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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Never Been Viral Before...
We don't, but we surely do appreciate all the clicks! (And we hope you'll enjoy the book as much as the trailer...!)
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I was one of those clicks. I played it at least 3 times. I loved the beautiful music.ReplyDelete
That's a good virus to be responsible for!ReplyDelete
Dear Daisy--ReplyDelete
Thank you!
When I first started seeing trailers posted for upcoming book releases I was puzzled, but they're definitely fun! Congrats on Exile's going viral! I was one of those clicks yesterday. Nikki did a super job!ReplyDelete
I was a click. Anything to see Jamie (sigh).ReplyDelete
I feel love sick from watching it. :)ReplyDelete
Dear Estee--ReplyDelete
Well, you know...it's probably a good idea to get the Outlander:The Musical CD to play while reading it. [g] Atmospheric, you know?
Loved it can't wait for Tuesday. I will be at your event Tuesday night. =) See ya there!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2010 at 4:05 PM
I have had my Outlander the Musical since about a week after you first posted the link. I love it. Can't wait for the launch party for The ExileReplyDelete
I am so excited!!! Can't wait for it!! Clickety-click...ReplyDelete
Hi Diana,ReplyDelete
We've featured your (Nikki's - good job!)video trailer on the SiWC blog today. www.siwc.ca/blog
Enjoy the lead-up to launch day!
See how much we love Jamie & Claire? Please don't let Book 8 be the last!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2010 at 8:03 PM
I was wondering if there was a schedule for the times you would be at NY Comic Con. Will you be there all 3 days or just a portion of them?ReplyDelete
Dear Anonymous--ReplyDelete
I'll be doing a panel (with the editor of THE EXILE) at Comic Con on Friday the 8th, 3-4:15 PM, and then doing a book-signing (in the Signing Area, wherever that is) right afterward. So far as I know, that'll be my only appearance there.
I couldn't stay away...visiting the site several times yesterday. The close up of Jamie's face is wonderful, those eyes especially. And Claire...the artist does beautiful faces.ReplyDelete
I have the CD, having ordered it weeks ago and am very familiar with the music by now...and combined with the visual I am not surprised that the 'viral' presentation received so much attention. Good job, Nikki, thanks Diana
Will there be a German version of The Exhile as well? I know my Mom would LOVE to read it but unfortunately she doesn't speak english.ReplyDelete
Dear Linda--ReplyDelete
Well, the German publisher is not convinced that there's a market for graphic novels in Germany, but depending how THE EXILE does elsewhere, I suppose they might change their minds. [g] And/or if a lot of people write to Bertelsmann asking for it.
So I guess I will need to start convincing some people over here... :) I'd rather not translate the whole thing to my Mom, reading it out loud to her while we both admire the wedding night scene... :DReplyDelete
Count me among the clickers! Beautiful job on the trailer to add to the anticipation. I'll be at the bookstore bright and early on Tuesday. Hope you can sign my copy of The Exile in Westbury, NY in October - we'll be driving there from Western Massachusetts!ReplyDelete
I was a clicker! Great trailer, beautiful music. Can't wait to get my copy!ReplyDelete
Most excellent trailer! Best Wishes here on Launch Eve, and a Merry Launch to you, DG and HN, and all the support people who made it happen!ReplyDelete
Cheers ~
I enjoyed the trailer and also just watched your interview with Barnes & Noble, which I really enjoyed as well. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of Exile this weekend!ReplyDelete
FYI, you are #1 on the Library of Congress/WP poll for favorite author pre-book festival in DC. I love your books and loved having classes with your sister a few years ago in law school. I really wish I was going to be in town for this!!ReplyDelete
I too clicked, and really enjoyed the trailer!! Now I have my copy in HAND, and can't wait to get off work to read it!! It's just sittin' there on my desk giving me that "come hither" look!!ReplyDelete
I -just- finished reading The Exile (in about 2 hours). WONDERFUL!! I love it. I'm going to make friends and family read it and hopefully get them hooked on the Novels.ReplyDelete
Also, looking at some fan art in the back, I thought you might like this one of Jamie:
Thanks for entertaining me with your wonderful books!
I finished the exile last night! The art is beautiful and the story was enlightening! It left me hungry for more! I thoroughly enjoyed everything about it. Thank you for your stories!ReplyDelete
Dear Ally and Captain Heather --ReplyDelete
Thanks very much! THRILLED that you enjoyed the book!
My husband and I read and enjoyed the Exile very much. My husband (who counts the bullets fired in a movie and generally keeps track of those things) wondered about the gun Jaimie is holding on the cover. He says it lookslike a revolver...which is not an 18th century weapon. I told him to just hush. We both are Outlander fanatics, though so it doesnt really matter. And wowie, Geillis was really EXPOSeD in her final scenes in the book!!!!! Diana, we love your writing!ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE LOVE _The Exile_! The artwork is incredible and captured everyone exactly as I imagined them in the stories. And to see things from "Jamie's side of the story" was a gift. It's absolutely fantastic.ReplyDelete
Will we be seeing more of the story in graphic novel form?
Dear Jesse--ReplyDelete
Well, that's kind of up to you guys. [g] By which I mean--it depends how well this one sells.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Says Tennessee Newspaper Fired Manager Because of Back Injuries, Refusing Reasonable Accommodation
MEMPHIS – The Jackson Sun, a Gannett daily newspaper in Jackson, Tenn., and its affiliated companies violated federal law by terminating a disabled manager because of his back injury and neurological impairments, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on August 15, 2011.
The EEOC's suit against Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., doing business as Jackson Sun Media Works, and Gannett Co., Inc. alleges that The Jackson Sun terminated David Dubois when he returned to work after a medical leave of absence and sought a reasonable accommodation. Dubois worked for The Jackson Sun as a print manager and sold and supervised commercial print jobs. In February 2008, Dubois went on medical leave for back surgery due to a herniated disc. During the surgery he sustained permanent spinal cord damage that limited some lower body functions. According to the EEOC's suit, The Jackson Sun terminated Dubois one week after he returned to work and expressed a need for reasonable accommodation. The company told him that it had eliminated his job.
Discharging an individual because of a disability violates the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-01252 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The lawsuit asks the court, among other things, to grant a permanent injunction enjoining The Jackson Sun from further discharging employees based on their disabilities. It also seeks lost wages, other out-of-pocket expenses, and compensatory and punitive damages for Dubois.
"The ADA prohibits employers from terminating people with disabilities based on assumptions about how these employees will perform their job duties or because they need a reasonable accommodation," said Katharine W. Kores, the EEOC's director for the Memphis District Office. "The EEOC is absolutely committed to its responsibility in enforcing the ADA."
The Jackson Sun also sells the use of its printing press for commercial printing jobs. The Sun's commercial printing operation uses the name "Sun Printing." Gannett Co. Inc. purchased The Jackson Sun in 1985. An international media and marketing company, McLean, Va.-based Gannett Co. Inc. owns newspapers, magazines, internet companies and television stations throughout the United States and England.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.

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Definitions of load
v. - A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. 2
v. - The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading. 2
v. - That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care. 2
v. - A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters. 2
v. - The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder. 2
v. - Weight or violence of blows. 2
v. - The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. 2
v. t. - To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. 2
v. t. - To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. 2
v. t. - To magnetize. 2
The word "load" uses 4 letters: A D L O.
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Words formed by adding one letter before or after load (in bold), or to adlo in any order:
b - dobla c - acold h - ahold l - aldol allod m - dolma domal modal n - nodal s - loads t - dotal u - aloud w - waldo woald
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Definitions of fern
adv. - Long ago. 2
a. - Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints]. 2
n. - An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. 2
The word "fern" uses 4 letters: E F N R.
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Words formed by adding one letter before or after fern (in bold), or to efnr in any order:
a - frena i - finer infer s - ferns y - ferny
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ef en er ern fen fer ne re ref
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Pfizer negotiating to lease former data center to state
Groton - Pfizer Inc. is clearing out its former data center off Eastern Point Road in anticipation of leasing the building to the state.
The lease, still under negotiation, would keep the Pfizer campus structure known as Building 230 on the tax rolls. City Mayor Marian Galbraith said the state plans to occupy the entire building.
"The state will use the facility to house computing equipment," said Jeffrey R. Beckham, staff counsel and director of communications for the Department of Administrative Services, in response to email questions from The Day.
The leasing of the building would come at a time when Pfizer is downsizing locally and planning on demolishing some of the buildings on its Groton campus. The company's massive former research headquarters known as Building 118 is being demolished. The pharmaceutical giant also has confirmed that it is "nearing a final decision" on a small, vacant building that it has been marketing for two years. Pfizer has received a Coastal Area Management waiver that would allow it to proceed with demolition of Building 288.
The data center building would be used by the state's Bureau of Enterprise Systems and Technology, which provides tech support for the executive branch. The state Bureau of Properties and Facilities Management is handing the transaction.
"The state's current data center is in a leased facility that no longer serves the state's purposes, and a cost-efficient alternative is required," Beckham said.
Pfizer emphasized that a deal has yet to be finalized.
It is not known how many people would be employed at the data center or how it would be staffed, but the building is not expected to be fully up and running until early 2015. A request for proposals for lease of at least 15,000 square feet of office and data-center space was due this past January.
"This data center building provides a secure, in-state, cost-efficient location," Beckham said. "It is a more cost-efficient alternative than constructing a new data center."
Beckham said the building would require only minor renovations to improve energy efficiency and reconfigure layout of the data center area. The state also would have to pay for installing a new fiber-optic line that would connect the local technology group to the state network.
The state has been helping Pfizer market several of the buildings on its Groton campus that have been offered for sale or lease over the past couple years.
The demolition of Building 118 is expected to cost the town and city about $2.5 million a year in taxes.
Pfizer had an active proposal from a prospective buyer of the 750,000-square-foot building earlier this year but turned it down, despite Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's intervention. Some economic-development officials cited Pfizer's security concerns as the main reason the acquisition fell through.
Demolition of Building 288 would be the third at the campus in the past year or so as Pfizer continues to downsize its local presence. The nearly 16,000-square-foot space - about half of its laboratories - overlooks the Thames River.
Building 126, a 46,000-square-foot facility featuring laboratory space near the company's power plant, was the first structure to fall. It was torn down last spring after a year of marketing efforts.
Groton site leader Rod MacKenzie, in a note to Pfizer employees earlier this year, said Pfizer is planning to consolidate its operations to two-thirds of its 160-acre campus. The company reduced its workforce at the Groton campus by more than 1,100 during 2011-12 as it moved discovery scientists to Cambridge, Mass., and converted the local site to its worldwide development hub.
In 2010, Pfizer sold to Electric Boat its former worldwide research headquarters off Pequot Avenue in New London - a move that initially expanded employment in Groton as workers were consolidated to the local campus.
Restructuring won't affect Pfizer labs in Groton, officials say
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Making UNGEI Work: Lessons from Four African Countries
Evaluation report
Author/Publisher: UNGEI
Language: English
Download: PDF
The four UNGEI programmes reported in this volume were in Burundi, Lesotho, Uganda and Zambia. The programmes shared some common features, whereas others were more specific to the national and local situation. Among the common elements across the four countries were a pro-girls education policy framework and the involvement of girls themselves, along with their parents and communities, in the education programmes.
There was an across the board emphasis on quality education, and material and physical facilities were provided. Governments and partners alike provided financial support. Advocacy played a large role. This contributed to the development of partnerships for girls education and ultimately the institutionalization of reforms. As described herein, these approaches make interesting reading and provide many useful lessons for girls (and boys) education initiatives anywhere.


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Interesting article:
When the line blurs between sport photography and photojournalism
"I was covering the finish line at ground level at the marathon. Everything was going on as usual. It was jovial people were happy, clapping and getting to a point where it gets a little boring as a photographer. And then we heard this explosion." These words are from Boston Globe photographer John Tlumacki, who has covered more than 20 marathons in his home city. The joyous, celebratory, almost party-like finish area was suddenly transformed into a scene of devastation and destruction."


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How to select the right contractor for your home remodel or construction
Tue, 2016-09-06 11:00
Vancouver, WA – Finding a competent, reliable contractor can seem like a major hurdle to building or remodeling your home. Even with a good contractor, building new or renovating the old can be stressful, expensive and involve unpleasant surprises.
Learn simple steps to avoid a bad experience and ensure a successful home building project at the Tuesday, Sept. 20, meeting of the Commission on Aging.
The...read more
Learn about issues seniors could consider when planning a new home
Tue, 2016-08-02 11:15
Vancouver, WA – Many seniors prefer to stay in their current home as they age. But when circumstances make that difficult or unworkable, seniors are faced with unexpected decisions.
Learn about key topics seniors should consider when making housing decisions during the Tuesday, Aug. 16, meeting of the Commission on Aging.
The 4:30 p.m. meeting will be in the sixth-floor hearing room of the Public Service...read more
Learn about financing an aging-in-place remodel or new home
Tue, 2016-07-12 11:00
Vancouver, WA – Financing options to help modify a home or build a new one to meet a resident's changing needs will be the topic of a Tuesday, July 19, meeting of the Commission on Aging.
The 4:30 p.m. meeting will be in the sixth-floor hearing room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. It is open to the public.
The speaker will be Mark Eshelman, a long-time loan officer who specialized in reverse mortgages....read more
Applications being sought for 2017 Historical Promotion Grants
Tue, 2016-06-28 13:00
Vancouver, WA – The Board of County Councilors is accepting applications from local organizations for grants that encourage historic preservation and programs, including preservation of historic documents.
Applications for 2017 Historical Promotion Grants must be received by the Historic Preservation Commission by late September.
The commission will review applications in the fall and submit recommendations to the...read more
County council adopts 20-year growth management plan update
Tue, 2016-06-21 18:00
Vancouver, WA ̶ Capping three years of work, the Board of County Councilors Tuesday adopted a plan that will guide growth in Clark County over the next 20 years.
The 435-page Comprehensive Growth Management Plan final update now goes to the state Department of Commerce. By law, Clark County is required to complete the updated plan by June 30, 2016.
On Tuesday, June 28, the council will consider an adopting...read more
County councilors to conclude hearings on growth plan update
Tue, 2016-06-14 14:00
Vancouver, WA – The Board of County Councilors will meet Tuesday, June 21 to discuss and decide changes to the local growth management plan.
Efforts to update the plan have been in progress since 2013. An update must be submitted to the Washington Department of Commerce by June 30 to comply with the state's Growth Management Act.
Deliberations are scheduled during the councilors' regular public meeting, which begins at...read more
hOur IMPACT time bank program celebrates first anniversary
Thu, 2016-05-12 12:00
Vancouver, WA ‒ The hOur IMPACT time banking program will celebrate its first year with a volunteer cleanup of Salmon Creek Park-Klineline Pond — a project in keeping with the program's mission of neighbors helping neighbors with their time, not money.
The cleanup will be 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 21, at the park at 1112 N.E. 117th St. Birthday cake will be served at 11 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.... read more
Public hearings to cover two options for increasing rural homesites
Thu, 2016-05-12 11:00
Vancouver, WA – County officials will be considering two ways to allow more homes on properties currently zoned for forestry or agriculture when public hearings begin next week on proposed changes to the local growth management plan.
The proposed plan update would reduce minimum lot sizes from 20 to 10 acres on land zoned for agriculture and from 40 to 20 acres where forest land is zoned FR-40.
At the...read more
Simple design choices can help people age-in-place affordably
Mon, 2016-05-09 11:00
Vancouver, WA – Home designs that help people age-in-place and within their budgets will be the topic of a Tuesday, May 17, meeting of the Commission on Aging. The group is hosting a 2016 series of discussions focused on housing.
The meeting will be in the sixth-floor hearing room of the Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin St. It will begin at 4:30 p.m. and be open to the public.
The speaker will be Amanda Davis,...read more
Final environmental report covers growth plan "preferred alternative"
Wed, 2016-04-27 12:00
Vancouver, WA – Environmental review of the proposed growth plan update concludes today with release of the final supplemental environmental impact statement required by the State Environmental Policy Act.
The environmental impact study covers the "preferred alternative" as adopted by the Board of County Councilors in February. The proposal includes changes in rural, agricultural and forestry...read more


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generates a plot of the graph g.
GraphPlot[{vi 1vj 1,vi 2vj 2,…}]
generates a plot of the graph in which vertex vik is connected to vertex vjk.
GraphPlot[{{vi 1vj 1,lbl1},…}]
associates labels lblk with edges in the graph.
generates a plot of the graph represented by the adjacency matrix m.
Details and Options
- GraphPlot attempts to place vertices to give a well laid-out version of the graph.
- The vertex names vk and the labels lblk can be any expressions.
- With the default setting DirectedEdges->False, edges are drawn as ordinary lines. With DirectedEdges->True, edges are drawn as arrows.
- GraphPlot has the same options as Graphics, with the following additions and changes:
DataRange Automatic the range of vertex coordinates to generate DirectedEdges False whether to show edges as directed arrows EdgeLabeling True whether to include labels given for edges EdgeRenderingFunction Automatic function to give explicit graphics for edges Frame False whether to draw a frame around the plot FrameTicks None what ticks to include on the frame Method Automatic the method used to lay out the graph MultiedgeStyle Automatic how to draw multiple edges between vertices PackingMethod Automatic method to use for packing components PlotRangePadding Automatic how much padding to put around the plot PlotStyle Automatic overall graphics directives for vertices and edges SelfLoopStyle Automatic how to draw edges linking a vertex to itself VertexCoordinateRules Automatic rules for explicit vertex coordinates VertexLabeling Automatic whether to show vertex names as labels VertexRenderingFunction Automatic function to give explicit graphics for vertices
- With the default setting VertexLabeling->Automatic, vertices are displayed as points, with their names vk given in tooltips, so long as the number of vertices is not too large.
- Tooltip[vk,vlab] can be used to specify an alternative tooltip for a vertex. Tooltip[vi->vj,lbl] specifies a tooltip for an edge.
- Explicit settings for VertexRenderingFunction and EdgeRenderingFunction override settings for VertexLabeling, EdgeLabeling, and DirectedEdges.
- With VertexRenderingFunction->f, each vertex is rendered with the graphics primitives given by f[rk,vk], where rk is the position where the vertex is being placed, and vk is its name.
- With EdgeRenderingFunction->g, each edge is rendered with the graphics primitives given by g[{ri,…,rj},{vi,vj},lblij], where ri, rj are the beginning and ending points of the edge, vi, vj are the beginning and ending vertices, and the lblij is any label specified for the edge.
- The graphics primitives obtained by applying EdgeRenderingFunction and VertexRenderingFunction are in effect directly spliced into the graphic generated by GraphPlot. Inset can be used to insert an arbitrary expression.
- In the graphics generated by GraphPlot, edges are effectively drawn first, and vertices afterwards.
- With the default setting DataRange->Automatic, coordinates are chosen so that the average length of the edges in the graph is approximately 1.
- In VertexCoordinateRules, an explicit rule vk->{xk,yk} specifies coordinates for a vertex. If any coordinate is given as Automatic, it is found automatically. Vertices for which no rules are specified are taken to have automatically generated x and y positions.
- The graph does not need to be connected. Disconnected components are typically arranged so as to fill area roughly uniformly.
- When a graph is specified by an adjacency matrix, the names of its vertices are taken to be successive integers starting at 1.
- The adjacency matrix m in GraphPlot[m] can be a SparseArray object.
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- GraphPlot returns a Graphics object.
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Shadow (feat. Cito On The Beat) - Im Paid [Unsigned Hype]
G reports "unsigned artist hype video from Jersey named Shadow feat..... Cito on the beat who produced the beat.......Song is off the Shadow I am God B.C free mixtape which is out now......Shadow I am God album comin soon!!!!!!..Garden State's summer money banger!!!!!!Shadow aka I am God reason being he is Hip Hop's new savor who has already created his own label Man Made Entertainmentwith alongside with his brothers Black(Manager),,,,JuN(Ceo/assitant/hype Man and Smalltz(personal assit/promoter).....Shadow known for his raspy vocie has touched street battles,,hardcore rap,,,club bangers,,,life tracks,,,,girl tracks(rnb) and his fav the freestyles bar for bar the best....Can perform live anywhere........We have all types of Entertainment...I am God can do it all "
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mreeves necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 178 diseños de 55 diseñadores freelance.
We have developed a community driven web site for a small affluent town in the north of England. The web site is nearing completion and the missing part of the puzzle is a simple but striking logo.
Alderley Edge is a small affluent town in the north of England - some information about Alderley Edge which may provide some inspiration can be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderley_Edge. We have developed a community driven web site at alderleyedge.com offering news, views, useful information, and discussion on the things that matter to those that live and work in Alderley Edge. From local news to restaurant reviews, and property prices to the weather forecast.A screen shot of the web site can be seen at http://www.focusdigital.co.uk/alder…IMPORTANT: please read the discussion comments as that will contain important information as my thoughts develop as designs come in.
I will rate the submissions as follows:
1 star - wrong direction
2 star - some elements I like
3 star - getting closer but need revisions
4 star - design is being considered
5 star - made the final cut!
- While our first preference is for no other artwork in the logo, a typographic logo only, we are open to looking at your creative designs and we are prepared to change our mind.
- The logo should work on both dark and light backgrounds.
- fussy logos - keep it simple.
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Wearing the beard
My friend who just came back from spending a year in the UK studying wanted to get a piece of software from me, so we agreed that I'd drop by her at Beano's cafe tonight to drop it off.
So I go meet my friend infront of Beano's and after a few minutes she asks me what's with the beard? so I answer that I'm growing it to get closer to God by following the prophet's Sunnah, and then I ask her when she might find the light and wear the hijab again herself.
She used to wear the hijab a couple of years ago. Back then, we went into a discussion and I told her with great reservation my view about hijab, and we had a good discussion about it. A month or so later, she told me she took off the veil! Well, I was shocked and was hoping that our discussion had nothing to do with her decision. She assured me that our discussion had nothing to do with it, and that she already had it planned.
Anyway, so my question if she's planning to take the veil again pissed her off, kind of, and she tells me that my beard looks really ugly (which it does). I tell her that that's the point, so that it decreases my attractiveness and so reduces the temptations! I ask her why she looks pissed, and she says that I used to have a different/certain perspective on things, but now I'm conforming, am becoming a 'typical believer'. Well, I'm conforming to God's will. I certainly still have my mind, but what's wrong with conforming to God's orders in trying to be more devout?!
Well you know, I'm very weary of people who show a certain image, and usually it doesn't reflect a real core, she says. Excuse me, are you talking about me?! No, just in general, the outside should reflect what's inside. Well, that's what I'm trying to do, work on the inside, and in parallel reflect the proper image, and conform. Can't I do both at the same time? Do I have to wait?! on one before the other, can't I just work on the inside along with the outside? Plus, its not just an image, the veil for example is a Godly order, I argue. She says, sure, but we elevate it to much higher levels than it deserves. Isn't taking good care of our parents (berr elwaledein) a more important thing to work on for example. How come we're giving more importance to the veil and the beard than stuff like that, which certainly has more emphasis. Well, sure, I say. Other stuff are more important, but this stuff is important too.
So tell me, she asks, what made you change? I tell her that I didn't change, I just evolved, with the help of good friends, brothers who showed me the light, the rightuous path. Tell me more, tell me more. Ok, guys I've met at that Quran halaqa in the mosque helped me value more being closer to God, value committment and iltizam and realize how this makes us better people, having a better life and a good afterlife. So what are you doing different now, she asks? Well, hmmm, ummm, and I point to my beard! She bursts into laughter. Then she asks me to work on her like my friends worked on me and helped me out. I tell her no, you are hopeless! May God help you.
During the chat, I ask her to hop in my car to take her to Diwan bookstore as she was planning. She asks me if I'm sure I want her to ride, and I reply that we are required to be gentle with our fellow Muslims and so its okay to be nice to her and give her a ride, but I warn her to be careful with the books she's getting because I'll be censoring them. In Diwan, the guy working there asks me about the CD I have wanting to take a look at it! I tell her, see, devout Muslims are always targetted. I actually told the guy that the CD is with her not me anymore, and then told her loudly that she shouldn't try to hide stuff from the bookstore like that. Shame on you!
We go to Cilantro cafe (I look really ugly in that mirror, must be a bad mirror!), and she gets really serious explaining why she took off the veil. So its not fun anymore and so I tell her that I was just joking and I'm planning to shave my beard before I get back to work next week. Then she goes, so if its not a religious thing, and you knew you were meeting me after months of me being away on travel, why didn't you even bother to shave your beard and clean up before we meet?! Huh! (didn't see that one coming).
Walking away from Cilantro, we notice that heavy bearded guy who's working in the adjacent liquor store! I tell her that seeing that bearded guy selling liquor, I can now go in and buy some beer from him. Must be halal if he's selling it.


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I actually had a completely different birthday post planned, but given how great I felt wearing my red dress and how a picture is worth a thousand words, I decided: why not celebrate my bday by posting the final project dress reveal?
Honestly, I felt great in this dress and I think it showed. In all seriousness, I doubt I will ever wear a LBD to a wedding again. Red is the color for me! And the wedding was so much fun - lots of dancing! Even the bride had on a belly dancing scarf/skirt at one point. The only thing I'm a little disappointed with is that I didn't take pictures before the 30 minute drive to the church - there are now no pictures without some creases. Gah!
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A few parting thoughts on this dress - Vogue 1162 Bellville Sasoon. First, it was a lot of work! From the sleeves to the hand picked zipper to the fitting (and more fitting) and hemming, nothing was easy about this dress. Well, except maybe for the piped neckline, which really was very easy. (I see more piping in my future!)
All in all, this dress was beautifully drafted and everything fit together - no complaints with the pattern. The only thing that could have been better on the instructions was that Vogue could have had better directions and/or images of attaching the shoulder yolk to the bodice and in suggesting what kinds of hand stitches to use for the sleeves. Otherwise, they were very straightforward.
A few good decisions that I made were: using silk thread for basting and hand stiching, underlining in silk organza, hand picking the zipper, and pressing very very carefully and thoroughly. Thank you to ALL OF YOU who gave me advice and encouragement along the way.
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I thought that I would be exhausted after this project, but I'm not! I'm jumping right back into a project - the MPB boxer shorts sew along - as a thank you to Phineas, who zipped and unzipped me about 100 times (every time I needed to try on for fitting purposes), marked the hem for me (twice, because I changed my mind) and didn't complain that he basically was living with a dress-obsessed maniac who would have forgotten to eat if he didn't remind her to for a month. (Thanks for feeding me, my love. You will have boxers aplenty!)


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The Latino show Arte no es vida surveys a vast array of performative actions created over the last half century by Latino artists in the United States and by artists working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. Through a rich and lively presentation of photographs, video, texts, ephemera, props, and artworks that reference canonical works, the exhibition represents a landmark within the documentation of action art. Arte ≠ Vida expands standard descriptions of "performance art," revealing how work created by Caribbean, Latino and Latin American artists is often not only dramatized but politicized.
Many of the works included in Arte ≠ Vida have subtle or overt political contexts and content: military dictatorships, civil wars, disappearances, invasions, brutality, censorship, civil rights struggles, immigration issues, discrimination, and economic woes have troubled the artists' homelands continuously over the past four decades and therefore have infiltrated their consciousness.
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Abel Tasman National Park
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The Abel Tasman Inland Track is an alternative to the Coastal Track and can be added as a return loop. You will traverse inland between Whariwharangi and Marahau. It takes between 3 - 5 days and gives fit walkers a chance to experience water-etched marble outcrops, sinkholes, beech forest, the amazing 178m deep Harwood's Hole and Gorge Creek Lookout.


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I have an idea of how repo management on Arch could be improved.
Parsing pacman.conf from a script to add/remove or enable/disable repos is no fun
Rather than having a list of repos in pacman.conf, repos could be stored
in individual .repo files in /etc/pacman.d/repos/available/.
Symlinks would be created in /etc/pacman.d/repos/active/ pointing to .repo files in 'available'.
Repos would be ordered similar to udev rules:
Example .repo files:
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Architecture = Both
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# This would allow pacman to silently ignore an enabled repo if the architecture is unsupported
Architecture = x86_64
Ability to add/remove repos by copying files into 'available' directory
Ability to enable/disable repos by using symlinks in 'active'
Possibility of adding dbus api and/or shell script to add/remove/reorder repos
No more parsing pacman.conf to add/remove repos via script
Shorter pacman.conf
Don't see any. Well, ok, it increases pacman's code complexity.
What are people's thoughts on this?
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Do people have that many repos to manage that this actually becomes an advantage?
I do see how this could be great to use with scripts to manage the config file. Like systemctl to add/remove deamons, you could have another tool to manage repos. Nice idea anyways.
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It's not that editing pacman.conf by hand is a hassle but I sometimes have cause to add / remove repos
via a script and parsing pacman.conf to do that is a hassle IMHO. I'm all for human editable text files for
configuring linux apps/services but they should also be scriptable
I'm a big fan of udev, systemd, etc which all seem to have found the right mix of human editable, easily scriptable
configuration interfaces. I think it would be a nice option for Arch going forward.
I like the idea, and I dont see that it will be any more complicated for the user to manage pacman. Thats the inportant aspect in my opinion. I dont like it if its going to be impossible for the user to actually understand what is going on.
I wonder what other peoples thought are thoug.
I don't think it's hard to understand or interact with at all. Definately not any harder than it is to work with udev or systemd.
And...this is Arch. We're a community of reasonably competent users or ambitious new users with a desire to learn
and we have a wiki to assist.
So if suddenly I want to point at a different config with different repos enabled for the purposes of maintaining chroots, how do you propose I do this?
I think a more natural way to extend this would be to introduce an IncludeDir directive in the current config.
Good point! I hadn't considered that and I should have because I use that functionality often.
I like your suggestion, it's the best of both worlds.
So, a default install would have the following "template" repos in a repo/template directory?
80_multilib-testing.repo [64-bit only]
90_multilib.repo [64-bit only]
And the following repos (copies of the above) would be in a repo/active directory?
With a RepoDir= line in pacman.conf
I like it!
Note: I'm not married to the names/locations of the repo dirs, just using them as examples.
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So, @falconindy, how do I file an 'official' feature request for this?
Do I bring it up on the mailing list, file a bug?
Bugtracker I think
Added feature request, please vote if you're interested.
Edit: oops, posted link to the wrong bug (fixed)
Last edited by techryda (2012-10-01 15:18:56)
Maybe having multiple pacman.conf files would solve it as well (until IncludeDir that falconindy mentioned gets implemented :-) ).
Consider two config files: the regular pacman.conf and pacmantesting.conf. The difference is the latter has testing repos uncommented. You can use it like this:
pacman --config /etc/pacmantesting.conf -Syu


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Utilizing preventive methods can control cattle anaplasmosis problems, says David Sparks, Oklahoma State University Extension veterinarian.
Using good sanitation with hypodermic needles and surgical instruments when working cattle and using a mineral with tetracycline in the mix can prevent cattle contracting anaplasmosis. He urges cattlemen to check cattle frequently to see if they are healthy.
"Your local veterinarian can be of great help if you are having anaplasmosis in your cattle," he said. "The veterinarian can help design a preventive program for your location and operation."
If ticks are active in the winter where a farmer lives or if cattle are worked in cool months, using CTC medicated mineral all year can save the hard work associated with treating anaplasmosis and prevent death losses.
Anaplasmosis infection in cattle in the summer can be more serious because farming and haying operations often take the farmer away from more frequent cattle checking, he said.
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The most popular means of anaplasmosis prevention is using mineral mixes containing chlortetracycline (CTC). When fed at a rate of 0.5 mg per pound of body weight, CTC will prevent anaplasmosis infections.
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"Sick animals are about 10 times as infective as recovered carriers are, so it is important to either move them away from the herd or move the herd away from them."
If infected cows do not abort their calves, their offspring can become infected with anaplasmosis before birth, he said. These calves will not show symptoms, but will be carriers of the disease for life, he said.


text: Data-Recovery Technology v Nature. The fight still continues without any clear winners. Natures fury occasionally reminds us of how easily it can overwhelm all that modern technology has to offer, but indomitable man just goes back to the drawing board to come up with an improved solution. The tremendous advances in data storage technology have been taken for granted by most users for whom the phenomenal growth in storage capacity can hardly keep pace with their appetite for more and more data. At the same time, the high-tech world of computers gives the users a false feeling of invincibility. While data storage devices have become more robust than in the past, the sheer numbers have made data disasters more common than ever before. There are many reasons why hard disk drives and other data storage devices can and do fail. When Mother Nature strikes, as with the recent tsunami that ravaged half the earth or the winter storms that gripped much of North America, it is big news. While loss of life is truly irreplaceable, these disasters affect many other aspects of life. At times like these, there is a heightened awareness about data loss and data recovery. But the single biggest culprit in data loss is human error, claims Allison Beckley, VP (Customer Service) at Disk Doctor Labs, Inc., one of the pioneers of data recovery. And a close second is the inherent limitations of the data storage technology itself, adds Tariq Aslam, the CEO of Disk Doctors. It can happen anytime, anywhere, and to anybody. If you deal with data extensively, the odds are you will suffer data loss sooner or later. The important thing is being able to cope with it. And different types of users need to have different strategies for safeguarding their data. A high school student who uses his PC for gaming and the occasional term project cannot be expected to have UPS, tape back-ups and RAID systems. On the other hand, a bank cannot feel complacent that it has protected its database by installing the latest anti-virus software and anything else is overkill. The user profile, the data criticality, available budget and resources all impact the data protection strategy. However, these are some general tips Disk Doctors has for avoiding and surviving data loss: Make a regular back-up of all your important data (including laptop drives) Test your back-ups regularly (especially if it is a tape back-up) Carry laptops in padded cases If it is mission critical business data, store it on RAID systems Use power surge protectors, and UPS systems for critical data Use regularly updated anti-virus software Restrict unauthorized access If you experience problems with your drive, move the data to another drive; dont take any chances unless your data is worth less than the cost of a new drive If you still lose the data, do not panic; seek professional advice Data recovery is a specialized field, and not every computer technician can retrieve data If the data is critical, or if the drive makes unusual noises do not try DIY solutions When you shop around for a data recovery company, dont consider the recovery charges only Look at the company experience, expertise, locations, facilities, testimonials, etc. You should not have to pay an up-front diagnostic fee, or pay for any hidden extras over the quoted price, or pay for the effort if you did not get your data For more information on the data recovery please visit Disaster Disk Recovery 相关的主题文章:


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Women Finish Fourth at CTC Relay's
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 - Yale University
New Haven, Conn. - The women's team placed fourth out of 16 teams to tie their highest relay carnival finish in school history. The team won one event, placed second in three, third in two others and broke the sprint medley school record. Four individuals and one relay qualified for the ECAC Championships on March 4-5 at the New Balance Track and Field Center in Manhattan, N.Y.
Sophomore Vicky Mandat (West Babylon, N.Y./North Babylon) was the individual 55m hurdle winner in an ECAC qualifying 8.62. Mandat teamed with freshman Kasey Estelle (West Islip, N.Y./West Islip) (10.15) to place second in the hurdles relay.
The sprint medley relay of Marjorie Diemicke, Estelle, Yolanda Jones and Jessica Josema finished in 4:31.92 to break the school record and place second in the event. The previous record of 4:40.17 was set in 2005.
Scoring Relays:
Triple Jump - 1st Place
Faustine Chukwuezi - 11.07m (36'4") ECAC Qualifier
Vicky Mandat - 10.33m (33' 10 3/4")
Sprint Medley - 2nd Place
Marjorie Diemicke, Kasey Estelle, Yolanda Jones, Jessica Josema
4:31.92 (New School Record)
55m Relay - 2nd Place
Corine Magee - 7.28 - NCAA Provisional Qualifier
Kathleen Clermont - 7.87
55m Hurdles Relay - 2nd Place
Victoria Mandat - 8.62 (Individual Winner) ECAC Qualifier
Kasey Estelle - 10.15
Long Jump Relay - 3rd Place
Faustine Chukwuezi - 5.15m (16' 10 3/4") ECAC Qualifier - 5th on FSC All-Time List
Kasey Estelle - 4.86m (15' 11 1/2")
4x200m Relay -
Kathleen Clermont, Faustine Chukwuezi, Vicky Mandat, Corine Magee
1:47.99 - ECAC Qualifier
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1. Sacred Heart (60)
2. Ramapo (36)
3. Richard Stockton (31)
4. Farmingdale State (24)
5. Stevens (17)
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This Yellow Dendritic Opal bead measures 38 x 28 x 8 mm.
Connecting with your Crystal
Welcome your new crystal into your home by setting aside a little one on one time for just the two of you! Sit with your crystal and feel its energy opening and connecting with your heart center. Find a special place to keep your crystal where you will see it often and be able to connect with it. Working with Crystals for Crystal Healing is a fun, easy way to elevate your personal energy and deepen your connection with Mother Earth. Each Crystal is unique and offers its own special gifts. See our Crystal Definitions page for more info on specific crystal types.
How to Activate your Crystal
Crystals love to work with a purpose! In general, they are already "Turned On" and busy doing their own thing: Elevating Energies and pumping out Good Vibes! This is their natural state. We can tap into these elevated energies and combine forces by working with our crystals to expand and elevate our own energies and to connect with our highest self. This is done through activation and will set a field of expanded energies that will help us in our daily lives as we practice and deepen this connection with our crystalline friends.
To begin an activation, clear your mind and sit quietly with your crystal. Connect with your heart center and through your heart center connect with the crystal you are holding. This crystal is sharing its love and light with you, as you share your love and light with your crystal.
Think of activation as the growing and expansion of energy layers. The first activation establishes a connection between the crystal and the user, creating the first layer. These layers continue to grow, for both ourselves and the crystal, as we continue to connect. This energy field becomes more stable over time as we continue to connect and reconnect.
Cleansing your Crystal
Stones of all kinds are energetically alive. Crystals and Gemstones carry their own vibrations and can be influenced by subtle energies and/or thoughts and actions taking place around them. Crystals also have the ability to be cleansed of influences that have touched them before or after they have come to you. When gemstones are energetically cleansed they are cleared of all energies other than their own, and until they are used again in ritual or meditation, they will generally remain cleared. For some people, it is important to cleanse, wash and purify their gemstones and crystals before using them. For others it is not. This is really a personal preference, one that you may feel into on an individual basis.
Feel into your crystal when you first receive it. How does it feel? Does it feel yummy and scrumptious; is it a pure delight? Then maybe it doesn't need cleared at all. But, if you feel guided to make this new gemstone truly a piece of your own, and perhaps also to have a special bonding session with your new crystalline friend, then cleansing your crystals should be easy and fun. Below are a few ideas for consideration, but you may be inspired by something entirely different! The key is to have an open heart and to connect with your crystals just as you would with any person or spirit guide.
Listed below is one of our favorite methods. For a more exhaustive list of possibilities, see our Crystal Cleansing Guide.
Cleansing your crystals with the method of energy and intention:
Hold your crystal with the intention of Pure Love & Light enfolding it. Feel yourself and your crystal being surrounded within a sphere of very supportive white or golden light energy. (You may also play with different colors, if you enjoy color healing!) Begin to feel Cosmic Love and Source Energy flowing throughout your body and directly into your crystal. Stay within this protective sphere for as long as you feel guided. This is also an excellent way to begin any meditation.


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Pasadena Playhouse today announced that the State Theater of California will host events beginning in May 2010 for Pasadena Jazz Institute, Lyric Opera and Blair IB School, as the organization continues its process of financial reorganization.
"As the Playhouse continues to go through its reorganization process, I am very happy that we have been able to find ways to keep the energy of the performing arts alive in our beautiful theatre. These three events will bring the rewards of great music of many kinds to audiences, and offer young people the thrill of performing in this great venue," said Pasadena Playhouse Artistic Director Sheldon Epps. "This also represents a step in our exploration of the possibilities of greater use of our theatre as a performing arts complex that could well serve a number of disciplines in addition to the theatre company. This is a valuable concept that we have contemplated for many years, and very much in our thinking as we explore ways to move forward with greater success in the future."
May 28-30, 2010
Produced by Pasadena Jazz Institute
BOND and other SPY CLASSICS on Friday, May 28 at 8:00 p.m. – Over 21 classic spy themes performed by the 17-member Pasadena Jazz Orchestra including themes from the Pink Panther, Peter Gunn, Austin Powers and Bond....James Bond. Fun for the entire family.
BIRD with STRINGS on Saturday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m. – Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker's seminal recording "Charlie Parker with Strings" is performed Live with members of the Pasadena Symphony and will feature saxophone great Lanny Morgan.
An Evening of GERSHWIN on Sunday, May 30 at 8:00 p.m. – Grammy Award-winner Bill Cunliffe brings in his trio to back four of Los Angeles' finest vocalists in an evening celebrating the timeless music of George Gershwin including "I Got Rhythm," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Embraceable You," among others.
For tickets to JAZZ AT THE PLAYHOUSE call 626-356-7529 or visit www.PasadenaPlayhouse.org.
FREE pre-show jazz will be performed in The Engemann Family Courtyard at 7:00 p.m. each night by students from the Pasadena Jazz Institute.
Pasadena Jazz Insitute (PJI) was established almost ten years ago and has become one of the most active arts organizations in the region. From small ensemble concerts to big band shows featuring the Pasadena Jazz Orchestra, in-school concerts and clinics, jazz camp and more, PJI has made a deep impact on the Pasadena music scene, keeping jazz alive for all generations.
June 4-6, 2010
Produced by Kelley Oxley with the support of Blair Learns
Choreographed by Kevin Lee
Directed by Benita Scheckel
OVATIONS is a musical revue featuring song, dance and dialogue by the students of Blair IB School. This year's show will include songs from the Tony Award-winning musicals Chicago and Little Shop of Horrors. It will also highlight numbers like Michael Jackson's "Beat It," Slumdog Millionaire's "O Saya" and a Latin dance number choreographed by "Dancing with the Stars" choreographer Christian Perry.
Friday, June 4 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 5 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 6 at 3:00 p.m.
For tickets call Dianne Moore at 626-396-5820 ext. 80026, email email@example.com or visit www.blair.pasadenausd.org.
Wagner's Die Feen
June 11-19, 2010
Produced by Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
Lyric Opera of Los Angeles will perform a US premiere of Wagner's opera Die Feen (The Fairies). Die Feen is an opera in three acts. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente. Die Feen was Wagner's first completed opera, but remained unperformed in his lifetime. It has never established itself firmly in the operatic repertory although it receives occasional performances, on stage or in concert, most often in Germany. LOLA will present Die Feen as part of the Ring Festival LA, for which it has partnered with L.A. Opera.
Friday, June 11 at 7:30 p.m
Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 19 at 7:30 p.m.
For tickets call 877-LOLA-OPERA or visit www.lyricoperala.org.


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johnnyB wrote:In the purest Jaimaican tradition Sunday morning over here at johnnyB's HQ is Oldies Time.These sounds really give Sunday a special flavour
This morning I had Miles Davis' "kind Of Blue",some Stax and Freddie's "Bobby Baylon".
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This page seems to be a cut and paste from the troop committee page with a few minor modifications. The Troop and Team programs a quite a bit different however.
Case in point, by the time a young man is a Varsity Scout, he has probably been in a troop for three years already, as such, the advancement chair's responsibility probably shouldn't be focused on getting them to first class in the first year. Further, Varsity scouts shouldn't be focused on traditional troop advancement. As a former coach, that feels more like a by product of the program.
Is there any other documentation that pulls out the responsibilities of a Team specific committee any better any where?


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I did finally solve one brickwall regarding the parents and siblings of my ancestor Eve Urmey. A number of years ago I ordered a partial War of 1812 Pension file, for her husband Jesse Callahan, which consisted of the Pension application and a land warrant. This provided some important information such as Eve's maiden name. The name was spelled Urma. The closest match to that name in Indiana that I could find was Urmey, which was also the maiden name of a sister-in-law of her husband Jesse Callahan. I searched for any information I could find in the records for southern Indiana; where they lived. There was only one family unit in the area at that time with that name, that of Jacob Urmey and his wife Susannah Brower, and their children. According to Jacob's will he didn't have a daughter named Eve. I assumed at that point she might have been a niece of Jacob, or her maiden name was Urma after all? When the War of 1812 project at Fold3 reached the letter C I immediately looked up Jesse Callahan's file, which was quite large due to the fact Eve had to provide affidavits proving her marriage. This file was a gold mine of information. These affidavits pointed to Jacob and Susannah once again being the most likely parents of Eve. Their daughter Catherine Urmey-Miller attended Eve's wedding. The Urmey's son Jacob was described as Eve's brother. This was pretty convincing proof to me that she belonged in that family. This proof was strong, but not conclusive because I wasn't certain if there was only one Jacob in the area at the time.
This week I found a court record which leaves no doubt that Eve was the daughter of Jacob Urmey and Susannah Brower. Eve was named as a sister of John Urmey in a court case regarding his estate. All of the other children of Jacob and Susannah were named, and are the exact names found on Jacob's, his father's, will. Here is what it says:
"After making will, John URMEY married Elizabeth HIPPLE named in will a
dower set off. She is now widow of Levi Wooden. John Q. URMEY had no
other children other than illigimate son, John Q. URMEY. He left four
brothers; Abraham URMEY of Mont. Co. Ohio, Christian URMEY of Tipp Co.
Indiana, Jacob URMEY, residence unknown, and Jonathon URMEY, died before
testate, also four sisters, Catharine, wife of Jacob MILLER, Eve, wife of
Mr. CALLAHAN, Esther, wife of Mr. CALLAHAN of Washington Co. Indiana, and
Susannah, wife of Robert Scott, both dec'd and residence unk. Exe.
court who gave balance of estate and court awarded it to widow as legal
|Will of his Father Jacob Urmey
Dayton Court Record: Samuel LANDIS & Jacob VANIMAN, Exectutors of John
URMEY, dec'd, vs. Levi Wooden & wife and John Q. URMEY, et al 15 Dec.


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The Nature Lab is a hub of investigation where visitors of all ages can participate in real science research, learn scientific methods, and engage in hands-on activities that build their observation skills. They will learn, in other words, to see nature through new eyes.
The lab features live animals, touchable specimens, citizen science projects, and multi-media. It is a place to explore the stories "behind" the extraordinary specimens, animals, and live nature — or as we say at the Museum, the "how we know what we know." It is a bridge between the Museum's indoor research and collections, and our new outdoor space.
Project completion: 2013
Long-term urban biodiversity studies in the world: 1 (ours)
Chance of finding species new to science: 100 percent
" Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds is at the core of what we do for our visitors. What will change is that we will do those things outside. We will become, for the first time, a museum of both natural history and living nature. "
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Somerleyton Hall is one of the finest Victorian Stately homes in the country, let our expert team of guides bring this fabulous Hall to life with their history tours that run throughout the day.
Somerleyton Hall has 12 acres of magnificent gardens. The charming sunken white garden to the north of the Hall is set within the footprint of the former winter garden.
Somerleyton Hall to one of the finest yew hedge mazes in Britain, planted back in 1846. The route out is around 800 yards from the centre, but most visitors find it takes rather longer to solve the maze's mysteries!
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Our season runs from 29th March to 28th October and we open from 10am – 5pm on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday and Bank Holidays (Hall & Gardens), Wednesday (Gardens only).
During Easter holidays we open Tuesday to Sunday (Hall & Gardens). Entrance to the Hall is by tour only. Tours last 45 minutes and run regularly from 11.30am until 3pm. Throughout the year we hold special events including plays, tours and live music events. See our website for current opening dates and times, as these may vary due to private events.
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All areas of the Hall and Garden have been rated as partially wheelchair accessible, with disabled toilets located near the entrance and in the Winter Garden (together with ladies and gents at both locations).
We have wheelchairs available for public use, but reservation is advisable.
Please be aware that the site contains natural features such as uneven surfaces, rabbit holes, branches, twigs etc. and open water. We would encourage you to wear suitable footwear at all times and please keep children supervised at all times especially near water. Additionally, please note lighting is not provided in all areas and we would advise bringing a torch when visiting in the evening.
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|Salvador Dali*: The Average Bureaucrat
A lot has happened since then. The only one of the three controversial diagnoses still in the running for official status has been altered for the umpteenth time. An esteemed journal is issuing a scathing critique. And the open letter is generating buzz in the blogosphere.
The open letter has garnered more than 100 signatures, many from prominent forensic psychologists and psychiatrists in the U.S. and internationally. If you intend to sign on but haven't yet, act now because I understand it will be submitted very soon. (Click HERE to review the text; click HERE to email your name and professional title to co-author Richard Wollert.)
Hebephilia gets yet another makeover
This week, the Sexual Disorders Workgroup for the upcoming fifth edition of the APA's diagnostic manual toned down its proposal to turn sexual attraction to young teens into a mental disorder. As psychiatrist Allen Frances explains at his DSM5 in Distress blog, hebephilia is still there -- you just have to read the small print to see it:
The staunch insistence on this transparent attempt to turn statutory rape into a mental disorder owes in large part to the makeup of the sexual disorders workgroup. As Frances notes, "the most wayward of all the DSM 5 work groups" is "lopsidedly dominated" by psychologists from a sex clinic up in Toronto, whose ambition is "to find a place in DSM 5 for their pet diagnosis."
Confronted by universal opposition from the rest of the field, the DSM 5 group has been forced progressively to whittle down their pet, but they so far have refused to just drop it altogether. 'Hebephilia' first lost its free-standing independence and was cloaked as Pedohebephilia. When this didn't fly, the term was dropped altogether in the title but the concept was slipped into the definition of Pedophilia -- which was expanded out of recognition by having a victim age cut-off of 14 years. No one accepted this outlandish suggestion and now finally the work group comes back with 'early pubescent children' and tries to keep 'hebephilia' as a term in the subtype. The instability of the criteria sets associated with this concept is additional evidence that the fervor for its adoption stems from emotional loyalty rather than reasoned review of its weak conceptual and research base. How can the group vouch for the reliability of the diagnosis when the concept and criteria are changing every month? This is no way to develop a diagnostic system.
Dali: Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces
Although the group's other outlandish proposals, Paraphilic Coercive Disorder and Hypersexuality, have been shelved for the time being, Frances worries that putting them in the appendix "for further study" is still risky:
latest proposed criteria for "pedophilia, hebephilic type" require "equal or greater sexual arousal from prepubescent or early pubescent children than from physically mature persons." How to determine that fuzzy standard? Enter the penile plethysmographer, a new niche career track, penis cuff at the ready to measure who is aroused by what.Recognizing that the jig is up on the grand design, members of the DSM 5 sexual disorders work group have been heard saying they may have to settle for an Appendix placement for their three hothouse creations. This would create forensic dangers. We have learned from the abuse of "Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified" in Sexually Violent Predator cases that any (even remote) legitimization by DSM 5 is certain to be misconstrued and misused in the courtroom.Come on guys. This is absolutely absurd just on the face of it…. So back to the drawing board, DSM 5 sexual disorders work group. The grand dream is lost -- now at least make sure you don't mess up on the fine print.
"There is withering criticism already that the DSM is being expanded to sell more drugs," wrote one colleague. "Now it appears that psychiatry and psychology are conspiring to use the DSM to spur PPG tests -- tests which risk leaving patients with traumatic and indelible memory traces. Do most psychiatrists really want to open this door?!"
Orwellian thought police?
The mere idea of allowing the American Psychiatric Association to dictate "normal" sexuality frightens English Professor Christopher Lane. Lane, whose book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness exposed the unscientific inner workings of the DSM-III committee, expressed shock over the first listed criterion for the shelved disorder of hypersexuality: "Excessive time is consumed by sexual fantasies and urges, and by planning for and engaging in sexual behavior." On his Side Effects blog, Lane mused:
Lane analyzed hebephilia through his characteristic historical lens:
"Excessive time"? What exactly does that mean, and according to whose standards? That's not a small or trivial matter to settle when the APA is talking in vague generalities about the nation's libido -- how much sex it wants and how much sex the APA thinks it should think about wanting. The APA is talking about how much time Americans can devote to sexual fantasy before it suggests that we're mentally ill if our preoccupations are stronger than those set by the relevant task force.
Dali: Femme a Tete de Roses
Does that initiative seem to overreach a bit, even to the point of sounding almost Orwellian? It does so to me. If we're to have criteria, are quotas next, including for fantasy? It's as if the East Coast offices of the APA had morphed into those of the Thought Police in Orwell's 1984, warning citizens that they'd overstepped their "sexual thought quota" for the week and must be rationed -- or punished accordingly.
It's an archaism, a throwback literally to 19th-century psychiatry, but refers to practices that were as central to the Classical age -- and thus to Western democracy -- as were Socrates, Plato, and especially Plato's Symposium, one of the foundational books in the West on eros and love.
The APA is already trying to determine how long normal grief should last before it's thought pathological. Its brisk, jaw-dropping answer: two weeks. Do we really want the same organization dictating how often we can think about sex? These kinds of proposals can only end badly.
Leading journal tackles the controversy
The good news this week, which should have all of us jumping up and down with joy, is that the APA has caved in under massive public pressure and dropped its plan for a new psychosis risk disorder. This disorder would have put thousands if not millions of youngsters at risk of being dosed up with dangerous antipsychotic drugs based on a suspicion that they might go crazy in the future. Mixed Anxiety Depression has also bit the dust.
|Dali: Daddy Longlegs of the Evening Hope
In "Hebephilia and the Construction of a Fictitious Diagnosis," forensic psychologists Paul Good and the late Jules Burstein make a strong case for abandoning this faux disorder, which will only make the APA more of a laughingstock in the future.
Good and Burstein catalog an assortment of empirical problems. These range from the difficulty of reliably measuring "recurrent and intense" sexual arousal to problems determining the pubertal status of a young teenage victim. They also challenge the very idea that sexual attraction to pubescent minors is a mental illness, rather than merely illegal.
Although the Sexual Disorders Workgroup hides behind a fictive notion of a pure and ethereal "science," Good and Burstein clearly believe that hebephilia, if added to the DSM-5, will be mainly invoked in a partisan manner in forensic proceedings, in order to justify harsher punishment and involuntary civil detention. Because of its power to do harm, they say, its scientific grounding should be especially strong. If it does manage to worm its way into the DSM, they say, it should still be challenged in court:
Indeed, this is just what has been happening to hebephilia in federal court, where at least three civil detention petitions in a row have been thrown out due to the level of controversy in the field over this purported condition.We believe the admissibility of the proposed revision to DSM-5 that would include Hebephilia as a type of Pedophilia could be challenged in a court of law based on current legal standards. For example, since there is no professional consensus or general acceptance in the scientific community to support the notion of Hebephilia as a mental disorder, it would have difficulty passing the Frye test for admissibility. Similarly, without a widely established body of peer-reviewed, validation research and repeated studies showing inter-rater reliability in the laboratory and among clinicians in the field, Hebephilia would also have difficulty meeting the criteria specified in the Daubert standard.
With all of this tumult, it seems that the DSM-5 excesses are producing a backlash against the American Psychiatric Association and, indeed, fueling disenchantment with the whole enterprise of psychiatric diagnosis.
As Frances writes, the turnaround on psychosis risk syndrome came about due to a combination of:
- extensive criticism from experts in the field
- public outrage
- uniformly negative press coverage
- abysmal results in DSM-5 field testing
For the first time in its history, DSM 5 has shown some flexibility and capacity to correct itself. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of what will turn out to be a number of other necessary DSM 5 retreats. Today's revisions should be just the first step in a systematic program of reform.… This is certainly no time for complacency. Much of the rest of DSM 5 is still a mess. The reliabilities achieved for many of the other disorders are apparently unbelievably low and the writing of the criteria sets is still unacceptably imprecise.
Who needs reliability?
Frances calls for slowing down the process to allow for additional field testing and, more importantly, an independent scientific review of all the remaining controversial DSM-5 changes. But the DSM-5 folks are taking a different tack. Faced with field trial results showing very poor reliability -- not much better than chance -- for many of their proposed diagnoses, they want to change the definition of what counts as minimally adequate.
|Dali: Autumn Cannibalism
Historically, psychiatric reliability studies have adopted the Fleiss standard, in which kappas below 0.4 have been considered poor. In the January issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Helena Kraemer and colleagues complained that this standard is unrealistically high, and lobbied for kappas as low as 0.2 -- traditionally considered poor -- to be deemed "acceptable."
Former DSM-III guru Robert Spitzer and colleagues object to this proposal in a letter in the latest issue of the Journal. "Calling for psychiatry to accept kappa values that are characterized as unreliable in other fields of medicine is taking a step backward," they state. "One hopes that the DSM-5 reliability results are at least as good as the DSM-III results, if not better."
Alas, just wishing won't make it so. Despite its grandly stated ambitions, the DSM-5 will likely go down in history as a major gaffe by American psychiatry in its continuing struggle for world dominance.
Remember to check out the open letter
and send in your name, if you are in agreement with it.
Further reading:
- American Sex and American Psychiatry: The APA is trying to determine how much sex we can fantasize about by Chris Lane at Side Effects
- DSM 5 Rejects 'Hebephilia' Except for the Fine Print: Now the devil is in the details by Allen Frances at DSM5 in Distress
- Wonderful News: DSM 5 Finally Begins Its Belated and Necessary Retreat: Perhaps this will be the beginning of real reform by Allen Frances at DSM5 in Distress
*Salvador Dali: "One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams."


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While, for most of the season, it will be the St. Lucie Mets grabbing the headlines, the Binghamton Mets have an intriguing roster as well. Bingo will feature a solid pitching staff, headlined by Rafael Montero, as well as some prospects that have largely flown under the radar in their careers, but have talent, such as Wilfredo Tovar and Alonzo Harris. The B-Mets will also feature two interesting names who haven't been able to put it all together yet: Cory Vaughn and Cesar Puello, both of whom have very high ceilings. Now, let's get to the players.
The Big Names
- Rafael Montero (RHP)- Montero has risen through the minors unusually quickly, playing for seven of the Mets' minor league affiliates after signing with them before the 2011 season. Although he had a fine 2011 season between the Dominican Summer, Gulf Coast, Appalachian, and New York-Penn leagues, he didn't really put himself on the map until last season. Last season between Savannah and St. Lucie, he posted a 2.36 ERA in 122 innings, striking out 8.1 per nine while walking just 1.4. Scouts credit his strong secondary pitches for his successes so far in his career. His changeup and slider are both well-developed, which is why he has dominated and moved up so quickly.
- Wilfredo Tovar (SS)- Until last season, Tovar looked like a weak-hitting shortstop with a good glove, but also a bat that would keep him from the majors. In 2011, Tovar hit .251/.318/.318 in a full season with Savannah. He was moved up a level to St. Lucie last season, in which he started to look like more than a weak-hitting shortstop. In half a season with St. Lucie, he upped his batting line to .284/.377/.385 with 12 stolen bases in 65 games, earning himself an FSL All-Star Game selection. What was especially promising was his strikeout and walk rates, which were better than ever. He walked in 11.3% of his plate appearances, compared to his career-best of 8.0%, and struck out at a 6.6% clip, also the best mark of his career. He struggled in Binghamton last year, which is why he is repeating the league, but if he can harness the patience that we saw out of him over the first half of 2012, he could become a Ruben Tejada-type player.
- Cory Vaughn (RF)- The Mets don't have many pure power hitters in their system, but Cory Vaughn is one of them, and among the best. He is the definition of a power hitter: getting on base, and hitting a ton of extra-base hits. Last year, he hit 51 extra-base hits in 126 games with St. Lucie, 23 of them home runs. Vaughn, however, has speed that most power hitters don't have. He swiped a career-best 21 bases last season. Vaughn's biggest weakness right now is his hit tool. Everything else is there. If he starts hitting for a higher batting average, everything will come together.
- Cesar Puello (RF)- Once dubbed the next Carlos Beltran, Puello may have the best tools in the entire Met system. He has speed, power, and is a solid defender in the outfield. It's the health that will dictate his future. Last season, Puello hit .260/.328/.423 with 26 extra-base hits in 66 games.
The Sleepers
- Danny Muno (2B/SS)- Muno was suspended for PED use last year, after hitting .355 in Brooklyn in 2011. The 2011 eighth-round pick still put up solid numbers, even after the suspension. He hit for a little bit of power, knocking 16 doubles, two triples, and six homers in 81 games with St. Lucie. He put up a .280/.387/.412 batting line. Muno walked an excellent 14.2% of the time while striking out only 15.1%. Oh, and he stole 19 bases.
- Tyler Pill (RHP)- Pill is seeing his stock rising fast, and although he isn't put in the same group as Wheeler, Fulmer, or Syndergaard, he has made a name for himself as a top-30 prospect. He only throws in the high-80s, but uses his excellent command to get hitters out. Last season, he put up an impressive 4.77 K/BB rate with a 2.31 ERA in 113 innings between St. Lucie and Savannah.
- Jack Leathersich (LHP)- Leathersich has put up amazing strikeout numbers out of the bullpen since being drafted in 2011 in the fifth round out of UMass-Lowell. Leathersich is on the fast track to the major league bullpen, and will continue to move quickly if his strikeout numbers remain this high. Last season he struck out 14.1 batters per nine. Some call his delivery deceiving, which may explain why his ERA in the Florida State League this year was 4.12. Maybe more advanced hitters are catching on. Perhaps his high walk numbers are hurting him. Or maybe the high ERA was just a result of a small sample size, as so often happens with minor league relief pitchers.
- Alonzo Harris (OF)- Harris, once deemed ruined after an aggressive promotion by Omar Minaya went horribly wrong, has re-gained his prospect status with a much-improved approach at the dish over the last few seasons. Promoted too quickly because of his athleticism and raw tools, Harris hit .224/.270/..342 as a 20 year-old, second-year player in Savannah. He was overly-aggressive and struck out over in over 20% of his plate appearances. Since then, he has seen his walk rates rise and strikeout rates fall steadily and now he has a solid approach at the dish. His success in 2011 in Savannah were attributed to him getting used to the league, but the even better walk and strikeout numbers in 2012 with St. Lucie have some people believing that he's not done yet.
Other Names to Watch
- Cory Mazzoni (RHP)- Mazzoni was the Mets' second-round pick of the 2011 draft out of NC State. After a little over a year in the minors, it appears that that Mazzoni, with a limited arsenal, is headed to the bullpen. He will start for the forseeable future to get more in-game action, but his 6.5 K/9 last year leave much to be desired.
- Logan Verrett (RHP)- Verrett only made six starts in St. Lucie after coming back from a shoulder strain, but will move up this year anyway. His 7.15 K/BB ratio last year was stellar. The only concern is the lower strikeout rate in the six St. Lucie starts, which fell to 6.1 K/9 from 9.3 in Savannah.