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Various Artists/Anthologies (February 26, 2016)
≡• A stunning collection of artists and performances celebrate the timeless music of legendary gospel bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. From Derek Trucks' and Susan Tedeschi's reverent reading of Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning to Lucinda Williams' slide guitar–fueled lament in Nobody's Fault But Mine, from Luther Dickinson's spirited take on Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King (with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band) to Tom Waits' virtual embodiment of Johnson himself on The Soul Of A Man and John The Revelator, this record is packed with incomparable recordings that speak as much to the greatness of the performers as they do the enduring legacy of Blind Willie Johnson.
≡• He died in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas at the age of 48
Album release: February 26, 2016
Record Label: Alligator Records
01 The Soul Of A Man (by Tom Waits) 3:29
02 It's Nobody's Fault But Mine (by Lucinda Williams) 3:55
03 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (by Derek Trucks|Susan Tedeschi) 3:12
04 Jesus Is Coming Soon (by Cowboy Junkies) 4:17
05 Mother's Children Have A Hard Time (by The Blind Boys Of Alabama) 4:42
06 Trouble Will Soon Be Over (by Sinead O'Connor) 3:18
07 Bye And Bye I'm Going to See The King (by Luther Dickinson feat. the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band) 3:54
08 God Don't Never Change (by Lucinda Williams) 4:24
09 John The Revelator (by Tom Waits) 2:50
10 Let Your Light Shine On Me (by Maria McKee) 3:59
11 Dark Was The Night, Cold Was the Ground (by Rickie Lee Jones) 3:52
The Soul Of A Man performed by Tom Waits
Tom Waits: Vocals • Casey Waits: Drums • Kathleen Brennan: Background Vocals
Produced by Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan • Engineered by Karl Derfler • Production Coordinator: Jodie Wilson
Traditional: Blind Willie Johnson/Arranged by Tom Waits. © 2014 Jalma Music, ASCAP Tom Waits, Under License to Burning Rose Productions, Ltd.
Samples: Smith Casey "Country Rag (East Texas Rag)" from the John and Ruby Lomax Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Used courtesy of Odyssey Productions, Inc.
It's Nobody's Fault But Mine performed by Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams: Vocals and Guitar • Doug Pettibone: Guitar • David Sutton: Bass • Butch Norton: Drums
Produced by Tom Overby and Lucinda Williams • Mixed and Engineered by David Bianco • Recorded at Dave's Room, North Hollywood, CA
Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning performed by Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi
Susan Tedeschi: Lead Vocal, Handclaps • Derek Trucks: Guitar, Handclaps • Mike Mattison: Vocal, Handclaps • Mark Rivers: Vocal, Handclaps
Recorded and Mixed at Swamp Raga by Bobby Tis
Jesus Is Coming Soon performed by Cowboy Junkies
Margo Timmins: Vocals • Michael Timmins: Guitars • Peter Timmins: Drums • Alan Anton: Bass
Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Michael Timmins at The Hangar, Toronto, ON
Includes a sample of Blind Willie Johnson "Jesus is Coming Soon." Used courtesy of Document Records, Ltd.
Mother's Children Have A Hard Time performed by Blind Boys Of Alabama
Jimmy Carter and Billy Bowers: Lead Vocals • Jason Isbell: Slide Guitar
Joey Williams: Guitar • Peter Levin: Keyboards • Jimbo Hart: Bass • Chad Gamble: Drums
Produced by Jason Isbell • Engineered and Mixed by Jimmy Nutt • Recorded at Fame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL
Trouble Will Soon Be Over performed by Sinead O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor: Vocals • Kenneth Papenfus: Guitars, Backing Vocals • Carl Papenfus: Drums, Bass, Backing Vocals
Additional Backing Vocals by Joanne Papenfus and Nicola Papenfus
Engineered, Produced and Mixed by Papenfus/Papenfus
Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King performed by Luther Dickinson featuring The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band
Luther Dickinson: Guitar, Vocal • Shardé Thomas: Vocal, Fife, Drums • Amy Lavere: Upright Bass, Vocals
Recorded at Zebra Ranch by Kevin Houston
God Don't Never Change performed by Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams: Vocals and Guitar • Doug Pettibone: Guitar • David Sutton: Bass • Butch Norton: Drums
Produced by Tom Overby & Lucinda Williams • Mixed and Engineered by David Bianco • Recorded at Dave's Room, North Hollywood, CA
John The Revelator performed by Tom Waits
Tom Waits: Vocals, Cigar Box Banjo • Casey Waits: Drums
Produced by Waits/Brennan • Engineered by Karl Derfler • Production Coordinator: Jodie Wilson
Traditional/Arranged by Tom Waits, Adapted by Son House. © 2015, Jalma Music, ASCAP, Sondick Music, BMI P Tom Waits, Under License to Burning Rose Productions, Ltd.
Let Your Light Shine On Me performed by Maria McKee
Maria McKee: Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Percussion
Recorded and Mixed by Jim Akin
Dark Was the Night–Cold Was the Ground performed by Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones: Vocals, Guitar, Tambourine • Lee Thornburg: Horns
Engineered, Produced and Mixed by Sheldon Gomberg • Recorded at The Carriage House, Los Angeles, CA
Musical arrangement by Rickie Lee Jones © 2014, used by permission.
Produced by Jeffrey Gaskill
Executive Producers: Jeffrey Gaskill, Burning Rose Productions, Ltd. and Mila Bagry
Associate Producer: Michael B Borofsky
Sequenced at Jiminy Peak, Hancock, MA
Mastered by Toby Mountain at Northeastern Digital, Southboro, MA
Cover illustration by Marc Burckhardt
Packaging design by Kevin Niemiec
Photos courtesy of Jeffrey Gaskill
Business and Legal Affairs: Michael C. Lesser, Esq.
Legal: Sawnie "Trip" Aldredge, Esq.
All songs Public Domain except as noted
VERY SPECIAL THANKS: Pam K. Kelly and Judge R. Steven Sharp of Marlin, Texas, USA
THANK YOU: Cary Baker, Michael Corcoran, Paul Gaskill, Ginny Gaskill, Chris Goldsmith, Dan Griffin, John Hanssen, Sarah Hanssen, Andy Kaulkin and Anti-, Ray Charles Lang, R.R. Macleod, Scott Marshall, Robert "Mack" McCormick, Regina McCrary, Brian O'Neal, Tom Overby, Jeff Rosen, Sandrine Sheon, Todd Solomon and James Truesdale
ARTIST REPRESENTATION: Michael Andrews, Simon Napier–Bell, Kathleen Brennan, Blake Budney, Julianne Deery, Charles Driebe, Zach Hundley, Ryan Kingsbury, Tom Overby, Mark Spector, Peter Wark, Björn de Water, Simon Watson, and Jodie Wilson
≡• In 1977, NASA sent the Voyager 1 spacecraft on a one-way trip out of our galaxy and into the far recesses of outer space. The hope was that one day some other lifeform would come upon it and gain some insight into the essence of mankind. To that end, a gold record and player were included, featuring sounds and music to illuminate the human condition. Included on that record — along with a recording of a human heartbeat and music by Beethoven and Bach — was Blind Willie Johnson's haunting and ethereal "Dark Was The Night — Cold Was The Ground," a timeless representation of the humanity of Earth's inhabitants.
≡• Appropriately, a newly recorded version of "Dark Was The Night — Cold Was The Ground" (performed by Rickie Lee Jones) closes God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson. The eleven–track album features inspired interpretations of the iconic slide guitarist/vocalist's most seminal material. Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Cowboy Junkies, The Blind Boys Of Alabama (accompanied by Jason Isbell), Sinéad O'Connor, Luther Dickinson with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Maria McKee, and Rickie Lee Jones all deliver deeply moving and highly personal reinventions of Johnson's otherworldly "gospel blues" music.
Marc Lipkin, Alligator Records
≡• Blind Willie Johnson recorded a total of 30 tracks for Columbia between 1927 and 1930, creating a priceless legacy. He created unforgettable music by marrying the raw gospel fervor of his vocals with the steely blues fire of his guitar. His songs were mostly traditional or came from hymnals, but when Johnson performed them, his soul–shaking voice and amazing slide guitar transformed each one into something wholly original. Johnson was among the best–selling black gospel artists of the era, but the Great Depression ended his recording career.
≡• Rock fans will no doubt recognize many of Johnson's songs, which have been recorded over the years by artists ranging from Led Zeppelin to Eric Clapton to Bob Dylan. Johnson's recording of "John The Revelator" was included in The Anthology Of American Folk Music, archivist Harry Smith's six–LP collection released in 1952, that set the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s into motion.
≡• According to Luther Dickinson, "Blind Willie Johnson touches everybody. His music is so of the earth that it still sounds completely modern. It's timeless and like nothing else ever recorded. If we could hip anybody to Blind Willie Johnson, their lives would be enriched for sure."
≡• Derek Trucks wholeheartedly agrees, saying, "I never heard a slide player, even to this day, play with that much emotion. I've only heard a few things that have hit me quite that strongly. There's something so honest about his recordings. He's one of the few handful of musicians whose music really feels sacred to me. Johnson's songs, lyrics and the ability to pair the slide with the voice were amazing. It feels like it came out of a different world."
≡• Produced by Jeffrey Gaskill (producer of the twice Grammy–nominated compilation, Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan), God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson highlights the music of one of the most charismatic and influential slide guitarists and vocalists who ever walked the Earth. As Gaskill states, "Blind Willie Johnson's music is imperishable. His music speaks to us as it laments the human condition; it speaks to us as it praises the steadfastness of an unchanging God. It travels through time with the same bold call of repentance that was once delivered to listeners on Texas street corners. Ultimately, it is the message that endures." God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson is, according to Gaskill, "my life's work." The project was years in the making, and Gaskill is thrilled that it's finally ready to be released. "You gotta serve somebody," he says, referencing his earlier compilation, "and I got the songs of Blind Willie Johnson."
≡• Johnson's life has been shrouded in mystery, but scholars, most notably the album's liner notes author, Michael Corcoran, have unearthed a few details. Born in Pendleton, Texas in 1897, Johnson grew up around Marlin, Texas. A legendary story has his stepmother, in a fit of rage, throwing lye in his face when he was a child, blinding him for life. From his teenage years, he traveled the region as a street singer, moving between Dallas, Galveston, Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio (even travelling as far as New York City) and finally settling in Beaumont, where he thundered out his street corner evangelism, spreading his sacred message through his transfixing music. He died in 1945 in Beaumont, Texas at the age of 48.
≡• On God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson, each artist sounds as if he or she was born to preach Johnson's gospel. The collective work is much more than a simple 'tribute' album. These eleven performances are a powerful and cohesive affirmation of faith as deep as the soul of a man, with an eternal message that is as boundless as the dark, cold night at the farthest edge of the universe.
Label: http://www.alligator.com/
Joe Walsh — Songs For A Dying Planet
Only Yours
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Tigercats — Pig City
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Vice President Joe Biden, visiting Ohio, recently spoke about the Obama administration's efforts to make a college education cheaper. According to the White House:
Speaking at Lincoln High School in Columbus, Ohio on Thursday, the Vice President called for the "bargain with the middle class" to be restored: "There was a bargain in place for last 50 years that if you worked hard, you played by the rules, you helped increase productivity in America, you got a piece of the action. You benefited."
President Obama and Vice President Biden believe that making college affordable is an essential part of restoring that bargain. Our Administration has increased the maximum Pell Grant award by more than $800 and created the $2,500 per year American Opportunity Tax Credit. Even with more generous grants and tax credits, most college students borrow money to pay for school, so we are also limiting federal student loan payments to 10% of discretionary income.
These efforts are commendable. But such initiatives really don't do much to restore that bargain with the middle class. That's because the federal government doesn't really have that much power to do anything as far as American colleges and their costs are concerned.
The real "bargain" here was between the states and their public universities, which used to be dramatically cheaper and were, in many cases, free for state residents.
Since 1980, the cost of public universities, adjusted for inflation, has tripled. That has everything to do with declining state support for public higher education.
Increased Pell Grants and income-based repayment are a step in the right direction, but such policies do little to "restore the bargain." The bargain was between citizens and their state legislatures. Inexpensive state universities, generously funded by the state government, provided America with educated, talented, and debt-free graduates. That isn't true anymore.
In Biden's Ohio speech he apparently,
…Told the students about his own family's financial struggle to send him to college and the importance of education to his success: "A college degree was more than a ticket to be able to make a living; it was about who you are… about the American Dream, the dream that your parents could put you in a position where you could do better than they could do."
Biden earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware in 1965. Tuition at the school was $315 that year. That may have been a financial struggle for his parents but in-state tuition at Delaware's flagship state university is now $11,192 a year.
If the federal government is to replace the bargain it would actually have to step in where states have dropped the ball. There are a number of reasons why that might not be such a great idea, but it's time to recognize what's really going on here.


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ARE also includes a built-in benchmarking library which outputs to CSV and to HTML.
import Usage
Syntax: Model.import( columns, values, options )
columns – an array of column identifiers, The identifiers can be Strings or Symbols. (Required)
values – an array of value sets. The order of the elements inside each value set must match up to the order of the column identifiers. (Required)
options – a Hash of options. (Optional)
Basic Example
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base ; end
columns = [ :first_name, :last_name ]
values = [ [ 'Zach', 'Dennis' ], [ 'Mark', 'Van Holstyn' ], [ 'John', 'Doe' ] ]
Person.import column, values
The Options Hash
The options Hash can take the following key/value pairs:
:validate => true|false – this tells import whether or not to use the validations that you defined on your models before importing the records. By default this is true
:on_duplicate_key_update => Array|Hash – this tells import to use the associated Array or Hash to update rows where a duplicate key already exists. This is specific MySQL.
:ignore => true|false – this tells import to issue a "INSERT IGNORE" when running each SQL statement. This is useful when you are importing mass amounts of records and you don't care if MySQL finds duplicate entries.
:on_duplicate_key Notes
The :on_duplicate_key_update option will support an Array of column identifiers or it will support a Hash of column to column mappings. For example if you were inserting information for school enrollment and you had 6,000 students that were enrolled you would want to batch process them with the import method. But what if some of the students attended last semester? You don't want to overwrite their information. Instead you may want to just update their address and contact information. That would look like:
values = values_for_students_csv_file( 'students.csv' ) Students.import( [ :first_name, :last_name, :student_id, :address, :city, :state ], values, :on_duplicate_key_update => [ :address, :city, :state ] )
Currently the Hash options works the same way except for you explicitly state { :address => :address, :city => :city, :state => :state } . Why is the Hash even there? It's there because it is anticipated to allow for special different column mapping support and table/data merging support you will be able to move data from one table to the next, where column names may not be identical and you want to map columnA from 1 table to columnB on another.
Where is this useful?
Users want to upload CSV or tab delimited files with lots of data
Log files that need to be batch processed
Anything that needs to be batched processed
Supported Database Adapters
Additional Comments
I prefer this over maintaining alot of little ruby or bash shell scripts to create a file of SQL statements, and then to run those statements from mysql's command line client in batch mode. I much prefer to keep the code intact with the rest of my application. It is easier to read, maintain and track.
Please see the benchmarks for MySQL.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Disconnect! Reboot!
Which became even more funny when we saw a commercial for this lovely item -- The Presto, an email printer that "doesn't need an internet connection" and is "simpler than a computer" for your obviously senile relatives who can't figure out Outlook.
We're worried that Grandma and Grandpa can't learn to use the computer?
Just look at this page. I dare you not to laugh. I double-dog dare you!
Starchy Comfort
The Adorable Husband got chains for his car, which was a fabulous idea. We probably wouldn't have made it out of the neighborhood without them, although the roads elsewhere were pretty good.
We had a good laugh on the way home from the store, though -- I apparently connected with my polish/eastern european roots (and he to his equally starch-based Scandinavian ancestry) and we ended up with about fourteen pounds of BREAD. Seriously. If you're going to be trapped in your house for a few days, obviously you need bread, we both thought. Five loaves. And sandwich buns. Over half of the groceries were a bread product of one sort or another. The other half was large hunks of beef.
We're awfully strange. But we can grill steaks for the next four days without a problem, and we have enough in the house to put together a pretty snazzy fondue dinner on New Year's eve withn our friends. We're set!
Hopefully, the airport isn't shut down and chaotic, since we are supposed to leave on Monday for Disneyworld. My family isn't flying out until Tues, so we should be able to settle in beforehand. And if we're late? Well, no problem.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
We're making good progress towards coming up with a plan [in Iraq]I actually sputtered when I heard that on the radio. Bush has said he's not going to make a decision (all hail the Decider!) until 2007. Shouldn't this be a pretty high priority? Weren't you supposed to have a plan before we started all of this? He's just coming up with a plan now? Didn't a commission actually come up with a slew of suggestions? Must not like any of those.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Blizzard, Round II
There could be between 1 and 2 feet of snow across the Front Range mountains and foothills by early Friday morning. Up to 30 inches could fall in the foothills of Boulder and Jefferson County.Well, that's us. West of I-25. We got (officially) 25" in the last snowstorm, which is still hanging around. We finally are dug out from the enormous drifts, the dogs have mashed down paths in the backyard so they can pee...and more snow is on the way. A lot more.
The heaviest amounts of snow are expected to be in the areas west of I-25.
Snowfall rates could get up to 2 inches per hour, especially in the foothills along the Front Range. The first wave of the storm will hit the Front Range and I-25 urban corridor. A stronger round of heavy snow is possible for all of northeast and north-central Colorado late Friday into Saturday morning.
The second wave could bring stronger winds and blizzard conditions over the northeastern plains.
The metro area could get 10 to 18 inches of snow by Friday morning because of the storm. Kathy says the foothills could expect 15 to 30 inches and the mountain areas 12 to 24 inches.
Well, I still have enough chocolate, wine, and movies to hunker down and enjoy the snowstorm. I don't have to drive anywhere for work, we have plenty of food in the house, and there's nothing better than sitting in front of the fire reading a book while it snows and blows and blizzards outside. Whee!
The Adorable Husband is (you guessed it!) on call again. He's also supposed to drop off his car to repair the two broken taillights he got in the last blizzard (someone pressed too hard on the plastic cover and broke them). I'm thinking he should keep his car around and not attempt to drive MY car -- which is much closer to the ground and has much wider, smoother tires -- in the snow. We'll have that conversation in the morning before he leaves! I'll remind him to bring a change of clothes and pack his boots in the car.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Best Wishes for the Holidays
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Neither Rain nor Snow
So much for this 'neither rain nor sleet nor snow...appointed rounds' thing!
Not that I blame them, of course. It took two days for most of us to get out of the driveway! I understand that Fedex is going to do saturday and sunday deliveries in order to make up for the two-day delay form the snowstorm. I'm not sure what the Post Office and UPS are going to do. Although I'm not sure that they would be able to get to the house even if they did go out.
Snow doesn't usually stick around for more than a day or so here in Boulder....Having all this white stuff still on the ground is a bit odd.
Where do people GET these ideas?
49% of Americans do not believe humans evolved over millions of years.
51% of Amerians believe humans and dinosaurs co-existed
85% of Americans think archaeologists study dinosaurs
Friday, December 22, 2006
The Force
A note from the Australian Bureau of Statistics notes that urging people to put int Jedi on tne 2006 census may result in fines for falsifying info on the census forms. However, this doesn't appear to have stopped people.
In Australia more than 70,000 people declared themselves members of the Jedi in the 2001 census. The Australian Bureau of Statistics issued an official press release in response to media interest on the subject.
Over 53,000 people listed themselves as Jedi in New Zealand. New Zealand has the highest per capita population of reported Jedi in the world, with 1.5% marking "Jedi" as their religion on the census - more than those marking themselves as buddhist or
In the UK, they have actually assigned Jedi its own code for reference purposes, since:
"It was confirmed prior to the census that citizens were not liable for a fine in relation to question 10 (on religion).[9] In England and Wales 390,000 people (0.7%) stated their religion as Jedi on their 2001 Census forms, surpassing Sikhism, Judaism, and Buddhism, and making it the fourth largest reported religion in the country."
Pictures at Last
It was actually quite lovely outside. I love this kind of weather. And, since the Adorable Husband did get his car back here, I had the camera. SO -- a few pictures:
Yup, that's actually him, snowblowing the street. One of the people in the neighborhood has a little front-loader, and went around plowing at least a single lane on each of the streets. He just did it because he "likes to help" -- He eventually made it to our culdesac and got a lane to everyone's driveway. We gave him a bottle of wine and a hefty tip, especially since he completely plowed out Cooper's driveway (they are out of town, and her mother lives int he MIL-apartment over the garage. She's disabled and can't shovel, so we were in the process of shovelling her out when the guy in the cat showed up. Very nice.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Submarine Dog
It's been a bit of a problem getting everyone outside; I've had to shovel the porch off every time and the drifts are taller than the beasts. I let Uulaq outside yesterday afternoon and went back inside to get a hat. When I came out....no Uulaq. Huh?
No, wait -- there she is, bulldozing her way through the snow with only her nose showing. She doesn't hop up over the snow, she just plows through it like a u-boat. Every once in awhile she jumps up to see where she is, then disappears again under the drifts.
Rukh is not quite so excited about it, since he's fuzzless and has a harder time getting around without the horsepower in that rear leg to get him through. Standing in the snow when it's up over your shoulders can't be fun!
The Adorable Husband tried to get home last night (I'm not sure why, some misguided need to shovel the driveway, I think) and wasn't able to get into our streets. The entrance to our development was too deep to drive in (and we don't get plowed at all) and he had to have a few people help him dig out and then headed back to the hospital. He spent hte night there, since if he was called back in, there would be no way to get back, even if he managed to get home. He's going to try again later today, but I think his chances are pretty slim. We're not going anywhere for a few days, I don't think. We can snowblow our own driveway, but there's still a half-mile of winding streets tht are utterly drifted over.
But we have plenty of chocolate, plenty of wine, and plenty of movies -- fun!
BTW -- I would have taken cool pictures of the snow, but the Adorable Husband has the camera in his car. Hopefully he took a few.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Snow! Snow! Snow!
Chemo, Round Two
He seems to be doing pretty well today -- a little woofly, perhaps, but we've got him on anti-nausea drugs prophylactically. Hopefully that will forestall any barfing. Based on our experience last time, he should be back and bouncing around in a day or so. Yeah, Rukh!
Monday, December 18, 2006
Secret Services
So of course, there are some murmurings that this is not adequate and that the rule needs to be changed for the Shrub, because he faces a higher level of threats that previous presidents. Do note, though, that a Republican congress changed the law, and enacted it. But, a democrat was in office then, of course.
They're probably right that Bush needs more/better protection. He is really not well-liked at all. Specific threats are a valid reason to extend protection.
Former Secret Service agent Chuck Vance, who is a former son-in-law of
former President Ford, said Bush's post-presidency will include a variety of
"One thing is, he is a relatively young man, and young men are more active
and always on the road," said Vance, now a security consultant in Virginia.
"That takes a lot of manpower and a lot of team effort."
And, Vance noted, Bush will be a target.
"He is the only president that invaded a country without provocation and
without it being started by the other side. I think he has gained a lot of
enmity. ... There are a lot of people who resent this president, both externally
and internally, some of whom have lost sons and daughters and had people injured
in the war in Iraq," he said.
Looks like some things are coming home to roost. And could they have used the word "former' more often in that first sentence?
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Xmas Gambling
Good food, fabulous company -- and we got to gamble with fake money to our hearts content. I lost every penny of my fake money, but the Adorable Husband did quite well. Well al have fun, but it's funny how competitive we get. The Texas Hold-em table got pretty rowdy!
Really good, geeky presents, too -- backup drives, ipods, gps trackers. We really ought to wear out propeller beanies to the party. We are such nerds.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Nickels and Pennies
As a result
U.S. Mint officials said Wednesday they were putting into place rules prohibiting the melting down of 1-cent and 5-cent coins, with a penalty of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000 for people convicted of violating the rule.
I have a feeling that's not going to stop anyone, and how would they know that any specific metal ingot of zinc or nickel or copper came from melted coins? And I'm rather stuck on a simple question: why not make all coins from some cheapo metal (aluminum?) so that they don't have to worry about the value of the metal in the coin being related to the face value.
Coins are just placeholders for "real" currency, anyways -- like dollar bills represent a specific value. Bills are just paper, why can't coins be just metal? They may have at one time been actual currency amounts, but perhaps it's time we dispense with that particular charade.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
HD Reality
The first attempt, they gave us a window of four hours (8-12), called at 11:30 to tell us they were running about two hours late. We had a ton fo things to do, so we rescheduled. Not knowing at the time, of course, that we'd wait 3-4 weeks for an appointment.
Second appointment comes around and the two guys who come are supremely puzzled by the fact that the current cables are buried in the walls and unable to grasp that we want them to run four NEW wires into the basement. HD requires that each box have it's own home-run wire to the new dish, no switching, so the wiring we have is not adequate). They talk about using the existing wiring for the two downstairs tvs and then running wire all the way around the house, in two directions, to reach the other two. Um...no. We have a centralized cable "box" downstairs that we want all the tvs to run from. They paced around the house, hemming and hawing, and when they realized they'd have to actually pull new wire down through the porch....they told us to reschedule and left.
The Adorable Husband was FURIOUS. They basically decided that it was too hard to pull the wires and told him on the phone that he'd have to do the pulling through the deck, since they wouldn't pull up any boards to do it. Apparenlty they didn't even LOOK at the porch, since it took the husband about fifteen minutes to get the cable through. I didn't hear his conversation with the DirecTV people, but they rescheduled the appointment to be back in two days.
So a new guy shows up, having been briefed in detail about the goat-rodeo that is our installation, and he does it -- perfectly. Two hours, and he pulled four new cables, put up a new dish, hid all the wires, tested everything. Voila! HD picture on the big screen.
Only three months after we asked for it the first time. I've been incredibly happy with DirecTV on a day-to-day basis, but the intalls and upgrades have been painful. We did make sure to call and compliment them on the final appointment. I think they ought to be giving us stuff for free, but at this point, I'm just glad everything works.
No HD tv for months, what a stupid first-world kind of problem, eh?
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Electronic Mozart
The website draws from the original Neue Mozart Ausgabe paper versionThe site is based on Salzburg, and in the first 12 hours had over 400,000 hits. It can be a bit slow, and sometimes switches between German and English for no reason, but...yeah!
developed since 1954 by internationally renowned musicologists and comprising
over 125 booklets of sheet music, whose origin has been painstakingly authenticated, the Salzburg foundation said.
The "Digital Mozart Edition" (DME) website -- -- features over 600 works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, separated into ten categories, from concertos for orchestra to chamber music and pieces for piano.
Only in Tecas
Rep. Edmund Kuempel, a Seguin Republican, has filed a bill for the 2007
legislative session that would allow legally blind hunters to use a laser sight,
or lighted pointing instrument. The devices are forbidden for sighted hunters.
Keep in mind that blind hunters have always been able to hunt in Texas. They have to have a sighted hunter along. This really only changes their ability to use a laser sight to assist their "spotter" in helping them aim. About fifteen states and canada allow blind hunters, with appropriate assistance, to hunt.
Having Children
Mess Test - Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.
Toy Test - Obtain a 55 gallon box of Legos (you may substitute roofing tacks if you wish). Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold and take off shoes. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream because this would wake a child at night.
Grocery Store Test - Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.
Dressing Test - Obtain one large, unhappy, live octopus. Stuff into a small net bag making sure that all the arms stay inside.
Feeding Test - Obtain a large plastic milk jug. Fill halfway with water. Suspend from the ceiling with a cord. Start the jug swinging. Try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug, while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor.
Night Test - Prepare by obtaining a small cloth bag and fill it with 8-12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 3:00pm, begin to waltz and hum with the bag until 9:00pm. Lay down your bag and set your alarm for 10:00pm. Get up, pick up your bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen more and sing these too until 4:00am. Set alarm for 5:00am. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.
Ingenuity Test - Take an egg carton. Using a pair of scissors and pot of paint, turn it into an alligator. Now take a toilet paper tube and turn it into an attractive Christmas candle. Use only scotch tape and a piece of foil. Last, take a milk carton, a ping-pong ball, and an empty box of Cocoa Puffs. Make an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower.
Automobile Test - Forget the BMW and buy a station wagon. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. Get a dime. Stick it into the CD player. Take a family-size package of chocolate chip cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Run a rake along both side of the car.
Final Assignment - Find a couple who already has a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their discipline, patience, tolerance, and toilet training and child's table manners. Suggest many ways they can improve. Emphasize to them that they should never allow their children to run wild. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you will have all the answers.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
No Chemo Today
Rukh's been doing really well, although a bit tired. He's been out walking, and seems pretty dang perky. But his white count is so low that we've got him on full-time antibiotics. This isn't really a sign that the chemo is working -- just that the side-effect of chemo (depressing the immune system) is certainly occuring.
It's all a crap shoot anyways. We're just playing the numbers -- hoping that we catch any incipient tumor cells now with the chemo. There may not be any cancer cells at all (although this is unlikely) -- even if we see clear xrays at his next appointment, it doesn't mean that there either were or weren't cancerous cells in his lungs, just that we dont' see them now
So, a week's reprieve on the projecto-barfing. At least he only feels sick for a day or so, if his attitude and behavior are any indication. Grossly nauseous for about a day, then almost back to normal.
Still no hair on his butt, though.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Lions and Tigers and...
For his birthday, I sent him a larger-than-lifesize, extremely realistic, fuzzy, remote-controlled tarantula. It creeps across the floor quite like a scuttling spider, according to my sister, who shrieked at the very thought of a 7" spider -- even a fake one.
I love being the childless aunt and getting the good presents!
I did at least talk him out of trying to mount it on the top of the roof. I had horrible visions of him sliding off and crashing on his head. Our roof is not for the faint-hearted, and we'd need a cherry-picker to get up there. Either that, or he'd have to hang over the edge and try to screw things into the soffits. Not the best idea, if you ask me.
I, of course, was banished. This often happens when the Husband gets a new toy, since I read the instrutions and then attempt to take over installation or configuration of things. Apparently, I had stepped over the invisible line from helpful to annoying at some point in the morning and every single thing I said or did set his teeth on edge. I retreated to my office to play my new computer game until things were bolted to poles in the back yard and all setup had been completed. Sometimes, discretion is the better part of valor.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
16 Colors
Considering that he is also a believer in the idea that men can only name 16 colors, he asked me to come along and give him a hand. He'd already picked out lovely cinnamon-colored maple cabinets, but when it came to carpet colors and tile, he wasn't as sure. So -- off I went to the builder's showroom to pick things.
Boy, the Adorable Husband is REALLY glad that I'm not doing this for our own house. Yikes. I have the unerring ability to find and love the most expensive thing in the place -- the tiles that are $200 apiece, the most expensive carpet. I am a bit more realistic than that, and with my friend's budget he's trying to get the most bang for the buck for upgrades and stuff. On my own? I'd have a hard time not going hog-wild in the antiqued tuscan stone tile and granite countertops. It's like decorating overload.
My friend has good taste, though, and it's fun to see him so excited about getting his own place.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Power-mad HOA
Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob
Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He
said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan
Kearns ordered the committee to require Jensen to remove the wreath, but members refused after concluding that it was merely a seasonal symbol that didn't say anything. Kearns fired all five committee members
Xmas Party Success
Of course, we now have about eight pounds of leftover Honey-Baked Ham. Everyone brought so much food we were all reduced to sitting in lethargic heaps and sighing contentedly afterwards. I think that's the mark of a good dinner party!
Thursday, December 07, 2006
It's Important Because I Read It
That's an interesting question. It's certainly an important part of ourOoh. He read it. And we should know how important it is because he actually read it. I supposed in a way that's true. It's well known that he is an incurious sort and that anything crossing his desk has to be short and sweet, since he doesn't read often -- or much.
deliberations, and it was certainly an important part of our discussions this
morning. Some reports are issued and just gather dust. And truth of the matter
is, a lot of reports in Washington are never read by anybody. To show you how
important this one is, I read it [Bush - conference on Iraq recommendations]
The press conference is pretty positive, though -- something needs to change and despite the fact that making any changes at all is a huge bother to The Decider, there really isn't much choice.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Out Walking
He even trundled (more like crashed) down the stairs into the basement to sit with us while we watched a movie. We've been keeping the door shut before this, to prevent him from trying the staircases, but we decided that he was getting pretty antsy and if he was going to attempt to do two flights of stairs, we might as well do it while we're home and could help him back up. We left the door open, and about fifteen minutes into Davinci Code, amid much crashing and thumping, he made it down the stairs. He had a hard time getting back up, but with a bit of a boost, he managed. He hasn't tackled the second floor yet,since he has to go up first, and that is more daunting.
He spends most of his days lounging about in the house, getting up a few times to go outside and pee, maybe walk to the other end of the yard, but definitely not enough to keep him in any kind of physical shape. If he doesn't build strength in his leg, he's just going ot have problems forever. He gets tired so easily, and his leg tends to give out after any sort of exertion. We need to work more on the physical therapy side of things.
So, the Adorable Husband took him out for a short walk this evening -- just out the front door (and down the four steps) and around the culdesac a bit before coming back inside. I stayed inside, because I get so nervous for Rukh and probably freak him out. He managed like a champ. I don't think he's every going to do long distances, but he seemed to appreciate the new scenery and getting out to stretch his legs.
On other news, we were going to board them for the evening when he host the christmas party, with all the people, but the vet's office called and told me that he's overdue on his shot for kennel cough. Everything that I've read says not to give dogs any immunizations when they are on chemo, and without the shots we won't risk him going to the kennel and being exposed. So, they are probably going to stay home with us and mooch food from all the party guests. I'm waiting for a call from the oncologist, just to be sure.
Testicles and tradition
As he should. The entire tradition of "testimony", or swearing, is to add that extra oomph to your words by affirming whatever it is on top of/in front of a representation of your religious belief -- I assume to intimate that you believe that god is listening and you'd be a fool to go back on your word.
He should not be allowed to do so," columnist Dennis Prager writes [...] InsofarPrager is a narrow-minded idiot. On many counts. By trumpeting that "America picks the book!" that we use, he demonstrates that he knows nothing about the concept of testimony, and even less about the concepts of culture and "America". Despite his hyperbole, allowing someone to swear an oath by their own ethical and moral belief system is not going to be the "downfal of American civilization." Please.
as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is
concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible. If you are
incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in Congress.
First off, America isn't a theocracy yet, and to say that the bible is the only "book" is arrogant and presumptuous. Despite all the protestations from the religious conservatives, America was not founded as a christian nation, and the founding fathers were not christians in any sense of the word. Deists, yes. Believers in a higher power, yes; but allegiance to a particular dogma was not in the cards. It was something they specifically wanted to avoid.
The Bible doesn't have a monopoly on morals or values (in fact, some of the values and morals expressed in its pages are quite evil and unenlightened, as are those in most religious texts), and more specifically, it doesn't represent the American constitution or culture. It is the beloved book of millions of people around the world, but it is not the only possible icon that we can accept. And it is just that -- an icon of a particular belief. For me, for example, "swearing on a bible" is no more binding than swearing on a copy of Cat in the Hat. Either I am honest and will uphold my word, or I won't. The weight of a biblical blessing on my word is moot. The bible, to a Muslim, is still a holy book, but it is not the scripture of the islamic faith. Swearing on the bible (if you buy the idea that this tradition is meant to add some sort of threat of damnation if you renege) would not be particularly meaningful to someone who doesn't accept the book as their iconic text.
It certainly doesn't have anything to do with supporting a single, unified value system, as Prager writes. I can guarantee that people swearing on a bible don't follow the rules of every single word in it, and they certainly do not share the same interpretation of its words. Not even close. What unified system are they speaking of?
He has never heard of the "no religious tests" clause in the Constitution, I guess. There is a strict prohibition for requiring any officeholder to profess faith of any kind, much less accept any specific articles of faith. This whole hoopla comes up simply because the senator is Muslim -- and the popular culture and media have done a good job demonizing islam and playing to the ignorant masses wanting someone to blame for terrorism. A right wing radio host has suggested that Ellison needs to "prove" that he's a good American -- that shadowy suggestion of a loyalty oath has tossed up its ugly head -- simply because he is Muslim. "I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."
Disgusting. Although I'm sure it plays well with the people who want to preach fear fear fear at all times to retain power.
Prager also is woefully ignorant of history. At least two presidents (Hoover and Pierce) didn't take any oath -- they "affirmed" their office-- and that Teddy Roosevelt, who did take the oath, didn't take it on a Bible.
The bible is used by tradition, because most of our presidents have been nominally christian, or have at least accepted the Bible as a suitable object to swear by. I wonder if we just shouldn't go back to the historic meaning of testify -- related to testes -- and simply reach down, grab hold and swear by something important to you. Although I suppose that's sexist. The constitution allows "affirm" because not all people can or will swear (a word which has some serious meaning to Quakers, and an act that is specifically forbidden by the Bible in Matthew 5:33-37). But it is sort of amusing to point out that the injunction "Swear not at all" is in the book they demand others swear by.
By the time we got to the constitution, we had to deal with the Quakers, who do not swear. (it was important to reach an agreement with the Quakers, since they controlled PA, which included Philadelphia, the city that spawned much of the revoluationary zeal). Quakers do "affirm", and that's why that text is in the Constitution. No law requires (or even suggests) the use of the Bible.
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the
several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the
United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation,
to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a
qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
I couldn't even read the comments on the various articles and blogs posted about this topic. The level of bile and venom spewed by some posters is simply amazing.
Propaganda Literature
WASHINGTON - He may be a certified lame duck now, but President Bush and his truest believers are about to launch their final campaign - an eye-popping,
half-billion-dollar drive for the Bush presidential library.
Eager to begin refurbishing his tattered legacy, the President hopes to
raise $500 million to build his library and a think tank at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas
The legacy-polishing centerpiece is an institute, which several Bush
insiders called the Institute for Democracy. Patterned after Stanford
University's Hoover Institution, Bush's institute will hire conservative
scholars and "give them money to write papers and books favorable to the
President's policies," one Bush insider said.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Holiday Cheer
But this year, we got the tree up, put up the garlands, hung lights, the whole shebang. Going through the boxes of christmas stuff that has survived the moves and packing and storage, we realized that we really don't have that many decorations. A few silver balls, some family ornaments....that's about it. We've decided this year to hit the post-holiday sales and pick up more ornaments so we can at least have a tree that doesn't look on the sad and shabby side!
Friday, December 01, 2006
I'm going to regret this...
Setting the Table
Great! I actually love to have parties. Despite the fact that I suffer seriously from itsuparok (the act of going outside often to check if guests are coming) and get all freaky-stressed. We're going to pick up a honey-baked ham and plates and cups with the allotted budget for the party and everyone will bring stuff. The Adorable husband has already started the Christmas Baking Frenzy. I think he's got four batches of cookies done already.
At any rate, we were sitting in the kitchen discussing plates and utensils and such for the party. The usual thought is to get plastic forks and spoons, buy heavy paper plates, and go for it. We already picked up a box of cheap wine glasses from the local Costco, and were laughing that we had almost enough china to have 20 people sit down to dinner. We'd be short a few forks and such, but we could manage in a pinch.
(This is all because we a) have 8 place settings of china from grandma as a wedding gift, b) my MIL has found plates here and there and given them to use to round out the collection, and c) I discovered a few years ago some poor, ignorant person on eBay selling 8 more place settings of our china pattern (Noritake Eminence) for about 300 bucks, including shipping. They didn't know that it's a fairly rare pattern and that Replacements (which stocks old china, silver, etc) usually prices each dinner plate at about $30 and those platters and such upwards of a hundred. We scored 8 place settingsk, a few extra bowls, a sugar and creamer, and another platter. I felt quite guilty about it for awhile. Should I have told them the "street value" of the china? I resisted.)
On a whim, I decide to check out eBay again to see if someone has any stray pieces. They show up once in a while, usually in ones and twos, and we always need a few extra bowls. We have at least 16 of all the plates and saucers, but we have 6 each of three different kinds of bowls. ANd I think a few of the teacups have met a bad end, but we even have a gravy boat -- I've only see one on Replacements before. Anyway...
What do I discover on the marvelous tagsale that is eBay? Eight place settings (dinner plate, salad plate, bread and butter plate, saucer, cup) and serving pieces....for 225 plus shipping. New. In the box. Unused. Stored in the closet for 40 years. I'll probably bid on them before too long.
We don't really need more china, but it's always good to have extra pieces. Besides, as the Adorable Husband pointed out, it means that in a dozen years or so, we can pass on a set of 'great-grandmas china' to one (or more!) of the nieces. Any collection will contain at least some of the pieces that the Adorable Husband's grandma used, even if some of the other pieces are just the same pattern and found from other places. The idea is a nice one.
Off to bid on eBay. Wish me luck!
Home again, home again
Lovely week, great people, good assignment. Gotta love that!


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Andre Charland, CEO of Nitobi inc., said that PhoneGap is a development framework that allows the HTML and JavaScript developers to build their own mobile phone apps that can override the original features of the iPhone, Android and Black Berry. The software runs on iPhone, Blackberry and Android and going further its expected to run on all the other platforms too.
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I would say the software is really going to create a revolution in the mobile app world as its going to become very easy for even a layman to create his own application with the help of this PhoneGap. You can download the source code here
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As I anticipated, the huge loss of Amendment 48 has not dampened the plans of the religious right. The measure would have defined a fertilized egg as a person in Colorado's constitution.
A blogger named Dani emphasizes the point. Dani is "a right-wing Christian fanatic on assignment from God to be a good helper to my husband and to train up my children with the Fear and Admonition of the Lord!" Okay, then.
Dani looks on the bright side of Amendment 48's defeat:
Even though Amendment 48 didn't pass, we still consider this a victory for the pro-life movement since over 550,000 people voted to affirm the personhood of the pre-born Child yesterday in Colorado! On only a $200,000 budget, it's hard to compete with multi-million dollar corporations like Planned Parenthood who put out deceitful attack ads packed with lies in order to defeat Amendment 48. Well, we certainly wouldn't expect godless baby-killers to be honest while promoting their agenda, now would we? The majority of people are evil, and the majority voted against personhood, but we are not giving up that easy, in fact, the battle has just begun…
Notice that Dani does not specify a single "lie" by the opposition. Certainly she could not find any such faults with the paper written by Diana Hsieh and me criticizing Amendment 48.
Dani then reproduces the media release of a new group called Personhood USA, which "plans to assist local pro-life groups in different states to put personhood amendments on their states ballot by using the petition process."
The group proudly declares that its purpose is to impose religious faith by law:
"Praise Jesus! The pro-life tide is rising in America, now is the time for the entire pro-life movement to turn the focus off from permitting murder but attempting to 'regulate' it, to pushing for the recognition of the God given right to life for all innocent persons. Persons are humans beings from the moment of fertilization." Cal Zastrow, Co-Founder of Personhood USA.
Keith Mason, "one of the Personhood Amendment organizers," said, "Personhood has changed the abortion debate. Now we are asking, 'When does human life begin?' The opposition can not and will not answer this question, but we can. And when we answer that question, we win."
Hsieh and I address the matter at length in our paper. Not a single advocate of Amendment 48 has even attempted to refute our arguments. (Wayne Laugesen has come the closest to doing so.)
Meanwhile, Mason and his crew have utterly failed to sustain an argument that personhood begins at fertilization. Notice that Mason says he can answer the question, but he refrains from doing so in the release. The "argument" at PersonhoodUSA's web page is childish equivocation.
So pony up, Mason: prove to the world that personhood begins at the moment of fertilization, taking into account the issues that Hsieh and I raise in our paper. The fact that you cannot do so indicates why Coloradans did not take your movement seriously.
See PersonhoodUSA's web page for a list of the 16 states the group plans to target in the future. The magnificent defeat of the measure in Colorado should slow down efforts elsewhere. Yet the group may still find some traction in some areas to the degree that people reject reason in favor of religious faith.


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Woo hoo, what a year it's been! Over the past 12 months, I began to get the hang of this travel-as-a-new-parent thing, and voyaged through New York, Florida, Martha's Vineyard, Puerto Rico, Niagara Falls, and the White House. I also published my 600th article on this site! There was even a professional fashion makeover that happened.
Now, the fun question at the end of year always is: Which articles were most popular, and why? For those of you who enjoyed last year's edition of this question, here are the results from 2014, paired with lovely photos from the past few months that didn't fit in any previous articles, but I want an excuse to use. Enjoy!
#10 Most Popular: Is It Worth It to Travel During the Low Season? (2,428 reads) – I think this article from our Martha's Vineyard trip became popular because it has really bright, cool photos (like the lead photo with the shell), and because the central question (is it worth it to travel in the "Off Season?") is a much-searched one.
#9 Most Popular: Martha's Vineyard's Gingerbread Cottages Are So Cool! (2,546 reads) – People went crazy for this article because those houses are beyond belief. So pretty and surprising!
#8 Most Popular: The Best Ice Cream in Boston, and a Beautiful Baby (3,761 views) – Pairing scrumptiously creative ice cream flavors with cute baby photos? A sure win.
#7 Most Popular: How to Travel With a Baby: 11 Tips to Make it Easy! (3,869 views) – This article has been widely read because it's highly useful. Do share it with any new parents contemplating their first trip with an infant!
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To close, there's one post I WISHED would take off, because the photos in it blow my mind: Elephants and Camels on the Road in India! A close second place that I really expected to go viral was my article on Dogs in Funny Costumes. Seriously, people — how can you not launch photos of a Banana Dog into Internet fame?
So, what are YOUR favorites from the year? What's your own experience with which articles take off, and why? Do share.
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"She was bipolar. She also had a J.D. She had not passed the bar but she had a law degree and she had not had a bipolar episode in over ten years," says Abir. "She was a mother and she had recently moved to California to re-establish her life and bring her son to live with her. No prior history, no guns, no drugs, nothing. She was just bipolar."
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It's apparently going to be a Danish kind of week around here. I am not complaining because they all look terrific, and our Poppins Princess is definitely back in action.
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Below is a slider quiz to test your trading ability. Captions appear below the pictures for guidance, so be sure to scroll down far enough to read them.
This is a long quiz -- 9 slides, more of a trade review, really.
The high, tight flag appears when price doubles in less than 2 months, as it did here. I circled what I considered the flag portion of the HTF.
Same chart as the last slide... I'll explain most of this in the coming slides. This is from my notebook entry for the trade.
"Date placed: 21 December 2005. Order type: buy stop at 20.46, a penny above the high and tight flag (HTF) on 16 December 2005. Expires in 15 days, on 5 January 2006 because the flag length would be too long after that.
Indicators: Bearish divergence in the CCI [commodity channel index] and riding along the top band in Bollinger. Associated commodities: Oil: Downward trend. Score: +2, price target: 25.43. Industry and stock rank: 10th out of 46 industries, first out of 8 stocks. Support and resistance: Support at 17-18. Overhead round number resistance at 20 and 25. Buy reason: HTF."
I placed a buy stop above the top of the pattern and I find that's mandatory when trading HTFs. I've seen too many of these patterns form a flag, break out upward (but below the flagpole top) and then continue sliding. Placing a buy stop above the highest high in the pattern is the only way to trade HTFs. I placed a stop according to 1.5x the volatility of $1.03, or 10% below the buy price the day I bought (placed at 18.11). The price target was 26.16, which is half the measure of the flagpole height.
The green sloping line shows the bearish divergence between the CCI indicator and price. In the top half of the picture, the red and green vertical bars are sell or buy signals, respectively. They are generated when the delayed CCI (DCCI) crosses the CCI or when CCI crosses the 0 line. Usually, I ignore the signals. Oddly, this chart says NOT to buy the stock.
Here's the Bollinger bands. Price is riding along the tops. The only concern is that price will eventually drop from the top band, through the middle one, and touch the bottom one, which would be quite a drop if the bandwidth doesn't change.
This is the price of oil. It peaked in September and has been on a steady downtrend since then except for a retrace around mid November. The price of oil isn't as much of a concern as the price of jet fuel, which I don't track...
I scored the HTF and found that it had a +2 score with the median rise of 25.43. See my book, Trading Classic Chart Patterns for the scoring system details.
"Industry and stock rank: 10/46, 1/8." I used the price move over the last 6 months for this notebook entry. Out of 46 industries I track, air transports ranked 10th for performance (1 is best). Of the 8 airlines I follow, the stock ranked first, showing excellent upward price momentum.
"SAR: Support at 17-18. Overhead round number resistance at 20 and 25."
I drew two horizontal red lines at 17 and 18. This is bracketing the congestion region in early December. Round number resistance is at 20 and 25. You can see that the stock paused at 20, shown by the green line, pointing to the flag portion of the HTF.
"27 December 2005. Stop raised to 19.13, a penny below the flag low as price climbed over a buck. 4 January 2006. Stop raised to 19.78, which is a volatility stop using 2x volatility."
The chart shows where I bought the stock and where and when I moved the original stop at 18.11. When price made a new high the day after I bought, I moved the stop up to a penny below the prior low, to 19.13. When price made a new high in the new year, I moved the stop up again, using 2x the volatility as a guide.
Here's my notebook entry for the exit.
"Date sold: 10 January 2006. Sold at: 21.84. Sell reason: I looked at the other HTFs for the past 2 years. Those that confirmed topped out when the CCI diverged from price. The CCI is diverging with price. Today, the transports were up 24 and this stock was down 3 cents (Friday close on 6 January to Monday). I think it's topped out and I don't want to give back my 7% profit. I might be early, but the market (S&P) has been up for 5 days in a row and it's due for a setback. That I think will happen tomorrow. The transports have made a symmetrical triangle, sorta, with downward spikes. That suggests price weakness, that a definite downward breakout will occur."
I sold at the market open, 21.84, which is just short of the intraday high of 21.97. I felt very strongly about the sale, that I was making the right move. It turns out this was the perfect exit. I escaped the downward price plunge that began on the day I sold. In 6 days, including the day I sold, price plummeted 24%!
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Spikes on Their Toes
Jan 3, 2017
In the wintertime, Franklin Falls, in the Cascade Mountains about 60 miles east of Seattle, takes on a dual personality.
The main cataract at the center of the waterfall flows too fast and furious to freeze up tight; it roars and splashes and spits spray all winter long.
But closer to the edge, the waterfall's trickles and drips crystallize as icicles, which pile up through the winter months into layercakes of glittery, frothy ice. And this year, by mid-December, the ice at Franklin Falls was ready to be climbed.
Our man of the mountains, Hank, showed up there then with his buddies and their gear: ropes, crampons, ice axes, and optimism. They were climbers who knew their way around in the mountains, who'd put in their time conquering knife-edged ridges and post-vertical cliffs and glaciers and whiteouts and whatnot.
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Quilting: An Analogy
Ecclesiastes 3:11 in the KJV says,
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Literally, the Hebrew reads:
He has made everything beautiful in his time: also he put eternity in their heart, without which no man can find out the work of God from the beginning to the end.
Isharah and Matthew
The day, emblazoned into my memory, seems like yesterday. Just after his second birthday in December of 1977, I inadvertently burned my Indian-born son - not with fire, but with boiling, sweetened tea. In his semi-comatose state, Matthew lay on a quilt placed on the terrazzo floor under a ceiling fan. More for my need than his, I lay beside him.
On a particularly hot day in Tirucherappali, South India, where the temperatures often soar above a hundred, and where disease runs rampant, the accident had happened. Dehydrated from heat, my toddlers had been crying, because they wanted me to make them something to drink. Both were just behind me as I methodically boiled the water for the required twenty minutes; put the tea leaves into it and then the sugar. No sooner had I strained and poured the tea into the flask than Matthew grabbed it and attempted to drink. Whether it was the heat on his hands or the heat that touched his lips we'll never know, but he dropped the bottle, and the tea scalded him. His skimpy T-shirt acted as a poultice, holding the tea onto his tiny torso. Impulsively, I stripped off the shirt, bringing with it the skin of his entire chest and stomach.
While I tried to give Matthew some measure of relief before taking him for professional help, a domestic, employed in the house, began rocking from side to side, chanting words in her native tongue. Carrying him down the gravel road, I ran toward the nearest hospital with the servant, like a shadow, behind me. There was no car for me, and even if there had been, I couldn't have driven it. I was not accustomed to driving on the left side of the road amidst pedestrians, oxcarts, bicycles, and wandering animals.
Through a dark hallway, Dr. Jeremiah approached, and on catching a glimpse of the burn, pronounced a foul expletive under his breath. To cover his original reaction, he deliberately calmed his voice and inquired pleasantly, Is it fire burn? With bare, oozing, flesh presenting itself where the bronze skin had been, there was no need to tell the doctor why I was there.
Antibiotics were prescribed for the infection that would come, ointment for soothing and healing, and pain medication for calming. Since conditions were far from sanitary at the hospital, Matthew could not be treated there. Dr. Jeremiah suggested that my house would be relatively free of staff infection and that Matthew must go back home.
At home, we lay on the quilt, under a ceiling fan, trying to ignore the agony that covered us - his physical and mine mental. As I read to him, the sound of my voice appeared to sooth his nerves. I talked at times of things he could do when he was able to raise his body from the floor. I talked of the quilt on which we lay - how this odd scrap had come from his sister's blouse, or that scrap had come from my dress, or another from his daddy's shirt. Waiting for the medication to take effect, I watched the swelling come, the body liquids ooze and my little son sleep.
Like a kaleidoscope, thoughts of the quilt circled in my brain. There had been good days - days represented by plain or printed fabric. Prints, like Jacob's ring-streaked and spotted cattle, were in abundance; gay colors bounced, circled, and swam before my watery eyes. Each piece of patchwork represented a time in our lives that had been brought together by the artistry of a quilter. As I reminisced of the good days gone by, the quilt gave me hope that there would be more.
This tragic day seemed to be a pale block. Splashes of beautiful, bright colors had already been painted throughout, and in contrast to this one, they stood out like flowers in a fog. Death is a pale patch; that day's encounter was as close to that pale hue as any had ever been. Yet all of the colors seemed to blend marvelously. Overlooking the pale, mismatched, and badly sewn lines - life looked beautiful. I pondered what it might have looked like if I had been the only designer.
Matthew's quilt was so short. I wondered about the patterns that might be woven into his life - how long his quilt would be.
I imagined his marriage with his bride weaving the patches of her own life into his. Would the fabrics be beautiful, colorful, and long, or would they be suddenly ripped apart, leaving a terrible gaping hole to cause agony and unrest.
I wanted to help make those patterns, but Matthew's immature little fingers had also begun to work the colors together without my help. My own hands had faltered. Yes, my fingers had almost helped to sew that pale border that I wished would never come.
Matthew recovered. Although he was scarred, he is alive. He doesn't like to talk about his scar; it is a grim reminder of his brush with death.
Matthew likes quilts, and I am making one for him. His quilt will have all the scenes of his life in India meshed together - good days and the bad, bright prints and plain. There will be time for reminiscing and telling his children how life was.
Beth Johnson
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Embroidered designs that make the quilt gay
Are pleasures and duties we find in our way;
Hope, love and kisses are stitches so bright,
Which decorate life with gleams of delight;
While sympathy sweet is the lining to hold
The odd scraps of fate, which we cannot control.
We are better than patchwork because of the soul.
...found embroidered on the back of an 1890 quilt.
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The BCCI's new regime under Jagmohan Dalmiya's leadership is exploring the option of an early Special General Meeting (SGM) in its bid to oust N Srinivasan as the Board's representative in ICC.
In order to reach a decision on ousting Srinivasan, an SGM needs to be called and Dalmiya along with Secretary Anurag Thakur is exploring that option.
However, they are yet to decide on a date as of now as the members need to be given three weeks of notice period.
"To oust Srinivasan, the ruling group will require two-thirds majority which is 21 units. If they can't ensure 21 votes, they won't call SGM for sure. Dalmiya and Thakur will have to ensure there are 21 votes in their favour," a member of Dalmiya faction has been quoted by media in India.
There are reports that the SGM will be called on May 24, the day of IPL final. Incidentally, Lalit Modi was suspended after the final of IPL 3 in 2010.
This comes a day after the internal feud within the BCCI took an ugly turn with Board Secretary Thakur launching a stinging attack on ICC Chairman Srinivasan, saying that he should actually share information on bookies with his own family members "whose involvement in betting has been proved".
A day after ICC issued an advisory to Thakur to stay away from suspected bookies, the BCCI secretary hit back at Srinivasan through an open letter in which he questioned the timing of the "counter offensive" initiated at the behest of the ICC Chairman.
Srinivasan though made it clear that he did not want to engage in a war of words with Thakur, saying he would take up the matter with him personally.
ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson had on Sunday written a letter to BCCI president Dalmiya about Thakur being photographed with one Karan Gilhotra, whose name allegedly figures in the list of suspected bookies.


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