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I am a happily married 31 year old R&D Machinist in the Solar and Hard Disk industries from Santa Clara, CA. I am currently attending San Jose City College for an A.S. in CNC Machining. After that I plan to attend San Jose State University for a degree in engineering. Hopefully I will be done with school sometime in the next 15 years...
In 1997 my eldest sister gave me my first computer, an HP Vectra VL 5/90 with a 90mhz Intel Pentium CPU, 8mb of ram, and a 1 gigabyte hard drive. To this day the greatest gift I have ever received. Being raised on welfare and foodstamps, buying a PC in the 90's was out of the question. This computer opened many doors, and was the only computer our family had for many years until 2001 when I built a brand new computer part by part over the period of a year. Another great aspect of this computer was that it was able to run Starcraft extremely well, and wow did me and my friends spend months (years?) playing nothing but Starcraft.
After receiving this first computer at the age of 16, I spent months learning all I could on how to use it. Time seemed to just fly by. I mostly learned by poking around windows 95 and using the help system, amazingly. I quickly learned it inside and out. I was so fortunate I did not destroy the windows install! My first upgrade was to a Sound Blaster 16 sound card that I spent a month mowing lawns for. This card was amazing! The audio was so clear and Winamp worked great with it!
Soon after getting the computer we signed up for America Online. Version 3.0 was the first version we used and we used AOL all the way up until version 8.0. I spent a lot of time in the chatrooms and soon discovered the "warez" scene and became addicted to it. I would leave my computer on all night to download 100mb applications on a 14.4k modem from the "server" chatrooms. Once I upgraded to a 56k modem, it was like experiencing broadband for the first time. The speeds were ridiculous! A whole MP3 file in 10 minutes! The server rooms consequently allowed me to play with Photoshop and learn the basics of it and also download and learn Visual Studio. I remember the subject for the Visual Studio download was "used to make proggies", so I downloaded it.
I spent about five or six months downloading stuff and trying out programs downloaded from the "server" rooms and always enjoyed the "AOL Proggies" and wanted to make one of my own. This in turn led me to Visual Basic 3.0, the VB chatroom, and programming-- my greatest passion.
I have been programming since I was 17. The first language I taught myself was Visual Basic 3.0 back in 1997-1998 when I didn't really understand the Internet. In this time I also learned HTML. I learned VB and basic computer programming only by reading other code and trying things out. In 1997 all I had was America Online and didn't know how to venture beyond that until 2000. If I had known back then what I know now I would have definitely used Linux a lot earlier and most certainly would've learned Python instead!
Programming is my passion, whether that is making parts on a CNC machine or making my computer display stuff on the screen. My favorite languages are Python, Go, and C (if I feel like working). Languages I have medium interest in are PHP, BASH, and Javascript. My most hated languages are C++ and Java.
I started work at Intevac, Inc. in 2004. I began in the detail department sanding and detailing parts. I soon became interested in learning how to use the Hardinge Lathe and the Bridgeport Mill, so I took some introductory classes at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. Soon after this my boss began giving me machining work. After messing up a lot, and angering a few engineers here and there, I became pretty good. The company ordered a brand new ProtoTrak SMX bed mill in 2007 and I became very good at using this mill, turning out jobs very quickly.
Machining is a very good skill to pull from, and it can be very challenging at times. I am required on many days to hold tolerances of .0001"-.0005". Since I am an R&D machinist, I mostly see rework parts, meaning the parts have already been made and I need to fix them. Sometimes these parts have been through 10 stages of manufacturing and they are mostly one-of-a-kind. So I CANNOT screw them up or it will put the company back thousands of dollars and weeks worth of work! It's always fun learning new machining techniques with these type of parts!
Being a machinist is a very challenging job, unfortunately I make less as a machinist than I would if I were a computer programmer... a lot less. The good thing about being a machinist in the Bay Area is that good machinists are becoming few and far in between. It seems companies like to ship this type of work to China and not a lot of qualified people are going into machinist programs due to job insecurity. The good news is that we still make stuff here! So my job security is great. But still, the pay could be better. This is the main reason I am going to school, to increase my earning power, but also being one of the few members in my family with a four year degree is a driving motivation too. I still get paid a living wage being a machinist and I am grateful, and I also have the opportunity to work my way through college instead of taking out loans, so that is nice too. I also work with some very wonderful and friendly people!
Even after being an R&D Machinist for five years, I am still not journeyman. Hopefully within the next two years or so. My official title is "Machine Specialist".
In 2005 I kept seeing this weirdly named OS called Ubuntu in the "cerver" rooms on AOL. Yes I was still using AOL, but only for the warez! I learned about the pirate bay soon enough. I downloaded it but didn't really do anything with it. A couple years later, in 2007, I booted the live cd it and I was hooked. At this time I started learning C.
I soon discovered the meaning of FLOSS and also that everything I needed could be downloaded for free including source code. I soon stopped downloading software from the pirate bay as FLOSS provided everything I needed.
In 2008 I installed gentoo, watching the gcc screensaver was a lot of fun and it really taught me a lot about linux. I also played with Fedora, but really disliked yum, and fell in love with debian. I built a home file server that I used for four years until I found until it was replaced by Arch Linux.
These are the current projects that are taking most of my free development time and angering my wife because all she sees is my back and two monitors.
Sadly, there isn't enough time in the day to work on all the projects I want to work on (Physical and Digital). Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire so that I could hire an army of workers to finally have the systems I dream of. My life would truly be complete then... or would it?
Anyways, enough dreaming. Here are my projects listed in order of current activity and interest.
Updated: Tue Nov 13 00:42:08 PST 2012
I maintain the ZFS packages for Arch Linux. I began using ZFS for my storage pool because btrfs was not ready yet. There are a set of four primary packages and a total of 18 total packages.
To help manage all of these packages, I created a custom build tool that allowed me to edit a single file and output to the many different packages and also create and cryptographically sign the packages and the package repository for Arch Linux.
This tool also allows me to publish the packages to my website using git for easy automation.
At some point in the future when most immediate bugs are ironed out, I am going to go to the Arch Linux forums and see if anyone else has a need for this utility. If the do, then I will split it off into its own package.
Updated: Mon Nov 19 17:59:08 PST 2012
For the time being I will support the packages and repositories that bring Netflix to Arch Linux through the work of Erich Hoover and the Silverlight patchset to WINE.
Updated: Tue Nov 13 01:03:36 PST 2012
A gcode simulator for the web browser I began writing for my school. I got side tracked into Go development (I get side tracked much too often) and it sits mostly un-started. I mostly have the specs written in a text file and some of the frontend stuff laid out.
I began thinking about this project because the simulator's we used at San Jose City College are badly outdated and I wanted to contribute something that is free and that could easily be maintained. It would also score me huge points with the college staff and machining teachers.
It really began just as a simple 2D simulator, but being the stubborn ass that I am, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't make it 3D. The only problem is I have a very little clue on how to program in 3D, and even less for the Linear Algebra involved. So there will be some studying in my future! If 80 year old grandmas can make a 3D iPhone game I can do it!
Updated: Tue Nov 13 00:42:20 PST 2012
This is will be my first entrance into the Go programming language and is a very much needed component in my personal tracking utility planned for later development. It currently does not do a thing because when I started it, I immediately got pulled into archzfs.
Updated: Tue Nov 13 01:07:41 PST 2012
My personal life tool. This tool will help me never loose track of a bill or calendar date again. It will be written in Go and primarily web based. It will run as a daemon on my desktop scraping all of my reStructuredText notes and applying them to a database. This would allow me to search from anywhere I am through my android phone.
When I am at a computer, I can quickly access my notes using regular expressions to quickly find what I am looking for.
And many many many more!
There is always a new idea every day, and an itch I just have to refuse to scratch otherwise I will fall down dead from exhaustion!
Updated: Tue Nov 13 00:57:23 PST 2012
These are things I wish someone would create to make my life easier.
Compositing window manager for Linux.
With NO screen tearing!
Open source graphics drivers that you could actually play games on.
These are just around the corner thanks to Intel!
Netflix on Linux
Netfilx is on almost every linux embedded device, just not the desktop itself. FU Reed Hastings!
The death of flash
Five more years!
I have been using Arch Linux as my exclusive distribution since early 2010. I messed around with debian and ubuntu before that for about two years.
Currently, there are two unofficial repositories that I maintain:
My packages and database are signed by my key, but my key is not signed by any of the Arch Linux master keys, see below for more info.
Add the following to
[<one of the repo names above>]
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional TrustedOnly
Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
Both the database and the packages are signed, so you will have to add my key to pacman's trusted key list.
# pacman-key -r 0EE7A126
verify it using the info below and then sign it with the local master key:
# pacman-key --lsign-key 0EE7A126
The update your pacman database,
# pacman -Syy
and install a package,
# pacman -S <package_that_the_repo_provides>
My key is not signed by any of the master keys, so you will have to self sign it with your local master key. This page is hopefully an attempt to persuade you that it is legit and I mean no harm. Look below on how to verify my key.
To read about key management in Arch, see pacman-key and pacman.conf.
All of my packages and package databases are signed with the following key,
The short version:
pub 2048R/0EE7A126 2012-10-24
Key fingerprint = B18A 9C9F 1E4E EAFF 072D AB9E 5E1A BF24 0EE7 A126
uid Jesus Alvarez <email@example.com>
sub 2048R/DAB97A2B 2012-10-24
and the long version:
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There was a problem in an Olympiad selection test, which went as follows: Consider the set $\{1,2,\dots,3n \}$ and partition it into three sets A, B and C of size n each. Then, show that there exist x, y and z, one in each of the three sets, such that x + y = z.
This has a tricky-to-get but otherwise straightforward solution, that starts by assuming 1 to be in A, finding the smallest k not in A, assuming that to be in B, and then arguing that no two consecutive elements can be present in C (for that would give an infinite descent). Finally, cardinality considerations solve the problem.
I managed to prove a corresponding statement for 4n, namely: for $\{ 1,2,3, \dots, 4n \}$, partitioned into four sets of size n each, there exist x, y, z, and w, one in each set, such that x + y = z + w.
The question here is whether analogues of this hold for all m, with $m \ge 3$ and $n \ge 2$. In other words, if $\{ 1,2, \dots, mn \}$ is divided into $m$ sets of size $n$ each, can we always make a choice of one element in each set such that the sum of floor $m/2$ of the elements equals the sum of the remaining ceiling $m/2$ elements ($(m-1)/2$ and $(m + 1)/2$ for $m$ odd, $m/2$ each for $m$ even). Note we need $n \ge 2$ due to parity considerations when $m$ is congruent to $1$ or $2$ modulo $4$.

subset: commoncrawl


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2007 Form Challenges
This is a typical French form that uses a refrain and two rhymes.
The first, third and last line are four syllables or two feet, and the
four lines remaining are eight syllables or four feet.
This gives a rhyme scheme of; A. b. A. a. b. b. A
Rondelet Challenge Replies
Maryse Achong
Life teaches us
Dance steps that are most intricate;
Life teaches us,
And if we listen, without fuss
We learn how to negotiate
Sharp dips and turns, a figure eight.
Life teaches us.
Ever Learning.
We live and learn,
Even the ones who know it all.
We live and learn,
And sometimes how those lessons burn
Our psyches; but though we may fall,
We pick ourselves up slowly, crawl.
We live and learn.
I Prayed Today.
I prayed today
For the gift of true acceptance.
I prayed today.
When things do not turn out my way
I will not do a hissy dance
Rebel or offer resistance,
I prayed today.
It All Depends
It's not too late
To find love in September's glow.
It's not too late,
To discover your spirit's mate.
Two souls who feel they want to grow
Old together, then you must know
It's not too late.
It is too late
If other lives will be destroyed ,
It is too late.
There are some things we can't debate,
And though the dream's one we've enjoyed,
Whose passing leaves us with a void.
It is too late.
My Friend
You were my friend,
At least that's how I looked at you.
You were my friend
Although you drove me round the bend,
That's why it's hard to say 'adieu';
But some things we just have to do.
You were my friend.
Ongoing Presence
I turn around
Because I feel you close to me.
I turn around
And even though you make no sound
I hear your voice internally;
I feel my heart race, so quickly
I turn around
I loved him so,
And when he died it broke my heart.
I loved him so,.
Could not believe he had to go.
I feared that I would fall apart,
Afraid to think of a new start,
I loved him so.
He loved me too,
He proved it in so many ways.
He loved me too
So many things he used to do;
That's why his memory still stays
With me. This was no passing phase.
He loved me too.
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Lorraine Dafney
Good things come slow
Beautiful sunsets, brides that blush
Good things come slow
Old feelings arrive, late but show
No need to worry or to rush
Fragile, packaged dreams do not crush
Good things come slow
Now She Knows
How will I know
She repeated throughout the years
How will I know
You can't see it, it begins slow
One day it just happens, appears
A moment continues for years
How will I know
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Peggy Nelson
Big hugs my friends
At the tir na nog Terry's site
Big hugs my friends
Times been sweet when we comprehend
Each other has different butt ends
Big Hugs my friends
It's Like Heaven
It's like heaven
No matter what positions arise
It's like heaven
When true loving ranks top cravens
Bodies entwined; sensationalized
A most prrrecious gift was given
It's like heaven
Lick Me Again
Lick me again
And heal my broken heartache
Lick me again
With your tender love that attains
Your love will heal my mistakes
Pussy Cat's alive and awake
Lick me again.
Oh What A Life
Oh what a life!
I can sleep all day and all night
Oh what a life!
No kids no man, no cooking rife
I can do what I think is right
without no one giving their riots
Oh what a life!
Mister Big Cat
Mister Big Cat
I can't believe how much you've grown
Mister Big Cat
You've been eating a lot of rats?
I'd love to take you as my own
And snuggle up to you alone
Mister Big Cat
Rest In My Arms
Rest in my arms
Rest comfortably in my breasts
Rest in my arms
Mi Amor taste sweet natures charms
Within my sacred garden; rest
Where true loves not oppressed; come rest,
Rest in my arms.
Say Ah
Stuck out my tongue
At the purrtty nurse to explore
Stuck out my tongue
Drooled and purring at Doctor Young
As I told him my tummy's sore
As I left the hospital door
Stuck out my tongue
The Singer
sneaking around
town looking for a loving quiver
sneaking around
Finding many to take home bound
Listening to singers deliver
In Casino's by the river
sneaking around
Sun Bathing And Talking Worldly Things
There was a time
When all things in life were so nude
There was a time
Purrmission to roam was sublime
and Kattie once a handsome dude
And hopped around bars and got screwed
There was a time
There was a time
When everyone was blest with zest
There was a time
When music wasn't rapping slime
And the world wasn't war obsessed
Just thinking you're under arrest
There was a time
Here at this time
Aids scare is not a loving pith
Here at this time
Weapons have become a big crime
Foods now tainted and tampered with
Today will be another myth
Here at this time
There was a time
When all cat's could freely have sex
There was a time
teagrrr was full of steaming rhyme
And life was simple; not complex
I hate these damn bras with no flex!
There was a time.
Writing Love Poems
Writing Love Poems
When thoughts of you come to my mind
Writing Love Poems
When thoughts on my mind seem to roam
Where dreams are splendidly refined
While I roam around the house and unwind,
Writing Love Poems
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Ryter Roethicle
The Angels tears
Fall to the earth as single drops
The Angels tears
Too few in these recent dry years
A few will hit and then it stops
Sky ships drift away with no stops
The Angels tears
I Feel Your Force
I feel your force
And know that I am not alone
I feel your force
Feeling the old has run its course
Pleased now with how we have grown
Far different from what we've known
I feel your force
I feel your force
A fire burning deep from within
I feel your force
Swelling as our lives take their course
With each birth see love re-begin
Time after time to our chagrin
I feel your force
I feel your force
How long have you been my lover?
I feel your force
Knowing fate has chosen this course
Trace my finger's gently over
And feel the person I long for
I feel your force.
If I loved you
If I loved you
Would all things be like they are now?
If I loved you
Have you finally waved your past adieu?
Its your curtain call and your bow
Lets see the face that you allow.
If I loved you.
Is It Too Late
So late in life
We met and wasted so much time!
So late in life
And we have gone trough so much strife.
And now transcend to more sublime,
Feeling we are still in our prime,
So late in life.
Is it so late
That we cannot begin anew?
Is it so late
That we can't ever challenge fate?
And begin with each other new
Having cast aside another view
Is it so late.
It's my desire
It's my desire
To kiss you til the end of time
It's my desire
To kiss you and to light a fire
That will last as long as we climb
In love towards eternity
It's my desire.
Nights Orchestra
Nights orchestra
Melodies of lovers sighing
Nights orchestra
Winds beating nocturnal mantra
As loving deeds send them flying
Carrying on as night is dying
Nights orchestra.
Perfume of love
Perfume of love
Casually cast on moonlight nights.
Perfume of love
Thoughtful gift of the Gods above.
Caused by love on fancied flights
On reaching such orgasmic heights
Perfume of love.
Tasting your wine
Tasting your wine
I've become addicted to you
Tasting your wine
Supping juice from your Heavenly vine
And the haze of love will be my view
Each time finding pleasures anew
Tasting your wine.
Those sparks of light
Those sparks of light
One look I'm lost, always need more
Those sparks of light
My addiction, my needs are a fight
Feed my habit and make me soar
Look at me, those eyes make me roar Those sparks of light.
Thrill of the heart
Thrill of the heart
Of soft silver springs still flowing
Thrill of the heart
Spears of light piercing darkest part
Sacred lovers bower glowing
After lovers, left but knowing
Thrill of the heart.
With love's demise
With love's demise
There is some pain and times of tears.
With love's demise
You become free, the end of lies
And all becomes as it appears
Then you will find someone who cares
With love's demise.
With Winters Death
With winters death
All life renews and starts again
With winters death
No time to rest or take a breath
New life begins the old is slain
And all that's new begins to reign.
With winters death.
Zero Rain
Winter is gone
And we are left with a promise.
Winter is gone
As sure as night is gone with dawn
But in leaving was most remiss
Taking away rain that we miss
Winter is gone
Winter is gone
And with it warmer nights and days
Winter is gone
And with it too, my lush green lawn
With warnings of the bush ablaze,
Smoky mornings, and stinking haze
Winter is gone
Winter is gone
And with it, shorter showers
Winter is gone
With garden soil as hard as stone
My rhubarb's gone and my flowers
Pray please for September showers
Winter is gone
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Leny Roovers
A losing race
you're running, love, why not give up
a losing race?
False promises you can't embrace,
they leave you with an empty cup.
Your prize is one last, bitter sup-
a losing race.
As Angels Weep
As angels weep
their tears are caught in sky-ships' holds.
As angels weep,
Aeolus herds the ships like sheep,
his breath unlocks the flock, unfolds
the dancing sails, freed from tight molds,
as angels weep.
As lightning strikes
As lightning strikes
its fiery forks lick skin, ignites,
as lighning strikes.
As voltage raises higher spikes
my body is an arch of light,
it radiates into the night-
as lightning strikes.
Behind Closed Doors
Behind closed doors
we cry our tears in touches missed.
Behind closed doors,
where once our blood and passion soared
as hungry hands searched, bodies kissed,
sweet love was recklessly dismissed-
behind closed doors.
I celebrate
I celebrate
my love for you, in every phase
I celebrate.
If passion flowers in soul-mates,
soft glowing embers spring ablaze;
when love shines from your eyes in praise-
I celebrate.
I close my eyes
I close my eyes
and feel your heel against my shin,
I close my eyes;
my body curves into your thighs-
our blending skin brings harmony within.
Your arm feels warm against my chin,
I close my eyes.
I hear your call
I hear your call.
Across wide seas and continents
I hear your call.
Soft whispered words keep me enthralled
as heart-strings echo your laments;
we'll build a bridge to still torments-
I hear your call.
I'm breaking down
I cry inside;
because I feel I've let you down,
I cry inside.
Behind high walls I fled to hide
my tears, I laughed and played the clown-
the world would not accept my frown;
I cry inside.
I'm breaking down
the self-protecting walls I raised.
I'm breaking down,
to dare new roads beyond this town
that kept me in a shackled state;
I'll hold my head high, shut the gate
I'm breaking down.
I turn within-
When silence reigns inside my heart,
I turn within.
I feel the breeze caress my skin
as in me chants of mantra start;
I hear them blossom, then depart-
I turn within.
I turn within.
Each repetition I behold,
I turn within
as slowly barriers grow thin;
my thornless rose gently unfolds,
her inner light a shimmering gold-
I turn within.
Migration's Dance
Against grey skies
my sky-ships stately dance and flow
against grey skies.
As flocks of birds cry out, arise
in playful dip and turning show,
dark shadows of cold winter grow
against grey skies.
Migration's dance
is in birds' blood, can't be denied,
migration's dance.
They're bound to follow, take their chance
and cross both sea and land in glide
to winter's pastures that provide-
migration's dance.
Our Dice Are Cast
Our dice are cast;
in time we'll know we win or lose-
our dice are cast.
Grown by lessons from the past,
life offers us a chance to choose
and cherish purple autumn hues.
Our dice are cast.
US Open
Game, set and match.
A love game, followed by a deuce-
Game, set and match.
As players run and try to catch
each well placed ball, there is no truce;
they do their utmost to produce
game, set and match.
On every smash
spectators rise, recite their names.
On every smash
they watch each serve, then dive and dash;
unbeaten, only one remains-
his name and face is put in frames:
on every smash.
With touching feet~ Sukhãsana
With touching feet
my knees form wings, as butterflies
with touching feet.
As wingtips kiss the floor in meet,
my elbows rest upon my thighs;
in concentration peace may rise-
with touching feet.
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Dinah Sorritelli
But ~ I loved you
Even in a lifetime of absence.
But ~ I loved you
Even knowing you were not true
And that you lacked any conscience.
You felled my feelings to silence
But ~ I loved you
Comes with having a peace of mind.
Holding hands with tranquility
Alone with self...if one's inclined.
The stillness within thus to find
It's forbidden
To covet that which is not yours
It's forbidden
Vulgar and leaves you guilt ridden
Shame, shame on you...your conscience roars
Lusting is evil and it lures
It's forbidden
I'd Rather Be Bad
When I am ~ good
I am good down to the letter
When I am ~ good
I behave as well as I should
Yet when I'm bad I am better.
For I'm less of a go-getter
When I am ~ good
I Lived Before
I lived before
Was me...but in a diff'rent time.
I lived before
Was not quite good ~ of that I'm sure.
Did drugs and drank a lot of wine
My master was the king of crime.
I lived before
Well Formed
I am ~ well formed
A potato and gravy gal
I am ~ well formed
Yet in a corset I'm transformed
But if you wish to be my pal
My bulk you won't make me corral
I am ~ well formed
Why ~ does one seek
Pastures they believe are greener.
Why ~ does one seek
And then their lives do havoc wreak,
'tis more than a misdemeanor.
Steak they have...why go for wiener
Why ~ does one seek.
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Nicola Wynter
Many a star
Has come and gone from blackest space
Many a star
Has to fall from grace very far
Before it finds its wings of lace
And drops hiding hands from its face
Many a star
Fears wake in dreams
Where grey things pass into abyss
Fears wake in dreams
Become reality it seems
Horrors cause no hope nor bliss
Sleep is the enemy not missed
Fears wake in dreams.
Heavenly Question
Blue moon, mauve sky
I seek the colors of his soul
Blue moon, mauve sky
Do you hold the brush high
Or let it fall from hands control
No ache to relieve or console
Blue moon, mauve sky
If I Can't Dance
If I can't dance
You'll know my day has come to die
If I can't dance
Like a leaf in a breeze by chance
Chances come only once, so I
No longer can spin turns nor fly
If I can't dance
If I Can't Fly
If I can't fly
You know I'll die on highways
If I can't fly
Like a rainbow I'll go away
Clouds above, feet stuck in clay,
The earth binding wings like Mondays
If I can't fly
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Leny and Ryter
With knife and fork
I carve you up in little squares
With knife and fork
In loving ways pretend to work
Act in answer to my prayers
Now I know that my lover cares
With knife and fork.
I use my hands
I use my hands;
to taste and love what I adore,
I use my hands.
My nose is thrilled and I can spend
enraptured hours to explore
the bits that make my senses soar.
I use my hands.
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Peggy and Ryter
The dance of love
I cannot keep my body still
The dance of love
That rhythm that I can't remove
In every way my senses fill
I'm loving every moments thrill
The dance of love
Dancing with the T
Dancing with the T
Flowing and gliding back and forth
Dancing with the T
On the Love Boat gone out to sea
Hanging on when he swings south-north
Dancing close wanting more henceforth
Dancing with the T
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Maryse, Peggy, and Ryter
And Angels laugh
At the same time flicking their ash.
And Angels laugh
Palms raised by Heavenly staff
As humans do all that is rash
Think that the only God is cash
And Angels laugh.
The Angels Cry
The angels cry
When men persist in waging war.
The angels cry
When they see helpless people die;
And when we carelessly ignore
The rudiments of Nature's Law,
The angels cry.
More Angels Cry
More Angels Cry
Each day out of fear of sons soul
More angels cry
with worry, can't answer the why
Many prays, many candles glow
Till Mother hears his sweet hello
More angels cry.
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rj de heer needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 7 designs submitted by 3 freelance designers.
carindex and mobilecredit
Hi, we're the publisher of two iphone apps, carindex and mobilecredit. They are targeted at Swiss iphone users.
Swiss iphone users.
I need 2 times 5 different banners in the format 300x50px, 5 for "carindex" and 5 for "mobilecredit". You can read about the apps and see some screenshots on http://www.mobilecredit.info and http://www.carindex.ch .
I will use these banners for in-app advertising via admob and other networks. The apps should contain some text that I can localize in german, italian and french, but you can suggest something in english.
Goal is that people not only click on the banner, but buy the app of course....
I don't yet have a preference for a "style", they should just be different variations so I can do also A/B testing and select the ones that have the best conversions...


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The sequel youve been waiting for: the follow-up to the sensational #1 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada.Eight years have passed since Andrea Andy Sachs quit the job a million girls would die for working for Miranda Priestly at Runway Magazinea dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Now Andys on the top of the world: shes writing and reporting to her hearts content; running The Plunge, her wildly successful high fashion bridal magazine with Mirandas other ex-assistant, Emily; and most importantly, getting married to the scion of a storied media family and the love of her life. But the night before her wedding, Andy cant sleep. As happy as she isas happy as she should beshes still haunted by the specter of her former boss. Maybe its survivor syndrome? Or maybe its justifiable, self-inflicted, paranoia. From the start, Andy and Emily have felt entitled to use their rolodex of contactsMirandas contactsfrom Runway as they make their way in the magazine world. As The Plunge succeeds, Andy and Emily realize theyll soon come face to face with their former tormenter at industry functions, award ceremonies, and even weddings. Still, Andy can hardly anticipate the horrifying reality thats approachinga reversal so profound that she will be squarely in Mirandas crosshairs once more. Karmas a bitch. And Andys efforts to build a bright new life have led her directly to the one she fledand into the path of the Devil herself.
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|4th June 2013
|Lauren Weisberger
|Simon & Schuster Audio Simon & Schuster Audio
|Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),


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In Living Constitution, Dying Faith, political scientist and legal historian Bradley Watson examines how the contemporary embrace of the "living" Constitution has arisen from the radical transformation of American political thought. This transformation, brought about in the late nineteenth century by the philosophies of social Darwinism and pragmatism, explains how and why contemporary jurisprudence is so alien to the constitutionalism of the American Founders. To understand why today's courts rule the way they do, one must start with the ideas exposed by and explained in Watson's timely tome.
Today's view—rooted in progressivism—is not simply that we have an interpretable Constitution but also that we have a Constitution which must be interpreted in light of "historically situated," continually evolving notions of the individual, the state, and society. This modern historical approach has been embraced by the judicial appointees of both Democratic and Republican presidents, by both liberals and conservatives, for a century or more. Living Constitution, Dying Faith shows how such an approach has directly undermined Americans' faith in a limited Constitution—as well as their faith in the eternal verities.
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"Bradley Watson is dead on in his analysis of the Living Constitution. Filling an important void in recent scholarship, this work powerfully explains how modern jurisprudence began with the Progressive's mugging of America's first principles in the name of history and change."
"The transformation of the judiciary into an activist legislator of social change has been one of the most remarked-upon—and, among conservatives, decried—political developments of the past century. In Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence, political philosopher Bradley C. S. Watson does an impressive job of analyzing how, exactly, this happened."
"Those who were deperately confused, if not enraged, by candidate Barack Obama's contention that the ideal federal judge should fashion his opinion in empathy with the more downtrodden and oppressed party in a case should consult Bradley Watson's Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence to understand how the man who has become president could assert the primacy of personal opinion over law."
"A clear exposition of the 'originalist' position and is recommended for law, college, and university libraries."
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