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A bunch of things that are connected to the local servers are running. The pay phone up in the space doesn't work, the keypad outside doesn't either, any computer that tries to connect to the internet wired or wireless needs to have the DNS directed to an outside server. I checked all the ethernet cords, and they're all connected properly at the deviced (didn't double check at the server). It seems to be one or more problem directly with the server. Honestly, none of these problems are preventing me from working on anything here, so I don't care to spend the time to figure out how I would fix it, but I figured I let y'all know what's been going on.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Jake <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 does the payphone make beeps when you press buttons?

 does it make a happy or sad sound ever, or does the light light up ever?

 if it does not make beeps when you press keys, check the blue cable connecting it to minotaur.

 if it does make beeps, perhaps the script on minotaur is not running.
 I think it's called baron?

 https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Keycode_access

 -jake

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 The gate latch is fixed again (JB Welded by other Rob), the keypad isn't
 functional though and wondering if this could be related to the DNS not
 working at noisebridge?

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Al Franken's campaign has won two key rulings. The Politico:
The Minnesota Canvassing Board unanimously recommended that all counties include the absentee ballots that were unfairly rejected on Election Day in the recount. Election officials throughout the state have been sorting absentee ballots based on why they were rejected – and putting aside a fifth group (called the "fifth pile") with those unfairly rejected ballots.
Minnesota's Deputy Secretary of State predicted over 1,500 ballots fall in this category. If they're included, they could potentially overturn Coleman's razor-thin lead. Coleman leads Franken by 192 votes, according to the Secretary of State's official count.
Earlier, the Canvassing Board voted unanimously to include the 133 missing ballots from a Minneapolis precinct that voted overwhelmingly for Franken -- another victory for the Franken camp. Coleman's campaign argued the ballots may never have existed in the first place, and shouldn't have been counted.
Next week, the Canvassing Board will pore over as many as 4,000 ballots that both campaigns have disputed.
It's obviously not over. And remember: it was reported just Wednesday that federal investigators are looking into whether a huge Coleman supporter has been illicitly steering money in Coleman's direction. It's understandable and admirable that federal prosecutors would not make such an explosive charge public right before an election, but I bet more than a few Minnesota voters might be reconsidering things in light of these developments.
None of which is to say of course that the Minnesota canvassers should do anything other than follow the law. I've made my enthusiasm for Franken clear and I think he'd be a great senator.

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By an assistant of François Dieussart (d.1661), inscribed on the back, F.M.R.F., perhaps the initials of the sculptor. The inscription translates as: The Most Serene Princess Sophia of the Palatine, Daughter of Frederick King of Bohemia, AD 1648, aged 17.
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Current affairsResurgence of civil war largely ends at the battle of Preston, won by Parliamentarians under Oliver Cromwell's command.
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InternationalA series of European treaties, negotiated since 1644, results in the Peace of Westphalia and ends the German phase of the Thirty Years' War, and war between the Dutch and Spain in the Eighty Years' War. Delegations are sent from around Europe, Henri II d'Orleans leads the French delegation.
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Writers: Luther Dixon, Shirley Owens
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Released: Sept. '60, Scepter
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The Shirelles, who originally called themselves the Pequellos, formed while at their Passaic, New Jersey, high school. Lead singer Owens was only 19 when she co-wrote this hit about romantic surrender, full of Latin-style syncopation and soulful yearning.
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The Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, was the official and primary residence in the city of the Ottoman Sultans for 400 years, from 1465 to 1856. Today, it contains the most holy relics of the Muslim world, including the Prophet Muhammed's cloak and sword. Construction began in 1459. At the height of its existence as a royal residence, it was home to 4,000 people. The palace complex includes mosques, a hospital, bakeries, and a mint, together with hundreds of rooms and chambers.
After the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1921, Topkapı Palace was transformed by government decree in 1924 into a museum of the imperial era. The palace today is full of examples of Ottoman architecture and also contains large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, shields, armor, Ottoman minatures, Islamic colligraphic manuscripts and murals, and Ottoman treasure and jewelry.
Dali described his paintings as "hand-made photographs" executed according to the "paranoiac critical method." This he defined as a "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based upon the interpretive critical association of delirious phenomena." He specialised in depicting familiar objects in illogical settings and combinations.
Dalí was introduced to America by art dealer Julian Levy in 1934. An exhibition of his works in New York created an immediate sensation. In 1934, Dalí was formally expelled from the Surrealist group. His response was to announce "I myself am surrealism."
In 1936, Dalí took part in the London International Surrealist Exhibition. He delivered his lecture wearing a deep-sea diving suit and helmet. The helmet had to be unscrewed as he gasped for breath. He commented that "I just wanted to show that I was 'plunging deeply' into the human mind."
Dali and Gala moved to the United States in 1940, where they lived for eight years. His autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, was published in 1942. In addition to his autobiography, he wrote several other books, as well as ballets and movie scripts. In 1949, Dali and Gala returned to Spain. Dali died in 1989, at the age of 84.
He was married four times, and bore a son, Ulrich, from his first marriage. He lived illegally in Paris for several years during the 1920s and 30s. He was a founder member of the Cologne Dada group. He was highly experimental in his artworks, and pioneered a number of techniques, including frottage, which uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images, and grattage, in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. Collages, which he first produced in 1919, came to dominate his artistic pursuits in later years.
In 1938 Ernst was interned in France, but discharged a few weeks later. During the Nazi occupation of France, he was arrested by the Gestapo, but escaped and fled to America with the help of Peggy Guggenheim, a patron of his art. Ernst and Guggenheim arrived in the United States in 1941, were married in 1942, and divorced in 1946. In the same year he married Dorothea Tanning. In 1948 he wrote the treatise Beyond Painting, which earned him financial success. In 1953 he and Tanning moved to France. He died in Paris in 1976.


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In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.
Dworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau's Orphée to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry; he compares Robert Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing to the artist Nick Thurston's erased copy of Maurice Blanchot's The Space of Literature (in which only Thurston's marginalia were visible); and he scrutinizes the sexual politics of photographic representation and the implications of obscured or obliterated subjects of photographs. Reexamining the famous case of John Cage's 4'33", Dworkin links Cage's composition to Rauschenberg's White Paintings, Ken Friedman's Zen for Record (and Nam June Paik's Zen for Film), and other works, offering also a "guide to further listening" that surveys more than 100 scores and recordings of "silent" music.
Dworkin argues that we should understand media not as blank, base things but as social events, and that there is no medium, understood in isolation, but only and always a plurality of media: interpretive activities taking place in socially inscribed space.
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Craig Dworkin, Professor in the English Department at the University of Utah, is the author of Reading the Illegible and the editor of Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (MIT Press).
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I am on a bootylicious mission.
A couple of weeks ago I announced my goal of growing my tail end. Then last week I revealed my next competition would be postponed for a couple of months until the muscles in my bottom half can catch up to my top. So I'm extra-motivated to Working It Out hard-core.
Working out your glutes doesn't have to all be done in the weight room. This weekend the weather was finally pleasant in Atlanta, so I hauled my hiney outside to Stone Mountain.
Work It Out on the Incline
If you're hoping to get a firmer backside, running is generally NOT thing that you want to be doing (my trainer loves to tell me I literally ran my ass off). This doesn't mean you can't do any cardio. Incline walking and sprinting are both really great ways to tone your tush. Uphill walking and short sprints place more stress on the muscles surrounding the glutes, therefore adding muscle definition.
Don't have a mountain?
No problem! Incline walks make for a great treadmill workout. I like to start each day doing one while I catch up on
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Begin walking at 3.5 mph at a 2% incline for 1 minute. Increase the incline in each following minute by 1% until you reach a 16% incline. don't hold on to the treadmill when the walk becomes challenging! Then descend. Decrease the incline by 1% each minute until your back to 2% for a 30 minutes exercise.
Need a bonus round?
Do sprint intervals. Focus on extending your hips and keep your chest lifted and shoulders back to get the most out of your sprints. Roll all the way forward onto your toes with each step, in order to engage more of your glutes.
The step machine is another good alternative. This will also have you working against resistance and will add more tone and definition to your body rather than slimming everything out but leaving you looking rather shapeless.
The most import thing is to find something that you enjoy, and that will hold your interest. The outdoors are ideal for me. If soreness is any indication of success, I nailed the incline workout!
Yes, I asked a total stranger take this pic. #shameless
One thing to mention before you start running circles around everyone. The proper footwear is KEY. If you've never been fitted for running shoes, now is a good time to start. Make sure you don't over- or under-pronate, have the right amount of cushioning for your body, and have the right fit. Like bras, people run around in ill-fitting shoes ALL the time.
I prefer a lot of variety:
They all serve different purposes! My most recent running shoe love are the Saucony Virratas. Saucony sent me their Virrata Zero drop shoes to try out. They kind of ROCK.
These ultra-light (6 oz!) shoes are flexible, minimalist-style shoes that don't lack cushioning and support. I don't find this to be the case with many other minimalist shoes on the market. (I can't run in my Minimum Vibrams – I lift in them because they are flat.)
I do have to get one thing off my chest. Marketing departments have the impression that women = pink. I hate pink.
If a product is awesome enough, I will make an exception to my "no pink ever" rule. For instance, my Polar FT4 HRM. I love it. It's pink, but I got over my hatred and wear it every time I workout. I made another exception for these shoes (also, I do love the neon yellow accents).
Just like your mamma told you, looks aren't everything. At the end of the day, I need a shoe that is comfortable and will support my run.
Fit-wise, these run true to size. Comfort wise… I have to be honest and say at first I didn't like them. The arch felt like it was hitting me in the wrong spot. However, after just 2 days (~4 miles) on the treadmill "testing" them, they sort of molded to my foot. Now they are my favorite shoe! #findyourstrong
***Disclaimer: Saucony sent me these Virratas as part of the Fitfluential Ambassador Program. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I hope you guys know I'm not a good sugar-coater by now. ;)***
One thing to note… inclines are good for your calves too. Holy DOMS, Batman.
Have you ever tried a minimalist/zero drop shoe? Do you like them?
Do you do incline workouts? If not, is it something you'd be willing to try?


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Assistant coach Lloyd Jeremiah has been involved in the sport of track and field for over 30 years. He will be working with the Catholic University sprinters and hurdlers this season. Jeremiah began his running career as a champion hurdler and sprinter at Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C., where he was league champion in the 110 hurdles and also was named to the All-Met team which honors the top three competitors in each event in the greater Washington, D.C., area. He continued his career while competing for Garden City College in Garden City, Kan. At Garden City he was a four-time NJCAA All-American.
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Today I want to talk about the practice of JOY. For weeks I have been teetering on some kind of brink in my meditation practice. I have written about this – the hard rock I have come up against inside that is angry, resentful, even hateful – a primal , dark place that I don't have a rational explanation for, but its power has been my unwillingness to simply look at it because, "Hey, I'm a good person! I don't have hate!"
Now, I am being shown, not just theoretically but experientially, that we all have EVERYTHING in us. We have what Jung would call "shadow" selves, and those shadows have power because we don't look at them, because they are hidden. In order to regain our wholeness, we must move the shadow into the light of our compassionate awareness. As I said, I've known this theoretically for thirty years or more, and have done this with other shadow selves (sorrow and fear are prime ones). But hate? Oh my goodness! Hate was well hidden.
So I'm looking, and naming. Another tendency is to try to jack-hammer the rocks in our path. The teetering I have been doing is going back and forth between refusing to see/feel this hard rock and alternatively taking a jackhammer to it, attempting to violently blast it out of existence…neither of which has been working.
But today I am remembering the practice of JOY (and capitalizing it to call out its holy elevation beyond a mere emotion). JOY is the river that will move the rock naturally. JOY is a practice and a challenge because we must shift gears to experience it, and there might be an initially uncomfortable, grinding quality in doing so, to allow JOY to touch us in those deep spaces. Why is that so? It may sound counter-intuitive, but the truth is JOY is an even more vulnerable emotion than sorrow or fear, and certainly more vulnerable than anger or hate. If you haven't heard vulnerability researcher Brené Brown talk about the subject of JOY, you can watch it here. She explains it so beautifully.
I have known this for years now, that JOY is medicine, that JOY is a practice… but I forget it all the time. Today, I sat and looked at the dark, cool clouds that might very well drop some rain on our parched ground, and I let JOY grow inside as I appreciated the clouds just as they were. Then I clipped the dead flowers from my geraniums and let JOY grow as I saw the plants seem to smile at me in gratitude for helping them look their best. I wrapped a peach-colored shawl around my shoulders and felt its softness against my skin, and let its color touch my eyes and heart. Simple things. Easy, available things, done intentionally, prayerfully, invitingly, receptively.
And guess what? The rock moved a little!


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Working with the aging patient
by Michael Stewart, MA
"The aging patient represents a whole different piece of the diversity puzzle,'" says Virginia Burggraf, DNSC, RNC, a gerontological nurse who serves as ANA grants development associate. Burggraf is a co-author of Gerontological Nursing: Current Practice and Research, published in 1996.
"As nurses, we can make a lot of incorrect assumptions about aging patients. We need to be open and flexible in our approach to them and not rely on preconceived notions about their level of activity or health awareness," Burggraf points out. "For instance, nurses should not assume that the aging patient is not sexually active. As a matter of fact, the over-50 group is at higher risk of HIV infection than some others.
"Additionally, nurses shouldn't assume that aging patients don't know about their disease -- or that, by the same token, just because they may have had an illness for several years, they know everything about it," she adds. "The nurse needs to assess what the patient knows about the disease and its prevention."
Rita Munley Gallagher, PhD, RNC, a community health nurse and senior policy fellow in ANA's Department of Nursing Practice, concurs with this line of thought. "It's a mistake to assume that aging patients can't learn new things -- from new ways to exercise and new ways to dress to new ways to think about old ideas. In fact, many older individuals are using computers to learn all kinds of new things."
According to Burggraf, the first step in working with the aging patient is building a relationship of trust. "I tell them 'I am your nurse.' I may share that I'm 55 years old, widowed and a grandmother -- whatever it takes to establish some trust at the outset." According to Burggraf, it's also vital to take into account who the patient is and to look beyond the disease. "Is the patient Asian-American, African-American? Is he or she a member of the ever-growing group of 'graying' gay and lesbian Americans?"
A special consideration in working with the older patient is the greater likelihood that he or she has suffered the loss of a spouse or significant other. This loss can cast the patient into a dependency role that is frightening. The nurse can ask, "Who is it that you rely on for care?"
While 80 percent of informal caregiving is provided by family and friends of patients, Burggraf notes, "The older patient may not want a child helping them. That kind of reversal is an embarrassment."
During a hospitalization may be the first time the aging patient must confront questions like, "Who will help me with eating and using the toilet?" "Above all," says Burggraf, "the nurse shouldn't assume that the patient's child has become the 'parent' of the older adult. This diminishes the level of control the patient feels he or she has to deal with the illness and is a direct assault on a key component of the patient's identity -- that of being a parent."
Gallagher concurs, "While the likely caregiver for an aging patient who is a parent is that patient's female child or the wife of a male child, the mistaken assumption about the aging patient is that he or she will definitely need a caregiver. Many older patients are perfectly able to care for themselves."
"Nurses tend to focus on the particular body system or the condition that brought the patient into the hospital," says Burggraf. "However, with aging people, other systems have changed as well, and how they're handled may be the key to preserving the patient's self-respect." According to Burggraf, "normalization" is a key to a successful hospitalization. The patient and family need to feel they have "permission" to continue comfort measures used at home while in the hospital, whenever possible.
"Patients may want to have pictures of their loved ones near them and to use their own pillow from home. They may wish to pray with one another. Using a special tea, herbal remedy, vitamin, lotion, perfume or cologne may help better normalize the experience of hospitalization," Burggraf explains.
Gallagher points out that asking an open-ended question about how the patient is coping with the illness, such as "What are you doing at home for this?" versus just asking "What medication are you taking for this?" can garner more useful information from the patient. "It's vital that we know what the patient's been trying in terms of treatment. Some homeopathic or over-the-counter remedies can be very powerful. Aspirin, for instance, can be a very powerful medication. We need to look at the self-treatment the patient's been employing to see if it's helpful, harmless or benign, or harmful. If it's helpful or benign, a home remedy or comfort can certainly be integrated into the plan of care, and everyone involved in caring for the patient should know about it."
Nutritional practices are an area of particular concern with older patients. According to Burggraf, it's important not only to ask about dietary restrictions, but to cover such basics as, "Can you chew the steak?" If an older patient can use a favorite spice or seasoning from home, it can make hospital food more appetizing and palatable and thus help improve nutrition. Gallagher points out that, as people age, metabolic activity changes, and they may need smaller quantities of food. However, they have the same or greater need for nutrients. She notes, "When patients live alone, as is more likely to be true if they're older, they may not eat properly. It's important to determine what the person's been eating."
Aging adds another dimension of difference to the picture of diversity. Sensitivity to age, and its meaning within the patient's cultural context, can improve the treatment outcome by building trust and patient compliance with care instructions.
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Michael Stewart, MA, is senior public relations specialist at the American Nurses Association.
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About Brig. Gen. Joseph Martin
A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of LIEUTENANT COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A074375
Joseph Martin, Revolutionary War hero and Indian agent on the Virginia-Tennessee frontier, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1740. As early as 1763 he attempted to settle in Powell's Valley at a place known as Martin's Station. He was a resident there by 1769 and lived in the western frontier from 1777 to 1800, but, according to the Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, he never brought his Virginia family to his frontier home. His reluctance is perhaps explained by the fact that Martin took a Cherokee wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Ward, daughter of the famous Cherokee Beloved Woman Nancy Ward and South Carolina trader Bryant Ward. Martin and Betsy Ward had children, but there is no known record of how many.
A member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1777, Martin served in the North Carolina House of Commons in 1782, then in the North Carolina Senate in 1783, 1786, 1787, and 1789, representing Sullivan County. But his true significance in the early settlement era is as a military leader. He was a lieutenant in Lord Dunmore's War in 1774 and captain of Virginia militia in 1775. He commanded troops at the Treaty of Long Island in 1777 and served with distinction in various conflicts between the colonists and Cherokees along the western frontier from 1777 to 1780.
Due to his own family connections with the Cherokees, Martin was often involved in treaty negotiations. In 1777 Governor Patrick Henry appointed him as an Indian agent; six years later he was one of three Virginia commissioners empowered to negotiate with the southern tribes. Considering his responsibilities as Indian agent, his marriage to Betsy Ward was a politically astute decision, as it aligned him with influential Cherokee families. In 1787 the North Carolina assembly chose Martin as brigadier general of the Washington District.
General Martin was an important surveyor, having surveyed the boundary between Virginia and Tennessee in 1795 and 1800-1802. Married twice to white women and the father of at least eighteen children, Martin died at his "Belmont" farm in Henry County, Virginia, in 1808.
Carroll Van West, Middle Tennessee State University
some family notes are here:
Joseph Martin was elected Captain of the Transylvania Militia in 1776, bec ame a Major on February 17, 1779, Lieutenant Colonel in March of 178 1. He became a Brigadier General of the North Carolina Militia by legisla tive act on December 15, 1787 and was commissioned a Brigadier Gener al of the 20th Brigade of the Virginia Militia by Governor Henry Lee on De cember 11, 1793. Martinsville, Virginia is named after him. His broth er Brice served as a Major during the Red Stick or Creek war.
1785--Fries' Historical notes:
"The state of Franklin refused to return to North Carolina, and in March e lected members of a legislature, which in turn elected John Sevier as gove rnor, appointed county officers, etc., and appointed William Cocke as dele gate to the Congress of the United States. Attempts were made to secure t he cooperation of the part of Virgina lying west of the mountains, but t he Virginia Assembly pronounced the plan treasonable. Thrice during the ye ar it was reported that the Franklinites were negotiating for the incorpor ation of the Cherokee Indians in the State of Franklin, but not all the ch iefs would agree. In November, 1785, the State of Franklin adopted a Const itution." [pg. 2067]
"May 3. The singstunde was attended by Col. Joseph Martin, who spent the n ight here on his way to Charleston where he and other Commissioners a re to consider the affairs of the Indians. He told us that the Cheroke es on the Tennessee River often speak of the visit of Br. Martin Schneide r, and seem to wish that he would come again and stay with them; but th at this would not be wise just now when there are certain misunderstandin gs between them and the white people. He confirmed the report that some ti me ago the western counties of this State had cut themselves off and assum ed the name of Franklin, had elected their own Governor and other state of ficials, and now had sent a representative to Congress to try to secure re cognition as a separate State. Whether this State will agree to the divisi on or will oppose
it strongly is as yet most uncertain." [pg. 2080]
[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0015-0003.html] Early Travels in the Tennessee Country 1540-1800, Samuel Cole Williams, Watauga Press, p249: "...he explained to me by Signs in which House of the Town on the other Side which is called Sitiko, Col Martin was to be found. Having got on the other Side, I saw him soon creeping out of an Indian Hothouse, & he came to welcome me very friendly & having read Col Armstrong's Letter he said he would be at my Service in my Concern as much as possibly he could. .. He took me with him to his Lodging in the House of a Trader, Mr Springston, who has married an Indian Woman, but whose Father in Law was not at home during my Stay there.
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, vol V, 1784-1792, Adelaide L Fries, The North Carolina Historical Commission, p1981: "...by signs found out from him where Colonel Martin was. The Colonel soon came creeping out of an Indian sweat-house, and welcomed me in very friendly fashion. .. He took me to his lodgings with a trader, Mr Springston, who had married an Indian wife; Colonel Martin had married their daughter.
Occupation 1: Fur Trader and Planter Occupation 2: 1777, VA Commissioner to the Cherokee Occupation 3: December 11, 1793, Brigadier General, VA militia Residence: June 1788, Chote
Brigadier General in the American Revolution
Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA
— Age: 68
Martinsville, Henry, Virginia, USA
Joseph Martin (1740–1808) was a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War, in which Martin's frontier diplomacy with the Cherokee people is credited with not only averting Indian attacks on the Scotch-Irish American and English American settlers who helped win the battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens, but with also helping to keep the Indians' position neutral and from siding with the British troops during those crucial battles. Historians agree that the settlers' success at these two battles signaled the turning of the tide of the Revolutionary War—in favor of the Americans.
The son of planter Capt. Joseph Martin Sr. and his wife Susannah Chiles,[1] great-granddaughter of Colonel John Page, Joseph Martin Jr. was raised in a Virginia gentry family in Caroline and Albemarle Counties.[1] His father, Joseph Martin Sr., was the son of wealthy British merchant William Martin in Bristol, England,[2] who sent his son to Virginia as supercargo aboard his ship the Brice.[3] Martin Sr. wrote to his English father that he planned to marry the daughter of a common Virginia colonist. Even though she was from the Chiles family and was a descendant of Virginia's Col. John Page, to Martin's wealthy father back in England all American colonists were inferior to the English. William Martin of Bristol was himself Lord Mayor of Bristol[4] and owner of a ship building company, a glass manufacturing plant, importer and exporter with the new world; including tobacco. The father wrote back disinheriting young Joseph Martin Sr., who never returned to England.[
Another brother of Gen. Joseph Martin, William Martin, Sr., was the father of Gen. William "Buck" Martin, Jr., who served in the War of 1812 on Andrew Jackson's staff.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Martin's Timeline
September 18, 1740
Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia
Age 21
South Carolina, USA
March 13, 1763
Age 22
October 13, 1768
Age 28
Age 27
June 11, 1770
Age 29
Henry County, Virginia, United States
Age 29
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States
Age 32
Kentucky, USA


text: Date: 26 Apr 1996 18:11:20 GMT From: Raul Miller <firstname.lastname@example.com> This is a bug in emacs if the current behavior has some reasonable use or is part of some standard. This is a bug in the kernel if there's no reason for the current behavior.The bug goes far beyond what Alexey was reporting. The bug is the factthat emacs leaves the pty owned by root, mode 666, instead of doingsomething (for example, a setuid helper) to allocate the pty and assurethat it has the correct ownership and permissions. - Ted


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Re: rac network question
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:21:46 -0600
Message-ID: <email@example.com>
Dan beat me to it. RAC is supposed to have separate public and private interfaces.
On Jan 10, 2008 10:05 AM, Dan Norris <dannorris_at_dannorris.com> wrote:
> Michael,
> I see a huge problem and very likely a support issue as well. Basically
> what he's saying is that the host will have a *single* logical network
> interface. That *single* interface will need to serve as the private and
> public interface and that's where Oracle Support may have some major
> problems.
> If these blades only support 2 NICs (and you have no opportunities to
> expand them), then I'd elect to leave the redundancy aside and take a NIC
> failure as a whole node failure. Since the only other choice is to combine
> public and private networks over a single logical interface, removing
> redundancy so you have 2 separate logical/physical interfaces would be a
> favorable choice.
> Dan
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael McMullen <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com>
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:27:11 AM
> Subject: rac network question
> Our SA's are just setting up some HP blades for us for a rac and he sent
> me this below. Just wondering if anyone on the list sees a problem.
> "Also, since the c class blades have only 2 physical nics, we are going to
> trunk multiple vlans through the same bonded interface. Makes for a
> slightly weird setup; you may want to check it out and play with it before
> this goes live."
-- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.' -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Jan 10 2008 - 10:21:46 CST


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"Being gay should no longer be a taboo topic," advocates Mario Gomez, Bayern Munich and German national team striker, in a recent interview with German magazine Bunte. It is a debate that is happening across the soccer world.
The sexual idea of male footballers is athletes with WAGS, wives and girlfriends. They are photographed on the beach with sexy ladies, they are caught in the act with female hookers. Some are regular straight blokes who stay in and watch TV with their wives. And some are gay.
When we look at soccer teams now, it is incredible to imagine a time when the first black players in the top leagues routinely faced demonstrations of pernicious racism. Bananas were thrown at some. Opposing players would launch vicious slurs attached to savage tackles. It was dangerous being first. Now, black players can be seen in most national leagues. They are equals and successful. They are largely free from racial abuse although there are substantial pockets of racism that still exist. Today, being black and being a footballer is not about being isolated. But should an openly gay player run on to the pitch, he could feel alone at the frontier. What could he expect?
Professor Ellis Cashmore of the University of Staffordshire in England has conducted research into attitudes towards gay players in professional soccer.
"The parallels between the experience of gay players and black players are not exact, but there are lessons. In Britain in the 1980s, black players were subjected to racial abuse and hostility practically week-by-week, even by their own team's fans. The barracking went far beyond the typical banter that is germane to British soccer culture; it was spiteful, malicious and no doubt assisted, if not precipitated, by neo-Nazi skinhead and the far right extremists that, at that time populated soccer stadiums. It wasn't simply a question of novelty — British soccer was seen as a traditional white man's game and blacks were regarded as contaminants. Through the 1990s, so many high quality black players, both from Britain and elsewhere, came to the British leagues and excelled. Criticizing them became unsustainable, particularly when, in some teams, black players were in a majority. Of course, unlike gay players, black players were and are a visible minority. As there are no known gay players, no one can identify them. There's no doubt that the first one or two who come out, or — more probably — are "outed" will experience what British fans call "stick" i.e. good-humored reprimands or chastisement, which can often be sharp but is essentially not malevolent. They will also encounter more serious forms of bigotry from sections of the crowds. It will be mean, nasty and wounding. But there's no doubt that this will be transitory: once the players show their mettle, their sexual orientation, like all other aspects of their life, will recede in importance. Fans the world over… are interested principally in performance on the field of play. Everything else is secondary. This doesn't rule out periodic resurgences of homophobic "stick" — when the player is performing poorly."
The research produced some interesting findings.
There are many in the soccer establishment who support this last finding: don't come out, as it's not in the player's interest. Should he come out, he may as well pack his bags for Siberia. Better to follow the US army directive, "don't ask, don't tell." A gay player won't be able to concentrate on the game with the sheds of abuse from the mob that will surely fall on his ears. And what about life inside the locker room, the sideways glance from other players with homophobic tendencies, team unity could be harmed. It just won't work. "Your life will be hell. Wait until you retire, then be gay."
There may be more to this type of "concern" for the player's well-being than meets the eye. Cashmore is of the opinion there are other motives.
"Many, many of our respondents collectively came up with a theory that either the clubs and/or agents are behind the masquerade; they are the ones prohibiting players from coming out because they believe there would be marketing implications. Either the club's brand would suffer, they feel; or the agents think their players would lose endorsements and hence they would lose commission."
To date, only one top player made the leap. Justin Fashanu was a pioneer in both camps, gay and black. A quality player, he won Goal of the Season in 1980 in England and reportedly became the first English black player to earn over $1 million. He was in demand at the top English clubs of the time. In 1990, in the twilight of his career at the top level, he decided to out himself to a tabloid newspaper. At first, his brother John, a fellow professional, disowned him. The soccer establishment was uncomfortable. He was unable to find a club willing to sign him to a long-term contract. He moved to the United States for a while, coaching and playing in Los Angeles. He hung himself in 1998 after a seventeen-year old male made a complaint of sexual assault against him in Maryland. He denied the charges. It was reported that his suicide note claimed the public would assume his guilt and he wished no further pain and suffering for his family.
"Justin Fashanu's fate was not sealed by his sexuality, but many suspect the hounding by the media was a contributory factor." Cashmore says. "I think Fashanu inadvertently issued a caution, one that's been observed ever since. The irony is that our research indicates that there is actually very little to fear and that the reception an out gay player would receive from the media and crowds would not be too intimidating. It would also fade quickly. The issue is simply one of environment: because no player has tested it. My guess — based on the research — is that it would not be nearly such a hostile place as many imagine."
Modern, diverse society has nuanced gay identity into platforms closed off previously — pop culture, politics, equal legal rights, raising children. Soccer could be next to join the wave and help end the taboo Mario Gomez speaks of. Should it happen, are America's three big sports ready to follow?
For those interested in participating in the research being done by the Staffordshire University team into controversial issues in soccer, visit topfan.co.uk


text: At 06:54 AM 5/3/2003, Kamal R Prasad wrote: >Hello, > I am working on the prep port for POWER3 based architecture. > From the last machine that was ported (on netbsd's list of IBM boxes for >prep port), the major change is that this one is a 64-bit hardware. so, it >requires exception handlers and page table setup to be changed. >(irrespective of whether its run in 64-bit or 32-bit emulation mode). >netbsd as I know is 64-bit ready. but does that apply to all ports or only >to some (and extra effort needed for this one)? That's all shared code so it has to be done to work in both 32 and 64bit environments. BTW, I've been doing the Power3 work (I have a 43P model 260). I also have done the needed gcc work. -- Matt Thomas Internet: email@example.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt/ Cupertino, CA Disclaimer: I avow all knowledge of this message


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New B2B Marcom Tool: Conversation Calendar
A B2B social media strategy should include a conversation calendar. Your conversation calendar lists the media and frequency of all your social media activity. The conversation calendar acts as a dashboard of your owned and earned media and the number of posts anticipated per month.
The conversation calendar is especially helpful if you're a B2B marcom manager who's enlisting the help of other colleagues in the social media program. It makes it easier to assign social media to various colleagues and lets your colleagues know how much time to budget for their social media activity.
Your conversation calendar also gives you an idea of the volume of content required to support your social media program. It's a lot more than you think! But before you become overwhelmed, read Ardath Albee's advice on b2b content development. Ardath explains how to leverage your existing B2B content to keep up with the demands of a social media program.
Aside from its use as a planning tool, your conversation calendar can also be used with your social media monitoring program. Compare your activity on the conversation calendar to the number of mentions in the social sphere to get an idea of the impact of your social media program. You may find that you need to adjust the frequency of activity or completely drop under-performing activity from your program.
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Tweetbot 4.0 Becomes The Best Alternative Twitter Client For iPhone And Now iPad
Third-party Twitter client Tweetbot is back with a new major version. Developed by three-man development studio Tapbots, Tweetbot has been a long-time favorite of iOS Twitter users who were dissatisfied with the official versions of the Twitter apps. With this new version, Tweetbot secures this position thanks to a few great new features, starting with a huge iPad update. Read More
Tweetbot 2.0 Secures Its Reputation As The Best Twitter Client For Mac
Third-party Twitter client Tweetbot, from two-man development studio Tapbots, has long been the unofficial default option for iOS and Mac users who weren't satisfied with first-party clients, dating back to the days prior to Twitter's decision to clamp down on clients not of their own making. The Mac version launched in 2012, but its look and feel hasn't changed to match… Read More
Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter's Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven
In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it's doing it with decisions based heavily on data and testing, rather than with an overall vision. This week, Twitter shipped an update to its iOS, web and Android apps that features in-line image previews, a preponderance of action buttons and new tools for advertisers… Read More
Tweetbot 3 Makes The Case For 3rd-Party Twitter Apps With Bones-Deep iOS 7 Rewrite
Today marks the launch of the full rewrite of Tweetbot for iOS 7. The app is a paid upgrade, which is available for $2.99 at launch and will go up to $4.99 after the initial sale. As one of the most popular third-party clients available for Twitter, the app has become the poster child for what outside developers brought to the Twitter equation. And with the iOS 7 update, it's going to… Read More
Twitter Actually Updates Twitter For Mac, Adds Retina Support And 14 New Languages
Twitter for Mac has long languished, not seeing an update since 2011, but Twitter just pushed out a new one that brings Retina display support to the official client, as well as a revised interface for sharing photos, and 14 additional languages. The update is available now through the Mac App Store, and Twitter promises further improvements to come in the future. Read More
Tweetbot For Mac Now Available For $19.99: Twitter Client Token Limits To Blame For High Price
Tweetbot for Mac has finally arrived in retail release form, after an extended public alpha and beta testing phase. The native OS X Twitter client from iOS and Mac developer Tapbots is available from the Mac App Store, for the somewhat eyebrow-raising price of $19.99. Is it worth $20? A thousand times yes. But some users may balk at the price – which is exactly what Tapbots is counting on. Read More
Tapbots Founder Paul Haddad On App.net, Netbot, And What Twitter's New API Means For Tweetbot
App.net, the Dalton Caldwell startup that pivoted from being essentially an About.me for apps, and towards being a paid Twitter alternative, today got a boost on the software side thanks to the introduction of Netbot by Tapbots. Netbot, as any Tapbots fan will likely immediately recognize, is essentially a modified version of Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad, but one that works with App.net instead. Read More
Twitter API Changes Are Already Posing Challenges To Tweetbot Developers
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In The Post-Client Era, Did Tweetbot Just Swipe Twitter's iPhone Crown?
Don't focus on making new Twitter clients. The message has been very clear — well, moderately clear — for weeks now. If you're a third-party looking to develop in the Twitter ecosystem, you should focus on data or niche experiences. Good thing Tweetbot didn't listen. If you've looked at Twitter tonight, there's a good chance you've seen the… Read More


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Tips for Using QR Codes Effectively
Everywhere you look, bar codes that bear an eerie resemblance to Space Invaders are appearing. "Quick Response" codes, known as QR codes, can be found on posters, magazine ads, ice cream containers, and beyond. So what are they good for, and how can you make the most of them? Mashable has a post with tips; here are my thoughts.
1) Start with "why?". Know what you hope to accomplish by using a QR code. "All the cool kids are doing it" still isn't a great reason. Are you driving people to a mobile site? Supporting a specific promotion or campaign? The answer to this question is important.
2) Know what you want your customers to do. You need them to want to scan the code. Think about your call to action, and why a customer would want to follow it.
3) Think about where you're sending them. A QR code is a mobile tool. Don't send them to a regular website–send them to a mobile-friendly page.
4) Know what you're measuring. It's great to know how many people scan the code. Beyond that, though, take a look at how much time they spend on your site after scanning that code. Engagement matters here. And how does it compare to other avenues? Are other approaches–Facebook, Twitter, etc.–providing greater contacts and engagement?
5) Be creative. I was at the Santa Barbara Zoo this summer, and they had what I thought was a terrific use for QR codes: providing current video of animals that are likely to be asleep, hidden, or sedentary at the time you walk by the enclosure. Toys R Us is including them in their "Great Big Toys R Us Book" this year, to provide more information about specific products–and even to show some of them in action.
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Gore Refuses ClimateGate Questions
And a UN official disconnects the mic.
United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal.
This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore.
Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday.
Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of the age of the most recent e-mail message obtained from Britain's CRU, a U.N. security official actually disconnected McAleer's microphone to make sure any answers would be unrecorded.
Originally posted by GorehoundLarry
Well, his question was up, it was time to share the microphone with other press members and such. And the cameraman was asked to turn off his camera by security in a respectful manner.
Maybe it's because I JUST woke up from a nap but what's new or alerting here?
Originally posted by kenochs
I imagine a few things happened there, and yay to the post above which actually did some digging on the background.
I imagine he wasn't properly credentialed, and I imagine his cameraman had no right to be there shooting and I know this guys an ambush journalist a la Michael Moore and O'Reilly's producers.
I agree that these things rely on too much decorum and the 4th estate in general tends to treat their subjects with way too much respect and reverence as opposed being a full-throated challenge to authority, but listen, in a situation like this, when asked you give up the community mike.
Also, there are only about 3-4 people there so this clearly wasn't a full-on press conference, it was a much smaller venue so chances are this wasn't the venue to ask the question.


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The only thing that could possibly make this photo any better — or for Commissioner David Stern, worse — is if the Washington Wizards were decked out in their throwback Bullets jerseys on Tuesday night.
But hey, bang bang, Gilbert! As long as it's not a gavel, right?
UPDATE: After the game, Arenas and his teammates said that they were doing a spin on a touchdown celebration from the movie "Any Given Sunday," in which a player sprayed his 'mates with pretend gunfire.
"They asked me to do it," Arenas told David Steele of NBA FanHouse.
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Title: Dragon Ball GT - Realization [Edited]
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The heat is on as Goku continues his fiery battle with Nuova, the 4-Star Dragon. Nuova shocked Goku by sparing Pan's life when he could have easily destroyed her. Now, with the battle seemingly in Goku's favor, the hero must choose between regaining a dragon ball or losing a friend.
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Fear and Forgiveness (Part I & II)
Ronna Kabatznick, Ph.D.
Forgiving ourselves for the harm we have caused ourselves with food is not easy. How many times have we betrayed ourselves and beat ourselves up by overeating, by refusing to listen to bodies, by hating ourselves for what and how we eat and for the ways our bodies look and feel? Two 50-min audio recordings.
Yoga & Mindful Eating for Children
Claudia Vega, MD
Claudia Vega talks about yoga and mindfulness as tools to help children self-regulate, make better decisions, and improve attention, concentration and social development. Webinar with powerpoint.
Resolve To Make Mindful Eating Work For You & Your Clients
With the New Year comes new resolve to make mindful eating "work," which usually means lose weight, but can also mean get a handle on the range of eating problems. But does mindful eating really work? Webinar with powerpoint.
No More Food Labels! Coaching Clients Towards Non-judgment
Megrette Fletcher, M.Ed, RD, CDE
How can clients learn to coach themselves away from fear, blame and shame? Explore the benefits of non-judgment and mindful eating to promote improved food and eating choices. Webinar with powerpoint.
The Joy of Half A Cookie
Jean Kristeller, Ph.D.
The book, "The Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight and End the Struggle with Food," is based on the principles and practices of the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Treatment (MB-EAT) program in a way that is understandable for people with a range of experience with mindfulness. Audio teleconference.
The Magic of Slowing Down (Parts I & II)
Jan Chozen Bays, MD and Char Wilkins, MSW, LICSW
Slowing down is one of the most powerful tools in Mindful Eating. It may seem overly simple. It may seem too hard to accomplish in the midst of a fast-paced busy life. However, when we slow down, we are able to savor each bite, expand the experience and thus our satisfaction with eating.
This two-part webinar series will include information about relevant research, practices to try at home and discussion about how to use this tool of mindful eating with clients or patients.
Mindful Eating Resources that Promote Shame Resilience
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Explore how mindful eating can defuse the toxic nature of shame that impacts clients young and old. Identify shame and its triggers, as well as identify a number of Mindful Eating handouts to use to help clients build shame resilience. Megrette Fletcher will review mindful eating resources that developing shame resilience and empathy.
Responding to Emotional Eating Struggles with KAR-ing
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We all have difficult moments in our lives. Suffering with headaches, heartaches, feelings of sadness, fear, loneliness, confusion, depletion, or overwhelm, we may turn to food in an effort to replenish, comfort, or numb ourselves. Join Self-Care Collaborator Amy Tuttle, RD, LCSW to learn how the mindful process of KAR-ing and Four Mindful Questions™ can help you and your clients respond (instead of react) to suffering. We will practice using these mindfulness tools to understand how they can enhance emotional wave-riding skills, including mood and food regulation skills. Webinar with powerpoint.
Introducing Mindful Eating to Your Clients with Anorexia
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Mindful eating is an approach which is very new in the field of nutrition and eating behavior. Most research on mindful eating focuses on overeating or binge eating patterns. Over the past several years, our presenter, a mindful eating teacher, dietitian and therapist, Caroline Baerten, RD, has been exploring the benefits of mindful eating with individuals who have extreme restrictive eating habits and anorectic mindsets. In this webinar, the aim is to understand which elements of a mindful eating program might contribute to the healing process for those suffering from anorexia and restrictive eating. Webinar with powerpoint.
Get Stressed, Eat, Repeat. Why Eating Becomes a Habit.
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Stress emotional and mindless eating play a heavy role in setting up and perpetuating unhealthy eating habits. Why? These may be tapping into the same reward-based learning processes that evolved to help us remember where food is -and in modern day are hijacked by both chemical and behavioral addictions (including eating). Webinar with powerpoint.
5 Steps to Overcoming Feelings of Food Addiction
Marsha Hudnall, MS, RDN, CD
The popular notion today is that anyone who can't seem to stop once they start eating foods rich in sugar, fat and/or salt probably is addicted to those ingredients, and that's the reason they overeat or binge eat. This webinar explore physical and psychological reasons that can drive feelings of food addiction. Webinar with powerpoint.
Discovering Delicious Movement
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If you and your body aren't exactly on friendly terms, there can be some resistance to listening to its need for movement. Numerous barriers shut off the messages that your body sends you about how to take care of it. As a result, there is a dis-ease in the body that can make engaging in exercise challenging. In this program, learn how to reclaim your body while you experience the deliciousness of moving it in ways that are supportive of your health and wellbeing. Audio teleconference.
Shame: The Soul Eating EmotionCaroline Baerten, RD
We can never touch the depth of vulnerability when feelings of shame and guilt are present. Most people with eating issues are driven by the devastating presence of shame. In mindful eating sessions, participants learn to identify this affect/cognition and how it is expressed in many different ways within themselves. Sometimes shame shows itself as 'the inner critic (or self-blamer)' or 'the pusher (for whom it is never enough)'. Webinar with powerpoint.
Mindless Eating As A Form Of Self Betrayal
Ronna Kabatznick, PhD
There are many reasons why we eating mindlessly ranging from excessive hunger, to habit, to not knowing mindful eating practices. Another reason is to numb pain, consciously or unconsciously, and thus betray the thoughts, feelings and sensations that so desperately need our attention. Instead of staying with the pain at the various levels we may be experiencing them, we act out against it by eating mindlessly, keeping us in a perpetual cycle of betrayal which keeps us away from the satisfaction and peace of mind we are seeking. Audio teleconference.


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PEDRO Almodóvar's latest begins with a disclaimer that what we're about to see is a fantasy and bears no relation to reality.
I'm So Excited! (15)
Directed By: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Javier Cámara, Paz Vega, Cecilia Roth, José Luis Torrijo
It's a nifty joke, not least because the first scene promptly features Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas as squabbling airport baggage handlers. If you're not on board with the sight of two of the most beautiful people in the world dressed in overalls (but, crucially, still looking like two of the most beautiful people in the world), then it's probably best you disembark now, Almodóvar seems to be saying, because this literal in-flight movie (it takes place almost entirely within the confines of a commercial passenger jet) is not going to diminish in silliness over the next 90 minutes.
That's good news for any Almodóvar fans who have been wondering if he was ever going to make a full return to the histrionic, high-camp melodramas he seemed to abandon in the wake of Talk to Her's Oscar-winning success more than a decade ago. Though he's made some fine and some not-so-fine films in the years since, with the sole exception of 2011's strange, macabre and rather magnificent The Skin I Live In, it has frequently seemed as if he's been on a mission to dial down his more outré sensibilities of late for fear of losing the newfound respectability that his increasing visibility in awards season had conferred upon him.
I'm So Excited!, though, is Almodóvar going hell-for-leather again, shaking things up in riotous fashion, much like he did after the fall of Franco left the way clear for him to burst onto the international scene with transgressive, provocative comedies such as Dark Habits, Matador and Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown. Indeed it's perhaps no surprise that his return to this kind of unapologetic craziness has coincided with his native Spain's current economic woes. What better metaphor for the tensions inherent in a country plummeting towards chaos than a malfunctioning aeroplane circling a bankrupt airport while a few privileged first class passengers fight over what to do, and the majority of economy class citizens doze in a drug-induced slumber administered to them without their permission by an out-of-control cabin crew?
Okay, so maybe it's a little clunky as a metaphor, but this is Almodóvar having fun, taking gleeful potshots at certain troubling aspects of modern Spanish society, but burying them in a frenzy of fabulously tasteless behaviour.
The latter mostly comes courtesy of a trio of gay flight attendants – played by Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces and Talk to Her star Javier Cámara – who collectively respond to the plane's landing gear crisis (caused by Cruz and Banderas's shenanigans in the opening scene) by slamming tequilas, popping pills and delivering badly mimed, wonkily choreographed renditions of the titular hit by the Pointer Sisters.
Those flying the plane aren't much more responsible: instead of concentrating on the job at hand, both the pilot (Antonio de la Torre) and co-pilot (Hugo Silva) are using the possibility of imminent death to confront and question their sexual proclivities. Amid the passengers, meanwhile, a clairvoyant (Lola Dueñas) becomes obsessed with losing her virginity on the flight, while an infamous madam (Cecilia Roth) and a mysterious stranger (José Maria Yazpik) circle one another cautiously as they try to work out each other's agendas.
It's broad, bawdy stuff, and more than a little retro too, to the point where the luggage isn't the only thing that feels Carry On … The titular exclamation point that's been added to the English language version seems like an attempt to reference Airplane! – something further reinforced by Almodóvar's willingness to dispense with plot in order to advance the action with some pleasing if distracting non sequiturs. A subplot in which Paz Vega plays a suicidal artist saved by a phone call from the plane, for instance, is one of those things that directors like Almodóvar (or Woody Allen or David Lynch) sometimes throw into their movies without necessarily finding a way to make it feel integral to what's going on. This particular strand feels like a nice idea that has perhaps been in the back of Almodóvar's mind for a while and, in lieu of finding a proper home for it, he has let it settle here. Well, why not? I'm So Excited! may reflect its title in the energetically chaotic way it has been constructed and executed, but at a time when it would be easy for Almodóvar to drift towards dreary arthouse respectability, there's something endearing and subversive about the way he indulges his baser instincts here with wild caricatures, crude jokes and kitsch karaoke.