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Don't get scammed on Valentine's Day
TEXAS, United States (AP) — Federal investigators in Houston, Texas have used a traditional all-about-love day to warn lonely people about romance scams.
An FBI statement Wednesday, on Valentine's Day, says criminals often tug at people's "heartstrings" and break their bank accounts in the process.
Victims in 2016 reported, to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, losses of more than US$219 million to romance or confidence scams.
FBI officials say crooks lure individuals who believe they're in a relationship into sending money, personal or financial information. Experts say never send money to anyone you don't personally know.
The FBI says two Nigerian citizens in 2016 were sentenced to federal prison in a romance scam conspiracy that cost a Houston-area woman US$2 million
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text: Based in Switzerland and established in 1832, Longines is owned by the Swatch group, the world's leading watch manufacturer. Tradition, elegance and performance are core values reflected in each timepiece, which exude timeless design and classic style. The famous winged hourglass logo proudly adorns the face of every timepiece and is an internationally established synonym for style and unerring class. The watches' inherent mechanical precision means the brand has become the timer of choice for the Olympics. Men's Longines watches feature rose and yellow gold, leather bracelets and exquisite detail, the perfect choice for any discerning gentleman.

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Lake Burien Presbyterian Church Hosting Block Party Aug. 15
Lake Burien Presbyterian Church, which so graciously opened its doors to host the Red Cross shelter for the apartment arson fire victims, is hosting a Block Party on Aug. 15th from 4pm to 8pm at 15003 14th Ave SW (map below).
The family-friendly party will include:
- FREE backpacks to the first 300 guests!
- Prizes
- Games
- Face Painting
- Food
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- Cakewalk
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Researchers at NEC System Technologies and Mie University have designed a robot that can taste — an electromechanical sommelier able to identify dozens of different wines, cheeses and hors d'oeuvres.
Some of the mistakes it makes would get a human sommelier fired — or worse.
When a reporter's hand was placed against the robot's taste sensor, it was identified as prosciutto. A cameraman was mistaken for bacon.
The 2-foot-tall robot also is expensive.
"Buying one of these would cost about as much as a new car," Shimazu said. "We'd like to bring that down to 100,000 yen ($1,000) or less for the tasting sensor if we were to put it on the market."
Man, this is the end of humans. Robots will eat us like we eat bacon 😉
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|Recent data report that approximately 50% of medical school students and an estimated 40-50% of third-year internal medicine residents are women.1,2 Despite the large number of women in the early stages of medical training, the percentage of female gastroenterology (GI) fellows has remained stable at 25-30% over the last several years.3 Moreover, only about 13% of the nation's approximately 13,000 gastroenterologists are women.4
There is data, both published and anecdotal, that suggests female patients prefer to see female gastroenterologists. Shah et al conducted a prospective survey of more than 1,000 patients and found that females had a stronger sex preference for an office visit with a female gastroenterologist and also for a female colonoscopist.5 In order to meet this need, there must be a push to train more female gastroenterologists.
Several factors have been proposed to explain the gender gap in GI, and concerns about work-life balance are most commonly cited. Most physicians, gastroenterologists included, work anywhere between 55 and 60 hours per week. This may not include time required to keep up to date with medical literature or to complete administrative responsibilities. This time commitment alone exceeds the work expectations of most non-medical professions. Thus, it is not surprising that balancing a full-time career in GI with the demands of raising a family can be difficult; particularly since the responsibility of caring for a family, especially young children, often falls disproportionately on women. In addition, the required 3-year GI training program frequently comes at a time when most women are mothers of young children, which may further deter them from entering the field. As a result, some women may choose to practice medicine in a setting that may better fit the demands of a healthy work-life balance.
One solution to these issues is part-time work. Historically, there has not been widespread acceptance of part-time GI positions due to difficulty with patient coverage and challenges in meeting the financial demands of office overhead and malpractice insurance. Recently, there has been a trend of female physicians in part-time GI roles; however, no data exist to attest to job satisfaction of these physicians.
Female gastroenterologists may also face specific challenges in endoscopy. Endoscope dials come in standard sizes and may not conceivably be as accessable to the generally smaller female hand size. Surgical literature has reported that women tend to experience more musculoskeletal and occupational injuries related to laparoscopy; ostensibly, a similar trend could be extrapolated to GI.6 Very few female fellows pursue careers in the male-dominated sub-specialty of advanced endoscopy, perhaps due to concerns about radiation exposure for women of child-bearing age. Further, there may also be a lack of mentorship encouraging female GI fellows to consider advanced endoscopy as a career option, and this is certainly an area deserves more attention and thought.
Although many female gastroenterologists begin their career with ambitions of leadership in academic medicine, this ambition can be eclipsed by the aforementioned competing priorities. In academic medicine in general, a surprisingly small number of women hold positions of significant leadership. Wehner et al reported that among the top 50 NIH-funded medical schools, only 13% of department leaders were women.7 This culture of predominantly male leadership in GI may be discouraging for women, and is one example of a possible glass ceiling that exists for women in academic medicine.
Salaries of female gastroenterologists are also less than those for their male counterparts. Singh et al collected data on male and female gastroenterologists who had been in practice for 10 years.8 After adjusting for practice setting, work hours, practice ownership, free endoscopy center practice, and vacation time, they found that female gastroenterologists earned $82,000 (22%) less per year than their male colleagues (95% CI $34,000-130,000; P=0.001). Additionally, they found that women were more frequently in academic practice (38% vs 17%), but were less likely to hold the most advanced academic positions.
The dearth of women in GI leadership extends to our national societies as well. The ACG has only had two female past presidents, Dr. Christina M. Surawicz (1998) and Dr. Amy Foxx-Orenstein (2007).9 A similar trend prevails for the AGA, where the first female president was Dr. Sara Jordan in 1942 and 1943, and the next was Dr. Gail Hecht in 2010. Dr. Sheila Crowe has been elected for a term beginning in 2017 (personal communication, April 2016). The ASGE has had four female presidents over an approximately 25-year period: Dr. Barbara Frank (1991), Dr. Grace Elta (2008), Dr. Colleen Schmitt (2014), and Dr. Karen Woods, whose term begins in 2017 (personal communication, April 2016). Finally, the AASLD has had three female presidents whose terms have been concentrated over the last decade: Dr. Teresa L. Wright (2005), Dr. Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao (2012), and Dr. Gyongyi Szabo (2015).10
If we are to adequately address the observed gender differences in GI we must start at the top. Our leadership, represented by the national societies, should prioritize promoting greater equality in GI leadership positions and address the gender gap of incoming GI fellows. On an individual practice level, family responsibilities should be respected. For example, conferences should not be scheduled in early morning or evening hours, and administrative time should be provided to allow for patient correspondence. Additionally, the salary disparities between men and women providing the same specialty care must be reduced. As women in GI, we must stand together, advocate for each other, and translate these proposed changes into reality.
Richa Shukla, MD
Associate Editor
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Hiya is an automatic reverse phone number lookup and call blocker app for your smartphone.
The Hiya caller ID app from Whitepages makes it easy to find out who is calling or texting your smartphone. Whenever you get a call from an unknown phone number, Hiya automatically does a reverse phone number lookup and shows you any listing information that is available for the calling number. Hiya helps people identify and avoid unwanted calls, telemarketing calls and text messages on their smartphones with advanced caller ID and phone number blocking technology.
The app used to be called "Whitepages Caller ID," but the company later changed the name to Hiya. The Hiya caller ID app has been so popular and successful that Whitepages recently decided to spin the app off into its own separate company. The new app reportedly offers users the latest, greatest caller identification and spam protection technology available for smartphone users.
Although the Federal Communications Commission is constantly fighting phone spam, Whitepages claims that there was a 54 percent increase in consumer complaints to the FTC regarding unwanted phone calls as in 2014. Unwanted phone calls from unknown phone numbers can cost people and businesses valuable time and money and can involve dangerous and costly scams.
Hiya fights unwanted phone calls and text messages with phone call and text message identification data, real time spam detection and the ability to block unwanted phone calls. Hiya users can choose to automatically block phone numbers that are known sources of spam activity.
The Hiya phone number identification feature reportedly works for any incoming or outbound phone call, even if the phone number isn't already on your phone's contact list. Caller ID information is shown on the Hiya app for all inbound or outbound phone numbers. Hiya originally started out in 2011 as an app for updating your smartphone contact list and address book, but Whitepages decided to turn it into a reverse phone number lookup and call blocking application.
With over 25 million users worldwide, Hiya is one of the more popular caller ID apps available. Other popular and notable phone number identification apps include CallApp, Extreme Call Blocker, Holla, and Truecaller. While TrueCaller is currently the most popular caller ID application, with over 100 million users worldwide, Hiya claims to be the most popular caller identification application in the United States.
According to Whitepages and Hiya founder, Alex Algard, there has been a major surge in the amount of unwanted phone calls and spam messages to smartphones in the past few years. As a result, more and more people are ignoring phone calls that come from any unknown phone number that is not in their contact list. With over 1.5 billion phone numbers in their caller ID database, Hiya helps smartphone users avoid unwanted phone calls from a large list of unknown phone numbers worldwide.
Whitepages is an online directory assistance and people search company based in Seattle, WA. The company offers contact information on over 300 million people through their various people search tools, such as name search, reverse address lookup and reverse phone number lookup.
Whitepages also offers advanced people search data through their "Whitepages Premium" and "Whitepages Pro for Business" services, where users can find more detailed information on people such as street addresses, phone numbers, family members, known associates, public records, court records, mug shots, bankruptcies, foreclosures, liens, judgements, property records as well as personal and professional license records.


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Alban Berg - Wozzeck
Salzburg Festival, 2017
Vladimir Jurowski, William Kentridge, Matthias Goerne, John Daszak, Mauro Peter, Gerhard Siegel, Jens Larsen, Tobias Schabel, Huw Montague Rendall, Heinz Göhrig, Asmik Grigorian, Frances Pappas
Medici.tv - 27 August 2017
Like Alban Berg's only other stage work Lulu, Wozzeck is an opera where the music and the drama are intricately connected. Quite how Berg manages to achieve this synthesis in both pieces is complex and would take years to analyse, but there's not really any need for it to be interpreted; the power of these two remarkable works and how they are expressed speaks for itself. It's not really for a director to interpret Lulu or Wozzeck, as you think an artist like William Kentridge might do, as much as provide mood and context. Kentridge, as with his production of Lulu, does this well in this Salzburg Festival production, staging a Wozzeck that firmly has his own individual stamp (what Kentridge staging doesn't?) while not letting that vision get in the way of the work itself.
Georg Büchner's Woyzeck is a study of a man's - or man's - physical and mental limitations. In the 24 quite harsh and gruelling fragments of the unfinished drama, a body and a mind are tested as far as they can be pushed before their owner goes over the edge. Is there just one thing that proves to be too much for Franz Woyzeck, or is it an accumulation of miseries and torments of a wretched existence? Woyzeck is perhaps not so much a bleak account of how miserable life can be as how much strength is required to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life and how delicate and fragile a balance the human psyche rests on.
There is no strict order to the fragments of Büchner's Woyzeck, which is a factor that tends to work in its favour, preventing it from being a simple matter of cause and effect leading to madness and murder. Whatever way you look at it though, in the case of both Büchner and Berg it's apparent from that Franz Wozzeck is cracking. A common soldier, he is brutalised by the captain in his unit, he is experimented on by the doctor, he takes on odd jobs and consequently has little time or thought for his unmarried partner Marie and their child. The dissatisfied Marie's lewd affair with a handsome drum major is just one other factor that beats him down physically as well as mentally.
But Wozzeck also has another element that is less easily identified or rationalised; Franz is affected by hallucinations. Is this just a reaction of his body reacting to the pressures it is undergoing, an indication that his mind is breaking, or a sign of his ability or desire to see something greater beyond the material world? Franz certainly longs for meaning in order, for life to adhere to a structure that makes sense, but instead he finds nature cruel and capricious. Everyone is either looking for power, fame, recognition or satisfaction of their own private desires. To the doctor for example hoping that his experiments on Franz will make him famous, Wozzeck is "a mere human being" not worth losing sleep over, "The death of a salamander would be far more serious".
The world that Wozzeck inhabits is one where horizons are being closed down, where hopes are being dashed, where darkness is gathering. William Kentridge's production at Salzburg is one then that compartmentalises each of the scenes down into little vignettes, brief little areas of illumination in the dark apocalyptic world of the mind. The doctor's cabinet is like a small toilet space, other scenes open up and close, connected by rickety platforms, where only a watery death at the bottom awaits. The set of Wozzeck's mind is filled of course with projections of Kentridge's animated thick-line black ink sketches, depicting life, war, with grotesque figures wearing distorted face masks. War imagery features prominently, suggesting that Wozzeck's disintegrating mind might be caused by PTSD or, in a wider context, that it is the world that has been distorted beyond recognition by the horrors of war.
Kentridge's concepts and drawings are brought to life by the set designs of Sabine Theunissen and co-directed by Luc De Wit, and they do manage to connect everything and bring a continuity here that's not there in Büchner's scenes. But it feels illustrative and doesn't come anywhere close to expressing the madness or despair that is at the heart of Wozzeck, nor the sense of an order of madness that Berg's music constructions suggest. The tavern scene, for example, should be a scene where in Wozzeck's perspective the whole world "writhes and rolls in fornication", but there's little sense of this, nor in the direction of Wozzeck himself do we really get a sense of him buckling under the pressures of his tormentors and his own delusions.
Kentridge might not get to the heart of Wozzeck then - and maybe that's a place we don't really want to delve into too deeply - but as a performance and a spectacle illustrative of a work of infinite richness, there's still a great deal to admire and provoke thoughts in the 2017 Salzburg Wozzeck. There's much to find of interest in the musical performance of the Vienna Philharmonic directed by Vladimir Jurowski (much too much to take in on a single listening), and the singing performances are all good, although I found little in them that was really satisfying in terms of characterisation and continuity. It's more important for Franz and Marie that the other cast of grotesques, and in that respect Matthias Goerne could certainly have done with a little more direction, and Asmik Grigorian just didn't the lusty verve or the earthy complexity of Marie's emotional openness.
In a work as complex and delicately balanced as Wozzeck, it's important to establish a connection between the music and the drama, and Kentridge sets the mood, illustrates it well and allows Berg's musical score to fill in the areas where it is best placed to probe the deeper questions raised in the work. But Berg's opera still needs more than that. There's a human element that is admittedly submerged in some very dark and abstract ideas, but - like Lulu as well - it is essential that the singers don't just perform it, but are able to bring something human and personal that allows the audience to relate to and find a context for the difficult experiences that Franz and Marie undergo. The Salzburg production has much to admire, but it doesn't have the essential human involvement.
Links: Salzburger Festspiele, Medici.tv


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We've seen this before. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a master dieter and, in a striking resemblance to the way Arnold bulked up for his already impressive physique to star in Conan (1982), The Rock is ready to restore his peak Hollywood build. Before the hype from the upcoming season of Ballers subsided, Johnson announced on Instagram that he's already begun to prep his body for Fast & Furious 8.
Fun transition begins. Final weeks of shooting #BAYWATCH, and today I start my prep for #FastAndFurious8 which I start shooting in 4 weeks. Physically for #BAYWATCH I wanted "Mitch Buchannon" to come in lean, mean and a dysfunctional superhero of the beach. And full of raunchy Rated R humor. Mission accomplished. For FAST8, the character of "Hobbs" will come in like an animal – bigger, lethal, meaner and tougher than a $2 dollar steak. 530am breakfast. Grass fed buffalo, whole eggs and 80grams of Cream of Wheat. (trust me, if I could cook up Vin, Statham and the rest of the Fast dudes I'd eat them too). This is gonna fun. #FF8Prep #HobbsTheBeast #FinelyTuned #2DollarSteakSucksButEadible #INeedACheatMeal
We have a good idea of what kind of work The Iron Palace (Johnson's gym) will see in the upcoming weeks. The Rock already shared his mass-building workout formula when he started prepping for Hercules a couple years ago. You know what they say: if it's not broken, don't fix it.
#teamhercules #dwaynejohnson #weightlifting #bodybuilding #backworkout #therock
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We have always loved jigsaws in our house and as my children grew older it became something of a Christmas tradition to get a new (ever more challenging) puzzle, start it on boxing day and see how quickly we could have it finished.
Most of our puzzle collection (in particular, those aimed at younger children) was donated to charity when divorce meant I had to move home. Had I known then that in a few short years I would be starting a second family with my new partner, I would never have parted with them. At least this way it means I get to start a whole new collection.
This Thomas & Friends jigsaw by Ravensburger is exactly the sort of puzzle I will be looking for to go under the Christmas tree this year.
I have to confess that I am not a huge fan of Thomas the Tank Engine but my little boy did enjoy pointing at the pictures of the trains so maybe it is time for me to rethink! At 16 months, he was more interested in throwing the jigsaw pieces than working out how they fit together but my daughter is very good with puzzles.
At 3 and a half years, she might be considered a little young for a 60 piece puzzle (the recommended age is 4+) but with some help from her big sister and a lot of encouragement, it was not beyond her.
The puzzle pieces were a lovely size for little hands and made of robust card. They slotted together firmly to create a finished picture that did not break apart too easily.
As well as being a quality jigsaw puzzle, there was an additional feature which I absolutely loved - movable clock hands. This added a whole new level of fun and learning.
My daughter enjoyed playing with the clock and moving the hands into different positions. I can clearly remember how hard I found telling the time as a child so anything that can assist with the mastery of this difficult skill has to be a good thing.


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New at park Les Hauts de Bruyères
The Spa Deep Nature® at Les Hauts de Bruyères Park has been awarded the French Spa-A Quality Label!
Just like the Spa Deep Nature® at Lac d'Ailette and at Bois-Francs, Les Hauts de Bruyères Spa has also been awarded the French Spa-A Quality Label! This label guarantees the quality of the treatments and services provided by the spa. Les Haut de Bruyères Spa is therefore an exceptional place that will really look after you!
New activity : Make your own Stuffed Animal
You will finally have the opportunity to create your own stuffed animal! You will choose each individual element themselves - from the stuffed animal's heart to what kind of clothes it will wear, it will be entirely your own creation!
Come enjoy the Orry & Friends Show!
A hilarious and interactive show, where Orry goes on an adventure and travels around the whole world together with his friends. And all with the one goal of finding the home of their new friend.
The kids will listen breathlessly and dream away into fantasy stories!
Kids Safari
Your little adventurers can go on a safari through the park in their very own mini all-terrain vehicle.
Behind the wheel of their very own mini jeep, your kids can explore the trails during a Kids Safari through the heart of the parks Les Hauts de Bruyères, Le Bois aux Daims, Erperheide, Het Heiderbos or De Vossemeren. Enjoy 30 minutes of pure fun and capture these picture-perfect moments—and you can even join the adventure yourself!
Circus school
New redecorated cottages
Cool Factor Jump
Discover the thrill of freefall: land on an airbag from the tower of several meters high ! Challenge accessible to all, from 8 years old.
The Spa Deep Nature® has been awarded the Spa-A quality mark!
Spa-A has given the Spa-A quality mark to the Lac d'Ailette and the Bois-Francs Spas. This quality charter measures the quality of customer care, the treatments and care packages, the equipments and premises, the products and also the spa's ecological commitment.
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The latest Dokdo Project ROMs (which use parts of CM 12) bring Android 5.0 to various smartphones from Korean manufacturers such as Samsung, Pantech, and LG.
Updates for my old Samsung Galaxy S3 ended with Android 4.3, but thanks to this ROM, I can now use Android Lollipop with a phone I bought in 2013. Although the stock ROM for SGS3 doesn't support Bluetooth LE, the Dokdo 7.3.0+ ROM supports Bluetooth and Wifi perfectly!
To install custom ROMs on this phone requires that it be rooted, however. To root the SHW-M440S, I used the cache and recovery images from CF Auto Root, namely CF-Auto-Root-m0skt-m0skt-shwm440s.zip. After extracting cache.img and recovery.img from the zip archive, you need a way to transfer these files to your Samsung phone's internal flash ROM. (It goes without saying that you must have USB debugging mode enabled in the Developer Options)
Enter Heimdall. Most people on Windows OS simply use Samsung's internal tool called Odin to flash their phones. Unfortunately, Odin is software leaked from Samsung and is not officially supported and only runs on Windows. Heimdall, however, is open source and runs on Linux.
First use Heimdall to dump your Samsung phone's existing profile info with the following command:
heimdall download-pit --output filename.pit
Here is some sample output:
$ heimdall download-pit --output shw-m440s.pit
Heimdall v1.4.1
Copyright (c) 2010-2014 Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Manufacturer: "SAMSUNG"
Product: "Gadget Serial"
length: 18
device class: 2
bcdDevice: 021B
iMan:iProd:iSer: 1:2:0
nb confs: 1
interface[0].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 1
Class.SubClass.Protocol: 02.02.01
endpoint[0].address: 83
max packet size: 0010
polling interval: 09
interface[1].altsetting[0]: num endpoints = 2
Class.SubClass.Protocol: 0A.00.00
endpoint[0].address: 81
max packet size: 0200
polling interval: 00
endpoint[1].address: 02
max packet size: 0200
polling interval: 00
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Next, open the .pit file with a hex editor so you can learn the names of internal partitions (I used emacs in hexl-mode). For the SHW-M440S, the partition names are in ALL CAPS:
RECOVERY, CACHE, BOOT, BACKUP, etc
but I have read that international versions of Samsung phones sometimes use lowercase partition names.
Now that you know the partition names, write the CF Auto Root recovery.img to RECOVERY and cache.img to the CACHE partition using heimdall:
heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img --CACHE cache.img
Your SGS3 should then automatically reboot into recovery mode and a red pirate Android bot will appear in the background as the root exploit is applied. Then the phone's original recovery will be restored and the cache erased before the phone reboots into the stock ROM. You will notice that there will be a new app, SuperSU and that you can now use su in adb shell once you give permission on your phone's touch screen.
Now turn off the phone and go back into Download Mode (Vol down + Home Key + Power). heimdall detect to make sure the SGS3 is being detected:
$ heimdall detect
Device detected
Now that the SGS3 is rooted, it is possible to install a custom recovery that will allow you to install custom ROMs to the phone's internal memory. Download recovery-clockwork-126.96.36.199-i9300.img (the i9300 version works just fine with the SHW-M440S) to your linux box and flash it into the recovery partition using heimdall.
heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery-clockwork-184.108.40.206-i9300.img
Now reboot into recovery mode (Vol Up + Home + Power) and wipe data, Dalvik cache, cache, and select install from zip if you have saved the custom ROM on an external microSD card. Or you could simply use adb sideload if your phone in recovery mode is connected to a Linux machine via USB cable. I just used sideload to transfer files from my Linux machine to my SGS3:
adb sideload dokdo-7.3.0-OFFICIAL-m0xx.zip
adb sideload dokdo_gapps_5.1.X.zip
I then selected the dokdo ROM for install from zip, followed by the Google apps package gapps.


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The human genome has about 3 billion base pairs, making up around 20000 genes, which then make op our 24 chromosomes. The base pairs are made up of four nucleotides, represented by the letters A, C, G, & T. So how do we accurately obtain the sequence of 3 billion of these letters? The method used today is called the termination method, and will be explained below.
Since the ratio of regular to terminator nucleotides is very high, duplicated strands will be anywhere from 2 base pairs long to hundreds of base pairs long before a terminator happens to stop the process.
Now we have millions of DNA strands of varying length, with special terminator nucleotides on the end of each one. These terminators are extra special because each one of the four has the ability to reflect light when a laser is shown on it! The colors reflected can be seen in the illustration just above.
|Illustrations courtesy of pbs.org: NOVA online
This process of sequencing is repeated for all of the cut chromosome fragments and different vectors until the entire sequence is obtained!


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I'm excited to start sharing a lot of research I've been doing for my upcoming Hololens development talks…
"Augmented Eyes = Azure Cognitive Services + Hololens"
Where to get started?
Note – everything I'm using including Azure and the Cognitive Services is free, no cost – so don't hesitate to follow along and get everything setup! My hope is that you'll do some really cool stuff and "share-it-back" to our community. :)
1) If you don't have one – you can sign up for a Free Microsoft Azure Account.
2) Once you have that, login to your Azure Portal.


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For a long, long, long… long time…
I've had an adoration of mushrooms.
They're my first thought for toppings when ordering pizza.
Raw, stuffed, curried, grilled…
Deep fried at my Kingshead Pub
In a quiche, in a crepe? Oui, s'il vous plaît.
Wild mushroom risotto? The only time I will consider ordering a bowl of rice.
Portobello sandwiches, all the way.
Or… Something I've never done…
We can caramelize them with onions in Marsala wine.
onething is better with wine.
And then we get fancies.
Marsala Mushroom Pate
This recipe is inspired by my passion for shrooms. And by Homestyle Vegetarian. I veganized it, as well as incorporated the Marsala wine. Because that's what I do, I dunno.
3/4 cup Marsala wine
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1/2 a small onion, sliced
1 lb fresh mushrooms (white button or baby portobellos), quartered
1/2 cup raw hazelnuts
1/2 cup raw almonds
2-3 Tbsp sherry or balsamic vinegar
herbs/spices of your choice (such as rosemary, thyme, sage, etc.)
salt and pepper to taste
1) Pour the wine into a large pan. Add the garlic and onion and simmer until the onion starts to become translucent. Then add the mushrooms, and cook, stirring frequently, until the liquid is gone. Allow to cool.
2) While the mushrooms are cooling, you can skin the hazelnuts if desired. Just place them on a baking sheet lined with foil, and toast them at about 300°F for 5-10 minutes, or until the skin comes off easily. Then immediately throw them into a dish towel, wrap them up well, and rub around to loosen the skins. This step is probably not necessary, but it the skin may darken the color of the pate.
3) In a food processor, finely chop the hazelnuts and almonds. Then add the caramelized mushrooms and process until smooth. Scrape down occasionally, and add the vinegar to smooth it out. You can also use a little extra wine, vinegar, or olive oil to help with the texture. Then add herbs, spices, salt and pepper to your liking.
(Yep. Looks like cat food.)
For variation… You can use another type of dessert wine, such as sherry or port. You can also substitute different types of nuts– walnuts, macadamias, pine nuts, cashews, etc. This pate can be used on crostini as an appetizer, an accompaniment to some grilled vegetables and tofu, stuffed into ravioli, spread on sandwiches, etc.
But I've no problems just eating it with a spoon…


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A visit to Haida Gwaii's wild west coast
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
By Linda Leitch/Blue Sky Charters
For me the west coast of Haida Gwaii has always been fogged over by its reputation for being the wildest of wildernesses. It's known for its erratic winds that can switch direction in a heartbeat while not giving up any of their force and magnificent ocean swells that grow to epic sizes in storms that rage somewhere out in the Pacific. Experienced mariners warn others to stay away as there aren't too many places to seek shelter along the weather worn shore and you're very far from rescue should anything go wrong.
In contrast the west coast of Haida Gwaii also has the reputation for having spectacular beaches, breath taking scenery and the magic of a world steeped in Haida culture.
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
A few summers ago I finally had the opportunity to venture out in our 27' Catalina 'No Point' from our home port of Masset and explore this wonderful landscape; finding out for myself what lies beneath the fog of mystery that surrounds this rugged coast. We travelled as far south as Port Louis stopping in as many places as we dared along the way.
As we cruised across the northern shores of Graham Island we watched a picturesque line of Salmon trawlers working along the horizon with the mountains of the Alaskan panhandle backing them, while tucked in closer to shore an army of lodge boats full of sports fisherman dangled their hooks in the water. Helicopters buzzed overhead flying guests to 5 star resorts located on Langara Island, the rock that locals jokingly call Shangri-La. Summer in Haida Gwaii is busy and the fishing is world class, it was as if war had been declared and all the boats were in place to perfectly ambush the unsuspecting salmon.
Leaving the fishing fleets behind us, we caught the tide that propelled us quickly through Parry Passage and gained our first glimpse of open ocean. Conditions were perfect, the water was topped like glass and a gentle swell barely pulsed beneath the surface. Gratefully we accepted our windless situation in trade for the calm seas and slowly began to putter our way south toward Fredrick Island. We were now alone in the deep blue sea.
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Our first days on the west coast were spent behind Fredrick Island in Peril Bay. Fog banks rolled across the water and steamed over the beach to swirl into the mossy branches of the ancient forest. Even with the fog we wore sunglasses to dim the obscenely bright light reflecting around in the mist, and later discovered we were badly sunburned. We played hard along the beach and entertained ourselves by sifting through sand, searching for treasure.
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
One night a gale blew up from the south east. I woke and looked out the window to a scene now filled with anchor lights. At least 20 Trawlers that had been working, invisible beyond the horizon had come in to anchor with us in the slight protection behind Fredrick Island and hide out the 40 knot winds. The sound screaming through the rigging made my chest tight and my hair crawl about on my head but with absolute certainty the anchor was holding I somehow willed myself back to sleep. In the morning, waves slapped at the sides of No Point, but the wind had left for the horizon and took with it the trawlers. What remained was a steady 15 Knot wind that had shifted to the northwest. In slightly confused seas we pulled anchor and rode the wind further south toward Port Louis.
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The scenery in Haida Gwaii is always stunning but on the West Coast it's miraculous. We cruised along weather worn cliffs with blank rock faces and perfect old growth rainforest while whales leapt next to the boat and sea lions came rushing to the surface fighting to swallow the flopping salmon they held in their jaws. On shore each beach was unique and even as we rounded each corner in a bay the landscape would change, introducing us to beauty we could never have imagined.
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
We discovered that the beach combing on the west coast of Haida Gwaii is incredible. There's marine debris and unexplainable objects packed into every little crevice, extending sometimes shockingly deep into the forest edge.
The best treasure we found was a five inch glass rolling pin (fishing float) that I plucked right from the water. We were just inside Tian Bay and found it floating in a mat of kelp while we were out in the zodiac. It was covered in brown slime and fresh, tight gooseneck barnacles. It was even topped off with a dried Velella, a blue sailing jelly fish, it was a magnificent find.
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
Port Louis was our furthest destination that summer and it was like finding an oasis in a place that was already paradise. Opting to pass respectfully by Ridall Cove (which is home to another 5 star fishing resort) we went further into Port Louis and once tucked inside found ourselves, for the first time in days; in blissfully still water. We bombed around in the zodiac for day trips exploring old homesteads and cruising far up creeks thoroughly enjoying the knowledge that No Point was safe where we left her.
With a mixture of trepidation and excitement we eventually poked our nose back out into the open to sniff around and start our return trip north. It turned into our favorite day of sailing and rested on the edge of thrilling and terrifying. We were on the way back home in 25 knot winds, (gusting higher) that roared up the coast from the South West. With no other option, we flew fast back toward Langara Island with only the storm jib. We raced along at a steady 9 knots, sometimes surfing down the front of 3 meter waves; our destination actually seeming to speed toward us.
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That may sound awesome or awful depending on your perspective but what we quickly discovered, and what I consider to be the very best kept secret of the West Coast of Haida Gwaii, is that most of the time sailing conditions are perfect. We never had to wait long for the wind to change and carry us where we wanted to go, often sailing in any direction right off the anchor in 15 knots of wind.
Our time on the west side of Haida Gwaii was wonderful and I now believe that everything we'd previously heard about this place was fully the truth.
The wind will suddenly switch direction and the waves are always bigger than predicted. Never have I listened so often and so attentively to the weather reports. I spent more time checking the face of the barometer then I did checking the clock. With the exception of very few places like Port Louis where you can float deep into its sanctum, the "anchorages" leave you utterly exposed to whatever the pacific feels like throwing at you, there is no place to hide.
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters
These are all very good reasons to use extreme caution when you're out on these remote shores, but it is worth the effort, not only is it a wonderland to discover it's also an incredible school. We learned to be comfortable anchoring next to nothing and alone, and we also got to perfect our skills sailing in all kinds of interesting winds and sea conditions. But the best lesson we learned that summer, is that the places that are the most shrouded in mystery are the places most worthy of visiting.
Guy Kimola / Haida Gwaii Photos
Linda Leitch / Blue Sky Charters


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Twist 2: every time you cook you risk your bed catching on fire.
And NYC has jumped the shark anyways.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416429)
Instead, at $930 per month (plus the fact that the listing says no pied-a-terres) you might as well just rent a nicer studio or a bedroom in some condo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416495)
The no pied a terre rule only applies at purchase. Once you are approved there really isn't shit they can do. Or will care to do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416665)
It is absolutely tiny. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36417767)
The kitchen is an old closet.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416455)
Explain for non nycmo(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416501)
"Yeah I'm totally gonna live there full-time."
*shows up whenever the fuck I want*
"Oh sorry I've been traveling a lot"(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416655)
40m to grand central, no city tax (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36416777)
the commute is probably 3 to 4 hours a day for some shitty office job(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36434125)
cost me 1500-1700 though. those fees are insane.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36417832)
not a condo(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36417879)
pretty sure bathrooms on most rv's are bigger than that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36417925)
prewars that have not been renovated are TTT with tiny little rooms (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36434158)
and as an investment property, its not much better. 700/mo in returns is 2.4% a year, and that assumes you rent out at 100% (not going to happen) and that you dont have rent issues with the tenants (more likely with these shit studios).
i just dont get it(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36434234)
friend bought a MFH studio, barely breaking even (maybe made 20K profit) after holding for a few years, after accounting for HOA fees
also studios don't appreciate much and you prob won't even be able to rent it out for your mortgage + HOA fees....(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4024386&forum_id=2#36434261)


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Most of Schneiers criticism actually relates to the sloth they exhibited in adding detection once the threat was exposed, and the fact that they tended just to remove the rootkit, not the unstable DRM components.
There are numerous difficult questions in this scenario. Its easy and cheap to lash out at various industries for not doing better for consumers, but many of the things Schneier and his blog comment writers yell about just couldnt be helped.
The fact remains, and will continue to remain after this, that its not always easy to determine what is a threat and what is legitimate system software performing privileged operations. For instance, FORMAT.EXE can destroy your hard disk, but its not malware. How should an anti-virus program know the difference? The more important fact is that in this case two companies that should be trustworthy, Sony and First 4 Internet, betrayed that trust. This is enough to make a mess of any reasonable security system.
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If this is true, the doctor continues, surely an old, unpatched copy of Internet Explorer qualifies as a threat to be flagged by anti-virus software. After all, it has vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited in the wild.
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So this month I really want to get to some books that I've been meaning to read for a really long while and I'm very happy with my choices for this month because it's pretty much every genre ever within just five books! I'm not really not in the mood for contemporary at the moment (yeah, I know, it's summer aka contemporary season) but I didn't want to completely cut out that genre this month so I chose a couple that looked more interesting than the others I have. Here's my TBR! But first, my TBR challenge for July:
Read a funny book.
Choice: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia (currently reading)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (THG #2)
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At any rate, I forgot to post this yesterday. The 12 Month's of Christmas Link Up challenge #17 went live yesterday. Our theme this month is non-traditional Christmas colors.
Here is a refresher of the basics.
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- Each month there will be an OPTIONAL theme to follow. Anyone who submits a card adhering to the monthly theme, will have the chance to win a prize from that month's guest sponsor.
- Every holiday card you submit to the link up, earns you one chance to win a special digital Christmas kit that will be offered up after the year is complete.
This month's sponsorship is actually a combination of The Stamping Boutiqueand Glitterbabe Stamps (selling out of The Stamping Boutique Store).
And out designer Paper sponsor is Decosse's Dynamite Doodles:
My card for the challenge uses an image from The Stamping Boutique called The Nativity colored with Copic markers.
I made this card 6x6 which is not my usual size card. The base is white card stock with a black card stock background. I used one of the paper patterned set available this month from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.
I used several of the colors and die cut the squares with MFT Inside and Out Stitched Rounded Square Stax. The sentiment is from a retired Gina K stamp set, stamped on vellum and die cut from MFT Pierced Fishtail Flags. I die cut two buttons from MFT Button Quartet and embellished with twine to hide the adhesive holding the sentiment down. The star and the Baby Jesus are popped up from the card.
I hope you will join us this month at the 12 Months of Christmas Link Up, show us your non-traditional colors (or any Christmas card) and get a start on those holiday cards this year.
I am entering these challenges:
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- 52 Christmas Card Throwdown: previous theme, challenge #5 Nativity
- Simon Says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
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The Secrets of Life and Death by Rebecca Alexander0 comments Posted by Ashley at Monday, January 05, 2015
Happy 2015 to everyone! The holidays gave me a much-needed chance to sit down and finally finish reading this book. It's another one I received from Blogging for Books, though, unlike the last one, this is a bit more within the genres I generally enjoy.
I was intrigued by the description on the website which included a mention of Elizabeth Báthory. For those who have never heard of "The Blood Countess" she is said to have brutally tortured and killed hundreds of girls for her own inscrutable reasons (most likely because she was a complete nutter) in the late 1500s / early 1600s. She's one of history's most famous and most bloodthirsty female serial killers. I find her rather fascinating in a morbid way and was excited to see how the author, Rebecca Alexander, would weave her history into this novel.
The narrative switches back and forth between first-person narration in 1585 by Edward Kelly, assistant to Dr. John Dee, and a third-person narrative following the activities of Professor Felix Guichard and Jackdaw Hammond in 2013.
Both sets of people are finding their lives intertwined in somewhat magical activities that extend the "living" existence of the dead. Kelly and Dee are commissioned by the king of Poland to save his dying niece Elizabeth Bathory by whatever means they can, while hundreds of years later Guichard is aiding in the investigation of mysterious deaths of young girls, and Jackdaw is herself a formerly dead person now trying to save the life of another dying girl.
I really liked the idea behind this book. Showing how Bathory became a monster/murderer and linking it to present day events lent intrigue and depth to the story. However, the narratives didn't always mesh well. I would have liked to see a stronger link between them throughout rather than just passing mentions of John Dee and the final Bathory link solidifying at the end. The issue was that the narratives were basically two separate stories. It might have been a stronger novel if, as the present-day characters discovered things about Bathory or about the history of revenants, that Kelly's narrative revealed them at the same time.
Unfortunately, though I found the book interesting, it had what I feel are numerous flaws which detracted from my overall enjoyment of the book. The character development was rather flat and the romance was heavy-handed. A lot of interesting material was hinted at in both narratives but wasn't explored--making it feel like the plot was under-developed. And lastly, a half-cooked attempt to explain how supernatural events are possible was thrown in near the end which really should have been left out. I don't feel that readers need to be walked through how supernatural things are possible--that's the point of them being supernatural.
Ultimately, I felt the novel fell short of what it could have been.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.
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The launch of Ring Festival L.A., which will include a variety of performances, symposiums, concerts, special exhibitions and film screenings, will be formally announced this morning by L.A. Opera General Director Plácido Domingo. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, county Supervisors Gloria Molina and Zev Yaroslavsky and philanthropist Eli Broad, whose $6-million foundation gift is underwriting the "Ring," as well as a number of local arts representatives, are expected to attend.
"I think we are about to build something very exciting," Domingo said. "It will be something quite unique."
The idea for the festival, Domingo said, first took shape in March during a round-table discussion of local arts leaders attended by Domingo, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director Michael Govan, Getty Trust Chief Executive James Wood, Los Angeles Philharmonic President Deborah Borda and Michael Ritchie of Center Theatre Group.
Those institutions will participate, along with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Colburn School, the Griffith Observatory, the Latino Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA and USC, and many others.
Several top local arts administrators expressed enthusiasm for the project, which they compared to the Olympic Arts Festival, an extension of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The $11-million Olympic festival was held at venues ranging from 99-seat theaters to the Rose Bowl and included public art projects such as the commissioning of murals by Frank Romero and Willie Herron. It has been credited with helping promote L.A. as a cultural destination, bringing internationally renowned artists, such as Pina Bausch, to the city and fostering creative collaborations, some of which endure to this day.
It subsequently engendered an offshoot, the Los Angeles Festival, versions of which ran in 1987 (at which Montreal's Cirque du Soleil made its U.S. debut), 1990 and 1993, the last two under the guidance of theater director Peter Sellars.
"With Plácido involved, it will draw attention," Ritchie said of Ring Festival L.A. Although the festival will be smaller in scope, he said, "I think it'll be what the Olympics were like. The city embraced that idea."
The festival will be held April 15 through June 30, 2010. Many details, including budget, activities, venues and cost, remain to be resolved. A calendar of events will be announced in January of that year.
Domingo said that in coming months each of the roughly 50 participating institutions will develop activities that will touch on some aspect of Wagner's artistry or a dimension of the vast conceptual, philosophical and aesthetic universe in which the masterwork orbits.
These might include exhibitions of paintings inspired by Wagner's work, screenings of films that incorporate his music (such as "Apocalypse Now" and "8 1/2 "), displays of his original scores or German cooking demonstrations. Domingo said he hoped Gustavo Dudamel, the L.A. Philharmonic's music director designate, would participate in some capacity.
Festival venues could include some as far south as Orange County, Domingo said, "because we need everybody to be involved."
An initial show of support in the arts community came at the round-table discussion of the state of the arts, organized by the Los Angeles Times, which brought together for the first time the five arts leaders.
Domingo expects to receive financial backing from city and county funding sources. "We are talking," he said. "We cannot go without a little support from them."
Another question mark, he acknowledged, is what effect the emerging global economic downturn will have: "Because there are so many institutions and so many different groups, we hope it will be affordable to everybody."
In a sense, nothing could be more Wagnerian than a large-scale festival inspired by the composer who crafted the notion of a Gesamtkunstwerk, an all-encompassing, cross-disciplinary artwork that would draw on and incorporate elements of theater, music and the visual arts and render them into a unified whole.
Ring Festival L.A. also follows Wagner's lead in conceiving his monumental four-opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" as both a cultural and civic happening. He envisioned his opera as a festival-scale event hosted by the German city of Bayreuth. Bayreuth's annual summer festival dedicated to the composer's legacy has been held since 1876 and continues to draw visitors worldwide.
Staging Wagner's four-part work is itself a daunting challenge. Composed over a 26-year period from 1848 to 1874, the "Ring" cycle -- "Das Rheingold" (The Rhinegold), "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie), "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung" (Twilight of the Gods) -- is loosely based on Norse mythology and encompasses titanic struggles on Earth and in the heavens over three generations. Performed with a huge orchestra, including a massive brass section, it is generally staged over four nights, with a running time of about 15 hours.
The L.A. festival will seek to imitate Bayreuth's example by mounting an international publicity campaign to attract cultural tourism. Although Domingo said that projected attendance is "something we have not calculated yet," he and Broad have discussed how to encourage the millions who annually visit Southern California's major attractions to add a few days to their itinerary to take in festival activities.
As for true Wagner fanatics, for whom "Ring" cycle productions are "like a drug," Domingo said, they're likely to embrace the festival and may travel hundreds or thousands of miles to attend.
"It could be very good for the city if you could get the touring people to stay for a week or more," Domingo said, adding that he thought L.A. eventually might be able to be host to an arts festival as often as "every two or three years," if not annually.
In a phone interview, LACMA's Govan said the festival's creation indicated a burgeoning spirit of cooperation among many of the region's cultural institutions. He said that mutual support also was signaled by the Getty Foundation's announcement last week of a $2.8-million grant-giving initiative, "Pacific Standard Time." The initiative will underwrite a series of concurrent exhibitions at Southern California museums showcasing the post-World War II Los Angeles art scene.
"There is a kind of coming of age in Los Angeles in terms of the cultural institutions," Govan said. "I think there is a general feeling that we're now speaking in a more international way, at a different level."
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This week I'm all about loving the muse.
It's like any important relationship I think. We have our times of stunning immersion, wild fire creating, where we burn through the night in a blaze of words and artistic revelation and know the power of devotion to doing the work. And we have moments of tension, of wondering when we will find one another again, of not being able to locate the places and spaces where we might connect and make meaning and love, and so we both start blaming one another and then go take some space and remember. And then the most amazing thing happens. We show up. Again and again and again, we show up. And I remember all over again why it is one of the longest and most beautiful love relationships I have ever known and will ever have.
The muse can mean many things for people. It can be part inspiration, part real life or imagined person, part relationship with our creativity as a life force, part love of living with its endless wonder. It is what lights us up, and turns us on, and makes us work harder than we thought possible, and shows us the way not all at once but step by step. Maybe this is why we fall in love.
My own muse happens to look a whole lot Eddie Izzard wearing eyeliner. He sits there smoking a cigarette in a chair close to mine, and he smells like red vines and absinthe and old paper in old libraries, and when I get stuck and impatient, he says inappropriate things and reminds me of what matters and then we're back into the hum of the typewriter and the words and the smoke and melting ice cubes, and I wouldn't want to write anything without him there.
He/she shows up. I show up. And we fight and fall in love and somehow words happen. Writing happens. Art happens. Life happens. And over the years, I've learned a little bit about how to court the muse, call out to the muse, set things up so as to make it a welcome space, and we teach each other about trust.
Loving the muse
1. Love the curiosity.
The things that keep showing up in your sleep thinking and your day dreams. The way certain colors call out to you, and how you can't hear the sounds of trains without wanting to tell stories, and the flight pattern of birds in migration, and the need to know what crossed wires mean and what happens when there is no more water and what shapes shells make when they are spilling secret messages. Love the obsessions and the compulsions of following the trail of endless fascination. Love the pieces that don't connect but still appear and reappear, because it is you. You are the connection, the lines that moves from one thing to the next, mending isolation into art. Love that which will not leave you alone, and that which speaks your name, and that which feels as old and new as your own breath pulsing in and out.
2. Love the world.
Go outside. Get up from the desk or the bed or the oh so comfortable couch or the work room. For just an hour or a day or a week or sometimes three years if you are lucky, leave behind what it is you do and create, and go be in the world. Fall in love with the world. Change the world. Embrace the world. Let it run over you like water and let it burn you up like desperate destruction and let it sing you to sleep while you stare at mountains and say unorthodox prayers in the hospital room where you remember again that you have her hands. See things. Taste things. Listen. Try things out without the expectation of mastery or success or achievement by someone else's standards. Just try things. See how it feels to know and not know. Fall asleep in a different bed and climb trees and pour rose water over your wounds. Eat by the ocean and watch your skin find its home and go learn everything you can about botany and about hummingbirds and about labor rights. Get up. Go outside. The world is a waiting lover. And the muse speaks the language of the living.
3. Love the revelation.
Be bare. Allow yourself to slip outside of perceptions and assumptions and all those things you've always told yourself about who you can and cannot be and do and love. Risk being smashed and risk being whole. Let yourself be moved, be affected, be human, be touchable, be hurt, be healed, be split open with wonder and be stitched together with the stream of smoke that spills from the muse's mouth as you write late into the night, the room still smelling like violets. The muse has a hard time getting in with all that armor and need to be cool and work to be right. So be bare, and let it change you.
4. Love the work. Show up. We have to show up if we want to invite the muse in, make a seat for him at the table, ask for her offerings at our altar. We have to show up and do the work. We have to show up and sit at an empty page and write anyway. We have to make art and not know where it is going or what comes next or why. We have to have imaginary conversations that call in the wisdom of our own innate knowing and set us free. We have to show up and let it unfold and unfurl. We have to show up and stay with ourselves, and trust that the muse is not a demanding tyrant insisting on standards of perfection, but is our own great guide. And when we show up, the muse will too, storming in while the heat lightening glows in dark sky, and whispering wisdoms in the shapes sheets make when tossed aside after waking, and reminding you that it is simply one word after the next and here you are, creating. So show up. Write the muse, your muse, a love letter. Tell him what you always wanted. Ask her to leave you alone and never leave you. Remember what it was like when you first met. Tell each other everything. Say I love you. I love you. I love you.
Isabel Abbott is a writer and activist; embodiment artist and speaker; and a doula in birth and death and love of life. Her doors are open to sanctuary and raw reality and creative liberation at www.isabelabbott.com, where she leads courses on writing, the body and desire. She writes regularly at www.listsandletters.com.


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Dear future self,
Greetings from the past!
Firstly, Go get yourself a warm gallon of coffee as it makes you happy. This is a future letter kind of thing so yeah if you have a boyfriend already, Forget about the coffee then. You guys are probably enjoying Maldives over cocktails by now. Please go hug him and tell him you love him.
You were a mess but I'm glad you were able to stand up and fight back. The past years were as tough as an Iraq battle. It wasn't easy and I hope you were able to learn from those stupid and selfish mistakes. Leave everything behind and move on. Just remember, be more with less. Do something. Be something. I hope you are a one full grown woman now. Someone independent and someone amazing. A wicked cool woman at 28! How does 28(or 2018 for that matter) feeel?
Don't forget who you are. You want to travel. a lot. keep going. Have you been to Paris and kiss under the Eiffel tower? How bout shopping escapade in Bangkok? White Christmas somewhere winter-y? Its a big world out there. There's so much to discover. Never hide your self from the world. Don't just exist. LIVE.
Surround your self with positive people. Keep your family. Cherish your friends.
This feels so weird, terrifying and Im getting confused but you get my point. Can I just end this letter this way?
The journey will always gonna be amazing. Enjoy and Carpe effin diem.
and oh do you still enjoy your coffee with honey?
Loving you always,
Shugah from the past.
delete delete delete delete delete... I'm such one melodramatic lady. I wrote this last night. You see what coffee and tea does to me? I wish I write better so I can start filling that midnight drama series. that might hit. Sadly, no matter how I try and be profound I always fail. I'm not a writer and I just blab. I do that every single day. sweet sweet sweeet jesus! I know what to avoid now, coffee at twelve midnight and this online journal. I suck. I know. Gotta keep calm and la di da! I had kind of a rough morning so I'm posting this shit anyway.
ps: I'm not bipolar.
sending you my virtual x's and o's from the present!
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President Barack Obama's decision to commute the sentence of one of America's most notorious document leakers represents a major contradiction from a White House that has spent the past eight years denouncing leaks, CNN's Jake Tapper noted Tuesday night.
Chelsea Manning, known then as Army Pvt. Bradley Manning leaked 750,000 pages of documents to WikiLeaks, which it published in 2010. The information included details of how American action in Iraq caused civilian deaths, as well as the names of individuals working with American forces in Afghanistan. Back in 2012, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
Tapper said Obama's action to commute Manning's sentence contradicted everything the White House has said and done for the past eight years.
"President Obama has used the Espionage [Act] to go after leakers, more than every other president in history, combined," Tapper said. "This has been a hallmark of his administration. It's something that a lot of us in the media have objected to time and time again. And here he is, commuting the sentence of one of the most notorious leakers."
"You could argue that Chelsea Manning did it for a good reason, to expose war crimes, or whatever case you want to make. But, it certainly contradicts the last eight years of policy in terms of leaking," he said
Tapper read a statement from Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
"When I was leading soldiers in Afghanistan, Private Manning was undermining us by leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks," Cotton said in the statement.
"I don't understand why the president would feel special compassion for someone who endangered the lives of our troops, diplomats, intelligence officers, and allies. We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr," Cotton said.
Tapper said that Cotton's statement "is how the White House, when I was White House correspondent, described Private Manning as well."
"They were furious. They were outraged. They could — they thought that those of us in the press who were reading these WikiLeaks, that we were doing something wrong by reading them," he said.
Although information Manning leaked exposed at least one atrocity, Tapper said what Manning did more than anything else was leak information on a scale no one imagined until then.
"… there were incidents, we should point out, there was an incident with the helicopter in Iraq, the first WikiLeak that came from Chelsea Manning, that seemed to suggest that the U.S. military had killed some innocent civilians. I do remember that, but it was I think the widespread, whole scale nature of this leak that was so shocking."
Manning will be freed on May 17.
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Business Spotlight: A Taste of Rubies for your holiday season
by: ellis j. still
Last year for thanksgiving, my wife and I did something a little different… we went to the Pocono Mountains for Thanksgiving (see previous post). The day before we left, I was on my lunch break at work, and went to Dario's for lunch (Dario's has the absolute best Texas Burrito with hot sauce) and Ruby Wesley from A Taste of Rubies was there taking holiday orders and selling various types of cheesecakes. My wife loves strawberry cheesecake, a long time signature cheesecake at A Taste of Rubies, and Ruby happened to have some on hand. I had not planned on buying any, but having tasted Rubies cheesecakes before, it sparked an idea that provided for an extra memorable Thanksgiving vacation with my wife :- )
A Taste of Rubies arguably is the best cheesecake around. The recipe for Ruby's mother's family staple Strawberry cheesecake was handed down to her, and an expansion of flavors and types based on the original recipe came soon after. Their company motto is:
"At A Taste of Rubies, we believe in exemplifying a spirit of Excellence throughout every aspect of the business. We've set these standards to ensure that we put our best foot forward from the making of the cakes to the selling of the cakes. It is our goal that our customers not just experience excellence after tasting one of our cakes, but experience great customer service as well."
A Taste of Rubies in not confined to New Jersey, but delivers to all parts of the country. However, they do have specific delivery instructions due to dealing with perishables. They are well known in the community by way of catering events for corporate entities, churches, and community events, and also has a line of bite-sized products in addition to their full-fledged cakes.
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Question: So, during this holiday season, there will be turkey, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, and countless types of other foods to experience. Why not make it extra special this year with A Taste Of Rubies?
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A correction has been made in this story. See below for details.YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) -- What happens when AT&T no longer has exclusive rights to Apple's iPhone? Well, it seems to be preparing for that day by creating branded apps as one of the ways for its estimated 15 million iPhone customers to remain with the carrier rather than switch.
AT&T currently has about 20 iPhone apps, but thousands more of its own and third-party developers in its AT&T Media Mall. Among the utility apps -- ones that track minutes, and network-specific apps that track family members -- are less expected local apps built around its Yellow Pages ownership, including Have2Eat, Have2Drink and Have2P; entertainment apps such as a 2010 Olympics information and entertainment app; and even a banking app, Mobile Banking on AT&T, that aggregates and helps customers manage bank, credit union, and credit-card accounts.
"I think we're all seeing the writing on the wall that eventually someone else is going to have the iPhone too, but if AT&T has five or six apps that a customer really likes and those are only with AT&T, it will at least give them pause when thinking about switching to another carrier," said In-Stat analyst Frank Dickson. "Customized apps that you use every day create stickiness. Customers don't know what 4G is or what those coverage maps really mean, but they do know they've got three apps that they use every day and they know they want to keep those."
Mark Collins, senior VP-data and voice products, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, said AT&T is focused on building apps across all phone makers' platforms that bring value and help minimize churn. He said that when an AT&T customer stores its social networks, photos and videos on AT&T and uses, for instance, its "Family Map" app that locates phones on the same plan, "they're much more likely to stay with us."
Some may not seem like a logical fit at first, but Mr. Collins said apps like banking fall into a category of a "few that really matter" when it comes to serving customer needs.
"This is a whole new area for carriers. AT&T and Verizon, and Sprint as well, are the gatekeepers. They're the ones who allow two parties to talk whether that's two friends, or a customer to a bank, or a doctor to a patient," said wireless analyst and consultant Jeff Kagan. "We're in the first few quarters of what will be the next 10 or 20 years of apps. ... AT&T needs to be perceived as a leader in the smartphone space and in the app world."
And customers do still turn to carriers for apps, in spite of the buzz around online shops such as the App Store and Android Market Store. A recent Nielsen App Playbook survey found that more than half of all app users downloaded through carrier app stores. However, the Apple App Store still led the competition with 25% of those surveyed using it; followed by the BlackBerry App World at 16% and then the carriers: Verizon's Application Store at 15%; AT&T's store at 12%; Sprint at 10% and T-Mobile at 8%.
Of course, for now, AT&T has a unique advantage. "You won't see T-Mobile, Verizon or Sprint on the Apple App Store, because everyone that has an iPhone is an AT&T customer," said Peter Farago, VP-marketing at Flurry.
Indeed, Mr. Collins said AT&T will create more apps for iPhone, providing they make sense and create value for its customers. "None of the carriers have indicated that they really want to get into the app business -- yet. Five years from now, that may be different," Mr. Kagan said.
But no matter how many iPhone apps AT&T eventually churns out, careful vetting will be needed. "With AT&T, the qualities of the brand are reliability, quality of service and connecting people, but they're not really known for being cool or having cool fun games, so it could become a brand issue. You have to stay true to your brand," said Julie Ask, analyst at Forrester Research.
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Correction: This story incorrectly stated that there are 100 million AT&T iPhone customers. Analysts have predicted that 100 million iPhone devices will be sold by 2011, the year it is expected the AT&T iPhone exclusivity will end. However, there is no direct connection between iPhone units sold and the number of AT&T accounts. AT&T does not release the number of its customers who use iPhones. Outside analyst estimates put the current number of AT&T customers using an iPhone at around 15 million.


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REV, the City of Birmingham, and the Regional Planning Commission of Birmingham have partnered to launch a local BikeShare program, the first electric-assist system in North America, in the Fall of 2015. The system will include 400 bikes and 40 docking kiosks deployed in the City Center. Riders will be able to check out bikes for short rides through annual memberships or by swiping a credit card. Of the 400 bikes, 100 will be electric- pedal assist bikes, which will give riders a boost along Birmingham's often challenging terrain.
"BikeShare is another forward thinking program we're implementing in our forward-thinking city," says Mayor William A. Bell, Sr. "It will be provide a great transportation option for our citizens, and for visitors here on business, pleasure, or for the upcoming World Games." The City of Birmingham made the purchase of the equipment possible by pledging a match to federal funding, which was secured by the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham through the Metropolitan Planning Commission.
The Quebec- based organization Bewegen, from whom we are purchasing the bikes, has committed to manufacturing the 40 BikeShare kiosks in Alabama and plans to manufacture kiosks for future US systems here as well. Sponsor announcements are expected soon and demonstration bikes will be on the ground later this spring along with a BikeShare website and mobile application this summer!
The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham will fund startup operations and site planning work. "We're excited that we had the opportunity to be involved with idea of BikeShare from the beginning and thanks to our donors and community partners we're able to see it become a reality," said Gus Heard-Hughes, Senior Program Officer at the Community Foundation. "This is a flexible, affordable transportation option that will help visitors and residents easily connect with Birmingham's assets and contribute to the growing vibrancy of our city-center."
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