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Meeting Notes 2011 08 23
The 175th Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: Malaclyps
Moderator: Miloh
Introduction and Names
- What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership fees and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
He's Miloh! He got just got back from Germany and is very excited about the Chaos Computer Club and the Chaos Computer Club, and all their radical, incubatory glory. He is smuggling it into this country disguised as a giant suitcase.
He's Sam -- has been coming better part of a year, on the low tech TIP, and wants to learn.
He's Christopher -- been around for a year, hacking on Spacebridge.
He is the strong, silent type.
He's Onno, he is from Germany. He was in the giant suitcase.
He's Evan -- he is thinking about re-starting the Ruby class. He is SUDDENLY IN CHARGE OF THIS.
He's Duncan -- been here a couple of months, working on wallets and python.
He's Will -- he writes code IT NEVER WORKS
He's Leif -- his steganography project is entirely inNocOus.
Hi he's Tom -- he's new here, and just moved to SF. User:Flamsmark
Mike is a technowanderer. He doesn't work on large infrastructure projects. Not a stock clerk. Miloh is the stock clerk.
Sean -- he's into all things tech-related, and yet he is sad because we are late. We will be better next time.
Ed -- Ed is our new SLAAAVE of the STAAATE. He is not a programmer... yet.
William -- just moved to the area, knows about scholarly communication. Danny wants to talk to him.
David -- is a game designer. Working on three video game projects. Code hero, Path of... ermm...
Kris -- makes a habit of coming down when he's in SF, not Toronto. He came by to hammer dents of the water bottle, and now he OWES US.
Jojo -- I am new here. We are here to check out the space, want to start a hacker mom group in Oakland, female space (but with dads). With childcare! OMG THIS SOUNDS SO AWESOME, EVERYONE TALK TO JOJO ABOUT THIS.
Sachi -- part of mom hackers
Kiki -- been here for a single Ruby class, long-time hacking, very comfortable here. Childcare isn't an evening thing.
Danny -- guiltily explains why Ada isn't here, hacking with him.
Kelly -- does a lot of work in the darkroom.
Jason -- (jason (likes (functional (programming)))
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
Short Announcements
Miloh plugs Brewster's Friday lunches at the Internet Archive. Also the home of SF Lan, civic wireless LAN.
New or Stale Events
Ruby hacking has gone to Another Place, but we will be starting a new one it sounds like.
Financial Report
Funds in bank: TK. We are fine. REPEAT FINE.
Membership Binder
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month. Write a check on every open application.
- Anyone up for joining this week (ie have four checks by their name + have two sponsors) should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.
Consensus items
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Items
Kelly explains that the method for moving hiatus members to non-members is tricky, because it has some awkward edge cases. Wanted to put it out there so that people don't get caught unawares.
Leif felt strongly one way, and then changed his mind.
Miloh points out that all groups will have more old members than current members.
Miloh suggests coming up with a definition for next week.
Kelly is going to work on Membership, and will propose new rules at Membership Hiatus.
Miloh is working on a reprap event, has parts for two more repraps and is having fun, Wednesday nights at 5pm
Spacebridge is having another launch this Saturday. Apparently, welding supply stores are the cheapest place for helium this side of the Sun.
End of Meeting
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Put back the membership binder in the black desk.
- Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
- Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
- Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.

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A Democrat wins special congressional election in New York, seen as referendum on Medicare reform.
Decorum breakdown at House hearing.
Santa Fe's only hospital caught dumping illegal medical waste.
Does eating local matter at all?
Crazy video from latest Oklahoma tornado.
High speed chase on the west side.
Top 10 business emails you should never send.
Ridiculous tips for a miserable sex life.
Woman sues airline over her unborn baby's food poisoning.
Coffee price hikes outpaces gas prices.
New research suggests that 4chan users are mostly 9-5ers.
Man attacks woman with a pool noodle over a rotting watermelon shaped like a human head.
Already with the top 10 new species of 2011?
How about one more article on Lost?
Winners of the Best Optical Illusion of the Year contest.
Which state is the sweariest?
Pizza! + Lasagna! = Pizzagna!!
Why don't you have a man like this in your life?
Edwards James Olmos joins the cast of Showtime's Dexter.
VH1 is bringing back Pop Up Video!
Comedienne Lisa Lampanelli talks about her battles with the Westboro Baptist Church.
For guitar nerds only: interview with Eddie Van Halen.


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Amazing scenes on the south coast as DiS once again descends upon the annual beachside band-fest that is The Great Escape. For the third year running we've set up shop in Digital, a rather snazzy club right on the beach; but it's not just the bands playing our stage that we're here to see. Some 200 acts are playing across three days – May 15-17 – and DiS is in town to catch the very cream of this substantial crop.
The Great Escape In Photos special: HERE
Words: Sean Adams, Alex Denney, Mike Diver, Gareth Dobson, Kev Kharas, Raziq Rauf, Luke Turner
Eugene McGuinness seems to suit Brighton's grey-pebble beach, somersaulting throat injecting colour into tales of stunted love and head-numbing woe. Oh, we are but lonely pebbles… the urgency in tracks like 'Monsters Under The Bed' leaves no time for wussy pondering as DrownedinSound's Great Escape lifts off and our venue for the festival, Digital, fills in earnest.
Eugene McGuinness
Sky Larkin, playing their final gig (at Water Margin) before they up sticks to Seattle to record their debut album, show that they've spent 2008 in the musical gym. Now flexing newly gained muscles, they show they've moved from cutesy indie band to searingly brilliant indie-rock band, with newer tracks 'Fossil', 'I' and 'Matador' a complete revelation. When their debut album does finally drop, it's going to be hella exciting. Really.
Johnny Foreigner turn notorious sweatbox Audio into a barely bearable furnace and it seems months of hard touring are beginning to pay off. As No Age are to the noise-pop tradition, the Birmingham trio are to US college rock (as if everyone at college in North America worships Stephen Malkmus): awkward music for awkward people, theirs appeals to those who like their sound skewiff, dive-bombing at a tune before veering wildly off course into neck-rearing riffery. On the eve of their album's release the crowd is rammed right to the front and singing words back - awkward kids, unruly hair and lenses and fashionless garb, point and shout at_ their band like this gig is a happy argument instead of gazing wistfully at streetlights from their bedroom window smoking chair. Sweaty Alexei, as guttural as ever, requests that a silver-haired photographess "get off our stage please_" before launching into another barrage of something awkward. Meanwhile, bassist Kelly - seemingly energised by the feverish reaction in front of her - throws bigger and better shapes by the minute. By the end, she owns.
This summer was always likely to be one in which No Age touched the minds of new converts, forefinger to forehead, like a skate-surf ET risen from noisy dirt. The alien was a vegan too, though the band's wet attack sounds in search of cathartic blood-let, guitarist Randy Randall a bear pawing hooks out of the shimmer like salmon from the air. Teeth are unsnared as Wild Beasts' drum-kit is clubbed into submission at Pressure Point – the twin merits of rock's 'special relationship' no better epitomised than between the two bands, though UK national Hayden Thorpe later worries about the sorry state of his skins. The LA duo thrum and thrash delightfully, but with a strangely gappy venue and very static crowd it takes time for the set to catch fire. Things heat up around the time we have to leave to continue our search and destroying of bands. Disappointing for us, and for them.
Nic Nell, over at Hector's House, cannot be faulted for enthusiasm and drive, but unfortunately right now the songs don't quite match up. Similar to friend and cohort Sportsday Megaphone in the world of the synth-electro one-man bands, he doesn't quite match up to his amis. Certainly not to be discounted, but the path to success may be a long trail to come. Back at Digital, London-flown erudites Fanfarlo run politely through a set of songs that sound ghost-written by the Condons and Ounsworths of the world. There's not a great deal of originality to their sound but they're proficient and occasionally produce moments that'd grace their tutors, crafting indie-pop that hones in on the smaller moments, inducing thoughts that grow into whimsy and grandeur.
Onto Sunset Rubdown at the Pavilion Theatre. If Guillemots had their feet rooted in the Canadian DIY scene rather than the dank flats of old, failed theatrical Queens they might sound something like Sunset Rubdown do in the ten minutes or so DiS spends with them. It's most probably 'Magic vs. Midas' that greets us – guitar and keys pinching at each other like playground flirts, Krug's voice billowing down in a modest gargle. The venue's strangely sparse but by the time we leave the band have found their own theatre.
Meanwhile, we reconvene at the Spiegel Tent for Beach House. We watch from afar so as not to spook the spectres, clad in white and gathering to drink in melancholy from the aching ribs of the living. 'Master of None' drifts with that ache, up into corners of the tent like a lost balloon and we stare up into the top with kid eyes, fuck the dead pets, this is a child-like, earliest experience of loss. Shattered and woozy we drag legs back to the pebbles and sit around smoking.
Closing our gig-going – well, what DiS can recall before the night's festivities take hold – we head to the Unitarian Church. It may not have been built as a teleportal to the Iceland Airwaves festival, but Björk's one-time producer Valgeir Sigurdsson is here on piano, accompanied by bassoon, keys and an incredible violinist. It provides a beautiful excursion to the land of Múm and Sigur Rós. And, for some, the Land of Nod.
We're with food on the promenade when Wild Beasts come straining through the air from the venue next door to Digital. Soundchecking at Audio, the band draw brilliantly bemused looks from children sat with retro bottles of Coke. New album closer 'Cheerio Chaps, Cheerio Goodbye' is offered up first, before what we think is 'Assembly' and know is 'The Devil's Crayon' are tossed out, us taking in half a set that more than makes up for missing last night's performance proper. Even when they're not really trying, Wild Beasts are perhaps the most interesting new band on the Isles.
Gentle Friendly, opening Revenge's excellent Friday bill, take a running leap into their set and sink massively, underestimating the depth of what they're doing as a droning keyboard refuses to do anything other than fail. A connection's loose somewhere so the drone carries for five minutes or so, spurred into life by eager drums. When they get started things are great, albeit in fits and spurts; they lurch through the awesome 'Five Girl Night' before imploding again when the kick drum pedal gives up. Having fought ably for air no-one puts out a hand to drag them the extra metre to the surface, and they leave the stage, promise and expectations expanded though we'll have to wait a bit for the delivery.
At Digital, DiS is transfixed with Cadence Weapon's eyes; shifting laconically in exquisitely drawn frames, they're key to understanding the Canadian MC's considerable charm as a performer, underscoring the warmly self-depreciating tone of his flow which is felt in full force tonight, electro and techno-tinged forays punctuated by some terrific scratching from hirsute DJ accomplice Weezl. Before his set, he tells DiS of his dislike for static, unmoving crowds; impressively, the audience are duly and quickly won over by the enthusiasm expressed on (and off) stage, and a wholehearted foray into some classic hip-hop call-and-response vocal gymnastics.
We Are Scientists
Ahead of doors at DiS's stage, we're at One's To Watch at Audio. We Are Scientists are the band of the weekend when it comes to making a gig feels like an event. Elevated above the outside deck of the venue playing over the seafront_ a la a sun-kissed Beatles, the now-quartet rip through tracks from both their albums gleefully, reminding all assembled both inside and on the street outside that they have a fine canon of songs in the making. They even manage to briefly bring out the much-missed sunshine in the late afternoon, a fitting analogy, all told. Things, naturally, end on a rendition of _'The Great Escape' and it's a smart ending to a very great idea in the first place.
Getting away from all the rinky dinky jangling indie bands isn't as hard as it's been in the past at this year's Great Escape. Case in point: Volks on Friday, where gloaming Texans The Black Angels pack the place out for an appropriate soundtrack to dusk falling over the grey English Channel. Riding a hot desert wind on the back of deep, turbulent bass, The Black Angels (with second album Directions To See A Ghost recently issued, review) are increasingly showing themselves to be more than a sum of their Velvet Underground-indebted parts, and work best when their jet-black skies are rent with the lightning of extra percussion, Alex Maas still patrolling the stage uttering forth his peculiar Jim Morrison-meets-Clinic vocals from some place betwixt a low-brimmed hat and impressive beard.
We're lured back into Digital from the outside's grey murk by the toppling chords of Wire's 'Ex Lion Tamer'. Shaun Hencher, the Bleach-blonde bombshell at the epicentre of Lovvers' explosive grunge shtick, is not a happy bunny. "The bar's for buying drinks at, not standing at," he growls, only a few scattered loons deigning to join him in bounding round the moshpit, opening up space for body slamming showboats, while his band's caustic racket charges down umpteen cul-de-sacs in fine style. We join intermittently, still sore from last night's revelry, but 'No Romantics' and 'Wasted Youth' are irrefutable invites to body bruising, externally and internally, sounding hunched over with tequila and lemonade. Along the seafront at Revenge, DiS soaks up an electro take on Atlas Sound's sonic erasings; it's that that Telepathe remind us of most, somewhat obliquely, though they can be a little too dreamily detached for their own good and could use a stronger pop focus in the long term, especially when technical glitches mean highlight 'Chrome's On It' never gets aired this evening. Strangely alchemical, unique stuff, nonetheless.
One of the tricks to getting around at The Great Escape is to stay central and avoid the venues at the extremities of the route map – therefore avoiding wasting precious band watching time by long treks and also saving your feet. Another handy tip is to not go to the shows with big-ass headliners, because they're going to be full from 6pm as people choose to give up their day's venue-wandering in order to check out their favourite band of the weekend. Therefore heading over to Concorde 2 to watch the much-discussed White Lies proves a classic rookie mistake. The venue, far down the beach, is being headlined by indie funsters The Wombats, guaranteeing that the only way to get in past 6.30pm is if half the crowd come down with dehydration and heat exhaustion (possibly). Duly deterred, DiS heads away, shaking our heads at our foolishness. Off to see bands that aren't popular. HAH. The seven minutes of* Johnny Foreigner *that we subsequently catch – twice in as many nights - more than make up for disappointments elsewhere. (I stupidly pick guitarist/singer Alexei up afterwards and spin him around; my clothes still haven't recovered – Ed)
Rolo Tomassi are,_ of course, superb. Having refined their abilities over the past 12 months, the Sheffield quintet now hold the ability to turn the atmosphere and feel of a room within a second, so well honed their shriek and attack methodology is. It's quite stunning, and even more so when vocalist Eva announces that she will soon be 18 so she can legally play "all the venues we've played already". Right Before launching into a scream of a truly devilish nature. All very, very_ brilliant, despite a few keyboard issues playing havoc with James' contributions to the cacophony.
It can't all be good though; we bundle into Audio to find that Late Of The Pier are attacking their instruments on stage. All the rage in cool kid circles, we are told, and they certainly appear to be rather 'now'. In fact, they're so now that you want to vomit into your own cupped hands and smear it down your front in protest, and then rub up against the wide-eyed kids in the front row, if only to distract them from the horrors in front of their eyes. Team Waterpolo, at Hector's House, are also one of those bands who look now, sound now, and who are possibly only a nano-second away from being tomorrow. Therefore they're about to rip open the universe through a tearing of the space time continuum, and destroy us all. So, before the human race crumbles: let it stop.
Or, if that small critique didn't cut quite close enough to the bone try this: it's hard to imagine a worse concept than Hard -Fi but with their ska-band turned nu-metal-rave - including Linkin Park-style decks!? – Team Waterpolo take some beating for the worst nearly-hyped band of the millennia. We truly can't decide what was worse, the stench of the gents overflowing or the thought of ever hearing this band again.
Team Waterpolo
But we stick at Hector's for the next up, as DiS has a vested interest in Sportsday Megaphone's show - an integral part of the gig is the battered old Mac laptop that some of these words were written on. A last-minute substitute after Sportsday's own goes down with cramp in the warm-up, DiS has a warm fuzzy feel seeing its own flesh and microchips spew out digital beats and snaking baselines while Hugh Frost is as endearingly lo-fi pop candy as always. Due to the size of our ego and our love of the iBook G4, we declare this to be the best gig of the weekend by a country mile.
Ahem… Anyway, one reality check later and we're onto the pier and into Horatio's for Alphabeat. DiS must be honest and say that we have an issue with the Danes: the previous night at Stupid O'clock, three members of said pop mentalists were very, very noisy and rude and annoying on the way back to our shared hotel. They were even more annoying in the lift we're sad to say, and it's on these small-minded things that reviews can be balanced. Sometimes. Fortunately DiS doesn't take to them anyway, or their dullard FM pop. It's not subversive to like these guys, people; it's just silly.
From silliness to something super-sharp, and what makes Crystal Castles (pictured top), at DiS's Digital stage, so razor-edged is the utter contempt they seem to have for rock 'n' roll. It's strange, then, that tonight they should opt to employ a live drummer whose beats more or less bury Ethan's arcade of swirling bleeps. Occasionally they fight their way through to meet the stung voice of Alice Glass, who's busy teetering out over the heads of the front row, confusing security – this is crowd vaulting and jockeying that mashed disco-rejects have never seen before. The entire set is lit by strobes and by the end eyeballs are tired of their constant widening then dimming, as if they've been shown alternate slides of girls from Camber last week, Brighton this. ATP girls 'til death.
Up against Crystal Castles in the never-ending schedule-clash wars are The Mae Shi, who ravage Horatio's in fine style, tossing their party sheet to the wind – well, into the crowd – as Slow Club's Rebecca joins in for a Moshi Moshi love-in during 'Run To Your Grave'. Bouncing at the front, spilling pint in hand, it suddenly smacks DiS in the face that the last few Mae Shi shows we've witnessed have been every bit as fun as our first experiences of Les Savy Fav. Our new favourite party-time rock combo? Quite, quite possibly.
When the evening's over the night takes hold, so it's off to the Barfly for a double-header of Ipso Facto and Black Lips in the small hours. A judicious juggling of passes and smoking cards means that all our noble reviewing party are able to obtain access to the packed, one-in one-out venue. Unfortunately, Brighton's version of the nationwide chain is a music venue where you can't actually hear any, er, music. Long and dank, there's not even a set of speakers to enable those of us of a certain age sitting at the back to enjoy the choice selections of the gramophone technicians. Plus, given that Ipso Facto spend about half an hour before they start playing standing onstage sending stern glances towards the sound man, it's hard to notice where standing around looking cross ends and where a set of clipped, Mitford menace begins; consequently we miss most of the set. What is evident is that Ipso Facto are coming along very nicely in their own ramshackle way, though you can't help but wonder just how boorish Britain outside of London is going to take to their elegant hemlines.
Black Lips
Black Lips deliver an awesome display of how to play to a crowd of ill-gutted reprobates, and pretty much everything offered forth is gold. Cole Alexander is happy just catching his own spit, so imagine how up he must be when he has a throbbing mess of an audience singing his songs back to him. This is the last time they'll be in the UK for a while, apparently, and it's a rambunctious fitting send off for them and the Friday night. (A slight aside: the t-shirt Kev Kharas wore to Black Lips is still sweaty three days later - Ed)
The singer in the wonderfully-named Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds, on stage at Revenge, looks rather like a Maccabee. The rest of the band sound rather like a high-octane Maccabees pumped up on lager, sugar and a Strokes record. They'll do really rather well, probably, their Wire-influenced, gibbering indie-pop possessing a goggle-eyed glee that's hard to dismiss. Nowt out of the ordinary, mind, just... likeable. At Concorde 2, Soko is all Kimya Dawson meets Bright Eyes meets Kimya Dawson meets Daniel Johnston meets Kimya Dawson. She doesn't really rise beyond the comparisons whilst childishly stamping her feet about MTV's lighting.
Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds
An hour or so earlier, at The Barfly, the festival's mandatory rock (hardcore/metal) show is taking place as Canadian party boys Cancer Bats bring their tour to town. Godfathers of Brighton heavy metal, Johnny Truant, and the Radio 1 Rock Show's Dan Carter's punk band Hexes continue their support roles with the addition of fellow Brightonians The Ghost Of A Thousand who whip the crowd into a wild, frothy frenzy with a subtle click of Tom Lacey's fingers and a soupcon of visceral hardcore rock 'n' roll. The relative unknown on this bill is Norwegian lot Sigh & Explode. If you liked The JR (fucking) Ewing then you might want to give these mustachioed maestros a listen.
Telepathe deserve a second chance after their laptop mifirings, and they're given one at Digital, early doors. There are so many ideas crammed into their set that it's difficult to know where to begin. Underpinning the tribal-pop and rhythm of Gang Gang Dance with bulwarks of dubstepping British bass, the trio here tonight craft perhaps too many layers, absorbing dual frontgirls Busy Gangnes and Melissa in their future drift. But there are occasions when it all comes together and tunes make a sudden dart through the haze, conjuring images of glittering cities laid to waste by unknown disaster, tower blocks on fire, Busy and Melissa new-Spector naifs attempting to stay cool in the warming. 'Chrome's On It' flutters into view and the two sound like they spent their younger days casting spells on desired schoolboys.
DiS is probably getting rather old, but Micachu is surely seven years old? We wonder if we could try and slip her into our pocket, purely to see if she'd fit, so diminutive is she as she settles on the stage at Hector's House. Her backing duo also look like they've stepped out of the Young Pixies of Electro-Rock Academy. Almost inevitably, the noise that emanates from the poorly equipped stage is very loud and rather cacophonous. We've been assured that the young lady does have a fine array of kooky electro-pop tunes, so we'll blame it on a shonky PA and hold fire on the judgements.
Cassie & The Cassettes are a box-fresh bunch of twindie-looking young 'uns apparently with grade one certificates coming out of their ears and very clearly in thrall to the music of Belle & Sebastian. "Next!" is the obvious response to that introduction, but the melodies here at Hector's – the outfit follow Micachu – have a stealth and charm suggesting they could do interesting things when they finally cut the apron strings.
Broken Records leave DiS in the cold – we've left our coat at Digital – as they ram Audio; we get in just in time to witness their recently released single 'If The News Makes You Sad…' in the flesh, and it's still a skin-prickling experience even after so many airings in our company. The Edinburgh outfit continue to make friends and influence people in the right places, so expect bigger and bigger things from them as the year progresses. They're clearly very capable of being this island's Arcade Fire; whether or not that's what they want remains to be seen.
Times New Viking play to a packed house at Digital – possibly assembled in expectation of schmindie shenanigans from The Rascals, who fill in for the absent Santogold – but the response is more than enthusiastic, as well it should be: ear-socking noise-pop never sounded this darn wholesome. They follow the most traumatic event of the weekend, which is undoubtedly watching Mathew Sawyer sound all at sea in an indifferent – derisive, even – end-of-pier venue (Horatio's), voice shrinking away to a mouse-being-strangled-at-twenty-paces whimper. Not the fate we'd wished upon this most talented of songwriters, but while on record he never shirks from the seriousness of his art, he might at least have made more attempt at communicating in difficult circumstances.
Later of the pier – at the same bar – and an entirely different prospect are Let's Wrestle; a raucous set bringing such a frenzied response from certain sections in the audience frontman Wes is even coaxed into an improbable guitar solo at the end of their 'theme tune', 'Let's Wrestle'. Men dressed as Elvis or John Travolta occasionally appear from the bar next door during their set. Apparently there's a karaoke competition. Seems strangely appropriate. Beyond Let's Wrestle's slacker clowning there's an undeniable ring of truth about them that suggests they'll be around for a good while yet, and frankly we're looking forward to putting in the necessary QT.
Audio plays host to Friendly Fires, and many are in to see them. After a rather interminable delay, they hit the stage to masses of livewire percussion and streams of minimal guitar stabs from Edd Gibson. Still not the finished article, half the set is engrossing and exciting, but there's still too much flotsam and jetsam in their half hour of funk-fuzz-indie. But they have more ideas and intelligence than most of the bands in Brighton this weekend, so our hopes are with them to fulfil their potential. Said possibilities are rammed home for penultimate track 'Paris', already something of an anthem. When Ed Mac urgently croons "And every night we'll watch the stars / They'll be out for us", you believe that they just might be.
Friendly Fires
Finally, it's off the beaten track with Times New Viking members in tow to find a certain house party featuring a certain Rolo Tomassi. All we see of their set is the occasional hand flung desperately at ground floor windows wet with steam. We hear them, obviously – you know how it rages, their noisy tank. If you don't you should've got here before the police came to bring their set – and the Great Escape – to an appropriate close.
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Q: Most of Windows API functions with string parameters have both ANSI and UNICODE versions (e.g. SetWindowTextA and SetWindowTextW). Which one is faster?
A: Depends on the target Operating System.
- Windows 95/98/Me has no native support for UNICODE. To use UNICODE we have to install and use an intermediate layer (unicows.dll). See Microsoft Layer for Unicode.
So, under Windows 9x, the ANSI version is faster.
- Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7 has support both for UNICODE and ANSI.
But, the lower layer (ntdll.dll) implements only the UNICODE version of functions. At the higher layers (kernel32.dll, user32.dll, etc) which we are currently used and make calls to ntdll, the ANSI version functions have to perform UNICODE-ANSI conversions.
So, under Windows NT platform, the UNICODE version is faster.
- Windows CE has support only for UNICODE. Being an embedded system it's not a good idea to add overhead using intermediate layers just to go back to old ANSI versions.
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I love this week's prompt of 10 things I am looking forward to in May.
- Going to a scrapbook weekend retreat with my friend Marcy. My scrap bag is already packed because we had the Crop for a Cure last weekend. I can't wait to scrap for two days. I'm planning on finish an album project from 2010!
- Getting a haircut.
- Joel starts a new job this month. He took a leap and a risk professionally and it paid off. I'm so very proud of him.
- Joining a bunch of my friends and their husbands for a fundraiser. It's been a long time since we all went out as couples.
- Joel goes on a business trip. This will be the first time he's the one spending a night away. Usually it's me who is out of town.
- Running outside without gloves. And a headband. And sixteen layers.
- Going to the Brimfield Fair with Joel and my mom.
- Getting a new pedicure and finally wearing sandals and flip flops again.
- Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer. I can't wait to get my toes in the sand.
- Eating crunchy food again. I had my wisdom teeth out in early April and recovery has not been easy or fun. My oral surgeon's answers for everything has been "well you are old." and "if you had these out when you were 16 it would have been a lot easier." So I've been eating a lot of mushy, smushy, soft food. I'm so looking forward to a piece of steak and a big ol' salad.
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Howdee all,
As some of you know the new Birdingblogs.com site was having a few issues.
A few of them were solved recently…and the design is being tweaked.
Come on over and check us out.
There are lots of great bloggers..and then there is little ole me..
Did you read my post about what I am doing there?????
I have lots to share..
- A birding Blog from Peru Gunnar Engblom's blog
- BirderNaturalist Rich Hoyer's blog
- Birding Frontiers Martin Garner's blog on identification of birds
- Birding with Kenn and Kim Kenn and Kim Kaufman's blog
- Birds and more, in Delaware and elsewhere Jeff Gordon's blog
- Dawns bloggy blog Dawn Fine's blog
- Discovering Alpine Birds Dale Forbe's photo blog with digiscoping tips
- Shetland Exposure Rebecca Nason's blog
- Skills Bills Tom McKinney's disfunct birding blog
- Szimistyle Birding Posterous Gyorgy Szimuly's blog
- The Life of a Bird Tour Leader Susan Myers defunct blog


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Blizzard Entertainment will be at gamescom 2013, the world's biggest games convention, taking place August 21-25. Join us there for the latest news on our games, great entertainment, and fantastic competitions with great prizes!
We'll be at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany to meet players from across Europe and the world and give everyone a chance to play our latest games. All kinds of entertainment will also be on offer to visitors to the Blizzard booth (B40 in Hall 7): show matches, live music, quizzes, competitions and much more.
You can find out more about this incredible games show, including how to attend, here.
Making a welcome return to gamescom will be our celebrated costume and dance contests. Always wanted to appear on stage as a witch doctor, a pandaren monk, or a Protoss Zealot? Or are you brave enough to show off your goblin, night elf or tauren dance moves? This is your big chance! In the coming days we'll have signups ready so you can reserve your place in the contests, but for now you can already start stitching, welding and practicing.
Head to our newly launched dedicated website for more about Blizzard at gamescom 2013!


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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130529 - http://bit.ly/18xcSUa yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
EFF Makes Formal Objection to #DRM in #HTML5 - http://bit.ly/12j3d2n nice move; sad to see @timberners_lee on the wrong side of this
Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37bn, new book claims - http://bit.ly/Zv0ctR for nothing; imagine it spent on A&E depts...
Reporters Tell Attorney General Eric Holder They Won't Agree To 'Off The Record' Meeting - http://bit.ly/10BDE9v quite right
RT @NeelieKroesEU:"you saved their right to access the open internet, by guaranteeing #netneutrality" - http://bit.ly/18xhiud but how?
EU Clinical trials: clearer rules, better protection - http://bit.ly/16ruKjl looks like progress is being made towards #opendata
Number of ambulances turned away from A&E increases by 24% - http://bit.ly/12jDczM people are probably dying because of this collapse #NHS
New #dataprotection rules at risk, EU watchdog warns - http://bit.ly/Zv30r8 some MEPs betraying their constituents
EU ministers approve crackdown on over-fishing - http://bit.ly/176Uwsz I hope so - we can't go on like this
EU agrees workable deal on fisheries reform to recover fish stocks - http://bit.ly/15kPV27 wow,@GreenpeaceEU approves (v @jonworth)
Imprisoned CIA Torture Whistleblower John Kiriakou Pens "Letter from Loretto" - http://bit.ly/16rBoWN well-written, fascinating
#Baidu announces new version of maps that allows friends 2 chat & share their real-time location - http://tnw.co/10JMSND chinese innovation
Innovators, Public Interest Groups & #OpenAccess Supporters Pull Out Of Talks On EU #Copyright In Protest - http://bit.ly/114xryo
EU citizens demand #transparency and independent science on GMOs - http://bit.ly/114ydvx why we must have #opendata from #EFSA
#Taiwan's #Copyright Proposals Would Combine SOPA With A Dash Of The Great Firewall Of #China - http://bit.ly/140zEAg not good
Sources: no Digital Economy Act copyright warning letters until 2016 at earliest - http://bit.ly/18ykPIP useful update (v @copyrightgirl)
why investor-state dispute resolution could sabotage national health efforts on smoking - http://huff.to/18AZn3m big threat (v @PCGTW)#TPP
Witnesses at US Trade Hearing Offer Opinions (& Warnings) on Intellectual Property in Upcoming Negotiations with EU - http://bit.ly/15lt8Dj
Non-GM demand rocketing in US - http://bit.ly/11CMR2R interesting if confirmed #gmlabelling
China to study joining #TPP - http://bit.ly/119M44x since TPP is anti-#china, that would be surprising, to say the least
EU, Canada's differences over financial services holding up free trade pact: documents - http://bit.ly/13lFzhd grinding on #CETA
Theresa May betrays our values by banning extremists from airwaves - http://bit.ly/11qZcB5 pathetic kneejerk reaction (v @PoliceStateUK)
Massive Growth In Independent Musicians & Singers Over The Past Decade - http://bit.ly/11e1kk5 great analysis
Announcing the Financial #Transparency Coalition - http://bit.ly/12RDGrQ welcome move
#Ubuntu declares bug #1 -- '#Microsoft has a majority market share' -- closed - http://zd.net/19qpKKF what a jester
Latin American Civil Liberties groups urge MEPs to protect #privacy - http://bit.ly/10D2ohN knock-on benefits: just do it #dataprotection
Snooper's charter is threat to Net freedom, web 5 warn May - http://bit.ly/136p8pY kudos to Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo! & Twitter
Computer Scientists Urge Court 2 Block Copyright Claims in Oracle v. Google API Fight - http://bit.ly/12ky4LN (c) for APIs mad (v @webmink)
#CBS Tells Court: No One Could Possibly Read Our Statements 'We Will Sue Aereo' To Mean We Will Sue Aereo - http://bit.ly/12kCQc6 hilarious


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It's no secret that cloud computing is transforming the technology landscape.
The notion of shifting all or part of a company's IT resources to a cloud provider is forcing CTOs around the country to re-examine their IT shops.
Research firm Gartner has taken a look at the market to determine five key trends in the cloud marketplace.
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LOGAN, Utah – Utah State football conducted its seventh annual Ladies Clinic Tuesday evening on Merlin Olsen Field inside Romney Stadium, and the ever-growing event had another capacity turnout with 200 participants.
"I think it is safe to say that all the ladies had a great time; they were excited and our players were excited too," USU head coach Matt Wells said. "I know our players truly enjoy working with the community and especially the participants in this clinic. Having all of these tremendous Aggie fans at this clinic is a great way to start the year."
The clinic, which was sponsored by America First Credit Union, was designed to teach participants football skills, techniques and the ins-and-outs of the game. Participants also had the opportunity to meet the Aggie football coaching staff and selected players, mingling and getting their pictures taken with them.
"We are a huge sponsor of Utah State football and its fun to get involved in the community and see other women from the community participate," said Nicole Cypers, Public Relations Director for America First Credit Union. "The first year we came we could not kick a field goal, so our goal has been to kick a field goal and we did this year. This clinic is a great way to start the football season and get everyone excited for the upcoming year."
Following a fashion show with Aggie Game Day apparel, the participants broke into groups and went through every position drill, from throwing passes at the quarterback station, to running routes at the receivers station, as well as running with a ball and dodging tacklers at the running back station, blocking at the offensive line station, snapping the ball at the center station, shedding blockers and hitting tackling dummies at the defensive line station, hopping over tackling dummies and charging to make a tackle at the linebacker station, doing pass coverage drills at the defensive back station, in addition to kicking field goals and punting at the kicking station. Participants also got to suit up in full gear and Aggie uniforms.
A new feature to the 2013 Ladies Clinic was a tour through Utah State's new strength and conditioning center as participants got to see all the different lifting exercises utilized by USU players, as well as a seminar on nutrition.
Following the stations, all participants, coaches and players gathered for a group photo and closed with raffle drawings, awarding prizes from a variety of items and gift certificates from the numerous Cache Valley business sponsors of the event. In addition to the title sponsor, America First Credit Union, the Utah State Football Ladies Clinic was sponsored by the Cache Valley Mall, Texas Roadhouse, the Logo Shop, Locker 42, Down East, Tony's Grove, Wal-Mart and Your Valet Fine Dry Cleaning.
For USU football ticket information, contact the USU Ticket Office at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, or by phone by calling 1-888-USTATE-1 or (435) 797-0305.
Fans can follow the Aggie football program at twitter.com/USUFootball. Aggie fans can also follow the Utah State athletic program at twitter.com/USUAthletics or on facebook at Utah State University Athletics.


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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
In On The Secret
I stumbled upon a story the other day which is written by the mother of a child with very significant disabilities. Her story put to paper the thoughts that have been tumbling around in my head ever since adopting my daughter, Ashley, over 13 years ago.
Here's a short excerpt:
Not everyone is so nervous around disability, of course. On that same walk with Clemmie one woman asked what condition my daughter had, stroked her hair and told her she was gorgeous. The woman told me she used to work with disabled children. Ahh, now it's clear – she knows what the others don't; she's in on the secret. She knows that the profoundly disabled can change your life and whole world view not through achievement, not by doing, but just by being.
If you want to brighten your day, take a few moments and read the entire article.
7 comments:
- Rebecca said...
Thanks so much for re-posting my article - and indeed for liking it! With huge love to you and the beautiful Ashley. xxx
- September 14, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Deana said...
I loved this! I am going to try to order a couple of copies of the book! Thanks for the link!
- September 14, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- HennHouse said...
Oh, I'm headed over RIGHT NOW. Just this excerpt is profound.
Thank you!
- September 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Deana said...
Also, just saw this and thought of you...
The Anchor Center is a school for blind children. Max was too old to attend when we found it, but we have several friends who go there.
- September 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Rena said...
- September 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Thanks -- I love her insight. I often feel this way about Luke who has autism -- others just don't know what they are missing.
- September 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM
- Azaera said...
That excerpt brought tears to my eyes. Sounds like something I would do. When my little girl I'm working with came into the room for the first time, my first words were "She's beautiful!". And she truly is. I hope people can see my child for how wonderful he really is too.
- September 15, 2010 at 4:35 PM


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Educational Institutions are the abodes of knowledge and the beacon lights of wisdom and enlightenment. "Subh Karman Te Kabhun Na Taron" (Never to stray from the path of righteousness) has been the motto of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women after whose name the College is functioning.
• To provide the best possible education and values to young women to become responsible citizens, to serve humanity and to enhance their quality of life.
• To promote academic excellence by maintaining high teaching standards.
• To impart holistic quality education to girl students, and empower them with knowledge, skill and competence and make them self-reliant, enlightened and socially committed citizens of the country.
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• To inculcate the right value system with special emphasis on spiritual training in an ambience infused with Sikh tenets.
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• To equip the students with sound knowledge and skill set, so that they are able to negotiate the complex, diverse and uncertain demands of a constantly changing society.
• To ensure the holistic growth of the students wherein they attain a confident personality, a concern for environment and respect for social norms with special emphasis on Human Rights and Gender Issues.
• To enable the young minds to develop a deeper level of critical and analytical thinking, to unleash their leadership potential and cultivate an enduring passion to pursue higher education in their relevant fields.


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Having battled each other on the pop charts during the '80s, former teen singing stars Debbie Gibson and Tiffany will duke it out on the small screen.
The two singers will co-star in the Syfy original movie "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gibson will play an animal rights activist who rescues exotic snakes from pet stores and releases them into the Everglades where they grow into gigantic sizes; Tiffany plays a park ranger who helps endangered alligators.
Tiffany previously appeared in this year's movie "Mega Piranha" with Barry Williams (Greg from "The Brady Bunch"); Gibson co-starred in the film "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus" with Lorenzo Lamas from 2009.
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"Only in my dreams have I been able to have a catfight with Debbie Gibson … until now!" Tiffany said in a statement, as reported by The New York Times. "This is soo MEGA cool!"
"I know that pop culture fanatics have been dying for Tiffany and me to collaborate for the past 24 years!" said Gibson "What better way to do it than by battling each other in a campy romp through the Everglades?"
The Hollywood Reporter added that "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" will be in production this month and will air in 2011.
Both singers achieved success on the singles charts in the '80s: Gibson with the hits "Only in My Dreams," "Foolish Beat" and "Shake Your Love;" and Tiffany with "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been."


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The main currency is the Argentian Peso, and some places like hotels accepts dollars.
The most recommended dish from Argentina is "el Asado Argentino" (Argentinian BBQ), renowned for the meat quality. There are also a lot of places with very good quality Italian food, pizzas, and salads.
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How Cisco & The Justice Department Conspired To Try To Destroy One Man's Life For Daring To Sue Cisco
from the shameful deptWhenever we talk about the very serious risks and likely abuses of new laws favored by the entertainment industry -- such as PROTECT IP and the felony streaming bill, S.978, supporters of those bills insist that we're crazy for suggesting that the laws will be abused or that there will be any unintended consequences. We're told, over and over and over again that these laws are designed for and targeted only at the "worst of the worst." They're targeted at "rogue" actors, who must be stopped.
And yet, we've seen all too often how US officials have abused other such laws to attack and protect certain US companies from competition. A whole bunch of you have been sending over this incredibly frightening example of the Justice Department conspiring with Cisco to effectively try to destroy a former exec's life for daring to file an antitrust claim against Cisco, due to Cisco's desire to block competitors from servicing some of its products. Unfortunately, I actually found the version of the story at the Ars Technica link above a bit confusing (and it buries many of the key points). A much better way to understand just what Cisco and some federal prosecutors appear to have done is to read the ruling, embedded below, from a Canadian judge, who explains the whole thing clearly and bashes Cisco and the US Justice Department for its incredible overreach, for no reason other than to try to destroy the life of Peter Adekeye.
Adekeye, born in Nigeria, but a UK citizen, had apparently been a quite successful Cisco exec in both the UK and the US for many years. In 2005, he left Cisco and started a couple of companies himself, including one, Multiven, that offered to help provide maintenance services for various Cisco equipment. Apparently, Cisco tried to force customers into purchasing maintenance contracts only from them by denying third parties, such as Multiven, access to various bug reports and fixes. Because of this, Multiven sued Cisco, claiming antitrust violations. Cisco then countersued, including suing Adekeye directly, claiming that Adekeye had accessed Cisco's internal network illegally over 90 times. Adekeye does not appear to deny accessing Cisco's internal systems, but notes that he was given the login information from a Cisco employee, which he believed meant he was now authorized to use the system. It sounds like he used this access to get some of the info that Cisco had been denying Multiven. As part of its "hardball" litigation strategy, Cisco also sought to get the federal government to file criminal charges against Adekeye based on the exact same issue.
Separate from all of this, Adekeye had been dealing with attempts to get a work visa to be in the US for Multiven. The court ruling documents the incredibly ridiculous bureaucratic nightmare that Adekeye went through over the period of a few years in an attempt to seek proper visas to work in the US. At no time does it appear that Adekeye violated the various visas he did have. In fact, it sounds as though Adekeye bent over backwards (and then some) to always comply with US immigration and visa rules, even when it resulted in absolutely ridiculous circumstances, such as when he wasn't allowed back into the US, even though he'd been granted his H-1B visa. That story is crazy, but tangential to the point here -- though I suggest reading the ruling to get a sense of the ridiculousness of US immigration and visa policy.
In part because he was unable to get back into the US, Adekeye moved to Switzerland where a new Multiven office was opened, and continued his efforts to get his immigration status cleared up. As part of the ongoing legal dispute, Cisco wanted to depose Adekeye. Adekeye applied for permission to enter the US to do that... but was denied, and he was told if he went anyway, it could harm his chances of getting his visa status fixed. And Cisco used this to their advantage:
Notwithstanding this entirely reasonable explanation for his inability to attend a U.S. deposition, Cisco had the unmitigated gall to commence contempt proceedings for the applicant's "failure" to attend a U.S. deposition. It was, of course, unsuccessful, but it speaks volumes for Cisco's duplicity.Eventually, all of the parties agreed to handle the deposition in Vancouver. It was outside the US, but close to Cisco's offices here in Silicon Valley. There was a separate (again tangential) issue involving the belief (which may not have been accurate, apparently) that a US deposition could happen in Canada without having to alert Canadian officials. It was at this deposition hearing in Vancouver on May 19th of last year that things got crazy. Cisco, knowing full well where Adekeye was and why he was in Vancouver -- and that he had tried and failed to get to the US -- apparently told the US Attorneys, who they'd been pushing to file criminal charges, about Adekeye's presence in Vancouver. The Justice Department then filed its criminal charges -- once again totally abusing the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) to make Adekeye's actions sound much worse than they actually were, and had a warrant issued for Adekeye's arrest.
They then sought rather extraordinary efforts from the Canadian government to arrest Adekeye immediately. Part of that, according to the Canadian judge who issued this ruling, appeared to involve a US Attorney leaving out key information, making blatantly false insinuations about other facts, and in some cases, what appears to just be lying:
The affidavit made no mention of the fact that United States immigration authorities had refused the applicant entry to the United States. No mention was made that the applicant had no criminal record. No mention was made that the United States Federal Court had ordered a deposition in Vancouver, presided over by a "special master" at which six or more United States lawyers would be present. No mention was made that the criminal complaint "mirrored" a counterclaim brought by Cisco in the main action in which the applicant was seeking large damages in an antitrust suit.What happened then was somewhat astounding. In the middle of the deposition, RCMP officials walked into the room, interrupted the deposition in progress and arrested Adekeye in the middle of the proceedings. The beginning of this is on videotape. Adekeye, his lawyers, and the "special master" clearly have no idea what's going on, but what's notable is that, while people repeatedly ask for the recording to be turned off, Cisco's lawyers immediately say that the recording should be left on. It appears they knew exactly what was going on and wanted the humiliating arrest on the deposition tape. You can see the video below. As the judge in this ruling notes, the police's actions "could be compared to entering a courtroom and arresting a person during the course of his or her testimony. It is simply not done in a civilized jurisdiction that is bound by the rule of law."
Sinister inferences were suggested, leading to an inference that the applicant would be a flight risk. The affidavit stated that the applicant "is a Nigerian citizen who claims to have citizenship from the United Kingdom", and that he possibly had British citizenship, and that he was in Canada on a Nigerian passport. The latter reference invited an inference he might flee to Nigeria, a country from which extradition was highly unlikely. In fact, U.S. authorities well knew and had a duty to disclose to the issuing judge that the applicant was a citizen of the United Kingdom and possessed a British passport, on which passport he had entered Canada. They also knew and had a duty to disclose that he had been a resident of England, but was currently residing with his wife and child in Switzerland, and that he had travelled from Switzerland to Canada for purposes of the deposition.
And yet, federal officials continued to seek extradition. Even then, months after the arrest, the civil suit between Cisco and Multiven were settled, in a manner that everyone agrees was a "win" for Multiven, with Cisco changing its policy. So the key matter over which this highly questionable criminal charge was brought was settled. And yet, the feds continued to push forward. It was only in May of this year, a year after his arrest, that this new ruling came out and freed Adekeye to leave Canada and go back home.
Honestly, the whole story is really terrifying and makes me depressed to think that my government would do something like this. However, it should seriously call into question whether or not new laws like S.978 and the PROTECT IP Act should be allowed. It seems clear that the Justice Department has no problem using very questionable means to act as the private bullies of certain large companies. It should also call into question some of the recent efforts by other US Attorneys from the Justice Department, such as the efforts in coordination with Homeland Security/ICE to seize domains on questionable evidence, the attempt to extradite Richard O'Dwyer from the UK over very questionable charges and, of course, the recent charges against Aaron Swartz.
All of these cases have key factors in common. They involve what at best should be minor civil issues between private parties in court -- but in which, due to the presence of certain large industry interests, the Justice Department steps in and starts throwing its considerable weight around, including insane possible punishment, all because of dubious and often extremely misleading claims from these private interests. It's possible that the Justice Department officials here are simply incompetent (and honestly, that's an only slightly more comforting idea than the alternative) and unable to realize they're being manipulated by companies seeking to stamp out competition. But it's certainly demonstrating a really horrifying pattern of questionable behavior by the Justice Department and US Attorneys not to focus on real criminal behavior, but to abuse the criminal justice system to take vindictive action against potential competitors for big US industry players.
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Since then, I have done a few kms, in fact over 2,800 kms, and have enjoyed very much doing them (mostly) on the road. It has been very diverse also. I have done a bit of training by myself, have done a few bunch rides and have assisted a couple of friends on their preparations for the Tour de Tablelands (some hard stuff).
And on the road, followed by Sandra's camera.
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Some of those kilometers on the road were in the company of some very talented riders too. In conjunction with V Australia Cycling Team manager, Chris White, and through a workplace initiative, I have started a weekly bunch ride where Virgin Blue and V Australia employees get to meet and ride with some of local elite riders. With a coffee stop after the easy ride, it is all good fun!
That's the present training set up...
The 2009 racing set up is the same.
As I have mentioned previously, I am pretty keen on fixing my old tubes. Manly because I dislike trowing things out, but also because I find it to be a fairly therapeutic activity. Now, I have found and experimented with a simple "fix" and want to share my findings with everyone... It works!!!
... perhaps more suitable for a mtb tyre.
Last week, I received a little package from the USA. It contained a series of cycling specific training DVDs. My first thought was: why do I want those? I am not going to get on the trainer again. But that isn't true. I used the wind trainer, and later the rollers, a lot and found them to be very valuable training tools. Firstly, they are great when we don't have much time or the weather is really bad. Secondly, they are great for specific training sessions as it provides a controlled environment, unlike the roads with traffic lights and cars.
These ones also have bonus Yoga, Pilates and Weight training segments. I have watched a bit of the the DVDs and have done a couple of Yoga sessions. They were very effective. I haven't had the time to do the "rides" on the trainer yet as I've been fairly busy and am about to embark on a little trip to the USA. So, expect a review on the training DVDs soon.
Well, I have been fairly slack with the blog in the last couple of months, as we all know. But, I am happy to start writing again and have been told several times to do so. Here it is! I will finish this post with a picture of Sandra having brunch in the back veranda of our new place. Also, with a picture of Trouble, such a popular figure in the Blogging world...
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Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! After nearly a week with high temperatures in the 30s and 40s a brief warm-up is looming in the forecast. In today's blog we discuss precipitation chances heading into Monday, and also when highs may push 60!
Both days this weekend had something in common...many woke up to snow each day. In both cases it was a light dusting, but still a reminder we have not escaped the grip of winter.
If you slept through the snow which fell Sunday morning between 5-7am, here are the visuals. Tina from Waukesha passed along this photo of a snowy lawn in Waukesha near Catholic Memorial.
The band of snow did not last long, but was intense, producing a brief period of moderate snow. The burst covered I-94 in Waukesha county at 6:17am. Several spinouts and slide offs were reported across the area.
No additional snow is expected through at least Wednesday. The focus now shifts to another chance of rain, and a quick warm-up. Temperatures will have a tough time climbing until we get winds turned to the south, west, or northwest. Any easterly component to the wind blows across the icy Lake Michigan waters.
A change in wind direction is expected late this evening and tonight. A cold front will approach the area, as an advancing warm front sneaks into far southeast Wisconsin. Once winds turn to the south Sunday night temperatures may jump into the 50s.
The WPC surface forecast map below is valid at 1am Monday. Notice our viewing area is sandwiched between the warm front and cold front. The front will also push a band of showers and possibly a few thunderstorms into our area.
The intensity of the rain weakens as it approaches Milwaukee, which means the rain should not add to the flooding concerns in our area. The RPM forecast map below shows the rain showers at 2am. The band of rain is expected to clear by around 4am.
After some morning clouds on Monday, we may be rewarded with a quick warm-up as winds remain west-southwest. If sun breaks during the afternoon a few locations may hit 60 degrees!
The NAM temperature forecast below is valid at 1pm Monday. Notice temperatures in the 50s to near 60. After a week of cold weather, this will feel warm!
Any warm-up will be short-lived as winds turn, and rain enters the forecast by Tuesday or Wednesday. We will keep close tabs on rainfall amounts heading into mid-week.
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"The 2.25 might be my favorite non-dh front tire I've ever had." – Cam Zink
"Turns every trail into hero dirt." – Macky Franklin
Avery relayed a story to us of Team Jamis manager and rider Jason Sager, who after 15 years of being denied on a trail near his home in Utah, cleared the brutally steep and loose climb for the first time ever after putting on a set of Gomas. Sager was so pumped, he called Avery from the top of the climb and shared the good news. Apparently the Goma is good for more than just going downhill.
Available in all three wheel sizes as well as 2.25 and 2.4-inch widths, the Goma can be outfitted on virtually any bike.
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