text: Learning Opportunity - .NET Terrarium is back! July 16, '08 Comments [17] Posted in Back to Basics | Learning .NET Sponsored By Bil Simser has just done the .NET Community a huge solid. Bil has dug up and re-released Terrarium to CodePlex wtih the intent to update it to use new language features and new usability features like ClickOnce. If you're newish to the .NET Community (<3-5 years?) you might not have heard of Terrarium. There was a time when it was the tool for getting newbies excited about learning .NET. I showed dozens of high-school and college students how to program using Terrarium. Back at my last company one of our engineers did brown bag lunches on good bug design and ran a Terrarium Server internally. Terrarium hasn't been even looked at by the Microsoft SDK team in two years, as live happens, you know. Bil hunted them down, did a bunch of paperwork and it's back. You can check out the source or download the release. You can run it alone, just a world in a box, or you can hook it up to a server and that's where it gets interesting, as your bugs all live in a connected world. Your animals have Idle (event-based) loops that you can react to, and who amongst us hasn't wanted to write these lines of code at least once? // Reproduce as often as possible if (CanReproduce) BeginReproduction(null); Now you have the chance. A great lunchtime project is to get a bunch of the nerds from your company in a room, teach them Terrarium and have a battle! Personally, I'm a lover, not a fighter, so I run away when attacked. private void MyAnimal_Attacked(object sender, AttackedEventArgs e){ if (e.Attacker.IsAlive) { AnimalState TheAttacker = e.Attacker; BeginDefending(TheAttacker); //defend against the attacker WriteTrace("Run away to some random point"); int X = OrganismRandom.Next(0, WorldWidth - 1); int Y = OrganismRandom.Next(0, WorldHeight - 1); BeginMoving(new MovementVector(new Point(X, Y), 10)); }} Go check out the release of Terrarium and download the app, SDK and server. There will be more to come on Bil's Blog, I'm sure. He'll also be running a public Terrarium Server. It's exciting to see this blast from the past. Now I think it's time for me to visit a local High School Computer Science class again some lunchtime... One of the things I think will be interesting to see, is if folks come up with better patterns for managing state within these animals. Many Terrarium animals end up with Idle loops that look like Arrow Code. if if if if do something endif endif endif endif This isn't nice to look at, and it would promote bad habits if it was the first kind of code someone new to programming ever saw. The world has changed since this was released in 2002. The race is on and now I ask: Who will write the first aesthetically pleasing (from a code perspective) Terrarium Animal? The first F# Terrarium animal? The first Ruby (DLR) Terrarium animal? Boo? Nemerle? IronPython? Enjoy! UPDATE: I've got this running on my XP machine and my XP VMs but because of missing DirectX 6/7 DLLs I can't get it running under Vista. Possible workaround in the comments below. It'll likely be faster to just recompile it. I'll talk to Bil and see what's up. Related Links Five Year Old Tutorial on how to Write An Animal for Terrarium. « New Modules for IIS7: Application Reques... | Blog Home | ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and A... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [17] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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Let your voice be heard
Residents in Greene, Jones and Lenoir counties have the opportunity to let their voices be heard about the quality of their local library by filling out a survey produced by Neuse Regional Library System.
Justin Stout, reference librarian and grant specialist at the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library, said the library system is doing the survey along with a consultant as part of the system�s five-year plan. The consultant is being paid for by a grant from the Federal Library Services and Technology Act.
�We are currently going through a planning process to update our future planning to better serve the patrons in Lenoir, Greene and Jones counties,� Stout said.
He said the consultant has formed a committee, comprised of people within the library, Friends of the Library board members and people from the local community.
�In order to better identify what our community needs, we are doing this current survey to get input directly from the user,� he said.
Stout said the system had done surveys in previous years, with the latest one coming in 2010. He said the library system received a favorable response, but they were able to identify some changes to improve the system.
Stout said he hopes the survey will help the library plan for the future.
�We want to see what our patrons want from us. We see people every day, but we don�t get a chance often, to directly as them what they want to see their library become,� he said.
Stout said in order to encourage participation, the library system is offering a chance to win a $25 gift card to Wal-Mart to anyone who fills out the survey.
Residents can fill out the survey listed below or online at http://www.neuselibrary.org/.
All printed surveys can either be submitted at a local Neuse Regional Library branch, or mailed to 510 North Queen Street, Kinston NC 28501. The survey runs through Nov. 30.
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All print surveys may either be submitted at a local Neuse Regional Library branch, or mailed to 510 North Queen Street, Kinston NC 28501.
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After months of "will he or won't he" speculation, President Obama has finally made a decision to ship some 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, part of a plan he'll lay out for the American public tonight in a televised address.
Obama's task tonight is to rally an increasingly skeptical nation's support for the troop buildup. Pundits say he has his work cut out for him.
- David Corn at Politics Daily writes that Obama is obligated to explain how he can simultaneously declare the Afghan war must be won but vow that the commitment is not "open-ended." "Whatever the finer points of his Afghanistan to-do list, Obama is conveying a dual message at war with itself: This must be done, this won't last forever," Corn writes.
- Real Clear Politics' Pierre Atlas shared Corn's doubts, writing that no matter what plan Obama unveils, it's moot unless the administration pledges to follow it until the job is done. "No strategy -- regardless of the number of troops involved -- will likely succeed if we are not willing to see it through to completion," according to Atlas.
- The editorial board at the Miami Herald also questioned Obama, saying the commander in chief is attempting to accomplish a "political feat that has eluded his predecessors: rallying public opinion behind a war that is fast losing public support." The way Obama can make it work, according to the Herald? Clear benchmarks and global alliances -- with a little help from the president's magical gift of gab.
- Conservative columnist Jed Babbin at blog Human Events predicted a total Obama breakdown, saying the president "will get it entirely wrong" with his Afghan strategy. "Obama wants to fight a penny-pinching, politically-correct war...Which can only bring defeat," Babbin writes.
- It wasn't as black and white for Slate's Fred Kaplan, who blogs that he's not sure whether he agrees with Obama's decision, but that no matter what tack the president takes, he's got to be confident in his approach. Kaplan's view: "A columnist can be ambivalent; a president can't."


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Rabbi Bechhofer's incredible "chidush" that vigilante coercion can't invalidate a get - only an action connected to beis din]]
James (May 3, 2012) wrote : Even if it [ORA's actiities] is humiliation, (and I do not think it is) it is not humiliation ordered by the Beth Din. There is nothing new with publishing seruvim and calling the public to urge Aharon to give a GET. The only thing different is that ORA has decided to use the Internet to organize the public in a way that was never possible before the advent of the Internet. This is a private action
James has raised a very important issue which we seem to have been missed in all the debate. When ORA holds demonstrations is it to be viewed as an agent of beis din or as private citizen? Rabbi Ralbag - a member of the Beis Din that urged Aharon to give a get to Tamar told my brother that the declaration of his beis din did not authorize demonstrations. It would thus seem that ORA is not the agent of this beis din. Is it the agent of any beis din? Does Rav Schachter's approval constitute a beis din or does he have a private beis din which authorized this?
In sum. It follows from the initial premise that as long as the force is unrelated to beis din we avoid all the tiresome discussion of what constitutes legitimate pressure according to Rabbeinu Tam or Rambam etc etc. Thus if this idea is correct - any and all types of force can be applied to force the get - because it is only vigilante action and not the legitimate psak of beis din!


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Faculty News: New Profs Arrive
Ryan Halter, assistant professor of engineering, brings expertise in the fields of engineering mechanics and biomedical engineering. His current research projects include electrical impedance imaging for breast cancer and prostate cancer screening. After completing his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in engineering mechanics at Pennsylvania State University, he earned his Ph.D. from Thayer School in 2006.
Songbai Ji, assistant professor of engineering, is currently working on image-guided neurosurgery. He completed his B.Sc. in materials science at Shanghai Jiaotong University and his M.S. in computer science and D.Sc. in mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. His interests include image analysis, finite element, and numerical methods.
Frederic Leblond, assistant professor of engineering, is currently focusing his research on fluorescence-guided neurosurgery and fluorescence imaging. He received his B.Eng. from École Polytechnique de Montréal, his M.Sc. in physics from Université Laval, and his Ph.D. from McGill.
Kofi Odame, assistant professor of engineering, specializes in electrical and computer engineering. He joined the Thayer community in September 2008 after completing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as M.S. and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University. His research interests include biologically inspired cochlear implants and rain-computer-interface front-ends. Odame will also be teaching ENGS 32: Electronics: Introduction to Linear and Digital Circuits.
Subhadra Srinivasan, assistant professor of engineering, completed her bachelor's degree in technology, electronics and communication engineering at Pondicherry University in India. She earned her Ph.D. from Thayer School in 2005. She is focusing her research on near-infrared imaging, fluorescence imaging, and non-linear image reconstruction techniques.
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Is this your first trip to MoMA?
I used to live in Forest Hills when I was young. I went to school at Pratt to study painting, so I used to come here all the time. I've been a member ever since I was a student. I live in Massachusetts now, but this is where I come the moment I get into NYC.
How often do you come down here?
We have a timeshare in NYC, so we come down pretty often. MoMA is my second skin. You can't check in at the hotel until 4:00 p.m., so we always come here first. It's like Thanksgiving, the holidays—it's a homecoming. It's a relative. Yet every time I come here it's exciting because there's always something new.
Has the Museum changed much since your first visit here?
There's more to see and more to know—it was much smaller back then. The architecture too has really become part of the experience. It's like a yin yang. There's so much to look at. Yes, there's the collection, but then you stop to look at the Museum itself. I was just sitting here staring at the windows and admiring the details—it's just exquisite.


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Black Duck Software is the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source and third-party code. Black Duck ® enables companies to shorten time-to-market and reduce development and maintenance costs while mitigating the risks and challenges associated with open source reuse, including hidden license obligations, security vulnerabilities, unsupported open source and version proliferation. The company is headquartered near Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Hong Kong, as well as distribution partners throughout the world. For more information, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.
BugSense is a real-time crash report tool that helps developers discover if their app has crashed and why. Mobile developers have to support an ever increasing number of different combinations of Android OS versions, devices and user settings, which can be a tedious or even impossible task. Mobile apps lack a centralized error log and BugSense is the solution. BugSense not only reports the error but also the context that the developers need in order to fix and improve their apps.
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Meshin, a project incubated inside Xerox PARC, grew from PARC's world-renowned semantic software application research. Meshin's team, with support from PARC researchers, have created a context-aware information services platform that links disparate information across communications streams, presenting users with a contextually unified, prioritized view that promotes rapid understanding and action.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of software for personal and business computing. Microsoft provides an integrated platform and suite of online services that enables a seamless experience for developers, consumers, and businesses across platforms, applications, and devices. From Silverlight to ASP.NET, Windows Server to SharePoint, Live Services to Internet Explorer, Microsoft is the only company with the full complement of technologies and solutions that can foster the next wave of innovation on the Web. Get ahead of your competition and grow your business on the Web by delivering new user experiences and capabilities that your customers demand.
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MIPS Technologies is a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications. The MIPS architecture powers some of the world's most popular products, including the majority of DTVs and set-top boxes available today. Through our 'Android on MIPS' initiative, our customers have already brought to market set-top boxes, digital televisions, tablets, smartphones and other Android devices based on the MIPS architecture. Android development is a major focus for the company. Explore the career opportunities for Android kernel developers at MIPS. Meet MIPS' Android team and hiring managers. Sponsor's Gallery, Monday/Tuesday, October 10th/11th.
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Ralph and I have a secret little spot of heaven tucked away in a wooded area that leads to a Private Beach. It's so hard to keep our secret spot Hush Hush when I just want to tell everyone to go there! We have been going there for years, it doesn't matter the weather. We go up every Valentine's Day for the weekend and throughout the year not just the summer. There is rarely anyone ever there I think we have only seen two people in the 5 years of going there and the area is seemingly remote. We have searched for treasure; have fed wild animals, watched seals on the embankments, had romantic spring picnics, kayaked, baked in the sun, snorkeled, had fires, snowball fights, watched fireworks, sunsets & sunrises, fished, flew kites, found crabs & shells, held hands & Kissed in the moonlight. We cherish our secret spot and the best part is we have a beautiful ocean front house to stay at when we go there. As we get close my heart starts to flutter, and the rush of memories consume my body. I Love our Secret Little Spot…..
|The Stairs that lead to our Little Oasis.
|Picnic's are Always Romantic
|This is one of my Favorite pictures...I love it because we didn't know it was being taken. As we were on a wooden Lookout point Laughing Ralph scooped me up and was being silly.....Being in Love captured Forever in a single Picture.
The Only other Two People that know about and have been to our Secret Spot.
*I love all these pictures, they hold a sense of mystery and makes our spot seem a little more secret. Excited that in 10 days Ralph and I will be spending a much needed weekend away at our Special Place..... Until Then.
Might change the date of "La Sarah Spa Night" to our Weekend Get-a-Way ;)
Might change the date of "La Sarah Spa Night" to our Weekend Get-a-Way ;)


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BIND 9 Dynamic Update DoS Security Updatelast updated in Categories BIND Dns, CentOS, Debian Linux, fedora linux, FreeBSD, Howto, Linux, Networking, package management, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Security, Solaris, Suse Linux, Sys admin, UNIX, Windows server
BIND 9 is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. named daemon is an Internet Domain Name Server for UNIX like operating systems. Dynamic update messages may be used to update records in a master zone on a nameserver. When named receives a specially crafted dynamic update message an internal assertion check is triggered which causes named to exit. An attacker which can send DNS requests to a nameserver can cause it to exit, thus creating a Denial of Service situation. configuring named to ignore dynamic updates is NOT sufficient to protect it from this vulnerability. This exploit is public. Please upgrade immediately.


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Meet-and-Greet following Stanford Men's Soccer Game
Who: Adam Jahn
Where: Cagan Stadium, 641 Nelson Road, Stanford, CA 94305
When: Sunday, November 3 following the game (game starts at 1 p.m.)
Details: Adam Jahn will be signing autographs following the game as part of Stanford's "Professional Sports Day"
2013 Earthquakes Award Winners, Presented by Franco Uomo:
The Earthquakes unveiled their 2013 club award winners at their first-ever award gala, presented by Franco Uomo, on Sunday at The Fourth Street Summit Center in Downtown San Jose. The club's MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and Humanitarian of the Year awards were voted on by players, media and the technical staff. Five awards – Game of the Year, Best Goal Celebration, Goal of the Year, Defensive Play of the Year and People's Choice – were voted on by fans.
Game of the Year: Earthquakes vs. LA Galaxy at Stanford Stadium on June 29
Best Goal Celebration: Steven Lenhart vs. Portland Timbers on July 27
Community Partner of the Year: Wells Fargo Goals for Education
Goal of the Year: Alan Gordon vs. LA Galaxy at Stanford Stadium on June 29
Defensive Play of the Year: Jon Busch vs. Seattle Sounders FC on March 23
People's Choice Award: Shea Salinas
Fan of the Year: The McAllister Family
Golden Boot: Chris Wondolowski
Defensive Player of the Year: Jon Busch
Humanitarian of the Year: Justin Morrow
Earthquakes MVP: Sam Cronin
Earthquakes Draw Toluca in CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal
The CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinals will be played in a home-and-away format, with the first legs scheduled for March 11-13, and the return legs on March 18-20. The exact schedule has yet to be announced. The full seeding list is as follows:
Deportivo Toluca, MEX (1) vs. San Jose Earthquakes, USA (8)
Cruz Azul FC, MEX (2) vs. Sporting Kansas City, USA (7)
Club Tijuana, MEX (3) vs. LA Galaxy, USA (6)
Deportivo Árabe Unido, PAN (4) vs. LD Alajuelense, CRC (5)
Corrales Retires
Longtime Earthquakes captain Ramiro Corrales ended his career on a winning note, starting and playing 71 minutes in the club's 2-1 win against FC Dallas on Saturday. He walked onto the field before the game with teammates donning jerseys from his 18 years as a professional. When Rafael Baca called his name midway through the second half, Corrales was carried off the field on his teammates' shoulders. He retires as the all-time Earthquakes leader in starts, games played and minutes played.
Wondolowski Moves Up MLS All-Time List
Chris Wondolowski notched his 34th career game-winning goal in the Earthquakes' 2-1 result against FC Dallas on Saturday. That game winner moved Wondolowski into sole possession of No. 3 on the league's all-time list, three behind Landon Donovan and six behind Jeff Cunningham.
Wondolowski Leads MLS in Game-Winning Goals
For the fourth-straight season, Chris Wondolowski led MLS in game-winning goals. He finished with eight winners in 2013, two ahead of Chicago's Mike Magee. Wondolowski has 34 game-winners in his career, all of which have come since re-joining the Earthquakes in 2009.
Quakes Extend Unbeaten Streak to Seven
The Earthquakes extended their unbeaten streak to seven (5-0-2) with a 2-1 win against FC Dallas on Saturday. Including a pair of CONCACAF Champions League wins, the Earthquakes are 7-0-2 in all competitions since the end of August. San Jose's last loss came against the LA Galaxy on Aug. 31 at the StubHub Center. The Quakes have allowed just two goals during the unbeaten streak.
Home-Unbeaten Streak at 16
The Earthquakes are 11-0-5 since dropping their 2013 home opener on March 3 against Real Salt Lake. That stretch includes a 3-2 win against the LA Galaxy at Stanford Stadium on June 29. San Jose is 8-0-1 at home under interim head coach Mark Watson.
Salinas Notches Career High in Assists
Shea Salinas finished 2013 with a career-high eight assists, one more than his previous mark of seven from 2012. Salinas has 20 assists during his four seasons with San Jose, tied for No. 10 on the club's all-time list with current assistant coach Ian Russell.
Bingham Makes Season Debut
Second-year goalkeeper made his 2013 debut in the club's season finale on Saturday, a 2-1 win against FC Dallas. Bingham made seven saves in his fifth MLS appearance and fourth career start. He is 4-1-0 during that span.
Iron Man
The Earthquakes closed their season with one player who started all of their 34 matches: Sam Cronin. The center midfielder logged 2,971 minutes, playing a full 90 in all but one match.
Mr. October
No player has scored more goals in October than Chris Wondolowski. San Jose's striker added to his total with a goal in the club's 2-1 win against FC Dallas on Saturday, upping his career haul to 18 during the month. The next-closest total is 12 from Rapids striker Edson Buddle. Of those 18 goals, seven have been game-winners, four more than any other MLSer.
Quakes President Dave Kaval's Office Hours
Earthquakes president Dave Kaval's office hours are held every Tuesday between 3 and 5 p.m. Participants are welcome to call or visit in person at our Front Office at 451 El Camino Real, Suite 220 in Santa Clara. In addition, Dave will be holding his office hours from the new stadium site located at 1135 Coleman Ave, San Jose, Calif., on the second Tuesday of each month between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. To make an appointment during his office hours, email Dave directly at email@example.com. Office hour dates are subject to change. Be sure to read his blog, Kaval's Kickoff, available exclusively at www.sjearthquakes.com, and follow him on Twitter at @QuakesPrez.
U-14 Update
The Earthquakes' U-14 Academy squad beat the San Mateo County Stars 8-0on Saturday. Luke Andrews and Amado Lozano each had braces while Pepe Diaz, Aleaxnder Guevara, Chris Sumano and Ivan Valencia accounted for the rest of the scoring. The U-14s are 6-0-0 this season and return to action against the De Anza Force on Sunday, Nov. 3.
U-16 Update
The Earthquakes' U-16s were idle over the weekend and return to action against the De Anza Force on Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Earthquakes Training Facility.
U-18 Update
The Earthquakes' U-18s were idle over the weekend and return to action against the De Anza Force on Sunday, Nov. 3 at the Earthquakes Training Facility.


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The long-awaited first feature film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road is finally hitting theaters later this year, and two clips have landed online. One clip features a scene between Garrett Hedlund's Dean and Kirsten Dunst's Camille, while the other clip centers on Kristen Stewart's character. As you may or may not have heard, Stewart tackles the sexually charged character of Marylou head-on with more than one nude scene, and it's clear from the first reactions to the film that some of her young Twilight fans may be a bit shocked to see their beloved Bella promiscuously taking part in three-ways—if they're old enough to get into the R-rated film in the first place, that is.
On the Road premiered yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival, and we've rounded up some choice quotes from the first reviews. Hit the jump to check out the clips and to see how director Walter Salles' adaptation was received at Cannes.
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Drew McWheeny at Hitfix singled out the performances of Hedlund and Sam Riley in his positive review of the film:
"On The Road does not feel like a dry history lesson, nor is it overly reverent toward its subjects. Instead, Salles, working with screenwriter Jose Rivera, managed to make something that has a pulse of its own, and that's due in no small part to the casting of Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley as Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise. They have a strong, easy chemistry that pays off over the course of the film, and it provides a solid base upon which the rest of the film is built."
James Rocchi noted in his review for The Playlist how refreshing it was to see Stewart free from the restraints of her Bella character in the Twilight series:
"Kristen Stewart is Dean's paramour Marylou, and seeing her liberated from the silly straitjacket of servile moping she has to perform in the Twilight films is a huge relief."
Rocchi adds that a weakness of the film is the audience's disconnect with the actions of the characters:
"If there's one thing that wounds On the Road, it's that the film is full of things — having sex, doing drugs, being free — that are far more enjoyably experienced by one's self as opposed to watching other people enjoy them on screen; even when the free-living, debauched events on screen are at their highest… you still feel pressed against the glass on the other side of the shop window from the goodies."
Owen Gelibermann echoed Rocchi's comments in his EW review:
"The strange thing about the movie, which takes place over several years in the late '40s and early '50s, is that even as we're observing all of these activities, they're a little hard to connect to. Music and wild dancing, unbridled sex, poetic streams of language: These are all good things, but in On the Road they're staged with a resoundingly earnest, museum-piece diligence. And so it's a little hard to experience what the movie wants to give you, which is a contact high."
Eric Kohn addressed the difficulty of translating Kerouac's source material to the screen in his review for IndieWire:
"By its end, On the Road has made a case for how it can work as a movie and why certain aspects of it never can. In essence, the movie is about the book rather than a fleshed-out realization of it."
Kohn notes that Riley is a standout as Sal, but gives notice to Stewart's all-in performance:
"Riley's true counterpoint in the story comes from Stewart's achievement as the giddy, pleasure-seeking Marylou, a credible performance made particularly noteworthy for her current fame in the Twilight franchise; frequently going nude, speaking up and dominating most of her scenes, she buries her movie stardom with this refreshingly non-commercial gig."
All in all, the reviews are surprisingly positive given that many thought Kerouac's novel was utterly unfilmable. Certainly when pulling from prose-like source material the feature adaptation will have narrative issues, but On the Road looks to benefit from some truly impressive lead performances and a ballsy detour for superstar Kristen Stewart.


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In this new post to his site Cal Evans goes through a simple application he's created using the Symfony Command component and some of his gotchas along the way. He shows how, using a trait, he was able to control the output of the command more effectively.
Recently I came up with a project I needed to build. Honestly, it's one of those "not useful to anyone but me" kind of projects. I decided though that while I was at it, I wanted to learn something new. Since I've been a die-hard Zend guy since Zend Framework was 0.2, and more recently a Silex believer, I thought I would drop down a level form Silex and dig into symfony itself. This project is strictly a command line project. No API, no web interface, just a command and a few switches. Digging around I found SymfonyComponentConsoleCommandCommand so I decided to give it a try.
He goes through some of the work he did to pull in the needed packages and create his first command. He creates a "writeln" method to output to the console that contains his check for the verbosity level of the current command options (like "quiet" or "verbose"). He introduces the trait to add some additional handling to this output, making it easier to just drop in the "writeln" functionality in any command of his choosing.


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C.S. Lewis, in The Last Battle, wrote:It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling. He stamped his right fore-hoof on the ground and neighed, and then cried:
"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia so much is because it sometimes looked a little like this."
Sehnsucht is a German word that means "yearning" or "intensely missing", and it is a concept that figures prominently in C.S. Lewis's work. Wikipedia attempts to define it thus:
- It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far-off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify. Furthermore, there is something in the experience which suggests this far-off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home". In this sense it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word. At other times it may seem as a longing for a someone or even a something. But the majority of people who experience it are not conscious of what or who the longed for object may be, and the longing is of such profundity and intensity that the subject may immediately be only aware of the emotion itself and not cognizant that there is a something longed for.
We see this appear in many different ways in The Chronicles of Narnia. To name a few: Caspian's longing for the Old Days, Shasta's yearning for the North, Emeth's unsconscious quest for Aslan, Puddleglum's plainspoken defense against the Lady of the Green Kirtle's enchantment, and—perhaps most powerfully of all—Reepicheep's fierce, fearless yearning to seek the end of the world and Aslan's Country.
In the afterword of the third addition of The Pilgrim's Regress, Lewis described things that evoked the feeling of sehnsucht in him:
C.S. Lewis wrote:That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves
I imagine that experiences of sehnsucht are somewhat unique to individuals. I've often experienced a fierce, inexplicable longing when I look at a beautiful sky and shining clouds—I lose myself, the world falls away. I've felt it when listening to certain strains of music or when reading a line in a book that makes me feel as though the author knew some secret of my soul that I had forgotten. There have even been rare times when I felt like I had stumbled upon a portal to another dimension, until the spell was broken. (You can imagine how someone like Lewis, who experienced sehnsucht so strongly, might come to write stories about slipping in and out of different worlds.)
This thread was inspired by a post by Reepicheep775 in Talk About Narnia, who shared this in his remarks:
Reepicheep775 wrote:It kind of surprises me how little sehnsucht is talked or written about (there isn't even an English equivalent!). Obviously, I only have my own experiences to go by, but like Lewis, it feels like the most important thing I've ever experienced.
It does indeed feel like that... I find myself wanting to search everywhere to recapture it, longing to go back to the places where it happened before, but as the Professor says that the end of LWW: it is the sort of thing that happens when you're not looking for it.


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Recently few countries started to receive A720FXXU2BQI8 Android 7.0 Nougat, the latest firmware for SM-A720F. Latest SM-A720F 7.0 firmware update offer a better security and performance. XXU2BQI8 Android 7.0 Nougat official firmware update can be installed on Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F via OTA or KIES. Apart from these two official process, you can also update your Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F to A720FXXU2BQI8 Android 7.0 Nougat stock firmware by downloading it and flashing it manually. An step by step installation guide is available below. Remember, you can only flash this firmware through Odin, don't try flashing using custom recovery such as CWM recovery or TWRP recovery. Continue reading this guide to learn how to flash A720FXXU2BQI8 Android 7.0 Nougat firmware on Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F.
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Pre Requisites:
Though official firmware restore all existing data but we recommend to back up your data first before proceeding to avoid any uncomfortable situation such as bootloop fix.
1. Backup your device data. You can follow our ultimate backup guide.
2. Make sure your device have at least 60% battery power. You can install an app like Battery Percentage on your Android device to check it easily.
3. You already have USB Driver Installed for Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F in your PC. [Download USB Drivers]
4. Make sure USB Debugging is enabled otherwise you won't able to transfer file between PC and Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F. [Guide].
How To Update Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F via OTA
- First of all make sure you have stable internet connection (Wi-Fi or data network) on your device.
- Now, go to Android app drawer and then select Settings.
- Then locate About Device and tap on it.
- Next select Software update from About device screen.
- Then tap on Update option.
- You should see an update, press OK to download and install. (Remember, download using 3G or network data will incur additional charges to your phone bill!)
- Soon your device will reboot to complete the installation process.
If you see "The latest update have already been installed" massage while checking update then your device yet to receive an OTA update. Check back within few days or jump to next procedure.
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- Make sure you have stable internet connection on your computer.
- Now download and install Samsung Kies on your computer.
- Turn on your device (if it off) and then connect it to computer with USB cable.
- Run Samsung Kies and wait for it to detect your device.
- You should see a New Firmware Upgrade is available at Samsung Kies home screen.
- Press the Firmware Upgrade button to proceed.
- Follow on screen instruction and soon you will see your device running upgrade and reboot automatically. Once done, you can disconnect your device from computer.
Again! If you see "This is the latest firmware" in Samsung Kies, then your device yet to receive the latest update on Kies. Its good time to go for manual update instruction that located below.
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Nepal: NPL-A720FXXU2BQI8-20171010175830.zip
A full country list with firmware download link is available at Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F stock firmware download page.
[Please Note: After flashing this firmware you will lost any installed custom ROM including CM13, AICP, AOKP, Beanstalk, Bliss ROM, Candy5, MoKee, Chroma, Resurrection Remix, Dirty Unicorns, Omni ROM, Slim6, Vanir, Pac-Man and Paranoid Android.]
How To Install A720FXXU2BQI8 Android 7.0 Nougat On Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F Manually
- Download Download Odin3 v3.12.3.
- Extract Firmware zip file that you downloaded earlier from above link, you will get a .tar.md5 file and some other files (optional).
- Extract Odin zip file and you will get Odin3 v3.12.3 along with few other files.
- Power off your Android device. Wait 5-6 seconds for vibration to confirm complete switch off.
- Now, put the Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F in Download Mode by pressing and holding down the Home & Volume Down button together while pressing the Power button. A warning screen will come up; press Volume Up button to enter Download Mode.
- Now run Odin3 v3.12.3 (see Step 3) as an Administrator because Admin privileges is required to complete the process smoothly (only applicable Windows Vista and higher).
- Now connect your device to your PC using USB cable. An "Added!!" massage will appear in Odin's message box. If you don't get the same then you should try another USB port (try USB port located in back in your desktop PC). If that too don't work then you should reinstall the driver. If you successfully see the "Added!!" message in Odin then you are ready to go in next step. You should also see COM port with a number in Yellow if you successfully added your device.
- Click the AP Button, and select that .tar.md5 file that you get in Step 2.
- In Odin window, make sure only Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checkboxes are selected.
- Double check everything that we mentioned in Step 8 & Step 9 above. Now, once satisfied hit the START button to begin the flashing process.
- Once flashing completed, your Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F will restart and soon you will see a PASS message with green background in the left-most box at the very top of the Odin. You can now unplug the USB cable to disconnect your device from computer.
Congrats! You just updated your Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F to Android 7.0 Nougat firmware. Go to Settings > About device to verify this firmware update.
Fix Boot Loop Issue On Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F
If Galaxy A7 2017 SM-A720F stuck at booting animation for more than 10 minutes after Step 11 then follow below instructions:
- Go to recovery mode. To do so, press and hold the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together.
- Now perform Wipe data/Factory Reset and Wipe Cache Partition task before selecting reboot system now function. In recovery mode use Volume keys to navigate between options and Power key to select the option.
Please note, performing wiping task will erase your device internal memory data and not external SD card data.
That's it! Let us know about your latest Android 7.0 Nougat experience.


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Alec Baldwin won't shake the political bug until he gets sworn in to some office, somewhere.
The liberal "30 Rock" actor, who has made no secret of his political ambitions in the past, told CNN's Eliot Spitzer that he's "very interested" in a run for office.
"It's something that I'm very, very interested in," said Baldwin in an interview set to air Wednesday night.
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Baldwin, 52, said what he wants to see from elected leaders is "people who have not lost sight about what the middle class in this country is." And, despite his fame and success, he says that "whatever I've accrued in my career doing that, it hasn't changed me as a person."
Most recently, Baldwin reportedly considered running for Congress on his native Long Island before saying through his agent that "now is not the time." In 2006, Baldwin told The New York Times what office he would most like to hold.
"If I ever ran for anything, the thing I would like to be is governor of New York," he said. And then, he took a shot at another actor who became a politician.
"That's what I hate about Arnold Schwarzenegger," Baldwin said. "His only credentials are that he ran a fitness program under some bygone president...I'm de Tocqueville compared to Schwarzenegger."
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From the first moment when Art Blakey comes crashing in to establish a kinetic Latin groove on the eponymous opening song, Hank Mobley's Roll Call explodes with energy.
The first horn heard here is actually Freddie Hubbard's trumpet, foreshadowing the prominent role that he would have in the sound of this album. The quintet all work together flawlessly here, but Hubbard particularly shines as he plays off of Mobley's fluid riffs and carries more than a few lines himself, sounding particularly athletic and effortless on the closing track, "The Breakdown." Mobley's performance throughout the recording is stylish without being restrained, and the strength of his songwriting shines on five of the album's six songs.
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Risk Analysis Techniques
1. Brainstorming
Is used extensively in formative project planning and can also be used to advantage to identify and postulate risk scenarios for a particular project. It is a simple but effective attempt to help people think creatively in a group setting without feeling inhibited or being criticized by others.
The rules are that each member must try to build on the ideas offered by preceding comments. No criticism or disapproving verbal or nonverbal behaviors are allowed. The intent is to encourage as many ideas as possible, which may in turn, trigger the ideas of others.
2. Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis seeks to place a value on the effect of change of a single variable within a project by analyzing that effect on the project plan. It is the simplest form of risk analysis. Uncertainty and risk are reflected by defining a likely range of variation for each component of the original base case estimate. In practice such an analysis is only done for those variables which have a high impact on cost, time or economic return, and to which the project is most sensitive.
Some of the advantages of sensitivity analysis include impressing management that there is a range of possible outcomes, decision making is more realistic, though perhaps more complex. And the relative importance of each variable examined is readily apparent. Some weaknesses are that variables are treated individually, limiting the extent to which combinations of variables can be assessed, and a sensitivity diagram gives no indication of anticipated probability of occurrence.
3. Probability Analysis
Probability analysis overcomes the limitations of sensitivity analysis by specifying a probability distribution for each variable, and then considering situations where any or all of these variables can be changed at the same time. Defining the probability of occurrence of any specific variable may be quite difficult, particularly as political or commercial environments can change quite rapidly.
As with sensitivity analysis, the range of variation is subjective, but ranges for many time and cost elements of a project estimate should be skewed toward overrun, due to the natural optimism or omission of the estimator.
4. Delphi Method
The basic concept is to derive a consensus using a panel of experts to arrive at a convergent solution to a specific problem. This is particularly useful in arriving at probability assessments relating to future events where the risk impacts are large and critical. The first and vital step is to select a panel of individuals who have experience in the area at issue. For best results, the panel members should not know each other identity and the process should be conducted with each at separate locations.
The responses, together with opinions and justifications, are evaluated and statistical feedback is furnished to each panel member in the next iteration. The process is continued until group responses converge to s specific solution.
5. Monte Carlo
The Monte Carlo method, simulation by means of random numbers, provides a powerful yet simple method of incorporating probabilistic data. Basic steps are:
a. Assess the range of the variables being considered and determine the probability distribution most suited to each.
b. For each variable within its specific range, select a value randomly chosen, taking account of the probability distribution for the occurrence of the variable.
c. Run a deterministic analysis using the combination of values selected for each one of the variables.
d. Repeat steps 2 and 3 a number of times to obtain the probability distribution of the result. Typically between 100 and 1000 iterations are required depending on the number of variables and the degree of confidence required.
6. Decision Tree Analysis
A feature of project work is that a number of options are typically available in the course of reaching the final results. An advantage of decision tree analysis is that it forces consideration of the probability of each outcome. Thus, the likelihood of failure is quantified and some value is place on each decision. This form of risk analysis is usually applied to cost and time considerations, both in choosing between different early investment decisions, and later in considering major changes with uncertain outcomes during project implementation.
7. Utility Theory
Utility theory endeavors to formalize management's attitude towards risk, an approach that is appropriate to decision tree analysis for the calculation of expected values, and also for the assessment of results from sensitivity and probability analyses. However, in practical project work Utility Theory tends to be viewed as rather theoretical.
8. Decision Theory
Is a technique for assisting in reaching decisions under uncertainty and risk. All decisions are based to some extent on uncertain forecasts. Given the criteria selected by the decision-maker, Decision Theory points to the best possible course whether or not the forecasts are accurate.
The Quality Risk
This risk can best be expressed by the question: "What if the project fails to perform as expected during its operational life?" This may well be the result of less than satisfactory quality upon project completion, and is especially true if quality is not given due attention during the project life cycle. Since the in-service life of the resulting product is typically much longer than the period required to plan and produce that product, any quality shortcomings and their effects may surface over a prolonged period of time.
Consequently, of all the project objectives, conformance to quality requirement is the one most remembered long after cost and schedule performance have faded into the past. It follows that quality management can have the most impact on the long-term actual or perceived success of the project.
Risk Perceptions
1. People do not, in fact, demand zero risk. They take risk every day, both consciously and subconsciously, and they are willing and able to take benefit/risk decisions, as in driving and speeding.
2. Peoples' judgment of degrees of risk is not, however, coincident with most methodologies for measuring risk statistically. The public may greatly underestimate familiar risks (e.g. driving) while greatly overestimating unfamiliar risks (e.g. buying a home near a nuclear facility).
3. A variety of emotional, not logical, factors control risk perceptions:
a. Primary is the sense of personal control and the ability to mange the risk
b. Secondary are qualities of familiarity and conversely, dread. The greater the unfamiliarity and potential for connection to gruesome, the more it is likely to be judged as highly risky and therefore unacceptable.
4. Once established, risk perceptions are extremely hard to change. New information may be absorbed by the intellect, but it is not readily absorbed at an emotional level.
5. Risk perceptions reside fundamentally at an emotional level.


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Date: February 13, 1858
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Flo (Flores) McGarrell, an American artist and gender activist, was born in Rome, Italy on August 31, 1974. He died in Jacmel, Haiti in the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
As a student at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (1993-1997) his work and interests quickly moved from figurative painting and drawing to huge inflatable sculptures, and pursued this interest during graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His first one-man show was at he Lisa Dent Gallery in San Francisco (2004). For the last three years of his life, he focused attention on projects for sustainable living: "Agrisculpture,"
involving live plants; and the use of recycled plastic, first shown at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (2007) ; a mosaic of broken and recycled solar cells that could be used to recharge cell phonbes and laptops in Jacmel, Haiti, where McGarrell was director of the FOSAJ (Fanal Otantik Sant d'A Jakmel)
art center. He had been deeply interested in Haitian art and culture since childhood. He was art director of the film "Maggots and Men" (2005), and at the time of his death had produced a short film based on Kathy Acker's Kathy Goes to Haiti as participation in the 2009 Ghetto Biennale of Port-au-Prince. He also exhibited at the AVA Gallery and Art Center of Lebanon, New Hampshire.
His life and untimely death inspired the creation of a new art center in Jacmel (Jakmel Ekspresyons) and the film le Jour y Est by Claudel (Zaka) Chery.
He is survived by his brother Andrew McGarrell of St. Joseph, Missouri, and his parents, James and Ann McGarrell of Newbury, Vermont. For additional information about Flo McGarrell's life and work, please contact Andrew at
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Words and Pictures of Flo
There are plans to rebuild Flo's site; in the meantime there is a capture of the site from the Wayback Machine.
Art21 Blog: in-depth interview
Flo's Flickr album
Collection of pictures gathered by Kiku
Godfather Barnaby's video footage of Flo in Jacmel, days before the earthquake
Tributes from friends
Flo's Facebook page
"Going with Flo" tribute blog
Tribute from Jeanene, who made friends with Flo in Haiti in the weeks before the earthquake hit
Photographer Julie Dermansky's blog posts about Flo
Friend Winnie's tribute (Village Voice)
Brother Andrew's tribute
Wikipedia article
From organizations associated with Flo
flashback memorial to Flo's Roswell project
MICA news release
Main Street Museum
Media stories
Baltimore Sun obituary
Wall Street Journal
San Francisco Examiner
Seven Days, Vermont's independent newspaper
Washington Post
Baltimore City Paper
Bay Area Reporter
WPTZ (New England TV station)
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Gamespot Score: 8.0 (Great)
My Score: 8.5
(+) Pros: - Massive world filled with strange atrocities and exciting loot, - Tons of content to keep you playing for a long time, - Great value, - Co-op with friends is extremely fun, - Tons of fun bosses.
(-) Cons: - Tutorial sucks hard, - No built in multi-player modes.
Gameplay time: Stupid (87 hours for me)
"Terraria" is a really stupid ass game. There's really nothing more I can say about it. Its so f**king stupid, that you'll get hooked on to it as you laugh about it. You'll say this and that, then before you know it, you've already dumped 10 hours into the game. Yes, its that engrossing. Its one of those games that'll probably destroy you for the first few hours, then after you've got the hang of it, you'll start to lose yourself. "Terraria" gets extremely addicting, extremely fast, and its damn hard to pull yourself away...even harder when you're playing with friends. You'll never want to stop playing, you won't want to stop digging, building your house, chopping for wood, anything. There's just SO MUCH TO DO, and you'll likely want to do EVERYTHING before stopping. Unfortunately for you, "Everything" in "Terraria" is going to take you a long, LONG time.
|Yeah, you can really go crazy in building your ideal home.
There's no story in "Terraria", so I'll jump straight into the game. "Terraria" is an open world, sandbox experience. There is no immediate goal in the game, except for one thing: survive. Right off the bat you're thrown into a world with nothing but a very unclear NPC that does a bad job at explaining what the game is about, with slimes and wild rabbits jumping all around trying to kick your sorry ass. Of course, starting off the game as a noob with nothing on you, you soon come to discover that even killing your everyday garden variety slime is tough. Then when zombies start appearing at night, you know you're f**ked.
Depending on your player experience, "Terraria" can be different kinds of games overall. For your standard casual player, having to die only means losing some money. Anything above that immediately turns the game into a terrifying, survival experience, as dying makes you lose ALL your items or deleting your character permanently. Ouch, that f**king hurts. That only further pushes the fact that you should try NOT to die, and the game becomes a lot more intense....and also a lot more rewarding as you farm for loot.
|Whoever thought that going to hell was a good idea, is a f**king dumbass.
And speaking of loot...oh damn. That's basically the heart and soul of "Terraria", that's all the game is about. Throughout the entire game, you'll be building a house out of wood. How do you get wood? Chop trees. You use blocks to build tiles. How do you get blocks? Mine the ground. Everything is based of collecting, and this includes equipment that you either craft from hard earned ore, monster bones, or from a sweet ass chest that you found while exploring some deep, underground ice cave. "Terraria"'s world is massive and filled to the brim with nonsense. Move horizontally and you'll find yourself in jungles, deserts, corrupted wastelands, and if you go far east or west, you'll see the ocean, where sharks and flying fish demon reside. Try digging downwards and you'll find caves, underground tunnels, frozen cravens, forest shrines, lava, and the lowest layer, hell itself, where demons and bullshit lie EVERYWHERE. You want to go upwards towards the sky then? Okay, you can find yourself some floating fortresses, where harpies and dragons will try to devour you whole, or perhaps reach into space, where falling from that height will explode you into a thousand bits.
Needless to say, this game is EXPLODING with different kinds of environments, and each one has its own unique monsters, materials to harvest from the environment and badass loot. It takes a lot to explore in this game, and you'll spend a lot of time getting proper armor to advance into further areas, not to mention gathering resources to sustain/upgrade your home so that NPCs can visit more often. From copper to iron to silver to gold, upgrading your stuff counts, and from regular walking, you'll soon start triple jumping or even flying as you find better materials to craft new shit. Between exploring, killing monsters, looking for items or just trying to run for your life, you'll be spending LOTS of times traversing through different environments.
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Co-op is a blast, and I spent my whole time in this game on co-op (not ashamed to admit it). You can send multiple people exploring/hunting for loot, others stay behind to cultivate materials, and have a couple of people watch the house. There are plenty of ways to have fun together, and one of those ways...is the boss fights. There are plenty of bosses in "Terraria", and while the battle is fairly simple and straightforward, its always a blast to fight bosses. They are huge, they hit hard, and they have varying designs. Its too bad though that most of these are just a matter of trading hits. If you have sucky armor/equipment, you are bound to die. Either that or you are under-manned.
Other than that, the game has a horrible way of teaching you how to play. There is no effective tutorial other than the guide at the start (which does a HORRIBLE job), and that there's no effective multiplayer mode in the game. To start a match together, you have to either do some port forwarding, or download a third party program like Hamachi. While this doesn't directly hurt the game, it definitely sucks to not be able to play with one another with just a few button clicks in game.
"Terraria" doesn't have a lot of depth in its game play, but it definitely makes up for it with its massive amount of INTERESTING/WELL MADE content that can keep you glued to the screen for hours on end. For a game with such a low price tag (I got it for $1 during a steam sale, one, f**king dollar, and I spent 87 hours on it), you must be high if you think that its not a worthwhile purchase. I gotta say, this was the best dollar I've spent in my life.
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Boil the pasta. Meanwhile, fry pancetta in oil in a frying pan for a few mins until golden and crisp. Add garlic, fry for 1 min, then turn off the heat. Briefly whisk egg and yolks with most of the Parmesan and some seasoning.
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At first glance it may not seem that a hard-shelled, scaly-skinned reptile would be all that likable, but there's just something about turtles that sparks the imagination. Maybe it's their uniquely shaped shells, like tiny traveling houses. Or perhaps it's because of their wise-looking countenance and unhurried manner. Whatever the reason, these ectotherms have captured our fancy!
Our Myrtle the Purl Turtle is just as appealing as her real life counterpart, only much more huggable. Her big, cuddly size and soft Liberty of London shell make her a fun pillow-like companion, perfect for sleepovers and keeping the bed warm. And despite a real turtle's sluggish reputation, this pattern is super quick to sew!
Myrtle's shell is made with Liberty of London's bright, beautiful Tana Lawn; her body is rustic Essex linen; and her underside is vibrant 100% wool felt. These lovely, sturdy materials ensure that your turtle will be around for just as long as a real one! –Molly
Materials for Myrtle the Purl Turtle, in Vintage or Green, include…
- A Fat Quarter of Liberty of London's Tana Lawn in Green Ninataylor for the Green kit or Teal Manuela for the Vintage kit.
- 1/4 yard of Robert Kaufman's Essex in Natural
- An 18-inch square of Wool Felt in Olive for the Green kit or Yellow for the Vintage kit.
- 100% cotton thread in color 3310
- 2 Medium (size 19) Buttons in Navy
- 1 bag of Poly-fil
You will also need a Myrtle the Purl Turtle Template available to download for free here, printed, cut out, and taped together.
From the Tana Lawn, use the template to cut:
- Two Shell pieces: Cut one with the right side of the Tana Lawn facing up, and cut the second with the wrong side facing up so that the two pieces are mirror images of each other.
From the Essex, use the template to cut:
- 2 Hand pieces
- 2 Foot pieces
- 2 Tail pieces
- 2 Head pieces
Note: If you are substituting the Essex for a fabric with a right and wrong side, cut the preceding pieces in the same manner as the Shell pieces: one with the right side of the fabric facing up, and one with the wrong side facing up. The cut pieces will be mirror images of each other.
From the Felt, use the template to cut:
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With the right side of a Shell piece facing up, pin a Tail, Foot, Hand, and Head piece onto the Shell piece at the appropriate spots (this info is on the Shell Template). The Essex pieces should lie on top of the Shell piece, as shown above, and make sure the Essex pieces are oriented correctly, with their fronts facing the neck area of the Shell and their backs facing the tail area of the Shell.
Sew these pieces onto the Shell with a 1/4-inch allowance. Press the Essex pieces away from the Shell with the seam allowances ironed towards the Shell.
Repeat this for the second Shell piece and the second set of Essex pieces. You will have two turtle-shaped pieces facing opposite directions as shown above.
With right sides together, pin together the two pieces. Start at the bottom base of the Tail, pin around the tail, along the top of the Shell, and around the Head. Leave the Hands, Feet, and bottom of the Shell un-pinned.
Sew the pinned area together with a ¼-inch seam allowance. Do not sew into the bottom area of the Shell at all. This whole piece is now the Turtle Top.
Open up the Turtle Top along the unsewn bottom section and lay it flat with its hands and feet pointed outward. Pin it to the Underside piece around the entire outer edge as shown above.
When you get to the chin section of the Underside, pull the chin upwards and pin it to the two Shell pieces until the tip of the chin meets the base of the Head piece. The seam allowance of the Head piece should be open.
When you get to the tail section of the Underside, pull the seam allowance of the Tail piece open so that both sides lie flat on top of the tail section of the Underside.
Sew the Underside to the Turtle Top with a ¼-inch seam allowance, leaving a 3-inch unsewn gap on one side of the Shell.
The tail section should look like this after it's sewn, with the seam allowances open and sewn to opposite sides.
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Turn the Turtle right sides out through the unsewn gap.
Beginning with its extremities, stuff the Turtle tightly with the Poly-fil.
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Stitch the buttons onto the head. To secure, tie a knot at the back of the button and then push your needle out an inch or so away from the button. Snip the thread at its exit point and the thread end will disappear.


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When we first start practicing yoga, or find a style we enjoy, initially it can feel like a torrid love affair. Our most beloved instructor, guru, style, or even specific yoga postures reflect our most prized qualities and can become the subject of infatuation. Yet over time, as in life, we may fall out of love with our instructor, the style, or yoga culture as a whole, and question whether yoga is really the practice for us, as expressed in a recent blog. This process is a natural progression, and reflects the same patterns that we bring to our relationship to life off of the mat.
For all that is light in this world, there is a corresponding darkness, as depicted by the Taoist yin-yang symbol. As a microcosm of the macrocosm, each of us embodies both the idealized self (light), and the shadow self (dark). These correspond to our cycles of infatuation and disillusionment, characterizing our relationship to the world around us. As we blogged earlier this week, our default state craves and orients towards feel-good experience (reflecting our idealized self), and shuns those that are triggering or uncomfortable (reflecting our shadow self).
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However, Buddhism instructs us not to strive for what makes us feel good, happy, or high on life (though these states are to be celebrated when they naturally arise), but to accept the full spectrum of experience. Suffering arises as a consequence of grasping after what we want (reflecting our idealized self), and avoiding what we don't want (our shadow). The more that we grasp or avoid, our attempts toward fulfillment are frustrated, for these ultimately strengthen our samskara (ingrained behavioral patterns) and perpetuate suffering. The practice is to honor our innate tendencies in either direction and bring them into balance, recognizing when we are disillusioned or in a state of obsession. When left unconscious, however, these aspects engender suffering.
Case in point. In my years as an intern at Kripalu Center, I was fortunate to attend many yoga workshops. The Kripalu approach is very freedom-based; this vibes well with my shadow, characterized by deep resistance towards authority. In studying intense and alignment-based forms of yoga, resistance arose when program assistants or instructors would inevitably tell me to tuck my ribs in, lengthen my tailbone, or be other than I already was ("Don't tell me what to do," I would retaliate internally; "I'm perfect as I am!"). I especially hated Anusara yoga, with its fake rah-rah's and ridiculous alignment obsession. Yes, this pattern had cropped up elsewhere in life!
When I started getting injuries, I realized that my freedom-based practice felt delicious, but perpetuated my postural (and psychological) imbalances. My favorite classes and poses exaggerated my hypermobility, when my body needed greater strength and stability. Despite intense resistance, I started to attend more Anusara classes, opened myself to receiving postural assists, and integrated postures that my body didn't naturally gravitate toward. Ultimately, I grew to love the increased freedom in my body resulting from the openness, structure and strength these practices imbued.
In time, my orientation toward relationships followed suit. Where I once viewed committed relationships as a form of bondage, I began to see them as offering great freedom and opportunity for spiritual practice. Indeed, commitment can be conceptualized as a willingness to illuminate and embrace the shadow, while tempering the expectations of the idealized self when both inevitably arise in asana, life, or relationship. This is exquisitely challenging; as anyone who has tried swimming upstream can tell you, the default currents (our samskara) are highly resistant to change. Yet this is the path of the yogi. Unearthing the authentic self occurs when we commit to the fullness of experience, embracing our darkness as well as our light.
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The Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission has started a new program to help expand legal services to people who can't afford lawyers.
The pro bono fellows program will have senior lawyers working with nonprofit and legal service organizations to help underserved populations. Seven experienced lawyers who have retired or are heading into retirement have been chosen by the commission to participate in the statewide pilot project.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP/WCCO) — Jamey Caroll's sacrifice fly in the ninth inning scored Alexi Casilla and the Minnesota Twins won their fourth straight, beating the Chicago White Sox 7-6 Monday night.
Denard Span had two hits and two spectacular catches in center field for the Twins, and Danny Valencia added three hits and two RBIs.
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A.J. Pierzynski homered in his first game after missing five with a strained oblique, and Alejandro De Aza returned from a wrist injury and matched a career high with four hits for the White Sox.
After Valencia led off the ninth with a single off reliever Brett Myers (0-1), Pierzynski's throw to first after fielding Brian Dozier's bunt sailed into right field, allowing each runner to move up.
Carroll followed with a fly ball to right, allowing Casilla to slide in with the winning run ahead of Alex Rios' throw.
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De Aza's single in the eighth off reliever Jared Burton tied it 6-6 and was the first run scored on Burton since June 12.
The teams combined for nine hits and were tied 4-all after the first inning.
Chicago's big inning was highlighted by Pierzynski's three-run home run. Joe Mauer was one of four different Twins to drive in runs to tie it in the bottom half.
The Twins took a 6-4 lead in the third on an RBI single from Ryan Doumit and a sacrifice fly from Valencia.
With a runner on first and nobody out in the fifth, Rios drove a ball into the gap in left-center field. Span sprinted over, leaped against the wall, and took at least an extra base hit away from Rios.
Twins fans gave Span an extended standing ovation, eventually leading to the center fielder tipping his hat while still on the field.
Span earned another standing ovation after a diving catch to rob Pierzynski and end the seventh.
The Twins, who snapped a five-game skid against Chicago, lead the American League in scoring for July and have scored 96 runs in their last 14 home games.
Glen Perkins (2-1) pitched the ninth, striking out Pierzynski with Rios on first to end the inning. Pierzynski barked at home plate umpire Adrian Johnson on his way back to the dugout.
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Sept 25 (Reuters) - Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc said its cancer drug failed to improve overall survival in a mid-stage study on patients with non-small cell lung cancer who had a history of smoking.
The drug, retaspimycin HCl, also failed to improve overall survival in patients with squamous cell carcinoma, a type of non-small cell lung cancer that is closely linked to smoking.
The company said it will not start any new trials with the drug, but would complete enrollment in a separate study by the end of the year.
Infinity said it will now focus on developing IPI-145, which it is testing to treat advanced blood cancers, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.
The company tested retaspimycin HCl in combination with docetaxel, an approved cancer drug, comparing it with a combination of docetaxel and placebo in patients who failed to respond to prior treatment.
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