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The second post in a series in which we ask what book or writer our contributors have returned to again and again.
Every reader, starting from childhood, draws his own map of the world of letters. There is liable to be some outside guidance here and there, naturally. Certain landmarks are supplied to us, say in English class. But teachers aren't found only in school. As a kid, my chief literary mentor was the rock critic Lester Bangs, who wrote for Creem magazine and The Village Voice in the seventies and early eighties. He shaped my nascent taste, and taught me to read much the way I still read now. And as much as I relied on his irresistible humor and wisdom for advice on how best to blow my birthday money at the Licorice Pizza record store, I sought him out still more to learn about books, in particular the forbidden and arcane books no conventional teacher would ever mention.
Lester Bangs was a wreck of a man, right up until his death in April of 1982, at the age of thirty-three. He was fat, sweaty, unkempt—an out-of-control alcoholic in torn jeans and a too-small black leather jacket; crocked to the gills on the Romilar cough syrup he swigged down by the bottle. He also had the most advanced and exquisite taste of any American writer of his generation, uneven and erratic as it was.
Bangs, who was born in 1948 and grew up in El Cajon, California, had been driven out into the wider world by a complicated, shambolic family: his mother, Norma, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Conway, was an incorrigible drunk. Many imaginative kids who feel trapped in oppressive surroundings find solace, pleasure, excitement, and every other kind of relief in music and literature: in Bangs's case this tendency was exceptionally pronounced. The community of Witnesses Bangs's family belonged to believed in an end-is-nigh ideology, and they disapproved of Christmas presents, birthday parties, and education beyond reading the Bible. Here is the root, perhaps, of the seductive ease and fluidity with which Bangs riffed on culture high and low. As the Witnesses equally rejected Coltrane, Miles Davis, Superman comics, and science fiction, so did this rebellious son love and accept them all equally and on the same plane. Bangs's biographer, Jim DeRogatis ("Let It Blurt"), described Bangs's nascent rebellion—and his growing sense of the untrustworthiness, incompetence, and hypocrisy of authority.
"The drawer where I kept my Classics Illustrated collection was subject to stringent, arbitrary and rather sudden swoops of censorship," Les wrote at age twenty. "Things like 'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells and 'From the Earth to the Moon' by Jules Verne, my literary mentor of the third grade, would suddenly appear in ripped piles atop the ashes when I'd go out to empty the trash into the incinerator on a winter morning. My mother thought science fiction was demented nonsense; all the Witnesses do. They hold that since the Bible never mentions life on other planets, there must not be any, and no one can sway them from their conclusions."
And yet Norma indulged Lester enough that he seems to have managed a childhood of nonstop reading, listening, writing. "Days home from school faking flu I would put Trane on loud … and stand up on a hassock reading Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl,'" he wrote. But there are indications, too, that mother and son were very close. When Bangs found himself broke and washed up, his mother and sister would enclose sawbucks along with the Watchtower tracts they sent him. They had all shared Conway's disgrace and death: they loved him, it seems, but he died in a fire, drunk and alone, having fled the family in shame.
The adult world outside Bangs's childhood home bore unmistakable evidence of the same weaknesses he'd discovered inside it. The false Donna Reed visions of a happy, healthy, snow-white America of the postwar years, the disillusionment of the Vietnam war, and Nixon's downfall; everywhere, the rebellion that had begun to precipitate in the Summer of Love now saturated the air and fermented. Bangs developed a pure hatred of the lies and whitewashings of religion and government, his mutiny balanced against a bone-deep love of the truth—no matter how messy or unpretty it might turn out to be—which he equated with the refuge he'd found in literature and music. In fact, the messier, the more "real" art could be, the better. He talked about this in what might be his most famous review, of Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks":
[T]he fall of 1968 was such a terrible time: I was a physical and mental wreck, nerves shredded and ghosts and spiders looming and squatting across the mind. My social contacts had dwindled almost to none; the presence of other people made me nervous and paranoid … ["Astral Weeks"] assumed at the time the quality of a beacon, a light on the far shores of the murk; what's more, it was proof that there was something left to express artistically besides nihilism and destruction. It sounded like the man who made "Astral Weeks "was in terrible pain, pain most of Van Morrison's previous works had only suggested; but … there was a redemptive element in the blackness, ultimate compassion for the suffering of others, and a swath of pure beauty and mystical awe that cut right through the heart of the work.
Along with many of his contemporaries, Bangs concluded that if "authority" was not to be trusted—and clearly, it wasn't—then whatever "authority" detested must be O.K., or probably great. Hence the reactionary excesses of the nineteen-seventies, the chancy legacy of "don't trust anyone over thirty." Cocaine: a pure plant-derived substance that wouldn't hurt you. Government: barely worth ignoring. If the squares were in favor of monogamy, then monogamy must be avoided at all costs, whether it appealed to you or not.
As for Bangs's audience, the children of those years were far more sheltered from adult culture than they are now. While the rock stars whom we so admired were getting high and indulging their vast sexual appetites, the adults who were in charge of children were hell-bent on terrifying us with tall tales about sex and drugs and rock and roll: take acid and you might throw yourself out a window, certain you could fly, or become permanently convinced that you were a glass of orange juice. The cruel fates of these mythical victims were transparently bogus even to ten and twelve year olds, particularly those whose older siblings were already getting us stoned. Growing up at that time felt something like "The Truman Show": the young intuited that they might break through the papier-mâché walls at any moment and into the "real world," which probably really was scary but at least would be real. We sought reliable guides who wouldn't lie to us, infantilize us, or sugar-coat anything, however flabby and wild-eyed they might be.
Sure there were other magazines and there were other writers. But for a certain cohort of bookishly-inclined kids, there was only one magazine and only one writer. I wasn't the least bit surprised to learn that my contemporary, the late David Foster Wallace, had dedicated his first co-written book, "Signifying Rappers," to Lester Bangs.
Bangs, then, was a moralist. He understood that what young people wanted was something still more than to break free of parental bonds. We wanted to know exactly what was being hidden from us. Bangs's great gift to the kids who formed his most passionate following was the news that this information was available to us; it could be found in books.
It would be difficult to say where the expression of Bangs's moral universe was clearest, because he'd habitually compress a sublime insight into any old photo caption or throwaway remark, in whatever throwaway piece about whatever throwaway band. But a lot of fans, I suspect, would nominate the aforementioned review of "Astral Weeks" for the honors.
"Astral Weeks," insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend. It is a precious and terrible gift, born of a terrible truth, because what they see is both infinitely beautiful and terminally horrifying: the unlimited human ability to create or destroy, according to whim. It's no Eastern mystic or psychedelic vision of the emerald beyond, nor is it some Baudelairean perception of the beauty of sleaze and grotesquerie. Maybe what it boils down to is one moment's knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt.
All this would send the questing reader straight to "Les Fleurs du Mal." There was scarcely a book mentioned during Bangs's tenure at Creem that I didn't eventually hunt down (including a new edition of Borges's "The Aleph"; I couldn't make head or tail of that.)
In this way, a whole generation of kids was led to see "subversive" or countercultural literature through the lens of rock and roll—and also to become attuned to a new kind of critical voice, a voice far more intellectually honest than that of the academic critics. Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" holds itself at a lofty, self-regarding remove from its determinedly hip subject matter, but Bangs never held anything at arm's length in his life; he was rushing headlong into the sea of the world, arms thrown wide open, to embrace it, to drown in it.
Let's take "Of Pop and Pies and Fun: A Program for Mass Liberation in the Form of a Stooges Review, or, Who's the Fool?," published in Creem in 1970. I was too young to have read this when it came out; I would have read it in one of the thick bound volumes I used to spend summer afternoons with at the library, some years later. This is just to give an idea of the fun that Bangs could provide in such an afternoon, if you were a young teen-age fan fiendishly devoted to the Stooges and their "crazed quaking uncertainty." Because Bangs had already won you over with his uncannily exact description of your own love of the Stooges: "an errant foolishness that effectively mirrors the absurdity and desperation of the times, but … they also carry a strong element of cure, a post-derangement sanity."
The perfection of this assessment led you breathlessly through the rest of the piece, which mentioned: Malcolm Muggeridge, the Panthers, the Yips, Holden Caulfield, "I took acid four days ago and since then everything is smooth with no hangups like it always is for about a week after a trip?" (ugh, speak for yourself, Lester); "fantasies of a puissant 'youth culture,'" "Jimmy Page's arch scowl of supermusician ennui," Mountain, Cream, Creedence, "imagine throwing a pie in the face of Eldridge Cleaver! Joan Baez!" "the onetime atropine-eyed Byronic S&M Lizard King," an MBE returned, "a giant pie stuffed with the complete works of Manly P. Hall," "that infernal snob McCartney and those radical dilettante capitalist pigs the Jefferson Airplane," Marxists, A. A. Milne, Mick Jagger ("a spastic flap-lipped tornado writhing from here to a million steaming snatches and beyond in one undifferentiated erogenous mass, a mess and a spectacle all at the same time"), "the bastion (Bastille) stage," "the oppressor is fat and weak, brothers!"
Artaud, Tinkertoys, épater la bourgeoisie, Ed Ward, the "I Ching," sock hops, "A.B. Spellman's moving book 'Four Lives in the Bebop Business,'" "Trout Mask Replica," "the essence of both American life and American rock 'n' roll."
"Mark my words."
"Some peglegged Golem hobbling toward carny Bethlehem," Porky Pig, "beautiful Pauline Kael."
It ends like this:
Some of the most powerful esthetic experiences of our time, from "Naked Lunch" to Bonnie and Clyde, set their audiences up just this way, externalizing and magnifying their secret core of sickness which is reflected in the geeks they mock and the lurid fantasies they consume, just as our deepest fears and prejudices script the jokes we tell each other. This is where the Stooges work. They mean to put you on that stage, which is why they are super-modern, though nothing near to Art. In Desolation Row and Woodstock-Altamont Nation the switchblade is mightier and speaks more eloquently than the penknife. But this threat is cathartic, a real cool time is had by all, and the end is liberation.
Don't even doubt that I looked up every single book, every musical reference, hell every single word I didn't understand. You bet your sweet bippy, I did.
Bangs openly lamented having been born too late to hang with the Beats, but he loved William Burroughs and wrote about him constantly. Suburban librarians generally hadn't the faintest clue what was in any of these books (or maybe, just pretended not to) and any curious teen-ager could borrow them freely at the public library, or buy them at a bookshop, head shop, or thrift shop. "Naked Lunch" certainly made a striking contrast with, say, "The Catcher in the Rye," a book you might be reading at school. I was surprised to find, returning to "Naked Lunch" just a few years ago, how full of sap and hilarity it still is. The funniest thing is that "Naked Lunch" turns out to be a moralistic book, making a better, truer, scarier case against becoming a junkie than whatever nonsense you were liable to be hearing in health ed.
The literature of mysticism and the occult, representing as it did the anti-religious, was also of interest during this time; parents were still attending church regularly. Hence the popularity of unreadable Satanist tracts, astrology, Aleister Crowley, and assorted metaphysicians of all nations. What did the anti-religions have to say? I can still remember the pseudo-mystical mantra-recommendation sung by Todd Rundgren on the album, "Initiation": "Steiner, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky, and Boooo-dah." I went dutifully along to the library to investigate and was soon bored out of my tree. By golly, that Madame Blavatsky is a pill. In general, you were liable to get some crackpot literary recommendations from your favorite rock stars. But Bangs could draw the marrow forth even from the metaphysicians. In the essay, "James Taylor Marked for Death," he wrote:
Number one, everybody should realize that all this "art" and "bop" and "rock-'n'-roll" and whatever is all just a joke and a mistake, just a hunka foolishness so stop treating it with any seriousness or respect at all and just recognize the fact that it's nothing but a Wham-O toy to bash around as you please in the nursery, it's nothing but a goddam Bonusburger so just gobble the stupid thing and burp and go for the next one tomorrow; and don't worry about the fact that it's a joke and a mistake and a bunch of foolishness as if that's gonna cause people to disregard it and do it in or let it dry up and die, because it's the strongest, most resilient, most invincible Superjoke in history, nothing could possibly destroy it ever, and the reason for that is precisely that it is a joke, mistake, foolishness. The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. I could even be an asshole here and say that "Nothing is true; everything is permitted," which is true as a matter of fact, but people might get the wrong idea. What's truest is that you cannot enslave a fool.
Here was one of Crowley's favorite notions ("Nothing is true; everything is permitted,"), by way of Nietzsche, but Bangs brought it out of occult Thelemist incomprehensibility and into the question of discovering a practical intellectual justification for the satisfaction of every appetite. This was the way the twenty-somethings we admired were living. Why these strictures? What good were they? What if we simply chose to live real life in the U.S.A. entirely unhampered by any of them at all? It took some time, but eventually one inevitably blundered into Nietzsche himself, and asked the old question from a philosophical or logical, rhetorical or moralistic perspective. Was nothing true? Was everything permitted? What was spiritual freedom? Was Kerouac free? Was Burroughs? Was Bangs?
What he was really leading us to was the one true church of intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness. There was subtlety and elegance in his reasoning, generosity, and the best kind of skepticism: the skepticism that turns back on the author himself. This last aspect of Bangs's writing was the most revelatory to me. It was the virtue I sought most to emulate, then and now.
Indeed no other writer gave me this feeling again so purely until I ran across David Foster Wallace, so many years later, and found he'd learned the very same thing; I suspect he learned it from the same doomed, messed-up, wounded, alcoholic genius of a teacher.
In 1977, Bangs accompanied the Clash on tour, which resulted in an immense three-part interview published in the NME.
Finally [Mick Jones] looked me right in the eye and said, "Hey Lester: why are you asking me all these fucking questions?"
In a flash I realized he was right. Here was I, a grown man … motoring up into the provinces of England, just to ask a goddamn rock 'n' roll band for the meaning of life! Some people never learn. I certainly didn't, because I immediately started in on him with my standard cultural-genocide rap: "Blah blah blah depersonalization blab blab blab solipsism blah blah yip yap etc. …"
"What in the fuck are you talking about?"
"Blah blab no one wants to have any emotions anymore blab blip human heart an endangered species blah blare cultural fascism blab blurb etc. etc. etc. …"
And even though this was meant for kids to read, note that there's not a particle of condescension in it. That, too, made young people love and trust Lester Bangs with unswerving devotion. Indeed I've never swerved once in all these years.
Maria Bustillos is a writer living in Los Angeles. Read her recent piece for Page-Turner on the reading lists of George Orwell, Henry Miller and others.
Photograph by Roberta Bayley/Redferns/Getty Images.


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IUCN welcomes the decision by Western Pacific island nations to close an area three times the size of California to fishing activity, effectively creating the world's largest no-take zone. The decision was reached in order to protect one of the world's last great tuna stocks. The fishing effort in the economic exclusion zones (EEZs) around the islands, mainly carried out by foreign fleets that pay the island states for the right to fish, will continue at a unsustainable rate, however, according to IUCN.
"It's a great leap forward, for sure," says Kelvin Passfield of the Pacific Ocean Fisheries Programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. "But I'm afraid it's not going to be enough. If you don't cut 30% of the take when you need to, it usually means you'll have to cut 50% later."
Two high seas pockets will be closed to fishing on January 1, 2010 and the fate of two more will be decided at the next meeting of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in December 2009.


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If there were ever a match made in heaven, it would be whole hog North Carolina barbecue with local swamp-trash rockers, Southern Culture on the Skids. But it ain't heaven, it's Davie Street in downtown Raleigh this Saturday at the second annual North Carolina 'Cuegrass Festival. I love how they state that the festival features the "bluegrass music by Southern Culture on the Skids." Er, SCOTS is not a bluegrass band. SCOTS is not anywhere close to a bluegrass band. But SCOTS is a perfect band to play at a festival featuring Southern food, and particularly barbecue (fried chicken and banana pudding would be great, too). Now there are some legit bluegrass bands playing at 'Cuegrass, so fans of banjo picking and fiddle playing need not worry about getting your fill of tunes.
The festival is put on by the folks at The Pit restaurant in Raleigh, and it's a huge fundraiser to support the W.C. Breeze Family Farm, a 270-acre educational farm near Hillsborough devoted to sustainable agriculture, and the North Carolina Future Farmers of America , a student farmers' education group. Barbecue sandwich plates, beef brisket sandwich plates, and beer (great local stuff) each will sell for $5. Pretty simple, and pretty reasonable (where's that nanner puddin'??). And who knows, maybe Greg Hatem, Ed Mitchell and the other folks at Empire Eats will expand this festival to bring in other pitmasters from across the country, as is the case with the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party. We need that type of party here in North Carolina!
North Carolina 'Cuegrass Festival
Saturday, April 17
11 AM to 4 PM (Rain or Shine)
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'Mo' Cowan sworn in as Massachusetts' new senator
Cowan succeeds Democrat Sen. John Kerry
William "Mo" Cowan of Massachusetts is the Senate's newest member.
The 43-year-old Democrat took his seat Thursday after a swearing-in ceremony led by Vice President Joe Biden. Cowan succeeds Democrat Sen. John Kerry, who just took over as secretary of state.
Cowan was picked by Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick to serve as interim senator until after a special election June 25. Cowan had stepped down as Patrick's top aide last December.
Cowan is the state's second African-American senator. Republican Edward Brooke served from 1967 to 1979.
With Cowan and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., there are now two African-American senators serving together for the first time. Scott was also a gubernatorial appointee to his seat.
Cowan was a partner in a Boston law firm before going to work for Patrick.


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I believe it was the poet Bell Biv DeVoe who said "Never trust a big butt and a smile." But one thing you can trust? Kotaku reviews. So let's review what video games, movies and hardware we reviewed this week.
Splinter Cell Conviction Review: The Best Lurks In Shadows
In which Stephen Totilo uses the words Clancyverse and Daddening when describing Sam Fisher's latest and late stealth adventure.
Alienware M11x Review: Ultraportable Gaming
In which Brian Crecente tests his pet gorilla's ability to play Modern Warfare 2 on the tiniest gaming laptop we've ever reviewed.
Final Fight: Double Impact Micro-Review: Take Two and Call It a Classic
In which Owen Good takes pause with this retro collection's ability to pause and never once mentions post operative transsexual Mad Gear gang member Poison. Hmph!
Star Wars Cantina Micro-review: Serve Greedo First
In which I serve blue milk to thirsty patrons and namedrop Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes like I'm some kind of Star Wars fan.
Kick-Ass Movie Review: Please Step Away From The Comic Book
In which Mike Fahey has one warning for anyone who gives a damn: do not read Kick-Ass (before seeing this film).
Espgaluda II iPhone Review: When Will My Phone Explode?
In which Stephen Totilo breaks his vegetarianism (metaphorically) for a descent into bullet hell. Don't miss his scathing single word assessment of this manic shooter's music.


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The Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards Are East Texas' Little Secret?
At least once a year when we go visit our friend Pete and his wife in East Texas, we go to have dinner at Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards. It is the perfect setting for enjoying a nice dinner with one of their fine wines, while overlooking lush grape vineyards.


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Calico cats reveal chromosome tricks
Colourful insights Calico cats, with their funky mix of orange, black and white fur, could one day help humans to lose weight.
Couch potato kitties hardly seem suited to the task, but the connection comes from their unique chromosome structure, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Smith of the University of California, San Francisco and her colleagues explain that calico cats have an orange fur colour gene on one of their X chromosomes and a black fur colour gene on the other, so that the random silencing of one of the X's in each cell creates their distinctive patchwork coats.
"Uncovering how only one X chromosome is inactivated will help explain the whole process of epigenetic control, meaning the way changes in gene activity can be inherited without changing the DNA code," says Smith. "It can help answer other questions such as if and how traits like obesity can be passed down through generations."
The ultimate goal then is to figure out how many different kinds of genes can be turned on or off without altering the underlying DNA sequence.
A first step is to actually see specific chromosomes. Smith and her team amazingly achieved this using a new imaging technology called "soft x-ray tomography." Via fluorescence, it provides 3-D views of cellular components.
The technique enabled the researchers to look right at specific chromosomes. In this case, says Smith, they were "the inactive X chromosome of female cells."
"With new fluorescent probes, we can start identifying the position of specific genes in context — inside the tangled network of DNA within the intact nucleus," she explains.
"A cell's nucleus contains the genetic code, its DNA. But while the structure of the DNA was determined more than 50 years ago, and we're rapidly determining the position of specific genes on chromosomes, no one had visualised the DNA within an intact nucleus — an unfixed, hydrated whole cell."
Since the magnification of the instruments was extremely powerful, the researchers could see the whole substructural organisation of just a single chromosome. Each chromosome turns out to have multiple parts. It's amazing to think of all of the chromosomal complexity underlying one calico cat.
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Such molecules can also be responsible for X-chromosome linked disorders in humans (and there are quite a few). These can pass down family lines.
Body fat distribution has also been associated with X-chromosomes, so the possibility that regulating this thread-like structure within cell nuclei can help to control inherited tendencies toward obesity.
The research is in its infancy but scientists hope to be able to silence the obesity (and other disease-causing) components within a cell nucleus while retaining the good stuff.


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DALLAS (AP) Shawn Marion scored 18 points in his 1,000th game, Dirk Nowitzki also had 18 while passing Allen Iverson on the career scoring list and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Phoenix Suns 110-95 Sunday night.
It was the 10th straight home win for the Mavericks against the Suns, who haven't won in Dallas since March 14, 2007.
Nowitzki passed Iverson for 18th on the NBA's scoring list with a third-quarter jumper that stopped a Phoenix run, and his 3-pointer early in the fourth started a spurt that put Dallas in control for good.
Phoenix rallied from a first-half deficit and made it interesting for a second straight night in Texas after losing at Western Conference-leading San Antonio. Goran Dragic led four players in double figures with 18 points.


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A Light to See Beyond Your Expectations
"What we have to share brings hope to millions. It is a light that helps people to see beyond their own expectations."
Another incredible year in Forever is almost in the books. Our Founder and CEO Rex Maughan has a special message as you prepare for yet another wonderful year with plenty of new opportunities ahead.
Listen as Rex reflects on Forever's 40th year in business and shares an inspiring message for the millions of Forever Family members all over the world. He hopes you'll carry his message to those who don't yet know about the power of the Forever opportunity. As you gather around the table with your friends and family this season, think about the power you have to bring hope into the lives of millions to help them enjoy the same life-changing experience.


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Gravity forever keeps our feet flat on the ground, but it's tough to see the "wow" factor of something we live with every day. But Shizouka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design found a way to reveal the wonder in the ever-present force with Magnetic Field Record, a mobile artwork that offers a new way to look at what keeps us from floating away.
The overturned bottle on one side of Okamoto's mobile contraption is filled with jet black sumi ink, balanced by a big magnet on the other end. Ink drops slowly drip out — slowly and spread out at first, then more closely together — as the whole device slowly spins around; the shift in weight then causes the bottle to raise up, which shrinks the diameter of the circle.
It's beautiful and kind of calming to watch, with the resulting work of art acting as a lovely visual depiction of Earth's attractive force. Kyouei has a bunch more interesting experiments on its site — well worth a click through. [Spoon & Tamago]


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Big holiday on the day after Christmas in the United Kingdom and many of the Commonwealth countries. Boxes of gift items and money were distributed to one's servants or employees--probably the origin of Christmas bonuses.
On Boxing Day in the Middle Ages, the Lord of the Manor gave boxes of tools, money and other things his serfs needed to do their work in his lands. Today, boxes of clothing and food items are given to the needy.
by Will F. December 26, 2007
fuck xmas shopping. i hate crowds and cant find what i want on ebay. ooh-looks like the post-xmas rush has started
by wonderfool December 21, 2003
Thanks to Alexander V. Boxing, for holding the first "Boxing Day" Sale in his Montreal haberdashery December 26, 1818, the day after Christmas, thus creating a new Canadian Holiday Tradition.
I'm going out for some great Boxing Day sales!
by HereBeDefinitions December 26, 2018
Boxing day is the day after Christmas Day, when the English sit in boxes and box.
"Hey, keep that cardboard box, we can use it to box it on boxing day!"
by Daydream Believer December 02, 2009
Originating in the United Kingdom and spreading through the commonwealth countries, Boxing Day is a holiday that extends all the way from the Medieval period when the Lord's serfs were still barred from partaking in the royal Christmas festivities. While Christmas Day is usually spent with family members and often is a very spiritually centered and wholesome time, Boxing Day is the more secularly celebratory day of the Holiday season wherein celebrators gather with their close friends (and perhaps some lingering family members) and get hammered in the spirit of Christmas. So hammered that several drunken boxing fights are known to break out between friends and family members, people whom wouldn't usually be partaking in drunken boxing let alone the act of getting wasted together.
"Man, it's Boxing Day! Let's go out and get schlammered in the spirit of Christmas!"
"Dude... I just celebrated Boxing Day yesterday, I never thought I would get wasted in front of my Grandma..."
"Dude... I just celebrated Boxing Day yesterday, I never thought I would get wasted in front of my Grandma..."
by James Jamesson December 25, 2009
The day after Christmas where all the stores have sales. Boxing Day is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations with a mainly Christian population. In South Africa, this public holiday is now known as the Day of Goodwill. It is based on the tradition of giving gifts to the less fortunate members of society. Contemporary Boxing Day in many countries is now a "shopping holiday" associated with after-Christmas sales.
"Now that I am finished shopping for all my freinds at Christmas I am going to go boxing day shopping for myself!"
by Natasha T December 26, 2008
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Government drops defense of anti-gay-marriage law
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama ordered his administration on Wednesday to stop defending the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage, a policy reversal that could have major implications for the rights and benefits of gay couples and reignite an emotional debate for the 2012 presidential campaign.
Obama still is "grappling" with his personal views on whether gays should be allowed to marry but has long opposed the federal law as unnecessary and unfair, said spokesman Jay Carney.
First word of the change came not from the White House but from the Justice Department. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Obama had concluded the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, was legally indefensible.
The decision was immediately welcomed by gay rights organizations and vilified by those on the other side. Some Democrats in Congress praised the decision, while it drew criticism from some Republicans and the office of their leader, House Speaker John Boehner, all surely a preview of coming political debate over the latest development in the long-running national conversation about gay rights.
The outcome of that debate could have enormous impact because federal laws and regulations confer more than a thousand rights or benefits on those who are married, most involving taxpayer money -- Social Security survivors' benefits, family and medical leave, equal compensation as federal employees and immigration rights.
"Much of the legal landscape has changed in the 15 years since Congress passed DOMA," Holder said in a statement explaining the decision.
As well, the social landscape has changed.
Since the law was passed in 1996, five states and the District of Columbia have approved gay marriage, and others allow civil unions. An Associated Press-National Constitution Center Poll conducted last August found 52 percent of Americans saying the federal government should give legal recognition to marriages between couples of the same sex.
Thirty states have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage. Same-sex marriage is legal in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C.
The White House framed Obama's decision as one brought on by a legal deadline in one of several federal court cases challenging the constitutionality of the law which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.
But Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., speculated Obama's decision was motivated more by political considerations: "It's only in the run-up to re-election that he's suddenly changed his mind."
Obama's reversal on this law had long been sought by gays, who overwhelmingly voted
for his election in 2008.
The Justice Department had defended the act in court until now. But Holder said Obama concluded the law fails to meet a rigorous standard under which courts view with suspicion any laws targeting minority groups, such as gays, who have suffered a history of discrimination -- a stricter standard of scrutiny than the department has applied in the past.
Looking back to Congress' debate on the legislation, Holder said it was clear that there were "numerous expressions reflecting moral disapproval of gays and lesbians and their intimate and family relationships -- precisely the kind of stereotype-based thinking and animus the (Constitution's) Equal Protection Clause is designed to guard against."
Gay rights activists noted that the president's move came just two months after Congress, urged on by the administration, voted to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevented gays from serving openly in the military.
"This major turn should be a final nail in the coffin for the different treatment of gay and non-gay people by the federal government," said law professor Suzanne Goldberg, director of Columbia University's Center for Gender and Sexuality Law.
Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, called the change "a tremendous step toward recognizing our common humanity and ending an egregious injustice against thousands of loving, committed couples who simply want the protections, rights and responsibilities afforded other married couples."
On the other side of the debate, reaction was vehement.
"On the one hand this is a truly shocking extra-constitutional power grab in declaring gay people are a protected class," said Maggie Gallagher of the conservative National Organization for Marriage. "The good news is this now clears the way for the House to intervene and to get lawyers in the courtroom who actually want to defend the law, and not please their powerful political special interests."
Boehner's spokesman, Michael Steel, issued a statement faulting Obama for stirring up the issue "while Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending."
For now the law remains on the books, while challenges work through the courts. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced plans to introduce legislation to repeal it.
"My own belief is that when two people love each other and enter the contract of marriage, the federal government should honor that," she said.
At a December news conference, Obama said that his position on gay marriage was "constantly evolving." He has opposed such marriages and supported instead civil unions for gay and lesbian couples. The president said such civil unions are his baseline -- at this point, as he put it.
"This is something that we're going to continue to debate, and I personally am going to continue to wrestle with going forward," he said
Marriage law in the U.S. historically has been a matter left to the states, but the federal law bars recognition of them by the federal government.
Thus a same-sex married couple in Vermont could file a joint state tax return but had to file their U.S. tax forms separately. Similarly, legally married same-sex spouses might be ordered to proceed separately though customs and immigrations checkpoints when returning to the U.S. from abroad, and a gay American married to a foreigner could not be sure that the spouse would be allowed to immigrate.
Among those affected by DOMA were a lesbian couple from New York City -- Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer. After four decades together, they married in Canada in 2007, and that marriage was recognized in New York.
However, it was not recognized by the federal government. One result, according to lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, was a $350,000 federal tax on Spyer's estate when she died in 2009 that Windsor would not have had to pay if she were in a heterosexual marriage.
Windsor said she was elated by the Justice Department announcement.
"My only regret is that my beloved late spouse ... isn't here today to share in this historic moment," she said. "But in my heart, I feel that she knows."
The attorney general said the department will immediately bring the policy change to the attention of the federal courts now hearing Windsor's challenge in New York City and another case in Connecticut that challenges the federal government's denial of marriage-related protections for federal Family Medical Leave Act benefits, federal laws for private pension plans and federal laws concerning state pension plans.
Those two courts are in the nation's 2nd judicial circuit, where the circuit court has not ruled on the standard for judging this law. In Massachusetts, where the U.S. 1st Circuit Court has accepted the lower standard of scrutiny, which requires only a "rational basis" for the law, a federal district judge found the act to be unconstitutional. On appeal last month, the Justice Department argued in court papers that the Defense of Marriage Act was Congress' reasonable response to a debate among the states on same-sex marriage.
Jerry Savoy, a Connecticut man in a same-sex marriage who is among those challenging the law, welcomed Obama's action, saying he and his spouse were "no different than any other family living on our street." Savoy, a lawyer for a federal agency, said that because of the law he cannot include his spouse on his employer-provided health insurance


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- 1. Can Muslims and Christians Live Together in Peace?
Please join Mr. Aaron Atwood, vice president of Advancement for Summit Ministries as he interviews Dr. Mateen Elaas. Mateen was the second of four children born to a Syrian Muslim. While studying at the University of Wisconsin, he began a search for God. Mateen was guided by Christians who pointed him to Christ. "Read the four gospels of the New Testament. Get to know Jesus," they said. He did. Eventually, he became a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ. As is common in Middle Eastern families, he soon paid a high price for his newfound faith: isolation from his father for more than a decade. Today, Mateen works with churches and Christian groups eager to learn about Islam, its claims and challenges, and how to share the gospel winsomely and effectively with Muslims. He is eager to respond to opportunities for teaching and training Christians in these timely matters. Read more about Mateen Elaas.Click here to read more
- 2. "We've got, tops, five years to win this war against the jihadists"
"Since September 11, 2001, America has been at war. And that's about all anyone can say with certainty about a conflict that has cost 7,000 American lives and almost $2 trillion. As long as the most basic strategic questions—Who is the enemy? Why are we fighting?—remain unanswered, victory is impossible." Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, by Dr. Sebastian Gorka.Click here to read more
- 3. 9/11/2001 Timeline
The timeline begins at 5:45 am on September 11, 2011: Hijackers Pass Through Security Screening in Portland, Maine. On the morning of 9/11, a total of nineteen terrorists will hijack four California-bound commercial airplanes shortly after their departures from airports in Boston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
Hijackers Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al-Omari pass through security at Portland International Jetport in Maine at 5:45 a.m. Atta and al-Omari board a commuter flight to Boston Logan International Airport, where they connect to American Airlines Flight 11. Three other hijackers will join Atta and al-Omari aboard Flight 11.
Less than two hours later, the five terrorists who will hijack American Airlines Flight 77 are videotaped as they pass through Washington Dulles International Airport's west checkpoint. Three of the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar, and Majed Moqed set off metal detectors, but no weapons are found. They proceed to the gate. The hijackers are carrying concealed knives on their persons or in their carry-on luggage.
Before 9/11, airports were not required to videotape security checkpoints. At that time, knives were allowed on planes if the blade was less than four inches in length.
6:00 A.M. New York City Polling Stations Open....Click here to read more
- 4. Raheel Raza - The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics
Why would Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, and others drastically downplay the serious threat that Radical, even "Moderate," Muslims are to Americans? Do they, too, hate Americans?Click here to read more
- 6. Donald Trump: One-Man-Wrecking Ball Suited for our Times
I didn't vote for Trump. But I agree with former Senate President Russell Pearce, Treasurer Jeff DeWit, conservative activist Sandi Bartlett, and a host of others that we must rally behind Trump as our next President. His detractors say he's flip-flopped on issues. He isn't a "true" conservative. He's uncouth, narcissistic, and unrefined. All of that may be true. They say he's racist. He's sexist. I don't believe that. But why is he so popular with the American people? This article addresses that question, and explores another one: Is it possible, as asked by Australian Pastor Steve Cioccolanti , that the Hand of God is on Donald Trump, "for such a time as this"? If so, it won't be the first time that God has used the most unlikely of men for His Purpose.
As to Donald Trump's popularity, Scott S. Powell believes that Trump possesses "qualities that are among those most vital to rebuilding relations with America's allies and restoring respect -- even fear -- from adversaries. Mr. Trump's directness also suggests he is the best-suited presidential candidate to take on America's insolvency. He could be the president who corrects the nation's out-of-control spending, deficits and unsustainable debt. Trump's toughness may be the key virtue needed to rule in a divided country and to successfully downsize and restructure federal agencies and get Washington out of the way of the American economy and its people."
America: The Unprotected and the SuicidalClick here to read more
- 7. WE MUST UNIFY IF YOU LOVE THIS REPUBLIC, by Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce has taken a stand to support Donald Trump, and I agree with him. Please read what he has to say:
As former President of the Arizona Senate, as former Chief Deputy to Sheriff Joe, as former 1st Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party and as a consistent Constitutional defender of our Founders Constitution, as Tea Party Patriot, I stand with the majority of Arizona Republicans and America in standing with Donald Trump.Click here to read more
- 8. Please Help Persecuted Christians
As we celebrate the birthday of God's only son, Jesus Christ, we need to be reminded that we American Christians are able to attend church services and worship in peace, and to practice our faith. It is the First Freedom, guaranteed by the First Amendment. However, Christianity is the Most Persecuted Faith Worldwide.
See below for how you can help.Click here to read more
- 10. 9/11/2001: Todd Beamer, Flight 93, "Let's Roll"
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction, triggering major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defining the presidency of George W. Bush. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., including more than 400 police officers and firefighters. A timeline of the events on September 11, 2001.
This post is a tribute to Todd Beamer and the other passengers on that fourth plane: Flight 93. The plane was 20 minutes of flying time from its suspected target: the White House or the U.S. Capitol, symbols of the American Republic. The four hijackers were defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers.
According to the 9/11 Commission Report:Click here to read more
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Interview with KMail Developer Thomas McGuire
Welcome back again to the KDE Interview series. Last time we spoke with Thiago Macieira, one of the old timers in KDE development.
Today we feature Thomas McGuire, the KMail maintainer. Italian readers may prefer the original interview.
Thomas McGuire
Hello Thomas, can you present yourself to our readers?
When and how did you get in contact with the KDE community?
In which part of the KDE community and in what development area(s) are you involved?
How did you become KMail maintainer?
Is it possible to get better integration with GMail?
What are the difficulties to develop this kind of application? I tried many times to start coding for KMail but I get lost in all its code. What do you suggest to people that want to help with KMail/KDE PIM?
What application do you use to develop KMail?
What is the knowledge needed to develop an application like KMail?
How is the coding work on KMail organized?
Any possibilities to have Facebook messages appear in KMail or does Facebook not have an API to access them?
I always prefer a desktop application to do things. What do you think of all these integrated web applications such as Facebook and Google Apps?
What are the missing features within KDE applications you think we should have to build a strong product set?
What are the KDE applications that are doing a very good job? And which ones need lots of love and help?
What's your favourite KDE application?
What are your plans for KMail in the next KDE SC release?
Are you paid to work on KDE software?
What motivates/keeps you motivated to work on KDE software?
If you could choose where you can live what place will you choose and why?
Have you ever been in Italy? If so, where?
Do you like reading? What was the last book you read?
Thomas, thank you for your time and good luck with your projects!
Funny prospect...
Exchanging PGP-encrypted messages over Facebook, world's biggest anti-privacy institution.
By majewsky at Wed, 2010/05/26 - 5:06pm
Yay NZ!
Nice to hear you like NZ so much, you'd be welcome to move down here anytime :-)
By odysseus at Wed, 2010/05/26 - 8:43pm
Kontact -- Kdesk
Are there plans to separately release Kontact now as a product ALA KOffice? Something like KDesk or similar. With Kmail now not being the pinnacle of the KDE desktop and with all of the data stored and dished out by integration, I actually see a parallel from KOffice to KDesk / Kontact. Withdrawing these related products from SVN and having a separate organization handle them on a separate release schedule with a name change might help with quality control on the larger KDE codebase, as well as helping with integration and separation of responsibilities and expectations. KDE has lost a little focus with development spread thin, and with a lot of huge integration projects going on a lot of bugs are easier to spot in smaller projects. I wonder if such a change would open the door to Akonadi and semantic storage between KOffice and Kontact? Otherwise importance of kdepim-kdepimlibs and possibly a refining of code from and to kde and kdesk.
XDG might even benefit from a cross-desktop PIM directory.
I'm almost laughing over Amiga's Workbench and how times have changed for GNU/Linux and how times are changing for KDE.
By James Smith at Fri, 2010/05/28 - 2:28am
Good post
That should make it clear that when it comes to job creation policy, we don't just need incremental reform, we need a revolution. The industrial revolution raised production tenfold; we need an analogous revolution for jobs for 15 year olds, this one focused on optimizing labor. New taxes and massive new stimulus spending are out of the question for political and fiscal reasons, as are massive tax cuts for business. Besides, we've tried all these and the track record shows they don't generate jobs on the scale we need.
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We've teamed up with Jennifer Sbranti, renowned party stylist and editor-in-chief of the popular blog Hostess with the Mostess, who designed this Ice Cream Shoppe Birthday Party. The sherbet-inspired color palette, make-it-yourself sundae bar and playful ice cream themed decorations are sure to have all the guests "screaming" for more!
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Jacob Geier, a Mepham High School sophomore, said he is happy to play Friedrich von Trapp in the Skull and Bones drama club's spring production of "The Sound of Music." Being a member of the famous family is the first lead role he has played in at Mepham. It's also his first experience having siblings of sorts, as the only child was one of four high-schoolers who were cast with three North Bellmore Elementary School District students as the von Trapp children.
"I appreciate having a family," he said of working with the children. "To have the kids here makes it a lot more exciting."
This year, Mepham formed a partnership with the North Bellmore District's music department to bring youngsters to the Mepham stage. Edward Grosskreuz, a Mepham English teacher and the Skull and Bones adviser, said this is the first time that he has worked with younger children on a production at the high school in the six years that he has overseen the club. Because most of the works he had previously chosen were modern, Grosskreuz said he decided to direct "The Sound of Music" this year because it's more of a classic.
The play, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, tells the story of Maria von Trapp, a former nun who leaves the convent to become a governess for the seven children of a wealthy Austrian widower. Since children are integral characters in the work, Grosskreuz immediately thought of bringing in students from the surrounding elementary schools to play them.
Grosskreuz worked with Emily D'Andrilli, who teaches music at the John G. Dinkelmeyer and Martin Avenue elementary schools, to reach out to North Bellmore faculty. North Bellmore Superintendent Marie Testa said 13 students auditioned for the roles of Kurt, Marta and Gretl von Trapp.
Molly Walsh, a Martin Avenue fourth-grader, will play Gretl von Trapp. Fifth-graders Jack McDonagh and Halle Wunderman, who attend Saw Mill Road and Park Avenue elementary schools, respectively, were cast as Kurt and Marta. The other von Trapps – Friedrich, Liesl, Louisa and Brigitta – will be played by Geier, Sabrina Garone, Sara Miller and Jess Serviss, who are all Mepham students.
Walsh, who auditioned in front of high-schoolers because she missed the session for elementary school students, said she was nervous to try out for the production. But she said her experiences at Martin Avenue and her passion for music gave her to confidence to audition.
"I used to have really bad stage fright, but then I was in the talent show at my school, and it made me more confident," she said. "And I really love singing. I used to sing with my friends on the playground all of the time."
Now Walsh is tackling what Miller described as the challenging harmonies in "The Sound of Music" songbook.


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The thing about blogging is that it tends to steal bits of your time away from daily activities, if you let it. And I've been letting it run rampant. Happily though, in my situation, it seems to mostly be cannibalizing my TV time, which is wasted time anyway. But unfortunately it has also been sneaking bites out of my reading time.
Now that my wife has read all the things she's interested in reading on my Sony Reader (meaning I can use it again), I plan to reclaim some of that time. As an incentive to get myself reading again, I've picked a list of the most random, intriguing and off-the-wall books I could find for free on ManyBooks.
Here, more or less in the order I've found them, are my selections:
Trapped by Malays by George Manville Fenn – From what I can gather, this is a turn of the (last) century English colonial adventure story that takes place on the Malay peninsula (probably somewhere in modern day Malaysia). News and stories about Malaysia are few and far between where I live now, and I always make a point to check out anything I come across relating to my wife's home. (I always have to chuckle whenever I hear the word "Malays", it sounds just like "malaise". It's an almost irresistible call for a witty pun. Almost. 🙂 )
The Practical Distiller by Samuel McHarry – As the subtitle to the books says, it's "An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States." Sounds like a must read for anybody interested in making a bit of moonshine or bathtub gin! This will be especially interesting to me because my friends took me on a tour of an Oregon distillery as part of my recent all-day bachelor party. (Eat your heart out, I got to try a little somethin' right from the still! "Mmmm… this tastes like blindness!" 😀 )
King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard – These are the books that inspired the Allan Quatermain character in the truly unfortunate movie The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. If one thing positive can be said for that movie, it forever locked Sean Connery in my head as Allan Quatermain, which can only help make these books more fun to read.
The Hacker's Dictionary by Eric S. Raymond – This is the youngest book on this list, being a mere 15 years old (1992) as of this writing. It also has the chance of being a book that is impossible to read in the conventional sense, if it truly is a dictionary. However, I'm gonna take a stab at it, and I may just fire up the movie Hackers (1995) to get me in the mood. (The most up to date version of this book can also be found online here, under the name The Jargon File).
The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey – All I can say is that it's hard to pass up a title like that. Based on the excerpt listed with it, it could be a pompous, insufferable read. If it is, I hope it will so bad that its actually makes a good, but unitentional, comedy. Based on the wikipedia page dedicated to the book, it was considered both "taboo" during its Victoria era context, due at least in part to the description of Mr. De Quincey's opium trips in great detail. Perhaps it will be a pretentious R-rated Alice in Wonderland?
If any of these sound interesting to you, check 'em out. Maybe we can compare notes later. And if you do enjoy them, consider making a small donation to ManyBooks. I plan to. They really provide an awesome service to eBooks fans. Happy reading!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tip for Slimes
Aside from me completely failing on Kel'Thuzad and the Frost Blasts, it went pretty well. Killed some stuff, got a couple of epics, and even made the Thaddius jump.
I did die to the slimes after Patchwerk. It was odd because I blew up, didn't see any slimes near me, and had to pan my camera around to see the slime that killed me. One of the people in the raid gave me a tip which I had not seen before, so I thought I'd pass it along:
Don't run in the middle of the gap between slimes. Run right behind one of the slimes.
Pretty simple. I'm not sure why my natural reaction was to aim for the middle. The problem is not to maximize distance from both slimes, but to maximize distance from the incoming slime.
Now I have to master healing the Frost Blast targets fast enough. Any tips? I think I have to figure out how to get Grid to display that debuff properly.
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I have yet to heal the 25 man, but in the 10 man I had two separate ways of healing the frost blast victim. The first was to get at the edge of the raid, and visually see who was getting hit. Pretty old school, but it works well enough.ReplyDelete
The second is that our raid leader had his DBM warnings on and that shows a raid message as to who was hit with it. This worked better because I could stand more in the middle of the raid and reach everyone.
My only other advice to is that when the frost blast cooldown is up, you make sure you save your holy shock for the target. Sometimes a 1.5 second cast just isn't fast enough. I heal as a priest, but I have to make sure that PWS is ready to go when it hits, so it's the same idea.
- Anonymous2:25 PM, January 27, 2009
Bubbling and running through them not only makes it so you don't die, because it makes them blow up, you act like a lead blocker for anyone with latency.ReplyDelete
I bubbled the first time I had to run through. But then I had to run back because there was something that needed to be disenchanted on Patchwerk. That was when I died.ReplyDelete
10 man, for healing the frost blasts, I use DF/HS then FoL... no problem.ReplyDelete
I find reading the raid warning and then finding the person's name to be too slow - I use xperl, and have the debuff displayed on the raid frames (looks like a snowflake :) )... quick scan for the debuff, DF/HS, FoL, life's good :)
The best way to spot Frost Blasts with Grid is a correctly configured GridStatusRaidDebuff - which helps in other situations as well.ReplyDelete
You can download it from WoWAce or Curse, i use it since Black Temple and it's one of my "must have" raiding Mods.
- Anonymous3:31 PM, January 27, 2009
Although I use Clique + Grid for almost everything else, I've found that mouseover macros can helpful for healing Frost Blasted targets on the Kel'thuzad fight. I'm at work right now so I can't copy/paste directly from WoW, but the macro I use is basically aReplyDelete
/cast [target=mouseover] Nature's Swiftness
/cast [modifer=alt, target=mouseover] Healing Wave; Lesser Healing Wave
combination. (The modifier is there because if Nature's Swiftness is on cooldown, I have to use Lesser Healing Wave instead of Healing Wave; Healing Wave alone is too slow.)
I like using this as a mouseover macro because it's often quicker for me to target the player who's been Frost Blasted than it is to find them on Grid. The iceblock is pretty obvious ... the little bitty debuff icon, not so much.
I agree -- I healed this on my shaman in 10-man last week for the first time not tanking or dpsing, and visually healing seemed the easiest way. I need to get a new copy of the GridStatusRaidDebuff module; mine doesn't have any of the naxx debuffs in it. With that said, I like being able to play "heads-up-healer" with a mouseover macro and quick/instant casts.ReplyDelete
The ice block does 104% of the players health over 4 seconds, so pretty much any heal can save them if they're close to topped off. I was mostly using riptide/lesser healing wave on my shaman, although I could see riptide/healing wave if I caught it early enough.
I just configured Grid to show the Frost Blast as a debuff on the one of the corners, works like a charm and that way you can see it immedietely. You can do that from Grid->Status->Auras->Add new buff/debuff. Just write "Frost Blast" there, then go choose a way to show it.ReplyDelete
Yesterday's guild raid showed me that the so-called Frogger boss is the hardest encounter in WoW since the SSC's (in)famous Elevator Boss. ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:42 AM, January 28, 2009
The hardest part IMO is keeping in range of everyone (and out of 10 yards), usually there's some range dps who wants to run away and hide in some corner :PReplyDelete
I have configured Grid to change the color of the health bars of those with Frost Blast, which makes it easy to spot who has it when the boss mods warning appears. I do a HS + HL on the target, and if there's two people blasted, I do a HS on one and HL on the other.
If you have plenty of melee, I find it useful to BoL one of them, incase they mess up and 3 of them gets Frost Blast.
Call us crazy but we typically call out the person's name over vent. As for keeping up with the damage lead off with a holy shock the spam holy light.ReplyDelete
I've bound divine favor as a shift modifier to guarantee a crit when i need it.
shift+holy shock followed by a big HL should take care of it.
Calling a name over Vent is, in my experience, too slow. We have the raid lead (and everyone else) running DBM, and when someone gets Blasted they get a raid icon. I then huck a Shield and Flash Heal (CoH on 25man where chaining on melee is almost unavoidable), and go on with life.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:19 AM, January 28, 2009
Just save Holy Shock for when someone gets Ice Blasted. You don't have to heal them to full, you just have to heal them. I use a mouseover macro and watch for my Grid to light up who got it. Then, just Shock the target and you never have to stop targeting the tank/boss (I mouseover everything and keep the boss targeted so I can easily Judge, watch timers, etc.)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:46 AM, January 28, 2009
Frogger -- Your post is accurate as of today. The main cause is lag; the server thinks you are in a different position than your client shows on your screen = boom! There is one big BEWARE: Blizzard has an open bug on lag in Naxx and you can blow up by running too close to the back of a slime. So, when the lag gets fixed, you will have to adjust back towards the center or start booming again.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:47 AM, January 28, 2009
The only real way to do is to watch the screen. KT isn't really healing intensive so you can spend most of the time looking at what's going on. The room is dark and the ice block is bright blue, so its pretty easy to identify who needs the healing.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:08 PM, January 28, 2009
If you use DBM you can toggle the warnings for each boss ability. I leave only Frost Blast activated to cut down the noise.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous4:28 PM, January 28, 2009
I notice a lot of reliance on mods in these comments, as well as looking for debuffs or trying to see the actual ice block on the screen. I find all of these methods to be too slow, personally.ReplyDelete
What I recommend is setting KT as your focus. There isn't much movement in the fight aside from a slight sidestep out of the Shadow Fissure and a little bit with the mana bomb thing. So, once you are positioned comfortably, you can just stare at your focus frame of KT, while you are mostly casting FoLs and SS on the MT.
Then, whenever KT switches targets(which should be immediately apparent), you click on the target and start a heal on them. Depending on your haste and whether or not you have Light's Grace up, you can cast a Holy Light or FoL, and then follow that with a Holy Shock.
- Anonymous1:58 AM, January 30, 2009
On ice block:ReplyDelete
Listen for the sound. The freezing sound is unique, and when you hear it, look immediately for ice blocks.
Open with Holy Shock, then HL / Flash depending on the HP / more than one person being hit.
I've healed for years, and while I think grid is useful and makes things easier, simply relying on mods for abilities like that makes you a worse player.
- Anonymous1:25 PM, February 01, 2009
To show who has the Frost Blast debuff on grid, you need to add "Frost Blast" to the debuff list under Status >> Auras >> Debuffs : Add new Debuff. Type in the debuff name Frost Blast, then hit enter.ReplyDelete
Then you can use the Layout to show you which player(s) are affected by Frost Blast.
I prefer using the Center Icon for all cleansable/important debuffs.


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Matej Vydra's goal secures Watford a 2-1 home win against Bolton in the Championship.
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Bolton caused Watford a host of problems in the first half and former Hornets striker Marvin Sordell gave his side the lead from a penalty in the 32nd minute following Daniel Pudil's foul on Sam Ricketts.
The home side responded four minutes later when on-loan Udinese striker Vydra eased past Bolton's defence to stroke home from 10 yards out, and the winner arrived 20 minutes from time when Almen Abdi stroked the ball into the bottom corner of Adam Bogdan's goal.
The Hornets went into the clash still smarting from Tuesday's defeat against npower Championship strugglers Bristol City, but were boosted by the return of 30-goal strike duo Vydra and Troy Deeney who each featured for just 30 minutes in midweek.
Bolton arrived at Vicarage Road looking for their sixth successive victory over Watford in all competitions and enjoyed the lion's share of the possession in the opening stages of the match.
But it was Watford striker Deeney who almost put his side in front after just 11 minutes when he beat Bolton's offside trap only to see his 18-yard strike saved by the legs of Trotters goalkeeper Bogdan.
The hosts continued to dominate for the next 20 minutes of the match but were held off by some resolute Bolton defending as the league's top scorers continued to draw a blank.
The visitors then turned defence into attack and were awarded a penalty in the 32nd minute when defender Ricketts was brought down in the box by Pudil.
Sordell struck low and hard from the spot to give his side a 1-0 lead over his former employers.
Gianfranco Zola's men equalised just four minutes later when Cristian Battocchio flicked the ball forward to Vydra who dummied before skipping past the defender to slot home from the centre of the penalty area.
Watford then piled the pressure on their opponents, who managed to hold them off to keep it 1-1 going into the break.
Watford had the best of the chances in what was a largely scrappy second half.
Eventually the home side's pressure told as Abdi gave them the lead in the 70th minute from the edge of the area after a sustained spell of possession.
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Public Service in an Age of Corrosive Cynicism
As disdain for government grows, it's more important than ever to recognize those who do outstanding work.
"Trying to recruit and retain the best possible workforce is tough, and it's especially so when people are working a gazillion hours a day, paid well below market value and trashed day in and day out in the news media and on the Hill and told that they are incompetent and not doing a good job." That's how federal Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius put it, defending government workers a couple of days ago at an event celebrating Public Service Recognition Week.
While it might seem that cynicism about the value of public service and the worth of government employees is more corrosive than ever, there's nothing new about it. One of the reasons Governing created its Public Officials of the Year program back in the 1990s was to call attention to and recognize, at an annual event, those career, appointed and elected public officials who were doing outstanding work on behalf of their city, county or state governments.
Sebelius, then the insurance commissioner of Kansas and later that state's governor, was herself one of Governing's honorees back in 2001. One of last year's honorees, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe, gave an acceptance speech that was both a sobering recognition of the growing disdain for public service and a powerful call to do more to get people to appreciate the value of public institutions and the work of government. He noted that the theme of the discussion that evening had been one of "understanding that politics and public policy can and should be noble" but that "unfortunately for every table that's full here tonight, there are tens of thousands of tables where they decry government, where they decry public service, where they decry the institutions of government."
This need to counteract the negativity about government and to recognize the value of public service also was one of the reasons we created the Governing Institute. First among the principles of the institute's charter is that "government work is honorable and the institutions of government and those who work in them should be respected." Through the Governing Institute, we intend to strengthen the Public Officials of the Year program and take it beyond simply the wonderful annual event that it is. (I can attest personally to the success of the annual event as a morale-boosting reward for public service: When I was honored by Governing in 2003, it was absolutely the highlight of my career.) We intend to increase our involvement with past and future winners year-round and to create a community by and for public leaders to tap their energy and expertise in support of improving government outcomes.
We are also working to develop cooperative relationships between Governing and master of public administration degree programs at major universities. These schools should be sources of innovative ideas to meet the public-policy challenges faced by our governments. We want the best and brightest faculty and students to write for our publications and our website, speak at our events and help us to network with thought leaders.
The idea underlying all of these efforts is that there is no better resource to encourage and inspire the next generation of public servants than today's experienced and accomplished leaders. As Gov. Beebe put it near the close of his remarks, "This country is still the greatest experiment in democracy of the globe. And it deserves to be maintained and sustained, and that only happens when good people get involved in public service."
That is our purpose at the Governing Institute: supporting and improving public service and pushing back against those who denigrate it and deny its value. Something to remember during Public Service Recognition Week.


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Teleworking is a practical solution to environmental and other quality-of-life issues, as well as work-life challenges. The Office of Personnel Management and GSA are lead agencies for the federal teleworking initiative. The GSA Governmentwide Telework Team serves as the nexus for policy development, outreach, and collaborative partnerships to further the advancement of telework throughout the federal government. The Telework Team provides a variety of services such as:
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Please use this thread to advise of technical issues connected with the DellaRosa Archive which is about ready to go live.
There will be issues because a lot of work was needed to remove obsolete code connected with the original forum, advertising, contact information, sales ordering information etc.
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CU hoops signee Spencer Dinwiddie 94th on MaxPreps' national list
When researching potential football and basketball recruits, I find myself going first to Rivals.com and Scout.com.
But sometimes I wonder if others may be more accurate when evaluating a particular player.
In the case of Colorado men's hoops signee Spencer Dinwiddie, CU fans will be thrilled if MaxPreps has a more accurate appraisal of the 6-foot-4 senior point guard from Taft High in Woodland Hills, Calif. MaxPreps is the recruiting site for CBSSports.com.


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