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An electric-propulsion refit kit for powered gliders (or will it be a product?).
Magazine Preview - Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com
Measured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Flatulence joke is world's oldest
Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq.
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed - Software Development Times On The Web
Midori, a speculative incubated software project, tries to expand on their Singularity OS project for more network-connected and potentially commercial prospects. Asynchronous promise-based (and capability-based?) security and concurrency are alluded to.
littleb.org - home of the little b modular modeling language
The little b project is an effort to provide an open source language which allows scientists to build mathematical models of complex systems. The initial focus is systems biology. The goal is to stimulate widespread sharing and reuse of models.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant - Robert Pike, 2000
This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won't talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone's excited about the computer industry. I may therefo
Home - Pencil Project
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / Down on the Farm by Charles Stross
A story from the Laundry series, posted online for free as part of Tor's online efforts.
Allows selecting a time range easily in AJAX/DHTML applications.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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I live in a dark corner so lighting is terrible with a silly camera phone.
That black box under the laptop is my Cosmos II ultra tower.
The laptop is a Dell XPS 15, but I don't really use it that much anymore.
Specs of it in the spoiler
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The Epic Low-Carbon (??) Journey
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The trouble started when we got to the train station in Springfield. We were fully prepared for the fact that we'd be bused rather than trained to Albany, as Amtrak had called us (not once but twice) to let us know. The same day we heard this, both Joe and I had independently called Amtrak's national line to make sure that we wouldn't have any trouble getting our bikes on the train. No reservations needed for the bike boxes, we were told, just $5 per box extra charge when we got to the station.
What we weren't prepared for was the matter-of-fact incredulity of the ticket agent at the window
"I see. You know, we called Amtrak about this and was told it would be fine."
"I don't know what they told you, but if there's no room, there's nothing I can do about it."
"Mmm-hmm." I tried to stay calm, which is not my strong point in such situations, but I kept it together. "Well, if we can't get them on the bus, it makes sense that Amtrak would pay to ship them to us, right? These bikes are our transportation for the summer. We won't have a car."
"I don't know what Amtrak will do. I'm not in a position to tell you they'll ship them and neither is anyone else here. You'll have to call the 800 number."
I glanced with chagrin at Khiem, who had already given up his lunchtime to drive us down here and no doubt wanted to get home to his family. "We'll figure this out - just give me a second." I dialed 800-USA-RAIL. According to Julie, the Automated Reservations Agent, it would be about 18 minutes before I could talk to a live human being. I held the phone until Ren runs off, then left it dangling to chase him. Khiem picked it up and waited for me. When I finally spoke to a live human (who needs to put me on hold to talk to another one for awhile), her pronouncement was: ship them, save your receipts and hope for the best
Amtrak's customer service didn't get much better. The bus was fine, as buses go, and thanks in part to Joe's quick moves with bike boxes, all three made it in. The wait in Albany was undramatic, though I was glad we'd brought our own food - the snack bar didn't have much in the way of actual edible nutrition. Then the Lakeshore Limited chugged in, remarkably only a few minutes late. Stupid me - I thought that the "Reserved Seating" label on our tickets meant we had, you know, reserved seats. By the time kids and luggage were gathered and down to the platform, the conductors couldn't find four seats together. (They were using an advanced method of seating, called paper-slips-with-open-seats-written-on-them. Oh, and did I mention that despite huge signs detailing Important Security Measures, no one ever checked our IDs? Amtrak doesn't seem to be much for logic or accountability.) Joe misunderstood the surly conductor who told him where to put his family, and we ended up - oh goodie! - right behind her seat, right next to a door that was busy all night, and right under a safety light that never dimmed.
We didn't sleep too well, which made it all the more difficult to respond appropriately when we got to Chicago and were told that, due to Mississippi River flooding, we would be bused 9 hours to St. Paul, Minnesota. The kids, who had been desperately anticipating the family room we'd splurged on, took it better than I did. (Amtrak at least promised to refund part of the price of the sleeping accommodations, though as I write this - two weeks later - they have not yet done so.) On the bus we were given a pasty turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, water and Mountain Dew, and instructions to pass them back hand over hand until everyone had one - one of the few moments of levity on that leg of the trip
Things got better once we hit St. Paul. Though we were the first of nine buses to arrive, we were let onto the train almost immediately. We collapsed into beds already made up for us, though not before sharing cookies and champagne (sparkling cider for the wee ones) reserved for us first-class customers. (I hadn't realized sleeping horizontally qualified as first class, but I now appreciate on a new level that humans were really not designed to sleep upright.) The train pulled out almost two hours late, but we didn't care, at least not then. (24 hours later, when we finally arrived in Whitefish with two fast-asleep babes, I wished it had left on time.) The next day we met lots of other people with complaints about Amtrak, and lodged a couple more of our own when we found there were no vegetarian entrees left at lunch. But all in all it was fairly civilized on the Empire Builder.
Was it worth it? Should we have simply driven or - heaven forbid - flown? Well, cost-wise, even with our sleeping berth I think we came out ahead. The trip cost us about $1800 round trip - much cheaper because we booked early and had flexible dates. (My first Amtrak encounter was in February with an extraordinary bastion of customer service - a man who spent 40 minutes on the phone with me figuring out which dates had the cheapest seats available.) Flying would have been, I suspect, at least as much, plus we would have had to ship the bike boxes
Still - good lord! Almost 3000 BTUs per passenger mile? Four of us traveling round-trip from NoHo to Whitefish burned 60 million BTUs!! That's enough to heat our (admittedly energy-efficient) house for about three winters! So much for feeling smug about our low-carbon vacation, and probably too for our plans to do it again in a couple of years.
The best part of the trip, though, were the people. Our time in stations and on vehicles had a totally different feel than it would on an airline. Perhaps it's the lack of tedious security measures (terrorists, are you listening?). Perhaps just knowing we all made a choice to buck the transportation trend and go by rail. Whatever the reason, everyone we met seemed open and friendly. By Albany we were fast friends with a toddler from Cleveland and his family. Somewhere around Madison we were borrowing a total stranger's map atlas. On the lounge car of the Empire Builder we compared notes on parts of Montana with travelers hailing from Portland and Texas. That aspect, the sense that everyone you met was someone worth getting to know, is a legacy I hope I can leave my children, however (and even whether) we travel.


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The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including all encryption software. The Times said the Obama administration is drafting a law that would impose a new "mandate" that all communications services be "able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages" — including ordering "[d]evelopers of software that enables peer-to-peer communication [to] redesign their service to allow interception".
Last week, we questioned whether Sarah Palin may have violated Facebook's terms of use by using a ghostwriter to update her profile. We also criticized Facebook's attempts to enforce those terms with state and federal computer crime laws — which carry both civil and criminal penalties — in Facebook v. Power Ventures.
As we explained, it's dangerous for a website to claim that users who breach its terms of use also violate computer crime law. Facebook users can easily make uncontroversial choices that nevertheless violate the plain meaning of Facebook's terms. Furthermore, Facebook shouldn't have the discretion to criminalize certain behavior just by forbidding it in terms of use.
Hari Prasad, the Indian security researcher arrested for allegedly stealing an electronic voting machine, has been released on bail.
Earlier this year, an anonymous source gave the machine to Prasad and a team of researchers, who discovered critical security flaws. Under questioning by authorities last weekend, Prasad refused to divulge the identity of the source who gave them the machine. He was then arrested and reportedly charged with theft and trespass on the theory that he stole the machine himself.
An Indian computer scientist was arrested this weekend when he refused to disclose an anonymous source who provided an electronic voting machine to a team of security researchers.
Hari Prasad is the managing director of Netindia Ltd., an Indian research and development firm. He and other researchers have long questioned the security of India's paperless electronic voting machines. Despite repeated reports of election irregularities and concerns about fraud, the Election Commission of India insists that the machines are tamper-proof.
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These two items belonged to my grandfather, Rosmer Kerr. On the carte-de-visite at left, someone has identified the girl pictured as Chick Kerr. I don't know whose handwriting that is, and except for these two items, I've never heard of anyone called Chick Kerr.
To the right, the picture side of this postcard was inscribed by two people. The first, presumably the sender of the card, wrote This is "Betty" in the back yard. Later someone added Chic Kerr's daughter. The card was mailed from Mercer, Pennsylvania on March 22, 1909 to brothers Milton and Rosmer Kerr in Slippery Rock. The message is:
Kids, We just heard that you have 9 weeks vacation. Come up and hear about the trip south and see the new Court House. Uncle R.I believe the uncle who wrote this card was Ralph Kerr, brother of the boys' deceased father.
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DEERFIELD - Edwin "Red" Frank, age 82, passed away on Friday, April 26, 2013 at his home, surrounded by his family.
He was born in Ft. Atkinson on May 14, 1930, the son of Walter and Frances (Foat) Frank. Red enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country from 1950-1952. On May 7, 1960, he married Virginia "Ginny" Skram.
Red was a welder by trade, working at Wisconsin Foundry and then Stoughton Trailers until his retirement. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, playing euchre and horseshoes, and made friends with everyone he met.
Red was the most loving, generous, compassionate, forgiving, witty and funny man. He always had a hug for the girls and ended every conversation with "I love you more." If you asked Red how he was doing his reply was "finer than frogs' hair."
He was an avid Packers and NASCAR fan. Red loved his family very much. He is survived by his loving wife of almost 53 years, Ginny; two daughters, Karen (Curt) George and Linda Udelhoven; foster daughter, Joan Boley; five grandchildren, Amy (Jeremy), Matthew, Emily, Roxanne and Denise; six great grandchildren, Elizabeth, Jacey, Lynzie, Korbyn, Desiree and Will; many relatives; and dear friends.
Red was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Melvin, Virgil and Ralph; and step brother, Raymond Nelson. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at Cress Funeral Home in Deerfield.
Burial, with Military honors, will follow in Highland Memory Gardens.
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Family heirlooms workshop slated for March 24
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workshop on the care and preservation of family heirlooms is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 24, at the Firestone Library on the Princeton University campus. Advance registration is required.
The event is presented jointly by the Historical Society of Princeton and the Friends of the Princeton University Library.
Experts on the care of photographs, works on paper, books, coins, textiles and furniture will present brief overviews in a plenary session. Participants then will be able to attend a more in-depth session with one of the experts.
Gail Alterman, a historic costume consultant, will lead "Preserving Memories Made of Cloth." Elizabeth Bates, a faculty member at Parsons/New School University and Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY will conduct a workshop entitled "Conserving Furniture: Basics in Brief."
Members of the Princeton University library staff will lead the remaining sessions. Curator of Coins Brooks Levy will discuss "Caring for Coins, Old and New," and Special Projects Archivist Melissa Johnson will lead "Preservation of Photographic Materials." Two members of the University's preservation staff will lead discussions as well. Book Conservator Scott Husby will discuss "Book Care: Dos and Don'ts," and Paper Conservator Ted Stanley will conduct a workshop on "Preserving Your Paper Treasures."
Although participation in the workshop is limited, spaces are still available for a fee of $15, which includes pastry and coffee beginning at 8:30 a.m. For reservations or further information, call the Historical Society at (609) 921-6748.
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I shot this target with my stock Mossberg 930 with a 28" barrel and the SSX Turkey Choke using 3" Hevi-13 shotshells with 2 oz. of #6 shot at the most recent still target World Championship.
The 930 is an amazing shotgun. I shot it for 2 days in both the Open and Hunter classes and it never failed to function. The "37" hits in the 3" circle at 40 yards was the highest score in the 2 day competition.


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The birds are pretty talkative and responding well to calling. Seeing less hens so I am assuming more are on their nests. We killed a nice 2 year old this morning and my nephew miss judged the yardage and missed a real nice bird. If he was the bird I think he was he is at least a 4 year old that we call Butterball!! He walks at least another day. That bird hung up at 80 yards and we worked him for an hour. He gobbled every minute or less. He had to have gobbled 100 times, but we didn't have time to put out a decoy or I think he would have met his demise. He did put on a really nice show though so it was a good afternoon.
Going out in the morning with Brian Lovett so really looking forward to hunting with him. Hopefully the birds cooperate. The property we are going to start on has had little pressure and there have been 6-8 gobblers there consistantly. Only thing shot this year there was a bearded hen. Time for bed!!


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Kickboxing is a Rematch Sport
- Written by Steven Wright
Rumors of Glory heading to Chicago has emerged, their third event in the US this year, and they are focusing on a four man heavyweight tournament. No sooner than the names emerged that I start seeing a small sect of grumbling on my twitter news feed and in fight forums. The issues is over Daniel Ghita and Gohkan Saki, the two favorites in the field, meaning there will be a high possibility that they will meet for the second time this year. As Saki was successful in a one sided stoppage earlier this year in Turkey, people would rather not see the fight again. To that I say "Nonsense!" Kickboxing is a rematch sport.
This thinking is birthed from a new found collection of kickboxing fans who are use to the new age boxing and UFC model. It is extremely unusual to see high level boxers or UFC fighters rematch one another in the same year due to fighter activity and audience demand. As both are under the single fight system, the amount of fights one can have in a single year is low. A UFC contract offers 3 fights in a 365 day year, and with a roster of 300 plus athletes, they must mix and match to the best of their abilities, pushing careers forward, no time to allow for verbal inspired rivalries to warrant a rematch on their limited card space. And with one recognized title in each weight class, the chance that one could fight for the title multiple times is almost impossible.
Boxing has the same issue, but in a different way. Promoters are positioning their athletes for premium channel opportunities and sanctioning body title shots. If they run into a fight that was close on the score cards, but their fighter got his hand raised, then its on to the next one. No use in finding out if their athlete was exposed. They would rather the media say what their fighter can and cannot due with a zero in the loss column, than with a 1 there. Not to mention, if the fight wasn't exciting, then who cares if the fighter almost lost. The demand is for the athlete to win a title, and then defended it several times while looking to fight other title holders. That is the dream of every fighter and promoter, and it is the reason why you won't see to many rematches in boxing. Add the fact that there are four recognized major titles, and opportunities for high level premium channel fights expands to three in your weight class if your a title holder, four if not, and four in the weight classes above and below yours. It just makes more sense that rematches don't happen as much in boxing.
There are of course ways in which rematches can happen in a calendar year. If the champion loses and he was a star than people would like to see him again or even if he was a long standing champion, than people would feel like he or she earned a title shot. Anderson Silva in MMA is an example of this. Bernard Hopkins got a rematch after the Jermain Taylor loss in boxing. Also, if the fight has riveted the audience enough to demand to see it again, than that could lead to a desired rematch. My favorite boxing fight of all time Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo had audience demand after the first one, along with Arturo Gatti vs Micky Ward. Injustice is another reason. Anthony Johnson lost a fight he was winning due to an accidental eye poke by Kevin Burns and a stupid rule that allowed him to win anyways. In the rematch Johnson kicked Burn's head off. Nam Phan won an easy, no brainer decision over Leonard Garcia, but lost on the cards. He had to wait one fight, but he got and avenged the loss in a rematch. And finally there is the best fight available, which happened to Brandon Rios who rematched Mike Alverado due to the fact that Pacman had lost and no one else under the top rank banner was interested, so he rematched Mike who fought him close in an epic fight, before being stopped. He one part two of the rivalry.
Yet the above examples are the opposite of the kickboxing model which is, and will be for a long time, based off the tournament model. Kickboxing entered its prime in the nineties, where the K-1 promotion wanted to see who the best of the best was, by collecting an 8 man field of heavyweight world champions from around the world. K-1 knew, what everyone knows now and should have already known, there is a title holder in every gym. The title of world champion kickboxer or Muay Thai fighter is less than that of any combat sports title and most sporting titles. In fact, the Dutch Champion would probably handedly beat the majority of World Champions in other parts of the world. The K-1 tournament model allowed for the best to emerge from amongst their peers and compete for the best in the world on the highest stage, the K-1 shows in Japan. This allowed for a 16 man field to be dwindled down to 1, meaning that every year the best wouldn't just have to win one match, he at minimum had to win 4.
Due to the K-1 brand also attempting to develop stars, they would leave rosters spots for those who won their way into the final 8 tourney the previous year. This meant that if the final 8 defeated the rising star, they would return to the field of 8 with another shot at winning the World Grand Prix title and a return ticket to next years field. As the top guys were so good, this was the norm. You would always see names like Masato, Buakaw, Aerts, Bonjasky, Hari, etc, because they were superior to those they were matched up against in the round of 16, thus earning their place back, and developing them as stars. Having defeated the rising challengers, the elite were left to fight one another year after year, each giving their best effort for the highest crown and running into one another on a regular basis. This is the foundation of which kickboxing attained its highest success.
The baby promotions look to the mother. Not only did the regional tournaments provide opportunities to the big show, but it also gave ample opportunities for people to see they're local stars compete. For example, there is a youtube clip of Swedish champion Larry Lidwall winning a regional tournament in front of a home town audience. He wins all three fights in about 9 minutes, allowing the audience a buzz worthy experience where they leave the card thinking of two low kick stoppages and a head kick KO. It is also much cheaper for the promoter who gets 7 fights from eight guys and needs only to add three super fights to fill a card, not to mention what he can do with amateurs bouts. Even amateur cards are tournament based. Where most boxing rules don't allow several fights in a day, almost every Muay Thai and kickboxing tournament is a two day mutli fight system. It is normal for us.
The other notion expressed is that the rematch is bad because we just seen it, suggesting that it will be the same every time. Based on kickboxing history, this is a ridiculous theory. Just google any K-1 Heavyweight legend or watch any K-1 Heavyweight highlight. You are going to see Mike Bernardo knock out Andy Hug, then you are going to see Hug stop Bernardo with a spinning low kick. Peter Aerts is going to get Knocked out by Jerome Lebanner, than Jerome is going to get knocked out by Peter. The best kickboxers in the world will not just lay down because of what happened last time. In fact, the very fight people are complaining about, Ghita vs Saki, was completely different this time than it was in their first encounter. This works for the stadiums as well, despite having a single fight system. No where in the world will you see the best compete with each other on a regular basis as much as the champions of Lumpinee compete, not in any sport. There are no undefeated records because it is impossible to have it be your night every month. Having a hand full of fighters compete once a month means no tournament needed, they will fight each other by default. Only the elite get to the stadiums and that hand full beat one another, which is why a solid Yodwicha type win streak is the stuff of legends. Heck, in the stadiums, a close fight pretty much guarantees a rematch the following month.
My closing thought is that of history. I like that I get to go to Mike Bernardo's wiki page in search of how well he fought the guys of his era and see that there is ample resume for me to judge. Floyd Mayweather Jr is an amazing fighter, the best in the world, but I favor guys who give me greater resume when I ranking the best of all time. Sugar Ray Robinson fought Jake LaMotta 6 times and beat him 5, I got no doubt whose better. Aerts is 3-2 against Schilt, and he did it past his prime, his legacy grows because of it, and each fight was different. Pornsanae lost to Sam-A 3 times, but his one win over him is his favorite of his career, as it speaks to how difficult it was for him to attain it and how great Sam A is. Seriously, if you have a problem with seeing a rematch between the best a sport has to offer, than for sure, kickboxing is not the sport for you. We beat each other up on a regular basis in this game.
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One windows reinstall, falling laptop and overfull mailbox makes a 18e release for debian late ;-(
One windows reinstall, falling laptop and overfull mailbox makes a 18e release for debian late ;-(
CLX hacking has been delayed by preparing a 18e CMUCL release for debian. That and keeping up with the CVS HEAD... Oh how I like sbcl's build process so much more.
Very long time no update. What have I been doing? Well. Raising a kid takes a fair bit of my time. :-)
My current project is dragging CLX kicking and screaming into the 1990's. The whole
without-interruptsconstructions have to go. If you are in doubt, read Daniel Barlows diary.
I will try to keep a up-to-date log of events here.
Long time no diary.
I've been working like a slave recently, so I couldn't do much for cmucl or sbcl. I've noticed the work of crs on the vector operations... impressive!
My love with logical-pathnames has come to an abrupt end now that it turns out that none of the big commericial players got the implementation right. It has no sence trying to get them in line with an obviously broken spec. I think the URI idea is the right solution, but it will take some hacking before adsf+URI is working enough to replace mk:defsystem+LPN :-(. Soo much to do and almost no time...
Recently we went by car from Wilrijk (Belgium) to Napoli (Italy). Impressive. Especially the difference in drivers is noticiable... Also very impressive if you see the Brenner tunnel you went through closed due to a small disaster :-(
I really should get a job in Naples: better weather, better food, nice in-laws...
10 weeks and counting down...
Had a horrible week. Spend too much time at work on nightmare firewall problems... No sbcl hacking :-(.
Now I'm off to rest... And maybe release a new cmucl version :-)
Common Lisp: cmucl 3.0.3 and related packages are shaping up. They seems mostly stable and the bugs I'm fixing are small onces. So either it is fit for release in the next debian version, or the day before the freeze (as per tradition) someone finds a huge problem.
Life: it seems all the signs for the offspring projects are go. ETA: JAN-2002. Other projects will suffer at the start of the project, but I hope to get the milestone proto-lisp hacker in about... 8 years?
Cliki: Added a very egocentric page for people to ask their questions that I see in the IRC logs but for some reason they don't ask me. boggle...
Still having problems with lazy allocation mode. Sigh. Why it suddenly decided to bit-rot on me is beyond me...
So now I'm trying to understand why it segfaults at eip=0x0 by pure meditation
Sigh. Just as was buzy porting the new CLX to sbcl (actually porting some socket interface of sbcl to clocc-port) I find out that cmucl's lazy mode fails on the new 2.4.7 kernel.
So now I'm again debugging OS/GC interactions... Fun fun fun
fufie: logical pathnames are a bitch. I see that in a few years we will do away with them in cCLan, but for the moment let's try to make use of them so we again a little experience of what it actually needed...
The fast that the clisp people have their own special view on the standard doesn't help of course :-)
What have I been doing? Mostly trying to get sbcl working with the new CLX I've been working on, and discovering protocol errors in said POS.
Arrived at LSM at last... First impressions: the south of france looks a lot more like Italy then the north of france. The change really is impressive
At the moment I'm just keeping up with debian in the DHCP 'room'... And when I see how much the others are working I might have trouble with keeping up :-). Now to find the people I know from email in 'real' life... and to prepare that talk...
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tv classic 1/3/2011A customer from Hurricane, WV
The Muppet Show is a great tv show for the whole family. Kids today know nothing of the tv variety shows that were once very popular. The Muppet Show is a perfect tv show for the kids today to get a little taste of classic tv.
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I think I can say with confidence that there is not, nor will there ever be a show like The Muppet Show. Even though nostalgia plays an important role in my review, I cannot help but to recognize the talent of performers such as Frank Oz, Richard Hunt and of course Jim Henson whose genius hand can be seen on everything The Muppets did. Literally.
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Baking | Lamb & Beet Greens – Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough three ways for times when you can't think of anything better!
"I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.
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Calzones, Pizza Pies & Popovers with lamb & beet greens. Pizza dough many ways because minced lamb was all that I had in the freezer. I toyed with the idea of meatballs…but NAH, too much effort! So I made pizza dough, with some whole wheat thrown in for good measure! One batch went a long way. Deliciously too. With mince lamb and beet greens, we had calzones one day, pizza pies the next, and popovers for snacks. Never a hungry moment! What is it with teens? Forever hungry! "What's for fooooooood" echoes through the house every weekend. Why do weekends seem so long? Why are so many meals involved? Why are 'they' so hungry? So many questions … one answer. Something pizza!
It gives me a sense of security and comfort to have a slow rising dough in the fridge. If all else fails, there is always margarita! Make ahead is good stuff! Made ahead pizza dough, even better!I've grown some beets and carrots in my little patch this year. When the first beet surfaced I was thrilled. MY FIRST BEET EVER! The gardener {lazy inefficient man that he is, quite good for nothing but non stop banter} was even happier. "Photo?" he queried. The camera obliged! We had the little beets for salad and I didn't know what to do with the greens. There were loads of them. Sent them for Man Fridays rabbits to munch {Coco didn't take to them unfortunately though she loves peas and brocolli}. Then spoke to Sangeeta who suggested using the greens in salad etc since they were edible. A few beets and carrots also went into a fermented drink, kaanji, which is highly nutritional and a result of bacterial fermentation. The deep colour comes from 'black carrots' or 'kaali gajar' which is the star of the drink. Black carrots are available for a brief period in winter in North India. The kaanji recipe can be found on Sangeeta's blog. It turned out to good to be true; full of nostalgic memories of the years gone by. Fermented products are an acquired taste, and interestingly, most cultures have something to contribute.
Fermentation in food processing typically is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, bacteria, or a combination thereof, under anaerobic conditions. Fermentation in simple terms is the chemical conversion of sugars into ethanol. The science of fermentation is also known as zymology or zymurgy.
Fermentation usually implies that the action of microorganisms is desirable, and the process is used to produce alcoholic beverages such as wine, beer, and cider. Fermentation also is employed in the leavening of bread (CO2 produced by yeast activity); in preservation techniques to produce lactic acid in sour foods such as sauerkraut, dry sausages, kimchi, and yogurt; and in pickling of foods with vinegar.
Examples of fermentation across cultures include kimchi, soy sauce, miso, pickled cucumbers, quark, crème fraîche, sourdough bread, kombucha, idli, dosa, dhokla, sake, vodka, whisky, wine, fish sauce, chorizo …. the list is endless! Sangeeta is very "fresh produce and ingredient informed"especially when it comes to local produce. She suggested that I could harvest the beet greens and use them as I like, leaving the beets below the ground. New leaves will keep appearing. Since beets are perennials, they will stay good for two years! This is what I love about food blogging. It's a large hearted community which has the willingness to share and grow.Then the possibilities exploded! I searched the net to find a whole load of folk do eat the beet greens, and happily so. The next bunch of leaves headed for pizza. Fingers crossed that the kids wouldn't think I was 'killing them with spinach' again. That has happened in the past which is why I shifted to purslane. It fared really well in Lamb & Purslane Pides{Turkish pizzas}!Threw in chopped onion, garlic and some sweet smelling marjoram from Sangeeta's garden = BLISS. Life was certainly looking up suddenly. In went the chopped greens and they imparted a beautiful deep red to the onions. NICE! They wilted pretty soon. Once the lamb came into play, you couldn't tell what 'green' was 'going on in there'. The tiredness went, and the spices flew in. Before I knew it I was cooking up certain yumminess. Sweet paprika, smoked, adds huge flavour dimensions to minced lamb. Juberfam & Mittal do a really really nice one available locally. I LOVE it! Bell peppers went in next, basically whatever there was on hand. They were a hit!! Next time would possibly see finely chopped mushrooms too.
Summary: Lamb & Beet Greens – Calzones, Pies & Popovers …pizza dough three ways. One batch went a long way. Deliciously too with mince lamb and beet greens. We had calzones one day, pizza pies the next, and popovers for snacks. Never a hungry moment!
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour plus dough rising and resting time
- Dough
- 150g wholewheat flour
- 350g all purpose flour
- 1.5tsp yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp dried herbs
- 1 tbsp pickled peppers
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 310ml warm water
- Filling
- 500g minced lamb
- 1 onions, chopped fine
- 5 cloves garlic, chooped fine
- 1 small bunch fresh marjoram {or dried}
- 10-15 beet greens, chopped
- 1tsp sweet smoked paprika, Juberfam & Mittal
- 2 tsp roasted cumin powder
- Salt & pepper t taste
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 50g cream cheese
- Salt & pepper to taste
- 2 bell peppers, red & yellow, julienned
- Mozzarella
- Pimento olives
- Dough {I make it in the Thermomix}
- Place all ingredients except water in bowl of food processor and whiz for 1 minute.
- Add water and knead to a smooth dough.
- Place in a greased bowl and allow to rise for 1-2 hours, until doubled. At this point you can refrigerate the dough, else use it. I prefer using it after a rest in the fridge.
- Filling
- Heat the olive oil in a pan. Sweat onions, marjoram and garlic until light pink and fragrant.
- Add the beet greens and saute until wilted. Throw in the mince and cook on high for about 5 minutes.
- Add the paprika, cumin, salt, pepper and Worcestershire sauce. Mix well.
- Cook open for about 15 minutes until the mince is cooked. Add the cream cheese, mix well and turn off heat. Cover pan and allow to cool completely.
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper for calzones, used ceramic dishes for pies, and muffin molds for popovers.
- Calzones: You can follow the basic recipe on the Roasted Bell Pepper, Mushroom and Ricotta Calzones. This recipe has a nice vegetarian filling option. Maybe some beet greens will do great in here.
- Pizza Pies: Roll out small balls of dough and place in ceramic pie dishes, leaving a border hanging out. Fill with filling of your choice, then frill the border back over part of the filling. Bake at 180C for about 30 minutes {until golden brown and firm to touch. Time will vary depending on size of pie}
- Pizza Popovers: Roll out small balls of dough. Place the filling in the centre and pull the sides up to form a sack. Twist gently to keep in place. I tied mine with a bit of marjoram. gently place in muffin tins and bake for about 25-30 minutes until firm to touch, crisp and brown.
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As I drag myself out of bed at the end of another week, I realize I expect too much of myself and when I do that, others start to expect too much from me. I am going to try and do better at prioritizing and learn to just say no some of the time.
Wonderful quote! We should all repeat it to ourselves every day. Beautiful card, too. I love the warm tones.
Beautiful card Laurie and what a wonderful saying. Nicely done.
What a wonderful quote! I love it. Perfect for all mothers. Pretty colors and I like the border and lace.
Great layout and quote. I will remember this one for sure!
Wonderful ATC Laurie! I love the colors and the pretty border. Nicely done!
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OK, I'll admit it, I am feeling a bit...old..er, lately!
As such I have been a bit nostalgic lately. So I hit a few 1980's web sites and checked out some of my old favs. Here is a quick run down of what I looked up:
G.I. Joe
Transformers (Original)
Thunder Cats
Tranzor-Z (AKA Mazinger-Z)
Bionic Six
Jacen and the Wheeled Warriors
Odly, I had a difficult time finding much for these on ebay and old toy sites. It seems that the last four on my list are a bit hard to find these days. I managed to find SOME stuff, but little in the way of old TOYS. And the stuff I did find was pretty cheap.
FIVE BUCKS for a MOMC action figure from 1986!!! Yep, and "Buy it Now" set at less than $10.00!!!
I just don't get it. I mean, I know that Bionic Six was a LOT less popular than SW but come on, how many of these things are floating around MOMC? Not many, is there just no market for these things?
Heck, I am SERIOUSLY considering buying a some of the old stuff, just for nostalgia's sake.
Does anyone here collect the older 80's toys? If so, where do you find most of your stuff?
Is anyone out there considering collecting vintage non-SW toys on the side?
BTW, I noticed that many of the old GI Joes are still pretty reasonably priced.


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I know shamefully little about really important geopolitical stuff such as the names of who wields power in China, but I could win Mastermind with my virtuoso command of minutiae in the General Petraeus affair.
What was Paula Broadwell's nom-de-plume in her anonymous messages to Jill Kelley? "kelleypatrol". How old is the FBI's "shirtless man"? 47.
I love a sex scandal with wiring diagrams. The conventional narrative about the downfall of a powerful man and the aphrodisiac of power is not really the zany bit in the fall of the head of the CIA.
We've seen that Shakespearean tragedy many times before. As a right-wing blogger quipped: "If you can't manage two women at once you can't manage the CIA." But the Petraeus story isn't about the frailty of the man himself; it lays bare the unseemly secret battle for status between women.
Take neck-snapping Paula Broadwell, a woman never so happy as when she is showing off her bare upper arms. She is like Jack Reacher's oestrogen doppelganger: graduated from West Point, does ultra distance running and wrote the biography of David Petraeus.
I suspect "writing his biography" may become the nifty new euphemism for "discussing the Ugandan situation". But what a broad! I bet she would fit right in to the group "intelligent, classy, well educated women who say f*** a lot".
She is the sort of social climbing ballbreaker I would have loved to be for much of my life if it were not for my feeble upper body strength. Regrettable, as Hamilton's Melville High School would have been the perfect training ground for elite counter-terrorism agents. Like Broadwell, I was a prize-winning brown noser.
And if I couldn't have any power myself, I would settle for being around people who had it. In my 20s I was a stout power-seeking missile with big shoulder pads and cheap hairspray. But, strangely, although I still have poor bicep definition I think I've learned some vital lessons that Paula Broadwell hasn't, for all her access to classified information.
Here's one shameful truth: sometimes when young, clever, attractive women have affairs with craggy older men, it is not for the ego boost of being desired by some well-connected bloke; instead it is the dishonourable thrill of "winning" him off a rival. What else is the interchange between Broadwell and gauche socialite Kelley if not a Darwinian battle for status?
Broadwell was free to be kind to Holly Petraeus in the acknowledgments to her book because she didn't really see the wife as the main competition. For a certain type of dominant woman the conquest is the whole point. Note that we see pictures of Holly Petraeus but no pictures of Broadwell's husband. The men are almost irrelevant in this psychodrama because there is enough testosterone among the women. It is disheartening.
For all the apparent achievements of feminism, when it comes to relationships, women are still scratching each other's eyes out over men. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that driven women who boast they can do hundreds of pull ups frame the world in terms of winning, even in love. But it's certainly not sisterhood the way our feminist trailblazers imagined it. Just like Carrie Mathison with Saul on Homeland or Mattie Storin in the 1990s political thriller House of Cards, young, successful women apparently still need a father figure.
I also shouldn't be surprised that some of the most successful people have the most fragile constructs of self and unravel in relationships. Because the truth they don't teach at Harvard is that love is not about competition and power.
Love and all the really meaningful connections in life come from vulnerability, not dominance. It has taken me 45 years to learn that. But I hope my daughter, who is 8, grows up with a capacity for empathy rather than a fierce appetite for power. And I hope she knows a darn sight more than me about what goes on in China.
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BINGHAMTON, NY -- Binghamton University, State University of New York, has received top recognition by The Princeton Review in its second annual "Green Rating" of colleges. One of only 15 colleges recognized by this rating, Binghamton University is the only SUNY institution and the only university in New York state named to the honor roll.
"This recognition reflects the commitment of our entire campus community," said Binghamton University President Lois B. DeFleur. "We offer a broad network of programs, projects and initiatives that encompass every facet of the University and engages our students, faculty, staff, partners, suppliers and neighbors through educational programs, outreach efforts, research projects and programs that reduce our impact on the environment. We are very proud of these efforts and this prestigious honor roll reflects our firm commitment to sustainability."
The Green Rating is a numerical score on a scale of 60 to 99 that The Princeton Review tallied for 637 colleges and universities based on data it collected from the schools in the 2008-09 academic year concerning their environmentally related policies, practices and academic offerings.
The "2010 Green Rating Honor Roll" salutes seven public and eight private institutions that each received Green Rating scores of 99, the highest score possible. Along with Binghamton University, the honor roll includes Arizona State University's Tempe campus; Bates College (Lewiston, Maine); College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine); Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.); Evergreen State College (Olympia, Wash.); Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.); Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.); Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.); Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.); University of California – Berkeley (Calif.); University of New Hampshire (Durham, N.H.); University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.); and Yale University (New Haven, Conn.).
Robert Franek, vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review, noted that the "green" movement on college campuses is far more than an Earth Day recycling project or a dining hall menu of organic food.
"It is growing tremendously among students and administrators alike," said Franek. "This year we saw a 30 percent increase in the number of colleges participating in our Green Rating survey. We thank the nearly 700 institutions - 697 vs. 534 last year - that supplied us with the data we requested to tally their scores. Many have shown extraordinary commitments to environmental issues and to the environment in their practices and programs. We are pleased to play a role in helping students who care deeply about these issues identify, get into, and study at these schools."
Binghamton University's sustainability efforts range from an energy management system to wide-ranging recycling efforts that include organic gardening and composting. Other initiatives include a range of energy savings projects, LEED building standards and educational efforts that include a residential community energy contest as well as regular programs and events that engage and educate the campus community in thinking about and changing energy habits.
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Hi there everyone! I was wondering if there was such a thing as too much carrying. Bub is 5 months and I am finding that he does *not* want to be put down. At all! During breastfeeding, he cries when I breastfeed him sitting down. He will only breastfeed calmly when I am carrying him in my arms AND walking around. He is 20lbs++ so this is becoming very tiring for me. Sometimes, when I just need to put him down in his cot for a few minutes to I can go to the lu, he'd cry! I believe in attachment parenting but is bub getting just a bit... too attached?
6th March 2012 04:35 PM #2
I am sorry you are tired. Honestly, there is no way for a baby to get too attached. A baby that young needs constant contact. I know it is hard at times, but this is a short phase in an otherwise long life and pretty soon he will be running off to explore things and need you less and less.
Do you have a partner who can take on some of the responsibility? Maybe you can let someone else you trust keep him a few hours a week so you can have some time alone?
6th March 2012 08:11 PM #3
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Thank you for putting it in perspective. He is indeed becoming more mobile and you are absolutely right that very soon, my little one will be crawling then walking. I'd probably miss these times, tiring they may be.
I do have a partner and he has been wonderful. He would support my arms while I carry bub and we walk around. It's a team effort! He does babysit (a lot) but when he has to go sneeze or go to the lu real quick, it's very hard to hear bub crying at the top of his lungs. It breaks our heart.
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I know that this time can seem difficult. It is true that soon he will be mobile and will want to explore everything. Have you tried using any type of baby carrier? Those really helped me when my little ones needed to be held often. I also believe in attachment parenting, but I also don't think you should feel badly if you have to run to the loo for a moment and set him down (somewhere safe, of course.) I know it breaks your heart to hear him cry, but coming back quickly and offering reassurance will help him know you haven't left.
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We do use a baby carrier (kinda like a Moby wrap but less, um, "cloth mileage") but my little one fidgets and fusses most of the time when in it. He'd get fussy after a while, so for us, babywearing time doesn't last very much but it does help A LOT.
What I've started doing to help him get used to the idea that we will come back is to play peek-a-boo behind a door and prolonging the time that I go "boo". I start with 3 seconds hiding, then increase it bit by bit. I see him looking, expecting mum to go boo, but not crying, so maybe that will work. I know at this age, they don't have "object permanence" yet and reassurance is really what he needs right now from me.
8th March 2012 05:05 AM #6
Hi wolfysmum,
I hope things are getting easier for you. Remember that you are giving your son everything he needs by breastfeeding him and so obviously caring for him.
If you did try to get him to settle in a carrier for longer then you could even breastfeed in the carrier. There's a useful thread here including a link with photos explaining how to do this with a ring sling.
It does get easier as they get more mobile!
8th March 2012 10:27 AM #7
Hi wolfysmum,
Our 2nd child was a fussy baby and would not fall asleep at the breast. He required constant movement and he couldn't even relax enough to fall asleep on the bed with me or next to me on the floor.
At 13 months of age he was still sleeping in his swing. I learned about a Craniosacral Osteopath and I took my baby to her. During his first (extremely gentle) treatment, he relaxed and nearly fell asleep during the treatment. I learned that my son had very little movement in two of the plates in his scull, and no movement at all in one of them (there should be a lot of movement in all plates of the scull). My son had a headache from the day he was born.
The doctor said everything was fine when I asked about some concerns, and it was only the Osteopath who even thought to check the plates in his head. After my son's 3rd treatment, he actually fell asleep on the floor while breastfeeding. Tears filled my eyes as I finally had a baby who would fall asleep at the breast.
The Osteopath told me that the reason my son was so fussy was because of his constant headache. When he would watch his sister play, he was distracted enough to be okay. When he was in his swing, the motion distracted him so that he could relax and fall asleep. But, I kid you not, he literally slept in his swing until he was 13 months old. After that I was able to bring him to bed with us and we did the family bed thing until he was about 3.
I only bring this up because it seems odd to me that your son wants to have constant movement while you are breastfeeding him. Has he always preferred movement, or was there a time when he was content to just lay quietly or feed while you were sitting? (Other than the first few weeks of life when babies sleep for most of the time.)


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Notice that only a small percentage of the ride is along streets with sharrows and, notice too, that NYC DOT isn't trying to squeeze one size fits all cycling infrastructure onto a wide variety of streets.
Thinking back on my former commute, 25 kms each way and exactly 0% of my route including any form of cycling infrastructure, it's no wonder I was often alone on two wheels. Cycling along major arterials with boulevards wide enough to play soccer on I wondered why there wasn't a bike path there. I would cross over multi-lane bridges that themselves spanned across 400 series highways and wondered why both cyclists and pedestrians were ignored there as well.
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Meanwhile another strange problem that we were looking at for a few days appears to be resolved. In our PCShare product which contains SMB file sharing we do have a complete netbios naming service. This netbios name service did not properly start up if it is the sole computer in a workgroup. First findings appeared to point to packet length problems, as choosing an odd length netbios machine name made things going (not completely, but it did get further along). Thinking a bit more about that I tried turning off hardware checksumming, and voila, it appears to work fine. The hardware checksumming feature was a recent addition to MacOS X, and appearently depending upon if a broadcast packet is an even or odd number of bytes in size has some weird problems.


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Prints and printmaking were important to Constable who owned, according to Leslie Parris, over 5,000 prints and books of prints – which were vital reference material to him (Leslie Parris, John Constable and David Lucas, New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1993, p. 5). He made his own copies, as with The wheatfield, after Jacob van Ruisdael 1818 , and he turned to prints to assist in creating his own work, as with his apparent reference to Martino Rota's engraving of Titian's Martyrdom of St Peter Martyr when painting A cottage in a cornfield c.1816–17 .
This is one of only four etchings by Constable. He based it on a pencil drawing probably made in 1820 when he visited the Salisbury area. Although somewhat naively drawn, Constable worked in the manner of Dutch seventeenth-century printmakers, such as Ruisdael, Swanevelte and Waterloo, sketching a rustic subject that would have appealed to those artists. The three birds in the sky are, however, very much a Constablean touch.
About 1836 Constable painted a watercolour Milford Bridge, Wiltshire, with a distant view of Salisbury (Victoria and Albert Museum, London), which was the basis of an engraving by A.R. Freebairn, published in 1837 in the second volume of The Book of Gems, edited by S.C. Hall (p. 189). In this publication it was the headpiece to an extract from Thomas Warton's An Ode to Summer, and given the title 'The English Landscape' in the plates. The engraving follows the watercolour closely.
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Yom Hazikaron was formally decreed by law in 1963, but the practice of commemorating the fallen on this day started in 1951 to mark the connection between Independence Day and the people who died to achieve and maintain this independence.
The day starts on the evening of the fourth of Iyar and ends the following evening with the opening of the Independence Day celebrations. By law, all places of entertainment are close on Yom Hazikaron, ceremonies commemorating the fallen are held throughout the country, and flags are flown at half mast. On the eve of Yom Hazikaron a siren is sounded at 8 p.m. and again at 11 a.m. on the following morning. It is customary to stand in silence when the sirens are sounded. Commemoration ceremonies are held in urban centers, public buildings and cemeteries and TV and radio are devoted to the subject.
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An article that I wrote with an overview of Version Control Systems got published on O'Reilly's ONLamp.com. I wrote a suggestions to it (with a summary, IIRC) to the editors of O'ReillyNet some monthes ago. chromatic answered me, said he would publish it and asked me to write a draft. I wrote a draft and sent it to a couple of people I know from the version control business, and they helped me revise and correct it. Tom Lord of Arch fame was especially helpful with his commentary, but I received a lot of useful commentary from other people.
The published article is not identical to the final draft I have. Some things were clearly modified, and I believe that it detracted a lot from the article's colour. But whatever.
I have no more lectures and tutorials for this semester. My first test is in two weeks, and the next one a few days afterwards, which gives me some time to study. I have a lot of material to cover as far as Thermodynamics is concerned, and also need to prepare some material summary pages for Statistics. (and naturally need to prepare for that too)
Work on WWW::Form
It turns out we forgot to include the README in the MANIFEST of WWW::Form 1.13. I fixed it along with a test to make sure it won't be neglected. Now, the question is what will make sure the test file will be included there. (Who will watch the watcher?).
I also did some refactoring of the code. The original code had a function to set all the fields parameters as inputted from the user. I converted it to one small loop that calls a function that sets each parameter individually. I thought that was enough to add new parameters for every form field, but then thought of a better idea, and so created a function to return them as a hash.
Now, the user can sub-class this method alone, call the original and add more parameters of his own to the hash reference that is returned.
I'm doing test-driven development now, writing tests before writing the code.
Hebrew XML with Perl
I wrote an article about processing Hebrew with Perl (it's in Hebrew). I received some useful commentary on it and revised it accordingly. Now I hope it will be published in the Perl and Hebrew page.
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Well, I only played with it a little. I found out it did not have gvim, or joe, (guess that if you want to have both GNOME and KDE, you have to give up something), and so it wasn't ideal as a rescue CD. Still, it seems nice. Probably a nice way to introduce Linux for newbies, or install Mandrake for them.
I stambled across a bug in the GIMP Curves dialog when I was looking for interesting GIMP bugs to solve. So, I tried to reproduce it on my system, but could not. One thing I was able to do, even with fewer clicks than were described was in the bug report, is to grab the pointer for the window with a few rapid clicks. It is so bad, I have to kill the GIMP to release it.
However, Sven Neumann could not reproduce it on his machine, and he claims it is a problem in my X server. I tried to disable the Nvidia acceleration, but this did not help either. Even a bug fix from Sven to disable the explicit pointer grab did not help. What could be the problem?
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By Sam Mamudi
Analysts at Citigroup and Oppenheimer — among the remaining few who had J.C. Penney (JCP) rated a Buy — today downgraded the stock to Neutral.
Penney's stock fell 3.5% today — down 32% in the past week — as CEO Ron Johnson's tenure begins to look increasingly fraught.
Citi analysts said while they're still "supporters of the company's long-term vision,"
We are less convinced that the course-correcting strategies being implemented around pricing and marketing will drive meaningful sales improvement. We are lowering our rating to Netural and reducing our price target to $15 from $22. While fundamentals remain challenging, we believe the potential for asset sales, a private takeover, and senior leadership changes could support the shares and limit further downside from here.
Wishing on a buyout or management change to "limit further downside" is about as weak a Hold as you can get, I'd say.
Meanwhile, at Oppenheimer:
"Our view has been and remains that over the longer term, the combination of better merchandising and a more cohesive pricing and marketing message together with improved cost controls will lead to a significantly improved profit and return profile for JCP," Oppenheimer analyst Brian Nagel said. But "near-term risks for JCP are severe and we believe turning more treacherous."
Nagel also cut his price target to $15; Penney's stock closed today $14.43.
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Sally sent an email a couple of days ago reminding me that Lent begins this week. For those of you who weren't with us last year(I don't know how to link, but you can check back to Feb 19 and 20, 2007), we began a Lenten sacrifice that was tradition in the making.
For no particular religious reason, several of us gave up casting on new projects. I was appalled last year to find out that I had over 40 UFOs on the needles just waiting to be completed. Thanks to 40 days of not casting on, I was able to shrink that number significantly--but still, there are UFOs in my pile. I have things that I feel bad about just taking up space in my knitting room. . .things I haven't touched in over two years. . .It's my guess that not all of us are as pure as Harriet, who only works on one project and a pair of socks at a time, and that there are several things languishing in the bottom of our knitting baskets. . .the time has come. Completion is near.
So, if you're going to take up the challenge with us this year, today is Packzi Day. If you have a burning desire to stock up on fatty calories to hold you over for the season--or rather, cast on a few projects you won't be able to do without--now is the time.
I for one, will be casting on three projects today. (And yes, Sally, I did make fun of you for doing the same thing--call me a hypocrite! it's true!) I need to make a hat for a friend who is visiting late in February, I completed a sweater last night and have been waiting to cast on another using the same needles, and will want to at least start my February Sock Down Challenge socks for a Ravelry group. . .so you all know I'll have at least three UFOs. . .but I think I'm down from the 40 last year. I'll take count and keep you posted.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Fat Tuesday
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What a great idea, and I am with you....need to cast a couple things right away, Feb. sock is part of that requirement, but I don't have many UFO's so the quilt is not mine!
- February 5, 2008 at 1:21:00 PM EST
I meant guilt, not quilt...I have NOT started a new fiber art!
- February 5, 2008 at 1:22:00 PM EST
Count me in. Have one more thing I hope to cast on tonight. No more after today.
- February 5, 2008 at 4:41:00 PM EST
Hey - I'm not so pure!
- February 6, 2008 at 3:10:00 PM EST
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hey... I represent that!
Good yuks, I recall threads from a past life where the discussion degraded into folks digging up real fly recipes from ancient books that required human hair from...
On the topic of rodent fur, I was driving home one night when a police car and an animal control van were stopped in the street. There lay a freshly killed fisher, I'd say about four feet from nose to tail, and much of that tail. I slowed down to observe the animal, and couldn't get over the wildness of the animal that housecats fear. The AC officer asked "wanna make a hat?", seeing my "thousand mile stare". I jumped out of the truck to take a closer look on that note. The fur made the best bucktail look sick. The AC officer (a she) admired the beast after she poked at it with a stick to make sure it was really dead.
I blurted out that I was a flytyer and the tail looked really interesting to which she said "want me to give you just the tail?". I thrashed with the dillema - a rare and legally obtained (a cop witness!) supply of tying fur the likes of which I hadn't seen before -or- dignity of not accepting roadkill in my home town, where my wife is well known town worker, soon to become the wife of that "roadkill guy". What would I do with it? Freeze it? Cure it?
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Telsa Motors (TSLA) stock is down 4.5% this afternoon, not a big surprise considering that before today's trading it had risen 63% in May.
But while its trading at just under $84 a share, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jones sees the company rising to $103 before too long. Said Jones in a research note Tuesday:
What Tesla has accomplished isn't luck, it's real. Many funds approach an investment opportunity by first asking: does the company do something better or cheaper than anybody else? Tesla is beginning to convince the market it may do both. Competency in technology is migrating to engineering, manufacturing and marketing. Detroit, Munich, Wolfsburg and Toyota City must feel a sense of astonishment… with a hint of anxiety.
Jones reiterates his Overweight rating for the stock, and lists four reasons why he likes Tesla:
1. CARBitrage: Tesla's innovative 'capital raising', funded by its competitors. Selling ZEV credits to other OEMs can fund multiple years of Tesla capex.
2. Lease deal doesn't just enlarge the addressable market, it multiplies it. We expect Tesla to announce more hiring and investment for 2nd shift to expand Model S capacity by year-end.
3. High share price itself creates value, liquidity. The market's compression of the company's risk premium enables Tesla to be opportunistic with tucking-in new equity capital with minimal dilution.
4. Pound for pound the strongest brand in the auto industry? Tesla is 1/100th the size of BMW, wins Motor Trend car of the year, scores highest ever rating by Consumers Reports. Not a bad start.
Not bad indeed, especially considering 44% of its float was held by shorts as of April 30. After this month's ramp up, the first-quarter earnings that surprised on the upside and the great reviews by the auto press, it'll be interesting to see how many of those shorts remain.


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My little guy is super active...needs to be watched pretty much non stop....he's a busy guy.......shew.
Except on vet day after getting a round of vaccinations......they make him so sleepy.....on a normal day there's no way he lays on my lap and doesn't drive me crazy with chewing and trying to get EVERYTHING!!


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Ivan Durrant is not unique in having a fondness for flesh. But he is exceptional in the way that he plays out the dichotomy of attraction and repulsion for flesh in his work. In 1975 he shocked Melbourne when he dumped a slaughtered cow in front of the National Gallery of Victoria. A few months later he had Sydney in an uproar when he exhibited what appeared to be a severed human hand at Hogarth Galleries. Then the public (perhaps no longer as credulous as they had been) was invited by Durrant to Wheelers Hill, on the outskirts of Melbourne, to see 'Beverley the Amazing Performing Cow' 1975. The performance was the slaughtering of Beverley. Durrant's equation of flesh and death was understood broadly as a response to the life-wasting Vietnam War, but particularly the direct connection between life and death. Each of us, he argued, must 'take responsibility for [their] own actions. If we are going to eat meat a cow dies for that. And we have to face it.'[1] Durrant's fascination with flesh inevitably couples mortality and morality.
Pliable, fragile and vulnerable, softness is an apt trope for flesh. Quentin Crisp, never one to sentimentalise when a bon mot would do, suggested that 'life was nothing more than a defiance of gravity': the flesh of every being eventually collapses and pools. 245–T appears to show the corrosive disintegration of death; flesh softened to liquidity. It is a fleshy blob, an amalgam of protruding brain and Cyclops eye, with a tiny but perfect foot protruding, a Frankenstein, a foetus destined never to survive. While young flesh is normally enticing, Durrant elicits revulsion in this work.
Durrant showed 245–T in his 1982 exhibition, Uranium, you're standing in it, held at the United Artists Gallery in Melbourne. His concern for humanity beleaguered by a toxic environment formed the basis for the display. '245–T' or '2,4,5–Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid', is a herbicide. It is also the major ingredient of Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant used in the Vietnam War. At the time that Durrant made this work, veterans of the war in the US, New Zealand and Australia were seeking compensation for the ill health caused by exposure to the herbicide. The chemicals were also linked to genetic defects and birth defects in infants. Some of the compounds were produced in Australia, and at the time it was thought that Agent Orange had been tested in the Innisfail region of Queensland. The effects of the toxin on the Vietnamese population are presumed to be considerable.
Durrant had worked for a short period at a prosthetics laboratory at Royal Melbourne Hospital and was able to create lifelike body parts, as well as convincing facsimiles of pig heads and various cuts of meat. In a review in The Age at the time of his Uranium exhibition, Durrant noted that the birth of monsters went unreported by local doctors, and that they were 'left to die on the bench of the delivery room'.[2] The sterile white base of the sculpture evokes the hospital bench or a medical specimen table. The name on the front face is reminiscent of an epitaph.
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[1] Ivan Durrant, Realist painting �70s � �90s, Victorian Arts Centre, Melboure, 1992
[2] Ivan Durrant quoted in Memory Holloway, 'Manipulating the media,' The Age, 15 September 1982
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