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You can consider my Del.icio.us links an extension to my blog, as are my LifeTango goals and my other to-do items. My to-buy list is also public, but only for sharing any useful ideas that might be there; I'm not requesting charity, neither do I offer it.
You can find me easily in google searches, as jcomeau, jcomeau_ictx, or jcomeauictx. There are lots of other jcomeaus, but AFAIK I'm the only jcomeau_ictx out there so far.
If you want to comment on anything you see here, try the new Facebook comments, reachable by clicking the "[comment]" link at the end of each post. If for some reason that isn't working, go ahead and email me, jc.unternet.net. You know what to do with the first dot. Make the 'subject' line something reasonably intelligent-looking or it goes plunk! into the spambasket unread.
This RSS feed may or may not work. Haven't fiddled with it in forever.
Totally fucking awesome. Nothing really new here, but the JFK quote was new to me and blew me away. Most of the other stuff has been gone over and over by Marrs, Icke, and others, but this movie was put together very, very, well. [comment]
Just did part of my shopping -- at Radio Shack downtown -- and came straight to the Central Camionera in Juarez, where I now have my 2:25 PM ticket to Entronque. Didn't have enough money to do all my shopping anyway -- it can wait another week.
Along the way I stopped at the Chinese restaurant on the East side of Ave. Juarez, just a couple of blocks from the border. The combo #2, shrimp egg foo young with fish, was only US$3.00. Not very tasty though. [comment]
I found another cybercafe in El Paso, right on Stanton Street downtown, the Lumenbrite Cafe on 219 N. Stanton. Some comfy chairs, free wifi, free power, decent coffee. Nice. Had about a 2-hour nap in Chamizal Park, so I'm good to go. Once my batteries (and my laptop's) are charged, ought to get my shopping done and get across the border for an early bus to Palomas. [comment]
Just about every time I come to El Paso I'm reminded of how badly their public transportation infrastructure sucks. I waited at the corner of Chamizal Park, Paisano at San Marcial, for about a half hour until the #24 came along. Just on the other side of the river, 5 minutes would have been sufficient. I guess the US is too goddamned busy building walls and shit like that. Plus, everyone who's anyone here is expected to own, maintain, and pay insurance on a vehicle. And why should anyone give a shit about us nobodies who can't or won't do that? [comment]
Someone else likes "my" WikiHow article. Thanks, Jack, for the heads-up! [comment]
Ripped off the Information Freeway site -- code, graphics, and all -- to create a map of the Don Nowhere Shebeen. Also to play with the javascript code and see how to build my own renderer. [comment]
So much for my vino de tunas. I took the cloth off to stir it, and the top was covered with mold. I guess if I try it again, I'll have to remove anything that floats.
I was thinking about making a little money doing driveaways, but they don't pay! Not a cent... all you get is the free transportation. Bleah. I guess I could try freelancing it, though.
Think I might have gotten bit by a spider last night. My neighbor says she sees the telltale swelling on my left shoulder blade. She got bit herself, last night, on her hand. I didn't think that's what it was, because I've had pain in that shoulder on and off since I took a spill on my skates about a week ago, but damn. Now I have to watch for necrosis. [comment]
Here's my little eulogy to Ray. If you don't want similar treatment, make sure I die before you do... [comment]
A couple of days ago, I got "fan mail" from an anonymous user at WikiHow for the article Wake up from the American Dream (which really is no longer "mine" because it was completely rewritten by user ZotLynn, but still has basically the same subject matter), that really made my day:
I really needed to see this article, as well as the one that came up randomly on my home screen, "How to stop being a people-pleaser." Trying to live the "dream" for others has worn me out and depressed me for long enough. I've decided just now, that I will follow my own dream, an alternate lifestyle I began to secretly plan for this year. No more interference by others, no more living a "dream" for others. It's refreshing to be reminded that there are plenty of others out there, who believe as I do. Keep up the good work, and many thanks.
More and more people indeed are waking up, even though I saw on an otherwise intelligent person's Orkut profile that our oil reserves are "infinite"... really makes you wonder. [comment]
Hey! Almost forgot! One of my singing neighbors finally returned... heard him or her in the wee hours of the morning. Old Coyote has returned to this side of the highway. About goddamned time!
Also, I started a batch of Nopal wine two days or so ago, using a recipe at WikiHow.com. Let's see how it turns out. Haven't yet collected enough dry mesquite pods to try making mesquite beer. [comment]
Getting a more useful operating system out of dd-wrt all the time, but some of the stumblingblocks are altogether unnecessary. Putting a lot of the initializing stuff, including iptables setup, into /lib/services.so, for example, is just plain evil. I can't know BrainSlayer's motivation, but that's the result. [comment]
It's been over 3 weeks since I tried my butter experiment, and it's still nice and fresh-tasting. I haven't even changed the water, though it has mouse turds and other flotsam in it; I have had to add water occasionally when I see it slip below the rims of the top two glasses (nothing is level in this place).
Cooking up some pork chunks with onions and Jalapeños, come on over if you're hungry. Making a fresh pot of coffee also, and have some cold beer for a change. Mostly Sol, but have a few Tecate, Sam Adams Lager, and Shiner Bock if you're quick. [comment]
Slowly beginning to understand something about how the flash is used on the WRTs. DD-WRT allocates it like so:
~ # cat /proc/mtd dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00040000 00010000 "pmon" mtd1: 001b0000 00010000 "linux" mtd2: 001006eb 00010000 "rootfs" mtd3: 00010000 00010000 "nvram" mtd4: 00030000 00010000 "ddwrt"
/dev/mtd/2 is really just a part of /dev/mtd/1... that part I still don't grok. But of the 64K NVRAM, only 32K is being used (NVRAM_SPACE = 0x8000), and the /dev/mtd/4 partition, "ddwrt", is set aside for JFFS2 use, but in the micro edition of the software, there is no jffs2. So I'm trying to decide whether to try to get jffs2 working, or free up that space for a bigger OS image. Also, if I could rearrange mtd3 and mtd4, and use the first, unused, half of the nvram block for something else, all the better. [comment]
Got the sshd server working on my dd-wrt system, after changing the dd-test.sh script to this. The packages are now:
jcomeau@ns002:/usr/src/firmware_mod_kit/trunk$ ls -1 *ipk dropbear_0.48.1-1_mipsel.ipk mtd_5_mipsel.ipk nano_1.3.8-1_mipsel.ipk uclibc_0.9.28-6_mipsel.ipk
Nano doesn't work because libncurses is missing, but no sweat... now that sshd is running I can remove the telnetd component from busybox, and maybe free up enough space for a lib or two, or maybe install vim. And with mtd, hopefully I won't have to keep using tftp to test new installs... we'll see! This is a pretty fun project overall, so far. What I dread is the hardware hacking I'll need to do in order to add an input device. I'm so bad with soldering lately. [comment]
Also forgot to mention that the problems I was having with the dd-wrt web interface was browser-related. When I switched from Firefox to IE, it worked. But all I really needed was to change the password, and I couldn't figure out the syntax of /sbin/setpasswd. After that, the web interface was fairly useless, though I could use the easier firmware upgrades it offers; but I'll probably find another way to do that (mtd, for example). [comment]
Having done nothing differently that I'm aware of, I rebuilt a DD-WRT image using this script, and now scp works in both directions, though the dropbear sshd server still doesn't start. [comment]
Resolved the previous problem by using ipkg-install.sh with the uclibc and dropbear packages from others/packages/ at the dd-wrt downloads page, and re-running build-firmware.sh. Now I can scp from another host to the WRT, but not vice-versa; it gives a "permission denied" error even when the permissions are 644.
It seems to be really critical, when tftp'ing the image, when you plug in the router. I seem to have to give the upload command within two seconds of power-on or it won't take.
The busybox binary is really crippled in the micro releases. I'm gonna see if I can put a beefier version on it. No ls for chrissakes? [comment]
After much frustration and cursing, I've gotten a customized bootable image onto my WRT54GSv6, thanks to the Firmware Modification Kit by Jeremy Collake. I had to remove the huge httpd daemon (which had the whole web interface embedded in the binary) to make room for dropbear, and now I find out that the latter won't even work:
/bin # ssh email@example.com ssh: can't resolve symbol 'getaddrinfo'
Looks like I'll have to compile from sources after all... grr... [comment]
A rarity -- it rained most of the day today, normally the rain falls at night, even during the "monsoon" season. I put on my sil poncho and went for a walk downtown, primarily to leave a sign with prices at my art exhibit, but I wasn't disappointed when I found the place locked up. I stood for a while on the porch of the old Customs building, watching the muddy river flow past along highway 11, then started walking back home.
A few blocks North, I saw an old 55-gallon drum with no bottom that I never felt like carrying before, but a rainy day makes a world of difference; I picked it up and carried it almost a mile to my place. When I got to the arroyo, I was surprised to find another river; the rain had already pretty much stopped. I left the barrel on the bank, and cautiously started across, but the turbulent water almost carried off one of my Crocs; so I sat down on the bank and just watched it for a while, fascinated, dreaming of having a kayak just for these moments and getting a free ride to Padre Island. But I got tired of waiting, and again attempted to wade across, this time facing upstream and stepping sideways, so the current would hold my Crocs on rather than pull them off... it worked! But my barrel was still on the other side, blocking the road. Poor planning. After dithering a while, I made it back across, grabbed the barrel, and went a few yards further upstream before carrying it across. I made it 3 times without getting carried away by the current... maybe it's true what my buddy Bill Pick used to say about God watching over drunks and fools.
Forgot to mention, a dog was acting strangely along Highway 11, walking down the middle and barking at traffic. I thought for sure he'd get run over, or more likely I'd get run over with some idiot swerving to avoid the dog and running off the road, but we both seemed to have made it home OK. But on the way back, I saw something that made some possible sense of the dog's behavior; another dog, black, lay dead in the ditch, perhaps a companion of the brown dog that was acting weird. Perhaps Brownie wanted someone to stop and try to help his companion, or he wanted to fight those huge steel animals that had killed his mate, or he just wanted to get run over too, and die. Guess I'll never know for sure. [comment]
Oh, yeah, I got the conversations mixed up in my head. What's happening in late August is just the end of the world. Google august 22 OR 23 for more results. I might still be able to go to Burning Man this year after all. [comment]
Mesquite beans grind pretty well with a hand-crank coffee grinder, but you need to empty out the hopper every two or three to get the non-grindable fibrous stuff out. And they have to be good and dry, you'll know right away if they aren't because they'll be all sugary-sticky. Let's see how they flavor the coffee this time; the first time I tried I didn't even notice any difference.
I've been talking to other conspiracy nuts... something's supposedly going down August 22nd or 23rd. I don't know what to believe; I just don't think "they" can throw all us nonconformists into detention camps. Who's going to keep the wheels of the economy turning? The globalists' plan hinges on keeping enough people thinking they're free so that they'll work and pay taxes to keep the whole system afloat, right? It's hard for me sometimes to see through all the complexity, so I don't know if I'm missing something really obvious. But my idea is, if everyone is self-sufficient, having no need of centralized services of any kind, the Machine will collapse under its own weight. Granted, it sure seems awfully powerful right now, though. Time will surely tell. [comment]
Nope, it wasn't bricked. Today I re-uploaded the micro image using flash_linksys.sh and it's fine. Seems pretty limited, though. I'll probably have to download the source in order to figure out what I can do with it now.
Motivation to do anything has dropped back down close to zero, while I wait another week to see if my shebeen shows up at OSM. Some of the roads I added are there finally, but there doesn't seem to be much support for isolated nodes in either editor: none with Potlatch, the online editor, and little if any with JOSM. [comment]
Couldn't leave well enough alone. The micro version of DD-WRT was so buggy I couldn't do anything with it, so attempted to load the mini version; it tftp'd up OK but now the power light is just sitting there flashing. I probably bricked it. Will have to play with it another time, it's twilight and time to get some exercise. [comment]
Finally got it! Thanks to this page, which gave the detailed instructions and software necessary, my WRT54GS is now running DD-WRT. Now what to do with it? Will figure that out another time. [comment]
Trying to upgrade the firmware on my Linksys WRT54GS router with both OpenWRT and dd-wrt, both give the stupid "Upgrade are failed!" message immediately. Fucking shitty software. CISCO used to be so meticulous, like DEC in the olden days. You'd think they'd send a few people who speak English over to Linksys and at least make the error messages somewhat grammatically correct.
All set for my Mandelbrot art exhibit this Saturday. Hung the unframed posters and prints with little squares of Velcro. Damn, but it was hot today, it's a wonder I accomplished anything. Jogged about a mile and a half also, but nowhere near the 1/2 hour per day I need to get in shape. [comment]
Dammity. My domain provider seems to be down, which means jcomeau.com is also down. I knew I should have moved it to my own DNS servers.
The LED in my hat is just about too dim to see by at night now, but it's still useful for being seen at night. I might need to use double the resistance for the rear light (red), when I finally purchase the LED, so it doesn't drag down the battery too quickly. The taillight doesn't need to be as bright anyway. [comment]
No wonder I couldn't communicate with OSM's API. I was using my screen name jcomeau_ictx as the username rather than my email address. Duh. How did I find out? Used JOSM to delete some nonsense points, and traced it using
$ windump -l -n -x -X -s0 -i2 | tee /tmp/session.log
Then just decoded the base64 string appearing after the Authentication header:
$ base64 -d /tmp/authstring.txt
JOSM does have problems, though. The coordinates of my shebeen I gave you the other day point, in JOSM, to my neighbor M's house several blocks away, South and East. Now that kind of wrong info is useful if someone's trying to bomb me, but not so good otherwise. And OSM's Potlatch editor keeps losing my edits and I have to type (or, rather, point-and-click) them back in. They say a little icon will appear if the changes didn't commit to the database, but I never see any icon. Fun, fun, fun. [comment]
Finally found it on the web! The address of my Deming Ranchettes lot. Since the house on the other end of the block is labeled 10585, mine would be either 10600 or 10610 Aguacate Road. 10600 also corresponds nicely with 10600 Columbus Road, halfway between Vecinos and Acequia, as is my lot. I ought to set up a box there and send myself a package by UPS and see if I get it. [comment]
Just about finished plotting the COS map at OSM. Had fun adding the arroyo as a footpath (shown in bright red in the diagram). The culvert under Highway 11 is tall enough to stand in, you just have to watch out for barbed wire on each end. [comment]
A couple of guys from the OSM project emailed me, and let me know that the problem was that I was using positive IDs for nodes, segments, and ways that were not yet in the OSM database. This is a no-no, apparently. So I tweaked my script to negate all the IDs, and did things a little differently on the upload. After opening the scripted file from within JOSM, first I shrink the image by moving the slider in the upper-left-hand corner of the map from 1.1km (which is what it shows originally for State Route 11) to 3.1km. Then I use the selector tool, the second one down, to draw a square around the road. This turns it from gray with red dots to a solid white line. Then I hit the 'w' key to turn it into a 'way'.
A dialog box comes up: "1 way has been selected. Do you wish to select all segments belonging to the way instead?" I answer No, as I did before. Then another dialog: "Do you want to add all other selected segments to the one selected way?" Before I answered No, but this time I answered Yes, and then I get a 3rd dialog, "Reorder all line segments?", to which I also answered Yes; and miraculously, the Properties are filled in automatically, and the line is now white with red dots, and Connection -> Upload to OSM works!
At least, no error messages. Let's see where we go from here. If this really worked, the next step is to hack my script to extract from certain lat/lon coordinates. Then I can, for example, focus my edits just on one part of town. This way, the entire TIGER database can be imported into OSM, piecemeal, and more or less correctly. We could have the whole of the US done in a year or so, with only a thousand or so volunteers. [comment]
Man, it's easy to get disgusted with the crappy software tools that OSM uses. My osm.py script will extract a single road using
$ osm.py getroad ~/shared_documents/luna_county.xml "State Route 11"
but the resulting file can't be uploaded directly to OSM, it has to go through an editor. And the 'way' info is lost on import into the editor, so one has to select the segments in JOSM and hit 'w' to re-create the 'way'. Once that is done, one has to re-add all the tags, though the data is pre-filled. Then on attempting to upload you get these errors. What a fucked-up mess. Obviously many people have found workarounds for these shortcomings, but I don't know how much I want to put into this. It's a great idea, and something I can use for my free/cheap transit information site, but the implementation is still pretty damned primitive. [comment]
Another approximation of where my place is, courtesy of Yahoo! maps. I found out you can edit OpenStreetMap.org directly by using a URL constructed like so: edit.html?zoom=16&lat=31.8458&lon=-107.6499. And I'm making progress with the TIGER data using my osm.py script too. This is addictive. [comment]
I attended a quinceañera yesterday evening, my first. It was completely foreign to me; I'd never seen anything like it. Couldn't dance worth a shit and bugged out early.
No rain last night. WTF? First day without rain in almost a week. This desert will never become a rainforest at this rate. [comment]
There's a beautiful storm off in the direction of Las Cruces. I watched the lightning for a half hour or so, now back inside the comfort of the cave. I survived another week... payday tomorrow morning.
Lately the floss has been getting caught on something right between my two front teeth. I sure hope it isn't a cavity there. My mouth has been smelling really bad lately, so I guess it won't be too surprising if some of the teeth are rotting. [comment]
No longer messing with the Google maps method of getting lat/lon data, that will pollute the OSM database. I found out that it's OK to use TIGER data, so will do that instead. I'm working on my own command-line editing tool in Python -- JOSM is just too difficult for me.
Ate the last of my chorizo today, 5 months old and still good without refrigeration. That will work. Even my neighbor's dog, Lucky, ate a piece today; all these months before, she refused it. Strange. The mice and/or rats got to it, though, so I'll have to find another way to store it next time.
Made a pair of "shoes" out of an old piece of carpet and some Velcro tape, hopefully they will protect my feet from the abrasions I've been getting each time I've gone skating so far. [comment]
Well, I saved the cost of a GPS handheld. Using a combination of satsig.net (for latitude and longitude), TopoZone.com (for elevation), and one of the GPX files from OpenStreetMap's traces page, as a template, I was able to make my own GPX file using just two waypoints. I'm gonna wait and see if that parses OK before I try adding more data; there's a locally-made map for which I can extrapolate the Lat/Lon/Elevation data and add to the OpenStreetMap database. But I'm pretty sure I can avoid having to plot it out using a GPS unit. This may not be 100% legal the way I'm doing it but hot damn, is it ever affordable.
OpenStreetMap.org is about 4 days behind processing incoming data, so it might be a while before I get some feedback. That's OK, I've got another 40 or so projects going. Anybody know if there's a similar project for aerial photography? [comment]
I've been playing with FreeTTS as a means of practicing my lines in the play The Handyman. I've got something that works kinda half-assed, but it's good enough for now: TheaterPractice.java, mostly stolen from the MixedVoices.java demo that came with the JSAPI demo sources. [comment]
The closest approximation yet to my shebeen is 31.845847 latitude by -107.65003 longitude. I was up a good part of the night pacing things out and comparing local maps to Google maps until I could more or less correlate everything. [comment]
I tried grinding a couple of mesquite pods this evening in my coffee mill. Most of it ground up OK, but the remainder was gumming up the works. The grinder is one of those you can just unclamp, so I did that, turned it upside down, and turned the crank backwards and forwards until it was clean. Not sure how it will work with a few hundred pods, but I guess we'll see.
The blue LED I attached to my hat is still bright enough at night to serve as good task lighting as I go about my coffee-making and other piddling... it worked out far better than I'd ever imagined. I'll have to get a rechargeable 9V for it next time I go into town, though. These alkaline cells are awfully toxic, or so I remember. [comment]
I had tried shooting my AK-47 (actually a Romanian model, WASR-somethingorother) on the 4th, during the fireworks, so nobody would notice -- but it wouldn't fire. The firing pin dimpled the bullets but no bang, so I gave up after the third try. But I field-stripped it the next day, and today went out shooting with a neighbor on BLM land. It worked like a sonuvabitch. Minimal kick. I think I hit about 9 out of 10 shots, aimed at a 55-gallon drum about 50 yards away. Very nice. I would probably have done even better without the margarita and two beers I had during lunch. [comment]
Well, hot shit. There are hundreds of possible back routes to El Paso and Las Cruces from Columbus. That explains some of the trucking activity on east North Boundary. And those back routes are possibly the answer to my bicycling or windskating to those cities. Highway 9 is pretty hairy with its narrow shoulder. [comment]
VLC worked like a charm. Good thing Microsoft isn't the only game in town.
Social Security denied my appeal. Now I have to file a civil suit to get them to do anything. Wonder how much that'll cost me.
Having a helluva time finding airless tires for my dirtboard. I hate to buy new tires and tubes, just to have the desert tear them apart again. I miss windskating, and though I'm getting better with my Skorpions, they're just not capable of handling the road debris like the 10 inch wheels can. [comment]
I've been spending most of the afternoon/evening attempting to fix a friend's computer. DVD's play, but with no audio. Googling shows that lots of people have this problem after installing Nero, which someone apparently did on this computer, but apparently no Microsoft solutions exist. People invariably suggest installing codecs of dubious quality from some third-party website, or VLC, which is open-source and the solution I chose. This after downloading 50MB of updates from Microsoft, plus the Windows Media Player 11 which I fetched last week and burned to CD. Installing all that shit served no purpose, the sound was still missing on the DVDs. The troubleshooter was likewise worthless. Thanks, Bill, for wasting my fucking afternoon, ya shithead. [comment]
Yesterday I wasn't feeling very well due to my overconsumption of Shiner Bock the evening before; breakfast consisted of some quasi-stale corn chips with some of the butter I packed into glasses on June 30th and inverted into a tray of water. It hadn't gone rancid yet. Went without beer until dinner at a friend's house, where I had a Rolling Rock, then a Shiner when we got home. Other than that I behaved pretty good.
Haven't been able to do anything intellectual, be it reading or programming. I have been somewhat productive physically, though. For one thing, I finished sewing Velcro to my hat, and mounted a blue LED and a 9V battery on the inside of it, and it serves as a useful night-light. I've been able to spot some of the mice inside my house with it, though I can't get close to them fast enough. I'll have to try making some homemade glue traps, but what to use for ingredients? I don't know to make the polybutylenes and polyisobutylenes that the commercial glue traps use. I doubt molasses will be sticky enough. The styrene goop I make from styrofoam and orange oil would probably work but it's pretty toxic.
I found a new goal-setting site, LifeTango.com. My own public goals are visible here, and I'm slowly migrating more of them from TadaList.com. The latter is still better for simple lists like for shopping. [comment]
Accomplished more on my solar oven in an hour or so today than in all the time (months) I've been working on it to this date. All it takes is the presence of mind to do the work at dusk, when there is sometimes no wind and the sun is not so overbearing. I ran out of both aluminum foil and foil tape, so will need to restock before completing the job. It'll be interesting tomorrow to see how high a temperature it reaches.
For those of you who aren't familiar with this project, it's an old satellite dish, about 8 feet in diameter, that I got for free and have been attempting to coat with aluminum foil. For glue, I tried both paint and styrene glue, but only had any lasting success with the former, a partial 5-gallon pail of roof coat that had been left here by the previous owner. So the only thing I've been paying for is the foil and tape.
As my neighbor says, it's either too hot to work, too cold to work, too windy to work, or -- when it's just right -- who the fuck wants to work? [comment]
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Replacement Pyrex / Glass Tube for the Eleaf ROTOR Tank.
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The military judge presiding over the court-martial of leaker Bradley Manning has declined to drop the most serious charge against him.
The Associated Press reports that the judge, Col. Denise Lind, said she would allow the government to proceed with a case accusing Manning of aiding the enemy, a charge punishable by life in prison. Lind found the government had enough evidence to support the charges, the AP says.
Manning, who has admitted to perpetrating the largest leak of classified data in U.S. history, has pleaded guilty to lesser charges but has always the denied aiding the enemy.
As we've explained, to prove the "aiding the enemy" charge, the government has to prove Manning leaked the information with the intent to help an enemy.
The New York Times explains further:
"The decision of the judge, Col. Denise Lind, centered on the prosecution's evidence that some of the classified documents Private Manning admitted giving to WikiLeaks were
"The judge heard a request from the defense on Monday to drop the charge. David E. Coombs, the lead defense lawyer, argued that Private Manning did not have 'actual knowledge' that by leaking the documents to WikiLeaks he was aiding the enemy.
"In the past, the government had argued that through his extensive training, Private Manning should have known that the information could end up with groups that wanted to harm American military personnel. But the government acknowledged Monday that 'should have known' was not enough to define 'actual knowledge.' "
Update at 1:46 p.m. ET. 'Far-Reaching Implications':
Civil libertarians and some law scholars are weighing in, now, saying this decision may have far-reaching implications.
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, says the ruling implies:
"You don't need specialized intelligence training to know that terrorists use the internet. By this logic, any military officer who discloses information to the media or posts it on the internet could be charged with aiding the enemy. That's not consistent with the purpose of the law, and it could have a dramatic chilling effect on would-be whistleblowers."
Boston College Law School professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, the author of an upcoming Law Review article about the First Amendment and leaks, said this decision exacerbates the "the government's inability to distinguish between traitors and leakers."
"There are very important differences between those who send information to the enemy with the intent of aiding the enemy and those people who release information to the public with the intent of informing the public debate," Papandrea said. "It's time for our legal system to draw some clear distinctions between these two categories."
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Jewish World Review March 9, 2005/ 28 Adar I 5765
Richard Z. Chesnoff Shot at liberty begins with end of Hezbollah
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Hezbollah has a "strictly political wing," they argue, providing schools, food and medical care for tens of thousands of Lebanese poor. "Let's be fair to Hezbollah," they say. Such arguments remain popular among Americans who bend so far backward on Mideast peace efforts that they get their heads stuck among the dunes.
Thousands of Lebanese are in the streets, some with American flags, chanting "Syria out!" The majority of Lebanese want true independence. The world, in large part, is calling for Syria's withdrawal, and even Syria itself is mumbling hogwash about retreating, but not yet across its border. So why would Hezbollah stand against this tide?
There is only one reason: survival. There is no differentiation between Hezbollah's military, political and social wings. They are one in the same, and all branches are ultimately led by the same people. In Hezbollah's case, this includes Sayyed Hassan Nasralla, the so-called spiritual and political leader of Hezbollah, and his second-in-command, Imad Fayez Mughniyah one of the world's most wanted terrorists and the chief of Hezbollah's military wing. As Hezbollah expert Yoram Schweitzer puts it, "It's ridiculous to think Mughniyah makes any major decision without Nasralla."
In the long term, Hezbollah wants to transform Lebanon into an Islamic republic similar to that of Iran, to annihilate Israel and to propagate a violent worldwide anti-American "Islamic Revolution." These hateful messages are beamed round the world every day on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station.
Hezbollah is a state within a state in Lebanon. With Syrian backing and millions of dollars in Iranian arms and supply support, it maintains a semiautonomous military-operational power base in southern Lebanon, Beirut and Lebanon's Bekaa region. It is from there that Hezbollah attacks. Without Syrian support and with a truly independent Lebanon, it is there that it could be destroyed.
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This contemporary, stylish waxed oak collection with a quirky design adds a modern, functional feel to any room. It offers smart, well-designed practical pieces for living, dining and occasional use. Avon Oak furniture is solidly built and finished with one coat of lacquer with a coat of wax on top.
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Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and US Courthouse
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Grand Junction, Colorado 81501
Welcome to the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and US Courthouse. In 2010, the Federal Building & US Courthouse received $15M in America Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modernize the entire building. The GSA's goal for the modernization of the building is to not only preserve this anchor in the Grand Junction community, but also to convert it into one of the most energy efficient and sustainable historic buildings in the country.
This will be accomplished by using advanced systems such as:
- variable refrigerant flow (VRF) for the HVAC
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- advanced metering and building controls
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Photovoltaic panels are on the roof of an elevated canopy above the building's north edge, providing enough energy to power the building's peak demand targeting creating the first site net-zero building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Net-zero means that the building will produce as much energy on-site as it consumes over the course of one year.
Federal Architecture embodies all that we value as a nation. The success of the modernization of the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building & US Courthouse represents our responsibility to our environment and our commitment to excellence.
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Is your organization trying to get a handle on how to evolve your networking infrastructure for a cloud-based world? Just what are the new paradigms and skill sets you need to master to ensure current and future optimal access to your workloads running in Azure?
The new Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects poster (https://aka.ms/cloudarchnetworking) helps IT decision makers and architects to:
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Jabba's Palace: A Love Letter Game
Jabba's Palace: A Love Letter Game
The home of the galaxy's most notorious gangster is a place of danger and deception. Its vile denizens thrive within, but the members of the Rebel Alliance have their own plans. Based on the beloved card game and set in the Star Wars universe, Star Wars: Jabba's Palace - A Love Letter Game retains the simple and fun mechanics of the original as you utilize the talents of iconic characters from Return of the Jedi.
Players take turns drawing a card and playing a card, then executing its effect. Cards include characters like Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett, Salacious Crumb, Jabba the Hutt, and many more. Through members of both the Rebel Alliance and Jabba's crew, players must use these character's abilities to outwit and outlast the others, while also using the new Agenda cards to find even more ways to win. In a quick card game of rebel bravery and vile deceit, can you carry out your agenda while outthinking your foes?


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Get your hot tub ready for the summer with some cleaning tips from Villeroy & Boch.
Every season is hot tub season
Are you looking for ultimate relaxation? Then it's time to make sure your hot tub is fully prepared. Especially after a long winter of warm bubbling baths, we recommend another intensive clean of your hot tub. Then you're all set for summer! Follow our practical care and maintenance tips to ensure you're ready for a relaxed and enjoyable experience.
Correct cleaning
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In addition to the hot tub itself, you also need to make sure the water stays clean. This is important not only for complete relaxation, but also for hygiene and health reasons. We recommend changing the water at least three or even five times a year, and cleaning the pipes at the same time. The very first time you use your hot tub with fresh water, we recommend carrying out a shock chlorination to kill off bacteria and germs. Then check the alkalinity of the water. These values should be between 80 and 120 for use, with the ideal reading being precisely 100. After the first use of your hot tub, you should remove the filter every four to six weeks and clean it using appropriate tablets as required. Carry out a simple filter clean once a week and check the water quality two or three times a week. To treat the water, we recommend the tested and high-quality Aquafiness product.
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This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic, David Bianculli, sitting in for Terry Gross. Our next guest, Tom Perrotta, is a novelist whose latest book, "The Leftovers," is being turned into an HBO series of the same name which premieres Sunday. Perrotta adapted it along with Damon Lindelof, one of the stars of ABC's "Lost." The story of HBO's "The Leftovers" is the same as in Perrotta's novel.
One day, with no warning and no explanation, 2 percent of the world's population just vanishes into thin air - old people, parents, children, even babies. The HBO drama starts with the disappearance, then jumps to three years later, as those who are left behind - the leftovers - struggle to carry on and make sense of it all.
Some start as a religious cult called the Guilty Remnants. Here's a scene from Sunday's premier when the mayor of a small town is explaining her plans for a third anniversary parade, while the chief of police listens skeptically. The mayor is played by Amanda Warren, the police chief by series star, Justin Theroux.
AMANDA WARREN: (As Lucy Warburton) The DSD has proclaimed a federal holiday of remembrance. And that's what they're calling our departed because that's how we want to remember them. Everyone loves a hero. So we're all going to have a nice walk through town, have a good cry and then move on. It's time. Everybody's ready to feel better.
JUSTIN THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) Not the Remnant.
AMANDA WARREN: (As Warburton) At last, the chief speaks.
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) I would've said something sooner, but I was so riveted.
WARREN: (As Warburton) So we're going to do this again?
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) The whole town - the same place at the same time on the anniversary? You're inviting them to show up.
WARREN: (As Warburton) The GR isn't a threat. If they want to stage a nonviolent protest, that's their right.
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) You were at the homecoming. They walked right onto the field.
WARREN: (As Warburton) And then they walked right off, no harm done.
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) They are trying to provoke us.
WARREN: (As Warburton) Then don't get provoked.
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) A year ago, these people didn't even exist. Now there's almost 50 of them. They bought up an entire cul-de-sac.
WARREN: (As Warburton) You know, you're saying this to me as if I didn't already know it.
THEROUX: (As Kevin Garvey) I don't know [bleep], Lucy, do you? Where did they come from? What do they want? You don't even know who they are.
WARREN: (As Warburton) We know who they were.
BIANCULLI: Also starring in HBO's "The Leftovers" is Amy Brenneman, playing the sheriff's wife, Laurie. Tom Perrotta also wrote the novels "Election" and "Little Children," both of which were adapted into films. Terry Gross spoke to Tom Perrotta in 2011 and asked him about the idea behind "The Leftovers."
Tom Perrotta, welcome back to FRESH AIR. Your book isn't about the Rapture, per se. But to understand what's in the book, you have to understand what beliefs about the Rapture are. So why don't we start with that? What is your understanding of the Rapture?
TOM PERROTTA: Well, the Rapture is part of pre-millennial end-times theology. It's actually a pretty recent part of Christianity. I think it was a 19 century invention or formulation. And it's the beginning of the Second Coming which is a seven-year period.
So basically, the Rapture is the first real occasion the Christians on Earth rise to meet Jesus in the sky. And the people who are left behind suffer through a seven year period of tribulation - which is wars, plagues, all kinds of suffering. And there's a big battle that involves the Antichrist and Armageddon and, finally, the Second Coming and the Millennium, which is Christ's kingdom on Earth for 1,000 years.
GROSS: So in the Rapture, the believers rise to heaven, and the nonbelievers stay behind and have to deal with the tribulations, the plagues and floods and all that.
PERROTTA: Exactly.
GROSS: OK. So I want you to read an excerpt of the prologue to your novel, "The Leftovers." And this is from the point of view of Laurie, who's an agnostic who lives with her husband. They have two children - a boy in college and a girl in high school.
She never believed in the Rapture. She says it always seemed like religious kitsch to her - kind of like one of those black velvet paintings. And then she's kind of hit with the fact that all these people have disappeared. So why don't you pick it up from there?
PERROTTA: OK. (Reading) Then it happened. The biblical prophecy came true - or at least partly true. People disappeared - millions of them at the same time, all over the world. This wasn't some ancient rumor - a dead man coming back to life during the Roman Empire or a dusty homegrown legend - Joseph Smith unearthing golden tablets in upstate New York, conversing with an angel. This was real.
The Rapture happened in her hometown to her best friend's daughter, among others, while Laurie, herself, was in the house. God's intrusion into her life couldn't have been any clearer if he'd addressed her from a burning azalea. At least you would have thought so.
And yet, she managed to deny the obvious for weeks and months afterward, clinging to her doubts like a life preserver, desperately echoing the scientists and pundits and politicians who insisted that the cause of what they called the Sudden Departure remained unknown - and cautioned the public to avoid jumping to conclusions until the release of the official report by the nonpartisan government panel that was investigating the matter.
Something tragic occurred, the experts repeated over and over. It was a Rapture-like phenomenon, but it doesn't appear to have been the Rapture.
Interestingly, some of the loudest voices making this argument belonged to Christians themselves, who couldn't help noticing that many of the people who'd disappeared on October 14 - Hindus and Buddhists and Muslims and Jews and atheists and animists and homosexuals and Eskimos and Mormons and Zoroastrians - whatever the heck they were - hadn't accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
As far as anyone could tell, it was a random harvest. And the one thing the Rapture couldn't be was random. The whole point was to separate the wheat from the chaff, to reward the true believers and put the rest of the world on notice. An indiscriminate Rapture was no Rapture at all.
So it was easy enough to be confused, to throw up your hands and claim that you just didn't know what was going on. But Laurie knew. Deep in her heart, as soon as it happened, she knew. She'd been left behind. They all had.
GROSS: That's Tom Perrotta reading from his novel, "The Leftovers." So at the center of this is the idea - if something inexplicable happened, would you attribute it to God or would you find a scientific, secular reason to explain it? Who believes this is an act of God? Who believes it's some kind of scientific or just inexplicable phenomenon that is not related to religion? Why did you want to pose that question in your novel?
PERROTTA: That's a very good question. I think when you write a book, you start, I think, in a much vaguer place. You're not really sure what question you're posing. So in this case, I think - I wrote a book called "The Abstinence Teacher." It was my last novel, and it was about the culture wars in the U.S. centered around sex education.
And I spent a lot of time thinking about contemporary Christianity and reading about it. And, obviously, the Rapture kept coming up. And my first impulse was to sort of laugh it off. It's a sort of a funny idea - people just floating away.
But I also kept thinking, well, what if it did happen? I thought, three years later, everyone would have forgotten about it - that no matter what horrible thing happens in the world, the culture seems to move on and keep flowing into the present moment.
And so the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like a really rich metaphor for thinking about the way that we react to, as you say, incomprehensible events, horrible events, things that we can't completely understand. There are these dueling impulses, you know, to remember and bear witness and to forget and move on. And this was the scenario that I chose to explore those impulses.
GROSS: Now, your book is being published very close to the 10 anniversary of 9/11, and, in a way, that seems like no coincidence 'cause I kept thinking about 9/11 when reading your book because many people in New York, you know, did disappear. They disappeared into the rubble of the towers. Their remnants, their remains were never found.
PERROTTA: And, you know, I certainly was thinking about it as I wrote it. I didn't write the book as a kind of direct response to 9/11, but I did keep getting hung up on this idea of seven years. And that's the period of the tribulation mentioned in end-times theology. And I kept thinking, you know, seven years is such a long time.
You know, I remember, 10 years ago, feeling like, you know, the world will never be the same. We'll never forget this. And I think, you know, even four and five years later, it started to seem like something that had already been absorbed by history - that we had moved past it.
Now obviously for people who were directly affected, it's never absorbed by history. It's always present. And so it was one of the really contemporary examples I had of this process. But you can name any number of traumatic 20 century events and think about, you know, how quickly people managed to - many people managed to move on.
GROSS: The mother in the book, whose point of view we heard represented in the reading that you did, she joins this cult-like group called the Guilty Remnant. Would you describe the group?
PERROTTA: The Guilty Remnant represents a very extreme reaction to this event - the Rapture, the Sudden Departure. These people are kind of a home-grown suburban cult. They dress in white, and that makes them distinctive. They travel in same-sex pairs throughout the town. The thing that makes them most distinctive is that they are smoking constantly. This is a sort of declaration of faith, and also a sense that they have that there's no future - that they don't have to worry about their health or anything like that.
And what they do is just follow people around, and they see themselves as living reminders. They devote themselves to bearing witness, and there is this guilty sense. They believe that they were, in some way, rejected by God.
They don't necessarily identify as Christians, but they have absorbed that viewpoint on the Rapture - that they were, in a sense, left behind, judged and found wanting. And they dedicate themselves to preventing a return to normalcy in the town.
BIANCULLI: Tom Perrotta speaking with Terry Gross - more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. Let's get back to Terry's 2011 interview with author Tom Perrotta. He's just helped adapt his latest novel, "The Leftovers," into a TV series for HBO. It premieres Sunday.
GROSS: Do you know why the people in your own novel disappeared?
PERROTTA: (Laughing) No. No, I didn't. Partly I'm always impatient in science fiction movies or books where there's this explanation, well, there was a temporary disturbance in the Earth's magnetic field or...
GROSS: (Laughing) Yeah.
PERROTTA: ...You know, tons of industrial waste were dumped into the river, and that's why this monster was created.
Yeah, I understand that there may be social criticism embedded in those sort of explanations, but they always seem kind of cheap and easy. And in any case, for me, the book was really about the experience of not knowing.
As I say, I'm a skeptic myself or an agnostic, whatever word you want to put on it. And I do feel like, you know, the burden of living with that sort of skepticism is that you are confronted with not having a story about why terrible things happen or, you know, what the meaning is of our time on Earth.
And so to me - you know, and the apocalyptic religious stories are always about imposing a final meaning on the mysteries of life. And this is an agnostic's apocalypse where even this event that should make everything clear just makes it all murky.
GROSS: Did you grow up with religion?
PERROTTA: Yes, I grew up Catholic in the 1970s. And it was not a very rigorous religious upbringing. I stayed in the church right up to the point where I got confirmed at age 13, and that was basically considered - that was basically what we did. It was like just stay in, get confirmed. It was almost like I graduated from church.
GROSS: (Laughing) Right. Right, so you didn't even need to have a falling out. You just graduated.
PERROTTA: Yeah, you didn't have to go anymore.
GROSS: Since you're not someone who turns to the Bible for explanations about life and death and other mysteries, do you find that fiction is helpful in, if not comprehending the world, at least finding people who help explain living in the face of mystery?
PERROTTA: Oh, yeah. I mean, I would probably have to say that reading fiction - those stories fill the space that, you know, other people might use religious stories for. You know, the bulk of what I know about human life, I've gotten from novels.
And I think the thing about novels that make them important to the people who love them is that there's always another perspective. There's no novel that I think really works unless it has a kind of internal dialogue and a tension.
And I think that is obviously, you know, a real alternative to religion which tends to give you a unified perspective and isn't that interested in the idea that there are competing ideas that are equally valid - or valid if you are a person in, you know, one set of circumstances and less valid if you're a person in another set of circumstances.
It's very relative in that sense and - as opposed to absolute. And that's what drives, you know, religious conservatives crazy. They don't like this idea that there are multiple truths for multiple people.
GROSS: So your new novel, "The Leftovers," is being adapted into an HBO series. Are you working on the adaptation?
PERROTTA: Yeah, I'm going to write the pilot.
GROSS: So what are you going to have to do to make this into television?
PERROTTA: That's a very good question. I think the book has an interesting time frame. It basically does not focus on the Rapture-like event that's at the center of it. It begins about - some months after it happens, and the bulk of the action takes place three years after the event. So, you know, one of the things I'm really pondering is just where do I begin my story? And the thing I love about serial TV drama is that you can really let a story breathe.
And, you know, when you're adapting a book for a film - a feature film that's two hours - you're just always compressing and cutting. And I think what TV offers you is the ability to maybe open things up, take events that are just mentioned in passing in the novel and develop them. So I'm really thinking that there's a lot of material that takes place in this three year period that I kind of skip over that I might be able to, you know, break open and explore and let breathe.
GROSS: You know, when I first opened your new novel, "The Leftovers," I was kind of expecting it to be a social satire about the Rapture and people who believed it. And I don't think that's what it is.
I mean, there are satirical elements in it, but I think what you're really doing is looking at why some people believe, why some people don't believe, how we live in the face of mystery, how we grieve for people who we've lost.
Can you talk a little bit about the tone you wanted and the tone you wanted to use to describe those people who do believe in the Rapture?
PERROTTA: Yeah, no, that's a - I'm really glad you said that because I don't feel like I'm a satirist. I don't even think I ever was. But that label has stuck to me probably because the movie "Election" was a brilliant satire, and it kind of amped up some elements that were muted in the book to do that. And that was the first way people became familiar with my work. And so labels tend to stick, and first impressions tend to stick.
But I will say that I think what happens for me is that I do start in a place that feels like it might lead to a satire, and then the process of spending time with characters, getting inside their heads, trying to see the world the way they see it, pulls me away from satire.
And I think a lot of times, you know, you can't see where you're going to end up. So I think I did - if you asked me the day I started writing this book, I think I would have told you that it was going to be a lot funnier then it turned out to be. The problem was - to choose the Rapture as your subject matter means that you're dealing with characters who are grieving for the missing.
And the story is the story of an epidemic of grief and loss. And if there's a religious impulse in the book, it's, to me, you know, what must have been the original religious impulse which is, you know, that faith is a response to incomprehensible loss. And so I don't think that any of the characters who embrace the various faiths that are available in the book are ridiculous. I think that that feeling of loss and that need for comfort is a completely human response to what's happened.
GROSS: Tom Perrotta, thank you so much for talking with us.
PERROTTA: Oh, thank you, Terry. I really enjoyed it.
BIANCULLI: Tom Perrotta speaking to Terry Gross in 2011 - his newest novel, "the Leftovers," is the basis of a new HBO series premiering Sunday which Perrotta helped adapt. This is FRESH AIR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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11 Ways to Increase Your Energy
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By Jonny Bowden, Ph.D. for Next Avenue
In the commencement address he gave to graduates of Kenyon College in 2005, award-winning novelist David Foster Wallace talked about fish:
Two young fish are swimming along when they happen to meet an older fish swimming in the opposite direction. The older fish nods at them and says: 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' The two young fish swim on for a bit. Eventually one of them looks over at the other and says, 'What the hell is water?'
That was Wallace's example of how when something is always present in your life, you don't notice it. Well, it's the same for energy. Much like the water in Wallace's parable, energy is something you take for granted — until you don't have it. What's more, you can't get it, at least not in the traditional sense. Trying to do so is like trying to grasp water in your hand: It just slips through your fingers and splatters on the ground. However, if you cup your palm, water can sit in it, unperturbed.
Consider this: You don't have to teach 2-year-olds ways to have more energy; that's the way they come out of the box. So really, it's not that we don't have energy; it's that we've created conditions — often by many years of bad lifestyle choices — that make it almost impossible for energy to show up.
After spending years constructing all kinds of roadblocks to that energy, now we wonder how to get it back. The answer is to remove the conditions that keep it from surfacing. Some of the ways to do that are common sense. Others require that we change some of our daily habits. None are out of reach of ordinary mortals.
1. Get a good night's sleep. It sounds like a platitude, but it is critically important. It's not just about putting in seven or eight hours a night; it's about remembering that your bed is not your office. Switch off the computer, the TV, the cellphone and the lights. Keep the room cool and comfortable. Calm yourself. With a good night's sleep, you'll awake refreshed and energetic.
2. Include protein in every single meal and snack. There's nothing more energizing, metabolism-boosting and brain-clearing than a high-protein meal. Protein also can make you stronger. In a recent study, healthy volunteers were overfed by the same number of calories. But the composition of their diets was different. As expected everyone gained weight. But people on the lowest protein diet also lost 2.2 pounds of muscle mass, thus essentially slowing their metabolic rates. Those in the normal- or high-protein groups gained muscle mass during the overeating period. Their weight went up, but their body composition improved. The body composition of the low-protein group actually worsened slightly. Although I personally prefer animal sources of protein, vegetable and grain sources can also work, although the foods that contain them are much higher in carbohydrates. And that brings us to step three.
3. Cut back on carbohydrates. Kick the carbs — pasta, rice, cereals, breads, desserts, etc. — to kick-start your energy. That's because carbs slow us down and sap energy by, among other things, interfering with the body's ability to keep blood sugar on an even keel.
4. Drink water. Even if you're only 2 percent dehydrated, your physical performance and mental energy may be adversely affected. There's not a single drop of scientific evidence for the old "eight glasses a day" advice, but it's still a very good general guideline, even if it is based just on experience and not science. If you're trying to lose weight, you probably should drink even more water. My guideline for weight loss has always been this: Take your target weight; divide by two; and drink that number of ounces a day. And when you lose those excess pounds, you will also feel more energetic.
5. Get 10 minutes of sun on most days. In addition to providing vitamin D, the sun is a mood enhancer, and that can make it energizing. After all, seasonal affective disorder (episodes of depression that occur at a certain time of the year, usually during winter) is related, at least in part, to darker days with less light and sun.
6. Check your thyroid. Low energy can be the result of an underperforming thyroid, and women over age 50 are especially at risk. Although there is some controversy about exactly which hormones should be measured to evaluate thyroid function (i.e., thyroid-stimulating hormone versus thyroxine, etc.) and how exactly to make the diagnosis, the fact remains that thyroid function is absolutely something to look at carefully if you're feeling fatigued and run down.
7. Identify food sensitivities. Undiscovered food sensitivities can be energy zappers. These are not the same as classical food allergies. Real food allergies affect less than 5 percent of the population, but food sensitivities are different — they happen because your body can't handle a particular kind of food well. You may notice such symptoms as brain fog, tiredness, a bit of bloating, some gas or a headache. The symptoms are diffuse and varied and many people don't associate them with the foods that cause them. This is compounded by the fact that many of these reactions are delayed by many hours, making it more difficult for you to pinpoint the culprit food. How do you discover which foods you might be sensitive to? One way is by doing a rotation diet. Remove a specific type of food from your diet for two weeks and see what happens. If everything's the same, that food probably wasn't the culprit. If a symptom disappears, that's a clue! Start by eliminating wheat, cow's milk products, sugar, corn and corn syrup, eggs, soy, and peanuts — what Dr. Elson Haas calls the sensitive seven. Those are responsible for the majority of food sensitivities. And off the record, most health practitioners who recommend this kind of rotation or elimination diet find that they get 90 percent of the results just by getting rid of wheat (or grains) and dairy.
8. Eat dark chocolate. Eating one or two squares of dark chocolate (60 to 70 percent cocoa) can be good for your energy and, according to some recent studies, good for your heart as well. Since a bar of dark chocolate (not milk chocolate candy) is about 200 calories, a square or two is not a very high-calorie snack. And it's not very sweet, so even if you love sugar, you're unlikely to want to binge on very dark chocolate.
9. Experiment with spices. Hot peppers and capsaicin — foods and spices that make you sweat a little bit when you eat them — can stimulate the metabolism a little and give you a bit of a boost. The evidence is anecdotal, but if you like spicy foods, experiment to see if certain ones make you feel more energetic.
10. Do interval training. We're all familiar with the paradox: you're too tired to exercise, yet exercise actually gives you more energy. That said, it has to be the right kind of exercise. I'm partial to interval training, like sprinting … you go for a very high-intensity interval for, say 30 seconds, and alternate with a period of active rest, where you don't sit down, but perhaps you walk at a normal pace for 20 seconds, then you go back up to the high-intensity rate.
11. Drink "green" drinks. Drinks made of natural vegetable juices or prepackaged powdered mixes are a good alternative to sugary sports drinks. Green drinks are high in nutrients, low glycemic — so they help keep your blood sugar on an even keel — and they take the edge off your appetite. They're also a good alternative to high-carb snacks that give you a sugar jolt followed by a crash.
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Three days after his death, on January 27, 1993, Thurgood Marshall came to the Supreme Court, up the marble steps, for the last time. Congress had ordered Abraham Lincoln's catafalque brought to the Court, and on it the casket of Thurgood Marshall lay in state. His beloved Chief, Earl Warren, had been so honored in the Great Hall of the Court, and no one else. Congress was right about the bier, and spoke with the voice of the people: no other American, of any age, so deserved to lie where Lincoln slept.
To him, all day on Wednesday, the people came--a score of thousands, we were told, in the blustery bright Washington winter. The President had said a week before that it was spring, but he was optimistic. I stood with perhaps two thousand of the people myself. They knew it was winter, but there was something that they had to do. With others who had been TM's law clerks, I kept vigil by the bier for a time. We stood by turns, in motionless respect as the people passed. TM's son John stood there all day, hour after hour with his trooper's straightness, full of gentle strength, his father's toughness in his face. So by turns we stood, on hard cold marble, and the people came to say goodbye. They too came up the steps and through the doors, above which the Court promises the world EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. Later the Chief Justice said, and rightly, that no other individual had done more to make those words reality.
But all the people made the words real on Wednesday, for they did equal justice to his memory, one and all, the fortunate and the unfortunate together. I stood silent waiting for them, and they were silent by and large saying what they had come to say. Schoolchildren came, lots of them, to promise with their teachers that the lessons he had struggled all his life to learn would be handed down to their grandchildren, three generations more. Others came with promises too. I remember most clearly a young man, of seventeen or so, who came with his mother. He walked to the casket, as close as the ropes would let him pass. He turned his palms upward, and he clenched his fists. He put his head down on his chest; his fists were clenched so hard I saw his arms tremble. He stood for some minutes, silent and trembling, in the most solemn place he knew, to make the most solemn promise of his life--whatever it was--to himself. TM would have been happy to see him there. Such youthful moments of passionate resolve can change the world, he knew. Thurgood Marshall had such a passionate determination, and he changed the world.
The world was changed more than he knew, and the people came to tell him about it. They brought him their staggering diversity, and they came before him one last time to say: "You see... This is what equality is; this is who we are. We are the people you strived for. We are the people you protected. We are the People of the United States of America, and we loved you."
I stood and watched them as they came, and tried to remember each face I saw. I tried to remember out of gratitude and love, for they knew who he was, and came to show him who they had become because of him. I stood by his side and realized that his long journey was over, and that there, in the Great Hall, he was at home. Here was Odysseus returned from all his wanderings, old and crafty, a teller of tales who had been strong enough to strike down the wicked and unjust in his own hall.
At ten o'clock that night, the last of the people passed, and TM left the Court forever. They lifted him from where Father Abraham had slumbered, and bore him out from the Great Hall, down the marble steps and into history, toward the lighted rotunda of the Capitol. Or so they told me; I wasn't there. I could not bear to see it. I thought of him instead photographed on those same steps--young, confident and strong, grinning with his invariable mixture of irony and joy--celebrating with his comrades in arms the impossible achievement of an entire nation's dream. I thought of him as he had been, and I could not stand and watch as Odysseus sailed away once more, leaving us all behind.


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Before You Open-Source Your Code
In addition to working as a part of the Ubuntu software community and my work as an author of Ubuntu Unleashed and The Official Ubuntu Book, I work in a software project. This project is in the process of releasing programming code that has been written entirely in-house. This is code that no one has seen or been able to access outside of those working here, but we want to open it up to a wider community. To make the process as smooth and clear as possible for all involved, we realized that several questions need to be addressed before we release our software using an open source license. This article highlights several of these questions and will provide a good foundation for others who want to move their code from closed to open source.
I did not invent this process and am not the first to ask these questions. The questions are the result of struggling through a process that involved some trial and error and a lot of good advice. I must acknowledge upfront articles, books, and personal email conversations from which I benefited, especially from Andy Oram, Karl Fogel, and Bruce Perens.
Why Is the Code Being Released?
This is a philosophical question, but also fundamental to every other question. Are you releasing code in order to invite others to participate in a collaborative process, or is it being released solely for the sake of transparency, so that others who may run the program know what it contains? The answers here will inform every decision that follows, so think this through carefully.
You want to determine at the very beginning whether it is your desire to lead a community around the code, or whether you just want to let others use what you have written as you move on. Will you maintain this code in the long term or are you simply setting it free for others to use, maintain, and build upon?


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If the Passover Story Were Reported by CNN or the New York Times
Daniel P. Waxman
The cycle of violence between the Jews and the Egyptians continues with no end in sight in Egypt . After eight previous plagues have destroyed the Egyptian infrastructure and disrupted the lives of ordinary Egyptian citizens, the Jews launched a new offensive this week in the form of the plague of darkness.
Western journalists were particularly enraged by this plague. "It is simply impossible to report when you can't see an inch in front of you," complained a frustrated Andrea Koppel of CNN. "I have heard from my reliable Egyptian contacts that in the midst of the blanket of blackness, the Jews were annihilating thousands of Egyptians. Their word is solid enough evidence for me."
While the Jews contend that the plagues are justified given the harsh slavery imposed upon them by the Egyptians, Pharaoh, the Egyptian leader, rebuts this claim. "If only the plagues would let up, there would be no slavery. We just want to live plague-free. It is the right of every society."
Saeb Erekat, an Egyptian spokesperson, complains that slavery is justifiable given the Jews' superior weaponry supplied to them by the superpower G-d. The Europeans are particularly enraged by the latest Jewish offensive. "The Jewish aggression must cease if there is to be peace in the region. The Jews should go back to slavery for the good of the rest of the world," stated an angry French President Jacques Chirac.
Even several Jews agree. Adam Shapiro, a Jew, has barricaded himself within Pharaoh's chambers to protect Pharaoh from what is feared will be the next plague, the death of the firstborn. Mr. Shapiro claims that while slavery is not necessarily a good thing, it is the product of the plagues and when the plagues end, so will the slavery. "The Jews have gone too far with plagues such as locusts and epidemic which have virtually destroyed the Egyptian economy," Mr. Shapiro laments. "The Egyptians are really a very nice people and Pharaoh is kind of huggable once you get to know him," gushes Shapiro.
The United States is demanding that Moses and Aaron, the Jewish leaders, continue to negotiate with Pharaoh. While Moses points out that Pharaoh had made promise after promise to free the Jewish people only to immediately break them and thereafter impose harsher and harsher slavery, Richard Boucher of the State Department assails the latest offensive. "Pharaoh is not in complete control of the taskmasters," Mr. Boucher states. "The Jews must return to the negotiating table and will accomplish nothing through these plagues."
The latest round of violence comes in the face of a bold new Saudi peace overture. "If only the Jews will give up their language, change their names to Egyptian names and cease having male children, the Arab nations will incline toward peace with them," Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah declared.
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Gay Group Buys Remainder of $450 Million Gold Coast Project, off Macquarie
THE Gay Group of Companies has paid development partner Macquarie Group and Urban Pacific an undisclosed sum for its remaining interest in a $450 million Gold Coast residential development.
The Gay Group and Macquarie consortium were marketing the final blocks within its River Links project in Coomera, a 500+ block residential village under construction on what was once a dairy farm. The developers purchased the farm in 1998. The Gay Group will now resume full control of the project.
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10 Things to Know about THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
By COC StaffPosted in 22/23 Season[READ MORE]
A subversive comedy from one of history's greatest composers, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro returns to the COC stage this winter to serve up opera's most profound music! This masterpiece unfolds over the course of one crazy day as Figaro and Susanna, both servants in an aristocratic household, get ready for their wedding day, all while navigating the unexpected twists and turns of romantic attraction.
Read on to learn the 10 things you should know before heading to the opera! -
This Month in Free Concert Series: December
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As the winter season rolls in, cozy up with some world-class live music at the Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre!
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Karoline Podolak Wins First Prize at Centre Stage
By COC StaffPosted in 22/23 Season[READ MORE]
Canadian soprano Karoline Podolak took home First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the Canadian Opera Company's Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition last night at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The evening marked the grand finale of a national search for Canada's top young opera singers, all of whom were vying for cash prizes and the chance to be invited for a coveted spot in the company's prestigious Ensemble Studio training program. In a COC first, the annual event in support of the company's Ensemble Studio was live-streamed to audiences across the country, providing an unparalleled platform for the young artists to share their talent.


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