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The logs are a valuable source of information about Squid workloads and performance. The logs record not only access information, but also system configuration errors and resource consumption (eg, memory, disk space).
There are basically two formats for the access.log file: ``native'' and ``common.'' The Common Logfile Format is used by numerous HTTP servers. This format consists of the following seven fields:
remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "method URL" status bytes
The native format is different for different major versions of Squid. For Squid-1.0 it is:
time elapsed remotehost code/status/peerstatus bytes method URL
For Squid-1.1, the information from the hierarchy.log was moved into access.log. The format is:
time elapsed remotehost code/status bytes method URL rfc931 peerstatus/peerhost
This logfile exists for Squid-1.0 only. The format is
[date] URL peerstatus peerhost
The store.log consists of the following fields:
time The time this entry was logged. The value is the raw Unix time plus milliseconds. action One of RELEASE, SWAPIN, or SWAPOUT. RELEASE means the object has been removed from the cache. SWAPOUT means the object has been saved to disk. SWAPIN means the object existed on disk and has been swapped into memory. status The HTTP reply code. The following three fields are timestamps parsed from the HTTP reply headers. All are expressed in Unix time. A missing header is represented with -2 and an unparsable header is represented as -1. datehdr The value of the HTTP Date: reply header. lastmod The value of the HTTP Last-Modified: reply header. expires The value of the HTTP Expires: reply header. type The HTTP Content-Type reply header. expect-len The value of the HTTP Content-Length reply header. Zero if Content-Length was missing. real-len The number of bytes of content actually read. If the expect-len is non-zero, and not equal to the real-len, the object will be released from the cache. method HTTP request method key The cache key. Often this is simply the URL. Cache objects which never become public will have cache keys that include a unique integer sequence number, the request method, and then the URL.
These are the definitions for the various log format components:
The IP address of the client host. In Squid-1.1, if the log_fqdn option is enabled, full hostnames will be logged when available.
The username associated with the client connection, determined from an Ident (RFC 931) server running on the client host. By default Ident lookups are not made, but may be enabled with the ident_lookup option.
Always NULL ("-") for Squid logs.
GET, HEAD, POST, etc. for HTTP requests. ICP_QUERY for ICP requests.
The requested URL.
The ``cache result'' of the request. This describes if the request was a cache hit or miss, and if the object was refreshed. See the full list of cache result codes.
HTTP status code: 200 for successful actions, 000 for UDP requests, 403 for redirects, 500 for server errors, etc. See the HTTP status codes for a complete list.
The number of bytes delivered to the client.
A status code that explains how the request was forwarded, either too your peer (neighbor) caches, or directly to the origin server.
The host where the request was forwarded to.
Unix timestamp (since Jan 1, 1970) with millisecond resolution. You can convert unix time to something more sensible with this short perl script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -p s/^\d+\.\d+/localtime $&/e;
HTTP date format:
The time elapsed (milliseconds) during the client connection. For HTTP requests, this is the time between the accept() and close() system calls for the TCP socket. For ICP requests, this represents the time between scheduling the reply message for sending and actually sending it.
Note, TCP_ refers to requests on the HTTP port (3128).
A valid copy of the requested object was in the cache.
A valid copy of the requested object was in the cache, AND it was in memory so it did not have to be read from disk.
The request was for a negatively-cached object. Negative-caching refers to caching certain types of errors, such as "404 Not Found." The amount of time these errors are cached is controlled with the negative_ttl configuration parameter.
The requested object was not in the cache.
The object was in the cache, but STALE. An If-Modified-Since request was made and a "304 Not Modified" reply was received.
The object was in the cache, but STALE. The request to validate the object failed, so the old (stale) object was returned.
The object was in the cache, but STALE. An If-Modified-Since request was made and the reply contained new content.
The client issued a request with the "no-cache" pragma.
The client issued an If-Modified-Since request and the object was in the cache and still fresh.
The client issued an If-Modified-Since request for a stale object.
The object was believed to be in the cache, but could not be accessed.
Access was denied for this request
"UDP_" refers to requests on the ICP port (3130)
A valid copy of the requested object was in the cache.
Same as UDP_HIT, but the object data was small enough to be sent in the UDP reply packet. Saves the following TCP request.
The requested object was not in the cache.
Access was denied for this request.
An invalid request was received.
The ICP request was "refused" because the cache is busy reloading its metadata.
"ERR_" refers to various types of errors for HTTP requests. For example:
The client aborted its request.
There are no clients requesting this URL any more.
There was a read(2) error while retrieving this object.
Squid failed to connect to the server for this request.
Hierarchy Data Tags
The object has been requested from the origin server.
The object has been requested from the origin server because the origin host IP address is inside your firewall.
The object has been requested from the parent cache with the fastest weighted round trip time.
The object has been requested from the first available parent in your list.
The object has been requested from the origin server because the origin host IP address matched your 'local_ip' list.
The object was requested from a sibling cache which replied with a UDP_HIT.
The object could not be requested because of firewall restrictions and no parent caches were available.
The object was requested from the origin server because no parent caches exist for the URL.
The object was requested from a parent cache which replied with a UDP_HIT.
The object was requested from the only parent cache appropriate for this URL.
The object was requested from the origin server because the 'source_ping' reply arrived first.
The object was received in a UDP_HIT_OBJ reply from a parent cache.
The object was received in a UDP_HIT_OBJ reply from a sibling cache.
The neighbor or proxy defined in the config option 'passthrough_proxy' was used.
The neighbor or proxy defined in the config option 'ssl_proxy' was used.
No ICP queries were sent to any parent caches. This parent was chosen because it was marked as 'default' in the config file.
No ICP queries were received from any parent caches. This parent was chosen because it was marked as 'default' in the config file and it had the lowest round-robin use count.
This parent was selected because it included the lowest RTT measurement to the origin server. This only appears with 'query_icmp on' set in the config file.
The object was fetched directly from the origin server because this cache measured a lower RTT than any of the parent caches.
Almost any of these may be preceded by 'TIMEOUT_' if the two-second (default) timeout occurs waiting for all ICP replies to arrive from neighbors.
These are taken from RFC 2068.
100 Continue 101 Switching Protocols 200 OK 201 Created 202 Accepted 203 Non-Authoritative Information 204 No Content 205 Reset Content 206 Partial Content 300 Multiple Choices 301 Moved Permanently 302 Moved Temporarily 303 See Other 304 Not Modified 305 Use Proxy 400 Bad Request 401 Unauthorized 402 Payment Required 403 Forbidden 404 Not Found 405 Method Not Allowed 406 Not Acceptable 407 Proxy Authentication Required 408 Request Time-out 409 Conflict 410 Gone 411 Length Required 412 Precondition Failed 413 Request Entity Too Large 414 Request-URI Too Large 415 Unsupported Media Type 500 Internal Server Error 501 Not Implemented 502 Bad Gateway 503 Service Unavailable 504 Gateway Time-out 505 HTTP Version not supported
This file has a rather unfortunate name. It also is often called the swap log. It is a record of every cache object written to disk. It is read when Squid starts up to ``reload'' the cache. If you remove this file when squid is NOT running, you will effectively wipe out your cache contents. If you remove this file while squid IS running, you can easily recreate it. The safest way is to simply shutdown the running process:
% squid -k shutdownThis will disrupt service, but at least you will have your swap log back. Alternatively, you can tell squid to rotate its log files. This also causes a clean swap log to be written.
% squid -k rotate
For Squid-1.1, there are six fields:
For Squid-2, this log file has been renamed to swap.state, and the format is binary.
The best way to maintain Squid log files is to send the squid process a USR1 signal. This causes the current log files to be closed and renamed. You can then remove any of the old log files. For example, if your squid.pid file is /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid (as defined in your squid.conf file) you would do:
kill -USR1 `cat /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid`
NOTE: The
logfile_rotate line in squid.conf
makes it generally unnecessary to delete logfiles by hand. Just set
logfile_rotate to the number of old logs you want saved. Each time
the value of
logfile_rotate is reached, the oldest log will be
deleted automatically. You may find it useful to simply set
logfile_rotate to the number of old logs you want, and then set up
a crontab to send squid the
SIGUSR1 signal. The following
crontab entry would tell Squid to rotate the logs every day at midnight:
0 0 * * * /bin/kill -USR1 `cat /usr/local/squid/logs/squid.pid`
The only logfile you should never delete is the file cleverly
log which normally exists in the first
directory. This file contains the meta data needed to rebuild the cache when
squid starts up. Deleting this file effectively wipes out your
To disable access.log:
cache_access_log /dev/null
To disable store.log:
cache_store_log none
It is a bad idea to disable the cache.log because this file contains many important status and debugging messages. However, if you really want to, you can: To disable access.log:
cache_log /dev/null
You need to rotate your log files with a cron job. For example:
0 0 * * * /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -k rotate
This message means that the requested object was in ``Delete Behind'' mode and the user aborted the transfer. An object will go into ``Delete Behind'' mode if
This means that a timeout occurred while the object was being transferred. Most likely the retrieval of this object was very slow (or it stalled before finishing) and the user aborted the request. However, depending on your settings for quick_abort, Squid may have continued to try retrieving the object. Squid imposes a maximum amount of time on all open sockets, so after some amount of time the stalled request was aborted and logged win an ERR_LIFETIME_EXP message.
I've been asked to retrieve an object which was accidentally destroyed at the source for recovery. So, how do I figure out where the things are so I can copy them out and strip off the headers?
The following method applies only to the Squid-1.1 versions:
Use grep to find the named object (Url) in the cache/log file. The first field in this file is an integer file number.
Then, find the file fileno-to-pathname.pl from the ``scripts'' directory of the Squid source distribution. The usage is
perl fileno-to-pathname.pl [-c squid.conf]file numbers are read on stdin, and pathnames are printed on stdout.


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As DTS Managing Director I strive to be ever mindful that without our customers we wouldn't be here and there'd be no point in what we do.
DTS is going from strength to strength in terms of growth and turnover with March and May this year being our best months ever. So I'd like to pause and take the opportunity to thank you all for your loyalty over the years (or weeks if you're among the many who have recently joined us).
We value those who have chosen us and reflect this by working to have a truly customer-focused business culture in all that we do. We also constantly re-invest company profits into more and better infrastructure (routers, hardware and connectivity – things with flashing lights and cables that make the Internet go) so we can continue to provide the most modern and seamless service possible. Our extensive redundancy, backup and automatic failover systems mean our service is always reliable and your data with us is safe.
Our network is indeed robust, but our commitment to our customers is that we will continue to implement the very latest technology to ensure it is always 'state of the art'. We have also committed to developing more and better tools our customers can use at our web interface to manage their connectivity and accounts.
Recently we have employed three new staff to meet growing demand and three more will be added next month to add to our growing voice and technical infrastructure. Our first priority with all new staff is always that they are up to speed with our customer-focused ethos.
So great things are happening at DTS and we're glad you can be a part of it. You're our most important asset and you're in good hands because excellence is good for everybody.
Thank you.
Steve Ritchie
Managing Director

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Porto Katsiki on the Ioanian Sea island of Lefkada is one of the most famous beaches in Greece and Europe in general. Translation to English means "Port of the Goat", because before only a goat could reach this area.
A very famous and photogenic beach, it is one of the best tourists attractions the world can offer, it is at the bottom of an arc of pale cliff that seem to have the clean lines of something designed by an architect rather than a natural wonder. It rises out of the water like a wedge, narrow at the center of the bay where there are only a few stairs to the sand, and then towering upwards at either end. As well as the white lines of the cliffs, the water is bright, bright blue and the cliffs have grassy topped fringes. source (wikipedia)
Porto Katsiki has parking lots and canteens, but you will not find anywhere to stay. Some people camp on the beach, but free camping is prohibited. There is a stairwell down to the actual beach from the cliff parking but the beach in general is well organized.
Porto Katsiki, the best known beach, is today considered one of the most outstanding in the whole of Europe. This is a beach of exceptional beauty, famed the world over.
This unique landscape is so spectacular that it will be inscribed forever in the memory of whoever visits this beach, whether he approaches it from the land or by boat from the sea.
The last 5 km of the road are not wide enough and especially in August you may experience difficulties visiting Porto Katsiki at noon. In order to avoid this situation, you can go early in the morning (before 10:00) or at the afternoon (after 18:00). You may also visit Porto Katsiki with the cruise boats from Nydri or Vasiliki.
It is 35 km away from Lefkada town, near Athani village. The unique view of the white cliff over the beach combined with the surrounding green of the area and the cyan water of the sea make this beach a "must visit" place for tourists. It is consistently rated Top European Beach of the Year.


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By Anna Von Reitz
Today, it has been reported that Catholic Bishops are "praying for the death of America"---- and I have been asked why?
To put it bluntly and succinctly, they would pray for the death of America because they have been cheating, bilking, enslaving, and robbing Americans for 150 years-----and they got caught.
Their own concessions, corporations merely calling themselves the "United States" and the "United States of America", are the guilty parties.
We have the records, we have the mechanisms, we have the documentation. We have the proof that the Roman Pontiffs and the British Monarchs have conspired against us in Breach of Trust and commercial contract since 1822.


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Hoogerheide, Netherlands – Heading into today's World Championship race, reigning World Champion Sven Nys told reporters that the rider he was most worried about was 'crosser-cum-roadie Zdeněk Štybar, perhaps remembering the power of Štybar in 2011, when the Czech rider bested the Belgian at the world championships in St. Wendel. That prediction proved accurate, as the two world champions gave us one of the most exciting championships of years past, establishing an early lead, shedding the rest of the best, and then trading heavy blows back and forth for the duration of the race.
With three to go, the two racers looked like late-round boxers, evenly matched, and it became clear that this would be either a race won by errors, or by a sprint. A crash by Štybar looked to make the decision, as Nys capitalized and opened a significant gap, only to lose his advantage when his bike disappeared from him on a tight 180-degree turn.
In the bell lap, Štybar threw a final attack, and Nys bobbled twice in his bid to respond, forced off his bike as Štybar accelerated away. Though Nys put on a display of technical mastery as he chased Štybar, there was not enough trail left to catch the impressive, powerful Czech – who only decided to race the event in the past week – as he stormed his way to his third World Cyclocross Championship.
"It was a very hard race," said Štybar. "I crashed one time and I thought it was over. From the beginning I thought, let's race hard, I have nothing to lose. Now I have to go, I have to give it everything. I was fourth line, I had to brake full gas on the start and come back, which was a big effort for me. We were three, then two and then I thought we were just going to fight for the podium."
"It's different when you have pressure, when you're a full-time cyclocrosser. But for me, I was just coming to cyclocross to do one race. I didn't feel like it was a World Championship, though I enjoyed the crowds. I was just looking at it like a race."
And how does this win stack up to his previous two? "The first one, there's nothing to compare it to, it was in front of my home crowd in Czech Republic. This is really very nice," he said, noting the importance of a third title, "I really appreciate being World Champion."
"I thought it was possible," said Nys, "two or three laps before the end. I pushed a little bit harder and then I saw that he had trouble following, and that it was possible to win. Then I made small a mistake after the tree where he crashed and got on my wheel. I waited half a lap, recovered a bit, and hoped that I could do something in the last lap."
The Space Behind the Leaders
The race for bronze was between Lars van der Haar, Klaas Vantornout, and Kevin Pauwels, with Pauwels taking the podium as Vantornout shed Van der Haar for fourth after the three fought it out for nearly the entirety of the hour long race.
On the American side, Jonathan Page took top honors with 18th place, while current US National Champion Jeremy Powers took 24th. Ryan Trebon, despite receiving a deep gash on his calf in the first lap, finished in 31st but would likely require stitches. Krughoff rolled in at 48th, right in front of Canadian Mike Garrigan. Tim Johnson, with a possible broken arm, and Zach McDonald, both did not finish the race.
"I got off of the starting straight OK," said Page, "but then a couple of guys came down in the first mud pit. So I thought, OK, stay calm and go again. Then, someone crashed on the bridge and I got caught behind one of the Czech guys, but I felt good so I went on. I came back strong and picked off guys one by one."
Read on for a full blow-by-blow report of the race.


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A chemical leak forced the evacuation of several blocks in the eastern Iowa town of Clinton last night.
Fire crews were called to the area due to a strong-smelling substance reported in the basement of a building.
Crews determined it was a toxic and flammable substance leaking from a 55-gallon drum. Authorities did not publicly identify the chemical.
An area of a block in each direction of the building was evacuated. A hazmat crew from Davenport was called in and cleaned up the situation.
The area was opened for a return by residents after about 4 1/2 hours. No injuries were reported during the situation.
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Financial Consolidations for Manufacturing & Distribution companies using Sage X3
This article will discuss the best options you have for financial reporting and consolidation solutions for your Sage X3 data management and analytical tasks.
There are plenty of Sage X3 users who are responsible for consolidating their parent company information from one or more manufacturing or distribution subsidiaries. Combining financial data from more than one entity, at times with multiple currencies, can be a challenge if you don't have a modern financial consolidation solution to supplement Sage X3 and any other ERP systems that your subsidiaries might use. Data is only growing in size and significance to corporate decision-making, which is why more executives are seeking the best software to enable their business end users to aggregate information into a unified set of financial reports. In this article, we'll focus on your technology options for today's intuitive, business user friendly financial consolidations with Sage X3. If your manufacturing or distribution organization is rapidly growing, a high-powered reporting and consolidation software can simplify your Sage X3 implementation and give you more flexibility and power in your reporting process.
Financial consolidations bring together subsidiary transactional general ledger data into a unified set of financial reports for a parent organization. These statements typically include Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reports, made up of subsidiary information that demonstrates the overall health of the parent company. Consolidations can include currency conversion for multiple money types, transactional eliminations between subsidiaries, and any additional adjustments that need to be completed manually without modern technology. There are a plethora of reasons a manufacturing or distribution company might be shopping for a modern software solution, but let's zoom in on two key motivations.
The two common reasons your finance team might be shopping for an automated consolidation tool both have to do with product age. Some are hoping to move away from more mature solutions, like manual Excel spreadsheets that are too simplistic to meet modern business demands. Others are hoping to ditch older tools because of their unnecessary complexity and difficulty for business end users to manage, like Cognos or Hyperion.
Regardless of your industry, Sage X3 users that are performing financial consolidations for multi-national companies typically perform common tasks. Some have to regularly convert currencies and manually adjust month-end consolidations so they can meet domestic and global regulations, such as the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles adjustments (GAAP), typically referred to as IFRS to GAAP. Some have deep analytics requiring sub-ledger data and need a tool that is positioned within a comprehensive suite of Business Intelligence (BI) modules, fully integrated with solutions for ad-hoc reporting, dashboards, budgeting, and data storage. Let's discuss how to pinpoint the best solution for your manufacturing or distribution company.
I've written about how you can integrate your data before, but you're able to consolidate your data by utilizing the native reporting function in Sage X3 for real-time analyses. This option is less flexible when it comes to report design, lacking consolidation feature depth and a potential slowdown when pulling data, depending on the size of the query and whether they're done simultaneously, but this is all because financial consolidations are not the primary purpose of an accounting system. Most independent software vendor (ISV) consolidation solutions provide you the choice to pull data from a high performance BI data store, but this option requires an investment of your money (for the product) and time (to replicate your GL information from Sage X3 to an OLAP cube or a data warehouse).
Manufacturing or distribution companies with fewer subsidiaries, less complicated or no requisite currency conversions, and/or without the need to do more substantial, simultaneous data pulls might be okay with Sage X3's built-in roll-up abilities. You could also probably depend on X3 if you aren't going to pull data from other sources for your analyses, perform complex, automated eliminations, or other adjustments that are beyond what Sage X3 offers. That said, BI data stores typically upgrade financial consolidations by including GL data from X3, so this option might be the most impactful for parent companies with more complex aggregations.
You can set up routine replications of your data to a Cloud or on-premises OLAP cube or data warehouse – or push a button for one-time moves. Sage X3 information typically replicates through a pre-built integration that connects to the X3 database, which fills the BI data store. Consolidations are performed with a higher performance due to the power and stability that a data warehouse or OLAP cube offers. Organizations with more robust adjustment, currency conversions, larger or simultaneous queries, and/or just a larger amount of company data to consolidate will benefit from BI data stores, but regardless, you should pinpoint which of today's consolidation features you require to meet your specific consolidation goals.
Currency conversions and consolidation adjustments. Currency conversions are simple: multiple money types get converted into one currency for the set of financial reports. Consolidation adjustments enable finance departments to meet domestic and global accounting standards, update inventory evaluation, and/or temporarily correct incomplete subsidiary data, in addition to other tasks. The adjustments assist in statutory statement submissions.
Intercompany eliminations. Subsidiaries might exchange their goods and/or services amongst each other, which cancels out for the parent organization. In function, intercompany eliminations strike the transactions from the balance sheet and the P&L, reallocating the goods or services, which you can do with Sage X3 or a BI data store. Some BI tools even provide configurable Excel input forms that you can utilize to manually and easily adjust or eliminate intercompany transactions.
Allocations, reconciliations, and modeling organizational changes. Some companies utilize allocations to associate specific expenses and/or revenue to particular departments, divisions, and/or subsidiaries. Sage X3 can allocate, but some data stores can also perform custom-designed allocation tasks of various levels of complexity within the cube or data warehouse platform. If you go the BI data store route, plenty of organizations tend to have either the subsidiary team or the parent company reconcile the data to ensure accuracy, which can be done with Sage X3, BI front-end tools, or in the OLAP cube or data warehouse. Finally, some tools allow you to model acquisitions, divestments, and/or reorganizations by duplicating and tweaking infinite company trees or hierarchies. This enables you to see the effect that specific activity would have on the portfolio.
Shopping for a financial consolidation tool, whether for a manufacturing or distribution organization – or not, can be overwhelming and confusing, due to the complex nature of the task. Solver, Inc. is happy to answer questions and generally review BI360's easy-to-use, Excel- and web-powered consolidation tool for Sage X3 with both real-time or data warehouse integrated analysis, comprehensive reporting, budgeting, dashboards and collaboration as a way to accelerate company performance management for manufacturing and distribution companies.


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Nintendo offered some bittersweet news this evening as Animal Crossing: New Horizons was revealed. The game is the first Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch and looks to be your standard Animal Crossing fare.
The trailer showed off the bright and colourful visuals that we've come to love from the series. You embark on an ultra-exclusive Nook Inc. Deserted Island Getaway Package, allowing you to make your new life whatever you want it to be. The game seems to feature more crafting – letting you collect resources and tools to create homesteads that you can decorate both inside and out. It sounds great, but some bad news loomed as the trailer ended.
That's right, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will launch for Nintendo Switch on March 20th, 2020. A little bit later than originally planned.


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Hey Everyone! It's Candace from Candi O. Designs and it's my day to post over at Stamp Anniething.
I love the little watermelon sprinkles so I used them in making a shaker card and Dorothy holding watermelon was perfect to add to this card!!
Products Used:
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Hair ~ E37, E35, YR24, YR20
Clothing ~ RV21, RV23, B23, B24, R24, R27, G14, G07, C4, C6
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Reading Lists
31 Poets Recommend 31 Poetry Books to Read Every Day in August
Poet Nicole Sealey challenges you to read one poetry book a day this month, and Ocean Vuong, Hanif Abdurraqib, and others are here to tell you where to start
Back in the summer 2017 Nicole Sealey started to feel like she wasn't doing as much reading as she normally did. This was understandable, seeing as she was serving Executive Director of Cave Canem—an organization dedicated to Black poets and poetry—and promoting her debut collection, Ordinary Beast, at the same time. And so she set herself a challenge: read an entire book of poetry every day during the month of August. Thirty-one days, 31 books.
"The Sealey Challenge was, initially, just a conscious effort to return to the habit of reading poetry," says Sealey, who has since stepped down as ED of Cave Canem. "I posted across social media to ask if anyone wanted to join me in reading a book a day in August. Folks did, and the challenge caught on. Now, it's in its third year. Now it's tradition." Sealey is no stranger to building community—Cave Canem's programming is all about creating a legacy of Black poetry through workshops, mentorship, readings, and support. So it's no wonder the challenge has caught on like wildfire. Both poets and poetry readers alike use the hashtag #TheSealeyChallenge and post photos of the books they're reading during the month, creating a storm of poetry on social media.
But reading one book every day isn't easy. Are they meant to be read individually, so readers allow them to sink in, or do we go through a poetry collection as we would a novel? Sealey recommends that "Poems should be consumed as individual readers see fit. As a poet myself, I read for pleasure and/or to better my craft. During the Sealey Challenge, however, I read for enjoyment. There's no hard and fast rule. Really, I'm thrilled that folks are reading more books of poetry, many of which are chapbooks, and doing so together."
She adds that the books she selects are ones she's been meaning to read for a while, but hasn't yet. She has some suggestions to help those participating in the challenge:
- DO select collections that can be read in one day (I'm a slow reader, so I tend to select books with no more than 100 pages).
- DO use your time wisely (read on the train, during lunch, before bed, et cetera).
- DO take your time—poetry is deserving of our full attention (if reading a selection carries over to the next day or the day after that, so be it).
- DO read chapbooks—for every full-length, read a chapbook (chapbooks need audiences too and this will help us keep pace).
- Lastly, DO return to and study these books between September 1st and the next year's #TheSealeyChallenge.
- We can DO it!
If you're new to the poetry world, though, finding chapbooks and short poetry collections may be a challenge in itself. There is a lot of great work out there, and poetry doesn't often get publicized as widely as other writing does. To help you along, I asked (read: straight up slid into their DMs) 31 poets to recommend just one book of poetry they've loved. Thirty-one poets, 31 collections. Maybe you'll find your new favorite amongst these.
Damn, just one, eh. Pardon My Heart by Ohioan poet Marcus Jackson.
—Nicole Sealey, author of Ordinary Beast
I'd recommend Harmony Holiday's A Jazz Funeral For Uncle Tom, for how it blends lyric, imagery, and history to formulate a clear and striking narrative.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Fortune For Your Disaster (September 2019)
Sarah Gambito's Loves You is a remarkable folksong and jubilee of the heart—and stomach. The connections of food, love, and landscape bubble and froth together here in a stunningly and dazzlingly original compilation.
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic
Sara Borjas' Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff.
—Denice Frohman, co-organizer of #PoetsforPuertoRico
Eduardo C. Corral's Slow Lightning. That book uses restlessness, in form, lexicons, languages, and styles to define a new way of living and thinking in otherness that is both homage to literary precursors as well as a treatise for healing and futurity for writers of color.
—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds
I love Brigit Pegeen Kelly's Song. There's so much beauty in that book. There's also quiet in the book. You can hear the quiet between the lines. There's also so much pain in that book. But the beauty overpowers all. It's one of my favorite books of all time.
—Victoria Chang, author of Barbie Chang
If you haven't read J. Michael Martinez's Museum of the Americas, you are missing out; this is one of my favorite collections of recent years for its lyrical inquiry into Mexican heritage and imperialism, and the Latinx body that emerges from that history of oppression and consumption.
—Rosebud Ben-Oni, author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (forthcoming)
I would recommend John Allen Taylor's chapbook Unmonstrous (YesYes Books). It is heart-wrenching and elegant, quiet and loud, recounting trespass, healing, and the beauty we find along the way.
—Diannely Antigua, author of Ugly Music
Olio by Tyehimba Jess. Olio makes me wonder about the future of poetry and consider how it could thrive both on and off of the page. The theatrical way in which the poems of Olio and the physical text itself are presented–resist institution and convince me that contemporary poetry is on the verge of yet another exciting renaissance!
—Faylita Hicks, author of Hoodwitch (October 2019)
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey. An incredible experiment in quietness and solicitude.
—Camonghne Felix, author of Build Yourself A Boat
The last book of poetry I read with deep interest was Jay Bernard's Surge, which reckons not just with history but also literary tradition to call attention to the recursivity of social violence/ anti-black racism in the U.K. In Bernard's hands, form and narrative are melded to produce a truly political poetry (in every sense of the political)!
—Billy-Ray Belcort, author of This Wound is a World
Raquel Salas Rivera's while they sleep (under the bed is another country) sees and distills centuries. As the aftereffects of the U.S.'s violent response to Puerto Rico, in the wake of Hurricane Maria, grow, this book, its nuanced analysis and use of language, is a tool for surviving the future.
—Andrés Cerpa, author of Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy
Franny Choi's Soft Science. This book reads like a cross between an lyric erotic memoir and a Isaac Asimov story. In these formally inventive poems, Choi explores the complicated mess that is the human psyche and find us all (America and beyond) both monstrous and beautiful. You should really read this book.
—Jeffrey Thomson, author of Half/Life: New & Selected Poems (October 2019)
Joe Jiménez's Rattlesnake Allegory: The lyric echoes & queer longing of Joe Jiménez's Rattlesnake Allegory deftly deconstruct the space between the body & the environment it navigates. For Jiménez, the body itself takes form as "a nest braided in hush," & desire a snake that coils within, & stays.
—Matty Layne Glasgow, author of Deciduous Qween
I recommend everyone read Teeth by Aracelis Girmay. Girmay's first book of poems is full of balms and rallying cries. It is a book to carry with you at all times. If you can read the poem, FOR ESTEFANI LORA, THIRD GRADE, WHO MADE ME A CARD, and not giggle to yourself with joy, then you might want to check your pulse.
—José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal
I recommend Mend (The University Press of Kentucky) by Kwoya Fagin Maples. There are so many things to love and study here, namely how Maples beautifully uses both personal and persona poems to investigate what it means for black women to have (literally) made history but not be apart of it.
—Malcolm Tariq, author of Heed the Hollow
Etel Adnan's Sea and Fog: A quote from the book: "The forest is shaking terribly. Waves howl and break in jets of water. What beauty, this fury! Sea: It is because she is that we are, and when she disappears we'll cease to be. It's only in relation to her that we find some worth to our existence."
—Grace Shuyi Liew, author of Careen
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague's Jazzercise is a Language: A friend thrust this book into my arms knowing what it would do to me and now I thrust it into yours. This book thinks, it sweats, it offers sweat-drenched leotards and leitmotifs of being doused in seltzer, it counts to a beat (one two one two, bodies impacting a floor) and inhabits/blows up the confounding — racialized, gendered, wild — language of FITNESS DANCE and its celebrities/practitioners/instructors — "when you're smiling I know you're breathing." This is a fucking great book. Skip that cruel Richard SImmons podcast and read this instead.
—Hannah Ensor, author of Love Dream with Television
Domenica Martinello's All Day I Dream About Sirens (Coach House Books, 2019): All Day I Dream About Sirens by Domenica Martinello is an intoxicating debut. She braids diction from mythology and late stage capitalism into language that's vibrant and slippery. The varying linguistic registers and tone shifts both critique and enact our age of flickering attention spans. Her poems are dazzling, exhilarating.
—Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning
Alberto Rios makes use of magical realism in order to infuse our world—which is full of such codified notions as nationality and gender—with the often-unacknowledged mysteries of our own shifting and mutable identities. Every one of his books is a lesson in sorcery, but The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body is slaying me these days: "What I could not have, / That's what I was / Inside, an ache / Coming as I stood / Too many places."
—Keetje Kuipers, author of All Its Charms
Jay Wright's The Prime Anniversary (Flood Editions, 2019): With incomparable poetic vision, Jay Wright again reminds us of our sonic birthright. At the meeting place of Góngora and Ogotemmêli, his lines thoroughly reconfigure the perception of time and geography. With astounding lyrical precision—a music composed of fractions, infinity, proper names—The Prime Anniversary makes it desirable to inhabit the immensity beyond "this countable, nameable thing we call an individual." Wright's example allows us to rejoice in the justice that prevails in the present tense of what numbers know: "Nothing overcomes the radiant iambic; / no one forgets the geometry of lyric."
—Roberto Tejada, author of Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness
I recommend anything by Marosa di Giorgio (Ugly Duckling's issuing of The History of Violets was my first introduction). Di Giorgio's prose poetry locates and then often identifies with the perilous beauty of the natural world as it applies to selfhood, longing, ancestry, and eros. In her voice, I feel the coiled-up burgeoning of a lily caged because of its murder history, even as she praises its perfume.
—Justin Wymer, author of Deed
Deciduous Qween by Matty Layne Glasgow: The poems of Deciduous Qween excavate the body and talk about it fearlessly, with exact attention. They rustle with honest statements that fall as they become part of a greater nature. They exist in a desert where loss and restlessness have come to play and be. You will find yourself attached to these funny, pensive and tender poems. They will follow you around helping you name what you were actually feeling, not what you think you should feel because others have said so. Read this when you want to feel free.
—Analicia Sotelo, author of Virgin
The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi—I keep returning to this book and it keeps returning me to myself, in all these gorgeously unexpected ways. Within these pages, memory, dream, friendship, and the everyday are sites of rigorous meditation and imaginative reconfiguring.
—Chen Chen, author of When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List of Further Possibilities
View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska—Nobel Prize winner, hotel soap stealer, beloved scientist-poet-philosopher, and Patron Saint of Perpetual Noticing, Szymborska illuminates the paradox and wonder of being alive like no one else. She's funny as hell too.
—Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (2015): One of the healthiest books I've ever read, Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude has recharged my own commitments to studying/exploring the radical observations and critical challenges of joy.
—Geffrey Davis, author of Night Angler
Although listed as an essay collection, Lily Hoang's genre-defying book, A Bestiary, is an absolutely groundbreaking tour de force that took my breath away and compelled me to read it in one sitting late into the night, and then many times since. With its objects, statements, poems, movements, gestures, essays, recollections, fairy tails or however you want to define them, one thing is certain: I don't think I will ever be the same writer after having read this beautiful book.
—Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of Cenzontle
Of Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Cunningham says it's the "first novel to split the atom." Mai Der Vang's Afterland continues in that nuclear spirit: stretching line breaks, imagery, and syntax to ambitious extremes. These poems are testaments to memory, war, exile, and trauma; they never forget to remind us why poetry is a powerful vehicle for survival.
—Roy Guzmán, 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow
It's August, and your poetry should be as fierce as a NYC subway platform in a heat wave, so I recommend Beshrew (Dusie, 2019) by Danielle Pafunda. This snapshot-sized (4×6) feral book-length poem epigraphed with Shakespeare's Sonnet 133 is love as crime-scene, duende, pleasure, and catastrophe. We are all on fire and these couplets roar through the ways in which we try to inhabit one another—the litany and ecstasy.
—Erika Meitner, author of Holy Moly Carry Me
Natalie Shapero's Hard Child (Copper Canyon, 2017) is brash and poignant and hilarious and upsetting. As a new parent and a misanthrope, I had never felt so seen by a poetry collection. Reading it was like hearing someone say the inappropriate thing that you've always known to be true but haven't been able to articulate and you're like OOOOOOH YEAH SAY IT LOUDER. My copy is dog-eared and the margins are thickly be-hearted. Next to the lines "It's/ awful, to be a person" I have written "hi, yes." You can too.
—Claire Wahmanholm, author of Wilder
I would like to recommend Zaina Alsous' A Theory of Birds. It's a deeply rebellious, wild book that, like Dionne Brand's work, attempts to map a radical vision of the world onto a girl's body, give an Arab girl back her power to name the creatures, avenge those gone extinct, time travel. I'm thrilled by the formal experimentation and the referential nature of the work, using citation as a spiritual act to account for all the radical thinkers that made this debut possible.
—Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, author of Beast Meridian


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Sittin' here lonely like a broken man
Sell my time and do the best I can
I wasn't boss this around in me
I don't want your sympathy, yeah
Oh baby, oh baby, I just need your tender lovin'
To keep me sane in this burnin' oven
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And if you don't believe what I say
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Techno-economic Analysis of Hydrodeoxygenation of Vegetable Oil for Production of Green Diesel Using Aspen Plus
Mailaram, Swarnalatha (2015) Techno-economic Analysis of Hydrodeoxygenation of Vegetable Oil for Production of Green Diesel Using Aspen Plus. Masters thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
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Techno-economic analysis is extremely important to demonstrate suitability of a process for potential forthcoming commercial developments. Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of triglycerides (vegetable oil, animal fat, waste cooking oil, and microalgal oil) is a potential approach for production of renewable diesel (green diesel) suitable for direct application in existing internal combustion engine thereby mitigating emission of harmful and greenhouse gases. The present work provides conceptual process design and economic feasibility analysis for HDO of inedible karanja oil for production of green diesel using Aspen plus. Two alternative routes for HDO of karanja oil were considered in the present work: direct and two -step HDO. In the present work, the karanja oil (non-databank compound) was considered as a mixture of triglycerides containing three same fatty acid groups in the structure. The physic-chemical properties of these non-databank triglycerides were included in Aspen Plus to regress property method. The regressed property method was then used for techno-economic analysis for various plant capacities. The unitary production cost of green diesel depends largely on plant capacity and cost of karanja oil. The unitary production cost of green diesel decreased significantly with increasing plant capacity and decreasing cost of karanja oil.
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Darren J. Crome is currently making waves in the Blues scene with Blues Harmonica player and singer-songwriter Giles Robson.
Darren was born in Nottinghamshire, England; the percussive gene being handed down by his great-grandfather, a drummer in the local Colliery band. It all started with pots and pans, then after a visit to a neighbour who was also a drummer, his parents bought him a practice pad and a pair of sticks at the age of five years.
His first public performance came at the age of 10. Darren is a natural, self-taught musician who learned the instrument by spending hours and hours playing along to records and cassettes of different musical styles.
His gigging experience started with a Blues trio at the age of 16, then pubs and clubs and venues around northern and eastern England continued to help develop his trade.
Darren has now come full circle with Giles Robson after recording drums on For Those Who Need The Blues, an album which is creating a stir in the U.K. and European Blues scenes. Recorded one afternoon in February 2016, it captures the magic of the band in full flow that day in the studio. The album has already had BBC Radio 2 airplay on The Paul Jones Show and such was the impact of the album that V2 Records Benelux has signed the recording for major release across Europe in the Autumn of 2016. Recently, Darren has worked with singer songwriters such as Dave Rich, Scott Mcgowan, Chris Ostler and Roni Perry.
He also plays for Pedal Steel virtuoso and Country recording artist Sarah Jory (ex-Van Morrison) and in 2015 was asked to play a run of shows for Les Mckeown's legendary Bay City Rollers both abroad and in the U.K.
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Royals Make Roster Moves Following Losses To Blue Jays
To address both injuries and a lack of production in their pitching staff, the Royals have recalled pitchers Nate Adcock and Louis Coleman from Triple-A Omaha. Adcock is 0-3 with a 3.12 ERA in nine games, including two starts with the Royals this season, while Coleman has a 4.91 ERA in 17 appearances out of the bullpen. After a disastrous last outing, pitcher Vin Mazzaro will be heading back to Triple-A. After being handed a 3-0 lead, Mazzaro gave up six runs and 13 hits in only 5 1/3 innings in Kansas City's 6-3 loss to Toronto. Mazzaro has gone 3-3 for the Royals this season with a 5.70 ERA. The Royals also designated Mitch Maier for assignment. Maier has hit .172 with two homers and seven RBI in 32 games this year.
The Royals only have four games remaining before the 2012 All Star game festivities hit Kansas City, and it will need to get pick up some wins to stay in contention in the AL Central. Tonight, the Royals will try to salvage a four game split with the Blue Jays, playing at 6:07 p.m. Luke Hochevar (5-8) will start for Kansas City, while the red hot Henderson Alvarez (5-6) will start for Toronto. After wrapping up its series with the Blue Jays, the Royals will travel to Detroit for a three game series before the All Star break.
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REVISED and updated version of an article I wrote for Sense and Style magazine back in 2006:
By EDWIN P. SALLAN
"YOU are so not in Makati!," quips Carlos Celdran as he regales a group of advertising agency folks with a trivia on a statue that stands just outside the Quiapo Church where about 40, yes, 40 rats actually "reside." These rats, Celdran says are actually "protected" by a chicken wire that surrounds the foot of the statue. And just like the pigeons of Milan, the general public is also allowed to feed these rodents.
Our group never actually saw any rat so I thought this guy must be pulling our legs. Be that as it may, Manila is so not Milan either. But as anyone who already took Carlos Celdran's unforgettable tours will tell you, the nation's capital remains one of the most intriguing places in the planet.
You can either spend a leisurely morning or afternoon walk in historic Intramuros in a tour dubbed as "If These Walls Could Talk." Or you can find out how much Escolta and Quiapo and the North Side of the Pasig River has changed in "The North Bank" tour. Ever wonder what the mystique of Chinatown is all about? Then rediscover Binondo and San Nicolas one Saturday afternoon in "All The Way Down To Chinatown." Can't get enough of the Imeldific herself? Then check out the former First Lady's greatest legacy with a stroll down the historic CCP Complex in the very popular "Living La Vida Imelda" tour.
Outside of Manila itself, Celdran also organizes similar walking tours of Cubao in what he dubs as the "MRT Adventure to Cubao" and even the flea markets of Bangkal, Makati in "Evangelista Que Linda!"
The tongue-in-cheek titles of the tours alone are already an indication of how much fun they're supposed to be. And they are. Carlos Celdran himself is a big reason why. This amazing gentleman dubbed by one leading daily as "the new Pied Piper of Manila" is no ordinary tour guide. Wearing one of his trademark "tour demon" costumes—a polo barong over faded jeans, flip-flops or tsinelas that is certainly not a pair of Havaianas and a beret covering his receding hairline, the former Fine Arts major and a performing artist in his own right mesmerizes his guests by deftly combining historical trivia with tall tales and urban legends (hard to tell which is which) in a largely hilarious approach that can give stand-up comedians a good run for their money.
With "props" that include handheld Philippine and American flags, a microphone strapped to his head, a cheap portable cassette player that plays jazz music from the 1930's and a generic plastic organizer that contains reproduced photos of Manila before and after World War II, he instantly wins his guests over. It also doesn't hurt that his Spanish mestizo features also lend an air of authenticity to his stories that are both informative and entertaining at the same time.
Along with the said group of ad agency personnel, I decided to join Celdran's "The North Bank!" walking tour of Escolta and Quiapo amidst the scorching Tuesday afternoon sun. He says, "Rizal Avenue and Escolta was Manila's premier shopping district until the 1970's when the rise of Makati Commercial Center and the construction of the LRT somewhat diminished their distinction."
Our tour started at the Calvo Building in Escolta, one of the oldest in the area and now home to a museum of Old Manila memorabilia including framed photos, article clippings, print ads and even department store receipts from the Spanish and American era. Along with Celdran's old photos, we were able to see how much of Escolta was indeed "the Greenbelt of its time" and how much of it is now a shadow of its former self.
Highlights of our Escolta tour include Celdran's many revealing stories about its glory days during the American colonial period. There was "the first Cadillac car dealership in Asia" which was later reduced to the "OK Used Car Company after the stock market crash in the US two years later." There was the very prestigious Heacock's Department Store that sold fine European goods but was rumored back in 1929 to be "a front for smuggled diamonds from South Africa that caters to the noveau riche of Bacolod."
And then there are the several old buildings of Escolta that are still standing like the Calvo, Regina and Perez Samanillo buildings that were already around since its glory days and have miraculously survived World War II virtually unscathed. There was also this nice trivia about Imelda Marcos' first job as a singer for the Lyric Piano Studio in Perez Samanillo Building and how it eventually led to her joining the Miss Manila beauty pageant.
Sta. Cruz and Rizal Avenue
As we made our way to the Sta. Cruz church, Celdran continues to give us more interesting history lessons. "The Sta. Cruz church became the seat of colonial power during the two year British invasion that preceded the Spanish rule. The British were disgusted with the way the Spanish friars in Intramuros tossed their feces out the windows onto the streets that they decided not to have anything to do with the walled city thereafter."
The cherubs-surrounded Carriedo Fountain, dubbed by Celdran as "Manila's most moving monument" and located just outside the church has an equally colorful history. Physically moved three times from Nagtahan to the old Nawasa office in Quezon City and then to its present location, it took exactly 120 years for it to finally become operational.
Next stop is Rizal Avenue, whose very name itself is largely an American legacy. "It was the Americans who introduced to us the idea of a national flower, national animal, national this and national that," Celdran enthuses. "Well, when they introduced the idea of Jose Rizal being a national hero, we now have a Rizal Park, a Rizal college, a Rizal theater, Rizal everything and naturally, we also have a Rizal Avenue."
Until the 70's, Rizal Avenue was the premier "gimikan" place for shopping and recreation. Theaters with giant screens like the Avenue, Ever and Ideal theaters were the IMAX of their day, as were the classic department stores like Good Earth Emporium (a new version of which now stands on its former location) and Fair Mart.
"Under former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza's Urban Renewal Program, the area has been cleaned up and rehabilitated as a pedestrian promenade, " Celdran says. "Inspired by the Rambles walkway that the mayor saw in Barcelona, he decided to have his own here." (NOTE: When current mayor Alfredo Lim succeeded Atienza, he said he will open the promenade again to vehicles. I'm not sure if Lim made good on his word since I haven't been to the area since.)
Be it in Rizal Avenue or in Quiapo a few blocks later, shopping remains an adventure in Manila as everything from shoes, hardware, appliances, clothes, sex gadgets, jewelry, beauty queen tiaras, voodoo potions, flowers, handicrafts, videos, electronics and of course, "dibidi, dibidi" are all dirt cheap here.
"Follow the flag. It's no fun being lost in Quiapo!" our host smilingly yells as our group negotiates the cramped walkway of Carriedo leading to Plaza Miranda. It's hard not to be distracted by all the bargain items in this hawker's nirvana, though.
Ah, Plaza Miranda. Best remembered for the August 21 bombing that led to the imposition of Martial Law, it is also a haven for fortune tellers and other "sellers of salvation." This is the place for anyone and everyone who wishes to drive away evil spirits, get somebody to fall in love, abort an unwanted baby or just wants to have good luck at something, anything.
You get color-coded candles, fresh tea leaves, amulets ("anting-antings"), essential oils and all other items catering to both our Christian and pagan superstitious beliefs. And all the good luck that they offer comes at the price of a song, from only P10 onwards to be exact. Celdran explains that many popular items sold here like the tawas or alum ("the country's cheapest deodorant") as well as frankincense and myrrh are somehow connected with Filipinos' obsession with personal hygiene.
"All the bad smells here are all coming from the environment and not the people. Many tourists actually smell worse than the beggars here because now and even before Christianity, Filipinos have always been obsessed with personal hygiene. "
Then, there's the famous Quiapo Church. It is here where you can actually hire old women to pray for your personal intentions while you're off doing something else. It is also home to the equally popular Black Nazarene, who is said to be capable of granting three wishes when you touch its feet.
Craig Reedie, a member of the British Olympic Committee who was in town and went to this very tour found himself buying the biggest amulet or anting-anting in Quiapo. He later left 10 pounds inside the donation box and rubbed the Black Nazarene for good luck. A few months later, London won the bidding for the right to host the 2012 Olympics. In a newspaper article that followed soon thereafter, Reedie attributed his good fortune to an amulet he bought in Asia.
All told
As fun-filled as it was, "The North Bank!" is just one of the many tours of Carlos Celdran designed to appreciate the rich heritage of a very colorful and soulful city. I spent a lot of my waking hours in Manila myself, having studied in Manila-based schools from elementary to college. But even I didn't realize how much I still don't know about the nation's capital until I decided to join Celdran's illuminating walk. The man's famous parting shot says it all: "You cannot change the way Manila looks but you can certainly change the way you look at Manila."
Watch Carlos Celdran in action:
For details of Carlos Celdran's North Bank and other tours, visit http://celdrantours.blogspot.com/.


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Sale of the Week: The $2-million Regent Park home that proves living above a coffee shop can be stylish
Address: 118 Sumach Street
Neighbourhood: Regent Park
Agent: Catherine van der Oye, Union Realty Brokerage Inc.
Previously sold for: $635,000, in 2013
The property
A twofer income property in Regent Park.
The history
When the sellers bought the house about four years ago, it was a two-storey corner store. With the help of Hudson Architecture, they renovated the place completely. There's now a coffee shop, Sumach Espresso, on the ground floor, as well as a bachelor apartment. The top two floors are a loft-like owner's suite.
The entrance to the owner's suite has some fancy woodwork:
The suite spans two floors:
Here's the kitchen:
The living and dining area has access to a balcony:
A closer look at the living area:
There are two bedrooms on the main floor of the owner's suite. Here's one of them:
And the other:
Both bedrooms share this bathroom, which doubles as a laundry room:
On the upper floor, there's a family room:
And also the master bedroom:
Here's the master bedroom's ensuite bathroom:
There's a rooftop deck off the family room:
The bachelor apartment on the ground floor can be rented out for a little extra income:
And here's what the coffee shop looks like inside:
The fate
The buyers will take possession later this fall. They plan to keep renting to both the bachelor apartment's current tenant and to the coffee shop, which is on a five year lease.
The sale
The agent aimed high with the list price, because the property has the capacity to generate serious rent. It attracted two offers after seven days. Both were competitive, but the sellers accepted the higher of the two, at about $10,000 under list price.
By the Numbers
• $2,090,000
• $9,212.05 in taxes (2017)
• 3,509 square feet
• 7 days on MLS
• 5 bathrooms
• 3 bedrooms


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Members of the Czech Military Police and Army National Guard Soldiers from Texas and Nebraska shared from May 30th to June 3rd their experiences on Biometric devices recently at the Regional Military Police Command headquarters in Olomouc in a coordinated effort with the Office of Defense Cooperation, US European Command and US Army Europe.
The exchange included topics such as enrollment methods, program management, and understanding the technical aspects of biometric equipment. The State Partners had a wealth of experience that they were able to share and incorporate into multiple practical exercises to make the exchange as valuable as possible for everyone participating.


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Mystic Magic: Wizards In The Park
Grace Cavanaugh ~ Copy Editor
This weekend, I took a trip to Indianapolis with my mother, my aunt, and my sister. We went because the people behind Pokemon Go recently created a new game called "Wizards Unite." It is based on Harry Potter, where you play as a witch or wizard attempting to cover up various instances of magic in the Muggle world.
The event, called Wizards Unite Fan Festival (WUFF), went on all weekend, although we only went on Saturday. It was a lot of fun! There were specialized merchandise for the event, for both Wizards Unite and Niantic, the company that created the app.
The point of the event was to official unleash dragons upon the world of Wizards Unite. Before this weekend, there has been little sign of the giant fire-breathers. While in Indianapolis, in the series of parks that WUFF was held in, players were given the tasks of collecting dragon eggs and fighting fully-grown dragons.
There were also various activities offered besides catching dragons. A food court had the option of food trucks or made-to-order common dishes, like chicken tenders and burgers. Small photo spots had characters or objects from the books and the movies to pose with. Trivia games with shirts, buttons, and stickers as prizes were held in tents scattered throughout the parks.
Overall, it reminded me a lot about a bigger version of the Pokemon community days I have experienced on our small campus in Lynchburg. Indianapolis was much bigger, but it still held the same vibe. Everyone was friendly, excited, and respectful.
One thing my mother and aunt both noticed was that there was a variety of ages that were at the event. Everyone from grandparents to small children attended and enjoyed themselves.
At one point, near the end of WUFF, people were milling around one of the parks that housed the Peruvian Vipertooth dragon. It was the smallest of the four areas where dragons could be found, but the park was roughly the size of the Dell. People found it hard to find the dragons because it was such a small area.
That is, until they figured out a way to let everyone else in the park know where the dragons appeared. It started when one man suddenly yelled out, "Dragon!" In an instant, crowds of people in the park flocked to him, all managing to find and beat the dragon.
It went on like this for the rest of the time we spent in that park. In my opinion, this particular memory is a showcase of the best the community has to offer: friendship, togetherness, and a sense of wonder.


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'From Here to There: A HEYA Project' to Feature Visions for the Future of Transportation
August 14, 2008
"From Here to There: A HEYA Project" to Feature Visions for the Future of Transportation
Exhibition Details and Program Schedule Announced for Toyota and Quiksilver's Collaborative Creative Project at siteLA
HEYA, Toyota's online community of inspiring, innovative young adults, is proud to announce that four of its members' visions for the future of transportation have been selected to be brought to life at Quiksilver's siteLA for a two week residency entitled: "From Here to There: A HEYA Project." Opening with a kickoff celebration on August 22nd, "From Here to There: A HEYA Project" will be anchored by multimedia artworks that showcase the four HEYA members' visions, created in collaboration with the Quiksilver siteLA community. The two-week exhibition will also feature a series of workshops, speakers and film screenings as well as transportation-related art and design projects by siteLA's "Visionaries in Residence."
Over the last few weeks, HEYA invited its members to describe and illustrate their future visions in HEYA's online forum. From human power to hydrogen, bicycles to rails, the ideas ranged from common sense to fantastical. The diversity of ideas and the overwhelming optimism from the HEYA community leaves no doubt that there will be many ways to get from here to there in the world of tomorrow. Following are the four winning visions that will be unveiled during the exhibition at siteLA:
•"Mean Green Accelerating Machine" by Jason93cobra – Age 25 – Detroit, MI: The "Mean Green Accelerating Machine" by Heya member Jason93cobra is a concept car that combines a solar charger, hub-less wheels, a graphite epoxy frame, and hi-tech gadgets in the interior. Large digital printouts will be created by siteLA resident Khrystyne Zurian along with local artists.
•"Efficiency" by JiGaNtO – Age 21 – Skokie, IL: Multiple efficiency features combine in Heya member JiGaNtO's vision of future transportation. In "Efficiency," a short film created in collaboration with siteLA filmmaker Mariah Garnett, JiGaNtO's ideas swirl about like a constellation of automated train systems, electric technology, new roads, flywheels and springs.
•"Commuter Transit" by Bjoern – Age 18 - Grosse Pointe Farms, MI: Heya member Bjoern will collaborate on an animated short film to describe a rail system that allows electric cars to dock and charge as they travel at high speeds from the suburbs to the city.
•"Bicycle of the Future" by Zee – Age 29 – Kokomo, IN: To explore a concept for a "Bicycle of the Future," Heya member Zee is creating models and mockups to experiment with innovations like a bubble enclosure, alternative power sources and a trailer that folds up into its own carrying case.
From now until the opening, the progress of the collaborations can be tracked at heya.toyota.com/fromheretothere.asp.
In addition to the 4 creative collaborations, "From Here to There: A HEYA Project" will feature two special installations by siteLA Residents Sarah Anderson and Khrystyne Zurian. SiteLA visitors will have the opportunity to contribute to a future of transportation inspired Sumi Ink mural created by Sarah Anderson. Khrystyne Zurian will display 3-D renderings of her concept car that evolves throughout a woman's life like the butterfly life-cycle.
HEYA and siteLA will be hosting a series of events to expose the visions of their collective community and inspire conversations about the future of transportation.
•"From Here to There: a HEYA Project" Opening Reception (Friday, August 22nd from 8:00 pm to 11 pm) - siteLA Visionaries, local HEYA members, Toyota staff, and local influencers will celebrate the unveiling of the collaborative creative projects and the opening of the 2-week-long exhibition. The event will also include live DJ set by The SYCONS, a DJ group that runs all their equipment with portable solar power.
•Never Before Seen - An Exercise in Imaginary Transportation Systems (Tuesday, August 26th from 7:00 pm to 9 pm) - Using a medley of recycled materials, participants will be introduced to an innovative way to articulate transportation and land use ideas by city planner James Rojas and Visionary in Residence Dorothy Le.
•Fuel for Thoughts - Exploring Alt-Fuels (Wednesday, September 3rd from 7:00 pm to 10 pm) - A presentation from Toyota's Jaycie Chitwood (Alternative Fuel Vehicle Manager) and Conserv Fuels founder Kris Moller (along with Visionary in Residence Khrystyne Zurian) on alternative fuel options. The workshop will be followed by a Film screening on alternative fuels and a Q&A with Chitwood and Moller.
siteLA is located at 2522 Sunset Boulevard in Silverlake, CA. Additional exhibition details and an updated schedule of events will be available at http://www.sitela.org.


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Saxophonist Ralph Gibson, a regular performer at the World Stage, is bringing a quartet downtown to celebrate the holidays at the Rendezvous Lounge in the Millennium Biltmore Hotel with two sets of jazz this Friday, December 22. Joining Gibson will be pianist Cengiz Yaltkaya, bassist Mike Alvidrez and drummer Jerrell Ballard. The group will perform jazz classics from John Coltrane, Charles Lloyd and others along with selected holiday songs.
Tickets are $25 per set, available online at https://www.goldstar.com/ events/los-angeles-ca/ralph- gibson-quartet-tickets or at the hotel on the day of the event. The Rendezvous Lounge is located in the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, 500 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071. Showtimes are at 7 and 9 pm.


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As a Tokyo Ghoul, life can be ruthless and dangerous. Commission of Counter Ghoul investigators now hunt ghouls aggressively. It's important to keep one's identity a secret. Ghouls often wear their masks on encounters with the CCG or other hostile ghouls. A lot of the strong ghouls have been tagged and characterized based on the mask they wear. The mask brings a distinct style and is a reflection of the personality of the wearer. Whether it's between ghouls or humans, masks are definitely the way to go if one wants to create a lasting impression. The masks represent a symbol typical of a hero or villain. It's one of the things that really made the Tokyo Ghoul series unique.
The Mask Maker of Tokyo Ghoul
Every ghoul in Tokyo knows about the HySy ArtMask Studio in the Fourth Ward of Tokyo. This studio is the home of the famous mask maker Uta. Uta is a ghoul, but uses the shop both for work and as a disguise. He is an artist and is responsible for the design and creation of the majority of masks in Tokyo Ghoul. He designs each ghoul a unique mask depending on their personality and interests. He is also a powerful ghoul and is referred to by the CCG as "No Face". He has a very unique sense of style, and has numerous piercings and tattoos all over his body. Ken's first encounter with Uta left an intimidating impression. However, Uta is generally friendly and helpful. He knows a lot about the ghouls around the city. Uta wears a mask of his own, though he changes masks at a certain point in the story, like some other characters.
Ken Kaneki's Mask
The most memorable mask in Tokyo Ghoul probably belongs to Ken Kaneki. When wearing his mask he is known as the Eye-patch Ghoul. The design reveals his ghoul eye and covers his human eye. Resembling a gas mask, it almost entirely covers the face, and the mouth area reveals a full set of fake exposed teeth and gums. The mouth is unzippable, allowing Kaneki to eat without having to take off his mask and risk revealing his identity. The mask is a reflection of the side Kaneki tries to hide. While he's disguised as a human he covers his ghoul eye with an eye-patch. The mask becomes an opposite of that, completely hiding his human side.
Touka Kirishima's Bunny Shaped Mask
Ayato Kirishima's Aogiri Mask
Hinami Fueguchi's Bird Mask
Shuu Tsukiyama's Crescent Shaped Mask
Eto's Full-Body Bandage
Tatara's Crimson Mask
Noro's Huge Mouth Mask
Enji Koma's Devil Ape Mask
Irimi Kaya's Black Dog Mask
Tokyo Ghoul has a very interesting story and draws a line through the concept of humanity. With all of these cool masks, watching the show makes you think about what kind of design your mask could have.


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Works of A. R. Luria
Written: c. 1930;
Source: Ape, Primitive Man, and Child: Essays in the History of Behaviour. A. R. Luria and L. S. Vygotsky. Chapters 1 & 2 are by Vygotsky; Chapter 3, reproduced here, is by Luria;
Published: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Translated by Evelyn Rossiter;
Transcribed: Andy Blunden.
Approaching the Psychology of the Adult
Adult and Child. The Principle of Metamorphosis
The Infant and His World
Primitive Perception
Primitive Thinking
Steps Toward Culture
Mastery of Tools
The Cultural Development of Special Functions: Attention
The Cultural Development of Special Functions: Abstraction
The Cultural Development of Special Functions: Speech and Thinking
Phases of the Cultural Development of the Child
Defectology and Psychology
Retardation and Giftedness. Retarded and Gifted Children
Assessing Giftedness, and the Problem of Cultural Development


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Ghana imposes new tax on luxury vehicles according to engine size, and the collection of the newly introduced taxes is to commence today Wednesday, 1st of August.
According to a statement issued by the Ghana Revenue Authority, the taxes will only affect cars with engine capacity above 2950 or 3.0 and above, reports Citinewsroom.
The new tax initiative states that vehicles with engine capacity of 2950 to 3549 capacity will pay GHS1,000 ($208) while vehicles with engine capacity of 3550 to 4049 will pay GHS1,500 ($312).
Engine capacity above 4049 will pay GHS2,000 ($417).
Higher taxes are usually charged to high emission vehicles because of their harmful pollution to the environment, the taxes are to dissuade people from buying them but in the case with Ghana, the government is said to be using it to raise revenue.
The tax was introduced to boost revenue in the nation and government is expected to raise about GHS300 million from the policy.
On the other hand, the situation is same everywhere in the world just under different guises.
Government always charge higher taxes on big engine cars under the guise of environmental pollution and protection but in the real sense, it's just another means of revenue generation.
Bravo to the Ghanaian government for calling it what it is. "Revenue Generation"


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From George Washington to William Grayson, 22 June 1785
To William Grayson
Mount Vernon, 22d June 1785.
Dr Sir,
Since my last to you I have been favored with your letters of the 5th—27th & [ ] of May,1 & beg your acceptance of my thanks for their enclosures, & for the communications you were pleased to make me therein.
I am very glad to find you have pass'd an Ordinance of Congress respecting the sale of the Western Lands: I am too well acquainted with the local politic's of individual States, not to have foreseen the difficulties you met with in this business; these things are to be regretted, but not to be altered until liberallity of sentiment is more universal. Fixing the Seat of Empire at any spot on the Delaware, is in my humble opinion, demonstrably wrong: to incur an expence for what may be call'd the permanent seat of Congress, at this time, is I conceive evidently impolitic; for without the gift of prophecy, I will venture to predict that under any circumstance of confederation, it will not remain so far to the Eastward long; & that until the public is in better circumstances, it ought not to be built at all. Time, too powerful for sophistry, will point out the place & disarm localities of their powers: In the meanwhile let the widow, the Orphan & the suffering Soldier, who are crying to you for their dues, receive that which can very well be rendered to them.
There is nothing new in this quarter of an interesting nature, to communicate, unless you should not have been informed that the Potomac navigation proceeds under favourable auspices: At the general meeting of the subscribers in May last, it appeared that upwards of 400 of the 500 shares had been engaged—Many more have been subscribed since—a Board of Directors have been chosen—proper characters & Labourers advertized for, to commence the work in the least difficult parts of the river, 'till a skillful Engineer can be engaged to undertake those which are more so; & it is expected the work will be begun by the 10th of next month. With great esteem & regard I am &c. &c.
G: Washington


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Amorphous silicon is a non-crystalline allotropic form of silicon which does not have long range order at the atomic level, instead, the atoms form a random network. One of the main advantages of amorphous silicon when compared to other infrared detector materials is its common usage in a variety of high-volume products. Crystalline silicon – the same material in a different form – is the standard material used worldwide to make semiconductor chips. Amorphous silicon technology is well understood as it is used widely in large-area electronics such as liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) and photovoltaic solar cells. L-3's Series 17 product family, is based on the 17µm (micron) amorphous silicon technology and offers 640 x 480 resolution, representing the smallest pixel array uncooled infrared sensor available for commercial production.
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Few countries in the world can compete with France when it comes to scholarship of Indology. Scholars such as Auguste Barth (1831-1916), Emile Senart (1847-1928) and Sylvain Levi (1863-1935) were Sanskrit experts and deeply passionate about the two great Indian religions, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Several 19th-century French scholars wanted the iconic École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East) to be established in India, but eventually Saigon, which was one of the most important cities in French Indochina, received the honour. This clearly worked out for India's greater good since Auguste Barth and George Coedes (1886-1969) conducted their research in Indochina and helped further establish the strong and historical links between India and Southeast Asia. Barth's 'Sanskrit Inscriptions of Cambodia' and Coedes 'The Hinduised States of Indochina and Indonesia' are absolute treasures for those interested in the history of Asia.
While the great French Indologists helped quench Europe's appetite for knowledge about ancient India, it was a French naval officer who gave the common people of France, a glimpse into the realities of India. Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923), who wrote under the pseudonym of Pierre Loti, fell in love with a quiet and tiny part of northern Kerala that came under French rule -- Mahe.
Loti's book 'Mahé des Indes' (Mahe of the Indies), which was written in 1886, is a love letter to this tiny part of Kerala. The following quotes from the book are my personal translation since I read the book in the original French and have not found an English translation.
Writing on January 1, 1886, under the "shade of palm trees," Loti wrote: "Under this delightful shadow, it feels like I am in a garden of a fairy: unknown flowers, foliage as bright as flowers, purple, red, mottled with white and yellow, as though they were painted with pleasure."
Loti was a great novelist who travelled to Tahiti, Senegal, Turkey, China, Japan and Vietnam. He witnessed the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing and got glimpses of life in a closed Japan and seemed to totally enjoy himself in many of the countries he visited, but Mahe seemed to have a particular sense of allure for the Frenchman.
"The people we meet in these dark paths are all beautiful, calm, noble, with big velvet eyes - these eyes of India with the mysterious black charm," he wrote about Mahe. The great French philosopher Jean Grenier once said that it was by considering India an imaginary country that one gets closer to reality. Loti's greatest success while writing 'Mahé des Indes' was implementing this idea.
The prevalent racial supremacist views of Europe at that time are missing in Loti's writing. Of course, very few people in Kerala or most parts of India understood French at that time, so his work didn't really reach the people he was writing about, but influential members of society such as the Maharaja of Travancore were informed about the writings of this French adventurer.
His interactions with the people of Mahe created such an impression that the French novelist looked at any kind of opening to be back in India. That opening finally came 14 years after he wrote his book about Mahe. In 1900, l'Académie française (the French Academy) tasked Loti with giving the Maharaja of Travancore a decoration.
He used this opportunity to travel across India for four months and write 'L'Inde sans les Anglais' (India without the English). In those four months he travelled to Madras, Hyderabad, Bombay, Jaipur, Udaipur, Agra, the Gangetic Plain, Calcutta and Puri, giving very vivid accounts of life in British India. He tried his best to avoid the colonisers and to interact with the masses of India.
Before his journey north from Kerala, Loti stayed in a beautiful house that was provided by the Maharaja in Thiruvananthapuram. "The house where I am given shelter looks at the beach, looks at the infinite, and here, in front of me, is the great blue sea, the Arabian Sea," Loti wrote, before describing Kerala, which even then seemed to stand out from other parts of India in many ways.
For those looking at travellers' account of India without the condescension that was prevalent at that time, I would highly recommend the edition published by French publisher Phebus, which contains both 'Mahé des Indes' and 'L'Inde sans les Anglais'. Unfortunately I couldn't find any English language translations of the books, but of course, there arises the question of us (with all due respect) looking beyond the Anglosphere. After all, many Malayalis have an incredible knack of mastering other languages. Why shouldn't more of us start reading the works of great writers in the original? In a globalised world, we all need to think, act and be more global.