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Our starting point for this walk is Berlin Central Station. It starts by asking how sensory perceptions influence our knowledge. How do we move, and what defines this movement? Our culture? Gender? Mood? And how are perception and motor activity linked to each other? Do I experience a place differently depending on whether I move through a crowd of people with a sense of determination or cautiously? To what extent can other people's movements be interpreted? Instead of giving clear answers to these questions, this audio walk encourages participants to observe and reflect on themselves. The questions posed and the information presented are linked to the locations. We visit the grounds of the Charité hospital, where one thing is clearly revealed: illnesses influence movement. But history shows that the traditional hospital bed has undergone a historical transformation. Today the aim is to get the patient moving again as quickly as possible. On Campus Nord at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, biology scrutinises scientific explorations of the body: take the microscope, for instance. It creates images that influence our knowledge. Just as space and buildings influence both our movements and the production of knowledge. The walk links perspectives and questions from different disciplines – from philosophy and biology to architecture, art history and cultural studies – and encourages audio walkers to engage critically with the questions and issues that it raises.
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Well, the pit bull apologia is "super fired up", again. The source of this week's nation wide temper tantrum is over the injustice suffered by deputy LANI BLAYLOCK and her pit bull when she was told her pit bull was not welcome on school grounds. The target of their deranged witch hunt is Superintendent Larry Glaze and the La Grande Oregon School District.
While the cyber nutters stir the pot and rally the troops, the BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE ASSOCIATION are proving themselves to be petty tyrants in a twisted game of chicken. The BMHA packed up their toys and are refusing to play with the school district. If they can't use pibbles in their dog bite safety program, they will not participate at all. that'll show 'em! The BMHA will punish the children by depriving them of information that could spare them serious injury and even save their lives while simultaneously placing the blame of any injuries from future attacks squarely on Supt Glaze for endangering children while pushing their pit bull agenda.
The BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE ASSOCIATION was quick to take the credit for a 3rd grader avoiding serious injury when he was recently attacked by a german shepherd and applied the knowledge he learned by "pretending to be a rock". Of course the good samaritan that came to the boy's aid by "waving a white bag" and scaring the man eater away might have had something to do with the boy escaping serious injury too. (who knew a white bag could be such a powerful weapon! certainly not the group of people who even after using a blow torch! could not stop a pit bull from attacking)
"He is absolutely wonderful around children."
Deputy LANI BLAYLOCK
I don't understand why a dog is even needed to teach dog bite safety. Unless they are simulating attacks and menacing behavior.
The pit bull apologia demands justice
CATHIE FALCK, president Blue Mountain Humane Association and office manager Union county sheriff's office
"We will not be providing dog bite-safety instruction in the La Grande School District. A breed ban is wrong, it is unfair. We feel that we need to take a stand. We should not be condemning a dog just because of its breed."
FALCK left this comment on the BMHA facebook page but it has disappeared.
PENNY EIMS, a nutter examiner is clinging to the bizarro notion that dogs can be discriminated against (mind you, the laws regard dogs as PROPERTY that you can legally muzzle, crate, kennel, leash, tether, sterilize, vaccinate, dock, crop and tie to a rape rack) and states the "superintendent's narrow mind put the program in jeopardy" not the conduct of deputies LANI BLAYLOCK and CATHIE FALCK.
Stay at home mom and nutter examiner CARRIE McCORMICK won her 15 minutes of fame by calling the 86ing of BOMANI an "atrocity".
atrocity |əˈträsitē|
noun an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury
B-12 starved Vegan Warrior Princess SLOANE QUEALY-MINER has referred to the superintendent as "daft", "abusive" and "hostile" and is calling for his head. QUEALY-MINER is rallying her pit bull flash mob to bombard Glaze and the school board until they give into their demand of full reinstatement of pit bulls on school grounds. Pit bull advocacy is no stranger to valuing pit bulls above people and this nutter is no exception. QUEALY-MINER vociferously opposed the euthanasia of OREO, an abused pit bull in New York City. OREO was sentenced to death after the pit nutters at the ASPCA determined she could not be rehabilitated, a dog so dangerous she even attacked her handler. QUEALY-MINER is now dedicated to passing a law that will spare New York's most aggressive dogs from euthanasia.
can you say - histrionic?
What do we know about LANI BLAYLOCK and BOMANI?
For starters, LANI BLAYLOCK is a Union County Deputy Animal Control Officer.
In March she adopted BOMANI, an adult male pit bull of unknown history with injuries from either neglect or abuse. BLAYLOCK spent "months" training BOMANI, then began taking the male pit bull of unknown history to elementary schools to teach kids about dog bite safety.
BLAYLOCK'S other dogs are snack sized and I suspect this is BLAYLOCK'S first pit bull. The newbies are always the most rabid defenders of the breed.
On March 18th, BLAYLOCK posted a photo of her partially destroyed sofa. She attributed the damage to her "couch eater" and stated "This is what happens when your dog breaks outa his crate while you are work! LOL"
On mother's day, the animal control officer posted a photo of her hand with a single tiny tooth mark. BLAYLOCK stated she was bitten by a "lil puff ball" while walking her dogs. She jokes with a facebook friend about needing training on how to handle animals.
But the real facebook fun occurred on October 20th when Deputy Blaylock's panties were in bunch over being evicted from the school. Unfortunately, I am unable to link to it because BLAYLOCK deleted the incriminating evidence, so here are a couple of screen shots. You will want to click on them to view larger.
In this first conversation, BLAYLOCK tries to play the racist card and when a friend points out that pit bulls not people were "bred to fight and kill", BLAYLOCK shows her true colors by stating the Iraquis were bred to fight and kill.
In the second conversation, BLAYLOCK touts herself as a "highly trained" dog handler (see lil puff ball comment above) and then tries to play some kind of badge card, stating the kids were taught not to trust the judgment of cops. In essence, she is claiming the superintendent has not only insulted pit bulls but all law enforcement.
Conduct unbecoming of an officer
I find the conduct of all of these nutters unacceptable but the bullying by these two officers and the ignorance spewed about our current middle eastern enemies is down right disturbing. My hope is that BLAYLOCK was not only forced to remove her ignorant and hateful comments by her superiors but that she and FALCK were also reprimanded and forced to issue an apology to Glaze and the La Grande School District.
Law enforcement officers are held to a higher standard in their professional as well as private lives. I was unable to locate the Union County Oregon Sheriff's Code of Conduct but I have included a couple from various departments to give you an idea of what is expected from those who choose a career in law enforcement.
Union County, NC Sheriff
"The Office of Sheriff is the oldest public office in the United States. The Sheriff and his employees subscribe to the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics. Therefore they must hold themselves to a higher standard of conduct than other law enforcement officers and the general public."
Milwaukee County, WI Sheriff
"Private Life - Police officers will behave in a manner that does not bring discredit to their agencies or themselves. A police officer's character and conduct while off duty must always be exemplary, thus maintaining a position of respect in the community in which he or she lives and serves. The officer's personal behavior must be beyond reproach."
Whatcom County, WA Sheriff
"As a Law Enforcement Officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all persons to liberty, equality and justice.
I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all; maintain courageous calm in the face of danger, scorn or ridicule; develop self-restraint; and be constantly mindful of the welfare of others. Honest in thought and deed in both my personal and official life, I will be exemplary in obeying the laws of the land and the regulations of my department. Whatever I see or hear of a confidential nature or that is confided to me in my official capacity will be kept ever secret unless revelation is necessary in the performance of my duty.
I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities or friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminal, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities.
I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust to be held so long as I am true to the ethics of the police service. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God to my chosen profession...law enforcement."
Oregon State Police
"As a peace officer, I am the image of penal law and its warden. If I am to be esteemed and the law I typify respected, I must know my authority well and use it wisely. I shall neither exceed nor abuse it.
During my private and public life, I shall conduct myself with the highest degree of integrity and honesty. I shall at all times conduct myself in a manner which consistently maintains the public trust.
I shall be intolerant of dishonorable or unethical conduct by any person in the criminal justice community. As an Oregon State Police officer, I shall strive to be courageous in my professional and everyday life, and will take prudent and judicious action when faced with danger, scorn, or ridicule.
Although the way I choose to conduct my private life is a personal freedom, I accept responsibility for my actions while on or off duty. I will not become a party to conduct that is likely to, or does bring disrespect to myself, my fellow employees, or the Oregon State Police. To that end, I shall not engage in personal conduct that affects, or could be perceived to affect, impartiality in my official capacity.
I shall not use my position or authority for any personal gain or benefit. I shall refrain from seeking or accepting any gift, gratuity, or favor that is tendered, or could reasonably be perceived as being tendered, as an attempt to influence impartiality in my official capacity.
I shall bear faithful allegiance to the State of Oregon and the Oregon State Police and shall be loyal to the highest ideals of my profession. I will serve the public with due respect, concern, courtesy, and responsiveness without prejudice. I recognize the service to the public is beyond service to myself. As a police officer, I consider it a privilege, and the greatest honor that may be bestowed upon any person, to defend the principles of liberty."
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Bad Predictions from the 2012 Race
If the pundit's job is to take America's temperature and offer us predictions, then there are a few columnists who have some explaining to do after last night's election. Locally, it was a tough night for the predicative powers at the Boston Herald, in particular. Luckily, we're here to do some Wednesday morning quarterbacking and offer you a few of the worst predictions from the past week or two coming out of the local media scene:
Prediction: Mitt Romney will be President.
Advocates: A lot of Boston Herald readers could be forgiven for thinking this might be the case. Among the Herald columnists pitching it, Michael Graham probably looks the silliest. He wrote, "One week from today, Mitt wins. I'll even go a step farther. I'll ask the question poll watchers across America are thinking but afraid to ask: Is this election over?" A few others at the Herald had similar swagger. Holly Robichaud, speaking of the chance we might elect Elizabeth Warren, wrote, "Will we cut off our nose to spite our face by electing a Democrat when it looks like our former governor, Mitt Romney, will be our next president?" The Herald also syndicated Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone who gets points for walking furthest out on a limb by offering his state by state predictions. He gets fewer points for the predictions themselves. He wrongly predicted Romney would win Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Result: President Obama won.
Prediction: The polls are lying to you.
Advocate: You saw this myth all over the national punditocracy, but locally, The Herald's Joe Battenfeld set the tone. Yesterday he wrote, "They're nervous. They're scared. In just a few hours, their careers could be over. We're not talking about the candidates. The people really sweating out Election Day are the dreaded political pollsters."
Result: The pollsters have not lost their jobs. (Oddly, we imagine the pundits who said they would won't lose their jobs either.) There were a lot of polls this year, and some variability in each of their results. But if you looked at those who aggregated the polls, their predictions were fairly solid. Perhaps the most embattled of number crunchers, Five Thirty Eight's Nate Silver, is taking a big victory lap after yet again coming darn close to predicting the election down to the state.
Prediction: Richard Tisei will win.
Advocates: No one pretended the race between Rep. John Tierney and Richard Tisei would be a blow out. But there was a growing sense among political watchers (with this writer included) that Tisei had Tierney beat in the final days, as evidenced by the surprise with which people greeted the actual result. The Globe's Yvonne Abraham offered the heavily caveated prediction, "Anything can happen between here and Tuesday. But for now, let's assume Tisei goes to Washington."
Result: You know what happens when you assume … Tierney beat Tisei by a few thousand votes.
Prediction: The electoral college will fail us.
Advocate: Whether it be because Romney and Obama tied with 269 votes each or because Obama lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, pundits across the land wondered whether this would be the year America gave up on its quirky election system. Glen Johnson at the Globe wrote a long piece pondering the possibility. We noted at the time that the odds of this were far smaller than the space it was being given.
Result: With Obama taking both the popular and electoral college votes, it seems the electoral college won't get another hard look this year. That said, we can't say we're not a little sad to see the chance of a a 269-269 tie resulting in a Romney-Biden administration go. That would have been fun to watch.
And there you have it. Some of these bad predictions were forgivable. Some of them were so willfully distorted that it's hard to see why readers would put stock in the writer's predictive powers ever again. (Robichaud and Graham, we're looking at you.) None of them were right.


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2012: The Year Rubyists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threads (or: What Multithreaded Ruby Needs to Be Successful)
Let me provide a very different picture of how Rubyists used to view threads versus what the title of this post implies about now. I'm not talking about in 2005 in the early days of Rails. I'm talking about at Dr. Nic's talk at RubyConf 2011, a little more than a year ago. Dr. Nic had a fairly simple message: when performance matters, build multithreaded programs on JRuby (also: stop using EventMachine). Now granted he was working the company that was subsidizing JRuby development at the time, but I didn't, and I for one strongly agreed with him. Not many other people in the room did. The talk seemed to be met with a lot of incredulity.
"I thought this was going to be a talk on EventMachine!" said That Guy. Perhaps what That Guy missed was that Dr. Nic had hosted EventMachineConf as a subconference of RailsConf a few months before. And now Dr. Nic was saying don't use EventMachine, use threads. And Dr. Nic is certainly not the only one who has come to this conclusion.
Flash forward to 2012 and I think the Ruby community has completely changed its tune. I may be a bit biased, but if I were to pick an overall "theme" (or perhaps "tone") of RubyConf 2012, it's that the single-core nature of the canonical Ruby interpreter, MRI (the "Matz Ruby Interpreter"), is limiting Ruby's potential applications.
There was a lot of buzz about JRuby this year, and Brian Ford, one of the primary developers of Rubinius, announced the first 2.0 prerelease. Both of these Ruby implementations support parallel execution of multithreaded Ruby programs on multicore CPUs. I talked to a lot of people who are interested in my Celluloid concurrent object library as well.
At the same time RubyConf 2012 marked the first "Ruby 2.0" prerelease. Many of the talks covered upcoming Ruby 2.0 features, most notably refinements. Much like the release of Rails 2.0, this felt a bit underwhelming. What the crowd was clamoring for was what would be done with the Global Interpreter Lock (or GIL, or perhaps more appropriately the Global VM Lock or GVL in ruby-core parlance).
At the end of the conference, Evan Phoenix sat down with Matz and asked him various questions posed by the conference attendees. One of these questions was about the GIL and why such a substantial "two dot oh" style release didn't try to do something more ambitious like removing the GIL and enabling multicore execution. Matz looked a bit flustered by it, and said "I'm not the threading guy".
Well Matz, I'm a "threading guy" and I have some ideas ;)
Personally I'm a bit dubious about whether or not removing the GIL from MRI is a good idea. The main problems would be the initial performance overhead of moving to a fine-grained locking scheme, and also the bugs that would crop up as a large codebase originally intended for single-threaded execution is retrofitted into a multithreaded program. I think the large bug trail this would create would hamper future Ruby development, because instead of spending their time improving the language itself, ruby-core would spend its time hunting thread bugs.
All that said, there are some features I would personally like to see in Ruby which would substantially benefit multithreaded Ruby programs, GIL or no GIL. I would personally prioritize all of these features ahead of removing the GIL, as they would provide cleaner semantics we need to write correct multithreaded Ruby programs:
Recommendation #1: Deep freeze #
Immutable state has a number of benefits for concurrent programs. What better way to prevent concurrent state mutation than to prevent any state mutation? (actually there are ways I think are better, but I'll get to that later) Ruby provides #freeze
to prevent modifications to an object, however I don't think #freeze
is enough.
Purely immutable languages allow the creation of immutable persistent data structures. The word "persistent" in this case doesn't mean written to disk, but that you can create multiple versions of the same data structure with "persistent" copies of parts of the old one that get shared between versions. This approach only works if it's immutable state all the way down. Ruby supports immutable persistent data structures via the Hamster gem, but it would be much easier to work with immutable data if this feature were in core Ruby.
What we need is more than just freezing of individual objects that #freeze
provides. As some recent compiler research into immutability by Microsoft demonstrates, what really matters isn't the mutability of individual objects but rather aggregates (i.e. object graphs). We need a guaranteed way to freeze aggregates as a whole, rather than freezing just a single object at a time. This means we'd walk all references from a parent object and freeze every single object we find. This would allow for the creation of efficient immutable persistent data structures in Ruby.
What would this look like? Something like Object#deep_freeze
. While it's possible to use Ruby introspection to attempt to traverse all the references a given object is holding recursively (see the ice_nine gem) this is something I really feel should be part of the language proper. I also get the idea that VM implementers know exactly where these references are in their implementations and could implement a lot faster version of #deep_freeze
than using Ruby reflection to spelunk objects and find their references.
Recommendation #2: Deep dup #
There's another approach that works equally well when we have objects we'd like to mutate but that we'd also like to share across threads. Before we send objects across threads, we could make a copy, and give the copy to another thread.
Making copies every time we want to pass an object to another thread might sound expensive and wasteful, but there's a language that's been very successful at multicore performance which does just that: Erlang. In Erlang, every process has its own heap, so every time a message is passed from one process to another the Erlang VM makes a copy of the data being sent in the message and places the new copy in the receiving process's heap space. (the exception is binary data, for which Erlang has a shared heap)
Ruby has two methods for making shallow copies of objects, Object#dup
and #clone
(which are more or less synonymous except #clone
copies the frozen state of an object). However, the only built-in way to make a deep copy of entire object graphs is to use Marshal
. This is nowhere near ideal for making in-VM copies, because for starters it produces an intermediate string that needs to be garbage collected, not to mention that Marshal uses a complex protocol which precludes the sorts of optimizations that could be done on a simple deep copy operation.
Instead of Marshaling, Ruby could support Object#deep_dup
to make deep copies of entire object graphs. This would work much like #deep_freeze
, traversing all references in an object graph but constructing an equivalent copy instead of freezing every object. Once a copy has been created, it can be safely sent to another thread. This could be leveraged by systems like Celluloid which control what happens at the boundary between threads. If Celluloid even provided an optional mode for always copying objects sent in messages, then using it would ensure your program was safe of concurrent mutation bugs.
Bonus points #1: Ownership Transfer #
Copying object graphs every time we pass a reference to another thread is one solution to providing both mutability and thread safety, however making copies of object graphs is a lot slower than a zero copy system. Can we have our cake and eat it too: zero-copy mutable state objects that are free of any potential concurrent mutation bugs?
There's a great solution to this: we can pin whole object graphs to a single thread at a time, raising exceptions in other threads that may hold a reference to any object in the graph but do not own it and attempt to perform any type of access. This idea is called ownership transfer.
The Kilim Isolation-Typed Actor system for Java is one implementation of this idea. Kilim supports the idea of "linear ownership transfer": only one actor can ever see any particular object graph in the system, and object graphs can be transferred wholesale to other actors, but cannot be shared. For more information on the messaging model in Kilim, I definitely suggest you check out the portion of Kilim-creator Sriram Srinivasan's talk on the isolation system Kilim uses for its messages.
Another language that supports this approach to ownership transfer is Go. References passed across channels between goroutines change ownership. For more information on how this works in Go, I recommend checking out Share Memory By Communicating from the Go documentation. (Edit: I have been informed that Go doesn't have a real ownership transfer system and that the idea of ownership is more of a metaphor, which means the safety guarantees around concurrent mutation are as nonexistent as they are in Ruby/Celluloid)
Ruby could support a similar system with only a handful of methods. We could imagine Object#isolate
. Like the other methods I've described in this post, this method would need to do a deep traversal of all references, isolating them as well so as to isolate the entire object graph.
Moreover, to be truly effective, isolation would have to apply to any object that an isolated object came in contact with. If we add an object to an isolated array, the object we added would also need to be isolated to be safe. This would also have to apply to any objects referenced from the object we're adding to the isolated aggregate. Isolation would have to spread like a virus from object-to-object, or otherwise we'd have leaky bits of our isolated aggregate which could be concurrently accessed or mutated without errors.
If a reference to an isolated object were to ever leak out to another thread, and that thread tried to reference it in any way, the system would raise an OwnershipError
informing you that an unpermitted cross-thread object access was performed. This would prevent any concurrent access or mutation errors by simply making any cross-thread access to objects without an explicit transfer of ownership an error.
To pass ownership to another thread, we could use a method like Thread#transfer_ownership(obj)
which would raise OwnershipError
unless we owned the object graph rooted in obj
. Otherwise, we've just given control of the object graph to another thread, and any subsequent accesses by ourselves will result in OwnershipError
. If we ever want to get it back again, we will have to hand the reference off to that other thread, and the other thread must explicitly transfer control of the object graph back to us.
A system like this would be a dream come true for Celluloid. One of the biggest drawbacks of Celluloid is its inability to isolate the objects being sent in messages, and while either #deep_freeze
or #deep_dup
would provide solutions to the isolation problem (with various and somewhat onerous tradeoffs), an ownership transfer system could provide effective isolation, zero copy messaging, and preserve mutability of data (which Ruby users will generally expect).
Bonus points #2: Unified Memory Model and Concurrent Data Structures #
Java in particular is well known for its java.util.concurrent
library of thread-safe data structures. Many of these are lock-free equivalents of data structures we're already familiar with (e.g. ConcurrentHashMap
). Others provide things like fast queues between threads (e.g. ArrayBlockingQueue
It would be great if Ruby had a similar library of such data structures, but right now Ruby does not have a defined memory model (yet another thing Brian Ford called for), and without a memory model shared by all Ruby implementations it seems difficult to define how things like concurrent data structures will behave.
Conclusion #
Stefan Marr recently gave an awesome talk laying out the challenges for building multicore programs in object-oriented languages which contains a number of points relevant to systems like Celluloid.
Celluloid solves some of the synchronization problems of multithreaded programs, but not all of them. It's still possible to share objects sent in messages between Celluloid actors, and it's possible for concurrent mutations in these objects go unnoticed.
I don't think I can solve these problems effectively without VM-level support in the form of the aforementioned proposed features to core Ruby. You can imagine being able to do include Celluloid::Freeze
or include Celluloid::Dup
to control the behavior of how individual actors pass messages between each other. Or, even better, if Ruby had an ownership transfer system Celluloid could automatically transfer ownership of objects passed as operands to another actor or returned from a synchronous call. If that were the case, accesses to objects which have been sent to other threads would result in an exception instead of a (typically) silent concurrent mutation.
Celluloid is your best bet for building complex multithreaded Ruby programs, but it could be better… and we need Ruby's help.


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Bible VersionCross Reference KJV ASV BBE DBY WEB YLT WOR BibleCommentaries Matthew HenryJFB CommentaryWesley's Notes Geneva Study Bible View Habakkuk 2 in the note window.2:1 I will stand upon my a watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. (a) I will renounce my own judgment, and only depend on God to be instructed what I will answer those that abuse my preaching, and to be armed against all temptations. 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tablets, that he may run b that readeth it. (b) Write it in great letters, that he that runneth may read it. 2:3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the c end it shall speak, and not lie: though it may tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (c) Which contained the destruction of the enemy, and the comfort of the Church. And even though God does not execute this according to man's hasty affections, yet the issue of both is certain at his appointed time. 2:4 Behold, d his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. (d) To trust in himself, or in any worldly thing, is never to be at peace: for the only rest is to trust in God by faith; (Ro 1:17, Ga 3:11, He 10:38). 2:5 Yea also, because e he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people: (e) He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans. 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! f how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! (f) Signifying that all the world will wish the destruction of tyrants, and that by their oppression and covetousness, they heap but upon themselves more heavy burdens: for the more they get, the more are they troubled. 2:7 Shall g they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them? (g) That is, the Medes and persians, that would destroy the Babylonians? 2:10 Thou h gavest shameful counsel to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. (h) Signifying that the covetous man is the ruin of his own house, when he thinks to enrich it be cruelty and oppression. 2:11 For the i stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. (i) The stones of the house will cry, and say that they are built from blood, and the wood will answer and say the same of itself. 2:13 Behold, [is it] not from the k LORD of hosts that the people shall labour [only] for fire, and the nations shall weary themselves for nothing? (k) Meaning, that God will not defer his vengeance long, but will come and destroy all their labours, as though they were consumed with fire. 2:14 For the earth shall l be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. (l) In the destruction of the Babylonians his glory will appear through all the world. 2:15 Woe to him that giveth his neighbour m drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunk also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! (m) He reproaches by this the king of Babylon, who as he was drunken with covetousness and cruelty, so he provoked others to the same, and inflamed them by his madness, and so in the end brought them to shame. 2:16 Thou art filled with shame n for glory: drink thou also, and let thy shame come upon thee: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned to thee, and utter shame [shall be] on thy glory. (n) Whereas you thought to have the glory of these your doings, they will turn to your shame: for you will drink of the same cup with others in your turn. 2:17 For the o violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell in it. (o) Because the Babylonians were cruel not only against other nations, but also against the people of God, which is meant by Lebanon and the beast in it, he shows that the same cruelly will be executed against them. 2:18 What profiteth the graven p image that its maker hath engraved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth in it, to make dumb idols? (p) He shows that the Babylonian gods could not help them at all, for they were but blocks or stones. )See Geneva Jer "10:8") 2:19 Woe to him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! q Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all within it. (q) If you will consider what it is, and how it has neither breath nor life, but is a dead thing.
2:1 I will stand upon my a watch, and seat myself upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2:7 Shall g they not rise suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall oppress thee, and thou shalt be for booty to them?
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Man eats 255 Peeps in 5 minutes
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, Maryland (Fox 32 News) - There's a competitive eating contest for just about everything these days, including Peeps.
On Saturday, world-ranked competitive eaters faced each other down at the National Harbor Peeps Eating World Championship in Maryland.
The winner was Matt Stonie of California, who ate 255 Peeps in five minutes, a far cry above the 200 Peeps he ate last year.
Peeps are made by Just Born of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The factory makes more than a billion Peeps every year.
Each bunny-shaped Peep has 28 calories. Chick-shaped Peeps have 32 calories.


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Mississippi Residents Find Death Along Oily Gulf Shores
Dead dolphin on Mississippi Beach in 2011 Photo: Laurel Lockamy
Since BP's catastrophic oil blowout nearly two years ago, Laurel Lockamy has gotten pretty good at photographing the dead. She's snapped images of dozens of lifeless turtles and dolphins, countless dead fish, birds, armadillos and nutria and pretty much anything that crawls, swims or flies near the white sandy Mississippi beaches of her Gulfport home.
Locals say this is far from normal. Laurel's pictures can be hard to believe; photos of large bottlenose dolphins, their mouths agape and their silvery bodies stretched out like aluminum mannequins on the tar ball-littered sand as children frolic nearby in the warm waters of the Gulf. She's taken shots of rotten, decaying endangered sea turtles wasting away on the shores, sprayed with orange paint by marine mammal experts for disposal by beach cleanup crews who sometimes take days to respond.
Last week was no different for Laurel, who was out taking pictures of sea life with her new Nikon lens. A strong spring storm had roiled the brown Gulf waters, apparently stirring up globs of the 200 million gallons of Louisiana crude that BP's well spewed into the Gulf in 2010. Laurel says she found tar balls the size of bricks in the sand, spit out by the violent sea.
Not far away, Charles Taylor was walking along the beach on his birthday and found four dead endangered Kemp Ridley sea turtles washed up in Waveland. They were just a few of the 40 or so decaying sea turtles that have rolled in with the Gulf waves in recent weeks, making a resurgent appearance after spiking in unusual numbers a year ago. Here's what a National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration official told Mississippi Public Broadcasting this week:
"These numbers seem to be comparable to what we saw last year. NOAA scientists are always concerned when we see sea turtles strand. So what we're doing is we're collecting the sea turtles and we'll necropsy as many of those as we can to see if we can determine what has caused these strandings."
Dead turtle in Waveland, MS, March 22, 2012 Photo: Charles Taylor
Laurel didn't find dead turtles on a recent stroll on her Gulfport shores, which she now calls "death beach." But walking along she smelled something bad. After poking around in the sand, she found the nauseating source; a dead baby dolphin's tail, decomposing and buried not more than a few inches in the sand. An out-of-work shrimper came a long and picked it up, and when he realized what it was he started to sob; "This really ruins my day..." Laurel remembers. Tourists looked at it incredulously, Laurel says, their kids screaming, 'Mommy, it's a dolphin's tail!'
"It's surreal what we find out here now," Laurel says "Sometimes I think this can't be happening. It's gotten to the point where I just don't want to look down at the beach anymore."
Mississippi resident with dolphin tail; photo by Laurel Lockamy
As the second anniversary of the worst offshore oil spill in history approaches, the signs are not good things will return to normal anytime soon. Fishermen continue to complain that healthy shrimp, oysters and crab are hard to find, and some of the ones they're finding are loaded with lesions and abnormalities. Dolphins still die in record numbers; a recent report from scientists studying dolphins in Louisiana's oil-soaked Barataria Bay found severe illness in a group of dolphins they are closely monitoring.
Based on comprehensive physicals of 32 live dolphins from Barataria Bay in the summer of 2011, preliminary results show that many of the dolphins in the study are underweight, anemic, have low blood sugar and/or some symptoms of liver and lung disease. Nearly half also have abnormally low levels of the hormones that help with stress response, metabolism and immune function. Researchers fear that some of the study dolphins are in such poor health that they will not survive. One of these dolphins was found dead in January 2012.
A few days before Laurel found the dolphin tail, just after the storm had blown in from the Gulf, she was out photographing tar balls and dead sea life that had washed ashore. Some of them were more like tar logs, the size of large shoes, she says, globs of hardened petroleum that oozed brown sticky oil when squeezed. Laurel says when she squashed them near the water's edge the water turned oily and brown.
Tar balls and cleanup crews near Gulfport, MS Photos: Laurel Lockamy
Laurel says she ran into a woman who refused to believe the tar balls were oil, but after squeezing them and getting oil all over her hand, the woman demanded a picture to document it. "Take my picture, people need to see this," Laurel recalls her saying, before she rushed off to find some strong detergent to wipe the sticky petroleum substance clean.
She was wise to look for a quick way to wash off. New research from the University of Auburn shows tar balls from the BP oil blowout may not be as innocuous as some think. Here's how The Birmingham News reported it:
They found that the tar balls -- which oil executives and government officials have said are little more than a nuisance -- are teeming with bacteria, including Vibrio vulnificus, the leading cause of death from eating bad oysters. In fact, they discovered that the balls had up to 100 times more of that particular bacteria than the water they floated in and 10 times more than the sand they rested on.
"People don't know what's going on down here," Laurel says. "The oil is still here and things are still dying. BP likes to make all their pretty commercials about how everything's fine. Well I'm still here too and it's not. But I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing to show people what's really going on here."
Laurel isn't the only one. An interesting thing happened after the historic BP oil blowout: hard-working people living in the shadows of Big Oil grew tired of the status quo. They are demanding accountability from their political leaders and from the industries and powerbrokers who call the shots. They are a small but dedicated corps of Gulf residents who constantly monitor their beaches and shorelines, photographing and documenting the steady stream of death and oily waste that still washes in.
No one knows what the final toll of the BP debacle will be. But lovers of the Gulf continue to patrol their shores, alerting people to a disaster that seems to have no end.


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On June 14th I had the honor of giving the undergraduate commencement address at Seattle Pacific University. Commencement speakers usually do their best to share a lesson or two with the graduates, but this year Seattle Pacific University students, administration, and faculty inspired me and people across the nation by how they responded after a campus tragedy that should have been unthinkable but instead has become all too routine: a shooting at their beloved school.
Just days before graduation a young man with a history of mental illness entered a science and engineering building on the university's campus armed with a shotgun and more than 50 rounds of ammunition and began firing. He killed 19-year-old freshman Paul Lee, a young man with an enormous smile whose friends said he was known for his laugh and sense of joy, and wounded two other students before 22-year-old student security monitor Jon Meis pepper-sprayed and tackled him as he paused to reload, ending the deadly rampage. The shooter's plan had been to harm as many people as possible before taking his own life.
The private Christian university's expressed mission is to equip students to engage the culture, change the world, and pursue scholarly excellence rooted in the gospel. How wonderful to see it in practice during such a difficult time. It brought the community closer together, united by a common sense of faith. While students expressed anger, there was also an immediate sense of forgiveness and mercy towards the shooter, with many expressing pity instead of hatred for him.
Jon Meis, the courageous student who stopped the attack, has been adamant about not wishing to be considered a hero. He helped set the tone in a powerful statement released after the shooting where he said: "[W]hat I find most difficult about this situation is the devastating reality that a hero cannot come without tragedy. In the midst of this attention, we cannot ignore that a life was taken from us, ruthlessly and without justification or cause. Others were badly injured, and many more will carry this event with them the rest of their lives. Nonetheless, I would encourage that hate be met with love. When I came face to face with the attacker, God gave me the eyes to see that he was not a faceless monster, but a very sad and troubled young man. While I cannot at this time find it within me to forgive his crime, I truly desire that he will find the grace of God and the forgiveness of our community." Other students spent the day after the shooting in prayer circles and small groups studying passages like this one: "Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness." Sophomore Hallie Brinkman told a reporter what that passage meant to her: "'Everyone is shocked and angry,' she said of the campus and the pervasive sense of violation. But at least in her circle of friends, she said, sympathy, charity, and forbearance are fighting back. Of the gunman, she said, 'I haven't heard anyone, so far, say anything other than, 'I feel sorry for the guy.''"
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the new The Book of Forgiving coauthored with his daughter says: "It is perfectly normal to want to hurt back when you have been hurt. But hurting back rarely satisfies. We think it will, but it doesn't. If I slap you after you slap me, it does not lessen the sting I feel on my own face, nor does it diminish my sadness over the fact that you have struck me. Retaliation gives, at best, only momentary respite from our pain. The only way to experience healing and peace is to forgive. Until we can forgive, we remain locked in our pain and locked out of the possibility of experiencing healing and freedom, locked out of the possibility of being at peace." The genuine sense of forgiveness and grace at Seattle Pacific University is remarkable. The school's students, faculty, and administration truly struggle to live their faith. I was deeply moved that my mother's favorite hymn, "Great is Thy Faithfulness," opened the graduation ceremony, walling off despair though not sadness during this difficult time. Even in the middle of tragedy and loss there was also a profound sense of gratitude that the attack was able to be stopped before more life was lost.
What if the shooter had had an assault weapon? The student security monitor was able to subdue the shooter because he had to stop to reload his shotgun. If he had been armed with a semi-automatic rifle and a large capacity magazine capable of firing more than a few rounds without reloading, the tragedy would almost certainly have grown—as we have seen over and over again in similar attacks. Instead a young man with a brave heart armed only with pepper spray was able to seize available seconds to act with the help of other unarmed bystanders and bring a tragedy to a quick end.
At the same time we must all ask: could this have been prevented from happening at all? The shooter, who reportedly had an obsession with the shootings at Columbine High School and a long history of mental illness, was detained and committed to mental health facilities twice before the attack at Seattle Pacific University. In 2010 he called 911 to report he "had a rage inside him" and wanted to hurt himself and others, and in 2012 police found him lying intoxicated in a roadway, where he told officers he wanted a SWAT team "to get him and make him famous." Both times he was taken to a hospital for evaluation. His history of involuntary commitments to mental health facilities should have barred him from possessing a gun. Washington State does require reporting of mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, but does not have a universal background check law in place. At least one source says the shooter, who also reportedly worked for eight years at a gun range, used that loophole and purchased his gun legally through a private seller. And another critically important concern continues to go unaddressed—the need to ensure timely and appropriate mental health treatment, in the community whenever possible, for children of all ages and for young adults. While steps have been taken in Connecticut and a few other states since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, so much more is needed.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, the attack at Seattle Pacific University was the 73rd shooting on a school or college campus in the United States since the tragedy at Sandy Hook. I am so grateful to the Seattle Pacific University community for their witness of strength, forgiveness, and deep faith. Yet I am heartbroken that they and so many other children, youths, and adults walk in fear on a daily basis and keep having to worry about experiencing this at all. Why is our nation saturated with guns— four million in military and law enforcement hands and 310 million in civilian hands? Why are American children and teens 17 times more likely to die from gun violence than their peers in 25 other high-income countries combined? Why is our mental health system still so inadequate to respond to the cries of those needing help? When will we all say enough?
We can and must do better.
Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children's Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.
Mrs. Edelman's Child Watch Column also appears each week on The Huffington Post.


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After the success of the Bugs Bunny/Michael Jordan Nike commercial during the 1993 Super Bowl, the Looney Tunes started appearing in other Super Bowl ads. The LT characters were usually teamed up with various popular sports stars. Below is an ad from the 1996 Super Bowl featuring the Dallas Cowboys' Deion Sanders. His notorious speed prompted this commercial involving Wile E. Coyote and a booby trapped Pepsi machine!
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Tablespace Capacity Planning Report
Tablespace Capacity Planning Report
Author JP Vijaykumar
Written Sep 14 2017
Modified Mar 08 2019
This script is provided for enducational purpose only.
The readers are advised to make necessary changes to the script as may be required for their use in their repective environments.
Pls test this script thoroughly in a lower environment, before using in any production db.
This script was generated/tested in Oracle 11G environment.
This script may not work in other versions of Oracle, pls modify the script as may be needed using your own discretion/ingenuity.
I need to run capacity planning report in my project.
Predict db growth for 3 months, 6 months and one year.
Display message, if the available free space in each tablespace is less than it's projected growth for the next 3 months period.
You need to increase the snapshot retention in the db to 3 months(conservative period).
If the snapshot retention is too low, the predictions may have huge variation on the expected actual growth of db.
If the available data in the dba_hist_tbsp_space_usage is scanty, the projections may not be near accurate.
If for some reason, the snapshots generation stopped, this report may not work as expected.
Pl run this report in a lower environment and make necessary changes as applicable in your case.
This script work for Oracle rdbms, and was tested in version 11G.
If this script is to be used in a different version of Oracle rdbms, pls make necessary modifications to run.
As per your convenience/requirement, the flagged message "ADD SPACE" can be changed to display a meaningful message.
Owing to many limitations, there will be a fair chance of variation in the projected growth of the db and the actual growth of the db.
And yet, I will have a starting point as to how much diskspace, upfront I need to be procured for my db's future growth.
Few deviations this way that way are ok, as I may not be caught off the guard with sudden huge diskspace requirements.
connect veeksha/Saketh
set linesize 200 pagesize 100 colsep "," echo off feedback off timing off
column tablespace_name format a20
column avg_growth_per_day_gb format 9999.99 heading "AVG GROWTH|PER DAY GB"
column projected_growth_for_3mths_gb format 9999.99 heading "PROJECTED|GROWTH|FOR 3 MONTHS|GB"
column projected_growth_for_6mths_gb format 9999.99 heading "PROJECTED|GROWTH|FOR 6 MONTHS|GB"
column projected_growth_for_1yr_gb format 9999.99 heading "PROJECTED|GROWTH|FOR ONE YEAR|GB"
column msg format a15 heading "ACTION|TO BE TAKEN"
with t1 as (
select ss.run_time,ts.name,round(su.tablespace_size*dt.block_size/1024/1024/1024,2) alloc_size_gb,
round(su.tablespace_usedsize*dt.block_size/1024/1024/1024,2) used_size_gb
dba_hist_tbspc_space_usage su,
(select trunc(BEGIN_INTERVAL_TIME) run_time,max(snap_id) snap_id from dba_hist_snapshot
group by trunc(BEGIN_INTERVAL_TIME) ) ss,
v$tablespace ts,
dba_tablespaces dt
where su.snap_id = ss.snap_id
and su.tablespace_id = ts.ts#
and ts.name NOT LIKE '%TEMP%'
and ts.name NOT LIKE '%UNDO%'
and ts.name = dt.tablespace_name order by 2,1),
t2 as (
select e.run_time,e.name,e.used_size_gb,e.used_size_gb - b.used_size_gb growth
from t1 e, t1 b
where e.name = b.name and e.run_time = b.run_time +1),
t3 as (
select --fre.tablespace_name, fre.alloc,fre.used,
tsz.alloc_size_gb,tsz.used_size_gb,ave.avg_growth_per_day_gb,ave.avg_growth_per_day_gb*90 projected_growth_for_3mths_gb
(select name,max(alloc_size_gb) alloc_size_gb, max(used_size_gb) used_size_gb from t1 group by name) tsz,
(select name,round(avg(growth),2) avg_growth_per_day_gb from t2 group by name) ave
where tsz.name = ave.name)
select t4.tablespace_name,t4.alloc alloc_sz_gb,t4.used used_sz_gb,
t3.avg_growth_per_day_gb,t3.projected_growth_for_3mths_gb,t4.free free_sz_gb,
case when t4.free < nvl(projected_growth_for_3mths_gb,0) then 'ADD SPACE' end MSG,
projected_growth_for_3mths_gb*2 projected_growth_for_6mths_gb , projected_growth_for_3mths_gb*4 projected_growth_for_1yr_gb
from t3,
(select a.tablespace_name,
round(a.bytes/1024/1024/1024,2) alloc,
round(b.bytes/1024/1024/1024,2) used,
round(c.bytes/1024/1024/1024,2) free
from sys.sm$ts_avail a,
sys.sm$ts_used b,
sys.sm$ts_free c
where a.tablespace_name = b.tablespace_name(+)
and a.tablespace_name = c.tablespace_name(+)) t4
where t4.tablespace_name = t3.name(+)
order by 1;
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(visited by Mark Korngiebel and John Korngiebel)
20-Sep-2002 -- After locating 50N-94W the day earlier on water; we figured it would be a snap to find the next confluence down the line to the west. Our map showed that a road ended within a quarter mile of the confluence, so after a great morning of fishing we headed off to find 50N-95W. We learned quickly not to trust Ontario maps or it's weather.
As we passed the only lodge halfway down the last road to the confluence we ignored a sign that read "Road washed out ahead" and pushed the aging Explorer onward. After crossing three very tricky spots worthy of a TV commercial, the road soon turned into an old logging road which then became an ATV trail at best. When we got to the washout, we struggled to turn the car around because the brush was so thick on both sides of the car that we could barely open the doors.
With the car facing "out" we decided to start walking down the rest of the road to quickly find the spot and get out before dark. Dad took his over and under just in case we ran into the mother of a cub black bear we just saw and I had the GPS,s. After only a quarter mile of walking the sky darkened and a very heavy rain forced us back to our car. It worked out OK because as it turned out it would of taken several hours to find the confluence anyway.
Arriving at the lodge after dark, drenched, but happy to have made it back there, I inquired if I could rent an ATV or even a bike to try again to reach the confluence. They didn't have a bike and all of their ATV's were beieng used for bear hunting but Tom mentioned that Archie, who lived down towards the main road, might be able to help.
Two days later we drove to Archie's home, an Native American, to inquire if I could hire him to take me to the end of the road. Not only did he agree but he also had a spare ATV for my Dad and I. (Picture 2) After getting to the end of the road which had a part so steep I was convinced I was going to end up upside down, we were too far west and north. Archie, who didn't or didn't want to speak much English suggested we go back a ways and take a side trail recently cut through the forest for bear hunting. That trail taught me why they invented those obnoxious machines! When it became clear that it would take awhile, Archie agreed to let us go on our own and would come back to find us if we were not back by dark.
We pushed on till we got nearest we could on the ATV and parked it on high ground, set a waypoint, and then set off on foot. (Picture 1) Note: Confluence is down hill near lake. At first I thought we would not find it even though we were so close. As we headed down, the rocky terrain quickly became a thick forest and then an overgrowen lowland. Every step towards took three out of the way. Suddenly I realised we were going to do it and sooner than I expected I saw all ZEROES!!


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June 30 9:25pm - The 12u Gold Bracket will be played in its entirety including the losers bracket. The schedule posted for the 12u Gold Bracket is acurate.
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Months in the making, Edit Flow v0.7 is now out the door and available for download. We'd love to give you a quick introduction to what's new.
Modular architecture
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One purpose of the modular architecture is to make it much easier for others to contribute new features. It's super easy to plug a new module into our framework and have it work with existing features. Learn more about contributing code.
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Forty years in the history of the Porsche 917-021 described by an enthralling investigation that includes a journey to the heart of deepest Germany, trips to Stuttgart and Hamburg as well as the Black Forest, the Moselle region and the Rhine!
In 1970, 917-021 raced at Monza, Spa-Francorchamps, the Nürburgring, Le Mans, Hockenheim, Watkins Glen and Kyalami in the Endurance World Championship and the Interseries. Read all about its victories and its two lives!
Piecing together the story of this car led to meetings with exceptional people including Gijs van Lennep, Bobby Rahal, Kurt Ahrens, Gérard Larrousse, David Piper, team managers Hannu Kahi (AAW team), Hans-Dieter Dechent (Martini Racing team) and Porsche engineers Walter Näher and Herbert Staudenmaier. Discover the history and the technical secrets of its legendary 180° V12 engine, the car's soul.
Also pictured are its liveries and decorations starting with the classic red and yellow Shell paintwork and finishing with the two psychedelic colour schemes that marked its 1970 racing career. This book also describes the meeting with Joachim Grossmann, the only other man (with Count Rossi) to have registered a 917 as a road-going car!
The story of the Porsche 917's exceptional restoration and its return to the track will give the reader never-before published insights into one of the greatest racing cars in the history of motor racing!
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Julián Is a Mermaid (Paperback)
"A powerful affirmation of individuality, creative expression, and unconditional acceptance." —Shelf Awareness (starred review)
While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fish tails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes—and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, this 2019 Stonewall Book Award winner is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.
About the Author
Jessica Love is an illustrator and a New York based actor. She has a BA in studio art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard.
Praise For…
This is Jessica Love's debut picture book, and every choice she makes — the spare text, a color palette both muted and lively, full-bleed pages that make even subway cars and apartment rooms feel as expansive as the ocean — imbues the story with charm, tenderness and humor…Alongside Julián, readers learn that anyone can be a mermaid: All it takes is love and acceptance, a little imagination and a big swishy tail.
—The New York Times Book Review
Love couples the spare narrative with vivid, imaginative, and breathtaking illustrations. A heartwarming must-have for one-on-one and small group sharing.
—School Library Journal (starred review)
Refreshingly, Spanish words aren't italicized. Though it could easily feel preachy, this charmingly subversive tale instead offers a simple yet powerful story of the importance of being seen and affirmed.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
[Julian] is, in a word, fabulous. Love lets an anxious beat pass before Abuela takes Julián by the hand, leading him to what some readers may recognize as the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. "Like you, mijo," says Abuela. "Let's join them." Love's deep empathy for her characters and her keen-eyed observations of urban life come together in a story of love, understanding, and embracing the mermaid within us all.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The luminous, lovely, and layered art is what really makes the book...The concluding parade is a confectionary wonder of marine fantasy that many kids will yearn to join, and it might prompt adults to set up their own in- library mermaid celebrations. More importantly, though, those who've been shy about their love for dazzle and showmanship will love the idea of a formidable grandparental ally, and they will find this encouraging and empowering.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
Julián's emotional journey takes on depth through small but important details: a wary look in the mirror, a slight inward slump of the shoulders, a chin held high while marching down the street. Love uses vibrant watercolors with gouache and ink and a lively style to create scenes that splash and swirl to life on the page.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
Across her watercolor, gouache and ink spreads, Love captures the transformative power of being seen...Love's affecting combination of the literary and the visual results in a powerful affirmation of individuality, creative expression and unconditional acceptance.
—Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review)
Love's painted scenes glow against muted backgrounds, with saturated, opaque tones tracing the graceful shapes of the figures. They're especially striking when Julián gets swept away in a vivid underwater fantasy: a school of sea creatures whirls around him as he transforms into a mermaid. That scene is nicely replicated when he arrives at the parade, which is populated by scores of people in a wide variety of inventive costumes. The affectionate depiction of a broad range of body types and skin tones makes this particularly cheery.
This beautiful book is one of the very few picture books about a gender non-conforming child. Yet it feels like a celebration of all children who want to do things differently than the parental figures in their lives—and a love letter to the grownups who deeply understand them.
There is nothing about this book that is forgettable. In fact, you may have a hard time not thinking long and hard about it after you put it down. A book for mermaids and boys and girls and parents and teachers and booksellers and librarians and . . . Let's just simplify things and say it's a book for the human race.
—Betsy Bird
Jessica Love's vivid watercolor and gouache illustrations are made even brighter by her decision to paint on brown paper; the richly colored palette pops off the pages, and abundant character is conveyed via the subtlest of facial expressions and body language. Also subtle—and terrifically poignant—is the eloquent encouragement of Abuela's spare words. A book for the ages, Julián Is a Mermaid is going to make a big splash.
The illustrations couldn't be more beautiful, and I love how Julián's grandmother accepts him for exactly who he is...I'm so grateful for books like these that help foster acceptance and understanding from a young age.
—A Cup of Jo (blog)
Julián Is a Mermaid makes a fine addition to the best LBGT children's books.
—Brain Pickings (blog)
Groundbreaking...here's a happy picture book that challenges traditional gender stereotypes, rendering one boy free to be himself.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Right now, I just finished reading 'Julián Is a Mermaid,' by Jessica Love, which is an awesome picture book, one of my favorites, and I won't spoil the end for you, but it has something to do with the mermaid parade.
—Charles George Esperanza, The New York Times
It's a story of a little boy who is taken with some elegant costumes, and decides to fashion one of his own. It's that simple, but it makes a big impression; I can't recommend it highly enough.
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