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This is, I think, an amusing and instructive tale. I'm a bit sorry to be telling it, because I have a lot of friends at Yahoo! (especially in the Research division), and I respect the organization. The point is not to criticize Yahoo! Answers, however: keeping pollution out is a hard problem for user-contributed content information services, and that their system is imperfect is a matter for sympathy, not scorn.
While preparing for my recent presentation at Yahoo! Research, I wondered whether Yahoo! Mail was still using the the Goodmail spam-reduction system (which is based on monetary incentives). I couldn't find the answer with a quick Google search, nor by searching the Goodmail and Yahoo! corporate web sites (Goodmail claims that Yahoo! is a current client, but there was no information about whether Yahoo! is actually using the service, or what impact it is having).
So, I thought, this is a great chance to give Yahoo! Answers a try. I realize the question answerers are not generally Yahoo! employees, but I figured some knowledgeable people might notice the question. Here is my question, in full:
Is Yahoo! Mail actually using Goodmail's Certified Email? In 2005 Yahoo!, AOL and Goodmail announced that the former 2 had adopted Goodmail's "Certified Email" system to allow large senders to buy "stamps" to certify their mail (see e.g., http://tinyurl.com/2atncr). The Goodmail home page currently states that this system is available at Yahoo!. Yet I can find nothing about it searching Yahoo!Mail Help, etc. My question: I the system actually being used at Yahoo!Mail? Bonus: Any articles, reports, etc. about its success or impacts on user email experience?
A day later I received the following "Violation Notice" from Yahoo! Answers:
You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. As a result, your content has been deleted. Community Guidelines help to keep Yahoo! Answers a safe and useful community, so we appreciate your consideration of its rules.
So, what is objectionable about my question? It is not profane or a rant. It is precisely stated (though compound), and I provided background context to aid answerers (and so they knew what I already knew).
I dutifully went and read the Community Guidelines (CG) and the Terms of Service (TOS), and I could not figure out what I had violated. I had heard elsewhere that some people did not like TinyURLs because it it not clear where you are being redirected, and thus it might be used to maliciously direct traffic. But I saw nothing in the CG or TOS that prohibited URLs in general, or TinyURLs specifically.
So I contacted the link they provided to appeal the deletion. A few days later I received a reply that cut-and-pasted the information from the Yahoo! Answers help page explaining why content is deleted. This merely repeated what I had been told in the first message (since none of the other categories applied): my content was in violation of the CG or TOS. But no information was provided (second time) on how the content violated these rules.
Another address was provided to appeal the decision, so I wrote a detailed message to that address, explaining my question, and my efforts to figure out what I was violating. A few days later, I got my third email from Yahoo! Answers:
We have reviewed your appeal request. Upon review we found that your
content was indeed in violation of the Yahoo! Answers Community
Guidelines, Yahoo! Community Guidelines or the Yahoo! Terms of Service. As a result, your content will remain removed from Yahoo! Answers.
Well… Apparently it's clear to others that my message violates the CG or the TOS, but no one wants to tell me what the violation actually is. Three answers, all three with no specific explanation. Starting to feel like I'm a character in a Kafka novel.
At this point, I laughed and gave up (it was time for me to travel to Yahoo! to give my — apparently dangerous and community-guideline-violating — presentation anyway).
I have to believe that there is something about the use of a URL, a TinyURL, or the content to which I pointed that is a violation. I've looked, and found many answers that post URLs (not surprisingly) to provide people with further information. Perhaps the problem is that I was linking to a Goodmail press release on their web site, and they have a copyright notice on that page? But does Yahoo! really think providing a URL is "otherwise make available any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright" (from the TOS)? Isn't that what Yahoo's search engine does all the time?
End of story.
Moral? Yahoo! Answers is a user-contributed content platform. Like most, that means it is fundamentally an open-access publishing platform. There will be people who want to publish content that is outside the host's desired content scope. How to keep out the pollution? Yahoo! uses a well-understood, expensive method to screen: labor. People read the posted questions and make determinations about acceptability. But, as with any screen, there are Type I (false negative) and Type II (false positive) errors. Screening polluting content is hard.
(My question probably does violate something, but surely the spirit of my question does not. I had a standard, factual, reference question, ironically, to learn a fact that I wanted to use in a presentation to Yahoo! Research. A bit more clarity about what I was violating and I would have contributed desirable content to Yahoo! Answers. Instead, a "good" contributor was kept out.)


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Here's another scan of something I found in my room while going through all my things. At this point I don't even remember where it was, nor do I remember receiving it, but it had to be in the mid 1990s when I became a citizen of this great country. Posting it now, when the country is under attack from within, seems appropriate.
Although I usually say "enjoy" for museum posts, tonight I instead urge all to stay vigilant in the face of tyranny. Even small actions of kindness during our everyday lives can add up to more positivity in society, whether it's Hong Kong, the USA, or anywhere else in the world. Treat all people the way you would like to be treated and the world will be a happier place. It is sad that politicians and bureaucrats do not understand this basic tenet of humanity.
The PDF can be downloaded or viewed here:
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Jeremy Denk opened his concert with a short talk stating that he was presenting an overview of Western music. He said he would be tracing tonalities and chromatic developments. From the outset Denk implied that he was playing contemporary interpretations of period pieces.
Denk opened with one of the most famous of medieval compositions: Machaut's "Douce dame jolie," a song that proposes love to a lady. This fourteenth-century piece was originally meant for the lute, since neither harpsichord nor piano had yet been invented. He played it in the manner of a John Field nocturne—slowly, meditatively, with open spaces between notes. After another optimistic Machaut love song, Denk played "Triste plaisir," by fifteenth-century composer Gilles Binchois, which portrayed a more complicated ambivalence concerning love and its brief pleasure.
A cascade of short pieces followed, demonstrating the influence of religion and wit on music in England and France. Then the scene moved to Italy, tracing a renewal of romance. With Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, and J. S. Bach, music became more cerebral and abstract. Scarlatti remained secular, witty, sarcastic and supercilious, while Bach achieved the apex of a stunning new contrapuntal synthesis within a more universal religious context.
After intermission gears shifted to Mozart: his effortless lyricism and scintillating intellectuality behind a newly invented Romanticism. Beethoven's Sonata no. 5 plunged into the now-personal depths of this Romanticism with explosive shudder as Schubert transformed lyricism to encompass a wider social context, and Schumann withdrew back into entrenched, breathless, dissonant statement.
Two Chopin Préludes cast us backward toward Mauchaut's optimism, while Liszt cracked open a wider and wilder dramatic chromaticism with his clanging piano arrangement of Isolde's Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Brahms offered a subtle nostalgic revival of Bach's counterpoint with Klavierstücke. Schoenberg ushered in a new dizzy scale, and Debussy reinvented a transcendent lyricism. Denk wrung the Debussy both high and low and so wondrously that I sat transfixed in astonishment.
A nocturne by Poulenc followed; its delicate classicism was bruised by the edgy blue notes of jazz. Denk tackled Igor Stravinsky's humorous, lengthy cubist landscape "Piano-Rag-Music," in which asymmetrical rhythms, unusual juxtapositions and seemingly whimsical notes sparkled at unexpected angles.
The serialism of Stockhausen and Glass, with tricks of crosshanded notes and an obsession with the higher register of the keyboard, achieved a lyrical transcendence that was nearly religious in inspiration.
The climax rested on the shoulders of György Ligeti. "Autumn in Warsaw" ostensibly refers to an annual festival of contemporary music held in Warsaw. The piece explores a continuous transformation of the initial descending figure, using overlapping groups of serial notes with unexpected chromatic explosions, concluding with a bass smash of the keyboard. This étude is dedicated to Ligeti's Polish friends who died or endured imprisonment during the Holocaust, hence the abrupt and shocking ending of the piece. Denk emphasized descending chromatic lines presenting beautiful harmonies, yet those lines ironically erase any perception of beauty. This most heartfelt performance concluded with the horror of brutal realism—a long journey from Machaut, and from love as the initial inspiration for Western classical music.
Binchois's "Triste plaisir" was played once more, with a slightly jaunty and elegiac jazz rhythm. This time the piece was not regret for complications involving a momentary love dalliance but rather an ironic satire on a civilization devoted to extermination, a message as vital today as it was when "Autumn in Warsaw" was composed in 2006, just before Ligeti's death.
In his Introduction Denk had announced that he was going to end the concert with a question, which must have gone something like this: will music and civilization, with its wealth of humanity's exfoliating gifts, follow the path of romance and love, or will it embrace self-hatred, environmental apocalypse or collective annihilation?
The audience demanded three bows from Denk. He played with impassioned grace, immediacy and a feeling of spontaneity amid the epic sweep of Western music, stamping it with his own imprint. At one point his sheet music became entangled; he brushed it away with comic annoyance.
My colleague Tonia Shoumatoff helpfully contributed though conversation and notes to this review.


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My aunt brought this tiny jar of of jelly back from a trip to England. It was really cute and I almost didn't want to use it but then I opened it and it smelled so good. And really I think saving an unopened jar of jelly is crossing a line and would make me a hoarder.
I think the name Tipsy Strawberry & Champagne is hilarious and the other Alice had a little size change when she ate things that told her to so I was hoping for some kind of reaction. But alas I am still the same old Alice.
I think it's probably enough for 4 pieces of toast (I've already had 3 in the last 24 hours). I did put a lot on the first piece that I had yesterday. I put less on the two pieces I ate this morning so that I can have a little more tomorrow.
She gave it to me with this tiny bag that only fits a tiny jar of jelly, or a tiny bottle of something to drink. Maybe once I finish the jar I'll grow...


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Perhaps this is the best way to sum up CityPlace's new tenant, Copper Blues Rock Pub & Kitchen: beer, live music and more-than-the-usual pub fare (much of it prepared in a stone hearth oven).
Copper Blues Rock Pub & Kitchen (550A Rosemary Ave.; www.copperblueslive.com) opened about a week ago—it's part of a burgeoning Copper Blues chain—and takes its name from the live music it features (Wednesday through Saturday nights) and copper pipes that feed beer to the bars' taps offering more than 60 different beers.
Other interior elements include communal tables, steel features, antique-y-looking lighting, and brick and barn-style touches; at the front of the place, there's an outdoor beer garden and herb garden.
The menu's is divided into such sections as "buns" (sandwiches—$5-$13—such as a burger and braised short rib), "bites" (a variety of appetizers—hummus, turkey pot pie, tarragon-poached shrimp, etc.), salads and "crusts" (pizzas).
Elsewhere at CityPlace: Two restaurants under the same ownership are offering, throughout the month of May, a free food item for all moms with a paid dinner entrée.
At Deck's Fish Market (700 S. Rosemary Ave., #232), it's a free appetizer of mom's choice.
At Pampas Grille (651 Okeechobee Blvd.), moms receive a free lobster tail with a paid rodizio dinner (seafood, poultry of meat), which a layman might describe as one of those never-ending protein feasts served on swords.


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Posts Tagged Fail Angel
And then hell froze over.
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on March 8, 2012
Sunday Surprise
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on June 20, 2010
This is the only time you shall see me playing a fail angel:
"Amber, did you reactivate your Champions Online account?"
"And did you really sit there and try to recreate a Spirit of Redemption?"
Disc "vs" Holy
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on June 9, 2010
I was slogging through my feed reader earlier when I came across 2fps's post here.
I can't comment while I'm at work and I'll forget by the time I get home, so TIEM FOR POST.
Way back in BC when my guild was faltering on Gurtogg Bloodboil I talked to the healing lead about possibly speccing into a deep Disc build for Pain Suppressioning our clothies on the Fel Rage. … Of course, nothing came of it because Holy was such a powerhouse by comparison.
Wrath launched and it seemed like Blizzard was listening to my stump speeches because Disc suddenly blossomed into a real true healing spec competitive not just with its Holy counterpart, but with any other healing spec from any other class as well.
The unfortunate fallout of this otherwise awesome turn of events is that so many priests have completely forsaken Holy altogether. …
Here's the thing: despite your objections and your hot displeasure, Holy actually is a great healing spec with a ton of awesome tools to bring to the table and you're only gimping yourself and possibly your raid by sticking with vehement denials.
One of the BoO "catch phrases" is that Real Priests Are Holy. Of course half the reason anyone says this is to get my goat, but I am the only disc priest main in the guild right now. If holy has now become maligned amongst the general populace I am certainly uanware of it. It's also silly.
One issue hindering the disc priest is that we don't "stack" well. You can have three holy priests in a raid. Have you ever tried to raid with 3 disc priests? If you are going with the raid Bubble trend, then what you have is three priests sniping bubble targets from each other and generally going insane.
I don't think that many holy priests turned away from their specs–not entirely. Instead, I think there's several priests out there sporting both specs. Disc, for its many useful properties and holy for its…many…useful properties.
The biggest bonus to disc, though, is that I don't have this big shiny announcement to the world when I fuck up and die.
Karma's a Bitch
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on March 18, 2010
One time we were doing ToC25, and my little sister was killed by Icehowl's charge. I openly mocked her, as was my sisterly duty. The very next time Icehowl charged, I died to it.
Did I learn from this karmic retribution?
Aww HELL no.
Last night we were clearing our way to Rotface, and we pulled one of the puppies. The puppies are always a bitch for reasosn unknown…no wait, I do know. We're the guild that wipes on Gunship while one shotting everything else in Lower Spire-of COURSE the mini bosses are hard. Anyway. I see a tell-tale fail angel and teasingly tell the priest in question, Oasic, to Desperate Prayer more.
You see where this is going, right? Of course you do.
AS MY PTT BUTTON IS STILL DOWN, AND I AM STILL TALKING SMACK, I died.
Mad skills. I have them.
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on March 5, 2010
Last night was Beat Our Heads on Rotface night. It not was an ideal night, as one of our tanks had gotten hacked, another tank was gone for his father's birthday, etc etc.
I've heard some good reasons to AFK in my time, included "afk earthquake" and "brb, fire". I can now add to the list one of our own, that in the very least is….random.
We're sitting there almost ready to pull Rotface again when Josh answered his phone, then abruptly gets up from the chair and walks away. I halt the raid and flail in confusion while I figure out what's going on. The problem?
Josh's parents are driving home from picking his brother up at the airport, and they're going to stop by and say hi!!!!!!
Yeah, that kind of stalled the raid.
So, what are some funny/unexpected reasons YOU have seen for AFKs?
Rage, Real and Feigned
Posted by Amber Teasdale in Stuff and Things on February 4, 2010
A lot of my infamous rage on this blog is, if not feigned, at least greatly exaggerated. Rants are funny, I like being funny, so what could be better than funny rants?
Underneath the faux rage is, however, a very real build up of genuine anger. I'm frustrated with some attitudes, and some people. And some day, I'm not going to bite my tongue anymore.
It's already starting to show. Part of the problem is, of course, in my own attitudes. I often tell myself, in relation to horseback riding, that the horse only misbehaves as much as I let him. If I don't get respect it's because I've given people little to no reason to. If people don't do what they're supposed to, it's because there's no repercussions if they don't.
I'm standing on the edge of changing all that. Brotherhood of Oblivion is my guild. Not Steve's, not Josh's, not anyone else's. I do want as many people happy as possible, yes. It is not, in any way shape or form, all about me. But right now, it is not in my best interest or theirs that GMing BoO makes me miserable. And you know what? It's making me miserable.
Not any more.
I have my pointy stick, and my sand, and I shall be drawing some lines. If you cross them I will POKE YOU IN THE MOTHER FUCKING EYE.
/brandishes stick
/pokes self
I want to continue having fun in raids, killing bosses while having ribald conversations about buttsechs-but I want to do it without being talked over in vent during loot. Tell jokes about how I get lost in Gruul's and ToC, but don't arms tank when I explicitly tell you not to. Be my lovably dorky crew without…you know…being douchebags.
Novel concept?
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Nail Polish Sales And The Recession
Apparently being broke isn't stopping folks from buying nail polish. An article posted on Yahoo's Shine titled Nail Polish is the New Lipstick: High Sales Marks New Recession Indicator, quotes a study from NPD Group, a market research firm, that states that nail polish sales have gone up 65% since 2008. The study seemingly indicates a correlation between rough economic times and the increase in nail polish sales.
This isn't the first time that makeup companies have benefited from hard financial periods. Nail polish is seemingly taking over where lipstick left off. Time magazine which is also quoted in the article, explains that in 2001 sales of lipstick had increased and continued climbing until 2007, when sales began to decline. The reason given for the high sale of lipstick then is the same for nail polish's popularity now.
Like the author in the Shine article stated, perhaps nail polish is the trend now because some people aren't able to afford repeated trips to the nail salon. Maybe people have bought all the lipstick they want, and now it's on to nail polish. I know I go through spurts of mini splurges. For a couple of years it was earrings, then body sprays, eyeshadow, lotions, now nail polish.
So it's all very plausible to me. People still want to look and feel pretty regardless of their economic standing. Taking a few dollars and going to buy nail polish is something you can do for yourself and not feel guilty. I believe that when money is tight, you need an inexpensive, personal treat to perk yourself up whether it's nail polish, lipstick, candy, or whatever. It'll be interesting to see in the (hopefully distant future) what will be booming during another economic downturn.
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The gory indie thriller Capture Kill Release is set for its world premiere at the 11th annual Sunscreen Film Festival (Twitter: @SunscreenFF), April 28-May 1. Dubbed 'A Romantic Bloodbath', Capture Kill Release tells the story of a couple who plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it. Things turn ugly when the husband (Farhang Ghajar) decides not to go through with it putting him at odds with the growing bloodlust of his wife (Jennifer Fraser) .
Featuring practical gore-effects guaranteed to make audiences squirm, Capture Kill Release takes an uncomfortable look at our vanity obsessed 'selfie culture' as well exploring how far couples are willing to betray their beliefs for one another.
The supporting cast of Capture Kill Release, Directed by Nick McAnulty and Brian Stewart (Uncle Brian), includes Rich Piatkowski (Dead Rush), Christina Schimmel (The Hospital) and Jonathan Gates.
For more information on Capture Kill Release: http://capturekillrelease.com/
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiBhlMwjJo
Directed by Nick McAnulty http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3942948 Twitter: @NickMcAnulty
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Starring: Jennifer Fraser http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7871449/
Farhang Ghajar http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3944106/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FarhangG
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the weird guy with answers.
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APL, BASIC, C, C++, FORTRAN, Z80 and 8x86 assembely, and what ever hammer is handy to get the box to do magic.
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Include options for measure methods. Example Amps: clsmp meters (AC & DC) and in series. Additional series methods would be series internal / external (for large currents) to the meter. Also electronic modules that do amplification or conversion to digital data via SPI, I2C and magic smoke communication protocols.
How about internship. Visit local high school consulers, which ladies have an interest. Give them a summer or semester job as they go to college. They lose their fear of tech jobs, and gossip to their friends and younger sisters to think engineering.
On the subject of covers for bales of hay ... do it like the big boys. Instead of adverts by Ford, Bridgestone or Valvoline,we could have tarps/bags with names like Atmel, TI or Microsoft. Sponsors would add prises, add color, and maybe the picture of a tunnel to keep Wylee Coyote on his toes when racing with the Road Runner.
... and now the lamps are begining to call him names!
He did not believe it, but Jim may have created at working teleport.
That is one intense hammer!
In the late 60's i started with BASIC. Later when I dived into assembly, reading well commented code help me learn what is happening and why a particular instruction was used. Well commented code, libraries, and examples will help a newbie have confidence to hack a bit of code to do something different. They are not ready to write a new protocol, but want to change which pins are used.
Thanks for putting the subject in the video title. When I hit a bump, (or a part jumps off the board) I can search your posts and recover my nerves sooner. P.S. the differential pairs is spot on for a current communications project. THANKS!!!
On the "tender" subject of doing more "according to Sir Pete": Instead of labeling the episode by date alone, please include a descriptive phrase (e.g. "Detonating Capacitors").
The high preist of the Church of the Spark, the Fun, and the Holy Blue Smoke begins the training of the youngest members.
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Get more use out of the stuff you already own! Make it accessible to friends you trust
Use the IKEO Mobile App to manage and track items in your own personal inventory. Only approved friends you allow are able to view your items available. With the IKEO app you able to keep an inventory of your things and where it is.
Look below to see what IKEO can do for you.
Borrow and Lend things with family members
Buy & Sell
Buy and Sell unused items around the house or in storage
Offer things you no longer want to your social network
Create a private inventory which you can search at anytime
Set items in your inventory to share them with friends and family. These are only made available to people that you accept as friends. Our goal is to provide a safe space to build community resources between those you trust.
Buy and Sell
Search your social network for things no longer wanted. The secondary market is full of useful items that can still be used by a friend! Save time and put it in your inventory. Since there's no expiration, you don't have to worry about constantly maintaining your listing on auction sites or classifieds. IKEO uses PayPal payments so that you can get your money faster. Payments are done via P2P. Set your PayPal address in the settings and that's it or use your paypal to make a purchase.
Give and Ask
The IKEO app allows you to give the item away and make it available to your social network. There's no expiration or need to worry about a feed. It's all categorized so if someone needs it down the line they can ask. You have the option to give if you want or not.
Private Collections
If you want to keep a searchable database of your belongings use our private setting. This sets your item so that only you can see it. You can search your belongings at anytime using our search feature. This feature is useful for keeping track of receipts and other information that gets lost over time.


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Director X (formerly known as Little X) was born in Toronto, Canada, and is of Trinidadian and Swiss descent. After moving to New York City, he became the protégé of pioneering hip hop director Hype Williams. Now X is known for directing high-budget, visually distinctive videos for popular artists, including Drake, Jay Z, Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa, Usher, John Mayer, Korn, Fifth Harmony, Kendrick Lamar and many more.
His work has been nominated and awarded by the MTV Music Video Awards and Much Music Video Awards. Additionally, X has directed commercials for fashion designer Alexander Wang, Beats by Dre, Nintendo, Bacardi, Guinness and Yeo Valley; of the latter he earned a nomination for a Yellow Pencil Award for Outstanding Achievement by the D&AD Global Awards for Smirnoff Raw Tea Party which became a hit campaign for Bartle Bogle Hegarty UK. Whether working on memorable (or meme-able) videos such as Drake's "Hotline Bling" or Rihanna's "Work" or treading completely new ground, Director X continues to push his own boundaries.
Continuing his foray into the world of film and television, Director X made his directorial debut with an edgy drama titled Across The Line, led by the creative team of executive-producer Amos Adetuyi and creator/writer Floyd Kane. The film was awarded Best Feature at the Atlantic Film Festival. As Director X advances through the landscape of filmmaking, he continues to travel from his roots of Toronto to his residence in Los Angeles, trailblazing his way into our homes and onto our television screens.


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The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Surveying the scope of critical art writing today, the board, advisory board, and editors of Gulf Coast recognize the significant lack of venues and support for young and mid-career writers working across the United States. The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing seeks to address this lacuna by bringing exposure to writers who are dealing with the spirit of the age and unafraid to ask difficult questions.
The 2019 Beauchamp Prize will be judged by Jessica Lynne, art critic and a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK.
Grounded in both scholarship and journalism, critical art writing occupies a specific niche. The best examples appeal to a diverse readership through an accessible approach and maintain a unique voice and literary excellence. The Beauchamp Prize will consider submissions of work that has been written (or published) within the last year. A variety of creative approaches and formats to writing on the visual arts are encouraged, and can include thematic essays, exhibition reviews and scholarly essays.
Gulf Coast differs from many other literary journals in its commitment to exploring visual art and critical art writing. The journal has always featured portfolios by visual artists, along with short introductions from critics familiar with their work. In 2013 Gulf Coast merged with the art journal Art Lies, a quarterly publication based in Texas with a respected history of putting artists, curators, scholars, and critics in dialogue with their colleagues around the world. This partnership has driven the journal to significantly expand its contemporary art coverage and reach. Currently, Gulf Coast features sixteen full-color pages of visual art features and twenty-four pages of critical art writing in each issue.
There will be one first place prize of $3,000 dollars and two runners up awarded $1,000 each. Prize winners will be featured in GC's printed journal, as well as online. For previous winners, see the sidebar.
Deadline: September 15, 2019
Entries for the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing should be a single piece of prose, written in English, not exceeding 1,500 words. We will accept submissions both via Submittable and via postal mail.
Contest Guidelines for Online Submissions
- Click here for online submissions accepted via Gulf Coast's Submittable
- Submit your work as a single .doc, .docx, or .pdf file.
- All work submitted must have been written or published within the last year.
- It is the author's responsibility to secure image permissions and, when applicable, reprint permission if the submission has been previously published.
- The contest will be judged blindly, so please do not include your bio, your name, or any contact information in the uploaded document. This information should only be pasted in the "Comments" field.
- There is currently no entry fee for online submissions.
Contest Guidelines for Postal Mail Submissions
- All work submitted must have been written or published within the last year.
- It is the author's responsibility to secure image permissions and, when applicable, reprint permission if the submission has been previously published.
- Please address postal mail entries to:
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- The contest will be judged blindly, so your contact information should appear only on your cover letter.
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What's the #1 source of error and security problems for production processes and documentation? People! So I am delighted to meet companies working on the authentication of people as they perform their work. This is crucial to data integrity in the new digital world.
Much of Industry 4.0 focuses on the product cyber-physical systems (CPS) and the equipment cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). The marketplace they represent is a powerful breakthrough. As more and more of the process is automated, ensuring data integrity is essential. Reducing human intervention only goes so far, even in this futuristic vision. There are and will be people in manufacturing.
Enter companies performing authentication of a person. Biometrics products are certainly not new. In fact, there's an entire list of them here. What caught my eye was Nymi, a company that delivers a novel CPS device that offers:
- multi-factor authentication
- in a wearable band that's unique to the individual
- always-on, Bluetooth and near-field communication (NFC)
- designed to communicate with CPPS for process step / authorization / certification
- able to integrate into MES for full context – AND log-off of a workstation when out of range
The Nymi band can offer complete authentication through an individual's work shift – for every product, every process, every activity. Perhaps most impressive, the wearers won't have an additional burden of walking over to, swiping, looking at, touching, or pausing for some other authentication activity. Once it's set up, the people part of the process becomes just as complete and transparent as any other aspect of CPS-CPPS.
Wearing the band, a user authenticates once when they put it on. Then it is always on, communicating with devices and systems throughout the facility or company. For industries where strict SOPs and process / product documentation and traceability are key, buying bands for operations employees could pay off in a matter of weeks.
For example, this device can be used to log in and out of equipment. It can also be integrated with software systems such as MES. This verifies the user, and can automatically log their time at a workstation – or lock them out of processes for which that user is not certified or needs a training update. Clearly, it can also operate integrated with the facility security and workforce management or time and attendance systems.
Other systems offer biometrics and multi-factor authentication that will work in a regulated environment such as life sciences manufacturing. Some come from software companies, working with generic identifcation hardware such as badge readers, biometric scanners, etc. For example, Synchronoss offers a cloud-based universal ID subscription service for identity proofing, secure authentication, and digital signing and approval as part of its managed mobility solutions. Centrify offers multi-factor authentication as part of its security software suite. So that's good news for buyers – there are choices. Not all use the same approaches, so finding the one that fits your environment is important.
The net net is, this might be a critical enabler for the seamless marketplace that Industry 4.0 envisions. Information from products, equipment AND people – all playing together with the MES putting it in context. User non-repudiation and process specifics, tracked automatically, without extra effort. Now that's a future vision that's automated, secure, compliant and productive.


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In an article in The Times this week Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson called for a halting and re-starting of a consultation of its members and fellows by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). She described the process the College has launched as "a travesty of a consultation" and warned that it "risks bringing the College into disrepute as a professional body".
So what's going on here? The RCP has embarked on yet another consultation about whether its members and fellows want physician-assisted suicide to be legalised and what position the College should take on this controversial issue. At the moment the College is opposed to legalisation, a position adopted in 2006 and confirmed a little over four years ago in 2014. As the majority of doctors don't support legalisation, the likely result would be that the College would confirm its existing stance.
But that doesn't find favour with a minority of activists who want to see an 'assisted dying' law. So the College has been persuaded to change the rules. Under the new rules the College declared that it would automatically adopt a position of neutrality unless either the supporters or the opponents of 'assisted dying' polled at least two-thirds of the total. The two-thirds theshold was hurriedly lowered to 60 per cent following publication of Baroness Grey-Thompson's article. Since none of the three positions on offer - support, oppose and neutral - is likely to reach that threshold, the new default position of neutrality will kick in.
In effect, that will disenfranchise both supporters and opponents. The supporters of legalisation don't mind this. Indeed, it is they who favour the new rules. They know they have no chance of persuading the RCP's members and fellows to support legalisation. But a neutral position, which involves a change from the College's existing position, can be dressed up as 'doctors move closer to assisted dying'.
It is almost beyond belief that a respected body like the RCP has allowed itself to be manoeuvred into this absurd position. In the last (2014) consultation those opposed to 'assisted dying' were the largest group, as were those who voted that the College should remain opposed. Under the new rules, though, their views will be discounted even if they are in the majority but they don't reach the entirely-arbitrary and politically-motivated threshold. The burden of proof has been reversed.
The College's official reason for this nonsense is that neutrality will enable it to represent the views of all its members. It can do that now. There is nothing to prevent the College from pointing out that there is not complete unanimity among its members on this issue: that goes for any professional organisation. But neutrality is a different matter: it sends the wholly misleading message to Parliament and the public that the medical profession is relaxed about being asked to hand lethal drugs terminally ill patients. That is most certainly not the case.
The present consultation needs to be called in and revised, and fellows and members who are concerned about what is going on need to make their views known.


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This note is to aid anyone who is setting up a "brick" as a local oscillator for a microwave system. First will be a short general description and technical overview, followed by technical details of operation and tune-up.
OVERVIEW:The ubiquitous "brick" is a complete phase locked microwave local oscillator system. The VHF portion of the system consists of a crystal oscillator, a power amplifier, a phase detector, sweep and lock-on circuitry, and in some, an FM modulator. The microwave portion is made up of a power oscillator, (in some a power amplifier), a varactor multiplier and a filter. The system produces some tens of miliwatts at the microwave output frequency. The frequency stability is determined by the crystal oscillator. If better stability is required, the internal oscillator is phase locked to an external reference or replaced by a precision external oscillator.
CONFIGURATION: A reference signal in the 96-106 MHz range is produced by the crystal oscillator. After power amplification, it is applied to a step recovery diode. The SRD produces a spectrum in the 1.2 GHz to 2.2 GHz. range. The appropriate line of this spectrum is phase compared with the output of the power oscillator. The error signal from the phase comparator is fed through appropriate filtering to a varactor diode in the coaxial cavity of the power oscillator. This fine-tunes the cavity to the desired spectral line of the SRD. The output of the power oscillator is fed to a varactor multiplier (x6-x8 typ. ). The varactor output is filtered using a comb-line filter to produce the final microwave output. Lock-on is assisted by a sweep which is applied to the power oscillator.
STABILITY: The internal crystal oscillator is used only when stability on the order of +-5 Hz or less is required. There are two problems with the internal oscillator. First, only the crystal itself is in a temperature oven. The balance of the oscillator circuit is exposed to any temperature variations which may be encountered during operation of the system. This can lead to unpredictable drifts. Second, the crystal unit itself is of the TO-5 type. These can be obtained from some manufacturers, but are expensive. A better solution is to remove the crystal from the unit, disable the oven, and use the oscillator circuit as a buffer stage for an external oven stabilized oscillator. The frequency of the oscillator (internal or external) ranges from about 90 MHz to 107 MHz. A typical brick will use a multiplier of x96, x102, or x108 from the oscillator to the final frequency in the x-band range. Some fine 100 MHz ovened oscillators have appeared in surplus and are the basis of several SBMS rigs. (W6HCC, K6OW, WA6CDR and WB6CWN to name several using this system.) A second solution (not recommended) is phase locking the internal oscillator to an external 5 MHz or 10 MHz reference. This requires an amateur frequency crystal in the internal oscillator and a modification to use it as a VCXO. Phase lock boards are available from several sources.
CONVERSION: The first problem with using an external reference oscillator is getting the signal into the brick. Most bricks have a small coax connector which is used to monitor the internal oscillator. This may be used "as is" if you can find a matching connector. Otherwise, the connector may be replaced with a BNC or SMA. To use a BNC, the mounting hole for the original connector is tapped for the BNC. Without a tap, the SMA is recommended, since there is very little room for a nut inside the casting of the brick. Once a suitable connector is in place, use a 1000 pf. capacitor to couple to the oscillator circuit. The oven must be disabled (it wastes a lot of power if you let it run). A simple solution is to turn the temperature pot all the way to the low temperature end. The pot is located near the oven at the end of the brick away from the reference connector. A better solution is the ground the center arm of the pot. That will completely disable the oven.
POWER UP: Most bricks operate on -20 volts at 200 ma. to 400 ma. (Check carefully!! You may find one of the rare ones that uses +20 volts.) This voltage should be regulated, but from -19 to -21 volts is usually satisfactory. It is also important that the voltage be well filtered. Any ripple or noise on this line may show up as trash on your L/O! There are several monitor and control terminals on the side of a brick. The most important of these is the "phase" terminal. It will show the actual sweep and lock-up of the system. This is monitored with a DC coupled "scope" during tune-up. Some bricks have a pair of terminals which must be jumpered together to enable sweep in the phase locked loop. This junction also serves as the monitor point. If the internal crystal oscillator is used, the "xtal" terminal may be used to monitor its output. There is an "alarm" terminal on some bricks. This may be used as a loss-of-lock warning.
TUNE UP: To tune up the brick, a minimum of test equipment is needed. A cavity wavemeter, a detector, suitable attenuators and/or couplers, and a DC coupled "scope". A power meter is nice, but not required. (If a spectrum analyzer is available, most of this is academic!) If you have any crystal that can be used in the internal oscillator, (even better if it is the one that was originally used in the brick), it is a good plan to check the brick on its original operating frequency. This may be well away from its final frequency, but it is good to know that the brick will work before starting frequency changes. Monitor the supply current to the brick on initial power up. Very high or low current is an indication of problems. If you have a power meter, check the power output. This will be a good indication of what to strive for when retuning to a new frequency.
TEST: Connect the brick output to the wavemeter (through appropriate couplers and attenuators as required). Place a detector at the output of the wavemeter and connect it to one channel of the DC coupled "scope". Connect the other channel of the "scope" to the "phase" terminal of the brick. Monitor the power output if possible. Fire up the brick! If the brick locks up, you will see a DC level between -2 and -18 volts at the phase terminal and a DC level from the detector. On the end of the brick there is a shaft (usually about ¼ inch in diameter with a screwdriver slot ) from the cavity of the power oscillator. This is the rough tuning. Turn this shaft slightly (use care if it does not move easily, some have a lock nut.) and there will be a change in the voltage at the phase terminal. This indicates that the phase locked loop is tracking out the change in the power oscillator frequency. Continue turning the shaft and the loop will break lock. This is indicated by a sine or sawtooth sweep waveform on the phase terminal. Check the frequency. From this frequency and the frequency of the internal crystal oscillator, determine the multiplication factor. Most bricks are x102. This factor is important and will be needed to determine the reference frequency required for ham-band use. A typical brick might use a reference frequency of 100 MHz. and a factor of x102 to produce a microwave signal at 10,200 MHz. The multiplier system used in bricks by different manufacturers is different. The varactor multiplier may use a factor of x6 to x8 for x-band bricks. The typical factors (x96, x102, x108) are for an x6 varactor multiplier. This multiplier is found in most Frequency West and California Microwave bricks.
FILTER TUNING: The filter in most bricks must be returned for operation at 10,224 Mhz. This is the low side injection frequency for a 144 MHz IF. To re-tune the filter, it must be removed from the brick and reversed on the brick to expose the tuning adjustments. Most bricks have lock screws which are under the peel-off label in the top of the multiplier. Be sure to loosen these before attempting filter tuning. They use a small (0.050 in.) Allen wrench. It is a good idea to "walk" the filter to the proper frequency. To do this, disable the sweep by grounding the phase terminal. Use a power meter to monitor the output and slowly move the power oscillator toward the desired frequency. Re-tune each of the filter tuning screws for maximum power, then tune the oscillator a bit more in the desired direction and repeat the process. When the final frequency is reached, tighten the lock screws. As they are tightened, the power will vary slightly. Touch up the filter tuning for maximum power as the locking screws are tightened. When these procedures are complete, the brick will be ready to use and form a reliable and stable local oscillator for your system.


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Feature Spotlight: Search
Windows 8 contains powerful new technologies that Windows Store apps can take advantage of. These technologies not only provide a great user experience, but also drive engagement with your apps. Over the next few months we will feature several of these technologies, and show why they can make a difference for your business. To begin, we're taking a look at the Search feature, which lets you engage with users when they most need your services. – Ben Thompson, Partner Marketing Manager
Search is one of the most powerful and useful features in Windows 8. Users can easily search by swiping from the right (or moving the mouse to the right corner) and clicking or tapping the Search charm. Alternately, from the Start screen, users can simply start typing to initiate a search. Not only can they search for apps or files, but they can also search directly within specific apps.
This is a powerful new way to access information: it starts with the query term, and then flows to the appropriate app, driving customer engagement and attachment. Let's look at a few examples of how different types of app can effectively help customers search.
Reference apps
On most platforms, if a user wants to look up a word they need to first decide where to look, open the specific website, app, or search engine, and then input their search term. It's a multi-step process that many users don't want to bother with.
On Windows 8, users can immediately search for the word in question and then choose the search destination, such as the Dictionary.com app, from the list below the search box to display the search results.
The Search feature dramatically improves user engagement for Dictionary.com by surfacing their app in the place where it's most relevant.
Shopping apps
Surfacing your brand where it's most relevant to consumers is particularly important for shopping apps. Suppose someone wants to buy a new touch laptop. Searching on Bing will provide info from any number of retailers. Shopping sites like Amazon work hard to ensure that they are at the top of the search results, but there's no guarantee.
However, a loyal Amazon customer that has installed the Amazon app can search for a touch laptop using the Search charm and immediately see Amazon as a search destination. They don't have to bother with a search engine; instead, they just click on Amazon and get the results they need.
Integrating with search is a great way to increase engagement and loyalty; it allows your brand to appear in front of your users when they most need your product and leads them directly to your app.
Travel apps
When planning a trip, people need to find a booking site, figure out specific airport codes, and figure out what days have the best prices, just to get to a specific destination. It can be a lot of work.
Skyscanner is an app that considers the way users think. Users can simply search for a destination like "Chicago", click Skyscanner, and get a great overview of what day is best to fly from the city they live in.
Smart integration with Search and location awareness earns Skyscanner new customers and provides a superior experience.
Productivity apps
Deep integration into a user's life is critical for productivity apps. By integrating with search, productivity apps become more accessible and grow more natural and invaluable to use.
Evernote uses search to let users quickly look up old notes or articles they've saved. In this case, while watching football, someone who suddenly remembers an article they clipped in Evernote can find it in a snap.
Entertainment apps
Engagement is critical for entertainment and news apps. People hear about hot new shows or breaking news items all the time, but if it's a lot of work to access them, they're likely to forget and move on.
Since Netflix has implemented the Search contract, you can start watching the minute you hear about a movie or show.
By making it so easy to find and watch programs, Netflix increases interaction with their service.
Building a Windows Store app with a great Search contract implementation will help you connect and engage with your customers, meeting their needs in a way that makes sense and feels familiar. Search is just one example of the unique Windows 8 technologies that make apps better.
To learn more about adding Search to your app, download the Search contract sample and be sure to check out the guidance and examples on our Dev Center.


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Essential Oil Jewelry: How I've Maintained My Sanity This Week
It's no secret that I like for my space to smell good. From incense to candles to scentsy plug-ins, I enjoy them all. At Christmas I received an essential oil diffuser as a gift, and since then, I've utilized essential oils on a daily basis.
Even before diffusing oils in my home, I occasionally used them for different purposes (lavender for calming, peppermint for my frequent headaches, and a few drops of thieves in coconut oil on MJ and Xander for preventative measures). While I utilized essential oils, I used them pretty infrequently. However, once I started diffusing I was hooked and wanted to see how I bring more essential oils into my daily life.
Enter BeeInspiredShoppe. This Etsy-based shop specializes in aromatherapy gifts and jewelry and offers certified pure therapeutic-grade essential oils. Browsing through the shop you will find oil-diffusing necklaces and other jewelry. I'm not much of a necklace-wearer, but for the benefit of the essential oils, I was willing to give it a try.
After receiving my inexpensive necklace with Serenity Oil (which contains lavender and ylang ylang) and Balance Oil (which contains spruce), I quickly placed a drop on the felt piece to insert into the locket. I also placed a drop on the premium leather nape diffuser, after googling the benefits of essential oils on the base of the neck. Read a little about the benefits of peppermint oil on the neck here.
I've worn my essential oil necklace this entire week, and often lifted it to my nose to take a whiff of the different scents of oils I've added to it. This week, the last week of prepping the classroom and school before students arrive, is a stressful time for teachers. Add in preparing this year's homeschool lessons for Xander, chasing around MJ, maintaining the house, helping hubby with the business, and it can be a bit overwhelming. Well, more than just a bit. I've been glad I received my essential oil necklace when I did. It's helped maintain my sanity this week. Read about one of my other ways of maintaining my sanity on the blog next week.
I'm so glad I discovered the BeeInspiredShoppe. For now, I have the locket with nape diffuser, but the shop has so many other aromatherapy and essential oil jewelry items in different styles that I'm eager to try! The shop also carries doTerra essential oils and organic herbs, among a variety of other items.
Prices are pretty inexpensive. My necklace is priced at $13 and includes the locket necklace with leather nape diffuser, dōTERRA CPTG essential oil, and premium hand-cut, thick, eco-friendly, all natural diffuser pads. If you've used oils, you know a little goes a long way! Shipping for most of their items is only $2.89, and shipping can be combined. BeeInspiredShoppe is
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In a previous blog I wrote about my quest to become more Eco-friendly (read it here) and for me, being kind to the earth and being kind to my body by utilizing more natural remedies, go hand in hand. I'm so glad I discovered BeeInspiredShoppe and I'm now able to keep oils close in a fashionable, yet subtle way.
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You knew I was going to give it a go, didn't you? :) The classic Bun Cha of Hanoi is made up of grilled pork patties or sliced grilled pork served with rice noodles, herbs and condiments. And you know what? It isn't hard to do a home version at all. I stretched the definition to include some grilled prawns as well, so guests who couldn't eat pork could enjoy the meal with us. I also made some simple carrot and cucumber pickles to be served on the side.
The pork was seasoned with fish sauce, galanggal or ginger, a bit of soy sauce, palm sugar and lots of lemongrass (minced) and allowed to marinate for a couple of hours. It was then grilled and cut into small strips. The shrimp were sprinkled with fish sauce, lime juice and palm sugar and grilled. A dipping sauce of fish sauce, lime juice, water, sugar, chilies and coriander was served on the side. Some dried rice noodles were blanched for a minute or two in boiling water, then rinsed under cool water to stop the noodles from getting mushy.
The serving platter included fresh cilantro, mint and some sawtooth coriander (becuase it is growing gangbusters in the garden) and it could have used some vietnamese mint and or basil leaves as well. Some cucumbers and carrots were "mandolined" into fine shreds and marinated in a light pickling solution of vinegar, water and sugar and a little salt.
This didn't take long at all, and the experience and flavor profile was definitely vietnamese. I am really becoming a huge fan of these rice noodles, they seem the perfect foil for a lot of well seasoned protein and I suspect I have a tendency to eat less carb this way compared to steamed rice. The noodles also are a great vehicle for the sauces as their surface area gets coated in the sauce and complements the piece of meat and herbs that you get in one mouthful.
instead of palm sugar, some use a sugar solution (water and sugar), cooked over heat, until the color of the solution turns brown (bobby chin program suggests that the Vietnamese, use burnt sugar for their bun cha).
Oct 29, 2013 | 7:37 am
This looks delicious!
Somehow I was expecting this to be rolled in lettuce leaves or a soft lumpia wrapper…
Sure wish your posts had a LIKE button!
Oct 29, 2013 | 10:02 am
i thought its one of your meals in Vietnam.. thanks for sharing. we can enjoy it at home..
Oct 29, 2013 | 10:51 am
nice bowl too.
Oct 29, 2013 | 12:35 pm
Ricky is right it's called nuoc mau {spelling?}. According to several vietnamese friends, you also have to cut the nuoc mam with hot water…otherwise it overpowers the dish.
Oct 29, 2013 | 2:27 pm
Yum! Thanks for sharing. Going to try this soon as I also have lot of saw tooth coriander and some mint growing in the garden. Time to go to FTI market again to get some viet basil to plant. Are those porkchops you used?
Oct 29, 2013 | 5:13 pm
Hi MM,
Nuoc Mau is a Vietnamese Caramel Sauce. For the recipe, here's a link from Viet World Kitchen. http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2007/10/caramel-sauce.html
Oct 29, 2013 | 7:49 pm
As lime is not readily available I wonder if the flavor of the dipping sauce will be greatly affected if I sub it with lemon…
Oct 29, 2013 | 9:59 pm
Growing gangbusters? Really? Where are you getting the hip sayings? From the collegiala?
Oct 31, 2013 | 12:49 am
Just a quick question, is there a difference between cilantro and coriander? I though cilantro is the American English for coriander.
Oct 31, 2013 | 5:36 am
Just so hard to find, or no possibility at all of finding nuoc-mam or Vietnam fish sauce here in the Philippines.
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Singer Katie Melua has jetted to Afghanistan to play a morale-boosting gig for British troops.
The Closest Thing To Crazy hitmaker performed an acoustic show at a remote base in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on Thursday (21Feb13).
The event was organised by bosses of the British Forces Foundation, and Melua insists she felt honoured to take part.
She says, "It felt like such a special gig - all the soldiers were there and it felt really incredible. I was frankly captivated by the scene, just being out here in the desert, pitch black, just me and my guitar. I hope they liked it as much as I enjoyed being on stage.
"It is just incredible to see the troops doing this very unusual and very special job, really trying to move things forward and make things better for the Afghan people. This is really the frontier of history so I feel honoured to have come here."
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It is hard to think of a time when a nation-- and a whole civilization -- has drifted more futilely toward a bigger catastrophe than that looming over the United States and Western civilization today.That is why I made the comment about being on the top of the hill.
Nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran and North Korea mean it is only a matter of time before there are nuclear weapons in the hands of international terrorist organizations. North Korea needs money. Iran has brazenly stated its aim as the destruction of Israel, and both its actions and its rhetoric suggest aims that extend even beyond a second Holocaust.
Send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
This is not just another in the long history of military threats. The Soviet Union, despite its massive nuclear arsenal, could be deterred by our own nuclear arsenal. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. Fanatics filled with hate cannot be either deterred or bought off, whether Hezbollah, Hamas or the government of Iran.
Even ruthless conquerors of the past, from Genghis Khan to Hitler, wanted some tangible gains for themselves or their nations -- land, wealth, dominion. What Middle East fanatics want is the destruction and humiliation of the West.
Their treatment of hostages, some of them humanitarians serving the people of the Middle East, shows the terrorists want to inflict the maximum pain and psychic anguish on victims before killing them. Once these fanatics have nuclear weapons, those victims can include you, your children and your children's children.
The terrorists need not start by wiping our cities off the map. Chances are they would first want to force us to humiliate ourselves in whatever ways their sadistic imaginations could conceive, out of fear of their nuclear weapons.
After we, or our children and grandchildren, find ourselves living at the mercy of people with no mercy, what will future generations think of us, that we let this happen because we wanted to placate "world opinion" by not acting "unilaterally"?
We are fast approaching the point of no return.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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An Idea Called Bhutan12:48 PM
"We'd love to,but we can't travel everywhere.Or we manage to,just to wander around."
Sitting in front of computer along with my brother and making plan for an international journey or an adventurous Indian one,yet cheap was on our list.We noted down a few places we had in our mind:
1)Andamans/Lakshwadeep by ship
2)Thailand by Air Asia
3)Malaysia by Air Asia
4)Nepal by road
We were puzzled.Puzzled to the extent that we googled every possible keyword on cheap + travel option .Andamans by ship was exciting and new,though it was all rains and droplets at Andamans. The best season is Jan-Mar.The last thing we wanted was to get ourselves drenched or flooded in Indian ship bunkers.Besides I had already been to Andamans once.Thailand was equally promising,though I had already availed the Bangkok + Pattaya option before.Malaysia by Air Asia,not bad.But travel in Malaysia is expensive ,at least Langkawi is,which I was more interested in.Nepal,is on my to do list.
On Why Bhutan?
Bhutan was an interesting choice indeed.
The call of the mountain did not wait any longer when I told my brother "Bhutan,its so near to India,must be cheap!"
Google "Bhutan" and you find the packages that were expensive to our standards,well not as expensive as Maldives,Europe or US but not as cheap as Thailand.Truth is,if you are out to experience International and if you are comfortable by road,there is no better alternative than Bhutan for Indians.In some ways it's similar to Ladakh and Sikkim,but different as its more developed and clean.It's even cheaper than Thailand in some ways,no airfare cost,the travel by public transport is cheap,the currency equivalent,no language problem,and it's squeaky clean and well maintained.
Downside is :
1)Shopping is unbearably expensive(clothes,jewellery,artifacts)
2)Roaming charges are very high.We chose to use a local sim for our calls
3)There isn't much information on Internet.
Advantage is
1)In case,you are sick or ill during your travel,you can contact the Indian Army Representatives at Thimpu. There is a general hospital run in the army premises,the staff is very helpful ,the doctors excellent and they treat the Bhutanese locals as well as Indians.
2)The trek to Tiger's Nest is worth the 2.5 hours uphill and once in a lifetime experience.
3)You get to see a strange animal called Takin,which is also a national animal of Bhutan.
Let me take you through different aspects of Bhutan through my video and the write up in the next post.Till then stay happy,we are entering into one of the world's happiest country soon :) . If you have been there,do not forget to share your experiences.
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Excellent post and blog. Some of us have the wanderlust and it is so glad to see a fellow blogger who has it. Being in the Navy, I have seen some remote places and would like to write about these. Alas. working six days a week doesn't help. Some close friends have recently visited Bhutan and have gushed over their visits. Your writing has added the lure. Lets see how quickly I am able to go there.ReplyDelete
@Sunbyanyname:Thanks so much..Oh yes,I am sort of crazy about travel,and since I do keep on moving from place to place,I started this blog to help some people out there.Wow,being in navy makes you travel a lot,in fact couple of my friends are in navy,and I understand when you say you don't have time(6 days a week + a blog is a tough task),though you can write on weekends,whenever you feel like.Bhutan video is not yet out,and the article,will make a nice writeup in a day or two,lets see if it makes your travel more easy for you.And do visit the country ,its an amazing place,though if you have been to whole of ladakh or north east,you would find it a lot similar.ReplyDelete
Planning a trip to Bhutan next year with Royal Enfield Folks..Hope it will be exciting. Till then, will keep reading your posts to get the more information. Thanks.ReplyDelete
I've tried the second and 3rd option on your list. need to try 1st and 4th,,,ReplyDelete
@Shrinidhi:Seems like you travel a lot too,beautiful travel blog of yours.All the best for all your future trips.Great to find people with similar interestsReplyDelete
@Avanish:Great.I think Arnab Maity has already done the bike thing in bhutan,I have seen a post on that,you can actually contact him for details and stuff on bike rentals,in case the royal enfield turns out to be costly.http://www.arnabmaity.com/ReplyDelete
Thanks Ankita, Arnab is in my contact list..I will check with him.ReplyDelete