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Brassaï: The Eye of Paris to open at The J. Paul Getty Museum April 13 - July 3, 1999
Major Survey of Celebrated Photographer's Work Features Rarely Seen Photographs, Drawings, and Sculpture
April 6, 1999
Los Angeles, CA - On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the photographer Brassaï's birth, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, the first major U.S. survey of the artist's career in three decades. This landmark exhibition of 110 photographs, drawings, and sculpture is the first to gather works in the principle media in which the artist worked. The exhibition draws from more than 40 collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including 13 photographs from the Getty's collection. Brassaï: The Eye of Paris is on view at the Getty Center from April 13 to July 3, 1999.
A culmination of many years of research by Anne Wilkes Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition has been organized by the MFAH with funding from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston Endowment Inc., The Wortham Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The installation of the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum has been directed by Julian Cox, Assistant Curator of Photographs.
Brassaï: The Eye of Paris was first shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 6, 1998 through February 28, 1999. After its run at the Getty, it will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 17, 1999 through January 16, 2000.
"The exhibition is a well-deserved survey of the career of Brassaï, one of the great photographers of the 20th century," said Deborah Gribbon, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum. "We are pleased that the show is coming to the Getty so that visitors from Los Angeles will have the opportunity to see not only works from our own photographs collection, but also works from collections around the world."
This exhibition explores Brassaï's working methods, which are essential to understanding his art. Eschewing the spontaneity of many journalist-photographers," Brassaï approached his subjects with an eye toward telling a story. Manipulating reality was crucial to him in making pictures that look like slices of real life, but were sometimes quite the opposite. "Brassaï was a master at weaving truth and fiction by skillfully mixing authentic players with posed models," said Weston Naef, Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Brassaï fully developed ideas and themes through making in-depth, cohesive, and interlocking series of images over time. They are presented in this exhibition under the following headings: Early Work; The Human Figure; Paris by Night; Secret Paris; Portraits; The Nude; Society; Graffiti; Paris by Day; and The Traveler's Eye. Several of these series have neither been exhibited in the last three decades nor published since the 1950s.
"Brassaï had the ability to identify iconic moments," said Anne Wilkes Tucker. "He made pictures that are as interesting to us today as they were 40 years ago because they are about timeless kinds of things. Brassaï could distill a subject to its essence and make an everyday event worthy of our attention."
As early as 1934, Brassaï was dubbed "the eye of Paris" in an essay by his friend, American writer Henry Miller. His classic and widely acclaimed Paris de nuit (Paris by Night) series, photographed during his nighttime wanderings with the famous Paris "pedestrian" and poet Léon-Paul Fargue and other friends, is a highlight of the exhibition. Light and shadow set the mood of these evocative photographs of night workers, streets, buildings, and bridges. Backlighting contours stately silhouettes in Statue of Marshall Ney, Paris, 1932 and Saint Germain des Prés Church, Paris, 1939; streetlights create a painterly chiaroscuro in Lighting the Lamps at Dusk on the Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1932-33; and fog captures bridge-lamps in the stillness and quietude of night in Pont Neuf and Trees along Quay, Paris, 1932 and Pont Neuf, Paris, 1949.
Brassaï ardently explored the subjects of high and low culture in his photographic series Secret Paris and Society, as well as in his writing. Brassaï consciously made his series on Parisian high society, ballet, and opera in distinct counterpoint to his famous chronicle of the Parisian underworld.
Photographs of social soirées such as Evening at Longchamp Racetrack, Paris, 1938 and Gala Soirée, Maxim's, Paris, 6 May 1949 contrast sharply with Magic-City Dance Hall, Cognacq-Jay Street, Paris, c. 1932 and Conchita with Sailors, Place d'Italie, c. 1933. An intriguing comparison also appears between the refined masquerades of high society, shown in Parisian, Masked Ball at Pré Catelan, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, July 1946, and the raucous and risqué carnivals of the Parisian working classes and subcultures, shown in Wanda, Street Carnival, Paris, 1951. Pictures of children, like the delighted little boy in Balloon Seller, Montsouris Park, Paris, 1931-34 contrast with the dark underworld Brassaï frequented during the same period.
Brassaï's incisive portraits of his friends -- artists, writers, and intellectuals of Paris -- are also on view in the exhibition. In these formal portraits, Brassaï captures the character and intensity of such artists as Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Hans Reichel, and Germaine Richier, and such writers as Fargue, Jean Genet, Henri Michaux, and Henry Miller.
While Brassaï was embraced by the social circles of the Parisian intellectual and upper classes, his joy in the commonplace and compassion for the every man is reflected throughout the exhibition. Everyday events in the artist's photographs range from the playful Police Outside the "Chat qui Pelote," near Les Halles Market, Paris, 1939, to the clandestine, in Two Hoodlums, Place d'Italie, Paris, 1931-32, to the capricious, in Kiss on Swing at a Street Fair, 1935-37. The artist's subtle humor is revealed in Napoleon in Front of an Antique Shop, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957, in which a Rubenesque passerby gives a sideways glance to a diminutive statue of Napoleon.
Brassaï's sensitivity to daily life also appears in his influential Graffiti series. In these photographs, Brassaï transforms graffiti -- common man's artwork -- into monumental, archetypal symbols by isolating and closely framing everyday scrawl. This series culminated in a book published in 1961 with an introduction by Picasso. Their friendship is represented in the exhibition by Brassaï's portraits of Picasso and photographs of his sculpture.
Brassaï (1899-1984) was born Gyula Halász in Brasso, Transylvania, Hungary (now Romania) and after emigrating to Paris in 1924, he worked as a journalist. He began taking photographs in 1929 to create a book that had been forming in his imagination. At that time he changed his name to Brassaï, which means "from Brasso."
Except for an interlude during World War II, Brassaï worked as a freelance magazine photographer and writer for publications including Minotaure, Verve, Coronet, Picture Post, and Harper's Bazaar. Through the late 1960s, he continued working with Harper's Bazaar, traveling extensively on assignment. Many of his photographs made in England, Spain, the United States, and Brazil were published in magazine articles during his lifetime, but are virtually unknown today.
The artist was awarded the first Grand Prix National de la Photographie in Paris (1978), the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1974), and the Chevlier de l'Ordre de la Legion d' Honneur (1976). At the time of his death in 1984, Brassaï had published 17 books and hundreds of articles, and held numerous exhibitions of his photographs, sculpture, and drawings. His film, Tant qu'il aura des bêtes, 1955, won the prize for Most Original Film at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
On May 20, 1999, at 7:00 pm, Anne Wilkes Tucker will present a lecture, Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium of the Getty Center. Call 310 440-7300 for information and reservations.
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Monday 10AM-4PM
Wednesday 10AM-4PM
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One of the ideas I found irresistible in my research during the last 3 weeks was the multiple point criticality principle mentioned in a recent blog post about a Shiu-Hamada paper.
Froggatt's and Nielsen's and Donald Bennett's multiple point criticality principle says that the parameters of quantum field theory are chosen on the boundaries of a maximum number of phases – i.e. so that something maximally special seems to happen over there.
This principle is supported by a reasonably impressive prediction of the fine-structure constant, the top quark mass, the Higgs boson mass, and perhaps the neutrino masses and/or the cosmological constant related to them.
In some sense, the principle modifies the naive "uniform measure" on the parameter space that is postulated by naturalness. We may say that the multiple point criticality principle not only modifies naturalness. It almost exactly negates it. The places with \(\theta=0\) where \(\theta\) is the distance from some phase transition are of measure zero, and therefore infinitely unlikely, according to naturalness. But the multiple point criticality principle says that they're really preferred. In fact, if there are several phase transitions and \(\theta_i\) measure the distances from several domain walls in the moduli space, the multiple point criticality principle wants to set all the parameters \(\theta_i\) equal to zero.
Is there an everyday life analogy for that? I think so. Look at the picture at the top and ignore the boat with the German tourist in it. What you see is the Arctic Ocean – with lots of water and ice over there. What is the temperature of the ice and the water? Well, it's about 0 °C, the melting point of water. In reality, the melting point is a bit different due to the salinity.
But in this case, there exists a very good reason to conclude that we're near the melting point. It's because we can see that the water and the ice co-exist. And the water may only exist above the melting point; and the ice may only exist beneath the melting point. The intersection of these two intervals is a narrow interval – basically the set containing the melting point only. If the water were much warmer than the melting point, it would have to cool quickly enough because the ice underneath is colder – it can't really be above the melting point.
(The heat needed for the ice to melt is equal to the heat needed to warm the same amount of water by some 80 °C if I remember well.)
How is it possible that the temperature 0 °C, although it's a special value of measure zero, is so popular in the Arctic Ocean? It's easy. If you study what's happening when you warm the ice – start with a body of ice only – you will ultimately get to the melting point and a part of ice will melt. You will obtain a mixture of the ice and water. Now, if you are adding additional heat, the ice no longer heats up. Instead, the extra heat will be used to transform an increasing fraction of the ice to the water – i.e. to melt the ice.
So the growth of the temperature stops at the melting point. Instead of the temperature, what the additional incoming heat increases is the fraction of the H2O molecules that have already adopted the liquid state. Only when the fraction increases to 100%, you get pure liquid water and the additional heating may increase the temperature above 0 °C.
In theoretical physics, we want things like the top quark mass \(m_t\) to be analogous to the temperature \(T\) of the Arctic water. Can we find a similar mechanism in physics that would just explain why the multiple point criticality principle is right?
The easiest way is to take the analogy literally and consider the multiverse. The multiverse may be just like the Arctic Ocean. And parts of it may be analogous to the floating ice, parts of it may be analogous to the water underneath. There could be some analogy of the "heat transfer" that forces something like \(m_t\) to be nearly the same in the nearby parts of the multiverse. But the special values of \(m_t\) that allow several phases may occupy a finite fraction of the multiverse and what is varying in this region isn't \(m_t\) but rather the percentage of the multiverse occupied by the individual phases.
There may be regions of the multiverse where several phases co-exist and several parameters analogous to \(m_t\) appear to be fine-tuned to special values.
I am not sure whether an analysis of this sort may be quantified and embedded into a proper full-blown cosmological model. It would be nice. But maybe the multiverse isn't really needed. It seems to me that at these special values of the parameters where several phases co-exist, the vacuum states could naturally be superpositions of quantum states built on several classically very different configurations. Such a law would make it more likely that the cosmological constant is described by a seesaw mechanism, too.
If it's true and if the multiple-phase special points are favored, it's because of some "attraction of the eigenvalues". If you know random matrix theory, i.e. the statistical theory of many energy levels in the nuclei, you know that the energy levels tend to repel each other. It's because some Jacobian factor is very small in the regions where the energy eigenvalues approach each other. Here, we need the opposite effect. We need the values of parameters such as \(m_t\) to be attracted to the special values where phases may be degenerate.
So maybe even if you avoid any assumption about the existence of any multiverse, you may invent a derivation at the level of the landscape only. We normally assume that the parameter spaces of the low-energy effective field theory (or their parts allowed in the landscape, i.e. those draining the swamp) are covered more or less uniformly by the actual string vacua. We know that this can't quite be right. Sometimes we can't even say what the "uniform distribution" is supposed to look like.
But this assumption of uniformity could be flawed in very specific and extremely interesting ways. It could be that the actual string vacua actually love to be degenerate – "almost equal" superpositions of vacua that look classically very different from each other. In general, there should be some tunneling in between the vacua and the tunneling gives you off-diagonal matrix elements (between different phases) to many parameters describing the low-energy physics of the vacua (coupling constants, cosmological constant).
And because of the off-diagonal elements, the actual vacua we should find when we're careful aren't actually "straightforward quantum coherent states" built around some classical configurations. But very often, they may like to be superpositions – with non-negligible coefficients – of many phases. If that's so, even the single vacuum – in our visible Universe – could be analogous to the Arctic Ocean in my metaphor and an explanation of the multiple point criticality principle could exist.
If it were right qualitatively, it could be wonderful. One could try to look for a refinement of this Arctic landscape theory – a theory that tries to predict more realistic probability distributions on the low-energy effective field theories' parameter spaces, distributions that are non-uniform and at least morally compatible with the multiple point criticality principle. This kind of reasoning could even lead us to a calculation of some values of the parameters that are much more likely than others – and it could be the right ones which are compatible with our measurements.
A theory of the vacuum selection could exist. I tend to think that this kind of research hasn't been sufficiently pursued partly because of the left-wing bias of the research community. They may be impartial in many ways but the biases often do show up even in faraway contexts. Leftists may instinctively think that non-uniform distributions are politically incorrect so they prefer the uniformity of naturalness or the "typical vacua" in the landscape. I have always felt that these Ansätze are naive and on the wrong track – and the truth is much closer to their negations. The apparent numerically empirical success of the multiple point criticality principle is another reason to think so.
Note that while we're trying to calculate some non-uniform distributions, the multiple point criticality principle is a manifestation of egalitarianism and multiculturalism from another perspective – because several phases co-exist as almost equal ones. ;-)


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Mighty pucks: Pumping up America's morale
We may know the answer by the time you read this, but I wonder which presidential candidate will co-opt Miracle as his personal vision, the way Ronald Reagan did Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the U.S.A."
Will Bush compare himself to the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team and claim to have raised the country's morale with his supposed accomplishments; or will some Democrat update Jimmy Carter's speech, excerpted in Miracle, about how Vietnam and Watergate had eroded the country's confidence?
Miracle is that kind of movie, a crowd-pleaser meant to make Americans stand up and cheer (I question whether it will be an international success) by recreating a historical high point. At least, thank heaven, the event took place on the playing field, not the battlefield.
Kurt Russell has one of his best roles (and worst hairdos) as Herb Brooks, the driven coach who assembled his team, mainly "a lot of guys from Minnesota and Boston," in the summer of 1979 and trained them hard with the specific goal of defeating the Soviets, whose hockey team had dominated the Winter Games since 1964.
A bit too much time is spent at the outset making sure the dimmest bulb on the tree understands Herb is not your run-of-the-mill coach. He insists on training the men in a new, "Soviet-Canadian hybrid" style he's developed. Given a week to choose his team from among 60 candidates in consultation with a committee, he does it himself in one day and presents the list as a fait accompli: 26 men, to be cut to 20 over seven months of training.
At their first meeting Herb tells the team, "I'll be your coach. I won't be your friend." They can go to his assistant (Noah Emmerich) or the team doctor (Kenneth Welsh) for warm fuzzies. It's his way of getting them to function as a unit.
It's also an age-old formula for movies about war, sports, or anything else where teamwork is required. The leader talks tough, but we know deep inside he loves the guys and they love him.
Miracle splits into two roughly equal parts, training and the Olympics, with a final exhibition game at Madison Square Garden between the U.S. and Soviet teams in between. Held three days before the official start of the games, it results in a resounding defeat for the Americans.
Hockey fans who are disappointed by not seeing enough playing in the first half– most of the team's time on the ice is spent in speed drills– will be ecstatic during the second half, which has little else.
The face-off against the Soviets is actually the first game of the medal round, but it's the one that means the most to Herb– and us, spelled U.S. We're still in the Cold War. One fan in Texas has written Herb saying, "Beat those Commie bastards!"
That Miracle has the same producers as The Rookie is most evident in the overkill casting of Patricia Clarkson in the stock role of Herb's wife. (Rachel Griffiths was the wife in The Rookie.) She's great, but a hundred lesser actresses could have played the part.
With 20 teammates plus six who are cut (as Herb was cut from the 1960 team a week before the start of the games, which is supposed to explain his obsession), it's hard to get to know any of them. A few are given their own subplots, but the one that registers most strongly is goalie Jim Craig's (Eddie Cahill). He's playing in memory of his late mother, whose death before the start of the film is milked for too long.
A couple of players are injured, and Herb turns their injuries to the team's advantage, one way or another. Three guys who play well together are nicknamed "The Coneheads," but they fade back into the crowd after being established. Screenwriter Eric Guggenheim squeezes in far too many such details that can't be adequately developed. They should have left them for the DVD or a miniseries and tightened the film to its essentials.
Aside from Cahill, most of the players are non-actors with hockey experience. While few are likely to have found a new career path, none of them embarrass themselves.
Nor does director Gavin O'Connor (Tumbleweeds), although he doesn't distinguish himself either. Miracle isn't the Seabiscuit of hockey, but it should have the intended impact on its target audience and play in heavy rotation when Disney gets around to starting an all-sports channel– or is that ESPN?


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Get DVD Talk Feeds
Relationships is part of the "Living Well with Montel
Williams" series of life coaching programs. This DVD program
presents three programs, one general motivational piece and two on
sex and relationships.
"A Woman's Guide to Better
Sex" runs 52 minutes, with Dr. Hilda Hutcherson
Hutchinson is a doctor and magazine
advice columnist about sexual issues. She takes the approach of
de-mystifying sex from the biological point of view as well as a
relationship point of view. As the title of the episode indicates,
it's definitely addressed to a female audience, focusing on female
anatomy - the vulva, the labia, the clitoris, the vagina - with an
emphasis on female empowerment. There's attention to male parts too,
but from the point of view of the woman who may or may not know much
about her partner's equipment.
This is definitely an explicit
presentation, in which Hutchinson is frank about the experience of
sex and things that viewers can do to enjoy sex more. She gives tips
on how to have a better orgasm, and addresses issues of sexual
confidence. Overall, her approach is "how to enjoy sex more":
it has some elements that touch on the relationship aspect of sex,
but as a whole its emphasis is on the physical act and how to enjoy
the sensations of sexual intercourse more.
"Life Would Be Easy if it
Weren't for Other People"
runs 48 minutes, with Connie Podesta.
I'm not really sure what makes
Podesta qualified to talk about relationships... she's advertised on
the DVD case as a comedian and a talk show host. She does say that
she's done marriage and family counseling, so presumably she has some
qualifications, but it's not made very clear. Podesta is funny,
without a doubt, but she plays very heavily on stereotypes as her
material, for instance male-female and parent-child relationships.
That said, she does make some good points here, but she bounces
around a lot, touching on marriage, children, work, and dealing with
other people. Overall, it feels like "relationships lite":
there's a lot of what feels like sensible advice, but upon closer
examination it seems to be a platitude that offers nothing by way of
concrete suggestions for dealing with life issues.
"Who Owns the Definition of
You?" features talk show host Montel Williams; it runs 35
The program starts off with a
testimonial about Williams' show; it goes on considerably too long
and starts to feel cheesy. Fortunately, as soon as it shifts over to
Williams himself, it feels much more grounded. He draws on his
experience as a talk show host to identify recurring problems in
peoples' lives, as well as on his own experiences as suffering from
multiple sclerosis.
This program focuses on the
obstacles to living the life you want to live, with Williams
explaining the points and illustrating them with examples from his
own life. He's an excellent speaker: he's passionate about what he's
telling the viewer, and he's able to speak directly to the camera
with conviction and energy, so that it feels entirely natural to be
listening. The points that Williams makes here are very important: he
discusses obstacles like fear, self-doubt, lack of knowledge, and
emotional difficulties. The material is fairly general, but it works
well as a general motivational piece, especially for viewers who are
fans of Williams' show.
The main fault that I find with this
program is that it's repeated on all the Living Well DVD sets,
so that viewers are stuck with paying for the same disc several times
if they decide to buy more than one of the Living Well
The DVD
The programs are oddly presented, as
they're in a 4:3 image windowboxed in a non-anamorphic widescreen
format. Colors look good, but there's heavy edge enhancement and a
lot of artifacting, especially in the Hutchinson program. It's
watchable but not particularly appealing.
The stereo soundtrack is clear and
acceptable, with a clean overall feel to it.
The "Woman's Guide to Better
Sex" disc has a 10-minute section of "deeper discussion"
with Hutcherson, as well as 18 minutes of questions and answers.
Trailers for The Montel Show and "Living Well" are
also included on each disc.
Final thoughts
Living Well: Better Sex and
Deeper Relationships is a disappointment, even by the modest
expectations I was bringing to it. There are only two new programs,
as the Montel Williams program is repeated on other Living Well
sets. The relationships program is very thin in its material, and
the sex program, while informative, felt a bit shallow in its
singleminded focus on maximizing physical pleasure. I'd skip this


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A key, but rarely considered metric that all developers should now be considering is the impact their code has on the experience of an end-user at the mercy of the service that the code delivers.
Providing such a metric has been the objective of Proxima Technology with its Centauri system, and is also the reason why Compuware has now moved to acquire Proxima for a sum close to $31m, net of cash. Proxima is headquartered in Denver, with offices in Australia and the UK and approximately 70 employees.
Getting a clear and measurable view of what is happening with the delivery of a service is now becoming an important capability. It helps both in managing how a business runs and in deciding which services should get priority to give customers an experience which does not make them run away screaming. This is particularly important where business-customer interaction is direct, via the Web. Centauri provides both a coherent business view of service delivery and a customer-facing Service Level Management platform. It also supplies the foundation for automated service-quality improvement based on ITIL and Six Sigma methodologies and best practices.
Compuware's plans for Centauri are to integrate it with the application performance and service desk metrics from its own Vantage system to give users an integrated overview of the business service, both in terms of system service levels and the customer experience.
Centauri also supports the Compuware Changepoint IT Management solution through real-time and historical service level compliance metrics.®


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After a little investigating, I discovered there was a memorial marker for Job Tyler, as he was the First Andover (MA) Settler, in the Old North Parish Burying Ground located near me. But, I've been to that cemetery at least 20 times, and never saw it. Why? Because it is at the back of the cemetery, in the area where the grounds were recently cleared away, and it seems to be the only stone that is facing the opposite direction (West) of all the others. It pays to walk around every cemetery stone!
In Memoriam
Job Tyler Immigrant
First Andover Settler
About MDCXL (1650)
Born MDCXIX (1619) Died MDCC (1700)
Dedicated by His Whole Clan
September 4, 1901
Above is the foot-stone for son Moses Tyler. His headstone, below is facing the opposite way.
Here Lyes Buried
Moses Tyler Who
Died October Ye 2nd
1727 and in the
86 Year Of His Age.
(Note: The stone is similar to the one below.)
Here Lyes Buried
the Body of Mrs.
Abigail Tyler
With Her Child
The Wife of Mr.
Jacob Tyler Who
Died March
The 25th 1722 and
In Ye 23
Year of Her Age.
(Behind the cemetery, the land was recently cleared of many trees and shrubs.)


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A method of a mojit instance ({mojit_instance}.{action}) that invokes a call to a function of a mojit controller when an HTTP request is made on an associated routing path. For example, suppose the root path is associated with the mojit instance and action hello.index, and the hello instance is of type HelloMojit. When an HTTP request is made on the root path, the action index would invoke the index function of the HelloMojit controller.
The Action Context is an essential element of the Mojito framework that gives you access to the frameworks features from within a controller function. See Action Context in the Mojito API Overview and the ActionContext Class in the Mojito API documentation for more detailed information.
A namespacing object attached directly to the Action Context object that provides additional functions. The ActionContext object is available in every controller function. See Mojito API Overview: Addons for more information.
The location where a resource is available. For example, the value for {affinity} in the file controller.{affinity}.js could be server, client, or common, depending on where the resource is available. The affinity common means that the resource is available in both the client and server. If both common and client are given, then the client file is used on the client and the common file is used on the server. Likewise, if both common and server are given, then the common file is used on the client and the server file is used on the server.
Mojit code deployed to the browser that can allow event handlers to attach to the mojit DOM node, communicate with other mojits on the page, and execute actions on the mojit that the binder is attached to. A mojit may have zero, one, or many binders within the binders directory. See Mojito Binders for more information.
CDN stands for content delivery network, which is a largely distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers in the Internet. CDNs serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance. YUI has a CDN for delivering the YUI library.
When a parent mojit controls the execution and layout of child mojits. See Mojito Developer Topics: Composite Mojits for more information.
In Mojito, the controller is mojit code that can either do all of the work or delegate the work to models and/or views. In the typical case, the mojit controller requests the model to retrieve data and then the controller will serve that data to the views. See MVC: Controllers for more information.
The basic unit of composition and reuse in a Mojito application. It typically corresponds to a rectangular area of a page and is constructed using JavaScript and the MVC.
The proxy object given to binders that allows them to interact with the mojit it represents as well as with other mojits on the page. See the mojitProxy Object and the MojitProxy Class for more information.
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YouTube as we all know it is going to become history by the end of the year. Half a decade after acquisition, Google is redesigning the user interface to look in line with the rest of Google services.
Meet The New YouTube User Interface
As you can see, the new design fits nicely with the design guidelines applied on Google+, new Gmail and so on and so forth. We have to say that the design is a nice change from the old school plain vanilla site, but we don't like the fact that the "News Stream" section no longer shows multiple videos from your friends and the network.
Getting into Account Settings, you can see that you can easily set all your privacy and sharing options here.
The Sharing and Connections tab enables you to automatically post your YouTube activity on other social networks, as well as selecting what activities you want to share or not.
My Uploaded Video Section now Includes removed videos and what can be done about it (here's a hint: nothing)
Checking the account page now shows the status of your videos and check to see you're being a good boy or are putting potentially copyright infringing videos. As you can see, Bright Side of News* is currently involved in dispute with the anal people from Electronic Arts, who requested that our "Battlefield 3 Gameplay Video Damavand Peak" be removed from YouTube. All would be nice and dandy if there wasn't for the fact that video was taken down AFTER the Battlefield 3 game came out.
Our response to that was quite swift – we have returned all purchased licenses for BF3, resulting in a direct $599 loss of revenue to EA and we are still contemplating what to do with an obviously anti-consumer company – bear in mind that you can activate titles on Steam forever, but EA's Origin service only allows five reinstalls – after that, your money is theirs and you have no games to play or benchmark. But that is a whole different matter.
Real Time Statistics are coming to YouTube as well
Getting back to YouTube's new design, YouTube is introducing detailed real-time statistics for your videos, just like Google is preparing to introduce real-time statistics to Google Analytics.
If you like what you see and want to switch your YouTube experience from current "old school" style to this new, social friendly (like YouTube wasn't social already :-), there is quite a simple way to activate it. Developers are keeping this new version hidden through cookies, and if you want to see it, you have to put in the string "ST1Ti53r4fU" inside the VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE cookie.
Putting that string inside the browser requires a different approach for each of the popular browsers, and we're going to list the procedure for the most popular browsers below:
Google Chrome
- Copy the following code: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU; expires=1 Jan 2020 12:00:00 UTC"
- Open YouTube.com
- Open a Console by pressing Ctrl+Shift+J
- Paste the code
- Press Enter
- Reload the page by pressing "F5"
Microsoft Internet Explorer (checked on 8 and 9)
- Copy the following code: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU; expires=1 Jan 2020 12:00:00 UTC"
- Open YouTube.com
- Open Developer Tools Window by pressing F12
- Go to "Scripts" Tab
- Select Console
- Paste the selected code
- Press Run Script
- Close the window and refresh the site
Mozilla Firefox
- Copy the following code: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU; expires=1 Jan 2020 12:00:00 UTC"
- Open YouTube.com
- Open a Console by pressing Ctrl+Sift+K
- Paste the code
- Reload the page by pressing "F5"
- Open YouTube
- Right click on the empty space on the page and select "Edit Site Preferences"
- In "Cookies" tab, find the "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE" cookie
- Double click on it and change the value to "ST1Ti53r4fU"
- Change expiry date to let's say 2020
- Close the "Edit Site Preferences"
- Reload the page
If everything went fine, you'll see the new youtube for yourself. We have checked this procedure by being both logged in with our account and as a first time user, and we had no issues.
Do bear in mind that this page is currently hidden with a reason, and the screenshots above may not reflect the way how the actual redesign is going to look like.


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Experts are trying to identify a shark caught on video eating a dead dolphin off the Jersey Shore.
Anthony Cortes and his father-in-law David Hermann were flounder fishing Tuesday seven miles off the coast of Atlantic City. Suddenly, the two men spotted a shark eating the carcass of a bottlenose dolphin.
The men estimated the shark to be around 12 to 13 feet in length.
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"It was the biggest shark I've ever seen out there," said Hermann. "It was amazing. I think it was a Great White."
"I've never seen a shark that big up close in my life," said Cortes, who recorded the video. "It had to have been a Great White. The shark would grab the bottlenose dolphin, shake it up a little bit in the air, go around, take a circle and come back around to it. He actually came up, looked at our boat, just swam to the back of our boat and then swam right back to the carcass and started eating the carcass again. It was pretty hideous."
Officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center are analyzing the video to determine the species of shark.
Those same officials are also investigating a recent spike in dolphin deaths at the Jersey Shore this month.
Since July 9, a total of 17 dead dolphins have washed up on beaches along the Shore. According to officials, four of those deaths were caused by viral pneumonia.
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Fans of the Senators, Canadiens and Maple Leafs grumbled over at least one aspect of the revamped National Hockey League divisions and conferences.
With 16 teams in the Eastern Conference and 14 in the Western Conference, the imbalance would make competition for playoff berths more challenging for eastern teams, considering there would still be just eight qualifiers from each conference.
The scenario will be interesting to watch as the season progresses and half the eastern teams fall by the wayside, but, at this early stage, the western clubs have been so superior to their eastern brethren that a team like the Ottawa Senators — finally having completed a four-game western swing — has to be thrilled simply to return to games against its own conference.
With an imbalanced schedule — four or five games versus divisional teams, three versus the other division in the same conference and just two each against teams from the other conference — at least there is an opportunity to feast on eastern bottom feeders. (The key being, of course, not to be among the bottom feeders).
The bottom feeders aren't hard to identify.
Consider the win-loss-overtime records of the worst four teams in the East: the New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Rangers and Buffalo Sabres. Through Monday's games, these four had combined for two wins, 18 regulation losses and four more defeats in extra time. Two wins in 24 games.
That is food for every team above these four in the conference standings.
Already, four teams in the east have hit negative double digits in goals for versus goals against: Florida (-11), New Jersey (-10), the Rangers (-16) and Buffalo (-11). In the west, only the beleaguered Edmonton Oilers, -10, have hit double figures in the minus category of goals.
How dominant has the west been in cross-conference play?
Before Tuesday night, the west held a 28-7-3 advantage in games versus eastern teams. Digest that for a moment. In 38 games, the west has won 28 (a .736 winning percentage) and earned a loser point in three more, thus points from 31 of 38 games.
Flip it over and the east has won just 10 of the 38, with 24 regulation losses and four more defeats in extra time.
These are Men versus Boys kind of numbers, albeit from a small sample size two weeks into the 2013-14 season.
The west already lays claim to more recent championships, having crowned five of the past seven Stanley Cup champions and five of the eight played since the 2005 lockout.
Things could be worse regarding eastern pride. At least the Eastern Conference now has the storied Detroit Red Wings franchise raising the bar on excellence (and almost certainly taking up a playoff spot occupied by a long-standing eastern tenant).
If anything, the east should become stronger than it has been in recent seasons with the addition of Detroit and the up-and-coming Columbus Blue Jackets, while the Winnipeg Jets (16th overall in Tuesday's standings) moved to the west.
Depending on one's perspective as an impartial observer or partisan, that was either a steal of a trade or a rude addition. Expect some griping until the NHL rebalances the conferences, ideally with an alignment that includes the Quebec Nordiques.
Prior to Tuesday's games, the west had eight teams with eight or more points in the standings. The east had three: Toronto, Pittsburgh and the newly relocated Red Wings.
Slotting the 30 NHL clubs by points, nine of the top 12 NHL teams were from the west, three from the east.
You get the picture.
The east doesn't truly escape the tough western competition until the early playoff rounds, when east meets east while hoping western opponents pummel each other to provide hope for eastern regions in the Cup final.


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Castell Henllys is something of a paradox. Although the structures on the site are centuries younger than Pembrokeshire's many Norman castles, the site itself is at least 1,000 years older.
The answer? The structures are replica Iron Age roundhouses built in the last 30 years on the foundations of the original circular dwellings of a 2,000 years old hill fort settlement between Newport and Eglwyswrw.
It is unique in that it is the only Iron Age Fort in Britain where replica roundhouses have been built on the original foundations, and it started out as an experimental educational resource, the brainchild of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority. A Scheduled Ancient Monument, the site had been extensively excavated and studied by university archaeologists and students and has become a much-visited living museum for schools throughout Wales and holidaymakers in Pembrokeshire. Visitors can sit in the flickering firelight in the roundhouses, savouring the atmosphere of Stone and Iron Age living in authentic surroundings and listening to tales of Celtic life two millennia ago. The site is owned and managed by the National Park Authority, and, as well as taking a tour of the compound, visitors can browse in the award-winning Education Centre, watch live images from the fort or view a film exploring North Pembrokeshire. Stepping over the threshold of a roundhouse is like being whisked back through time, learning that the occupants of these fascinating pyramid-shaped thatched homes were far more sophisticated and civilised than might be imagined. The woodsmoke curling up from the central fireplace to exit through the hole in the roof is far less intrusive than the smoke you find in houses a thousand years younger in the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans. And the dwellings are much warmer than one would expect.
School trips are constant and the children return with a useful grasp of what life was like in ancient times.
Numerous special events take place at Castell Henllys (It means Old Court Castle). Prehistoric Extravaganza Days are arranged when the crafts and techniques used by our ancestors are demonstrated and there are activities which include storytelling, ancient games and refreshments. Visitors can also enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Karl Lee, one of the only professional flint-knappers in the UK, demonstrating the techniques used by Neolithic man to make their stone tools and weapons, such as arrowheads, spears and hand axes. Booking is essential as Karl is usually only at Castell Henllys for a day at a time in April, May and August. Weaponry and warfare are also demonstrated at certain times by Will Llawerch, showing how our Celtic ancestors survived by their skill in hunting and in battle, while wood-turning on a pole-lathe, felt-making and metalworking can also be seen in progress. During a day at the site visitors have the opportunity to meet some of the Iron Age 'residents' and learn about their everyday lives, their warrior training, hunting and feasting.


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Street Harassment: Compliments vs. Catcalls
Many, many people have said many things about the video, so I won't reiterate all of them. I do want to acknowledge that are problems with race representation, and Slate in particular has run a couple of articles addressing this. Mainly, I want to talk about the biggest themes I've run across when people try to defend the men's behavior in the video: that they are just trying be polite and say hello or that they just wanted to pay her a compliment.
First, many of those "polite" greetings were anything but. Tone and context are very important forms of communication, and we all know the difference between a leering "Good morning" and a friendly or polite one.
Next, as a woman in public, you quickly learn that supposedly polite phrases like "Hello," "Good morning," and "Have a nice day," are often just a first gambit for your attention. As soon as you even glance over in response to a greeting, there's a very good chance the person will then say something gross or threatening. I would rather be friendly and open to meeting new folks, but instead I have to completely close myself off in public to avoid even worse harassment than I get when I'm silent and unresponsive.
Finally, and this is the main thing I want to contribute to the conversation, these men are not complimenting women when they call out to them on the street. Compliments are expressions of admiration and respect. They indicate that you think someone has done something well and you want to commend them for it. They are, essentially, social gifts, and yes, people almost universally like them. I've received actual compliments on the street and been pleased.
Catcalling, however, is not in any way a compliment. When we're being honest, we can all see the difference between someone saying, "Hey, you look really nice today!" and continuing on their way, versus someone looking you up and down, licking their lips, and saying, "Mm, sexyyyyy." The first is a compliment, and the second is an expression not of admiration but of sexual pleasure.
99 times out of 100, when a guy catcalls, what he's doing is verbalizing the pleasure he gets from looking at a woman. This is why it feels gross. It's why these comments feel like they're on a continuum with the guy who masturbates at you in the movie theater or humps your back in a crowded subway car. They are on that continuum. All of these acts involve a person (usually a man) taking pleasure from the body of another person (usually a woman) without their consent.
Gentlemen, although you might not be able to help taking pleasure in the appearance of a beautiful person, there is a difference between feeling pleasure and expressing it. It is even possible to look surreptitiously and respectfully to your heart's content. (I know this from personal experience.) You can have your pleasure and keep it to yourself.
The minute you vocalize it, though, not only are you assuming that this person has to care about (and accommodate or at least allow) your pleasure, you are suggesting to her that, just because she exists in a female body, she has no choice but to provide you with pleasure. This is where power comes in, whether it's conscious or not. It's a reminder that men can take things from a woman that she never wanted to give.
A compliment is a gift, but a catcall is a theft. You are using my body to pleasure yourself without my permission, and then you are rubbing it in my face. That is why it is harassment, and that is why it needs to stop.
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The Urge to Declare, and Changes
I think that urge to write publicly comes most often when I feel like I've figured something out or when I've made a decision. When I feel relatively sure of something, I want to say it to the world.
When I go through periods when I'm feeling less sure, I have much less desire to write. One of the things I've been trying to do in the last couple of years, since I moved to NYC, is embrace a beginner's mindset. I want to be new, to have wonder, to know that I have everything to learn and to exist in that somewhat uncomfortable place of not knowing everything.
It's been much harder to write.
I'm going to graduate school in August, which is the start of a different period in my life. It's one in which I'll have a more specific goal, and in which I hope to construct an identity for myself that encompasses more of who I am. I want to still be a sexual deviant, but I suspect that will fade in importance in favor of being a student, scholar, teacher, friend, romantic, and aspiring mother.
I'm also entering a professional atmosphere where it will be important to keep my students from reading everything about my sex life.
I'm planning to start a new blog. I'm not going to link to it from here, but those of you who know me in real life will be able to find it easily. I'm going to migrate all the posts from this blog which have to do with scholarship, culture, feminism, politics, etc. Then I'll delete them here. I'll leave behind the things about my personal life.
I may still blog here, when I have the irresistible urge to declare myself to the universe. It will be separated, though, from my professional life.
I'm hoping that blogging can become an outlet for the learning I'll be doing, for a voice I might not be able to let loose in academia. I'm hoping it'll be a professional tool for networking and making friends. It may still, on this site, be an outlet for a type of expression that's often taboo. That's been less necessary for a while, and I suspect that will continue.
I appreciate everyone who's read and commented here through my sporadic episodes of writing over the years. I think that's all I have to say, for now.
On Knowing Someone First
There's a person I've met several times at a big kink and sex event. We had mutual friends, one of whom recommended me to him as a play partner. He's something of a big, scary dom and sadist, which appeals to me generally, so when he proposed that we set up a play date I said yes. We talked about the specifics: he suggested using a gas mask, evil stick, cattle prod, and a few other painful things I don't remember the details of. We set the time and place. Then, when that time rolled around, I just didn't feel like it. I basically chickened out, and told him I wasn't up for it.
This happened twice.
Last week, this guy messaged me to suggest that, rather than trying to set up a play date, we plan to get together during the next event to just hang out and talk and/or cuddle and get to know each other. He said he still thought we "might have some heat," but that we might need to get acquainted to really create friction.
I felt so relieved, and then I felt surprised at how strong the relief was. I hadn't realized how uncomfortable I'd been at the thought of playing, particularly as a bottom, with someone I didn't know well or feel generally comfortable with. He's reasonably attractive, yes, and he has a solid reputation. I didn't feel unsafe with him or repulsed by him. Neither, though, did I feel especially attracted to him or comfortable with him. I'd initially decided to play with him because, "why not." I didn't think to ask, "why him."
Now, I do badly want to bottom more. I miss that in my life. I've felt that way for a long time, and yet I still haven't been doing it. I know lots of people who are good tops, who have good reputations and who I think are cool people. What's been missing is that feeling of "I want you."
I've had sex with men before who clearly were more interested in having sex with someone than in having sex with me. This didn't feel good. I've known that for a long time, but I hadn't really applied it to my own behavior.
The reality is that I almost always to some degree want sex and/or BDSM play. At any moment. If I'm on a date with someone new and it's clear that I could have sex with them, the predominant part of me has so far thought, "Well, I like sex. I could have sex with them. Might as well do it." This, I think, has been a repeated mistake. I've had a lot of mediocre (and bad) sex because of it.
I've decided I'm done with that. Sure, I do like sex, but I'm also uncomfortable having it with people I don't know and want for who they are and how they make me feel. I don't need to ignore the latter in service of the former. It's just unnecessary. It's easy enough for me to have sex with my boyfriend or one of my established lovers, anyway.
I guess what this means is I'm becoming a two or three date girl, rather than the usual first date sex seeker I've been forever. It feels weird, like I'm somehow submitting to The Rules, but I think it's better. I'm honoring my feelings and what I actually want, and that's what's important.
Now I work at an awesome sex and BDSM shop. My boss is generous and clearly values me as an employee. My coworkers are great, and I've made lots of good friends here. I get to do buying for the store, and I spend lots of time working to make it better. I have agency and responsibility. As jobs go, it's pretty great.
But it's still retail. It's not my life's passion or magnum opus. It's a high energy service job with random lulls in between activity. While there are no customers in the store I can theoretically work on, say, this blog or my PhD applications or my insurance claims. However, I'll always have to drop whatever it is on a millisecond's notice if a customer walks in. This makes it hard to concentrate on outside projects during my work day, and I'm tired after my week of 40+ hours.
I understand now what it's like to do a job that takes up all your energy, one that distracts from any other job you might want to do. I only do laundry about every 3 or 4 months. My room is often messy. I mostly only read books on the subway, and I've been (very) slow at writing on here. It's been a long time since I performed or did anything which would let me call myself an activist. Do I cook or do the dishes? Nope.
I'm excited now, though, because I'm researching schools where I can get my PhD (in Cultural Studies or American Studies). The prospect of going into a rigorous program and getting to spend the bulk of my attention on something I'm passionate about, something I want to turn into a career, is now very appealing. I'm psyched to take hard classes with lots of reading, and to do big research projects on stuff that fascinates me.
At this point, I don't even want to do any extra curricular stuff. If I get to spend my work time on the work I actually want to do, my free time will actually be free. I'll get to rest, to have fun, and to recharge to keep my main work going. In undergraduate I was really just there to do the next thing and to learn about myself and do a lot of personal growth. The outside activity was good for that, but I wasn't ready for a career or a true work focus. Now I can hardly wait to get to do all those hours of work on something that excites and interests me.
Working full time at regular-joe jobs for a few years has given me that excitement. The relative boredom and energy drain of these jobs has indeed been a distraction, but it's helped me figure out what I want instead. For that, I'm extremely grateful.
That Whole God Thing
When we moved to California we found a slightly less radical church where I served as an altar girl and started studying for my Confirmation. When we got a new, more conservative priest who decided that girls could no longer serve at the altar, it was the last straw for my mother. She already felt that the Catholic church unfairly excluded women. If this church wasn't going to welcome her daughters as full participants, then she wanted no more to do with it.
My whole family left the church when I was 11, and my mom now says she's an atheist.
I know that at some point in my life I was enthusiastic about the idea of religion. I did, after all, hold up that Bible every week at Mass and carry the crucifix around the church for the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday.
Since we stopped going to church, though, and through my upbringing in secular coastal cities, I've grown very uncomfortable with the idea of the divine.
I don't regret at all not being Catholic; I think it's in many ways a screwed up political institution.* My grandfather has been giving me optimistic crucifixes for birthdays and Christmases for years, and I have no compunction in never wearing them. I do miss the presence of some spiritual community, though.
I feel very self conscious about spirituality. I'm drawn to it, particularly to the kinds that embrace women and sex, but I'm also very awkward about the idea of being too New Age or woo-woo or superstitious or whatever. Perhaps I've spent a lot of time around people who judged others for believing in much of anything that couldn't be proven.
I've nonetheless had some very powerful experiences which make me believe in some kind of energetic connection that underlies everything and which we as beings can access. I want to write about those in more depth in future entries, but suffice it to say for now that I feel called to explore.
I'm not necessarily excited about the idea of deities, except as metaphors for particular kinds of divine energy, but there's a lot I can learn. I'd like to consider this post a resolution to give myself permission to go there. I want to not be shy about the pull I feel towards the divine. So I'm coming out as a (novice) spiritual seeker. Here I am, and I'm going somewhere in that direction.
*The Church does a lot of good charitable things, but also a lot of messed up gender and politics things.
Friends Without Benefits
I find it much easier to meet new people through sex and dating than through friendship. Whenever I'm in a new city, the first people I develop new relationships with are people I bang. Sometimes those relationships turn into friendships later (or are just friends with benefits going forward) and that's great. But I have a much harder time pursuing and maintaining friendships without the hang-out motivator of sex.
This means I don't have all that many friends I don't sleep with. If you narrow it to friends I've never even made out with, not to mention people with whom I feel no sexual tension or chemistry, I'm pretty sure that's a number I can count on just one hand. Maybe two.
I would really like to have some of those friendships that aren't about sex at all. I think it's gotten even harder to find since I've been spending most (read: all) off my time in the kink/polyamorous/sex positive community. Sex is a persistent background, even if it's not something I'm having or planning to have with any given person.
Now, this isn't so bad. I have lots of wonderful friends. I just miss the kind of friendship where I could be really intimate with someone, be physically affectionate with them and spend lots of time with them and talk about everything, without having to constantly enforce a boundary that the friendship won't turn sexual. I'd like that boundary to feel a little more natural.
In a lot of the platonic friendships I have now, I feel like not having sex is a line I'm drawing and not something the other person would necessarily choose if I weren't. They might be okay with not fooling around, but they'd also be happy if we did.
I can't quite explain why that's an icky feeling. It's sort of like I'm constantly having to reject people I care about, like I'm constantly being asked for something I don't want to give. Even if the asking is a subtle or sub-conscious, I'm aware of it. I also sometimes start to feel like I'm not valuable except in my sexual attractiveness and skill, which is obviously not much fun.
I would love to have even just one or two friends who are here, in New York City, who are not attracted to me at all. Not one whit. And to whom I am not attracted in the slightest, either.
Perhaps I need to think of this the same way I'd think of dating. It seems normal to me to go on dates and do things one on one when I'm considering a romantic or sexual relationship with someone. I surely can do the same thing, make a point to spend alone time with someone I think I'd like, when I want a sex-free friendship. And maybe do it with someone outside this sex-focused bubble where I spend my time. I guess that's a plan.
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Concord is a town in Merrimack county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1659 and has gone by the following other name/s: Penacock/Rumford. Its parent county/ies is/are Rockingham. For more information, contact the county at 41 Green St., Concord 03301. On the attached map, Concord is shown as 18 in Merrimack.
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The past few weeks in New England has brought us lots of cold temperatures and even some snow. Yet somehow I am thinking about my queue and spring knitting.
Knitting for fall and winter seems like a more natural choice. At some point in early fall we just want to wrap ourselves up in as much wool/alpaca/llama as possible. And we know that even if we start a sweater at that point, we will still have plenty of time to wear the FO.
But spring presents a different challenge for us knitters. If you are like me, you can't bear to not have knitting. But at the same time, I don't want to work with the wool/alpaca/llama that I normally love during the colder months.
Luckily, Class Elite has some great spring/summer yarns, including Sprout, Seedling, Cricket, Firefly, Provence, Sanibel, Soft Linen, Magnolia, Solstice, ClassicSilk and two new yarns Canyon and Mesa.
We are almost ready to share our spring collection with you and I personally can't wait. The collections are full off cardigans, pullovers, shawls, tank tops, tees, and accessories. There is even a dedicated booklet for crochet!
Keep checking back in the next few weeks to see previews of our new booklets and to find out more about our new yarns. In the meantime, think spring!


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BETA site is launched
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"This Is What It's Like To Be Displaced In Syria"
WFP's Abeer Etefa spent a week in Syria, experiencing what it's like to be displaced amid the current conflict. She went to areas controlled by the government and areas controlled by the opposition, seeing how WFP food assistance is helping families cope with an uncertain existence made up of long, cold nights in cramped rooms and fearful days lived out in bullet-ridden homes and streets. This is her account of what she saw. Donate to our operations in Syria


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Create and open the next available file on the camera roll for writing.
#include <camera/camera_api.h>
camera_error_t camera_roll_open_photo(camera_handle_t handle, int *fd, char *filename, int namelen, camera_roll_photo_fmt_t fmt)
- handle
The handle returned by a call to the camera_open() function.
- fd
A pointer to the file descriptor. The pointer that is returned pointers an open photo file on the camera roll.
- filename
A pointer to returned name of the file on the camera roll. Ensure that the array pointed to by filename is at least of size CAMERA_ROLL_NAMELEN.
- namelen
The size of the buffer provided by the caller as the filename. The maximum size is indicated by the value of CAMERA_ROLL_NAMELEN.
- fmt
The image file format to create.
The camera roll is a directory on the device where the camera application saves files. The camera service manages unique filenames on behalf of the user. Use this function to retrieve the next available file from the camera roll. You require CAMERA_MODE_ROLL access mode when you call the camera_open() function to open the camera.
After you successfully call this function, a file is created and opened for writing. To close the file, you must call the camera_roll_close_photo() function.
CAMERA_OK when the function successfully completes, otherwise another camera_error_t value that provides the reason that the call failed.


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First Lady Michelle Obama was in Philadelphia on Wednesday to announce some new "moves" in her "Let's Move!" initiative.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter introduced her to the stage. "It's always an honor to have the First Lady of the United States of America here for this great announcement," said Nutter.
Speaking from the Lenfest Police Athletic Center on N. 10th Street in Hunting Park, Mrs. Obama talked about the progress that's been made since she launched her program in 2010, but says more needs to be done.
The First Lady announced a new step to help more communities leaders join in the fight against childhood obesity. She encouraged elected officials to sign up for Let's Move City, Town, or County.
The leaders who join must commit to five achievable goals for their community. Mrs. Obama said this isn't a "one-size fits all" type of problem, and this new part of the initiative will recognize that every city will have a different approach.
She also praised Mayor Nutter for the progress he's made in Philadelphia-- installing bike lanes, raising food and fitness standards in after school programs and helping hundreds of local corner stores sell healthier food options like fruits and vegetables.
"It takes leaders like all the folks here on this stage, pushing and innovating and bringing people together on behalf of our children," said Obama.
The First Lady's visit coincides with the U.S. Conference of Mayors' annual leadership meeting.
First Lady Talks Childhood Obesity in Philly
Michelle Obama encouraged more community leaders to get involved and sign up for Let's Move, City, Town, or County
First Lady Michelle Obama was in Philadelphia on Wednesday to announce some new "moves" in her "Let's Move!" initiative.


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Christie to Sign Higher Education Merger Bill
8.22.12 9:46am
Bill will include raising Rowan University's status to a research university.
The Associated Press has learned the bill signing will be in New Brunswick, but the governor also plans stops in Newark and Camden - the three cities most affected by the measure.
The bill gives Rutgers University a coveted medical school and elevates Rowan University to a research university.
The legislation paves the way for shifting the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to Rutgers and Rowan.
It also links Rowan and Rutgers-Camden for joint science collaborations, but does not merge the two, which was a deal-breaker for some.
Christie promoted the changes for months before the Democrat-led Legislature agreed.
South Jersey Democratic Party leader George Norcross III added his muscle to the bill.


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California State University, Chico, Concrete Industry Management Program students volunteered for a 10-week summer Field School to evaluate, preserve and repair deteriorated concrete structures at Alcatraz Island, home to the notorious prison. Under the guidance of National Park Service (NPS) Historical Architect Jason Hagin and CalState Chico CIM Director Tanya Wattenburg Komas, the team conferred with the university's College of Engineering faculty, industry experts and NPS staff on near-term work, plus future projects at the San Francisco Bay landmark.
A successful pilot will set the stage for future years of the Field School. The student team has done a tremendous job with the technical, historical, ecological, archaeological, logistical, and a myriad of other concerns that we are dealing with on a daily basis [involving] a National Historic Landmark, says Komas.
The students were housed at a restored officers' barracks in the Marin Headlands on the north side of the bay. The Alcatraz Island stint fulfilled a mandatory internship requirement designed for immersion in a real and practical work place, better preparing candidates for technical and managerial work upon CIM degree completion. The Alcatraz program is funded through a Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy/Cultural Resource Stewardship grant, with additional support from BASF and CIM patrons.


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With B.C.'s formal renunciation of the Northern Gateway proposal on Friday, the option of 'oil by rail' becomes more relevant.
But if anyone thinks diluted bitumen from Alberta is going to cross B.C. in rail cars without a fight, they're mistaken.
Environmentalists have successfully tarred the reputation of pipelines, demonizing both the Northern Gateway proposal and an expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
And they don't favour transport of bitumen by rail either.
"The rail industry should not expect a free ride," Nathan Lemphers, senior policy analyst at the Alberta-based Pembina Institute, warned last week.
He pointed to a letter sent last January to Canadian National CEO Claude Mongeau by opponents of the rail option.
That letter, signed by 15 environmental groups in B.C. plus the Council of Canadians, stated: "Should CN decide to try to move forward with [a pipeline-on-rails proposal], it would face major opposition and risks to the company. We urge you to stop any forward movement with shipping tarsands oil by rail through B.C."
The letter asserts rail transport of diluted bitumen would be a worse option than a pipeline, posing "far greater fatality, injury and environmental risks." (A recent Angus Reid poll puts B.C. opposition to new pipelines at 60 per cent.)
In B.C., rail transport of bitumen — which doesn't require federal environmental review or sanction — would involve crossing salmon-rearing streams.
CN's line runs along part of the Skeena River, and crosses the upper tributaries of both the Fraser and Skeena watersheds.
And, of course, like any transport option — even mule — rail would fuel greenhouse gas emissions by enabling continued oilsands development.
Moving the oil by rail also would enable oil tanker traffic on B.C.'s north coast — anathema to environmentalists.
They also cite noise, poorer air quality and increased waiting times at rail crossings.
Rail's cause hasn't been helped in recent months by oil spills involving five CP rail tank cars near Jansen, Sask., and a CP derailment of oil-carrying railcars near White River in northern Ontario.
Proponents of oil-by-rail insist it's a better choice than pipeline. While more costly, spills generally are smaller, because they're detected quickly and usually involve only a few railcars.
At present, no oilsands product reaches B.C.'s coast by rail — because no port facilities exist to handle the oil.
But CN and CP railways transport four per cent of Western Canada's oil. Their combined loads, according to Pembina figures, are fast increasing — from 17,000 rail cars in 2011 to 83,500 rail cars a year later.
Two proposals are being floated to get Alberta bitumen to tidewater.
• The G Seven Generations Ltd. project, to carry bitumen by electric railway to the TransAlaska pipeline in Delta Junction, Alaska, for shipment through Valdez. The project has received $1.8 million in funding from Alberta's government and has received initial support from First Nations along the route, relieved the oil wouldn't move by tanker along B.C.'s coast.
• A proposal from the Churchill Gateway Development Corp. envisions transport of Alberta crude through Manitoba for export out of Churchill.
Lemphers, at the Pembina Institute, says more study is needed before rail can be seen as "an appropriate option for moving oilsands," especially through B.C.
He notes questions are being raised about whether rail cars and tracks need modification to improve safety. "Rail's time of reckoning may be just around the bend."
But the truth is, that train may have already left the station. Some 100,000 barrels of Canadian oil lately are moving to market by rail daily, helping ease Alberta's 'bitumen bubble'.


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WHAT IS UP WITH RUSSEL NOW ___ TELLING RONNIE SORRY YOU'RE LEAVING AND I GOT DUPPED BY MICHELE?? AS SOON AS HE WON HOH THE FIRST THING OUT OF HIS MOUTH TO JESSIE WAS I WANT RONNIE GONE!!! I have to wonder what the hell will happen at tomorrow's live eviction. WHO KNOWS?!??!?
TL we gotta add the jessie funeral that chima nat and lydia were having last night that has got to be one of the funniest moments of this season, only second to when Braden called kevin a beaner and kevin was whining saying I am not even a mexican
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|Associate Head Coach
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John Abdou was named the associate head coach of the UCSB men's water polo team in January 2011. Abdou came to UCSB after serving as the head men's and women's water polo coach at Bucknell.
Abdou, a 2001 graduate of UC Irvine, spent six years as a member of the Bison men's and women's water polo coaching staffs, serving as an assistant coach, associate head coach, interim head coach and head coach over that span.
In his three years at the helm of the men's program, Abdou helped the Bison to a 47-46 record. Bucknell faced 47 ranked opponents over that span and spent a total of 21 weeks in the national rankings, climbing as high as No. 17. Including his tenure as an assistant coach, the Bison men's program finished in the top five at the Eastern Championship all six years Abdou was associated with the program, including its best finish in 16 years (third) in 2009.
In Fall 2010, Abdou earned his first career Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Southern Division Coach of the Year honor on the men's side after leading the Bison to a second-place finish at the Southern Championships, their best showing since 1993.
On the women's side, Abdou earned a Coach of the Year honors in each of his three years. Bucknell performed admirably during his stint as interim head coach when he led the squad to a program-record 26 victories and a sixth-place showing at the Eastern Championship. Bucknell was nationally ranked for six weeks during the season, climbing as high as No. 19 in the polls, the best ranking in the then decade-long existence of the program.
Abdou continued that momentum over the last two campaigns,
helping the Bison to a combined 35-27 mark over that span and a
2010 Southern Division Championship title, the first in program
history. Since arriving at Bucknell in the summer of 2005, Abdou
helped the Bison women's team post a pair of 20-win campaigns and
accumulate an overall record of 99-63 (.617).
Prior to his stint at Bucknell, Abdou served as the director and head coach of both the men's and women's water polo programs at Burbank High School in Burbank, Calif., from 2001-2005. The area's Girls Water Polo Coach of the Year winner in 2004 and 2005, Abdou took a pair of teams with losing records and transformed them into perennial winners, participating in the league playoffs each of the last three years.
Along with handling the coaching duties at Burbank, Abdou was a
social science teacher. He was voted one of Los Angeles' Most
Inspirational Teachers in 2005 and was chosen to pioneer the
school's first advanced placement course in psychology. He also
handled duties as the advisor for the senior class in 2005.
Abdou has also organized and conducted district tryouts for United States Water Polo as the Wilshire District boys cadet coach. He also worked with United States Water Polo as the C.C. Zone girls' youth assistant coach. Since 2002, Abdou has been part of the coaching staff at the Naval Academy Water Polo Camp.
Abdou got his start in coaching when he was the head assistant boys' water polo coach as his alma mater, Temple City High School in Temple City, Calif., in 1998. As a player at Temple City, Abdou earned all-league and team MVP honors while serving as team captain.
Abdou, who serves the U.S. Water Polo Northeast Zone as a coach in several capacities, played for the U.S. Junior National Team during his freshman year at UC Irvine. He is currently an assistant coach of the U.S. Men's Senior National "B" Team and in the summer of 2011, he served as an assistant coach for the U.S. at the World University Games in China.
He earned his Master's Degree in Education from Bucknell University in May 2012.


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Is it Safe to Breastfeed if I Have the Flu?
I've been having flu-like symptoms lately, and I might have the flu. Is it
safe to continue breastfeeding my baby?
– Stacey
Yes, you can continue to breastfeed your baby, even if you are taking antiviral medicines for flu-like symptoms. A mother's breast milk is custom-made for her baby, providing specific antibodies that babies need to fight infection. So, continuing to breastfeed your baby can actually protect him or her from the infection that your body is fighting.
While you're sick, however, it's important to expose your baby to as few germs as possible. Babies are at higher risk of catching the flu and having health problems from it. So follow flu hygiene precautions, such as washing your hands often, coughing or sneezing into a tissue (and then throwing it away), and limiting close face-to-face contact with your baby. You might consider wearing a facemask during breastfeeding to avoid coughing, sneezing, or breathing directly into your baby's face.
If you're worried about your baby's risk or are too sick to breastfeed, pump your breast milk and have someone who is not sick feed your baby the expressed milk. Also, doctors recommend flu shots during flu season for babies and everyone else 6 months and older.
Contact the doctor if your baby develops any flu-like symptoms.


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UPDATE Sunday: Make that seven. Here's hoping that numbers sticks.
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UPDATE Sunday: Make that seven. Here's hoping that numbers sticks.
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How the Cannabis Wheaton (CBW.v) placement collapsed
The Cannabis Wheaton (CBW.v) scam is falling apart
Word reaches this humble corner of cyberspace that the two brokers who were going to put the book together on the $80m placement for CBW.v have seen reason, looked a little more closely at the company and its assets and...they've walked.
There's no placement. Dead deal. No money being raised. No soup for you, scamsters.
Now, you have to wonder how that Graham guy in Canaccord with his multi-millions of shares is going to do in order to change them into money. Sell on the open market now, Graham?? Hmm..what about you Hugo? Going to rush for the door before Graham, or Sferra and his large chunks?
IKN predicts: CBW will be a fun stock to watch on Monday. Poor retail won't know what hit 'em.
Disclosure: No position whatsoever in CBW.v, not long not short not nothing, never had one and never will.
The Friday OT: Annie Lennox; Don't let it bring you down
And then you get the best last six minutes of any movie ever.
Beautiful song too. Youtube here.
Choose Life. Choose GDXJ rebalance. Choose Macro Tourist.
An informative and fun post on the upcoming GDXJ rebalance and what it's been doing to component stocks over at The Macro Tourist today. Nice graphics too. Click here and enjoy.
The Arubis copper monthly letter for June is out...
A gold chart
Gold will break U$1,300/oz next week.
And if it doesn't, I'll have a really great excuse that makes me sound even smarter.
And why the hell not? Frank Holmes has made a career out of doing exactly this. He's way smarter than you, you're the dumbass who keeps listening to him.
Rye Patch Gold (RPM.v) buries the lede...
...but IKN comes to your rescue. Here's the thing that really matters in its NR today, the one with the cool "Rye Patch Reports Gold Production" headline and the 3,094oz gold poured. It comes right at the bottom of the NR.
Fake news
In The IKN Weekly this weekend
Three facts about Bennett Jones and Cannabis Wheaton (CBW.v)
Primero (PPP) (P.to) and the long dark teatime of the soul
On May 3rd, when reporting its 1q17, we had this from Primero Mining (PPP) (P.to):
"The first quarter of 2017 marked a turning point for Primero," said Mr. Joseph F. Conway, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer.
So, how's that Hopey Changey thing workin' out for y'all?
Sandstorm warrants
Muddy Waters. Kerrisdale. Northern Dynasty. Asanko.
Dalradian (DNA.to) buys the 2% NSR on Curraghinalt...
...for around U$18m worth of stock, according to the seller right here.
It's Odebrecht day
An interesting news release from Cannabis Wheaton (CBW.v) today...
...which includes this passage:
It has come to the company's attention that deliberately false and inaccurate information about the company is being disseminated on-line by or at the direction of parties attempting to discredit the company. The company and its legal advisers are currently investigating the matter and intend to take any steps necessary or appropriate to address the situation. To the extent such parties are ultimately found to be regulated market participants, the company's legal counsel plans to be in contact with the relevant regulator(s) in order to attempt to hold such parties accountable for their actions and to prevent such misinformation from being disseminated in the future by such parties.
UPDATE 2: Hi Bennett Jones! Hi Alan Gardner! Have a great day, spend quality time with your children this weekend.
And a special hello to Steve Mantzouranis of Cannacord. Thanks for the tip-off, man.
*and my stars there's competition
Bloomie: Hedge funds move back into gold
Muddy Waters shorts Asanko (AKG)
"...look at the difference between when AKG was halted in the US VS Canada. If you were a Canadian retail investor trying to sell you stock and didn't have access to the US markets like the institutional investors do, it would kind of suck."
Arizona Silver (AZS.v)
Ask Cannabis Wheaton (CBW.v) about the RCMP investigation...
Catching up with CIBC's coverage of Asanko Gold (AKG) (AKG.to)
"Although concerns may remain, we see limited downside for AKG shares in the near term in light of the recent ~20% decline..."
Eat pineapple in remembrance
Manuel Noriega is dead. RIP.
K92 Mining: Good news for the KNTs on board.
The IKN Weekly, out now
IKN419 has just been sent to subscribers. A good copper producer, another copper producer that's not so good, thoughts on zinc and gold, why Argentina is misunderstood up there. Those and more.