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Loyd's New Year - A Trio of Problem Systemsby Loyd Case on January 13, 2010 12:00 AM EST
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It's the new year, which must mean it's time for all our PCs to go belly up.
Or so it seemed to me in the past couple of weeks. I thought the tale of these three systems is worth telling, as a lesson in recognizing and solving different types of PC problems. Perhaps you'll see something of your own PC troubles in this, but even if you don't, there are still lessons to be learned.
We'll begin this with the story of my daughter's ever-slowing Vista system.
The Tale of the Clogged PC
This past weekend, I'd decided it was time to nuke my daughter's system from orbit. It was the only way to be sure.
Emily's been running a fairly decent, though not bleeding edge system. Core components include an Intel QX6850, Asus P5Q3 Deluxe motherboard and an older 512MB Radeon HD 4870. Over the past couple of months, the system had begun running slower than molasses.
Emily is a fairly typical teenage girl when it comes to PC use. She uses the web heavily, and happily downloads anything she thinks she might like. She is, however, more tech savvy than most teenage girls, so she doesn't do really stupid stuff, like open phishing emails. However, she's a happy user of WildTangent games, likes to have the Weather Channel bug running (ugh, I say), and related sorts of gimmickry that can act as brakes on a fast system.
Recently, though, her system had been really dragging – so much so, that she'd given up on using it, and was using the communal living room laptop to do her homework and even run some light games. (I confess: I got her hooked on Torchlight.)
It all began several months back, when Emily began complaining that her system was glitchy. At the time, it was running Windows XP. I'd built the system about eighteen months ago, and it had been running reasonably well. I'd never been entirely happy with the QX6850, though. Even with a beefy Scythe Ninja cooler, the CPU typically idled at 58 degrees C. The QX6850 ran at 3GHz, but was built with the same 65nm process technology used in the original Conroe CPUs.
So I did something that, in retrospect, planted the seeds of bigger problems to come: I thought it would be a good idea to perform an in-place upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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takumsawsherman - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkI'm confused as to the point of this article. You have 3 systems which are quite powerful. Let's take them in order.
1. Daughter's computer running slowly, running weatherbug, presumably lots of junk installed over the years.
a. Weather Channel is different than WeatherBug. Tell her to use the one and not the other.
b. If the computer was running slowly, why would you put Vista on it, which is not exactly a speed demon? I'm waiting for the storm from this comment, but oh well, I go by observation, and Vista has all sorts of lag, especially when UAC takes many seconds just to decide to ask for authorization. A tuned XP system is faster than a tuned Vista system.
c. You rip out the processor and memory to upgrade, but don't check for BIOS updates first. Also, you put in $300 worth of hardware, and hours of labor on a system which already has fast hardware and on which she mostly surfs the internet and plays WildTangent games. Is this supposed to inspire someone? What lesson are we taking from this?
d. Easy worst-case solution would have been to back up her system, reinstall XP, update it, turn off unnecessary services and have her tell you what she needs on it. You vet the apps, and tell her not to install junk without asking you. Not to mention that if you install the apps for her, you can take more care as to what options are being installed, such as toolbars, etc.
e. Normal scenario is that you uninstall the garbage-ware, replace any lost functionality with non-garbageware. Examine services, trim those not needed, set performance options on XP, and the system would likely have run just fine, even with a bloated registry. I do this all the time on customer's systems when they have crazy kids or are crazy themselves. Also, buy your daughter a Mac. She'll be happier, and it comes with a Weather widget. Amazing.
2. You keep putting memory that has issues with Intel boards into more Intel boards.
a - e. Stop doing that.
3. Having weird issues, may be motherboard related.
a. You've been updating the BIOS. That's cool. Have you tried going back to an earlier version, since the problems cropped up recently?
b. Is your processor the 3.2 or the 3.33? If the 3.2, did you try not overclocking it? The memory is overclocked. Did you try removing some modules?
c. You rip out the motherboard, replace it with another board which has problems with your video card. Ok, it happens. You rip that one out and replace it with a 3rd.
d. This is your "production" system. What exactly are you producing on this monster?
I know I probably sound curmudgeonly here, but I'm still wondering what this article is supposed to do for anyone, except show them how to spin wheels and waste money. It's like an amalgamation of every seat-of-the-pants hobbyist-with-limited-experience I have ever met, all in one article. Well, maybe not that bad, but it seems to me that sugar intake may need to be reduced.
Yes, it could be that you have a high percentage of bad hardware, but excepting the Corsair modules (Corsair should be contacted) it seems to me that you don't really do any troubleshooting because you are way too excited about using the problem as an excuse to upgrade. But for all the energy the upgrades take, I can't imagine your real world performance increasing enough to make up for the lost time. Reply
camylarde - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkSeriously i do not see a point in your post. at all. You seem to just repeat authors conclusions with the added "you're stupid" tag... Reply
Finally - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkMaybe because that tag is well-deserved?
I mean, come on. An already overblown computer for a casual websurfer feat. a HD4870 which has to run that ridiculous Torchlight at max gets even more overblown...
And who, in his right mind, would want to install any Windows over a crapped one? Reply
StormyParis - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - link1- stay well away from the bleeding edge. A 20% gain in performance is not, to me, worth even a weekly lock-up. In the same vein; Keep It Simple Stupid: any component that finds it way into one of my PCs must have a very good reason to be there. That means... most of my PCs are just a straight motherboard, with an IGP but no extension card at all. And mature (2+ months) components stock cooler, regular speed RAM, no overclocking. Taking risks on these is more trouble than it's worth.
2- don't trust reviews. I don't know if it's checkbox craziness, or being convinced that because they get early versions, reviewers shouldn't report problems during testing, or lack of in-depth, long-run testing, or just plain corruption, but reviews often fail to report major reliability / durability issues. Wait a bit before buying, check the forums for alerts from early adopters, or even ask my reseller for advice, then buy.
erple2 - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkI think that your 20% gain in performance is greatly exaggerated. I'd suspect that the "bleeding edge" of performance (within a processor family) is going to net you (barring overclocking, which if you're looking for actual and not anecdotal stability, you should ignore) about 5% in special cases.
The other problem is that forum posts mask what the real reliability happens to be. Take every single review, particularly people complaining about reliability with a giant chunk of salt. People will say that there are a ton of people that have problems with product xyz, and evidence some forum post of a hundred or so people. I'd stipulate that that's stunningly and statistically insignificant to draw reliability conclusions from. How often do you post that product xyz that you've purchased just works with no problems? I haven't. I only post questions/responses when I have issues with the product. And I'd be very willing to bet that other people do, too. Reply
StormyParis - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkoops, and
3- buy a good PSU ! Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - link1) Buy the right motherboard.
2) buy the right memory
3) buy the right PSU.
And of course "the right xx" means they all must play nicely with one another. Research, research, research. Its all about reading all the reviews, user reviews specifically, and weeding out all the BS posts. Who says newegg is not good for something ; ) This goes without saying. Buying into bleeding edge hardware will not work for this purpose either.
As for review site reviews . . . I've yet to read one that seemed accurate in my own eyes in years. Including from this site. Mainly, the problem is, since they have a time frame in which to review, and write an article. Their tests are no where near as stringent as I and others would like them to be. So perhaps that xxx branded motherboard gets reviewed well, even though it crashes on a weekly basis relating to hardware issues. Or, teh QC process involved in the consumer part is not the same as that from which the reviewed part passed through.
Anyways, I think I've made my point. Read these reviews for fun, but when you're serious about a piece of hardware, read all the user reviews you can. Then do the math on your own. this was one thing ABIT did well. They had excellent community forums where you could read until your eyes bled . . . Reply
dukeariochofchaos - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkFirst of all, great article. More please.
2nd of all...
"How anyone can keep track of which modules run well on which motherboards at this point in time is a mystery."
That sounds like a really great idea for a list.
Does anyone know of any effort like this to form a giant DRAM comp. list?
If not... please, somebody, jump on it. Reply
yyrkoon - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkOne could say without sounding like an anti-fanboi ( hopefully ) that all of these systems shared commonalities. Specific name brands, that some ( myself included ) tend to shy away from when wanting to build a rock solid stable "production system". For me, and my own personal systems, this is _every_single_one_.
For me personally, the last 4 motherboards from one company gave me no ends of grief, when trying to build a two separate systems( several years ago ). 3 for the first, and the last for a second system( this is when I completely gave up on the company as a reliable OEM ). Then, a certain name branded memory that would mysteriously fail seemingly randomly. Read: previous to these experiences there were some seemingly good parts from the same manufacturers. Over time, it seems to have gotten only worse. Now, also, researching hardware these days is a must. Fail to do so at your own peril. Then at the same time, one must weed out all the BS read on the web, to make a sound judgement( hopefully ).
To be sure, these days are no fun finding suitable hardware for ones own personal system, let alone for others who pay you to build for them. Then again, my standards are much higher than most it seems. Days / weeks worth of up times is not good enough relating to hardware. I expect all systems I build to exhibit months for potential up times if the user so wishes to run a system that long. Regardless of operating system running on it. Which is another problem in its self. Read: different OSes like different hardware in some cases.
Now, to be perfectly honest, I had/have no clue what exactly happened in each of teh above cases. However, I am the type that believes when he puts down hard earned cash, whether it be mine, or a customers, I deserve to receive fair compensation in return. It is not my responsibility to troubleshoot these parts for a company who is selling them to me as new equipment, and I refuse to be a paying beta tester either. Especially to the tune of $200-$300 a pop now days( for feature rich motherboards ), and the fact that my time is worth money. Expenses that will never be reimbursed to me if I run into a snag, and expenses these companies seem more than willing to inflict upon me, and others. If / when we let them. The shame of it all is; This seems to be a perfectly except able trend now days. A trend I have a serious problem with. We could get into an in depth car analogy here . . . but I should not have to.
So along these lines I definitely can agree. Refuse to listen to your own reasoning at the expense of getting bitten in return. For me however, this usually happens when I stray outside of my own buying guidelines in hopes of getting a better deal. Or, when buying into very young technology. This is not to say that I believe myself perfect. I do silly things I should know better too. But the things that stand out in my own mind is not listening to my inner self when it comes time to spending money on hardware. Reply
leexgx - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - linkdid not even read any of that Reply


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Today we tried to start the boat up, but we were having some trouble. Ysa had to keep on pumping the hand pump since water wouldn't go to the boiler. Pops made me turn the boat around five times as we got steam and lost it. Also, the whistle wouldn't work and we had trouble with the walkie talkies. Later Ysa and I went to the pool but since the water was so cold we just chilled around it (with sunscreen on of course). After the I took a nap and woke up to the sound of our whistle blowing. It was a pretty laid back day, but tomorrow's going to be bigger.
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We are here in Canada! Ysa and I did our ritual of sitting alone at dinner and then stealing the bread rolls to feed the fish down at Chaffey's lock. It's so hot in our cabin, Hemlock. For those who know the Opinicon, it's near the place where you keep your trailers. We haven't taken the boat out yet, but we do have it docked. Tomorrow we plan to cruise around and them come back in time for lunch.
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So far, I made these cute cupcake toppers. They are tiny tea sets made out of fondant. I included a penny coin in the picture for size reference. I still have no idea what cupcake to make...maybe a coffee crumb cupcake? Seems tea like. =]
Here they are unpainted:
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*Will update with more desserts and recipes this week*


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A horrendous error by defender Kolo Toure gave Liverpool's top-four rivals renewed hope after they were held to a 1-1 draw at West Brom.
Daniel Sturridge's 50th career league goal - and his 24th in 30 games for the club - put the visitors on course to retain their four-point cushion over Everton in the Barclays Premier League.
However, Toure's misplaced pass straight into the path of former Toffees striker Victor Anichebe midway through the second half put paid to that.
A draw gave more ammunition to the critics who felt Liverpool should have strengthened in the transfer window to enhance their bid to regain Champions League football.
But it was not the absence of Ukrainian winger Yehven Konoplyanka, whose proposed move to Anfield broke down in final hours of the January transfer window, which ultimately cost them points but a lack of resources at the back.
Toure is only playing because Daniel Agger and Mamadou Sakho are injured, but manager Brendan Rodgers insisted defensive reinforcements were not his priority.
Some would argue neither was a winger, but for all the accusations and apportioning of blame fired from east to west and back again over the collapse of the Konoplyanka deal, it should not matter if the strikers keep scoring and the defence keep clean sheets.
Despite Dnipro suggesting Liverpool did not transfer the necessary funds in time, Press Association Sport understands the money was sent at least two hours before the UK's 11pm deadline.
The move, with the player's medical passed and terms agreed, was blocked by the club's owner Ihor Kolomoyskyi who refused to sign off the necessary paperwork, which is believed to have prompted a subsequent apology to Liverpool from Dnipro officials.
Essentially what Liverpool really need is to keep Luis Suarez and Sturridge fit and firing, and while at least one of them kept up that end of the bargain there were failings elsewhere at the Hawthorns.
A disjointed first half was lit up by the beacon of quality which was Sturridge's goal.
During the midweek Merseyside derby victory Suarez and Sturridge were falling out over who should pass to whom but there was no such disagreement here, with the in-form strikers were on the same wavelength.
The continually-improving Raheem Sterling was released through the inside-right channel and held the ball up long enough for Suarez to go round the outside of him to receive the pass.
Suarez's movement to generate space for the cross was brilliant and he picked out Sturridge at the far post for the England international to convert. He has now scored in 15 of 19 games this season - but even he paused before celebrating as he was not entirely sure whether he was onside.
There was little else in the way of chances with Suarez failing to properly plant his head on a Philippe Coutinho corner and then being denied the decisive touch on Aly Cissokho's cross by Jonas Olsson, who injured himself in the process and was replaced by Diego Lugano.
West Brom's first-half efforts amounted to Youssouf Mulumbu's drive, blocked by Steven Gerrard although it appeared to be going wide, and Zoltan Gera's shot which fizzed across goalkeeper Simon Mignolet and wide of the far post.
The home side came out with greater intent after the break and a period of early pressure resulted in Mignolet saving well from Gareth McAuley's powerful header.
It seemed apparent 1-0 would not be enough for Liverpool to hang on to and Suarez should have made it more comfortable when he brought down Toure's long ball, sidestepped compatriot Lugano, cut back inside but was denied by the outstretched leg of goalkeeper Ben Foster.
Mignolet made another good save, this time from Chris Brunt's low free-kick on the edge of the penalty area, but was helpless to prevent the equaliser.
Rodgers wants his side to play out from the back but Toure, unlike Agger, is not comfortable on the ball and inexplicably passed straight to Anichebe 20 yards out and the former Everton striker made the Ivory Coast defender pay dearly for his mistake.
Liverpool's switch to three at the back following the introduction of Martin Kelly and Joe Allen saw Sturridge denied by a charging Foster with Toure heading over Gerrard's resulting corner.
It was to prove the last real chance as Liverpool did not carve out enough openings for their potent strikeforce to benefit.
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Airport Check-in: Volaris Airlines plans U.S. service
-- Route news:
Volaris Airlines, a small Mexican carrier, will bring service to the USA for the first time in its three-year history.
Starting July 1, Volaris will offer daily non-stop flights between Los Angeles and both Guadalajara and Toluca, Mexico. On July 2, it will also start flying daily between Oakland and the two cities in Mexico. Toluca is about 40 miles southwest of Mexico City, while Guadalajara, the capital of Mexican state Jalisco, is the second-largest city in the country.
Volaris and Southwest Airlines have previously said they will begin a code-share agreement in 2010, allowing U.S. customers to buy Volaris tickets on Southwest's website.
Other route news
United Airlines, beginning Sept. 2, will offer daily service between Pittsburgh and its hubs in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
JetBlue plans to introduce service between its home at New York John F. Kennedy International and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia in the fall. The airline says the flight's inaugural date hasn't been determined.
St. Lucia, in the eastern Caribbean, is one of JetBlue's 13 international destinations.
The discount carrier recently announced that it will begin flying to Montego Bay, Jamaica, on May 21 and to Barbados on Oct. 1.
What's new
Airports take swine flu precautions
Despite the recent swine flu outbreak, it's business as usual for domestic airports that have high traffic to and from Mexico. While some airlines have canceled flights to Mexico, airport officials say major operational changes haven't been necessary, given only a small number of cases in the USA.
"At this time, all U.S. ports of entry are open and operating as normal with officers using risk-based border screening," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement. Its officers are monitoring the health of incoming travelers and taking "all appropriate precautions," including referring a person with symptoms to a quarantine station or a local health official for evaluation, it says.
Several airports are taking minor precautionary measures to prevent infection. At Los Angeles International, custodians are instructed to pay extra attention in sanitizing door knobs and handrails in restrooms. LAX has also activated an operations center, where airport and federal public health officials can work in one place to respond to any possible reports of passengers arriving with flu-like symptoms. "We've had many false alarms," spokeswoman Nancy Castles says.
San Diego International says it's also monitoring and cleaning restrooms more frequently. LAX and San Diego have placed posters in terminals to remind travelers of the importance of washing their hands and covering their mouths when coughing.
Paramedics at Phoenix Sky Harbor's fire stations have received pandemic flu briefings, and the airport is using Twitter to update travelers. Houston's Bush Intercontinental and LAX have also placed hand sanitizers in their terminals.
Miami adding direct rail to downtown
Miami International will join a small but growing number of airports that have direct metro-rail access to and from downtown. Miami-Dade Transit broke ground last week on a 4-mile extension of the region's Metrorail from the Earlington Heights station — currently the nearest stop from MIA — to a ground transportation hub that's being built next to the airport.
A 1.25-mile people-mover system will connect the airport to the ground transportation hub for buses, train and rental cars. The rail link and the ground transportation hub are both expected to be completed in 2012.
Florida passes bill to help get animals off of runways
The Florida Legislature passed a bill Friday that would give airport operators more leeway to shoo wildlife off runways.
It grants airports immunity from state and local penalties when they accidentally kill or injure endangered animals while managing wildlife hazards. Airports use a variety of tools to shoo away birds, including air horns, sound cannons, dogs and paint balls.
The bill will be sent to the governor's office for his signature. "I think all the signs are that he supports it," says Larry Dale, CEO of Orlando Sanford International Airport.
Julie Wraithmell of Audubon of Florida told the Orlando Sentinel that it'd be difficult to determine intent when animals are killed by airport employees. But the bill specifies that airport managers aren't immune from liability if they are found to be negligent, she says.
The bill was introduced by a state representative earlier this year after a US Airways flight landed on the Hudson River after bird strikes. The Federal Aviation Administration released new data last week that revealed that collisions between birds and aircraft have occurred at nearly all large domestic airports.


text: Pubdate: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA) Copyright: 2013 San Jose Mercury News Contact: http://www.mercurynews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390 Author: Josh Richman NEWSOM TO LEAD STUDY ON POT ISSUES Panel Will Consider Drafting Measure to Appear on 2016 Ballot Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will head the American Civil Liberties Union's new panel studying marijuana legalization in California, with an eye toward drafting a measure for 2016's presidential-year ballot. "Enough's enough. I can't sit back and support the status quo any longer," Newsom said in a telephone interview Thursday, citing the high prison and police costs associated with marijuana enforcement that disproportionately affects minority communities. "I don't want to be the guy giving the speeches after I'm gone about what we should've and could've done." Voters in Washington state and Colorado approved legalization measures last year, though California voters rejected one three years ago. The ACLU panel over the next 18 to 24 months will monitor how Washington and Colorado implement their laws, producing research papers and holding forums across the state for the public and policymakers. Newsom, who said he doesn't smoke marijuana, added that he's unconcerned about any political fallout from taking a stand on the issue. "To me, it's like smoking anything else -- I want a regulatory regime that doesn't advertise to kids, that doesn't allow public use and secondhand smoke," he said. Proposition 19, California's legalization measure, was defeated in November 2010 with a 53.5 percent "no" vote. But the ACLU on Thursday rolled out new polling data showing that 65 percent of Californians likely to vote in 2016 support legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana for adults. Among political affiliations, 74 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of independents support such a measure, while Republicans are split -- 47 percent in support, 50 percent opposed. Majorities across every region of the state support it, from 73 percent in the Bay Area to 58 percent in the more conservative Inland Empire region of Southern California. Support spans ethnic lines as well: Legalization is supported by 74 percent of African-Americans, 69 percent of whites and 53 percent of Latinos. Majorities of both genders and all age groups support it as well. The poll of 1,200 likely voters was conducted Sept. 26 through Oct. 6 by Tulchin Research. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Newsom said the poll asked about a legalization scheme that included a statewide regulation and taxation, which Proposition 19 lacked. "We owe it to the public to be able to answer as many of those questions as we can before we pass something," he said. Waiting until 2016, he said, allows time to study the issues while capitalizing on a presidential election's high voter turnout. One proposed marijuana legalization ballot measure already is circulating for signatures to put it on the November 2014 ballot. And another now awaits its official title and summary before it can start circulating. Besides Newsom, members of the ACLU panel include Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith; UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chermerinsky; Alison Holcomb, who managed Washington state's successful legalization ballot measure in 2012; Denver University law professor Sam Kamin, who serves on a task force implementing Colorado's successful 2012 legalization measure; Keith Humphreys, a former senior policy adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy who is now at Stanford University; attorneys from drug-policy reform groups; and two past presidents of the California Society of Addiction Medicine. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom


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The United States is sending mixed signals to North Korea, China – and also South Korea – in a display of high-level solidarity with the South that includes one of the biggest displays of military might in the region in recent years.
The two US cabinet members with the greatest influence on US policies overseas, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are seeing their counterparts in Seoul on Wednesday to fortify an alliance that at times has appeared weak and vacillating.
Officials have dubbed the meetings the "two plus two" talks, the first time the Defense secretary and secretary of State have descended upon Seoul simultaneously, and they've already begun pouring out statements and messages on the enduring strength of the alliance. The most dramatic signal will be military exercises, led by the aircraft carrier George Washington, that Mr. Gates and Korea's defense minister, Kim Tae-young, say are "designed to send a clear message to North Korea that its aggressive behavior must stop."
Response to sinking of South Korean Navy ship
The whole show amounts to a minutely orchestrated response to North Korea's sinking of the South Korean Navy corvette the Cheonan in March in which 46 sailors were killed. The exercises, featuring 20 US and South Korean ships and 200 warplanes, are slated to go on for four days – but in waters nowhere near where the Cheonan went down in the Yellow Sea.
Instead, in a bow to strenuous objections from China, they'll take place in what Koreans call the East Sea, a name on which they strongly insist on instead of "The Sea of Japan" as it's called elsewhere.
The need to use a "neutral" term for those waters became clear last week after a Pentagon official, announcing plans for the exercises, raised eyebrows in Seoul by saying they would be held in "the Sea of Japan." US officials subsequently said that all statements will refer to waters "off the east coast" – a turn of phrase that is critical if the Americans are to avoid a chorus of criticism from South Korean officials, political figures, and the media.
Raised eyebrows
On a much larger scale, the exercises are finally going to happen after weeks of uncertainty in which South Korea's Defense Ministry pressed the Americans to stage them in the Yellow Sea as a show of force against North Korea.
"There is a difference between the South Korean and US position," says Paik Hak-soon, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, an influential Korean think tank. "The US will try to persuade South Korea to being more realistic, and the South Korean government will try to persuade the US to be more cooperative."
On Wednesday, deep cooperation, friendship, and mutual support will be the themes of the day in which Gates and Mrs. Clinton are supposed to lay wreaths at the South Korean war memorial and visit the demilitarized zone that has divided North and South Korea since the end of the Korean War. Not a whisper of differences is likely to be heard emerging from meetings that will also feature a supporting cast including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, and Adm. Robert Willard, chief of the US Pacific command.
Also on hand will be two other senior officials, Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Sung Kim, the US nuclear negotiator. They in particular will want to look beyond Wednesday's meetings to the possibility of resuming six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program after the exercises are done.
The meetings Wednesday will deal with "how to promote alliance cooperation and how to get out of the Cheonan incident politics," says Mr. Paik. He predicts "some disagreement" between the US and South Korea "in determining how early to return to six-party talks," last held in Beijing in December 2008.
How about China?
As for holding the exercises off the east coast rather than in the Yellow Sea, Paik believes "China will accept it as a compromise and a smart move."
At the same time, the whole display is intended to allay South Korean concerns ranging from doubts about the future of the alliance to leftist protests against what some see as a show that's likely to increase tensions.
Building up goodwill, the USS George Washington is mooring this week at the South Korean port of Pusan and hosting tours of journalists, VIPs, and citizen groups, including orphans. Three destroyers with Aegis countermissile systems will also be in Pusan and also in Chinhae, the port off the southern coast that is the headquarters for US and South Korean naval operations.
"It's good public relations for the South Koreans," says an official at the US military headquarters here. "It's to show force and build up relationships."
South Korean experts agree.
"Basically, it's to show power to North Korea," says Kim Tae-woo at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. "It seems to be diluted by moving the exercises from the Yellow Sea, but politically it's a very important event, and we welcome it."
"At this moment," he asked rhetorically, considering China's qualms about exercises in the Yellow Sea, which borders China, "what else can we expect?"


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Indoor Cycling Event to Benefit Mainers Affected by Cancer | Blogs
Arline Saturdayborn, of South Portland, refers to herself as a "biker babe." She is 71-years-old and only became a biker one year ago in honor of her 70th birthday, when she spent 10 days biking along the Mekong River in Thailand. After conquering that adventure and facing her fear of turning 70, she decided that in each year of her eighth decade she is going to take on a new fear and meet it head on.
In January, Arline received an email from the Cancer Community Center asking her to help the center raise money through its Cycle4Care fundraiser. "I have never done fundraising, except for selling Girl Scout cookies as a child," she says. She decided to face that fear and not only sign up for Cycle4Care but also take on the Ultimate Challenge. As an Ultimate Challenge participant she is committing to raising at least $250 and to ride for three hours. Arline thought to herself, "That's nothing like the terror of a cancer diagnosis." She has survived melanoma and uterine cancer, and has lost her sister, father, aunt, uncle and cousin to cancer. "I knew my opportunity to face my fear had come," she says.
Arline has now raised almost $2,000 for the Cancer Community Center, surpassing her goal of $1,000 within just two days of creating her personal fundraising page and emailing friends and family asking for their support.
Arline is currently an intern at the Cancer Community Center where she teaches a class called "Let Your Yoga Dance." She reflects on her time at the Center by saying, "Each week, I see the incredible education, support, wellness and just plain fun classes and opportunities the Center provides absolutely free. I love being part of such a generous, supportive, inspiring, practical and down-to-earth community." Arline has been training for Cycle4Care on a stationary bike and has been amazed and humbled by the outpouring of support for her and the Cancer Community Center. She says, "I love knowing that we are part of something so much larger than each one of us as we support the work of the Cancer Community Center."
To register for Cycle4Care, create your own free fundraising page, or get more information visit Cycle4Care.org.
3rd Annual Cycle4Care Event Details
What: Indoor Cycling Extravaganza
When: Friday, January 25, 2013
Where: UNE's Finley Recreation Center, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine
Why: To raise funds needed to support the free programs and services offered by the Cancer Community Center in South Portland
Time: 4pm – 12am
Registration Fees: $20 per hour of riding
If you have any questions, call Jennifer Nelson at the Cancer Community Center at 207-774-2200.
About the Cancer Community Center
The Cancer Community Center is the place to start when you don't know where to begin. Since its inception in 1998, the Center has helped thousands of adults coping with the effects of cancer through free support, information and activities. The Center provides a warm, welcoming atmosphere for any adult impacted by cancer, caregivers, friends and family.


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Now that Netflix chief executive and founder Reed Hastings is on Facebook's board of directors, many are speculating that means the two companies could be more closely intertwined.
With the next tech battle possibly taking place on television screens, Netflix's partnership with Facebook could only be beneficial when competing with other video streaming services such as Hulu, and competition from cable providers Comcast and Time Warner, according to Forbes. With Facebook, the world's largest social network, Netflix has ready-made access to about 150 million U.S. users. Take that, Xfinity!
In March, Facebook began streaming $3 movies in a deal with Warner Bros. and it's likely Netflix and others paid attention. According to Seeking Alpha, Hastings wrote in a note to investors that the company was exploring Facebook integration in January. However, by April, his tune seemed to change, saying that pay-per-view activity on Facebook and iTunes posed no "material" threat to Netflix. Luckily for Hastings, the winds of change shifted and Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wanted him on the board -- likely for his business and video-streaming acumen.
Facebook is also readying photo and video sharing projects, which can only be improved with Hastings' streaming video knowledge and customer service savvy. So the partnership may be truly symbiotic, with both Hastings and Zuckerberg getting exactly what they want from each other.


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First of all, install symlinks if it is not installed :
sudo yum install symlinks
and here is the description:
Description : The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links.
: Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks
: which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically
: convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks.
: Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining
: symlinks on your system.
and the help for the same:
symlinks: scan/change symbolic links – v1.3 – by Mark Lord
Usage: symlinks [-cdorstv] dirlist
Flags: -c == change absolute/messy links to relative
-d == delete dangling links
-o == warn about links across file systems
-r == recurse into subdirs
-s == shorten lengthy links (displayed in output only when -c not specified)
-t == show what would be done by -c
-v == verbose (show all symlinks)
So, if you want to delete all the invalid symlinks in the current directory the just execute:
symlinks -d . symlinks -d -r .


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A few blocks from here there is a church that is made up of mostly black members, because years ago they found they were not welcome in the "white church." A few blocks in the other direction is a church made up of mostly gay members, because years ago they found they were not welcome in the "straight church." A few blocks in the other direction is a church where most of us would not be welcome, because we believe that women are equal to men. "O, foolish Richmonders!" Paul might say. "Who has bewitched you? Who has made you believe that some are welcome and some are not welcome in the church of Jesus Christ?"
I've had a good many requests for my sermon from Sunday, June 19, quoted above. It was number four in a series called "Getting right with God," based on Paul's letter to the Galatians, but as I said in the introduction, it's not getting right with God that's the hard part; the hard part is getting right with each other.
I've posted the full text of the sermon below with a link to the video at the end. I hope you will read it or watch it, and if you feel like sharing please do. I think there's some good news here.
After worship last Sunday someone asked me why I was spending six weeks talking about "Getting Right with God." "Isn't it fairly simple?" he asked. I've been thinking about that question ever since, and I've concluded that getting right with God is not the hard part; the hard part is getting right with each other.
Wasn't that the problem Paul was dealing with in Galatians? It wasn't that God had any trouble welcoming uncircumcised Gentiles into his family; it was that the Jewish Christians had trouble welcoming them into the church. They thought they should be circumcised first, then they could get their names on the rolls, then they could take communion. And Paul argued, "No, it's not circumcision that makes us part of God's family: it is faith in Jesus Christ." That seems so obvious to us now that we could almost fall asleep during a sermon from Galatians. Until someone comes down the aisle who is not like us. And then we sit bolt upright in our pews and begin to come up with all sorts of reasons why that person should not be a member of the church.
It happened here on January 3, 1965. At the close of the 11:00 service two Nigerian students who were attending Virginia Union University came down the aisle to join First Baptist Church. And why not? They were the sons of Baptist ministers in Nigeria who had heard about First Baptist Church. They knew it was the church where the president of the Foreign Mission Board was a member and the former president of the Baptist World Alliance was the pastor. They encouraged their sons to attend. And so, these obedient boys put on their Sunday best and came to church. And it must have been wonderful to walk into this place when Dr. Adams was the pastor, and the pews were packed, and the choir loft was overflowing. These students must have gotten a little giddy from the splendor of it all, and when the invitation was given they came down the aisle.
I don't know what Dr. Adams was preaching that day. I doubt that he was preaching from this passage in Galatians that says in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female. But something that he said or something that those students felt in this place made them believe they would be welcome. And so they walked down the aisle and asked to join the church. As I heard the story Dr. Adams, who had traveled the globe in his work as president of the Baptist World Alliance, and who had gotten to know Baptists of every kind, would have been happy to welcome them. He knew that in Christ there is neither black nor white. But this was 1965, and this was Richmond, Virginia, and Dr. Adams had the presence of mind to welcome them without promising them membership in the church. That would be decided a few weeks later, after many long discussions with the deacons and a bitter and painful business meeting that practically split the church. In the end, by a narrow margin, the congregation voted to welcome those students as members.
It's interesting that our church history is called "The Open Door." 1965 was one of those times (and our historian says as much) when the open door was tested. How open was it, really? Could we welcome black people, as well as white, into our membership? The answer was yes, and I'm grateful. When I think about some of the people I might never have known if this door hadn't been open I almost weep! The life of our congregation has only been enriched by its diversity. We can see that now, looking back. It's always easier looking back. We've struggled with other questions since then. Can women be ordained as ministers in this church? Can Christians from other denominations join without being immersed? Can people who are differently oriented be members here? Again and again the open door has been tested and every time it makes us sit bolt upright in our pews. So, don't fall asleep during this sermon from Galatians when Paul is working so hard answer the question of who can be a member of the church and who can't.
For him the door was open—wide open—and I can almost see him on a street corner in Galatia, inviting people of every description into this new life with Christ. They might ask, "What do I have to do?" And Paul might answer, "Believe in the Lord Jesus!" "Is that all?" they would ask. "That's all!" Paul would answer. And then, when they had confessed their faith, they would be baptized, not as a requirement for membership in the church, but as a symbol of their new life in Christ.
In those days, in that part of the world, they would strip off their clothes on the riverbank, symbols of the old life, and then wade out into the water to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. When they came up out of the water it was like they had been born again, and when they stepped out onto the riverbank they were given a new, white robe to wear, a symbol of the new life. And then Paul might say to them, as he says here in Galatians, "Listen, as many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus!" And then he would move on to the next little town and start all over again.
But apparently someone was coming along behind him, telling those new Christians that believing wasn't enough, baptism wasn't enough, that if they wanted to be part of God's family they would have to become Jews, they would have to start obeying the Law of Moses, and the men among them would have to be circumcised. You can probably imagine what Paul had to say about that. But you don't have to imagine it. You can read it for yourself in Galatians 2. Paul says, "We know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law" (vs. 16). And as far as circumcision goes, Paul reminds us that Abraham was justified before he was circumcised, not after. "He believed God, and God reckoned it to him as righteousness" (vs. 6), Paul says, arguing that Gentile believers stand in that same tradition.
You might ask, "Then why did the Jews even need the law?" and Paul anticipates that question. He says that the Law was "added because of transgressions," and what he means, I think, is that we humans have a tendency to stray, that on our way from the Present Evil Age to the Age to Come we might wander off the path and get lost. Have you ever seen two teachers walking with a group of preschoolers, where the teachers are holding on to each end of a long rope and the preschoolers are holding on in between? It keeps everybody safe until they get back to their school, and then the children let go of the rope and run to the door. I think that's what Paul would say the Law was like—like a good, strong rope we could hold on to that kept us from going astray. Until. Until it brought us to Jesus. And then we didn't need the rope anymore. We were free to run to him. And as Jesus himself once said, he is the door, the door that lets us in to his Father's house.
Can anybody go in through that door? Let's see what Paul says.
- In Galatians 3:26 he writes: "In Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith."
- In verse 27 he writes: "As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."
- In verse 28 he writes: "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; you are all one in Christ Jesus."
- In verse 29 he writes: "And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the Promise"
Can you picture those children of God, still dressed in their white robes, coming into the Father's house and sitting down around the family table? Whatever distinctions divided them before have disappeared; they are all one in Christ Jesus.
And Paul says that's how it should be in the church, but often that's not how it is. A few blocks from here there is a church that is made up of mostly black members, because years ago they found they were not welcome in the "white church." A few blocks in the other direction is a church made up of mostly gay members, because years ago they found they were not welcome in the straight church. A few blocks in the other direction is a church where most of us would not be welcome, because we believe that women are equal to men. "O, foolish Richmonders!" Paul might say. "Who has bewitched you? Who has made you believe that some are welcome and some are not welcome in the church of Jesus Christ? I'm telling you he has opened the door, and if you are in him you are in—period! All you have to do is believe it, to accept the good news that you are accepted."
And that's where faith comes in.
Paul uses that word five times in the first four verses of today's reading. Count them: "Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith." Did you get all five? "Faith, faith, faith, faith, faith!" Paul says. "That's what sets us free from the law, that's what puts us right with God, that's what makes us part of his family." And I want to be careful about how I say this, but I believe that for Paul faith is the new circumcision, the sign of the New Covenant—not some mark in the flesh but a matter of the heart. So, who can be part of the church? Anyone who has faith, and the faith that I'm talking about is the faith that God loves us and wants us for his own. It's the gospel Jesus preached. It's the message Paul proclaimed. And most of the time the only thing that keeps us from receiving it is our own disbelief:
"How could God love somebody like me?"
But sometimes others keep us from receiving it. They say, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, "How could God love somebody like you?" That is at least one of the messages that came out of last Sunday's shooting in Orlando. It certainly seems that someone judged those people dancing in a gay nightclub and found them worthy only of contempt. It's at least one of the messages that came out of last year's shooting at the Mother Emanuel church in Charleston. Someone judged those people who had gathered for Bible study and found them worthy only of hatred. They may not have done it with guns and bullets, but there have probably been people along the way who judged you, and found you worthy only of contempt and hatred. And, God forgive us, there have probably been people we judged, people who don't come to church here because they believe that if they did they would not be welcome.
Who can be part of the church? Anyone who has faith. And who can have faith? Any one. Paul would say that it doesn't matter if you are Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female. These days he might add some other categories but it wouldn't change his message: all you have to do is believe that God loves you and wants you for his own, all you have to do is see Jesus standing at the door, begging you to come in, all you have to do is find the courage to take that first step. "It takes faith," Paul might say, "but faith is all it takes. It is the new circumcision, the sign of the new covenant. It is not a mark in the flesh, but a matter of the heart."
Have you ever been to one of those conferences where there is a registration table at the front with all the name tags already made up? They sit there in their shiny plastic sleeves—the names of all those who have registered for the conference. I sometimes look at them when I ask for my own tag, and sometimes I see the name of someone I know. "Oh, look! John is coming to this conference. Oh, look! There's Betty, or David, or Jane." But when we take a break for lunch and I walk by that same table, I usually see some name tags that have not been claimed, some people who were planning to come to the conference, but for whatever reason didn't make it. If church were like one of those conferences there might be a table out front with everybody's name tag on it. Everybody's. And when we went out after the benediction we would see the names of all those people who didn't make it: some who found something better to do, some who weren't physically able, but some who didn't believe…they would be welcome.
–Jim Somerville, 2016
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A lemony tomato pasta that must not, under any circumstances, be served with Parmesan cheese. Dollops of fresh ricotta would be a lovely addition though.
Just enough sweetness to let the corn flavor dominate.
Pizza on the grill is a perfect summertime meal—add toppings to suit your tastes.
Perfectly grilled vegetables are a healthy summertime side.
Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous Charcoal Ribs has been a fixture in Memphis since 1948. While the real recipe is closely guarded, here's a close approximation by Meathead Goldwyn.
July is blackberry time, and the perfect opportunity to indulge a summer ice cream treat.
We dare you to walk the plank this summer and roast salmon using this traditional and fun grilling technique.
This salad is so versatile for lunch or dinner. Serve with pork, chicken, seafood or steak, especially good with grilled salmon.
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Via Mediaite, I won't spoil the surprise of whether Geraldo is pro- or anti-O. Actually, the vid's just candy to lure you into another post about the latest revelation of what State knew about security deteriorating in the city. Remember that meeting in mid-August where the consulate determined that there were Al Qaeda training camps in the city and that it probably couldn't fend off a "coordinated attack"? Evidently, they decided at the same meeting that security was bad enough that they should consider moving to a different site entirely — specifically, the local CIA annex:
The cable marked "SECRET" also said, of the possibility of moving the consulate operations: "Mission personnel could co-locate to the Annex (CIA outpost) if the security environment degraded suddenly. … (There was agreement) to formal weekly meetings to discuss the security environment. … In the longer term, we believe formal collocation with the (Annex) will greatly improve our security situation."
The warnings reflected a grave concern among officials on the ground that the Libyan militia charged with protecting the consulate [the 17 February Brigade] had been compromised, perhaps even infiltrated by extremists…
Days after the attack, an intelligence source on the ground in Libya told Fox News: "One thing for sure is that the 17 Brigade was nowhere to be found and the Americans were left on their own in the assault." On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being very bad, the intelligence source said the consulate security was "A 10 — total security failure. Benghazi was known to be a major area for extremist activities. Militias' loyalty is easily bought and sold. Deals with militia leaders are worth nothing."
So the "inside job" theory is coming together. One of the consulate's Libyan guards — possibly a member of the February 17 Brigade — was seen taking photos of the compound on the morning of the attack, and then the Brigade conveniently failed to ride to the rescue when Ansar al-Sharia attacked that night. Because they worked with the consulate, the Brigade may also have known that the annex was a secret CIA base, which might explain how jihadis managed to pull together a separate attack at that site later in the evening. Now all we need to do is figure out who made the insane decision to trust a local militia with a key security role for a top U.S. diplomat when Al Qaeda had bases of its own in the same city.
Speaking of which, sources who may or may not be associated with the State Department want you to know that this is really kinda sorta the CIA's fault:
The U.S. effort in Benghazi was at its heart a CIA operation, according to officials briefed on the intelligence. Of the more than 30 American officials evacuated from Benghazi following the deadly assault, only seven worked for the State Department. Nearly all the rest worked for the CIA, under diplomatic cover, which was a principal purpose of the consulate, these officials said…
The CIA's secret role helps explain why security appeared inadequate at the U.S. diplomatic facility. State Department officials believed that responsibility was set to be shouldered in part by CIA personnel in the city through a series of secret agreements that even some officials in Washington didn't know about…
In Libya, the relationship between the State Department and CIA was secret and symbiotic: The consulate provided diplomatic cover for the classified CIA operations. The State Department believed it had a formal agreement with the CIA to provide backup security, although a congressional investigator said it now appears the CIA didn't have the same understanding about its security responsibilities.
In other words, supposedly, the reason State didn't ramp up security at the consulate despite repeated warnings about terrorist threats was because they thought they already had ramped it up. The security team at the CIA annex was their back-up — except, somehow, either somebody forgot to tell CIA that or CIA was told and then forgot. It's too depressing to believe that that sort of negligence and miscommunication is going on at the top of the government, especially when it comes to protecting U.S. diplomats in the field, so I'm going to pretend that this is really just a half-assed cover story designed to shield State. In which case, two questions. One: How was the security team at the CIA annex an adequate substitute for stationing more guards — reliable guards — at the consulate itself? The guards on the premises when the attack began were Stevens's only hope for survival; a team from the annex did in fact leave soon after the attack began to try to rescue him but it was already too late. Security professionals like Eric Nordstrom who were stationed in Libya repeatedly asked for more security notwithstanding the annex's presence in Benghazi. Obviously a lot of people thought back-up from the CIA team wasn't enough. The WSJ's sources seem to want us to think that State couldn't send more guards or troops to Libya because that would attract attention and maybe blow the CIA's cover. If so, if the only choice here was between the local CIA being found out and the consulate being left so vulnerable that the ambassador was an easy target for murder, then I'm thinking someone somewhere should have done a much better job of plotting this security arrangement.
Two: What does any of this have to do with the burning question of why troops or gunships weren't sent in once the attack had begun? Beware of misdirection, says David French:
What is missing from [the CIA timeline released yesterday]? Any details at all about the military or White House's situational awareness and decision-making. As I detailed on Monday, the White House and Department of Defense no doubt already have a timeline that includes the following information: (a) when the military learned of the attack; (b) the military's state of situational awareness hour-by-hour; (c) whether it received any requests for help; (d) what assets — if any — were available to render aid in time; (e) what recommendations were made; (f) whether any definitive orders were given; and (g) who gave them.
More than six hours passed between the arrival of the Predator drone overhead and the final, deadly attack on the annex. That is more than enough time to make a decision and bring military assets into the fight. Why were they not deployed? The Daily Beast says that the State Department "never requested military backup," but that hardly answers the question. That's typically the responsibility of the ambassador, who was at that very moment cut off, alone, and dying. Interestingly, in that same report the Daily Beast wasn't able to confirm or deny whether CIA officers made requests for air support.
Yeah, the State/CIA security arrangement at the consulate is interesting but it's only relevant to what happened before the attack. There's a separate question of what the White House did, or didn't do, during the attack to try to save Americans stranded at the annex after they'd been evacuated from the consulate. A Pentagon spokesman said today that rapid-response Marine teams in Sicily "were not in place until after the attacks were over." But … why not? It was 9/11. Given the Al Qaeda presence and weak central government, there was arguably no place more dangerous for an American diplomat than Libya. According to Fox News, the consulate itself had been tipped hours before the attack that something was coming. How rapid are these rapid reaction teams if that's not enough warning to get people on the ground during an attack that raged on and off for eight hours?


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The Old Ball is an original version of the Pokéball that serves as a precursor to the modern-day design of the Pokéball. It first appeared in Celebi: Voice of the Forest, and was used by Sammy. This Pokéball is able to release Pokémon by unscrewing the red lid on its top, and seems only to work by holding it away from the Trainer. It is relatively plain in its design, as opposed to its current design. The Old Ball has a grey surface area with a single black strip extending across its surface area. There are two small domes jutting out above the black strip, and there is a small red cap which serves as the release function. It seems that the Old Ball cannot be thrown to release its held Pokémon; primarily due to the fact that it is an outdated version of the current model.
In the film, Sammy used it primarily to store his Charmeleon.


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Modesty wrote:Wow... this might get me to build castle again!
as a side note, who made that CCIV picture? It looks like a Mike Rayhawk, but I can't be sure.
Can the fortified wall just be like the front of a castle or something?
(A very special thanks to all those who work so hard to set this up and for the prize donators.)
I have a question. Would a restaurant with a bridge in its design fall under bridges?
garraofthesand wrote:Well, if its only a small bridge, can i enter it under miscellanous?
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From a press release we put out this morning:
The Affordable Care Act's most controversial component – the mandate requiring everyone to have health insurance – is still two years away. But two years after the law's enactment, many Washington consumers are quietly benefitting from many of the laws lesser-noticed provisions.
"The Affordable Care Act's individual mandate gets most of the attention, but it shouldn't overshadow the success stories of the early reforms," said Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler. "By far the most popular benefit of health reform that we hear about is the ability for parents to keep their adult kids on their health plans – especially in today's economy – and there are many more."
Among the changes that have already taken effect here in Washington state:
■More than 2.4 million Washingtonians no longer face lifetime limits on their health benefits.
■More than 52,000 young adults up to age 26 have been able to stay on their parents' health plans.
■More than 1.2 million Washingtonians now have coverage for preventive care with no co-pays or deductibles.
For much more information about what's changed and is changing, click on the link above.
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As far as links go, I'm a pretty good one. We've known each other since freshman year of high school. They seated us alphabetically in homeroom. She was Crowe. And since we had a small school (and very few "D" and "E" names), I (Fox) was seated right behind her. We got to be friends and the rest is history.
Very detailed history.
You see, when the federal agents want to know things, they want facts and plenty of them. And I should know lots of things because, well, I still see my friend whenever she's in the states. We talk all the time and I visit her in whatever country she's in (a little less now with kids and book contracts). Unfortunately, I am not a real detail person. As evidenced every time the agents knock on my door to talk about my friend.
Agent: How well do you know this person?
Me: Very well. I met her in high school and she was even the maid of honor at my wedding.
Agent: You knew her in high school.
Me: Yes.
Agent: Where did she work in high school?
Me: You've got to be kidding.
Agent: You know this person?
Who remembers where their friends worked in high school? Not me. I did manage to stumble out something about a summer camp where my friend taught gymnastics. Naturally, the agent wanted to know the name of the camp. Err...Gymnastics-R-Us? Really, who keeps track of these things? (Note: If you're one of those people who does keep track of things, you can pipe down right now.)
They also had questions about my job.
Agent: What do you do for a living?
Me: I write books.
Agent: That people read?
Me: Not all the time, no.
I thought that was pretty funny. Turns out, federal agents have no sense of humor.
Luckily, (and probably despite me) my friend has managed to keep her security clearance. So far. Good thing, because she really is great at what she does. After all, she kept me from getting arrested in Mexico City over a slight misunderstanding with la policia. They wanted a bribe. I wanted to see how well I could get by on high school Spanish (Hint: not that well).
And as far as I'm concerned, friendship is more than remembering the address of my friend's place in grad school. Instead, I remember crashing on the couch of said place. Oh, and the time she visited St. Louis and her grandmother took her to the store to buy batteries for her alarm clock. Aileen is legally deaf, so she has one of those alarm clocks that shakes instead of buzzes (hard to hear a buzz when your hearing aids are out). So naturally, her grandmother asked the sales clerk for "batteries for her granddaughter's vibrator."
But do the agents ask about that?
They don't ask the important things. Not that I would tell them anyway. Some things are better left to friends.


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The Ravens weren't alone in getting off to a troubling start to the season following their 49-27 blowout loss to the Denver Broncos in which Peyton Manning tied an NFL record with seven touchdown passes.
Every AFC North division team is winless following their first game.
The Pittburgh Steelers' 16-9 loss to the Tennessee Titans was also marked by season-ending injuries to three key players.
Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, linebacker Larry Foote is out for the year with a biceps injury and running back La'Rod Stephens-Howling is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
The Steelers are bringing back running back Jonathan Dwyer after rushing for just 32 yards on 15 carries as quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was sacked five times.
The Cincinnati Bengals had a narrow loss to the Chicago Bears, falling 24-21. They collapsed after building a lead as the Bears scored the final 14 points of the game, intercepting Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton twice overall.
The game-winning touchdown was scored by Bears star wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who finished with eight receptions for 104 yards. The Bengals at least had some decent moments as wide receiver A.J. Green led them with nine receptions for 162 yards and two touchdowns.
The Cleveland Browns' 23-10 loss to the Miami Dolphins was marred by quarterback Brandon Weeden throwing three interceptions as running back Trent Richardson was held to 47 rushing yards. Weeden was sacked six times as Cameron Wake had a game-high 2.5 sacks.
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Featuring a supersoft and snuggly design, this shark blanket is designed to keep kids snuggled up and warm
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- Supersoft and snuggly
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Aflicktion: Tempest in a Tea Pot
January 5, 2007
Originally uploaded from my Flickr account ocean.flynn.
I seemed to be disembodied, living through the digital images that appeared by magic on my Dell laptop screen. It was minus forty or fifty degrees. There was no taxi service so the town was shut down for me. Severe weather warnings were issued from Environment Canada. Suddenly a blinding sun broke through. I pulled on my army parka, leggings, mittens and Pangnirtung hat, grabbed my Kodak and headed outside to the breakwater. This image encapsulates the entire experience.
I attempted a number of reductions with this .png image but it created white noise. I tried an even smaller resolution and the noise is still there.
There were many painful things that I tried to forget but these images keep flashing into my mind and I am back there again. I am embarrassed that the loss of this silly lap top remains as such a crushing memory considering the suicides, the murder, the stories of everyday violences against human dignity. Having the laptop confiscated without warning is a metaphor for my inability to process the memories, a missing archives, a secret archives, an archives fever.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. "Afliction: Tempest in a Tea Pot." Uploaded 2007/01/05. Creative Commons 2.5 BY-NC-SA.
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December 11, 2006
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Somewhere on the Pacific a small lifeboat shared by two unwilling and unlikely passengers rolled with the waves. Pi knew he could do more than just survive once he realized that Richard was dependent on him. Pi could fish. A Bengal Tiger, king of his own ecosystem, would die at sea without the help of the seventeen-year-old. The book really ended there; it didn't matter after that what was truth or fiction. Pi's understanding of power in everyday life was his new reality.
Speechless refers to both the writer and reader. At one level it's about a writers' block being blogged. At another level is refers to deafening silence that occurs when one speaks with too much feeling or mentions an uncomfortable idea in a nice place, a unpleasant reminder in polite company, a divergent idea in a space of group think, another perspective than the Renaissance perspective. But it also refers to robust conversations among political philosophers who understand the power of language and everyday life. Socrates, Plato, Derrida called for renewals in philosophy. They examined what we do with words, the role of memory. Speechless alludes to Derrida's urgent appeal for a renewed democracy, for a revitalized philosophy from a cosmopolitical point of view.
The human eye can distinguish 16 values of grey but that's not including the subtle differences in the colours of grey. We just don't have the time to see the variations.
I began speechless on October 16, 2006. Two months later I have learned what a permalink is and how to make one. It's the equivalent to the old web page's index.html. Now I have to learn where to use it.
The cloud of tags below has grown organically since I first began using WordPress as my main blog host on October 16, 2006. I am building my customized clouds of folksonomies by working on and learning from a number of Web 2.0 feeds. This includes a Flickr account for photo blogging which attracts alot of viewers. I have only a couple of dozen images but one image alone uploaded on October 22, 2006 was viewed 1,179 times over a period of 64 days! I reworked this image again and posted it on speechless under "Wave Algorithms."
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Benign colonialism is a term that refers to an alleged form of colonialism in which benefits outweighed risks for indigenous population whose lands, resources, rights and freedoms were preempted by a colonizing nation-state. The historical source for the concept of benign colonialism resides with John Stuart Mills who was chief examiner of the British East India Company dealing with British interests in India in the 1820s and 1830s. Mills most well-known essays (1844) on benign colonialism are found in Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. Mills' view contrasted with Burkean orientalists. Mills promoted the training of a corps of bureaucrats indigenous to India who could adopt the modern liberal perspective and values of 19th century Britain. Mills predicted this group's eventual governance of India would be based on British values and perspectives. Those who adopt benign colonialism as a truth claim argue that education, health, housing and employment possibilities improved conditions for indigenous peoples as settlers, merchants and administrators also brought new industries, liberal markets, developed natural resources and introduced improved governance. The first wave of benign colonialism lasted from c. 1790s-1960s. The second wave included new colonial policies such as exemplified in Hong Kong (Liu 2003)), where unfettered expansion of the market created a new form of benign colonialism. Political interference and military interference (Doyle 2006) in independent nation-states, such as Iraq (Campo 2004 ), is also discussed under the rubric of benign colonialism in which a foreign power preempts national governance to protect a higher concept of freedom. The term is also used in the 21st century to refer to American, French and Chinese market activities in countries on the African continent with massive quantities of underdeveloped nonrenewable envied resources. Literature that challenges the assumptions of benign colonialism claiming colonialist project as it actually unfolded placed First Nations, Inuit and Métis at higher risks of vulnerabilities to catastrophes, to social exclusion and human rights abuses, have not been as widely publicized.
For more see Flynn-Burhoe (2007).
There is a widespread Canadian mythology that First Nations, Inuit and Métis are among those who benefited from settler colonies prempting, improving, managing and governing aboriginal lands, resources and educating, training, developing, serving, monitoring and governing its peoples. Those who adopt benign colonialism as a truth claim argue that education, health, housing and employment possibilities improved conditions for the indigenous peoples since the arrival of settlers. Literature that challenges the assumptions of benign colonialism claiming colonialist project as it actually unfolded placed First Nations, Inuit and Métis at higher risks of vulnerabilities to catastrophes, to social exclusion and human rights abuses, have not been as widely publicized. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) addressed these claims but the term benign colonialism is still a convenient truth for many. Celebratory and one-sided social histories of the Hudson's Bay Company, the RCMP, and various government leaders such as John A. MacDonald or civil servants such as Indian Agents, northern adventurers, when viewed through the lens of settlers while ignoring the perspective of First Nations, Inuit and Métis contribute to on-going dissemination of distorted histories. Museums, maps and census contribute to these distorted histories by grave omissions.
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"Today, Mill's most controversial case would be benign colonialism. His principles of nonintervention only hold among "civilized" nations. "Uncivilized" peoples, among whom Mill dumps most of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, are not fit for the principle of nonintervention. Like Oude (in India), they suffer four debilitating infirmities – despotism, anarchy, amoral presentism and familism — that make them incapable of self-determination. The people are imposed upon by a "despot… so oppressive and extortionate as to devastate the country." Despotism long endured has produced "such a state of nerveless imbecility that everyone subject to their will, who had not the means of defending himself by his own armed followers, was the prey of anybody who had a band of ruffians in his pay." The people as a result deteriorate into amoral relations in which the present overwhelms the future and no contracts can be relied upon. Moral duties extend no further than the family; national or civic identity is altogether absent. In these circumstances, Mill claims, benign colonialism is best for the population . Normal relations cannot be maintained in such an anarchic and lawless environment. It is important to note that Mill advocates neither exploitation nor racialist domination. He applies the same reasoning to once primitive northern Europeans who benefited from the imperial rule imposed by civilized Romans. The duties of paternal care, moreover, are real, precluding oppression and exploitation and requiring care and education designed to one day fit the colonized people for independent national existence. Nonetheless, the argument also rests on (wildly distorted) readings of the history and culture of Africa and Asia and Latin America. Anarchy and despotic oppression did afflict many of the peoples in these regions, but ancient cultures embodying deep senses of social obligation made nonsense of presentism and familism. Shorn of its cultural "Orientalism," Mill's argument for trusteeship addresses one serious gap in our strategies of humanitarian assistance: the devastations that cannot be readily redressed by a quick intervention designed to liberate an oppressed people from the clutches of foreign oppression or a domestic despot. But how does one prevent benign trusteeship from becoming malign imperialism, particularly when one recalls the flowery words and humanitarian intentions that accompanied the conquerors of Africa? How far is it from the Anti-Slavery Campaign and the Aborigine Rights Protection Society to King Leopold's Congo and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"?
Here Doyle is referring to John S. Mill cited in "A Few Words on Nonintervention." . 1973. In Essays on Politics and Culture, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb, 368-84. Gloucester, Peter Smith.
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Campo, Juan E. 2004. "Benign Colonialism? The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue." Interventionism. 26:1. Spring.
Doyle, Michael W. 2006. "Sovereignty and Humanitarian Military Intervention." Hoover Institute.
Falk, Richard. Human Rights Horizons: the Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World. New York & London: Routledge.
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2007. Benign colonialism. >> Speechless. Uploaded January 14th, 2007
Liu, Henry C. K. "China: a Case of Self-Delusion: Part 1: From colonialism to confusionLiu 2003." Asia Times. May 14, 2003.
Kurtz,Stanley. 2003."Lessons from the British in India." Democratic Imperialism: A Blueprint. Policy Review.Mill, John Stuart. 1844. Essays on some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy.
Of these Essays, which were written in 1829 and 1830,
Current debates on colonization and human rights (Falk 2000) raise questions about the notion of benign colonialism. The dominant language, culture and values of colonizers imposed on colonised peoples is often narrated as salutary. Dominant social and cultural institutions contributed to faciliating the entry of indigenous peoples trapped in unsustainable subsistence economies. Previously colonised peoples claim that the colonization process resulted in a parallel process of the colonization of the minds of indigenous peoples. The process of decolonization of memory (Ricoeur 1980), history and the spirit is crucial for the social inclusion (OECD) of indigenous peoples and nations within nations, such as Canada.
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Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002
December 3, 2006
Fantasy Palace, Iqaluit, Nunavut June 27, 2002@ Flickr
This is a partial truth, more like a flicktion, or a dream, or the virtual than the real. It's not science or art, more like an invention or innovation. Pieces of this a flicktion are scattered throughout my semi-nomadic cybercamps like tiny inukshuk on a global landscape. It mimics visual anthropology but isn't. It imitates ethnography but lacks the objectivity. There are words written, pictures taken of events, dates, settings, stages and characters without an author. Maybe it's the wrong venue in a photo album of beaming faces, stunning scenery, professional photographers, travelers, techies, retirees. But we can all choose to follow each others sign posts in this cyberspace or move on. This is the power of this new social space spun in CyberWeb 2.0.
Cultural ethnographers are supposed to return to their academic spaces, sharpen their methodological tools to a tip that almost cuts the paper they write on (and too often the culture, pop or otherwise they are writing about). You're not supposed to return from the field with their your mind numbed from the frosted words of those who were seduced by the gold mine of benign colonialism, their voices confident, mocking, paternalistic, jaded by years, or decades of northern experience (1970s-2002). Your were supposed to leave the field with the pace of your beating heart uninterrupted inside your embodied self. You weren't supposed to leave your a chunk of your soul in that graveyard in Pangnirtung on the Cumberland Sound. This is just lack of professionalism. Get a grip. Just write that comprehensive, proposal, dissertation. Move on. It's just the way it is.
In this coffee shop sipping a cup of freshly brewed French Roast, (better than a Vancouver Starbucks!), SWF listened with her eyes. She was compassionate but ever so slightly distant. She doesn't seem to realize how much others from the outside can perceive her knowledge. It is what at times makes her intimidating. Her three generation life story is the stuff of Inuit social history. She seems to almost be unaware of how important that story is. She was surprised that the First Nations cared about the creation of Nunavut. I remember our first class together. She spoke so softly but she was so firm, so insistent, modest and dignified. The wails I had heard by the open graves that still echo in my mind, were all too familiar to her. Slowly, insistently she explained to me as if I really needed to listen, remember, register this.
"We do not need your tears. We have enough of our own. We do not need you to fix this. We need your respect. We need you to not make it worse. We need you to listen to us, really listen. Alone, with no resources an elder has been taking them out on the land. She gets no funding. What she has done works. The funding is going elsewhere on projects that are promoted by the insiders. Inuit like her are not insiders."
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Fishbowl writing
November 13, 2006
The fishbowl often half-filled or empty reflecting my own image and the subtle changes in light of my embodied living space became a visual metaphor for the complex reflexive way I see and live the world. I took this image on April 15, 2006 from our Cowichan Bay home which looks out over Mount Tzuhalem, Saltspring Island, the Cowichan and Koksilah rivers watershed which feeds into Cowichan bay. In April I was barely beginning to identify places through maps, naming, etc. It was the first image I uploaded to Flickr on September 12, 2006 when I registered with their free online digital image-sharing service. I called it
"Mirrored mountain, marina and clouds" and the text I inserted was a paragraph copied from the home page of the Hul'qumi'num First Nations. I began to seriously explore the customized features of Google Earth on August 8, 2006 after returning from an overwhelmingly beautiful, stimulating Sea-to-Sky-to-Sea road trip. I wanted to relive the entire experience virtually learning by navigating through search engines. Then my real world entertainment technical tools gave up the ghost in unison: TV, VCR and digital camera all within ten days! So I switched from blurking other people's blogs to making my own. 772 people have viewed Speechless since I uploaded my first blog entry 2006/10/03 entitled "Navigation Tools for the Blogosphere." 574 people have viewed the 17 images I posted through Flickr over the past two months, 66 people viewed this one alone.
Today I would like to send out a message to embodied friends in the real world, that I need a drive to the gym; or a visit from an embodied person. I have a goal to return to my three-times-a-week gym sessions. I will begin today by packing my gym bag ready to go. My walking buddy cannot walk anymore because of her knee condition.
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I wrote this a few weeks ago as part of another entry. I am learning how to better use the artful science of folksonomy, so I separated the two entries to fit the tags. Do I train my tags or do they train me?
Strange it is that I am still unable after all these months to pick up the phone to call a dear friend or family member or to write them a personal email but I feel safe, solitary and satisfied while growing this strange, organic rhizome of virtual synapses from the security of my fish bowl here in this tiny but stunning island village. It is easier for me to compose the bulk of this reference letter as a blog than it is to open an MS Word document and write it. How can I be so verbiose and speechless at the same time?
Well, I've just gotten off the phone with a lawyer whose daughter was a former student. She's now applying for law school and needs a reference. The letter would have written itself since she has such a stellar personality but I had asked to talk with someone who knows her well so I could refine adjectives and situate the fine qualities I had come to know within the broader framework of where she has been and where she is going. I had cautioned her that I am on medical leave and have not been doing teaching or research since 2005 and a letter from me might have no academic capital. But she still preferred to ask me. It is a bit ironical because that class was the last I taught at the university that turned me into a ghost, a non-entity in the department. Talking to her father reminded me of why I loved teaching so much. With or without my letter this young woman will become a fine lawyer with a fresh approach who will examine the law from a broader perspective. She isn't afraid to ask "Why?" Her creative, original arguments will make judges blink without being disrespectful. Her clients will be in excellent hands. She will model ground rules of fair play by debating her arguments skillfully and forcefully without belittling her opponents or making personal attacks. She recognizes her God-given talents but they have not made her arrogant or boastful. Although she is a strong advocate of human rights she has a heightened sense of inclusivity and is therefore not blind-sided by the 'we' question. While she has the courage to take risks she is not rash or imprudent as it is in her nature to be reflexive in her thinking.
Her father acknowledged that the law itself is not rigid and timeless but organic and changing as we evolve. I understood that he was reminding me that something might be legal without being ethical. I found these useful citations through Google which I have added to my del.icio.us bookmarks.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Jacques Anatole François Thibault) (1894) The Red Lily
What does it profit a poor and ignorant man that he is equal to his strong antagonist before the law if there is no one to inform him what the law is? Or that the courts are open to him on the same terms as all other persons when he has not the wherewithal to pay the admission fee?" Vance, William (1926) "The Historical Background of the Legal Aid Movement," The Annals from the National Equal Justice Library
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