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Like 1989
Posted by R. Berg on May 09, 2007
In Reply to: Like 1989 posted by Bob on May 09, 2007
: : I would like to know if anyone can help me to figure out the meaning of the phrase: "look like 1989".
: : Context: It 's a tv program about fashion and the presenter says: "Ladies, tired of looking like 1989?"
: : In the program the guests will go through a series of fashion transformations.
: It's quite literal. Fashion has changed and if you still look like you did almost 20 years ago, you're in need of a transformation.
Oh? I need a transformation because I *don't* look like I did 20 years ago. ~rb


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This article could easily be subtitled "It's a funny old game", or, with tongue firmly in cheek, "With great power comes great responsibility".
There are three extant schools, when it comes to writing about tea, which I present to you without judgement.
The first school of thought is that embodied by Mr. Fisher's recent book, The Way of Tea. If you write about it, you kill it. Tea should be enjoyed without attempting to record it, without attempting to file it away in a dusty book, without attempting to impose our thoughts on it. If you write, you have missed the moment, and you therefore suck.
The second school of thought is that of many writers: the goal is to communicate. Perhaps with like-minded souls, perhaps with ourselves. Plenty of tea-bloggers fall into this category.
The third school of thought is embodied by the Joshu-like sound, "meh". You people have too much time on your hands, and over-think everything. Do what you will.
I have sympathies with all three schools.
Some days, I find myself in the first school: I sit up-right at my tea-table, my pen stays in its holder, my diary stays closed. I am fixed entirely on the current moment, and it feels most natural simply to do. Boil, pour, brush, drink. On such days, writing seems like a distraction.
Other days, I find myself in the second school: I write because I must. Writing is as natural to me as doodling sketches on paper is to the artist, or as tinkling out new tunes is to the musician. I've been writing for so long, in so many ways, that I even find myself getting a little edgy if I am far from my diary or logbooks. I feel naked without them. Ultimately, I write for myself. Some of my writings make it onto this frivolous little web-site, because, as with most tea-writers, I like to communicate with like-minded souls. As MarshalN so wisely once wrote, it is like a constant [distributed] tea-session between writers and readers.
Occasionally, I find myself in the third school: we are tidal creatures, and enthusiasm naturally waxes and wanes. When waxing, I write more, as a natural consequence; when waning, I don't try to force it. Easy come, easy go.
I find it hard to tell people what they should or should not be doing. To do so suggests that we know best, and I am not convinced that we do - in fact, it is hard enough to know what is best for oneself, let alone what is best for others. Zen teachers are very particular on this point. One is just as likely to get a kwatz [sharp strike] with a staff rather than wordy guidance. There's nothing to help opening one's eyes to the present as a good, unexpected smack around the shoulders, or a slap across the cheeks.
Sitting with students in tutorials, I have come to the same conclusion (usually, without the sudden episodes of violence). I can tell them what worked for me, I can point out strategies and tactics that have worked for others in the past, but, ultimately, I can only provide guidance. To do otherwise is presumptuous at best, whereby we force our opinions on others, and dangerous at worst, whereby our proposals may be entirely wrong for the individual.
Therefore, to recommend that we must treat every tea-session as a meditation, sat in quietude, and with a still pen, is to miss the point, I believe. There is as much "Zen" in the writing of a diary as there is in sitting up-right at one's tea-table. Try telling Basho not to write about his banana tree, or Buson not to sketch that dragonfly.
So, the best advice I can offer is, as always: go with what works for you.
Finding out what works for you is very hard. Writing about tea, indeed drinking tea itself, is a good method of exploring your own character.
Is tea just another passing interest in your life? A distraction? I have been through many such distractions myself. Perhaps, like me, you have thrown yourself into something, learned all there is to know about it, collected and purchased and practised it. Then, you reach a key point, when there is nothing more to learn, you believe. Nothing more to buy, nothing new to discover, no new thrills. Then, it is onto the next distraction. And so on, year after year, distraction after distraction.
Young people are like this. I write this as a crusty old fool who has passed his thirtieth birthday. Suzuki wrote, "If you are young, don't try too hard [at Zen practice]. A few minutes per day is enough. Don't overdo it, otherwise you will tire of it."
Tea can be like this. The tea blogs come and go, often starting in a blaze of enthusiasm, with the fire and passion of a young person seeking for something, trying hard to know all there is to know. I look down my list of old tea-blogs with wistful memories, remembering some excellent writers who have since tired and moved onto their next Big Thing. Sometimes it is because of the pressures of life (Phyll Sheng, come back to us!), more often, it is because tea has been "exhausted", and new thrills must be sought.
I write this without any judgement about good and bad. As I said above, I write this as someone who knows exactly what this is like, because I have done it many times throughout my life. It is a natural process.
A natural process
Ultimately, though, perhaps something sticks. Something gets under the skin. Something becomes a part of one's life, and not a mere distraction. The great forces in my life all started as a mad, passionate distraction. Those that remain with me are the ones that stuck - the aspects that I found somehow valuable, compatible with my life and outlook, useful to my daily round.
I found that this filtering effect becomes sharply focussed as the responsibilities of life increase. As an undergrad, I tried it all, and cared little about anything in particular. I loved everything, and, consequently, loved nothing.
As a graduate, my responsibilities increased, my time became more limited, and I kept mostly those things that were valuable to me. I still had a little time for passionate explorations that could be wildly abandoned, but it was lessened.
As a post-graduate, and lately a father, I have almost no time for such things. Family, housework, deadlines, my own students, projects - as the responsibilities increase, so the filtering effect becomes more focussed, and more obvious. The things that have stayed with me are those that remain essential to me. I began to see a common thread running through them all, something underneath that made them all valuable.
As a graduate, my responsibilities increased, my time became more limited, and I kept mostly those things that were valuable to me. I still had a little time for passionate explorations that could be wildly abandoned, but it was lessened.
As a post-graduate, and lately a father, I have almost no time for such things. Family, housework, deadlines, my own students, projects - as the responsibilities increase, so the filtering effect becomes more focussed, and more obvious. The things that have stayed with me are those that remain essential to me. I began to see a common thread running through them all, something underneath that made them all valuable.
Therefore, my advice: go with what works for you. If you have a passionate, compulsive personality (as I have), then my tentative advice would be not to go crazy. Listen to Suzuki, and take it easy. I would not buy every cake out there, and not try to learn all the single mountains immediately. I would not try to remember names and dates and recipes. Just drift through it, enjoy it, and maybe it will stick.
Certainly, my gentle advice would be: don't try to force yourself to write. When I started out the ol' Half-Dipper, I was intent on regular publication. This was not a good idea. Generally speaking, if you find yourself feeling burdened by your hobby, then something may need adjustment. The only person who knows this is you.
Good luck with your drinking! If we're all still here in another five years' time, then we can raise a slightly-matured toast to our continued mutual progress.

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A few weeks ago I questioned the value of a semester-long course on trend technologies along the lines of web 2.0 applications. I appreciated the comments to this post. ACRLog readers shared the value they received from LIS technology courses. More than a few people acknowledged the importance of technology courses for LIS students but made distinctions about the nature of the technology taught in those courses. Now what about LIS academic librarianship courses? Hopefully we all are in agreement that a course in academic librarianship is important for a future academic librarian.
I struggle with deciding what to include in the academic librarianship course I teach. At the Drexel LIS program the courses are only 10 weeks long (they are on the quarter system), so with a limited timeframe the content must be carefully selected. Though human resource management, budgeting and other administrative subjects are valuable to cover I find them necessary to skip; there just isn't sufficient time. I think it's more essential to focus on the critical subject areas my students will be likely to encounter as entry-level librarians. From my perspective, becoming well versed in the structure and operations of a higher education institution is critical; you need to understand the industry not just the library. To contribute to their employment prospects I also equip them to knowledgeably discuss the issues of the day.
Major topics covered in my course, and other academic library courses I've looked at, include higher education history, organizations and key concepts, library organizational structure, accreditation, tenure status, public services, technical services, information literacy, instruction, e-resource management, collection management, scholarly communications, library as place, community colleges, academic library futures, and then a variety of "hot" topics are scattered throughout and one session is devoted to the latest issues. That sounds like a good amount of content but I don't doubt some important topics are missed. The overall goal is to prepare the student for the academic library setting, with the ability to keep learning as they enter that environment (thus additional attention is paid to "keeping up" in higher education and academic librarianship).
But I'd like to know what you think are the most important topics to cover in an academic library course. I've prepared a brief survey for those who'd like to share their priorities. There are four questions. The first two are simple background information queries. The third question asks you to rate 30 topics/activities as either essential, important, marginal or unnecessary. With the fourth open-ended question you can add additional topics that you think are important. I hope you will take a few moments to complete the survey. I'll report the results in a week or two.


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Suppose you are sitting in a coffee shop working on your book. J. Chris comes over and tells you about his new phone. The new phone came with a new number, and you have J. Chris dictate it while you change it using your laptop's address book application.
Luckily, your address book is built on CouchDB, so when you come home, all you need to do to get your home computer up-to-date with J. Chris's number is replicate your address book from your laptop. Neat, eh? What's more, CouchDB has a mechanism to maintain continuous replication, so you can keep a whole set of computers in sync with the same data, whenever a network connection is available.
Let's change the scenario a little bit. Since J. Chris didn't anticipate meeting you at the coffee shop, he also sent you an email with the new number. At the time you weren't using WiFi because you wanted to concentrate on your work, so you didn't read his email until you got home. But it was a long day and by then you had forgotten that you changed the number in the address book on your laptop. When you read the email at home, you simply copy-and-pasted the number into the address book on your home computer. Now—and here's the twist—it turns out you entered the wrong number in your laptop's address book.
You now have a document in each of the databases that has different information. This situation is called a conflict. Conflicts occur in distributed systems. They are a natural state of your data. How does CouchDB's replication system deal with conflicts?
When you replicate two databases in CouchDB and you have conflicting changes, CouchDB will detect this and will flag the affected document with the special attribute "_conflicts":true
. Next, CouchDB determines which of the changes will be stored as the latest revision (remember, documents in CouchDB are versioned). The version that gets picked to be the latest revision is the winning revision. The losing revision gets stored as the previous revision.
CouchDB does not attempt to merge the conflicting revision. Your application dictates how the merging should be done. The choice of picking the winning revision is arbitrary. In the case of the phone number, there is no way for a computer to decide on the right revision. This is not specific to CouchDB; no other software can do this (ever had your phone's sync-contacts tool ask you which contact from which source to take?).
Replication guarantees that conflicts are detected and that each instance of CouchDB makes the same choice regarding winners and losers, independent of all the other instances. There is no group decision made; instead, a deterministic algorithm determines the order of the conflicting revision. After replication, all instances taking part have the same data. The data set is said to be in a consistent state. If you ask any instance for a document, you will get the same answer regardless which one you ask.
Whether or not CouchDB picked the version that your application needs, you need to go and resolve the conflict, just as you need to resolve a conflict in a version control system like Subversion. Simply create a version that you want to be the latest by either picking the latest, or the previous, or both (by merging them) and save it as the now latest revision. Done. Replicate again and your resolution will populate over to all other instances of CouchDB. Your conflict resolving on one node could lead to further conflicts, all of which will need to be addressed, but eventually, you will end up with a conflict-free database on all nodes.
This is an interesting conflicts scenario in that we helped a BBC build a solution for it that is now in production. The basic setup is this: to guarantee that the company's website is online 24/7, even in the event of the loss of a data center, it has multiple data centers backing up the website. The "loss" of a data center is a rare occasion, but it can be as simple as a network outage, where the data center is still alive and well but can't be reached by anyone.
The "split brain" scenario is where two (for simplicity's sake we'll stick to two) data centers are up and well connected to end users, but the connection between the data centers—which is most likely not the same connection that end users use to talk to the computers in the data center—fails.
The inter data center connection is used to keep both centers in sync so that either one can take over for the other in case of a failure. If that link goes down, you end up with two halves of a system that act independently—the split brain.
As long as all end users can get to their data, the split brain is not scary. Resolving the split brain situation by bringing up the connection that links the data centers and starting synchronization again is where it gets hairy. Arbitrary conflict resolution, like CouchDB does by default, can lead to unwanted effects on the user's side. Data could revert to an earlier stage and leave the impression that changes weren't reliably saved, when in fact they were.
Let's go through an illustrated example of how conflicts emerge and how to solve them in super slow motion. Figure 1, "Conflict management by example: step 1" illustrates the basic setup: we have two CouchDB databases, and we are replicating from database A to database B. To keep this simple, we assume triggered replication and not continuous replication, and we don't replicate back from database B to A. All other replication scenarios can be reduced to this setup, so this explains everything we need to know.
We start out by creating a document in database A (Figure 2, "Conflict management by example: step 2"). Note the clever use of imagery to identify a specific revision of a document. Since we are not using continuous replication, database B won't know about the new document for now.
We now trigger replication and tell it to use database A as the source and database B as the target (Figure 3, "Conflict management by example: step 3"). Our document gets copied over to database B. To be precise, the latest revision of our document gets copied over.
Now we go to database B and update the document (Figure 4, "Conflict management by example: step 4"). We change some values and upon change, CouchDB generates a new revision for us. Note that this revision has a new image. Node A is ignorant of any activity.
Now we make a change to our document in database A by changing some other values (Figure 5, "Conflict management by example: step 5"). See how it makes a different image for us to see the difference? It is important to note that this is still the same document. It's just that there are two different revisions of that same document in each database.
Now we trigger replication again from database A to database B as before (Figure 6, "Conflict management by example: step 6"). By the way, it doesn't make a difference if the two databases live in the same CouchDB server or on different servers connected over a network.
When replicating, CouchDB detects that there are two different revisions for the same document, and it creates a conflict (Figure 7, "Conflict management by example: step 7"). A document conflict means that there are now two latest revisions for this document.
Finally, we tell CouchDB which version we would like to be the latest revision by resolving the conflict (Figure 8, "Conflict management by example: step 8"). Now both databases have the same data.
Other possible outcomes include choosing the other revision and replicating that decision back to database A, or creating yet another revision in database B that includes parts of both conflicting revisions (a merge) and replicating that back to database A.
Now that we've walked through replication with pretty pictures, let's get our hands dirty and see what the API calls and responses for this and other scenarios look like. We'll be continuing Chapter 4, The Core API by using curl
on the command line to make raw API requests.
First, we create two databases that we can use for replication. These live on the same CouchDB instance, but they might as well live on a remote instance—CouchDB doesn't care. To save us some typing, we create a shell variable for our CouchDB base URL that we want to talk to. We then create two databases, db
and db-replica
HOST="http://127.0.0.1:5984" > curl -X PUT $HOST/db {"ok":true} > curl -X PUT $HOST/db-replica {"ok":true}
In the next step, we create a simple document {"count":1}
in db
and trigger replication to db-replica
> curl -X PUT $HOST/db/foo -d '{"count":1}' {"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"1-74620ecf527d29daaab9c2b465fbce66"} > curl -X POST $HOST/_replicate -d '{"source":"db","target":"http://127.0.0.1:5984/db-replica"}' {"ok":true,...,"docs_written":1,"doc_write_failures":0}]} -H "Content-Type: application/json"
We skip a bit of the output of the replication session (see Chapter 16, Replication for details). If you see "docs_written":1
and "doc_write_failures":0
, our document made it over to db-replica
. We now update the document to {"count":2}
in db-replica
. Note that we now need to include the correct _rev
> curl -X PUT $HOST/db-replica/foo -d '{"count":2,"_rev":"1-74620ecf527d29daaab9c2b465fbce66"}' {"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"2-de0ea16f8621cbac506d23a0fbbde08a"}
Next, we create the conflict! We change our document on db
to {"count":3}
. Our document is now logically in conflict, but CouchDB doesn't know about it until we replicate again:
> curl -X PUT $HOST/db/foo -d '{"count":3,"_rev":"1-74620ecf527d29daaab9c2b465fbce66"}' {"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"2-7c971bb974251ae8541b8fe045964219"} > curl -X POST $HOST/_replicate -d '{"source":"db","target":"http://127.0.0.1:5984/db-replica"}' {"ok":true,..."docs_written":1,"doc_write_failures":0}]} -H "Content-Type: application/json"
To see that we have a conflict, we create a simple view in db-replica
. The map function looks like this:
function(doc) { if(doc._conflicts) { emit(doc._conflicts, null); } }
When we query this view, we get this result:
{"total_rows":1,"offset":0,"rows":[ {"id":"foo","key":["2-7c971bb974251ae8541b8fe045964219"],"value":null} ]}
The key
here corresponds to the doc._conflicts
property of our document in db-replica
. It is an array listing all conflicting revisions. We see that the revision we wrote on db
) is in conflict. CouchDB's automatic promotion of one revision to be the winning revision chose our first change ({"count":2}
). To verify that, we just request that document from db-replica
> curl -X GET $HOST/db-replica/foo {"_id":"foo","_rev":"2-de0ea16f8621cbac506d23a0fbbde08a","count":2}
To resolve the conflict, we need to determine which one we want to keep.
How Does CouchDB Decide Which Revision to Use?
CouchDB guarantees that each instance that sees the same conflict comes up with the same winning and losing revisions. It does so by running a deterministic algorithm to pick the winner. The application should not rely on the details of this algorithm and must always resolve conflicts. We'll tell you how it works anyway.
Each revision includes a list of previous revisions. The revision with the longest revision history list becomes the winning revision. If they are the same, the _rev
values are compared in ASCII sort order, and the highest wins. So, in our example, 2-de0ea16f8621cbac506d23a0fbbde08a
beats 2-7c971bb974251ae8541b8fe045964219
One advantage of this algorithm is that CouchDB nodes do not have to talk to each other to agree on winning revisions. We already learned that the network is prone to errors and avoiding it for conflict resolution makes CouchDB very robust.
Let's say we want to keep the highest value. This means we don't agree with CouchDB's automatic choice. To do this, we first overwrite the target document with our value and then simply delete the revision we don't like:
> curl -X DELETE $HOST/db-replica/foo?rev=2-de0ea16f8621cbac506d23a0fbbde08a {"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"3-bfe83a296b0445c4d526ef35ef62ac14"} > curl -X PUT $HOST/db-replica/foo -d '{"count":3,"_rev":"2-7c971bb974251ae8541b8fe045964219"}' {"ok":true,"id":"foo","rev":"3-5d0319b075a21b095719bc561def7122"}
CouchDB creates yet another revision that reflects our decision. Note that the 3-
didn't get incremented this time. We didn't create a new version of the document body; we just deleted a conflicting revision. To see that all is well, we check whether our revision ended up in the document.
> curl -X GET $HOST/db-replica/foo {"_id":"foo","_rev":"3-5d0319b075a21b095719bc561def7122","count":3}
We also verify that our document is no longer in conflict by querying our conflicts view again, and we see that there are no more conflicts:
{"total_rows":0,"offset":0,"rows":[ ]}
Finally, we replicate from db-replica
back to db
by simply swapping source
and target
in our request to _replicate
> curl -X POST $HOST/_replicate -d '{"target":"db","source":"http://127.0.0.1:5984/db-replica"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
We see that our revision ends up in db
, too:
> curl -X GET $HOST/db/foo {"_id":"foo","_rev":"3-5d0319b075a21b095719bc561def7122","count":3}
And we're done.
Let's have a look at this revision ID: 3-5d0319b075a21b095719bc561def7122
. Parts of the format might look familiar. The first part is an integer followed by a dash (3-
). The integer increments for each new revision the document receives. Updates to the same document on multiple instances create their own independent increments. When replicating, CouchDB knows that there are two different revisions (like in our previous example) by looking at the second part.
The second part is an md5-hash over a set of document properties: the JSON body, the attachments, and the _deleted
flag. This allows CouchDB to save on replication time in case you make the same change to the same document on two instances. Earlier versions (0.9 and back) used random integers to specify revisions, and making the same change on two instances would result in two different revision IDs, creating a conflict where it was not really necessary. CouchDB 0.10 and above uses deterministic revision IDs using the md5 hash.
For example, let's create two documents, a
and b
, with the same contents:
> curl -X PUT $HOST/db/a -d '{"a":1}' {"ok":true,"id":"a","rev":"1-23202479633c2b380f79507a776743d5"} > curl -X PUT $HOST/db/b -d '{"a":1}' {"ok":true,"id":"b","rev":"1-23202479633c2b380f79507a776743d5"}
Both revision IDs are the same, a consequence of the deterministic algorithm used by CouchDB.
This concludes our tour of the conflict management system. You should now be able to create distributed setups that deal with conflicts in a proper way.


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- September 15, 2022
Preparation for Greatness
- by: Os Hillman
- June 1, 2024
"He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze." – 2 Samuel 22:35
David was a mighty warrior, and God described him as a man after His own heart. God took David through a training ground that could be looked on as cruel and unusual punishment by many a person.
God chose him at a young age to be the next king, yet King Saul rejected him and hunted him down. David was a fugitive for many years. He had uprisings in his own family, and he had relationship problems. He had a life of extreme ups and downs. He certainly did not have a life free of problems; he made mistakes. He was human like all of us, yet he learned from his mistakes and repented when he failed. This was David's training ground; it made the man. Without these hardships, it is doubtful David would have accomplished what he did.
Toward the end of David's life, he recounted his relationship with God. It is a sermon on God's ways of dealing with a servant leader.
It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; He enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You give me Your shield of victory; You stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn (2 Samuel 22:33-37).
God was David's source for everything. God gave him the ability to achieve the many extraordinary things in his life. It was a lifelong training ground that moved him from one plateau to another, often dropping into a ravine of despair and hopelessness from time to time. These are God's ways. They drive us deeper and deeper into the heart of Him who has prepared a way for us. Let God take you to the heights or depths He desires for you. He never promised smooth sailing during the trip, but He did promise to be the captain and companion along the way.
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[edit]- Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
- Sappho, act 1, sc. 5 (1818).
- Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
- Notebooks and Diaries (1820).
- I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
- On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment, from Notebooks and Diaries (1836).
- When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental—far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.
- Libussa, act 1 (1848).
- I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
- Libussa, act 2 (1848).
- Die Irreligiösen sind religiöser als sie selbst wissen, und die Religiösen sind's weniger, als sie meinen.
- Translation: The irreligious are more religious than they themselves know, and the religious are less so than they think.
- Aphorism (1857), in Studien zur Philosophie und Religion. Historische und politische Studien. Hamburg: Tredition, 2011, p. 32. ISBN 978-3-8424-1558-4.


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It's messy enough when a mortal couple gets divorced, but when it's a wealthy celebrity pair like Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries, things get even more complicated.
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Now sources close to the couple say a clause in their prenuptial agreement states that if the two divorce, Kardashian can retain possession of the sparkler — if she pays her estranged husband for it.
The clause is particularly curious since without it, the ring would've automatically gone to the bride. Regardless, insiders say the reality star loves it so much that she'll shell out the funds necessary to keep it — which could be upwards of $2 million.


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BEIJING – Two U.S. lawmakers are urging the extension of tougher American export restrictions to prevent sales of equipment that could be used in China's massive security clampdown targeting the Xinjiang region's native Muslim population.
Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Chris Smith want foreign entities, including businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, and individuals seen as profiting from the clampdown added to a watch list, the two Republicans, among the staunchest critics of China in the U.S. Congress, said in a letter Wednesday to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
"U.S. companies should not be assisting in the expansion of China's systems for surveillance, detection, and detention, or be complicit in what are gross violations of internationally recognized human rights occurring daily" in Xinjiang (SHIN-jhang), the letter said.
Dozens of Chinese companies are already on the "Entity List," though none with an explicit, direct link to the oppression in Xinjiang. The U.S. has long maintained restrictions on the export of crime control and detection equipment to China.
Listing would place the entities under export administration regulations requiring American companies wishing to sell to them to be subject to "specific license requirements for the export, re-export and/or transfer (in-country) of specified items," according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security.
The letter says the director of the bureau's Foreign Policy Division, Anthony Christino, stated in recent testimony before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China that it was evaluating "whether there is sufficient evidence to justify additional end-user restrictions."
It said the commission was awaiting an update "as to the status and anticipated timeline of this interagency process," but said the government should err on the side of caution.
"Given the national integration of China's state security apparatus, we believe there should also be a presumption of denial for any sale of technology or equipment that would make a direct and significant contribution to the police surveillance and detection system," the letter said.
No specific entities were named in the letter, which is the latest sign that the detentions are raising concerns among foreign leaders, governments, activist groups, media outlets and private citizens.
Over recent years, Xinjiang has been transformed into a vast security state , packed with police stations, street cameras and security checkpoints at which electronic identity cards are scanned. Travel restrictions prevent free movement or even the opportunity to visit friends and relatives in nearby towns.
The measures target members of the Uighur (WEE-gur), Kazakh and other Muslim minority groups, with the region's ethnically Chinese residents largely exempted.
In addition, monitoring groups say as many as 1 million Muslims have been sent to a system of internment camps , also known as "re-education centers," where they are locked up for months without trial and forced to undergo political indoctrination and renounce Islam and traditional culture.
China has denied operating the system of camps, despite extensive documentation from those interned and relatives, and other evidence such as satellite photos and government documents.
Beijing says it is taking necessary measures to fight terrorism, religious extremism and separatism in the restive region and that criminals involved in minor offenses are sent to "vocational education and employment training centers" to help with their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.
The Wednesday letter follows one last month from U.S. lawmakers, including Rubio and Smith, to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, calling for measures to address the "ongoing human rights crisis" in Xinjiang.
The letter singled out Xinjiang's top leader, Chen Quanguo, and other officials seen as behind the clampdown, saying they should be sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Act that allows the U.S. government to place travel and financial restrictions on individuals anywhere in the world given credible proof of their role in human rights violations or corruption.
The letter also mentions two companies that could be sanctioned under a separate executive order, Hikvision and Dahua Technology, both of which make video surveillance technology used extensively throughout Xinjiang to track residents and restrict their movements.
Asked Tuesday about the possibility of sanctions, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the U.S. has "a lot of tools at our disposal" but mentioned no details.
"It's the old standard line on sanctions, that we're not going to preview any sanctions that may or may not happen," Nauert told reporters.
On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China "has been firmly and strongly opposed to the U.S. using Xinjiang-related issues to interfere in China's internal affairs.
"The Chinese government protects the Chinese citizens' freedom of religion and belief in accordance with law," Geng told reporters at a daily briefing.
A day earlier, China rejected a request from the U.N.'s head of human rights, Michelle Bachelet, to allow monitors into Xinjiang, with Geng saying Bachelet should "respect China's sovereignty, fairly and objectively."
Also Wednesday, Australia's opposition Labor Party issued a statement saying it was "deeply concerned by continuing reports of the mass detention of China's minority Uighur population and other violations of human rights," citing questions brought by members of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva last week.
That followed a statement by the Australian National Imams Council condemning the treatment of Uighurs as "inhumane and unbearable" and urging action from the Australian government.
Muslim activists in Bangladesh, meanwhile, marched through the capital chanting slogans and carrying signs demanding China "stop religious persecution" of Uighurs.


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HTTP DDoS Attack Mitigation Using Tarpitting
Recently, the anti-spam organization Spamhaus has come under yet another distributed denial-of-service attack. With some help from our good friends at myNetWatchman we were able to obtain a sample of the malware used in the attack. This one is particularly nasty, starting up 1500 threads to send randomized HTTP requests to Spamhaus' webserver in a loop. This attack tool doesn't have a command-and-control mechanism, so it was likely force-installed on all the infected systems of an existing botnet.
This kind of attack is particularly troublesome to deal with. While simplistic packet-based attacks can be more easily mitigated upstream, with an HTTP-based attack it is often difficult to distinguish attack traffic from legitimate HTTP requests. And because the attack consumes resources from the webserver, not just the system TCP/IP stack, it can quickly bring even a well-tuned webserver to its knees unless the target has better-than-average resources at its disposal to help weather the storm (like Spamhaus does).
Fortunately, most HTTP-based DoS attacks we have seen have a particular weakness – they are vulnerable to a technique known as « tarpitting ». This idea was first proposed by Tom Liston many years ago when the first scanning worms hit the Internet, and was implemented in his program LaBrea (which he no longer offers for download, due to legal concerns – however, the source code can still be found elsewhere and should work on Linux or BSD-based operating systems). The quickest way to implement tarpitting (if your webserver runs on Linux) is in the Linux netfilter source code. If the tarpit module is compiled for your Linux kernel, the operation becomes as simple as « iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -p tcp -j TARPIT
« .
Tarpitting works by taking advantage of TCP/IP's idea of window size and state. In a tarpitted session, we respond to the connection initiation as normal, but we immediately set our TCP window size to just a few bytes in size. By design, the connecting system's TCP/IP stack must not send any more data than will fit in our TCP window before waiting for us to ACK the packets sent. This is to allow connections to deal with packet loss that might occur in a normal session. If the sending system doesn't get an ACK to a packet sent, it will resend the packet at increasingly longer intervals. In our tarpitted session, we simply don't ack any of the post-handshake packets at all, forcing the remote TCP/IP stack to keep trying to send us those same few bytes, but waiting longer each time. With this, bandwidth usage falls off quickly to almost nothing.
It might seem reasonable to simply use iptables -j DROP to not respond to connections at all – this will certainly prevent the webserver from seeing the connection, but because the connection may have a timeout set, it is likely we'll keep seeing connection attempts at a fairly regular rate. Essentially a DROP rule turns our HTTP flood into a SYN flood.
Below is a chart made by running the Spamhaus DDoS malware on a single host in a sandnet, and comparing the bandwidth usage of each iptables mitigation technique with no mitigation. Here we extrapolated the bandwidth usage of the full non-mitigated attack (the blue line in the chart) from just the first 30 seconds of the attack, rather than let it fully DDoS the server the entire two hours. Under load, our untuned Apache server probably would have slowed down, forcing the attack bandwidth to decrease with it as it became unresponsive. In this simulation we are assuming the server can withstand a single attacker with no slowdown.
We see that although with tarpitting, there are momentary spikes as the sessions finally time out and try again, overall the average bandwidth usage is substantially lower with tarpitting as opposed to simply dropping the attacker's packets.
There seems to be an added side-effect to mitigation by tarpit. When the attacked host mitigates with an iptables DROP (no response), the attacker's CPU load is fairly minimal and the system is responsive. However, as demonstated by the graphic below, under tarpitting the CPU load in our test system quickly rose to 100% as the attacking system's kernel tried to maintain a large number of open connections in a retry state.
In the case of our test system, the user interface became nearly unresponsive. Of course, this may depend on the overal system CPU speed and RAM (our test was done in a VMware environment which also may be a factor), but if the system becomes unacceptibly slow, it serves as an impetus for the unknowing owner of the attacking system to have the computer cleaned of its botnet infection.
Unfortunately, the TARPIT iptables module is not part of every Linux distribution. It is possible to obtain it by getting the netfilter Patch-o-Matic-NG source and compiling it for your kernel (don't forget the iptables source must also be patched to support the TARPIT option).
At some point, the scalability of having thousands of iptables rules may come into play. At the University of Florida, Chuck Logan and Jordan Wiens were able to successfully mitigate a DDoS attack from the Netsky virus by writing customized software to detect the attacking hosts and create intelligent chains of iptables rules that were more scalable. Details and source code can be found here.
No matter how you implement it, tarpitting isn't going to completely stop an attack – it can only slow it down. However, it could be an effective stop-gap measure until upstream providers can effectively null-route an attack on your website, or until the attack stops on its own.
Source: Dell SecureWorks – Author: Joe Stewart


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Telephone Verification is a requirement for both Organization Validation and Extended Validation SSL certificates. Basically, Comodo needs to verify that you have a phone number that is working, and that you're listed in a trusted directory.
Telephone verification is easy-just make sure your phone number is listed. Pretty much every business has a phone number. So as long as consumers can find it, you should be good. The first way Comodo is going to attempt to verify your telephone number is by checking your local online government database. If the number is listed and the rest of the listing matches the details you've provided then you're golden-you've satisfied the requirement.
No worries. There are other methods to satisfy this requirement. In fact, most people run into this problem. Comodo will also check a group of trusted third-party directories. These directories are:
If you don't have your number listed in one of those directories and it's not publicly available in a government database, you can also provide a Professional Opinion Letter. Professional Opinion Letters, sometimes called Legal Opinion Letters, are notarized forms wherein an accredited attorney or accountant vouch for the legitimacy of your business or organization. Submitting a Professional Opinion Letter actually satisfies most of the validation requirements for OV and EV SSL.
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Suicidal thoughts among young kids higher than believed
Suicidal thoughts have haunted nearly one of every 10 pre-teens in the United States, a new study reveals.
About 8.4% of children aged 9 or 10 said they'd temporarily or regularly harbored thoughts of suicide, researchers report.
Importantly, only around 1% of children that age reported a suicide attempt or planning their suicide.
But suicidal thoughts at that age are a warning sign of a future filled with woe, said senior researcher Dr. Sophia Frangou, a professor of psychiatry with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.
"When you think of how young they are, 8% is quite a startling number," Frangou said. "Thinking of killing yourself, and that life isn't worth it, when you're 9 is pretty extreme."
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10- to 14-year-olds, researchers said in background notes, and these sorts of thoughts paint a picture of a troubled childhood.
"Being so seriously unhappy so early in life is a sign of vulnerability for adverse mental health outcomes in adulthood," Frangou noted. "It's not just about suicide."
For this study, Frangou and her colleagues analyzed data from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study, which is tracking the growth and health of nearly 12,000 children across the United States.
Children and their caregivers filled out reports that included questions related to suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Two factors played a strong role in whether a child would have suicidal thoughts, the research team found.
"Children that have some sort of psychological problems, even minor ones, and the ones that live in families that are in some way dysfunctional, those are the ones that are at the highest risk to have suicidal thoughts," Frangou said.
Kids suffering from anxiety, depression or other psychological or behavior problems are 74% more likely to experience suicidal thoughts, results show.
And children who reported family conflict were 30% to 75% more likely to harbor thoughts of suicide, even after accounting for their psychological problems, the researchers said.
The findings were published online March 12 in The Lancet Psychiatry medical journal.
None of these numbers are surprising, said Mitch Prinstein, a professor of psychology and neuroscience with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
"We've been seeing the age where suicide ideation and suicidal behavior is occurring get lower and lower over the last few years," Prinstein said. "We know that suicide is very closely related to the experience of stress, not just the stress that kids are experiencing but the stress that parents and people around them are experiencing, which kids definitely pick up on."
The number of children's hospital admissions for suicidal thoughts or behavior has more than doubled over the last decade, rising from 0.7% in 2008 to 1.8% in 2015, the researchers said.
The research team also found two factors that appeared to protect kids against suicidal thoughts: active parental supervision and having a positive experience in school.
"The kids that liked going to school and felt the school environment was a good environment for them were less likely to have these types of thoughts," Frangou said.
Parental supervision means "the degree to which parents are involved in their children's lives," she explained.
"They know where their kids are, they know the names of their friends," Frangou said. "It's not about quality time, it's about knowing what your kid is doing and being involved in an active, meaningful way."
These results indicate a need for school-based screening for suicide, much as vision and hearing tests are conducted with youngsters, Prinstein and Frangou said.
"Schools are a good place where we can start looking for kids who have difficulties and for families who have difficulties. We should think of schools as a means to help them," Frangou said.
"You don't have to look for the suicidal kid. You have to look for the unhappy one," she continued. "You don't have to specifically predict who will have suicidal thoughts. You have to be more sensitized to children who are unhappy, either because their families are difficult or because they themselves experience anxiety."
There are a number of telltale signs that a child is troubled enough to think about suicide, said Dr. Kimberly Gordon-Achebe, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Baltimore. These include:
- Changes in behavior or eating habits.
- Sleeping in class.
- Withdrawing from peers or isolating themselves.
- Acting moody or irritable.
- Talking about death with peers.
- Drawing pictures or writing about death.
"These are great indicators of what could be going on in their mind," Gordon-Achebe said.
More information: Boston Children's Hospital has more about child and teen suicide.
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Note: I feel that I should point out that we were only in Sierra Leone for 9 days, and spent all of our time on the Freetown peninsula. Naturally, I could never claim to be an expert on the place after such a brief and limited visit. But I hope that my impressions might count for something, especially for anyone who's never had the chance to visit.
(Part 1 here)
We arrived at about 4am on a Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca that stopped in Monrovia, Liberia, on the way. Royal Air Maroc was fine, far better than I imagined it would be based on people's internet reviews. I can only imagine it has improved greatly in recent months, or else people who write internet reviews expect a homogenous travel experience wherever they go in the world. Lungi airport, as I mentioned, can be quite a daunting experience. Our friend met us at the Pelican water taxi dock (Lungi is on the 'wrong' side of a large inlet, so to reach Freetown, a water crossing by boat or helicopter is essential), and drove us to his house, located in the hills above the city. After a few hours catch-up sleep, we had lunch (rotisserie chicken from the Lebanese-owned St Mary's supermarket), drove around a bit and then headed to Roy's bar on Lumley Beach for some drinks. We met plenty of people at Roy's, organised dinner, went to a party at the UN, and before I knew it, we were dancing to a mixture of local and Lebanese pop at Atlantic nightclub, with the sound of waves breaking on the beach in the background.
After breakfast at Bliss bakery (the best bakery in town, and producers of as good an omelette as you'll find anywhere), we went on one of our two main trips out of the city. Bureh beach, an hour or so out of town via the mountain road, is simply an idyllic spot. Kilometres of sand so fine, it squeaks with every footstep, lined with coconut palms, and without a single built structure in sight. I often say I don't really like the beach. But if it's Bureh, I'd go any time. There, we met Michael, a local entrepreneur trying to develop some sustainable tourism in the area. He set us up with an open hut and a camp fire, cooked us some fresh lobster and manfully shared a glass or two of scotch as night set in. Before the scotch, we had a night swim and enjoyed the ever-captivating sight of phosphorescent plankton sparkling in the water as we swam.
Bureh, simply enough, is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I think Gemma enjoyed celebrating her birthday there. I just hope we can visit again soon, and that as development increases (which it must, one way or another), Bureh's natural beauty isn't blighted by massive resorts. Of course, there is room (and indeed, a need) for some of that kind of tourism in Sierra Leone but one would hope that the lessons of other countries' experiences might make the SL government more cautious than they were.
We took the coastal route back to Freetown and relaxed at home that evening, playing Pass the Pigs, Settlers of Catan and Trivial Pursuit. Wild times.
Next day, after a slow start, catching up on developments in the Middle East on Al Jazeera, Gemma and I ventured forth into Freetown on our own for the first time. Walking from our friend's house down Spur Road to Lumley and up Lumley Beach to Roy's bar again. Well, we were thirsty by then. The walk only took an hour but it was pretty hot and dusty. Pretty much every taxi and poda poda (shared minibus taxi) that went past beeped its horn at us, seemingly incredulous that we'd want to walk in the sun.
Many of the main roads in Freetown are currently undergoing major widening work, resulting in much demolition. Walls throughout the city are marked with indications like "10m back", meaning that the road will expand 10m further, often through the middle of a house or compound. We were told that several people have died trying to salvage property from demolished houses. It is not just private residences that are affected, though. Even the headquarters of the armed forces (RSLAF) has had its entrance partially demolished. Government officials plan to have the road-widening project complete in time for this year's independence celebrations which will mark 50 years since the end of British colonial rule. Locals seem uncertain as to whether the project will be completed on time, even though crews are often working through the night. The most important target is to get work completed before the rainy season starts (which more-or-less coincides with the independence celebrations in April anyhow). We were told that negotiations are still taking place over some stretches of road, but I got the impression that the bulldozers won't wait.
Lumley beach is yet another beautiful stretch of sand which extends north to the cape, where several hotels, casinos and nightclubs are located. The beach used to have lots of bars and restaurants on it, but many were demolished as part of the roads project. A few have sprung up again recently, and the one seemingly en vogue at the moment is Roy's. A cold Heineken (the local beer, Star, isn't great) and a cooling sea breeze went down a treat after our walk.
Next part: Wilberforce and Tacugama. Flickr set here.


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The North Carolina trial court system consists of Superior Courts, District Courts, and Business Court. For more information on which types of cases each court oversees, compare North Carolina courts.
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created 2005 · complexity basic · author tlgrok · version 6.0
GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer. This tip deals with Screen and Vim integration.
Getting the Esc key to work[]
If you use Vim under Screen, you might find that the Esc
key doesn't work. To fix this, add the following to your .screenrc
maptimeout 5
This may be necessary so Screen will wait no more than 5 milliseconds between characters when detecting an input sequence.
Fixing other keys[]
You might find that certain keys, such as <Home> and <End>, don't work properly. To fix this, you need to add something like this to your .vimrc:
" Fix keycodes map ^[[1~ <Home> map ^[[4~ <End> imap ^[[1~ <Home> imap ^[[4~ <End>
To get the correct key code (the "^[[1~" bit) for your terminal, press Ctrl-v while in Insert mode, and then the required key. Note that you cannot simply copy and paste the above text: you must use Ctrl-v. ("^[" is not a character sequence; it is Vim's on-screen representation of a non-printable character.) Also note that Ctrl-v might be mapped to something else in your configuration. See :help i_CTRL-V.
You can check whether your mapping works by entering the following in Normal mode (not in your .vimrc), and pressing Home
:map <Home> :echo "It works!"<CR>
Changing Vim's idea of the terminal[]
In addition to the Esc
key, you might find that all sorts of other things don't work the way they should. This is because, by default, Screen sets the $TERM environmental variable to "screen", which Vim does not recognize. There are two (or three) ways to fix this:
(I'm going to assume you're using an xterm-compatible terminal, such as gnome-terminal, but you should obviously replace "xterm" with the terminal you use if this is not the case.)
1st alternative: Modify your .screenrc[]
Add the following line to your .screenrc
term xterm
Note: This changes the $TERM
variable, so it affects more than Vim.
Different term[]
You could also use the following :
term screen-256color
This will fix so the colours will look the same as in vim outside screen.
2nd alternative: Modify your .vimrc[]
The very simplest thing to do is to add the following lines to your .vimrc
if match($TERM, "screen")!=-1 set term=xterm endif
If you want different behaviors whenever you're running Screen (see below for ideas), use the following alternative:
if match($TERM, "screen")!=-1 set term=xterm let g:GNU_Screen_used = 1 else let g:GNU_Screen_used = 0 endif " Screen-ify an external command. function InScreen(command) return g:GNU_Screen_used ? 'screen '.a:command : a:command endfunction
Screen-aware commands[]
If you decided you'd like there to be a g:GNU_Screen_used
variable, you may use it in all sorts of ways.
Say, for instance, you've defined a command to play a music file under your cursor:
let s:music_player = 'mplayer' function PlayTune() exe '!'.s:music_player.' "'.expand('<cfile>').'"' endfunction
If you're using Screen, you may well want mplayer to open in a different terminal window (but open normally if Screen is not in use). To achieve this, use the following alternative:
let s:music_player = InScreen('mplayer') function PlayTune() exe '!'.s:music_player.' "'.expand('<cfile>').'"' endfunction
The "Fixing some keys" bits (besides being poorly titled; feel free to change) is not so good. It works, but it's a hack, and there's bound to be a way to fix this at the source - that is, in Screen's own configuration. If anybody reads this and knows how to do this, please contribute. tlgrok 20:36, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Could you please give an example of the exact control character for the first map example. I am on screen on Mac OS X. I tried C-v <HOME> but HOME already pages to top of screen's buffer. --Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahul benegal (talk • contribs) 07:19, December 30, 2009
I have moved your question from the middle of the tip to the Comments section, as above. I have not tried the scenario described in this tip, and if you really need help you might have to try the mailing list (click "Community portal" in the sidebar). However I can say vaguely what the tip is attempting.
You could type map ^[[1~ <Home>
in the following way:
- Type "
" then Ctrl-v then press the Home key (do all that while in insert mode). When you press the Home key you will see something like "^[[1~
". - Then type "
" and press Enter. You do not press the Home key. Type the characters exactly as shown.
When you type the following, enter it in normal mode, exactly as shown (do not press the Home key):
:map <Home> :echo "It works!"<CR>
Now pressing the Home key should show the message. JohnBeckett 10:48, December 30, 2009 (UTC)


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Pink Elephant Blanket Large
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• Each play blanket is made from light weight polar fleece.
• Measurements: Small (75x100cm or 30"x40"), Medium (112x150cm or 45"x60") and Large (135x180cm or 54"x72").
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Davy Crockett Prime (Tailgate Model)
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Stuffed Peppadew Peppers
Cheddar Cumin Coins
Ginger Braised Spareribs
Cilantro scented Red Beans
Lime and Macadamia Nut Tart
served with Papaya Coulis and whipped cream
Printable RecipeI'd like to say that the macadamia nuts and the papaya in this tart are somehow magically transporting me and my snow-addled mind (yes, it is snowing again) to Hawaii or at least to a time in my life where I lived on Oahu and I was able to step outside my backyard and pick a papaya right off the tree (yes, that is actually true). Well this time, that just ain't happenin', but this dessert is really good.
This tart is a simple lime custard with the lovely addition of ground macadamia nuts. As wonderful as it is with just a dollop of whipped cream, the papaya coulis really makes it sing. Lime and papaya--a match made in tropical heaven.
This tart is a simple lime custard with the lovely addition of ground macadamia nuts. As wonderful as it is with just a dollop of whipped cream, the papaya coulis really makes it sing. Lime and papaya--a match made in tropical heaven.
Lime and Macadamia Nut Tart with Papaya Coulis
serves 8
For the pastry
1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup (4 ounces) unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1 extra large egg yolk
1-2 tablespoons ice water
For the filling
2 large limes, zested and juiced, you should have 1/2 cup lime juice
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 extra large eggs
1/2 cup ground unsalted macadamia nuts
6 tablespoons (3 ounces) unsalted butter, melted
Sweetened whipped cream
Papaya coulis
For the pastry
In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the flour, sugar, and salt. Add the butter and process until it resembles coarse meal. Add the yolk and pulse 2-3 times. With the processor running, add enough water for the dough to gather into a ball. Remove the blade and invert the pastry onto a sheet of plastic wrap. Using the wrap and the back of your hands, press the dough into a disk. Wrap with the plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a 12-inch circle. Transfer the dough to a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom. Fit the dough into the edges and remove any excess. Prick the bottom of the dough with a fork. Line the tart pan with a sheet of parchment paper and fill it with pie weights or dried beans. Place the tart pan on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake the tart for 15 minutes. Remove the parchment paper and weights and let cool. Maintain oven temperature.
For the filling
In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the zest, sugar, eggs, and ground nuts for 30 seconds. Add the lime juice and butter and process until well combined, about 10 seconds. Pour the filling into the cooled tart shell. Bake until the filling is firm and lightly browned on top, about 30 minutes. Allow the tart to cool to room temperature. Serve with whipped cream and papaya coulis (recipe follows). Enjoy!
Papaya Coulis
1 Hawaiian papaya, peeled and seeded
3 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided
1/4 cup water
juice of half a lime
Roughly chop 1/2 the papaya and place it in a medium saucepan with 2 tablespoons of sugar and the water. Cook over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved and the papaya has softened- about 5-10 minutes. Transfer the mixture to a food processor and purée until it is smooth. Press the mixture through a fine-meshed sieve into a small bowl. Set aside
Dice the remaining papaya half into 1/4-inch dice and place in a medium bowl. Add the remaining tablespoon of sugar and the lime juice. Allow the mixture to macerate for at least 30 minutes. Add the diced papaya mixture to the puréed papaya. Stir to combine.
Source: Tart from About.com, Papaya Coulis from The Galley Gourmet
Source: Tart from About.com, Papaya Coulis from The Galley Gourmet


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Candidiasis is an infection caused by the yeast Candida. Candida skin infections (cutaneous candidiasis) can occur at any site, but tends to favor warm, damp environments such as the skin folds and the groin region. Candida infections can also occur in the mouth (oral thrush) and in or around the nails (paronychia or onychomycosis). Young children, the elderly, diabetics, and patients using certain medications (antibiotics, steroids, chemotherapy agents) are at increased risk for candida infections. Infections of the skin typically cause a red, itchy rash. Pustules and satellite lesions (smaller lesions near the edges of the skin rash) are often noted. Candidiasis can be treated with topical and/or oral antifungals.
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What so many of us know about the holiday of Purim is what we can remember from the reading of the Megilah, getting to scream and yell in Synagogue, and, well, getting really…really….lit. Nothing like a Jewish holiday where we are actually supposed to get drunk and party. Yes. It's the Jewish Mardi Gras.
All of that is amazing, fun and good.
But there is another tradition of Purim that I think we should all be talking about and more importantly DOING: Mishloach Manot (aka Shalach Manot).
Simply, this mitzvah is about the giving of two kinds of food gifts to someone. Mostly now it seems to be about giving a couple of kinds of hamentaschen to your grandmother. But there is such a clearer, deeper reason for this. Purim falls just as the winter is coming to an end. The time when in another era, in [Read more…]


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Samantha Steele — Crush of the Day
Filling the shoes, and newly ample bosom, of former ESPN sideline reporter and peephole dancing dame Erin Andrews isn't going to be an easy task. Andrews bolted the worldwide leader for a Fox Sports gig and the boys in Bristol quickly named her replacement — the longhorny Samantha Steele. She was with the Longhorn Network before ESPN. It was too terrible of a pun to pass up.
Samantha Steele was named the ESPN college football and basketball sideline reporter right after Andrews danced her way out the door. Steele also worked as a reporter and host at Fox Sports, making this almost a weird type of hot girl trade between major networks. We'd love to do a hot girl trade, the only sticking point being, we don't have any hot girls to trade. It's like playing 'Moneyball' with ourselves.
We were on the Steele wagon months ago, naming her one of the hottest sideline reporters not named Erin Andrews. Glad ESPN finally caught on and moved her front and center on our TV screens. Let's just hope Steele doesn't break our hearts and move on to bigger and better peepholes things like her predecessor.


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Getting it right has become something of a family attempting tradition. They've tried every possible recipe, and each cake was too hard, too soft, too marshmellowy, too flat, too high, too airy or cracked. But this year's pavlova was just right! We're all delighted. Here's a photo!
holiday mode means I feel too relaxed to design, piece or quilt. Happy New Year!


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There are four times the number of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers hiking and camping in Baxter State Park than there were 20 years ago – when I did my hike. According to Jensen Bissell, Director of Baxter State Park, this is straining resources.
"From the perspective of Baxter Park, we are concerned that the use of Baxter Park is nearing or has surpassed an acceptable limit for the facilities and effort available from the Park to accomodate A.T. hikers"
A letter to ATC Executive Director, Ron Tiptop, lays out the current issues – many of which focus on thru-hikers that overwhelm park resources and occasionally don't follow the rules of Baxter Park (ie. no public consumption of alchohol or drugs, camping only designated areas, no dogs in to the park, etc).
Bissell states, and I agree, that this problem will only get worse with the release of Wild and Walk In The Woods in the next twelve months, and with the popularity and Internet accessibility of Appalachian Trail documentaries that generate additional interest in thru-hiking.
Let's all hope that Baxter State Park gets federal funding to expand their operations, because there's no better place to finish (or start) an Appalachian Trail thru-hike than at Mt. Katahdin in the Park.


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On this day in 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball and its 100-year history. A private organization based in Cooperstown called the Clark Foundation thought that establishing the Baseball Hall of Fame in their city would help to reinvigorate the area's Depression-ravaged economy by attracting tourists. To help sell the idea, the foundation advanced the idea that U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown. The story proved to be phony, but baseball officials, eager to capitalize on the marketing and publicity potential of a museum to honor the game's greats, gave their support to the project anyway. In preparation for the dedication of the Hall of Fame in 1939--thought by many to be the centennial of baseball--the Baseball Writers' Association of America chose the five greatest superstars of the game as the first class to be inducted: Ty Cobb was the most productive hitter in history; Babe Ruth was both an ace pitcher and the greatest home-run hitter to play the game; Honus Wagner was a versatile star shortstop and batting champion; Christy Matthewson had more wins than any pitcher in National League history; and Walter Johnson was considered one of the most powerful pitchers to ever have taken the mound. Today, with approximately 350,000 visitors per year, the Hall of Fame continues to be the hub of all things baseball. It has elected 278 individuals, in all, including 225 players, 17 managers, 8 umpires and 28 executives and pioneers.
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Yoga – Stretch Class
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Date(s) - June 10, 2021
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Yoga will now be offered on Monday and Thursdays from 11:45 AM -12:30 PM. The ZOOM call will start at 11:30 AM to get housekeeping matters out of the way prior to starting the class.
The Stretch class will involve primarily floor work. The purpose would be to engage in some deeper stretches and take more time to sink into the poses. It is not likely that we would ever stand on our feet in this class.


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CBN.com What makes someone extraordinary?
Their abilities?
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Or simply, their smile.
When I first met Nick Vujicic, I knew I had just encountered someone extraordinary! From the moment he began to share his amazing story with me, I witnessed firsthand how God is using a man with no arms and no legs to be His hands and feet.
"My dad was saying that his head was next to my mom's head as I was being born. He saw my shoulder. He just went pale. He was hoping my mom didn't see me, because he saw that I had no right arm. My dad had to leave the room, and he couldn't believe what he saw," Nick Vujicic tells The 700 Club. "The doctor came in, and my dad said, 'My son has no right arm.' [The doctor] said, 'No, your son has no arms or legs.' And he said he nearly fell on the floor. He couldn't believe it.
"The whole church was mourning, like, 'Why would God let the pastor's son be born that way?' My mom, at first, she didn't want to hold me. She didn't want to breastfeed me. She just felt very uncomfortable for the first four months. It took them quite a while before they could trust in God that He didn't make a mistake – that He didn't forget them or me."
Nick's parents gave their fear and even disappointment in their son's disability over to the Lord. They choose to trust God and His promise that He had a plan and purpose – a hope and a future for their son. But as the years passed, Nick on the other hand, had many challenges trusting in a God that he felt gave him less.
"I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.'
"I wanted to end it. If God wasn't going to end my pain, I was going to end it myself. So at age eight, I tried to drown myself in a bathtub with four inches of water. I told my mom and dad, 'I'm just going to relax in the bathtub. Can you put me in the bathtub?' I turned over a couple of times to see if I could do it. I couldn't. The thought that stopped me from going through with it was the love for my parents. I loved them so much, and all they did was love me. I pictured my funeral. I pictured my parents, and all I saw was guilt on their shoulders that they couldn't have done more."
That would be the last time Nick would attempt suicide. But it wouldn't be the last time he would come face to face with those deep issues that made him want to end the pain.
One day Nick's mother had him read an article about a severely disabled man. That man's story made a huge impact on Nick.
"I have a choice," Nick says, "to either be angry at God for what I don't have or be thankful for what I do have. My mom said, 'Nick, God's going to use you. I don't know how. I don't know when, but God's going to use you.' And those seeds started penetrating in my heart. That's when I started seeing that there is no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken on the inside. I found out that God can heal you without changing your circumstance.
"I gave my life to Jesus Christ when I read John 9 at age 15, where a man was coming through a village, this blind man from birth. Jesus saw him. People said, 'Why was this man born that way?' Jesus said, 'It was done so that the works of God may be revealed through him.'
"In second Timothy chapter 3, verse 16, it says, 'All scripture is God-breathed.' I believe God breathed in me life and faith. This faith came over me. This peace came over me. I felt like God answered my question that I'd been waiting for. The question was: Why? Why did you make me this way? The answer was: Do you trust Me? That's the question. When you say yes to that question, nothing else matters. There was nothing else I could find. There was nothing else that could give me peace. I knew arms and legs wouldn't give me peace anyway. I need to know the truth of who I am, why I'm here and where I'm going when I'm not here. I haven't found that truth anywhere else but in Jesus Christ."
It was in Jesus Christ where Nick found the strength to do what many thought would be the impossible.
Nick says, "It's so hard to be strong when people constantly say, 'You're not good enough. Go away. We don't want anything to do with you.' In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.
"I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation.
"I thank God that He didn't answer my prayer when I was begging him for arms and legs at age eight. Because guess what? I have no arms and no legs, and He's using me all around the world. We've seen, so far, approximately (and this is conservative) 200,000 souls come to Jesus Christ for the very first time in the last six, seven years."
In the last decade, Nick has shared his story in 24 countries to over three million people. Whether he's talking to a stadium packed with people or one single person, his heart behind the message is the same.
"I want to look right to you and tell you that God loves you. He hasn't forgotten your pain. He hasn't forgotten your family. Maybe while you're watching this interview, you've compared your sufferings to my suffering, and that's not where hope is. Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God. Isaiah 40, verse 31 says, 'Those who wait upon the Lord, who renew their strength. They shall mount up on wings as eagles.'
"I didn't need my circumstance to change. I don't need arms and legs. I need the wings of the Holy Spirit. I'm flying, because I know Jesus is holding me up.
"Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you."
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I've heard it said from a number of leaders in the Reformed community that there is a great opportunity for Reformed churches to be a positive influence on the growth of Christianity abroad, particularly in places like Africa where Pentecostalism has made such large inroads.
The thesis is that as time passes and institutions need to be built, the traditionally other-worldly Pentecostal faith will by necessity need to embrace a more fully comprehensive world-and-life view. Reformed institutions ought to be prepared to step into the breach and provide that worldview education.
On that note, I pass along two items of interest. The first is a newly released book from Fortress Press, Christian Education as Evangelism, an edited collection of essays that argues that if congregations "are to be active in their evangelical outreach, solid teaching is necessary. Likewise learning ministries that are well grounded and alive will spring forth into vital sharing of the good news of Jesus Christ. Christian education leads to evangelism and evangelism leads to Christian education."
And as a counter-point to the potential for arrogance that might accompany a Reformed educational mission to the Pentecostal world, see this item, "Dutch Protestant leader apologises to Pentecostals,"
Utrecht (ENI). The Protestant Church in the Netherlands has apologised to Pentecostals for negative attitudes held in the past by Reformed and Lutheran Christians towards members of Pentecostal churches. "Even now, one still can often sense an attitude of negativity and condescension," the church's general secretary Bas Plaisier said at celebrations in Amsterdam's Olympic stadium to mark the centenary of the Dutch Pentecostal movement. Such attitudes were also widely held among Protestants in the past, Plaisier said. "I hope that with this centenary celebration we can put an end to this [negative] way of speaking and thinking about one another," he said. [355 words, ENI-07-0726]
Given the rather distinct lack of commitment to distinctively and confessionally Reformed education among the Christian Reformed Church at the moment (check out this synodical report), I wonder if this sort of educational impetus is something that Westerners find are good for other people, but not themselves.


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Water quality includes maintaining the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of water. Our monitoring programs use a comprehensive approach to identify local pollutants, monitor their levels, and use the data to target the development of Education and Public Involvement programs. By monitoring the stormwater we are able to learn which pollutants are contributing to the impairment of local waterbodies and how we can help keep stormwater clean.
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