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Context, context, context — if you really wanted it.
It helps, massively, that over at the Sound of the City Roundtable that's just fired up this week the ever-sharp Tom Ewing has just addressed something core about this album and how it's been received and interpreted. Much more effectively and to the point than I could have done so rather than building up to an equivalent of it, I'll just use his words as a launching point:
The riots are still being picked and wrangled over by Britain's political classes, and this isn't the place to analyse them. But in pop terms there were two immediate impacts. The first was a boost for 2011's most exhausting critical meme — where oh where are the protest songs? The second was to make it even more certain that PJ Harvey's Let England Shake would sweep the UK's end of year polls. If I didn't love the record, I'd be boiling with resentment now as critic after critic fell into line. But it's my favourite album this year too, as much for its command of mood as for its lyrics — the horrible placidness and resignation of "Hanging In The Wire," or the title track's haunted music hall strut. In a year where "atmosphere" was a euphemism for cocooning oneself in production….Harvey's greatest achievement may have been to summon up the dislocating and uncanny with not much more than an autoharp, a skiffle beat and a handful of samples.
Polly Harvey's songs, of course, weren't anti-war, simply about war—or that was the theory, since her collage of voices built up into an indictment anyway. But whatever resonance they had with the year's events was mostly coincidental. The gravity of protest is, I suspect, felt less by musicians than by critics, who are keen to legitimise the artform by fitting it into wider narrative and letting it stand comparison with history.
Tom's spot on as ever as far as I can tell, so I don't want to gild the lily too much when it comes to what's supposed to be a quick series of reflections here instead of engaging in full. Instead I'd like to talk about the other context that was initially acknowledged on release but is now slightly obscured by events, that of PJ Harvey's own background rather than her country's. It's been a long ride now, after all.
Harvey's like John Darnielle, and like others I'll name later in this list, when it comes to how long they've been around recording and releasing music, hitting twenty years still in full flow, far from being someone new and notable, now comfortably settled into a niche. Except, of course, they're not, and that's one big reason why I'm interested. Unlike the Mountain Goats I was pretty much in with Harvey from the get-go thanks to early Melody Maker coverage and the like, and from the first notes of "O My Lover" on Dry I was sold further and everything's followed from there. But the last time I listened to those recordings was a long time ago, similarly with, say, Is This Desire? or Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea or even White Chalk. This isn't a complaint, this is massive, massive praise, and I equate it with the Mountain Goats again — I appreciate but ultimately don't want the past redone again from those artists I most respect, I want the NOW.
Sensing Harvey's progressions and interpretations and changes over the years by means of memory is crucial here — I never really thought of, say, Bowie in comparison to her before this year, or Joni Mitchell if you like or maybe you'd prefer Kate Bush (hell, maybe Prince?). Or of course Captain Beefheart, which she'd appreciate in particular. I've definitely thought of Mark E. Smith before, thanks to her brilliant performance of, appropriately enough, very recent Fall song at the last time I saw her in concert in LA, a tribute to John Peel after his death earlier in the day. These are all slightly burdened by the sense of canon that has settled over their various efforts but there's that sense of a throughline of variety within their spheres, however individual their own paths and however you measure success.
In that regard, it's almost too easy — at least it seemed to me — to realize how much Harvey had been hiding in plain sight all these years now, how each album or collaboration, counting her two albums with John Parish, resists the previous one or reacts to it, finds a new elaboration or path, avoids trapping her in amber. The sheer breadth of that last LA show I mentioned caught my breath; add in the more recent material and it gets even more astonishing. Let England Shake is creative confidence in full flight at its best, and its best is pretty much song for song. It's a considering of what is expected with a sharp laugh and shrug at conventions.
So much for context — the album itself? A key thing should be noted: it's an album that can and does put a smile on one's face, one of sonic satisfaction, of tactile moments throughout, the refracted slow 60s frug crunch of "In the Dark Places," the fox hunt sample on "The Glorious Land." Whether it was the autoharp or the church recording or all that or more, I don't think I've ever heard her more…shoegazey, dare I say, when it comes to sounds that are powerful, serene and yet utterly melancholic at the same time. But there's joy here, which is what makes the black sentiments and bleak humor and feeling of the album so incredibly affecting in turn. "On Battleship Hill" almost starts off like something that could be from a 1930s that wasn't, it makes me think of a tourist Hawaii of the time, something lacking steel guitars but still shimmering and hazy. Then her voice steps into a near silence, high and clean, with the music then rising back along with a male vocal at points, a soft piano descent here and there too. The joy gets lost as the song goes but never quite goes nonetheless, there's a sense of pleasure reached for even as the words "Cruel nature has won again!" are repeated.
That's one example to pick out when Let England Shake overflows with them, a sense of engagement that's not simply moving out of comfort zones but creating new ones, of beds that you can't quite be comfortable in but are still beds, in their own way. Harvey has never not steered away from the idea that music can grip and engage the whole of the self, body, soul, spirit, use the metaphor or concept you prefer. All the talk and all the praise that Let England Shake now receives in particular wouldn't be there, as Tom rightly noted, if there wasn't a reason to feel obsessed by its textures, its melodies, its depths. At this time of the year, "Hanging in the Wire" feels like a carol somehow, singing along when all the lights are gone forever. Even so, the singing continues.


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Good Old OOA, OOD, OOP Techniques are Economically Sound
I was recently asked a general question on OO (object orientation). The question was: "I have a class with some members that I don't need in a particular child class. How do I hide the unneeded features?"
There are a couple of answers, which I will cover in this article. Answers that are about good old straight forward OO techniques!
Stepping down from soap box, let's get started.
Defining the Problem Space
The problem as defined by my questioner is basically how are members of classes hidden in child classes if they are not needed? You have a potpourri of possibilities:
- Without sounding too flippant, one answer is who cares? If you don't need it don't use it. There is an infinite amount of space in the digital world. (It's like the old joke: "how much does a gigabyte weigh?"
- If you didn't like the first option you'll hate this one even more: OO is hard to produce; the members are probably in the wrong class. (I am not kidding here people these are valid answers)
- You can always add a new member with the same signature in the child class and pretty effectively quash that nasty dead weight (see Listing 1). Hiding members is a bit ugly and polymorphism, reflection, and the DirectCast will actually break this approach
- Or a pretty good answer is to use a façade class. A façade is a class that selectively exposes the elements of another class or classes. (The rest of this article focuses on our friend the Façade pattern.)
Listing 1: Hide an existing member in a parent class by stomping on the signature you'd like to block.
Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim o As HideMyMethod = New IWillHideYou() Dim p As IWillHideYou = New IWillHideYou() o.HideMe() p.HideMe() ' Calls shadowing member in HideMyMethod.HideMe called DirectCast(p, HideMyMethod).HideMe() Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module Public Class HideMyMethod Public Sub HideMe() Console.WriteLine("HideMyMethod.HideMe Called") End Sub End Class Public Class IWillHideYou Inherits HideMyMethod Public Sub HideMe() Console.WriteLine("IWillHideYou.HideMe Called") End Sub End Class
In Listing 1 o actually calls the base class method—HideMyMethod.HideMe—even though the instance of o is IWillHideYou. The instance p actually calls the child class method, and even though p should call IWillHideYou.HideMe because of the DirectCast HideMyMethod.HideMe is called. And, of course, with reflection the class consumer could circumvent the shadowing of HideMe done by IWillHideYou. (Note: using the same signature in a child class is called shadowing in VB and the Shadows modifier—as in, Public Shadows Sub HideMe()—will eliminate the warning caused by implicit shadowing.
Using the Façade Pattern to Hide Deadweight or Reduce Complexity
Over time classes can end up with too many members to make them easy to use. The general rule of thumb is that a class should have about a half dozen public members and be responsible for one basic kind of solution. What happens in reality is that junk is added to classes over time and eventually those classes become hard to own and hard to use. The next thing that happens is that someone wants to re-write everything. Aside from the fact that one should generally not re-write everything, rather one should refactor things, re-writing is risky business.
|Caveat: Bad OO can become cumbersome to consume even if you produced it (some time ago).
When code is re-written the likeliest thing to happen is that code that works will be broken. The result is one goes from code that is hard to use and own to code that is just broken. At least with Refactoring code is changed in carefully prescribed ways without changing its observable testable behavior. One such Refactoring is to introduce a façade.
By using a façade you can hide complexity behind the façade making the existing stuff easier to consume while hiding all of the murky complexity. Interestingly enough a façade works with our problem, which is, hiding stuff you don't want to see or use. In Listing 2 another method is added to HideMyMethod. This time a façade is created to expose only the method—the new one—desired.
Listing 2: The façade pattern let's you simplify interfaces by concealing unneeded members.
Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim obj As HideMyMethodFacade = New HideMyMethodFacade() obj.DontHideMe() Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module Public Class HideMyMethod Public Sub HideMe() Console.WriteLine("HideMyMethod.HideMe Called") End Sub Public Sub DontHideMe() Console.WriteLine("I am available") End Sub End Class Public Class HideMyMethodFacade Private obj As HideMyMethod = New HideMyMethod Public Sub DontHideMe() obj.DontHideMe() End Sub End ClassIn Listing 2 HideMyMethod is easier to use because the unneeded methods are hidden behind the HideMyMethodFacade class. The consumer doesn't even have to know HideMyMethod.HideMe exists. By the way WCF services are an implementation of the Façade pattern.
For more on OO design check out my book UML DeMystified from Osborne-McGraw-Hill, check out http://www.dofactory.com, or my blog at http://community.devexpress.com/bloks/paulk.
It is possible to change the exposed public members of a class without breaking the class by using the Façade pattern, which is actually a design pattern and a refactoring. Keep in mind that economic paranoia is no excuse for taking shortcuts or throwing good techniques out the window even though your pointy-headed manager might think so. (I know you aren't taking shortcuts, but someone in the cubicle next to you might be. Tell him or her to quit it.)
I get my ideas for columns from problems I experience or from readers. (I don't generally mention the inspirer unless they provide a good solution.)
About the Author
Paul Kimmel is the VB Today columnist for www.codeguru.com and has written several books on object-oriented programming and .NET. Check out his upcoming book LINQ Unleashed for C# now available on Amazon.com and fine bookstores everywhere. Look for his upcoming book Teach Yourself the ADO.NET Entity Framework in 24 Hours. You may contact him for technology questions at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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What's your defining skill, why and what are your tips?
I don't necessarily mean your class defining skill, I mean what one skill that is related to your character do you do the best?
Before you give me the ones that you are worst at as well, leave that for another day… Like tomorrow.
What about Gnomer?
So what's Gnomeaggedon's "signature" move, why and how have I made it so?
That's a hard question you know, and I won't blame you for balking at providing your own answer. It's much easier to identify your greatest weakness, rather than your greatest strength.
I'm going to roll with polymorph, even though I "cheat" by having a macro to get me over the line.
The "sheep" button is so ingrained in my mind that it just happens. Like in that HoL run the other night where the tank gave me a 1 second warning that he wanted a sheep (deduct lag and that is zero warning).
Or that add that's just seen "over my shoulder".
I see mob, I don't just think sheep, I AM sheep.
Gnomehopper, I am one with my polymorph button/ keybind.
- Macro, macro, macro… Make sure it's a focus macro.
- Polymorph is unidirectional. You don't have to face your target, just point & sheep!
- Sheep duration is affected by your +hit. If your +hit is low, your sheep is more likely to run free.
- If you barely finish a fight, but the sheep is still there, you can just leave it polymorphed until everyone has the mana and health (or battle rez'd) to continue.
- If you know you are going to die make sure the last thing you do is refesh that sheep. Then stay focused and give a 5 second warning before the sheep breaks so your tank can be ready.
- If you are in the Arcane Tree you can PoM Poly for emergency instant lamb chops.
- If you have a focus sheep macro, remember to clear it in PvP after the opponent is gone. You see the focus bit knows he's still (again) alive, thus the last target is still focused, but he might be on a completely different part of the map.
- You can (and usually should) sheep your mates if they are under a mobs "mind control". The only thing to remember is if you need that party member back ASAP, you need a dispeller. If you don't have a dispeller, use a shorter/cancelable CC (note: I am pretty sure your target will remain polymorphed after they return to friendly)
- You need to be up close and personal with your AoE tank if you want to CC, otherwise your tank will break it. So be on your toes, and ready to sheep. If need be, Icelance it 1st (then nova it to allow time for sheep casting) to pull it away from the tank.
- If you let your tank tap your polymorph target before you sheep it, then the tank will get the aggro when the sheep breaks.
- Or, there are a couple of warrior tank skills (probably other tank skills too.. ie: Fairie fire) that allow them to build threat on a polymorphed target without breaking sheep… I just can't remember what they are right now…)
What's your strength, why, and what tips can you give?
Gnomer and Out!
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Coconut Saras
Named for Alice's art director, these Seriously Bitter Sweet treats are chewy nests of coconut containing a dollop of whipped ganache. It's a beautiful contrast between smoothly bitter, and toothsomely sweet. The whole thing is dipped into melted chocolate as the finishing touch.
Excerpted from Seriously Bitter Sweet by Alice Medrich (Artisan Books). Copyright (c) 2013. Photographs by Deborah Jones.
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- Yield:makes 20 to 24 cookies
- 4 large egg whites
- 3 1/2 cups (255 grams) unsweetened dried flaked (not shredded) coconut, also called coconut chips, or 3 cups (9 ounces/255 grams) sweetened shredded coconut
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Generous 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 recipe Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling (ingredients follow)
- 5 ounces (140 grams) 54% to 72% chocolate, coarsely chopped (see Chocolate Note)
- Whipped Chocolate Ganache Filling
- 8 ounces (225 grams) 54% to 58% chocolate, chopped medium-fine (see Chocolate Notes)
- 2 cups heavy cream
To make the macaroons: Combine the egg whites, coconut, sugar, vanilla, and salt in a large stainless steel bowl. Set the bowl in a wide skillet of barely simmering water and stir, scraping the bottom to prevent burning, until the mixture is very hot to the touch and the egg whites have thickened slightly and turned from translucent to opaque, 6 to 7 minutes. Set the batter aside for 30 minutes to let the coconut absorb more of the goop.
Position the racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven, and preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
If you used large flaked coconut, scoop 2 tablespoons of the mixture per cookie—or 1 tablespoon made with finer shredded coconut—about 2 inches apart onto the cookie sheets. Use your finger to make a hollow depression in the center of each cookie so it looks like a little nest. Bake for about 5 minutes, just until the coconut tips begins to color, rotating the pans from top to bottom and from front to back halfway through the baking time to ensure even baking. Lower the temperature to 325°F and bake for 10 to 15 minutes, again rotating the pans from top to bottom and front to back halfway through the baking time, until the cookies are a beautiful cream and gold with deeper brown edges. If the coconut tips are browning too fast, you can lower the heat to 300°F.
Slide the cookies on the parchment onto cooling racks. Cool completely before removing them from the paper. (They can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 4 to 5 days, or frozen for up to 3 months.)
To fill and dip the macaroons: Beat the chilled ganache just until the color lightens and the mixture becomes stiff enough to hold its shape—if you overbeat the ganache, it will have a granular texture. Scrape the ganache into the pastry bag. Pipe a 1-inch-high kiss-shaped mound (about 1 tablespoon of ganache) into each macaroon "nest." Refrigerate until well chilled, at least 1 hour.
Place the chocolate in a medium heatproof bowl set in a wide skillet of barely simmering water. Stir until the chocolate is nearly melted, then remove from the heat and continue to stir until the chocolate is completely smooth. Wipe the moisture from the bottom of the bowl and transfer the chocolate to a very small bowl or cup. If necessary, let the chocolate cool to about 105°F. Hold a macaroon upside down and dip only the ganache kiss into the chocolate. Then turn the macaroon right side up, hold it over the bowl, and use a fork to drizzle a little chocolate around the edges. Set the macaroon on a tray. Repeat until all of the macaroons are dipped. Refrigerate to set the chocolate.
Chocolate Notes
For dipping, you can use the same chocolate you use in the ganache, or any other chocolate. You can use an even higher percentage chocolate than called for, but be sure you taste it first so you know what you are getting into.
To make the ganache, place the chopped chocolate in a medium bowl. Heat the cream in a large heavy saucepan over medium-high heat until it comes to a gentle boil. Immediately pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate is mostly melted. Let stand for 15 to 20 minutes to be sure all of the chocolate particles are completely melted.
Stir the ganache until it looks perfectly smooth and free of unmelted speaks of chocolate. Let cool. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the ganache for at least 6 hours (I usually leave it overnight); it must be very cold or it will curdle when it is whipped. (The ganache can be prepared up to 4 days ahead.)
When you are ready to use the ganache (and not before), whip it until it is stiff enough to hold a nice shape and seems spreadable, but don't overdo. Overwhipped ganache looks granular, so watch it carefully: I usually stop the mixer early and finish the whipping by hand. After whipping, the ganache will firm as it sits (and even more after it is chilled), so spread it immediately. If you accidentally overwhip, or if the ganache becomes too stiff to spread, warm your spatula by rinsing it under hot tap water and wiping it dry as necessary. (The warm spatula rescued me when I overwhipped ganache for three hundred during the Tribute Cake adventure—so don't worry.)
Chocolate Notes
Unlike most ganache, this one is whipped to a light, almost fluffy texture. High-percentage chocolates are superb here, but the ratio of chocolate to cream must be decreased, or the ganache will be too dense. To use a higher-percentage chocolate, adjust the recipe as follows. (At each level the flavor is less sweet but the texture is still light.)
To use 60% to 64% chocolate: Use 7 ounces (200 grams) chocolate and increase the cream to 2¼ cups.
To use 66% to 72% chocolate: Use 6 ounces (170 grams) chocolate, increase the cream to 2 1/4 cups, and add at least 4 teaspoons (17 grams), or up to 3 tablespoons (38 grams), sugar to the cream before heating it. Alter the technique slightly: pour half of the hot cream and sugar over the chocolate first and stir until smooth before adding the rest. (Without added sugar, the flavor of the ganache is a bit flat. The minimal 4 teaspoons sugar lifts and opens up the flavor—the way salt lifts the flavor of savory food—without adding perceptible sweetness. You can taste and adjust the sugar before chilling the ganache.)
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NEON Summer Symposium 201913/14 June 19
NEON's annual Summer Symposium taking place on the 13th and 14th of June at Lancaster University is now opened bookings.
The theme of the Summer Symposium will be "The third age of widening access". We are entering a new era for widening access and participation in higher education. After the focus on access for working class adults gave way in the 2000s and 2010s to one on young people entering higher education (HE), we are now moving to the third age of widening access where access and outcomes share centre stage. But will this new era look any differently from the past?
The conference will look at where we are now in access and participation in HE, where we have been and where we want to go. Can we learn from the experiences of the past 20 years? What does successful outcomes for learners from under-represented backgrounds actually mean? Can we make equitable access more central to the missions of HEIs, schools and employers than it has been in the past?
Bringing together key figures from across the education sector, policymakers and employers with organisations from across sectors committed to social mobility through widening access to HE, thus NEON's seventh Summer Symposium will be the most important event for those working in the field in 2019.
Places are strictly limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. For more details and to book your place, please click here: https://www.educationopportunities.co.uk/events/neon-summer-symposium-2019/
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The search for survivors in a Texas fertilizer facility explosion has so far only recovered bodies: at least 14 people died in the blast, including several volunteer firefighters. In the tight-knit town of West, the community has rallied together to help one another as donations continue to pour in. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
While the death toll from a horrific fertilizer plant explosion was raised to 14 Friday, after two additional bodies were found, investigators later said that the number of people who were still missing had been overblown.
Earlier Friday, Sen. John Cornyn said 60 people were still unaccounted for after one the worst American industrial accidents in recent years. But officials later said that the list of missing people that had been provided was "confusing."
Mayor Tommy Muska said there are "a lot of displaced people," so the list is misleading. Most -- if not all of those missing -- have been found, officials said, adding that they still do not have an accurate count of those who are still missing.
The explosion occurred just before 8 p.m. local time on Wednesday in West, Texas, which is north of Waco. The scene was described by witnesses as looking like a bombing site in a war zone.
Approximately 200 people were injured and three rescue fire trucks were destroyed, Sgt. Jason Reyes Reyes said. Five volunteer firefighters and four emergency services workers are among the dead, officials said.
Reyes said at least 50 homes were damaged when the plant, which sits adjacent to a residential area, exploded.
Rod Aydelotte / AP
A huge blast rocked a small Texas town causing an unknown number of deaths and destroying nearby homes.
He said no residents were being allowed back in the area, and thanked the search and rescue crews for their "professionalism and heroism as they try to bring closure."
It's not known what caused the massive blast. The search-and-rescue effort was nearly completed on Friday, officials said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry had taken a tour of the area and witnessed the aftermath of the explosion.
NBC News' Becky Bratu contributed to this report.
'Our hearts are broken': Texas town grieves in wake of plant blast
Mayor of Texas town rocked by blast: 'We're going to fight back'
Texas fertilizer plant also stored explosive chemical used in Oklahoma City bomb
Helping victims of the huge ammonia explosion in the small Texas town of West brings back hard memories for a veteran Air Force aeromedical evacuation nurse with PTSD.
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Digestive Disorders Health Center
The Basics of Diarrhea
Diarrhea describes bowel movements (stools) that are loose and watery. It is very common and usually not serious. Many people will have diarrhea once or twice each year. It typically lasts two to three days and can be treated with over-the-counter medicines. Others have diarrhea often as part of irritable bowel syndrome or other chronic diseases of the large intestine.
Doctors classify diarrhea as "osmotic," "secretory," or "exudative."
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Osmotic diarrhea means that something in the bowel is drawing water from the body into the bowel. A common example of this is "dietetic candy" or "chewing gum" diarrhea, in which a sugar substitute, such as sorbitol, is not absorbed by the body but draws water from the body into the bowel, resulting in diarrhea.
Secretory diarrhea occurs when the body is releasing water into the bowel when it's not supposed to. Many infections, drugs, and other conditions cause secretory diarrhea.
Exudative diarrhea refers to the presence of blood and pus in the stool. This occurs with inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, and several infections.
What Causes Diarrhea?
The most common cause of diarrhea is a virus that infects the gut. The infection usually lasts for two days and is sometimes called "intestinal flu" or "stomach flu." Diarrhea may also be caused by:
- Infection by bacteria (the cause of most types of food poisoning)
- Infections by other organisms
- Eating foods that upset the digestive system
- Allergies to certain foods
- Medications
- Radiation therapy
- Diseases of the intestines (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis)
- Malabsorption (where the body is unable to adequately absorb certain nutrients from the diet)
- Hyperthyroidism
- Some cancers
- Laxative abuse
- Alcohol abuse
- Digestive tract surgery
- Diabetes
- Competitive running
Diarrhea may also follow constipation, especially for people who have irritable bowel syndrome.
What Are the Symptoms of Diarrhea?
Symptoms of diarrhea can be broken down into uncomplicated (or non-serious) diarrhea and complicated diarrhea. Complicated diarrhea may be a sign of a more serious illness.
Symptoms of uncomplicated diarrhea include:
- Abdominal bloating or cramps
- Thin or loose stools
- Watery stool
- Sense of urgency to have a bowel movement
- Nausea and vomiting
In addition to the symptoms described above, the symptoms of complicated diarrhea include:
- Blood, mucus, or undigested food in the stool
- Weight loss
- Fever
Contact your doctor if you have prolonged diarrhea or a fever that lasts more than 24 hours. Also see your doctor promptly if vomiting prevents you from drinking liquids to replace lost fluids.
How Is Diarrhea Treated?
If you have a mild case of diarrhea, you can just let it run its course, or you can treat it with an over-the-counter medicine. Common brand names include Pepto-Bismol, Imodium A-D, and Kaopectate, which are available as liquids or tablets. Follow the instructions on the package.
In addition, you should drink at least six 8-ounce glasses of fluid per day. Choose fruit juice without pulp, broth, or soda (without caffeine). Chicken broth (without the fat), tea with honey, and sports drinks are also good choices. Instead of drinking liquids with your meals, drink liquids between meals. Drink small amounts of fluids frequently.
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Over a four years period from 2008 to 2011, Corning Inc. was one of 26 companies that managed to avoid paying any American income taxes, even though it earned nearly $3 billion during that time. In fact, according to Citizens For Tax Justice, the company received a $4 million refund from 2008 to 2010. That didn't stop Susan Ford, a senior executive at the company, from telling the House Ways and Means Committee this week that America's high corporate tax rate was putting her company at a disadvantage:
American manufacturers are at a distinct disadvantage to competitors headquartered in other countries. Specifically, foreign manufacturers uniformly face a lower corporate tax rate than U.S. manufacturers, and virtually all operate under territorial systems which encourage investment both abroad and at home.
Ford told the committee that Corning paid an effective tax rate of 36 percent in 2011, but as CTJ notes, she is counting taxes on profits earned overseas that haven't yet been paid and won't be unless the company decides to bring the money back to the United States. Corning's actual tax rate in 2011, according to CTJ's analysis, was actually negative 0.2 percent.
The territorial system Ford testified in favor of would actually encourage the offshoring of profits earned by American companies, thereby reducing the amount they pay in taxes even more. And rather than helping remove a disadvantage that prevents companies from creating jobs, an economic analysis of such a tax system found that it could actually cost the United States as many as 800,000 jobs.
The United States does, indeed, have one of the highest marginal corporate tax rates in the world. In reality, however, few corporations pay it, and the nation's effective tax rate is far lower than the rate in other developed countries.
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* Only instruments newly ordered and shipped from the Getzen Company will include the new Griego Custom mouthpieces. Trombones already in dealer inventory may not include the mouthpieces. It is recommended that retail customers confirm that any Custom Series trombone in question is indeed a new instrument with the Griego mouthpieces and not old stock. Getzen is not responsible for furnishing Griego mouthpieces to players purchasing instruments sold to dealers prior to the introduction of the mouthpieces.


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Whatcom County Public Works is hosting a Self-Guided Bioswale Tour on Saturday, June 8, 9 AM – 12 PM, in the Silver Beach Creek Neighborhood of the Lake Whatcom watershed. Rain or shine. The tour can be attended by bike, foot, or car and is family-friendly.
The tour will include four stations with experts and educators on hand to provide in-depth information through fun, hands-on activities. Discover:
· What a bioswale is and how it works
· Why bioswales are important for Lake Whatcom's health
· What a stream restoration project is
· What you can do to help
Click here to download a tour map. Stations are located off of Britton Road north of the Bellingham city limits.
· Station 1: Lahti Drive Bioswale located on Britton Road just south of Lahti Drive.
· Station 2: Restored stream channel on the West Tributary of Silver Beach Creek located on Hillsdale Road just off of Britton Road.
· Station 3: Brownsville Drive Bioswale located on Brownsville Drive near Brownsville Place.
· Station 4: Silver Beach Creek Bioswale located at the end of Megan Lane off of Hannah Court. Special incentives and refreshments will be provided at Station Four.
This tour is open to everyone and is being held to provide the community with information about what is being done by Whatcom County to improve water quality in Lake Whatcom and how they can help. Contact Cathy Craver at Whatcom County Public Works Stormwater at 715-7450 with questions.
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Lancers Spoil Stampede Home Opener 4-0
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- Industrial-strength goaltending combined with missed opportunities contributed to the Sioux Falls Stampede's 4-0 loss to the Omaha Lancers on Friday night in front of a sell-out crowd of 4,772 at the Sioux Falls Arena.
Omaha scored three of their goals on the power play while the Herd came up empty in four man advantages.
"We didn't come out prepared, and that's basically it," said captain Dennis Kravchenko.
Lancer netminder Cole Bruns stopped all 25 shots thrown at him, earning his third straight shutout to start the season and allowing Omaha (3-0-0) to stymie the previously undefeated Herd (3-1-0). Sioux Falls goalie Arthur Brey allowed 4 goals on 24 Omaha attempts in his first home start of the season. The Stampede had scored 17 goals in the first three games on the road prior to Friday night.
Neither team touched the scoreboard in a fast-paced first period that saw the puck fly from both ends of the ice. The Herd had a prime opening to grab their first home lead of the season with a 5-on-3 advantage for nearly two minutes midway through the first, but struggled getting the puck on the net.
"That was a key part of the game," said head coach Cary Eades. "You need to score on those opportunities. You get possession, you get set up and you execute some plays."
Omaha finally snapped the tie at 10:31 when Lancer forward Tyler Vesel picked up a rebound in front of Brey and quickly dumped it past the sprawling goaltender. Another chance presented itself to the Herd with 3:32 to go in the second with another power play but once again it would go ignored thanks to the stellar netminding of Bruns.
"He's a good goalie, you have to give him credit," said Kravchenko. "We just didn't bury our chances and we didn't bury our rebounds."
The Lancers doubled their lead to 2-0 after a rocket shot from defenseman Jimmy Schuldt, brother of Herd player Joe Schuldt. Two more power play tallies from Vesel and Luca Frigo, respectively, would all but seal the deal for Omaha, allowing Bruns and the team from Nebraska to coast to victory over their confrence rival.
"We're not going to score five or six every night," said Eades. "You get a game like today and it comes down to a lot of little things."
Sioux Falls will hit the road Saturday to face the Sioux City Musketeers at the Tyson Events Center. Game time is 7:05 PM.
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MEMA urging people to clear roofs of snow ahead of storm
Storm expected to dump heavy, wet snow on area
The Maine Emergency Management Agency is urging people to get the snow off their roofs ahead of Wednesday's storm.
Some areas could see up to a foot of heavy wet snow from the storm, which will last into Thursday
One foot of wet or compacted snow can weigh as much as 20 pounds per square foot, according to MEMA.
"It's a very good idea to get out the roof rake and clear off as much of snow as you can before the next storm. And don't forget the barn, especially livestock barns," said MEMA director Rob McAleer.
Flat roofs should be shoveled clear, but only if the roof is safe to stand upon, according to officials.
"Think how heavy a scoop of wet or compacted snow feels when you are shoveling it, then imagine that weight all over your roof," said McAleer.
He also said you should make sure that all heating vents are clear of snow, and oil tanks are protected from snow and ice falling from the roof.
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Police say a gunman is dead after a barricade situation in eastern Pennsylvania.
Investigators say the ordeal began around 7:30 p.m. at the Dick's Sporting Goods store. A middle-aged man walked into the store and asked to see a shotgun as well as ammunition, according to investigators. As the clerk was about to hand the man the gun, the man allegedly pulled out a handgun, pointed it at the clerk and told him to unlock the shotgun. Police say the man then took the shotgun as well as ammo and then barricaded himself inside the store's bathroom.
The entire store as well as neighboring businesses were evacuated.
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"Swat team rolled in," said Mike Elwell, a customer who was inside the store. "We've been here for awhile now but it's crazy. We watched them put together their full suits. They've got guns and everything. They're locked and loaded."
Shortly before midnight, police announced that the gunman shot and killed himself. They have not yet revealed the man's identity or the weapon he used to shoot himself.


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First of all, its been a year since my Uncle passed away in 2010. I want to say thank you for all the support that geocachingme.org members gave me during that difficult time. I also want to remind you that the last thing he heard, before he passed, was the message from one of the groups members asking me to tell him that Me Geocachers thanked him for his service. My cousin whispered in his ear that she had a message from his favorite neice, Sue, and her Geocacher friends wanted him to know that they really appreciated all he did for the country and thanked him for his service. He smiled and let go!
You may remember that he never got to return to HI in non war times and always regretted that, so thats where the coin's mission state says to direct it. Instead, my parrot Syd's TB, which is supposed to be going to Brazil, has been in HI for 2 months and my Unc got stuck in a swamp in NJ (strangely enough, right near where he lived for years!) for the past 4 months. I contacted http://www.tb-rescue.com/ just last night, and also my 'god son' who lives in NJ. He was going to go right out there (and I don't think he even owns a gps, but he met my Uncle!) and find that cache and coin! But immediately, one local cacher volunteered and another cacher, with only 5 previous finds went out and got it already!!!!! Its good to have Unc accounted for and back on his mission. I really miss him and think of hime often, but also think of you guys and the support you gave and that your message seemed to be what allowed him to let go. TY and Happy New Year. Dufzor (Sue)


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Dell has upgraded its 'take the rough'n'tumble' Latitude 2100 netbook, upping the machine's model number to 2110 and giving it a top-of-the-range Atom CPU.
The processor in question is the 1.83GHz N470, and it's accompanied by 1GB of 800MHz DDR 2 memory and either a 16GB SSD or a 160GB HDD, depending on which model you pick.
Dell's Latitude 2100: now with Atom N470
In each version, the 10in, 1024 x 600 display - a touchscreen if you're buying for a school - is driven by the CPU's on-board GPU, the GMA 3150. 802.11n Wi-Fi is part of the package, but there's a choice of OS: Linux, Windows XP, Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Starter.
The 2110 has appeared on Dell's US website, but it has yet to pop up over here. US prices start at $389 (£259), but there's no word yet on transatlantic pricing. ®
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Police may have had the chance to nab the Pennsylvania gunman who shot up a women's aerobics class, days before the shooting spree took place.
Police from the Port Authority of Allegheny County interrogated 48-year-old George Sodini, after a woman reportedly saw a man toying with what appeared to be a hand grenade on a city bus. Police tracing the bus route stopped, searched, photographed and interrogated Sodini, but let him go after the woman who reported the incident said she wasn't positive they got the right guy.
Turns out, they did. Investigators who searched Sodini's house after he killed three women and himself at an L.A. Fitness August 4, found writings, penned by the killer, recounting the incident.
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The deputy chief coroner who presided over Robin Williams' autopsy has defended his decision to go public with details about the star's death following a backlash from critics.
The 63-year-old Oscar winner was found dead after he hanged himself in his home in Marin County, California on Monday.
Sheriff's Office Deputy Chief Coroner Keith Boyd gave a press conference on Tuesday to give details about the circumstances surrounding the actor's death, revealing Williams' personal assistant discovered the body.
Boyd also confirmed the Mrs. Doubtfire star had hanged himself with a belt, and that a number of cuts had been found on his left wrist.
Following the press conference, which was shown on TV and streamed online, many fans criticised Boyd for releasing such specific details about the tragedy.
However, Boyd has now defended his decision in a statement which reads: "The Sheriff's Office understands how the release of the kind of information you heard… may be viewed as disturbing by some, and as unnecessary by others, but under California law, all that information is considered 'public information' and we are precluded from denying access to it. These kinds of cases, whether they garner national attention or not, are very difficult for everyone involved.
"Frankly, it would have been our personal preference to withhold a lot of what we disclosed to the press… but the California Public Records Act does not give us that kind of latitude. For the same reasons, we will likely be required to release to the media the 911 phone call we received from Mr. Williams' residence and the fire dispatch tapes that resulted as well…"
A private memorial is currently being planned for Williams by his wife Susan Schneider, according to E! News.


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A nurse and a U.S. Marine claim San Diego Mayor Bob Filner abused his elected office when he asked for a date in exchange for helping a wounded veteran solve a problem with Veterans Affairs.
Special Section: Mayor Under Fire
Vocational nurse Michelle Tyler and U.S. Marine Katherine Ragazzino spoke Tuesday about a meeting with Filner in which the mayor implied that he would help solve Ragazzino's issue with the VA only if Tyler agreed to attend a public event with him or have dinner with him.
Ragazzino suffered a traumatic brain injury and PTSD while serving in Iraq.
The two women were meeting with Filner as a follow up to a previous meeting with then-Congressman Bob Filner two years ago.
In the mayor's office, Filner allegedly asked Ragazzino to leave the meeting and then began giving compliments to Tyler.
Tyler described a conversation with Filner where he asked if she were single and then asked her to meet with him on a personal basis.
"It was extremely disturbing to me that he made it very clear that his expectation was that his help for Katherine depended on my willingness to go to dinner with him, spend personal time with him and be seen in public with him, " Tyler said.
"I felt that his rubbing my arm and telling me help for Katherine was contingent on my going out with him was extremely inappropriate and unacceptable," Tyler said.
"I was not there looking for a date."
The women and their attorney Gloria Allred said they have sent a letter to San Diego's City Attorney Jan Goldsmith asking for an investigation into the mayor's behavior.
The women will be speaking with San Diego County Sheriff's Department investigators Tuesday afternoon at the state Attorney General's Office downtown, Allred said.
"I don't appreciate being used as a bargaining chip to fulfill his sexual desires," Ragazzino said wiping away tears.
"I hope that Mayor Filner will never have the opportunity or be in the position to do what he did to Michelle or to any other person again," Ragazzino said.
Allred has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the City of San Diego and Mayor Filner but said Tyler and Ragazzino would not be filing a lawsuit.
Mayor Filner has nearly a dozen accusers to date, but only one – Filner's former communications director Irene McCormack Jackson - has filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment.
The San Diego Sheriff's Department and State Attorney General's Office requested a meeting with Allred and McCormack Jackson Monday to determine whether her complaint reaches the level of a criminal act.
McCormack Jackson accuses Mayor Filner of, among other things, grabbing her in the so-called "Filner Headlock," trying to to kiss her and suggesting she might do a better job if she came to work without panties.
McCormack Jackson was questioned on the same day her former boss was scheduled to enter a two-week behavioral therapy treatment center. The mayor's office has not disclosed the location of the center or the behavior or disorder for which the mayor is seeking treatment.
"He can run he can hide if that is what he is doing but the day of judgment the day of justice is coming," Allred said.
"A resolution is, he needs to resign as soon as possible," she said.
The mayor is scheduled to be deposed by the City Attorney's Office on Friday.
"I don't know if he'll be there or not to put it in plain English," Allred said.
She said the deposition may be continued. If not, Filner will have to either give a sworn statement or plead the Fifth.
Allred then sent the complaint to the San Diego City Attorney so he could further investigate.
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith sent a copy of Tyler's complaint to the U.S. Attorney's office for its consideration.
Goldsmith said Allred worded the complaint to sound like Mayor Bob Filner was offering his political influence for sex.
Goldsmith said it will be part of the investigation but it could possibly amount to state or federal charges. He said it could be a violation of the Hobbs Act, which is often used by federal prosecutors to convict politicians that use their office to gain favors or gifts.
"You take an oath of office there are federal and state laws that say you cannot have a quid pro quo," said Goldsmith.
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Nine other women have come forward alleging the mayor made unwanted sexual advances. Among the Filner accusers are a university dean, a school psychologist, a retired Navy admiral and a community college administrator.


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I just became aware of the Policies MELIBEA site via an email asking me to check/confirm the details they've got for Leicester's institutional open access mandate (publication policy). In colour and style the site very clearly aims to capture the SHERPA/RoMEO look, whereas its function is closer to ROARMAP; all be it providing a clearer overview of the details of each institution's policy.
It's an interesting development, although for those of us with mandates in place already I'm not immediately seeing a major use for it. On the other hand were I to be at an institution planning a mandate, then I could see this would be a really handy tool to pick up what elements to make sure we included.


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So Steve Ballmer leaves Microsoft within the next year, and his epitaphs are already being cooked-up by many commentators.
Most are lukewarm at best.
I had the privilege to share a platform with Steve at a conference in the late 90's. He was presenting Microsoft's collaboration technologies at a groupware (remember that term?) event.
Unfortunately, whoever prepared the laptop for their CEO's presentation forgot to plug in the power supply. 10 minutes from the end of the presentation, there was an awkward moment when the "5% power remaining" message rudely appeared on the screen and a frantic Microsoft employee materialised at the foot of the podium asking to plug in the cable. He was waved dismissively away by Steve, who declared to the audience that it would be a good test of the battery life. The audience stopped paying attention to the content of the presentation, and started wondering with increasingly bated breath whether the battery would make it to the end.
Happily, it lasted the distance.
I'm not so sure what happened to that Microsoft employee though.
Steve kindly provided a written endorsement for "Learning to Fly" which, at the time, was a bit of a coup for Geoff and me. However, reading the more recent articles about the culture of competition in Microsoft, I'm wondering whether he made it as far as the chapter on creating the right cultural environment for knowledge-sharing.
This week, the Washington Post carries an interesting article describing how Microsoft's stack-ranking damaged collaboration:
while forced rankings can boost employee performance immediately after the system is introduced, the gains fall over time, with people more focused on competing with each other than collaborating.
Slate.com revisited the fable of the two men running away from a bear. One stops to put on running shoes; the other says, don't be crazy – you can't run faster than a bear. He retorts, I don't need to – I just need to run faster than you.
So while Google was encouraging its employees to spend 20 percent of their time developing ideas that excited them personally, Ballmer was inadvertently encouraging his to spend a good chunk of their time playing office politics. Why try to outrun the bear when you can just tie your co-workers' shoelaces?
There were even cases of the most able engineers not wanting to be placed on projects with other high-calibre staff because they knew that they would be force-ranked against them at the year end.
Google's "grouplets" aren't the only knowledge-sharing contrast to Microsoft. BP's T-shaped Management approach (80% of your time should be spent on your objectives, 20% collaborating and sharing to support someone else's objectives) was well documented in a much-read HBR article "T-Shaped Managers, Knowledge Management's Next Generation."
My favourite current example is Schlumberger's approach to professional development which requires technical staff pursuing recognition as principals or fellows (the two highest positions on the technical career ladder) to have led a community of practice, to which they are democratically elected by members of that community. As a result, knowledge-sharing and collaborative behaviours directly influence technical promotion. You can't be individually brilliant and make it to the top – you have to also be socially and behaviourally mature.
All of this feels like a thousand miles from forced ranking bell curves, and it reminds me of the importance of KM partnering with and influencing HR and Talent Management – something which is still relatively unusual.
Let's hope that Steve Ballmer's successor sees the connection between performance management and knowledge management, and executes a stack (ranking) dump!


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'Appalled' NYC principal orders sensitivity training over 4th-graders' slavery-math questions
NEW YORK – A New York City principal says she's "appalled" by a homework assignment that used scenarios about killing and whipping slaves to teach math.
The Daily News (http://nydn.us/YfTNgU ) says Principal Adele Schroeter has ordered sensitivity training for the entire staff of Public School 59 in Manhattan.
Education officials say a teacher asked fourth-graders to write homework questions that blended math and social studies. The teacher then used the students' questions, including the slave-related ones, as homework for the class.
One question stated the number of slaves who died while taking over a ship. It asked how many slaves were still alive. The other said a slave was whipped five times a day and asked students to calculate how many times a month he was whipped.
Information from: Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com


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Lawmakers are a little worried about Google Glass, Google's wearable computer that allows users to take photos and video from a device that looks like a pair of eyeglasses, because Google can't ensure passersby won't be videotaped or photographed without permission.
Legislators wanted more information on data collection and protection from Google, according to the Washington Post, but they didn't really receive it. The House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus wanted more information but so far Google has said it will mull over the feedback rather than change its privacy policy.
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Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), co-chairman of the caucus, wanted boundaries created and that data collection by Google should be limited. "There does not appear to me to be strong privacy protections for the population at large, or even ownership protection for the user of the Google Glass product," Barton told the Post.
Google indicated that Google Glass operated on a vocal or physical cue as well as the headset glowing while in use. This is supposed to make everyone aware they are possibly being filmed or photographed. Luckily Google has no plans to create a database of people's faces for facial-recognition software.
"We're at a point where the technology is outstripping the common-sense ability to protect people's basic privacy rights," Barton said.
Lawmakers have also been busy writing up laws to ban Google Glass from cars as a safety hazard. Think about a person driving and using Google Glass at the same time -- do you trust that his or her eyes and mind are on the road? West Virginia doesn't have a lot of faith drivers will pay attention.
All this got a little more complicated when a Google Glass app for electric car company Tesla was launched Tuesday. GlassTesla purports to give users control over various car functions, such as checking battery charge, controlling the interior temperature or honking its horn. Automating the car isn't new, and for many, a simply app may not do it. Ford is working hard on EVOS, its cloud-connected car wired to give data aplenty to drivers. However, it took Steve Wozniak to ask where all the data mined from car users was going and if it will be protected, such as where you drove, what speed and even what songs you may have listened to while driving.
We think people should be pondering their privacy instead of unquestioningly succumbing to a new technology.


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Calling all developers! Do you want to create, distribute and monetize your apps across the newest devices hitting the market? Well, look no further than the "Sony Tablet" devices! Today, Adobe and Sony announced the Adobe AIR App Challenge, Sponsored by Sony. We want to get some great AIR apps on Android Market optimized for the two "Sony Tablet" models coming out this fall!
Sony will be releasing two tablets with an innovative look and feel. The Sony Tablet S1 (codename) is optimized for rich media entertainment and the Sony Tablet S2 (codename) is ideal for mobile communication and entertainment. Both will tap into Android Market and allow consumers to take advantage of the nearly 4,000 AIR apps and dozens of digital publications already available. Check out the sleek designs of Sony's new tablets!
With the latest tools like Flash Professional CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 at your disposal, creating powerful cross-platform AIR apps has never been easier. Submit your AIR apps for the App Challenge and you could win $200,000 in total cash prizes plus premium promotion on "Sony Tablet" devices. The contest will give developers selected as Finalists pre-release access to "Sony Tablet" prototypes along with the latest version of Adobe tools and AIR. The categories for the App Challenge include Entertainment, Lifestyle & Community, Games, Business & Productivity, and Innovation. Only 80 Finalist slots are available, so submit your apps today and no later than Oct. 10!
Additionally, Sony is a platinum sponsor for Adobe MAX, Adobe's annual conference kicking off in LA on Oct. 1. If you submit working versions of your apps by Sept. 16, they could be selected as a MAX Showcase App and you could win a full conference pass, paid travel to MAX (Oct. 1-5) and additional prizes! Final app submissions are due and must be available on Android Market by Nov. 11.
Visit the Adobe AIR App Challenge site for details and deadlines. Please note that due to the need for early access to pre-release prototypes, the contest is only open to submissions from the US, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and the UK. We look forward to seeing the innovative application experiences you bring to Sony's new tablets!


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grrrrrrrrrrr!!! Why didn't I see this thread before!
I downloaded and burnt both i386 and 64bit version and wondered WHY my iBook G4 would not boot CD. I am SUCH a noob!!!
Thanks so much for this thread!
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For a distro that sells itself on user friendliness there is a lot of detective work required for older Mac users to find out that it even exists for our machines.
In addition to that the official Ubuntu pages should have the mentioned links to the various community distros, there should be some information as well as to when the daily builds of the community versions have been brought on par (technically speaking) with the release candidates of the i386 and amd64 kind ("tribes" or whatever these major steps are being called by Canonical).
"Tribe releases are not available for PowerPC, the the daily produced on the day of the Tribe release is effectively the same."
Please note, in addition to Ubuntu proper featuring Gnome, there are current Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc. versions available in the /ports section of most Ubuntu mirrors as well, and not just for PowerPC but for the Playstation PS3 hardware architecture, too, and each of them in a daily live (Live CD) and a daily (Alternate install CD) flavour.
Some of the mentioned varieties, if not all, are available for the Sun SPARC architecture as well.
I have very successfully done 6.10 -> 7.04 upgrades under PPC. The only thing for me is that Linux for PPC doesn't get the love that Linux for x86 does, and this really limits it's usefulness for me. I hate to say it, but particularly for workstation use, Mac OS X is actually the superior choice, even though I would in truth prefer to run FSF/OSS softwre exclusively.
Such is life...
Have you ever found something in the second-to-last place you looked?
If it seems like I am ignoring you, perhaps I am.
world:~ mike$ rm -f /earth/united_states/washington/redmond/M$ █
Gutsy is now available for Power PC Macs (and the Sony PS3?) at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/gutsy/release/
Credit: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Looki..._the_Sony_PS3/
Last edited by Deacon Nikolai; October 18th, 2007 at 01:37 PM. Reason: Giving credit to http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Looking_for_Ubuntu_7_10_Gutsy_Gibbon_for_PPC_Macs_IBMs_and_the_Sony_PS3/blog
my problem is that the xubuntu powerpc download done via the torrent - all 600mb - does not have a site where i can check the md5sum. when burnt to disk the damn thing does not boot or anything like that.
seems that i have wasted my time and bandwidth!!
any ideas
Just wondering if Gutsy has fixed the Nautilus bug. I have ubuntu feisty installed on my imac g3 and everything works but Nautilus. Is it a good time to upgrade? Or are people still screaming at nautilus?
I don't know if this will work for other people but just thought I'd share in case it does.


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With beta, release, PTR, drive failures, SSD purchases and "drive is full" errors, I moved my 20GB SC2 install around quite a few times.
C:\Program Files\StarCraft II 2012 Beta\ to G:\StarCraft II 2012 Beta\
Then to G:\StarCraft II\
Then to S:\Program Files\StarCraft II PTR\ and G:\StarCraft II\ at the same time.
Now, finally it's at C:\Program Files\StarCraft II\
Sometimes I moved it by way of a reinstall, sometimes via cut and paste or drive mirroring. And with the PTR I even ended up having it installed twice at separate locations.
During all these moves my file associations became fractured:
• The starcraft:// URL protocol handler was not updated since the move to S:\
• SC2Replays still look for the ancient StarCraft II.exe on G:\, even though we have been using Support\SC2Switcher.exe to launch the game (and replays) for years now.
• SC2Maps work fine, even their shell\open\command entry. Yet SC2Mods don't even have a working DefaultIcon after several reinstalls.
• Not to mention .galaxy, .SC2Camera, .SC2Components, .SC2Controls, .SC2Cutscene, .SC2Interface, .SC2Layout, .SC2Lib, .SC2Lighting, .SC2Prefs, .SC2Publish, .SC2Scene, .SC2Style, .SC2TestConfig and so on... They all needed manual updating in the registry, over the years. Some of them several times.
This is a mess. And repair does nothing. Same with complete reinstall.
Please add a "Repair file associations" option to all games.
Warcraft 3 had a third party tool made (maged.lordaeron.org/WC3InstallPath.php) to fix a similar issue, hopefully sc2 needs no such loving care from the community. An official solution wold be welcome.
Daniel "3ICE" Berezvai
p.s.: All file associations on my system use backslashes ("C:\...\...\..."). StarCraft 2 uses forward slashes("C:/.../.../..."). What's up with that?
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unofficial bib Chihping Fu nicely made for me before this year's race, celebrating my win last year
Unlike last year, there was no planned weekend family getaway to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, so I was on my own for the Kettle Moraine 100 Mile Race this year. I put out a message to the Kettle race email list about trying to get and share a nearby room, and Kirk Hilbelink, running his first 100 km race, invited me to stay at his parents' house in Elkhorn, even closer to the race than Lake Geneva. I was a little hesitant at first, but then accepted his offer. I would be running most of the 100 miles alone, so I welcomed a chance to be social, make friends, and avoid a hotel.
My wife's siblings did me the favor of lending me their cars. On Friday at 3 p.m., I was to drive in my brother-in-law's BMW from the west Chicago suburb of Elmhurst to a Harley Davidson dealership in north of Chicago, where my sister-in-law would drive her Jetta from work. I would take her older Jetta up to the race and she would drive the new fancy Beemer back to Elmhurst to hang out with her family, featuring of course her out of town sister, my wife whom I whisked away to California five years ago, and her nephews (our sons). My mother-in-law volunteered to drive up with me to the Harley lot so she could accompany her daughter on the drive back through rush hour traffic. (In retrospect I should've left earlier and just gone to my sister-in-law's workplace, but she had thought this plan was more convenient for me, and initially it made sense.)
Inevitably, my mother-in-law asks me about what I'm about to do, and I try my best to remember that running 100 miles is not considered normal activity, and that her initial impression about my ultrarunning was hearing that I was in an emergency room overnight after my first failed 50 mile race 5 years ago. The cultural gap is huge; conversation includes my trying to explain to her why no medical support crew will be driving back and forth in a van along the course to help fallen runners.
After waiting a half hour at the Harley (did you know the simpler new models start under $7,000?), my sister-in-law arrives and she and her mother wish me luck. I proceed north.
Having followed the weather forecast for the race all week, I am aware it would be hot and muggy (the race day temperature forecast kept going up a few degrees every day). I had been too busy playing with my older son and nephews to do as much heat acclimitazation as I'd like. So I decide to roll up all the windows, and I was wearing a thin black Merino wool Sugoi shirt. Although not terribly hot outside, the greenhouse effect leaves me sweating profusely for the 90 minute drive to the Kirk's parents' house in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. I quickly empty a half-filled half-size water bottle left in the car. After more than an hour in this moveable sauna, I can't stand it and use a gas station as an excuse to stop, figuring I should fill up her the tank now just in case I don't have time tomorrow. I decide that the heat acclimatization is stupid-- I probable won't have time tonight to replace the fluids and electrolytes I'm losing, and that the benefit does not match the cost this late.
I think I arrive at the Hilbelinks in Elkhorn after 5 pm. They instantly make me feel at home, and I sit a bit on their enclosed porch with his wife and son, his parents and 1 or 2 of his sisters, downing several glasses of water and helping myself to chips and salsa for the sodium, trying to remember everyone's name and hoping I'm not smelling too nasty.
Dinner is this great bratwurst from Sheboygan, which I convince Kirk is safe prerace food.
Kirk wants to check out the start finish area, so we drive up there and there are other people hanging out, including a relay team finishing a short warm-up run.
Before long co-RD Tim Yanacheck gives his pre-race speech, which for the 2nd year in a row, I hear much of in a port-a-let doing important last minute prep.
We get to the 2nd aid station, Bluff (mile 7.4), where Joe notes that we are 2 minutes ahead of last year. Despite consciously knowing that we went out too fast last year. Don't you love it? I feel like we're a bunch of lemmings...
Leaving Bluff there is a mildly technical stretch. Without deliberately trying to pull away, I find myself dropping everyone except maybe 1 or 2 relay runners ahead of me, and a 100k runner with a Euro accent who comes from behind and we run together for while until Emma Carlin (mile 15.5). I try extra hard to be careful, since here is where last year I inverted both of my ankles at least twice each, due to wearing road Mizunos, a light rain making the trail slippery and clouding up my glasses, and the misimpression that the course wasn't at all technical. This year I still manage to invert my left ankle once, but it's very minor.
mirage-hallucination of trail in more comfortably cool conditions
From County ZZ (mile 26.5), the 5 mile stretch to the Scuppernong turnaround (mile 31.5) is first single track, then wider trails, in which you seem to keep turning, as if you were going to the center of a huge spiral maze, and then turning the other way back out.
I grab my first drop bag here. It has an energy bar that I've never tried, but supposedly is good for long endurance activities since it has protein and other nutrients. I grab it, run into Kirk's wife Aspen, who is crewing for him, but asks me if I need anything. I give her the yellow plastic bag, asking her to bring it back. Even if I am trying to green, this is sort of crazy, and probably reveals my mild delirium.
Returning from the 50k turnaround finally allows me to see how much time I have on my pursuers. I see Zach a few minutes later, so a gap of 7-8 minutes. Joe calculates to about 15 minutes back. This is all guesswork, since my Garmin which I turned back on hasn't picked up a signal yet. (The official splits at Scuppernong I would see post-race are me at 4:40, Zach Gingerich at 4:47, Joe Kulak and 4:54 and Clark McLemore and Joel Eckberg at 4:56.)
The bar is a pain to unwrap. I bite into it and it's basically another version of those inedible original Power Bars. I swallow a bite and my stomach scolds me. I try to let the delayed next bite hang out in my mouth but it doesn't help my low grade nausea. I would end up carrying it in for the next rough 10+ miles before forgetting it at an unmanned aid station.
Entering the more technical part of the stretch, but really not that technical, I trip and fall forward, landing on my right knee and face. Luckily, not hard enough to hurt anything, but had a rock been sticking up right where my knee landed, it would've been the end. Or at least my small lead. At the time, I think this fall is something significant. Soon enough I would realize it actually wasn't-- just a early appetizer.
I almost wipe out again. Enough. I have to take is easy, and work on recovery. Obviously my body is missing enough of something that I'm losing balance in good visibility at midday, barely a third done. What was going to happen at mile 80 when I was running in the dark? I take it down a further notch, work on digesting the Heed sports drink and gels, and remembering to put ice under my cap at the aid stations.
By the time I reach Emma Carlin (mile 47.3), the worst of the heat is over, and the nausea is gone. Still, I'm tired. Much more than normal halfway through a 100 miler. It doesn't help that apparently everyone else is just as tired, since no one has caught up with me...yet.
Shortly before the water-only Horseriders aid station (mile 50.5, so about halfway through the race), I hear footsteps from behind. Zach? Joe? I turn around and don't recognize him. I initiate a brief conversation, during which I compliment his speed, find out his name ("Joel--you've probably never heard of me before....I'm relatively new to ultras.....this is my first 100 miler"), age (32), hometown (Chicago (actually a suburb)). Since he's looking good and has caught up with me as opposed to vice-versa, I suspected he really is FAST. "So, what's your marathon PR?" "2:33" "Dang, you're FAST" meaning it even more than when I gave Zach Gingerich the same line. He says, "Well, that was Chicago a few years ago...." (actually less than 3) "...I've lost a lot of speed since then."
Whatever, I'm thinking, your marathon PR is faster than that of Jon Olsen and even Scott Jurek, among other elite runners. "Well, no shame being passed, go for it." It would be nice to stay with him and chat, but it's clear our paces are too far apart. He cruises on ahead. I decide even had I been better rested than described in my last sandbagging blog post, it was unlikely I could run faster than he was on a day like today. Obviously he was talented, well-trained, and running a smart race. I feel little urge to kill myself trying to keep up with him. I contemplate that a plaque for placing in the master's age group will not present the space problem that another large copper kettle first-place overall award would. This is really, lucky, a true blessing, I think.
It has grown cooler. By the time I reach Bluff (mile 55.5), it's obvious that the talk of a thunderstorm maybe brewing wasn't so maybe. I start hearing thunder, and thunder means lightning. Don't like that. I had followed the weather forecast daily the past week. It was always 3-4 days of scattered thunderstorms before and after, but never on race day.
After leaving Tamarack (mile 57.8), five miles to the start and finish area, the rain, lightning and thunder continues to grow more frequent and intense. I start counting the seconds between each flash and rumble to figure how many thousand feet away the lightning is. I start trying to sprint the open fields to minimize my time out in the open. Less than 2 miles from Nordic (mile 62.9, and end of 100 km race), I see Joel heading back out with a pacer. Distance-wise I'm not that far behind him, but I'm not even thinking about catching up, just staying alive. I mutter something like "This is f*&%$g crazy" as we cross in opposite directions. The light and sound gaps continue to shorten, as does my confidence.
A bit after I think I pass the 1-mile marker (I'm very unsure, as it's hard to see anything in the rain with my glasses), the sky lights up right ahead and a very loud crack of thunder almost immediately blows my ears out. I'm too soaked to know if I peed in my shorts, but I decide that nothing, even another win had I still been in first, is worth dying for. I retreat from another open clearing I was about to sprint and plant myself face down on the ground to the side of the trail. I have no idea how many people die or getting permanently disabled by lightning strikes each year, but I imagine that your risk of getting struck goes up considerably when you are outside in the middle of one. Then figuring I want to minimize my chances of being hit due to the metal in my eyeglasses and my handheld GPS device (which I had turned off since the battery only runs 10 hours), I take them and throw them away from me, as I wait through several more rounds of paired lightning and thunder.
Not in Calistoga for a spa treatment, but least these guys are still moving and can keep each other company...
After quite a time on my stomach, contemplating death, permanent disability, my failure to finish our estate planning, my family and how much I love them, how my wife would kill me if I died out here, hypothermia, how much I love running but not as much as my family, are there parasitic bugs crawling into my pants as I lie here, the thunder begins to sound relatively farther and I convince myself that I should get going again. As I push myself up to doggie position with my toes pointed, one of my calves goes into spasm, instinctively I roll onto my back, doing the breathing thing for a couple of minutes and evening out my mud basting.
After more carefully getting up I crouch for another while, stretching out my calves. Then I look around for my Garmin, which I find fairly quickly, but of course, I can't find my glasses. In case you haven't noticed, I'm very nearsighted, and the mud, clouds and trees don't make for the best visibility. I start to crawl around on all fours, like Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo, trying to find them, worried that I might crush them or push them into the mud. Well this is a new one. The absurdity and novelty of the situation is not lost on me as the search goes on for several minutes.
I finally find them, then I notice I've also lost my Julbo sunglasses I got as part of my Sportiva sponsorship package. I had strapped onto hat when it had become overcast. I really hope I can find them, since I can comfortably wear them over my regular glasses and not look like a geek. (If you haven't noticed, looking really cool when I run is really important to me. More than winning awards for placing, or communion with nature.) I spend half a minute looking around for them, until I realize they could be anywhere between here and Bluff. I figure I can look for them later, even if I drop at 100 km (yes, I'm contemplating dropping). I start jogging in and and am surprised at how close I had been to the 100 km point-- maybe just a quarter mile.
After getting into the aid station (officially at 11:08, 42 minutes after leader Joel Eckberg did), everyone's very encouraging and helpful as always. I'm freezing, and take off my yellow Sportiva jersey. I get the car key out of my drop bag, dump my shirt and put on a dry long-sleeved wool Sugoi jersey, the same one I was trying to wear the last 3 days in order to try to last-minute heat train. After dithering around, I confirm with Ann Heaslett that I don't get any trinkets if I drop at 100 km, just an official time, and she incredulous that I am considering dropping.
A volunteer manning a laptop computer tells me that the storm has passed. I'm unconvinced, so he brings up the weather radar website. In another time-killing Ultrailnakaman race first, I stand mesmerized watching the colored radar clouds repeatedly pass over Whitewater on the computer screen in fast motion several times, and it looks like he's right. In the back of my mind, I know that the passing of this storm does not preclude the future passage of more storms later, but, luckily, if "luckily" is the correct word, I suppress (zap?) this very logical thought and convince myself that it's time to finish this baby.
Nonetheless, my preoccupation with placing well or running real fast have long been washed away. If I'm going out for another 38 miles, all I want to do is finish. And if it might rain more, I don't want to freeze to death. I spend more time at the aid station, and literally go back and forth to my car at least 2 more times, including going there to put on a light jacket and then putting in back when everyone tells me I'm going to be WAY too hot.
Having done almost no running for about up to an hour, I'm able to jog a decent pace going out. I scan the trail hoping to find my Julbo sunglasses, and luckily see it right at the 1 mile marker, and strap it onto my cap, which is already holding a spare headlamp-- it feels a little funny, but now I am prepared for any lighting conditions! My gap on who I think is the next runner is maybe 15 minutes. Closer I see it's Joe Kulak and he tells me I'm looking good and I'm only 15 minutes behind Zach. Interesetingly the realization that Zach had passed me at the Nordic aid station produces little emotional reaction. Joe's tone almost hints that he might be done for the day, but I don't ask.
I see Ian Stevens and and the other volunteers at Tamarack (mile 67.9) and they tell me I'm less than 5 minutes behind Zach. Again, I still really give a hoot, but it's obvious since I just ran 4 miles about 10 minutes faster than he did, that I would probably catch up with him. This I do shortly before coming into Bluff (mile 70.3), "I told you you were fast," I say as I come up from behind.
Before Bluff, I cross paths with my new but long-lost friend Kirk, who gives me this surprised look, "You're just now coming out?" I tell him as we pass each other I was down on the ground for a while since I didn't want to die, mentioning my kids, since I figured he could relate with his 1-year old. I only find out later he's had to deal with a LOT more than I on the way to his first 100 km finish. (click for his very well written race report)
photo by Larry Hilbelink, the evening before
I also see Adam Blum around Bluff, who would summon a nice kick on the way to his first 100k finish.
Zach and I pace off each other for almost through the 8 miles through the next 2 aid stations. The first part is largely flat and not too technical. I remember I was cruising through this section last year, for a while deluded that I might be able to beat the course record. This year, though, I find the long flat sections painful, since I would rather use hills as a good excuse to walk. The 5 miles after the unaided Duffin (mile 72.8) is a bit more technical with lots of overgrowth. I find that being able to run through this section actually feels good since it was gotten warmer and the wet leaves feel refreshing. I comment to Zach that in California maybe 1/3 of green foliage jutting into a trail is poison oak.
Zach is feeling bad that his much slower than predicted time means his father, who has been crewing him, has to stay up that much longer. Plus he has teach Sunday School at 9am the next morning. Not as tight as Joe Kulak's 7 a.m. flight out of Chicago, but much earlier than my kids' 1 p.m. Baptism (which is why I couldn't greenly carpool with anyone coming from the Chicago area).
Are we too late with this? Is that lightning off in the distance?
It's nice pacing each other, but we're both too drained to keep up too much conversation, and Zach seems bummed. Eventually I leave him behind, and despite a fairly long stop at the Highway 12 aid station (mile 77.1), he doesn't catch up with me there.
Chicken soup from encouraging volunteers and my 1st real drop bag await me at the Highway 12. I pull out my iPod Nano and stick it in a side pocket, dump the sunglasses and the spare Tikka Plus headlamp, but keep the cap on. I get a different spare headlamp, a Black Diamond, and wrap it around my waist, being careful to loosen the strap all the way first, since I wasted a few minutes last year trying unsuccesfully to get it on and took a handheld flight instead, at the same aid station but 8 miles later. Since my left iliotibial band (ITB) has increasingly started bothering me, I pull out my ITB strap and wrap it right below my left knee. I restock on Hammer gels. After all these maneuvers, I'm ready, and start the path crossing the road and the climb up.
About a half mile up, I reach up to check my headlamp and notice there is none. I forgot my main headlamp! The Petzl MyoXP is as excellent as it is discontinued as it is useless sitting back in my dropbox. I guess my cap made me oblivious to the lack of lighting on my head. At this point, going back down was not an option. My primary worry was that I hadn't replaced the batteries on the Black Diamond spare. I run as far as I can without using the lamp. After a couple miles, I have to turn it on. Since it's attached to my waist, the beam keeps bouncing too much, so I move it to my head. The two settings give me a beam that is either too narrow or too weak. But what can I do? The 4 mile stretch between Highway 12 and the turnaround aid station at Rice Lake is probably the most technical of the whole course. I stub my big toe, for some reason mostly my right, against rocks, roots, and railroad ties about 15 times. Imagine a Homer Simpson "D'oh!" each toenail-blackening stubbing. I apologize to my big toenail and curse my lamp. The stretch between Highway 12 and the Rice Lake (mile 81.5) turnaround took me 51 minutes each way last year. This year, I only measure it going back and it takes 75 minutes, and I guess it took probably longer going out.
On the return from Rice Lake I see Joe Kulak putting up light sticks with co-RD Jason Dorgan, and then know for the first time that he dropped at 100k. The turnaround lets me calculate a gap of more than an hour over 3rd place, and each runner after him isn't too far behind. I see fellow Bay Area runner Rick Gaston and tell him I think he's in 6th.
It's clear that Zach Gingerich has also dropped, probably at the first visit to Highway 12.
I would be looking forward to improving trail conditions, except that I'm told that another storm is coming. My mouth utters nastiness. But I remain optimistic. I figure since there was a lot of tree cover during the next 8 miles that I should just go for it. Besides, what else am I going to do?
Lightning in the distance initially seems to be to the right, but as I try to run the open fields to get to the forest, it seems I'm heading right to where the meteorlogical action is. At least a constant stream of runners crosses my path, unlike my pathetically interrupted approach to the storm over by the start/finish at Nordic.
Lightning never seems to strike too close, but perhaps it's because it's soon pouring down so hard that I can't see anything, much less the trail, which quickly becomes an almost continuous stream of water and mud.
I slip several times trying to run, and eventually give up. I can barely see, my feet are partially numb from the constant soak, I'm getting cold, I wish I had a jacket, I probably want my mommy, but she and my dad didn't come this year (fortunately for them).
By the late time the rain lets up a bit, and I leave behind the more technical parts of the stretch, my ITB is sore enough that the only way I can run is to gallop, with my right leg slightly ahead of my left. The best I can do with this is a 13 minute mile per my Garmin. I find that power walking is more sparing of my IT band, and only 2-3 minutes per mile slower. Although I don't really care, I try to calculate the chances that any of the closely spread runners following me have to catching up before the finish, assuming they aren't walking as much.
After the rain stops, I take out my iPod Nano to listen to some tunes again, but it won't work, presumably because water got into it. Oh well, I have to listen to birds and the wind rustling through the trees, and the distant rumbling of thunder.
I say my 4th and final thanks to the volunteers at Bluff (mile 92.8), and also at Tamarack (mile 95.1), where I say bye to Ian Stevens, and wish Mary Gorski luck Badwater. (Good luck again!)
I hobble around the finish, grazing, soaked my legs in a basin filled with cold water (which someone comments is a little ironic) after hosing off the mud from myself, my clothes and my Sportiva Lynx, which held up quite well, then change, and get my finisher's award.
Not far after him is come a pair from Oregon. And they both look really fresh.
Darla Brader with her big English copper kettle for being the 1st female overall finisher, and Chris Askew, who finished together in 22:04:50.
With a 2 hour drive back in the morning, I decide to get a couple of hours sleep, which despite the tight accomodations, isn't hard.
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Some information about the venue:
It's called Budapest Jazz Club (BJC), located near the east foot of Margaret Bridge,
not far from the Parliament building or the West Railway Station.
(Address: 1136 Budapest, Hollan Erno u. 7.)
Visit their website for more info, a photo gallery or a panoramic view:
The venue has a bar and a bistro as well.
It's been converted from an old cinema building and serves as a cosy concert venue since then.
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PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals) is protesting the use of animals in NBC's rookie sitcom Animal Practice. Given the track record for new NBC sitcoms, and the fact that our polled readers expect it to be among the first shows canceled for the 2012-13 season, they won't need to protest very long.
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Heights scare me. I tend to think most reasonable people get a little put off by being in a situation where one small slip could lead to certain death.
Apparently that means this Human Fly fellow is far from being reasonable.
Instead of riding inside the airplane like every other member of society has ever, the Human Fly decided to attach himself to the outside of a Douglas DC-8. Just watching this is almost enough to make me shit myself.
The Fly does this because he had a terrible accident a few years earlier and wanted to become the greatest daredevil to ever live. If I had an accident a few years earlier I wouldn't be riding on the outside of planes, but that's just me.
Check out this fantastically '70s video as the fly attempts to hit 300 MPH on the outside of a plane. (Skip to 17:20 to see the attempt.)
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