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Everyone likes to decorate and furnish their homes in the best possible ways. This is because a person's own humble abode is the only place where he truly feels relaxed. One of the most serene parts of the house is the garden where all sorts of greenery, trees and flowers flare up the atmosphere with tremendous positive energy. Another fine addition to your garden's overall beauty is a fine garden statue which can really provide a unique look to your house.
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These statues are a symbol of luxury and beauty to your home and may attract the attention of any passerby. These statues can be of any type i.e. it can be of any animals that you may like (stallions are my personal favorite) or can be the image of old historical sculptures and personalities as in the case of replicas. You can also place a statue which simultaneously performs the function of a fountain to further tune up your presence in the neighborhood.
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State of error (PoemTalk #50)
Tom Raworth, 'Errory'
For our 50th episode, Charles Bernstein, Michael Hennessey, and Marjorie Perloff gathered at the Kelly Writers House to talk about Tom Raworth's poem, "Errory." The poem was published in Clean & Well Lit in 1996, and has been reprinted in the Carcanet Press Collected Poems (2003). Our recording of "Errory" comes from audio material produced in 2004 by the Contemporary Poetics Research Center (CPRC) at Birkbeck College of the University of London, and we thank Colin Still for making these recordings available to PennSound.
Here is the CPRC/PennSound recording of Raworth performing "Errory," at somewhat more than his usual breakneck speed. Listen to "Out of a Sudden," for instance — from the same recording session — and you'll notice a more deliberate pace.
The 32-minute recording of "Writing," read at typical Raworthian canter, is certainly worth hearing for similarities to the aural feel of "Errory": urgent, converging, phrases "clawing back," "free-falling into mind," "vibrations of division," "small notes to the rhythm of the train," "things whiz past." These are all, of course, phrases from our poem, which is, in a sense, in addition to everything else that it is, a poem about the urgency of its soundings. The pace of Raworth's delivery is clearly a crucial aspect of the signifying, and, as if anyone needed further evidence, underscores the importance of close listening in the sound archive.
Michael and Marjorie are especially interested in "Errory" as a war poem of some sort. Michael reminds us of Raworth's childhood experiences of the Blitz. All the talkers comment on the use of a vocabulary and diction of martial industrial (not post-industrial) mechanism. Al sees, as well, a embedded sequence of landscapes, and Al and Charles note that, if the poem is slowed way down (Charles performs this briefly), we'll hear little seemingly set-piece nature lyrics — lyrics that are, of course, challenged by the ubiquitous presence of "landing sites" and "transmitting unit[s]." The "scanty pastures" with which the poem ends are sites on which communication is destroyed "more easily" than otherwise.
"Errory," as Marjorie points out, is so much more than a single fault or misdirection, indicated by the conventional term "error"; "errory" is, rather, an ongoing condition or state of error, a continuous striking of the so-called false note, "free-falling into mind" to the point where it becomes a "joined harmonising."
PoemTalk was edited this time, as forty-nine times previously, by Steve McLaughlin. The show is produced at the Kelly Writers House in collaboration with the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound, and the Poetry Foundation.

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LXX Yudhishthira said, By adopting that conduct, O thou that art conversant with every kind of behaviour, can a king succeed in easily acquiring, both here and hereafter, objects productive of happiness in the end' Bhishma said, There are these thirty-six virtues which a king should observe. They are connected with thirty-six others. A virtuous person, by attending to those qualities, can certainly acquire great merit. The king should observe his duties without wrath and malice. He should not abandon kindness. He should have faith. He should acquire wealth without persecution and cruelty.
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He should take food that is wholesome and never that which is otherwise. He should without pride pay regards to those that deserve them, and serve his preceptors and seniors with sincerity. He should worship the gods without pride. He should seek prosperity, but never do anything that brings infamy. He should wait upon his seniors with humility. He should be clever in business but should always wait for the proper time. He should comfort men and never send them away with empty speeches. Having favoured a person, he should not abandon him. He should never strike in ignorance. Having slain his foe he should never indulge in sorrow.
He should display temper, but should never do so when there is no occasion. He should be mild, but never to those that have offended. Conduct thyself thus while ruling thy kingdom if thou wishest to have prosperity. The king that behaves otherwise incurs great danger. That king who observes all these virtues that I have mentioned, reaps many blessings on earth and great rewards in heaven' Vaisampayana continued, Hearing these words of Santanu's son, king Yudhishthira, docile in receiving instructions, possessed of great intelligence, and protected by Bhima and others, then worshipped his grandsire and from that time began to rule according to that teaching
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"Strange Fruit" by Mike Meginnis:
In the last summer before he would be a man, Norman bought a Greyhound bus ticket to Florida. He bought it with his last handful of dollars. He had bought the dollars at a two percent loss with hundreds of rolled quarters. The quarters went as far back as 1895, when it was still John Adams' face on the top side and the edges were smooth. Grandma Anita had built and rolled the collection for him. Norman got them when she died.
The ticket was only good one way. If he was going to come back home, he would have to earn the money in Florida.
The orchard would be his first job. He meant to see if he was made for work. He held Joe Macafee's last letter open in his fat hands. "I still have one spot open," said Macafee. "I would've preferred a Mexican but after the wall they are in short supply. Bring warm clothing for the cool nights, a blanket, and any kitchenware you need — a bowl, a plate, a knife, and a spoon all come highly recommended. If your mother wants to call you there's a pay phone at the gas station and you can mail her the number. I hope your legs are strong."
If he couldn't hack the orchard Norman planned to kill himself.
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At this point, there's a good chance no one in your neighborhood is carrying COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus. But despite that, Americans are stocking up on face masks, causing stores everywhere to run out.
Aimee Hart showed the last two N95 face masks she has in her family's drugstore.
"We can't get them anymore. They are out of stock at the warehouse," Hart said.
Customers like Donna Bruce wonder if it's worth having a few, after she recently saw dozens of fellow travelers wearing them while on an airplane.
"In the airport, I saw more people with masks on," Bruce said.
So, should you buy a pack (if you can find any)?
Why masks may not help
Doctors and pharmacists say while a face mask can help you from spreading germs when you are sick, they say masks really don't do much to prevent you from catching viruses.
The reason: the main way we pick up germs is not from the air but from touching contaminated surfaces.
"Virus transmission is mostly hand to eye, hand to mouth contact, so the best thing is to wash your hands," Hart explained.
The only real way a mask prevents you from getting sick is to keep your dirty hands away from your mouth and nose when you are wearing it, such as on a plane.
But despite that, people are snapping masks up.
We found shelves completely cleared of all varieties of respirator masks at a Home Depot. The nearby Lowe's had just a few sanding masks left.
Social media posts show empty shelves at Walgreens stores as well.
It's getting to the point where contractors and painters are having trouble getting fresh masks to do their job.
Pharmacies plead with people to not hoard masks
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"We get tons of calls everyday," he said. "And we have people coming in checking for them. But we currently have a back order of 50 people on a list waiting."
So what does he tell nervous people?
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This leaves Aimee Hart issuing a plea: that you should leave them for the older and ill people who really need masks.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has taken the brunt of the responsibility for the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, in which ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
As we've reported, what the White House knew and what they told the public officially has come under heavy scrutiny and sharp criticism from Republicans.
In fact, during the vice presidential debate, the first question asked of Vice President Joe Biden was about the incident and whether it represented a major intelligence failure. Biden said the White House did not know extra security had been requested by the outpost and he also asserted that the intelligence community believed that the attacks were, indeed, triggered by a protest against an anti-Muslim film.
In an interview with CNN last night, Clinton was asked if the Obama administration was trying to throw her "under the bus."
"I take responsibility," Clinton told CNN. "I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world — 275 posts. The president and the vice president wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. They're the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks and the needs."
In an interview with NBC News, Clinton also said that politics should be kept out of this kind of situation.
"I really believe that tragedies like what happened in Benghazi should be viewed in a non-political way," Clinton said. "Everybody should pull together as Americans."
She told NBC that she wasn't focusing on whom to blame but "what was happening and could happen. We did everything we could to keep our people safe, which is my primary responsibility."
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Now they tell us. From the New York Times, Nov. 10, links and emphasis added:
Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States.
In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants' compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted Predator aircraft — in real time in the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorist Center at the agency's headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away.
Some of the military missions have been conducted in close coordination with the C.I.A., according to senior American officials, who said that in others, like the Special Operations raid in Syria on Oct. 26 of this year, the military commandos acted in support of C.I.A.-directed operations.
More than a half-dozen officials, including current and former military and intelligence officials as well as senior Bush administration policy makers, described details of the 2004 military order on the condition of anonymity because of its politically delicate nature. Spokesmen for the White House, the Defense Department and the military declined to comment.
Apart from the 2006 raid into Pakistan, the American officials refused to describe in detail what they said had been nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks, except to say they had been carried out in Syria, Pakistan and other countries. They made clear that there had been no raids into Iran using that authority, but they suggested that American forces had carried out reconnaissance missions in Iran using other classified directives.
According to a senior administration official, the new authority was spelled out in a classified document called "Al Qaeda Network Exord," or execute order, that streamlined the approval process for the military to act outside officially declared war zones. Where in the past the Pentagon needed to get approval for missions on a case-by-case basis, which could take days when there were only hours to act, the new order specified a way for Pentagon planners to get the green light for a mission far more quickly, the official said.
The 2004 order identifies 15 to 20 countries, including Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and several other Persian Gulf states, where Qaeda militants were believed to be operating or to have sought sanctuary, a senior administration official said.
Even with the order, each specific mission requires high-level government approval. Targets in Somalia, for instance, need at least the approval of the defense secretary, the administration official said, while targets in a handful of countries, including Pakistan and Syria, require presidential approval.
The Pentagon has exercised its authority frequently, dispatching commandos to countries including Pakistan and Somalia. Details of a few of these strikes have previously been reported.
For example, shortly after Ethiopian troops crossed into Somalia in late 2006 to dislodge an Islamist regime in Mogadishu, the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command quietly sent operatives and AC-130 gunships to an airstrip near the Ethiopian town of Dire Dawa. From there, members of a classified unit called Task Force 88 crossed repeatedly into Somalia to hunt senior members of a Qaeda cell believed to be responsible for the 1998 American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
At the time, American officials said Special Operations troops were operating under a classified directive authorizing the military to kill or capture Qaeda operatives if failure to act quickly would mean the United States had lost a "fleeting opportunity" to neutralize the enemy.
Occasionally, the officials said, Special Operations troops would land in Somalia to assess the strikes' results. On Jan. 7, 2007, an AC-130 struck an isolated fishing village near the Kenyan border, and within hours, American commandos and Ethiopian troops were examining the rubble to determine whether any Qaeda operatives had been killed.
But even with the new authority, proposed Pentagon missions were sometimes scrubbed because of bad intelligence or bureaucratic entanglements, senior administration officials said.
The details of one of those aborted operations, in early 2005, were reported by The New York Times last June. In that case, an operation to send a team of the Navy Seals and the Army Rangers into Pakistan to capture Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy, was aborted at the last minute.
Mr. Zawahri was believed by intelligence officials to be attending a meeting in Bajaur, in Pakistan's tribal areas, and the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command hastily put together a plan to capture him. There were strong disagreements inside the Pentagon and the C.I.A. about the quality of the intelligence, however, and some in the military expressed concern that the mission was unnecessarily risky.
Porter J. Goss, the C.I.A. director at the time, urged the military to carry out the mission, and some in the C.I.A. even wanted to execute it without informing Ryan C. Crocker, then the American ambassador to Pakistan. Mr. Rumsfeld ultimately refused to authorize the mission.
Former military and intelligence officials said that Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who recently completed his tour as head of the Joint Special Operations Command, had pressed for years to win approval for commando missions into Pakistan. But the missions were frequently rejected because officials in Washington determined that the risks to American troops and the alliance with Pakistan were too great.
Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman for General McChrystal, who is now director of the military's Joint Staff, declined to comment.
The recent raid into Syria was not the first time that Special Operations forces had operated in that country, according to a senior military official and an outside adviser to the Pentagon.
Since the Iraq war began, the official and the outside adviser said, Special Operations forces have several times made cross-border raids aimed at militants and infrastructure aiding the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq.
The raid in late October, however, was much more noticeable than the previous raids, military officials said, which helps explain why it drew a sharp protest from the Syrian government.
Negotiations to hammer out the 2004 order took place over nearly a year and involved wrangling between the Pentagon and the C.I.A. and the State Department about the military's proper role around the world, several administration officials said.
American officials said there had been debate over whether to include Iran in the 2004 order, but ultimately Iran was set aside, possibly to be dealt with under a separate authorization.
The 2004 order also provided a foundation for the orders that Mr. Bush approved in July allowing the military to conduct raids into the Pakistani tribal areas, including the Sept. 3 operation by Special Operations forces that killed about 20 militants, American officials said.
Administration officials said that Mr. Bush's approval had paved the way for Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to sign an order — separate from the 2004 order — that specifically directed the military to plan a series of operations, in cooperation with the C.I.A., on the Qaeda network and other militant groups linked to it in Pakistan.
Unlike the 2004 order, in which Special Operations commanders nominated targets for approval by senior government officials, the order in July was more of a top-down approach, directing the military to work with the C.I.A. to find targets in the tribal areas, administration officials said. They said each target still needed to be approved by the group of Mr. Bush's top national security and foreign policy advisers, called the Principals Committee.
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The Pleasures of Husmanskost: Rolf's Kök
By Tom // 10 October 2011 in: Restaurants, Travel
If there is one meal that summarizes most of the eating Martha and I did in Sweden, it would have to be the one we ate at Rolf's Kök (pronounced "shook"), just north of central Stockholm. No fancy restaurant, Rolf's was one of many restaurants downtown focusing on husmanskost, everyday Swedish cooking. Husmanskost restaurants generally […]
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Soft summer plaid dress
It has a nice slight point at the center front of the midriff panel, flattering shape, and the sweetheart neckline is nice! I obviously didn't give it the pleated overlay on either side of the bust on this dress, and I gathered under the bust instead of using darts.
I gave this a fuller, longer skirt than I sometimes do--a little more old-fashioned, romantic, sort of Anthro-ey rather than trendy and short. Easy to wear!
This fabric, by the way--super nice quality lightweight cotton voile, that my mom got by accident from her wholesale supplier. They sent it to her by mistake and rather than have her ship it back (it was on super clearance to begin with) they just had her keep it. But she has no use for 15 yards of it--or any of it, actually. So I took a little off her hands! Free fabric!
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Poll: Beneath Jerry Brown's high ratings, voters have reservations
California voters overwhelmingly embraced Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown over his Republican rivals in the June primary, but he has failed to win them over on some of the state's most pressing issues.
Brown's handling of state prisons, efforts to address poverty and his response to California's drought and water issues all received low overall grades from voters in a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll conducted shortly before the primary.
That discontent provides an opening for political newcomer Neel Kashkari, who will face Brown in November, to attack the Democratic governor.
"There are problems when you look under the hood," said Republican political consultant Michael Madrid, co-director of the poll, who expects Brown to be reelected. "There's a very good likelihood of a more substantive discussion of some of these than people think.''
Though Brown received good marks on crime and public safety — 50%, up from 46% in November — he ranked lowest on prisons.
Forty-six percent disapproved of his record on prisons, compared with 30% who approved — nearly identical to the November findings.
The governor answered court orders to alleviate prison overcrowding partly by keeping tens of thousands of nonviolent felons in already packed county jails, forcing an increase in local inmates being released early. He has also begun releasing some offenders early from the prisons.
William Smylie, a county detention officer from Angels Camp in the Sierra foothills, said he has seen first-hand the problems caused by Brown's prison policies.
"There's a lot of people who aren't going to prison who should be.…They're filling county jails, and more are getting out," said Smylie, 43, a Democrat who took part in the poll. "I understand he had to do something. The prisons are overcrowded. But what he did was put a heavy burden on the counties."
Brown is known for his fiscal caution and has been criticized by some lawmakers and others who say his tightfistedness has undercut the state's ability to the address basic needs of the 9 million Californians living in poverty — more than in any other state, according to census figures.
With state revenue on the rise, a growing number of Democrats argue that Brown must do more for those in need. Voters appear to agree: 45% of those polled disapproved of Brown's handling of poverty.
Deborah Crawford, a Republican from Mariposa, said she hears about the economy recovering but has not seen the poorest of the poor benefiting.
"I haven't seen any difference," said Crawford, 57, who used to work at Sears and is now on disability.
As drought grips the state, the governor also received low marks on water policy, with only 39% approval, weighted heavily by residents of the farm-rich Central Valley and California's northern interior. The response comes despite a $687.4-million emergency drought relief package approved by the governor and Legislature earlier this year.
Robert Gates, a self-employed businessman from Santa Barbara, said Brown has done a good job overall but should be more aggressive about moving water from north to south.
"He needs to lead the charge against the environmental extremists who put a fish … above an orchard or people,'' said Gates, 68, who is registered without a party preference and who voted for Brown in the primary. (Most respondents — 55% — opposed suspension of environmental regulations that protect fish and wildlife.)
Democratic consultant Matt Rodriguez, a co-director of the poll, noted that despite some deficiencies in the eyes of many voters, 54% approved of Brown's overall performance.
Voters see him as a "serious person in a serious time who has governed well," Rodriguez said. "I don't see a ton of vulnerability. I think there might be if there was someone who was more credible running against him."
Brown, 76, is running for a historic fourth term as California's governor, and has been a familiar face in California politics since the Los Angeles Rams played in the Coliseum and Richard Nixon was in the White House. Brown was first elected in 1974, serving two consecutive terms before his second act began with his election again in 2010.
For Kashkari, a former Goldman Sachs banker and U.S. Treasury official, the 2014 gubernatorial race is his first foray into politics.
Brown captured 54% of the vote in the June 3 primary election and has $20.7 million socked away for his campaign. Kashkari received just under 20% of the vote and spent most of the $4 million he gathered to beat Republican rival Tim Donnelly, a state assemblyman.
The governor said he delivered on campaign promises to mend the state's finances, require voter approval for any tax increase and give local government more authority — especially over schools and the incarceration of criminals.
"California has come a long way in the last few years," Brown told reporters on the night of the primary. "Californians appreciate living within our means, managing the people's money, creating a rainy-day fund and just bringing a very common sense, get-it-done kind of approach.''
Kashkari began attacking Brown's record on poverty months ago.
"Jerry Brown can be beat because the middle class is struggling, and he has no answers," Kashkari said. "It's all about job creation. Once again, Democrats in Sacramento are looking for a Band-Aid rather than trying to address the disease."
Two of Kashkari's top priorities for "rebuilding the middle class" and alleviating poverty are cutting corporate taxes to attract new companies and opening California's Monterey Shale Formation to hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking.
Brown's campaign spokesman, Dan Newman, brushed aside Kashkari's criticisms, noting that the Republican ran the Bush administration's taxpayer-funded bank bailout.
"He's a guy who thinks Wall Street banks should have billions and the working poor should have a lower minimum wage,'' Newman said.
He added that the governor's focus on balancing the budget was the essential first step to addressing other needs in the state. A federal court order is forcing Brown to reduce inmate numbers, and the governor pushed for the drought-relief package, Newman said.
On poverty, he noted, in the last year Brown signed legislation to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour and proposed a budget to cover an unexpected rise in Medi-Cal enrollees — 1.4 million low-income people who may now receive healthcare.
"The governor's only vulnerability is misinformation," Newman said.
The poll was conducted jointly by American Viewpoint, a Republican firm, and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a Democratic company, for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles Times. They surveyed 1,511 registered state voters by telephone from May 21 to May 28. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
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I've used unix for quite a while, and for the last couple years I've felt like swap is an anachronism, but I'd be curious what other folks think.
My argument is roughly this (assuming no global ulimit or twiddling of OOM settings):
There is little value in swap because if you need to swap out to disk,
odds are it's going to be a vicious cycle where an app will continue
to eat not only real memory, but swap as well until it gets OOM
reaped (_if_ it gets OOM reaped).
If you have swap enabled, it will only prolong this death march to
the detriment of other processes - and in the worst case where the
process is not OOM reaped in a timely manner, grind the system to
a halt.
Without swap, it will probably get OOM reaped sooner (if at all)
For any service that is tuned for performance, I would think that understanding the upper limits of it's resource usage would be key to tuning it in the first place, in which case you know how much you need.
I can't imagine many situations (some, but not many) where you'd suspend a running process and it could swap out to make room for other things, but you'd still lose your sockets if you did that, so forcing a core-dump via gcc or copying the memory out by hand would be functionally equivalent.
I definitely wouldn't want swap on an embedded system (even though it may have a smaller available ram), if you run out of ram I'd rather have my process die than tear up a million-write-per-sector flash memory drive over a weekend by wear-leveling the sectors down to the nub.
Any unix-beards out there have any compelling reasons to keep swap around?
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CONFIRMED? - fork() requires the same amount of memory for the child process as the parent
Modern fork() is copy-on-write for children on POSIX (in general), but Linux and FreeBSD specifically, and I'm assuming OSX by extrapolation. I consider this part of the anachronistic luggage that swap carries with it.
Curiously, This Solaris article claims that even though Solaris uses Copy-on-Write with fork(), that you should have at least 2x (!) the parent process size in free virtual memory for the fork() not to crap out in the middle. While the Solaris element somewhat busts the argument that swap is an anachronism - I think enough operating systems correctly implement CoW in such a way that it's more important to dispel the myth than to mark it as further justification for swap. Since. Lets face it. At this point the people who actually use Solaris are probably just Oracle guys. No offense Solaris!
CONFIRMED - tmpfs/ramfs files can go to swap as a convienence when tmpfs/ramfs fills up
Don't use no-limit tmpfs/ramfs! Always explicitly define the amount of ram that you want tmpfs/ramfs to use.
PLAUSABLE - Have a little swap 'just in case'
One of my old bosses used to have a great saying, 'you don't know what you don't know' - essentially, you can't make a decision based on information you don't have yet. This is a plausible argument for swap to me, however - I suspect that the types of things you'd do to detect if your application is swapping out or not would be heavier than checking to see if malloc() succeeds or catching the exception from a failed new().
This may be useful in cases where you're running a desktop and have a bunch of random things going on, but even still - if something goes nuts I'd rather it be OOM reaped than diving into swap-hell. That's just me.
BUSTED! - On Solaris, swap is important for a couple of reasons
tmpfs - states The amount of free space available to tmpfs depends on the amount of unallocated swap space in the system. The size of a tmpfs file system grows to accommodate the files written to it, but there are some inherent tradeoffs for heavy users of tmpfs. Tmpfs shares resources with the data and stack segments of executing programs. The execution of very large programs can be affected if tmpfs file systems are close to their maximum allowable size. Tmpfs is free to allocate all but 4MB of the system's swap space.
Solaris facts and myths about swap - states Virtual memory today consists of the sum total of physical RAM and swap space on disk. Solaris DOES NOT require any swap space to be configured at all. If you choose this option, once RAM is full, you will not be able to start new processes..
I'm unsure if this means that the maximum virtual map you can create is ram+swap, or if you could still do something like mmap() a file larger than ram and rely on mmap()'s lazy initialization.. While you can probably run Solaris these days fine without swap, it seems like it's less friendly about it than other POSIXy operating systems.
BUSTED! Popular Linux hibernation tools appear to rely on swap
By default, TuxOnIce looks like it relies on swap for hibernation - although other backends exist. However, if you're not running a box that needs to hibernate, I would still stand behind the statement that 'swap is anacronistic on linux'


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ColdFusion, CSS, And Underlying Java Methods (Your Thoughts)
I was just reading over on Dave Ferguson's blog that he used custom CSS to change the modal mask color of the elements rendered using ColdFusion 8's new CFWindow tag. This brought up a very interesting thought in my mind - is this something that anyone should attempt to do?
Here's my thinking: the rendered XHTML and CSS are part of ColdFusion 8's underlying and undocumented implementation of the new layout and AJAX features. To me, this is right on par with the Java functions that are also undocumented yet available on all ColdFusion objects. There's nothing here to say that the next HotFix or the next ColdFusion upgrade won't completely change the way the XHTML or the CSS is written (and therefore break any overriding CSS rules you have).
Now, the slight difference here is that if the CSS changes in an update, the site won't break functionally, whereas if the underlying Java implementation changes, a site may very well stop working (if it references those formerly available Java methods). While this might sound like a large difference, I say "slight" since both of them would require a developer to manually fix code (and at that point, the difference in update time is probably only minutes vs. hours - not a huge deal in my mind if it's part of a system upgrade).
That being said, I am NOT saying that Dave is wrong or that you should ignore the available, underlying implementation; to the very contrary: I am one who believes that harnessing the power of underlying features is a good thing (and is really only just one more thing to consider when upgrading a system). I am just wondering what people's thoughts are on this - sometimes it is easier to formulate opinions when the example is more tangible (CSS vs. Java).
All in all, I assume that the people who oppose calling underlying Java methods will also oppose adding your own CSS overrides, but I am curious.
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I can't see the problem with doing either.
All either means is that you have to double check everything before applying the update to the live server, but everyone does that anyway, right :-)
I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I could've sworn I read in the docs that it's appropriate to modify the css as described. Of course, maybe I just saw that on some blog or other unofficial source of information somewhere.
It's certainly common to do so in EXT. Matter of fact, EXT gives you hooks for doing just that. That said, it's certainly a use at your own risk kind of thing.
You might be right; I don't know all that much about the way the CF8 interface stuff is done. I just assumed that it was undocumented (perhaps I have made an Ass out of me :)).
I don't know Ben: I tried finding in the docs the stuff i thought I had seen, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I did see that you can pass through styles to the various widgets, but I didn't dig enough to see if all they're doing is modifying the x-???-??? classes or if they're just passing those styles straight through to the divs.
I do believe, though, that one should use caution when modifying the classes and that one should understand things might not work as expected. Just the other day, I was working with EXT and its ColumnLayout. I needed some margins, so I just trumped the x-panel (or whatever it was) class and added margins. lo and behold, the right panel done went and dropped off the screen. So... whoops!
All he is doing is overriding a style ( x-dlg-mask ) in his external css file - it's not like he's hacking a jar file or something to do it...?
I didn't mean to say that what was going on was an extreme measure or even a harmful one (in fact, it was quite minimal on the grand scale of things). All I wanted to do was get people's thoughts on modifying the underlying implementation.
I use the underlying Java methods on the ColdFusion String object all the time and sometimes I get some heat for it. I wanted to see what people thought if the spot light was shifting to something that was perceived as less invasive or harmful, to see if their feelings about it changed.
I hacked my own css at work recently. I thought it was cool. :) I had a global id style for an accordion widget and I didn't want to change it so I added a class with some style overrides for that particular instance. Worked pretty well. :)
Overriding the default styles are allowed within CF8. As was noted above the Ext library allows for a lot of customization. CF gives you access to the underlying Ext objects for windows (Ext Basic Dialogs). What I would not do is customize the window implementation by extending the javascript. The version of Ext utilized by CF is still 1.0 and I assume that they will continue the update since Ext is an awesome library and some of the 2.0 features are different. You can also create and assign custom plugins and configuration to the FCKEditor implementation.
Overriding the default styles are allowed within CF8
... then I was just not fully aware of the CF8 specification (not surprising as I have not really done anything with the Layout related features of CF8 yet). I suppose that that makes the post here an invalid point.
There is a tag called cfajaximport that has an attribute called scriptsrc where you can provide your own path to all the JavaScript, CSS, and image files needed for the CF8 AJAX features.
Why is this so important? So this way you can have multiple applications each with their own copy of those files and you don't have to overwrite anything within the CFIDE where it would affect other applications globally. With that tag you can now safely customize any of the CSS files. Thats why they are there for! Go crazy editing them. :)
just as an aside: were one so inclined to try importing the new ext2 (still in alpha)....you're in for a rude awakening. they seem hell bent on keeping that framework tight, and when they need to change something for the betterment of the framework, it doesn't look like they're focusing too much on backward compatibility. Which I think is great, by the way. They are posting an "upgrade path", and that's helpful. But it does mean that drop-in JS replacements are going to be more difficult for EXT. It'll be interesting to watch how adobe handles this for CF9, since they've been very cognizant about not breaking people's code. Most likely it'd only affect people who did stuff like mygrid.getGrid() and then modified the underlying widget and not the people who went straight up CFGRID, for example.


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Localiser : Clermont-Ferrand from Soul Bmx Magazine on Vimeo.
I love this video from Soul Bmx Magazine that corresponds with an article they featured. These dues have great style. I especially love the pegless dude at the end. Riders are Théo De Olivera, Antoine Neuville, Sylvain "Badiss" Bony, Alex Garczinski, Maxime Dewey Triay, Adrien Rabat, William Naze and Killian Limousin.


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By Paul Craig Roberts
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Millions of refugees from Washington's wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington's 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government's official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst. Factual evidence and science do not support Washington's conspiracy theory. The 9/11 Commission did not conduct an investigation. It was not permitted to investigate. The Commission sat and listened to the government's story and wrote it down. Afterwards, the chairman and cochairman of the Commission said that the Commission "was set up to fail." For a factual explanation of 9/11, watch this film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoY3AIRUGA&feature=youtu.be
Here is a presentation by Pilots For 9/11 Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Laaq44SDgg
Here is an extensive examination of many of the aspects of 9/11: http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=167
Phil Restino of the Central Florida chapter of Veterans For Peace wants to know why national antiwar organizations buy into the official 9/11 story when the official story is the basis for the wars that antiwar organizations oppose. Some are beginning to wonder if ineffectual peace groups are really Homeland Security or CIA fronts?
The account below of the government's 9/11 conspiracy theory reads like a parody, but in fact is an accurate summary of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. It was posted as a comment in the online UK Telegraph on September 12, 2009, in response to Charlie Sheen's request to President Obama to conduct a real investigation into what happened on September 11, 2001.
The Official Version of 9/11 goes something like this:
Directed by a beardy-guy from a cave in Afghanistan, nineteen hard-drinking, coke-snorting, devout Muslims enjoy lap dances before their mission to meet Allah.
Using nothing more than craft knifes, they overpower cabin crew, passengers and pilots on four planes.
And hangover or not, they manage to give the world's most sophisticated air defence system the slip.
Unfazed by leaving their "How to Fly a Passenger Jet" guide in the car at the airport, they master the controls in no-time and score direct hits on two towers, causing THREE to collapse completely.
The laws of physics fail, and the world watches in awe as asymmetrical damage and scattered low temperature fires cause steel-framed buildings to collapse symmetrically through their own mass at free-fall speed, for the first time in history.
Despite their dastardly cunning and superb planning, they give their identity away by using explosion-proof passports, which survive the destruction of steel and concrete and fall to the ground where they are quickly discovered lying on top of the mass of debris.
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Instead of flying straight down into the large roof area of the Pentagon, he decides to show off a little.
Executing an incredible 270 degree downward spiral, he levels off to hit the low facade of the Pentagon.
Without ruining the nicely mowed lawn and at a speed just too fast to capture on video.
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Desperate to talk to loved ones before their death, some passengers use sheer willpower to connect mobile calls that would not be possible until several years later.
And following a heroic attempt by some to retake control of Flight 93, the airliner crashes into a Pennsylvania field leaving no trace of engines, fuselage or occupants except for the standard issue Muslim terrorist bandana.
During these events
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I don't like storms. We've been getting quite a few of them lately, and all the wind noises and rain noises make me a little afraid. I'm glad I have Rumbles to keep me feeling safe (even if I do feel the need to pounce on him from time to time)
I have even learned a few things from Rumbles about how to pose for the camera:
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Posted on March 17, 2005
From: The Campaign for Mental Health Reform
Washington, DC — The House of Representatives today passed a federal budget resolution that advocates say would dramatically reduce federal support for Medicaid-financed mental health services.
"Indiscriminate Medicaid cuts could have a crippling effect at the local level and absolutely devastate the tens of thousands of people with mental illnesses and their families who rely on Medicaid to access needed services," Linda Rosenberg, spokeswoman for the Campaign for Mental Health Reform and President and CEO of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.
Medicaid is the single largest source of financing for mental health care and provides over half of state and local spending on mental health services. However, even with current federal support for Medicaid, one of every two Americans who need mental health treatment do not receive it, and the rate is even lower - and the quality of care poorer - for ethnic and racial minorities, according to the President's Commission on Mental Health.
Without access to needed services, adults and children with mental illnesses face increased risk of school failure, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, arrest, incarceration, increased reliance on emergency facilities, and suicide. "Investing in services that enable individuals to improve and become or remain productive citizens saves resources in the long-term," said Bill Emmet, Director of the Campaign for Mental Health Reform.
"Congress should be mending the delicate safety net for Americans who have mental illnesses," said Rosenberg. "Instead, lawmakers have put forth a budget resolution that cuts crucial spending on health care for some of America's poorest and most marginalized citizens."
The House-approved budget resolution provides no specific proposals on how Medicaid cuts can be achieved. However, advocates believe that House and Senate appropriators will likely seek guidance from President Bush's budget, which calls for cuts in a critical set of services for people with mental illness.
The budget resolution, which passed the House on a vote of 218-214 calls for roughly $20 billion in Medicaid cuts and an estimated $106 billion in tax cuts over the next five years. The Senate earlier today passed an amendment to strip about $15 billion in Medicaid cuts from its version of the budget resolution.
"Unfortunately, Medicaid is fast becoming Capitol Hill's favorite political piñata," said Rosenberg. "We urge Congress to take a deliberate, careful approach to changes in such an important program."
"The key to saving tax dollars is improving outcomes for people with mental illnesses," said Rosenberg. "In the long run, increasing the number of Americans who recover from mental illness and increasing their opportunities to lead successful lives in the community is the best way to save money in Medicaid and other federal programs that serve people with mental illnesses."
The Campaign for Mental Health Reform has been organized as the mental health community's united voice on federal policy. Its goal is to make access, recovery, and quality in mental health services the hallmarks of our nation's mental health system. Its members include organizations representing millions of people with mental or emotional disorders and their families and service providers, administrators and other advocates.
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Adventure across Disney's magical and wondrous worlds in the first mobile app for the beloved Kingdom Hearts series!
Kingdom Hearts is a tale about Light and Friendship overcoming the power of Darkness. Over the last 15 years, millions of fans have experienced the epic tale of King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and more than 100 Disney characters joining forces with Sora, Keyblade warriors, and heroes from Square Enix's popular Final Fantasy video game series as they battle to protect their friends and save all worlds from the Heartless.
- Become a hero at the very beginning of the Kingdom Hearts story in the era of the Lost Masters. Gather LUX—a mysterious form of light—and fight the Heartless as you explore beautiful Disney worlds. Meet familiar faces, strengthen yourself and your Keyblades!
- Battle against the Heartless using your legendary Keyblades. Tap to attack, swipe to hit multiple enemies, and flick medals to unleash their special abilities.
- Strategize to defeat enemies in fewer turns for greater rewards by using your special attacks and finding the right balance of power, magic, and speed medals.
- Customize your hero by changing your avatar's outfits to match your style of fashion. Be on the lookout for outfits based upon popular Disney, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts characters, as well as seasonal clothing!
- Collect and evolve hundreds of character medals, which contain the harnessed power of popular Disney and Final Fantasy heroes and villains.
- Team up with friends to challenge and take down monstrous Heartless raid bosses for even greater rewards!
- Survive the challenges in the Olympus Coliseum, where the strongest heroes can brave additional bosses and unlock the rare medals.
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Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88. His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that her father died of kidney failure.
Engelbart arrived at his crowning moment relatively early in his career, on a winter afternoon in 1968, when he delivered an hour-long presentation containing so many far-reaching ideas that it would be referred to decades later as the "mother of all demos."
Speaking before an audience of 1,000 leading technologists in San Francisco, Engelbart, a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), showed off a cubic device with two rolling discs called an "X-Y position indicator for a display system." It was the mouse's public debut.
Engelbart then summoned, in real-time, the image and voice of a colleague 30 miles (48 km) away. That was the first videoconference. And he explained a theory of how pages of information could be tied together using text-based links, an idea that would later form the bedrock of the Web's architecture.
At a time when computing was largely pursued by government researchers or hobbyists with a countercultural bent, Engelbart never sought or enjoyed the explosive wealth that would later become synonymous with Silicon Valley success. For instance, he never received any royalties for the mouse, which SRI patented and later licensed to Apple.
He was intensely driven instead by a belief that computers could be used to augment human intellect. In talks and papers, he described with zeal and bravado a vision of a society in which groups of highly productive workers would spend many hours a day collectively manipulating information on shared computers.
"The possibilities we are pursuing involve an integrated man-machine working relationship, where close, continuous interaction with a computer avails the human of radically changed information-handling and -portrayal skills," he wrote in a 1961 research proposal at SRI.
His work, he argued with typical conviction, "competes in social significance with research toward harnessing thermonuclear power, exploring outer space, or conquering cancer."
A proud visionary, Engelbart found himself intellectually isolated at various points in his life. But over time he was proved correct more often than not. "To see the Internet and the World Wide Web become the dominant paradigms in computing is an enormous vindication of his vision," Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus Development Corporation, said in an interview on Wednesday. "It's almost like Leonardo da Vinci envisioning the helicopter hundreds of years before they could actually be built."
By 2000, Engelbart had won prestigious accolades including the National Medal of Technology and the Turing Award. He lived in comfort in Atherton, a leafy suburb near Stanford University. But he wrestled with his fade into obscurity even as entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates became celebrity billionaires by realizing some of his early ideas.
In 2005, he told Tom Foremski, a technology journalist, that he felt the last two decades of his life had been a "failure" because he could not receive funding for his research or "engage anybody in a dialogue."
Douglas Carl Engelbart was born on Jan. 30, 1925 in Portland to a radio repairman father who was often absent and a homemaker mother. He enrolled at Oregon State University, but was drafted into the U.S. Navy and shipped to the Pacific before he could graduate.
He resolved to change the world as a computer scientist after coming across a 1945 article by Vannevar Bush, the head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research, while scouring a Red Cross library in a native hut in the Philippines, he told an interviewer years later. After returning to the United States to complete his degree, Engelbart took a teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley, after Stanford declined to hire him because his research seemed too removed from practical applications. It would not be the first time his ideas were rejected.
Engelbart also worked at the Ames Laboratory, and the precursor to NASA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. He obtained a doctorate in electrical engineering from Berkeley in 1955.
He took a job at SRI in 1957, and by the early-1960s Engelbart led a team that began to seriously investigate tools for interactive computing.
After coming back from a computer graphics conference in 1961, Engelbart sketched a design of what would become the mouse and tasked Bill English, an engineering colleague, to carve a prototype out of wood. Engelbart's team considered other designs, including a device that would be affixed to the underside of a table and controlled by the knee, but the desktop mouse won out.
SRI would later license the technology for $40,000 to Apple, which released its first commercial mouse with the Lisa computer in 1983. By the late 1970s, Engelbart's research group was acquired by a company called Tymshare. In the final decades of his career, Engelbart struggled to secure funding for his work, much less return to the same heights of influence.
"I don't think he was at peace with himself, partly because many, many things that he forecast all came to pass, but many of the things that he saw in his vision still hadn't," said Kapor, who helped fund Engelbart's work in the 1990s. "He was frustrated by his inability to move the field forward." In 1986, Engelbart told interviewers from Stanford that his mind had always roamed in a way that set him apart or even alienated him. "Growing up without a father, through the teenage years and such, I was always sort of different," Engelbart said. "Other people knew what they were doing, and had good guidance, and had enough money to do it. I was getting by, and trying. I never expected, ever, to be the same as anyone else."
He is survived by Karen O'Leary Engelbart, his second wife, and four children: Gerda, Diana, Christina and Norman. His first wife, Ballard, died in 1997.


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I spent my last trek focused on Lancaster, SC, where the Native American Studies Center of the University of South Carolina-Lancaster was holding, coincidentally, its annual Native American Studies Week, and the Lawson Trek got to play. As ever, I'd rather be lucky than good. I'll tell you about that soon, and about the welcome I received (again, like Lawson) from the Catawbas themselves.
But I was talking about land. Walking north out of Camden left no doubt we were in the midlands, the Piedmont of South Carolina. In Camden we had noticed that the walk into town from the south had been almost completely flat but that the walk out of town to the north had enough rolling hills that you might not notice them as you walked but you would notice morning fog settling in the low places. We saw the land shift from pure loam and clay to rock, which was most notable in the copses of trees surrounding rocks too big for farmers to clear that pop up in the middle of the pastures for beef cattle that now have joined the cotton and soy fields and the pine farms we pass by. In fact, we now regularly pass by enormous boulders, which just like the lay of the land help determine the land's use. Not for nothing is Camden the beginning of horse country. |
But for the clearest indication of how a culture has changed is to look at what's come next, and the place to do that is The Ivy Place, a few miles up the Catawba River from Lancaster. Built in 1850 by one Adam Ivy, Ivy Place is still owned by the descendants of James Nisbet, a New York physician who had grown up in the area and bought the house as a homeplace in the 1880s. But the Ivy Place has more than just that beautiful 1850 house, barns, pick-your-own strawberry patches, and a great facility you can rent for weddings. It also has a future as open land. Because its owners have placed a conservation easement on it through the Katawba Valley Land Trust, the Ivy Place will never be developed. It will continue to be a working farm, and the family will own it, use it for its own purposes, farm strawberries and pine trees and beef cattle, host events -- but the land will never be developed. If you want to know what that means, look to the right. On the lower left of the image is the Catawba Reservation; across the river is Ivy Place and other land owned by the Nesbit family. North of that is what happens to land without conservation easements. |
Which was why Jimmy was so pleased as he showed us the territory his family owns (and even some his family sold, though with easements on it protecting the river). Until the late 1950s the Catawbas operated a one-car ferry where route 5 now crosses the river, but the new road ended that. The more than 3 miles of riverside the Nesbits own at least give open land a fighting chance. Jimmy walked us to a site that had once been a Catawba town, and doing nothing more difficult than idly kicking around dirt he unearthed 18th-century pottery fragments that he gave to me -- a connection with centuries past.
Not that the land as it is now, with lovely second-growth forest and old mills and town sites and such, would have been as it is now when Lawson passed. "The coastal plain would've been magnificent longleaf pine forests," Barry reminded us, as we followed old Waxhaw paths and double-tracks as old as horse and buggies along the conserved land.
After all, you need somewhere to dock your kayak when it's time to gather the basketballs.


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'WE emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as far as possible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in the protection of its glare. Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently had my arms full of such litter. Thus loaded, our progress was slower than I had anticipated, and besides Weena was tired. And I began to suffer from sleepiness too; so that it was full night before we reached the wood. Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward. I had been without sleep for a night and two days, and I was feverish and irritable. I felt sleep coming upon me, and the Morlocks with it.
'While we hesitated, among the black bushes behind us, and dim against their blackness, I saw three crouching figures. There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach. The forest, I calculated, was rather less than a mile across. If we could get through it to the bare hill-side, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods. Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down. And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it. I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.
'I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame. In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
'She wanted to run to it and play with it. I believe she would have cast herself into it had I not restrained her. But I caught her up, and in spite of her struggles, plunged boldly before me into the wood. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path. Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill. I laughed at that, and turned again to the dark trees before me. It was very black, and Weena clung to me convulsively, but there was still, as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, sufficient light for me to avoid the stems. Overhead it was simply black, except where a gap of remote blue sky shone down upon us here and there. I struck none of my matches because I had no hand free. Upon my left arm I carried my little one, in my right hand I had my iron bar.
'For some way I heard nothing but the crackling twigs under my feet, the faint rustle of the breeze above, and my own breathing and the throb of the blood-vessels in my ears. Then I seemed to know of a pattering about me. I pushed on grimly. The pattering grew more distinct, and then I caught the same queer sound and voices I had heard in the Under-world. There were evidently several of the Morlocks, and they were closing in upon me. Indeed, in another minute I felt a tug at my coat, then something at my arm. And Weena shivered violently, and became quite still.
'It was time for a match. But to get one I must put her down. I did so, and, as I fumbled with my pocket, a struggle began in the darkness about my knees, perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks. Soft little hands, too, were creeping over my coat and back, touching even my neck. Then the match scratched and fizzed. I held it flaring, and saw the white backs of the Morlocks in flight amid the trees. I hastily took a lump of camphor from my pocket, and prepared to light is as soon as the match should wane. Then I looked at Weena. She was lying clutching my feet and quite motionless, with her face to the ground. With a sudden fright I stooped to her. She seemed scarcely to breathe. I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her. The wood behind seemed full of the stir and murmur of a great company!
'She seemed to have fainted. I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on, and then there came a horrible realization. In manoeuvring with my matches and Weena, I had turned myself about several times, and now I had not the faintest idea in what direction lay my path. For all I knew, I might be facing back towards the Palace of Green Porcelain. I found myself in a cold sweat. I had to think rapidly what to do. I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were. I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves. Here and there out of the darkness round me the Morlocks' eyes shone like carbuncles.
'The camphor flickered and went out. I lit a match, and as I did so, two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away. One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me, and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist. He gave a whoop of dismay, staggered a little way, and fell down. I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire. Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen. So, instead of casting about among the trees for fallen twigs, I began leaping up and dragging down branches. Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor. Then I turned to where Weena lay beside my iron mace. I tried what I could to revive her, but she lay like one dead. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed.
'Now, the smoke of the fire beat over towards me, and it must have made me heavy of a sudden. Moreover, the vapour of camphor was in the air. My fire would not need replenishing for an hour or so. I felt very weary after my exertion, and sat down. The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand. I seemed just to nod and open my eyes. But all was dark, and the Morlocks had their hands upon me. Flinging off their clinging fingers I hastily felt in my pocket for the match-box, and—it had gone! Then they gripped and closed with me again. In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the bitterness of death came over my soul. The forest seemed full of the smell of burning wood. I was caught by the neck, by the hair, by the arms, and pulled down. It was indescribably horrible in the darkness to feel all these soft creatures heaped upon me. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web. I was overpowered, and went down. I felt little teeth nipping at my neck. I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever. It gave me strength. I struggled up, shaking the human rats from me, and, holding the bar short, I thrust where I judged their faces might be. I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows, and for a moment I was free.
'The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me. I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat. I stood with my back to a tree, swinging the iron bar before me. The whole wood was full of the stir and cries of them. A minute passed. Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement, and their movements grew faster. Yet none came within reach. I stood glaring at the blackness. Then suddenly came hope. What if the Morlocks were afraid? And close on the heels of that came a strange thing. The darkness seemed to grow luminous. Very dimly I began to see the Morlocks about me—three battered at my feet—and then I recognized, with incredulous surprise, that the others were running, in an incessant stream, as it seemed, from behind me, and away through the wood in front. And their backs seemed no longer white, but reddish. As I stood agape, I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches, and vanish. And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks' flight.
'Stepping out from behind my tree and looking back, I saw, through the black pillars of the nearer trees, the flames of the burning forest. It was my first fire coming after me. With that I looked for Weena, but she was gone. The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection. My iron bar still gripped, I followed in the Morlocks' path. It was a close race. Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left. But at last I emerged upon a small open space, and as I did so, a Morlock came blundering towards me, and past me, and went on straight into the fire!
'And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing, I think, of all that I beheld in that future age. This whole space was as bright as day with the reflection of the fire. In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn. Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest, with yellow tongues already writhing from it, completely encircling the space with a fence of fire. Upon the hill-side were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment. At first I did not realize their blindness, and struck furiously at them with my bar, in a frenzy of fear, as they approached me, killing one and crippling several more. But when I had watched the gestures of one of them groping under the hawthorn against the red sky, and heard their moans, I was assured of their absolute helplessness and misery in the glare, and I struck no more of them.
'Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him. At one time the flames died down somewhat, and I feared the foul creatures would presently be able to see me. I was thinking of beginning the fight by killing some of them before this should happen; but the fire burst out again brightly, and I stayed my hand. I walked about the hill among them and avoided them, looking for some trace of Weena. But Weena was gone.
'At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them. The coiling uprush of smoke streamed across the sky, and through the rare tatters of that red canopy, remote as though they belonged to another universe, shone the little stars. Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me, and I drove them off with blows of my fists, trembling as I did so.
'For the most part of that night I was persuaded it was a nightmare. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake. I beat the ground with my hands, and got up and sat down again, and wandered here and there, and again sat down. Then I would fall to rubbing my eyes and calling upon God to let me awake. Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames. But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day.
'I searched again for traces of Weena, but there were none. It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest. I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the awful fate to which it seemed destined. As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself. The hillock, as I have said, was a kind of island in the forest. From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx. And so, leaving the remnant of these damned souls still going hither and thither and moaning, as the day grew clearer, I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems, that still pulsated internally with fire, towards the hiding-place of the Time Machine. I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena. It seemed an overwhelming calamity. Now, in this old familiar room, it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss. But that morning it left me absolutely lonely again—terribly alone. I began to think of this house of mine, of this fireside, of some of you, and with such thoughts came a longing that was pain.
'But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky, I made a discovery. In my trouser pocket were still some loose matches. The box must have leaked before it was lost.