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Welcome to the newly renovated and always-accommodating Holiday Inn® South Kingstown (Newport Area) hotel. With ideal proximity to the University of Rhode Island and New England's finest beaches, this property is the perfect choice for travelers seeking quality and consistency in South Kingstown, RI.
Major area corporations, such as Schneider Electric, Modine Manufacturing and Carousel Industries are within easy access from the hotel. The University of Rhode Island, URI in Kingston is just three miles from the hotel. Whether coming for a show at the Ryan Center, a baseball game at BIll Beck field, a conference at URI, or a training course at the University, the Holiday Inn is the perfect choice!
In historic Newport, RI, are the spectacular Newport Mansions, world class dining and shopping options. The beautiful Narragansett beaches, fantastic museums, Nordic Lodge seafood buffet, antique shops and many dining options are all nearby. Minutes from the Holiday Inn, in Pt Judith you can hop a ferry to Block Island, which the Nature Conservancy calls one of the twelve "Last Great Places" in the Western hemisphere.
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(Cucumis melo) Crenshaw is a muskmelon that was developed by crossing a Casaba melon and Persian melon. Crenshaws are large with a very sweet flavor.
The Crenshaw produces fruit weighing about 6-8 pounds each with a yellowish-green skin and mouthwatering salmon colored flesh.
Vigorous vines produce good yields. Heat loving variety.
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In order to grow well, melons need a rich, sandy soil high in organic matter.
Keep well watered until fruits are about the size of a tennis ball, then water only if absolutely needed. Less watering, especially within weeks of harvest, will intensify the sweetness.
Melons are heavily dependent on pollinators. A good fruit set is largely dependent on a healthy population of pollinators like bees.
Harvesting at the right time is very important with melons. Melons taste their best when they are ripened on the vine because the sugars become more concentrated in the last few days of ripening. When harvesting, be sure to cut the fruit from the vine instead of pulling. Pulling creates a cracking wound that pathogens can enter and quickly destroy the quality of the fruit.
To tell if a watermelon is ripe, check the tendril. When the melon ripens, this tendril dries and turns brown or gray. Watermelons also develop a "soil spot" where the rest on the ground. When the melon is immature, the spot is greenish or white. As the melon ripens the spot develops a cream or yellowish color.
Cantaloupes, honeydew melons, and other small melons do not produce the tendril like watermelons, and often do not form a soil spot. However, there are other indicators to look for. The cantaloupes with netted rinds will have a color change below the netting. When this color changes to a golden brown color, the melon is ripe. When many of these smaller melons are ripe, the stem just naturally separates from the melon. This is called "slipping." When choosing a melon in the garden, the surest way to pick one which is ripe is to wait until the stem "slips" from the melon easily. A ripe melon will also have a pleasant, fruity aroma at the blossom end.
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Protein phosphatases have received great attention as drug-screening targets. FDP is a highly sensitive fluorogenic substrate for most phosphatases, i.e., alkaline phosphatases, protein tyrosine phosphatases and serine/threonine phosphatases. The phosphatase-induced hydrolysis of FDP yields an intense fluorescent product that has excitation wavelength around 490 nm, and emission maximum around 520 nm. The fluorescence of FDP hydrolyzed product is strengthened when pH > 7.0. For some protein phosphatase requiring slightly acidic buffer for reaction, a pH-adjusting stop solution should be added before reading the fluorescence signal. The kit can be used for characterizing kinetics of enzyme reaction and high throughput screening of protein phosphatase inducers and inhibitors. Kit Size: 500 assays
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Known for their distinctive glazes, Emissary Home & Garden doesn't disappoint with their new Ripple bowls. Designed with clean, contemporary lines, the fired ceramic vessels are glazed both inside and out. The exterior's fine, uneven lines reflect the bowl's craftsmanship—each piece is hand-painted, and no two are the same. The Ripple bowls are available in two sizes, small (10" w. x 6" h., $80) and large (13" w. x 8" h., $158).
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Abus has been making its unique bike locks that fold away like a carpenter's ruler for years now. But it claims the latest iteration — the Bordo 6000 Ecolution — can be broken down and fully recycled when you no longer need to secure your bike.
Instead of protecting the 5 millimetre thick steel bars with anti-corrosive rubber, Abus uses a new synthetic coating made from natural fibres that's completely biodegradable. The Bordo 6000 seems like a win-win solution — an eco-friendly lock that's small and easy to store when folded away. But because of all those riveted joints that are each a spot for the lock to fail, Abus only recommends it for use in medium theft risk situations. Which kind of sucks giving they're asking $150 for it. Thankfully, there are more reliable and cheaper alternatives out there. [Abus via Gizmag]


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I'm David T Pisarra, I founded Men's Family Law because I know you want information, without all the legalese and confusing language. As a divorce lawyer I help men who are faced with a Divorce, a Paternity Case, a Child Custody Battle or worst of all, a Domestic Violence Restraining Order. You'll find answers here, in my books, and on my blog. To learn more about me, check the About page or you can watch this video.


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ComedySportz - August 16, 2019
Event Category: Comedy Events, Music & Nightlife, and Things To Do
ComedySportz – Buffalo's Longest-Running Comedy Show
ComedySportz is improvisational comedy played as a sport. Two teams of professional comedians compete for laughs and points while a referee calls fouls and gets suggestions from you, the loyal fans. At the end of the night, only one team heads home victorious.
Everything we do is improvised. We don't have scripts or pre-planned scenes. That's why a ComedySportz match wouldn't be possible without your suggestions. (Just make sure your suggestions are clean, or the referee will call the Brown Bag Foul on you.)
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A Birthday Cake - Chocolate Layer Cake with Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Hi, hello, sorry for the break... that head cold that I mentioned in my last post, well it's only now just left me. Two and a half weeks! So frustrating.
To be honest I haven't really cooked much lately. Well that's not true. I have made some awesome salads lately with quinoa. The dressing, it deserves it's own post it was that good. But seeing as it was my first attempt at quinoa and I made the recipe up, I didn't really document it. Probably would have been wise to. Will make again I'm sure.
I want to talk about Swiss Meringue Buttercream. Last Friday was my brothers 30th birthday, and seeing how much he wants to appear on this blog, I put a photo of him blowing out the candle on his cake (awwwwww...).
He loves a good chocolate cake. I know this. Every year he wants a chocolate cake. A couple of years ago we covered one with m&m's - I think he was maybe 26 or 27 years old. Normal.
This year I wanted to do one better. I used the chocolate cake recipe from here, but made a Swiss Meringue Buttercream = heaven!! No joke. It's so light, and semi-sweet, and it lets the chocolate cake sing! Plus the white on black looks awesome.
I followed this recipe to a tee, so not going to re-write it for you cos her explanation is spot on - the quantity of egg whites and butter was perfect for this size cake.


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The Holiday Inn Express® Hotel & Suites Santa Clarita is located just off I-5 and 25 miles north of Universal Studios and Hollywood. This award-winning hotel is also ideally situated with easy access to major business and top local attractions in Santa Clarita and Valencia.
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Get the Look: Arts and Crafts-Style Architecture
Arts and Crafts architecture includes bungalows and homes in Craftsman, Prairie, and Spanish Mission styles.
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Arts and Crafts-Style Architecture
To understand American Arts and Crafts-style architecture, you need to begin with the British Arts and Crafts movement that emerged in the mid-1800s. Led by artist and writer William Morris, the movement was a rebellion against machine-made, mass-produced goods. It emphasized craftsmanship, creative expression, and the use of natural materials found locally. Arts and Crafts interiors, furniture, and decorative arts all displayed these qualities, so, of course, the ideal home's architecture needed to do the same.
It should be noted, though, that while early British devotees of Arts and Crafts ideals eschewed mass production, many American architects embraced it — from metal screws to hold beams in place to machine-produced kit homes that were shipped via train.
Craftsman Style
By the 1890s the movement had spread to the rest of Europe as well as North America. One of the main voices behind the movement in the United States was a furniture-maker named Gustav Stickley. In 1901 he began publishing The Craftsman, a magazine that encouraged readers to build and furnish their own homes using Arts and Crafts principles. The publication promoted the furniture, metalwork, and linens produced in Stickley's factories. It also provided free plans for Craftsman-style homes, which were typically one and a half to two stories high, constructed from locally supplied materials, and designed to blend harmoniously with their surroundings.
At first, the term "Craftsman home" referred only to those built from plans offered in Stickley's magazine, which was published until 1916. Eventually, "Craftsman" became the term of choice for all early-20th-century houses with Arts and Crafts-influenced exteriors.
One with Nature
Abundant windows, wraparound porches, and pergolas did their part to link Craftsman-style homes to nature. So did the act of planting shrubbery, ornamental grasses, and other foliage to hide a home's foundation—thereby linking it to the ground on which it was built.
Craftsman Foursquare
Also known as the Box House, the Foursquare house began to appear around the turn of the 20th century. Most roofs were hipped (all sides sloping downward to meet the walls, with no gables), with a dormer on at least one face. Just as with roofs on other Arts and Crafts style homes, a Foursquare's roof eaves extend over the walls and expose rafter ends and knee-style brackets.
Pictured: This stately brick Craftsman Foursquare was built in 1912 in Minneapolis. A recent renovation mixed contemporary materials with signature Craftsman components to return the home to its original style.
Arts & Crafts Bungalows
The term "bungalow" derives from "Bengali" and originated in 19th-century India, where the British built easily constructed one-story houses for travelers. These homes suited India's hot, sunny climate with their low, close-to-the-ground construction and large porches beneath sheltering eaves.
In the United States, bungalows with low-pitched roofs first showed up in Southern California. These houses appealed to homebuyers because they were practical and economical, and because their simplicity and reliance on craftsmanship provided a refreshing change from the ornate Victorian-style houses that had become popular in the late 1800s.
Check out the next slide to see "the ultimate bungalow."
Pictures: This home is in "Bungalow Heaven"—a neighborhood of historic, early-20th-century bungalows in Pasadena, California, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Learn more at bungalowheaven.org.
Learn more about Victorian-style architecture in the United States.
The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Bungalow
Thanks to Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene, Southern California became a hotbed of Arts and Crafts design. Among the brothers' architectural triumphs is the Gamble House (shown), an Arts and Crafts masterpiece whose horizontal form shows the influence of its spacious California setting and the country's new appreciation for Japanese design and culture. In fact, the Gamble House is often called "the ultimate bungalow" even though it is three stories high.
Pictured: The Gamble House, built in 1908 for David Gamble of the Procter & Gamble Co., was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Learn more at gamblehouse.org.
Architects: Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene
Chicago Brick Bungalow
Not all bungalows reside in California. Rectangular Chicago Bungalows (built between 1910 and 1940) were made of brick with stone trim. These one-and-one-half-story homes include low-pitched roofs with overhangs, generous windows to bring in as much sun as possible, and an offset front entrance or side entrance.
Learn more at chicagobungalow.org.
Atlanta Bungalow
This two-story Craftsman bungalow, built in 1912 in Atlanta's Ansley Park neighborhood, features a shingled first floor and a second floor clad in stucco. White-painted trim and decorative half timbers highlight the home's many angles.
Oregon Bungalow
Clad in clapboard, this remodeled Oregon bungalow features Craftsman-appropriate paint colors that call to mind the beauty of fields, forests, and earth. White-painted trim and tapered porch columns showcase the home's Craftsman-style features. A new porch roof features a wide gable that copies the main roof's pitch—transforming the home into a double-front-gable bungalow.
Following the Craftsman credo of using local materials, architects in the Pacific Northwest generally used Douglas fir to construct their bungalows instead of the redwood used in California.
Spanish Mission Style
Although included under the Arts and Craft umbrella, Spanish Mission homes boast a distinctive Spanish influence that sets them apart from Craftsman-style bungalows. Heavily influenced by the missions built in California hundreds of years ago, early examples of these houses were constructed from natural materials such as timber, stucco, stone, and adobe bricks. These homes are known for their arched entranceways, curved lines, roof parapets, deeply shaded porches, and red tile roofs. Today, Mission-style architecture has spread beyond California across the Southwest.
Prairie Style
In the Midwest, architect Frank Lloyd Wright (who was a founding member of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Society) set out to design houses that harmonized with the prairie's horizontal landscapes. The resulting buildings—known as Prairie Style—featured broad horizontal planes that hugged the earth, low-pitched rooflines with wide, overhanging eaves, and the use of native materials. Windows were arranged in horizontal bands sometimes referred to as ribbons.
Pictured: This new Prairie-style home's horizontal profile and expanses of glass reveal Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on Wisconsin architect Ken Dahlin. "The idea of architecture integrating with nature has always been important to me," says Dahlin, who designed his family's home to be energy-efficient as well as aesthetically beautiful.
Architect: Ken Dahlin
See more of Ken Dahlin's Prairie-style home in Racine, Wisconsin.
Tudor Revival Style
Tudor Revival homes, which are simpler versions of the Tudor architecture of medieval times, share characteristics with other Arts and Crafts houses. Just as with Craftsman homes, Tudor homes are constructed of rustic natural materials such as stone, brick, stucco, and wood. And their interiors put an emphasis on hand-crafted adornment such as decorative metalwork and carved moldings.
See a bungalow with Tudor-style decorative half timbers on the next slide.
Touch of Tudor
Built in Des Moines in 1921, this two-story Craftsman-style bungalow features a stucco and brick exterior, decorative half-timbers, and an earthy color palette that link it visually to Tudor Revival architecture. A front-gable roof extends far enough to shelter a sprawling porch.
Arts & Crafts Characteristics
So how do you identify an Arts and Crafts-style house when the architecture gets its inspiration from a philosophical point of view—encompassing everything from the artistic Gamble House to humble Craftsman-style kit homes shipped by train? Start by looking for horizontal forms, the use of indigenous materials, and architectural features that encourage interaction with nature. See the following slides for more specific examples.
Horizontal Forms
Arts and Crafts-style homes hug the ground with low-slung, often asymmetrical forms topped with gabled roofs that sweep down over a spacious front porch. These homes display a strong visual connection to the site upon which they're built.
Pictured: This bungalow's upper level is an addition planned to blend unobtrusively into the original 1911 Craftsman design.
Roofs and Porches
Craftsman homes typically feature gabled roofs with prominent overhanging eaves, distinctive dormers, and large stone or brick chimneys. Sometimes these upper roofs extend far enough to cover open porches (used as outdoor living rooms) supported by square or tapered-square columns.
Pictured: This bungalow features a side gable roof. See a clipped-gable roof on the next slide.
Clipped-Gable Roof
Also known as a jerkinhead roof, this type of roof features gable ends that are "clipped" short (looking folded-over as a result) instead of rising to a point.
Earthy Color Palette
Early Craftsman-style homes' exterior color palettes reflected the Arts and Crafts movement's emphasis on natural materials, tending toward ochres, browns, olive green, and muted terra cotta reds. The earliest bungalows featured trim painted a different color than the body, but of a similar value (in other words, not much contrast). When trim is painted white or a contrasting color, it emphasizes the elements and makes them easy to identify.
Visible Support
Craftsman bungalows often sport projecting, exposed roof rafters and large knee-style brackets at the cornice (shown). Painting rafters and brackets a different color than the exterior of the house enhances their presence as decorative details.
Simple Siding
Craftsman-style homes were clad in a variety of siding types: wood shingles, clapboard, stucco, and concrete—sometimes in combination. Staining the shingles (as shown in this detail from the Gamble House) was viewed as preferable to painting because it resulted in a more natural appearance.
Architects: Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene
Grouped Windows
Craftsman-style homes feature an abundance of windows, sometimes in groups or bands (shown). Double-hung windows often had upper sashes made up of smaller panes—usually narrow rectangles rather than squares.
Natural Stone
Rustic stone and brickwork often made their way into Craftsman-style homes—as the foundation of the house itself or as part of the porch. This bungalow was constructed with stone piers below tapered porch columns, and a stone porch connected to a coordinating stone path. The more skilled architects of the time brought rustic stone inside the house to form fireplace surrounds.
Wooden Doors
In Craftsman-style homes, doors were made of stained wood and often featured hand-wrought metal hardware. If painted, door colors were in harmony with the rest of the color scheme—rather than the brighter hues seen in contemporary times. Doors often feature clear or leaded glass in the upper third. The inclusion of wide sidelights enhances a Craftsman-style door's presence.
See the next slide for a view of the Gamble House's stained-glass doorway.
Art-Glass Door
The Gamble House's front doors feature the stylized design of an oak tree expressed in layered glass panels: opalescent glass on the outside, iridescent glass on the inside.
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The big news out of Washington this morning: Ezra Klein, the famous Washington Post columnist and 'Wonkblog' editor, is seeking investors for an expanded Wonkblog-like website after failing to win internal support from his own paper, according to a New York Times report:
After consultation with the newspaper's editor, Marty Baron, according to one of the people, [Klein] put forward a proposal with detailed revenue projections to build a new website dedicated to explanatory journalism on a wide range of topics beyond political policy. It would have been affiliated with The Post, the person said, but would have been a separate enterprise. The investment he sought, the person said, was in eight figures.
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we like lists: list # 11: awesome art
(Looking for those links, I noticed that the most successful list post so far, based on number and variety of entries, and how many new people participated, was page 56, sentence 5.)
In the simple pleasures list, Joe mentioned that sad but wonderful feeling when you finish a book or movie or other experience that is so meaningful to you that it "leaves a void," you're sad to see it end. Which made Jen suggest a list of art that does just that.
And here it is. A list of art we love: art that drives you crazy with your love for it, breaks your heart with its beauty, fills you with awe and wonder, makes you wish you could capture it and retain the experience forever. We're going to take the broadest possible definition of art: anything human-created. So while the majesty of the giant redwoods and the perfection of wolves fill me with joy and awe, they are not art; they are nature. Other than that, art can be books, movies, music, paintings, buildings... anything humans make.
Since this is list number 11, and because I like the number 11, let's do 11 each.
One more thing about this list: it's not a best-of. Not the top 11 works of art that you love. There is just no way I could choose, and I'd end up kicking myself for all the ones I forgot. So just 11 instances of human creativity that you totally and madly love, in no particular order. Here's mine.
1. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939
2. Annie Hall, Woody Allen, 1977
3. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso, 1907
4. David, Michelangelo, 1501-1504
5. Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, the people of Chartres, France, approximately 1190-1250
6. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones, 1972
7. Show Me Love, Lukas Moodysson, 1998
8. Machu Picchu, Incan people, Peru, 15th Century
9. The Band (The Brown Album), The Band, 1969
10. Othello, performed by Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Stratford, Connecticut, 1981
11. The game of baseball
48 comments:
- impstrump said...
I don't have a list yet, but holy shit, James Earl Jones playing Othello??? I want to see that!
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:39:00 AM
- impstrump said...
Actually I have part of a list, I'll have to think about the rest:
1. Glenn Gould's 1981 Goldberg Variations.
2. Shakespeare's 29th sonnet.
3. The plot resolution of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. In one action-packed sequence, the series is turned from some nice fun stories to something demanding analysis and fanfiction.
4. The plot arc of the Princess Bride movie. I wish I could completely forget how it goes so I could watch it for the very first time again.
5. The mirror scene in Duck Soup.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:45:00 AM
- laura k said...
I don't have a list yet, but holy shit, James Earl Jones playing Othello??? I want to see that!
It was, in a word, awesome. The show moved to Broadway, with Kelsey Grammer as Cassio and Dianne Weist as Desdemona. The link is to Frank Rich's review. (He was then the NY Times' chief theatre critic.) He gushes over Plummer.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:47:00 AM
- laura k said...
I wish I could completely forget how it goes so I could watch it for the very first time again.
That's the perfect expression of how great art makes you feel.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:49:00 AM
- johngoldfine said...
This one is going to skunk me. I have plenty of things I like, but I think my reaction of awesomeness is reserved for experiences outside art, unless you want to consider riding a horse an art, which in a better rider than I am, it certainly is, or turning a perfect omelet, or getting off the exact right wisecrack to break everyone up.
But I don't think those are what you have in mind for this list.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 7:34:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
There's too much to make a list of only 11. I'm reminded of a panel in a Frazz comic strip:
Caulfield: What's your favourite book?
Frazz: The one I'm reading now.
But here are some:
- The original run of "Pogo"
- Brancusi's "Bird In Space"
- Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
- The career of The Residents
- Becket's "Waiting for Godot" (I wish I could have seen the recent Ian McKellan / Patrick Stewart version)
- The "Dies irae/Tuba mirum" from Verdi's Requiem Mass
- "The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-On-Sea" by The Goon Show
- The finale of "Dialogue of the Carmelites"
- Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
- "Deduce, You Say" (or just about any classic WB cartoon)
- Monty Python's "Fish Slapping Dance"
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:01:00 AM
- laura k said...
There's too much to make a list of only 11.
That's for sure. My list could have been verrrrry long.
* * * *
JohnGoldfine, I'm thinking of anything created by humans, as long as you can be specific. I debated with myself about including baseball. My reasoning: I regard it as a thing of beauty and perfection, something amazing and awesome that humans have created. If I step back from the day-to-day game - MLB, teams, players, standings - and simply bask in the game itself, I can be transported by it. So, I included it.
I hope that helps you come up with a list, yours are always so interesting.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:25:00 AM
- laura k said...
(I wish I could have seen the recent Ian McKellan / Patrick Stewart version)
Me too. That would have been... wow.
* * * *
One of my theatre regrets is never having seen Patrick Stewart's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in NYC. Every year a very small number of tickets would go on sale and disappear. It was after my time in theatre and I had no way to finale a couple for us. Allan bought me a recording of it, which helps.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:27:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
I'm thinking of anything created by humans
In Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud (which I almost put on the list), McCloud addresses the question of whether comics are art: "Yes! Especially if your definition of art is as broad as mine!"
Here's his definition, as it appears in the book:
First page
Second page
His definition's too broad, but I mostly like it anyway.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:34:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
Me too. That would have been... wow.
There are rumours of a DVD coming out, but I have no idea how true -- or even possible -- they are.
There's a wonderful story that McKellan tells about that production in Australia:
"During the dress rehearsal of Godot, I crouched by the stage door of the Comedy Theatre, getting some air, my bowler hat at my feet (and) seeing an unkempt old man down on his luck, a passer-by said, 'Need some help, brother?' and put a dollar in my hat.
"The dollar coin is now lodged between two drawing pins on the board above my dressing room mirror. My lucky talisman."
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:39:00 AM
- Lorelei said...
In no particular order:
1. Rosa la Rouge
2. Breakfast of Champions, when Vonnegut writes himself into the plot then gets attacked by the dog he forgot about from the beginning of the book.
3. the Karmann Ghia
4. Harold and Maude
5. Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
6. Any furniture by the Bauhaus architects
7. The opening 2 pages of Under Milkwood
8. Abbey Road
9. The concept behind Six Characters in Search of an Author
10. Nina Simone, Lilac Wine
11. Easter Island
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:00:00 AM
- laura k said...
His definition's too broad, but I mostly like it anyway.
Ha, that's great. It's bizarre that anyone would question whether comics or graphic novels are art. But many people don't regard handwork as art, and of course art, when made by aboriginal people, is called artifacts. Not useful distinctions, IMO.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:11:00 AM
- laura k said...
I am a huge fan of Fallingwater. It was one of the highlights of our 1999 baseball road trip. Anyone who finds themselves in western Pennsylvania for any reason should go, take the tour.
(Hi Loreilei!)
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:13:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
It's bizarre that anyone would question whether comics or graphic novels are art.
It's a mindset that dates back from when people thought Art was what happened in Museums and Opera Houses. It's not Art if you're allowed to touch it.
Fortunately, I had the type of mother who read Pogo and the type of father who read Asimov, so I got raised with a much more inclusive view of the subject.
To my mind, you can't look at things like this for long without seeing the deep artistry in the drawing and the writing (and, for that matter, the philosophy).
A crossover: Six Characters in Search of an Author was spoofed by the creators of one of my entries, The Goons, as Six Charlies in Search of an Author. As Doug Hofstadter would say, "Variations on a theme are the crux of creativity".
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:05:00 AM
- laura k said...
I just read the Sonnet that Imp Strump linked to. I have read all the Sonnets, but not for umpteen years. #29 is a killer. Incredible.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:38:00 PM
- impstrump said...
Additions to my list, from the art of translation:
6. Robert Scott's German translation of Jabberwocky. It is perfect. Which is doubly impossible, because a) Jabberwocky is technically untranslatable, and b) there's not such thing as a perfect translation. And yet, it persists in being perfect.
7. The collective coinages of all the Harry Potter translators.
8. Monty Python's Black Knight scene performed live, in full, in person, on stage, before your very eyes, in Spamalot.
Another thing that will go on this list if I can verify that it's real: Reviews report that Eddie Izzard's French show includes his giraffes and tigers bit, but no one on the recorded internet has reported on how exactly he manages to translate something as untranslatable as charades. (It's like I'm the only person who thinks this is important or something!) If Eddie has in fact succeeded in adapting the word-based charades in a way that is both understandable and entertaining to Francophone audiences, this skyrockets to the top of my list.
- Thursday, August 04, 2011 6:57:00 PM
- laura k said...
It's a mindset that dates back from when people thought Art was what happened in Museums and Opera Houses. It's not Art if you're allowed to touch it.
Then a little ground was conceded with a distinction between so-called High Art and Low Art. High Art had credentials. Low Art was made by and for the masses.
And finally that got left by the wayside, too. But we see a hangover, as you said, every time someone asks, Is this art? (Answer: you might not like it or understand it, but that doesn't mean it's not art!)
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:39:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
And finally that got left by the wayside, too. But we see a hangover, as you said, every time someone asks, Is this art? (Answer: you might not like it or understand it, but that doesn't mean it's not art!)
Next time someone looks at a piece of abstract expressionism and says "My six-year-old daughter could do that!", tell him that he should be very proud of her. :)
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:41:00 AM
- laura k said...
Imp Strump, I read your blog post about Giraffes and Tigers but I didn't click on it. Thanks for linking to it here. God he's brilliant.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:43:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
Robert Scott's German translation of Jabberwocky
If you like brilliant translations of difficult word games, check out the English translation of Stanislaw Lem's "The Electronic Bard" from The Cyberiad, originally written in Polish. In it, the inventor Klapaucius challenges the Electronic Bard created by Trurl.
One of the challenges, in the English version, is:
This is a poem about a haircut! But lofty, nobel, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter "s"!
And the poem:
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Now, in the original Polish challenge and poems were almost completely different -- but also almost completely identical in spirit.
The longest poem in the story came from this challenge:
A love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit.
You can read the full poem online.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:49:00 AM
- laura k said...
I can't imagine - literally, cannot imagine - how someone translates poetry. I love all that alliteration, though.
If I'm not mistaken, Imp Strump speaks and translates Polish.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:51:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
I should mention that I don't speak or translate Polish, so I'm basing my comments on the quality of the translation on my enjoyment of the English version, and assurances I've had that it's surprisingly faithful to the spirit of the original.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:58:00 AM
- impstrump said...
I can't imagine - literally, cannot imagine - how someone translates poetry.
I can't imagine either, and I've seen people do it in real time. I can't do it myself though. You have to be basically like the Electronic Bard that James is talking about (which I'm totally going to have to look up in the original Polish as soon as I can figure out what it's called in the original - the presence of the word "Bard" indicates that even that name is an adaptation). You have to be able to write original and artistically effective poetry that meets very specific parameters, and you have to be able to figure out for yourself, based on your own analysis of what the end user need from the text, what those parameters are.
Which, now that I think about it, is what all of the translation-related works of art I linked to have done, each in their own way.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 7:06:00 PM
- James Redekop said...
Lem's book is Cyberiada in Polish. It's a Polish Wikipedia page on the book.
The translator of the English version was Michael Kandel, who is also known for having worked as an editor on some of Ursula K. Le Guin's work.
Hey! I just found the Polish text of the story!
Here is the Polish version of the first poetic challenge (I think, going by the alliteration):
- Niech ułoży wiersz o cyberotyce! - rzekł nagle, rozjaśniony. - Żeby tam było najwyżej sześć linijek, a w nich o miłości i o zdradzie, o muzyce, o Murzynach, o wyższych sferach, o nieszczęściu, o kazirodztwie, do rymu i żeby wszystkie słowa były tylko na literę C!!
- A całego wykładu ogólnej teorii nieskończonych automatów nie ma tam czasem być? - wrzasnął rozwścieczony do żywego Trurl. - Nie można stawiać tak kretyńskich warun...
Ale nie dokończył, ponieważ słodki baryton, wypełniając całą halę, odezwał się właśnie:
Cyprian cyberotoman, cynik, ceniąc czule
Czarnej córy cesarskiej cud ciemnego ciała,
Ciągle cytrą czarował. Czerwieniała cała,
Cicha, co dzień czekała, cierpiała, czuwała...
...Cyprian ciotkę całuje, cisnąwszy czarnulę!!
I love Lem's books. They vary in tone quite a bit -- Cyberiad is very whimsical, Solaris is very serious, Memoirs Found In A Bathtub is downright Kafkaesque, but they're all excellent.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:03:00 PM
- allan said...
Better late than never (and still somewhat hurried):
1. Infinite Jest
2. Egyptian pyramids (the really big ones)
3. The opening of Woody Allen's Manhattan
4. Fenway Park (in person)
5. The opening blast of "Safe European Home" by the Clash
6. Sistine Chapel ceiling
7. Jean-Michel Basquiat's art
8. Video of REM from 1982 to 1985 (2 complete shows!!)
9. Kevin Millar's mouth, approximately 5-6 PM, October 17, 2004
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:06:00 PM
- James Redekop said...
Just for the lulz, here's Google's translation of the Polish passage:
- Let them work out a poem about cyberotyce! - He said, suddenly brightened. - To get there was more than six lines, and in them the love and betrayal, about music, about blacks, the higher spheres, about the tragedy of incest, to rhyme and that all of the words were just beginning C!!
- A whole exposition of the general theory of infinite automata there is no time to be? - Yelled enraged to live Trurl. - You can not put so kretyńskich conditions ...
But I did not finish because the sweet baritone, filling the entire hall, just said:
Cyprian cyberotoman, cynic, valuing fondly
Black daughter of the imperial dark miracle of the body,
Still lyre charmed. Czerwieniała whole,
Quiet, every day she waited, suffered, watched ...
... Cyprian aunt kisses, Cisna Gypsy!
It's kind of impressive for a machine, but it's no Electronic Bard...
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:08:00 PM
- laura k said...
Better late than never (and still somewhat hurried):
Not late - I'm still expecting several other entries. Awesome list!
Millar. <3
I'll have to catch up with this Polish translation convo tomorrow. :)
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:25:00 PM
- laura k said...
Oh my. I just watched the Manhattan sequence. Not only is my heart squeezing with joy and love for that movie and that city, but it's fucking RHAPSODY IN BLUE which almost squeezed out The Brown Album on my own list. For me that is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever. Ever ever.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:30:00 PM
- impstrump said...
The English translation certainly captures sibilance (I think that's the word?) of the original Polish. The Polish C is pronounced as S, and Polish is a lispy language to start with. At first glance, I figured the English translator wrote a poem with as many S's as he could fit in there and then adapted the character's request of the robot to match, but now that I think about it some more, the original Polish author probably did the exact same thing.
As for the long poem, either the English translator took the mathematical theme of the Polish a few steps further, or all the Polish words I don't understand are mathematical. (That's the problem with scifi in languages I don't understand well - when I see a word I don't understand, I don't know if it's sciencey or made-up or just my lack of fluency). What's especially cool (even if you can't read Polish, just read it out loud using an internally consistent phonetic model) is that "Że zwarciem zagrażają, idąc z oczu w oczy" becomes " We shall encounter, counting, face to face." The translator took the assonance of the Polish a step even further into the English. Well done!
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:35:00 PM
- laura k said...
Don't let us win tonight.
OMG Allan your list keeps making me cry! In a good way.
- Friday, August 05, 2011 8:37:00 PM
- James Redekop said...
Thanks for the comments on the translation!
Kanedel's English translations of Lem, and especially this story, are often cited as examples of great translations of difficult material. Doug Hofstatder wrote extensively about translation using the Electronic Bard, which is where I first became conscious of the difficulty of such translation.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 5:56:00 AM
- deang said...
Ah! I don't know if I can participate because it will take a long time and I no longer maintain home internet access so I don't spend as much time here as I used to. And this one would take a long time to think about. The first thing that came to mind, though, was Vaughan Williams "Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" and "Antarctic Symphony." So many other possibilities!
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:20:00 AM
- allan said...
10. Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the WTC towers.
11. A type of harmony singing that is quite prevalent in bluegrass (though hard to find an ideal example of right now! this is close, but what i'm thinking of is bit higher. maybe the "aahhhhh" at 1:52 and 2:00 and 2:23 of this or "carrie darling carrie" on this? it also pops up in some rootsy rock - and it fucking gets me every time. it's floating and airy and propulsive all at the same time. i don't know what it's called ("high lonesome?") or what the notes are but i'll bet it's extremely prevelant in music i like. there is also a certain rhythm guitar sound that may be connected to it. i would love to be able to sound like that.
I thought of a couple more last night, and promptly forgot them. Damn.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 11:50:00 AM
- allan said...
I remembered!
12. Howlin' Wolf! (good god; i posted last june how much i lose my shit when i watch wolf) (wolf is not #12, he may be #1a).
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:05:00 PM
- laura k said...
So glad you thought of it! I was going to include Muddy Waters but I couldn't think of a particular song or performance - it didn't occur to me to just list the man himself. So my two should-haves so far: Rhapsody In Blue, Muddy.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:13:00 PM
- Amy said...
I am even later than Allan. Just catching up after a week with relatively little internet or baseball.
So as I watch the first inning....
1. Beethoven's Violin Concerto
2. Nicole Krauss' History of Love
3. The New York City skyline
4. The Wizard of Oz (book and movie)
5. Rhapsody in Blue (thanks, Allan, for reminding me of Manhattan's opening sequence)
6. Certain dishes at certain restaurants---like the tuna avocado martini at Mac's Shack in Wellfleet
7. Joel Meyerowitz's photography of the Outer Cape
8. Vermeer's paintings, also some of the Impressionist paintings (sorry, hard to limit it to one work or artist, especially with my beach tired brain!)
9. Assisi---the whole city and its cathedral
10. Joni Mitchell singing, especially on Court and Spark
11. Nolan Ryan or Pedro Martinez pitching (in their heydays)
I know there are more books I would add to this list, but I am limited by the number and by my brain. Plus we have already done books.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:27:00 PM
- laura k said...
Thanks, Amy! Court and Spark is certainly on my list, but I figured everything Joni is so predictable from me.
I also love Vermeer. When I was much younger I would have named several Monets and Cezannes, but no more.
Just a reminder to myself and everyone: thos isn't a best-of. Not the all-time top 11, just "name 11".
So we also have The Wizard of Oz in common, along with Charlotte's Web. :)
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 4:30:00 PM
- Amy said...
The Wizard of Oz works for me on so many levels. It's amazing how I relate to it even as an adult.
Sometimes, Laura, I think we knew each other in real space in some alternative universe!
Harvey and I must have listened to Court and Spark hundreds of times in the first years we were together.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 7:39:00 PM
- laura k said...
I know! We have many of these loves in common. You're the only person I know who appreciates Charlotte's Web the way I do. That book certainly makes my short list of art that knocks me out.
I love many films, but I always say my two favourite movies ever are Annie Hall and The Wizard of Oz.
I still listen to Court and Spark a lot, also Hissing of Summer Lawns. And although I think those two plus Blue are Joni's greatest albums, I'm so glad I put the time into appreciating her jazz. It's so interesting, much of it is great - and it set me on a whole new musical course.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:01:00 PM
- Amy said...
I was going to put Charlotte's Web on my list, but since I had already listed it before, I figured I'd add something new. Never knew you were a Wizard of Oz fan!
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:03:00 PM
- laura k said...
"Deduce, You Say" (or just about any classic WB cartoon)
Pure genius. Allan and both love Bugs Bunny - the character himself and the cartoons. I have been known to go around saying, "My name is Elmer J. Fudd, I am a millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht." And of course, the music! The music in those cartoons and the way it was used is simply amazing.
- Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:04:00 PM
- James Redekop said...
The music in those cartoons and the way it was used is simply amazing.
I don't think anyone has ever been able to use music to score comedy as well as Carl W. Stalling. Anyone who has come close has probably been imitating Stalling anyway...
And there's never been another cartooning team like the combination of Chuck Jones (dir), Michael Maltese (story), Maurice Noble (layout), Carl Stalling (music), and Mel Blanc (voices). Jones and Blanc are the best known, but the others are just as important to those cartoons.
And, much as I'm a big fan of Bugs Bunny, I think the the Daffy & Porky spoofs are among the best things WB ever did. Deduce, You Say, Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2th Century, Robin Hood Daffy, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, etc...
I could go on for hours about the WB cartons and their place in art history.
- Sunday, August 07, 2011 7:42:00 AM
- laura k said...
Also Friz Freleng! I'm the opposite - I love Daffy, but it's the wisecracking Brooklyn bunny that steals the show for me. But I agree those WB cartoons have never been rivalled. Absolutely love them.
- Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:08:00 AM
- James Redekop said...
Freleng is great, too, but no-one did expresive faces and body language like Chuck Jones. There's more acting in a five-second shot of Wile E. Coyote coming up with a plan than there is in the typical Dreamworks feature film.
As characters, I do prefer Bugs to Daffy; however, the cartoons that combined Daffy's manic idiocy with Porky's stoic straight-man routine are definitely among my favourites. Daffy, unlike Bugs, is not a stable enough character to carry a cartoon on his own.
There's a great story about Mel Blanc's recovery from a horrendous car accident he was in on Dead Man's Curve in Hollywood. He was in a coma for several days, and didn't respond to anyone, until his doctor leaned close and said, "Hey, Bugs! How are ya?", and Blanc replied, in Bugs's voice, "Ehh, just fine, Doc! How are you?"
Blanc was bedridden for six months after the accident, recording Looney Tunes, Flintstones, & other voice work from his bedroom.
- Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:18:00 AM
- impstrump said...
I never knew until I clicked on Allan's link that the outside of the pyramids aren't smooth.
- Sunday, August 07, 2011 7:15:00 PM
- James Redekop said...
I never knew until I clicked on Allan's link that the outside of the pyramids aren't smooth.
Originally, they were covered with polished limestone, and were very reflective. Over the centuries, though, the limestone was salvaged for other construction projects.
The Pyramid of Khafre still has some casing stones around the summit, though those have been severely weathered over the past few thousand years.
- Monday, August 08, 2011 5:23:00 AM
- Joe Gravellese said...
Bart Giamatti's "Green Fields of the Mind" quote that Joe Castiglione reads every year at the end of Red Sox season
The Leonard Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston.
Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities," especially the ending.
The TV series "The West Wing." I think my lingering unrealistic hope that positive things can be accomplished through the vehicles of the Democratic Party and Washington DC come from the West Wing, so I guess that's a negative, but wow does that show ever consistently give me the chills.
Dvorak's New World Symphony. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yctfXIqugXc
Someone mentioned memories of Pedro Martinez pitching and I'm gonna steal that (and add in memories of Manny Ramirez batting).
Cat Stevens, "Don't Be Shy"
never fails to put me in a certain emotional place
Bapst Library at Boston College
Woody Guthrie, "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"
Always find this to be an inspirational song in tough times.
I know we've discussed that you're not a fan of Nick Hornby, but the first time I read "Fever Pitch" was the strongest experience I ever had of pre-emptively missing a book and not wanting it to be over when I realized it was winding down.
ESPN 30 for 30 documentary: "Four Days in October" about the '04 Sox ALCS comeback. Probably tied with the newly-released Bruins championship DVD (which was just brilliantly done, I've watched it five times already).
- Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:57:00 PM
- laura k said...
Awesome list of awesomeness, Joe.
- Tuesday, August 09, 2011 5:39:00 PM


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22 year old actress Q'orianka Kilcher climbs from a makeshift platform on the anchor chain of the "Clipper Hope" cargo ship and returns to the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior" near the port of São Luis do Maranhão, Brazil. The seven day protest is currently stopping the ship from loading pig iron which is a key ingredient in the steel making process. Greenpeace research has linked this commodity to rainforest destruction, slave labor and the invasion of indigenous land. The steel is eventually bought by major car companies including Ford, GM, BMW and Mercedes.05/21/2012
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Cara-Friend LGBT Youth BELFAST (12-25)
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September 16, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Cara-Friend LGBT Youth Belfast meets weekly on Mondays for all ages 12-25. All LGBTQ+ young people within that age range are welcome to attend. Monday nights are our workshop nights where youth officers or external facilitators present workshops on a range of issues and topics affecting LGBTQ+ young people.
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Hi, and welcome to my first freeBASIC tutorial.
Why another freeBASIC tut, you ask? Well, although there are many out there, they are all either ultra-beginner for the "Hello, World!" program or assume you are a veteran and go straight into great detail. This, however, is different. I will assume you know the basics of BASIC, but only the basics. Here I will explain the stuff you need to know in this tutorial
gap. However, rapidly moving on...
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Before you can add graphics to your program, you need to set your screen mode. This can be done very easily:
screen 13
The SCREEN means graphics mode.
SCREEN 0 Sets the screen mode to text mode
SCREEN 1 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 320x200 with 4 colours (!!!)
SCREEN 2 Sets the screen mode to monochrome (only two colours!!!) graphics mode 640x200
SCREEN 7 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 320x200 with 16 colours (very useful in the past)
SCREEN 8 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 640x200 with 16 colours (not as useful)
SCREEN 9 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 640x350 with 16 colours (VERY useful in the past)
SCREEN 11 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 640x480 with 2 colours (blue and black ????)
SCREEN 12 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 640x480 with 16 colours
SCREEN 13 Sets the screen mode to graphics mode 320x200 with 256 colours!
SCREEN 13 21 These set the screen mode to graphics mode with at least 320x240 with 256 colours. You can also specify how many bits per pixel there are.
Now let's add something a lot more exciting:
screen 13 circle (150,100),8 sleep
Here we tell the computer to draw a circle at coordinates 150x100, which is the centre on the 300x200 screen, and it will
have a diameter of 8. Then sleep. Pretty simple, eh? Let's spice it up a bit:
screen 13 circle (150,100),20,2 circle (150,100),10,3 sleep
Now we have COLOUR! The 2 and 3 determine the colour of our circles. Try making your own program with more, differently
coloured circles.
Finally, the grand finale. We will create a circle-text hybrid program with input. Behold:
screen 13 do circle (42,155),22,2 locate 20, 5 print "Press t" loop until inkey()="t" do circle (100,155),22,3 locate 20, 10 print "Now press y" loop until inkey()="y" do circle (158,155),22,4 locate 20, 19 print "Now u" loop until inkey()="u" circle (218,155),22,5 locate 20, 26 print "Okey Dokey!" sleep
Locate will put any text you then request to be printed at a particular point on the computer screen. Cool, huh? However, a flaw in this approach is that the locate coordinates are different to and sometimes do not match the
circle coordinates. Now you know about screen, circle and locate you can fool about and make your own graphical programs in freeBASIC.
Good luck!
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I took this portrait of Jonathan Poneman and Megan Jasper for Fortune Small Business last year during the Sub Pop Records 20th anniversary. Jonathan is the co-founder of Sub Pop (Seattle, WA) and Megan is the VP. Sub Pop is the original label of Nirvana. A few other bands who are currently with, or used to be with the label include: Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, The Shins, Flight of the Conchords, The White Stripes and Fleet Foxes. Thanks for the Fleet Foxes CD by the way! Great album!
Megan has a pretty funny story about being interviewed by The New York Times back when grunge became popular. She was asked to define "grunge" words or phrases, and she basically just made everything up. And they printed it. On the front page. There is a video clip about the story (here).


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Animal Facts
Scientific Name
Cryptochiton stelleri
Animal Type
mainly red algae; also sea lettuce and giant kelp
to 13 inches (33 cm)
snails, clams, limpets, octopuses; Phylum: Mollusca; Class: Polyplacophora
from Alaska west to Japan and south to the Channel Islands
Natural History
To most of our touch pool visitors, the gumboot chiton is an unfamiliar, mysterious creature. A mantle—thick, leathery, and brick-red—hides the chiton's eight shell plates and its muscular foot, which anchors the gumboot to a rock. Unlike other chitons that can cling tightly, the gumboot is easily dislodged and may be washed ashore during storms.
To touch a gumboot is to feel the fuzzy texture of about 20 species of red algae that live on the mantle and give the gumboot its brick-red color. The gumboot also eats red algae, which probably adds to its color as well.
The gumboot uses its tonguelike radula to scrape algae from rocks. The radula has many tiny teeth capped with the element magnetite; the teeth contain so much magnetite, in fact, that a magnet can pick them up.
The gumboot is one of about 650 species of chitons, which have remained virtually unchanged for over 500 million years. The gumboot needs little food, has simple body parts and is ignored as food by most other creatures, including humans. The gumboot's only natural predator is the lurid rock snail.
Sometimes in the spring, great numbers of chitons gather on rocky beaches, probably venturing in from deeper waters to spawn. When you see chitons or other tide pool creatures, it's best just to look, not touch—so the animals stay safe and undisturbed in their rocky shore homes.
Cool Facts
The gumboot is nocturnal—it usually feeds at night.
The gumboot chiton is the largest chiton in the world.
When exposed to air during low tide, the gumboot can breathe oxygen from the atmosphere.
The shell plates are often broken, but the gumboot can repair such breaks.


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Blackberry 10 – The King is Dead…Long live the King!
Last week I was in Orlando at IBM Connect. I was able to see the new Blackberry10 get released . I was also able to play with it, touch it, and learn more about why it is the device that fits both of your worlds, fun and business. I can tell you it is a really neat device that is fast, and is a whole new way of thinking made very easy.
Full disclosure : I am a Mac Users. I have a 17″ Macbook, a few iPads, and iPod, and an iPhone5. I love my Apple products. They are simple and they work.
With that said the Blackberry10 is the device that will save the company. Yes, I said it, the BB10 is going to help turn around Blackberry and increase the sales globlaly.
There are a lot of people out there saying RIM or now Blackberry is done, over, finished, but they all fail to remember they still have a huge customer base. A customer base that is still growing and with two new devices about to come out plus the ability to manage all your devices in your Enterprise without buying anything new…can you say AWESOME!
The gadget heads out there only know gadgets are not able to measure the Blackberry. So if you look at it from a device level, then yes I can see that you would be explaining the soon to be demise of Blackberry. The gadget heads all forget about the companies, large companies that have invested in Blackberry, over the past 13+ years), because of it's security and reliability. The gadget heads all forget about this part. They don't understand business. All they understand is Angry Birds, texting and Facebook.
There are also the media tech types who have been waiting for Blackberry to fall, and while I find this to be nothing but FUD, it continues even after the BB10 launch. RIM started cleaning up house and reorganizing a year or so ago with the intentions of make the products and the company stronger. Any other company would have been applauded for this but Blackberry/RIM have suffer a year of people waiting outside the hospital room ready to rejoice when they pass away. In todays society I don't know why we get excited when companies or people fail? We should want them to succeeded even if they stumble along the way. Blackberry will probably admit later that the Blackberry7 was not their best work and by no means helped, but it woke them up!
Blackberry has always been about making your data secure and connecting your back end systems to your front end mobile devices. They have made this very easy with the new devices and the new ways to connect.
Blackberry had a couple of missteps but they sat down and gave the world a good long think and came up with Blackberry10 and BES10. They are both going to change the way you do Mobile. The upside is for all you enterprise folks out there you don't have to do all that much to get going. It's the same reliable technology you have been using for over a decade. The new BES10 can also do MDM for iOS and Android devices. So no need to have that third party MDM laying around wasting more of your companies money. Throw it out! Use the BES10 (renamed from the Blackberry Fusion Server)
The Blackberry10 is hot, they are going to make you re-think mobile from the MDM level and the device level. Blackberry will not be able to win over the Apple and Android fan boys who don't understand how secure mobile computing works, but they don't have to. If you are a company and your IT shop is not looking at the new Blackberry10 for any reason you are clearly dealing with bias and prejudice and might want to rethink your mobile IT staff while you rethink your secure mobile device strategy.
There is a way to do easy reliable secure mobile computing and not sacrifice on the device side now and it's call Blackberry10!
IBM Connect 2013 (Lotusphere 2013)
IBM Connections just wrapped up in Orlando, Florida. For the past 20 years it's been called Lotusphere and somehow I have been able to miss all of them (sarcasm) and was able to attend the inaugural event call IBM Connect.
Energy wise it is on the scale of a Mac World type event. The hype, celebrity and magic is on the same level. We have our own Steve Jobs, just not as bossy. The days are long but the week goes by so fast. The week really starts on Saturday when all the "community leaders" fly in and start enjoying everything Orlando and Disney have to offer. The bloggers and community people are very cool and very tight knit group. I was able to be on the fringes of this group of people. I think if I would have blogged more and been more involved I might have being in the inner circle. Maybe next year? (I am kidding of course)
The opening session was everything I expected. Lots of great new ideas from IBM and people sharing the direction of IBM and the former Lotus product set.
The future is Social Media inside the company and outside the company. It's funny how many people in companies are fighting social media. You can see them on Facebook and Twitter all day long using it and being social, but if you ask them to open up the companies multi million dollar deployment of IBM Connections they think you are crazy and have no idea why? Currently I work for a large Swedish company and we were featured in s a session, the adoption of the internal social site in North America has been lack luster, and I plan to change that starting next week.
The sessions were awesome. All but one was worth the time I spent seeing them. One of them was probably very useful for some people but the title and description were not what the speaker was actually covering so I left and found something else to listen to. No problems there. Down the one row of halls there were four or five other sessions that were up my alley.
I finally got the oprotunity to meet Mat Newman in person along with Bruce Elgort and his very relaxing wife Gayle who run Elguji Software. There were lots of others who I was meeting for the first time after talking to them online for years and even more people I never got the change to talk to. I guess that will happen next year?
The take away is this. Lotus might be a name that is behind of but there is one company on the face of the earth offering you a social solution that works. With a community of passionate people driving the innovation. There are faults with IBM and it's products but they listen to the customers. They know they have to listen. This is why IBM Connect is so important.
I sure hope I get to attend 2014! Thanks for making my first IBM Connect an awesome one!
No Politics Here
So it's been a while since I have posted here and I think it's time I post something. Sorry for the long delay. I have a post I am getting ready to explain why I have been gone and you will understand the complexity of what I have been working on.
It's another political season and with that brings out the political comments. I am NOT going to get political but I am going to tell you why, from a technical perspective, no one gives a "rats rear end" about your political opinion.
Other technical people, new and old come to blogs like this to learn something by stay in tuned with the technology they support.
That is it!
If you think a Lotus Admin or Lotus Designer is remotely interested in your political opinions you could not be more wrong then you are right now.
Sadly I feel into this trap four years ago when I was using my own blog as a place to voice my political opinions. Others were doing it was well and frankly it got way out of hand so much so the Lotus Community was permanently fractured. The people who are still posting political opinions are the people who IMHO did the most harm and continue to. Harm is a funny word what it does is alienates Technical Professionals who might have engaged you to ignore you.
This bit of advise goes to people who own a small business, have a blog and talk politics. Frankly I don' think it's good for business and wonder how many potential customers you drive away with your politics. The number is not measurable since the people who will not do business with you are never going to call you and say "I would have used you but you our politics are very different.", they are just not going to call you.
As the Lotus community continues to retract from the political post they are not slowing down. So if you are a Lotus Expert or Professional and you have a blog….or just an IT professional….keep the politics to yourself and stick to what you know. Most people know who they are going to vote for and don't care what your opinion is, nor do they think you can sway them. Stick to what you know….technology….no one is going to argue with you there unless you are wrong and that can be proven one way or another where as politics is a matter of opinion.
Lotus Administration eBooks?
I was in the shower, that is where I do all of my good thinking, and I said to myself….the last great Domino Book I have is over 9 years old and a few versions back, I think version 6.
It might be high time to write a new book that people can use. The problem is if you know the book I am talking about written one Brian Benz and Rocky Oliver called the Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible and it's well over 1032 pages of juicy Lotus goodness. I have one on my desk at work and one on my desk at home. Even though we are not on version 8.5.3 it's still relevant to some extent.
I also know that Rocky and Brain slaved over this book for many many days getting to done. It was by no means easy. Still the normal book publishing community scoffs at books on or about Lotus Products. There are a few new books about this and that but nothing on the scale of THE BIBLE!
I was thinking about doing it in small easy to manage books one about each topic or section of the Administration and the server. I don't know enough about Domino Designer to do much at all, but between the Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes, and the Administration Client I think there are about 20 – 30 books to be written. My feeling was to start with the easy stuff and build up but never write a book to deep so that you could pick up any of them and get something out of them. I think selling them for $1.99 or $2.99 each online would be a fair price, but I am going to need some help.
- Would you rather be one big book for one big price?
- or a bunch of small books for a small price?
- Do you think there is a market for this type of info?
IBM OS/400 & Domino 8 Issues
I have been fighting a problem at my current employers environment that has been hard to diagnose. The mail servers run on IBM's Power Platform and iOS (OS/400) V5R4. The Domino version is 8.5.1 FP4. That said you would think that everything is going to be just fine. There is plenty of memory, plenty of CPU and about 1.5TB of extra disk space. Evertyhing should be perfect, but it's not and you know this because I would not have started out by saying I was "fighting a problem".
What was the problem?
There are two servers. One primary and one secondary. The majority of the users would run on the primary until it crashed then as expected would jump over to the secondary. Problem was when they started to move to the secondary the server would run up 300% CPU (Which is ok in a LPAR system if you have the CPU) and eventually just crash as well leaving NO mail server, which is a bad thing.
Ater begging for help from IBM Support I finally got some answers about the issue. Seems there is a problem with OS/400 V5R4 that does not make Domino 8.5.X very happy. Seems the issue lies in the way OS/400 does a look up on the files/DBs and OS/400 adds a 4K record to every record looked up. On a server with over 5000 users and a Domino Directory with 25,000 users and 65,000 Groups that is going to get messy. So when the fail over started the server would go nuts trying to index, compact, failover and do lookups to make sure everything was right and going into this spiral of doom eventually crashing. You add 4K to every record, every lookup and every little document while it is failing over and you get all kinds of issues.
So not only was my primary down, not my secondary was down as well.
So with both server down a few questions come up;
1 . Why and 2. When can we move to Exchange.
1. I am working on it and 2. Never!
I am still looking for the IBM Article that shows the problem. I will try to contact IBM Support again this weekend get it. I am sure some of you want to know more.
The fix is simple (I use the term loosley) upgrade the OS to V6R1 or V7R1 and it fixes the problem. But in a big IT environment it's not that easy. So I have spent the past 6 months building new servers and moving them into place to replace the old one. Still in the process of doing this today and things are going well. The secondary server is doing good and the primary is due for a swap out in the next few weeks.
Now the question is WHY?
Why is this an issue?
Why did IBM fail to fix it years ago and lastly WHY is V5R4 still supported?
I know in the next few months V5R4 will fall out of support. I think it is later this year, but as some of you have pointed out this is unacceptable and the question needs to be asked. Why did IBM not want to invest the time to fix what I consider one of it's most stable and most robust OS'es (short of OS/2 🙂 )
I am still here….
So it's been a long while since I have posted anything. I have been in the middle of a fire fight at work getting things fixed up and working. The smoke is starting to clear and frankly I have learned some new things about Lotus I need to share. There is a Twitter Account that goes along with this blog and I will be tweeting as best I can using it and the blog to try to make an impact on the businesses who user Lotus, don't use Lotus and everyone else.
I am not dead
Life has gotten in the way of blogging and to my 2 fans I am very sorry. I have been dealing with a few life changes and assure you I am alive and willing to start blogging again. Sorry again for the outage.
Hope everyone enjoyed Lotusphere 2011. Some day I actually plan on making it down there and enjoying it myself.
Happy New Year Everyone
May 2011 be filled with Lotus Installations and Lotus deployments all over your company! To those running Exchange and getting tired of that one trick pony….call IBM and make this year full of Lotus!
Merry Christmas Everyone
I have been on a bit of a vacation. Sorry for not posting. I took 2 full weeks off and went on a 10-Day Panama Canal Cruise with Holland America. It was wonderful and I would recomend it to anyone. With Lotusphere only 30 days away it's time to ramp up the Lotus posts.
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and may the NEW YEAR be the best ever!
I want to get some . . . Lotus Training
I am looking for "other" Lotus training. I know about Integro in Denver, and they are super people that supported the local Lotus User Group, but I am trying to get more of a list of places that offer Lotus Training other than IBM/Lotus. I am also a big fan of TLCC as well.
Hit me with your favorite places to send people to train or where you go to learn more?