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2011-11-29 MS marriages • Luck break wall
Start: 12:13:15
Seventies Soulchild: good afternoon alt. how are you"
alt: 'lo Seventies Soulchild, doing fine & you?
Seventies Soulchild: doing well. 'enjoying' this 60 degree weather.
alt: I see you put up some more Adams Co., MS marriage records,,,, good job!!!
Seventies Soulchild: Yes, I hit a snag though. Hi Selma
alt: hello Ms Selma.. how's it going?
Selma: Good afternoon alt and seventies... Going slow I swear old age is a b*^%h Was that too much sharing...LOL
alt: slow is good... I'm at STOP LOL
Seventies Soulchild: Some of the records indicated COL (Colonel) LOL J/K.. still giggling about your daughter with that one. Anyway some indicated colored, but not sure. So I looked up some of the people in the 1870 census. all were black. Selma! lol wow!
Selma: No more complaining for the day.. LOL
alt: and "old' beats the heck out of the alternative Selma.
Selma: True, true alt
Seventies Soulchild: lol Selma
Selma: Seventies...are these marriages in a separate group identified as "colored marriages"..or interspersed with white marriages and you are sorting them out
Seventies Soulchild: Actually only some of the records indicated one or both parties as col in parenthesis. But the book specifically states colored marriages on the cover.
Selma: OK
Seventies Soulchild: But because I saw those specifications, I did question it. But it all depends upon the 'mood' of the record taker.
Selma: The time period was 1866?...this was done under the Freedmen's Bureau
Seventies Soulchild: These records belong to Adams County, MS though on the record it does indicate the terms "Freedman" and "Freewoman" on the form.
Selma: In that time frame the Bureau was still operating in that state and county
Seventies Soulchild: You know I'm not 100% sure, but I do know that they were there in 1865 and 1866. Natchez was one of the Freedman's Bureaus main HQs
Selma: It did not have to be Seventies... I told you to read the link to the descriptive pamphlet which describes.
Seventies Soulchild: ok thanks Selma
Selma: The other Mississippi Roll I had Natchez written on a number of things.. Oh just read what you wrote..
Seventies Soulchild: Ok yes I've seen Natchez in the Freedmen's Records on HeritageQuest
alt: was Adams county heavily populated by AA's? 100 or so marriages in 1 year seems like a lot of marriages to me. Could these have been in some for like legalizing cohabitation's?
Selma: Also Barnetta White has details on what happened in each state re marriage...I will find the copy for you.
Seventies Soulchild: For several years. Adams county had many migrants from Wilkinson Co. and others come into the county. It was heavily populated for a long time alt.
alt: okay Seventies Soulchild
Seventies Soulchild: I'm not through with year 1 yet alt. There are 350 marriages
alt: WOW, that's a lot of marriages for just folk of color...
Seventies Soulchild: I'm at August 1866, the beginning
alt: in 1 year I would think. course you have to take location into account.
Seventies Soulchild: yes, I think that is why. Wilkinson County on the other hand has a small book maybe the size of a composition notebook with freedman marriages in it.
Selma: Mississippi...The Act Approved on 25 Nov 1865 contained 12 sections..the relevant section follows in its entirety
alt: 350 marriages.. that's 700 people... there weren't that many Blacks in some of the Ohio counties I research in 1866 LOL
Seventies Soulchild: lol well hey there are plenty of records to research, I'll bring some back for you next summer lol
Selma: That all freedmen, free negros and mulattoes who do now have heretofore lived and cohabitated together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally married.
alt: no thanks LOL
Seventies Soulchild: I see some of the records from the early months are signed and bonded by R.W. Wood, the registrar. At least one of them
Selma: Is R.W. Wood someone who was the registrar inthat county prior to the WAr
ProfDru: hello gang
Seventies Soulchild: I don't know. I haven't gotten past the transcription portion. Trying to get that completed first. I did think about that as I was transcribing the documents. Also some of the ministers.
Selma: Afternoon ProfDru
alt: hello Ms ProfDru
Seventies Soulchild: Hi Professor Dru There are some names who are appearing frequently on these records. ProfDru, are you going to attend RootsTech this year???
ProfDru: if my health improves
Seventies Soulchild: ok I saw the registration on family search and thought about you.:0
ProfDru: I am scheduled to speak--thanks for reminder. I have to send my handout by tomorrow.
Seventies Soulchild: I've been hitting that family search hard. Some great records that are aiding me in my research have been coming out there.
ProfDru: will you be attending, soulchile
Seventies Soulchild: No unfortunately. Will be at work.. :}
alt: yep, familysearch is putting up a great amount of new records for each State of late.
Seventies Soulchild: February is our Admissions crunch time.
ProfDru: hopefully some sessions will be online
Seventies Soulchild: Hellooooo vkn
alt: Hello vkn... how be's ya?
vkn: Be good alt and thee
Seventies Soulchild: Selma thanks for the info on the Mississippi Freedmans' act of Nov 1865.
alt: thee be's fine thanks vkn
vkn: lol and dru AND SELMA AND SEVENTIES
Selma: Seventies..email me your address..I think I have an extra copy of the Descriptive Pamphlet that NARA sent me..
vkn: oops not meaning to shout just hit the wrong key
ProfDru: January is our crunch time, soulchile. Things should be settled by the time of the conference.
Seventies Soulchild: ok ProfDru
Selma: I don't know if they still do it but..they would send free copies of the Descriptive Pamphlets for the Sates Afternoon alt
Seventies Soulchild: nice! firstname.lastname@example.com
alt: good afternoon to you too Ms. Selma
Selma: No seventies..your real snail mail address Afternoon vkn
Seventies Soulchild: OH okay... will do!
alt: boondocks NY for Seventies Soulchild LOL LOL
Selma: You know that "old" way of doing things at the Post Office3
Seventies Soulchild: look who's tardy for the party... lol hey Daviss!
vkn: howdy daviss
Seventies Soulchild: Unfortuantely yes it is alt! lol
Daviss: hello alt, ProfDru and Selma! Hi Seventies and vkn!
alt: hello Daviss ... late slip please LOL
Selma: Afternoon Daviss
ProfDru: hello vicky tonight, I will giving my USCT presentation to a college history class.
Seventies Soulchild: ha! Just got a tweet about the Archives doing an artisan fair on WPA artists... ok ProfDru
alt: wonderful ProfDru
Daviss: I hope I will be able to stay online.. puter acting up, phone on the blink etc etc :{
alt: one of those days , huh Daviss?
Seventies Soulchild: lol Daviss did you pay your bills? :}
Daviss: lol oh yeah, gotta do that yes and the home phone has tgerrible static, sheesh
alt: speaking of USCT's ... seems like the CW150 effort has slowed down in the AA community.
ProfDru: really alt
Seventies Soulchild: As has the international year of the African...
alt: was afriad that might happen and we've still got 4 more years of CW150 to go.
Seventies Soulchild: Daviss....
alt: Hello Luck.. how are ya?
Seventies Soulchild: Hi Luck! Is this Luckie???
Luck: I'm fine and u? No this is not luckie.
alt: doing fine Luck
Daviss: hello Luck, how are you!
Seventies Soulchild: How are you Luck. Welcome to Afrigeneas.
Luck: Thank you Do you offer advice if you hit a brick wall?
Seventies Soulchild: We sure do! What can we help you with
Daviss: welcome Luck and how can we help you
alt: we try Luck
Daviss: Give us a little bit of info.. What are your surnames and from where is your search?
vkn: howdy and welcome luck
Luck: I am having trouble trying to locate a last name. I have encounted at least a possibility of 3 from different sources.
Seventies Soulchild: Ok what era are the records from? And sources?
Luck: the early 1900's
Selma: Afternoon Luck
alt: are the differing suranmes for one given family over a period of time Luck?
Luck: they are from a marriage cert, and 2 of her childrens death records
Selma: What state and county Luck?
Luck: Hale, Alabama
Selma: Is Hale the County?
Luck: Yes
alt: ah so a her/she.... marriage cert. would have maiden name and her children's DC' would have her married name(s), right?
Seventies Soulchild: Could this person's maiden name been used on the D.C? And have you checked taxes? Also could this person have had multiple marriages?
Selma: What is her name on the marriage Certificate and when was it issued?
Luck: Her marriage certificate states one thing and her childrens death records say something completely differnt.. No she was only married once. Her marriage name is Mary Tucker.. She married Charlie Tucker
Selma: What was her Maiden name..was it listed on the Marriage record?
Luck: Per the record I found online...not actual doc.. it states Ryan..
Selma: Where did you find online?
Luck: off the family search pilot site
Seventies Soulchild: You may want to check that again. One my of my greatgreat grandmothers from AL married twice both times she used her maiden name.
Selma: and what year did this marriage take place?
alt: okay.. so Ryan was the maiden name and Tucker the amrried name.... 3rd name is???
Seventies Soulchild: Her eldest daughter from her first marriage had her father's last name and that is how I figured it out.
Luck: wyatt.. Jan 16 of 1902
Selma: So she married on Jan 16 1902..how old was she? I know this all sound intrusive..but it helps if we know all the details
Luck: age unclear born between 1883 and 1886 Tucker is the married name and Wyatt is the other name I'm running into
Selma: and the death certificates, who were they for? when were the deaths, how old were they?
alt: was Wyatt the maiden name on the marriage certificate & Tucker the anme on children's DC's?
Luck: She married Charlie Tucker in Hale county Al. They are for 2 of her children.. Lizzie May Tucker Brown, Charles C. Tucker Both say Wyatt. and a death record for her say Wyatt.. But I cannot locate a census doc for her for 1900.. under that name.. But I did find one for a Mary Rines
alt: have you found her on the 1900 census? marriage took place in 1902, right... 1900 should have maiden name and she woud be about 16018 tears old.
Selma: On her marriage certificate did it list her parents?
alt: 16-18 y/o
Luck: Ryans is for her Marriage cert, Wyatts reported by 2 kids and her death cert which would of been written by her kids since she out lived her husband. 1902 married charlie tucker no parents listed..
Daviss: what county was this again?
Luck: Hale county Al
Selma: Did she have siblings that you know of?
Luck: Not sure because of the mix of names
Seventies Soulchild: Luck, have you done a timeline for Mary Tucker and her children? Births, marriage, deaths, residences? Sometimes it helps to see things together and organized for analysis.
alt: if you think she is in Hale Co., AL in 1900 try a search on an AA feamle given name of Mary born ca 1883-1886.
Selma: Do you find her and tucker and chldren in 1910?
Luck: Yes listed with Charlie
Selma: Who is living around them in 1910..neighbors possibly other family members
Luck: I looked no names seems to tie they were in a different county they had children by then.. Residence Blocker, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
alt: and in 1910 the oldest child would be 7-8 years old?
Selma: Could her mother re married..was married to a Ryan then married a Wyatt..the children might have not know the first husband
Luck: yes, they had 4 kids by 1910.. and like 9 after
alt: good thought Selma... a search for those 3 surnames in the counties of question might be needed to be done.
Luck: All with Charlie Tucker they have him listed as their father
Daviss: there is a 14 yr old mary Rine in hale county
Selma: Rine/Ryan..sounds alike
Luck: Yes.. I have that census saved but not linked to her. I know that's why I'm confused
alt: right Selma... does the family of Mary Rine/Ryan look familiar?
Selma: Who is living in the household in 1900 with Mary Rine/Ryan?
Luck: No..on that doc is say she is living with her sister.
Selma: How old is the sister? Let me go look
Luck: 39 and her name is julia boreman Seventies Soulchild I have
alt: oh no, don't add another name... Boreman, Wyatt, Rine/Ryan/Tucker LOL
Luck: :}
Seventies Soulchild: I say send alt all your documents.. lol
Selma: There is another person inthe household above with the surname RINE..a Carrie Rine. She is the Stepsister of the Head of household...a Nancy Booker
Seventies Soulchild: Luck sounds like you've got quite a bit of research ahead of you! :}
Selma: How long have you been doing this Luck?
Daviss: The Head of the Household looks like Boreland Or bareland
Luck: At first I thought that I may of had the wrong family but the child names dont change from 1910 to 1930.. I know its all confusing about 3 years
Seventies Soulchild: Ok folks there are tons of folks waiting to get into this school. I gotta head out... be good!
Selma: Be good?.. we try.. LOL
Daviss: lol
Luck: They moved from hale to tuscoloosa then back to hale by the next census.. Alabama records are horrible
Daviss: Luck did you see if anyone who is in this household was anywhere around the family in 1910
Selma: They probably moved for "work".. luck
Luck: Nope.. I checked.. They move back to hale county and resided near Charlie's father who own large farm land
Selma: How old was Charlie when they married? Was he on the 1880 Census..
Luck: yes he is on the 1880 census in hale, and the 1900 census in hale both census living with his father
Selma: Is the Hale family near the Boreland/Rine family in 1900..close enough for him to have met her? I mean the Tucker family
Luck: they were in the Greensboro area and he was in moundville.. I havent charted thed distance but in 1880 the tuckers were in greensboro
Daviss: so were the Rine's is he a jr
Selma: What is his father's name?
Luck: Charlie is a Sr.. his father name Mal.. When I searched the area for Rine/Ryans i found some but no Wyatts But there was no Mary I did find a Julia in 1880 in the same area
Daviss: Mall Tucker
Luck: Yes
Daviss: In Ingram
Luck: Yes
Selma: I see him Mal Tucker is the Grandson of Beverly Blackburn
alt: I have to run... Luck, you might post your 'brickwall' on the AfriGeneas Forum and get more folks looking at your situation. y'all take care.
Luck: yes.. But that a whole nother brick wall.. Thanx alt
Selma: Just so you know Luck...WE ALL have brick walls
Daviss: alt is right about posting on the forum Luck. Have you done that at all
Luck: I know.. I'm not sure how
Selma: Do you live in Alabama Luck?
Luck: NO very far from it..
Selma: Ok.. Just trying to judge if you could get to the County Courthouse or archives
Luck: What I find in alabama is alot of name changes... and missing doc.. I wish I think I may have to take a trip down there
Selma: That is an issue in alot of states Luck...
Luck: how do i post to your wall
Daviss: I would go to the Surname Forum.. Put in the last name that you know and a brief summary of what you told us here
Selma: Send him to the Surnames Forum Daviss
Daviss: yes
Luck: Should put all this information or will that confuse readers
Selma: Give some details Luck...like the names and in what records you have looked
Luck: anks you guys
Selma: In what counties and states.. You are welcome... Come back and visit..
Luck: Sure will
Daviss: oops
Selma: Only once a session Daviss..that is a record
Daviss: sorry lol lol
Selma: Well I better run
Daviss: mabe she/he will get a hit ok friend cya
Selma: Have a great day..bye
Daviss: bye


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The improved River Cities Transit Facility supports public transportation service within a 100-mile radius for people living in 11 counties in central South Dakota, including seniors, people with disabilities, veterans and the Cheyenne River Sioux and Lower Brule Sioux tribes.

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The Shops at Target returns with their second roundup of awesome stores-within-the-store on September 9, including a collection from ridiculously chic New York boutique Kirna Zabete. Wanna check out the (once-in-a-lifetime-affordable) goods?
Kirna Zabete co-owners Beth Buccini and Sarah Easley give shoppers the inside scoop on their collection in this video that chronicles the making of the lookbook (you can see all 33 looks at Target's Tumblr, A Bull's Eye View). Prices range from $9.99 to $99.99, which is just about the steal of the century when you consider their boutique is usually stocked with lifelong-savings splurges from the likes of Givenchy and Jason Wu.
What do you gals think of this latest Shops at Target boutique? Are you excited about Kirna Zabete coming to your local big box store? Which piece is your favorite? Discuss!


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Spring 2014
For Spring 2014, we play with the idea of hubris and makes inflatable egos visible through an exaggerated silhouette and narcissistic graphics.
The collection is confident with an in-your-face aesthetic and kick-ass attitude, channeling bold artists from the 90s. A decisive street look from that time period emphasizes this new direction. Seasonal key colours are black, white and grey marl, where prints play an important part. The Spring 2014 Collection consists of three themes; Exaggerated Silhouette, Fragmented Reality and Buffalo Riot. Exaggerated Silhoutte features egocentric prints, intarsia text, fat stripes and contrasting silhouettes. Fragmented Reality is defined by collage prints, prints on prints, patchwork looks, cut-outs, large details and gold. More is more is the motto for the final theme, Buffalo Riot. Tribal style lettering in prints and graphics, a bright palette and colour coatings make up the theme's cartoonish aesthetic and strong street vibe. As a whole, the Cheap Monday Spring 2014 Collection makes no apologies and embraces the narcissim of our age, while it at the same time pays homage to the orginal mes, myselves and Is.


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Imagine three of the top scientific agencies in the U.S. working with one of the nation's top research laboratories try to find out how much BPA you are exposed to when you eat a lot of canned food over 24-hours. Imagine they continuously measure blood and urine to create a picture of human metabolism, a "Where's Waldo" of chemical absorption and diffusion. Imagine they find that BPA rises in the urine after a meal of canned food as the chemical is rapidly metabolized and excreted and - even more surprising - they effectively fail to find any active BPA in human blood (it's below the level of detection using the most advanced techniques for detection).
Imagine, also, that one of the world's top endocrinologists, who specializes in looking at the potential risks of tiny amounts of chemicals to humans, calls the study "majestic," for the way it was carried out, and says its conclusion effectively rules out the possibility that rodent experiments, where the chemical caused adverse effects, have any relevance for humans.
Well, such a study exists - but it might as well be a dream or a work of fiction, because the mainstream media just couldn't be bothered to report it, despite publishing hundreds upon hundreds of stories about the alleged dangers of BPA in the past six years.
But what makes this particular omission particularly ironic, is that lo, a letter cometh out of Harvard and the Journal of the American Medical Association in which the best and the brightest students were fed canned soup, and behold, they haveth BPA in their urine. Cut to journo-evangelist, Anahad O'Connor, in the New York Times.
"The new study is the first to measure the amounts that are ingested when people eat food that comes directly out of a can, in this case soup."
Well, um, no. The aforementioned study by the Centers for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and Battelle researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Teeguarden et al.), which was funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, fed humans a diet almost entirely composed of canned food, which included chicken noodle soup and clam chowder. Perhaps Professor Michels and the New York Times weren't aware of this? The sense of disconnection from the research on the chemical continues:
The spike in BPA levels that the researchers recorded is one of the highest seen in any study. 'We cannot say from our research what the consequences are," said Karin Michels, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and an author of the study. "But the very high levels that we found are very surprising. We would have never expected a thousand-percent increase in their levels of BPA.'"
Actually, it's not surprising at all. Why? Because the FDA has studied the concentrations of BPA in canned food and it published the results last July in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry. BPA levels varied widely in canned food (note this point, because we'll come back to why it is highly significant later) and in terms of soup, levels of BPA were up to 100 parts per billion (ppb) or nanograms per gram.
So, work out the dose for a 70 kilo person ingesting 12oz of soup at the highest level, and you end up with 0.5 ug/kg bw – which is ten times higher than the mean daily intake of BPA for the general population as calculated from the NHANES database (Lakind and Naiman, Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 2010). This comports with the levels found by Michels.
And wait – remember the Teeguarden study that no one in the media thought was worth reporting? Yes – that too shows similar levels of BPA in urine to Michels (and in some cases higher) after certain meals, with the added bonus that it demonstrated the levels did not translate into active BPA in the blood, which is the only thing we should be concerned about when it comes to this chemical.
But here's where the New York Times allows Professor Michels to spin the most:
Dr. Michels said that the increases in BPA were most likely temporary and would go down after hours or days. 'We don't know what health effects these transient increases in BPA may have,' she added."
We know exactly the metabolic profile of BPA, and not just from Teeguarden et al. There is almost 100 percent elimination in 24 hours. Active BPA is below the level of detection. Inactive BPA cannot, by virtue of basic chemistry, mimic estrogen.
But she also pointed out that the findings were probably applicable to other canned goods, including soda and juices. 'The sodas are concerning, because some people have a habit of consuming a lot of them throughout the day,' she said. 'My guess is that with other canned foods, you would see similar increases in bisphenol-A. But we only tested soups, so we wouldn't be able to predict the absolute size of the increase." (emphasis added)
Why bother with guessing when we have extensive knowledge of BPA levels in canned goods thanks to the FDA? We know there is such wide variance that we cannot make any assumption that the level of BPA in one product is "probably" the same in another. More to the point, Health Canada, has done extensive testing on canned soda and other drinks, and the results are nowhere close to Professor Michel's soup cans. (By the way, this takes very little specialist knowledge to work this out: Google "BPA migration soda can" and you can find the Health Canada data).
But then Professor Michel's study was in part funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which has a truly remarkable track record of funding almost all the scare studies on BPA – and then later (sotto voce, of course) admitting that many of them can't really tell us anything about human risk, and should have really be conducted in a manner similar to studies funded by the FDA and EPA – and their overseas equivalents.
Unfortunately, if journalists don't bother to wrestle with the regulatory science, they'll never know whether they are being spun or whether, in this case, Professor Michels is not as familiar with the research literature on BPA as a professor with two Ph.Ds should be.


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Every once in a while I get into a bead buying frenzy. Onn my day off I went to a couple bead shops in NYC.
These lengths of chain are my favorite. I take them apart & use them as charms. You can see my post about chains as charms here. The stars on this strand are smaller :)
I've been on a czech bead kick (as seen in my bead soup post.)
a quick tutorial:
Use E600 to glue beads to stud needles. Make sure the stud needle doesn't cover the holes.
Take a head pin, slide on a bead cap, then the bead, then another bead cap. Loop unto the chain.
Same format for the stud portion--- bead cap, bead, bead cap. Loop unto the other end of the chain.
Then you're all set!


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In Minnesota, when the winter weather starts creeping above freezing, I start pulling my shorts out of storage.
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The removable, stainless steel pull-out drip tray and grease pan makes clean-up easy.
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Jun 27, 2012
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79 comments:
- Mary said...
You seriously are amazing. Don't ever let anyone doubt you not even yourself. :)
- 27/6/12
- Lique said...
man, even when the comics suck (which they don't), they still look very good. ;)
keep it up!
- 27/6/12
- Linda Coppi said...
It seems you can also be a wise man Alex! I like this story :)
- 27/6/12
- Pawan Pawar said...
Really amazing.. Love your comics
- 27/6/12
- jnana said...
Wow wow wow!
- 27/6/12
- Joanne said...
I loved this,I just thought you should know.
- 27/6/12
- tewo said...
don't doubt yourself. look, you just started to save these as gif. that's cool because you finally understood that jpg sucks. keep it up and you'll eventually find that png is the king of image formats. you should make a comic about that, i won't take any credit i promise.
- 27/6/12
- Luís Cunha said...
You summed up my life 'till the 14th frame!
And keep it up: your work is amazing. I'm a very big fan. Greetings from Brazil :D
- 27/6/12
- Tapanga Jansen said...
haetrs guna haet. thems dunno no betr. evry tiem you keep been awesum a haetr shuts up. keep goin budee.
- 27/6/12
- rommel said...
I don't know why it reminded me of a Paul Simon song:
I Am a Rock
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
song is beautiful, and so are your comics.
- 27/6/12
- Lolamouse said...
I've discovered (and I'm MUCH older than you are!) that I can count the really good and loyal friends in my life on the fingers of one hand and still have a finger or 2 left over. If someone becomes toxic to you, you don't need him/her in your life. If they elevate you, they're a keeper. Remember, though, this goes both ways. BTW, love your comics! Don't be afraid of failure. We learn as much from our mistakes as our successes. Geez, I sound like Yoda, I do.
- 27/6/12
- Serena said...
Friends who hurt you are not friends... you should leave those people aside! Finding a *true* friend is an incredibly difficult task, but it's rewarding when it happens. and it *will* happen, don't worry :)
...oh, and your comics do *not* suck!! :D
- 27/6/12
- Miss Rachel M. said...
You are awesome! The friends you have and the friends you'll make will surely see that!
We can't control the ones that don't work out so we move on and thank them for the memories!
- 27/6/12
- Albus said...
wow, I just went through a similar process a couple of years ago and I'm actually trying to overcome that catatonic state where you just freeze in front of every difficult situation you face... It's hard, but the good thing is that I'm aware of everything said in this comic and I (kinda) know what needs to be done... I feel deeply related with this comic... (Oh, and btw, all your comics are awesome :D)
- 27/6/12
- Unknown said...
Nice! And just little like me
- 27/6/12
- mísa said...
lindo, muito lindo, parabéns!
- 27/6/12
- tamara said...
Great comic and great insight! I tend to feel the same way about friends as well. It's hard, but it's worth it, too. I went through most of my life without many friends at all because it freaks me out, but I've begun to branch out and it's much better.
Thank you for sharing!
- 27/6/12
- Amy B. said...
I'm glad you're back.
- 27/6/12
- seelvana said...
lot of deep feelings for a comic.
Love it.
- 27/6/12
- Rachel Hoyt said...
Great to see you back on line! So sweet of you to share a piece of your real self with all of us strangers online. I think you're ready to start walking around all those imaginary pot holes of friendship! :)
- 27/6/12
- Unknown said...
So beautiful!
- 27/6/12
I liked it very much, I agree with you in almost everything.
- 28/6/12
- Xiaoting Wu said...
Alex, just want to say that I've been through the same kind of experience, and I came up with the same conclusion like the one at the end of this comic. But for me, there's something more, and I'd like to share with you here.
I think a good friendship requires the effort from both sides, so one should keep trying if he/she still wish to keep the friendship, but sometimes one also have to accept the facts if it is clear that some friends can no longer be as close as they used to be. After all, friendship does change, and can become disappointing as time goes by, just like all the other kinds of the relationships in the word.
I'm an introvert, and I've learned that for the introvert it is more important to connect to a few people "in depth" than connect to a lot of people, but only "superficially". Therefore, it must hurt more when they lose a very good friend, someone they really feel close to and can talk about anything with. (OK, I'm saying this because I guess that you are probably an introvert, too. :-P)
- 28/6/12
- Alex said...
Thank you for this. It made me recognize these same patterns and ways of thinking in my own life that might have taken me a lot longer to identify on my own.
- 28/6/12
- Dimitris Leventeas said...
Awesome! Keep it up!
- 28/6/12
- Kristina Bustamante said...
This comic is so beautiful because I can relate to the struggles that you talk about here. I, too, am not the most social person in the world, and while I know there's nothing wrong with that, there are times when I think otherwise.
As an artist, I know how you feel. Being an artist is hard, and I think it's because when we draw, it's like a form of escape from the difficulties of the real world. But that escape can easily feel like a jail cell to us when we bog ourselves down with perfectionism. We have to remind ourselves that it's okay to fail sometimes because those failures are one of the reasons that we've come this far.
Never stop drawing, Alex. You are amazing!
- 28/6/12
- Unknown said...
I am in the precise same state as you are!!!! I didn't think about it the way you did but mmmm... the way you put it is very interesting. I was thinking more in the lines of "we are all in the worst of times so is all about survival and loneliness".
I think about creativity the same way too and I too have a very dark way of hopping for the best i.e. I never do. However, when it comes to friendship... I realized that most people need friends to feel accepted, part of something, to not feel inferior... they don't really need friends, they just need people around who makes them feel powerful, in control, right. I guess that's why if you do something well enough, people are going to despise you for no reason (specially in Spain). If you attempt to be a little independent, people are going to despise you because it means breaking the social contract in Spain. So in the end, most people are terrible, mediocre, afraid and hostile pieces of shit, that's the truth. I guess it takes thirty something years to realize that (I am 32) but hey, that's no reason to stop trying and loving.
- 28/6/12
Love this so much.
- 28/6/12
- Shane said...
I love this comic.
- 29/6/12
- BradyDale said...
The other problem with friends is they take time away from MAKING COMICS!
OK, just kidding. Nice work. Way to be honest and bring out the emotions with the images. You've got wicked style.
Eat The Babies!
- 29/6/12
- LoveNoodle said...
I admire your courage to show everybody what you're feeling through your comics, I wish I had the nerves too.
- 29/6/12
- Rashmi Yadav said...
Loved it immensely, I re-read it several times over and I couldn't help but cry. I could relate to every comic strip and every line you have written.
This has been such a breather, I am myself going through a similar phase and this post of your's will help me introspect a lot.
Thanks again,
Much Love and God Bless :)
- 29/6/12
- Rashmi Yadav said...
Also yes, I forgot to mention, I am an artist myself and more or less withdrawn from the social world. I feel lonely but I also don't like being around people too much.
This tug-of-war has been giving me lot of trouble...its also affecting my work per se...
Being an artist is something one doesn't chooses to be but I feel one just is...its eccentricity is baffling yet very comforting only the person can feel.
I have been reading your stuff a lot and its very inspiring :)
Keep up the good work!
- 29/6/12
- Remko said...
The way you open up and just lay yourself bare out there with your comics is very brave. It makes it very easy to empathise with you. I wish for you to remind yourself of some of your comics, which, you drew so that you don't forget the things you have learned over the years.
One of those says something about "sometimes quitting is the bravest thing to do", this goes for you too. Friendship is something that works both ways. If you were under the impression that someone was a really good friend of yours and they let you down then talk to them and tell them how you feel. (If you have to, through a comic)
If they then continue to disappoint then it is their choice to leave such a brilliant mind alone.
One thing I have recently learned is that you do need to think about yourself every once and a while. Do what you like. Live your life the way you like it (alone) and learn to give yourself a break every once and a while.
We don't expect perfection every comic, we only expect honesty.
I hope you will not put too much of your effort into trying to make friends not hurt you or leave. They shouldn't do that in the first place.
- 1/7/12
- franciscowi said...
Creo que me voy a esforzar en romper con esas barreras, el dolor es natural.
Espero no estar sacando las mismas cuentas a los 30.
¡Gracias por estos cómics!
- 1/7/12
- Grifit said...
I am in the same situation since 2 years ago, my friends kind of ignore me when I was feeling so down and that turned into something so bad, I just don't talk to them anymore, I can't get it over, and I understand pretty much what you have written/drawn, not only the painful part, also the healing process and how insecure you become about friends and people, general speaking. But I have tried to get new influences and to get away from the sad thoughts that bring me their memories, still hurts, I won't lie, but it is true, we have to give our best, even if we thinl we are not going to succed, someone said, "not being loved is just a misfortune, the real disgrace is not knowing how to love"...
- 1/7/12
Yeah , dude!
- 1/7/12
- Ana said...
Hey Alex, I just wanted to let you know that your comic (this one and many many others) have reached me in ways that not a lot of things have in many many years.
I guess I am trying to say that you, wherever you are, are making a difference in my life, wherever I am.
Thank you.
- 1/7/12
- Martijn said...
Sorry for the shameless advertising of my own blog, but your comic of today really reminded me of why I made this cartoon.
Oh, and I should also let you know that your comics don't suck :)
- 2/7/12
this is exactly how i'm feeling lately, thank you, my friend.
- 2/7/12
- an said...
I know how you feel.
- 3/7/12
- Swami said...
thank you
- 3/7/12
- maya said...
you are a wise man. i love the way you write and draw it. keep spirit alex :)
- 3/7/12
- T. Roger Thomas said...
I say the best thing to do is not to let other people get to you.
- 4/7/12
- Alice Clair said...
This is brilliant. It connects to me in so many ways. Love it.
- 5/7/12
- Mariana Belém said...
I love it. :)
- 5/7/12
- Linda Ann - Delightfully Amiss said...
Clever cartoonish glimpse of companionship. Yes, it's worth it.
Glad I stopped by to see S.N.O.T. Cute.
- 5/7/12
Thirty is nothing. :)
I'm close to forty and I'm still trying to figure out how this thing called life works. I think part of growing up is learning to accept your own imperfections and also the imperfections of the other people you meet and choose to keep in your life.
People will come into and out of your life, sometimes under happy circumstances, sometimes under unhappy ones - just as you yourself will pass into and out of the lives of others. That's all part of life. We try to make the unhappy passages less so by being nice.
You have a vision, a gift of touching people's lives with your work, and that's something precious. But more than that, your work wants to come out of you. It needs to. Sometimes being happy is simply being able to do that which you know you are good at, to the best of your ability. (But sometimes that results in serial murderers...)
Life, your relationships, your work... they probably are all not going to be perfect. Maybe that's why they are so precious - we have to work at them. Maybe that's why we appreciate the good moments, the master-pieces that we can be proud of, and the people whom we know can truly share in that joy.
I'm very happy to see you are back. Really.
- 9/7/12
- neo said...
Hang in there Alex. I just had a baby and it's amazing how your childless friends suddenly make you feel like a leper. It helped me to try to find friends with kids and reconnect with my parent friends. Not exactly your same situation. Sometimes relationships wax and wane, change and go in different directions. It's a part of life.
I love your comics and share them often.
- 10/7/12
- Molly said...
Your honesty is inspiring!
- 14/7/12
Thanks, man. This comic was spot on.
- 21/7/12
Thank you, I have needed someone to remind me of that for the last few weeks.
- 22/7/12
Maybe your friends feel the same way. I my experience, people get hurt or have some troubles of their own, no one wants to talk about it, time passes and people grow apart.
- 26/7/12
- Guía said...
Hay que ser imbécil del culo para no cogerle el teléfono a Alex Noriega. He dicho.
Unas viñetas preciosas, Mr. Noriega, as always. Me he quedado prendado de la tercera, más concretamente :)
- 1/8/12
- unrouxly said...
You are my blessing friend! So cool Alex :)
- 14/8/12
- Lucía Lecter. said...
Hacía mucho no me sentía tan identificada...
Te quedó preciosa. Muchas gracias por compartirla! :3
- 15/8/12
- Lucía Lecter. said...
Hacía demasiado no me sentía tan identificada. Te quedó preciosa la tira. Gracias por compartirla con nosotros! :3
- 15/8/12
Huh? No "and then I realized that I'M my best friend" ending?
- 15/8/12
Well, this comic doesn't suck at all...
I love its straightforward style, its profoundness, and especially the end. In the next-to-last panels, you sound totally desperate, but then, you pluck up courage again. This was awesomely inspiring for me.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
- 17/8/12
- sisi c said...
Sometimes I was also sad for losing friends,but I knew I would get new and more friends in future, as always:)
- 19/8/12
- Ren said...
This relate-able to so many people. Thank you for trusting us with your feelings here.
- 2/9/12
I can relate.
- 6/9/12
You are so right. If you do your best, you can always be proud of yourself. And the friends you loose, might not be the great friends you thought they were - hang on to the ones that are and spend your time and energy on them. You're awesome for making a comic about this :)
- 12/9/12
i really relate to this, it made me feel a lot better because im in the same situation right now :)
- 22/9/12
- Dreza said...
Qué bello encontrarse con alguien con quien te puedas identificar y que sobre eso además sea una inspiración
- 11/11/12
- Javier said...
I thought you could be interested in this:
There's nothing wrong with being an introvert, it's just another way to live your life and relating to people. I agree with Xiaoting Wu's comment.
- 21/1/13
- Kristen @ KV Confessions said...
I love this so much! I could have written it myself. Thanks for sharing your brilliant art and mind :)
- 15/2/13
- Fatima Zahid said...
- 22/3/13
- Alphonsos said...
I'm thankful I found this. :)
- 23/3/13
- Lady Whispers said...
I love it so much. In a few days I turn 30 and this is all my story too. I think the worst too. But for me comics is writing :)
Sigh you said it all. AWESOME.
- 7/4/13
- Miss K said...
Loved reading this. Describes me at the mo to a t. Scared of re-engaging with life, with people, as I'm afraid of being hurt. But at the same time, the loneliness and isolation hurts too, perhaps more so. Anyway, great stuff. Will make a point of checking out your blog regularly.
- 29/4/13
- Kelsey said...
I absolutely love this...thank you for putting my thoughts down on paper so precisely and in a way I haven't been able to.
- 22/5/13
- Slamet Riyadi said...
Although the comic a little nosy, but nice ...
- 2/10/13
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- 5/10/13
- Amy said...
You touched my heart deeply indeed...
I'm always become alone even everybody is nice to me when we met.
But I know I will never in a "group" with people near me...
Sometimes it makes me sad when I was down and have nobody to talk to...
However, I'm 23, and I have a dog...
- 24/10/13
- Cherry Blossom Girl said...
thats beautiful.
- 5/2/14
- fetch♥ said...
Great work !
- 11/8/14
- Lucho said...
This one touched me at this moment!
We will never know why people act like they are not friends...
Great job! (i used a couple of your jpgs to illustrate a post on how everyone has a different life goal pattern)
Keep up drawing... it's beautiful!
- 1/7/16
- lienka Cassandra said...
Everyone you ever know will hurt you. It is about if it is worth it until it happens, and even after it is possible to mend the relationship. If someone speaks badly to you about someone else, chances are he is speaking badly about you to someone else. Just avoid ppl like that. You don´t need to be friends with everyone, be picky, but you can give everyone a fair chance to be your friend. Go and try. And i bet you are not an angel either, there might have been times when you hurt someone even if unintentionally. Did you realize it? Did you regret it? Did you say so? And when you were hurt did you say so? It is a two way street, if someone is not calling you, you might call them. At least once. Then play ball, if you called them .. and they don´t respond, the ball is on their turf. Game over and goodbye.
>sorry for bad englisch<
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I have a huge Carribean influence in my life and holiday black cake is a tradition for us. I am hoping others here bake it as well, because there is no exact way to make this cake! I have always learned more from others than from my own efforts in baking, this is one cake that gets better each year.
If you have never heard of it, I guess you can compare it with a baked plum pudding. The past few years I gave baked it in jars ...omg when you find a jar of black cake you forgot about...wow!
To start one for Christmas is still possible, but the best cakes take years to evolve due to the boozey fruit involved!
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I've found a strange problem with my first real UTF-8 web application…
The urls sent in GET didn't decoded properly and I was very astonished, my code was written correctly but the problem was present.
BTW the problem wasn't on my code but in Jboss (in Tomcat embedded instance).
The connector must have the attribute URIEncoding otherwise the webapp never will work.
Due to the fact I use mod_jk (ie AJP13 protocol) this lifesaver attribute must be added in AJP13 connector, too
I love when problems disappear modifing only a configuration file 🙂
For sanity check I've added UTF-8 support also in Apache Server but I suspect this isn't really necessary 😉
In http.conf be sure to have the AddDefaultCharset directive set as shown below
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The instinctive revulsion kids feel towards suburbia--its materialism, its intellectual poverty, its cabin-fever cloisteredness, its reactionary politics, its complacency and xenophobia--is inevitably coopted by the same capitalist value system that produced these dreary phenomena to produce hipsterism, a homogenized and codified form of superficial reaction to a stultifying life of empty entitlement. This entitlement derives not merely from economic privilege but from the insistent right to be entertained that suburban kids instictively feel, a product of having watched too much flattering media that announces constantly that it is made just for them and sycophantically pleads for their appproval. They will usually develop apolitical aesthetics (politics is "beneath them" because it will ultimately come around to the source of their entitlement, and their ultimate guilt) preoccupied with surface charms and "universal" themes of self-realization, as though that can occur in a socio-political vacuum. When it does, the hipster is what is produced.
Hipsterism is a quaint, neutered form of rebellion that allows post-teens to fret endlessly about how they come across, worry constantly about their indviduality quotient, preparing them for a successful life as a middle manager or a functionary in one of the glamor industries, where such self-involvement is de rigeur. Hipsters are a plague of locusts on any scene in which young people are trying to figure out new approaches to life; they swarm in when word gets out and obliterate those new approaches, turning neighborhood sidewalks into catwalk preening contests, ushering in trendy bars and restaurants, encouraging the sense that one is perpetually a tourist within the hallowed aura of one's own lifestyle. They imagine themselves fellow travelers but they are more like a bomb squad, defusing revolutionary potential and reestablishing the status quo motives of the pursuit of fashionable positional goods, status in the form of cultural knowledge, and a vaunted sense of one's uniqueness that always needs blostering from serially acquired identity goods, the T-shirts and DVDs and such that remind you who you are. Hipsters, though frequently sneered at as ironic, are never actually ironic. Ironic is not synonymous with hyper self-awareness. Irony requires a detatchment, a negative capability, a lofty persepctive. The Wall Street Journal exhibits far more irony than does The Village Voice.
Hipsters are typically nostalgic for childhood, which is thee idyllic time when total self-involvement is not marred by the more pernicious aspects of intense self-consciousness, when no critical consciousness yet exists to question or resist the way the media flatters and seduces. So they pursue the tchotchkes and retro junk of their youth, from the time when they were already consumers against their will but not savvy enough to have an opinion about it. The trauma of discovering you're already a consumer, that your consciousness was limned by consumerism, is such that it muust be obsessively repeated, and the hipsters bray for those same things they cried for when they were six.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
An etiology of the hipster
Posted by Rob Horning at 11:21 AM
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Look, hipster-hater, I'm sorry you were a nerd in high school. So was I. But I'm cool now, and so are you. Before you go any further, you should define who you consider a hipster, because your words describe only about five percent of the people wearing trucker hats. The rest are just doing their thing. Just like me, just like you. Some even have "blogs."ReplyDelete
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The first classic album by the Horace Silver Quintet, this CD is highlighted by "Señor Blues" (heard in three versions, including a later vocal rendition by Bill Henderson) and "Cool Eyes." The early Silver quintet was essentially the Jazz Messengers of the year before (with trumpeter Donald Byrd, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, and bassist Doug Watkins, while drummer Louis Hayes was in Blakey's place), but already the band was starting to develop a sound of its own. "Señor Blues" officially put Horace Silver on the map. ~ Scott Yanow


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A bittersweet, epic tale of forbidden romance, 90 Days, Time to Love is the story of two people who find the courage to love each other only in the face of death. Thirty-year-old Ji Seuk is diagnosed with terminal cancer. With only three months to live, he must choose how he wishes to spend his days. Leaving behind his loveless marriage, he goes in search of his soulmate, the woman he's secretly loved for years—his cousin, Mi Yeon. The two fell in love many years before and share a powerful bond that spans time and distance. Unable to act on their feelings because of the societal ban, they went their separate ways and married other people. Now, with only ninety days left, Ji Seuk will do anything to spend time with Mi Yeon, and the pair fight for this precious time together in the face of their family and society.
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Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is responsible for Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell Counties. Our mission is "To encourage, assist and bring together all those interested in the pursuit of family history." If you want to discover more about your family origins, or how and where to locate information about your ancestors, our members will be there to help you.
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Future of Region 8
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The situation in Eastern Ontario is likely rather exceptional. The OGS-independent groups are fairly strong. Given the exceptional nature that should not be a significant consideration in OGS deciding on its governance structure. Cooperation within Eastern Ontario can be maintained, if the societies desire, perhaps using social media and organizing region meetings as add-ons to regular member society meetings.ReplyDelete
Thanks, John. My concern is that this cooperation has been enabled primarily by the OGS Regional Director and/or Secretary. If these positions disappear, will the groups continue to maintain contact on their own, or should there be another mechanism put into place. And considering that it is an exceptional situation in Eastern Ontario, how do we present this issue to the rest of the Society/hobby.ReplyDelete


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Twenty-one months after suffering his latest concussion, Boston Bruins centre Marc Savard still isn't close to returning.
The 35-year-old centre confirmed Monday on Twitter that his hockey future seems grim.
"For the fans that keep asking, there is no comeback in the foreseeable future," he wrote. "I miss the game. It has given me everything I have today."
Savard hasn't played since taking a hit from Colorado Avalanche defenceman Matt Hunwick on Jan. 22, 2011.
It wasn't his first concussion. Savard was blindsided on a hit by Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke on March 7, 2010, returned to the lineup during the playoffs, then had a recurrence of symptoms during the summer. As a result, he sat the first two months of the 2010-11 season.
"I tried to work out (Monday) with my trainer," Savard tweeted. "I felt like crap, but I need to do it."
He said it's up to the doctors as to whether he will be able to resume his career.
For the second time in as many months NHLers have been compared to livestock.
Boston Bruins centre David Krejci slammed NHL commissioner Gary Bettman in an interview with Czech publication iSport.cz.
"(Bettman) does what he wants," Krejci said. "We want to play, we're the ones who are (negotiating).
"It is unfortunate that the NHL has such a guy. It's a shame for the entire hockey world. (He) treats us like animals."
The Detroit Red Wings were fined Sept. 23 after team vice-president Jim Devellano gave an interview in which he said: "The owners can basically be viewed as the ranch, and the players, and me included, are the cattle."
Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers and Chris Stewart of the St. Louis Blues are moving up a level, signing with Czech Extraliga team HC Liberec. They had been skating with a second-division German team, the Crimmitschau Ice Pirates.
"Wayne and Chris wanted to stay together and Liberec was one of a handful of elite-league teams that could add two players," agent Eustace King told USA Today.
"The guys loved playing in Crimmitschau. The fans were (among) the best they ever played in front of and the coach and management treated them first class."
New Jersey Devils defenceman Anton Volchenkov has suffered a broken bone near the arch of a foot while playing with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the KHL. It's not known how long the 30-year-old will be sidelined. Initial reports saying he had a fractured ankle were false … The Winnipeg Jets' Toby Enstrom has signed to play for EC Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian league. The 27-year-old defenceman signed a five-year contract extension with the Jets during the off-season. Pierre Page coaches the Salzburg team.


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Alfresco Announces Beta Program of ECM in the Cloud for Small Businesses on Amazon EC2
Alfresco SMB Edition will deliver ready-to-use cloud-based appliance designed for Amazon EC2, previewing at CeBIT Hall 2, Stand B26
LONDON, UK - March 3, 2010 - Alfresco Software, the leader in open source enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, today announced an early-access Beta program for Alfresco SMB Edition, a turn-key, self-managed, ready-to-use cloud-based appliance designed for Amazon EC2. This new version of Alfresco Software's popular ECM and social collaboration product is designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB).
The Alfresco SMB Edition will offer a pre-configured Alfresco Cloud appliance that combines the Alfresco server, Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share into an easily consumable, on-demand offering aimed at SMBs with up to a maximum of 100 users and 200GB of document storage.
These appliances are hosted on Amazon EC2 and made available as paid Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). These images are pre-configured with all the necessary software to allow SMBs to benefit from the productivity gains enabled through Alfresco's content-centric collaboration capabilities. This low-cost service is made available exclusively through Amazon EC2. Alfresco has partnered with JumpBox, who specialize in building software appliances, to develop Alfresco SMB.
This follows a series of cloud announcements from Alfresco building on the Cloud Content Application Developer program, launched in September last year, the Enterprise Cloud trial and the RightScale partnership, both announced in December.
"From the very start, Alfresco has had a vision of providing low-cost, fully-featured ECM to the masses. The advent of cloud-based solutions accelerates that goal while also offering a path for large-scale clustered deployments. SMBs want the simplicity and rapid consumability of a cloud appliance. This solution has been specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses with that in mind," commented John Powell, CEO of Alfresco Software.
About the Alfresco Beta Program
Companies can request early-access into the Beta program by visiting the Alfresco website at http://www.alfresco.com/products/cloud/. Initially the beta will be restricted to US based subscribers with EU access to follow within two weeks. The program includes access to the Alfresco SMB paid AMI, although testers are expected to pay all relevant Amazon EC2 hosting fees. The Beta program will run from March 15 through May 20, 2010.
General availability of Alfresco SMB is expected at the end of the second quarter of 2010.
Alfresco & Amazon Web Services at CeBIT
Alfresco will be exhibiting at CeBIT on March 2 & 3 on the Amazon Web Services stand, Hall 2, Stand B26. Alfresco will be demonstrating deployments of Alfresco Content Management in the Cloud (Amazon EC2).


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My sweet rooster, Elvis, died this morning. Now, I don't expect most of you to understand why I'm mourning a chicken, but believe it or not, I loved this damned bird! LOL I didn't realize how much I was attached to him until I had to bury him.
He was originally my mother's rooster, and when she passed away in 2008, I took in all her chickens, to include Elvis. I had chickens of my own so I knew what I was getting myself into. Elvis was always the perfect gentleman, and never tried to go after anyone unless you were messing with his "girls" (my hens). HIs "girls" were his pride and joy, and he would send them running into the coop whenever a hawk was flying over and he would make sure that all of them went in at night. I watched him grow from a little fuzzball up until he was a handsome fellow.
I will miss my sweet boy. I already miss hearing him crow. Because of him, I will always have chickens in my life.
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2002 Jeep TJ Sport - Red's For RocksPosted in Features on January 27, 2014
Being drug behind a motor-home is no life for a Jeep TJ. Chuck Butitta of Prescott, Arizona, thought the same thing. But he knew the '02 Wrangler Sport he purchased from a traveling Maryland couple would be a perfect base for a trail rig he wanted. The fire-red Jeep had a very reasonable 65,000 miles on it and some 33-inch BFGs with a small lift.
In Chuck's hands, the TJ has gone through three build stages. It first saw an upgrade to a Rubicon Express 41⁄2-inch short-arm suspension, a slip-yoke eliminator, 35-inch Goodyear MT/Rs, and some lockers. Following that was a swap to a Rubicon Express long-arm suspension, 37-inch MT/Rs, and a TeraLow 4:1 T-case kit. All the while Chuck was wheeling the rig and exploring trails in Arizona.
Today Chuck still runs the upgraded Rubicon Express components providing 51⁄2 inches of lift, and the rear suspension has been upgraded to a triangulated setup. This puts the wheelbase at 96 inches, a small stretch over stock. Rubicon Express coils are used on all four corners, with 2-inch spacers added up front to compensate for the weight of the front bumper and winch. In the rear, Chuck also relocated the upper coil buckets 3 inches rearward to correct the spring angle with the added lift. Rubicon Express monotube shocks are used all around. The 11-inch-travel front shocks are remote-reservoir units and the rears are 9-inch-travel dampers.
The Jeep still retains the factory steering box, but Chuck fabricated beefier linkages. Some 11⁄2-inch, 0.250-wall DOM tubing was used to build the tie rod and drag link setup. In lieu of tie-rod ends, Chuck used 3⁄4-inch rod ends. The pitman arm was converted to a double-shear setup, and the steering stabilizer was relocated to an axle/tie rod configuration.
A 4.0L inline six rides between the framerails. It's stock save for the Banks air intake system that was added and is backed by a factory NV3550 five-speed transmission. The trails Chuck tackles range from dirt fire roads to challenging boulder trails in the Southwestern desert. His latest (and probably final) choice of transfer case hardware is that of a four-speed Atlas. The heavy-duty gearbox gives him low range choices of 2.73, 5.3, and 11.7 to meet all his dirt wheeling needs.
A pair of shafts by Tom Wood's Custom Driveshafts connects the Atlas to a Dana 30 up front and a Dana 44 in the rear. Both axles have been built to better withstand the strain of the 37-inch Goodyear MT/Rs on 17x9-inch Unique steel wheels. The front axle is filled with Alloy USA chromoly shafts and an Eaton E-locker. The rear D44 was converted to disc brakes using '95 Grand Cherokee components. It also uses Alloy USA shafts, and a Yukon Grizzly locker. Yukon 4.88 gears spin in each end and the diff covers are capped with Warn guards. Additionally, a small winch mounted under the hood tethers the front axle and allows Chuck to suck down the front end of the Jeep for those steeper waterfall climbs.
Body and Interior
Creature comforts help on the road and on the trail. To that end, Chuck installed a pair of Hunsaker bucket seats and five-point harnesses. The seats flank a Tuffy Security console, but the rear seat has been removed to make more room for cargo supplies and other trail necessities. Other interior amenities include an Alpine/Infinity stereo system and Cobra CB radio.
As he did with a number of projects on this Wrangler, Chuck fabricated a six-point rollcage. He started with the factory rear tubes and added on to fully cross brace the tubular structure. The A-pillars drop in front of the dash to keep from eating into available legroom.
Front body mods include the addition of GenRight front fenders with a 3-inch flare. Also up front is a Warn bumper that Chuck shortened 13 inches and augmented with an A to Z Fabrication winch mount and some custom tube work. It's topped with a Ramsey E8500 winch controlled via in-cab switches should self-extraction become a necessity. There are 3-inch flares on the rear fenders as well with Fabtech corner guards and a Warn rear bumper just behind a 19-gallon aluminum fuel cell. A- to-Z rock sliders cap off the body armor collection.
Good, Bad, and What It's For
Chuck's TJ has morphed into the trail machine he had hoped for. It's a well-built Jeep that looks sharp on the trail. He's combined a mix of quality aftermarket parts with his own personal fabrication mods, and integrated them well.
While Chuck has a reliable powertrain and robust versatility in the beefy Atlas four-speed, he's pushing his luck with the front Dana 30 on 37-inch tires. We've not seen his Jeep explode on the trail, but there's only so much you can ask for from the smallish ring-and-pinion. In his hands, the Wrangler sees a good bit of trail time from hardcore rockcrawling to backcountry exploring.
However, he's looking to step up performance yet another notch and has already acquired a pair of junkyard 1-ton GM axles and is slowly building them up with the thought of using a V-8 to drive them to turn 40-inch tires. Those mods will be accompanied with an additional 6-inch stretch to get closer to that just-over-100-inch wheelbase which seems to work so well on boulder trails in Arizona.
Hard Facts
Vehicle: 2002 Jeep TJ Sport
Engine: 4.0L inline six
Transmission: NV3550 five-speed
Transfer Case: Four-Speed Atlas (1:1, 2.73:1, 5.3:1, 11.7:1 ratios)
Suspension: 51⁄2-inch Rubicon Express long-arm lift and shocks, triangulated rear
Axles: Dana 30 (front); Dana 44 (rear)
Wheels: 17x9 Unique black steel
Tires: 37x12.50R17 Goodyear MT/R
Built For: Running Southwestern rock trails and backcountry exploring
Why I Wrote This Feature
I've wheeled with Chuck on trails and always appreciate how clean a rig he has and his ability to push his rig where he wants to go. He continues to progress through a thoughtful process to construct a Wrangler that's both reliable and capable of tackling a wide variety of wheeling scenarios. I felt our readers might see this as an inspiring TJ that they might replicate for their own trail use.


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's Supreme Court has ruled that a woman rescued from a prostitution ring must get the abortion she wants, and chastised public officials who put her in the center of a political firestorm.
The ruling was celebrated Friday by women's advocates in Buenos Aires, where the federal justice ministry has been protecting the 32-year-old in a refuge for freed sex slaves.
Argentina allows legal abortions in rape cases or to protect a woman's health. But politicians, doctors and judges often continue to block them, despite a Supreme Court ruling in March that was supposed to remove barriers to abortion.
In this case, a judge intervened anyway, saying there was no proof of rape even though the woman had been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.
The high court's ruling Thursday night urged public health officials to urgently end the pregnancy, which was entering its 10th week. The woman was expected to have undergone the procedure by early Friday, but her lawyers gave no details about that.
The ruling, signed by six of the seven justices, also blames Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri and the judge who intervened, saying they revealed details that enabled anti-abortion protesters to converge on the public hospital where she was awaiting the procedure, and later on her private home as well.
Her lawyer, Pablo Vicente, told The Associated Press that hospital staff gave her personal information to protesters, enabling them to gather outside her home. Rather than help his client, the hospital's priest joined the protests against her, said Vicente, who sued the group and the hospital director, alleging that her privacy was violated and her life threatened.
"They shouted that she's a murderer, and threatened her that if she continues, that something really bad would happen to her," Vicente said.
Macri also now faces lawsuits for initiating the controversy by announcing publicly that a 32-year-old freed sex slave was scheduled to have an abortion in a speech that mobilized anti-abortion forces to hunt her down. The judge in the case, Miriam Rustan de Estrada, also faces both judicial and criminal investigations for allegedly disobeying the higher court.
Repeated messages seeking comment from the Pro-Family Civil Association and the group's attorney, Pedro Javier Maria Andereggen, were not returned. Macri has been traveling in Europe, but his deputy, Maria Eugenia Vidal, denied the mayor had done anything wrong, and noted that he too appealed the judge's decision, claiming she had overstepped her authority.
Argentina legalized abortion nearly a century ago in very limited cases, including when women have been raped or face serious health risks. But in practice, even these abortions are still very difficult to obtain. The high court ruled in March that the justice system should remove all barriers, but the decision lacks the force of a new federal law.
Health ministry data show 80,000 women are hospitalized with complications from illegal abortions in Argentina each year, suggesting that as many as 500,000 are getting the procedure anyway in needlessly risky situations, woman's health advocate Estela Diaz said Friday.
"We urgently need a law to avoid victimizing the woman in these kinds of cases," Vicente said. "It's absolutely necessary to openly debate the abortion issue, and establish a national law that enables women to decide what to do with their bodies."
The Senate in neighboring Uruguay was expected to hold a final vote Wednesday on a law that would enable any Uruguayan resident to get a first-trimester abortion for any reason. The woman wouldn't have to go without going before a judge, but would have to explain herself to a medical panel and then wait five days before undergoing the procedure. The measure reflects political compromises reached after years of debate.
In Argentina, meanwhile, a proposed law to loosen abortion restrictions, introduced for the fourth time three years ago, remains stuck in committee.
President Cristina Fernandez has been outspoken in support of protecting women from the sex trade. But she is personally opposed to abortion and has not made legalizing it a priority.
Vicente predicts that Congress won't act until the president urges it to. Diaz won't go that far.
"Thanks to this president, Argentina has advanced with very important laws _ marriage equality, gender identification, death with dignity. The debate over abortion will happen. It's more complicated; it's not easy. The president is against it, but she's also said it's a matter for the Congress to decide," Diaz said.
"I think we're getting close, but you have to look at this debate in terms of religious politics in Latin America. The Catholic forces opposed to abortion are so strong that they barely got it passed in Uruguay, which is the least religious country in the region."


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She simply used a cereal box, crepe paper, patterned cardstock, and some googly eyes. I especially love his heart-shaped ear tufts and feet.
What fun Valentine's creations have your kids been doing?
I like it a lot. I never made one so cute in elementary. I will have to save this idea until I have to start making them with my kids next year. They don't do this in the other states I have lived in. They were a big deal to me growing up. I think you both came up with a cute idea. Hope you keep posting more stuff you do. I am going to try again.ReplyDelete
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TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems market to reach 64.98 million units by 2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increase in automotive production and sales. The Global Keyless Vehicle Access Control Systems market has also been witnessing increasing potential in the emerging markets. However, functional and operational issues could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.
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- What are the market opportunities and threats faced by the key vendors?
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When PLM is introduced in a company, many departments and employees are affected. Processes and routines are reviewed and changed. TechniaTranscat, a PLM market leader, has developed several tools and methods for the implementation to be smooth and cost efficient.
PLM gives a company many opportunities but it is important to integrate the new system and the re-defined processes step by step. We are good at that, in charge of quality, guiding our customers to successful implementations by sharing our best practice PLM system and process knowledge.
In general, a PLM implementation must be done so that the positive effects come fast and the temporary dip in efficiency, inevitable with any change, is minimized. It is similar to when an elevator is built into a building that previously didn't have one. The improvement will be great and all tenants will be positively affected. The key success factor is to disrupt the ongoing operations as little as possible during the installation.
When we introduce PLM, we use lean principles: we minimize waste, maximize value and work in a step-by-step flow with early feedback and continuous improvements. Results come early and are optimized by implementing PLM in areas where the benefits are the greatest.
For companies that implement a PLM solution for the first time, TechniaTranscat offers PLM Project Services based on the customers' needs and our experiences.
For companies that already use ENOVIA PLM, TechniaTranscat offers a wide range of cost efficient service packages for upgrading, monitoring, increasing performance and otherwise maintaining the system.


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