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Illinois State Police say a man was driving northbound on the Dan Ryan near 59th St today when someone fired at him from another vehicle.
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…To me, and to women in general. Tell me one of you out there who's remained unaffected by the news, not imagined at least once what it would be like to be in her shoes, to take a conscious call to get your breasts removed? It would still make news if it were any other body part, if it were Angelina Jolie, but would it affect the women so much if it were not her breasts? I'm not so sure.
Considering how common breast cancer has become in the recent years, we all probably have a family member and friend's mother or friend who's dealt with it at some point in their lives, and come out of it, without a boob. My mother-in-law fears the C word, because her mum died of breast cancer when MIL was still a young girl. I have a relative, who fought and survived breast cancer, she has a severely swollen arm as testimony to that, a result of the chemotherapy she underwent years ago, I am told. When I was much younger, we'd heard in hushed tones about how this Aunty didn't have a breast, she'd lost it to breast cancer, and that she wore some sort of a special bra with a faux boob. And I remember at that time thinking how terrible that must be, to not have a part of your body. I know better now, I understand that a life is far more precious than a breast, any body part you could lose.
But I'm still trying to process how much courage it must take to voluntarily get your breasts removed, (honestly, I had never heard of preventive mastectomy before this) not because they are killing you, but because there's a chance they could kill you. Even if you can get them replaced by two silicone substitutes. I don't think it's about money, it's not that she can afford to get a double mastectomy and then silicone implants, as some people would make this out to be. Agreed, everyone's not as rich as Jolie, but a lot of people are still rich enough to get those procedures done. Would you still opt for it? Or take the risk of letting a faulty gene in your system play out its own story, which may or may not cause cancer, as was the case with the Hollywood actress?
How much braver then for a woman to come out in the open, and say, yes, they're not real anymore. And think about it, does it affect the way you view Angelina Jolie if she's got two fake breasts? Is she any less sexier to you now than she was before? Not to me at least. Why then should a woman's sexuality be defined by the size and shape of her breasts. We have to disassociate from this construction to be able to view our bodies for what they are, not for what they are perceived to be. No, our breasts were not meant to titillate, to be stared at, to be objectified for pleasure. Like any other body part, women have breasts for a purpose — to nurse babies. Will Angelina's double mastectomy help us all to put things in perspective?


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Freddy Adu signs with 11th team in as many years
Freddy Adu's nomadic career has now taken him to Finland, after the player once dubbed 'the next Pele' signed for Veikkausliiga side Kuopion Palloseura.
Adu, 25, was touted as a wonderkid of the world game when he burst onto the scene at 14 years old, becoming the youngest athlete ever to sign a professional contract in the US.
On Saturday, he signed for his 11th club in as many years since turning professional when Finnish top-flight side Kuopion Palloseura announced the American had agreed to join them on a one-year deal.
Since signing professional terms with DC United in 2004, Adu went on to play for Real Salt Lake, Benfica, Monaco, Belenenses, Greek side Aris and Turkish Super Lig club Rizespor.
In 2011, he returned to the US to join Philadelphia Union, before stints at Bahia in Brazil and Serbian side Jagodina, who released him in December.


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
A Gentle And Quiet Spirit
As I was reading in 1 Peter this morning about where our true beauty as women comes from, I was very convicted. 1 Peter 3:3-4 says "Do not let your adorning be external - the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear - but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious." Oh, to have that kind of beauty! When looking at my own life, I know that more times than not, my spirit is anything but gentle and quiet. I am praying today that the Holy Spirit would strengthen me, that my actions and the choices I make are from a calm and quiet spirit.
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|This document specifies an XMPP protocol extension for defining metacontacts and grouping member JIDs.
|Kevin Smith, Remko Tronçon, Yann Le Boulanger
|© 1999 – 2018 XMPP Standards Foundation. SEE LEGAL NOTICES.
|Standards Track
|Last Updated:
WARNING: This document has been automatically Deferred after 12 months of inactivity in its previous Experimental state. Implementation of the protocol described herein is not recommended for production systems. However, exploratory implementations are encouraged to resume the standards process.
1. Introduction
2. Requirements
3. Overview
4. Use Cases
4.1. Retrieving the metacontact data
4.2. Storing the metacontact data
5. Implementation Notes
5.1. Creating a metacontact
5.2. Removing a metacontact
5.3. Uniqueness of order within a metacontact
6. Security Considerations
7. IANA Considerations
8. XMPP Registrar Considerations
9. XML Schema
A: Document Information
B: Author Information
C: Legal Notices
D: Relation to XMPP
E: Discussion Venue
F: Requirements Conformance
G: Notes
H: Revision History
It is often the case that a user will have multiple representations of a single contact, either within one account (as is often the case with contacts using legacy systems through transports) or across several accounts (particularly where a user or contact has separate work and home accounts). As these are different representations of the same logical entity, this XEP provides a method for binding them together into a single meta-contact.
The authors have designed the metacontacts protocol with the following requirements in mind:
The metacontact storage is achieved through the use of private data storage. In order to achieve the resilience described above, the private storage of each account is used to store the metacontact membership of Jids in the roster of that account. The metacontacts are stored within private data storage of each account simply as an unordered collection of meta tags.
<meta email@example.com' tag='d93nov' order='0'>
In this example, the 'jid' specifies that the roster entry 'email@example.com' is a member of a metacontact. The 'tag' provides a key for a metacontact; in this example all metacontacts with a tag of 'd93nov' (across all accounts) refer to the same entity. The 'order' denotes the priority of this Jid over other Jids within the metacontact, with it being preferable to use Jids with higher priority (this is roughly analogous to the 'priority' on presence stanzas when a Jid has multiple online resources in XMPP).
Below are example of setting and retrieving metacontacts for an account. When using metacontacts across multiple accounts, the steps are identical and the 'tag' attributes and used across accounts (that is: when the same tag is used for multiple contacts, all entries with the tag are merged into a single metacontact whether they reside on the same of different accounts).
Upon login, a client will need to know the current state of the metacontact structure and so SHOULD request the state for each account.
<iq type='get' id='get1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:private'> <storage xmlns='storage:metacontacts'/> </query> </iq>
The result of the query will list the metacontact membership for roster entries belonging to the queried account.
<iq type='result' id='get1'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:private'> <storage xmlns='storage:metacontacts'> <meta email@example.com' tag='ae18f2' order='1'/> <meta firstname.lastname@example.com' tag='82a1a5' order='1'/> <meta firstname.lastname@example.com' tag='283b94' order='2'/> <meta email@example.com' tag='ae18f2' order='2'/> </storage> </query> </iq>
The meta tags each represent a contact which is a member of a metacontact; as such it is likely that some roster entries for an account will not have corresponding meta tags (if they are not members of a metacontact). Each 'meta' tag MUST have a 'jid' attribute and a 'tag' attribute, an optional 'order' attribute MAY be included.
The value of the 'jid' attribute MUST be the bare JID of a contact which is a member of the described metacontact and any jid MUST NOT be specified in this manner as a member of more than one metacontact within an account. A JID specified as a member of a metacontact for an account SHOULD be a member of the roster for that account.
The value of the 'tag' is used as a non-human readable unique identifier for a metacontact. In the above example, there are three metacontacts; those with tags of '82a1a5' and '283b94' each have only one contact on this account, while the metacontact with tag tag='ae18f2' contains two contacts.
The value of the 'order' attribute is used to suggest preference of some contacts over others within a metacontact; those contacts with a higher order are preferable to those with a lower order. In this example, 'email@example.com' is considered preferable to 'email@example.com' when communicating with the metacontact with tag 'ae18f2', due to their order of 2 and 1 respectively.
Note: It is entirely possible for the query result for an account to indicate that, in isolation from other accounts, there exist metacontacts which contain only a single member contact, as is the case in the above example. The client MUST NOT discard such data, as other accounts belonging to the user (which the client need not have details of) may also have members of this metacontact.
<iq type='set' id='set2'> <query xmlns='jabber:iq:private'> <storage xmlns='storage:metacontacts'> <meta email@example.com' tag='ae18f2' order='1'/> <meta email@example.com' tag='82a1a5' order='1'/> <meta firstname.lastname@example.com' tag='283b94' order='2'/> <meta email@example.com' tag='492ab2' order='2'/> <meta firstname.lastname@example.com' tag='9248cc' order='1'/> </storage> </query> </iq>
<iq type='result' id='set2'/>
Creation of a metacontact is uncomplicated; the simple addition of meta tag with a common tag results in a new metacontact.
Similarly, to remove a metacontact all that is required is to remove the meta tags which contribute to the metacontact.
Although it is unavoidable that multiple contacts within a metacontact MAY have the same order (due to potentially unavailable information from other accounts), clients SHOULD NOT apply the same order to multiple members of the same metacontact where it is possible to avoid it. If multiple members of a metacontact have the same order, the behaviour is dependent upon the client; it MAY apply rules itself to determine which member to communicate with (based upon presence, recent activity or other methods) it MAY present the user with the option to sort the members such that the orders are again unique, or it MAY employ another appropriate action.
As the order attribute is optional, clients need a method for determining which member contact to use where the metacontact consists entirely of unordered members. When ordered and unordered members are present, unordered members SHOULD be considered to have the lowest order.
Security considerations related to private XML storage are described in XEP-0049; this XEP introduces no additional concerns.
No interaction with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [1] is required as a result of this XEP.
No namespaces or parameters need to be registered with the XMPP Registrar [2] as a result of this XEP.
<xs:schema xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' targetNamespace='storage:metacontacts' xmlns='storage:metacontacts' elementFormDefault='qualified'> <xs:element name='metacontacts'> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element ref='meta' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/> </xs:sequence> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> <xs:element name='meta'> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute name='jid' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='tag' type='xs:string' use='required'/> <xs:attribute name='order' type='xs:xs:unsignedInt' use='optional'/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element> </xs:schema>
Series: XEP
Number: 0209
Publisher: XMPP Standards Foundation
Status: Deferred
Type: Standards Track
Version: 0.1
Last Updated: 2007-04-10
Approving Body: XMPP Council
Dependencies: XMPP Core, XEP-0049
Supersedes: None
Superseded By: None
Short Name: NOT YET ASSIGNED
Source Control: HTML
This document in other formats: XML PDF
JabberID: email@example.com
JabberID: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is defined in the XMPP Core (RFC 6120) and XMPP IM (RFC 6121) specifications contributed by the XMPP Standards Foundation to the Internet Standards Process, which is managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force in accordance with RFC 2026. Any protocol defined in this document has been developed outside the Internet Standards Process and is to be understood as an extension to XMPP rather than as an evolution, development, or modification of XMPP itself.
The primary venue for discussion of XMPP Extension Protocols is the <firstname.lastname@example.com> discussion list.
Discussion on other xmpp.org discussion lists might also be appropriate; see <http://xmpp.org/about/discuss.shtml> for a complete list.
Errata can be sent to <email@example.com>.
The following requirements keywords as used in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119: "MUST", "SHALL", "REQUIRED"; "MUST NOT", "SHALL NOT"; "SHOULD", "RECOMMENDED"; "SHOULD NOT", "NOT RECOMMENDED"; "MAY", "OPTIONAL".
1. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values for Internet protocols, such as port numbers and URI schemes. For further information, see <http://www.iana.org/>.
2. The XMPP Registrar maintains a list of reserved protocol namespaces as well as registries of parameters used in the context of XMPP extension protocols approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation. For further information, see <https://xmpp.org/registrar/>.
Note: Older versions of this specification might be available at http://xmpp.org/extensions/attic/
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Jo Malone Holiday 2013 Cologne Collection
I've wanted to try Jo Malone cologne for years, but because they are not available in my country and the price is somewhat expensive, I always postpone getting one. Finally I got the Cologne Collection.
This is a great way to experiment with Jo Malone scents. If you don't know which one you like then this box is great starter. It contains five travel-sized colognes that can be worn alone or layered on the skin to create unique combinations. The collection includes: Lime Basil & Mandarin, English Pear & Freesia, Blackberry & Bay, Peony & Blush Suede and Amber & Lavender Colognes.
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I never own a decent bronzer, so I decided to get this cult-favorite product. I use it to contour my cheekbone and nose. Let me know if you want a full review.
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I'm still looking for the perfect undereye concealer, so far I like this product. Creamy but not oily, after a while it dries up without settling into fine lines or looking cakey. I might do full review in the future
Price Bht 1,140 (around Rp 433.200,-) I got mine in Emporium
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Another blush! Can't say no to Chanel blush, I describe it as a peachy pink tone. It has a gold fine shimmer in it but don't worry, it won't make you shine like disco ball. Somewhat it reminds me of MAC-Dainty, but Dainty is a little bit peachy than Rose Initial. I can see Rose Initial worn by many skin tone. This is universally flaterring color.
Price Bht 1,330 (around Rp 505.400,-)
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For more than eight days, a group of activists and students organized by the Dream Defenders have occupied the Florida Capitol, right outside Florida Governor Rick Scott's (R) office. The activists say they plan to occupy the Capitol until the governor calls a special session to review the state's Stand Your Ground law, racial profiling, and the school-to-prison pipeline, and consider what they call the Trayvon Martin Act. But after meeting with the protesters last week, Scott announced he has no intention to review Stand Your Ground, which played a role in jury deliberations that led to George Zimmerman's acquittal.
"That's very disappointing on our part," Dream Defenders legal and policy director Ahmad Abuznaid told ThinkProgress. "We are attempting to get Governor Rick Scott and the state leadership here to be real leaders and so far they have not stepped up to the plate. So far, we have decided to hold our own legislative session to show them how it's done."
Next Tuesday, Dream Defenders plan mock legislative sessions where civic leaders and juvenile experts will weigh the pros and cons of Trayvon's law.
Their support is only building. From the sit-in's first days of around 30 protesters, the number has grown to between 60 to 100 participants at peak times, according to Abuznaid. Now, they are attracting national attention, as groups from Baltimore, Philly, and New York, as well as Florida Democrats, bring supporters and supplies.
One of Dream Defenders' main goals is to repeal Stand Your Ground, which worsens the effects of racial bias in criminal justice. For example, white defendants who shot a black person and invoked Stand Your Ground were 11 times more likely to go unpunished as black defendants who shot a white person.
Beyond Stand Your Ground, the group is fighting for policies that end zero tolerance in the justice system for minority youth, including a civil citation program statewide that issues tickets over jailtime for first-time offenders. Miami Dade has implemented it, and activists want to see a broader application. "Its' not enough," Abuznaid said. "Improving one county is not enough and it's not successful. If that was a grade in school, 1 in 67, [Scott] would be failing."
But Scott is unlikely to budge on these issues. Having played a pivotal role in protecting Stand Your Ground, Scott has deferred to the conclusion of the task force he appointed last year to keep the American Legislative Exchange Council-sponsored law. "Look, this thing should not be politicized," Scott said last Thursday. "I mean, we lost a 17-year-old young man in our state."


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Not so long ago, facial acupuncture seemed completely on the fringe. But Eastern medicine-based skin care, including cupping on the face, has been gaining attention and acceptance as an all-natural approach with the added backing of thousands of years of practice behind it (i.e. it really works) — and the latest practice on the verge of going mainstream in the West is facial Gua-sha Gemstone therapy.
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Pronounced "gwa sha", this treatment moves lymphatic fluids, releases the fasciae for better functioning skin, and breaks down adhesions and hardness in the muscles, using a flat jade or rose quartz stone along the skin flushing out tissues. Similar to acupuncture and cupping, Gua-sha helps fix dryness, breakouts, and even aging.
Gua~sha Gemstone Facial is done using a light hand and therapeutic oils, leaving zero marks. But why now, in 2017, is the Gua~sha Gemstone Facial having its big moment? Mainly because it combines the current beauty trends of all-natural remedies, Eastern Medicine, and the crystal and precious stone craze.
So if you happen to be looking for a non-invasive treatment that will make you look years younger and maintain that youthful look, then a Gua-sha Gemstone facial at Wild Rose Esthetica Inc. could be for you! It's a skillful facial that improves blood circulation, increases cell growth improves natural hydration which makes the skin on your face firmer and younger in appearance. " Studies have shown" that the technique aids the skin's ability to purge the dirt, sebum, and general buildup in the pores that leads to acne and gives a glow to the skin.
The practice of a Gua-sha Gemstone facial has been dubbed the "Eastern Face Lift" or "Eastern Botox,"
Immediate effects you can see/feel after first treatment:
- Dark circles decrease
- Eye Bags/Puffy eyes decrease
- Fine Lines reduced
- Uneven tone improved
- Smoother skin
- Smaller pores
- Dark spot lighten
- More radiant look
- Skin Lifted
- Skin Firmer
- Double chin reduced/Refined better face shape
- Skin condition improved
The practice of Gua-sha comes from TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and dates back to the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) where they used jade stones to scrape the skin all over the body to treat diseases. This process is believed to stimulate blood circulation to the muscles, tissues and organs; detoxing the body of stagnate "qi" reducing stiffness, pain and increasing mobility (Singapore TCM College).
Western scientific studies done by Harvard University and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, have showed Gua-sha gives significant improvements in increasing microcirculation and freeing up the tissues of the neck, jaw, and eyes, which there is a place for the excess fluids to drain out. Not only does that translate into less puffy eyes and more prominent-looking cheekbones, but devotees have seen major improvements in chronic acne, in particular, after 8-10 weeks of weekly professional sessions.
Arya Nielsen, director of acupuncture in the Department of Integrative Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York, explains on her website that the Gua sha facial applications can also help relieve headaches and neck pain.
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Glossary of Terms
The following terms are used to describe features of the fabrics. Here is a brief description of what they mean:
69" wide
The extra width is good for tucking in a twin size blanket or for squeezing a few extra items out of your yardage!
ACT - Air Control Tech
A 98% windproof barrier allow some air passage for greater comfort during aerobic activity.
Stitch pattern on face of fabric.
A low pile finish similar to chamois cloth.
Check Texture
A small check texture etched into the surface of the pile.
A thick chunky checked texture in a shearling face.
Cobble Cloth
A Casual pitted texture on the face of the fabric.
Comfort Stretch
Extra stretch polyester yarns give this fabric increased stretch and resiliency.
Contrast Heather
A heathered look on the front with a complementary solid on the back.
Contrast Tweed
A tweed texture on the face of the fabric with a contrasting color on the back.
A texture similar to a wide cord.
Corded Tweed
Elegant combination of tweed fabric in a corded texture.
Crepe Texture
Unique etched texture in the face of the fabric.
Long, silky, curly loft gives this fabric incredible texture and softness.
Double Pique
Stitch pattern on face of fabric.
Double Velour
Velour is the finish of the fabric - a pill resistant, matte resistant finish. Double Velour means that the velour finish is on both sides of the fabric.
A Durable Water Repellent is added to the outside of the fabric for extra protection against rain and snow.
A Grid texture etched into the fabric.
A slight variation in color throughout the fabric.
Hi Loft
Ultimate thermal layer for warmth without weight.
LaCoste Stitch
Stitch pattern on the face of fabric.
Weight relative to other similar performing fabrics.
Low-pile Face
The closely sheared dense face of this fabric helps it keep its smooth finish.
Special yarns give fabric extra softness and durability.
Micro Shearling
Made with a micro thin yarn that results in a soft supple hand, this fabric has the pebbled look of a shearling.
This Polartec Windbloc fabric has a soft micro velour face and a lightweight mesh back.
This fabric knit with micro yarns has a velour finish on the front and a chamois type finish on the back.
Slight texture on face of fabric.
A process of coloring that gives the fabric a slightly heathered look.
Furry, hi lofted finish.
Stitch pattern on the face of the fabric.
Polartec® Aqua Shell®
Highly water-resistant fabrics good for use in water sports.
Polartec® Classic 100
This lightweight fabric is knit with a Micro yarn and is incredibly soft and supple.
Polartec® Classic Micro
The fabric is knit with an ultra thin yarn - so thin that 27 miles of it would weigh less than a teaspoon of water! The thin yarn makes it ultra-soft and drapeable.
Polartec® Hardface®
A hard durable finish on the face of this fabric makes it ideal for garments that take a beating!
Polartec® Power Dry®
T-shirt weight fabric that actively wicks moisture away from the body.
Polartec® Power Shield®
Polartec Power Shield fabrics have an extremely abrasion resistant face for long-lasting durability, blocks 98% of the wind, has four-way stretch for ease of movement. 56% Nylon, 24% Poly, 20% Spandex.
Polartec® Power Stretch®
These fabrics have four-way stretch for ease of movement on tighter fitting garments. These fabrics are treated to wick moisture away from your body, keeping you more comfortable.
Polartec® Wind Pro®
Proprietary yarns and a special knitting technique has created this fleece that blocks 95% of the wind. Has a unique sueded velour fleece for extra durability.
This fabric is made from a yarn that is composed of 89% post consumer soda pop bottles.
Reflective Technology
Tiny glass spheres within the fabric reflect the light in all directions.
Cord-like ribbed texture on the face, shearling texture on the inside.
A bumpy texture similar to lambs wool.
Silk like weight and hand.
Single Pique
Stitch pattern on the face of the fabric.
Single Velour
Velour is the finish of the fabric - a pill resistant, matte resistant finish. Single Velour means that the velour finish is only on one side of the fabric.
Stable Knit
The flat construction of this knit fabric gives it very little stretch.
Style 7574
Heather, Velour/Shearling, DWR
Sweater Look
Stitch pattern on the face of the fabric resembles a typical knit sweater. Velour back.
Thermal Skin
This thin, fleece-backed fabric has a smooth polyurethane face giving you the feeling that you are wearing a second Thermal, Skin.
Thermal Stitch
Stitch pattern on the face of the fabric.
A textured surface with a low-pile tweed look.
A smooth pill-resistant finish on the face only. Intended as a lining fabric.
A smooth pill-resistant finish.
A smooth velour finish on the outside, a shearling finish on the inside.
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Toot your horn #life
This is the hospital where I go, a couple of times a year. I've had a lot of ill health and people can judge you unkindly if they can't see what is wrong with you. So I think my greatest attribute is being non-judgemental. (more…)
Seasons #photo-challenge
I hope I'm not confusing my regular readers by doing an extra post on Friday, but this is a special one for the WordPress photo challenge. The theme is 'seasons' and here in the UK, we are coming to the end of the winter season and looking forward to the spring equinox in four weeks time. (more…)


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Using your cache simulator and using smalltex.din as your memory trace determine the total miss rate, compulsory miss rate, capacity miss rate, and conflict miss rate for the following cache configurations by varying the inputs as suggested below. Examine your results/observations in each case and compare them to a run using dineroiv (a commercial cache simulator). This exercise is to validate the operation of your simulator compared to a commercial simulator and to familiarize yourself with the results that occur for each architecture. Comparing your results with dinero validates your cache simulator. Answering the questions below will help you gain a deeper understanding of the function/operation of caches with respect to various trace files and any patterns within trace files.
1. Keeping block size constant (say 64 bytes) compare the different replacement policy's with several cache sizes (say 16, 64, 256, 512KB) and associativity (direct, 2-, 4-, 8-way, fully associative). Note the trends and confirm your observations from your cache simulator with dineroiv 2. Keeping replacement policy constant (for random and then LRU) and block size constant (say 64 bytes) collect total, compulsory, capacity, and conflict miss rates for each of the following cache organizations and compare with the results from dineroiv.:-
3. Cache sizes 4, 16, 64, 128, 256, 512 KB,
4. Degree of associativity 1-way, 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, fully.
5. To ensure that your cache simulator is fully operational you should be able to perform the following:-a. Accept any block sizes from 2 bytes to 2048 bytes,b. Accept any cache size from 1Kb to 8MB,c. Accept either LRU or random replacement policy for each run,d. Accept the following degree of associativity, Direct, 2-way, 4-way, 8-way, and fully associative.
6. Additionally, to help you anaylze the operation of caches with a trace file be prepared to perform the following:-
(a) What is the largest address in smalltex.din? (Write a small C program to find this value is it will affect your declarations <=> int, long long, unsigned,...etc.)
(b) Is there a pattern in the trace file - if so, estimate the occurrences of the pattern and how it will impact (validity, fair test, etc) on the performance of a cache simulator. (Hint. Again a small C program that can find a given address and outputs the line number for each occurrence)


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Nigerian billionaire and business mogul, Aliko Dangote has been named as one of the World's 200 Richest People by Bloomberg.
Bloomberg Markets' inaugural list of the world's richest people, in the magazine's December 2012 issue, showcases the billionaires who pull the levers on the global economy. As noted on the magazine's website, the ranking shows who's on top (America Movil SAB Chairman Emeritus Carlos Slim, with a net worth of $77.5 billion), who's faltering (Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who's down $6.8 billion since Jan. 1) and who's just wealthy enough to make the top 200 (SAS Institute Inc. co-founder John Sall, who's worth $5.8 billion).
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, both in the top five, are household names. At the number 3 position is Amancio Ortega of Spain. The 76-year-old founded Inditex SA, the world's largest clothing retailer, which is known for its more than 1,600 trendy Zara stores. He made more than $18 billion from the start of the year through Oct. 5 or about $66 million a day.
Aliko Dangote was listed on the 62nd position with a total net worth of $13.5 billion. The 55 year-old CEO of Dangote Cement has made another $3.5 billion so far this year, increasing his wealth by 34.5%
He is however not the only African on the list. Egypt's Nassef Sawiris was listed on the 141th position having a net worth of $7.8 billion. South Africa's Nicky Oppenheimer and Johann Rupert made the 147th and 187th positions respectively. Their net worths are $7.6 billion and $6.2 billion.
Dangote's achievements with his businesses have continued to put Nigeria on the world map. He has been a major contributor to the increase of foreign investments in Nigeria and is one of the largest employers of labour in the country. He recently made the final shortlist of the Forbes Africa Person of the Year Award. We celebrate his success and say we are indeed proud of him.


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It's mother's day and as I was watching MULHOLLAND DRIVE just now for the millionth time, it occured to me that my love for cinema would not be nearly so fierce if not for my own mother was not a natural blonde, Swedish to be precise, and if you don't know what that means, it's a mix of tenderness and disinterest, the Teutonic fire that burns not out nor warm nor long… and it's what cinema is! For psychological subtext there's Hitchcock and Lynch – Naomi Watts, the mother of mirrors hallucinating in her dirty bathrobe while we hover as camera lens ghosts at her hem line, or Marnie in PSYCHO or Melanie in THE BIRDS, creating this sense of unfulfillable longing– we can never please her so we spend our lives creating shadow plays to distract ourselves… stuffing birds… a curious hobby, and not as expensive as you'd think, until they attack everyone as manifestations of Jessica Tandy's ferocious id. Imagine an Oscar clip montage devoted to psychotic moms! All sharp instruments and flashing blue eyes… cans of soup on the stove, Ultra-Man on the TV, a vague sense of doom, comfort, coziness and futility all commingling in your pre-school genius mind.
So without further ado… five great blonde mothers in five great films:
2. Michelle Pfeiffer in WHITE OLEANDER — aka Hannah Belle Lechter, mom kills a boyfriend and later drives her daughter's step mom to suicide with just a few well placed words, all from the cozy confines of her prison. In one of her giddy pieces of praise for this pic, Kim Morgan writes:
"We're not like that. We're the Vikings," says sociopathic blonde mother Michelle Pfeiffer to her crying teenage daughter Alison Lohman in White Oleander. One of cinema's great blonde-semble pieces, this melodrama is supposed to be, in part, about the foster-care system, but Oleander really shows the varied, sometimes insane incarnations of blonde womanhood. (read full article here.)
In a different piece praising Pfeiffer's best roles, Morgan notes: "By artfully melding her gorgeous Grace Kelly qualities with the cold eyes of a Ted Bundy, Michelle creates a classic performance for a real "Woman's Picture." (read that one here.)
3. Liv Ullmann/Bibi Andersson in PERSONA – The poor bespectacled son can't even make it out of the morgue of pre-egoic identification to be with his mom in this nutty gem from the Great Swede himself, Ingmar Bergman. While the son resides in some bizarre synaptical cine-womb, ever reaching for her projected image, Liv prefers to merge vampirically with the blank hotness of Bibi Andersson (pictured below, with glasses off). Mirror these two up to Betty and Diane in MULHOLLAND and you got yourself a four-way trip to the bughouse of the pre-differentiated self. Incidentally, of all these blondes, Andersson is the one I am most attracted to and yet she also is the one who most resembles my mom. For what it's worth, maybe too much information for you… I'm just throwing that in the stew for extra frisson.
5. Leopoldine Constantin in NOTORIOUS. The old school hausfrau to a Nazi son (Claude Rains) with bad taste in women, Frau Constantin is willing to stay in the background as a stock character, but when Rains finds out he's "married to an American agent!" he knows he can relax, as his mom sheds her homey front with a sigh, like a wolf grateful to cast off its sheep's clothing and feel its fur in the wind again. Lighting a cigarette, Rains' mom paces back and forth puffing tobacco and forming a diabolical plan. For her, the chance to plot the slow accidental death of her daughter-in-law is like the sudden arrival in the mail of a juicy book of sidoku would be to my own mother.
4. Cheryl Ladd in POISON IVY. As the grandly dying mom up in her red silk bedroom, cringing at the touch of her ugly duckling daughter (Sarah Gilbert), Ladd is great in a weird role that she pulls off with aplomb. The movie would have been perfect anyway, as it's got Tom Skerritt as the alcoholic dad, sneaking vodka shots out of the kitchen cupboard after realizing he's fooled around with his daughter's blonde nymphette friend (Drew Barrymore), but then Ladd comes along as the icing on the cake, clutching this homewrecking hottie to her chest like Cleopatra with an asp.
1. Natasha Henstridge in SPECIES! This mom is the ideal for both humans and H.R. Giger-designed aliens. I've written extensively about my love for Henstridge in an article for Acidemic on one of my favorite films of all time, GHOSTS OF MARS. I also discuss SPECIES, noting that Henstridge:
"played Syl, an alien/human hybrid who escapes her medical lab upbringing and hunts for a "breeder" partner, to mate with, mantis-like. Thanks to Henstridge's startling beauty and sex appeal, this death/re-birth by vagina dentata becomes horribly desirable. A femme fatale with no pretense of not killing you, but so hot you can't resist. Her allure is thus now and forever linked to the key Freudian primordial fantasy — to die and be reborn into a nicer mom's womb, to move from outside the screen to inside the actress. This is the death drive's actual goal realized via cinema, and she is its ultimate goddess, the modern Kali, ripping your heart out with one hand, and pulling you out of the void into life with the other." (read the rest of this crazed rant here).
So… Syl has Alfred Molina's baby mere minutes after fucking him, running off to an underground oil well to do so. Granted the bastard gets fried by flame throwers… oh wait, how bad does the climax of this movie suck? Pretty badly. The trick is to drink lots of vodka during the first hour and a half, so that by the time the underground cavern climax rolls around, you're passed out cold. Then when you wake up, just press play and watch from the beginning, that way the film goes on forever in a weird version of the mobius strip called "quantum immortality."
Of course there are great moms of death who aren't blonde too. I'd like to give a shout out to Asia Argento (HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS), Kate Hepburn in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, and of course, Mrs. Bates… Happy Mother's Day!


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Category Archives — "family"
Christmas Mini-SessionsBy paul — Leave a comment
Here are some photos from my recent Christmas Mini-Sessions. I had a great time photographing the beautiful families and friends from around the neighbourhood. Thanks and Merry Christmas! Paulread more →
Jamieson FamilyBy paul — Leave a comment
My good friend Amanda and her family made it for another outdoor session in late November. The weather was great and the kids we're happy, couldn't ask for much more. Have a great Christmas you guys!read more →
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There was certainly no shortage of smiles during this session. The toughest part was choosing which ones to showcase! Luc's grown up so much since I did his newborn session, in fact he just recently turned one! Now that I mention it, I need to get his blog post inserted from that session!read more →
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They couldn't have planned a nicer day for their outdoor session and in the middle of November to boot!read more →


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Islamic Interpretation of Dreams (Ibn-i Sirin):
(Aircraft; Soar) In a dram, a kite represents exaltedness, rising in station, determination, or gaining respect.
A kite in a dream also means being dismissed, or banished, or it could mean sorcery and magic.
If one sees himself playing with a kite in a dream, it means that he might suffer from a spell ofblack arts.
If a kite falls over oneâs house in a dream, it means that he will be evicted from it.


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I recently happened upon Fred Chappell's A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry (NY: Picador, 1998), a collection of review essays extracted from The Georgia Review and other publications. Chappell, being a well-respected poet, critic and teacher, is in a rich position to offer us much on this subject. Although his reviews here are mostly negative commentary about what he dislikes in contemporary poetry, along with suggestions for technical improvements, his introduction to these reviews, entitled "Thanks but No Thanks," is lovely, generous and instructive, and just a wee bit apologetic for the pessimism he directs toward the collections he judges.
He begins by noting the differences of writing poems and writing criticism:
"1) Criticism is a more difficult art than most readers suppose, than many critics have recognized;And he adds a fourth, more universal tenet:
2) Much of it--especially the output of the breed known as 'reviewers'--is produced under the pressure of deadline constraint and subject to the selective claims of editors;
3) The influence of literary politics is so pervasive as to be inescapable, even in the most conscientious and least partisan of writers."
"It is difficult to train oneself to listen to what someone else has to say, in print or in person, without interposing the force of one's own personality and permitting the tinctures of one's own prejudices to color responses that ought to be spontaneous though gravely considered, genuine though well-informed, unique but rarely cranky."In other words: it's truly difficult to be open-minded and objective.
Chappell's introduction is a marvelous essay that is important to read for anyone who reviews any kind of writing. Put your ideas of false objectivity away, dear reviewers, as Chappell has done. He now knows what he likes in a poem and what he should avoid:
"...I prefer a clarity of intention in a poem...if I must examine work so baffling that I cannot grasp enough of its premises to impute an intention, then there is no hope that I will ever comprehend it thoroughly enough to comment. By means of this principle I eliminated from my consideration whole shelves of verse."But even while recognizing what kind of poetry is not for him, Fred Chappell acknowledges the difficult and important work of the poet and closes his essay with a beautiful statement of grace and modesty, a statement for which we all might consider with great sincerity:
"I am most grateful of all to the poets I read. There were few books that failed to entertain and enlighten me. Even when I disliked the work I respected the poet because I know the demands of the discipline and the toll that is exacted in almost equal measure by success and by failure. So I was constrained to do the best I could by the work--in the full and certain foreknowledge that my best would never be good enough."


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New Tech Lithium Corp. (AMP:CSE) is a publicly-traded company dedicated to the acquisition and development of potash and lithium projects in Utah and Colorado. New Tech Lithium wholly owns New Tech Lithium Corp., which in turn owns and operates the Green River Potash Project in Utah. New Tech Lithium's area of interest covers key land positions in known potash and lithium bearing sedimentary cycles in Utah's renowned Paradox Basin.
The company has a seasoned management team with decades of experience and success in both the mining industry and public financial markets and intends to focus the majority of its efforts on the further exploration and development of its mineral assets.
New Tech Lithium Corp. has two on-going exploration-development programs in the Paradox Basin of SE Utah and SW Colorado, USA, a Lithium Brine program and a Potash program. During the 8-year course of potash exploration and related research, New Tech Lithium has acquired an extensive database and geologic knowledge of the Pennsylvanian-age Paradox Basin, including the acquisition of technical reports and publications, historic oil & gas logs, oil & gas and potash production data, and 2-D seismic survey data. As a result, New Tech Lithium has developed a detailed understanding of the history, geology, and hydrogeology of the Paradox Basin.
New Tech Lithium recently entered into a Joint Venture (JV) agreement with Power Metals Corporation (PWM:TSE-V) whereby PWM can earn up to 65% interest in New Tech's Utah lithium leases and claims by financing the cost of two test wells on their Utah properties (April 11, 2017 News Release). The agreement stipulates that potash core will be collected from Cycle 5 potash layer and brine samples collected from all significant brine aquifers encountered during drilling and well completion. The wells will be designed to penetrate the entire Pennsylvanian age Paradox Formation and into the top of the underlying Mississippian age Leadville Limestone which hosts a well-documented brine aquifer.
New Tech Lithium Corp. plans to capitalize immediately on the existence of producing and shut-in oil and gas wells on their Colorado lithium claims by sampling co-produced brines from the producing wells. Negotiations are currently ongoing with the oil and gas leaseholder to allow access to and sampling of the co-produced brines. Documentation of even low-levels of lithium in the co-produced brines will provide impetus for New Tech to advance the program by focusing on accessing and sampling brines from discrete, individual brine aquifers to determine the actual lithium concentrations in, ideally, a non-diluted environment. Sampling of individual brine aquifers can be accomplished by re-entering existing shut-in wells and/or drilling new wells, screening and pumping from select individual brine aquifers. If brines containing potentially economic concentrations of lithium and bromine are documented New Tech Lithium will then focus on a program designed to pump brines to the surface and recover lithium and bromine via solar evaporation ponds.


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The government says it has taken measures to safeguard the judiciary
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10 of August 2016 14:59:41
DUBAI, Oman -- Omani authorities have closed down a privately owned newspaper after detaining three of its journalists over its reporting on alleged corruption within the judiciary, an international watchdog said on Wednesday.The report came one day after the Omani government said it had taken unspecified action against a newspaper for insulting the judiciary. The government did not identify the newspaper and did not elaborate on the measures taken.The Arabic-language Azamn had extensively covered a series of corruption cases in 2014 in which several company executives and company officials were convicted and jailed or fined,Amnesty International said in a statement that Azamn and its online news site were closed on Tuesday after the newspaper's Deputy Editor in Chief, Youssef al-Haj, was arrested.He was the third Azamn journalist to be arrested since authorities detained the editor-in-chief and founder Ibrahim al-Mamari, on July 28."It appears that the journalists from Azamn are being punished for carrying out their legitimate journalistic work," Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme, said in a statement."Criticizing the judiciary or reporting allegations of suspected corruption is not a crime. If they are being detained solely in connection with their journalistic work, Oman's authorities must immediately release them," she added.A staff member confirmed Ibrahim al-Mamari was still in detention, along with another journalist who was detained last week.In a statement published by state news agency ONA late on Tuesday, the government said that a newspaper had "not only exceeded the limits of freedom of speech, but drifted into ... harming one of the pillars of the state, the judiciary."The government said it had taken unspecified measures to safeguard the judiciary and protect it from those who wanted to abuse it, the statement said.The statement did not identify the newspaper and did not explain the action taken. But the newspaper's website on Wednesday displayed a message stating "Azamn suspended from publishing".An employee said the order to close did not "give a clear reason, nor the a time frame for the publication ban".
In 2011, a court issued a decision ordering the newspaper closed down for a month and Mamari and a reporter were given five-month suspended jail sentences for insulting the justice minister and other officials.


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Lucy has been healthy all winter, and that is such a blessing! More recently, though, we've noticed a hard spot in her stomach, below her bellybutton. Motility is an issue for kids with SMA, since they are very rarely upright, so we assumed it was a blockage and started working vigorously to move it.
Last Thursday, we took Lucy in to the hospital, since it seemed as though it was slowly growing, and our efforts weren't making much of a difference. Lucy was comfortable, but it was bothering me. We really, really loathe going to the hospital, especially during the cold and flu season, which is lingering - much like the nasty, cold weather. We talked to her ped, took an x-ray, and went home.
Lucy's pediatrician is a wonderful woman, with zero of the egotistical attitude that some doctors have. She called Dr. Schroth with Lucy's x-ray results, which showed no blockage. Dr. Schroth recommended extra water and Miralax.
So far, no results. Praying that this will clear up between now and her appointment in the beginning of May, otherwise they will have to prescribe something stronger. SMA isn't just about muscles and respiratory issues - there are lots of issues that stem from those problems, and then some additional ones having to do with the nervous system and heart. SMA is constantly having to stay on top of how your child is feeling, looking, sounding - even if they can't tell you how they feel, you have to know. And sometimes you have to know what is going on before they even start to feel it. SMA is all about staying ahead of the game. Hoping we got out in front of this issue before it becomes a real problem!
On a positive note, it seems as though Lucy's new Cough Assist - a portable, 9lb, battery operated version of the 30lb, plug in version we have - has been approved! The vague insurance speak is hard to pin down to a certain response, but we're cautiously optimistic that we will be seeing one soon!
Monday, April 15, 2013
Tummy Troubles
Lucy has been healthy all winter, and that is such a blessing! More recently, though, we've noticed a hard spot in her stomach, below her bellybutton. Motility is an issue for kids with SMA, since they are very rarely upright, so we assumed it was a blockage and started working vigorously to move it.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Just having some fun :)
Lucy could care less about thunderstorms... Bert, on the other hand, does not appreciate them.
I present the World's Most Interesting Dog:
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Campaign to Change Lucy's Life!
As you know, the house next to ours was destroyed by a fire. The man who was renovating it bulldozed it, and has decided to sell the property. This gives us the opportunity to purchase the land and expand our lot, along with building out on our first story, to make our house more adapted to life with Lucy. We could put in a handicap bathroom, and bedrooms for Lucy and ourselves so we can continue to be near each other, but not have to carry her up and down our stairs every day.
Please take the time to read the site I've set up on Gofundme. We are hoping to do additional fundraisers this summer, but we wanted to start by just asking for help. We absolutely understand if you cannot afford to donate; we ask that you please consider sharing our request, so that someone who can might see it, and we also ask that you pray for God to bless this endeavor.
Now please, go help us spread the word!
Also, some pictures:
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Eyegaze in the house!
The Tobii eyegaze was dropped off at our house yesterday, for a month-long trial. Lucy has to use this time to practice with the device, and learn how to use it to communicate. We need to document her use and provide data to her speech therapist, so she can submit it to our insurance. Hopefully Lucy will show them she can use it appropriately, and it will be approved, because she deserves to have a voice.
Tonight was her first go at it since she trialed it late last fall. There were only a few boards on it, so she was messing around, and found a button she liked :)
I uploaded a longer version of that to Youtube, but it wouldn't upload here. It's basically more of the same :) If you want to view it, click here.
Prayers would be appreciated - ask for our stubborn little miss will cooperate this month, and show those bigwigs at the insurance that she can use this device!


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Okay, so this "trailer" for the new Smash Bros by seinfeldspitstain is not in any way real. But who cares about that? The sheer ridiculousness of badly rendered Smash characters is worth watching anyway; it's so silly.
Silly, and yet I'd totally play this.
(Via Nick Robinson)
Super Smash Bros. Universe - E3 2013 Trailer [seinfeldspitstain]


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Saturday, 1 May 2010
May have potential.....
13 comments:
- Ann said...
Hi Julia,
Lovely post. Does the 'bloody dawn chorus' subside or does it just happen earlier and you're still asleep?!
We are regularly woken in the Spring at 5.00am by the seagulls squalking!
- 1 May 2010 at 09:22
- CoventryAnn said...
You photo makes me want to go out into the garden and look at my 'potentially fabulous' peony too! Have a good day.
- 1 May 2010 at 09:41
- Angie said...
I have never seen pointy buds ...only round ones. In my garden I would love to see any buds ... any shape .. but after only one plant surviving out of three and in 4 years not a bud in site ...I think it is not to be.
- 1 May 2010 at 10:03
- Sue said...
Hi Julia
great post made me smile, the dawn chorus is lovely but really think it should be done later!! Afternoon chorus would be nice! lol. Have great weekend, sue.x
- 1 May 2010 at 10:11
- Jane said...
Wow can't wait to see those blooms open!
- 1 May 2010 at 10:56
- Liverpool Lou (Anne) said...
I so love peonies :) How long have you been off work then Julia? Have a fab weekend ;)
Anne x
- 1 May 2010 at 11:59
We fitted the camping TV in the back garden so our neighbour could watch the tennis and wimbledon as well, so it is possible for your loveleys too!!! lady N
- 1 May 2010 at 12:30
- Kathy said...
You're right, May is an month full of optimism and promise. Throw the windows wide open and let the sunshine flood in.....well, if we're lucky ;-)
- 1 May 2010 at 12:36
- Wipso said...
Hehe You do make me smile Julia. I'm a morning person who loves birds so am happily woken by the dawn chorus every morning..what ever the time :-)
I do really love this time of year. Our peony is also coming into bud with an ever increased numbers of blooms every year. I love it.
Have a happy holiday weekend.
A x
ps I'm dumfing more poppies today so am a really happy bunny :-)
- 1 May 2010 at 13:17
- Alisonw30 said...
We have just had our garden re turfed and the borders dug out this week. Have been pressure washing the patio today, covered from head to foot in bits of moss, not a good look! Kept me from card making completely today. Oh well ;-)
- 1 May 2010 at 22:00
- Darcy said...
I'd quite like an afternoon chorus, they start far too early for my liking. As I am a night owl, they are often just starting to sing when I am going to bed around 3ish...but apparently it is all our own fault, later nights for humans combined with street lights and traffic have confused the birds into thinking its time to get up. I am told they sing later in the countryside where it is darker!
- 2 May 2010 at 00:08
- Debbie S said...
I love this time of year when everything wakes up and the birdsare constantly singing. I think I musthave been a hedgehog or some other hibenator in a past life!
- 2 May 2010 at 14:21
- Lynne said...
I love peonies too. Your is going to be fabulous show, when it opens. What kind is it? Mine has no buds yet... round when they arrive.
You May journal looks great all preped ready.
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She has information germane to this case, in that she was present when the defendant made statements, not just to her, there's no husband/wife privilege. He made statements to other people where she was present and overheard it. And she is also germane to what happened right after the shooting itself.
It is interesting that the brief only considers the possibility of attacks on jurors coming from supporters of the defendant rather the victim.
De la Rionda commented on spousal privilege in the hearing (37:45-38:03).
I mean really--what would be his reason for wanting to hear it from her rather than the people GZ was actually talking to at the time?
He didn't say the others wouldn't be called. He might want Shellie to corroborate them, or impeach them if they testify for the defense.There's also a possibility that any witness might unexpectedly become unavailable, as for medical reasons.
Please don't respond to me any longer.
Whenever you post I find myself struggling with wanting to say something Jeralyn won't like.
In fact, and has been previously noted by the Court, the passion that this case has stirred in the community has been expressed in peaceful, non-violent ways.
You can't get them to tell the difference between calling a seven digit number and calling 911, or to tell the SYG part of Florida's Justifiable Use of Force act from the immunity part, but when it comes to invading the privacy of the jurors, they're all intrepid journalists defending the public's right to be informed.
There was the vandalism by students in Miami.
Good one.Now that I think of it, it seems odd that our system is more protective of the privacy of the voting booth than the jury box.
I think he said there is evidence Martin made such a recording. I didn't catch if he said in what form the recording was made or if he had it. I think Martin most likely would have used his phone to record.I hope they can identify the two, and subpoena them to testify about Martin's reputation.Serino's remark about Martin making video of 'everything he does' seems a bit ironic now.


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I was raised in the home of a liberal denominational minister and stay-at-home mom. We went to church once or twice a week, but never really talked about faith or read the bible at home. I think my parents expected the church to cover my spiritual learning. Because it was such a liberal church, the only thing I ever got out of it was that there was a god and that he wanted us to be good to each other. Pretty harmless, really, but also pretty useless to my inquisitive mind.
My first inkling of a problem was my discovery in high school that our denomination was an offshoot of an offshoot of an offshoot of Catholicism. I knew that unity was a frequent topic of the NT, so it seemed wrong that there were so many denominations and that they split over such unimportant issues like what kind of music to include in worship. At that time I was also acutely aware of the hypocrisy I saw in other Christians. One Sunday morning during a typically mind-numbingly boring sermon, I picked up the bible in the pew pocket and read Ecclesiastes. I don't know why I chose it, but I absolutely loved it!
In college I found myself alone and floundering. My mother suggested joining a church group to find friends. Long story short, I moved from a liberal collegiate church group to one of the most conservative groups out there, The Navigators. They cared about me, nurtured me and made me feel wanted. I found my husband in that group and we started our adult life together as committed, conservative, evangelical Christians. That was 23 years ago.
My husband "came out" to me as agnostic 2 1/2 years ago. I came out to him just a few weeks ago. Wow!
There is of course so much more to tell, but this is already long, so I'll save it for another. P.S. Help!
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But I just read a rather intriguing article about Fritz Reiner who is depicted as being both a fine conductor and a nasty piece of work. The article is very hard to excerpt from so I encourage you to read the whole thing. Reiner was so stern a disciplinarian that he was perceived by many to be, simply, a sadist. But he got results. Imagine being given the task of managing a room full of individualistic, virtuoso artists! Like herding cats. The article doesn't seem to capture how difficult it is training an orchestra to really play together. Here is a quote from Philip Farkas, principal French horn at the time that gives us an idea:
We'd had a long number of years of lax discipline and too many guest conductors. The men were good, it was a good orchestra, but undisciplined and far from being a cohesive group. So Reiner took over and tore that orchestra apart. In a two-hour rehearsal he pulled us apart and put us together again — literally — and in the course of doing it actually fired one of the men. He said, "I don't accept that kind of playing in my orchestra." We thought, "Gee, you haven't even got the orchestra yet, it's only an hour or so." But it was his orchestra, he had a contract to prove it. Anyhow, he took us apart and we needed it, we all knew that. And when he put it back together and we went straight through Ein Heldenleben (by Richard Strauss) the last hour of rehearsal, it was a revelation. There we had it, and we knew we had it, but we couldn't do it until he came along.Reiner is portrayed as being sadistic, but it is hard to be sure just how sadistic he was. I know of many long and bitter disputes within orchestras that really boiled down to a difference of opinion. A lot of orchestral players come to really detest their conductors, but it is just as often because of incompetence as it is for being excessively harsh! I know of one conductor who got the nickname "pizza beat" because of the sloppiness of his conducting style--his beat was very broad instead of being precise. Other conductors are thought of by their orchestras as having no sense of rhythm. Sometimes veteran players advise newbies to not look at the conductor during crucial passages as they will be sure to be thrown off! Sometimes this is even written into the parts: "don't look up!"
I have to say that I have had no real beefs with any conductors I have worked with over the years. Most of that was as a soloist, which is rather different from being in the orchestra. You may not know this, but as soon as there is an instrumental soloist, in the case of a concerto typically, the conductor's role changes from being the directing intelligence onstage to being an accompanist. This is built into the stage protocol: the soloist enters before the conductor and it is the job of the conductor and the orchestra to follow what he or she does. I have never had any problems as every conductor I have worked with has been happy with this--indeed, you couldn't do it any differently!
I was playing the Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra conducted by Mario Bernardi and when we got to the end of the slow movement a funny thing happened. Here is the passage:
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I think that there is something that Gerald Stein does not get to in his article on Reiner and this is that the world of music has a very inegalitarian bias. Talent is honored and anti-talent is disparaged. In other words, if you play well, you will be appreciated and liked by your fellow musicians--all else being equal--but if you are a poor player or poor musician, you will get little respect and a lot of sarcasm. So what I wonder is if the really good players in the orchestras Reiner conducted were not so much his targets, and therefore did not perceive him as being as sadistic as the poorer players that he was trying to either whip into shape or drive out of the orchestra.
I am reminded of a very fine choral conductor (the exception to the rule that there are three kinds of conductors: conductors, semi-conductors and choral conductors) who also taught some ear-training classes. He was in charge of administering a final dictation exam one year and provided an excellent example of conductor-style sarcasm. Dictation exams, by the way, are rather grueling. This one, as I recall, involved taking down from a few hearings a four-voice chorale in the style of Bach, some complicated rhythms, an eight measure melody, and, most challenging, some two part counterpoint. The fellow giving us the test prefaced it by saying, "don't worry about this exam--I am going to play every musical example so slowly that even the most dull among you will be likely to get it." You really had to hear the sneering, nasal voice with which he delivered this to get the full effect.
Let's end with a performance of the Villa-Lobos Concerto. This is Gôran Sôllscher with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Ironically, no conductor is listed.
UPDATE: Purely coincidentally an orchestral musician friend of mine just sent me this hilarious clip of what happens when you let random bystanders conduct an orchestra:
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My slow winter continued and it felt like I wasn't getting anywhere. We did manage a 180km ride to Maldon and back in February to celebrate the acquisition of my new Bianchi – the replacement for my written off Trek, which was good but hard (cold, sleety and windy return leg!). After that, a trip back home to NZ for two and a half weeks in March with a busy couple of months before that meant not much riding at all, apart from an epic ride over the hills of Christchurch, NZ, to the peninsula on a rented bike. It was one of those times when the whole ride is spent battling either head or severe cross winds, as the wind direction decided to change in the middle of it. I'm sure if we had power meters we would have seen some big numbers but seeing only speed was pretty demoralising. Once we got back to London we decided to ramp up the training a bit, finally doing the London-Brighton Return and Oxford Return rides that have been yearly Spring Classics for me the last couple of years.
I also changed my club as it wasn't proving very easy to make it to Surrey by 9am on a Sunday to make club rides in Kingston. Happily, my new club has a large group of like-minded women who are keen and strong cyclists, and I found myself getting a bit swept up in it all and entering a couple of spring races. The first was a crit race at Hog Hill. It was supposed to be the course without the hill included, but weather conditions and a flooded course meant a last minute change and inclusion of the hill. Because of my dire year so far I was not expecting much of myself and decided just to ride for the fun of it. At the start I didn't get clipped in for a good few metres and ended up at the back of the bunch. For the first few laps I slowly worked my way through the pack, but the front group had got away and I didn't try to catch them. In hindsight, I should have, as the hill divided the pack greatly and after going round and round and round solo, I eventually ended up in a duo with another girl, behind the leading group of four. It quite a lot of yelling from my club coach to work together with her before I realised that was a fairly good idea and the two of us finished the race together, although I couldn't resist pulling ahead on the last lap to come in fifth. My other teammates came first and second – a great result! Myself and the 6th place were the only ones that were not lapped by the leading group – that is how much the hill split the race.
I had another race the following week, this time a 70km road race. My recovery was probably not the recommended method in between the two races, doing the Oxford return ride the day following the race, but it was a fun day out and it's all about riding your bike at the end of the day!
We drove to the race in Essex, and I had a severe attack of the nerves. I also had no warm up as I was too busy faffing. The field was very strong – I recognised a lot of the names of the women racing from last year so it was quite intimidating. I decided to make my aim to stay with the front bunch, but I wasn't confident enough to try anything special. In the event I did stay with the front pack, wheel sucking all the way, but in the last stretch got into a bad position and couldn't make up the sprint to get anywhere near a place, because the front peloton had remained so large. I was happy just to have been able to stay with the group though, following all the attacks as they happened. Many of the girls are category 2 and much more experienced than me, so I'm happy with my effort! We managed a fairly respectable 36.6km/h average – but there was a lot of slowing due to narrow roads and oncoming traffic and my average over 75% quartile was 41km/h!
I made one major mistake that I don't want to replicate again though… it was incredibly cold during the race and I did not warm down properly or stretch, instead pretty much just getting in the car and driving home. The next morning I incorporated some of the North London hills into my commute, but suddenly as I was heading off from a traffic light pulled my back muscles. Hopefully a couple of days off the bike will be enough to heal, as we're heading to Cornwall this weekend for the bank holiday weekend/my birthday, and of course we're taking our bikes….!


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Whew! The past month has been insane for me, and it shows no signs of slowing down until….wait for it….December 22nd. If you're like me, you have to squeeze all of your Christmas shopping in somewhere between eating and your daily commute, so here's a good eat on the go breakfast/lunch/dinner for that quick hop into Macy's during your nonexistent lunch break.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Products I've used up & will I repurchase
Shiseido Pureness Deep Cleansing Foam: I absolutely love this cleanser. It's got microbeads in it which I found odd, considering this is not a scrub but you don't even notice them once you've put it on your skin. It does leave the skin feeling a little bit thight, but I personally like that in a cleanser. I'm currently trying out another cleanser, but once I'm done with that one, I will most certainly repurchase this one.
Shiseido Pureness Mattifying Moisturizer: This moisturizer is from the same line as the cleanser, however I don't really care for it. It does mattify your skin, but I don't feel like it keeps me matte during the day. I probably won't repurchase this.
Vichy Normaderm daily scrub: I have actually already repurchased this one and I am currently using it. This is the best scrub I have used so far.
Vichy Capital Soleil 50+ Sunblock: The reason I bought this sunblock is because I had facial surgery a little over a year ago. My surgery was at the beginning of June and I was going on a holiday to Italy in July and the doctor told me I had to keep my face out of the sun for at least the first year, because otherwise the scars in my face wouldn't fade away. So I bought a big floppy hat and this sunblock to put on my scars so that I could still enjoy the sunshine. And it did a wonderful job, because my scars completely faded. I mean, I know where the incisions were and I can't even find them and neither can my sister. So if I ever need a sunblock again, I will definitely repurchase this one.
Dermalogica Clean Start Bedtime for Breakouts: Not much to say here. I won't repurchase this product, because I just don't feel like it does anything beneficial to my skin.
Le Petit Marseillais Rasberry and Peony Bodywash: This bodywash smells amazing. It has a fresh floral, fruity scent to it and I really like it. I might even repurchase in the future.
Bioderma Sébium H2O: I have already repurchased this multiple times. I love it for taking of my make up or if I'm feeling really lazy I use this to cleanse my face.
Bed Head by Tigi Urban Anti+dotes Resurrection Damage Level 3 shampoo: Again I have already repurchased this more then once and I am actually using it right now. It makes my hair feel really clean, soft and light. I know that the only remedy against split ends is to cut your hair, but at least this shampoo makes your hair look and feel extremely healthy. I've also tried out the conditioner in this line and I loved it. My hair felt super soft and it helped control the frizz.
Bed Head by Tigi Some Like It Hot conditioner: I had really high expectations for this conditioner, because I already tried another conditioner from Bed Head and totally loved it. However I was left feeling dissapointed. It didn't really do anything for my hair. It didn't make it feel really soft or nourished. I actually don't think it's worth the money and so I will not be repurchasing this.
John Frieda Brilliant Brunette shampoo: For a drugstore shampoo I think this is a wonderful product. It made my hair soft and you only just need a little bit to wash your entire hair so it lasts a long while. I won't repurchase, because I really like my Bed Head shampoo, but I do recommend this one for anyone looking for a good drugstore shampoo.
Diorskin Forever Flawless Perfection Fusion Wear Foundation: This is the most expensive foundation I've ever bought (€50), but it's so worth the money. It's super light on the skin (seriously, it looks like second skin), it lasts a good few hours (I mean, no foundation lasts ALL DAY) and it's got medium coverage. This is the best high end foundation I've ever tried and I will definitely repurchase.
Urban Decay Primer Potion: Last but certainly not least.. The Urban Decay primer potion. Do I even need to tell you guys about this?? Of course I will repurchase this. I sadly can't get my hands on it in Belgium, but the next time I'm going to Paris I'm gonna take an entire suitcase of this back home with me.
What products have you been using lately?? I would love some suggestions on what to buy next. Please leave a comment below or tweet me @_MakeUpDiary_ and tell me what you would like to see me blog about next.
Xoxo Nathalie
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Killing a python isn't the easiest thing in the world. The FWC sponsored a "Python 101" training session for hunters on Monday, with topics including how to identify a "reptile of concern," along with the best ways to kill them.
Any Florida hunter with a hunting license can pay an extra $26 permit fee to take part. The snakes and lizards may be killed using any legal method, and the FWC advises against trying to capture them alive, saying it is too risky. Their FAQ provides some guidance on what to do with slain snakes, including eating them (although it warns that tests on many Burmese python carcasses have shown a high level of mercury). The hides can fetch up to $5 per foot.
Of course, the snakes haven't been doing too well on their own lately, with unseasonably cool weather killing a large number of nonnative and invasive animals and plants.
Meanwhile, strangely enough, it's still legal to import a Burmese python and some of these other species into Florida. Pending legislation promises to change that, but it still may be awhile before it is passed.
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What Is A Home?12:11 AM
I've actually already written a post with this title. However, it was in a totally different context than I'm contemplating now. This just happens to be the topic of my first journal entry. I'll be honest here. I've been struggling lately with my current lack of a home. Don't get me wrong. Everyone we have stayed with have been awesome. It's not that at all. But after a difficult year of our living situation consisting of sharing a house with short-term teams and sharing a kitchen with other staff, I'm just ready for a place of my own.
In the work that we do, we always say that home "is more than four walls and a roof, but it starts there..." Yes, it starts there. I would definitely agree with that. I've always prided myself on thinking I could live anywhere, in any situation, but without a proper home this past year, I have felt the life being sucked out of me. I think that has added to my weariness, and it has been difficult to walk out our family's core values.
So what is a home? I think it's a place to call your own. To build memories. To practice hospitality. To walk out your family's values. I love making a place where the presence and peace of Jesus is felt. The size and shape doesn't necessarily matter to me. Although, under that roof and inside those four walls, I really desire a kitchen, bathroom, a couple of bedrooms, and a living room! A place of our very own.
So as not too get too long here, I'm going to wrap up my little post here. Please pray for us as we continue to look for a place and ask the questions, "Do we rent? Do we buy? What do we do?" All I know is that we need a place to call home...
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Oh, Jen, this is a hard one.ReplyDelete
What crosses my mind is that maybe God is giving you a little more insight into the lives of those he has called you to serve. Or even into Jesus' own life (Luke 9:58).
Ben and I were between homes for a while at one point, and that was (mostly) not fun. I can imagine with kids it's far more difficult to be without a home. So please know I'm not making light of your situation, and I am praying that God leads you very clearly as you seek the rest he has for you!
- Shelly Funsch GonzalesJanuary 7, 2010 at 7:05 AM
Jennifer, I'll certainly pray for you and your family. I hope you'll have a home soon, or at least feel some peace.ReplyDelete
hmmmm. Interesting. I feel you. Being an MK and third culture kid, I can understand a lot of that...ReplyDelete
And yes, I did write that. I had a good conversation with a lady last night ( that one I messaged you about haha) and.. I don't know. It sparked something in me. I haven't written in FOREVER, and... finally I felt words coming to my heart again... so yeah. Anyway. :o) Hope you have a good day....
This past year in my life was shaken in a way I would have never dreamed...in an extremely terrible way. Also, being a military wife and constantly learning a new "culture", moving around and for the first time since my marriage started, having a place, now, I can understand where you're at. My heart emotions and deep prayers are over you 4...and our God WILL refresh, renew and revive life and focus in you!ReplyDelete
I love you dearly, my longtime friend :) Please USE me for anything you need...and have rest.
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3 comments:
- Stitchingranny said...
Love the look of this blackwork sampler Moll. You have not written anything so I do not know who its by etc.
Hope you are keeping well love, would be nice to see you back in the UK again.
- 16 March 2013 at 14:46
- Bergdatter said...
Hi honey - and thanks. It's what I work on for UFO night at the moment - it's not a sampler, but a Blackwork Chessboard. Design by Anne MacGregor of Cross Stitch Gold. I'm OK, and hope you are too - it's been too long! I also hope I can make it over soon too!
- 17 March 2013 at 12:39
- Stitchingranny said...
that would be great as I was on my way back from a holiday so missed you that last time you came.
- 25 March 2013 at 15:13