremely sensitive to bright light. Yesterday I had on a hat with a brim, and my prescribed dark glasses - BUT - after an hour or so at Inskip I spent the rest of the day with a bad head-ache and tablets in a darkened room! Was it worth it? Yes! This time at least!)

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Can I apply the techniques of interpreting literature to examining life? Is it appropriate to go about struggling to understand the motives and actions of human beings in the same way we might approach a novel? I think so. In fact I think it's the best idea I've heard in ages. If I "read" other human beings the way I do books, that would explain, say, my dislike for Hilary Clinton. She tries to disguise the nature of her fictionality, when any good, sensible, "well-trained" reader would know that any good text is inherently aware (and may even comment directly) on its own status as a work of fiction. She tries to present herself as a basic essence. The very idea that this kind of reduction can be applied to ANYTHING in this world, let alone something as complex as a human being (especially the human being who presents herself to us as Hillary Clinton)–to me, this concept is an absolute travesty and misses what is integral to the act of reading and indeed to life itself. In all fairness, to an extent Obama does so as well. HOWEVER, as I go on to argue, he acknowledges the possibilities of misreadings and ambiguity, very important qualities in any well-written work of fiction!
In contrast, Hillary presents herself within an over-arching framework with an emphasis on locating 'meaning'. The 'Hillary-text' moves solely within the world of knowledge, concerning herself with unification, trying make everything seem clear and understandable ("sleep deprivation" as the excuse for the Bosnian debacle, for example), and in doing so, she reduces everything to atoms. There's no beauty in it, no signs of willful creativity or joyous energy (even her lies lack subversive energy); for me, everything about her and her campaign presents her as a corpse that can be dissected. Additionally, her reiterated emphasis on her 'experience' brands her as a closeted positivist (which, HELLO? is sooo 18th CENTURY). The concept that anything that cannot be verified by direct experience is therefore without value and thus intrinsically meaningless is A VERY PROBLEMATIC NOTION. My bestest thesis friend of late Blanchot would not like Hilary: he saw positivism as a form of modern nihilism, as the positivist does not believe in values or morals or ethics or any of those tricky ineffable things that can't be verified in the the form of facts or sensory experiences, and thus they do not exist. If that isn't an accurate diagnosis of the fundamental creepiness that is the Clinton idea of morality…
For all these reasons, the political community of Hilary Clinton is fundamentally apolitical, and this is why she should not be the Democratic nominee. She wants to gather us into a totalizing community in the manner of bees and termites, viewing us voters in terms of our utility value. We're like pound coins for her to put in a slot: there are certain things that a pound coin can do for her, but essentially they're all the same and exchangeable. Hillary does not deal with the community of human beings beyond the question of its organization; she concerns herself with the language of community only in order to accumulate and exert power. My problem with Hilary lies with her fundamental attitude of theorizing the world, of taking it as something that can be mastered by her explanations and in turn presenting herself as a constructed totality. This is reflected in her constant referral back to the matter of her 'experience,' as if only 'hard facts' of her existence (and Obama's) can determine quality. If we are to speak of the concept of a political community under Hillary, it is a political community defined in terms of production, work and action. Under her, the very existence of community is taken for granted, and instead of rebuilding the American community (the very thing it so badly needs right now), her primary concern is how she is destined to lead it. All rigid structure, no creativity. I resent the gross oversimplification of the theory that humans 'bond' and form communities through the anonymous administrative machinery that the Hillary-text embodies. It is misleading to believe that a human community forms through shared knowledge, religion, history, custums, experience, laws, or political institutions. Rather, (and this is probably me remembering Benedict Anderson from Diego's class completely wrong), community is constructed through language.
In contrast, the 'Obama-text' does not give way to such an easily transferable meaning (despite his best efforts at times to reduce himself as such). Instead, what everyone keeps noting about Obama is his plurality, his fragmentary nature, and I'm not just referring to his race (though it's an appropriate visual metaphor for multiplicity, no?) Obviously the 'Obama-text' is problematic and is not by any means a perfect work of art a la Kafka: his "yes we can!" is an attempt to communicate a simple meaning, and yeah, all his talk about being able to "unify" and so on, that can be understood as indicative of him trying to reduce himself into the simple category of "the uniter", appropriately matching the discourse about Hilary as "the divider." Unfortunately, when most people 'read' (I use the word 'read' interchangeably with 'interpret', and in this case I mean both books AND politicians), this is the kind of meaning they expect to find: something easily summed up in a sentence, a phrase, or better yet, a single word; the faster, the better. We watch TV, listen to political commentary on the radio, skim the most e-mailed articles of the NY Times, and go to bed with a feeling of fat lazy contentment, without any action actually taking place. Sure, we might remember some facts later (remembering the ransacking of cultural artifacts in Iraq? Or how the purpose of the war was liberating the Iraquis from Saddam Hussein, oops, I mean WMDS?), but these events no longer communicate any real meaning to us. Blanchot writes, "There should be interesting events and even important events, and yet nothing should take place that would disturb us: such is the philosophy of any established power, and, in an underhanded way, of any cultural service." w.o.r.d. This attempt to erase the meaning of our experiences is the biggest danger to the formation of genuine communities.
That was a long digression, but it was also a build-up. Americans, I am sorry to say, do not want to see a politician who is self-reflective or self-critical. Fortunately, it is not these qualities that will make him president, irregardless of how I admire them. My sister has said it before and I'll say it here now: in Obama you can find the essence of human community, not just in the way that he represents different races, countries or cultures. To start off, he's good in the way that all good books are good: on a very simple, primal level, the words of the "Obama-text" are a pure pleasure to read. They're well-written! They're coherent! They're good. At one point in one of his essays Blanchot speaks as a language that is spoken by no one, the 'murmur of the incessant and the interminable', citing Samuel Beckett's The Unnameable,, a beautiful passage I will quote in full (as Blanchot did):
"The words are everywhere, inside me, outside of me… I hear them, no need to hear them, no need of a head, impossible to stop them, impossible to stop. I'm in words, made of words, others' words, what others… the whole world is here with me, I'm in the air, the walls, the walled-in one, everything yields, opens, ebbs, flows, like flakes. I'm all these flakes, meeting, mingling, falling asunder, wherever I go I find me, leave me, go towards me, come from me, nothing ever but me, a particle of me, retrieved, lost, gone astray, I'm all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their setting, no sky for their dispersing, coming together to say, feeling one another to say, that I am they, all of them, those that merge, those that part, those that never meet…"
This may sound silly, but this image of language as murmuring and rustling makes me think of youtube and facebook, even blogging itself. It makes me think of the folks chopping up the words of Obama's speeches to make music videos out of them. On a purely sensory level, it makes me think of voices coming together. This is undoubtedly overtly complimentary (sorry Beckett), but I'm even reminded of Obama himself. Reading Obama's speech on race, it's tempting to think that the 'narrative voice' emerging in the speech is the voice of the speaker, the voice of the individual Barack Hussein Obama, and undoubtedly there are some sorts where the presence of this voice seems very real indeed (his personal anecdotes and heightened degree of self-awareness help, especially in his comments about how he cannot disown the Reverend completely). It is for this quality that I liked the speech, because it reminded me of literature. It reminded me of literature because it expressed language in its own singular way–not in a groundbreaking, innovative sense, but in the way that the main thing the speech speaks of is that of a particular individual speaking. It is the singularity of Obama as an individual that shines through that speech, and through his campain in general, and that, I think, is what is truly hitting a nerve with people, rather than the exact details of his policy plans.
Unfortunately for him, Obama is not a literary text, but rather a man (and a politician, at that!), and thus is obliged to impart certain moral and political messages to please the soundbyte makers. I am realistic in my acknowledgement that Obama cannot subvert this deemand, that to a certain extent the "Obama-text" must be compromised by wishing to "teach" voters what he "stands" for. Books that deliver clear political messages and morals are just plain bad, but that's just what you gotta do in politics, and ironically enough it's the main thing that people are going to criticize him for when they view him as the boxed-in message he's forced to give due to the nature of the game.
However, despite this inevitability, there is a displacement and elusivity about Obama that differentiates him from Hilary. For Obama, communication (the relation that characterizes the community) is not the exchange of information. For Hillary, communication is a tool for the externalization and preservation of Hillary-thought. It is the expression of the potent subjectivity that is the brand name of the CLINTONS and the 90's and all that disgusting, comfortably familiar nostalgia people find appealing. Obama's communication, and hence his conception and formation, is different. I think this is reflected in the way Obama's speeches have been dissipated and disperesed throughout the Internet with a fever that neither Hilary nor any politician (since Kennedy, if I am to believe my father!) has been able to inspire. This is the reason why I think Obama is more literary than Hillary: at the same time that the "Obama-text" presents an idea, he also very much embodies absence. Ironically and interestingly enough, by hinting at exteriority, at inaccesibility, Obama seems more inviting. There is an empty space there that people can place themselves and their own stories (there are no empty spaces in the Hillary book; everything is indexed, cited and cross-referenced). In Obama, I find the kind of quality which I refer to so much throughout my thesis as something 'unsayable,' something opaque, mysteriously thick and dense, like cake batter. There's "just something about him" that people find appealing, something that people can't appropriately put into words without falling prety to the discourse of celebrity worship (the primary "I-like-Obama" discourse that the media exposes to people). He comes from a position of narrative, rather than knowledge. It is a language that is not governed by its subject; it is language that is aware that it is language. It is a language that speaks of a community that is fully aware and reflective of what makes a community of human beings possible in the first place, as opposed to taking the human community for granted. He wants to 'rewrite' the story of the American people. He wants to give money to college students and make them volunteer, encourage parents to turn of their TVs and read poetry to their children. It is a very strange and exciting voice. It feels as though it is coming from outside this world. It makes some people uncomfortable, even if it is only faintly discerned and it is not clear to them what precisely is making them uncomfrotable. It may even cost him the election (the nomination, even–we're not there yet!). Still, it is a voice that I am glad to have heard during my lifetime, especially in an arena as unexpected as politics.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Jerusalem Marathon - Star of David Tattoo
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
The graves of Jewish soldiers marked with the Star of David since September 18, 1919
"The graves of Jewish soldiers who died in France will be marked with the Mogen David, "Star of David," according to an announcement made yesterday by Colonel Harry Cutler, Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board"...
Source: nytimes
1. Dear reader. if you are subscribe to the New York Times please send me the article
2. "1927, Star of David Markers JWV [Jewish War Veterans] was successful in securing passage of legislation requiring the American Battlefield Monument Commission to place Star of David Markers on the graves of Jewish soldiers buried in war cemeteries in France. Heretofore, the markers were Christian crosses. A decade later, JWV members were appointed to the commission".
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Monday, March 07, 2016
The Star of David in an American Film about Problems of Prejudice
An adolescent girl in a small town tests her democratic heritage when she pretends to be Jewish and
encounters prejudice
Published 1958
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As probably all people who at least casually follow sports know, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will finally be squaring off against one another on May 2. Many sports fans wanted the fight to first take place as far back as six years ago. But hey, better late than never, I guess.
What a lot of sports fans don't know is that Pacquiao has been engaged in his own fight against both the IRS and its Filipino counterpart, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (looks like other countries have tax collecting monstrosities just like we do). The Philippine (where Pacquiao is from) Government levied a tax evasion case against him and is attempting to obtain the equivalent of 75 million US Dollars from the boxing champion. Meanwhile, the IRS has slapped on a federal tax lien for $18.3 million in allegedly unpaid taxes for 2006 through 2010. Pacquiao claims that a treaty between the US and the Philippines prevents his money from being taxed twice.
In his last fight, Pacquiao faced Chris Algieri in Macau, China rather than a popular US bout destination. As a result, he was able to save millions of dollars since his earnings were not subjected to the 39.5% US income tax rate for top tax earners. The combined tax rates of the Philippines (20%) and Macau (12%) still leave the fighter with a bigger payday than the one he would have had if the fight occurred on US soil. Pacquiao's desire to avoid taxation does cause one to wonder why he campaigned for Harry Reid in 2010. Guess everyone is a conservative when it comes to their own money.
Perhaps the man known as "Pacman" would ideally want his fight with Mayweather to occur overseas as well. But given the enormous payday for both fighters, ($120-150 million for Mayweather, $80-100 million for Pacquiao) those concerns may have been dismissed. Consequently, the US government will be able to extract the full top tax bracket amount from each fighter as a result of the fight taking place in Las Vegas.
Given the amount of money that the US Government is about to receive from Pacquiao, it brings to mind the usual claims made on behalf of the state as to why taxes are collected. I'm sure that we are all familiar with these claims. But remember, Pacquiao is not an American citizen. His home is in the Philippines. So when assessing the government claimed reasons for wealth confiscation, consider the following questions while keeping in mind the amount of money Pacquiao will be giving to the US Government and that same government's claim that what he has given isn't enough (hence the $18.3 million lien).
• Will Manny Pacquiao ever receive Social Security? (I realize that he likely won't need it since he's a multimillionaire, but still).
• Will any of Manny Pacquiao's five children ever go to a school receiving money from the US Department of Education?
• How often does Manny Pacquiao drive on an American road?
• Is a top priority of the US Military the defense of the Philippine coastline? (not that it should be). Or to put it differently, do Filipino Citizens feel safer as a result of the actions of the US Military?
• Will Manny Pacquiao or his family be able to receive Medicare or Medicaid at any point during their lives?
It isn't difficult to see that Pacquiao's return on investment for his American taxes is pretty horrible. He may as well have sat in a room with the IRS and said "I'll have the biggest fight of my career here in the states and you can take 39.5% of my earnings while I derive virtually no benefit from the money you take from me." Will the IRS then back off their harassment of the prize fighter as a result of this decisively one sided deal? My guess would be no.
If Pacquiao's tax troubles haven't caused you to feel sorry for him since he can get through it more comfortably due to being wealthy, consider that the IRS routinely harasses those who have far less wealth he does. And if one of the world's highest paid athletes won't be able to negotiate his way out of this harassment, what chance could the rest of us possibly have?


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All items are listed in USD ($) prices. To buy a fantasy item that is listed in gold pieces; count one USD to be equivalent to one silver piece. This isn't a perfect conversion, but a simple way to easily convert fantasy to a modern currency system.
Example: If a player wishes to buy a javelin of lightning, the fantasy cost is: 1500 gp, the modern cost is $15,000
Starting Wealth
A character's starting wealth is $100. In addition, for each rank (including any bonus) in any Profession skill, the character rolls 1d6 x $100. This is to be used as the character's spending money at character creation.
Example: A character took the trait "Emergency Services" with a +2 bonus to his Profession skill of his choice and the class skill Profession (firefighter). This gives a total Wealth roll bonus of +6 (+1 rank in Profession (firefighter) +3 class skill bonus +2 Emergency Services trait bonus)." If Skill Focus (Profession (firefighter) is also taken, he has a total +9 Wealth Roll bonus. At 5th level he gains a +1 wealth bonus for a total of +10
Profession Wealth
At the end of each adventure, the character can make one "Day Job" check based on his Profession skill for additional funds.
Optional: If you wish to use the old MSRD Wealth system, your ranks and bonuses in a Profession skill are equivalent to your MSRD Wealth Bonus.
A quick and rough conversion for a Wealth DC based on gold pieces is:
DC is 10 + 1 per 1000 gp (round up)
Example: a javelin of lightning is 1500 gp, so the DC would be 12.
Fame and Items Purchased
A character can use his fame and prestige to purchase difficult or restricted items that only his faction would be able to acquire. These are training, services and/or gear not normally available for sale to the general public. The character will still need the cash to purchase the item, the minimum Fame score and spend the Prestige Points cost (usually 1 or 2 points).


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Continuing the Tradition
Since 1930 the Graff family has been serving the area's insurance needs. Grier S. Graff started the first agency, which Peter Graff continued until his recent retirement. Now his son John carries on the tradition of excellence in the insurance field.
John's education and experience gives him the background and training to handle all your insurance needs. Growing up and being educated in the local area allows him a realistic perspective on the people and businesses in Armstrong County and Western Pennsylvania.
As a member of the Keystone Insurers Group, a recognized leader in insurance and financial services, the John Graff Agency has the insurance products and services to meet today's changing needs.
We offer insurance and related services
As the tradition continues into the next century, the John F. Graff Agency is here to serve your needs today.


text: Little mummies ages 3 years and up will love nurturing and caring for this charming 42cm baby doll. Corolle's Mon Classique Lila Chérie has a soft body, and smooth, supple vinyl skin that is delicately scented with vanilla -- a Corolle signature. She comes with her own bib, feeding bottle, and dummy, and she has five interactive features to engage and captivate she can giggle, babble, cry, suck on her bottle and dummy, and her cheeks blush


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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — We could bop to the live blues music coming from Charles Smith Wines long before we got inside the door. It was loud enough to match the reputation of Walla Walla's "rock star" winemaker.
It was Thursday, the weekly Blues & BBQ night at the sparely decorated downtown tasting room (at 35 S. Spokane St.) run by the flamboyant, big-haired Smith. He managed rock groups in Scandinavia before embarking on a career here that earned him "Winemaker of the Year" recognition from Food & Wine magazine in 2009.
Out front this night: a barbecue truck. Inside: a get-down band, full tables and a lone, dreamy-eyed woman dancing with only a wineglass as her partner.
My wife and I decided to keep looking for a dinner spot. We ended up around the block at Olive, a cafe / deli at 21 E. Main St. with rough brick walls, overstuffed chairs, butternut squash-and-goat cheese pizza, and an earnest young college girl on acoustic guitar trilling a nice cover of "Dancing With Myself" (maybe we should have brought along our friend from Charles Smith?).
It was Olive's weekly guest-winery night, with people queuing up in the back for sips from local Skylite Cellars. A winter weeknight, and the place was packed.
Add the for-sale paintings on the wall and you've got a formula that's catching on big in Walla Walla: great wine, good food, local art and live music.
On my last visit, in 2005, a half-dozen wine-tasting rooms dotted Walla Walla's small city center. Now, close to 30 have elbowed their way into downtown, with more than 120 wineries blanketing the valley, as Walla Walla has earned a reputation as perhaps the most prestigious of Washington's 12 winemaking districts.
"It's a small town, but it has this momentum to it, meaning the wine industry, the culinary (scene), and now a legitimate night scene on weekends," said Andrew Holt, of Tourism Walla Walla.
And there's something for everyone. While young families crowded Olive on Thursday, the next night we may have occupied the only table with a median age below 75 as we joined the 5:30 crowd at Sapolil Cellars, 15 E. Main, to hear silver-haired Carolyn Mildenberger on grand piano. One group of women had the distinct look of a book club.
As the pianist pounded out "Hello, Dolly" with more flourishes than a Vegas wedding march, an impish octogenarian tapped accompaniment with his fingertips on the piano top.
"Isn't she great?" Walla Wallan Louis Valiante, 89, asked us as he returned to his table. "I have a date with my wife here every Friday night!"
Sunday afternoon, we were sipping ice wine — "we call that 'apple pie in a bottle,'" the pourer quipped — at a table fashioned from a wine barrel in the Walla Faces tasting room, 214 E. Main. Up front, jazzmen Wayman Chapman and Jimmy Holden crooned "Just My Imagination."
There, we met Candice Johnson, the prolific artist who paints the whimsical faces seen on the winery's labels and on the walls of its tasting room and two inns.
"Music is really happening in Walla Walla," she told us, adding that some locals used to call the town "Walley World" — a Disneyland takeoff — because it was so wholesome. And quiet.
Wholesome, maybe still. Not so quiet anymore.
Find a calendar of events, including nightly music at Walla Walla wine-tasting rooms, from Tourism Walla Walla: http://www.wallawalla.org.
Visit the visitor information office at 26 E. Main St.
More events at http://www.downtownwallawalla.com/events.php, including a printable "Wine and Dine" guide.
Walla Faces winery sponsors a concert by Grammy-winning guitarist Peter Frampton March 24 at Whitman College. See http://www.wallafaces.com.
Find wineries, or sort by favorite types of wine, with a free app from the Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance: http://www.wallawalla.mobilewinetour.com.
More information: http://www.wallawallawine.com
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — We could bop to the live blues music coming from Charles Smith Wines long before we got inside the door. It was loud enough to match the reputation of Walla Walla's "rock star" winemaker.


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Our 7 week ultrasound scan is done and dusted marking another milestone. Being a typical bloke, I had no idea what to expect but had seen other peoples pictures on Facebook from "scans". Admittedly I was a little disappointed to see just a "sack" on the ultrasound until something crazy happened.
Babys Heartbeat
A small white dot appeared, then vanished, reappeared, vanished. It was proof that this little black blob had a heartbeat that was beating perfectly in time and on the ultrasound scan looked like a very small light bulb was being turned on and off.
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Hi there! My name is Andrew Collins, and I'm here to tap dance with Photoshop and markup like vaudeville in its prime. Jazz hands!
Engine Yard recently hired me and Ms. Jina Bolton to work on Engine Yard AppCloud User Experience, and we're thrilled by the opportunity—it's an awesome team here at Engine Yard, let me tell you.
There's plenty of work ahead of us, and we'll be continually rolling out improvements just as fast as our fingers can massage those style sheets. You may have already noticed some of our handiwork—shiny new buttons and prettied-up text, that sort of thing. There are larger interface changes on the horizon too, but we'll save those for another blog post.
With those larger changes in mind, however, we're planning on launching some user study initiatives soon. Please get in touch with us (email or twitter) if you're in San Francisco and would be willing to answer a few questions or let us observe the way you work with Engine Yard AppCloud. We want to make things feel as effortless and human as possible, and we can't do that without tons of feedback. Don't be shy!
Speaking of feeling human, here's a photo so you can put faces to our names. Say hi if you see us wandering around the city or in the halls of some upcoming conference.
And, because it bears repeating, we'd love to hear from our users regarding Engine Yard AppCloud's aesthetics and usability. Just ping us via email or twitter and let's get to talking.


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Chicago Police Department: Homicide Division - Michigan Street: South
Beyond the double glass doors lies a reception area where an overworked, middle-aged woman answers the phone and deals with correspondence. Her small desk area is partially cordoned off from the large corridor by a single wall with windows. The long corridor is halved by two opposing niches in the center. One holds a state-of-the-art copy machine (that still manages to have some nicks and scuff marks on it) and a small table with paper storage. Across from the copy machine is a tiny kitchenette area that mostly holds coffeemakers and supplies. The microwave sits a bit crookedly and has dried donut glaze fingerprints on the push buttons. Nameplates on each door label their use and their owners. 'Homicide 3' bears two fairly new nameplates. One reads 'Det. J.H. McAllister' and the other says 'Det. Aidan O'Brien'.
RL Date
Monday, May 11, 2009
IC Date
Saturday, January twenty-third 2010. 02:57 pm
The sun is up. The first quarter moon is up. <50.0% full and growing>
The tide is high and rising.
Fair weather clouds drift through the blue sky from the northeast, along with the wind. The sunlight on the snow is dazzling, and it gleams on the ice. The winter Hawk wind is concentrated in the Loop. There is about 22" of snow on the ground. The average temperature is around Nineteen degrees Fahrenheit, Negative eight Centigrade.
It's a Saturday afternoon, when most normal people are off work and enjoying their weekend. Eleanor is not normal people, however. She's a detective, and she's in early to pour through some of her research into the recent ghoul problem. With her arms around a cardboard file box, she walks into the Homicide division and to her desk. It's set face to face with one for, according to the name plate, "Detective Sgt. Brian Hadley". The box gets set down and the cover tossed aside as she begins fishing out what looks like environmental surveys of some kind, for the local cemeteries. She's dressed in a tailored black suit with a white button down blouse beneath it. Her hair is held back in a clip to keep it out of the way.
Good Samaritan, charity work, it all means the same thing - reduced income. Yet, it is the right thing to do, even if his pocketbook might disagree. Dressed in black jeans, a black close-weave sweater that is practically molded onto him, a long black trench coat obscures most of his thin form. The only color that he is wearing is a deep scarlet scarf, that is currently hanging loosely around his throat. He had seen a face that he recognized. Bypassing the receptionist, he heads over to the where the blond detective is working. The hard sole of his shoes clacks on the floor. Julien smiles politely, "Pardon me, might I have a word?" If he wasn't stalking her, which considering the last couple of days, one could possibly come to that idea, his sudden appearance does little to counter that, if one was so inclined to mild paranoia.
The thing about sensitives? Once they get a couple feels of your energy, you become more recognizable to them. Eleanor doesn't look up from the papers in her hand as she asks, perhaps predictably, "Are you stalking me?" She finally raises her eyes to confirm that it is, indeed, the young man from the tea room and the bar. "You /are/ stalking me, aren't you? I'm about a decade too old for you."
Stalking? The young man just looks at the woman for a few seconds, before he begins laughing, not hard, but a bit more than a chuckle. "Oh, that's rich. And I always thought that I had an ego problem." He pushes the edge of the coat away, to slide his hands into his pockets, about half way in, actually. "Actually, if you want to get technical, I don't think being in the same place as someone on only two occasions constitutes stalking. I think the word for that is coincidence, especially considering that I was already at the Cellar." He pauses, "Basement, whatever it's called, first."
"Maybe not, but showing up at my desk, without a receptionist calling me ahead to ok it, kind of moves into stalker territory. And it has nothing to do with ego," Eleanor notes. She has just had a string of odd requests for date-type situations lately. "What can I do for you, Mister…?" She resumes looking over her surveys casually.
"Sterling, Julien Sterling." With more than just a touch of sarcasm, "She looked busy, I didn't want to bother her, and it is not so much what you can do for me, but what I might be able to do for you." His eyes glance down initially to see the name on the desk, but then his eyes moves over and lingers on the files concerning the ghouls. Though perhaps a little longer than probably he should, Julien's gaze moves from the files back to the detective. "I was told that you work with the freak squad." He realizes, and his expression shows his realization as well, that particular term was not the one that he had planned on using, but the one that he was thinking.
"The /freak squad/, as you so eloquently put it, was disbanded in June of 2007, Mister Sterling. All officers are now trained to respond to emergency calls involving preternaturals. RPIT is no longer part of the Chicago Police Department. I do, however, investigate preternatural crimes as part of my job." Eleanor looks over at him again and she covers up the box of files once more, leaning on it lightly. "So why does that interest you?"
Shaking his head slightly, "Just give me one moment to extract my foot from my mouth." Probably for one of the first times in several years, Julien's cheeks are hued with a blush. "My apologies, Detective Wickham. I was curious if the Chicago Police ever use civilian consultants in matters that are out of the range of their… training." He pauses, "And to offer up a little bit of information as well about at least some of the ghoul attacks."
"We do," Eleanor admits, "Although we do have our own ghoul expert at hand who is a member of the force. Do you have information pertaining to the attacks, Mister Sterling?" That has her sitting down and unlocking her laptop to bring up the case and the area to add statements. She seems a little bristly towards Julien in a way that coincidental stalking probably isn't enough to inspire.
"I do believe that would have been indeed implied with me offering up a bit of information, now wouldn't it?" His tone responding to her own. "And I am not contesting the knowledge of your own expert. I make no claims about being an expert on ghouls, no sane person would." Julien looks at Eleanor. "Since you're getting so comfy, mind if I do the same? I'm not sure how long this might take, depending on what questions you may or may not have for me."
Eleanor gestures to one of the wooden chairs nearby, although a brow arches when he mentions his lack of ghoul expertise. "Pull up a seat. Do you mind if I record our conversation? I don't type as fast as I'd like to." She draws a digital recorder from a drawer and sets it on the table. "First I need you to state your full name, date of birth, address, and place of employment for the record."
Unlike most people, Julien does not drag the cheer over, but lifts it up and sets it down. "I don't mind at all, Detective." Once he is seated, "Julien Nathaniel Sterling, born August 7th, 1986, for the next day or two, I am staying at the Amalfi Hotel Chicago, Room 517, after that 2474 North Lakeview Avenue, still moving in. Self-employed, as a freelance animator." He offers a bit of a smile, "That suffice, or do you need more personal information?"
The blonde types in his information, hesitating just a moment before entering "animator" into the statement report. "Are you new to town? If so, how long have you been in the Chicago City Limits?" This holds relevance as to when, during the ghoul attacks, he arrived.
"Yes, and I arrived last Thursday." Julien leans forward, putting his elbows on the desk. "If you are considering as to whether or not I might be a suspect, I can arrange for my schedule before my arrival and afterwards." He grins slightly, with a mildly amused look, "Though I do believe you know where I was at least for part of the last two evenings."
"It would be helpful if you could provide that information, Mister Sterling. The ability to eliminate possible suspects is always a good thing," Eleanor says calmly as she adds the information to the statement. Once the preliminaries are handled, she looks up at him again. "So, tell me what you know about the ghoul attacks."
"It's Julien, not Mister Sterling." He leans back, idly crossing his arms in front of him, as he does so. "Well, at least one of the packs, somewhere between a dozen and a dozen and a half ghouls is being controlled by something that looks like it was once a small Japanese school boy. Well, if small Japanese school boys come hacked up and sewn back together." He pauses, "That and this particular pack, at least, has left the graveyards and moved into the sewer system."
The detective enters the information into the statement, typing rapidly, before she looks to the young man again. "I'm afraid that's all information we're already in possession of, Mister Sterling. But how did you come to these conclusions yourself?" Eleanor emphasizes the "Mister Sterling" part. Apparently she's not willing to be on a first name basis while doing her job.
"Because I saw them." He says matter-of-factly. As Julien cocks his head slightly, "Your information probably also includes that the kid, for lack of a better word, probably doesn't know that he's dead? And that he is falling into what is probably the natural instincts of a ghoul, which means he probably is something akin to one, and that his control is probably not intentional?"
"We have reason to believe that he is not the sole controller," Eleanor states simply. "We also believe his control /is/ intentional and that he knows exactly what it is he is doing. He has also shown the forethought, premeditation, and strategic process to stage a baited ambush." She continues to type the things he is saying into the report. "What makes you think otherwise?"
Julien leans forward. There is a look of curiosity in his eyes as he grins, "I don't suppose you would be willing to tell me why you think otherwise, if explain why I think what I think?" He knows that the answer is probably no, but he has to ask anyway. "And I am more than willing that I could be wrong altogether, as I said, I am no expert on ghouls."
"I'm not at liberty to discuss the details of the case at this time, Mister Sterling. We wouldn't want civilians attempting to take the law into their own hands," Eleanor says, giving him her sweetest fake smile. "However I will say that our theories have been derived in part from my own personal experience with the amalgamated undead child we are discussing."
"Julien." He cannot help but to correct her again, offering a calm smile, suggesting that he won't yield, even if she does not either. "Well, part of it was the fact that I felt the necromantic energy, and well the expression in his eyes. It almost seemed more childlike, now it's like a child with a predator's cunning and instincts." Julien is sitting in a wooden chair, next to Eleanor's desk. Both have a look of mild irritation, and Julien's is mixed with an equal amount of amusement.
"I see," Eleanor replies, as she continues to type his statement in on her laptop. "Mister Sterling," she continues, once more refusing to call him by his given name, "As a civilian with expertise in this field, can you tell me if I am incorrect in the understanding that most necromancers and animators who reanimate a corpse typically, by the nature of their power, transform the corpse more into a healed appearance for the duration of the animation? Whereas those who practice Vaudun, and other ritual magic, do not have that luxury?"
Rowan walks into the department from her old vision as she carries several files in her hand, in her other hand are two coffees. She seems to be looking about before seeing the person she needs to see. She heads over to Eleanor's desk and puts down the fresh cup of her favorite hot drink as she nods her gently. She moves to put the files away. She arches a brow as to what has been said.
An impish grin dances across his lips, "Well, this would not be withholding evidence in an ongoing investigation, but fall more under the arena of consultation. I am afraid that my fee is quite steep in this regard, Detective. For the remainder of this conversation, all you have to do is call me Julien, instead of Mister Sterling, and I will be more than happy to answer your questions to the best of my capabilities."
Rowan gets a grateful look for the fresh source of caffeine, but Eleanor swiftly turns her attention back to Julien. It would appear she is taking his eye witness statement about the ghouls situation. It also appears she is getting increasingly agitated with him. Her expression is cold even though her voice is calm. "I'm sure I can get the department to requisition payment for your services, Mister Sterling. Or I can probably otherwise find the answer by using the mysterious power of Google," she points out. "If those sources fail, I can work on a warrant to bring you in for questioning as a suspect in this case, due to the nature of your own abilities, and ask these questions of you without needing to arrange for it to be a consultation." She smiles, politely, but it never reaches her eyes.
Rowan turns and slowly moves as she turns to grab the chair by the two and sits down gently. She sits the coffee on the desk for herself before she crosses her legs softly as she slips her black leather covered hands around one of her knees as she watches the pair behind her sunglass covered eyes. She smiles before looking to her coffee before looking at the pair.
Leaning once again on the edge of Eleanor's desk. "Tell me, Detective, what exactly have I done to raise such ire?" He glances at the other woman, "Is being asked to be called by one's given name such an insulting matter?" The question is meant to be rhetorical as Julien looks back at Eleanor, "To begin with, you can use the internet - which is notoriously unreliable. Secondly, you know that I am not responsible. To be pulled in and charged, especially in a case that involves rampaging undead, would be irrevocably damaging to my reputation and livelihood. I don't think that this department would cherish the lawsuit put against it. I came here on my own volition and offered my assistance, but ask your question again, Detective, as a consultant - this one time, I'll even do it free of charge."
Eleanor's smile does not budge one iota, nor does the chill in her eyes thaw. "I am a professional, Mister Sterling, and I have not been introduced to you prior to today outside of this formal setting. Even were my best friend to be sitting in that chair getting a statement, they would be addressed by their title and surname, because that is proper protocol. I don't take my job as casually as you do. It is also common for serial killers to taunt the police in every way possible, so until the confirmation of your alibis for the prior incidents comes through, I would be wholly remiss in my duty not to bring you in for questioning regarding your abilities and what you know of those in your profession in the Chicago area. So I shall ask the question again, and feel free to decline the question if you would prefer to have your lawyer present if you should decide to sue me for whatever imagined slight I've aimed at you by not calling you by your first name." She leans back in her chair and studies him. "Am I incorrect in the understanding that most necromancers and animators who reanimate a corpse, typically, by the nature of their power, transform the corpse more into a healed appearance for the duration of the animation? Whereas those who practice Vaudun and other ritual magic do not have that luxury?"
Rowan would jump to answer that question being a vet of RPIT for many years, she watches the two other banter back and forth. She pauses her mental tennis watching to get a sip of her coffee and then slowly moves to put it back. Her hand moving back to join her other black gloved covered one while she seems to watch the entertainment. Working and watching this, who needs to go home when you have it all here? She sits back in her chair and looks to Julian and then to Eleanor depending on who is speaking at the time.
Julien's demeanor becomes more distant. With a slightly arched brow, "Actually, it's etiquette, not protocol. Police often utilize a given name to give either a false rapport or to show empathy with someone that they are dealing with. And to answer your question, you are mistaken, Detective. An animator or a necromancer _can_ return the corpse to a better condition. It makes the transition for the zombie easier. If one not concerned about the mental state, they can opt, if they have sufficient control, not to heal the body."
"I'm not sure where your prior police experiences have been, Mister Sterling, but the CPD holds itself to a bit of a stricter standard in many ways than other police departments," Eleanor points out. "Per article five of the Chicago Police Department Rules and Regulations, we have specific rules of conduct which we must adhere to as part of our protocol." She turns to type in his answer into the laptop without any anger in her voice. She seems to have practiced the level tone she uses. "Thank you for answering the question. To clarify, although necromancers or animators may choose not to alter the appearance of a corpse, Vaudun and ritual magic practitioners actually do not generally have that ability themselves, do they?"
Rowan sits there amused as the man tries to tell two well trained officers their job. Though she can't recall her ever using anyone's given name before, she tilts her head to the side to ponder that for a moment. Watching the two she makes her own mental notes about the situation.
"Well, I stand or sit as it were corrected, Detective." Pausing for a moment, Julien finally shrugs, "Quite honestly, I have never really given much thought to the capabilities of those without the actual talent. It's difficult to say, the best Vaudunist often have some innate talent, but no, I do not believe that standardly those who animate corpses using Vaudun or the like or ritualistic magics have the bond to the corpse enough to heal its natural state of decomposition."
"Thank you, Mister Sterling. That is very helpful," Eleanor states calmly, notating the statement. "Just one more question, and your answer for this is, of course, completely voluntary. It would, however, be instrumental in helping us further research this case, and hopefully save lives." She turns from her laptop to look first to Rowan, then to Julien. Her eyes have a seriousness in them now. "I realize you are new to Chicago, but I believe that talented individuals who raise the dead may be known by reputation to like individuals." She slides a blank legal pad across the desk to him and sets a pen on top of it. "If you know of anyone in the Chicago area capable of raising the dead who might be powerful enough to control ghouls, which I understand is very rare, I would greatly appreciate it if you could write down their names, and any other information you can recall about them."
With a slight sigh, "I wish I could help you there, Detective, but believe it or not, I have not made contact with any of my own kind yet. I was too busy looking for a house and trying not to become a late night snack for a pack of ghouls in the underbelly of this fine city of yours. I have looked into the two agencies in town and must admit that I am not particularly impressed with either." He pauses, "There is one in town that might be able to. Me. I've never done it, but for a moment, the other night, I thought I might have been able to." He shrugs, "But then again, I could have been suffering from delusions of grandeur." He reaches into his back pocket and withdraws his wallet. He fishes a business card out of it. It is black with silver embossed lettering. He pauses, turning it face down and pushes his thumb print into the center of it. "Just in case you want to run that, or if you ever want or need to call."
Since he so graciously offered up his thumbprint, Eleanor opens her desk drawer, pulls on a latex glove, and plucks the business card from him, placing it in an evidence bag, just in case. "Thank you, Mister Sterling. You have been very cooperative with assisting in this investigation. If at such time we resolve the case, we will consider contacting you as an expert witness, if you would be agreeable?"
Rowan looks to the pair as she tilts her head listening. She sits and listens softly. She moves to get another drink of her coffee before setting it down. She keeps quiet for now while she ponders a bit.
Julien watches as she pulls out the evidence bag, "Oh, good grief, you are actually going to run my prints?" He shakes his head, "I honestly cannot believe you, lady." The young man chuckles as he's more amused than insulted. In truth, he half expected her to anyway. "You could have at least waited until my back was turned. And yes, if you need my testimony I will gladly give it. I _did_ come in here to be helpful, you know."
"I don't want you to think I would do something behind your back, Mister Sterling," Eleanor quips back, amusement entering her tone for the first time. "Thank you for your time, and your assistance."
Rowan smiles as she nods her head to the man. "Tis nice ta ye fer doin' that Mistah Sterling." She says letting her Irish accent come out. She smiles before slowly sliding her leg down and moving her gloved hands up.
Julien stands up, fishing a second business card, "In case you need it and that one is locked away in evidence." He looks to the two detectives, then back down to Eleanor, only because he doesn't know Rowan from Eve, "The offer for consultations was serious. I would only seek compensation for the supplies and a nominal fee for my services. Well that and if the department is sufficiently pleased with my work a good word every now and again. Can I assume that we are done, Detective?"
Eleanor takes the second card with her bare hand and she sets it in the top drawer of her desk. "Of course, Mister Sterling. We are finished here. Thank you for coming down here to give a statement."
Rowan smiles gently as things have winded down and gone smoothly. She moves to stand and turn the chair back to here it was. She tilts her head and listens before speaking.
Giving a nod to Eleanor and then Rowan, "Detective, Miss. Have a good evening." Julien starts to walk away, pausing about five steps away. He turns around, "Oh, Detective Wickham, you did forget to ask one question. Why?" With a bit of a smile, he starts to walk off again.
"Why what?" Eleanor asks at Julien's back. Her brow arches.
Eleanor senses Rowan says quietly. "He came in to offer his services to us."
Rowan turns to the man as she nods her head to him. "Tis Lieutenant Detective, Mistah Sterling, tis a pleasuah ta listen ta ye." She says and looks to Eleanor and ponders a bit to that question.
"Why I am interested? Why I was where I could see the kid and his pack of ghouls? Why I came in?" Julien gives a nod, "My apologies, Lieutenant Detective."
"All right, I'll bite, Mister Sterling. Why are you interested? Where did you see the kid and his pack of ghouls? Why did you come in?" Eleanor parrots back at him politely, folding her hands on the desktop.
Rowan's head nods gently to Julien. "Tank ye, it's alright." She says smiling gently while Eleanor asks. She moves to get her coffee and sips more of it.
"You know… I still don't know the answer to that. When you find out, let me know, why don't you?" He grins before turning to leave.
Eleanor uses every ounce of self control not to roll her eyes. As such she just vibrates a little in place until the man is out of her sight. Then she turns to Rowan. "Lieutenant, I think he's corroborated a lot of my theories. But there is one piece of the puzzle he's lacking; the dirt and the possible reasons for it." She rises with the bagged business card and strips off the latex glove. "Thanks for the coffee. I'm going to go put this in to have his prints run. Just in case. Then once Hadley is awake for the night we need to go take that statement about Jessy LaCroix at the Church of Eternal Life."
Rowan rolls her eyes to Julian's remarks and shakes her head. "I've heard better lines from bad B films." She shakes her head for a moment. "Ah about that COEL call. I did get it and I started a report on it. I wanted to know if I could tag along for my report and make sure that the caller is alright?"
Eleanor pauses, and she nods, checking her iPhone as a text shows up. "Sure Lieutenant. It looks like he's asked for a delay in the meeting though. In the meantime, I was going to meet Hadley and go collect some more samples from some of the cemeteries to see if I can match up their particulate composition with the graveyard dirt he found at Starbucks after that attack. Want to come?"
Rowan nods her head a bit as she looks at what she's wearing. "Sure what the hell, haven't done field work in a while. What one are we going to?" She asks as she moves to get her backpack.
"We can start with Graceland," Eleanor murmurs as she heads out. "We can take my car." Her stuff is all in her SUV.


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I sat down today completely prepared to write my next blog post about the next steps in my plans, or on books I'm currently reading, or what this week's exercises in The Artist's Way are. However, I've just been told the bad news that a friend's father is in hospital and is critical enough that the family have been called home. So of course, everything else of substance has completely left my mind.
I'm thankful that, so far, while I've been old enough to remember neither of my parents have had any major health scares. My mother was ill for a time when I was younger – not old enough to really remember what it was like, but old enough that I have a deep-rooted sense of dread and fear whenever my mum gets a bad cough or cold. Clearly her illness when I was younger was bad enough that it hit my subconscious hard. But thankfully in recent decades (gosh, it's weird that I can write decade(s) plural now) thankfully our family has been mostly in good health. I sometimes worry about the fact that my dad is forty years older than me, but we're a close, tightly-knit unit of four and for the most part we're immortal.
There have been illnesses and deaths in the wider family. Grandparents died before I was born or in my teens, with my great aunt dying just before I started writing this blog in 2014 (one of the catalysts behind it, in fact). Our wonderful next door neighbours, like family – now in their late 80s – have had more and more health problems in the past few years, with a scary touch-or-go situation earlier this year requiring an extended hospital stay.
But obviously my immediate family of four, we're immortal.
When the same neighbour who had the extended hospital stay suffered a heart attack a few years ago, it was again touch-or-go but thankfully (obviously) one where she pulled through. It was late Autumn, and that Christmas on returning home, the neighbours stayed in their house for New Year's Eve rather than joining us in my parents' as usual. We all visited my newly-recovered neighbour of the course of the evening, one-by-one or in drifts and drabs, not wanting to provide too much stress or make her too tired.
As the fireworks hundreds of miles away over London were shown on the TV, she began to cry. It turns out that they were tears of relief – she hadn't expected to live to see the New Year with us and thank anything that's out there that she had. And has for every New Year's since.
My close, wonderful, tightly-knit immediate family of four. Immortal.
Sometimes when I'm talking to mum I can feel that she's aged. She's no longer the 30-something who raised small-child me. We've had decades pass since then. We'll be talking about plans, about books we want to read or places we want to visit, and we start to become aware of time. That there's only so many more birthdays, or Christmases, or New Years. There's a sense of needing to become realistic about what can be achieved. It's a need to prioritise.
My dad is forty years older than me; sixty-six. I was alive when his parents were my age. While I think I would like children at some point, I'm currently enjoying being single and living a life free from responsibility. They're not in the cards any time soon. Sometimes I catch myself thinking that I don't want my future children to have a grandparent die while they're really young. It's a horrible, morbid thought, but we only have 20 years until my dad's mid-to-late 80s.
We don't have that many Christmases left.
But despite all of this, aren't we immortal?
No matter how much I notice or think about time passing, or if things happen to extended family, it's impossible to imagine anything hitting us until it happens. You can't prepare. All you can do is hold onto the moments that you have tightly, to remember in moments of irritation how much you love each other, to not to take anything for granted. It's me realising that I need to make an effort to get home more frequently. Thankfully no one can tell me I need to ring home more often, that I have done in abundance, but nothing that takes place over the phone can compare to the moments that you're with your family in person.
There can always be an excuse why this isn't a good weekend to travel home. I live too far away, I work out of town so I have more things to cram into my weekends, I want to travel somewhere else, why can't they come visit me instead?
But they're all excuses.
We're not immortal. I should remember that.


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'It is very well to copy what one sees; it's much better to draw what one has retained in one's memory. It is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.' Edgar Degas
My art reflects a lifelong interest in memory and thought, and the way we interpret our experiences over time.
I draw on memories of landscapes around the world to create sense impressions of space and light. My invented landscapes feature the repeated use of stylised forms such as leaves, trees and blades of grass, the one sometimes morphing into the other.
In my sketchbooks, on the other hand, I attempt to capture unposed moments in everyday life. Drawing from observation helps to develop my working memory and my understanding of the world we live in. And as I draw I develop a richer appreciation for the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.
Whether working from observation or imagination, I am fascinated by relative scale and the way the smallest shift in perspective can determine whether something looks tiny or tremendous.
These ideas were the basis for two of my solo exhibitions. First was The Portable River, or "Undercurrents - Ten Views through a River of Words", in 2007 at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames. Second in the series was "The Portable Forest" at Ripley Arts Centre in Bromley, Kent in 2012.
Undercurrents is about creative self expression, and what a story feels like when you can't find the words to tell it. The Portable Forest is about thought and memories, and the way they come to us in moments of stillness. I think of quiet reflection as a habitat in which certain species of thought thrive.
The images in The Portable Forest derive from Windsor Great Park and from my experience living in Germany: I was once deep in a forest where the only sound was a cuckoo calling in the distance, and the only visible creature was the occasional surprised deer. The magic of that memory has stayed with me, and I retreat to that world from time to time.
Publications: Author/illustrator of the pen and ink chapter in Artist's Drawing Techniques published by DK (Dorling Kindersley, August 2017). Four double-pages in Pen and Ink - Contemporary Artists, Timeless Techniques (pub. Frances Lincoln, 2016) by James Hobbs, freelance editor, author and artist based in London. Feature article 'Drawing at the Speed of Life' in Drawing magazine's special summer issue 'All about Sketchbooks' (F+W, New York, 2016). Cover art for Landscape Architecture Theory - An Ecological Approach by Michael D Murphy (pub. Island Press, 2016). Cover art for Notes Relating to an Idea of Blue, a poetry collection by David HW Grubb (pub. Shearsman, 2011).
Awards: Highly Commended Work in Colour, and Highly Commended Work on the Exhibition Theme in DRAW 13, the 92nd Annual Open Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art - The Drawing Society.
Group exhibitions in London: Tower 42 lobby, Bankside Gallery, Menier Gallery, Barbican Library, R K Burt Gallery, Southwark Cathedral Refectory Gallery.
Group exhibitions outside London: The Old Fire Station, Henley-on-Thames; Oxfordshire Artweeks; Harvey Gallery, Guildford.
Solo exhibitions: The River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames; The West Wing, Slough; Ripley Arts Centre, Bromley, Kent.


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Companion for Fortnite sehr gutes Programm aus Gnejs Development
Release-Datum 2 years ago 7.2 version.
This Unofficial App is a compendium of knowledge, tips and useful tools for Fortnite and Fortnite Battle Royale players (available on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4)!
Apart from several Tools such as a user Hero Database(Perks, Bonuses etc), Research Reminders, Online Mission Alerts/Daily Llama, Profile Search for both PvE and PvP Stats, user controlled Collection Book and more, it also has lots of useful Information. Most of the information is from the game itself and community-driven sites, such as the Wiki and Reddit, as well as myself. App is being developed in tandem with the community, as both the Developer and other Fortnite community members suggest features and provide useful tips on the Reddit.
Please be aware that because the game is still in Early Access some data may be missing or is inaccurate. This will solve itself over time as more and more data is found by the community and is added to the App with subsequent updates!
Features PvP (Battle Royale):
-Profile Search: View Battle Royale Player Stats grouped by squad type and platform. Favorite Players for even quicker lookups.
- Leaderboards: View leaderboards for all squad types, platforms and several metrics.
- Sales: View the items currently on sale along with their images.
- Map for the Battle Royal mode, Map is Zoomable and Pannable. An optional high density grid is also available to make it easier to coordinate positions.
- Weapon Stats with comparison tool for all Battle Royale Weapons.
- Tips and Info: Important information and useful tips for Battle Royale players.
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-- Mission Alerts with Rewards and Daily Llamas that can be refreshed any time
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-- Player Profile and Cooldowns: Get up to date information and stats for your Player Profile including Mission Alert and Storm cooldowns. (Requires an active internet connection)
-- Collection Book: Keep track of the Heroes, Traps, People and Weapons that you own or have booked making it easier for you to choose Rewards. Includes a supporter features that can summarize your Book state and show only the missing items.
-- Weapon comparison tool, comparing the different stats of weapons.
-- People Book, keep track of Mythic Leads, Leads, Survivors and Defenders.
-- XP Upgrade and Retire/Reclaim Calculator, see how much XP is needed to reach a target level or how much you will gain by Reclaiming/Retiring the current level one
-- Ability and Perks List is linked to applicable Heroes so you can quickly find Heroes matching your desired traits
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-- Information on all traps(with rarity) including stats and material requirements.
-- Resource list with usages for each resource item
-- Data about important features such as Headshot Multiplier Damage and Collection Book Rewards
-- Tips and not-so-obvious things from the game to make your life a bit easier while playing
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- App is 100% usable Offline, no Internet connection required!
If you ever encounter any problems, notice something wrong with the App or have suggestions for features, please use the Feedback button in the App, we always respond and appreciate your involvement in the future of the App.
Thanks in advance from your fellow Fortnite players!
This is an Unofficial Community Driven Fortnite App and has NO affiliation with Epic Games™
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Editorial Director Jon Panker brings us news of a Windows Wi-Fi flaw, the details behind two new customer data leaks and the results of an FBI study into how businesses are coping with attacks. http://media.techtarget.com/audioCast/Security_Wire_Weekly_mp3_1-18-06.mp3
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continues our series of Editorial articles with a spotlight on the Professional Bowlers Association newest tournament strategy, the use of
blue bowling oil
The PBA announced recently that during the televised finals of the World Series of Bowling that a special oil would be used to accommodate viewers of the telecasts.
Here is the actual press release from the PBA which will be followed with a few comments of my own about what we might see:
"The Professional Bowlers Association will take an historic step toward illustrating the challenges bowlers face when blue dye will be added to the lane conditioning oil for ESPN's 2013 telecasts of five PBA World Series of Bowling championship events this weekend.
PBA worked with its official lane maintenance provider Brunswick to formulate and test the oil that will be applied exclusively on the pair of Brunswick lanes installed in the South Point Hotel Exhibit Hall B complex for the World Series of Bowling ESPN-televised finals. The oil is not a product on the market and is being used only for the WSOB TV shows.
'Throughout its history, it has been difficult to describe the challenges players face in our sport,' PBA Commissioner Tom Clark said. 'How oil is applied to the lane, and how it transitions as competition progresses, is something no one is able to see with the naked eye, and those are critical variables in scoring and player strategy.'
'For the first time ever, we're going to add dye to the oil so that bowling fans on site and watching at home on ESPN will literally be able to see how the pattern of oil looks on the lane. We are sure it will be educational and insightful for all levels of fans tuning in and we hope to learn from this experiment and improve it moving forward.'
The dyed oil will debut with the Cheetah Championship which uses the 35-foot PBA Cheetah oil pattern. The Viper (39 feet), Chameleon (43 feet), and Scorpion Championships (47 feet) will follow.
PBA Hall of Famer Carmen Salvino said visible oil was a milestone in educating the audience and elevating the sport.
'A lot of credit has to go to PBA for taking what I believe is a huge step for the sport, and to Brunswick for doing the extensive research and development that was necessary to have the oil ready for this event,' Salvino said.
The WSOB shows will be taped Saturday and Sunday Nov. 2 and 3 and will air on ESPN beginning Dec. 1 at p.m. ET."
The notion of
blue bowling oil
when viewing PBA telecasts brings to mind a few thoughts about what we might learn from this visible oil technique.
As the PBA states, the varying distances of oil using blue dye on the aforementioned PBA patterns will certainly show how the oil transitions as the players deliver shots during the competition.
We will most certainly see the oil carrydown to the dry backends of the lanes and we will see oil moving on the front ends of the lanes as bowling balls pass through the heaviest concentration of oil applied to the surface.
The unknown at this time is how easy will it be to see the ratio of oil applied to the lane surfaces to compare one pattern to another on subsequent telecasts.
Some patterns use a heavier blend of oil with respect to cross lane ratios than will other patterns. Will we be able to see and compare oil blends by means of varying color shades?
We likely will see the carrydown oil strips remaining left on the backends of the lanes when the camera shoots closeup shots of the bowling ball traveling into the pocket.
We do not know if we will see a change in the coloring shades of oil from a lighter shade of blue or a heavier shade when oil is removed from the front end where typically the heaviest concentrations of oil is applied to the lanes?
We are also unsure at this point if the camera will let us see blue oil rings on the coverstocks of the players'
bowling balls
when the balls are sent back to the return tables. Perhaps we can see a close up camera shot of the players wiping the oil rings off of their bowling balls using their microfiber
bowling towels
before stepping onto the approach as we do when we bowl?
We know that as the lineage increases on the TV pairs of lanes that we will see the gradual transitioning of oil the longer the telecast goes on. Can we learn anything from observing the oil transitions with respect to our own league play or tournament play where considerably more lineage occurs than does during these special PBA telecasts?
There are so many interesting concepts regarding the blue oil. It is my opinion that bowlers may see comparison charts between the PBA patterns with house conditions which we see each day at our local bowling centers.
We may see how the edges of the lanes have more units of oil applied on PBA patterns than does than do house conditions thereby making the lanes less forgiving with errant deliveries for the professionals.
It is certain that the premium will be on shotmaking on the challenging PBA patterns. These patterns require great accuracy, speed and loft control, and a great degree of hand control in delivering each shot over the course of a tournament.
The blue oil will reveal how challenging it will be for the professionals to record high scores on the more difficult PBA patterns compared to very forgiving, high scoring house conditions.
This is as it should be. Tournament competition at the highest levels should be challenging. Everyday conditions for leagues and local tournaments should be fun and, therefore, much more forgiving with respect to shotmaking, hitting the pocket, and to scoring.
As for me, I cannot wait to watch these events using the
blue bowling oil
during the World Series of Bowling telecasts.
Please feel free to offer your thoughts and comments about the blue oil either before or after you watch the PBA telecasts.
We would love to learn your views about using visible oil on the lanes and if you think it would help you, as amateur players, in leagues or area tournaments should the industry make visible oil readily available to proprietors in the future.
Thank you!
Rich Carrubba
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1. Add animal print to anything. Animal prints can be used as a neutral. One piece is all it takes to add a little something special to your outfit.
2. Shop your closet first. Chances are there's already something similar to what you want...hiding right in your very own closet!
3. Invest in pieces that will stand the test of time. Buy a quality handbag that you can carry for at least several seasons, if not for years to come. Purchase top-brand boots and leather walking sandals. I've never had a client complain her comfortable shoes (that were expensive) weren't worth the price she paid. I've only heard from ladies that wished their feet didn't hurt in cheap shoes. Do a cost-per-wear analysis. You will find that more expensive items are often less expensive per wear than a cheaper ones.
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