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British Romantic artists inherited and transformed the Classical landscape tradition, exemplified by Claude Lorrain (1604–1682), the greatest painter of 'ideal' landscape. Turner's Crossing the brook sums up the Claudean tradition in Britain. The artist leads us gently into an Italianate landscape, framed by trees and suffused with silvery light. At this time oil painting, later regarded as the highest artistic medium, still competed with watercolour. Watercolours by Turner, Girtin and Sandby demonstrate the extraordinary skill of many British artists with this notoriously difficult technique.
From the 1790s artists in Britain, Germany and France began to paint outside, en plein air. Works by Constable, Kobell and Corot show a bold naturalism that sets them apart from academic artists. Such lively sketches were highly influential for the next generation. In The leaping horse Constable marries local observations with high aesthetic ambition: he gained entry to the Royal Academy with this canvas. The Classical tradition also lasted well into the nineteenth-century, with Palmer and Corot still painting Italian light.
Artists portrayed pastoral scenes in an increasingly urban and industrial age. In The sleeping shepherd Palmer experiments with materials, while his idyllic rural scene asserts the eternal importance of agricultural life in turbulent times. Artists such as von Guérard were commissioned by landowners to produce 'portraits' of their estates. In Glover's view of his own new home, A view of the artist's house and garden, in Mills Plains, Van Diemen's Land, the embroidered beauty of his English flower garden is set against scrubby Tasmanian bush.


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Not all NBA teams are equal when it comes to spending. The free agency period opens Monday at midnight ET, though contracts can't be signed until July 10.
USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt takes a team-by-team look at who has money to spend:
Atlanta Hawks: General manager Danny Ferry had a major part of his plan centered on this summer. He signed a bunch of one-year deals last season, and Atlanta has more than $30 million to spend on free agents. Even if Ferry doesn't get who he wants, he has to spend money. Starting with the 2013-14 season, teams must reach 90% of the salary cap on team payroll, and the cap is projected at $58.5 million.
EAST DRAFT GRADES: Hawks stood out for picks
Dallas Mavericks: The Mavericks planned for this offseason, just as the Hawks did, with several contracts that expired after the 2012-13 season. Dallas has approximately $18 million to spend in free agency, and it is interested in contending for another title.
MAVERICKS: Dallas restaurant's offer to Dwight Howard
Detroit Pistons: Detroit has considerable money (about $25 million) for free agency. The Pistons will have to spend some of that and are focused on perimeter players who can shoot and create their own shot. They'll also look at adding veterans who can contribute on the court and with leadership off the court.
Houston Rockets: GM Daryl Morey has plenty of cap space, but he needed to clear a little more cap space to sign Dwight Howard without a sign-and-trade. He cleared the necessary cap space Sunday just before meeting with Howard, trading Thomas Robinson to the Portland Trail Blazers.
TRADE: Former top-five pick dealt for second-rounders
Milwaukee Bucks: The Bucks will be active with money to spend — $17 million — and perimeter players are the target.
Utah Jazz: The Jazz have about $25 million in salary-cap space, and one way or another, they will have to use most of it just to get to the league's salary floor.
Charlotte Bobcats: Charlotte will have money to spend, but it is also looking at considerable spending flexibility in the summer of 2014.
Cleveland Cavaliers: The Cavs can spend in free agency (about $20 million), but that doesn't mean they will go crazy. GM Chris Grant will continue to build the team in his vision: through the draft, trades and wise, judicious free agent signings.
CAVALIERS: GM explains their surprising No. 1 draft pick
Los Angeles Clippers: With new coach Doc Rivers, the Clippers are focused on retaining Chris Paul. If Paul re-signs, the Clippers will be limited in what they can spend.
Minnesota Timberwolves: With Andrei Kirilenko's decision to opt out of the final year of his contract, the Timberwolves have about $10 million to spend.
TIMBERWOLVES: Rookie's weird mistake about number choice
New Orleans Pelicans: The Pelicans will have about $6 million to spend, plus a few cap exceptions.
Philadelphia 76ers: The Sixers' flexibility depends on what happens with free agent center Andrew Bynum, who didn't play a minute last season because of knee problems.
Portland Trail Blazers: The Blazers head into free agency with about $12 million in salary-cap space, enough to entice players looking for a change and some money.
San Antonio Spurs: The Spurs' cap space is expected to be used on keeping Manu Ginobili, Tiago Splitter and Gary Neal.
Boston Celtics: Once the deal with the Brooklyn Nets becomes official, the Celtics will not have much money to spend on free agents. They are limited to using a few salary-cap exceptions but nothing that makes them a key player in free agency.
Brooklyn Nets: Same as the Celtics. Once the trade with Boston goes through, the Nets will be a high tax-paying team. They will have use of the taxpayer's mid-level exception ($3.2 million). But Brooklyn is getting who it wanted.
Chicago Bulls: The Bulls will be a taxpayer next year, limiting spending mainly to the tax-payer's midlevel exception ($3.2 million).
Denver Nuggets: The Nuggets are limited to a few basic exceptions to the cap and are not expected to be major players, other than re-signing Andre Iguodala, who opted out of the final year of his contact.
Golden State Warriors: The Warriors are limited to a few basic exceptions to the salary cap. The best way for Golden State to make noise is through a sign-and-trade.
Indiana Pacers: Larry Bird is back as team president but has limited money to spend. He has access to midlevel exception ($5.15 million) and the biannual exception.
Los Angeles Lakers: Like the Clippers, the Lakers want to re-sign a key player. In this case, it's Dwight Howard. Even without signing Howard, the Lakers are over the salary cap and luxury tax, leaving them with little to spend.
LAKERS: What Dwight Howard wants from free agency
Memphis Grizzlies: Over the salary cap for next season, the Grizzlies will not be major spenders.
Miami Heat: The Heat have been creative and persuaded players to play for less in the last few seasons. But they are over the salary cap and luxury tax, limiting their spending power, and will not be after major free agents.
New York Knicks: Another team over the salary cap and luxury tax next season, the Knicks will be limited to a couple of salary-cap exceptions. Their best option is using the taxpayer's midlevel salary exception.
KNICKS: Trade for former No. 1 overall pick
Oklahoma City Thunder: With their payroll over the cap and just under the luxury tax, the Thunder will not be big spenders or major players in free agency.
THUNDER: Sticky situation with Kevin Martin now
Orlando Magic: As the Magic rebuild, spending in free agency will be limited by choice and little cap space.
Phoenix Suns: They have enough to add a few parts for depth, but that's it.
Sacramento Kings: Right now, they have little to spend. That could change depending on what happens with Tyreke Evans and the potential use of the amnesty provision on one of their higher-paid players.
Toronto Raptors: The Raptors do not have much room to spend as new management tries to rebuild with limited options.
Washington Wizards: The Wizards have limited financial resources this summer, and the use of the midlevel exception and biannual exception are their best options for roster improvement.
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These test scores are from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP scores have been evaluated at certain performance levels. A score of 300 implies an ability to find, understand, summarize, and explain relatively complicated literary and informational material. A score of 250 implies an ability to search for specific information, interrelate ideas, and make generalizations about literature, science and social studies materials. A score of 200 implies an ability to understand, combine ideas, and make inferences based on short, uncomplicated passages about specific or sequentially related information. A score of 150 implies an ability to follow brief written directions and carry out simple, discrete reading tasks. Scale ranges from 0–500. Standard errors appear in parentheses.
1. Excludes persons not enrolled in school.
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I had the honour of reading a novel by Kristina Riggle, called Keepsake. I first met Kristina via Twitter. I noticed she had written a book about a hoarding character, and so we struck up conversation. Kristina kindly offered to send me a copy of her novel, and I'm pleased to share my impressions of Keepsake.
Book Review: Keepsake
If you're interested in the effects of compulsive hoarding on various relationships, look for this novel in stores. It's the story of a compulsive hoarder, who also happens to be divorced, and raising 2 sons. She's estranged from her teenage son, and after her 6 year old gets hurt in her own home, the authorities order her to clean up. Not so easy. This is a monumental task, so she needs the help of her minimalist, super neat sister. Obviously, there's stress, confusion, frustration, fear, and yet there's still love and hope.
A Little Doubtful
I wasn't sure what to expect when I cracked into this book. I knew the author didn't have a first hand experience with a hoarder, so I wondered how accurate could she possibly be. I was pleasantly surprised…Kristina's research did her well, so I happily present my review of Keepsake. There were several moments in this story that I could have written myself. Like this quote from the son of the main character, Trish, who is a compulsive hoarder.
"You've cleaned before, Mom. And know what happens? You buy a bunch of storage bins and you decide you can't part with anything & nothing changes. ~Drew "
I can't tell you how many storage bins my Mom has. Her line was always "If I just had somewhere to put all this stuff, I could finally get organized."
I know now that this is called churning, and perfection is certainly involved, but to see such a similar truth reflected in Kristina's book felt authentic. Even more when I read this:
"You have no right to come charging in here telling me how crazy I am and touching things that don't belong to you. ~Trish"
Lynn and I heard the same thing after we confessed to doing a mini-clean up 6 years ago. And again when we wrote her a joint letter to explain we thought she is a compulsive hoarder and we wanted her to consider getting help. She was SO mad, and nearly disowned us.
A family i can relate to
Like my real life relationship with Mom and my sister, Lynn, the family in this book is just as mixed up. Our difference is that my Mom has no self awareness and at least the main character in Keepsake comes to terms that she DOES have unresolved issues. The walls she built of stuff threatens to separate her from the people who love her, and she either has to deal with it or lose them all together. I recommend you read the book to find out what happens to Trish, Drew, and the rest of her family. And I recommend you continue to read Not Just Clutter to find out what happens to mine.
Who knows…maybe if you have a hoarder in your life, letting them "find" this novel would help open some communication. Even if you don't know a hoarder, this is a well-written story of a complex family dynamic in a modern world. And who can't relate to that?
If you'd like to know more about the author, visit her at:
Disclaimer: While Kristina did send me a free copy of her book, I was under no obligation to write a review of Keepsake, and all opinions expressed in this post are my own. I did not receive any other compensation, nor do I expect any.


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By Teresa Rivas
It's been a rough six months for value investors. As Ned Davis Research notes, most value strategies have logged negative returns for the last half year.
Yet the pain is likely to continue, argue Brain Sanborn, Till Wieczorek, Thanh Nguyen, and Dung Nguyen. Not only does the firm's research favor growth strategies over value ones, but historically the deck seems stacked against the latter: After short-term selloffs in the market, most value investors lag behind their growth peers in the following rally, while NDR's studies show that value strategies typically don't drive stock returns leading up to a market peak.
Yet value investors do have a couple of options, they write. One is simply patience: "If the market suffers a large drawdown or cyclical bear this year, the multiples would likely get cheaper and set the stage for a deep-value, reversion bounce after the market bottom."
For investors that want to be more proactive, Saborn and his colleagues suggest focusing on shareholder yield and lower free cash flow multiples, as these strategies have seen the best returns in the value space of late, and have been shown to turn in the strongest performance over the long term as well.


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By Brendan Conway
Twitter's IPO plans are putting a charge into funds that own the company's pre-IPO shares. Will investors avoid the mistakes they made with the Facebook (FB) IPO?
If you watched this space back then, in May 2012, the names are familiar. GSV Capital (GSVC) is surging nearly 13% Friday morning. This publicly traded business development company known for buying shares of private companies reported a 15% weighting in Twitter as of June 30.
The other is Firsthand Technology Value Fund (SVVC), a similar BDC that reported a 10.4% Twitter weighting as of late August, which is rising by 6%.
Both these funds benefited from the Facebook IPO mania — until they didn't. The plunge that followed the botched Facebook IPO took GSV's price from around $18 to roughly $10. Firsthand's shares peaked in the mid-$40s a month beforehand and bottomed out in the mid-teens. Neither has since scaled the same heights.
Investors who caught wind and bought in April or May would have lost a lot of money — and unlike with Facebook's stock, it never came back.
None of this is to say it will happen again — only that investors should be prepared for a volatile ride.
One other note that's related to the volatility. You'll often see these investments called "closed-end funds." But that's a bit misleading. You won't find either on CEFConnect.com, the leading closed-end funds site.


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Alzheimer's campaigners accused ministers of making an "empty promise" while condemning sufferers and carers to years more of paying tens of thousands of pounds in what was effectively a "dementia tax".
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Mama mia! Life with two elementary school-aged kids is tough! But beautiful shining moments between the times of frustrations make it absolutely worth it!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
I'll be 12 weeks this Friday, which puts me into the second trimester in my book. I figured what's two more days, so I'm announcing today.
The baby is due June 19, 2009. The Pumpkin will be 2 years and 3 months, which is the kind of spacing we were hoping for. We are very excited to be expecting, as I'm sure you all know.
We were extremely fortunate in that it took us only ONE treatment cycle to get pregnant. Although there were two eggs that were ready, we are having a singleton. As great as twins are, we are happy that we are having only one because one will be easier.
I didn't share earlier because even though I've written about my miscarriage, it did take me like two years to be able to talk about it. So I didn't want to have to deal with it even on my own blog. But it's been so hard to not talk about the pregnancy, the nauseua that I still have, the tiredness that is more than just the Pumpkin STILL not sleeping well, the crankiness, etc. etc. etc. Now that you hear that list, I'll bet you all are glad I haven't talked about it! Although there is also the excitement, the positive ultrasounds, the Baby Center email saying it's the size of a fig (which is how big exactly?), and the initial planning for childcare changes, switching bedrooms for the Pumpkin and all the other preparations.
So that's my big news. I'm sure I'll keep talking about it through the pregnancy.
24 comments:
- sheSaid.purplehouseonpearl.com said...
can't wait to follow all the details :)
also the book recommendation for Sherrilyn Kenyon was great and I had already read at least one... so now I am picking up more from the library.
- December 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM
- Becoming Mommy said...
How wonderful for you!
P.S.-a fig is probably about the size of Pumpkin's fist. Sasha loves to eat them and their about that size to him.
- December 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- I'm Not Skippy said...
- December 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Jan said...
Yay, congratulations!!
So happy for you ...
- December 3, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- December 3, 2008 at 1:08 PM
- K8 said...
If you were close to me, I'd offer my services as a doula, bt since you're on the other side of the continent...
- December 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- AmyinMotown said...
WAHOO!!!!! Awesome news!!! You sneaky Pete! You didn't write a thing about treatment so I just figured you hadn't started yet. I am so happy things were easier this time and really, really hoping that nausea goes away soon and the wonderful second trimester energy rush kicks in!
(Maggie opted to stop sleeping during my first tri with Will, too. Perhaps it's just their opinion of impending siblinghood :-) ).
- December 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Congrats Caramama! I hope the nauseua and tiredness go away soon and that the Pumpkin starts sleeping thru the night.
- December 3, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- ImpostorMom said...
Congrats!! I'm so happy for you guys.
- December 3, 2008 at 3:33 PM
- Rudyinparis said...
I just broke into a huge grin--thanks!!!
And congratulations!
- December 3, 2008 at 3:56 PM
- OneTiredEma said...
Congrats! Hope you have smooth sailing.
And June is a nice time to have a baby (IME)--lots of park time for Pumpkin. Hope you're not shy about flashing the other mommies ;-)
- December 3, 2008 at 4:56 PM
- Cloud said...
Congrats! I hope Pumpkin starts sleeping soon so that you can have a few months of sleep before the new baby arrives. Or maybe its better to never not to be reminded how nice sleep is before it is once again denied to you?
- December 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM
What happy news! Best wishes to you and your family.
- December 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM
- julie said...
hooray hooray hooray!!!!! Big hugs to you caramama.
- December 3, 2008 at 7:07 PM
- OneHappyCow said...
Congrats! So happy to hear that and here's to the honeymoon trimester! Good luck and feel better!
- December 3, 2008 at 10:01 PM
- Trannyhead said...
Hooray! Congratulations - I'm so glad it happened so quickly for you. Just think - that 16 week mark is just around the corner and you'll be feeling MUCH much better!
- December 3, 2008 at 10:21 PM
- cirquedubebe.com said...
Congrats, CaraMama and Londo!
I'm with you about one. Every time I see someone with twins I think "Wow you've got your hands full!"
Hopefully the nauseua will go away soon now that you're in the second trimester.
- December 3, 2008 at 11:28 PM
- - Dana said...
Cool! Great news, congrats. I'm glad it was so much easier for you this time.
There are alot of pregnant announcements around these parts. Back in Oct I had a couple friends say they are due end of April/beginning of May...and now the June due dates are starting to come out. Soon will be the July due dates ;-) Yay babies!
Happy baby growing to you!
- December 4, 2008 at 7:45 AM
- December 4, 2008 at 2:55 PM
- HeatherY said...
(((HUGS))) I'm so excited for you!
- December 4, 2008 at 7:47 PM
- electriclady said...
Hooray! So happy for you!
- December 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM
- caramama said...
MommyEm says: Whooo Hoooo! DaddyEm and I are very happy for Londo, Pumpkin, and you. Since you generously came and helped me pack for my move, I will happily come down and help out in the early...or not so early...days. Just let me know!! Yippee!
- December 5, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Kat said...
Woop woop! I had a feeling you guys would be doing well :0)
Take it easy, I'm 6 months into pg#2 and it's a bit tougher this time around.
Kat x
- December 7, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- My Buddy Mimi said...
Oh, yay! I have been away from my blog reader for a couple of days, so I'm really late with this one. Congratulations!
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Where no one knows your name
Do your patients know your name? According to a new Archives study of inpatients at an academic center, probably not. When researchers asked hospital patients to name one of the physicians caring for them, 75% couldn't come up with anything. Of the 700 who had an answer, only 40% got at least one name (out of the attendings, hospitalists, interns and residents caring for them) correct.
Study authors suggested hanging photos of treating physicians in patient rooms to remedy the problem, or having everyone wear more obvious explanatory nametags. They don't discuss the aesthetic downsides of these solutions. After all, if patients don't even bother to learn your name, how likely is that they want to lie in bed staring at your face all day?
Perhaps supporting this argument, the study also found that patients who could name a physician were most likely to be dissatisfied with their care. If they're only learning your name so they can complain, maybe you'd be better off stuffing that nametag in your pocket.
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Robert M. Centor, MD, FACP, contributes short essays contemplating medicine and the health care system.
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Suneel Dhand, MD, ACP Member, is a practicing physician in Massachusetts. He has published numerous articles in clinical medicine, covering a wide range of specialty areas including; pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and infectious disease. He has also authored chapters in the prestigious "5-Minute Clinical Consult" medical textbook. His other clinical interests include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use of technology in health care.
Juliet K. Mavromatis, MD, FACP, provides a conversation about health topics for patients and health professionals.
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Matthew Mintz, MD, FACP, has practiced internal medicine for more than a decade and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at an academic medical center on the East Coast. His time is split between teaching medical students and residents, and caring for patients.
Toni Brayer, MD, FACP, blogs about the rapid changes in science, medicine, health and healing in the 21st century.
Vineet Arora, MD, FACP, is Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and Assistant Dean of Scholarship & Discovery at the Pritzker School of Medicine for the University of Chicago. Her education and research focus is on resident duty hours, patient handoffs, medical professionalism, and quality of hospital care. She is also an academic hospitalist.
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John H. Schumann, MD, FACP, provides transparency on the workings of medical practice and the complexities of hospital care, illuminates the emotional and cognitive aspects of caregiving and decision-making from the perspective of an active primary care physician, and offers behind-the-scenes portraits of hospital sanctums and the people who inhabit them.
Gut Check
Ryan Madanick, MD, ACP Member, is a gastroenterologist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Program Director for the GI & Hepatology Fellowship Program. He specializes in diseases of the esophagus, with a strong interest in the diagnosis and treatment of patients who have difficult-to-manage esophageal problems such as refractory GERD, heartburn, and chest pain.
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Mike Aref, MD, PhD, FACP, is an academic hospitalist with an interest in basic and clinical science and education, with interests in noninvasive monitoring and diagnostic testing using novel bedside imaging modalities, diagnostic reasoning, medical informatics, new medical education modalities, pre-code/code management, palliative care, patient-physician communication, quality improvement, and quantitative biomedical imaging.
William Hersh, MD, FACP, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, posts his thoughts on various topics related to biomedical and health informatics.
David Katz, MD
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACP, is an internationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease, and an internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine and patient-centered care.
Just Oncology
Richard Just, MD, ACP Member, has 36 years in clinical practice of hematology and medical oncology. His blog is a joint publication with Gregg Masters, MPH.
Kevin Pho, MD, ACP Member, offers one of the Web's definitive sites for influential health commentary.
Michael Kirsch, MD, FACP, addresses the joys and challenges of medical practice, including controversies in the doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics and measuring medical quality. When he's not writing, he's performing colonoscopies.
Medical Lessons
Elaine Schattner, MD, FACP, shares her ideas on education, ethics in medicine, health care news and culture. Her views on medicine are informed by her past experiences in caring for patients, as a researcher in cancer immunology, and as a patient who's had breast cancer.
Mired in MedEd
Alexander M. Djuricich, MD, FACP, is the Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME), and a Program Director in Medicine-Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, where he blogs about medical education.
More Musings
Rob Lamberts, MD, ACP Member, a med-peds and general practice internist, returns with "volume 2" of his personal musings about medicine, life, armadillos and Sasquatch at More Musings (of a Distractible Kind).
David M. Sack, MD, FACP, practices general gastroenterology at a small community hospital in Connecticut. His blog is a series of musings on medicine, medical care, the health care system and medical ethics, in no particular order.
Reflections of a Grady
Kimberly Manning, MD, FACP, reflects on the personal side of being a doctor in a community hospital in Atlanta.
The Blog of Paul Sufka
Paul Sufka, MD, ACP Member, is a board certified rheumatologist in St. Paul, Minn. He was a chief resident in internal medicine with the University of Minnesota and then completed his fellowship training in rheumatology in June 2011 at the University of Minnesota Department of Rheumatology. His interests include the use of technology in medicine.
Technology in (Medical)
Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS, FACP, is interested in use of technology in education, social media and networking, practice management and evidence-based medicine tools, personal information and knowledge management.
Peter A. Lipson,
Peter A. Lipson, MD, ACP Member, is a practicing internist and teaching physician in Southeast Michigan. The blog, which has been around in various forms since 2007, offers musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and culture.
Why is American Health Care So Expensive?
Janice Boughton, MD, FACP, practiced internal medicine for 20 years before adopting a career in hospital and primary care medicine as a locum tenens physician. She lives in Idaho when not traveling.
World's Best Site
Daniel Ginsberg, MD, FACP, is an internal medicine physician who has avidly applied computers to medicine since 1986, when he first wrote medically oriented computer programs. He is in practice in Tacoma, Washington.
Other blogs of note:
American Journal of
Also known as the Green Journal, the American Journal of Medicine publishes original clinical articles of interest to physicians in internal medicine and its subspecialities, both in academia and community-based practice.
A collaborative medical blog started by Neil Shapiro, MD, ACP Member, associate program director at New York University Medical Center's internal medicine residency program. Faculty, residents and students contribute case studies, mystery quizzes, news, commentary and more.
Interact MD
Michael Benjamin, MD, ACP member, doesn't accept industry money so he can create an independent, clinician-reviewed space on the Internet for physicians to report and comment on the medical news of the day.
PLoS Blog
The Public Library of Science's open access materials include a blog.
White Coat
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Skip to comments.Florida ordinance could give transgender men access to womens restrooms
Posted on 05/21/2012 6:48:57 PM PDT by Morgana
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, May 21, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) A proposed civil rights ordinance could open public restrooms and showers to transgender members of the opposite sex, its critics warn.
The city council of Jacksonville, Florida, is considering passing an ordinance to outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in employment, public accommodations, or housing. That means no employer, landlord, or owner of any facility open to the public may refuse to hire or rent their property to anyone who claims to be homosexual or transgender.
The measure, supported by Councilman Warren Jones, also leaves employers vulnerable to lawsuits if an applicant claims he is a victim of discrimination.
This civil rights ordinance takes away more rights than it supposedly grants, said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, a pro-family legal organization.
Such a measure would further infringe on the religious freedoms of Christians, and the majority of mainstream Americans who do not accept such alternative lifestyles as normal, Joey Vaughn, a local business owner, told the Florida Baptist Witness. There is no exemption or protection under the ordinance for followers of Jesus Christ who own or work in a business.
The Jacksonville Baptist Association has been active in opposing the measure. However, members of the Religious Left have supported it, including two churches affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, as well as clergy of the Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Jewish faiths.
The measure follows shortly after a similar motion passed the city council of Hutchinson, Kansas. The final measure, passed city council by a 3-2 vote last week, removed the transgender provision. However, it still opens public accommodations including any church that rents its facility to the public to homosexuals. A fact sheet on the ordinance states, If a church has a parish hall that they rent out to the general public, they could not discriminate against a gay couple who want to rent the building for a party. The council will vote on the specific legal language on June 5.
Adding transgender rights could facilitate another kind of abuse. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes has warned that such laws give sexual predators legitimized access to womens restrooms.
Wherever this [provision] is passed, privacy and decency are eroded, agrees Staver.
Canadian women have suffered a flurry of restroom attacks by men. In 2010, an Ottawa man was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a 15-year-old girl at Nepean High School. The year before, a Halifax woman was assaulted with a sharp object in a restroom at the mall.
In the United States, Concerned Women for Americas Donna Miller was shocked to see a man urinating in a womens restroom in plain view, very intentional, in your face in 2009.
Yet a Macys store in San Antonio, Texas, fired 27-year-old Natalie Johnson for denying a man who identified himself as transgender access to the womens restroom.
Staver cited a case in Orono, Maine, where a teenage boy uses the female restroom on the grounds of his perceived gender identity.
Citing the inherent controversy, Jacksonville City Councilman Doyle Carter believes the motion should be settled by a public referendum. I just think its an important issue and the citizens of the city should vote on it, not 19 people, he said. The former mayor, John Delaney, who supports the ordinance, disagrees. Its not a democracy were everyone votes on everything, like ancient Greece, he said.
This has never been about discrimination, Staver said. These ordinances are meant to legitimize and codify the homosexual and transgender lifestyles.
Public comments will be accepted at the councils next meeting on May 22. The body could vote on the issue by June 12.
Insofar as we are living during an epidemic of stupidity, odds favor its passing.
This BS is already happening in Gainesville.
This is a bad idea. If my wife comes out of a restroom with a dude looks like a lady behind her, it's not only going to freak her out...
I'm a lesbian trapped in the body of a middle aged man. Which way to the giurl's shower?
I'm a lesbian trapped in the body of a middle aged man. Which way to the girl's shower?
I was stunned. Luckily I wasn't alone (there were several women waiting in line in the restroom).
None of the other women said boo. But everyone in that restroom was uncomfortable, to put it mildly.
This happened in a public building in a conservative town ... in a police academy, of all places.
I happen to work at place that seems to cater to fagots. It makes me want to hurl watching the women treat them like one of their girlfriends. I hope they feel the same way when Steve/Eve joins them in the little girls room to take a pi$$ standing up!
My father had a homo come on to him in a restaurant lavvy in the 70's. Put his hand on him at the urinal. He knocked him out.......COLD. I was 9. Wondered why we left the establishment so quickly. Mom filled me in some years later about what happened. LOL!
Love ya', Dad! Miss you!
Sounds like a classic case of middle age male sexual orientation confusion disorder to me..........Hmmmm....
Sign me up, there must be some free money in it somewhere.
Oh, and which way to the girl's shower?
Probably easier and cheaper in the long run to have public restrooms for men, women, queers, freaks and perverts.
Imagine perverted grown men in the same bathrooms as your daughter.
In Maine, they had people wanting unisex bathrooms for all schools. Yuck.
Will allowing visits to the women's shower be reserved just for those men dressed in drag or for ordinary dressing dudes as well?
Sick Aholes!
An man that even acts like he's a trans gets a kick in the nuts
if they come around my 'space'.
They make special rooms for muslims, don't they?
They can make special rooms for 'sickos', too.
We women must put up with trans. and lesbos but men don't have to have their space intruded? BS!
"They can make special rooms for sickos, too."
Make 'em use the curb...
some muzzie women want to have a "women's only" swimming hour at public pools.
Oh I can't wait till these two worlds collide. Transgenders and muzzie women at the women's only swimming hour!
For real I would don a burkini just to see it!!
I'll never understand pandering to .00001% of the population.
I don't either. It's insane.
I'm going to say I'm a man trapped in a woman's body so I can gawk at the good-looking men in the bathroom/shower.
Uh, Chabad of Jacksonville and 2 other Orthodox Jewish chapters are AGAINST it (and their membership is FAR larger than the liberal "Jews" who support it), but the media won't bother with little facts in their determination to make this a "Retrograde Baptists vs. Everyone Else" narrative.
I caught a short segment of Miller Time on BOR last week (my wife watches that guy - not me).
He said something to the effect that progessive NAG's are going to all be in favor of this until they find themselves sitting in a stall next to some guy who's producing a real "growler" one morning...
yeah, and I think Tallahassee too. I remember reading about this years ago there.
How will they ever know who is transgender and who is a pervert trying to get a peek at women? Will there be bathroom guards? Will transgender carry cards to verify their status? This is getting beyond idiotic.
And, it having passed— what will happen when the first "cross dressing" "female/actual male" rapist enters the women's room and commits rape or worse?
Since the access is guaranteed under the law... what will be the proof required to show someone is "transgendered" and not a psycho (which could be the same thing.. anyway).
The only way this can end is by reductio ad absurdum - take this b.s to its [il]logical conclusion. When people are forced to share bathrooms with LGBTQ freaks the consequences of their feel-good voting will be brought home to them.
Incidentally, this is why I'm so strongly opposed to homosexuals in the military. Servicemen and women don't get to choose their bathroom arrangements. It's one [wrong] thing to condemn criminals to be harassed in the showers, quite another to inflict it upon people volunteering to serve their country.
Who knows? One of these days we might even get an LGBTQ commander in chief.
Me too, which way to the cheerleader's showers?
It will never happen. No one would elect some dude who throws a baseball like a sissy, wears momjeans and has only a composite girlfriend.
That will be the only way to satisfy the freaks and the women that will otherwise be freaked out.
Just another cost that will be passed onto business and then onto the consumer.
women's restrooms - - -
Didn't Colorado do this some years ago?
But when I was there visiting relatives about 3 years ago, I had forgotten about it.
And it ever happened when I was in public places.
-— never /ever - 'scuse!
A word of warning: you do NOT want to claim you are a lesbian in a man's body. I once worked with a gay guy and I mentioned to him that that was one of my dad's favorite jokes. The guy looked at me puzzled, saying he was confused and was I sure it was a joke? I explained that my dad meant that he was attracted to women. Gay dude explained that orientation and gender are separate things and that saying you're a lesbian in a guy's body means that you believe you are woman. You genuinely believe that you a woman who happens to be a lesbian. He said that kind of thing is no joke and there are people who actually think this. Say that to a gay person and they will take you literally.
I promptly informed my dad. He hasn't made that joke since. No reason to get some sicko out there interested in you.
Straight people will get the humor but watch out for the freaks and the freaks who believe them. I know you're joking, you know you're joking...
Just never say that outside of FR and you should be safe.
Still, it figures that the homos would ruin our fun at their expense.
"No reason to get some sicko out there interested in you.
Straight people will get the humor but watch out for the freaks and the freaks who believe them. I know youre joking, you know youre joking...
Just never say that outside of FR and you should be safe."
It has been my experience that there are a lot of jokes best kept to Free Republic! We are the only ones who get it and if one must explain the joke it loses the punchline.
What if your sexual identity is "voyeur", why do only homosexual and crossdressing fetishists get their sexual needs met?
We already know that homosexuals solicit sex from strangers in bathrooms.
Bi-sexuals would be permitted access to solicit sex in the ladies rooms if this becomes law.
While there are currently laws on the books prohibiting sex in bathrooms and other public areas, they are selectively enforced against homosexuals and the national gay rights lobby is seeking to have them ended altogether.
Homosexuals have put up websites with information as to where the best bathrooms are for public sex (including certain courthouses).
Their identity revolves around random hookups.
Today they call that "gay bashing" and "homophobia" when actually it is self-defense against sexual assault/harassment.
Any woman who was in the same situation with a man soliciting her for sex would be fully understood within her rights to smack the guy.
And some homosexuals deliberately court what they call "rough trade" that might be physically abusive. Homosexuality is a mental disorder.
Some dude in the restroom with me, I'm obliged to give him that surgery he's bucking for - halfway there, at least. The wimmins room is sacred, dangit.
That's where we go to do what we claim we don't do - sometimes after painfully holding it in for hours! LOL The ladies loo is Vegas, baby. Leave it be.
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1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
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6 And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they removed from Etham, and
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9 And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve
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11 And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
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15 And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
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33 And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in
34 And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
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36 And they removed from
37 And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
38 And
39 And
40 And
41 And they departed from mount
42 And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
43 And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
44 And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
45 And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
46 And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
47 And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before
48 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
50 ¶And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
52 Then ye shall
53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
54 And ye shall divide the
55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be
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DTrace meets the CPU Performance Counters
By jonh on Feb 16, 2009
It's been a while coming but it's here at last in build 109 of Solaris Nevada; the DTrace CPU Performance Counter provider (or 'cpc' provider for short). The cpc provider gives you the ability to profile your system by many different types of processor related events; the list of events is processor specific and usually quite large but typically includes events such as cycles executed, instructions executed, cache misses, TLB misses and many more. From a high level view, the cpc provider is essentially the same as the profile provider except that, where the profile provider allows you to profile a system using a fixed, time based source, the cpc provider lets you profile by events related to processor activity.
There's a bunch of things around the implementation that I'd like to talk about but that can probably wait for another day as we'll ease ourselves gently into the world of the cpc provider with some simple examples. Additional sources of information that you may find useful are the DTrace documentation and the cpc provider ARC case one pager. Note that most of the examples I give here are focused on two of the more common event types, instructions or cycles executed. However, we could have just as easily profiled behaviour around the cache hierarchy (l1/l2/l3 hits/misses) for example - we'd merely need to specify different event types to look at.
Anyway, let's start with a simple example to see it in action:
Example 1: User Mode Instruction Profile by Executable
#cat userexecbyinst.d cpc:::PAPI_tot_ins-user-5000 { @[execname] = count(); } END { trunc(@, 10); printa("%-30s %@d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./userexecbyinst.d \^C gnome-panel 3760 soffice.bin 5952 nautilus 15255 gnome-terminal 23363 metacity 29627 wnck-applet 36635 isapython2.4 88264 thunderbird-bin 119269 firefox-bin 319431 Xorg 399781
Here we have a profile of our system which looks at executed user mode instructions. The specification of what we wanted to profile is contained in the probename of the cpc probe. The probename is made up of the following, hyphen delimited, fields:
- Event Name - here we are using the generic name, PAPI_tot_ins, to refer to total instructions executed. See my previous post for more on generic performance counter events. A full list of supported event names for the platform you are on can be found by running the `cpustat -h` command.
- Mode - specifies which operating mode we are interested in profiling. In this example we are interested in user mode instructions so we specified 'user'. We could also specify 'kernel' for kernel mode events or 'all' for bother user and kernel mode events.
- Optional Mask - some events can take an optional mask to further subdivide the event. We aren't using one here.
- Count - specifies the number of events that need to occur on a CPU before a probe fires on that CPU. Here we specified that we want a probe to fire every 5000 events (5000 user mode instructions in this case).
So, let's get a bit fruitier and take a different view of things. Here's a system wide view of user mode TLB misses by library:
Example 2: User Mode TLB miss Profile by Library
#cat usertlbmiss.d #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -qs cpc:::PAPI_tlb_dm-user-5000 { @[umod(arg1)] = count(); } END { trunc(@, 10); printa("%-50A %10@d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./usertlbmiss.d \^C libproc.so.1 274 libjemalloc.so 454 libcairo.so.2.20.0 739 libglib-2.0.so.0.1800.0 791 libmozjs.so 964 firefox-bin 1026 libjemalloc.so 1443 libc.so.1 1740 libxul.so 5651 Xorg 6766
Note that probes from the cpc provider export the same arguments as the profile provider. arg0 will be non zero if the event occured while operating in kernel mode. arg1 will be non zero id the event occured while we were operating in user mode.
Example 3: Selective User Mode Cycle Count Profile by Function
As this is DTrace, we can use predicates to prune the data we capture. Let's profile a couple of applications from a particular user but tyhis time profile them by the number of cycles used:
# cat ./userbyappbycycles.d cpc:::PAPI_tot_cyc-user-5000 /(execname == "firefox-bin" || execname == "thunderbird-bin") && uid == 101/ { @[ufunc(arg1)] = count(); } END { trunc(@, 10); printa("%-60A %@10d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./userbyappbycycles.d \^C libc.so.1`mutex_unlock 1544 libfontconfig.so.1`FcFontMatch 1671 libc.so.1`clear_lockbyte 1754 libgfx_gtk.so`__1cKnsImageGTKODrawComposited6MrnTnsIRenderingContext_pnRnsIDrawingSurface_iiiiiiiiii_v_ 1987 libc.so.1`mutex_unlock_queue 2324 libc.so.1`mutex_lock_impl 2684 libgklayout.so`__1cPSelectorMatches6FrnRRuleProcessorData_pnNnsCSSSelector_ipnHnsIAtom_W_i_ 3755 libgfx_gtk.so`__1cKnsImageGTKRDrawCompositeTile6MrnTnsIRenderingContext_pnRnsIDrawingSurface_iiiiiiii_v_ 4597 libc.so.1`mutex_lock_impl 5280 libc.so.1`clear_lockbyte 5313Just bare in mind that all the other user mode application on the system are contributing to the event count here. If you wanted to only profile events from a particular set of applications then you would need to put them in there own processor set to make sure nothing else contributes to the event count.
Example 4: Kernel mode instruction profile by module
Now we'll look at some examples of kernel profiling. I'm using filebench to generate some workload on top of a ZFS filesystem so these examples tend to focus on zfs. To start with, let's look at a kernel profile of which modules are executing the most instructions:
# cat kernbymod.d cpc:::PAPI_tot_ins-kernel-5000 /arg0 != 0/ { @[mod(arg0)] = count(); } END { trunc(@, 10); printa("%-50a %@10d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./kernbymod.d \^C dtrace 348 ata 625 specfs 753 rootnex 880 kcf 1551 sha1 5704 procfs 6097 unix 158137 genunix 161461 zfs 575552
Not surprisingly, as we're running an intensive workload on top of a ZFS filesystem, zfs is at the top of the list. It may be interesting to break down the cycle usage within the zfs module so we'll do that next.
Example 5: Kernel mode cycle profile: functions from specified module
# cat kernmodbyfunc.d #!/usr/sbin/dtrace -s /\* \* Simple script to profile all functions within a given module ('zfs' is \* the lucky chap here). The module range is just extracted from modinfo(1M) \* output. \*/ inline int ZFS_MOD_START = 0xfffffffff77fb000; inline int ZFS_MOD_END = 0xfffffffff78c7378; cpc:::PAPI_tot_cyc-kernel-5000 /arg0 >= ZFS_MOD_START && arg0 < ZFS_MOD_END/ { @[func(arg0)] = count(); } END { trunc(@, 10); printa("%-50a %@d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./kernmodbyfunc.d \^C zfs`arc_write_ready 1459 zfs`arc_write_done 1472 zfs`zio_done 1512 zfs`refcount_is_zero 1836 zfs`zio_execute 1918 zfs`arc_cksum_verify 2013 zfs`dbuf_verify 2167 zfs`lzjb_compress 3356 zfs`zil_commit_writer 3706 zfs`fletcher_2_native 497284
Example 6: Kernel mode cycle profile of a given function
Taking the example above, we may now want to drill down on the fletcher_2_native() function to see the distribution of samples within the function to try and gain any insights into hotspots. The following script may look a bit hacky but it does the job of ensuring that we only store the PC for any events which were in this function.
# cat kernfunc.d cpc:::PAPI_tot_cyc-kernel-5000 /arg0 >= (uint64_t)&(`fletcher_2_native) && arg0 < ((uint64_t)&(`fletcher_2_native) + sizeof(`fletcher_2_native))/ { @[arg0] = count(); } END { printa("%a %@d\\n", @); } # dtrace -qs ./kernfunc.d \^C zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xc 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x10 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x17 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x1b 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x42 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x46 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x49 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x5d 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xa6 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xce 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xd2 1 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x53 2 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x5b 2 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x83 2 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xa3 2 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xa8 2 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x37 3 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x3b 3 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xca 4 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x9c 9 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xc6 27 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x2b 35 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0xab 40 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x1 56 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x72 79 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x91 709 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x80 1331 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x75 1346 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x61 1382 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x79 1409 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x87 1437 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x9f 1438 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x68 1522 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x99 1754 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x7d 1818 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x6f 1839 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x95 2341 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x8b 2517 zfs`fletcher_2_native+0x6b 38448
fletcher_2_native() is a simple piece of code that basically contains a single for() loop. If we map out the PCs in the above example then they map onto the instructions in the for loop as you'd expect.
Example 7: Selective kernel mode cycle profile of a given function
The fletcher_2_native code can be called from 3 separate sites. It may be the case that we are only interested in profiles of the code when it has been called from one of these sites. Here's an example of how we can just profile calls into fletcher_2_native when the caller is arc_cksum_verify:
# cat kerncaller-callee.d /\* \* This is an example of selectively profiling a kernel function depending upon \* who its caller is. The example we have here is only profiling the zfs \* function, fletcher_2_native(), when it is called from arc_cksum_verify(). \* We can't use thread local variables to predicate on in the cpc probe as it \* is executing in a high level interrupt context`. To work around this we use a \* global associative array and hash on the lwp's pr_addr as this is guaranteed \* to be consistent. \*/ arc_cksum_verify:entry { vrfy[curlwpsinfo->pr_addr] = 1; } /\* \* This is a bit icky to say the least. We're basically checking that the PC \* that generated the event (presented in arg0 for kernel events) is in the \* fletcher_2_native functions address range and also that the underlying \* thread has called fletcher_2_native() from within arc_cksum_verify(). \*/ cpc:::PAPI_tot_cyc-kernel-5000 /arg0 >= (uint64_t)&(`fletcher_2_native) && arg0 < ((uint64_t)&(`fletcher_2_native) + sizeof(`fletcher_2_native)) && vrfy[curlwpsinfo->pr_addr] == 1/ { @[arg0] = count(); } arc_cksum_verify:return /vrfy[curlwpsinfo->pr_addr] == 1/ { vrfy[curlwpsinfo->pr_addr] = 0; } END { printa("%a %@d\\n", @); }
I've elided the output of the above script as it looks remarkably similar to the previous one! However, it's the technique that was of interest here and not so much the result itself.
So, there's a very quick introduction to the cpc provider. There's a bunch of stuff that I could have mentioned that I didn't so I'll try and do some more entries fleshing out a few other areas and points. I'm just the guy with the spanners bolting this stuff together and it's you guys out there who can do the clever stuff of applying this to real code to gain new insights. Let me know if there is anything that doesn't work as you thought or if you have any ideas around other pieces that could be bolted on here. Have at it!


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I'm really sick and tired of all the individual threads about celebraties deaths, about random stuff that's currently on the news in the US, about somewhat special events that only a few users here might care about...
On the other hand, it's sometimes quite interesting to read about this stuff, so, let's collect it in this thread.
Please post about things that are big on the news in your country, stuff that moves the people and communities, big events of any sorts. Put some sort of headline in your post, summarize the event and add a link to an actual article, please follow this simple guideline.
Some dutch person might want to start with Laura Dekker? I'm pretty certain no one outside of the Netherlands (and surprisingly Germany) really knows about this case.


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Should have included pics of Rihanna celebrating with Germany…ReplyCancel
Shakira sang a nice song at the World Cup.
All these big stars in Brazil to watch live and I didn't even bother changing the channel on my Tv.
Is there anything more watchable than a zero zero tie?
Sorry, but I'm glad this is over. Now about my Seattle Seahawks….ReplyCancel
Also Mick looks like the Crypt Keeper. Only less happy.ReplyCancel
+1 RivenReplyCancel
All you American Footballers complaining about the World Cup, this is how I feel every fall! You're lucky the World Cup is only every 4 years and last just a few weeks. I have this hatred feeling every year for months! It's miserable. Doesn't help that I reside in WI, people bleed green and gold here. It's obnoxious. Now give me more soccer!! : )ReplyCancel
Did Rihanna Do the German team??ReplyCancel
Guess Lenovo didn't pay for the Rio junket of its product engineer Ashton Kutcher, hence his use of his trusty iPhone.
Why does everyone think Shakira is so beautiful?!?!ReplyCancel
Rihanna (Brazil) or jagger (England) didn't chose the best teams in the competition, either.
The match sucked except for the result (Blühe deutsches Vaterland), but the previous Argentina-Netherlands was even worse.
Finals in real football usually suck as much as a basketball / handstewiegriffin-fakefootball/ baseball / hockey average shit/match.
Ew green bay packers and the Bunch of babies that followReplyCancel
I dont like Shakira , and she has this weird grim or grimace on her faceReplyCancel
Brooklyn Beckham is very handsome. I hope he didn't inherit his father's squeaky voice.ReplyCancel
Did someone mean when Rihanna flashed her leather bra?
Jeez Mick looks positively gray in the face.
I find the four downs in the NFL dull, make it 3 downs like the CFL.
If you can't make 10 yards in 3 downs you're a wuss.ReplyCancel
That looks NOTHING like Mick Jagger, except the wrinkles. Rihanna is one weird looking chick.ReplyCancel
RiRi is quite beautiful and Shakria ain't to far behind.ReplyCancel
That's the worst I've ever seen Adriana Lima look.
Rihanna the third eye opens in your forehead not your neck (no pun intended although…)
Mick looks like the old geezer he is.
Ashton was there?
LeBron said the WC is the greatest sporting event he's ever seen.
Shakira's son got to see Mommy's act? Someone posted a Vine of her performance on Twitter.
I can't believe Beckham's oldest is so old…ReplyCancel
mick looks like he has facial wasting disease. My dad's 78 and looks healthierReplyCancel
Asston proving once again that he ruins everything, including what would have been a lovely photo setReplyCancel
Good lord, I thought Mick was Keef!!!! Looking a li'l rough, Mr. Jagger!ReplyCancel
If David Beckham is wrong then I don't wanna be rightReplyCancel
I love the Stones but for real that photo of Mick makes him look like a prune-y mannequin of himself.ReplyCancel
I'm starting to think Mick wears a wig: a carefully designed one.
Speaking of wigs, RiRi's could be pulled down a little in front. Better yet, that one should be pulled of.
Big fan of Shakiras music, but not of her hair extensions.ReplyCancel
Jagger looks like a wax work. His skin is positively grey. Scary!
Anyone else think Rihanna looks pregnant? Or is her shirt just doing something funky
I got to see Brazil play Holland in a World Cup game in Dallas years ago and it was excellent. Way better than american football.ReplyCancel
Jeezus Mick, YIKES!…ReplyCancel


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